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The funny thing is that you face bias even if you are a man or a women.

Let's face it. It sucks to be a woman in 90% of the world. You do not have any right over your own body. You are a second rate citizen. At best. Oh and you are a commodity to be kept "intact" and sold through something that resembles marriage, but isn't marriage. Not to mention a vagina that has the audacity to bleed once a month causing pain that most men simply don't understand.

Yet it is equally hard to be male, especially if you deviate from the established norms of masculinity. It is quite interesting how society censors effeminate male behavior than masculine female behavior. It doesn't matter where you are born being a gender variant kid isn't exactly a nice deal. However, if you are the alpha male who pounds his hairy muscular chest while trying to club women, then you've got it made.

At the same time I see reverse discrimination operate for males in a lot of spaces. Granted it is not as wide spread as discrimination against women, but it exists. Somehow society has taught us that women cannot perpetuate sexual abuse, or any kind of abuse for that matter and we agree to tow the line. I've actually seen people being framed by women who abuse laws that exist to protect them against a chauvinistic society.

I guess this is what they call the human condition, and in a lot of ways it will stop only when we stop segregating people into roles based upon some difference we can come up with. I wish I could tell people to calm down and just let each other be.

P.S. - Read Sarah Hoffman's work on parenting a gender variant child (http://www.sarahhoffmanwriter.com/).
When I was in startup mode, the first 4 months was 10-12 hours of programming, 7 days a week. I may not have showered every day, but I sure as hell made forward progress. It was a remarkably "pure" feeling.

Turns out that's not a sustainable pace. Not only do you run out of stamina, you run out of ideas.

Now I work at a medium-sized but incredibly fast-paced company. I write code every day. But since I work on performance and not a particular feature, my checkins tend to be small but well-chosen. A few people I work with have net-negative lines-of-code scores.
We actually interviewed Dvorak on our podcast
Here in SA we are very proud of how much better (and some may say more poetic) Afrikaans sounds than Dutch. But hey, that is a very subjective opinion indeed :-)
But wasn't the perceived problem that one distribution channel (the internet) is too cheap and plentiful?

If at all, one could argue about a lack of incentives to produce.
Sure, we have one dedicated Android dev with a background in J2ME and embedded device drivers.

On a platform like Android were memory / GC can kill you you need to make sure the lead fully understands the constraints.

Our iPhone dev rocks at SQLite3 so he helps with those portions of our Android apps.

We have commits from almost every member of the engineer staff to our Android apps, we are small enough were this still can work.

Re: Paid, I would feel uncomfortable sharing that information. When we looked at contracting some of this out on the iPhone side we were seeing consulting rates in the $150 / hour range for Bay Area contractors.
Your typing comes off with a very thick accent, something you don't find often online.
Well that's a bit of a relief. I thought they were actually charging $500 to unsuspecting account holders.

You're right about people buying the app after it drops in price. When it was $500 it had two obviously fake 5/5 reviews. Now it has an additional 40 reviews, 1/3 of which are additional fake reviews, 2/3 of which are 1-star reviews shocked that their iPhone didn't magically turn reflective.

sigh
I was talking about the legal situation. Downloading of stuff you own may be legal. Sharing (even while you download) is not legal, if the license does not permit it.
This is the first year I've installed a Linux distribution that just worked on my laptop (a Dell Inspiron).

Graphics, sound, built-in wireless, usb 3G modem, built-in webcam ... all of them worked out of the box.

The experience is great, although I'm still not recommending it to non-technical users ... once the Linux desktop is good enough, you still have the problem of apps running on top, and unfortunately the environment is not really friendly to proprietary software.
I don't think android is like the desktop linux situation. My mom & dad are happily using android phones, paying for all these wonderful apps and enjoying the phone. They would not really have the same experience with any linux installation.
11AM-5PM: customer support, customer development, business development, marketing/PR planning, and other tasks that require communicating with normal humans in the working world.

6PM->2AM: Only coding... and with no distractions, the 8 hours are highly highly productive.

(6 days a week)

Think Maker's schedule. If you're not already selling your product and if you don't have much prototype to show, time should be 100% focussed on product development.
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E.g. the official Twitter app not being available on Droid or the Incredible, last I heard.

Runs just fine on my Milestone and should also run on the Droid. But I see what you mean.
It simply was not going to be ready - and with the amount of churn and changes going on in that space, it was felt that the community would be better served with something stable, later (but still install-able via pip/etc) then something unstable and still cooking.
I was just arguing against

-Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic

being __all__ you need. I don't doubt that those options are certainly part of a healthy breakfast.
Totally like whatever, you know? - Speak With Conviction
Your theory nicely rationalizes the removal.

