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Is the title accurate? From the linked page:

"The bad: Our more expensive configuration offers no discount from a comparable MacBook Air, and leaves out some basic ports and connections."

While the idea is interesting, the app will have to compete with more general-purpose note-taking apps, e.g. Evernote.

For me, Evernote already provides all the individual pieces (tag by person name, record date, time and location etc.) and also allows to store pictures/audio notes, is multi platform etc. etc.

An honest question: are there any reasons to learn Perl these days (as opposed to Ruby/Python/name your favorite scripting language)? Some people need to maintain existing Perl codebases for sure, but they should know Perl already?

What I was trying to say is that every tool should be evaluated using 'productivity gain vs cost' framework. It may well be that for some people productivity gains of TextMate vs emacs/vim/other editor are small and therefore paying any price for TextMate is unreasonable, since the alternatives are free.

But in a case where TextMate does yield to substantial productivity gain, "$60 is too much" is a wrong mental model.

It's very likely that the original promise ("upgrade to version 2.0 will be completely free") was a huge factor in 2.0 shipping delay: Allan would need to invest a lot of effort to ship the new version to get only marginal return, as TextMate penetration of the relevant market was already high at the time the promise was made.

Charging for 2.0 would seem like a breach of contract for people who only bought TextMate 1.x because they were expecting 2.0 soon. But for people who thought that $60 is a fair price for 1.x (I myself belong to this group, and so seem Marco), it's just a promise of a generous gift that was taken away.

I for one would gladly pay for all hard work that went into rewriting TextMate.

I find it depressing that some people in the comments here wouldn't want to pay for a _key tool of their trade_ - assuming they work with texts professionally as programmers, bloggers, designers etc. Even 10% increase in productivity will pay for Textmate license in 10 days, assuming you get at least a minimum wage.

People may have different motives then you do. It is not stupidity - just one developer appreciating the work of another.

All numbers are in mn USD

Revenue Q3 2010 .. Q2 2011: $170.7 $195.8 $242.9 $279.1

Total cost and expenses: 136.4 124.3 206.7 266.1

- Cost of revenue: 49.9 51.6 67.6 78.1

- R&D: 39.8 51.5 71.8 95.7

- Sales and marketing: 28.9 38.3 40.2 38.1

- General and administrative: 17.8 (17.1) 27.1 54.2

Income (loss) from operations: 34.3 71.5 36.2 13.0

Net income: 27.2 43.0 16.8 1.4

That statement is not supported by data - see my comment above.

You can find everything that Zynga has reported here (particularly p. 59): http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1439404/0001193125112...

When they (Gamautra) say "year-on-year", they actually compare Q2 2011 to Q3 2010, which is not standard; in general, you would want to compare Q2 to Q2 to account for seasonality of demand etc.

You can see that their sales and marketing expenses stayed roughly the same over the last 3 quarters, but there is a huge rise in R&D (almost 2x from Q4 10 to Q2 11), G&A and some small increase in cost of revenue (Facebook credits?).

Here is the direct link: http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/tenthings.html

The second part is pretty much Apple's vision for iOS 5, Lion and iCloud.

Unless you need to support iOS 3.x, you'll get ARC for free for your iOS 5.x _and_ iOS 4.x projects in September with Xcode 4.2 (currently in beta). ARC and non-ARC libraries can also co-exists in the same project.

So it seems quite logical for developers to rely on most modern technologies, esp. since supporting older technologies comes with a cost.

Feature request: please add Objective-C to the list of supported languages. Thanks!

Everything iOS 5.0 is still under NDA, but here is the full changelog: http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/22/apples-full-change-log-for-ios...

My Safari crashes so often on iOS5b3 that I'm not even expecting any other app to work properly :(. Now I fully understand why Apple doesn't recommend to use betas on 'production' systems.

While I almost agree with your first paragraph, the second made my eyebrows raise (and that's why I downvoted). "mean-spirited" and "shortsighted" are very strong words for a valid question - the grand-parent was quite polite, so no need to be defensive.

XCode 4, though it happened even before 10.7

This one is from an article that's at the front page now ('Moving to Singapore'): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_Doing_Business_Index

Locations like Hong Kong has very simple tax codes etc. It arguably easier to found a company their than in some EU countries as well.

BadassFractal, thank you for asking this question - I'm in the same boat and your question produced an interesting discussion.

I'm wondering whether you're considering to found a company _somewhere else_, e.g. Hong Kong or Taiwan or any other business-friendly place? In that case both you and your cofounder can own shares of the company, you can work(?) for this company, etc.

Obvious disclaimer: IANAL

Thank you for setting me straight. Of course there are many privately-held companies that existed for decades and never took public money.

I would bet that most of these companies were created decades ago and that most of the recent "success stories" took public money at some point - anybody knows any examples?

You're probably not along. At the same time, I believe significant number of people (myself included) will respectfully deem this view too gloomy and pessimistic. One could probably use the same logic arguing about the first (or second, ...) round of VC financing.

In each case, you are relaxing some control of your company in exchange for something else valuable: other people's money. Whether such exchange is fair or not depends on specific circumstances; each side can always ask for more (money, control) to make the exchange fair.

I don't know of any company of any significant size (e.g. with >$100M of annual revenue) that hasn't made such an exchange at some point in its history.

Looks like a vi to me :)

To clarify: the fact that his prediction about iPhone future were wrong doesn't tell much - many industry observers were predicting that it's going to fail.

What matters to me is good vs bad journalism - ability to acknowledge one's mistakes, checking one's sources, not trashing one's opponents, etc. etc.

These two data points are impressive predictions indeed.

Still, to me his track record also includes numerous cases where he was plain wrong and/or heavily biased - e.g. he was well known for trashing iPhone/iPad and praising Nokia until some time ago when he suddenly changed camps and now does the complete opposite thing.

The author of this rumor (Eldar Murtazin) is notoriously known in Russia for his low-quality journalism. I'm actually quite surprised to see him even being quoted by an English-language media.

For those who can read Russian, check out his blog at http://eldarmurtazin.livejournal.com/ or even http://lurkmore.ru/%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B....

An interesting analysis (which only pg could do) is to multiply each vote by ln(user's karma) or something similar. That could arguably deal with "noobs who don't follow the rules" problem.

The above analysis will assume, though, that the problem of decreasing quality of votes (or discussions) is caused by newcomers and not by old high karma users getting nastier.

But web crawler doesn't have an important input: how HN users would vote on a particular submission.

There is Myst for iPhone/iPad, btw.