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You should consider doing a french language intensive course, also, try to get out of the house as much as possible and talk to people and friends.

The best way to learn a new language for me it's to talk to the natives daily, even if you don't understand anything first :P. Good luck

Although this would be awesome, I don't know how we could isolate sound source and make it perceptible to the audio transcriber, on a street with lots of people walking around and talking this would be complicated.

Nevertheless this would be a great idea.

As a portuguese also, I totally subscribe this. Hence the reason I don't work in/for Portugal anymore, and I won't until this mentality is gone for good.

Unfortunately I'm starting to agree with the bubble 2.0.

Last year I didn't believe it that much, but this year I'm starting to see crazy company evaluations, highly inflated that don't generate any revenue at all, so I don't know how can they be worth billions of dollars, but I know math and little about economics.

But if bursts, it's a good thing. It brings perspective, a thing that's missing a lot these days, where every social app or thingy that's the hottie of the week is evaluated on > $400M.

My bad, I meant north european countries. But regarding the metal bands I still stick with the nordic countries like sweden and finland ;)

I just love European nordic countries, their mentality is like 30 years ahead of rest of the world. Plus they have awesome metal bands.

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Damn, you nailed it. This is exactly what I think, we are wasting so much brain power into stupid and superficial things it's a shame.

First of all, it looks nice, so congrats, I'm sure it consumed many working hours.

But why didn't you go native ? Your controls are pretty much the OSX ones, why did you concentrate so much in the iOS CSS look-a-like interface ?

Also, you could go hybrid, mixing native controls with a webkit view for the data.

Nevertheless, good work.

The PDF: http://testing.ybru.com/images/Appcelerator_Report_Q12012_fi...

I wonder why aren't they using something like ARC in ObjC instead of GC ?

OMG yes !!! And do you know how to interpret what you read ? I never said this was for experienced programmers, only to newbies !

Yes, the american dream, the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Also:

- Please stop including math in every example. I just can't stand see another fibonacci example. Ok we get it, it's awesome for showing recursion, but use other things. Also, don't put math problem on exercises. I'm learning a language, I don't want to recap all my scholl math at the same time. I'll die if I see another "get all the prime numbers from 1 to 100" yada yada yada...

- Don't use the concept of "throughout the chapters we will be building an app...", most of the times these apps suck and are plain boring, and it's demotivating for the beginner. Instead create different small apps in every chapter.

- Bonus: It would be awesome if books started including a cheat sheet.

No true, I travel to the UK very often and I only show my ID, which works as a passport inside EU countries.

It's already happening in some way, lots of people I know refuse to travel to US because of so many horror border stories.

In Europe everything is so much simpler. If you are inside UE all you need to show is your ID card and your are set.

Why doesn't US do the same thing with european countries at least ?

Same thing for working VISA, we are the good-old-europe for god sake :P not a quarantine zone

Never saw so much jealousy/flaming targeting one person here on HN. I got to say I'm a little disappointed as member of this community.

I'm pretty sure Google didn't hired him just for his pretty eyes or the 'cool' factor. Specially when 99% of these comments don't know jack of what they are saying.

I do, I just think Kevin Rose get's tired of things pretty fast

I feel bad for Kevin Rose, I used to lookup for him as a role model in the entrepreneurial and startup world a few years ago.

However, I think the only good thing he did recently was the Foundation podcast, and even that seems to be dying.

How come Oink didn't got any traction, even with all the publicity they did everywhere when it was launched? When oik hit the app store I thought "god, If only I have 1% of kevin rose visibility to use it". I guess this ain't enough.

I think people are getting tired of using apps to tag stuff, take pictures, "like" this and that, etc... It feels like we are working for a company and not having fun or create anything, and Oink! just gave me reason to think this way even more firmly. There's no market for this anymore, because we don't have that much time to spent in dozens of different communities, and so,the less populated die.

So please, if you want to build something, please work on something real and that actual solves something, not another Flickr meets Facebook/twitter app.

You are trying to hard and you are doing it wrong. Instead of doing this why don't you contact your congress people or whatever you guys have in the US and try to change the immigration laws ?

I'd rather cut my wrists than to spent my time on a boat full of prima-donas that want to "change the world".

I would love to move to SF one day, but I want to have living quality as much that country as to offer ,which isn't that good if you come from Europe, let's be honest, but it's probably one of the best places to live in the US, and not some artificial thingy floating in sea,

Again, if the US doesn't want us there because of our potential/skills, well then, I suggest we stop putting it in this big pedestal and start creating our own startups on our own countries or countries that want us there.

Question: Does YC fund foreign startups, if not, why ?

Change the world ? really ?

"Finally, I'll say that learning to create software changes you and makes you different. Not better or worse, just different. You may find that people treat you harshly because you can create software, maybe using words like "nerd". Maybe you'll find that because you can dissect their logic that they hate arguing with you. You may even find that simply knowing how a computer works makes you annoying and weird to them."

This is very true, unfortunately being a programmer requires dedication, non-stop learning to keep up. And this can lead to a very lonely life in a way that you don't socialize too much by favoring what we love to do. If you live with a tech-oriented city you should be fine, but for the rest of us it sucks a little, knowing that most of your friend/relatives don't understand what you do, and why do we spent so much time in front of a screen.

I wouldn't compare OS interfaces with websites. They are totally different things.

An OS UI is mostly buttons and other widgets, window frames, and behavior. The actual applications are very different.

Just to give you an example:

Look Reeder app, Chrome, Things, iPhoto all for OSX. They are wrapped with the a common UI, but they are much different from each other.

Sure they use lots of the same OS widgets, window frame,etc.. but they have their own design and way behaviors inside.

With frameworks like twitter you can't get that, unless you hack the source. But that defeats the whole point of it in the first place.

I can't make up my mind about this. The developer in me loves bootstrap, it doesn't makes me think too much about UI. I can't just worry about coding and functionality.

However, seeing all websites using the same layout it's pretty boring and dull. I think the web is what it is because of it's diversity. I'm a very visual guy, I love te see beautiful well design things and new approaches.

If bootstrap or any other framework is the end of road as far as UI interface, it's pretty sad IMO.

I use bootstrap mostly for prototyping and get it up and running. However, the way I see it, twitter bootstrap for instance is a very well done front-end framework, and puts a high bar for the front-end dev, which is always good.

To me, a perfect interview would be:

"Here's a coding challenge, go home, write the code to solve this, come back tomorrow and tell me three things: - How you did it, - Why you pick this solution, - How it could be improved"

by doing this I could see how he writes code, if he's just a google copy&paster, and what's his skills in algorithm optimization etc...and specially, how he/she thinks.

Quite frankly I don't care if someone doesn't know what Polymorphism is right from his head. I didn't knew what polymorphism was until a few months ago, and yet I was applying the same principles in a lot places in my code. That's the downside of being a self-taught you don't get to know a lot of theory, but on my work I know I'm doing it right. (Also because polymorphism is a very abstract thing to be honest....)

In a nutshell, get developers who can show you their code and can it explain it, don't rely on theory, you are not hiring a college professor.

I couldn't agree more. Everything is "hard" on the first couple of times, but the only recommendation I say to people is to stop worrying about the language, and go create stuff, get into that mindset of creating something, even if it's just a simple app. that will allow us to research and ask things around, and that's when you learn and progress. Nobody achieves anything by bitching around how hard this and that is.

You don't have to have a US bank account, it's not a requirement. It's always a plus to have one, specially if you want to use US payment gateways, but that's it.