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I would use a privileged port for ssh (different than 22). In case a hacker owns the process he would need sudo to open another connection if the port is <1024.

Hehe... It's trending on HN, but no one picks up the phone. Trying it for 3 minutes :-)

The problem with a full range rating (positive and negative) is that over time people will abuse it. We've seen this on an older web project (http://www.trendbuero.de/dk/). If you have a negative rating sooner or later little groups in your community will emerge and they will try to dominate everyone with their taste. They will call their peers and ask for downvotes. And when someone get's a lot of downvotes for a post it's unlikely that he will ever post again - he's scared away - forever. In a just positive rating system: If someone does not get any likes, he'll try again - maybe with different content. So traffic wise it's besser to just allow positive ratings.

I assume half of the packages are outdated plugins for grunt.js. If we then subtract all the packages without tests (aka the ones that are almost useless for open source) I guess the numbers should be pari. Doing such comparisons reminds me of the days were LOCs were a meter of productivity.

Sounds not very sustainable to me. Ruthless and speedy refactoring is only possible with tests. Better onboarding of new team members is only possible with tests. Updating external libraries is only possible with tests. How many hours did I spent in projects w/o tests figuring out what's going on... things that an easy test could have told me in the first place. In a world where cash (=time) is king, I wouldn’t mind having those dollars back.

Good article, good analysis of how the words are used in the press releases. Thus I won't agree with the intro. Google I/O is coming up and will probably bring up an update to the Android system. If this happens - the Galaxy S4 will have to wait.

Agreed - but I guess if you're 37signals you just attract the right people and you don't have to worry at all. But if you're not then maybe some of these riddles are just good heuristics.

This reminds me of what happens if you hack this in your terminal:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

You mention to spend on user acquisition when you're close to the Top 10 position, but how can you tell when you're close to the Top 10? Do you just do it on your own data ratios of signups / review conversions and then look at other app review quantities?

TV is broken. This is why we've create http://watchlaterapp.com

I think that Renderscript is not meant as replacement for native C++ code. Rather it's an platform independent and easy way to give a programmer more performance power (beyond Java). I guess that if you need real performance or more control you'll have go the NDK route anyways. But if you just want to write another Instagram clone then Renderscript is the way to go.

Jeesh I'm so happy that I'm a rails engineer. How can I follow him on twitter?

And is there anything special about it (except the fact that it has been done my M$)?

Great work! Cocos2D has the best API for gamedev I've ever seen.

^^ this is really cool. But what do you do when the specs exceed the available buttons?

If you respect form follows function you can apply fashion to form. Now Apples "realism" seem to look old. In few years it's maybe in again. That's how fashion works.

So how comes that they missing out all the cool features like "performSelector", "respondsToSelector"? Sure the whole OOP part may comes from Objective-C (SmallTalk to be precise) but the dynamic parts were poorly executed.

We're using GitLab for 3 month now and it's an amazing project. Kudos to everyone who helped!

Great insights. Need more of that!

It's rails for the backend and backbone for the frontend. Most logic written in client side CoffeeScript.

Subscribe to http://androidweekly.net/ it is a newsletter dedicated for devs, also check out their toolbox http://androidweekly.net/toolbox it shows libaries to get stuff done.

If you need other good libraries check out http://androidweekly.net/toolbox it's a huge collection of libraries to get thing done.

For me it's also not about "building software" it's a mix of things like trying out a new technology. Creating a proof of concept that I can work later on (maybe for years ;-) But one of the most important things: Work with other people. Feel their workflow. At Hackathons there is lot of intense energy and in the end it's about us and not any marketing guys.

very nice

Sweet!

Nice! We'll use it for our next app.

Tweet us and we'll add them!

I think Google+ is the glue to connect all of google services (next to search). Imagine Mail, Photos, Music, YouTube just tied together in one place. It's not about SEO.

For the relaxing part I suggest watchlater http://goo.gl/p0Ck7 it's like instapaper but for videos.

Congrats to @toshiyori and @rattazong - very nice!