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I would be pretty annoyed if I couldn't install W7 on the laptop I bought today. Well, actually I wouldn't, I hate Windows 7, but you get my point. We are not dealing with old hardware, we are dealing with problematic manufacturers and carriers.

This is the same problem we had in the past, but it is more of an issue now. This is what Apple freed us from, no matter what carrier it is on in the world, I can upgrade my phone.

Android do a lot of things right, this is not one of them.
> far more harmful to the oil industry in the long run.

Given that this is a media driven news cycle type event, a short term fix may be the only thing that could work to deflect criticism. Besides, large corporations are not known for thinking in the long term usually, so your retort does seem a little odd to me.

That does raise a question… Does this industry need to be harmed to make further progress elsewhere? (I don’t consider myself much of an eco-sympathizer; I tend to look at oil politics from a more conservative “national sovereignty” angle.)
No. Simply because there is a cost involved with deployment, seeding initial data, training, and then getting data back out if they didn't like it.

These people are usually busy people running their businesses. There was a Mixergy interview with LessAccounting where they said that people searching for "Quickbooks replacement" on Adwords were not sufficiently motivated to replace Quickbooks. The revenue earned from Adwords covered a third of the costs.

In Steve Blank's "4 steps to Epiphany", the enterprise customer who was a apparently close to buying (according to Sales VP). Eventually, when this question was asked... "if it was free, will you deploy it straight away?" the answer came back as "no, because it was not urgent, etc".
No, they just need to partner with people who are interested in playing this game.
All writing rules have exceptions. But in my experience as a CS grad student, his guidelines are good. His guidelines tend towards less words and more precision. Those are good goals.

Also, having seen Matt Might give a talk on a day's notice when he was still a grad student, I think his students are in good hands.
Well, it becomes a problem when users start reading about features, and they are not available on their phones yet.

I buy an android phone, and it doesn't have built in mifi, I am going to be annoyed (I am ok, I have a nexus one).
You're right. I just don't think that's a healthy way to build a community. It reminds me of those high end "planned communities" in places like Florida, Dubai, and around the Med. You get interest and deposits, build a "perfect" environment, and people come in and enjoy their holiday homes without really forming a "community."

Most good communities, online or off, build organically and over time. See HN, Reddit, MetaFilter, Digg, or even Stack Overflow itself (in its original form). Getting hundreds of users to "commit" to forming a community on day one is a recipe for disaster and will end up in a place people dip in and out of rather than truly care for.
You should just use google, it finds better results than DDG most of the time for me at least: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubun...
I'm sure you got my point. The amount of press that this topic has generated is really only warranted if this flaw were a deal breaker, meaning the release was a dud. Given the uptake, and the fact that signal quality for the phone is higher, and the tiny fraction of users affected by this easily manageable quirk, we have to look for some other explanation for the outcry.

In the forums that I visit, I've noticed that usernames I associate with being anti-Apple are far more likely to be concerned with Apple striking a suitably guilty tone.
A quick google reveals this: http://www.cultofmac.com/steve-jobs-weras-a-tie/1566
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There's plenty of software you can buy and treat like a "good" and not a "service". But your point is that vendors should not be allowed to sell software as a service. Presumably, people shouldn't be allowed to rent cars either?

I don't see how you ever get around the fact that people should be able to charge whatever they want for what they build. Yes, they should be transparent about it. But who are you to say "since your bits are running on my computer, and my computer can save them and replay them over and over again, you have no right to restrict how I use them"?
That must be why Slingplayer and Facetime are wifi-only.
I imagine having most traffic off the road from midnight to 6am also impacted that as well.

It also mentioned they lowered the speed limit 10MPH, which saw a reduce rate of accidents as well for the two years until the raised the limit again.
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Huge volumes of money are made on software licensed per-seat and per-CPU. This article is very, very simple: if this person pays 3x what a single license for the software costs, he can rip video faster. But he doesn't want to pay 3x or (presumably) 2x or 1.5x more. He paid 1x, now he has the bits, and he should be able to run it wherever he wants.

