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This is pretty awesome, but I wish they had called "Skeu You" instead.

This misses the point that the native OS X Twitter client is awesome. It allows you to easily manage multiple accounts. That's not something the Twitter website does.

I was really enjoying the lack of political posts on Hacker News. Everywhere else on the Internet is inundated with blood pressure-raising political opinions. Now the sewage seems to have seeped in here to...

Admittedly, a single timezone for the world might be a bit far fetched. But there's nothing intuitive about 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in a hour, then all of a sudden 24 hours in a day, and roughly 4.3 weeks in a month or somewhere between 28 and 31 days in a month. The only numbers in our calendar that are vaguely intuitive is 3 months in a season and 265 days in a year, and even those have problems.

I was hoping this was a more radical proposal like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time was.

Our current way of measuring time is absurd. It starts as base 1000 with milliseconds, then base 60 with seconds and minutes, then 24 for hours, 7 for days, 4.3whatever for months or 28-31 however you want to track it.

I like that China only has one time zone for the entire country. We should all go by UTC times regardless of our geographical position. But we should also change our means of measuring time to work around whole base 10 numbers.

It's because the company has the leverage. If they terminate an interview early, they leave one person with a bad impression. If you terminate the interview early, you leave however many people are participating in the interview with a bad impression.

Relatedly, the 2003 documentary "The Corporation" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(film)) makes the case that if corporations are "people", they fit the psychopath personality type. Non-psychopathic people have a sense of empathy, a personality trait that corporations lack.

Yeah, I agree. The app is an interesting take on productivity. I haven't seen anything that does countdowns. But my initial reaction was "whoa, terrible font". Also try left justifying the labels and have the uinavbar label font match.

I program mostly in Objective-C nowadays, but I started professionally with PHP. When I first started Objective-C, I found it really constricting in comparison. In PHP you can do things a thousand ways, most of the terrible. In Objective-C, specifically with Cocoa, things are a lot more rigid and prescribed. I found this frustrating, but love it now. It's made my PHP better too when I do occasionally go back. It forced me to think more about architecture. I also understand why my CS dept taught us Scheme first, not Java.

To link that back to the post, this is the type of constriction he's talking about to make better programmers. Cocoa and Objective-C restricted me to only writing at least halfway decent code. With PHP, because of it's flexibility, you're free to get things done quickly, but in a terrible way. Sure with PHP you can do things right too, but it takes a lot more self-discipline and also a priori knowledge.

Sorry to post yet another rag on PHP.

$200 seems low, but that might would it take to build marketshare today. Plus, Microsoft has experience selling their hardware at a loss with the XBox. I wonder how Apple would react to this.

Yeah, they say it gets between 50 and 100% better gas milage, but are those "savings" spent at the electrical outlet?

Apple owes a lot of its comeback to hackers and open source advocates. It's good to see them participating.

They certainly need to maintain goodwill with open source hackers to continue succeeding. Their current locked-down culture seems somewhat antithetical.

I would argue however that that same locked-down culture is actual the logical outcome of the security ideal hackers promote.

Was this video critiquing, commenting on, reporting news about, teaching or researching the song? No. It still doesn't qualify as fair use.

Using a song to parody something besides the song isn't fair use. If the song is used to parody the song itself or the artist, yes, but not to parody something completely unrelated. If that were the case, rappers could parody a police commissioner in a song which also happens to have samples George Clinton, and claim that because they were parodying the police commissioner the George Clinton sample is perfectly legit. Fair use just doesn't work like that.

You have to do it on the server. And it's a pain to implement correctly, full of cryptic error codes. I imagine many developers skip it since it's not required by Apple.

I totally agree, the best practice is to validate transactions before delivering content.

It wasn't clear from the article if the method could bypass that. It would have to provide valid transaction ids to the app developer's server. That seems a little too sophisticated or impossible, so you're probably right.

I guess we should really just be surprised this wasn't done sooner.

Unless you can get an insanely large price, licensing seems to make more sense since you won't lose control of the app. You can relicense, including to those brick and mortar stores, and possibility hold out for a larger sum after initial success.

I would need to know more about your business to see how it fit your larger strategy, but turning internal tools into the core of the business has been a successful pivot point for others. The prime example the comes to mind is 37signals that went from a web-dev consultancy house to making productivity apps.

If you're 17 and already a decent programmer, my best advice to you is to have some fun and exercise. Seriously you'll undoubtablely be a great programmer if you keep at it. But you might have regrets about how you spent your adolescence only programming. Get out, go to the gym, and learn to talk to different people. With the advantages you have of having your knowledge so young, it's best to focus on how you can compliment that to become a great, well-rounded person and also a great programmer.

Argentina has direct elections of the president, multiple political parties, and mandatory voting. How does that make them a "non-free country"? If anything that makes Argentines more free than citizen of the United States.

Also what is your criteria for a hard currency vs a soft currency? It seems weird to group the US Dollar and Euro with gold and put the Argentine Peso in a separate group.

The Argentina economy isn't in a depression or recession, just oddly managed. But yes, crime, especially robberies, is extremely high.

I'm not always in favor of what Christina does, but it is generally good to have a diversity of economic models active in the world, for the same reason biodiversity is important.

While most of the world struggled with the 2008 economic crisis - and Europe still struggles with it - Argentina shrugged it off.

Imagine if another longer lasting crisis occurs within the US hegemonic sphere. Countries like Argentina, which have one foot outside that sphere, will be able to survive and perhaps even lead growth elsewhere.

Life times of economic crises in Argentina have taught Argentines to depend on no one but themselves, which means protectionism sometimes.

This article is total linkbait. They redefine "malware" to create a sensationalized headline. The article never mentions what the consumer facing features were suppose to be. It could have had a legitimate use, but also this privacy violating code. This is more properly an app that violates user privacy - which is not something new or particularly newsworthy - and not malware.

This free publicity was the best thing to ever happen to the Oatmeal.

That is a well balanced critique of accelerators.

One possible defense of incubators could be that their value increases with time.

The first class of companies may not benefit much, but as time goes on, some of those companies will certainly succeed. And those those successful companies will offer value to the current/future batches.

Of course, YC has the advantage of already having several successful alumni. And like the Matthew Principle says, those who have will be given more.

Android is a Linux. It's like Portland, the dream of the 90's.

Mindshare is more what I meant than marketshare.

If you look at Wikipedia's statistics, Microsoft represents about 75% of visitors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...

I imagine that in 2002, their share would have been hovering around 95%.

Microsoft management may have destroyed their partnerships, but they're certainly not imcompetent.

The Surface is the exact thing Microsoft needs to stay relevant for consumers. And if Microsoft can start selling their own hardware, in the end they'll be better and more profitable for it.

What does SemiArrucate thing Microsoft should do? Stay the same course that has seen them losing marketshare for a decade?

PHP is like the English language, full of inconsistencies but everyone speaks it.

JavaScript is not suitable for large web apps because Adobe can't charge developers hundreds of dollars selling buggy tools for it.

The iPad needed animated GIF creation, but nobody wants to pay for one. http://gifpl.us

I was expecting more blow by boo coverage for the original post. Apple really had done a lot to smooth the process for app developers. Apps are getting review much quicker than before. With in-app purchases you can sell additional features in your upgrade, thus making those new features paid upgrades. I'm sure the charts algorithms are more complex than just pure download numbers, even normalized for time. The only real problems I see still are not being able to respond to unfair/untruthful reviews.