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>>Android definitely has momentum but at their current rate it will still take years to match the iPhone's share of the market.

If/when the iPhone is available on Verizon,T-Mobile and Sprint (besides AT&T), Android's momentum is going to drastically slow down.

The revenue issue and Google/carrier policies that cause fragmentation (e.g. only 27.3% of Android owners could run the official Twitter app when it launched) mean that the iPhone will attract more serious developers (and therefore more good-quality apps for consumers)
They also have a contract to buy their gasoline, which is part of the reason they are currently bailing out those local gas stations.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38000963/BP_to_Bail_Out_Own_Brand_Nam...
I don't think in English as if I was having a conversation with myself. I think the best way to describe it is my brain precaches the words of objects or things or concepts I am thinking about.

If I look at the bolts sitting on my table, I don't literally think in my mind 'oh look those are bolts'. I recognize them for what they are, my brain does some processing, and at the same time as my mind is about to wander off thinking about the project I have them for, it loads the word 'bolts' into fast-access memory for immediate access.

That's why I get so hung up if I see or discuss something I can't remember the word for. I go into a waiting-for-IO state where I can't precache the right word :)
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Tethering is on the iPhone.
Oh, I forgot. Another good site is http://www.savemymemories.org. It's run by an international imaging association to which most major imaging companies belong. Anything on the site has had to pass muster with a board of imaging scientists.
I couldn't agree more. And don't think your personality isn't a fit. Several of my less outgoing (and in one case, downright awkward) roommates from college entered sales and came out more engaging and gregarious than I could have ever imagined them.
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I'm willing to forgive his "poor" writing on account that he's right - most CS students and graduates don't have any clue about cache effects on algorithm implementations, and that's just wrong.
>> I cannot spell words which are spelled differently than the way they are pronounced like resteraunt

Sure can't ;)
You can't really blame facebook for sending messages like these when they have no idea what's happened to him.

The simple solution is to let them know: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=842#!/help/contact.php?sh...
> a rock-solid technical pitch and a rapport with your target market is only 10% of the sales execution mix

Very true.

I remember some of my SE colleagues working long and hard for a great demo, which was then thrown away by the salesperson when he printed the customer's main competitor's logo (and name) on the proposal given out at the start of the demo. It wasn't Ford vs GM, but it was in the same ballpark.
>> "And chocolate? Hershey's is your standard??? No wonder"

All the times I have visited the US, I have not been able to find any chocolate sold in convenience stores, supermarkets etc that doesn't taste like crap. The best I've found is a muskateer bar which is vaguely bearable. It's similar to the cheapest chocolate you can buy in the UK.

Perhaps if you go to a specific boutique chocolatier you can find some nice chocolate. But in the UK, you can just pop into any newsagent corner shop and get some good chocolate.
Whether a prenup can withstand a challenge depends on the circumstances surrounding the creation and execution of the prenup. State laws vary on what is necessary for a valid prenup.
The length of marriage is irrelevant to the viability of the prenup. The existence of offspring is likewise irrelevant. A judge cannot ignore a prenup for circumstances that come about after the prenup is signed.

However, judges can and do use any technical or substantive problems with the prenup, however small, to justify striking down inequitable prenups. The usual problem: the wealthier spouse did not disclose all financial assets and liabilities. Something as simple as not disclosing a checking account with a $0.01 balance can invalidate a prenup protecting millions.

(IAAL)
I don't think its a cycle or a spiral so much as a constant. People have always been greedy, wars have always been unnecessarily waged, companies have always abused their power. The only thing that changes are the names of those responsible for it.

As for older generations yelling about newer generations, I suspect that's simply "wisdom of age" coupled with "fear of change".
As a child I started thinking on images and pictures than on words and I had the impression for a long while that everyone does the same. Though I never had any issue with my thinking or hearing or talking, I comparatively had slow speed at putting those thoughts into words. Or in otherwords, my thinking speed exceeded my talking speed. 2 points to mention - 1. Either that speed difference is the reason why my brain developed a different interface for thinking in terms of images and pictures than on words. 2. Or maybe because my brain used images first hand and that’s why my talking speed became slow (since visual network is comparatively faster than words). [A brain scan should tell you the difference]

Either way, I just said this to explain that our brain just needs a medium to think or if explained in terms of semantics - a medium to develop the semantic net. The voice that you have in your head is not something with which you are born. It’s something that’s being developed. It’s the same that happens with anyone with a hearing/speaking impairment that the brain will develop a different interface for them to think. For example, most people with autism probably will have a different thinking medium. Not sure if I can say it this way - but I felt that the brain uses ‘its own language’ to develop its thinking ability based on how you are.
Skype only wants you to interact with their network in ways that fit their business model; this is why, for example, the Skype GUI is free but the Asterisk connector costs money. If you can reverse-engineer the protocol, you could build a client that upsets their business model.
WikiLeaks will Not be abandoned.
Imagine if there was a method of notifying facebook that members are dead. Now imagine the sheer insanity that would result from random people 'deadifying' their friends as a practical joke. Even if it was 'verified' by humans at some point, there would still be error and it would be a nightmare.

