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Wallet, small phone, cigarettes, lighter.
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If you're really interested in this, the best place I've found is the "Everyday Carry Forums", where they talk about this all day long: http://edcforums.com/. Here's my list:

In pockets:

* Wallet. I looked around for a looong time for the perfect wallet, then I found these guys: http://www.all-ett.com/. I use one with leather lining, and it's an amazingly thin wallet, but which looks like a regular one. Has space for all my cards (not that many), plus some money.

* Cellphone (Samsung Touch, a terrible phone I'm stuck with)

* Keychain - An openable metal ring for easy removal of stuff, which right now include: Car keys, house keys, 8gb flash disk, and an old CPLD chip from my former job with a hole in the middle.

In back pockets:

* Coins, rarely. I almost never keep coins on me, but sometimes you get stuck with them after cash transactions (I prefer credit cards any chance I can use them).

* Extra keys, if I need (taking a different car than my regular one, etc.).

Used to have or want:

* Used to carry a small LED flashlight (don't remember which), but it lost its battery and hasn't been replaced (sadly).

* Wish I had a small pen.

* Have a Leatherman Squirt pocket everything, but don't usually carry it around.
I noticed that everyone here is using a MacBook Pro 15" laptop. Why is that?
I can't tell if #2 is a joke or not. Entry #1 is funny though, "beam me up, Steve G.".
Questioning user interface dogma in your field can have interesting results. I'm building a DNS service at the moment and having experimented with a few user interfaces, have found the one I like the most has a single page for viewing and editing the zone, fixed record names and types, no class or TTL (at all), and a field for each unit in a records data, rather than the traditional one data field per record data. It's more limited than other interfaces but it's also more powerful; have to wait and see whether the market agrees.
Easy solution to that: put a label on the box and put a line there when it comes in for diagnostics.
http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/

"The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android application"

Not as simple as Inventor, but pretty powerful.
Is there something fundamental I'm missing?

Sure looks like it to me.

Steve Jobs is well-known for being fanatical about his desire to carefully control the Apple user experience.

What would possible lead him to hand over control over one of his flagships? What advantage would he (or his shareholders) get from it?

If he wants to improve the software quality of iTunes, he certainly has the resources to do that, without relying on volunteers.

I don't think he's particularly interested in helping you to manage your iPod via Linux. In fact, all things considered, he'd prefer it if the desire to manage your iPod effectively led you to purchase a Mac.
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If it were open source, Apple would lose control. As it stands, you can only transfer songs to Apple products (iPod, iPhone), and you can only access the iTunes music store. So Apple would probably lose money by open sourcing iTunes. Perhaps, anyway - it's a possible explanation.
If HTC can pull this off, I (a huge apple fanboy) might consider switching. I love developing for the android platform, but the phones that have come out so far just irritate me.
I think the biggest use for this would be when you don't always know the source of the video. Like with user-submitted stuff.
I've heard the same use of the words, although I don't recall the context. Pretty sure he was a suit though.
Their programs would be single real numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_computer .
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I think if the apps were made then not put on the market then all would be good, otherwise there will be huge software quality dilution problems. The android market already has enough of a hurdle to jump over because of the countless "Hey, lets try out the android platform and make a few bucks" apps out there.
Ask HN: where are the UI designers in HN?
Just askin'. It's far easier to find coders than designers.
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Thanks! That wallet looks like just what I've been looking for.

eBay would appear to be the place to get them. Cheaper and, more importantly for me, international shipping.
Perhaps some of us are both? Depends on time of day really :)
"I admit this naming convention is more for the massive nerd factor than practicality."
N95, EeePC 1005PE, Pilot G207 Black, a wallet containing essential wallet deelies and a towel.
The motivation for the design of COBOL, in part, was similar. The thinking was, "Oh, programming is too hard for accountants. Let's design a language that they can use". Well, some accountants did pick it up, but they became programmers and many didn't do accounting any more.

Perhaps Google will have better luck, but I can't remember a time since COBOL first tried this that some effort hasn't been ongoing to do just that. Anyone remember Fifth Generation Languages? And before that Fourth Generation Languages, or 4GL?
Quite a few of use here at Sofa read HN, including the designers.
Can't speak for everyone else, but personally:

The 2" of extra screen real-estate doesn't give me a huge benefit usually (not enough to put two windows side-by-side); but it does widen the laptop enough to make it harder to use in tight spaces (ie. airplanes), and it does make the laptop heavier.

