I got my galaxy nexus last week, and I am over the moon about it. Came off a droid x, and it is just hands down awesome. The battery isn't all it could be, might have to go after market for that, but the screen is great, ics is finally competitive with iOS, and the fast camera is really nice for shots on the go. (which is all you should ever use a cell phone for anyways. If you want a real camera, BUY ONE.) it's not perfect by any means, but I couldn't find another android device that was comparable.
I do 6-7, usually, and I have a lot of troubles going to sleep, so I have a very specific, fairly strict bedtime routine. Alarm at eleven, practice guitar for an hour, brush teeth, read programming books in bed till I'm sleepy, up at 8:30. (I'm not dutiful in following the alarms, they just remind me what time it is.) this routine is very important in maintaining a steady sleep wake cycle in the face of no time clock and many responsibilities.
I'm curious what the motivation for the potential "hundreds of millions" of messaging queues is here. having a queue per-registered user seems, I don't know, maybe overkill? Per group chat makes a lot of sense, but I'm having trouble reconciling the numbers based on what was posted. What am I overlooking?
Second Life involves a lot of per-user message sending. IM, group chats, friend requests, marriage proposals, dialogs with in-game merchant systems, payment notifications, persistent announcements, and a lot that I'm forgetting. They're all roughly the same thing -- messages that need to be delivered to either a specific user or a group of users, with flags for whether they get discarded when the user is offline or whether the user has to explicitly acknowledge them.
It was probably overreaching for us to try to find a system that would handle all this for every user. But even hundreds of thousands of current users, the bare minimum we could expect to be concurrent, were not well supported by the existing solutions.
Why in gods name would I want to pay to market to people who like my fb page? Those guys are super fans already, and I almost certainly have their email address. As much as I appreciate fbs intentions in making advertising unobtrusive, this holds no interest for me as a marketer. I want people who have not bought my app to see my ads; that's how I get paid.
Seriously? You can't think of the possibilities for a business to utilize this?
Think about a company you would "Like". Imagine they offer a new product or have a sale. This ad would appear, and their already-fans would flock to it.
As someone who has worked as a consultant and hired them, it's hard to imagine a piece of work that I'd be willing to pay an outside contractor a continuing percentage for. Products,definitely, but that assumes a more or less tu rn key solution that I am not responsible for maintaining. But code rots, marketing is forgotten, and business practices must continually adapt in the face of changing realities on the ground, as it were. If I'm paying you for your expertise, I'll leave the money on the nightstand , but you're not getting half my stuff. ;)
Wow. I guess dev in the us is a lot more expensive. I will say that a mechanic at the tire shop that fixes my car charges $92 an hour for his time, and I feel some obligation to charge more than that, with my fancy high school diploma and noticeable absence of gang tattoos, felonies, etc.
>> mechanic at the tire shop that fixes my car charges $92 an hour for his time
This is not a valid comparison - he probably gets 40% of this, the rest goes to the shop. As a comparison, how much would a company charge for your time? Typically 2.5x your base salary (before benefits).
If you don't love what you do, there are these things called jobs that basically just pay you to put in a days work and then go home. Starting a business is way too much trouble if you're just trying to get paid.
> Starting a business is way too much trouble if you're just trying to get paid.
Does that still hold true if you could pull in $5,000/25,000/50,000 per month from running a business you don't love? I'd love to run a business I'm not particularly passionate about if it made me an extra $5,000/month.
HN's obsession/groupthink about "profit is pointless/evil unless you're changing the world and love your job" is scary.
Take a breath. I develop apps and sell them, and this has happened to me about half a dozen times. If somebody wants to make a cheap knockoff of your app, just relax. Theyll be gone in a couple weeks if not days.
