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What's with the Nokia doesn't get it part? The market repositioning from smart-phone to mid-range consumer phone and delayed launch of the N8 would seem to suggest that Nokia definitely does get that the N97 was a disaster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N8

Disclaimer: I work for Nokia.
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What's right with ticket scalping ? What value does it provide ? None.
Nokia lost the way a couple of years ago. From rock solid software and physically neigh indestructible phones that you could operate in the dark with one hand we've gone to phones that take 5 minutes to switch on, frequently crash and drop calls and explode in to a variety of parts (cover plates, batteries, main boards, buttons and so on) with normal use and that require the memorisation of insane menu structures to use.

What a waste of a very good brand image.
There's nothing special about sharps and flats in that regard. Depending on your tuning system C could be different in every scale. That doesn't make it something you want to encode in your notation.
There's several central ideas in CS that most people know. (Not everyone knows every single of them, but most people know many of them). One of them is the idea of finite-state automata. If you have a finite set of strings, or a regular language, you can build a DFA to recognize that.

Once you know know about DFAs, and you realize that there are only finitely many words that have a Levenshtein distance of less than k, it's just a question of (i) practicality and (ii) technical details. But when you have the idea to combine concepts X and Y, you know what terms to search for and what papers you want to look at.

As to practicality, there's potentially many words that have a Levenshtein distance of at most two for some word, but you don't care about the bits that are different, so the automaton is much smaller.

Part of being a successful CS background is to know all the kinds of hammers that are around and having a feel for the right hammer to use given a particular nail.

In this case, the hammers are abstractions. Algorithms are fundamentally driven by abstractions into which you then fill necessary technical detail - getting the technical details wrong may leave you with a correct but inefficient algorithm at worst (but enable you to recognize a more efficient way when you come across it), whereas you're bound to reinvent a new duct-taped makeshift wheel wherever you go when you don't know the right abstractions.
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If clients were programmers then templates should be macros
I think macros share some characteristics of templates, they are templates for making new code. But macros are also aware of context information (closure, dynamic variables, can be debugged, ...)

I think that if clients were programmers, they should be looking for more templates and macros.

As many of the jobs are about web programming, and clients are not programmers macros are not so useful in this context, so templates are winning and languages are php, python, ruby and perl are beating languages like lisp.

So, if the market change and clients are not anymore interested in web programming and another type of job get at the top we will see a strong increase in macro programming for this new job, perhaps a new kind of mixture between a template, a macro and a parallel library (STM, pure functions, functional programming, erlang hot actualization of code.
We are working on a Facebook application that socializes online storefronts to drive word-of-mouth marketing. High-concept pitch: Blippy for storefronts.

http://zuupy.com
At that time, they only made tyres, galoshes and toilet paper.

Eh? I don't think that's true. Nokia, just like Ericsson, made telephone switches and was involved in NMT, back in the 80s, when they started to make phones.
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While I agree with the premise of this article, the fact remains poor design is poor design.

I'm recoding a web query tool write now that was written horribly. It actually worked, but the efficiency problems it had would have made the site choke when exposed to real users. Prototyping is one thing, but if you're application / site / whatever is going to be hit by lots of people, there's a minimum level of efficiency that has to be in the code or else the thing's gonna tank.
Slave owners universally don't want to be slaves, thus it's immoral. Buyers and sellers of proprietary software don't have no problem buying and selling proprietary software from others, thus it's NOT immoral.
Right. It apparently was the ex-ex-job that was cushy, not the salaryman job.
Very interesting. As much as I love the piano, sometimes it feels pointless to struggle just to play chords and arpeggios.

I see that the Chromatone costs "only" 190k yen now (~=U$1700),
Zabihullah Mujahid is a member of the Taleban himself - what possible motive for "discrediting" Wikileaks could he have?
Without first-hand knowledge of the benefit you could get from playing scales, I'm not sure what you're attesting to. You've managed to get along without them. That's fine. It might not make a noticeable difference after a few years of playing, but if you keep going, there are technical holes in your muscle memory which you don't even realize you have, which scales would help fill. (It's this way for everyone, BTW.) I still get benefit from scales after 25 years, and actually enjoy them much of the time-- when they're savored and played in fun patterns. The time to play scales in piano practice can be a lot like the meditation portion of a yoga routine.

