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I for one am getting tired of all this undeserved attention to things that don't make a difference in anybody's lives. This iphone doesn't make anybody more productive, more empowered, more effective, less frustrated. It doesn't free up time for anybody and doesn't do anything new.

In fact, I just wrote the complete opposite of Gruber article: a comparison of the GREAT things that are unique to iPhone and to Android for startups trying to get something done.

http://www.ringio.com/2010/06/29/iphone-vs-android-getting-o...
No, you are not spamming them as you had a legit business connection to them and the email relates to that. However include the option to Unsubscribe from the list within the email.

If you were emailing about something completely unrelated then that would probably not go down well.
> - Cities that rely on tourism generate revenue from hotel "bed taxes" which are often higher or in addition to sales tax

Too frickin' bad? I'm of the opinion that taxes should be in compensation for the service provided by the government. What service is being provided here? It makes me angry that just because someone is making money off of something that taxes must sharecrop off of it. As long as the host files their 1099 that came from AirBNB, it seems fine to me. Why is it that a person can stay over and it's no problem but when they pay money it's a huge issue? It makes me think. If this is hurting the hotel business, too bad! Maybe they should look to change their business model instead of trying to pass laws to protect their current one.
It's not surprising that someone on HackerNews won't be affected by the lack of video options - this simply isn't a creative arts forum.

But for creatives like myself, Apple's restrictions are difficult to bear. My own blog, vj.tv is difficult to view on my iDevices because half of the embedded videos are unplayable (vimeo only offers HTML5 playback directly from their site).

It's painful to have a hardware/OS/music company dictate the terms of how we can access our stuff when clearly the "standard" is lacking. I and others appreciate someone from YouTube coming forward and supporting our views and needs.
What's so bad about C? It's not very pretty but the following was easy enough to write and worked first try.

http://pastebin.com/QBAgzWWJ

Pipe the result through "sort -u" if you don't want dups.
List and generator comprehensions are such enjoyable features of the language. Really looking forward to set and dictionary comprehensions. Alas, if only python 3 adoption were not bound to take years.
Exterminate! An iPhone-Controlled Dalek
Having tried it both ways, I think beginning with thirty minutes a day or something like that is like trying to learn to swim in a bathtub.

Unless you're on the edge of psychosis, a long retreat won't hurt you. There are rare horror stories about somebody going nuts, but that's probably about as common as somebody dying from a bee sting.
The world isn't ready for iPhone on Rails.
I'm not sure I understand. In what way did college force you to challenge your worldview that reading a lot of books, magazines and Web sites would not?
IPhone vs Android: getting over the hype
Who says you have to throw away everything you know? I don't magically stop knowing C++ when running around in Ruby or SQL.
And I think that may be part of the problem: I didn't find that to be a comfortable position to use the mouse even for short periods of time, having to hold my fingers and palm up and not having a resting, but still moving the mouse, position. I found it extremely hard to get fine control of positioning while clicking, I'd always end up moving the mouse slightly while clicking (incidentally, I have similar issues with the touchpad on the MacBook Pro).
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Its been a while, but I recall that you -do- need to make an account - it gets created when you make your first purchase. But having to send people off to another site (where they get to reenter all their address info -again-) is a PITA and is not as 'professional'. Its getting more common... but if you made it through the hassle of getting a merchant account there is a bit of respectability there.

Also, we have encountered institutions (schools and businesses mostly) where there is strict policy that they may not use paypal.
Twitpic is within its rights to block Posterous, but the threats to bring "trade secrets" laws into play are totally nuts. A technology company like Twitpic should know as well as anyone that if a human can access their content with a computer, a computer can access their content just as well with the proper direction.
http://mmfixed.com/

Destroys the aesthetics and probably the weighting, but potentially ameliorates the palm support issue.
Do users just not get a say in where their data lives anymore or what? Why in the hell don't these companies stop freaking out over whether or not a user can port his or her data someplace else and focus on WHY a user would want to in the first place.
My bad. My memory is really failing me.
This.

I see many, many developers going to battle about the technical merits of X versus Y. Platform A can't scale, but platform B takes too long to produce code.

You've got to understand the problem that you solve for your customers if you're going to write something that they need. You need to understand your customers if you're going to write something that they want.

I guarantee that your customers don't give a shit whether or not your product is written in Ruby, or Python, or PHP, or Java, or Clojure, or Scala, or even Brainfuck. Write it in Malebodge if that's what you're happiest working in.

But whatever you do, write something that solves a problem.
Yes, but isn't Rails one of the best ways to quickly deliver iPhone web apps?
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Snapsort ends the debate: which camera is better, a or b?
I suggest the following test: send it to 10% and see if their response behavior suggests they feel your email is spam.

