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marpalmin | 10 years ago | on: Estimate the cost of a Web, iOS or Android 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

marpalmin | 11 years ago | on: Common App Rejections

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.

marpalmin | 12 years ago | on: Shortwave: iBeacon-powered messaging

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.

marpalmin | 12 years ago | on: CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired

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?

marpalmin | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is UML still relevant today?

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.

marpalmin | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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.

marpalmin | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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.

marpalmin | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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.
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