Getting told to 'reconnect' with a dead friend can be mildly traumatic. Finding out that your friend is dead when they're really not doesn't sound like a better scenario.
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It all depends on your business. Enterprise salespeople are used to long sales cycle, high-contact, high dollar sales. If that doesn't fit your business model, then you want to find people who've done something similar to your model.
I'm not sure OO fundamentally requires the kind of inheritance relationship that is familiar from languages like C++, Java and C#, though.

For example, the Liskov Substitution Principle is phrased in terms of a subtype relationship between two types. This is a logical relationship rather than a physical one: it is about whether both types present the same interface in terms of (some aspect of) their state and behaviour, and therefore generalised code can be written that interacts analogously with instances of either type.

This subtype relationship need not be realised via a subclass relationship, which is a physical relationship related to the mechanics of inheritance hierarchies and so on.

I don't see any problem with mixing pattern matching and OO, if you allow a representation as an algebraic data type as one view of a class and provide a mechanism to convert between them in some suitable way. Indeed, I'm fairly sure I've seen papers investigating this approach, though I'm afraid I can't immediately remember what the authors called it so I could look them up; if anyone knows what I'm talking about, please post citations if you have them.
reminds me of jane mcgonigal's ted talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_be...
Yes, this is the PERFECT plan.

But how do I name my router at 192.168.1.254?
It might. However, large companies have an uncanny ability to screw their sales force. If you do really well they will reward you with a higher quota, and they'll divide your territory in half. I've seen it happen way too many times. Plus tech sales tends to be unstable. One year you make $200K selling something that is in demand, the next year it's out of style and you get canned for missing quota. In 1998-2001 I was selling Sun servers. It was a pretty damn nice way to make a living. In 2002 you couldn't give a Sun server away. So the odds of somebody staying content in tech sales is fairly low. The desire or need to change usually hits ever few years.
Right, but the text itself (as Twain wrote it) is not copyrighted, only the text as set out in the published version. Which means that scanning the book and distributing a pdf of it would violate copyright, but anybody can edit and publish their own version.
Facebook has had a mechanism in place to deal with deceased members for a while now. http://www.ehow.com/how_5177993_memorialize-deceased-faceboo... .

I somewhat hate to link to eHow but all of the other links were insensitive and given that there's a specific instance here I thought it'd be better to use something that doesn't unabashedly address the deceased.
> and you reach that conclusion?

I think Zed is a good guy. He is certainly civil in person and tends to have well thought out arguments. I was surprised by the claim without any data to back it up. I missed the whole implicit common knowledge part. I thought people were trying to defend his statement.

> it's turned into a rather droll black comedy.

I'll defer to you on this one. I wasn't intending on being a troll, so sorry if it turned out that way.

I'm just annoyed that I was getting downvoted over what I thought were valid questions.
Funnily enough, there is such a way - at least, sort of. http://www.ehow.com/how_5177993_memorialize-deceased-faceboo...
Numbered hostnames are fine if you've got a cluster of identical machines such that there's not much value in differentiation.

'xyz241' is a test router

'xyz211' is a second test router

'xyz262' is a production webserver

'xyz546' is a production webserver

'xyz33' is a development database server

'xyz411' is a development database server for a temporary contract dev team.

'xyz101' is the corporate file server

If you have hundreds of devices to track, the weaknesses of using numbers should be apparent. The only advantage of that naming scheme is organization of the entire monolithic collection. It's easy to select new names and it is easy to enumerate the entire collection at once. Those are definitely advantages, but there are some obvious drawbacks, too. There's no obvious way to tell, short of committing it to memory, that "546" is a webserver.

To track of any other pattern, you'll have to encode some sort of information into the names. For example, you could organize the numbers, like most colleges do for classes. <subj> <level-number> * 100 + <course-number>. eg: MUSC 211.
A more useful article would be titled, "Make sure you are really good at public speaking."

I'm not convinced working a sales job is necessary for most people to sell a product to investors, and I'm entirely convinced a sales job won't help you sell a product online through a web interface.
That's exactly what you can do - I had to last year for a friend,

see:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/help/contact.php?show_form=deceas...
naming servers is so BAWS (before AWS). :)
I happened to be looking up causes of death for different age groups at the CDC and was surprised to see poisoning as a leading cause of death in my age group. Google led me to this article.

