phatbyte

I never really worked with Android so I can't speak for it. But I completely agree with you on the updated documentation, I just feel that sometimes I get a little lost when I trying to learn how to use a class or framework.

I don't think Objective-C is hard at all. If you understand OO or come from a OO language you can pick it up pretty fast, like in a day or two.

Cocoa on the other hand requires much more learning curve. Also apple could improve their documentation.

I'm currently working on a OSX app, and Objective-C has been a breeze, with the new ARC is even more easy to work with.

Ok, I know you have your reasons but why the US ? Why don't you start your startup in your own country or in another European country ? Any good reason for not staying there ?

As an european I sadly see everyone from this side of the world trying desperately be part of the new startup gold rush in the US. Fund startup, get VC money, sell it, ???, profit.

Not very long time ago, I was like you too. I wanted so much to move to SF and build my startup or be part of one. But now, I don't care. Why ?

1 - I can incorporate my company in Delaware right from my living room.

2 - I can have hire good professionals from around the world to work with me (looking at 37signals as a role model)

3 - And quite frankly, the position of the US regarding european citizens that want to live and work in the US is too restrictive and amazingly elitist. Not even Mordor is that hard travel to. I just wished other countries had the same mesures/restrictions as they do for US citizens that want to live and work abroad. Europe (although lots of americans couldn't even put it on the map) isn't made of third world countries.

4 - Also, lots of good startups are operating in this side of the world.

So, why are you giving the US all the credits for your work ? If they don't want you, screw it. It's not the end of the world, and your can pretty much do the same thing here as you would over there.

As a developer and founder of a new born company, I feel like we need to show the world that europe is a good place to fund a startup, we might not have the YC or other popular investors, but if more and more startups got created here, maybe they would start looking for us.

Do you even know what proof of concept is ?

Thank you

Congrats on the app, it looks very cool.

I learned a bit of objc and cocoa awhile ago, but I never understood how you can customize the app like this.

Agreed as well

The web's big bang ?

Wow, I'm really impressed with Tornado. I'm learning node.js at the moment, but I've been working with Python/Django as well, so I will definitely consider this for my project.

Any benchmarks between node.js and Tornado btw ?

For me delegations was fairly easy to understand, in a nutshell, you "borrow" events from a class to be implemented and triggered by your own class.

For me, the worse part of Objective-C was memory management, the rules are simple if you alloc you must dealloc, but memory leaking was always a problem, but now we have ARC and it free us from this.

What I would really like to know, and I've never seen it in a book/tutorial explaining in detail, is, how do you skin or create costume buttons for your interface.

How do you create/code an interface like http://dayoneapp.com/ ? I don't mean the graphics, but how to implement a template or design.

If any of you know, it would be awesome ;)

" Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. " - This is true in the actual times, since China (no matter how they want you to forget it) is living under very harsh communist regime, but that will change when chinese workers start demanding better working conditions, more time for family, better salaries, etc..as far as I know, it's China who's living in a bubble.

First thing that pops up to me it's how beautiful and well designed the TB is when compared to Zurb.

In terms of implementation I've only used TB, and it was simple, not very intrusive.

I simply love it for quickly prototyping and get it up and running.

I workout from home, I started a couple of months ago with cardio to loose some fat, and now I'm starting p90x.

The reason I don't go to the gym isn't because I gave up, it's just I don't like that "all" gym environment, plus the fact that I have to drive there, wait for people to let me use a specific machine etc...

with the money I'd spent on a gym, I'm building my own little private gym.

I can't recommend enough for all of us geeks to workout. I used to drink sugar drinks, eat fat food, all that crap. Even though I wasn't fat I was starting to gain weight and man, I was embarrassed of how out of shape I was.

Look it as hacking your own body ;) make it better, each week you will se improvements, get in shape. Just because we are geeks doesn't mean we can't have a great body for ladies ;P

Why on earth Europe doesn't have something like Stripe or WePay ?? This is such an amazing opportunity, and I can see lots of people who would invest in it.

No you can't unfortunately, you must have a US bank account :( I tried that already

That and "I'm on a boat" from Lonely Island ;)

I couldn't agree more on points 5 and 6.

I can only admire the persistance (free time) of someone coding in Clojure. Everytime someone says to me "I hate Objective-C syntax" I show them Clojure...

If I want fast performance I code in C or other low level language. Sorry Clojure community, I'm not drinking the kool aid this time.

After fighting with some dependencies I was able to compile it and running on Xcode.

I just couldn't find the piece of code in which you can activate it by SMS, it seems you can only do it by the website/settings. Also, wouldn't the theft be able to shut down the application and get away with it ?

Other than that, thanks for sharing, this will be fun to learn since I'm starting to code iOS apps.

I'm currently living in Lisbon, but I got to Braga very often. Let's have a HN meetup hehe

I got incorporated in the US. Not funded as in VC funding.

I completely agree with you, even if I'm from Portugal I understand it perfectly.

For instance, in order to get my SSN in portugal it took around 1-2 weeks. On the other hand, in the US I got my EIN in 5 minutes online.

Unfortunately this applies to Spain, Greece and my home country Portugal. South european countries have the same base mentality when it come to entrepreneurship, you either get mocked/ignored/stigmatized for failing or you get jealousy/ignored when you succeeded.

Also, we don't have the mentality of "self-made man" and "go get it", most of our population expect everything from the government. They get a degree and expect to get a job the next day just because.

I have serious arguments with family members and friends regarding this, because I'm the totally opposite, I strive to succeeded and I'm happy and inspired when I see someone else succeeding. I don't want to be in a safe job for the rest of my life, I want to be in a limbo all the time, that will make me push forward and fight to a have a better life. And to be honest I'm doing a lot better than most of the people here, even if I don't have a "stable" job.

I'm currently working as freelancer for companies outside portugal, and I've just funded my company in the US. I expect to get away from here next year. I just can't stand this mentality

This is a very good idea. Europe absolutely needs to showcase our startups, even if this is only for UK now.

Wasn't someone from Wired who said that mobile apps were going to replace web apps, and so the web as dead ??

And now, we have Yahoo saying "no no no, web is the way to go, look at us !!".

Quite frankly, this type of discussions sucks and are totally irrelevant. Let the market decide, don't be a palm reader, as you might end up with your palm in your face.

Really ? JS is an amazing language, much better then say PHP. And trust me, there are people building careers out of PHP. JS correctly used can do amazing things.

Couldn't agree more.

Amazing website. I will definitely subscribe as soon as you upgrade to iOS5. Keep up the good work, and shift to iOS5 soon.

I don't see .NET for the OSX either for windows mobile dev. You can do Android apps, yes, but look at how many ugly and useless apps there is on Android Market.

For me it has nothing to do with closed minded. It's Apple's mantra, they rather have a small group of developers so they can select quality apps, than to have crappy apps.

Yes, you will need to have a Apple computer, but come on, it's not that expensive, besides if you want to make money you have to invest.