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I picked one up on launch day and I seriously think all these "problems" are no big deal. Yes, if you intentionally place your hand over a particular spot on the phone you lose signal strength, but in my experience, it takes a deliberate effort to reproduce, so who cares? It's kind of like saying "gee... every time I throw my phone in the bathtub, it doesn't work." Just don't throw it in the bathtub and you're fine!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LkusicUL2s
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Thanks for the correction. Bowline looks super cool. I'm going to have to spend some time digging into it.
Isn't draft a bare-bones sketching/wireframing tool? This seems to be a task manager.
OT, but how far back in your youth can you remember? I ask this because I described my earliest memory to my mother and she confirmed that at that time I must have been no more than 18 months old. It was an apartment we lived in during a brief period of separation from my father, when she went AWOL with me, and she swore she never told anyone where we have been for those few weeks.

I also remember a day when my brother took me on his motorcycle because I was sitting on the gas tank and it burned my thighs. Turns out my brother left for the U.S. when I was 2 years old.

My aunt has letters I wrote to her when I was 4, and those I remember like it was yesterday. The first letter has punctures in it because it was the day I found out that you couldn't write a letter on the carpet, and needed a hard surface behind it to keep the pencil from puncturing it.
This looks awesome - solves a lot of deployment issues for sites that only need lightweight CRUD operations.
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It's $379 actually, they just introduced a slightly updated version.
Odd choice for a headline, then.

As it happens, nobody that I know personally cares about turn-by-turn navigation at all. I probably use that capability twice a year just for shits and giggles. A marginally better turn-by-turn implementation would have no impact for me or anyone I know, but that's because there's nothing terribly complex about navigating around my region.

It also happens that the display resolution on the latest iPhone was a major selling point for me, as I end up doing a lot of reading on my phone for the simple fact that I read a lot and it's always with me when I have those random, spare minutes throughout the day where I have nothing else to do but kill time. I just want the internet in my pocket, and not to strain my eyes.

I suspect I'm not alone in my priorities. Did you really not suspect that there are people out there who are dissimilar from you?
I was surprised to read this, but can't seem to reproduce the problem... submit a bug report?
To be fair, the iPad is the magical and revolutionary product, not the iPhone. The iPhone just changes everything. Again.
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Yeah, when I got the 4, I couldn't reproduce the problem at work, but I have a strong signal there. At home, I can set the phone down and it gets four bars. If I cover the bottom gaps, it will drop to "Searching..." in about 30 seconds. Touching the rest of the case will take it to one bar - pretty much unusable. I had similar problems with the 3GS, they just weren't as bad. I'm still glad I bought it, my biggest beef is that I can't just bitch about AT&T's coverage any more.
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It's a real issue, but it only manifests itself in areas of low signal strength. I can get my phone to go to No Signal just by holding it at home, but at the coffee shop I frequently work from, I cannot reproduce it. My guess is that for all the bitching we tend to do about AT&T, they might actually have pretty decent coverage in general and it's only the people with homes or offices in the lower-power zones on the fringes of a cell's coverage area that see the problem.
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Of course, much of the world's elite understand exactly what they're doing: i.e., use the economic catastrophe they themselves created as a pretext to kill the welfare state they've despised for 65 years.

Lost me there. Pure conjecture. If you're not one of the world's elite, you have no idea what their intent is, or even if they are truly coordinated, Bilderburgs notwithstanding.

For example, there is another suspicion that the banking elite uses bubbles and busts to drive down prices and then buy up productive assets on the cheap, and that welfare systems keep large segments of the populace dependent on government and under some measure of control. In which case, why would they try to destroy that system?

So which is it? All? None? Nobody knows. All I know is, if I wanted credibility for my economic analysis blog post, I wouldn't assert privileged understanding of the intent of the world's elite unless I actually was one (and maybe not even then).
I wasn't. I really think ranking 8th and her doubles career was amazing (consider also who else was active at the time). Most of the female player, if they look any good, model these days. Most have such a short amount of time to make the money. She actually has back problems, and I amazed she does the marathons with the pain.

That being said, she did get beat-up pretty badly by ESPN. Heck, some of the anchors seemed to take pleasure in it (one of the reasons I don't watch them anymore). It just seems, in a lot of people's eyes, ESPN's perception is what they take for reality. How do you fix or prevent this type of thing from happening?
The Droid 2 will have fairly similar hardware, so the unofficial Droid roms will just have the Market app say it's running on the Droid 2.
You know what makes a drug dealer successful? He doesn't use his own product, and so he can be ignorant to the problems the product has/causes while he markets, deals, and benefits.

