Bostwick

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

TechCrunch has also picked up the story, at https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/28/bose-takes-on-the-homepod-...

The original press release appears to be overloaded right now, but hopefully will come back online soon. At https://globalpressroom.bose.com/us-en/pressrelease/view/192...

Bostwick

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Hey everyone. I'm the author. I'd love to hear other's stories with RN and what questions you asked before starting to use it on your projects.

Bostwick

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

I think part of the problem with IoT firmware updates is that so many companies are rushing to get v1.0 of their project out the door that it's very difficult to even think of v1.1 or higher. Agile development and Lean Business practices, as practiced by many organizations, can often encourage this short-sighted behavior. So updating gets punted on because it's _technically_ not necessary for the first version, and it's definitely not one of the "cool" core features you get to put on the glossy marketing website for the device.

Bostwick

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I tried the application, and it looks great!

One thing Caret gets right that other Markdown editors (Macdown is what I currently use) don't is wordcount. In Caret, the document wordcount is always visible in the upper right corner, and if I select some text, the wordcount for the selection is displayed again. Others have mentioned the lack of live-preview as a deal-breaker, but I'm ok with this because of the easy, obvious shortcut. My main purpose with Markdown editors is writing READMEs and blog posts, and I usually don't keep live-preview open as I'm writing.

The one missing feature to keep me from pre-ordering is detection of jekyll YAML headers.

Bostwick

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Reading this article leads me to believe the writers at Techcrunch are slowly discovering basic economics, and they think it's revolutionary.

  Instead of selling “software-as-a-service,” these DIFM companies are
  delivering “software-with-a-service.” The result is awesome customer
  experience that can only be delivered with a human touch.

Techcrunch has it reversed. These companies are selling a service, and happen to effectively use software to create their competitive advantage.

Bostwick

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

As a daily bike commuter around Boston, this idea terrifies me. Multitasking is extremely dangerous while biking. There are already enough bikers out there who choose to distract themselves with earphones and music while biking. Reading a text message while weaving in traffic is a recipe for disaster. When you're on a bike, be on the bike.

Bostwick

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

I'd like to see the author make an attempt with the React library [1] in PHP as well. You don't have to abandon your language of choice to gain the ability to do asynchronous I/O.

[1] http://reactphp.org/

Bostwick

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

One of the assumptions made by this article is that the user in question is loading your web page with jQuery on a mobile device running on a 4G network. In reality, however, it is unlikely that a user will be on a 4G network. In 2004, the 4G penetration is 25% in North America, and only 3% in Western Europe. [1] It's certainly growing on a yearly basis, but it's still not at the point where you can rely on users having 4G speeds on a mobile device.

The 4G worst-case scenario is still better than the best-case scenario for a 3G network, which is what you'll see with a majority of users. I'd like to see this analysis done with a 3G connection as well, because I suspect the real jQuery tax for a majority of mobile users is over a second.

I do like the point made about latency and the suggestions at the bottom of the article. It's a strong incentive for apps to introduce a real asset pipeline and js and css minifiers.

[1] http://graphics.wsj.com/4g-european-investment/

Bostwick

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

I like this concept - small, usable art installations designed to make inconspicuous things social. But the pessimist in me takes one look at their concept and things "That's going to break so quickly here in Boston."

What I would love to see, and which seems realistic from this video, is an installation that shows the people waiting a "loading bar" or countdown or some visual indicator of how long until the crosswalk is green for pedestrians. In the video they show this as the background color - red or green - gradually draining from the screen.

Bostwick

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

> You can't write cli applications in a JVM language because the start-up time is too slow. Which means you can't compose scripts that call Java apps.

You're right. In the case of small, fast applications designed to be called as part of shell scripts, the JVM does suffer start-up costs. Some testing on my personal machine shows the JVM to be 2x to 8x slower than a comparable Ruby or Python script in startup time. [1] Depending on the script, that startup time may or may not acceptable, and if the script runs for longer than a second, which is entirely possible for anything that goes beyond the local machine, the JVM will get progressively faster.

> This is not just 1 type of application, it's the most important type of application by far.

This needs more explanation. I've used Unix for many years, and I've definitely bought in to its philosophy of small and composable; It's a philosophy that in many ways mirrors functional programming. However, in my opinion, the most important type of application varies considerably by person. For you, the small, single-purpose applications may be what you use most.

