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What about writing a dtp package in arm assembler? My first job, check out:

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Lol. Looking at those dialogs brings it back. I probably laid most of those suckers out.
find another person that's both.
The quality/competitiveness of Apple's mid-1990s computers is subjective and invariably turns into a back-and-forth.

However, Windows 95 demolished Apple's profit margins, and that's what counts.
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Does iOS 4 tell you how many characters your SMS contains? Mine doesn't.
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>Office 2007 was a pretty good redesign of the suite, but Office 2010 doesn't seem to have raised the bar much.

I don't know if you use Outlook (I'm guessing not) but Outlook 2010's handling of threading makes it a huge improvement over 2007, IMO.
Cool, I didn't know that. I though the Safari version did de-pagination as well, which readability doesn't, I don't think? Wonder if they'll contribute back? Anyone know what license Readability is under - I couldn't see it on the page: http://lab.arc90.com/2009/03/02/readability/
My bad. Trying to be cute. Let me actually attempt to give a little evidence, since you claim to have none.

First, if you think MS has no core competency or that software is not one of them, then we could end the discussion right here.

But otherwise, it seems clear to me that mobile OS software is among their core competencies.

I start with the premise that operating systems are one of their core competencies. They have sold more units of OSes than any other company (or among the top 3). They employ probably the most renowned set of OS experts (David Cutler, of Vax VMS and NT fame. Rick Rashid, who did mach, the kernel that OS X is built on, Butler Lampson and Chuck Thacker, Turing Award winner for their work in operating system. Leslie Lamport, etc...).

Now you may say, "but they have no experience with mobile OSes". Except they were one of the first companies to do a mobile phone operating system. They also do operating systems for kiosks, embedded systems, and of course desktops and servers.

And while Windows Mobile is not a popular OS, the reason is not the OS itself. It's the shell that is problematic. The underlying OS is solid, and is being used in Windows Phone 7. They need a new shell and app deployment model, but they aren't going in and ripping out the kernel. And from people who have used it, they say the OS in WP7 is snappy.

IMO the company has 3 core competencies: OSes, Dev Tools, and Business Productivity sw. They have some secondary ones: Online Services and Video Gaming.

In summary, I think for them to give up in a space where they've actually produced a solid code base over the past decade, just when the space is now showing it can generate profit seems absurd.
Scraping real scientific data from journal articles/headlines published in PubMed would be a lot more interesting and noteworthy.

Not to mention "causing cancer" is a bit of a misnomer. Cancer typically arises when genetic mutations cause a cell to exhibit uncontrolled and sustained division. Our cells experience thousands of mutations a day, most of which are fixed. Some of these inanimate objects may upon being metabolized or coming into contact with a cell, cause mutations. With more mutations, you are at a higher risk for one to go unrepaired and lead to something other than cell death. Colloquially, I understand we refer to certain things as causing cancer but I think the idea of grouping everything into discrete boxes isn't really something worth pursuing in this case.
Just a variation on the "single founders don't work" argument. Sure, it doesn't usually work, but it does with the right single founder, even if it's not that often. I don't see any new arguments here.

I've been a single founder twice and done just fine (by my standards), but investing in startups with two+ founders is definitely safer if you're the person putting the money on the table. If I had money, I would certainly be reluctant to invest in a single-founder startup, regardless of my own personal experience.

I don't understand why there's a need to take sides one way or another. It's all shades of grey, just like almost everything. No need to make it black or white.
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MUTO was a previous piece by the same artist which was very popular also. Painted on public walls in Buenos Aires:

http://vimeo.com/993998
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Upvote for the funny title :)
Arq looks nice. I wasn't able to digest the (S3) pricing table, but all in all it leaves a favourable impression of a well-designed and well thought out program.
I think they still have a shot in mobile simply because there isn't as big of a barrier in switching platforms. Moving from iPhone to Android to WM7 might end up costing the average person $50 in apps over a period of years. One really good WM7 handset could totally change the market.

