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What I wouldn't give for a X day trial period on all apps. Hell, let categorization drive the length of trial period, I don't care. Please just give me a way to "try before I buy".

I still don't know why anyone outside the techospher will ever pay to use app.net. Does a material number of users outside the techosphere even care that some apps are having their access restricted? Does anyone outsidethe techosphere even know app.net exists?

More importantly, App.net is still a closed box, just like Twitter. App.net still has to pay the bills, just like Twitter. When faced with the same decisions in the future, what prevent app.net from making similar decisions as Twitter?

Will $5 a user per month really cover their costs if they hit scale (I know they have other revenue streams, but I'm guessing they will have more users than anything else)?

People purchase products for all kinds of reasons. Don't be "that guy" that says only smart people "buy X".

I understand that the HN audience finds it incredibly simple to do. My point being, go ask your family members who don't frequent HN (or sites like it) what a user-agent is.

I couldn't disagree more.

Most importantly, I'm not sure it is safe to say users expect an IDENTICAL experience (experience being the most important word) on their mobile as they got from their desktop.

I challenge your assumption that the average person knows how to spoof user agents.

Don't mix "development cost" with "overall support cost".

Overall support will include specific feature testing, regression testing, and user testing. Additionally, support tickets may be opened and introduce support costs in ticket management, escalation, and assessment.

You can put all the disclaimers you want before a use and they will "venture forth into the unknown". However, they will ignore (if they even read/understood it) your warning and then bury you in support tickets, complain loudly to their friends, and leave you with a mess to deal with and no real clean/easy way out.

Historically, the answer will be yes. Apple launches a new model ever year the conversion rates from last years model holders to the new model are really high. This is even higher then conversions from consumers who bought two models ago to the new model. It's ridiculous (not that I think it is dumb, just that they have a consumer base/behavior like that).

Additionally, I don't know if the general population would be on board with your feature list.

For example, why would my mom, sister, wife, or grandma want a sd card? They all by the 64 gig device and that is more than enough. They access their photos on their iPad through photo stream, email, etc. I'm not even sure if they know what an SD card is.

I hear you on the pin connector. But again, people will fork over the money to buy an adapter if need be. Most people aren't going to throw their phone out the window of a moving car because they have to buy an adapter .... Most.

No idea why I need access to the file system. I can store any type of file I want and access it without any problems. It takes an app, but even my grandma knows how to do this. SO maybe if you elaborate on the problem the context of an average consumer might have regarding the file system, I would better understand.

Who the hell are you share your phone with? Additionally, how often is that happening? Even if I had this I would never use it. So much damn work. Additionally, I'm usually standing right there when someone borrows my phone. I never hand it to a stranger and then wander off.

Anywho. I can't argue that the changes are as revolutionary as the iPhone 1. However, the device got thinner, screen got bigger, physical design looks sweet, camera got better, software is getting better, and the device got faster. It's not curing cancer, but that is a damn good phone.

I'm upgrading my 4S tonight. Given how much I use my phone I find it worth the couple hundred bucks. Especially since I can sell my 4S and drastically bring down my net out of pocket.

I imagine this can be done with almost all handsets, laptops, etc. I'm guessing this is more "human nature" than Apple Fanboy'sm at a large consumer scale.

I am by no means implying it takes "extreme" hard work. I'm merely stating that on average it takes more work then people realize.

Anyone else hit 'command + w' to see what it does to then have the damn window exit on them ..... ARGH!!!! :)

Anybody can be anything they want to be. It just takes more work, time, commitment, and tenacity than people realize.

I don't agree with this. I think it is VERY common that couples who have been with each other for a long period of time need to "spice it up" to keep things going.

Eating the same "wholesome meal" for twenty years will get boring no matter what. Throw some chili sauce on that shit and spice it up!

I really don't like the tone of this post. Getting "angry" about candidates CV's and given the impression you think less of them is a bit much.

It's absolutely okay to have a preference for the type of candidate you are looking for. Even better, how that preferred candidate should appear as early as their application.

However, don't classify the candidate as a "moron" (implied via the tone of your blog post) simply because they don't meet your preferred qualifications. Pass on them and move on.

