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Data from devRant.io.

IEEE Spectrum actually uses Hacker News as one of its data points.

Curious: what do people think of the RedMonk rankings, generally?

The headline is a quote from the Stack Overflow survey.

This is the largest developer survey out there. VisionMobile may be No. 2 and also has JavaScript as the highest.

Also among front-end and back-end, according to the survey.

Because the editor needs to learn how to use a full stop between sentences.

Some really interesting data in here. All the review counts for entire categories in iOS and Android. Average star ratings for both App Store and Google Play. Total publishers for both stores and so on.

What do you think of service workers?

We all know Flash is insecure. But the breadth is a bit surprising.

So, what do we think of Parse's cofounder and his cheerleading for JavaScript?

Better data, better knowledge of their users, better service. It's like Moneyball all over again, Spotify says.

The Internet of (Payment) Things sounds a little silly. But if you think about it, the IoT will need a robust service layer if it is to be valuable to people and companies. MasterCard, doing what it does, wants to bring payments to every Internet connected gadget it can find.

Windows malware over mobile networks dominates volume ...

Take that, Bob Vila. Or Tim Allen. Or ... ummm, who is the current "it" guy in DIY home projects? Mike Rowe?

"Screw this $#!%"...

So, I heard this from several app and game developers at a mini-conference in Boston last week. But the language was a bit more ... colorful.

To elaborate on my general sense of why the developers said that: there are now dozens of pertinent SDKs that developers need to stitch in to their apps. Same with APIs.

They take time to implement, can effect the performance of an app and sometimes don't really work all that well. An app developer could reasonably have dozens of third-party SDKs in an app. Say, Flurry, Applause Analytics, Google Analytics, Maps, Facebook, Twitter and so forth. Same with various APIs.

I remember one developer I was talking to on Twitter last year was so fed up with third-party SDKs that he basically swore them off except for the most essential ones. He was having a hard time stitching someone else's code into his app and the implementation was just wonky.

And the IAB has guidelines for building ads in HTML5. Finally, some real progress here.

So, this is what happened to LoopPay after Samsung bought it.

How do you kill zombies? Well, by smashing their brains out. 

Oh, you fell for the old man-eating toaster trick.

Devpost has some fairly robust data on what student hackers are working on.

Ha ... when this cropped back up, that is exactly what I was thinking.

Hey, that can be done: http://arc.applause.com/2015/07/06/flash-silverlight-html5-v...

And yet Flash persists.

Really, isn't it time for Adobe to admit that Flash is a relic?

Really, look at the search features coming in iOS 9 and tell me Apple isn't going after Google's core business. Every search result that comes up in iOS 9 is a click that Google doesn't get. 

Oh, this could get ugly.

In 2003, Jobs ranted about how people didn't want music subscriptions services. In 2015, we have Apple Music for $9.99 a month.

Yet another example of something Jobs said Apple would never do ... that it is now doing.

Battery life and also the fact that the current iteration of the Watch is still fairly limited in hardware components. That's what happens when you make a device that is intended to be the companion to a different device.