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If it's where they do most of their explosives testing, it's the county sheriff's bomb range.

It's not like they had a bunch of people sitting around a conference table thinking up the phrases people might ask it. It's a natural language parsing engine; it understands "horny" as sex, and pulled up related Yelp listings.

That's not really Apple's style though.

I'm not sure I understand. Is Sprint planning on undercutting the "regular" subsidized cost of the iPhone? Because otherwise, unless they're going to do something that really stands out, it seems like a case of "the only way to beat them is to be exactly like them".

Huge difference between the title of the article and the title of the post. I'd argue that inspiration comes from outside, and motivation comes from within. Inspirational events can motivate you, but only motivation is going to actually help you accomplish anything.

SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote only

iOS/Cocoa Touch

I'm an indie developer, and my workload is outpacing number of hours in the day. I'm looking for a freelance iOS developer to help take some of the work off my shoulders. I'd like to do a set number of hours per month, not too many so a nights-and-weekends deal would be okay.

Experience in iPad and iPhone development, Cocoa Touch, UIKit, Xcode, and so on. I need someone who is experienced enough to have shipped an app, either direct to the app store, or to a client. You need to be able to hit the ground running. Also, I use Git for VCS and Lighthouse for bug tracking, so experience with either of those is a plus. Experience consuming web services via REST, and experience parsing JSON and XML responses is a big plus as well.

Please email your experience (and a resume if you'd like) to info@pocketsevens.net. Just tell me about yourself and the work you've done. Links are helpful too. Thanks!

I've never heard of Parse before, so thanks for the link because it looks like a dream come true for me.

I've been using the iOS 5 betas and I can tell you I use Reading List and Instapaper completely differently. Instapaper has always been long form reading, stored for later (and potentially offline). Reading List, I use to quickly transfer a site I'm currently reading from my desktop to my iPad or iPhone, incidentally replacing an app I wrote to do exactly that. I guess it's time to take Panic's Audion advice and retire that app ("When you double click the competition in the morning, that's a pretty good sign that it's time to hang up your hat!", http://panic.com/extras/audionstory/)

Congrats on the release Kenneth, it looks really great.

So much misinformation. Apple "rushed to patch the security opening" because IT'S A SECURITY FLAW that allows unrestricted code execution via a website. That's a pretty huge problem; shouldn't it be fixed right away?

"After Allegra released JailbreakMe 2 last year, Apple upped its game another notch, randomizing the location of code in memory so that hackers can’t even locate commands to hijack them." Another security method, and one that some people ripped on Apple for not including for so long. Now they put it in and it's a paranoid response to stop jailbreakers?

Listen, there's no legal issue with jailbreaking. That issue has been settled, as much as it can be without a lawsuit and a court ruling. But Apple is under no obligation to make it easy, or to leave gaping security holes for jailbreak tools to waltz through. We need to stop acting like Apple is persecuting jailbreakers, when what they're really doing is fixing security holes.

Xcode 4.2. Love that bleeding edge :)

I don't disagree with you. Complain if you want. Sometimes it helps. But don't make the mistake of thinking you're entitled to anything.

And "freedom of speech" only applies to the government, and only governments in the US. Websites that delete your comments are not limiting your freedom of speech. </pet_peeve>

When you're building on someone else's platform, you're subject to their whims, whether you like it or not. Facebook can delete your app for no reason, so can Apple and Google and Microsoft. If you're building a Netflix or Twitter app and they change their API (or terms of service) to disable your app, you don't really have any legal recourse. Yeah it sucks, but it's a pitfall of doing business on someone else's platform, and one that developers should be keenly aware of before they start.

I don't see the compelling reason to start with Android in the free-app-as-front-end-to-web-service case. Is it because Android phones (briefly) outsold iPhones? Last I heard, iOS still has something like a 60% lead in install base, and the latest data says iPhone sales are outpacing Android phone sales again.

"A better (more honest) reply would be "we don't think there's a problem, Apple is just luck and hype, the playbook is industry changing (Mike said that, didn't he?), this better not have come from inside or else"."

If that's really what they believe then they're in more trouble than anyone could have imagined.

The only positive way to respond to a letter like that is to go out and do it. A press release reiterating the same old lines isn't going to solve anything; addressing concerns internally and releasing real products should be their response.

I'm not sure there really was any good news in that email. Just bad news with lipstick.

"Ask Michael Arrington what Heather Harde has brought to TechCrunch, or Larry Page what Marissa Mayer means to Google. Ask Mark Zuckerberg what Sheryl Sandberg brings to Facebook."

Maybe it's not that they're women. Maybe it's alliterative names that makes the difference.

You'd be surprised. I've worked with forensic law enforcement in the past, and they were equipped to clone drives quickly and easily. The idea is to create a clean image of the drive that they can use for evidence, and they don't boot the machine so if there's any trapdoors or whatever they won't hit them. And this was a local police force over 5 years ago, I can't imagine what the FBI would be capable of these days.

SQLite is indeed built into iOS and Mac OS X as well. Core Data's store uses SQLite as an option (XML and Binary are the others), and it is accessible via third party frameworks like FMDB.

It's called MacroSolve.

Edit: Never mind, they're a completely different patent troll feeding on indie iOS developers. Shameful.

If watching TV is distracting you from working on your company, you don't have to sell your TV, just stop watching it. You're going to be bombarded with distractions no matter what you do. Family, friends, beer, the whole internet in general, all have the potential to be really distracting. But you can't just throw them out or sell them at a garage sale, you need to learn to get stuff done with them in your life as well. If you don't have the willpower to simply turn the TV off, how will you have the willpower to say no to a night out at the bar with friends, or when you open a new browser window and reddit is just a few keystrokes away I'll only check out a few links then it's back to work oh look its 4am how did that happen?

Basically, stop blaming TV. TV isn't what's not getting the work done.

Details are important, even if they're as minor as this one.

How long ago was this? I was there in 2008 and 2010 and both years were packed to the rafters all week long.

I got an email at 11:34am eastern time from Apple about WWDC. Plenty of time.

Your second point might be technically accurate, but there's a very large contingent of indie developers, like myself, with 1-5 employees that shoulder all the cost ourselves.

The developer preview of Lion makes it pretty clear which way things are heading. I wouldn't expect much deviation from that on the Mac side. I'll be interested to see what they're planning for iOS 5 though.

This is an interesting idea that I haven't seen before. Why shouldn't Twitter target trends at me? They know my tweets, and tweets of the people I follow. They could target trends, and ads for that matter, that I'd actually like to see.