Personally I see the Android market is on track for much less diversity in the future. HTC and Motorola seem to be the only companies doing a really good job with Android. The big problem with Android is your handset maker can cut corners and give you a terrible product. Google doesn't do a whole lot to support OEMs besides a link to the source code and words of encouragement. Microsoft has lots of experience as an OEM software partner. The license fee may end up being a reasonable price for handset makers to pay to avoid some of the difficulty of developing an Android device.
We took what you're used to... and flipped it around! Did I just blow your mind??
What is this "trivial peer-to-peer connectivity" exactly?
At $149, it is more expensive than many Mini-ITX boards with a 1.66MHz dual core Atom, which come with quite a bit more on board peripherals (SATA, 7.1 audio and the like). Once you add RAM the price difference narrows (or even reverses if you put more than 1GB, which you couldn't do withe the BeagleBoard), but you get quite a bit more power and flexibility at a comparable price.
The trend started in 1961 eh? ...

Hippies...
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SVC is pretty impressive.
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/virtualizatio...

And the Power7 chips look impressive..

IBM's "problem" is that they don't do consumer stuff.. So they can get slagged off as inventing nothing worthwhile since 1981 - because they don't make shiny toys like the iphone..
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Or the key dreamer decided that "what's next" was to cure the world of malaria.
I'm 13 minutes into it and I can tell you, it's going to be a long night.
An analogy with natural languages may be useful: there are no languages without syntax, i.e. no completely visual (ideographic) ones, except for simplistic signage domains, e.g. signs in airports, traffic signs, etc. The reason for this is: if you push aside syntax, there is very little expressive power left in a language. The prog lang space mirrors this behavior well, I think: you have very specialized languages, like kudo, but developing a visual language with enough expressive power to be general is very hard, not to say impossible.

I didn't understand your point about a "programming environment"
What if the words in your language looked like 'thcobjk'?
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A lot of open source software has started by blatantly copying the design or concepts of a commercial product, but then they have later diverged from the original source of inspiration to have a few original ideas of their own. A couple of examples: OpenOffice, RhythmBox, Freeciv.
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this statement proved Gruber is an Complete Idiot of first order if he even cites 503 to be sales number.

+ ppl who comment without pointing this out are complete idiots as well
From memory, committing to the database involves both saving and closing the connection. So when you get back to the unit test, there's no database connection.

Maybe there's a way to do it properly within SQLAlchemy, but if so it's completely non-obvious from a few days of searching the web, Pylons documentation, Pylons book, mailing list, etc.. I wasn't trying to do anything fancy, just set up a very basic unit test.

Here's one of my old comments with some more detail:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1176948
"Instance <Foo at 0x103779f90> is not bound to a Session" was the error that I was getting.
I would also agree that it's not their core competency. Four to five years is a terrible product response time from a company with an existing codebase and the financial means to improve it. Apple/RIM/Google ate their lunch because they sucked at mobile products.
Find a way to deliver 85% of the Kin functionality without a monthly fee, or with a monthly fee with a cheap device, and you could sell to tweens and grade-schoolers.
As a crazy random thought, wouldn't '@' work well as an alternative to the asterisk to dereference pointers? It's available, it's ASCII, it's pronounced "at" which seems to jive with pointer semantics, and it's not used in C-like languages.

Just a very quick thought after reading Mr Pike's closing words that the use of the asterisk for pointers makes the syntax a bit clumsier than they would have wished.
tl;dr version: you need a strong technical person and a strong marketing person. There's absolutely nothing new in this article - he's just applying fancy labels to something most people already take as true.

I also object to his usage of the word Hacker. His definition is all over the place:

A Hacker is more than a code monkey, who can quickly build software and find interesting ways to hack together code. Thats a developer. Thats someone who is definitely an important part of a startup, but not critical to its success. A Hacker is someone who looks the problem, and solves it in a unique and special way. A Hacker finds the process of problem solving exciting and interesting, and spends the majority of their time looking at the problem in multiple ways, finding many potential solutions.

Often the Hacker is a coder, but not always the best coder you have on your team. Nate and Natty, of Everlater, are decent coders at best. In the last couple of years, they have taught themselves, by trial and error, how to code. I would imagine if you asked either one of them if they considered themselves amazing developers, they would probably indicate otherwise. But as Hackers? They are amazing.

I have no idea what he's trying to say. His definition, summarized:

a) A hacker is not just a programmer.

b) Sometimes a hacker is a coder, sometimes he is not.

c) If he is a coder, he may not be the best coder in your team.

d) A hacker looks for creative and cool solutions to problems.

e) A hacker is excited by problem solving.

Uh ... what's your point?
right, i used the wrong article. "a" instead of "the". point being, metacity/gtk-window-decorator by default use "a" bold font for the title bar and therefore is either a) not finished b) not it.
"One person can not do it all. Its really that simple."