Better yet, this is also a chance to teach if your up to it. Rather then get upset, why not ask them to elaborate AND tell them why you are having them do so. Inform them why you think it is important, helpful, and how it may be important when applying at other companies.

Most students aren't aware that a "B" and a greater portfolio is better.

Additionally, that is contextual. From my understanding Google would prefer the A. So a "B" with a "look at this side project" might get you iced against another candidate.

I am my sister in-law both do this. It's a great way to purchase a vacation home and off-set the cost. Just make sure you financially plan for the worst and hope for the best :)

Damn. I've totally been ignoring the cost of sleeping. Son of a ....... I better update my personal finance models ... stat!

I had a similar reaction.

I guess this would be for co-pays, or the balance owed for what isn't covered by the insurance company.

Nice comment bro!

I can hear it now, "but hey, during code year I learned how to hello world, why is your estimate so hi, it's not that hard".

We should REALLY do this with healthcare. Who needs doctors. All hail self diagnosis year 2013!

It's a new twist on a "same ol' story" and thus can generate traffic. That's why it is getting attention.

I don't think this should focus on "are they good developers or not". That's independent and "case-by-case" at the individual level. I don't think we can characterize that entier portion of the workforce one way or the other. This is more about bi-directional expectations between employee and employer.

Additionally, "passion" for the specific things you are building vs "passion for doing a great job" are also independent. They can converge (awesome for you) and sometimes diverge (welcome to life). More importantly, you will experience all three scenarios at different times throughout your career.

In regards to the general relationship I keep with my employees, I personally execute and support the "did the shit that needed to get done, get done" approach. Not sweating when someone logged on for the day, when they logged off, where they worked from, did they have beer during the day (my preferred answer is YES). Thats the trade-off for when we need to work late to sometimes get the necessary shit, done.

My parents prefer a different environment. They have a specific time they show up to work, a specific amount of allotted time for lunch and breaks, and a specific time when they leave. They different, it's not their problem when shit didn't get done. Plain and simple. There is no flexibility and that's the trade-off.

Each has their pro's and their con's and one isn't necessarily "better" than the other. What do "you" want and works best for "you".

What I'm seeing emerge in these discussions (on average) is an arrogant demanding of a blended approach entirely in favor of the the employee. They want to show up generally around nine, take breaks, take lunch whenever, play some foosball. All the "benefits" and be out the door at 5:01 PM with none of the "cons". Additionally, what gets done, gets done. It's not their problem, nor fault, in any capacity if it doesn't get done by 501. Someone project managed wrong, someone did scope properly, etc.

Maybe it's a new world, at this is becoming the norm, however, it frustrates me.

Have you ever seen an odd drive? Horrible! HORRIBLE!

It might actually be illegal not to disclose that.

I've never had problem with the inspector but I have to agree the stack trace is HORRIBLE. Almost unusable.

Microsofts IDE (the .net one from six years ago) had awesome debugging tools.

I never run into #'s 3,4. With 6, why god why are you doing it the long way? Control+clikc+drag to your header file. It will generate the property, and synthesize it for you automatically.

As an aside, I've never found an IDE that was great. I've found great editors (Submlime2, TextMate, VIM) but never a great IDE.

Microsofts .NET IDE wasn't bad (it's been six years since I've touched a Microsoft technology) so I may not remember the rage like I should (like child birth).

My company (www.within3.com) does it all the time :) It's actually fairly common for companies to do this :)

Use whatever metrics is most important to you when deciding which OS to run. Some is "free as in speech", some focus on "does this help me git shit down a lot faster" ... some, well, who knows. Who cares for that matter.

I pick a Mac laptop as I can run OSX, Windows, and any necessary flavors of Linux (Metric #1). Plus, it has a nice physical shell and for me, that's worth paying some extra cash (Metric #1). But that is me. I assume no cary over in what works for me with other people.

Laptops are as diverse and affordable as shoes (or any other commodity consumer product) and people pick these things based on whatever suits their fancy at that time.

In regards to getting shit done, I can pretty much get shit done on any distro for the most part once past any learning curve (if there is one).

Everything I've heard is that it is near impossible to find talent in Silicon Valley. I've heard it's also the same in NYC ... shit, it's the same everywhere.