Very well said. I have been tinkering with famo.us and it is looking very promising

I was just looking at CodeCanyon. Have you done it? can you give me a little more detail on how it works?

Browse through the listings to get an idea of what is selling. http://codecanyon.net/page/top_sellers

They have quality standards that you must meet to get approved. Browse through http://support.envato.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Inde... to find out more.

http://codecanyon.net/make_money/become_an_author

For the guy/lady below: Hey there! I work at Envato and am involved in the day to day operations of the marketplaces, including CodeCanyon. Please feel free to email me any questions at sid at envato dot com

FYI: if HN prevents you from directly replying to a comment you can click on "link" to access a reply page directly. That's actually what I just did to reply to your comment.

I'm still not completely sure why HN does that to be honest, especially since the heuristic appears to be pretty random.

I think HN tries to discourage long, protracted comment trees.

Wow, definitely didn't notice this earlier. Thanks!

email sent

I just signed up. Do you just upload random things that you think will sell? or is there somewhere I can see what people want?

if your TV supports it (HDMI CEC) it already does this . http://gigaom.com/2013/07/24/chromecast-hdmi-cec/

Great! Thanks for the link. Have to figure out whether mine supports it.

Can you tell me more? I am currently looking for a solution. Looking at jersery. What are you working with?

look at spring roo, its a more modern approach and uses active record rather than the service layers / repositories, it makes generating json api's really simple

A few points:

1) Spring Roo is not necessarily a more modern approach. It's more similar to Rails.

2) JAX-RS is more like Sinatra than Rails. Generating JSON api is already simple in JAX-RS.

3) Not everybody wants ActiveRecord

http://www.braintreepayments.com/devblog/untangle-domain-and...

https://github.com/braintree/curator#readme

4) JAX-RS comes with standard Java EE (moot point)

5) You can re-use your Servlet knowledge with JAX-RS to some extend (Filter, setting up web.xml, etc)

Not to take anything away from Spring Roo which is a wonderful project.

I use jersey (provided by glassfish).

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Do you or anyone else know how much/little Google outsources their development work? I was having a discussion with a fellow engineer about the outsourcing model and innovation.

Outsourcing? Not even a little bit. Not only that but AFAIK contract engineers are incredibly rare and nonexistent in many product areas.

This isn't to say that Google doesn't have partnerships with external vendors. We do. But engineering in general is a core competency, something far too valuable and of strategic importance to outsource.

I can confirm this: you can basically count the number of contract engineers in the US on your fingers and toes.

Are we counting Google Account Managers hiring third-party contractors to do ad-hoc work for major clients?

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/pylons-discuss/asqBrrEEhNo...

There are exceptions. But for software engineers who contribute to Google's (non-open source) code base, Google pretty much got out of using contractors around 2008 or so. Some contractors became employees.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10107141-93.html

They outsource by buying startups.

Wouldn't that be more like "insourcing"?

Sure after they've bought them, but buying them, no.

I keep hearing from iOS camp that NO ONE buys android apps. What are your experiences?

...which services are doing it right? Got a list?

Adobe's BrowserLab does this (https://browserlab.adobe.com/) for mainstream Mac/Windows browsers. You need an AdobeID (registration is free). I've found it much faster than browsershots.org (though you have fewer options). No mobile support, I'm hoping they add that soon.

Edit: 'no mobile support' = 'doesn't emulate mobile browsers'

http://browsershots.org is one and they also have $ version that is allegedly better and faster.

For browser-based website monitoring the best ones are AlertFox and Browsermob