Except that "eyePhone" is mentioned several times in the episode and it was not the problem. The problem was showing the zombies and the following announcement:

- "Introducing the all new eyePhone 2.0."
- (the mob) "Yeah!"

Little bird tells me that painting "Momcorp" (with logo similar to Apple, with store similar to Apple, you get the point) users as mindless zombies ready to buy anything was the problem.
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Yes, if something is great since day one, it probably stays away from the improving motivation. If you are willing to pay a price for what is being offered, you will get more pleased when it gets better and costs you nothing...
Indeed. Apart from hardware flaws and strange concurrency issues, that's the thing.

I did not express myself clear enough.

Perhaps I should have said that some people think, because computers only do what you tell them, that they can not surprise you.

Debugging and fractals are only two counterexamples.
highly interesting !!
Wave your magic wand and get featured by apple ;)

For "free" marketing techniques :
-Add your app to your forum signatures wherever you post most often
-Twitter giveaways
-Tell your friends and family
-Submit to review sites/ blogs (In my experience you might try small blogs first unless you have connections at a major blog or think your app is mind blowing)

For paid techniques:
-iAds (I haven't seen conversion numbers yet)
-Admob/Adwords/etc (No one that I know has had success with this)
-Pay per install

Disclaimer: I own and am just launching a pay per install company called adsreloaded.com (there was another thread about this launch in which people seemed skeptical on the idea, but I also received interested from a few developers). If you are interested I have a special offer in which the 25% cut I usually take is added to your campaign instead. If you aren't interested I hope some suggestions of mine do help :)
Right, but which one? He says "us Somalis", "...the U.S (we...", mentions in his profile that he lives in Northern Virginia but also calls Sydney home yet the diction (i.e. "shopkeepers", "Chavs", "piss-taking", etc.) of his post screams British to me.
(I apologize for my ignorance, but) without audio recording how can we know what the accents were back then?
Linux is getting better each year, Android is getting better each year.

But MS is getting better each year too, like Apple.

The main difference is that MS and Apple improve he overall user experience while Linux and Android center themselves on geeks. Witch is great, for geeks, but not as good for other people.

On Linux I can easily record any sound-video a program plays-displays , I can't do it on windows or Mac because of DRM. It's great for me, normal people don't care.

People care about being able to easily classify their weeding photos using face recognition tech like iphoto does. Linux could do it in complex( and more powerful) ways that my mom can't use.
I think Digg was started by being outsourced through eLance
Oh, a funny American. Did you get that humor in a legal settlement?

--

Edit:

Let me add that what you're noticing is probably my staccato diction, filled with code-words and verbal winks to deliver mild amusement to an invisible audience of masochists who I love oh so very much.

Cultural and linguistic banter might not be appreciated in these "learned" circles; but to the objects of my affection, the working classes of the crown and its colonies, it's a delicacy best enjoyed over beer and a pool table (Warning: too much of it might lead to the real-world version of a downvote, a black eye.)
But only if they are not competing with current or future unknown products of Apple. Or if they disobey some other of Apples (un-)written rules.

The problem here is not the AppStore, the problem is that developers have to distribute their apps through it.
The story reminds of the Futurama episode where Bender meets god.
The only thing that affects how much weight you gain or lose over a period of time is calorie consumption, your height, age and weight, and to a lesser extent, your activity level.

Here's everything you need to know:
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Literally, that's it. Read the hacker diet and you won't need to listen to or read another thing about dieting for the rest of your life.
I can't say that this is entirely incorrect, but it's at least full of inaccuracies. RP has indeed been evolving as the accent of the English upper class, but it originated in the accent common in the English west midlands and as far as I know has been non-rhotic for quite a long time. Rhoticism in Germanic languages comes and goes, and since Britain always had many different regional and social accents, it's entirely possible that some of them were non-rhotic still before the stipulated "divergence" began. While in England, accents that are mostly non-rhotic were the most common, America had a large community of immigrants from Ireland, where the accent is rhotic, from southern Germany, where the accent is rhotic, and from many non-English speaking countries (learners of English as a foreign language often default to rhotic pronunciation since it's closer to the way the words are written). Most importantly, there isn't such a thing as a British accent, but there is (with only minor variation) such a thing as an American accent. Americans often don't realise how diverse the UK is simply because they're not used to this sort of diversity from their own country.
It depends on what criteria is used to judge greatness of course. By my evaluation, the iPhone's notifications and multitasking UI have been horrible since day one. That hasn't stopped Apple from oveloading push and local notifications with third-party multitasking, all without much change to the fundamental problems, making the experience worse over time. Marco's focus on the simple and shiny, at the expense of the functional and robust, indicates that we have different standards for greatness.
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Napoleon called the English "a nation of shopkeepers".
Do libertarians not believe in externalities?