Granted it says "Sent from an Iphone" but that could be an auto signature.
Out of curiosity, is there a karma threshold for downvoting stories, or is downvoting stories not enabled on hackernews at all? I don't think this piece adds anything to hackernews other than more flamebait, but I'm hesitant to flag it since it's not spam.
This whole "thing" is just ridiculous, it makes me laugh.. its all talk & bs. Every AT&T iPhone owner out there has/does experience really poor network service since the iPhone launched back in 07, yet, some still complain, rage, blog, create class actions lawsuits about the antennae issue on the new iPhone, but disregard the crappy service for years?? I'm not saying to sue AT&T, but to look at the bigger picture. Quit complaining, it's an amazing device, and I'm sure the issue will be resolved soon, remember - everyone at apple uses the phone too, its not some fly-by device just to make money, but to actually make life easier, to have a device that really represents innovation, that's why apple created the iPhone, "they" were sick of using the crap on the market, and now what? Everyone smartphone resembles the iPhone in some form or another...get over it, soon everyone will have an iPhone 4, just like the first gen, and iPods. No need to get mad, or rage - address your issues, and I'm sure apple will take care of it, eventually :)
Thanks for that writeup. That's the information I needed to make an informed decision. However, I'm really not convinced to lay out the money. Let me explain why.

You're in the same boat as a lot of other iPhone app marketing--spend more than you take in, hope you make it up somewhere. The problem is, there are a lot of much better ways to throw away app licenses:

* Giving promo codes to bloggers, who are definitely influencers and costs me nothing for the first 50.

* Just gift apps to people myself, which is 25% cheaper, and I have direct control over who the people are, so I have firsthand experience that they're movers & shakers

So really you're going to have to convince me: first, that giving away licenses is a good idea and second, that paying you to give away licenses is better than doing it myself. This means you're going to need really stellar users who are better evangelizers than my friends & family, who care about the product mostly because they care about me.

That's going to be an uphill battle, to say the least.

One thing that might help you is a couple of testimonials or success stories from other developers. Find a "deadpool" app that really does show some promise. Reach out to the developer and offer to promote it for free in exchange for access to all the sales figures. If you can demonstrate "hey, we made this guy 10% more than we would have charged him" that at least sounds promising enough for me to give you fifty bucks and see how it goes.
Really 72 whole hours? Must be students with roommates.
I never follow the company anymore ever since I left. While I have no bitter feeling since I was there only for 4 months for the fun, name, and to know what's inside, it strikes me that they don't have a very strong grasp of anything. The market, the talent, the process.

I do think that they need to trim down quick. I know that might have hurt their stocks like a kick in the groin, but they've already lost a lot of their stock values. They should do some sort of reboot and becoming an underdog. Slim down that confusing offerings. Back then, they have tons of numbering systems that confuses people who happen to have interaction (reading news, chat, or whatever) with other people that live in different countries.

In Country A, the model might be called E1234, in different parts of the world, the model might be called E1235. The capabilities differ by tiny margin. It just doesn't make any sense. It might be because of regulation or whatnot, but very confusing.

If Microsoft offering is confusing, you should check Nokia's.

Currently, they have nothing other than cheap cellphone to be sold to Asian markets. I happen to be born in another part of the world. Back at my home country, Nokia is still strong because they sell cheap unlocked cellphone (coincidentally, the providers aren't operating like N.A. providers). Having said that, the mid-to-upper level economy population are full of BB users (weird isn't it, not Android, not iPhone, but BB).

BB at least has this "PIN" thing (I don't have a BB so I don't know much about it) where I noticed that most of my high-school friends are exchanging PIN, or exchanging stuff within BB. So I'm assuming there's some sort of ability for BB to have a "soft" vendor lock-in. Nokia has nothing other than cheap price.

I think they're almost done.
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Native speaker of English and Language Geek here: it's weird. Maybe he means it literally. Rich people forget that the rest of us can't just stop working and start jet-setting at will. :-)
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> I don't think that the competition is illegal.

Yes it is. The whole point is that certain professions have got politicians to pass laws making it illegal for people without the right piece of paper to compete with them.

As Adam Smith said: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public..."
> they might actually have pretty decent coverage in general and it's only the people with homes or offices in the lower-power zones on the fringes of a cell's coverage area that see the problem.

