I wonder how much Christmas played into those little bumps. It's almost like people head off buying expensive new phones during that period, possibly in hopes in getting them for gifts. Possibly to afford more gifts. Would have been nice to see back one more year. Because otherwise looks like JavaME is steadily losing share, but had a bump the last two months.

The QR scanner app that I use has an option to show the URL before going to it which seems like a good approach, though it's not on by default. Seems like having the a such an option be the default would be a good first step, perhaps with a straight through exception for sites already visited.

Number of charges are normally mean a full charge cycle, so charging a phone 50% every day versus 100% every other day is the same rate of charge cycles. Also while lithium ion batteries don't have a memory they do tend to degrade if fully discharged. And then there is the whole heat damage thing when charging. I imagine the temperature changes with be higher when charging a nearly depleted battery and thus increase wear from expansion and contraction.

See http://www.apple.com/batteries/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion_battery

This is not to prevent trojans from coming from the App Store, it is to decrease the attack area of apps if exploits are found through them. For example suppose an app registers an URI handle, but does not properly sanitize the data before processing it leading to an arbitrary code exploit. It would still have to bypass the sandbox to further infect the system. Yes, pretty much all malware software is based on trojans. But that doesn't mean that ignoring other risks is a good thing.

The biggest problems with sandboxing is making sure that rules are tight enough but no tighter. Most of the developer complaints I've seen are either the "sandboxing is hard, I don't want to worry about enumerating what my app will do so that everything else can be blocked" or the "sandboxing is fine in principle, but without the ability to mark ( plugins / full filesystem access / ) as allowed my app will ( have reduced functionality / be unable to work )." The later issues are the ones I think that have merit. I can understand Apple being extremely tight with the original permissions because it's easier to loosen up rather than tighten, but it is going to limit what apps from the App Store can do. Hopefully they will be using some of the extra time from moving the sandbox deadline that was originally this month to March, to improve selection of the sandbox criteria to better meet the needs of some of the developers that are unable to work with the options currently provided.

The one thing I like about Apple's sandboxing over some other approaches is that it isn't noisy to the end users. People like most of us on this forum might care, but the average user sees a dialog that such an such app is requesting permissions to do . and there eyes glaze over and they either just press accept to get to the program or start panicking needless and become more susceptible to fake antivirus software claims.

Didn't expect so many questions. Was just trying to give a first hand view of the burn out risks since mostly I saw second hand reports in the comments.

But I guess... I ended up doing okay and just muddled by til it really didn't matter anymore. Turned one of my internships into a full time job against the advice of my college adviser, several professors, and my father who all thought it was beneath me and been there ever since. I still have bouts of depression, especially the "why didn't I continue... I was on top and I let it all just slip away" type, but fortunately the panic attacks are mostly a thing of the past. And I don't worry about worrying about the impossibility of reality anymore. Seriously that used to be like my biggest dread, that I would logically provide that even nothing itself doesn't exists and go insane in the process. Seems kinda funny to me now. I'm not much like the person I used to appear to be anymore.

Hmm guess Daphne is a boy's name these days? But yes I posted something on slashdot so something must not be right with me? Is this one of those trick logic questions like "this statement is false?" You realize you can solve those these days with fuzzy logic. But fortunately I get a pass since you got the gender wrong. :P

Probably around 19. Some of it I felt younger... earlier to mid 20s I started even thinking that nothing had any true meaning and that even reality itself was without foundation. I spent a lot of sleepless nights back then trying not to think about the meaningless nothing that I began to perceive reality to be a figment of.