mattquiros's comments

Google Fiber is taking over and people will choose it over their regular ISPs because it's better. And soon enough it won't matter what OS your mobile device is running. For as long as you're connecting via Google Fiber, Google has your data.

Anybody else get the feeling that we're probably stuck and will all die here on Earth? While scrolling through all that empty space, I was thinking about interstellar travel. I imagine it'll eventually be as easy and commonplace as we see in sci-fi, but I'm having a moment of doubt we'll ever get there, or if there's any point out-living the home planet.

I've also read Stephen G. Kochan's book, but I think the Big Nerd Ranch Guides for Objective-C and iOS (two separate books) are much, much better.

I also subscribed to Stanford's CS193P on iTunes U (the last class about iOS 6) and it helped me a great deal, but I stopped watching soon as I saw the ones I just needed, and actually started coding.

I think that's what the author meant when he said "You become far less productive."

I still can't download it to my 5th gen iPod Touch for some reason. So can't my colleague. Anyone know why? The App Store says it's compatible.

Can attest to this. You're gonna have to buy an iPhone or iPod touch anyway, so don't bother with retina.

You'll save a lot of time doing it in Photoshop/Illustrator. If it takes other screens and API requests to get to the UI you're building, it'll take a while before you can see what your code does. Using images, especially stretchable ones, is also lighter on memory.

Also, I don't know what you mean by "scaling." You should be able to zoom images with UIView animations, and should have different sizes of the images depending on whether you're targeting an iPhone/iPad.

How much time did you spend testing these apps, or what tools did you use for testing? I'm really amazed at how you were able to put four out in the open in one weekend. I usually spend quite a lot of time fixing bugs.

Can someone make recommendations for me? Here's what I already know and what I've built with it:

- Java. My first real programming language, learned in college, used for a year and a half in enterprise work and Android, got pretty good at it, but I learned

- Objective-C for making iOS apps and I never want to write in Java again. I'm also learning C just to understand Objective-C more but I have no plans building anything with C.

Basically, my current interests/goals for learning a new language are:

- Develop a new way of thinking.

- Learn some great engineering practices.

- Build products (software) that solve real-world problems. I'm not likely to learn a new language if I can't build anything useful with it, that can potentially sell and make it as a consumer startup.

- Become full-stack. I can already easily build an iOS app (I have no interest in building responsive websites) but I find myself still having to rely on something like Parse. Which isn't so bad though because it saves me so much time.

I guess that narrows my choices down to: Ruby, Python, Go, or something else, but I'm not in a position to identify which poison is best-suited to me. I just want one that I can be really good at and meet most if not all of my goals. Any thoughts?

> If a large proportion of MongoDB users are using it incorrectly, then I'd argue that it is a MongoDB problem

Hey, that sounds a lot like the logic of Java haters!

Kidding aside, I'm afraid I'm not sure your logic is convincing, but that's for another debate.

Agree. There's so much generalization that I can't even identify with any of the two groups. I like side projects a lot but I also care about documentation. I like being alone but I'm not an introvert and I don't hate or disrespect people for what they do or can't do or what they are (that's not being a hacker, that's being a dick). And I don't like junk food and staying up long hours because it's bad for my health (which the article obviously has complete disregard for) and it makes working out difficult.

Anyone else feel that no one knows this "next-generation social network" better than, well, the next generation? I'm talking about today's young teens and little kids. Facebook took off during our time because we were the cool demographic back then. It was everything we wanted and needed that MySpace and Friendster failed to give. I think it's difficult for us to comprehend what the next-gen social network will be because we think differently. We didn't exactly grow up with touch-screen devices and mobile internet, for one.

It seems that Bitcoin will have a hard time recovering in the first two scenarios, yes? And I looked at the other cryptocurrencies but I'm not sure they're gaining any traction. If they do, however, why can't they just co-exist with Bitcoin without necessarily harming its value?

How about Amazon? I imagine they also have pretty good R&D there but I couldn't find anything.

So do you mean to say that the Philippines should be in a condition just as good as the US? There are many variables unique to the political situation in the Philippines that US politics doesn't have, I'm not making excuses, but I also don't get your point.

I feel that this is also because of the tech world is still watching who's going to build the "Facebook killer." There are many companies that tried but I think the fact that they are contemporaries of Facebook already put them at a disadvantage. If Facebook is to be displaced, I don't think it's going to happen with its current-generation user-base of twenty-somethings. Whatever it is, it'll probably take off by acquiring today's teens as the main user base. That's why it's important to observe their social networking behaviors.

Yes, yes! I am so glad somebody mentioned this. The political system in the Philippines is so rotten that it gets in the way of any intelligent, scientific solution ever proposed to every problem the country has. I personally think that that is the root problem here. I have no idea how to solve that, though.

What's worse is that these disasters have been happening regularly since 2009, when Typhoon Ketsana (known locally as Ondoy) struck the capital. What has the government done to really damage-proof the Philippines since? It was obvious right then that something like that would happen every year, and it did, yet there doesn't seem to be a concrete, long-term plan of action from the government.

I wouldn't say that like it's that easy. Not a good time to talk politics, but I think that the long history of corruption in the government has a lot to do with the unpreparedness for the disasters (including the preceding earthquake). In fact, there's an ongoing senate hearing on a pretty high-profile scam involving congressmen and, well, the senators themselves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_Development_Assistance...).

How this could have been avoided is likely a touchy subject at the moment. Even the president walked out of his meeting with the local officials to cool his head off from great dismay.

Who actually uses this in the Philippines? The tool always gets shared across social networks whenever there's a typhoon but I've never heard of people actually finding lost families/friends with it.