My friend with Verizon gets full 3G in the middle of Nebraska. I barely get Edge. No contest.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retire

"to withdraw from action"

The action here being getting worked up over his phone not working.
Uh, "retire" is a perfectly good English word for "stop working" (e.g., "retire for the evening").
BTW, how is a guy named Mike Capone not a native speaker of English? Sei italiano, e la tua nome é Michele?
I was just setting up some cron jobs this morning to make api calls and thinking there has to be a better way. Great article and Adam even include some sample apps to give it a try. Very nice job, and I will be checking this out.
The guy was pretty rude.I am not saying that he was unnecessarily rude. He has every right to be pissed off. But, it's a fact that he was rude. It would have been really easy for Steve to ignore his message or to shoot back. Jobs' calmness actually earned my respect. I think he handled that guy perfectly. Jobs told him that Apple was working on the issue. Yet, he wasn't satisfied. So, Jobs just advised the guy to relax a bit.
retire - to withdraw for safety or pleasure

It's not the most common usage, but it fits in the sentence. Basically take a break.
I think Steve must be talking to himself here.
N97 was released barely one year ago.
Having something stolen from your company and having a product you just purchased, which is 100% refundable not work exactly as you had hoped, are hardly the same thing as far as I'm concerned.

Further, had Jobs decided to just let that incident go, it could encourage similar acts of espionage in the future as people would think they could get away with taking a device that's not theirs and selling it in the same manner.

On the other hand, had this customer decided to let it go and just return the iPhone and grab, for example, an Android device, there would be few consequences.

It's one thing to get frustrated about someone stealing/selling your items. It's very much another to feel a sense of entitlement for something you purchased which is returnable for a full refund and demand compensation or otherwise instead of just getting a refund.
The Value of Downvoting, or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong:

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No, there is no downvoting.
No more a waste of time than anything else we do.
Cappuccino vs Sproutcore. Preferences? Opinions? Experiences?

I've got an upcoming project for which I want to use one of those, and am leaning toward Cappuccino b/c it seems like more of a complete platform than a collection of cool widgets. But haven't had time to get my hands dirty with either yet, so maybe my first impression is wrong. Anyone used both yet?
Hopefully you're just trying to emphasize that you know about your bandwidth, but honestly any time I see someone claim to get a certain speed in Mbps but write it as "mbps" red flags go off....

1 Mb = 1000 b = 1000,000 mb. So you just said the network's max speed is 1.5 bps
> How do you incentivize the good ones to work for you?

A good start is not to use words like "incentivize" around reasonably intelligent people :)
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37Signals are trend setters when it comes to UI design. Pretty much every iteration of their Design/UI is followed by many web-apps. Remember the very first version of Ta-da list home page, then the old Basecamp homepage, and now the new Basecamp homepage. Also the layout of all their web apps is followed by many SaaS apps now. Now this - simple landing page, will be followed by many people now. It's good stuff!
Here is why: http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/salespolicies.html

Apple has a, potentially, defective product and if people want to return it they have to pay a 10% restocking fee.

At the very least Apple should allow people, who want to return for this reason, to return without a restocking fee. Or, at least offer a solution or at least say we're looking into it.

A condescending note saying it's just rumor doesn't help, regardless of how you look at it.
The original Mac OS fit on an 800K floppy (plus 64k ROM), with room for user programs and documents too.

It might have had some Pascal, but was >99% assembler.
I would enact a more strict system against those who attempt to create regulations based on religious ideas. For example, trying to outlaw anything on the basis of long-taught religious ideas would instantly be thrown out. From a legal perspective this would push the first amendment under the umbrella of stare decisis and allow a court to overturn any law found to be based on those religious ideas.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stare_decisis)
Excellent explanation and I see the logic behind your decision; however, I don't think its all-encompassing for every iPhone developer:

1) I personally never had any success reaching out to bloggers. Maybe it was because my apps weren't innovative enough or I didn't have the right connections but I always felt that the time I wasted reaching out to bloggers could have been better spent elsewhere. If you are successful reaching out to bloggers then more power to you!

2) While I agree that this gives you more control and in fact might be very good for user testing... some people simply don't enjoy this type of tactic or have the time. Some people would rather spend time answering support e-mails and developing new apps and products, its just kind of their style. This is where my product comes in.

Also the testimonial idea I think is worth pursuing and I will be looking for a perfect subject tonight. :)
It's a strange bit of snark that he's interspersed his paragraphs with screenshots from some of the most derivative and stereotypical games of recent vintage. And yet it's perhaps softened a bit by the addition of a shot from perhaps a comparable title from his home medium.

