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I believe there may be a line drawn between "bullshit" and "nonsense" :)

Winner, yes, but I think the core of it is that he doesn't believe there will be a billion dollar exit.

Yes, quite often the "On Left Click" action is tied to a "Take Screenshot" function, useful for defeating these types of on-screen keyboards, randomized or not.

Any attachable keyboard on the iPad will be the same. When the keyboard hides itself (on the home screen, or any other screen without the keyboard input selected), you are left with a keyboard covering 25% of your real estate. However this review seemed to note that it is possible to click through the keyboard, which is a good thing in that regard.

In the FAQ, they define free to play as "every game will be free to play: what this means is that there will at least be a free demo, or you’ll be able to play the entirety of the game for free but may have access to additional items, upgrades, or other features that come at a cost."

I do believe that the first part is unequivocally not free to play... Xbox Live doesn't get to call itself free to play because it offers demos for almost every game. The 2nd part is certainly the freemium model that has been heavily used (and quite successful in my eyes).

But I think it is important to clarify that the system does not only feature free-to-play games, but there are paid games that offer demos. They do mention that by all games being "free" they mean that developers will be forced to include some playable content for the user, but I just do not agree with that wording, it could be much clearer.

Having said that, this looks cool :)

First thing I thought as well, extraordinarily similar to Cue, with (most likely) much stronger integration: maps, calendar, mail, etc.

"I’ve had visitors buy all sorts of expensive and odd items when they left my site to check out a $10 book on Amazon. And trust me, pink vibrators can add up quickly."

I am mostly in the dark on how this program works, does this mean the Amazon Associates Affiliate Program allows the referrer to see exactly what the people who click through their link purchase within the next 24 hours?

I assume it would be anonymous, and I guess it makes sense to understand the demographic of your site, but it certainly seems a bit invasive if clicking on a referral link tells that blogger your Amazon purchase history for 24h...

Hi, I am in a similar position as you, and have sought help in much the same way. The most common responses I got were:

Programming in Objective-C - Kochan (http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-4th-Developers...) I am currently halfway through this book, it is primarily focused on the actual Objective-C language, and almost nothing on actual iOS/Cocoa Development (some small bits in the later chapters). I was recommended this to learn the underlying language before jumping in, very enjoyable so far, the exercises are great.

I have heard good things about both Nerd Ranch books (http://www.amazon.com/iOS-Programming-Ranch-Guide-Guides/dp/...) and will likely use that for introduction to Cocoa and iOS SDK.

Originally I planned on using "Beginning iOS 5 Development" from Apress as the iOS SDK learning book (http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-iOS-Development-Exploring-SD...), but it seems that the reviews are quite low compared to previous versions.

Finally, if you enjoy learning through video, the Stanford course is very highly recommended, through iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-...). I found them very useful to start with, but I felt I wasn't learning much syntax through the videos, the talking portions are very in depth, but the coding portions are very quick (and went over my head due to not knowing Objective-C!). I will likely return to these when I have a working understanding of Objective-C.

(Most of these tips from my understanding of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3403049/best-book-resourc... and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1939/how-to-articles-for-...)

I'm curious, go back to live or to visit? If the former, why haven't you?

When your what is as big as Apple is?

Do you really want to override browser functionality? I could imagine more people being frustrated by that than the additional sales it may generate.

From the demo, they offer a rule based on referring and current URL (you may be able to use this in order to determine if a user has already pressed back). Nothing I can see regarding closing the window, your best bet may be to use the given example: "number of seconds user is on page".

I've read these types of posts hundreds of times, and they never seem truthful, but here is mine: I just want to say thank you for that image. I would like to hear your thoughts on your note, why do you find the message is debatable, and if you know where the image is from? It says the text is from "Amusing Ourselves to Death" which has just made it to #1 on my to-read list.

I found the apt summary of Huxley's points (plus the jarring images) resonated strongly with my current views on my life, which prompted me to really do some self-reflecting and organize myself. In addition, it vibes very strongly with the "create, not consume" mantra found here on HN.

