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Plus, the amount of things in our world that will be controlled and performed by software is only going to grow.

While more exposure to technology and better education will create more programmers, I think the demand for programmers will always outstrip the supply.

I hate that you can't use the iPad mini as a cell phone. It's small enough now that in a lot of situations you can carry it around with you. And in those cases, it would be nice to only have to carry your iPad mini and leave your phone at home.

Sure, with the 3g model you can still use iMessage, Whats App, Skype, etc- but you're missing out on regular voice calls and SMS.

From an engineering perspective- is it that difficult to add a sim card slot and the extra cell antennas?

Any idea what kind of severance package the developers received?

Why don't you guys put some stuff up on your website? Every section is just empty. As an indie game developer using Unity3d (and funnily enough an ex-Zynga employee too) I wouldn't even bother contacting your studio when every section of your site is just empty.

I use Unity too. Even for 2d I think it is the best cross platform game engine if you don't mind spending some money. The latest Rovio 2d physics game even uses it.

I used to be all about HTML5 but after a while I realized that I don't like javascript and I hate dealing with browser quirks. C# Unity is where it's at.

Knowing what you do now, with the memories of the terrible bugs you had to work through due to Chrome / OSX, would you still choose HTML5 over other cross-platform game engines like Unity?

God, it's infuriating. "Let's not have a discussion about the actual article, let's just argue bullshit semantics about the definition of PC."

Also not sure why this would be considered HN worthy. The title seems interesting but when it's just a naive backpacker.... who cares?

HN loves get rich quick schemes!

Wow, it sure does look like the GitHub app supports other remote repos. Nice tip!

I don't think this works with Zynga since Pincus's shares have so much extra voting power.

It's hilarious how difficult it is to get a non-programmer on Windows setup on Bitbucket (to clone a repo and then push a commit).

I don't blame this on Bitbucket, I blame the state of Windows Git applications.

My friend who is an artist (pretty technical too but he's not a programmer and never deals with SSH) is going to do some art for me for a game project I have in Bitbucket. I added him to my repo and told him to download Gitextensions, which seems to be, arguably, the best free graphical git app for Windows.

So, he downloaded it and set it up but when he started it up for the first time there was no option to clone from a source URL other than from Github.

First you have to figure out that you need to setup your SSH key and then clone the SSH url. I know that, but a non-programmer with no experience using git before would probably have zero clue.

You have to then setup your SSH key using Putty, and I'm sure we all know how awesome it is that SSH keys generated with Putty are in a different format than SSH keys generated with ssh-keygen, so pasting your public key into the Bitbucket site leads to nothing but problems. You have to erase some stuff, add "ssh-rsa" to the front, remove the newlines, etc. You can't just copy and paste the whole thing. If you aren't experienced with SSH keys you will not be able to figure it out. The bitbucket docs for this step assume you have an SSH key generated from ssh-keygen and not from putty, so they are of no help.

Once you get your ssh key straightened out then it's not too bad.

In short, it sucks. If Bitbucket wants to capture people other than programmers they need a better Windows app. For this reason alone I would be tempted to use Github instead since they have a dedicated Windows app.

Gitextensions is open source too so they it doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to just add support for Bitbucket just like they have for Github.

I've used SmartGit for Windows too but I'm not a fan of their products and I was looking for something free.

Does anyone have suggestions for getting non-programmers setup on Windows?

I hate how slow it is. After I get to the commit screen it thrashes my CPU and takes ages before my typing shows up.

It's still the best on OSX though.

As an ex-employee I am saddened by my ever decreasing stock value =(

No one in this thread is offering up any data showing that their sales have gone down since the iOS 6 App Store has rolled out.

My app sales seem to be unchanged. In fact, my free version downloads have actually gone up since the iOS 6 release.

Another person is reporting their downloads also unchanged, "My App Store experiment is still ticking along with no big reduction in its modest number of daily downloads".

Actually it looks like the web view of iTunes Connect sales reports has data up to yesterday and my sales went back up. So, I'm not really seeing any change and I'm as "indie" as they come.

