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I think not using AI is a manifestation of one's inability or unwillingness to LEARN. To your point, if you can't learn, you will fall behind.

I think ORMs are there to make developing easier - but doesn't obviate the need for the user to understand how the underlying database works. For one based on my understanding of t…

neat! i was just looking at the dreamscreen a few days ago ( https://www.touchofmodern.com/sales/dreamscreen/dreamscreen?... ) but the lightpack2 looks even more elegant/smooth in …

TouchOfModern ( https://www.touchofmodern.com ) - San Francisco, CA Senior Developer WHO WE ARE We are a start-up located in San Francisco that curates modern designed products for…

Yeah I work for a daily email site and we do this too. We just don't send another email letting them know - that's more spam! I was surprised that this was considered newsworthy...…

I completely agree. I woke up to some crazy long page rendering time on NewRelic and couldn't figure out what was going on... until I saw the huge backlog of mixpanel events on my …

Facebook is not required to use the app.

Exactly the same sentiment. That's the reason we did not launch with an Android version today. We will probably write it natively when the time comes. Titanium has proven to be a n…

Hey LokiSnake that's some good feedback, thanks! I have to say I had not noticed the first issue. But now that you mention it I guess it's true. The second issue is something I hav…

That's true. It doesn't exactly "compile to Objective C." But it's an easy way for people to understand the basic concept. The performance is much closer to full native than full H…

There is a module framework, but since the Titanium framework already created a CLLocationManagerDelegate in their GeolocationModule, I didn't see a clean way of adding geofencing …

We're on the Community (free) plan. I haven't used SimpleGEO so I couldn't really say. Appcelerator Titanium just provides API functions to access native geo features like GPS. It …

We didn't specifically look at appMobi, but as far as I know Titanium is the only (relatively mature) framework that compiles to native Obj C, and is not just a wrapper for HTML5. …

Hi, I'm the CTO for RAVN. When we decided to jump into the mobile dev game no one in our company had any experience with Object C or Android dev. We knew we wanted an iPhone app fo…

I think you misunderstand. I think Path did nothing wrong not because they "weren't caught". I'm sure they keep their data secure and they only use it to benefit the user's experie…

It is super curious why Apple decided to allow apps to access the Address Book freely. I'm releasing an app on the App Store next week and I definitely thought about all the evil t…

Crediting. As far as I know PayPal Mass Payments requires the recipient to have a PayPal account (in fact, we do use Mass Payments for customers who choose to be paid by PayPal). C…

Someone already posted some below: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3524864

As far as I know Stripe does not do ACH? We've actually been looking all over the place for an ACH processor with an API (aka a Stripe for ACH) and have had absolutely no luck. And…

There's actually a lot of "AirBnB for Activities." Our company used to be Skyara ( http://www.skyara.com ). We ended up pivoting to RAVN ( http://ravn.com ), which is more of a "Am…

Thanks for the reply. Perhaps I was unclear. I completely understand the downvotes - that's why they're on the site. But I thought the "wow, you must be the best hacker ever congra…

I understand the downvotes since this is HN and you people don't like useless comments here. But I simply thought it was very funny. No need to be mean here.

Wow, I laughed so hard I cried! This is hilarious...

I just got the email today and while I'm not accusing Mixpanel or anything, it was amusing to me how similar the screenshot looks like that of KISSMetrics. I'm currently a KISSMetr…