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As I mentioned earlier, it really depends on the country you are in. Outside US $100 - 200 per hours is ver high, even in most EU countries.

We have a similar concept, with a far less fancy estimator. http://www.decemberlabs.com/appEstimator.html I think these estimators are good at helping non savvy potential customers tu understand the actual costs of making an app.

Well is not. In fact if you are based in a country other than the US you can arrive to those costs with competent developers. I think we are very competent, you can check us out in www.decemberlabs.com

We can do that. We are based in Spain and Uruguay. www.decemberlabs.com

What about something the other way around. Swift to Java?

One a half hour for a new app

Is it only for ios8?

This is exactly why I went for couchbase and decided to avoid firebase.

I always thought it would be interesting to have an appstore prereview startup that in 1 day will check and give you a hint if your app would be accepted.

Buena Gabriel! Much better than your z80 emulator ;)

There is nothing to patent, is just iOS Bluetooth Low Energy.

Yes that's true. Check https://github.com/CharruaLabs/AltBeacon to understand how it's done.

Hi, We are working in a project that also uses Bluetooth Low Energy for nearby interaction (though is not a chat). So we do some similar stuff to have Beacons advertising in the background. Due to the demand we saw here, we decided to open source our library which is called AltBeacon. You can find it in https://github.com/CharruaLabs/AltBeacon , we need contributors so feel free to check it and contribute.

From her writing I cannot derive if she really agreed with this person to find a new challenge, and this person did find a new challenge, or if she just fired this person and it was not that amicable after all. Is this perhaps of language/culture misunderstanding?

In embedded software development some companies use Rational Rose (state digrams) to specify behavior and perform model checkings. So YES top companies use it but not the kind of top Rails or mobile software company that you usually see in HN. And No it's not used a lot.

I think UML is a nice communication tool for the general purpose development (just the basic syntax of UML). But not more than that, please don't specify an app in UML, is just bullshit.

However, in embedded software development it makes sense to specify the system using UML (like some very important controller software). Why? Because the system is very small (so you can model it) and you need a high certainty that it will perform as it it supposed to (you can perform model checkings and validation).

Otherwise UML is just a nice way to have a common language in the whiteboard.

Yea you got a point. However, I think you should pay a small fee, let's say 10 euros for the help. I used to live in the netherlands and it happened to me many times that I didnt understand contracts, bills, etc and I got tired to ask friends/coworkers to help me with that. I would pay a small fee to have an external part to do it. I think it would work better targetting high skilled expats in European cities with lot of them where the native language is not English like Amsterdam, Munich, Berlin.

A kind of task rabbit that will connect expats ( who don't speak the language) with locals. The idea is that the local will help the expat in small tasks like understanding an insurance policy, housing contract, employment receipt.

Yes. That's more similar to what I expected. However, I don't like at all how information is presented in Rosetta Code. I would like to be able to chose two languages and filter by task.

I was thinking more as a mobile reporting platform.

yea somewhere in that area but where you can chose any language to any language

A programming language equivalence site that helps you transition from one language to another. I mean it does not have to be perfect because full equivalence don't exist for many languages but just how you would do similar things.

SocialPower: Complain about a bad service in a store by adding in the map the location of it. After that other customers of the store receive notifications to vote if the complain is valid (by using background location and push). If many users backup the complain, then the business gets an e-mail stating that they have been featured in SocialComplaint and they can work to solve the problem. The complains are alive for x days in the map in they continue unresolved. After that they go to the archive and statistics of business complains.

SoundAct: Similar to IFTTT but that triggers with sound. You can record sound patterns such as a double clap, clap, footstep, etc and associate that with an action, like notifying someone or reading the news. Ideal for context where siri-like apps does not work well because of noise like the car, metro, etc.

We evaluated this some time ago in the company I used to work but it doesn't have intel compiler nor ms compiler support so it was an instant no go. Anyway it is an interesting idea.

I think that Microsoft is doing a really smart move. Xamarin is towards being the main framework for cross platform mobile development and Microsoft is positioning itself very well there.

Well at least is not the idea to use it being plugged. In fact I even added code so that the app leaves background after 1 hr if it did not go to the foreground in between.

I also found other people with the app being rejected for the same reason after asking about it in the apple dev forum.

I'm not storing audio. Just audio analysis, of course I have a small buffer but that's normal for realtime audio anaylsis. I'm using it to detect footsteps.

This was the message after the appeal: "We still found the app is inappropriately using background audio because it is recording audio in the background for an indefinite period of time, which is not appropriate."