Back when they actually had shop class, it was pretty clear where trig could be useful. My high school actually introduced trig earlier to the remedial math stream than the advanced math stream since it was understood that trades people would have more use for it.
At least an education system designed to mould good factory workers certainly can't.
In Canada, the rule is that if the employees don't pay a reasonable charge for a meal then it's a taxable benefit: Subsidized meals
You don't pay EI premiums (employment insurance) on it but you deduct pay income tax and CPP premiums (Canada Pension Plan). If they only sporadically work overtime then providing meals for those times isn't taxable.
As I make more, I find that less and less of it counts as income when I do my taxes.
Go to careers.stackoverflow.com and tick the "only telecommute jobs" box. I was doing an 80% remote team lead/developer job for the last few year that paid a fair bit more than $16/hour. I switched to consulting and I have clients I've never met in person who are happy to pay over $100/hour for someone who'll keep them in the loop and get things done.
Right, so either way it's a lot more work than most people realize to "just port" an app between platforms. Except maybe Android -> BB10 or it's primarily a web app or using a common game engine.
Making an app available on Android generally doesn't double the revenue they were making on iOS. There have been a number of iPhone apps that have ported to Android and found that their support costs go up but they don't make nearly as much revenue. There are certainly exceptions but they tend to be big apps that can get a lots of views of ads, like Angry Birds.
Porting from iOS to Android is far from trivial. Plus Android users will post bad reviews for apps that look too much like iOS. So you have to redo half of the graphics and some of the UX unless it's a game. At that point, it takes nearly as much work to do the Android "port" as the original version.
I don't have the time to keep up with 2 platforms in depth and, personally, I just don't like Java or the tools. It'd take something far more compelling that lots of eyeballs (without lots of dollars) to make the effort for Android.
I agree, a slide-out keyboard would've been really nice. Even tweaking the size / form factor of the keyboard models would've been nice. It's hard to believe the keyboard one is a new device, especially next to the Z10. I don't want BB to start having dozens of models again though.
They showed a keyboard version. They just haven't announced launch dates for it yet.
I assume when you say "Blackberry needs to..." you mean RIM, and this is just a slip-up, not an indication that you're ignorant of what you're talking about.
And 7 hours later, they renamed the company to BlackBerry anyway.
Rumour has it the C alpha dev device will be the x10 form factor. They just starting talking about there being a C device a few weeks ago, so dev probably won't see it for at least a month. I'd be surprised it it were for sale to the public before June.
The 10k guarantee is not for any app that makes 1k. The app needs to go through "Built for BlackBerry" approval that's separate and comes after the app world approval. The bar for "Built for BlackBerry" has been set so high that the BB dev forums are full of posts questioning if anything is getting it at all. Seeing the very few apps that have passed that approval, it seems ludicrous to think they wouldn't make 10k. So the guarantee is really only a hedge for top-shelf apps against the platform bombing.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