I don't quite get it.
Any android phone with location information has it -- it's called "google lattitude", but as far as I can tell it just broadcasts your location to EVERYONE.
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It kinds of go together, in my opinion.

If something can bring you a lot of joy, by not working it can take that joy away, making you upset. I'm not saying that guy expressed himself correctly, but I can understand why he would be upset at the idea that Apple and Jobs doesn't seem to think this problem is real and needs a fix.
What full return? See here: http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/salespolicies.html

There is a 10% restocking fee.
The screenshots are from Clive Barker's Jericho. He probably used them because he spends a couple of paragraphs talking about discussions he had with Clive Barker. Unfortunately Jericho is a horrible game and not a good example of games as art.
Neils Provos did a study of all of Usenet (I think?) as part of his PhD thesis, as an input data set for stegdetect, which used statistical (I think?) techniques to detect steganography. Long story short: nobody uses steganography.

It's really not that much of a win.
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What we have now is not the best we can do, but what we have isn't capitalism. So to claim that capitalism is the "beneath us as a society" means nothing because it's never been tried here.

EDIT: And, if you've read the comments above, it's clear that, by his own admission, tomlin has never studied any economic system.
There was a discussion about this recently, though I can't find it just now.

There is no downvoting, and, as I understand HN's etiquette, you should not flag a story just because you don't like it.
I am shocked, shocked to find politicians even considering offering to repeal unnecessary or overly restrictive laws. Is this a first in human history?
What's funny is that the little signal bars on the phone don't really mean anything. "Signal Strength" is not a useful measure of anything important if you're not also taking the noise into account. And nobody does that with their phones because the number would constantly be jumping all over the place.
You'll still have some amount of eyestrain, but no more than reading text on paper, or looking at photos, IIRC.
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The purpose of the consitution was never to say which rights americans should have; it was to say which powers the government should have.
Most video games have a pretty strict narrative: Finish the story or die. The ending of that story is often firm: I've rarely come upon a video game that actually has different outcomes based on the user's behavior/history.
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The point is that if you read the public comments Steve's made about the Gizmodo affair, it's very clear that he took the entire thing very personally. For Steve, it became personal, whereas it was simply business for Gawker.

A customer angry about a flawed product isn't upset because it's a phone; they're upset because it's their phone. It's personal for them.

I'm not saying that the two situations are perfectly analogous (though, as a disclaimer, I do think Apple handled the Gizmodo thing poorly): what I am saying is that it's much easier to tell somebody else to not take things so seriously when you're not the one that's internalized the problem.
If you meant the question seriously, I think the Twenty-First Amendment to the US Constitution is a prior example.
In the video, that's an ape with a frog. Not a monkey. Show some respect :)
Alot of apps have free versions that people release. If the free version could be unlocked to be the real version, that could work. Apple probably doesn't allow that, though.
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Which Engineer is a better one:

1) The one that is able to create a system from scratch, develop, scale, refactor and change the growing system.

2) The one who's great in supporting legacy (well you know, sometimes systems become legacy from day one) systems, barely writing code, but dealing with complex old heavy systems, that're really hard to maintain and hack. (well, you know that there're companies where you can't really do a lot of changes in code, since its strictly prohibited: it works in general, don't touch it. just make this stupid button work again for us).

It seems to me that one person couldn't combine both, since hardcore developer won't be too pleased to stick along the system, where he can't DO changes. He's starving to make it all better and change EVERYTHING. Other type of people are more or less fine with overall stupidity of system, and can work debugging more than _really_ doing stuff.
Yea, I think it's all relative. I know people who remember little from before the age of 6, and I find that to be almost disturbing...I remember most everything from 4 onward, and my earliest memory involves me wanting a particular sort of diaper (the pig ones!), so I imagine I was pretty young at the time.
It's the OCD in me - I just get annoyed that duplicates keep getting posted without people checking. I know I'm in a minority, I know most people don't care, and I know some articles deserve a repost because they really were valuable, even if no one saw it first time round.

But I'll keep marking duplicates so people are at least aware that the item isn't new, and so that, with any luck, discussion doesn't get split unnecessarily.
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I'm also a fan of simplicity. If the new UI (CoolIris-inspired, from what the article says) is anything like the CoolIris plugins available now, I fear we're headed to over-the-top superfluous animations throughout the system. "When you scroll up and down, the view tilts to appear 3D! Yay?"
Not 100%, but rather 90% refundable.
Link: http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/salespolicies.html

[search for restocking fee]
Development kits always cost 10x the volume price of the part. $275 tells you nothing about the actual cost of the screen.