Except that the world doesn't work like that. He doesn't have to pay 3x, but the vendor doesn't have to let him run it on 3x as many machines.
I believe he's an advisor for Shopify: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/shopify

I didn't catch a disclosure in the post, but I may have missed it.
Not exactly right. A part of my point was more that the complexity and finickiness of the STS seem to be largely, though not completely, due to the procurement process and some peculiarities of the U.S. political structure. Parts for the STS are made everywhere by subcontractors, in order that politicians can bring jobs to their constituents, and then integrated. I think that's to what you were referring but misunderstood.

As to mission-critical parts, there is some leeway in the definition of the term that may explain the confusion. "Mission-critical" means, necessary for the survival of the crew and passengers. The "mission" is, get to the desired location if you can, but abort safely if you can't. For passenger planes, this means that if one engine goes out, the plan can land on the other one (or two or three). If the ailerons go out, the pilot can achieve roll control with rudder and throttle. If the INS goes out, the GPS can get you to a visual on a landing strip. In each of these cases, there is a single failure and nobody dies. Hence, these systems are not "mission-critical" where the "mission" is transporting crew and passengers without loss of life. That the plane goes somewhere specific is a fringe benefit, so to speak.

IIRC, the O-ring disaster had to do with the poor design and decision-making regarding temperature limits of the inadequate O-rings. Once hot combustion products get past an O-ring, there will be a failure. On a system where those hot gases can impinge on a fuel tank, there will be a catastrophic failure. On the STS, that makes those O-rings mission-critical.

Interestingly, some have said that the choice of Thiokol is the ultimate cause of that disaster, for precisely the reasons I talked about in my original comment. The SRBs reportedly had to be able to be shipped over the road from Thiokol's plant. In order to do so (instead of building a plant near the launch site), the boosters had to be segmented. Segments -> O-rings. That's pure rumor, afaik.
Are you saving these? If so it would be a fun project to run some stego software on them for shits and giggles.
It does seem that concessions were made. For example, the Facetime app is currently wifi-only. Also, I believe movie rental is wifi-only. Those are understandable restrictions for now, but this article rings a bit hollow in light of them -- It would seem that AT&T won a few of those battles.
Actually, you just have described Yahoo BOSS ("Build your own search engine") program :)
I keep looking to make a kindle purchase of a newer book. The price floor of $10 on a digital item has so far been hard to swallow. I've downloaded plenty of out of copyright classics, but why buy the kindle edition for $10 when I can get a gently used paperback for around $6 shipped with the ability to resell it for anywhere between $4-$8 depending on supply?
As a motorcycle rider, I'm intrigued by the (mistyped, I'm sure) phrase, "You'll end in an accident eventually" (which, as typed, has significant truth). Wouldn't really need much info at that point, eh?
What? Isn’t $100,000 in prize money a big enough favor to begin with? This post just discusses the winners of a contest he posted about before as a post-mortem. If you were in the contest because of reading about in his blog, would you rather not find out who won and how they did it?
isn't this the same company that was selling cases that they haven't even built yet, so Google or was it Paypal locked their merchant account
Before you dismiss this because it's limited to hardcover books, keep in mind that, for general books, a hardcover version is often released before a paperback one is made available. This means that many new hot books will only be available as hardcover or Kindle editions. And the Kindle format is winning.

