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Even in 2000, developers had Netscape Navigator, so developing for IE because they had to and NN because they wanted to was the best option (unless distorted by being paid to meet other requirements).

Now, developers have iPhones and like iphones, developing for other devices isn't so personally pressing.

Perhaps this will force other manufacturers to improve in the way we always wanted to do to IE6 but couldn't?
I don't know prices.. i'm just redirect to amazon, here you can find specs, video, pictures...
What's sad is that he refused the project rather than express his viewpoint.

If his point was that beautiful code is rare and only refined through a long iterative process perhaps he could've found some code that was initially average or even bad and showed what each incremental refactor/rewrite did to it until it became "beautiful".
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Nokia has a plurality of the market share for cell phones worldwide, but over the past few years they lost a lot of market share in the US.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/technology/companies/19nok...
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lead gen is a tiny part of affiliate marketing. And I agree, large chains with everyone collecting user details to spam later is obviously shady.
Tell HN: Too much link-bait, can we have snippets?
I don't know about you, but I often fall victim to link-baits on HN.

It would be nice to have a two or three line snippet from the target website, so one can have a bit more information when choosing which articles to read.

Obviously this is a non-trivial task, requiring the parsing of the site then choosing which text to display, or perhaps parsing a Google result...or perhaps someone has a better idea?
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I would say that NYC is known for finance but the reality is that its pretty large in other areas too, media, design, boutique etc.
While I'm not a diabetic, my sister is. I'm sending this along to her for her thoughts.
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In my junior and senior years of high school I took 6 AP courses (and passed the associated exams), which translated into about a third of the college credits I needed to graduate. I entered my University mid-sophomore year and graduated in the Summer 2 years later. If you're lucky enough to go to a worthwhile high school, you can definitely get a lot out of senior year if you're willing to put a lot into it.
All info about products in one place, without ads, with huge pictures in every product. I think it very useful product for all people... Or not?
*I think it very useful for all people...
> what do you do when they reply with a rush of words you don't understand?

It's not that hard...in fact I'd go so far as to say that it's so easy it's a non-issue. Just start pointing and speaking in very simple English after the introduction and unless they have an IQ that fluctuates with the ambient temperature, they'll get the picture. More importantly they'll at least appreciate you gave the old "being polite" a shot and be more inclined to help. Opening with English, like you expect them to serve you in your language, which just feeds into the popular global view of Americans and native English speakers, very rarely works.

Even if you expect help in English, it's how you package it up that matters. Rolling in, appearing that you are expecting to be helped in English makes people less inclined to help you. Bookending your interaction in "local", with "thank you" and other politeness as you can interspersed throughout packages up your expectations in a polite bow.

If you still get treated rudely even after you demonstrate that you are willing to try and meet them halfway in the interaction...it's likely just a rude person.

I wish that more of my countrymen and fellow native English speakers understood this type of basic politeness.
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Nokia, as far as I'm aware, is the biggest cell phone company in the world. Here in China, when I see someone pull out a cell phone, it's a decent bet that it will be a Nokia.
It seems to do geotargeting by IP address of the user.

There should be an API that allows the publisher to pass latitude/longitude as retrieved from the GPS and get targeted ads as a result.

Google AdWords allow targeting by proximity for local businesses, at least in Google's own searches.
I see. If you're completely new to 3D, you could go about using the pre existing world and character building tools available in Opensim http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page which is based on the Second Life framework without the inherent pitfalls of the Second Life network.

It would simplify the process and workflow immeasurably, and results would be instant as you're constructing everything in realtime directly within the environment.
Why is no one talking about Fujitsu? =)

http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/retailing/technology/hard...
If you have only one type of chip then it would be very hard to tell, but if you advertise for Doritos and Doritos sales spike 4x as much as your 10 other brands that weren't being advertised it's not hard to do the math.
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I've use API of Google & Twitter...
It seems like it could be useful and has a nice clean layout, big pictures, vids and useful links. I sort of agree with the "spam" feeling though, something doesn't feel right about it, maybe the lack of text, maybe with nothing but pics on the front-page it just looks like a big ad for random products.

