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It may be worth noting that developers don't necessarily need official apps for everything. That is, github becomes an implicit app store because we can build locally and push to our own devices.

I suspect this to be the only means by which Emacs will become available on iPhoneOS, for instance. Considering the intended user base, that's acceptable as a starting place.

(To preempt certain class of questions: Use the "happy hacker"/"das keyboard" concept by implementing an unmarked keyboard underneath a partially transparent background, so you maximize text on screen while also accommodating typing without external keyboard. For Emacs in particular, just hit C-l or otherwise scroll when cursor lands beneath fingers. That's one step closer to YCRFS5...)
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I was just commenting on how it could be possible that accepting bribery in one country, but not in another doesn't imply a different fundamental personality trait, as was assumed in the example.
> That same person wouldn't in a country where bribery is illegal.

Oh how much I wish it was a matter of legality. Unfortunately it's a matter of culture, which is a lot harder to change.
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That barrier makes a huge opening for YC size startups

Restrictions can be liberating, can't they?
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I can only speak for myself of course, but I have no formal qualifications and it hasn't stopped me from launching two successful start-ups or working in the industry at CTO and Technical Director level. That said, I have now made the decision to return to further education (I'm taking a different direction). Point of case: I'm currently working as the technical lead for a biomedical institute, managing a team of seven bioinformaticians, all of whom which have PhDs.
He's worse than that. Mahalo is Yahoo 1994 being sold to people as if it's something else. I pity his investors.
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And I am thankful for that. Just pointing out the difference between regular ol' success story and "we got featured" success story.

I didn't get featured on iPhone store and I make half as much. Keeping the crucial difference in mind I can be confident that Android is not worth my time (yet).
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Awesome game, I keep coming back to it. Heads up on a typo, though: all the health machines say "You health has been restored", should be "Your health...". Other than that, it's pretty amazing.
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* The free-version reviews are not very good (technical reasons), but some people who bought the paid version left raving reviews.*

People value things for which they paid more.
personally, I'm sick of this kindergarden. While I agree that journalistic integrity is very important, I fail to see the gravity in this issue to warrant it being blow out of proportions the way it is.

Who cares about some crappy MacBook Air (that whould not have been fun to work with anyways) and a startup like so many others doing what so many others do?

There are so many much bigger issues than stuff like this. Get a grip.

Sorry. I had to vent. Now mod me down into oblivion. I guess European and US cultures don't quite mix - over here, stuff like this just is no big deal.
" Watch how they have memorized all the shortcuts and quirks of their custom line-of-business apps. You'll discover a class of users who want power and control, not simplicity and ease-of-use."

Doesn't "quirks" already imply that it's non-optimal? Shouldn't we think of applications and user interfaces which don't make someone remembering all shortcuts a "professional"? As stated by others before, simplicity and ease of use aren't strongly correlated to power and control.
Not to mention the iPad has a screen size allowing developers to create applications unlike many you see on the iPhone.
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Your argument is too complex to be sound.
Who cares? It is the iPad that is the rave.
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Wow, who still uses checks?

Maybe I'm spoiled, because here in NZ it's pretty uncommon to use cash, everything is EFT or online transfer.

I've not seen a check once since I came here.

At most I carry $0-50 on me at any time.

Also, transferring funds internationally between bank accounts (not credit card) is usually instant, or at most 1 day, depending on the settlement window of your bank compared to originating bank.

Checks seem so...80s?
Ok. What's your point? Is someone supposed to know?

I think people didn't really have any idea how the iPhone would really have an impact. At best people said, "Now I don't need to carry a phone and an iPod." That's probably one of the least touted feature today because it is simply taken for granted.

The thing with iPhone is that it really removed any threshold to mobile applications. Sure, I could've probably done everything on my laptop that I do on my iPhone. But who wants to bust out their laptop every 5 minutes to check Facebook, find directions and beam someone money using PayPal? Oh yeah.. you'd also have the barrier of actually having connectivity no matter where you are.

I will say that there will be a similar evolution with the iPad. Certain applications lends themselves better to a touch interface with a lightweight form factor. These applications need more screen real estate than an iPhone but less power than a laptop. The most obvious? A book reader.