Reading past the first page requires a free account (Hint: http://www.bugmenot.com/view/medscape.com).

Excerpts:

* "As a leading cause of injury and death [in the US)], drug poisoning has passed other leading causes and is now second only to motor vehicle crash deaths"

* "We're talking about maybe 35,000 suicide deaths a year in the United States, and as I mentioned, in 2007, over 27,500 unintentional drug poisoning deaths, so unintentional overdoses are still behind suicides for the country as a whole."

* "When you look at percentages, it's the 45- to 54-year-olds who are in the greatest risk, followed by the 35- to 44-year-old range. Not very far behind would be the 25- to 34-year-olds; the teenagers, the 15- to 24-year-olds; followed by the 55- to 64-year-olds. Men die at higher rates than women of unintentional drug poisoning, but the rate of death for women is increasing even faster than that for men."

* "A high percentage of people who died from unintentional overdoses were given a prescription for hydrocodone, methadone, oxycodone, or other related pain compounds"
But you can blame them for sending out "reconnect" messages in the first place.
Very interesting. Thanks for the explanation.

My hacker colleague who lives on the edge with DataMapper says Ambition-like stuff is to be included in DM. Is that related to your gem or a completely different activity?
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Probably a poor comment, but...

I had to make sure Mr. Chretien didn't make this post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbaxSNh3KB4
Googling wikileaks here anyway nets the Wikipedia page as the third link:

> Wikileaks is an amorphous, international organization, originally based in Sweden,[1] that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive documents from governments and other organizations, while preserving the anonymity of their sources.

I normally hate the passive-aggressive JFGI response but in this case I can feel the pain. It's pure noise that a simple google search could have avoided.
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this! i like it when the hostname is the physical location of the box, and then aliases to map services to the box, like you suggest.
I don't think nnutter meant naming machines by their purpose like "mail.localdomain", "www.localdomain", etc. Rather, for example, I once named a QA build-testing machine "yaeger" after the test pilot that broke the sound barrier. Hostnames whose namesake has similar traits (even vaguely) to the machine's purpose can help you remember which machine performs what task on your network, or recall what a machine's purpose is by it's hostname. Careful selection of such names provides these benefits without causing any more problems when you move a service to another machine than using any other naming scheme.
Well if you put is this way, all is lost: you've already decided it WILL leak. Without checking.

What are you missing?

It's not that user wouldn't know SQL. It's that code like this is more readable because you don't do a mental switch in your brain. I'm all for it: see my story [1] for a take on readability.

Or just accept the fact that there are tools around for mature people who enjoy it. DHH didn't create his ORM for dumb people, he did it because it made his hackin' universe more pleasurable. Some dumb people used it later, but who cares.

[1] http://inthephase.org/back-to-ruby
I've heard him described as the first American author, and that seems about right. His writing did not just continue on the literary tradition as developed in England, but provided a style a voice representative of a different culture.
Isn't it interesting how many parallels can be drawn between these points and the questions an investor or founder should ask about a potential business.

+ What's the new idea?

+ Does it work in small cases?

+ Does this lead to something demonstrably false?

... and so on. There's a good blog post there for someone who can write well.
When you are proven wrong you are no longer taken seriously. People tend to say "See, you were wrong here. So what else are you wrong about too?" In order to circumvent having to justify everything, admit nothing. Or, If I'm never wrong, I'm always right.
I would think that people that cling on to their misconceptions might have a hard time releasing the idea that they are not perfect butterflies and are simply like everyone else.
Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway
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Right, you neglected to mention the use for the counter in your prose.
You name the new element of course. perhaps tahunium? ;-)
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Thanks for this response and the parent question too. I updated the article to make this point more clear.
At the very least you need to have the idea confirmed and ensure the problem exists outside of your entrepreneurial vision.
As a hacker, I'm much more excited by FaceTime as (finally!) a standard for video calling than on iPhones specifically.

But, FaceTime could also work for the general public because up until now, video calling took effort and planning.

Even with Skype, both parties have to sign up for accounts, exchange screen names, make sure they have computers with a camera, speakers, and microphone. If you're really lucky, the computer will be a laptop. And both users have to be at their computers and signed into Skype to make the call, which means that in a lot of cases a video call ends up being coordinated over the phone beforehand.

FaceTime just requires that you know each other's phone numbers, (when the spec is released, I'm sure big, bright "FaceTime Compatible!" stickers will show up on lots of phones) and, for now, be on WiFi. "Upgrading" from a phone call to a video call is as simple as pressing a button. The "cost" to make a call is so much lower.
Forget India. Outsource to Arkansas.
I think it is. I've down-voted a couple -4s, but on refresh it still shows -4.
nit-pick: you are right that he is a narcissist, but due to his apparent capacity for empathy, he is not a sociopath in the clinical sense. That he chooses to disregard this and place himself first above all else in order to preserve his own sense of inner comfort makes him a narcissist.
here's george orwell on mark twain (the good and the bad):

http://www.george-orwell.org/Mark_Twain_--_The_Licensed_Jest...
iPhone (and any AT&T phone) cannot make or receive calls at my office in San Francisco while (non-AT&T) Android phones work great.

