Always iterate, but do things the RIGHT way in each iteration.

In other words, don't give yourself an excuse to write shitty code because you think you will iterate.

Just like in daily life, you KNOW in your heart that you are doing things the wrong way. It always feels easier at the time, but don't do it. Code don't lie.

never mind, didn't read the post clearly.

I didn't find any myself. Do you have to have to have OCR running on the device? An alternative is to run the OCR on your server, and the phone is just a client for taking pictures and displaying text. If that's acceptable, you can try tesseract OCR or something like that.

@Kai that's exactly why we should go there

Not much expectation for the mac app store. Do people download a lot of application to their computer these days? All the application I use on the computer (other than dev) are web applications.

2009 and 2010 has been the years for installed apps, 2011 people will realize that most of the apps belong in the browser. For that reason, I have more expectation for the chrome app store.

web site:
news.ycombinator.com

pod cast:
this week in tech
this week in start ups
engadget (once in a while)

why is there a upper limit to the number of people on a street? who gets to decide who can stay in the street?

I don't get this.

Needs a digging system to sink the spam posts.

同意 @dc, 另外创业不是两三个月的事情，我觉的你还没做好心理准备。即使你是很有经验的开发者兼设计师，兼广告推销者，市场是无法预测的。即使是最成功的start up团队, 也少有两三个月就赚钱的。建议你思考如下问题，看看iphone dev是不是适合你现在的处境：

1。 你需要什么时候开始有收入？
2。 你需要有多少收入？
3。 你觉得学习ios开发需要多长时间？
4。 你设计软件多长时间？
5。 你开发软件多长时间？
6。 你的软件价位？需要怎样推广？需要卖多少件能够达到你的收入需要？你的软件为什能卖到你所需要的量？
7。 ios developer program 注册 $99, 如你的app时paid app， 则需要先注册公司才可以收费， 你注册好了么？
8。 如果你都做好了，但是没有人买你的软件，你的b计划是？app store 有成千上万的小游戏， 你觉得你得竞争力如何？

建议你找到可以和你互补的人， 好的idea, 和一定的资金（不是说你要创投， 而是说能支持到你有利润之前的花销）之前最好一边工作一边创业，如果你生活压力很大，不妨先回到原来的公司慢慢来。

I think maybe there's a need for this kind of CRM because not everyone is skilled with excel or access etc.

The question is, what is the acceptable price point, and is there money to be made?

Traditionally CRM systems are designed for users in financial services or sales. This makes business sense because in this scenario, better CRM can translate to more sales which means more money for the user. So paying for CRM software can be justified financially, and it's usually a pretty expensive software to buy (>$5000 for a single user CRM install is not uncommon in US and Canada).

However in this case where the user is in the education space that equation does not hold true. So I'm curious about how much are you willing to pay for a tool like this? and what criteria's would you use to justify your spending? (either to yourself, or to your boss, or your boss's boss).

你打算花 0－500？500－1000？ 1000－2000？ 》2000？ 你试过用spread sheet解决这个问题么？我的建议是先用spread sheet管理，因为我觉得你的大部分需求用spread sheet就可以。 当你发现有spread sheet不能做到的要求时再说。

你的预算是？

那你会怎么做？ 我本来以为这个个index应该是这样的

person1, tagValue1
person1, tagValue2
person1, tagValue3

i.e an additional for each value in the multi-value property, and GAE should do a merge join to get me the result.

But my index file looks like this

<datastore-index kind="Person" ancestor="false" source="auto">
<property name="tags" direction="asc"/>
<property name="tags" direction="asc"/>
<property name="tags" direction="asc"/>
<property name="tags" direction="asc"/>
.....

你是说我必须做3个query然后再intersect the result myself?

Why not make an HTML5 resume to showcase your skill?

You should linked the comments from hacker news too.

@keakon

Could it be because there's not enough traffic to your site? When there's not a lot of traffic to your app, GAE shuts down your application server so other app can run on the machine. And because of that, when there's a request for your app, it needs to bring it up again therefore causing longer response time.

it's like BBM cross platforms. BBM is very popular in with college students. Lot's people use it to hook up with each other. If you search for Kik on twitter it's mostly urban youth that uses it. That's why it spreads so fast. Kik is brilliant because it identified what made BBM popular and made it possible to other platform users.

What's even more impressive it that an year ago their product was completely different, and they rebranded and they won. This was what they were doing in 2009
http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/alumni/kik-at-blackberry-devcon

I guess that's what they call relentlessly resourceful on HN

What's the data type used to store the text in the post? Are they indexed by google?

Tim