(Don't lose any sleep, they did opt-in.)
It's the old battle between measurable performance marketing and vague branding/artsy advertising, I guess everyone picks a side.

Since you used a beer example however, I will point out that Claude Hopkins famously made Schlitz beer #1 by using modern, trackable, results-driven advertising that he split tested relentlessly. This was close to 100 years ago, so I guess not much has changed(or brand advertisers haven't evolved much in the last century).
Elderly couple lose $512,000 to scammers
I work at a full service marketing agency and we are very much alive and bigger then ever. Have been around since 1982.
Well you won't know until you try it.
Mystery of AIDS-resistant monkeys revealed
Haha, it's just using the RSS feed... trade secrets my ass.

TwitPic should be embarrassed, this is just anticompetitive BS.
I should have been more specific. I'm familiar with all sorts of non-volatile memory (flash, etc.) but I'm not aware of any modern computer that uses it as main memory (that is, directly addressable RAM as opposed to connected via a storage bus).

I think the last thing I used that would qualify as such was the Apple Newton.
It's not really that crazy. Take a look at MacRuby — it's pretty close already. Apple just doesn't seem to have enough interest to replace Objective-C.
Spot on. If TwitPic is satisfying its users, they won't export to Posterous and stay put. This just looks bad on the part of TwitPic, as they're using legal threats to prevent users from making this choice.
When I woke up this morning I said to myself, "Self, today you should shift a paradigm!" Turns out I was too tired to get around to that today. Synergy is doable.
For some types of jobs this would work, people looking for the all the time motivated and enthusiastic, but it looks more like "how to be annoying" manual.
Terms of Use for API's and Web Sites
I am thinking about developing a service that would use a number of api's that have very limiting terms of use in regards to what I can do with the data (basically just display the response and not store or use the data in any other way). Where api's are not available I will also be screen scraping and a number of sites have similar terms of use restrictions.

The service I am considering developing does not compete with the original sites, it just provides extra services to the content providers of these sites and should add value to the existing services.

There are existing services that already provide a similar product to the one I intend to develop so they are either partnering, disregarding or have found a way to comply with the terms of use.

My questions is should I be overly concerned about these terms of use? What have other people done? Should I only be concerned if I am using their data in a way that competes with the original source or affects their interests in an adverse way? If I am reasonably small will they just not care?

My hope is these terms of use are there to protect the entity and are rarely enforced unless there is blatant abuse that harms the entity or services are used by an obvious competitor or in a defamatory manner.

The api's are from Google, Yahoo etc .. so probably too big to worry about what I am doing.

Thanks.
Apple is fortunate that they're the only ones they have to check with to change 3.3.1. When the hardware has gotten ample and the software is mature enough, I for one won't be surprised if we see revisions.

Meanwhile, a blanket ban will accomplish their goals just fine (take your choice: blocking Adobe, preventing fragmentation, making developers choose single platforms, etc).
If a competitor had made a mistake like that he likely would have crucified them
And it's happened in the past:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Caribbean_Cup_1994#Anomal...
I agree with some of what you say but I don't think you can say Apple changed on including apps. They didn't include apps from the first gen due to the huge engineering effort required to successfully support 3rd parties and have the mechanisms in place to distribute apps. Launching a v1 product and including a ton of 3rd party support for an unproven phone would have been a big gamble. Coming out with it a year later isn't waffling, it's a smart business move.
might want to look on docstoc
By making me read a lot of books, magazines, and web sites!

Seriously, I know I never would have read any of the stuff I read in class, and I can bet most people wouldn't have either.

Now, we certainly aren't arguing that it's too expensive to get this experience. I would completely agree with that.
I also mostly agree with thaumaturgy, so I think we’re pretty much good.
His quote makes a lot more sense in context:

* In fact, Apple seems very confident regarding everything it decided for the original 2007 iPhone. There are no new buttons, or even moved buttons. The Retina Display is emblematic of the iPhone 4 as a whole, both hardware and software: the same fundamental idea as the original iPhone, but clarified. It hasn’t really changed so much as improved — like the same picture in increasingly sharper focus.*

Insofar as the automatic justification how does that explain his questions on the durability of the glass back? Missing italics which he urges people to bring to Apple's attention? His statement that the antenna issue is, worse case, a fatal design flaw? Seems like you're kind of spinning the article a bit to me by omission.
I get where both you and the OP are coming from. But you have to admit that he could at least have properly scheduled both events. Maybe delay the launch of the site by a month?

Anyway, you both have valid points.
I had a similar reaction when I first heard about it, but after TAing Computer Systems, I think the replacement is still difficult. It's also perhaps more relevant to more people. Very few people will ever work inside an OS kernel. Many more people will have to code against an OS kernel. Further, I find that it codifies many concepts and techniques that I had to learn and develop on my own in grad school.