On the other hand, at the time I bought my MBP, the 13" MacBook Pro was not a Pro. I'm honestly not sure what I would get these days. I might go for the 13", and get a bunch of external stuff (display, mouse, keyboard, but mostly the display).
Not really - Netscape still had more marketshare (as a percentage of people who use the internet) than Firefox has today.
its awesome. Samsung Galaxy S comes bundled with it, made the move from keyboard to touch screen bearable.
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There are 3 devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. All three have the same buttons in pretty much the same spots, as I recall.
Replacing just the internals could work. But don't forget that both the battery and exterior gets worn down quickly.
Thats a different thing - what I am primarily trying to avoid is the case where you end up broken, hateful of your former lover and have to waste a ton of money in court to be allowed to see your children.

I doubt a prenup would prevent you from sharing your wealth with your wife though.
> I'd sort of like a beautifully designed custom phone shell into which I slot the latest internals with the new chips etc. Having the same phone shell for 10+ years, but seeing the internals upgrade would be nice.

Maybe we treat our phones differently, but unless it was made of diamond it would be beat to hell well before 10 years passed. Not to mention that mobile changes so quickly that internals will be hardly recognizable in 10+ years (at least 5G and god knows what else).
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Perhaps some future "professional developers" will be encouraged to get into programming by experiencing a tool such as this early in life.
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It might be useful for programmers in other languages, so they don't have to either come up with english names, less descriptive names ("id1"), transliterating words, or replacing letters with "similar" ones ("O" or "OE" for "Ø")

Funnily enough, I just registered here, trying to use my first name Øystein, and what did ol' hackernews tell me? "Usernames can only contain letters, digits, dashes and underscores"
I don't know how to break this to you... that is also the name of a powerful laxative that some people have to take before a colonoscopy. And yes, it's a horrible name for something like that, but the association is still there for me.
iPhone 4, wallet, bag of tobacco, lighter, keys, and a portable HDD.
I am not sure. I've learned programming on the C64 when I was 12 years old. I used Basic. On the other hand a friend of mine used a so called 'game maker' to create games. His games (which he created without programming) looked much more professional than what I wrote in Basic. In fact he had to configure so much things, that it was overwhelming to me, so he was a king in my eyes. But unfortunatelly he never learned to program and I bacame a software developer. I think a Logo interpreter or something which has something to do with creating algorithms is a better tool for a child to start. A tool like this does not teach what is the most interesting if someone really has affinitiy to programming: algorithmic thinking.
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It can be used for obfuscation, making it a little bit harder to decode a CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Also this can be a good compression method. (Assuming you parse CSS and JavaScript)
the main-ingredient of this whole project, the designed appearance of the phone, lacks proper proportions, is undynamic and caused either by unawareness of what makes great design

what makes great design?
I've really pleased at this news. I've been using Spotify in linux via WINE for a while which has been generally fine despite a few glitches, especially on update, but it'll be so much nicer to shift to a faster and more reliable (and hopefully eventually supported) native version.

Go spotify!! :-)
Well I'd never heard of Wordnik but this is very cool and I'll be using it. This is like a respectable Dictionary.com+ Urban Dictionary. I don't see the category theory definition of a monad on it, though. Which is somewhat odd.
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Actually, I was thinking along exactly these lines. For the original purpose of getting transfers of cash from her parents, there would have to be integration with other devices/parts of the infrastructure, working with your cellphones. Absent that, it wouldn't be any more convenient than PayPal.
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How does HN handle the scalability of lots of users and simple disk file access for the stories? It is simple disk file access isn't it? What kind of number of users are they seeing and isn't it quite amazing how it always stays up?
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wtf: "there are issues regarding decoding of local music on the Linux platform so we haven’t included support for local files in this version."

every music player + distro has had this solved for years ...
I was hoping for something more extreme, maybe along the lines of the finger implant that lets you feel the fields in your fingertip?
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Who else also got to the "the mobile phone is home to many microorganisms" part, stopped, took out his own phone to wipe it clean?
I think it would be super boring. I myself would not read a documentary account of my life.

