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No, 3 of my 4 apps are paid, even though I'm not making a serious effort to make money. Why shouldn't they be? I don't mind making a little money.

Nobody said they shouldn't be. The point is 'serious effort' vs anything else is not readily measurable. This is something you say, rather than something you do. 'Trying to make money' vs 'Not trying to make money' is measurable - if you're not trying to make money, you don't charge. If you charge, you are obviously trying to make money, even if it's very little money.

Just because filtering the numbers to get useful results is infeasible doesn't mean we should pretend averages across the entire store mean anything for a person who sets out to build an app store oriented business.

The numbers are still useful, whatever their caveats and limitations. At the very least, they are more useful than non-numbers or numbers-that-ought-to-be-obtained-by-some-method-that-doesn't-actually-produce-measurable-numbers.

But the standards of science

I don't think there was any claim to reaching the 'standards of science'. It seems a little silly to bring them up, though - the author's sources and methods are well described. There's probably plenty of room to take issue there. But you can't trot out 'the standards of science' if your standard is some underivable set of data that just happens to support your viewpoint.
> As a pure consumer device, tablets - preferably slightly larger ones - are just begging for deployment as a family boardgame platform.

http://gametableapp.com/

A generic constrained board is interesting.
Thank you. I'm about to try drools (.net) myself.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnectpro/webconferenc...

According to this, it supports up to 80,000 participants.

Having looked around for a similar product, Adobe Connect Pro seems the smoothest so far. The Flash/Air install is fast and easy. I'm not completely in love with how the window ("pod") management works, but it's not the horrible suck that is WebEx.

Microsoft LiveMeeting is so so (better than WebEx IMO), supports hundreds of users, and is very cheap. But, it requires a big Windows client. Their Java client is lacking basic features, like VoIP.
I've used google voice for over 3 months, and have switched away from it.

My main goal was to replace my voicemail. I never check it (currently have 10 messages). Most of them are hang-up messages from my mom or family member, so I mostly ignore them. I almost never get useful voicemail. So. Google voice to the rescue.

First apparent problem (not so bad). The speach to text is horrible. Maybe 40% of the voicemail was correctly transcribed. maybe less. But never really useful. Ever. I only got the gist of if I should or should not listen to the voicemail, which really is good enough for me because it solved my voicemail problem.

Second hidden problem (maaaaaaaajor, the reason I quit): Calls are not instantly forwarded. This might sound like I am picky, but check this out: If for 3 out of 4 rings the call is being forwarded, I only realize someone is calling when they hang up. (this feature was necessary so that people calling my regular cell would immediately get my google voice voicemail vs my regular voicemail). Actually often the forwarding would be so slow that the person already got to voicemail by the time my cellphone rang. People mostly thought my cell was off.

So overall until their speeds SIGNIFICANTLY increase I can't use gv. And I am not even doing this as a business. So their little graph of how google voice revolutionizes telephony is kinda bs. Wait 5 years and the pudding will tell.

What is nice is if I DONT use my gv number, then I can switch away from it without problem. If people start only calling my gv phone number I will be trapped in the crappiness of google voice. I am glad they let me use my regular phone number vs gv phone number.
Your proposed solution to 2) will be illegal in the US in 2014. It will be illegal to turn patients away (even if they don't comply), and you can't charge the unhealthy patients significantly more than the healthy ones.
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I liked OpenID until I had to implement it for a site. Now I stay away from it (as a developer).

Everyone's OpenID is a bit different and I ended up with a lowest common denominator approach which was suboptimal in my opinion.
You could look to China as an example; a country that has re-entered the world economy fairly abruptly and is looking to acquire raw materials.

They might follow their lead and do deals with countries like Australia, Canada and Russia or they could just acquire stock in corps like BHP Billiton or BP.

So it would boil down to stock trades and board meetings.
Learn CodeIgniter or CakePHP, you'll be amazed at how quickly the sites come together after a couple months of learning, esp. when you're building from scratch. A site that took me two months in vanilla php can take 2 weeks in codeigniter. However, retrofitting a site that someone else made with those frameworks can be a frustrating experience, as everyone has their own quirks when learning frameworks. Retrofitting vanilla php couldn't be easier if it tried.
Fair enough, but I think the negative comments to which you are reacting are a backlash against a company that's already quite well-hyped (at least in the Valley). In other words, those comments are the balance -- to a tidal wave of Valley echo-chamber publicity.
AT&T Connect is the best I've used

http://www.business.att.com/enterprise/Service/unified-commu...
I, Pencil.
Because no one is any good at math.
I don't like the naming choice, too close to Google Chrome Browser + WebKit
It really is. One of my favourite movies. Highly recommended.
The question of whether math is invented or discovered is far from settled. I know next to nothing about math, but a quick google search for "math created or invented" brings up so much controversy I find it unlikely that it's been decided. See Mathematical Platonism and its Opposites by Barry Mazur (p. 19 in: http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/newsletter/pdf/2008-06-68.pdf). He says it's The Question that won't go away.
That's still vary pricy for a low end bulk micro controwler, still you can still do a lot with 128 bytes of RAM and 2k ROM.

