How We Built an iOS App, an Android App and a Node.js API in 20 Hours

Re:How We Built an iOS App, an Android App and a Node.js API... by batista on Monday February 27, 2012 @08:37AM (#3638894)

I congratulate them on acheiving your goal of writing an app in such a short time, but I whole-heartedly condemn this app's principle idea. Far from being a force for good it feeds into the incredible paranoia that seems to be prevail in the United States, that everyone is out to get them, and that there are such things as "good areas" and "bad areas".

The problem is that, besides the paranoia, the problem is TRUE in many parts of the United States.

Most Europeans wouldn't understand the extent of that --well, some would, like British or French, which have similar "dangerous" areas.

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Re:How We Built an iOS App, an Android App and a Node.js API... by chris_dcosta on Monday February 27, 2012 @10:42AM (#3639309)

I made that comment, I am British I lived for many years in the poorest area of London, and I've also lived in the Banlieue de Paris. I would not class these as "dangerous".

That's an outsider's perspective, but the reality is considerably different.

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Re:How We Built an iOS App, an Android App and a Node.js API... by jamesgeck0 on Monday February 27, 2012 @12:43PM (#3639779)

I've lived in a poor neighborhood in Texas where hearing gunshots and sirens was not unusual and where several friends were attacked by a gang in a well lit WalMart parking lot.

Some poor neighborhoods really are dangerous.

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