Check out Boostnote: https://boostnote.io/

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet but WizNote is a pretty decent Evernote clone with clients for all platforms. Use Google translate on the site: https://wiz.cn/

Though I also recommend this book, their example code teaches bad habits (such as assignment within conditionals and horrendous compound statements) which should be avoided in any sort of production code.

Do you have any examples? I just flipped through the book and couldn't find any. Accelerated C++ was my first ever programming book. It was quite a doozy to get through at the time, but I feel like I'm forever indebted to it. Koenig's attention to detail and ability to explain what the machine is actually doing and the consequences in your code is still unmatched as far as I can tell.

median = size % 2 == 0 ? (homework[mid] + homework[mid-1]) / 2 : homework[mid];

In my opinion the ternary operator is misused here when an if/else would have been clearer.

Well, you omitted the all important const qualifier which would be a decent reason to use the ternary operator.

I actually like using the ternary operator in this sort of assignment, so I only need to type the variable name once instead of 3 times. The only real problem in your example is that everything is in one line. It woulf be better to indent that and to add some extra parenthesis to make the precedence clearer.

Ah yeah, that is one beefy line of code. I can agree with that.

Embedded/RTOS

The Playbook is more business orientated (secure QNX OS) but is also on sale to consumers. The kindle is purely a consumer product.

> The Playbook is more business orientated

People say this, but I disagree. They shipped with working Flash and no email. If you look at their actions instead of what reporters and RIM's marketing team say, I think it's very difficult to call the Playbook a "business orientated" device.

All of their commercials even boasted about the Flash capabilities and the HD-movies-that-keep-playing-when-you-multitask-away. Business tablet? Yeah right.

Not to mention it shipped with Need For Speed preinstalled

It does make me wonder what an actually business oriented tablet would prioritise.

Spotify is 100% licensed. AFAIK, Grooveshark is more like Napster in that it's a free-for-all with user uploaded content, though they have worked out deals with some of the record companies.

I personally like grooveshark, because it literally has everyone song I want.

That's a pretty good sign that it's not really legal.

Sad that that's a good indicator, still, no?

Spotify also started out with a lot of unlicensed content before they came clean in early 2009: http://www.spotify.com/uk/blog/archives/2009/01/28/some-impo...

Right but they solved that problem in 2009. It's 2011 and Grooveshark is still mostly pirated content.

Does the app produce a unique coded signal of flashing screen colours for each user? Otherwise, what's to stop someone from loading an image of their own face with someone else's barcode onto their smartphone and stealing sandwiches?

The photo appears on the register (downloaded from our server each time you check out) in front of the cashier. The photo on the phone is just for aesthetics.

Can't wait to see that get abused.