One functional problem though: I tried to search for an olympus camera and typing Olympus and it completes correctly, I see that there are Olympus Exx models in the list and i continue to write Olympus E to fetch just those and look them over, but then suddently at Olympus E it switches the autocomplete to say "BenQ ..." which is obviously just wrong.
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It tooks me few seconds to figure out what was the purpose of this website. No complete review, just a list of product with affiliate link. No About Page, no information about how to use the website. Not sure if it can be valuable since you can simply do a Google on the product and find more information. I think you need to get more review of product and to add on the interface more data. Like some one pointed out, at first the website look like "spam" and I got the same feeling. Keep the work on it, might be something useful later.
I'm very happy to see programs like this happening and succeeding. My high-school offered college-level courses through a few local universities. Those and the few AP classes my school offered were the only worthwhile classes I took in high school.

Unfortunately, there weren't enough of them. I had basically run out of classes to take. I ended up graduating a year early and going to college. (And now, as a junior, I feel comfortable saying that that's one of the best decisions I've ever made.)
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Sidenote: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris have the ability to not only monitor ECC memory errors, but when detecting that the errors go over a certain threshold will automatically mark those pages "bad" and force the operating system to no longer use that range of memory.

I have an 8GB dual-Opteron system with a DIMM that is in production and should not be taken down - about 4MB on one DIMM has been marked bad and removed from use by the OS.
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> Which leads me to my final point. Markets set rates. Banks don't and governments don't. Banks and governments certainly impact rates and governments can do a lot to impact rates and they do all the time. But at the end of the day it is you and me and it is the traders, both speculators and hedgers, who determine how much of a discount we'll accept to get our money now and how much interest we'll want to wait another year.

Technically that's a true statement, but in practice governments can set interest rates as artificially low as they want.

How they do this: Government officials can lend money to banks at less than the rate of inflation. That makes it in a everyone's interest to borrow as much as they can and buy any hard asset remotely likely to appreciate or even hold its value with it.

The inflation becomes a self fulfilling prophecy at that point. More money comes into existence by being lent, it's immediately put into chasing hard assets, which increases the price of assets. Which then makes it make sense to borrow money and buy hard assets with it, because next year the asset will be worth more than the loan because of the inflation.

Long story short - technically sorta true, but governments can reduce interest rates dramatically at the expense of inflation, which then becomes cyclical. More inflation means more demand for lower interest rate money, which means more inflation. The author's point is correct in theory, though in practice governments can set interest rates basically as artificially low as they want. (Getting them artificially high doesn't seem possible in the current generally practiced monetary/banking/legal/tax systems)

So - correct in theory point, but in practice governments who control fiat currencies can set interest rates as low as they want (albeit it with some nasty side effects).
You'd be surprised, my wife barely mentioned she was getting to go on vacation to England and France and even her employer (owner of a dozen franchises and lives in a multi-million dollar home) said he was jealous.

I've noticed a lot of people in north america are fascinated by Europe, you only really need to lay a hint and they'll do the work of making themselves jealous. Considering you can get to the Canary Islands for about $4k from Toronto, I don't really see how any woman would prefer a stone over that. 2 weeks at a beach in the Mediterranean where ocean temp is regularly 20C+, I believe today the ocean temperatures are ~13C for most of the European coast, in Turkey and Egypt I believe the oceans are still hitting almost 20C.

I know for a fact my wife would prefer to go to Europe again over ever getting a diamond, in fact she told me a list of countries she'd prefer to visit over me buying her expensive jewellery.
> But it can also be a steep learning curve to figure out which framework you should use (or if you should use one at all) and then how to use it.

I was really looking forward to hear someone talk about this.

I'd like to know more about whether or not I should be using one at all. I've found CSS frameworks useful for mockups or prototyping, but I'm concerned that they're too heavy and general-purpose to use in production.
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I wonder how much of the tension the author alludes to between code and beauty is due to the connotation that beauty is somehow uncompromising. I too share a certain discomfort with that notion, largely because most projects evolve, which makes full understanding impossible and compromise necessary. That said, I think there's a certain beauty in a good trade-off and perhaps us programmers could benefit from celebrating that.
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A sound idea.