I can see any sort of designer app being huge: web page designing, graphic designing, photo editing. Personally I would love a personal entertainment console. In a perfect world, I'd have a smooth, user friendly and rich touch interface to pick a movie to stream from Netflix and have it start playing automatically through my Apple TV.
There definitely were other car locator apps on the market while I was making one, so there was no first mover advantage. I've also seen a few more car locator apps popup after I released mine. So I'm somewhere in the middle.
I've just spent a few minutes looking through your previous comments. My first suggestion is to have a friendly chat with the sort of professional who has friendly chats with people for a living. Some people I know have found that to be a lifechanging experience -- for the better.

You seem to not be satisfied with working for a living. I can sympathize. That does not mean you need to totally reject working for a living: you can use it as a stepping stone to bigger and better things. A paycheck can support your wife and son while you do things on the nights and weekends.

Businesses do not magically spring up because of luck or money. They're built patiently by finding a customer, making something for the customer, and gradually improving it. If you've had a day job recently, you might have noticed something that is dissatisfying about that industry. Fix it. Sell it to one person. Repeat a lot, improving a bit at a time.

You don't have to vanish into the Batcave for 2 years and then emerge with a heartbreaking work of staggering genius only to find that no one actually wants to buy it. Make something small. Pitch it to folks who should want to buy it because it would solve problems for them. If they don't want to buy it, ask why they don't want to buy it. Iterate gradually.
Great! I love Opera, use it exclusively, and I wish it got a bigger market share.

Some things to love about Opera:

* Superb keyboard support including reaching any link on the page quickly
* Dragonfly
* Home/Office Sync
* Disable Images on a page immediately Shift+I
* Incremental vim-like find with "."
* List out all links on the given page (very useful for some threads)

This version looks really good. Private browsing at last! I can finally plan my vacations in private.
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Only problem - that ain't C. ;)
I haven't done any C programming for years, so correct me if I am wrong. IIRC main() is interpreted as int main() by some compilers.
OK, if Apple will release such an app... let's not start this topic. Instead, consider this example:

I've built a software that allows publishers to distribute their books on many devices at once: Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Sony Reader, etc. Do you think Apple and Amazon will allow me to release such apps for their devices? I doubt it. The only way left for me is to write it as a webapp. Such control is bad for free market in general.
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I guess nobody is counting on Excel(Office) users to be switching to the iPad, as well as businesses won't be switching their desktops to Mac. But you can bet you will look damn sexy if you present your service reporting to your clients on an iPad.
It's most definitely not a typical result. While I did put a lot of hard work into this, I think a lot of luck came my way with placing 3rd in the contest and getting featured.
It's difficult for someone that brilliant to understand that while the things he does may seem ordinary, they are far beyond the reach of the vast majority of human beings.

Right, so on the hand, he's brilliant and understand both things that are ordinary and things that are extraordinary, but when it comes to somewhat softer knowledge, suddenly his genius is a reason for him to not understand something. Luckily we have you to explain that to him and us...</below the waist, but you are really, really asking for it>

Tao is a genius that teaches other people how to do math and we may well assume that he understands what it requires. He has probably taught dozen of students and according to him, they could be people that score 120 on an IQ test and yet succeed at math.

Finally, if only geniuses could succeed at math, most Ph.D. students would not count as successful, despite advancing the science. You're redefining 'success' to suit your needs and you're doing the same thing with other facts: bending their ambiguity to support your thesis, instead of basing your thesis on a single interpretation of the facts.
fair point, I cheerfully withdraw my comment.
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If/When Apple reaches a majority on one of these markets, mobile?, the regulators will enforce them to behave properly. Although if it's really bad to free market they should be enforcing them earlier.

Regulation is hard.
I probably only just scrape into their concept demographic here but shouldn't we be?

I don't view increasing optimism as odd given that if all goes well, it won't be long before we're clearing out the last of the aged hubris running everything as it stands.

Then we'll be dealing with populations that are equally "socially liberal, technologically savvy and wildly optimistic" and finally able to take advantage of those facts to further our goals and those of humanity as a whole.

Is "economics be damned" and increasing optimism really that out there as an attitude when we're (in general, at least) more willing to accept alternative meanings of 'good' or 'happy' than any of our elders and this progress is nearing year by year? I wouldn't think so. And yes, I'm optimistic. Probably moreso every year...