Happy hacking ;)
Virtualization is changing IT, what will change business?
Check out https://www.readytalk.com/ ... I used it this morning and it was great.
Well, read the rest and see what it says.

NOTE: jbooth probably wrote his "nobody knows why" while I was adding to my initial draft of my posting that we actually do know a lot of why it happened.
From http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeSpiral.html :

This construction was first made by Polish-American mathematician Stanislaw Ulam (1909-1986) in 1963 while doodling during a boring talk at a scientific meeting.

Awesome. My new excuse for all those doodles in my engineering notebook: valuable, valuable mathematical research.
I would just send nanomachines to disassemble and process the materials and dismantle the planet according to my needs.

If I were a member of a space faring civilization many million years older than mankind, there is a huge chance I would regard humans as high as humans regard bacteria. Or insects.

You don't think twice before cleaning your floor with disinfectant, do you?
We had an extremely poor experience with goto webinar (I wasn't directly involved, I just heard about it second hand). Apparently the presentation was seriously disrupted by technical issues.
I am getting DoS'd. Got admins working on it now, I am guessing someone didn't like my post lol.
Yes, and beyond.

I just did a joint webinar with 100 attendees over my Verizon USB dongle on GTM. Worked great.
I think I agree with you, as long as what you mean is: "they are evading the fact that the only way to actually manipulate the market is through government policy."
This is a market that is ripe for innovation. The large incumbents are very expensive and offer an experience that borders on abuse.

My company has about a half-dozen heavy users and we spend more than $300 per month on this junk. A lighter-weight $20/month solution could do very well I think. Here would be my feature list:

* Cross-platform HTML5, not a java plugin or Flash

* Cope with multiple screens and very high screen resolutions for presenters (so viewers on crappy hardware don't suffer)

* Simple interface. Nothing but "share screen" and "invite participant." No chat, surveys, hand raising or other cruft.

You would also want to support corporate pricing as a lot of users are at big cos.
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Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad.
It does far less but for simple screen sharing and confereces, Skype's free service has worked beautifully for small meetings, though I know you're looking for something that supports bigger audiences.
And, being the firmware source closed, you trust, without any means to verify it, when someone with an interest in this matter tells you, that, despite the nearly identical specs (same amount of memory, same processor), revision 1 can't run the software that revision 1a can.

Given no evidence to support the contrary position, yes I find that plausible.

The only difference between a rev1 iPhone and a 3G iPhone is the cell radio.

And the GPS. And the compass. And the looks. And the standby battery life. And the requirement for a newer version of iTunes.[1] And the iPhone 2G came in a 4Gb version.

1) Just because the CPU is the same, doesn't mean the internals are the same through and through.

2) Just because the hardware appears identical at a component level does not mean there are no technical limitations. There could be arbitrary design limits in what they can upgrade (e.g. baseband firmware) or what they can reliably upgrade remotely.

"The appearance of the iPhone 3G is almost identical to that of the 2G model. However, its inside, including the parts layout, is totally different. We could see that assembly workability was improved and some measures were taken to reduce the mounting area as well as parts costs."
- http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20090114/164030...

What's that? In the two years between the iPhone and the iPhone 3G they redesigned the insides? But but but if I believe the pictures I'm just buying into Apple's lies. This must be a fake!

But what's this? http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20090114/164030...

Some of the components are different part numbers or made by different companies entirely?

OK OK so they may have spent a year or so redesigning, made changes, layout changes, component changes, but they DIDN'T CHANGE THE CPU so IT MUST BE IDENTICAL because if it wasn't they wouldn't be able to run iOS 4 on it and they ... erm ... can because I say so.

They are different phones with different features designed at different times with different internal layouts and different components. We have the fact that they didn't release iOS 4 for it, and we have the official company words that they aren't supporting all features on iPhone 3G because the hardware isn't up to providing the multitasking experience they want to give, and that they aren't supporting iPod touch 1G because the hardware just isn't up to it.

If you want to claim the 2G is up to it, then the burden of proof is on you to offer some more compelling evidence than shrill cries of 'pure greed', assertions that the hardware is identical when it isn't, and personal insults calling people gullible.