My sales seems to have dropped but I really think we need more time to know for sure.

With only 3 days of sales data since the iOS 6 launch (according to iTunes Connect Mobile) how are any of you able to say for sure one way or the other that the discovery is actually worse?

Here are my sales: https://twitter.com/tsteil/status/251273647262691328/photo/1... The past 3 days I've only had 1 sale per day. The last time I had 1 sale per day for 3 days was back in May.

My other app: https://twitter.com/tsteil/status/251275489241624577/photo/1... Only 2 sales this week (Sep 17 - Sep 23). In the past 26 weeks there have only been 2 weeks where I had 2 or less sales.

So, both of my apps have seen their sales go down but that is with only 3 days worth of sales data.

(fwiw I made these 2 apps in my spare time over 3 years ago and haven't updated them since)

Anecdotal evidence ahead:

German hospitals make mistakes too, it's not just in the US.

My premature daughter was born in Berlin and she had club feet (which was already known since you can detect it from the sonogram).

Because our daughter was premature and had to stay in the hospital for 6 weeks, we couldn't go to the professional orthopedic doctor (who has treated hundreds of babies with club feet) since he was off-site. We had to let the on-site orthopedic doctor treat her.

Everyone at the hospital said, "He [the on-site doctor] is great, he has treated club feet before, he knows what he is doing." etc.

So, we let him treat our daughter for 6 weeks while she was the hospital. Every 3 or 4 days she got new casts on her feet.

When our daughter was finally released we took her to the real orthopedic doctor and he took one look at the casts and just laughed. "These casts look like they are from treatments from the 60s, this is not how anyone has treated club feet in decades." He put new casts on her and it was like night and day watching him work- he was a master at putting the casts on compared to the previous doctor.

The good doctor also said he has seen this happen many times before with babies from our hospital. They do the club feet casts wrong all the time and yet nothing ever happens. They don't improve, they don't get trained in how to do it, they don't even get told "DON'T DO IT" when no treatment would have been better than bad treatment. It's infuriating to know that these bad doctors can just keep being bad and no one does anything about it.

Our daughter also had to stay in the hospital for an extra day because they "forgot" to tell us we could take her home.

And these are just the mistakes we know about.

At least the whole experience was 100% free. No copays, no deductibles, nothing. I can't imagine how much all this would cost in the US.

This is simply not true; it seems like you didn't read the article.

Happens to me all the time here in Berlin. Very frustrating. Sometimes I have to scroll 2 screens away before I find the street labelled.

Are the features like vector maps, 3d buildings, and tilting only on Android? I've only used Google Maps on iOS.

That was my thought as well.

Does Cloudflare have any competitors yet?

Thanks. So I was understanding it correctly then, it is difficult to use this type of memory method with foreign languages.

I will stick with spaced repetition =)

I'm having trouble figuring out what kinds of "vivid images" you would use for memorizing foreign language vocabulary words.

For example, I'm trying to learn German right now. It seems obvious that you would use images of the English translation in your memory palace, but then you would just have the problem of remembering the German word that each image signifies.

Or going the other way, from German to English, what images would you use in your memory palace to represent German words? How would you tie them back to English?

help?

That would also be a good way for him to see what college is really like, since he is so intent on fixing it.

(I'm a dropout too)

Are we reading the same article?

The author isn't trying to say that the cost isn't worth it- he's just saying that it could be done much cheaper if the system wasn't so screwed up.

>> "Spending creates money, and taxation destroys it. So think of taxation not as raising money per se but as the government draining enough aggregate demand from the system so as to enable it to spend sufficiently to achieve its goals without causing undue inflation."

I love thinking about our money supply like that. I'm stealing your quote.

The performance is terrible. Have the developers ever heard of smooth scrolling? How can any self respecting developer release this?

I definitely agree. His piece is flawed but it's interesting.

I would say that the author is simply against huge corporations, and all the good and bad things that go with them. Would we be better off with only small businesses? I think not, but it's good discussion.