For me, the primary test for "better phone functionality" is how many places I can be and succesfully make/ receive calls and by that metric the iPhone has a lot of catching up to do.
Emphatically agreed. Wikileaks lost my interest after their "Collateral Murder" campaign and then later threatening to take their ball (data) and go home if they didn't meet fundraising targets.

Compare that to how Wikipedia runs their affairs-- between the open and transparent editorial process and making their entire data corpus available from the get-go.
Yes. This was mentioned some time ago - apparently the display of negative votes is capped but the votes continue to have an effect.

Here's an idea: It would be interesting to have the minimum karma required to downvote an item increase with the absolute value of the existing value. Thus as a comment goes more and more negative, fewer and fewer people could successfully downvote it.
Here I can't help you much other than to tell you that every tech founder has this exact problem, and most of them get rolled by the first couple sales people they hire. I can take some stabs at what doesn't work:

* Hiring people who have posted amazing stats inside other sales orgs but who have never done sole-starter early product sales

* Hiring people at moderate to high base pay to move an unproven product --- there are plenty of people who flit from role to role in gigs like this, never moving anything

* Hiring people for their rolodexes --- every A.M. can talk about a rolodex, and it almost never actually matters on the ground with your product

* Hiring "strategic" salespeople who don't want to cold call or do traditional sales but would rather spend their time on psuedo bizdev which, not coincidentally, can't easily be measured for varcomp or retention purposes

What I have actually seen work: learning how to sell, yourself, before bringing on a salesperson.

If you look around you'll probably find a couple dozen decent posts that address this question.
It's remarkable if we can observe these differences directly given our currently rather course scanning mechanisms. That may or may not be what the author was saying though.
Ugh, yes. I'll admit that since I've quit my day job and started building my own company, I've also started to really focus on my diet and my appearance, since there is a chance that people might pay more attention to me if I fit the standard of beauty. I love getting healthier as well, but it does kind of suck to have that message pushed on my brain.
I mean making lots of repeated phone calls, and I mean rule #1 of selling: ask for the sale. Pro sales people are always trying to transition from their current state to the end state; they do it by brute force at every state in the machine, and often construct entire new subgraphs of the sales state machine so there are multiple transitions towards closing at every state. Pro sales people are also really good at qualifying opportunities and don't waste a lot of energy on weak prospects.

All of these behaviors are extremely aggravating (even moreso if you're a bystander watching it happen):

* They're always bugging people

* They're always asking for progress towards closing

* They evince no actual caring for the customer's problems (that's the SE's job!)

* They won't give the time of day to someone they've deemed unlikely to help them close a deal

Think of them like Hollywood agents, like Ari Gold from Entourage, and you're not too far off. Except Ari actually cares about Vinnie Chase.
Another similar app for the iPhone just came out called TakeMySpot. Seems that there's a building market for this space. It'd be nice to see something like this actually catch on.
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Pessimistic would be LD1.
Yeah, it's horrible verbiage, plus it's really rather self-serving on Facebook's part.

Really this is "we noticed this user has stopped using Facebook, please trigger an action so we can spam their email to remind them that we exist." It's not about helping the user, they don't send these types of things for users who are active on Facebook otherwise, but not directly interacting with you.

"Reconnect" to a dead friend is pretty worst case, but it's also insulting to be told to "reconnect with Bob" when you go drinking with Bob every week. Facebook has incredible hubris to think that if two people aren't interacting on Facebook, it means they aren't interacting at all.
I don't know, in http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/rissetto/offense.... , the essay that gets mentioned most frequently, Twain is bitching more about Cooper's word sense, broken story telling and the Mary Sue quality of Bumpo more so than grammar and Noble Savage stereotypes.
It seems from reading that post that PayPal's and Flickr's original ideas were ahead of their time.

Paypal's original idea is still a problem for people and it's similar to what Square is doing now.

Flickr's original idea is lot like the social MMOs we see now like FarmVille and many of the other Zynga games.
Ah, ok thanks. Is there a way I can see unread replies to my comments without having to manually go to all the comments I've seen?
In this specific case, it's the choice between the most effective product and the one with biggest marketing budget.

Also, in this case, companies wishing to do business with the government should adhere to government norms. If the government dictates OOo-compatible file formats, then OOo-compatible it will be.