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abijlanion Objective Next

Are you saying you want to take a crack at creating this new paradigm shift? Couldn't you argue that a project like RubyMotion is already doing some of what you are proposing.

abijlanion Objective Next

The author is right that we need to think outside the box but I think his argument is misleading. Historically, programming languages evolve and not leapfrog. I don't see why Objective-C cannot keep evolving while some other company is bold enough to research a new visual programming language that will result in a paradigm shift. The two are not mutually exclusive.

abijlanion Beware of Coinbase. They Reversed My BTC Sale

If it failed then why did they take 7 days to return my BTC? That's the benefit of BTC that things can be verified in a matter of minutes.

abijlanion Beware of Coinbase. They Reversed My BTC Sale

From their Terms of Service:

> 3.5 When buying or selling bitcoin, you are buying or selling from Coinbase directly. Coinbase does not act as an intermediary or marketplace between other buyers and sellers of bitcoin.

abijlanion Beware of Coinbase. They Reversed My BTC Sale

It wasn't a failed a transaction. They never said the transaction failed. I got a confirmation that the sale was completed.

abijlanion Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins

I've had a terrible customer service experience with Coinbase too: http://amit.roon.io/an-open-letter-to-coinbase

abijlanion Facebook buys Parse

I'm a big fan of Parse even though I prefer Firebase as a developer. This is sad news because I think they were one company that was executing really well and would have been successful on their own. Even though Facebook and Parse say they are not going to shutdown the service we all know how that story goes.

abijlanion Pinterest Raises $100 MM at $1.5Bn Valuation

The justification for this frothy valuation is that somehow they will turn the browsers of pictures into buyers of products. It is a difficult task and wish them luck but I still don't understand why they would need $120 MM to accomplish it.

abijlanion Spry: Obnoxiously Easy iOS Development With RubyMotion

RubyMotion has potential but like any intermediary framework it will start to show cracks when building a real world application.

abijlanion VendorKit – an iOS library management system

There is already a vendorspec file for libraries with dependencies. I don't see why that can't become the standard for all libraries.

abijlanion Apple Inc vs a small Restaurant from Luxembourg

Let's see go out of business or just change your name. Seems like a no-brainer to me

abijlanion An introduction to Objective-C

This is the author here. I have fixed those issues. I had just written the code and post in TextMate using markdown. I should have checked the code before I put it up there. My bad. As for putting create. I wanted to illustrate that they are creating a new object and don't stress on using create as naming convention.

abijlanion IOS Boilerplate: A base template for iOS apps

I agree, it's definitely not boilerplate material but it is certainly a good "starter kit" for a beginner dev, assuming of course that he will need all these libraries for building his app. Otherwise he just downloaded one big bloated project template.

abijlanion Steve Yegge quits Google in the middle of his speech [OSCON Data 2011]

Let's stop focusing on the fact that he quit. And focus on WHY he quit. I'm sure we all can relate with what he's saying at some level. He's talking about tackling hard problems and not just low hanging fruit that might (emphasis on might) make a buck. And most of all he's leading by example. I haven't seen this much bravado from anyone in our industry in a long time.

abijlanion Show HN: TestingAndroid.com: Test Your Android App Across Several Devices

The video shows someone testing the user experience but what about a structured functionality test amongst a set of devices. If I were using the service I would like to provide a checklist and see you go through that checklist on a set of devices and OS versions that I would provide.

abijlanion Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0

I completely disagree with the article. He treats both Nokia and Microsoft as though they have no idea what they are doing. Microsoft has decades of experience in coming up from behind place and crushing the competition. As for Nokia, they make really good hardware. They got caught up in selling cheap handsets because it was great business for a while but that does not mean they cannot make great hardware. I think this is a great move for both companies and even better for consumers.

abijlanion After 4 years of self-funded coding marathons I feel "finished", care to talk?

Overnight success is a myth. You can read tons of articles on how companies took years of trying to reach the success and adulation that they now receive. In most cases it takes them years of sweat and persistence to become an overnight success. Of course there are the rare ones that hit it on the first go but that would be equivalent to winning the lottery versus having to work hard at making your millions. Don't give up now or ever and some day just maybe some day you will become that overnight success.

abijlanion Hacker Monthly - Issue #4 - September 2010

Could you share with us what tools you use to produce Hacker Monthly? I would like to create an ebook but have no idea what tools to use.

abijlanion Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars

Yelp is not doing anything revolutionary. Before Yelp there was city search. Yelp came along and improved on what city search had done. Who is to say a better Yelp won't come along. I think they will regret walking away from this deal in the near future. For a very recent example look at Friendster. Although I hope I'm wrong.

abijlanion How to Make a Million Dollars

Start a business become a millionaire. It's like saying to a VC we just need to capture 1% of this $100 billion market.

abijlanion Ask HN: Haiku?

Code is poetry

UI a story

Hack... a haiku

abijlanion Ask HN: Back problems

One word - Yoga

abijlanion Ask YC: Meditation Advice

Meditation is not a quick fix. It is a journey inside oneself where you uncover a lot of things about yourself and especially your mind.

Stress relieving can be done in several ways such as: running, yoga, swimming or even just something simple like doodling or painting.

Few good books if you really want to look into meditation are: http://www.amazon.com/Wherever-You-There-Are-Mindfulness/dp/... http://www.amazon.com/Minute-Meditation-Quiet-Mind-Change/dp... http://www.amazon.com/Book-Secrets-Keys-Love-Meditation/dp/0...

abijlanion Ask HN: What's your philosophy?

I just live in the moment

abijlanion Ask HN: Marketing ideas for my book "The Geek Atlas"

I think you can learn quite a bit from Tim Ferris (the author of the 4-hour work week). He started marketing his book way before it came out by way of:

1. A website that complimented his book

2. A blog that talk about things related to the book

3. He reached out to bloggers and built a relationship (http://text.co.uk/internet-marketing-news/how-to-market-to-b...)

4. Get interviewed. Podcasters are always looking to interview people with interesting stories and of course there are many book review sites and podcasts.

All these will build enough anticipation and hype that once your books hits the shelf you should have generated significant buzz.

abijlanion Ask HN: How to aggregate product info from other websites

Here's a great hpricot tutorial

http://www.igvita.com/2007/02/04/ruby-screen-scraper-in-60-s...

abijlanion Obama's new Web site for the transition

Such transparency with his Agenda. I think he's already made his first big step towards change.

abijlanion Ask HN: Ideas for my startup (www.prosepoint.org)

Your site administration is very confusing.

What makes Wordpress so popular today is their intuitive admin interface. You can right away manage the content. I think they have it right, the people managing the content vs the people managing the design / layout are two entirely different sets of people.

There are tons of Wordpress themes that offer the Magazine/Newspaper layout. So what is your differentiation factor?

abijlanion Ask HN: What are some of the best Tutorials/Resources on How to Build an IPhone App?

http://iphonedevcentral.org/home.php

http://www.iphonesdkarticles.com/

abijlanion Say Goodbye to alert()

I agree, firebug killed alert() a while back