Not justifying points like these is a really weak start to the post. Makes it hard to take the rest of it seriously.
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S3 pricing is confusing. It boils down to this: $.10/GB per month for storage, plus an insignificant amount of transaction costs;

After Nov 1, data transfer to S3 will be $.10 per GB;

Restores (data transfer from S3) are $.10 per GB (1 GB data transfer from S3 free per month).
These kind of arguments lead to nowhere. The reason? There are no fundamental rights whatsoever. There is no such thing as a right to life, liberty, happiness, property or any of that bullcrap. All rights are artificially created. (Not that I'm against that.)
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Drawing tablets, I imagine.
in essence: Apple has become the Amazon of native mobile apps. brilliant move, business-wise.
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The range of products offered by Microsoft is huge. Multiple versions of OS, Office, VS and various websites.
Yeah, Riak was suspiciously absent from the choices ... That's the one I like the best at the moment.
No, I'm arguing that track record is not always a good predictor of product quality. Very different statements.
I don't think that model of viewing is that compelling- first of all because the channels are all kind of narrowly themed, second of all, it really is mostly junk... first page for most subscribed and most viewed channels? mostannoyingorange... case closed....

also, they don't cycle through the videos automatically (i.e., it's not passive) -from one video to the next, how do you find other content to watch? Most of the other videos I end up clicking on turn out to be video responses and stuff like that.... I think this part of the youtube UX is pretty broken if you're just browsing videos. Even if it was active you would want to be able to click through to another video you want to see, but it doesn't work this way.

I don't doubt that youtube is making money from their ads, but I was just suggesting if they were to pay someone to curate their content they could still make money from it.
On top of that, most pages with a functioning search get recognized by Chrome, so for example if I type "e" and hit tab, Chrome lets me search "en.wikipedia.org".
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You mean a wonderful biasing effect. Once you start worrying about something as important as paying your bills, your opinions will be strongly biased towards a world-model that make it easier for you to do so.
Would be lower since they only handle payments, and don't have to manage distribution, infrastructure and a bunch of services around the product itself, not just its sale and billing.
Ask HN: Cheap VPS for python script cron/mysql server?
http://prgmr.com/ seems to be out of space again.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a good VPS? I simply need it for a python cron job and mysql server.

Thanks!
Google Voice does VM-to-text synthesis, but I don't think it's behavior is along the exact lines of what you described.
If you can really do both, then there isn't much point in listening to people when they tell you you can't do it.
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I am certainly both. What I have found is working really well for me is to have a co-founder who is a 'developer work horse' who takes care of most of the real development and finishes off the products. This frees me up to solve the major technical problems and do the 'sales'. I would say we work about equal amounts, just doing different tasks.

Even though my tasks were the ones mentioned in this article, I know I would not be anywhere without my co-founder and I know I am not any more important to the company than she is.

I guess then it would by my quick and unthought-out opinion that start-ups need three components, problem solving, sales and a lot of work! And that the work is at least equal to the value of problem solving and sales put together.
Here's something I've been meaning to ask someone: are there patterns that can "survive" in some degree of random static in a GoL board? As in, are there spaceships which can fly through other patterns on the board (either leaving behind other patterns, or acting as an "eraser")? Note that they don't necessarily have to "survive" in emptiness.
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> silly oversimplification that has high correlation with modern republicans

I tried to downvote your post because of this line, but I ended up mis-clicking and upvoting, so I might as well explain myself.

I am not a Republican, I am an independent. This holier-and-smarter-than-thou attitude that seems to be mestastisizing needs to stop. Please argue your point with facts and reason, not with a "it sympathizes with viewpoint [X] and is therefore invalid." Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, and Conservatives are all guilty of this, but here on the West Coast (where the Hacker News audience predominantly resides) there is a sort of reflexive superiority complex which seems to have developed especially acutely in those on the left side of the political spectrum, in which there is little hesitation, even outside of overtly political forums, to announce that certain views are wrong simply Republicans subscribe to them as well... And of course we all know that Republicans are all about the blunt-force, black-and-white simple-minded thinking, as opposed to subtle, sophisticated, and nuance-loving Democrats.

Sorry, I'll cut my rant off early. I hope my point got across without offending anyone.
I'm too happy with Linode VPS to even describe how happy I am :) Even the smallest VPS packs plenty of power
A thief could still very easily brute force your password if you actually follow the instructions on the card. I suppose you could get creative with how you interpret the card.