This is a remarkable result and should be considered as a sign that we are reaching a tipping point for ebooks, to phrase it in a Gladwell-esque way.
I think it's supreme confidence in the product. Apple made some design choices to make the phone thinner and more attractive. They think that's what a lot of people really want. An extra dropped call here and there (+ <1 per 100 according to their numbers) simply isn't that big of a deal and they know it. They're daring people to return the phone -- that's how confident they are in its appeal. The sales, return rate and customer satisfaction numbers all back this up. People bought it because it's thin, beautiful, and has really good software. The antenna issue doesn't change that.
I originally misread the quote as "We don't wear suits. We don't even wear suits." I like my misread better. Seems more Apple, even.
Besides, large corporations are not known for thinking in the long term usually

BP doesn't have to be thinking twenty years out to see the folly of admitting that there is an unavoidable risk in drilling.
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Thanks for your comment, I upvoted but wanted to respond - I believe the lack of support is very likely related to practical issues you mentioned especially the lack of family time and uncertainty about the outcome of the startup. Its apparent the way forward is to address each of these issues.
Go with your gut feeling (which sounds like is leaning towards #2). Your gut feeling might be capturing a lot of subtle hard to articulate facts and the vibe you picked up from the teams.
I expected a serious article from Wired about how 3G networks promise so much but can never realistically could deliver the bandwidth consumers want along with an explanation of the reasons why.

Instead I got a puff piece about twitter and people complaining with hashtags (yet again(!)) and about meetings with managers who most likely don't know or understand the issues with the network.

Nobody has approached the topic of 3G network saturation in a serious manner yet. I hope someone does one day.
Use one of the many other ways of conducting a poll on the Internet that isn't tied to your social networking karma.
Wow, that page reads like viral marketing for an American Psycho sequel.

"Very nice, Mr. Bateman, but while you were over at the Marine base getting your Florsheims shined, our load balancer went China Syndrome. We'll let your agency know if we need any more help, thanks."
Must be a rental
Dogtags and bracelets aren't a bad idea at all, but a lot of people won't wear them.

In fact, for some professions (woodworking, electrical work, factory work, etc), dogtags and bracelets are prohibited.
It makes for a better story when you don't mention this.
The renter - you rented the apartment, it would not cost the landlord anything extra if you sublet it, yet many places have restrictions on subletting.
I am targetting your notion that if it doesnt cost the vendor anything extra you can do whatever you want. Both in case of the airline ticket and a concert ticket I think the situation is very similar to running software on multiple machine. There is a fixed cost to production, yet there are terms outlining how the user can use the product.
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> I'm curious: do you have a data-only plan so you can use VoIP to make phone calls?

Yeah. You need the Google Code version of SipDroid; the one in the market is crippled: http://code.google.com/p/sipdroid/
Or the Canadian Version, Rickards White. Kinda not as cool as Blue Moon as a brand.
This is true in my experience - there are so many mini-failures in developing a startup that having someone there applying pressure at those low-points can be incredibly devestating to my morale. Its always an easy attack because it consumes a lot of time, has not produced real money and is considered risky - i.e. I cannot defend the idea except with solid numbers or return.
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I get the impression that Apple is not run by a bunch of MBAs, unlike a lot of the big companies around the world.
Anybody here from Blekko? I'd love a special HN invite :-)
If so, I guess we're not going to get Perl 6 after all. After all, all the existing implementations have adopted strategies of getting some features working then getting more. It certainly looked to be working pretty well. I mean, in the last month, I've used grammars, feeds, hyper-ops, lazy lists, and many of the other cool features Rakudo has already implemented. I mean, feeds seriously got added last night. Any project still adding wonderful features like feeds after 30 public releases can't have much hope, if developing Perl 6 requires implementing every feature addition at once.

And the other implementations have it even worse... How am I going to tell sorear that, despite probably averaging over a dozen commits to Niecza[0] each day since the beginning of the month, and the incredible progress he's been making with it, he's doomed because he isn't trying to implementing everything all at one?

Joking aside, no one's trying to implement every feature of Perl 6 at once. The developers of the various Perl 6 implementations are trying to implement feature after feature. Sure, some of them are so productive that the Perl 6 implementation on which their brains run must have implemented auto-threading,
but even they aren't trying to implement everything before they make a release. Rakudo's 31st compiler release is this Thursday; and Rakudo [1] is coming out the 29th. Pugs[2] has had quite a few releases. Pawel Murias just released Mildew[3] and STD.pm[4] on CPAN.

