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Part of the problem is a lot of IT talent is more interested in building the latest social networking gizmo than solving Detroit IT problems.

Relying on App Store reviewers for feedback is a bad idea. The whole process is capricious. It's likely had he submitted at a different time and gotten a different reviewer, the app would have been approved.

They are quick to respond up until the point where you've paid. But, their interest drops off pretty steeply after that point.

Thanks, you just saved me 2k. Please write up a blog post, you may save others.

Groovy/Grails here.

What I think the point was there is no outrage in the blogosphere/twitterverse about the shortage of male nurses.

Whats important is that any woman who wants to do CS or Engineering is able to. Equal ratios for its own sake isn't important. If these percentages are the result of the choices of individuals Im not sure what you can to to change them.

This is really cool.

That's why you'd use monomac, mono touch or wpf on osx,iOS and windows, respectively. Xamarin also has a solution for android.

The problem with this is you only get 1 thread for the UI and other stuff to run on.

yeah you can. The whole native vs non native is about whether the UI is native and directly integrates with the platform, not the language or whether there is a runtime.

If your app is something others will use, for the best experience you write your app in such a way that the UI is as swappable as possible. Then write a Mac UI with monomac and a Windows UI with WPF. If it's just you who needs it, then Gtk# might be ok for standard things. But don't expect good os integration without work.

No but you can wrap native UI libraries, the most critical piece that needs to be native. Contrast this with an HTML CSS UI.

If you were going to develop a mono app on osx you'd be better off using monomac than gtk#. Mono develop is written in gtk# and cut and paste works just fine on osx.

Xournal

Excellent. How did you know I wanted this? =)

You have to differentiate between individuals deciding for themselves to go elsewhere and organized boycotts designed to ruin a person. I would hate to be a minority business owner in a society that condoned flippant use of organized boycotts.

If the business wants to succeed, it has decide whether it will be more profitable to capitulate or not.

economic blackmail is wasteful and silly. I'm an atheist are you ok with the religious attacking my livelihood as a small business owner? That's not capitalism that's the dark ages.

Revenge never works.

Maybe. Or it could just anger the other side to push back harder. Education and time are the forces that will cause an LGBT victory, not these boycott games.

@SolarNet You seem pretty absolute in determining who is a bigot, and do not recognize that there is a spectrum. Obviously one's religion does not justify bigotry. But it does distort one's world view and can explain why someone might support Prop 8 without being a person who hates and is disgusted by homosexuals. Education is the best response to this, not economic sanctions.

My point is there are degrees of badness. LGBT supporters look like bullies when they don't moderate their response to someone who disagrees with them.

@SolorNet Let me rephrase, would you be ok if the Catholic Church used its members to lobby for a person to be fired for their stance on abortion?

What if his religion tells him, gays OK, but marriage is only for opposite sex?

How does punishing Eich help the cause? Is it trying to scare people in to agreeing with the LGBT cause?

It is. But we're definitely not comparing apples to apples

The only reason you suspect that is because of his contribution in 2008.

Liberals would not like it if the Catholic Church used its members to lobby for a person to be fired for their stance on abortion. Don't use Firefox, fine. But actively lobbying to take away someone's livelihood is not a proportional response in this case.

Maybe he thinks marriage should be between opposite sex for religious reasons but has no problem with civil unions that grants the same legal benefits. While not a progressive view, not the same as a Klansman.

No, I just dont go around assuming things.

Yeah, I agree. But is the boycott activism a proportional response? I think we should leave people jobs out of these things.