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>prescription of nutrient types and quantities How is that not essentially calorie counting? If a diet says at 8:00am eat 10g Fat, 30g protein 30g carbs that's still a way of sayin…

"Or those companies that would set up 1000 TV antennas in a datacenter and then stream" I believe Aereo tried just that and failed - https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/06…

By making that platform more accessible to millions of potential users. Their main source of revenue are Ad's so anything to increase a user count would seem like a good direction …

2010, seems a bit outdated. Hetfield's guitar tech (or someone claiming to be) has an overview of AxeFX posted on the fractal forums. http://forum.fractalaudio.com/axe-fx-ii-discus…

"...Angular’s performance problems." It's specific to Angular running in the browser opposed to Java running on a server. You'll certainly run into different performance bottleneck…

Not a problem that most people will have. If for some reason you do then hopefully you'll be able to monetize that popularity and hire someone who's actually really good it. ORM's …

Has this happened? It does make sense to me and seems like a good opportunity for a competitor but I can't think of a case where a very popular iOS app lost out to an android alter…

It is that surprising? When you have limited dev resources it's smart to focus on the platform that would garner the most attention and profit.

Apple's goal is to make money and the last time they licensed out their OS it didn't turn out very well for them.

There isn't a 'Best'. Getting a language & framework that will work for you is a personal thing. Just look at what's available (Rails/Play/Django/Node/etc) and implement a small bu…

Possibly, but like most technology there's is a set compromises you're willing to make. Rails and Django seem to be focused on getting something up and running ASAP and then dealin…

Homebrew - a package manager for OSX to install all those incredibly useful applications you've been using for the past 10 years. http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

"It’s just the slightly awkward first steps of a serious move by Nokia to differentiate itself." This seems like the same old cell phone industry for me. Several years ago, camera …

"hit android until its dead lying on the floor" You know Microsoft collects nearly a half billion a year from patents relating to android?

I understand certain pro users being skeptical on the whole 'Back to Mac' iOS-ification of OSX, me included but i'm already loving the Lion terminal. Nice implementation of full sc…

1Password should have you covered on all fronts (OSX/iOS versions). You have the option of using Dropbox to keep everything synced ( http://help.agilebits.com/1Password3/cloud_sync…

You think it would require much more work than just a recompile? With the similarities between iOS/OSX and Apple's investment in the LLVM toolchain I see the switch going smoother …

I haven't heard of any stability or reliability issues regarding Apple's choice of storage in Air's, MacBook Pro's (w/ SSD), iPads, iPhones or any Flash-storage based product. A si…

Shipped ≠ Sales

Worked out ok for Nintendo on the Wii...

You should adjust your belief to fit the available data, don't adjust the data to fit your belief. I would normally agree, but in my opinion, surveys fall into the "Lies, damned li…

Have you looked into Eventlet or GEvent?

Existing expertise If the goal is to get to a minimum viable product quickly (like most startups) then existing knowledge is a pretty good reason to go with a certain stack. He eve…