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They're here to stay and they're a joy to use. Jump on the happy wagon and join us!
So I need a thousand dollar device relaying to my hundred dollar device? I see.
I personally was thinking as a developer, I'd like to code on my TV, I'm sick of the desktop and the laptop, my eyes and back are suffering the most. I need a comfortable chair LazyBoy-style ten feet away from the screen with a wireless keyboard and trackpad which can be used as remote, that's it, nothing else. So for me it would be Xcode and Sublime on my TV, HN and Reddit, and the possibility to develop a million apps just like your iPhone/Android. One single box, the size of a soap bar, attached to your TV, and let developers make it the new platform. Desktops and laptops would be the first casualties (except for enterprises). That's my vision.
Never underestimate the imagination of a million developers with new and shiny toys. TV is the next wave.
From mainframes, to desktops, to the web, to mobile. The next revolution will be televised. Be prepared.
If I was a Bluemix head honcho I'd create a twin foundry 'Hobbymix' free for all, no questions asked, no credit cards, no resource limits, watson enabled, just play and get addicted with all the cool toys. Then when you're ready, just transfer it all to our enterprise-ready, pro-version at Bluemix with pro level support.
That's how MS took the world by storm. That's how Android is taking it from Apple who's ignoring the poor bases focusing only in the 10% which in the long run will cost them the whole market. That's how Whatsapp took the messaging markets.
Technology is a winner takes all approach, like Google or Facebook. You have to have the whole world using your services no matter what, whether they bring money in or not. Then you can figure out how to milk them, how to show them your new toys and convince them to pay for them, or at least how to praise you for being the cool guy on the block. They have the resources, they need the vision.
I still have test pages I developed on Google App Engine a decade ago. It costs them nothing for I seldom use them, but they have a loyal follower and I go to them for my quick hacks. Instead, Bluemix first didn't allow me to have test pages, now they allow me but with a warning that they will be deleted after a year, plus they charge me for everything I try to use like databases. Bye Bluemix, moved to Heroku now for my tests with free space and free databases. Now you want me to use your new free database? Too late. See? Make it all free, everything, and I may give it a last try once again.
Some may say they focus on enterprises because hobbyists are an annoyance. Sure we are, but we also are the ones who write blogs, twits, who shake the social webs. And people listen to us.
Do you want to know why I learned Python? Because it was free on Google App Engine. Why I learned Go? Free on Google. Why Java? Free on Google. So with the tools I know, where do you think I'll go to try my next ideas? Yep. Google. Now, let me try Swift on Bluemix, then Kotlin, then Rust, then DB2, then Watson, then I'll go to build whatever new project I need on your platform, with your tools. I won't go before, I'll go during and after I learn them. But not on your platform if you won't let me try it.
So, tl;dr; open Bluemix for the whole world to try with an eternal free tier without limits or expiration dates and I'll go with you to try all your new toys. Then we'll help you conquer the world, again.
Err, this is chrome, version 49 to be exact.
Location: Venezuela
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Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Swift
Résumé/CV: github.com/kuyawa
Email: haxapp@gmail.comPay with your phone all your web purchases. Killer.
Now, imagine this mobile app used to pay a taxi driver, a street vendor, a handyman, any and all informal activities that are hard to pay by credit card. Trillions a year.
Make it simple, Google, simpler than the suits can ever think of, or I'll be forced to make it with my own bare hands. All this time I've been waiting for a giant to bring mobile payment to the masses just to see Apple fall short and nobody else stepping to the plate.
Your time to shine, Google.
First, make it a mobile app as a simplified gmail with just the recipient, the amount and a memo. That's it. In version two add the pic, avatar or whatever people use.
Second, open a new wave of email accounts since all gmail accounts are already taken so people can start using their names or businesses as email accounts again. Perhaps GoMail? And start from day one with two factor authentication so squatters don't start their party.
Third, create Merchant accounts and apps so business owners can track thousands of payments a day with tools for money management.
This was my dream solution for the mobile payment need but now that Google is going to do it I'll leave it to them.
I love Swift, and I love Kotlin.
To any young programmer out there (I'm in my fifties), learn these two languages and you will be highly employable for the next decade, on top of the wave.
Kotlin comes in second place if you like Android and their mobile ecosystem.
Bookmarked.
The Mac Nano.
I foresee in less than ten years we will have a doctor in our pockets. No, it won't cure us and it won't replace a doctor, but it will give us all the information we need to have a 99% certainty of our condition.
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Second batch for animals and their conditions.
Third batch, agriculture. Take a pic of a plant and tell me all the info, fertilizers, cultivation, etc, bonus for pest id and treatment.
Pocket computers should be able to diagnose every living creature.
Exactly. Wonderful service with world wide use and translatable to all languages. You definitely would need "curators" for every place and at the beginning let people add their own transcripts in order to build a huge database.
Of course in a museum is perfect but based on geolocation it doesn't have to be linear, you can go anywhere in the museum and get voice/text about that particular place/masterpiece and when they are changed then easily change the audio/text for the place.
Love it!
Yesterday I took a look at their tools and they are all absolutely great but I didn't download a single one since they are all 30-day trial and I am as poor as fuck.
So tease me, convert me, let me use your tools for years and when the time comes I am ready for an enterprise I'd take my knowledge with me, and my tools.
JetBrains are you listening?
I'd take the Mac Mini form factor and make a whole range of pluggable computers from AppleTV-size for $99 to MacPro-size where you can buy as many as you want and use them for the simplest (IoT) or complex tasks (Video editing) while adding more cores, gpus, ram or anything you want is as easy as opening the hatch and installing them.
Vision, not excuses, and looks like Tim Cook doesn't have it.
And while we're at it, add some arrays, dictionaries and objects in a couple more code examples. That's all we ask for.
Thanks and kudos!
* HEADLINE: Swift for desktop apps
* DESCRIPTION: Swift frameworks for Cocoa controls that allow development of desktop apps in a beautiful and consistent manner.
And while we're at it, give also Google a hand on porting Kotlin apps for the desktop too. There is nothing better for a platform than allowing developers to build modern and beautiful apps to push the platform even further.
Jobs was not only a great showman, he was definitely a genius.
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