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Wouldn't it make more sense if the nearby items themselves were broadcasting iBeacons? I think this is what Apple intends to do with the protocol.

Because standalone iBeacons to trigger geofences is not what I believe Apple intends to use them for. This is what Estimote is selling. Sure the geofence triggering is kinda cool, …

If you're sweating the cost of buying a Mac and the annual $100 developer fee, are you really planning to run a profitable business? Those costs should be the least of your concern…

The market rate for investment bankers is more attractive than my job. Doesn't mean I can just be an investment banker tomorrow. Or a nurse. If I live comfortably on my basic incom…

That's right, it's still Bush's fault. We're in Obama's 2nd term, this is getting old.

Patriot act was overwhelming supported by Republicans AND Democrats when passed. Let's not rewrite history here. The more we learn about the Obama admin, the worse it gets. This is…

The big assumption that everyone tends to make when talking about public education is that the politicians, school boards, principals, and teachers are advocates for students. Sure…

Having done this stuff for about 15 years now, it is amazing how much of your work is scrapped in 5 years or less. If you're writing some deep enterprise level back-end stuff that …

You can have multiple prices of subscription IAP. You just can't do an auto-renew IAP subscription. They only seem to allow magazines to do that. There is a video from WWDC 2012 wh…

"* Due to App Store's restrictions, only Freelancer is available for in app purchase" Anyone know why that is?

Why can't we just build new, safer nuclear power like India, China, Japan, and basically everyone else are building right now? Whoops, the left has demonized nuclear power so much …

Reality is a sad place right now. People are so scared of it, they're willing to believe anything just to not have to think about what's going to happen when the music stops.

RIM bailout? That one I would believe. Open government? Wow, I remember that one from 4 years ago. Skilled immigration? They don't vote for Dems. Unskilled immigration is all he ca…

If you can't afford to just buy a real iPad mini, you're not really serious about developing and testing on the device.

Yeah, none of us are using Microsoft Word any more. Ever print anything from Google Docs? Look at the typography. Look at the letter spacing and kerning. It's a joke. And don't eve…

Bold? They're losing money like crazy. Advertisers haven't been paying the rates they need to survive for almost a decade. It was bold to keep printing and mailing the thing for th…

Actually, I've been considering how to do this for my next app. Not split testing the sale price though, it will be free. (It's just too hard to get people to buy an app outright) …

My point was more how as programmers, the emotional toll of everything that we're making will be destroyed, usually in only a few years. Yes, we're paid. But it's hard to have sati…

So true. Just crushed me...

All the African nations have huge birthrates http://populationpyramid.net/Niger/2020/ 10-15yrs from now that is a big workforce.

I too am having lots of doubts on responsive design. I've yet to see an example of a significantly popular and non-trivial website implement responsive in a convincing way. Anyone …

It's the glittering lure of write-once run-everywhere. Devs still fall for it, even though we should know better.

I'm here, it is. At least certain parts are. There's about a 4sqmi area that almost certainly someone will be murdered in this weekend. Maybe a few. Shootings almost every day. If …

Is there a single Republican/conservative in any elected position in Milwaukee? I realize that the city elections are technically non-partisan, but there are clearly no conservativ…

> small riot between blacks/whites after the state fair Uh, that's one way to describe it. A large group of black teenagers/20-somes started fighting with each other and then just …