tharris0101

I totally agree with you, and I don't see it changing.

Apple has trapped itself into a corner with the Apple ID. Apple puts on regular seminars for local school districts every 6 months or so in my area about how to integrate iPads for K12, and it is just brutal. At least 60% of the answers from the Apple rep is usually "you can't use it like that".

The hardships all come from the way that the Apple ID works. Apple wants the iPad to be a "personal device" for one person, but obviously in a school setting it doesn't work that way. The workarounds they have for school districts are laughable to the point that the Apple rep(s) always admit it to us when talking about manageability, security and tracking.

I love my iPad, but its just not enterprise/public school/multiuser friendly yet.

I couldn't have said it better myself. I'd never use this product but I'm sure it will do great.

I've been really critical of Apple lately, but I can't find any reason to get upset over this announcement. I find it funny how people are railing against this announcement just because its not useful to them. There are a million different needs and uses out there for different people.

The size of the normal iPad is perfect for me. I don't see me ever using this product. On the other hand, I think some people will like this more or this will fit their needs/price range better. Not a very exciting announcement by Apple but not an awful one.

I'm more excited about the new iMacs. They look great.

Cool! There are a lot of times I'm building a quick and dirty site and this will be really helpful

This is how bad the new app store is: I search for "Carmageddon". Result #1 is an app called "Armageddon". Result #2 is "Carmageddon". In what search algorithm does a direct title hit not make that the first result?

Hey, I'm an avid MBP, iPad, iPhone user and I love them, but I think this is really going to be big for Microsoft. There are many, many people who are completely immersed in a Microsoft world. These people use iOS and Android devices because they are the only viable options. I foresee this being a huge blow to Apple, which will (hopefully) wake them up a bit and focus back on innovating a bit more again.

I host all of my private stuff on Bitbucket. I love this new redesign. Its a good way to differentiate themselves from github.

I hate, hate, HATE gimmicky interview questions. At my job I am asked frequently to be on interview panels for my own department and sometimes other departments. It seems like every manager running the interviews throw out these trick questions at some point or another and I just cringe.

There is no magic recipe for interviews. Ask about the person, ask about their experience, see work examples if appropriate and ask some questions to gauge knowledge level for the position being applied for. Anything more and you are just going to second guess yourself out of a good candidate.

That's a great fact! I'm going to remember that.

I think it depends on WHAT you're programming at 50. Anyway, my philosophy is that I want to be defined by what I'm doing away from my job/career. It is extremely depressing to me to think that my career will be my driving force through most of my life.

As someone who is colorblind, a lot of my design is based on the logic behind colors rather than looks. Of course, I always let an actual designer approve, tinker with, or redo my work. There are a lot of inaccuracies in this piece but I like the gist of it.

I used zsh for years. Loved it. I just don't do as much command line stuff anymore so vanilla bash works fine for me. I do miss the history stuff mentioned at the end of the article, though.

Sounds cool but -and I know I'm biased- I won't let anything pull me back into an Office world.

Obviously the maps app should never have been released. Beta testing showed that it had issues. I give props to Tim Cook, though. Steve Jobs would have never apologized like this.

I'm worried about Apple's software development lately (Lion, iTunes Match, Maps) but this apology makes me feel a little better about them acknowledging mistakes and working to fix it. I know they obviously have the in-house talent, they just need to get quality control back to mid-2000s form. Hopefully this dust-up over maps wakes them up.

The last point is the best. I frequently step away from a project and take a shower or go for a walk to think about what I'm doing. Usually the problem is that I'm over complicating things and the answer will come as an "Ah-ha!" moment.

Conversely, I have to do something like read or watch a movie before bed to get my mind off of whatever project I'm working on or else I will lay awake thinking about it.

Didn't I read somewhere that Steve Jobs was against mobile versions of websites saying that the iPhone was designed to display the same website that you see on your computer?

I know that as a consumer, I get annoyed when a mobile version of a site comes up and the first thing I do is check for the "Desktop Site" link. I just don't trust that the developer has included everything in the mobile site that the desktop site includes.

A well designed site will look and act great on a desktop, iOS device and Android device without extra work.

There were. I think they called them "Sponsored" or something. It really annoyed me because if I'd search for something common like "Home Depot" it would give me random pins at places that were definitely not Home Depot but rather sponsored businesses.

Here is what I don't get about this whole thing: Friendster - 2002 Myspace - 2003 LinkedIn - 2003

Not to mention the dozens of other social media clones around that time (I remember being members of countless social media sites in those days)

Its not like anyone at Harvard stumbled upon an amazing new idea that was going to change the game. They were building what they hoped would be better versions of things already out there. Mark registered thefacebook.com because "Face Book" is a very common phrase/object.

For better or worse, Zuckerberg won the social networking race. Congrats to him, everyone else at Harvard at that time trying to stake a claim needs to just get on with their lives.

I hope you're right! I got the invite so I'll try it tonight

This is great. I can see myself using this daily

I'm not sure I'd use something like this for production, but anything to let me do mock ups quicker is nice in my book. Can't wait for the invite.

This is exactly why I stopped using CoffeeScript. I hate Javascript so I was excited when I saw CS for the first time but after a while I realized I was doing two calculations in my head:

1: What is the JS that CS was generating?

2: What is the JS doing?

Maybe I just didn't give it enough time, but it seemed quicker and more reliable for me to just suffer through the JS syntax.

I like this. Just two things, though:

2D game programming too low and basic dynamic websites too high.

For example, I know a lot of people who could churn out simple mobile apps or basic dynamic websites in their sleep but would get slowed down by basic game design.

I read an article on furniture design recently and how it is almost impossible to patent new designs. The article was showing how small design companies and mom and pop design businesses were struggling because every great design was ripped off by larger companies with a couple of minor changes and sold for way cheaper than the small company could manufacturer for.

That being said: Patent law is broken as it is now.

The four boxes don't bother me, but the segoe font is way too plain. I guess they use that font on everything, though.

This looks beautiful. I'll download it tonight and mess around with it. One suggestion from the video and gallery:

Everything looks like very nicely laid out title cards that don't really hold much information. Does the actual app allow for more data if needed? I know we all hate bullet-pointed PowerPoint, but the inclusion of things like charts and graphs, quotes, paragraphs of text, etc are sometimes needed in real business presentations. If the app does allow for this sort of thing, then the video maybe should be updated to show some more variety. Otherwise, it might be something to think about for the next release.

Anyway, it looks great! Good work guys.