manuel
manuel is from Konstanz, Bodensee, has some followers and follows great people. You can find manuel’s tweets at @enplotz and website at enplotz.de/blog/.
Mostly studying Computer Science and Casual Minecrafting. Agile riding down the waterfall with a rapid prototype of mine.
»So it seems now it is a good time to share some of my experiences regarding launching on the AppStore. I will try to provide some insight that I wish I had from other projects prior to launching my own.«
»I can disregard history. I can develop solutions without people saying "That's not how it's supposed to work!"«
»But the world is going app crazy. Apps apps apps. Have a website? Not good enough! You need an app... I don't get it.«
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manuel First stage of technology adaption is always "overuse". Then "crash" and then "sane use".
»Your peers will be like “Woha, this guy knows his stuff!” and women will be totally like “I want to have his babies!”«
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manuel Y U NO use vim?
»Its not too far fetched to think that down the road we'll get rid of Rails for the API server and go with something faster and more “slim”.«
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manuel Interesting thoughts by the folks from the svbtle network about the future of Rails and the request/response model.
»Basically, if a given software package or service isn’t free/open, it should be as easy as humanly possible to try it, pay for it, and start using it in production. If it isn’t easy to get started with your product, I’m going to find another vendor.«
»This morning, I experienced the nerd equivalent of a Black Friday $50 iPad sale.«
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manuel Der Artikel fasst die "Geschehnisse" des heutigen Morgens sehr gut und knapp zusammen.
Dass die beiden Distributoren, die sich selbst "Europas größter Elektronikdistributor" (oder ähnlich) nennen, nicht mit dem Andrang zurecht kamen finde ich derart lächerlich. In Zeiten in denen man innerhalb von Sekunden virtuelle Server aus dem Boden stampfen kann, sollte das kein Problem sein sich darauf vorzubereiten. Zumal etwaige Zahlen durch Twitter Follower, Mailinglisten-Abbonements und Seitenzugriffen von der Foundation wohl recht zuverlässig erhoben werden konnten und definitiv kommuniziert wurden. Zur Not richtet man da als Elektronikriese einen extra Shop bei Amazons Cloud-Services ein und damit hat sich's. Die haben ja sicher nicht über Nacht von ihrem Glück (more)erfahren...
Jedenfalls, zurück zum Gerät. Dass das A Modell doppelten Speicher ohne Preiszuschlag bekommt finde ich sehr gut. Diese Geräte sollen ja später der eigentlichen Zielgruppe – den Bildungseinrichtungen – für möglichst wenig Geld Computer ermöglichen. Modell B schafft dann durch die Nerds eine große Software-Basis.
»“GitHub is the best thing ever. If you don’t host on GitHub, it doesn’t exist,” says Baldwin«
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manuel How GitHub became what it is today.
Another good passage in the text is the "can I just send you a check"-part. I like this company and product alot (pun intended).
(via Martin Wolf)
»Speed is one of those core competitive advantages that have long-term staying power. As Jeff Bezos would say, nobody is going to wake up 10 years from now and wish their application was slower. Investments in speed are going to pay dividends forever.«
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manuel Very interesting post about Basecamp Next and its speed.
»Even the best programmers typically have no idea what they're doing when they start a new project.«
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manuel I think most programmers will relate to this in some kind.
»In ökonomisch und politisch unsicheren Zeiten gibt es eine Sehnsucht nach Beschwörungen eines kraftstrotzenden, zukunftsgläubigen Amerika, das auf dem Weg zum Mond und nicht auf dem zum Bankrott war. Diese Theorie würde die amerikanische Begeisterung für Retro-Musclecars ebenso erklären wie das völlige Fehlen von Retro in China, Indien und anderen aufstrebenden Volkswirtschaften.«
also recommended this article. »In other words, developers applied TDD because they wanted to, not because of a decree from their manager. Whether it would’ve been as effective otherwise is an open question.«
»The parent process has to occasionally reap the dead children by using the wait() function. Doing this allows dead children to completely disappear.«
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manuel Great/funny explanation of the Unix fork() mechanism, and its usage for servers and sockets. Also some perl.
»One of the main skills of research scientists of any type is knowing how to work comfortably and productively in a state of confusion.«
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manuel »What is it like to have an understanding of very advanced mathematics?«. The quote is from the answer of "Anon User".
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Daniel Rottschalk Were they speaking of "research scientists" - or "entrepreneuers"?
»including comments here would be Emacs-like.«
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manuel Another view on the comments thing.
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manuel An indie game developer talks about launching on the AppStore.