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No. It's primarily a way for registered iOS developers to send beta builds to their testers' devices wirelessly. The usual process required syncing via itunes.

I'm not sure if I misunderstood your comment. But as far as I know most iOS users install apps using the app store built into the device. It's really not much different, if not more polished than the cydia store.

I think the real reason for the popularity of cydia is that 1) it has a user friendly UI 2) you can get apps on it that will not make it to the app store and 3) some people are just too cheap to pay for some apps and use it to pirate them

Not sure, but it could be device specific. My one off alarm that I just set the other day did not work. The one that my wife set worked. Same OS versions but she has a 3GS and I have the iPhone 4.

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My theory on why apps are priced too low is that it's because of the expectations set by the prices of the initial apps on the store. The first apps on the app store were priced really low and this set the trend that continues today. A lot of the initial developers can afford to price them really low because a good number of those apps were novelty apps that took very little time to develop.

So now even developers who do take the time to develop polished apps will still need to take into account the expectations of users for their app's pricing.

It's been this way for years for most other countries. But the invite method does work and I got my first gmail address via that. However for my other gmail address, I just gave them my mobile number and typed in the verification code I received via sms.

I read somewhere that Chris Anderson was quoted as saying that the caption for this talk should be that "Bill gates releases more bugs into the world".

Code reuse cuts the development time and brings down the defect rate. So it should be a good thing. Quite the opposite approach taken by the Mozilla guys. Those guys alsmost built their own everything (rendering engine, foundation classes, etc). There are a lot of open source libs there also, but i guess google wanted to focus on the minimal UI design and the per process architecture.

Let me add that again, this goes to show that depending on a vendor for an important technology in your startup can actually be risky. Using open standards are always the way to go.

I think scribd implements their own flash app to view documents. So they should be ok.

If we are to believe the article, then the solution is to avoid comparing yourself to others. Try not to make it your goal to have what they have. Our goals should be more self driven.

They seem to be using their own javascript engine, so it might need separate testing because of that. Although if it becomes popular enough, most javascript libraries and frameworks will surely support it.

I think the article isn't serious. It's obviously meant as a joke. So lighten up guys :)

Very nice tutorial. It's good how he points out the useful libraries for web development with lisp.

facebook has become a useless spam machine. Doesn't work for me anymore.

NIH is the mother of invention :)

I agree. Google simply followed the the semantics of http. They had similar problems with the the Google Web Accelerator before. But it's really hard to blame google for the mistake of other programmers.

It really depends on the quality of people you have. This is a really nice way to run a company. But for it to work, you need to get employees that care and are willing to do their fair share for the company.

This new feature addresses what I think is the biggest complaint about EC2, as seen on their discussion boards. People used to complain about the lack of static IPs, now that's no longer a problem. Once they get around to rolling out this feature to the public, the only legit complaint that people would have for them is the base cost when starting out.

When your traffic is zero or very low, as in the case of when you're just starting out, a conventional VPS host is still a lot cheaper. But the good thing with AWS is that it's easy to port your apps to run on their platform.

Way better than lolcode :)

I just use linux on my servers and OS X on my desktop. Works very well for me and I'm sure it also does for other people.

Some very sane advice from a very sane person. It's a bit different from what other people would tell you. I especially like the way he addresses how startup culture worships youth. And also about the balance of life thing. These are good things to keep in mind when your neck deep in your startup.

I believe it was for the pretty print code of emacs

Nice guide. Will save me a lot of typing.

I think the rails guys are promoting this themselves because it solves the shared hosting criticism for them. Hope this really works :)

Just tried it. Very nice and very easy to use. Has some really pretty graphs of your commits as well :) . Their free plan is really good for open source projects.

For all its usefulness, where are those wonderful hypercard stacks now? That's right you can't use them anymore or at least not that easily. This is due to the fact that it's a proprietary platform that the vendor stopped supporting.

Although google's appengine is more open, a lot of its key components are proprietary and can't be easily rebuilt. So while hypercard and appengine are both wonderful technologies, I believe people should prefer something more open. This allows you have an out in case google stops supporting appengine or does something that prevents you from using it effectively.

The article did a real good job of explaining what makes git different from the other popular VCS. I used to use git as a more flexible subversion, just bundling adds and commits. But after I had this concept figured out, I realized there is more to git than being distributed and more flexible than svn.

In the starbucks shops from where I live, you have to pay when you order. That is before they write your name in your cup. So the problem the article is talking about simply does not apply.