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Curious about the form and if it gets the thinner bezel as rumored

> But navigating the full screen while holding the iPhone [5] in one hand is worse ... Consider the windshield wipers on a car, and how, because they swing in a radial arc, they can’t reach the passenger-side top corner.

Gruber brought up a very good point about the somewhat less than perfect screen size which shows a UI weakness of iOS: the back button—one of the most used UI elements—is always at the top left. Try it yourself, go to versus io to see the iPhone 5 in its orignal size, calibrate your screen (click at the top-right corner on versus io) and place your hand next to the iPhone and see if your thumb would be able to reach the top-left corner: http://versusio.com/en/apple-iphone-5-64gb-vs-samsung-galaxy... In contrast, Android has hardware back keys always at the bottom, so even 4,8" phones could be used for a short while with one hand (just try the same experiment with the S3). Moreover, there's a huge target not bothering about bigger phones because they have space in their bag and don't put them into their pockets (women). So, I agree with Gruber to start offering two size: 3.5 and something about 4.5 or even larger (and changing the back button UI in the long run).

More good links for a visual reference:

Compared to the iPad 3: http://versusio.com/en/apple-ipad-mini-64gb-wifi-cellular-vs...

Compared to the Nexus 7: http://versusio.com/en/apple-ipad-mini-64gb-wifi-cellular-vs...

To see the 7.85" in real size click in the top right corner.

This tablet is a killer device—love its form factor, check this real-size views of the Nexus 7, it's really slick:

Compared to an iPhone 4s: http://versusio.com/en/google-nexus-7-vs-apple-iphone-4s-64g...

Compared to an iPad 3: http://versusio.com/en/google-nexus-7-vs-apple-ipad-3-64gb-w...

(You have to click in the top-right corner to calibrate your screen)

This is it?

Apple plays safe. Looks kind of real considering the hints leaked the last days (4" screen, front cover)

So, do I need GridFS if I just want to attach few pictures to a user collection or can I just embed then in a user document assumed they stay under 4mb?

How is this post receive hook done ideally with Node and Git?

Looks nice and there's a difference in concurrent visitors of 50% compared to Chartbeat, anyone knows why??

At the end of day, you won't get much more data than from a traditional tool like Google Analytics. But the real-time nature and the presentation make your data so vibrant that you check Chartbeat 100 times a day—everytime you get some small hints and insights you would overlook without. Basically with Chartbeat your site lives and breaths.

How do I get it? Is there a link inside GA?

OT: in what language are you gonna develop Resumati?

Chartbeat is like playing video games.

This tool is a must for every site owner and highly addictive.

Like the reference to Rails—so easy and at the same time so inaccessible.

In the earlier days without powerful frameworks I was really developing: figuring out which pattern/algorithm did the best job. Nowadays when working with frameworks I feel dumber and dumber—before thinking myself I just google API calls and put them together. I am not trying anymore because I don't know where to start and everything is already solved on Github. This magic feels sometimes so meta and boring because I am more into consuming specs, tutorials, screencasts just gluing things together instead of real programming.

Just diving into JS and Node.JS to get this "go-kart" feeling back. But I guess the more magic involved the faster the development and Meteor admittedly looks revolutionary.

Try node.js + express with some turn-key hoster like Nodejistu (which deploys as fast as some ftp transfer of some php files)

I've been to some conference lately and next to me was a guy sitting excited about the high traffic system he's building—I asked about the language he is using:

He (playing with his iPad 3): PHP

Me: I thought PHP devs died out for years??

He (angry): PHP is still the most used language for the web and it's fast.

Me: Do you guys still mix front-end and back-end code?

He (still angry): Of course not.

Back home I started googling "PHP" and "PHP frameworks" for the first time since 2003 again. I was surprised: there are many Rails-inspired frameworks like Yii, Zend, Codigniter, etc. And I tried to be objective giving PHP another chance (I haven't an actual use for PHP but I was just bored and wanted to be prepared for better counterattacks next time).

My impressions:

- There seem to be too many frameworks or call them ecosystems, so I couldn't figure out which is the dominating one (Zend?). And I am not sure if they are really interoperable

- Not relevant but awkward: most frameworks websites (except Yii) and in particular the PHP site look like 2003. What disturbed most was the often used claim "no console needed".

- On Freelancer.com, Monster or any other job-related site the quantity of postings for PHP devs were massive—any other web-related fraemwork/language else like Ruby, Python, Django was a small fraction oft that.

After looking at some "modern" PHP code (which strictly follow the MVC patterns now) I still couldn't get warm with PHP. I assume that most PHP devs are long-time PHP devs and I don't understand how PHP can attract people compared to newer concepts.