While I can imagine any number of reasons people might post facto not wish to release code, if it were developed from the start with the intention of releasing it, I think we'd all benefit.

Inevitably, the cost of doing so would increase the cost of the research, but I believe it would be worth it.
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My wife wanted a diamond ever since we got hitched (we were far too poor at the time to even consider it). So now, years later, I told her "let's get you that ring you wanted". We went around for a year or so, to local loose diamond sellers, and then she saw "Blood Diamond" and that put a stop to that.

$60 later she's happy as a peach with a CZ ring she enjoys wearing. And on balance she says that she's even happier with it because she doesn't have to worry about it at all. If she loses it, it's not like losing a used car.
Lots of mobile browsers have iPhone in their UA strings to work around browser detects that obsessed web developers have set up. Do all traffic market share reporters work around that problem? Most probably do, but we can’t be sure.

Which browsers do that?
I like blueprint, but I always feel like I am getting into nested div hell as you can't add padding to its grid. Either that or I am doing something wrong.
If you "read between the lines" you can see that they didn't advertise search, the advertised the Google brand. The search theme was just a means to deliver the message that the Google brand is an important part of our everyday life (as in this example, Google accompanies the protagonist through his Parisian romance).
I don't understand the point of this.

Why would anyone worry creating a native application for a highly restricted and proprietary platform when he/she has the option of creating a web application with much better control of deployment, simpler learning curve, etc?

We've seen this history before. Just ask Lotus, WordPerfect, Ashton-Tate, Borland, Computer Associates and thousands of iPhone developers how nice it is to put a leash around your neck and handle it to Microsoft and Apple. Oh, and, after that ask McMillan if Amazon is a non-controling company with open standards.

This is a gold rush with Amazon and Apple selling the picks and shovels.
At least in the US, a lot of designers have an iPhone (and so do their friends). I think it's also likely that the iPhone was the first mobile device they have ever used the internet on. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that since me and all my friends only use the iPhone everyone else does to.
Serious congrats to him. Wonder if he is a Hacker News user.

If I had $20M I'd do another startup and angel invest a bit. Video Game Studio or Printer Manufacturer. Go all in for IPO.
I agree with most of the comments here that it's not obvious what the site is supposed to do when you first land on it. Really, a simple "Be Before! gives you information on such and such in a way that no other site does..yada yada. <a href="/about">Read more about Be Before!...</a>" would be extremely helpful.
I think this article is aimed directly at you then. And clearly you disagree, sounds like because you don't feel like it.

A lot of us don't really want Apple (or Google, or x, or y, or z) to be a monopoly though. And perhaps the people who do follow the advice to consider the other browsers and will help keep things on an even keel.
They did sell it:

> NeXT withdrew from the hardware business in 1993 and the company was renamed NeXT Software Inc; subsequently 300 of the 540 staff employees were laid off.[1] NeXT negotiated to sell the hardware business including the Fremont factory to Canon.[1] Canon later pulled out of the deal. Work on the PowerPC machines was stopped along with all hardware production.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/NeXT#1993.E2....

Wonder how many of those customers followed NeXT to Apple, and whether that and the greater maturity was worth a fifth of a billion dollars.
Doesn't that depend entirely on how you see life and what you want in yours?
Khánh thành giai đoạn 1 dự án “Con đường gốm sứ”
Vừa qua, Cty Nghệ thuật Tân Hà Nội – đơn vị chủ dự án “Con đường gốm sứ”, đã tổ chức Lễ cắt băng khánh thành giai đoạn một của dự án. Cũng nhân dịp này, đoạn tranh gốm “Các biểu trưng về Hà Nội” do Tổng Công ty tài chính CP Dầu khí Việt Nam tài trợ cũng được khánh thành.

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That's almost exactly what we ended up doing. A couple trips to Europe won out over diamonds in the end. And she feels vastly more cultured and informed now rather than lugging around some useless overpriced rock.
> In retrospect, Apple gave NeXTSTEP a pretty thorough multi-year overhaul as well, so maybe BeOS would have been fine.

