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I don't think Objective-C was ever designed for large scale Enterprise projects.

I am trying to tell you "things have changed".

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I believe you are right. Honestly, I don't Mike is racist but the "Passive Attitude" that he can't think of any black founder - when he clearly knows some is kind of dishonest.

"It is hard not to notice that the usual top commenters avoid ths topic like a plague."

I've also noticed that.

Extremely well put. Took me alot of humility to get to get to this conclusion.

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Excel only adds up to about 6 decimals. I worked on a project of an Endowment Fund (billions) and Excel was flat out wrong when computing billions over decades.

The worst part is: Excel is the Dogma. If your results do not match with Excel, make it.

You can use this app as a learning experience (education) for creating a bigger and more profitable app

That's classic. Any references will be appreciated.

Exactly. Last year I had to choose between a 600 lawyer and a 6k lawyer, guess whom I went with? The 6k lawyer, because even though I am not a lawyer, I could tell the $600 dude was just rambling and did not even understand the seriousness of my case (or maybe he just didn't care)

No. Tropical.

For the most part, I usually think in pseudo-code

I still can't believe how many people are unaware of C#. Coming from a java background, C# is a far better route than Scala.

The Scala syntax, I must say is not as readable: def apply() = l map (_())

"It used to be a paper mill". Now its a data center.

Great to see factories evolving

Zune Phone would have been better than that horrible WP7 name.

WP7 requires Windows 7 and a lot of us are still developing on XP

Yes. But you might not get the Silicon Valley buzz like some "answers" websites are getting.

You are confusing gamers with programmers

Still waiting for my N1 (T-Mobile) to get 2.3

My colleague actually still has 1.6 on his Motorola Clique (T-Mobile)

Is there emulator/debugging support?

Google Groups is one of the worst Google web apps (from a programming stand point). You cannot add code snippets easily, the search is horrible and you cannot even format code/text easily like in http://code.google.com.

Have they seen stackoverflow.com?

West Cameroon (or Southern Cameroon) is West Africa. Cameroun (or La Republique du Cameroun or East Cameroon) is Central Africa

Not ytue in West Africa. If you want to show status/money, get an Escalade or a Land Cruiser.

I used a Hilux in West Cameroon on the muddy/mountain side roads in the rainy season. It is very reliable.

Its predecessor - Toyota Stout, has no "Four-Wheel", yet on First Gear, it is more stable climbing muddy hills in bad weather than an F350 or any Chevy its size

You obviously don't develop large/similar applications do you?

We have custom controls (text boxes, listviews, dynamic formviews) that inherit from Android controls, that are reused over 15+ applications. It was hell building them scratch because the main app was a Java library (not an android app so the XML resources are useless).

I don't think you even understand what I'm saying. For example: Can you explain to me why the CheckedTextView control is available in XML but the class itself is abstract?

Google thinks they can have lightning hit the same spot twice .i.e. crowd sourcing. It worked with Google Search but for the Android platform, Google will have to actually do some PR work. As an android developer, I got pretty frustrated by the lack of clear documentation and their horrible API. Chances are, if you are used to the Sun Java API (or even C# API), trying to develop in Android will easily get your frustrated with the Android API. Method names sound alien or don't really mean what they imply. Also, the whole XML resourced-based format prevents you from easily creating components dynamically (through java code) and referencing them in more than one project.

I could go on and on...

Even the Developer portal on the Android Market is just horrible. I'm not sure what they were trying to accomplish.

- 2 screen shots???

- extremely limited description?

- No clear text box for "Update Reason"?

- You can't respond to user ridiculous comments?

- Sometimes my paid apps get cancelled after two days of purchase

P/S: I have more than 1/2 million combined downloads

This is really a good read. You should definitely submit it separately here on HN

BMW's are twice as expensive in Europe? You lost me there. I currently on vacation in Europe, and you won't believe some of the deals (on both brand new and used) BMW's I've seen.

This is complete bull. Owning anything that depreciates in value is not a smart investment idea. Most wealthy people don't go around in a Prius. Even if they own one, they will always get a "safer" car for their family (at least) such as a Volvo, Benz or Range Rover.