Myself, I've worked with computers and software long enough to know that an arbitrary reason stopping me from doing something which seems possible at a glance is very common.

[1] http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/specials/en/2...
That is true, but that is exactly my point.

If you choose to use a product like Wordpress, then you should also accept the maintenance that goes with that choice, tedious and annoying though it may be.

Installing a product, running a business on it, but ignoring patches and updates is flat out unprofessional.
If I were you, I'd get a motorcycle. Riding between lanes is legal in California; in traffic you would be cruising between still cars and thus saving precious time :)
Jebus, I never noticed that. Thanks!
Thanks! I was not aware of that.
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I used to think the same way. I'm very anti-DRM; I tend not to buy any products with DRM.

But for books? I just really do not care. I used to save every book I bought, and for what purpose? Apart from a few reference works, I almost never re-read a book.

It's a $10 spend, I'll read it in a week/month, and quite frankly, I don't mind throwing it away after that. Topping it off, Amazon has the best customer support I've ever experienced. I bought a couple of Kindles, broke one, returned it - got a new Kindle overnight plus a refund from just one email to support. I actually had to call them to let them know they didn't owe me a refund!

I know this apathy towards DRM is harmful. It's the same apathy that leads to disgusting locked down and censored systems like the stuff from Apple (and WinPhone7). I don't put up with it on my phone (unlocked N1), I refuse to get any iPads, etc. -- but just acting as a consumer that wants to read eBooks, Kindle is nothing short of perfect.
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No, I would not have worked for the Nazi government, thank you very much. Hundreds of high-caliber scientists and engineers chose to avoid working for the Nazis or the Fascists and fled elsewhere.

But the point is you can't for certain say that (statistically you probably would have ended up doing it, or be dead, one of the two). Who knows if we'd have seen it coming in time, or been privileged enough to get out, or not made a decision to stay and try to protect your people, etc. Hundreds of thousands did work and fight beneath the Nazi government (some by choice, some by default). At what point do you stop being a victim and it turns into making a morally wrong choice?

EDIT: it's worth pointing out that we can assume any rational man with a knowledge of history would choose to run for it. But that's cheating :)

It's hard to make an outright judgement on this guy. I agree he made a very wrong choice to stick with the Nazi's - but we do not know how he viewed things, what he saw etc. Partly because we were not there (generally, at the time) and partly because he doesn't seem to have told anyone his decisions/feelings (that I can find).

And this is my gripe; discussing the fact he made a choice (that we consider poor) to work for the Nazi government is one thing. But the insinuation was much wider than that; and that is very wrong :) The implication is that he was on-board with the sick things that they did; and that is disingenuous (my gf just pointed out that a modern equivalent could be saying a Mr Joe Bloggs, by working in a US science lab, is in support of the Guantanamo Bay detentions).

One of my German friends made a very important point to me once. Which is basically that it is easy to forget that the Nazi's were an elected government prior to the war - and that they were viewed quite positively for a short while. The descent into war was swift (as these things go) and pretty brutal. It's easy to sit here and make claims about what we would have done, or judge those working for the government but really it's bunk to do so. He also points out that there was a distinct difference between the Nazi government and the Nazi party - the problem was they shared the same crazed leadership.

(interesting discussion btw)
I'm also curious as to what you wanted to see. When I picked up my friend's iPad (a month or two ago) I struggled to find a good finance app that actually gave good charting and numbers for stock market options and commodity futures. I know I'm not the only one who would be interested in that AND I know that those of us who are have fairly deep pockets.
For more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithmet...

I agree that some mathematical objects are "more fundamental than others"; primes are probably among the most basic.

If you're interested in the ontological status of mathematical entities, and the process and meaning of mathematics, check out "The Mathematical Experience" by Davis and Hersh,

http://books.google.com/books?id=lMdz84dWNnAC&printsec=f...

There is a section on primes starting on page 209.
A few days ago I declared Quora to be Yahoo! Answers for grown ups. I stand by that definition.
I don't know if we can buy this from their website. I contacted one of the authorized distributor agent. She said she is going to find details and let me know. I am very excited with the price and ready to buy
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People prefer to download random bods CVs rather than view them?
I skimmed the rest of the excerpt on Volokh.

It seems like this judge is playing politics. He's not an engineer. He's not supposed to be ruling on policy, just on legality. And yeah, the report the administration sent to him sounds sloppy -- that's more of a reason to be cautious for a few months while they get their house in order.

"You must prove imminent danger beyond a reasonable doubt before I let you take cautionary measures" is a sort of ridiculous position to take.

