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Humble/Farley is my team's guidebook. Great stuff. Still current.

I'm a bit of a fanboy for all the shiny Apple products, but wasn't entirely excited about the watch. Still, I pre-ordered the sport version and waited.

Then, the stores had personal fittings. I went in to take a look, and came out changing my preorder to the stainless watch with the link bracelet. It's a nice watch, looks great, and I figured it'd be kinda cool to play with.

Fast forward a month, and it's become a part of my everyday activity. I don't miss messages anymore because of the haptic taps --- I used to miss messages all the time because I frequently don't feel my phone's vibration in my pocket.

I used it to check in last time I took a flight. Barcode goes to screen via Passbook. Just like the Starbucks app. And ApplePay is great where you can use it. I have an iPhone 5S, so it opened that world to me.

Every day, I use the activity monitor to keep me motivated. I use a bluetooth heartrate monitor as a more accurate HR measure while working out, and pair it to the watch. Works great. (The watch is not a reliable HR monitor when you're moving around a lot -- it's not designed to be).

I control my music via the watch, use bluetooth headphones all day now.

When driving, the watch guides me -- no more holding my phone to see the map...the haptic + just in time directions are great.

I've taken the occassional call through the watch (you use it as a speakerphone).

It's a winner, and will only get better from here. It's a great fitness companion that lets you keep your phone in your pocket for all kinds of things, which feels remarkably more convenient.

No one NEEDS one. It's useful jewelry. That's compelling enough for me.

Simple sequence would just be: build; run_tests

The syntax you quoted is doing a logical AND of two expressions. Expressions are any bit of script - including calls to executables (like the example).

It's a pity that PowerShell is Windows-only (Pash notwithstanding); its syntax is small, supports pithiness and verbosity equally well, and has an easy to understand flow once you're over the first learning hump.

Are you saying it's wise or smart to cripple your ability to retire by lavishing your children with your life's savings? That's what this guy seems to have done. And now his situation is a bit f'd up.

Cocos2d-x and CocosBuilder. For making relatively simple iOS games that I could port to Android and Windows, is there a better choice?

Given they carbon copied everything you immediately notice about Apple stores (look, feel, employee uniform), I do find it surprising they didn't try to ape the store culture too.

There really are Microsoft fans that know how to relate with people. And a lot of them (and others) have a pathological hatred for all things Apple.

I'd hope for some swagger going into any branded store even if I thought their products were overpriced crap (I'm looking at you, Sony Store). Otherwise, it's just depressing.

TL;DR: It may happen, but nothing about Microsoft's position in the market seems inevitable going forward.

Most people outside the HN bubble actually like and admire Microsoft because it's what they know ---- and most importantly, they don't care about computing enough to know the differences between things, so they go with the comfortable and familiar. Apple's premium pricing keeps a lot of people away from the Mac (not that Apple needs to care -- their business model is fantastic for their bottom line). So, for most people -- the Android crowd that uses MSFT at work -- Microsoft stores could become something meaningful in the overall landscape.

Then again, since most of the people I'm talking about just don't care that much...when the time comes to buy that new laptop they might not ever make it to the store when the (already familiar and comfortable) Best Buy / Costco / Sam's / Walmart / Dell / Amazon buying experience will do just fine.

Considered charging less for the full product (say $10), and simply having multiple versions available as you post major new releases?

That way, users always have a way to downgrade to previous versions as needed, you probably get more customers due to the entry price, and everyone just understands that the latest version is available for $10 more.

That seems to be the whole app store model: lower prices, more sales -- no "upgrades" in the classic sense. And, with a low enough entry price, I think users would be accepting.

If they don't buy the latest, as a developer you're no worse off than you are today (where they get the latest for free).