It is a feedback loop, but how can you hang around people who do things in the first place? Someone in your group has to be the one who initially does things, so why not make that you!

Yeah, the entire front page is now Show HN...

Perhaps we could have a category? Like /ask, but /show?

To add to that, Bastion is an incredible game as well, the music, narration and graphics are all amazing, it creates a great atmosphere. This Indie Bundle really has some big hits.

sweating: running back to try to find his iPhone + trying to make it to a meeting on time

shaken up: losing a 500-600$ iPhone would shake me up too

I don't see anything out of the ordinary there.

I don't really think so. I would say the movie industry is fairly well established, and don't need the same kind of availability to start selling DVD players in homes... By many accounts the PC gaming industry nearly died many times in it's infancy.

However his main comparison seems to be between "cracking games takes work and is therefore alright" vs. "ripping movies doesnt", which I don't necessarily agree with.

That is actually an excellent idea, thanks!

I'm only a few lessons into Pimsleur but it is quite interesting. I understand the concept of speaking out loud, but I hope normal conversational tone is not required! I do these on the bus, which means I can mouth the words and speak in a quiet voice, but talking makes me look like a crazy person!

I agree, Google has some of the smartest Software Engineers, a huge amount of capital, and really they could have spent as little or as much time on this as they wanted. I truly hope it doesn't end up another Google+ vs. Facebook type comparison. Lots of room for new players in this market, but there needs to be innovation.

Seen the trailer, looks awesome! Keep up the good work :)

Interesting to see the "consecutive" days motivational tool come up again. I've been struggling with this recently and will have to give that a shot.

My work AV blocked a malicious site and I was redirected to some spammy looking ad site.

Edit: Looks ok now.

I'm not quite sure why so many people are complaining about Facebook Connect... I know it is the hot thing to do, but this product is actually using the data from Facebook, not just requiring an account to login for sake of ease. The entire point of this project seems to be to hook into Facebook, grab the numerous events/birthdays, and then track those for you, so that you can respond. If you don't have a Facebook account, I don't think you are the target audience.

Similar way here, given 0000, 1111, 2222, 3333, 5555, 6666, 7777, 9999, we know the value of each number except for 4 and 8, disregard 4 (not in any value), sub those values in to any slot with an 8, and you get the answer.

If the alternative to overthinking would be staring at this looking for a pattern until you realize it is the number of loops, then that is not something I am interested in :)

Wow! And Airport products weren't even released until 1999. I'm not sure how they did that. Probably something to do with liquid cash assets ;)

Sounds great. I still find it mind boggling how slow MSN 'p2p' transfer can be, I would love a great solution and will definitely give this a shot.

Question, the Samsung LCD display they linked to shows a 1024x768, not the 2048 resolution of the iPad, what gives?

You wouldn't be able to plug in the 24pin ATX connector to the mobo, which is how the PSU gets the signal to turn on. It is a simple bridge of two ports (google for 24pin atx bridge on), which will leave your PSU on all the time, if it has a switch on the back that will make for easy on/off switching.

However, as said above, adapters are much simpler :)

Cool idea. On Chrome the scrolling likes to shoot me to the top occasionally some period of time after a page switch (probably when it is finished loading all the 'M' songs for example).

EDIT: Your discover page loads every single record on that main page (/discover), generating one HUGE page, (which I can scroll down while it is still being generated), and then once finishes, forces user view back up to the top, as it generates the "0-9,A-Z" menu. There is ~5 seconds delay for me before it finishes loading everything, there should be a better way to do that :)

Also, how about some feedback when a search returns no results? I wasn't able to tell if it was working or just didn't contain any Muse.

Finally, should mention this (appears for now) to be Piano only, and looks to be linking mostly Youtube videos that have been somehow determined to be instructional. (Is there a way for you to detect if a video has embedding disabled? I found a few 'dead' vids because of that.)

Again, neat idea :)