On the other hand, if you're just playing "for fun," and aren't hitting any major technical frustration points, then whatever. Keep having fun. Just remember that if you start to not have fun, there are "icky" things like scales which can help you keep advancing. Scales can begin to help at any point in one's musical life.
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That really sucks, but it is the risk you take when you allow someone else a say in the operation of your business. If you want to have a solid income stream you'd do well to stay miles away from walled gardens where some flunky behind a desk can destroy your business with a click of their mouse.
There have always been lies, then advertising, and they deserve to be taken to task for that, but what I find surreal is how much computing power in our hands that we take for granted these days.

I guess one day kids will complain their microsd sized devices don't project holograms bright enough or in enough colors.
10 buy N shares @ $0.011
20 sell 500 milliseconds later at $0.014
30 goto 10

well that's pretty much simplified. but the idea is to make profits from really small price differences very frequently. the hard part is to chose the right stock and do the trade fast enough.

the first part is solved by supposedly smart algorithms (the guys who invent those algorithm are called quants because ... well ... the first guys who started HFT were ex quantum physicists. nowadays the term got coined to quantitative analyst)

the 2nd part of the problem is the execution of a trade in the lowest possible time span. that's where our coder guys come in - they implement the algorithms and trade stuff and make their software as fast as possible.

if you ask me this is all big bull shit. it's like a high speed rand() - one time you get lucky one time you don't. and the $100k day/profit is an average. you don't know how large their trade volume is (I guess it's way more than $100k - way way more). so on one day in a year they might hit the jackpot and their rand() chose the right stock at the right time and make like $50 mio and then the rest of the year they only hit shit losing $20 mio. at the end they made $100k/day ...
I don't think I am. Consider the case where one lacks the time or technical facility to execute, and only needs someone purely to 'implement.' Designers invariably are given a lot latitude, but sometimes the brief is 'Give me something like this.' One is unlikely to be required to completely rip off another designers work, those types of clients don't like spending the type of money required to engage a real designer, more likely they will engage a peon with no design aptitude and a cracked copy of Adobe Creative Suite, because their fee will be more in line with their expectations.

So when a client requires something, one delivers it. If in one's professional opinion one believes something else would serve the client's goals better, one runs it by the client. Usually they will be ecstatic with the designer's insight, as we both agree that designers are the enlightened experts here. However, sometimes the client will not like the idea, so one just knuckles down and gets on with it.

So it seems that it is you who is actually confused on this point. However when you graduate from Lancaster University, pass over from the world of academic pontification, and into the world of commercial reality, I am sure you will experience lucidity.
If you really enjoy getting to the heart of "what sounds good," you would probably enjoy adding more music theory to your study. Make sure not to stop at scales, and move on to intervals, chords, and the circle of fifths. :) Eventually, instead of just the "what" of what sounds good, you start learning the "why."
I remember a comment by google people, they said something in the lines that they prefer not to employee many valuable people because they being out are better for IT progress.

If YCombinator culture is too strong, it may damage the necessary diversity in people conception of a startup.

A good group of people need a lot of small differents groups in order to explore the landscape of startup opportunities. So let's hope that YHacker influence doesn't grow to excessive influence.
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What Nokia doesn't get is that they can't market their way out of inferior products, not anymore.

They have gotten themselves blind on the quantity of phones that they sell and think that the quantity is a proof that they are doing something right. That they just need to claim to have smart phones and the market will obey.

It's really quite sad, as this company if any have the ability to be at the forefront. But such is the mechanics of The Innovators Dilemma.

Obviously Nokia used to do things right but now they are nothing but a sad sad joke.

It's not that they don't have smart people. It's that they have legacy, horrible horrible legacy and a product innovation and development structure very close to that of the most horrible parliament you can imagine.

And as we all know. Nobody ever built at statue of a committee!
> Students pay tuition that is only dependent on the number of hours they take regardless of what type of course. An industrial technology major has roughly the same tuition as an english major. Students are also shielded from the costs of the system by scholarships, loans, and parents money.

My understanding is that this bundling, as far as the liberal arts/hard division goes, works massively in the favor of the latter, because the liberal arts courses are much cheaper to provide and subsidize the latter. (How much does it cost to run a poetry course? How much for a Cisco networking class?)
He's not discrediting wikileaks, but the rest of the article is.

A choice quote: "The warning came as the US military's top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen said that Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, may already have blood on his hands following the leak of 92,000 classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by his website."
So a decrease in liquidity will cause an increase in volatility?
Of course it's not true, it's not even a hyperbole, it's simply completely false. Nokia was, for most of the 20th century, large industrial group, making many various things, consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment included. It wasn't like some backward poor finnish rubber-makers in the late 70's or 80's decided to get in a new business, not even remotely.
> how much computing power in our hands that we take for granted these days.