Rakudo , for example, isn't going to have all of Perl 6 implemented; but it has quite a bit, and that quite a bit includes some great things, some of which no one else is even trying to do.

[0] http://github.com/sorear/niecza/commits/master
[1] http://rakudo.org/node/73
[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Pugs
[3] http://search.cpan.org/~pmurias/Mildew-0.03/
[4] http://search.cpan.org/~pmurias/STD-0.02/
The dev team is pretty responsive to feedbacks. Also found them on twitter: http://twitter.com/picloud
Is there a list of other language "maneuvers" one can employ?
"Why do so many people on HN love to disparage school?"

Probably because most are well up the scale on what society regards as intelligence, and in the course of 12 or 16 or more years of schooling ran across teachers who weren't, or were otherwise obnoxious. Lord knows I ran across a few classics. You were fortunate, I gather, in your college; if you had such a good time in your primary and secondary schooling, you were very fortunate.

As to the general point, I am fascinated by the hard words that the learned find for the schools they attended. My best guess is that much of learning comes in short bursts, that this is necessarily the case, but that some of us infer that the whole experience could be at the peak level of intensity.
Here are the things I use regularly that iOS doesn't/probably-will-never have.

- Free turn by turn navigation that's better than any dedicated gps device.

- Wifi or bluetooth tethering. I recently was travelling with my girlfriend, and we both could access the internet on our laptops routed over WiFi through my phone. The hotel even had free wifi, but it was easier to not bother with figuring out how to set that up, and just use my phone.

- Fully integrated Google Voice.
Well, actually if I got a million donations I'm pretty sure I could:

A) Hire a bunch of people to enter them in, if it were important.

B) Just use my lamsonproject.org software to automatically make a list of contributors.

Because, you see, at that point I'd be both rich as hell and a bad ass programmer who can automate things, while you'll still be a troll. :-)
Not hypnosis, just your friendly neighborhood reality distortion field http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn-YesqzvNk&feature=playe...
Are you accusing him of phone prejudice?
The missing measurement is latency. The ping times of IP over 747 are dreadful.
This is where I think many entrepreneurs get their stuff mixed up.

I am he who giveth thee the ability to earneth a living whilst doeth what thee doeth. I am a paying customer.

A migration of all people like me, and you will have to find a job doing something else.

That being said, I don't think you should be listen to EVERYTHING every customer has ever said...but blatant disregard to my opinions with the statement:

"But who are you to say 'since your bits are running on my computer, and my computer can save them and replay them over and over again, you have no right to restrict how I use them?'"

Suppose, when you bought your computer wit Windows and wanted to install your favorite version of Linux on it, you were restricted from doing so. Many people would cry foul. It's the same thing, it's just that we have been cultured into believing that when we 'buy' something, we should be told how to use it.

Enough is enough!
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The way I see it, they took a chance on a different design, that produces better results most of the time, but has an unfortunate side effect that it causes a problem when held a certain way.

The reception problem when holding a phone a particular way happends on lots of phones out there, this was just never relised before. If you were using a Nexus on or bb 9700, you would lose a call and blame it on the network or the lift. Now, you might check how you are holding the phone.
Thanks. Well noted.

Sadly, I am stuck with 2.4~2.6 for now. Can't wait.
Related to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1530478
yes, good stuff. have you looked at aubrey de grey's book on ending aging? also grossman & kurzweil's transcend?

there is a tremendous opportunity there in non-institutional health/longevity. one entrepreneurial challenge will be getting a combo of scalability and defensible market position.

i hope to do something in this field more actively once my current project has grown its wings further ;).
Of course not. What gives you the impression that this is the case? There will be a Perl 6.1 with features not present in Perl 6.0 in the same way that Perl 5.12 has features not present in Perl 5.10.