(Edit: PS. I think this is more related to hacking than it seems. I think a lot of our tech savvy and liberal ideals are going to come into play and boost progress rates further. In particular imagine fields like biotech where barriers from aging ideals and prejudices will hopefully start to come down over those coming years)
Well for one thing, anonymity. If you are very free with your opinions on e.g. youtube, but use your real name with gmail it can be really annoying when a purchase fuses these two.
+1. At the risk of sounding too dramatic, it feels pretty evil to help Apple just because there are some profits to be made in apps; feels like helping a tyrannical dictatorship take over the world. I'd rather help some other simplified -but open- platform succeed.
...plan your vacations in private?
People always site multi-tasking as some huge problem when talking about the iPhone/iPad, but you use this kind of device differently than a computer. Everything you actually need multi-tasking for can be done some other way (e.g. timer actions to replace "services").
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Do you curse and swear if someone for fun shreds blank piece of paper that he found in your office?

It's all about value of property, effort to replace it and the disruption to operation. If they have redundancy in cabling all of this would be minor and shouldn't cause such strong reaction.
I had a long response to all of this drama typed out but in the end I decided to simplify it down to this:

What part of this, if any, is constructive to the startup community?
It's easy to dismiss things. It's much harder to try to imagine the possibilities and build things.

Reminds me of _why's quote:

"when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create."
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Indeed, turning sudoku into a SAT problem is how the Cryptol solution works (using the languages SAT checking tools) http://www.galois.com/blog/2009/03/18/solving-sudoku-using-c...
Say, that BuzzAware (http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/01/buzzaware-google-buzz-app-d...) is not a bad idea. Anyone want to build something similar (but different and better) with me using one of these names that I own?

http://BuzzConnect.me (available); http://BuzzFindr.com (available); http://BuzzLove.com (in use, but can re-purpose); http://BuzzPal.com (in use, but can re-purpose); http://BuzzPop.com (people are trying to buy this name); http://PopBuzz.com (and this one); http://LatinBuzz.com (and this one).

This is a build, monetize, sell kind of thing. No outside capital, which means team owns 100% of the equity, which means early and lower-priced exit can be profitable for all. Also means lower risk of this kind of blowout: http://bootstrappy.blogspot.com/2010/02/bootstrap-or-die-les...

Just send me a tweet or use my contact form http://buzzpal.com/contact. I'm a former venture investor and current web startup founder, adviser, and prospective seed investor. With this deal, we can structure it however we want and you can own a big chunk of equity (up to 50%, depending on what you bring to the table). This is me and some of what I bring to the table: http://www.linkedin.com/in/comella (I also bring seed capital).
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I hope the iPad will also turn into a music instrument.
Something in the direction of the reactable [1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgy1S8qymx0
The problem is that Google Accounts get really, really complicated the moment you start using Google Apps for your domain (which plenty of us do). Here's a good explanation of some of the issues involved:

http://www.equalsdrummond.name/?p=267

I'd love to be able to "just sign in with my Google Account", but Google need to do a lot of work to clean up the mess before it's that simple.
As someone who just barely makes the grade I’m optimistic but in all I think the Millennials are going to be one of the hardest generations to be a member of.

We’re going to preside over the difficult transition between what I’d deem a “Star Trek” world order where people work because they want to and no one goes hungry and the world we have now.

To elaborate the Millennials are going to be the first generation that has to deal with losing jobs to technology. Up until now technology has created as many jobs as it’s eliminated but as technology becomes both more powerful and more stable that ratio is going to shift. Jobs like factory workers, teachers, bankers, etc… are going to disappear and society will have to adjust to having more people than jobs (and figure out what to do about that).

Again, I think the eventual end result is good. As technology can do more we’ll eventually end up with a society where people can pursue what they love and let technology do most of the hard work we need people for now. But getting from where we are now to that future is going to be awkward as society has to decide how to deal with things like permanent unemployment.

Beyond that Millennials are going to be the generation that has to deal with all the awkward ethical questions that science fiction has been asking for years. Cloning, Genetic Manipulation, Climate Change, Bio Weapons, etc… are all going to drop on the Millennials plate. That’s a lot to deal with.

Anyway, as I said I’m optimistic but with an eye towards the enormous challenges that are ahead.
so it's a surprise I guess?
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1. I did forward the note to Loren, but I didn't think Loren would use it this way.

2. Loren shouldn't have and that was not cool.

3. Daniel has problems and needs to get help. I feel bad for him because doing something so extreme at a young age so publicly is, well, not good.

4. Good on the company who turned Daniel in and who confessed--that's brave. It was also really stupid and desperate to even consider, let alone promise, giving a laptop in return for a blog post. Honestly, if you're company doesn't get attention don't get desperate... just keep trying!