I was going to say... And 200 million dollars pays for a lot of development. (How much do localization and printer drivers cost?)
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Why can cellular operators get away with blocking stuff

Why have you not switched providers to protest the blocking? Ultimately, those questions have the same answer (literally), I think.
Personally I find it more of an example of how screwed up the US government is at this point. They seem to ruin everything they try to do. A lot of other first world countries have reasonable protections for workers without killing the "little guy".

I also don't buy your analysis of France. Large amounts of immigration always create a lot of unrest (just look at the otherwise pretty progressive Swedish).
I would diversify my investments internationally, pack my laptop and reading material and book a long cruise. Seriously: no matter how long the trip, my wife and I never get bored on a cruise ship. Also, on board a ship is a good place to think and do some creative work.
How about this:

Ruby's syntactic flexibility and semantic model mean that many cases handled by a change to the language spec or delegating to another language (XML config files, for example) can be cleanly handled in Ruby itself. The end result is often something that looks like a little language for a specific task, such as Rake, Rails, etc. (I'm not a Ruby programmer, so I hope those are good examples.)

So with Ruby, there are very few cases where writing a custom grammar or parser is necessary. Ruby's flexibility gives you the ability to do things that might require a custom grammar or parser in other languages.
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Diversify.

Retire for one year to a buddhist temple in china/india and find inner peace and nirvana.

Come back (you may not, I warn you) and do what you really want to do with your life, nothing else.

Right now I am coding just to get some money to do what I really like to do with my life: coding.
This might come off as a little harsh, but you've seen http://www.google.com/products before, right?

At first, I thought that the site was going to be a cool place for information on the latest gadgets in a nice, clean layout. I inferred from the name that "Be Before" meant something like "Be before your friends"
After playing for a few seconds, though, it just feels like one of those old pop-under ads.
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They probably keep the password in an 8-char record that used to store something else.
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I like it!

Unfortunately, the fundamental problem with diabetics, and the reason that the (now) 4 people who have commented here never created this app, is that diabetics are lazy. This needs to be soooooo easy to use. Which it is, to the extent that it is a webapp.

This really somehow needs to get turned into a mobile app, which will remind you to do the checks, and prompt you for a reading. If you were to provide a simple web API, I would probably be plugging into it tonight on Palm.

If this app texted me, and I could respond with readings, I would be in love.

Particularly for basal tests and bolus tests on an insulin pump, prompted readings with a dead simple interface are key. When you are supposed to be doing this 5 times a day, you are going to be as expedient as possible. This is the primary problem with logging systems. Personally I either forget, or don't want to run upstairs every time.

The only real missing feature of note is the lack of an interface for basal and bolus testing. Though that only applies to a subset of diabetics.
We'll put projects on hold for months and months, but we'd never hire someone with some of the needed skills and let them learn the rest....
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Common usage of DSL seems to mean an API whose usage looks more like a secondary language rather than the host language. At least that's my interpretation. A case example would be jQuery. Which while it is JavaScript, idiomatic code using jQuery isn't written in the same style as traditional JavaScript.
While this article curses a lot to get attention, I think it will fall on deaf ears because I do not have other phones to test on. Unless a simulator or emulator is readily available for download on my platform of choice, I will not test against it.
There were a few really interesting technical observations in this that made it worthwhile from my perspective.
The site looks really professional and with nice touches, Idan.
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Plus w/ jsonp can't get the response from POST requests and you don't get notification that your page didn't load. So your web-stack needs to be able to handle sending any errors via jsonp as well.

In any case, they don't solve the same problem. Jsonp solves the problem of talking to another domain (PostMessage does the same thing). Channels solve the problem of the browser limiting the number of concurrent HTTP requests you can have open to one domain.
Why are you making the assumption the person who wrote this response has anything to do with the security procedures that ensure data confidentiality? It's obvious the person is not a security specialist and is only repeating whatever he/she picked up at the last training session.
It seems to me that the complaint is "what used to fail with this error code now fails with a more annoying and scary error code." It's still a regression, but hardly one that's a huge cause for concern.
Besides, what will happen when the operators abandon the economically untenable flat rate for iPhone data traffic?

Er, what? Operators are expanding those flat rate plans to other phones (I have a unlimited everything month-to-month plan for $80 right now, on a non-AT&T operator).
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Nokia's browser is also based on WebKit.
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