Technically, it's basically either "learning how to do increasingly advanced satellite tech/eng work in the field, starting from a strong IP networking and sort of college ee/rf background" at the same time the industry itself was developing (late 1990s-mid 2000s). Also, political crap trying to deploy linux based servers on windows/activedirectory centric networks, with multiple layers of policymakers involved in every decision. Very very little worthwhile technology. The only people in the overall government space doing commercially-normal interesting tech seem to be TIGR, and for mostly-awesome (but still inferior to b2c webapps, by a mile!), Palantir.

On top of that, the whole sealand thing from 2000-2002, and anon ecash stuff in the caribbean from 1995 (mit) through 1999 or so.

Then, learning more about defense contracting and how the military works, having zero background to start, from 2003 onward.

And the "going to iraq thinking it would just be reconstruction and a technology land-grab, and it turns into a shooting war after the war itself is done" thing.

Combine that with generic startup things with somewhat more fraud and logistics problems than you'd face in the US, and living in a mix of crappy (iraq, afghanistan) and boring (5-star hotels in dubai and kuwait).

If you're interested in the war part, actual soldiers have way more interesting stories from iraq or afghanistan. For the tech part, the technology itself is really boring. For the military psychology part, just read catch-22 and slaughterhouse five.

Plus, writing it fully accurately would make me either look dumb or naive most of the time, and there are OPSEC and liability concerns detailing what other people have done or failed to do.

I think the most workable solution would be some kind of "techno-thriller" set in relevant places, but fictionalized.
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Has anybody put brainfuck on their resume?
That sounds kind of hypocritical. If you agree that ideas don't matter so much, why dissect a pitch like that?
After having used Linux for 10 years on the desktop, I now admit that as much as I want it to be, Linux isn't a general purpose desktop platform for a variety of reasons.

But providing a client for paying customers is a pretty good way for Spotify to justify the cost of a Linux version and differentiate themselves from their competitors. This also may be a good for Netbook makers.
Either works, seems to redirect.
I have a "seriously tore up" 15" MBP from spring 2008 which I carry with me for really mobile use, and a 17" 2010 MBP which sits in my "base" location for weeks at a time. I went that route, vs. the 15" HD, because I can't easily have an external monitor while being mobile -- otherwise, the 15" HD seems to be the best, coupled with an external 24, 27, or 30.

I am considering getting a 13" MBP or maybe an x301 or panasonic s9 whenever they next get bumped. I don't care for netbooks (too weak), but a long battery life small laptop would be a nice tool. The lack of a keyboard on the ipad cripples me; often, the blackberry is more useful.
How un-HTML5 of HackerNews!
Unfortunately, most people don't know what a browser is. Google's shown that in their own research for Chrome.

> But it does show you the overall idea behind sense -- stupid gimmicks to make phones more exciting to people that can barely afford the monthly contract fee for a smartphone.

Sense for me gives me instant access to my friends activities (via FriendStream, which won't work on normal Google home as animation isn't allowed in widgets - see the vanilla Facebook and Twitter one-at-a-time widgets), my investments (same thing), and a visually driven music player that takes advantage of the fact I can find a picture a lot faster than I can a word.

I can do all of these without leaving my home screen. On regular Android, I can't.
Ubuntu could add this by default to their distribution (or by easy install link) and generate extra revenue by provisions for each sale.
I think this has to do with the encryption of the local files. Spotify doesn't plainly store the mp3s or equivalent in a local cache (for obvious reasons); they store what looks like encrypted snippets of songs all across different folders.
It doesn't install on Ubuntu 10.04:

spotify-client-gnome-support: Depends: gconf2 (>= 2.28.1-2) but 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 is installed.
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Dude, iTunes music has been DRM-free for more than a year now.
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after struggling with concepts that are about equivalently difficult to recursion or pointer arithmetic

I think that's a bit optimistic. Even within the realms of human programming languages, competence may require struggling with concepts that are as difficult as, say, monads or virtual destructors or Prolog cuts or abstract factory factory factory factories or call-with-current-continuation. Those are all at least one step up from recursion or pointers. I don't see any reason to expect that alien languages would be nearer in conceptual difficulty to C than to Haskell or C++ or Scheme or Prolog.
I only have Spotify unlimited (no mobile support), not premium.. Even tho I don't get ads, it won't let me log in.