Security is tricky.
It is also a total PITA to get 'booted' since it comes blank you need to mkfs a sd card. if you have linux on a computer already, this is pretty easy. but what if you dont have a linux machine ready to go? if you're me you spend 2 days trying to maneuver something, giving up and borrowing a laptop. I've had an easier time getting freebsd onto a Mac SE/30!

In the end what i really wanted to do is use the S-Video port on the BB and after much googling, determined that there was no driver, no easy way to do it and i was basically SOL especially without onboard ethernet/wifi.

The BB is a great embedded SBC, it completely slaughters the (hopefully now completely dead) PC104 but right now I'm tinkering with a Chumby: Its not nearly as powerful but for $110 you get a full retail package, LCD, composite video out, speaker, wifi, & power adapter. In 2 seconds i was ssh'ed in and porting SDL-based graphical apps with ease.
This would be kind of annoying to pick that card every time I want to enter a password.. no?

I Like To Take The First Word Of Easy To Remember Sentences. (iltttfwoetrs) and put some random i->1 and a->@ and o->0.

This way, it's fairly secure and easy to remember.
http://youtube.com/realannoyingorange is hilarious, just ask one of his one million fans... case closed...

And YouTube isn't the only ones making money from this, the video creators are actually making 10-30K a month. From my experience working in this space curated videos will never draw as much of a following as individual video creators.

I was thinking about passive video watching today and the thing is I don't think that will ever really take off on the Internet. People are too busy when they are online, and sitting back and consuming content does not deliver the same 'buzz' as switching quickly from one topic to another. Our start-up delivers video content to users from Channels they love, intermittently throughout the day through Facebook/Email/phones, etc. This seems to be a much more realistic future for video content on the web. It seems to fit much more naturally into the experience of being online, than the idea that a user will sudden stopping 'browsing' and start leaning back. IMHO Leaning back in general may be dying.

You should really try to find a YouTube channel you like and start following along. Unless you do you will never really understand where (I believe) the future of video is going. If you didn't like my previous selection, try this guy he is great: http://www.youtube.com/user/KassemG
Agreed, Linode is the best price/performance I've found.
- They charge for bank integration.

- The only good version is on Windows. It's the only app I run on Windows.

- The data entry is slow and error prone. Unbelievably so, for an app centered around data entry.
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Maybe, but agree that if a thief find this "weird" cards by taking your wallet, the chance that he find what it means.. and to actually find a way to brute force is really low.

Compare that to a plain paper with a password written on it!

But yes.. security is all about trade of.
If only this were an option!
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We are using Redis as well. The C code is small, compilable anywhere, and has very small memory footprint when started fresh.

Redis has replaced Sphinx as our tag indexer (thanks to its ordered sort) for more than 2 months now. It has never been down.

Backup procedure is the same as our MySQL's, tgz the .rdb file to S3 daily.
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Both Linode and Slicehost have good service, support and pricing.
Ask HN: Legalese for contracting out startup development
I need to contract out development of an iPhone app to a hacker, whom I intend to pay in cash. Is there standard legalese that I should get him to sign so that I am protected from the possibility that he runs off with the app and sells it himself? I know I am being paranoid, but at this point I am clueless.
> The correct way to accomplish 'Off' is 'Pause' followed by 'now wait a while' --which I consider an extremely clumsy move on Apple's part (not the behaviour, which is fine once you discover it, but how un-, and even counter-, intuitive it is).

But that wouldn't be "off", that would be "hibernate". Which is what you want most of the time.

Off would be a complete power off, and it makes sense that the device's state is not saved to NAND (because most people won't ever need that). The configuration wasn't changed was it?

It's the same with e.g. an iPhone, a quick tap of the power button shuts down the screen, a long tap completely shuts off the device. Most people never ever need to completely shut it off.
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Very confusing at first, and it seems impossible to share videos. But I like the idea.
What do you mean, with tweaked properly? Tweaked by developer oder user?
BTW I think the droid fonts and dejaWeb look fucking awesome on my loptop. Much better than the fonts on my Windows maschine at work
Wow, thanks for clearing that up! I'm really in that position right now, great to hear that from you.
Frontend and backend are different skill sets and proficiencies. Backend is more analytic, frontend is more aesthetic. I've never worked at a company that didn't have this distinction; people tend to naturally go one way or the other.