There is a free lunch! It's the other costs of fossil-fuels (political instability, pollution, global warming, risks of environmental disaster) that are not reflected in the price of oil and so are unable to influence development of energy alternatives!
This article's explanation is a little too curt. I think regional American accents at the time of the Revolution matched up better with certain regional British accents explains it a little better. For a more in depth study of not just accents, but the micro English speaking cultures that came to make up the United States I recommend "The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-America" by Kevin Phillips. http://www.amazon.com/Cousins-Wars-Religion-Politics-Anglo-A...
Why does this get on HN? It's one of three canned Android/iPhone articles. Yes, Android is free and the UI/UX has suffered at the hands of Google's engineers and rapid development. We get it.

I'll just be laughing when this argument sounds silly in 6 months after Gingerbread.
Speaking of having benefits for different crowds: when he mentioned the "why-is-this-here moments" his inability to understand that different people like different things became pretty clear. Why is it so hard to believe that some people may actually want a physical keyboard? Yes, it typically makes the phone bulkier and/or uglier, but for some people the extra utility it provides is worth it.

Apple's approach has often been "we'll tell you what's good for you". That's how we got iMacs only available in Steve Jobs's favorite shade of blue (later more colors were added) the green "resize this window to Apple approved dimensions" button in Mac OS X, and now the one-size-fits-all iPhone.
The author mentioned encrypted Google search - I haven't heard of it before:

https://encrypted.google.com/
As a non-Dutch speaker living in Belgium, I find Flemish much nicer to listen to than "real" Dutch too. :-)
OS X is different ... it is based on Darwin, which is a kernel inheriting parts from BSD ... but Apple fully controls its development and Darwin maintains binary compatibility. Also when they released OS X, they also distributed it with a compatibility layer for older OS 9 apps, and they also shipped the Carbon APIs for legacy code.

Unfortunately the Linux kernel itself breaks binary compatibility quite often, so you can't distribute binary blobs if you want to keep up-to-date (and you want that, since newer kernel versions have more hardware drivers). Linux distributions in general have a bad history on maintaining backwards-compatibility.

And without third-party proprietary applications being distributed for this "commercially supported" OS, it's not going to make any inroads.
I'd agree with the analysis that English is closer to how its spoken in the US today accent-wise. If you look at how people speak English in British colonies, the pronunciation isn't heavily accented to how its spoken in the UK today. For example, South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh).
Ask HN:  Which web sites and services do you use on a regular basis?
I'm working on a tool that gives you access to things you do online in a really efficient manner. It works best with services that tie into a current webpage you are viewing. Yeah, it's a little hard to explain.

I'm curious to know which services you guys use. Here's what I have so far:

* To find website popularity: Quantcast, Alexa, QuirkBase, Compete
* Technicals about a website: Domain Tools, BuiltWith, WebPageAnalyzer
* Backtype - find discussions on reddit, digg, etc, pertaining to a URL
* UrbanDictionary - find out what various TLAs mean and such
* Google, Google Maps, Google Translate
* Wikipedia
* Delicious (to find similar web pages)
* TinEye (to find where else photos appear)
* Imgur
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The iPhone was a poor device on day one. Limited to a poor carrier, it was a poor phone, with only a handful of built-in apps, no GPS, etc.

The Nexus One was a quite a nice device from day one, and in my opinion better than the iPhone 3GS.

But this is apples to oranges. The way a device is from day one is less relevant when the race is long. What was important in competing with Apple's first move was being first to a viable second place, which then iterates rapidly in a "aim, fire, ready" style. If Google had waited until they had a perfect second place, they'd still be starting with a tiny marketshare (hence lack of apps etc.), and perhaps Palm wouldn't have failed as it did. But Google didn't wait, and they're solidly in second place, and gaining.
Spelling gives some hints. One technique is to look for common spelling mistakes. An especially interesting mistake is hypercorrection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection).

For example, there was a time when the K in words like "knee" and "knight" became silent. We can pinpoint this time by looking for Ks in front of words, that never used to start with K. The writer doesn't pronounce the K in "kn" any longer, but remembers that proper spelling has a K for some words. Since pronunciation doesn't help, she has to rote learn those words. And occasionally will make a mistake.