And I agree, if you're programming for the Unix platform, the JVM would not be the best choice. Unix was built on C. A program that builds on that platform is probably a better choice.

But there are many more applications out there, and for any command-line program that operate in a time domain longer than 10 seconds, the JVM startup costs are mostly eliminated. This time-domain is very plausible for a command that operates on medium-scale databases or anything with network connectivity.

It's silly to completely dismiss an entire platform because it is not the absolute best choice for a single domain of programs.

I'm curious: What do you do where the short-lived, composable Unix functions are the most important programs?

[1] https://gist.github.com/bostwick/8ee1d4df9c7743f9efed

Bostwick

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

And building Twitter [1], and big-data next-generation databases [2], and android apps, and desktop apps, and big data [3], and as a platform for new languages (Clojure, Scala, Frege), and many more applications.

Really, the JVM can be used for anything that _computers_ can be used for, and it does so in a way that the code is runnable across all major platforms and still maintains a top-5 language performance spot, even beating C/C++ in some specific cases.

Why do you feel that the JVM is limited in its applications as a development platform?

[1] http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2010/05/how_and_why_twitter_u... [2] http://www.datomic.com/about.html [3] http://hadoop.apache.org/

Bostwick

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Could you provide some links or sources to substantiate your claim that Orson Scott Card is bigoted against sexual minorities?

I'm a fan of the book, and I've been waiting to see this movie, but I confess that I don't know much about the author. Sources would be greatly appreciated.

Bostwick

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Boston Logan airport has certain benches dedicated to power charging, and for the most part they all have two power sockets and two dedicated USB charging ports.

I've also seen dedicated cell phone charging stations at other airports that have USB charging ports alone.

USB-only chargers in airports definitely exist, and are sometimes fought over in busier airports.

Bostwick

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I've been doing Crossfit for about five years, at multiple facilities. The really good CF facilities, including Crossfit Southie in Boston where I currently go, place a huge emphasis on powerlifting and olympic movements. Take a look at the Crossfit Games workouts (http://games.crossfit.com/), and you'll see snatches and deadlifts everywhere.

The problem with Crossfit is that it is an affiliated brand. Every CF facility pays about $5,000 per year to use the Crossfit brand, but each facility is independently owned and operated, and so the programming at each facility is usually unique. There exist a number of questionable facilities, especially out in California where the concentration of gyms is much higher.

The Crossfit affiliates need to start doing some quality control. As I've watch the program expand over the past half-decade, I've been excited at how many people the gyms have helped, but dismayed at how the trainers at some facilities don't share the same love or ability for the basic lifts.

Bostwick

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I would differentiate between "Purchases" and "Downloads" here. Purchases mean people paid for the application, while downloads imply no revenue.

It's great that your app took off when you dropped the price to free, and it's a good idea to pivot to offering extended features to power users. You're pivoting your app to a more 'freemium' model.

You might consider taking a survey of your users to find out what they want out of Typeli. iMockups has done this a few times, and it's worked well for them. Are you sure that your users want "auto-highlighted code"? You'll experience the same disappointment with sales if you build something before considering what your users actually _want_ from your app.

Bostwick

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I found it helpful to read through Think Stats and Think Bayes before tackling a machine learning book.

[1] Think Stats: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkstats/thinkstats.pdf

[2] Think Bayes: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkbayes/thinkbayes.pdf

Bostwick

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

From CNN's live blog [1]:

  Chief Justice John Roberts had noted that however that the
  mandate would have been struck down based on the commerce 
  clause , saying it would "open a new and vast domain" for 
  Congressional power.
  ...
  Chief Justice John Roberts issued a long opinion in which 
  he said the controversial individual mandate may be upheld 
  and is within Congress’ power under the taxing clause 
  rather than the commerce clause.

This helped me understand their decision. I'm still not sure what to make of the decision, personally.

[1] http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/28/how-will-supreme-court-...

Bostwick

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

So why not make the twitter handle an optional field for each entry? People could still use twitter to get in touch, and those who don't use twitter would not be excluded.

Bostwick

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I was going to post a domain, but when it made me authorize with Twitter, I stopped.

I don't understand why you need identity for this project and why that identity is limited to Twitter. I think participation would increase if anonymous entries were allowed.

Bostwick

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

This is a great event idea. I wish the some of the VCs around Boston or NYC would get together and do this for the East Coast.

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