If you meant to ask "Why not release a cut-down version of Perl 6.0 several years ago and iterate on that so you could be up to Perl 6.5 or something by now?" the answer is more complex. First, the most necessary feature of Perl 6 to allow for in place upgrades without falling into the morass of backwards compatibility that slows down the development of Perl 5 was not yet ready. That's a difficult problem and one you don't get many chances to do over.

Second, none of the implementations were mature enough to recommend for general purpose use. (That's as much due to internal strife in Parrot as anything else.)
If I gave you $20.00 US, What do you buy or subscribe to online?
If the vast majority of the people think it's overall a much better phone than the 3GS, is it really a badly designed phone?

I don't own one, but the whole antenna thing sounds massively overblown by a press hungry for some controversy. Anandtech went so far as to say that the phone was better overall in marginal reception areas than the 3GS.
Also, Steve wearing a tux at the 2010 Academy Awards: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/08/steve-jobs-big-night-...

For what it’s worth, the dramatic quote is attributed to “one of Jobs’ deputies,” rather than Steve himself.
From the link: "Heres’ the first picture of Steve Jobs in a suit and tie for at least a decade".

That's a pretty long time.
I'm not sure about everyone else's state, but here we now have an emergency contact list as part of your driver's license record, so it's easy to look up even if all they have is a name.

I keep a couple small laser-printed, laminated contact info cards in or on my running / cycling gear.
To get an appreciate for Dick's bizarre late stage mysticism, make sure you read Valis too.
Jobs must not get invited to many weddings.
Ah, I see now. Apologies for the confusion, sometimes the tone of a comment goes straight over my head!
my suggestion: read 4 hr work week, and also read what derek sivers did to systematize stuff at cdbaby. 6/22 = huge % of your life.

sounds like you do need some balance and there are definitely ways to achieve it without necessarily tossing away yr new proj, so do question any assumptions that might lead you to believe otherwise.

you should definitely have some agreement in place w/ yr partner that covers what to do in different scenarios, if you don't already.

your partnership contribution should be based more on results than input time (easy to say, i know).

good luck, hope this helps -- go for it.
> All I know is, I tried for a few days and couldn't get good output in all the formats I needed (.flv, xvid avi, wmv, etc.)

Well, there's your problem right there... You're using obsolete formats.
Oh, it's a deliberate thing. I don't know many long-time motorcycle riders that haven't broken something at some point from a crash.
I didn't really mean anything by it. I do mobile app development and referenced is like a car mechanic might mention the make of a car involved in an accident. In any case, whatever your phone please take a minute and make sure your info is up to date.
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Good. We can only hope that the oil industry is damaged by this already, but probably not. Most people just do not care about this stuff.
I bought a DODOcase and absolutely love it. I found out about them when their founder asked about optimizing a sales pitch on the Lean Startups Google Group. It's a great product and I can't recommend it enough!

Vaskel, I don't know about suspending their merchant account, but they do have about a 4-5 week wait after your order. I know you can't sell speculative products on Etsy but they never tried that (to my knowledge).
Small point: I stopped taking the survey after a couple of questions, because I'm not in your demographic. Most of the questions involved my child/partner's emergency info, and I'm single and childless, so I ended up with No on most questions.

Perhaps you know this and are factoring it in, but at any rate, that's why I didn't finish the survey. It might be good to have some qualifying questions at the top, or even a note about the demographic you'd like to respond.
Tim is on the Shopify board of advisors. He gets no other compensation beyond the shares that advisors get. The whole contest also was Tim's idea. It promotes exactly the kind of thing that he is all about: build an awesome business and have fun doing so.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1432107

Yeah it got too popular and they had trouble filling the orders fast enough and got some complaints from impatient customers. A slight mishandling of things by the sounds of it but an understandable one. FYI Selling something you haven't yet built isn't a crime btw.