Why Apple Approved Opera And Not Google Voice
AnonymousRyan,
I've asked my colleagues who deal with Apple if they knew why Opera was approved while Google Voice was rejected.
I've discovered that some of the higher-ups at AT&T did have a high amount of influence on the two applications being accepted and rejected.
AT&T decided to reject Google Voice due to the fact that users would have no reason to keep their texting plan since they would be able to send/receive all their text messages through the Google Voice app which would make use of their data plan. This would cost AT&T to lose $20/month per user who got rid of their texting plan.
Opera Mini, on the other hand, compresses web pages before they are sent to the device as a way to speed up their web browsing experience on slower networks (EDGE). Because Opera compresses the web page before it is sent to the device, it results in less data transfer on the device. This would result in AT&T saving money by charging users the same amount every month for using less data.
I hope this has cleared some things up.
Ever since Opera for the iPhone was released, I asked myself over and over, why did Apple approve Opera and not Google Voice?
Well today, I finally got my answer. The following statement was emailed to me from a friend and employee who works for AT&T.
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
I found a nice long list of excellent ways to write unmaintainable code, or code that will be impossible for anyone else to be able to read. Is also very likely that when you’re done, you won’t be able to know what your own code is doing either. List taken from freeworld.thc.org which was made up of entries from mindprod.com. With that being said, here’s the list!
General Principles
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
- Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.To foil the maintenance programmer, you have to understand how he thinks. He has your giant program. He has no time to read it all, much less understand it. He wants to rapidly find the place to make his change, make it and get out and have no unexpected side effects from the change.He views your code through a toilet paper tube. He can only see a tiny piece of your program at a time. You want to make sure he can never get at the big picture from doing that. You want to make it as hard as possible for him to find the code he is looking for. But even more important, you want to make it as awkward as possible for him to safely ignore anything.
Programmers are lulled into complacency by conventions. By every once in a while, by subtly violating convention, you force him to read every line of your code with a magnifying glass.
You might get the idea that every language feature makes code unmaintainable — not so, only if properly misused.
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