Computer Systems still introduces many of the concepts that OS does, it's just done from the perspective of user-land, not kernel-land.
Training Examples, a StackOverflow clone for machine learning
MacRuby has already reimplemented most of Ruby's classes on top of equivalent Cocoa ones (String < NSString, Hash < NSDictionary, Array < NSArray). That removes a big part of bridging problem that existed with things like RubyCocoa.

Not to mention the ability to call existing APIs and the fact that C and MacRuby will both be running on LLVM—I think it's less crazy than it appears.
They could change 3.3.1, but they didn't have to blanket-ban Ruby to begin with — they made already have four languages they allow. The fact that Ruby was banned shows that they don't even place it on a level with C++, much less Objective-C.

On top of that, MacRuby was just starting efforts to target the iPhone when Apple banned it, leading the developers to throw their hands in the air and say, "Oh well, didn't really get far anyway." If Apple really wants Ruby on the iPhone, stopping its own people from working on the project doesn't make any sense.
I'm now speculating, but I'd guess that a very small percentage of small businesses ever become big businesses, though it's almost surely true that all big businesses were at some point small businesses.

Your original argument seems to have been that the government should encourage innovative businesses, and I strongly agree with you there. I don't think business size is particularly relevant to that.

Success in business is highly complex. I'd guess that your assertion that small businesses get big, bought out, or fail is incorrect. Many small businesses remain small businesses for many years - think your corner dry cleaner or grocery.

The chart I pointed to looked at the years 1988-2004, not just 2002.

Of course, this post is no longer based in facts, just guesses. (If you're not interested in finding out the truth, I wont waste my time with real data any further.)
If that's what he meant, his comment was pretty much useless.

Anyway, I misread "traverse" for "reverse", hence my incredulous comment.

Perhaps traverse means different things to the two of us.
Yeah, I hope they get slapped with court costs for this ridiculous argument
Sounds suspicious. I suspect the elderly couple of laundering money for people.
It is one of the few arguments that doesn't first require the other person to have a deep understanding of functional programming.

Try to convince someone of the value of immutability without mentioning concurrency.

Imperative and functional programming relate in the same way that arithmetic and algebra relate. It is hard to do deep reasoning in maths without algebra and it is impossible to evaluate the value of most algebraic expressions without arithmetic.

There is a reason that functional programming is at the forefront of concurrency research. In the long run, imperative only approaches will be unable to compete, and functional only approaches will remain on paper.
"Lets look at domain knowledge first. This is not about having studied or otherwise artificially gotten to “know” the industry. This is about coming from that industry, having lived it, knowing the players and knowing the pain firsthand. There is no substitute for this. You can’t fake it. You either come from the space or you don’t."

And yet there are plenty of successful stories of founders who excelled because they had no prior experience in the industry and saw things differently than all the other experienced industry joes.
It is designed to be used by touch by people used to Apple trackpads. If you keep your thumb on the bottom part of the trackpad and use that part as if it were a button, it works pretty much identically to prior models. But then, it has an additional big advantage that when when you want to use that bottom part for gestures, you can.

I think it requires the perfect amount of force to depress – I don’t press it accidentally, but it presses easily when I want it to – and just the right travel distance. The noise is a nice confirmation that I just pressed it (then again, I use a Model M when possible so YMMV).

It’s a matter of personal preference, but I would be surprised if most people share your opinions about it.
I'm not saying tap-to-click is the optimal paradigm, only that I had to employ it as a means of avoiding the shoddy trackpad button.
Ask HN: Review my service - Goodgecko
URL:
http://goodgecko.com

It's a survey app!

Surrrveeeey Appppp!

tumbleweeds

Ok ok, I know it's not the most innovative, disruptive idea in the world. With a previous product I tried the whole "create a new market" thing and it worked remarkably well for a while, but the size of that market was ultimately limited (and small).

With this product I wanted to enter a market with a decent size, with an MVP product that I think does a decent job of competing with bigger incumbents, and then iterating as fast as my fingers can code, until I've yoinked all their customers!

That's the idea anyway.

It's also a freemium product, so you're welcome to use it for free (the free account is quite generous). Check out the case studies on the homepage and if you feel like you're one of them, try it out :)

Cheers,
Yongfook
http://yongfook.com

p.s. I'd appreciate any tips on pricing / feature segmentation from freemium app builders!
I agree, GlassDoor may not have good data. That's why I'm interested in other evidence. With due respect to you and your acquaintances, it would be helpful to have better public data against which one could make comparisons.

I can say that GlassDoor's data for the jobs I am currently familiar with seems fairly close to my own observations.
I'd say very good. The value of a spy is in the information distributed not not getting caught. The other problem is the vast majority of the performance data we have is from agents, who were caught, so it's difficult to compare and contrast agents who were caught vs. those that aren't. We also don't yet know what information they passed.