Another one, especially in fairly recent times, is too look for prescriptive texts, that lament this or that development in the language.
I think Australia will be an interesting country to watch accent-wise. At the moment there are very obvious "city" (closer to British non-rhotic) vs. "country" (Steve Irwin) accents, but it's much harder to tell which city and which part of the country any particular Aussie is from. Considering the distances needed to travel between towns and cities, it'll be interesting to see if, over time, these accents become more localised or if (due to easy transport, etc.) they remain fairly indistinguishable.
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I don't think this is relevant, since speakers in Asia rarely speak English as their mother tongue. Whatever accent they have is due to the sources they've been exposed to. Well educated speakers in India and Pakistan, for example, usually speak with an accent that is quite closed to RP. Other speakers often learn their pronunciation from American movies.
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Ask HN: How to turn $10,000 into $100,000 in a relatively short period of time?
Along the lines of this post:

Ask HN: How to turn $1,000 into $10,000 in a relatively short period of time? - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1480246

However, in this case a relatively short time might be 1-2 years. As we all know, value is in the execution so anyone willing to share some ideas?
Canadian French is actually close to what is (or was, at least until shortly after WWII) spoken in Normandy. Our soldiers were better able to communicate with the locals on D-Day than even the Free French.

"Standard" French was once just the local dialect of Isle-de-France, a small region including Paris, but "French", even in France today, is but a loose collection of mutually-comprehensible dialects. Canadian French has its own little quirks, though, in that it had to create its own vocabulary not only for the uniquely North American flora, fauna and landscape, but also for new items of technology that emerged while we were almost without communication with France. F'rinstance, to the French ear, a French Canadian would seem to indicate that he had just created a park (in the public gardens sense) out of his tank (armoured and armed military vehicle) rather than that he'd just parked his car.
They just barely touch on the important part, which is whether or not students are achieving the same mastery of the subject matter. If professors are making courses too easy, that's the thing to fix. Butt-in-seat hours are only a symptom, and focusing on this (especially after acknowledging it's not the end goal!) is oddly Puritan.
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Might be worth linking to Google rather than this website: http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#...
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I don't think your comment is offensive, but it is neither funny nor relevant.
It's a bad call to compare to Desktop Linux. A better comparison is looking at "iOS vs. Android" as "Mac OS vs. Windows" - - The strategy for iOS is very similar to the strategy of Mac OS and the strategy of Android is similar to the strategy of Windows.

Longer down the road I think Android will have a much larger market share (just like Windows) - - while iOS will provide a better and more streamlined experience (just like Mac OS).
This part made me cringe:

"Marks herself points out that employers don’t generally care about the content of job applicants’ classes; they’re more interested in whether an applicant graduated, was able to meet deadlines, and work within a bureaucracy"
I seem to remember a statistic where UK is reputed to have a greater number of dialects than any other country in the world, which probably has a lot to do with the difficulty people have with understanding some accents (tried Glaswegian, anyone?)

Also, IIRC, the colonies tended to have a commonality in heritage of the colonists, too. E.g. at one time, Australia had a "large number" of criminals, there are quite a lot of Dutch in NZ -- there are large parts of NZ with very strong Scots heritage -- New York is famous for Irish heritage, other parts of USA are famous for German, etc.
The UK hasn't really had the same homogenisation outside the big cities.
> Loops are the source of all evil[.]

That's why I prefer languages without loops.
Hrm. I never noticed a large difference until I left. Now that I'm in NY I can usually pick someone's state right away. Folks from Melbourne have the most pronounced accents, I reckon. Something about how the 'e' becomes all elongated when they Melbourne, it sounds like 'Mahlbourne' to my Sydney-sider ears.

The difference is probably about as pronounced (if not moreso) as the difference between a middle class non-regional East Coast American versus the same on the West Coast.
College is simply another hoop to jump through for (an increasingly unlikely) shot at the middle class. The act of studying is useful for when you actually want to know something, but the commoditized studying colleges encourage of plowing hours into courses one cares very little about has very little purpose, and students know this. Just another notch on the "American education is an absurdity and a farce" stick.
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You can also pick up clues in rhyming, jokes, slang and puns that wouldn't otherwise make sense.
> Napoleon called the English "a nation of shopkeepers".

Not a lot has changed, then...
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> The "4 gray colors" you mention are not part of the text color scheme.

Sorry, I overlooked the "text" part. That's why I was wondering.

I didn't expect that you would just fix a part of the design and ask for further advice, because, well, the further advice is obvious: Fix the rest of the color scheme, too. :-)

The text part was definitely improved, by the way. But in order to see whether the colors are good, we need to have a look at the fixed overall design. Judging such things from only a part is something that only very good artists are capable of, maybe not even those.
If the title says "X for Y", I assume that it's suitable for Ys. But I do not assume that it is unsuitable for non-Ys.
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