EDIT: Regarding your addendum to your previous comment: "we can have a reasonable expectation that other drillers will pay sufficient attention to all this and avoid another nasty blowout anytime soon." -- I see absolutely no reason to assume this to be the case. Do you see them voluntarily stopping drilling and auditing all of their processes to make sure they're ok? Probably not, right? So stuff's gonna continue the same as before.
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This project should give Apple a slap in the face. Banning desktop-like apps will be impossible with this. I applaud you!
I agree that ChromeKit (or whatever you will be calling it) should be used with care as to not become bothersome. I wish you luck in your endeavors.
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Well if one of his primary reasons for going back was that he doesn't like schema-less databases, then it's a fair thing to say that Mongo was never the right choice.

Of course he may have needed to do this project to discover that.
Sorry, but both of these stats are bullshit.
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£18,000 is pittance - you should get more than that just for reading Hacker News!

Apply for a junior position at a more interesting company if it's the only job around. It's the same or possibly more money so who cares?!

Check out things like NMA Top 100 [1], Times Tech Track [2] etc. to try and scout around potentially interesting companies in the area.

[1] http://top100.nma.co.uk - you have to register but it's free.
[2] http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack/leagues/tech100suppleme...
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Use+Cases

The author's project requirements list transaction support. Meanwhile, MongoDB explicitly mentions it is not suited for transactional systems.

I agree, he needed an SQL db from the beginning.
I like how the name is much clumsier to say correctly than the fun way.
HD5: Top 5 Hacker Events This Week
We've been trying out this new post called the HD5 using the data from StartupDigest to list and rank the top 5 events from all of the cities and categories we cover.

Here are the hacker focused events, let me know what you think!
I asked them this exact question a couple of weeks ago. Sachin actually answered himself and said they can't maintain old urls for now but are working on it.
Not coloring all the odds, just plotting only odds and still coloring only the primes. The new spiral has a 3 where the old two was and a 5 where the old three was, etc.
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I've never used WebEx, but GoToMeeting is horrible. Their app/plugin re-downloads EVERY meeting, certain clients of mine behind firewalls can't use it, etc. They are the perfect example of dinosaur screenshare technology.
Why would records disappear?
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Most of the world's population would be happy just to have food and clean water. That doesn't make me feel guilty about wanting to work hard to get more than I already have.
I'd bite the bullet on schema-less, if it were stable.
Thanks for the tl;dr, I'm left wondering about the state of the software to actually program and deploy code to the device though. From what I saw on HackADay, it appears the two supported IDEs are Windows only (utterly unacceptable, for me). (I know, the gcc port is there, but it's pretty incomplete, from my understanding)

Rule #1 of embedded development is you develop with the tools you have, not the tools you wish you had.

Get a Windows box, or deal with gcc (and ideally help out the developers if it's still got some shortcomings.)
Introverts, remember. The fun is making the app, seeing it with a price tag on it is just a bonus. And it's so easy to put a price tag on, there's no reason not to. It might even cover the developer fees.
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Are you able to forward to your French number(s)?
When I sent an SMS to a GV number, and it was forwarded to their iPhone, they saw a number other than mine as the sender. Is this an inherent limitation of the service?
It seems to me that formal Arabic (in its classical and modern varieties) plays the same role in the Arab world that Latin used to play in Europe.
Windows Vista sells nearly 40 million licenses in the first 100 days (http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/microsoft-vista-sells-nea...).

This is an operating system which received a strong negative reaction from many in the (non-Microsoft-worshiping) tech press. It just goes to show you how out of touch many of them are with what really excites users.
mdolon - I completely understand where you are coming from - having been in that situation myself many times. Being a developer, I am planning to have this completely open - download your data at any time, either via REST APIs or a full export.
Even if these numbers are accurate, who cares? Get ready for a shock; men and women are different. We think differently, act differently, and like different things. Why is that bad?
If I remember correctly, Mongo batches up writes to disk, and if something goes wrong before that happens, you could lose data. Master/slave setup stuff is the prevention tool of choice.

But I'm not 100% sure. Can anyone more familiar with Mongo internals confirm?
My company is looking at 1-4% for our first employee. We have the technical chops, so this hire will be a serious expert in our core business. Equity will vary in that range (for us) depending on salary and effort level requirements.
That TPB indexes some legal content does not change that the TPB's reason for existence is piracy.

You shouldn't need me to explain why The Pirate Bay exists for piracy. If you do, I suggest we end this conversation.
I'm actually quite excited about this and have been waiting for it for 5 years.

I think Skype Kit can bring a lot of innovation to software and create a much bigger ecosystem around their network
Nice write-up, and a good compliment to the other one linked in this thread.
Yours gave a great description of atmosphere/ vibe/ social tone.