5. Bad on me for sending this to Loren. I honestly didn't even read the whole thing... I was like "oh here is an email from the dude who got extorted cool... " I actually didn't think it was that big of deal.

6. If you can do a story about Open Angel Forum on Thursday and get it to the top slot on HN I will gladly give you an Apple Tablet.

Anyway, I've got more important things to attend to at 1AM than Daniel extortion plot fall out.

peace and love,

jcal
For me opera never loaded pages as smoothly as firefox and chrome. Will try this.
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I just don't get why Opera doesn't allow clicking the few top pixels. It freaks me out when web browsers ignore Fitts' law.
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I did; what's the problem with my comment?

Just to add: lots of people also bet against bubbles at any point of time of the bubble. But they were forced out of business before the bubbles could even burst( "Market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"). Only a handful survived and we thought that they have special skills or magic formula.

You underestimate the element of luck in the world of investment.
I try to be optimistic that humanity will get its shit together enough to deal with the eye of the needle we're approaching. AI and molecular assembly are both ridiculously dangerous.
Correct.

Daniel wants to be treated like an adult when he is writing a story or claiming to be the stage manager at TechCrunch50 (uhhh.... no, he wasn't). Then he wants to be forgiven for a folly of youth when he extorts startups.

He's an adult, he f-ed up and he really never apologized correctly. "A line was crossed" is not an apology... he really should have said "I tried to extort thousands of dollars from companies in exchange for blogs posts and I betrayed the trust of the people who helped me most in my professional life: the TechCrunch team."
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On my terribly under powered netbook, it is by far the fastest browser. The only usable one, in fact.
"Simple" and "Easy" as a terms are overused
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We are on the same page. Our second app was a puzzle game that (we feel) is WAY better than some of the games they have featured right now. It's entertaining, endlessly playable, and has multiple levels of difficulty. It's a new puzzle game that nobody has really played before, but we're losing to games of much lower quality.

Plus, our downloads are very low, but I blame this on the fact that there's a single "Brain & Puzzle Game" category for EVERYTHING!

I could scroll for an hour and probably never see my game.

The "Just In" category was all that I had, now, I don't even see a way to get noticed at all after getting pushed out of there (which I did by someone who posted about 50 different crossword puzzle apps in one day)

Very frustrating, but I too am sticking with Android for the long haul.

I was thinking about trying to advertise with AdMob maybe - so our paid game shows up at the top of some other free games.
I think there is a big difference in your outlook based on where exactly in the generation you place. I'm 27. I have four younger siblings. The oldest three of us, plus one wife, are all gainfully employed and doing very, very well. The youngest two, who are right about to graduate, are looking at a sucky, sucky job market.

For the ~95% of 27 year old engineers who are currently employed today, the recession is not exactly backbreaking.
There is no reason that iPad software won't be as sophisticated as current desktop applications like Excel.

Yes there is. Apple seems pretty intent on keeping their policy of forbidding interpreters, plug-ins, virtual machines and the like. To really be as sophisticated as Excel, a program must include a scripting language and extension mechanism. That's not to say that a spreadsheet without those features isn't just as useful to most users, but it certainly isn't as sophisticated.

Apple may, of course ignore the rules it requires third-party developers to live under when building its own software.
Oh? What language is it? At first glance it looked like C.
even if its great it wont compete with apple.
This shit is crazy. I have the tabs vertically down the side with thumbnails inside and found an option to tile all of the open tabs on screen at once.

Edit: Found the Z1 glass theme, and the new tab is just a huge pane of glass on Windows.
I don't think the disappearance of the "made by actual people" team feel is accidental: AAA games these days aren't made by a smallish team of people that you can actually portray to the user. The user thinks they're made by giant faceless corporations because they are; there are literally hundreds of people, with multiple layers of management, who produce most modern AAA games. It's not like the System Shock team, or the mid-90s id team.
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There's also a video lecture at Stanford in which Knuth explains DLX. http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/seminars/knuth/000222-kn...
Rapture of the Nerds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

For me personally, it was graduating from college and realizing that unlike every other member of my graduating class, I did not have to get a job to function my own existence. I could do what I wanted to do and I'm doing it. That doesn't explain why everyone else is optimistic though...
what part did credit rating agencies like Moodys have to play in all this? They seem to have escaped from quite a lot of scrutiny in all of this...
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