"possibly the worst intelligence disaster in US history."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen
clickable:

http://goodgecko.com
for (var a=0, len = arr.length; a < len; a++) {
// looping for speed, cache the length and save an access
}
please don't kill the golden goose
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I agree with you that fanboy fawning makes one queasy.

I do want to point something out about bezels on iDevices, though. They make accidental touches with the base of your thumb rarer when you're using the device one-handed. With only one hand, and holding the device in your palm, your thumb becomes your primary way of interacting. But that means that the base of your thumb is pushed against the edge of the device, and slightly touching the front of the device. This turns into either spurious touches, or spurious multi-touches (think: drag turns into zoom) if the very edge of the device is sensitive to touch.

The solution is to have a little bit of a dead zone there. This is the one area of my Nexus One which annoys me - the N1 seems to have a comparable bezel, but it's actually sensitive very close to the edge. Consequently I often have to hold the N1 not securely in my palm, but resting on my fingers, so that the base of my thumb is nowhere near the edge of the device.
Registering now. And wow was I off-base on my estimate of how many HNers are in DC. I would have guessed 5,6 tops.
It's a high risk, high reward game(duh). If these guys would have come out with some super crazy thing that took off, we'd be using it as an example of how it helps to be ignorant.

Most successful entrepreneurs in their 20s don't have domain knowledge. Ones that succeed usually do a kickass job of turning the industry upside down.
Re: the speed test video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGu4h1vP3qM

I count it as 7, 14, 28 seconds for 4, 3GS, 3G - seems like x2 per generation to me.
Rush Limbaugh constantly criticizes the Republican party from the batshit crazy right.

Gruber’s frequent criticisms of Apple are ones I think most people on this board would agree with (probably including you).

Your comparison is so absurd as to be trivially dismissible, and implies that either you’re irrationally angry/resentful about something, or trolling.
Copies/scans of most everything are accepted by the IRS (Rev. Proc. 97-22).
The last time this company was acquired, it was called Dodgeball. Google bought the talent, canned the project, and then the founders quit and reimplemented it under a different name (Foursquare.) I'd be wary of buying the company for the engineers after an outcome like that.
Ask HN: What language(s) is Facebook written in?
Facebook was originally written in PHP. What technologies is it using now?

I had someone tell me that they were moving from python/django to php because 1. it's easier to find PHP devs and 2. it's good enough for facebook. Is it?
Or my method, which has also worked like a çħặŕṃ :)
Stack Overflow was a good stab at solving the problem, and the UI execution was excellent, as well as the promotion of the site by two widely-read bloggers.

My personal frustration with the site is that their engagement model was a little too game-like. While reputation and badges might be a good metric for the quality of the contribution, the actual implementation ended up reinforcing a base of easy homework questions, and people racing for the simplest answers.

I found that when asking descriptive questions, that I would quickly get several one-line answers that pretty much guessed at the answer based on the title. Even the nuanced answers tended to have answers and explanations that either ignored the problem or suggested things already asked in the question.

Sticking with the question, I can either comment on an answer, or edit my own question to address it, or I could comment a response to the comment. Working this way, I have managed to at least get good leads a few times, but the really difficult questions ended up being things I had to solve myself.

Lately, though, I find that it pops up in my preliminary googling of a problem early on, and at least provides better references than generic forums or experts-exchange.

If they could find a way to make reputation and badges reinforce the _quality_ of the answer, instead of the _response time_ of the answer, and encourage difficult questions rather than the proliferation of basic questions, and the attitude that answering the most of them the fastest made you some kind of "elite" programmer, then I think it could be very powerful.

That being said, when I am tracking down an obscure error or specific exception, I usually find it on the libraries forum, or a forum with a narrower focus, but they definitely like the UI polish of SO.
It seems likely to me that these won’t be obvious until people have had more time to use the device. Which flaws should he have acknowledged?
This octopus havs predicted (apparently) the winner of only 4 matches.
One in 2^4=16 octopus can do that! Not very amazing.
Dog vs cat is the famous one. Nudity is another famous one that is extremely hard. A penis might be more distinctive though, similar to how I understand cameras are now pretty good at detecting faces. Just cutting off most of the trouser snake content other than well disguised ones might vastly improve a site like this.
I realize that experiences vary, particularly if you are comparing different types of software development (e.g., shrinkwrap vs. departmental IT), but I have to say that $125K/year for 3 years of programming experience does not correspond to what I see being paid in the Seattle area. In fact, I recently had a conversation with a VP about whether $120K was too much for an experienced systems architect.

Please understand that I am not making any statement about whether talented programmers are worth $125K/year - I am simply reporting what I see on the ground.