Back to running it with wine, which runs adequately.
"milbloggers" are much more interesting to read -- you can check michaelyon-online.com and freerangeinternational.com and find stuff linked from there. Generally someone who is on a 4-15 month tour blogs about it while there, and sometimes it is really interesting. Usually the people doing interesting stuff don't have time, though.

I blogged for a while (but it was all password-protected due to OPSEC issues). Then I mainly switched to just use quora.com to replace most of my other "recreational" computer time.
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I think they're actually talking about Spotify's ability to play your own, unencrypted regular music files. The Mac and Windows vers do this - which means you no longer need to switch between apps to play music you either own or subscribe to.
Actually, I believe they are using Vorbis, not mp3 encoding.
Palm Tungsten C (yes, really!) for reading books and studying Chinese, really crappy Windows phone, Sansa Fuze MP3 player (for listening to Chinese, not music), Canon SD790 pocket camera, small notepad in a nice flip pad with penholder, Harrap's Chinese Pocket Grammar, teeny wallet (basically just a little leather pocket with a zipper), ID badge for work, keys, coins, lint. I really need to either consolidate my electronics into one device or start wearing suspenders.
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I don't have Gnome installed (kubuntu 10.04), and got the same. The core package works fine though.
Yes, my alarm was triggered when he said the camera was of his own design, I could not fathom a single person producing extremely high tech imaging systems.

But the writer pulled it off really well and I figured the guy maybe had the thing custom made by Nikon or something.
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excellent points about the failures of SQL as a declarative language and optimizers in general. I'm sure that's part of the reason there is so much crappy SQL out there.
There's a flickr group devoted to this: The Items We Carry http://www.flickr.com/groups/theitemswecarry/pool/
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* Keys (car, house x3 [handle/deadbolt/back door], work office, various cards [library/discount])

* Phone (HTC Droid Eris, was great until VZW botched the 2.1 update)

* Wallet (always too full; I tend to accumulate receipts in here)

* Pen (Charcoal black Lamy Safari fountain pen. Never go anywhere without it)

* Moleskine (if it wouldn't look too out of place. I nearly always throw it in the car and take it in to many places)
I'm both, I suppose.
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But imagine if they could?! Right now, there is no technical reason why this is not possible, all hurdles are legal ones.
That point is usually missing in the idea vs. tech posts here. The heart of it is that you really need both skills and can decide which is your focus and which is your compass.
It's nice to make an id called "school[school_id][4]" to match the name attribute of the input field.

(In case you don't recognize it php will automatically turns names that look like that into an array.)

Or if you are trying to name fields from a multi dimensional array. Say name['foo']['bar'] - you would name the id name_foo_bar

Simple enough, except when you also have an array: name['foo_bar'] - which looks identical to the first one.

Now that you can use other characters besides _ to separate the fields that helps a ton.
it looks like it was meant for debian. You could try forcing it though, since it's the same gconf version, with only the distribution's release (the -2 or 0ubuntu1 part) differing.
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Keys (obviously to get back home), Portfolio (With identity card, driving license, credit card and some cash), Mobile Phone.

That's all, what do I need else? (Sometimes I bring a Usb Flash)
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WTF? Why are we retweeting on HN?
The level of work that David Grann put in is a marvel. He generates an idea for a story, researches it, and has enough for an article. He has a queasy feeling about a subject of the piece (not unlike the art connoisseurs might have), and investigates further. He turns up lots of dirt on Biro, enough to put his claims into doubt. He has enough to write an article. But he doesn't! He investigates the fingerprints further, and finds expert analysis that indicates that the fingerprints are phony. Not writing the article yet, he takes all of his evidence back to Biro to examine his reaction.

The editor also deserves credit. This is a damning article, but there is no evidence of sidestepping or evading the truth. All of the extra research was extremely time consuming, and when the author yelled, "This guy is a fraud!", he wasn't told to publish what he had, he was told, "ok, show me the evidence."

"The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art" takes on a sinister tone after reading the article
No, I won't feel comfortable (work, friends, family, our culture). There are lot of other options, so I'll consider other ones.