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Yeah, I would argue him leaving would be a bigger loss to Apple than Steve Jobs retiring.

Love it, means jack squat but I love that they care about their work so much.

Disclaimer: I have a tendency to display fanboi qualities.

The other interesting stat (somebody pointed it out in the comments too) is that the number of commits per day seem to slope downwards through the week although the number of pushes stays pretty much constant from Monday-Friday.

James Golick implemented this idea in Ruby last year: https://github.com/jamesgolick/friendly

We used Friendly at my previous company wego.com and t worked quite well although I don't know shehar they at still using it. (Friendly doesnt look like it's in activ development)

Just looked at this, it looks super useful! Going to try it out.

It's like TechCrunch has been infected with Winklevi.

I agree. I think the title of the article is quite unrelated to what comes after.

What DHH is railing against is impatience and not about what comes next. After all, isn't Rails itself the result of DHH being fed up of the "now" and wanting to do the "next"?

We use GitHub Issues. It's very barebones but ties in very nicely with our source control site of choice: GitHub, and there is no need to context-switch.

Campaign Monitor seem to be based in Sydney. http://www.campaignmonitor.com/our-story/

Absolutely. Until you have a minimum viable product, there is no point shelling out money on hardware or inventing languages or writing your own data-store.

Latest case in point being Asana Whig started out writing it's own language but wisely decided it's better to ship first.

Not to sound like a fanboy (thought that might be a lost cause), this reminds me of how good a showman Steve Jobs is - as seen in the 1999 Macworld Expo with Noah Wyle (in very similar circumstances - Wyle had played Jobs in 'Pirates of Silicon Valley').

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIClAanU7Os

I have to say I'm kinda surprised that no one has mentioned Jony Ive as a potential successor. Successive keynotes have given me the impression that Jobs trusts Ive and Ive seems to have a similar obsession for making beautiful things. I even remember Jobs referring to Ive as one his best friends.

Jony Ive and Tim Cook in my mind will form a very potent team.

I guess the same applies for apps in the mobile space too. iOS Apps built using frameworks such as Titanium and PhoneGap always seem a little off.

There is an interesting discussion about this in Dan Benjamin's latest episode of the 'Build And Analyze' series with Marco Arment. http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/8

Congrats Garry! Looking forward to more awesomeness.

One thing you could do is refer to your project by a codename (Longhorn, Snow Leopard, Project X, etc.) until you come up with a final name & specifically mention on your site that this is the project code name.

Once you've decided on the final name (and domain name), you can then 301 to your new domain.

Thank you! Patches welcome though ;)

Clickable Link: https://github.com/arunthampi/Paperadio

Binary Download: https://github.com/downloads/arunthampi/Paperadio/Paperadio-...

Apparently there was a show-and-tell of how it worked in Singapore couple of days ago, it looks very interesting!

Great point about SF being an echo-chamber. I live in Singapore and the burgeoning startup scene here has started to feel like an echo-chamber too.

I like that the relationship is informal and that you don't like to label yourselves as co-founders. But have you guys talked about equity/profit-sharing?

There's always the mythical story of the two dudes coming together to build something awesome, but more often than not, I've heard horror stories of such relationships coming to an abrupt halt over issues (typically involving money/ownership).

Love the design though and I especially like the crate graphic :)

+1 for github issues. We use it for all our projects and it's great

Thanks guys for the comments & upvotes :) iTunes App Store Clickable Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/todays-news/id396380628?mt=8

Tried to find your contact details on your HN profile but couldn't. Please mail me at arun.thampi@gmail.com and I can pass you some details.

Have you tried http://hotelscombined.com or http://kayak.com?

Both have great databases for hotel content, but I'm not sure of what restrictions they have for their API.

P.S. I also know Wego (http://wego.com) have an API in the works, if you can get in touch with them through their contact form they can probably work something out (Disclaimer: I used to work at wego.com)

Thanks for this!

Do you mean the website or the actual app? We're in the process of making it universal but so far it looks great on the iPhone as well.

Will post iPhone/iPod Touch screenshots soon.

And thank you for signing up :)

We're aiming to submit to the App Store in 7-10 days. The iPad app is done, we're working on making it universal and testing on multiple devices.

Clickable link: http://todaysnewsapp.com

Great advice, thank you!