On my mid-range Nokia phone, I have a Commodore 64 emulator.
I find that fairly amazing, given that the original C64 was more expensive than my phone when it came out.
Why not extract value before that happens? There is always going to be the risk of a new competitor operating below costs, but money in the bank is the best way to fight that.

PS: Nobody things the best way to beat gmail is to offer 1 TB email accounts. Email fell behind the HW curve but as long as Dropbox stays reasonably close to actual costs nobody is going to dramatically undercut them.
> Universities have always been research-oriented, even Plato's Academy was: "In at least Plato's time, the school did not have any particular doctrine to teach; rather, Plato (and probably other associates of his) posed problems to be studied and solved by the others." [1]

I say this sadly, but Wikipedia's philosophy articles aren't always too great. That Plato's Academy was not pushing its own doctrine is a disputed topic; Aristotle (who would know) says that the Academy promulgated a Pythagoreanism as its esoteric doctrine, and that Plato's dialogues are only exoteric exercises and preliminary to a real understanding is a very old view (you may have seen the recent coverage of possible numerical structure to his dialogues).
Yes, definitely -- this was my favorite line as well. Though, I do have to admit that watching metrics in real-time can be fun. :)
I wish it was normal practice.

I can't remember ever being asked to submit a code sample (and I've been doing this longer than some of you have been alive).

I've had a few places ask me to write some code during an interview though. I'd much rather that employers judge me on the production code I've written than something I wrote "on the fly" during an interview.
A little while back I wrote about my problems with the N96:
http://posterous.richardcunningham.co.uk/dont-buy-a-nokia-n9...

(I've recently switched to the iPhone 4)
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Your point about the "white keys" is well taken, which is why I mentioned moveable do solfege. The absolute pitch of "C" takes on a different name in every key, which respects its relationship within that key.

However, there's a reason that scales like the melodic minor are written with sharps (or "sharped flats"/naturals) ascending and flats/naturals descending. Sharps emphasize rising pitch and flats emphasize falling pitch, and can thus be bent slightly higher and lower, respectively. You would lose that with fixed chromatic note names.

(And as an aside, recognizing when a note in a scale has been modified from its normal position, and in which direction it was modified, is yet another reason to practice your scales!)
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When I'm like that I tend to turn to learning new skills. It's always interesting, I meet new people because of it and you never know when it comes in handy. Also, it isn't rare that during the learning of a new skill I see a way to improve on things and that might motivate me enough to go and do something about it.
You are right about the tone used in some of these discussions, but on the other hand I think that the public should know who's really doing more for GNOME, the Linux kernel etc.
Time to end the 'disposable geek' mentality
Rajnikanth, Aishwarya Endhiran The Robot Movie Reviews, Wallpapers, Photos.
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Rajnikanth's Endhiran The Robot is a big-budget 2010 sci-fi Tamil Movie directed by famous Tamil director Shankar and Producer is Kalanidhi Maran. The movie lead star cast is Aishwarya and Rajnikant. Danny Denzongpa, Santhanam, Karunas and more are also in the cast. Oscar winner Allah Rakha Rahman is composing and directing music for Endhiran. This may be the most expensive film ever made in India. This Movie is The Biggest Movie of the Year in Tamil Cinemas.
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How to Grow Bonsai Trees
People who grow bonsai trees for various reasons are different than people who merely are looking for an interesting plant, see and like a bonsai, buy it and take it.
If Red Hat has contributed 16% and Canonical contributed 1%, isn't that about equal when you normalize for the size of those organizations? I don't have a good sense of how big Canonical is, but Red Hat is a ~6 billion dollar company and quite likely 16 times (or more) bigger than Canonical. Even if that ratio doesn't quite hold up it's still pretty unfair to compare two organizations operating on different orders of magnitude.
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Your facing a psychological self hack. You want something but you can't bring yourself to achieve it because you have enough. Maybe what you desire isn't a strong enough motivator.

Try to find a more potent carrot. "Impact" appears to drive even the most successful people to work even harder.

Or you can find absolute peace in your lack of need.
It’s all relative. The N97 certainly would be a awesome phone if there were no Android phones or iPhone. Complaining about something which other companies have no problems achieving is not unreasonable.
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Ask HN: What annoys you?
A lot of recent threads have been talking about sharing ideas, I would rather share our problems. Hopefully some people can be lead towards solutions that already exist, and it might be useful for those looking to startup something new.

List the problem you have, and why you find it a problem, possibly saying why other things you have used havent solved it.

Make 1 comment per problem, and try to upvote / comment on problems to expand on them.
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> Take engineering only after liberal arts because "young people today are going to live to be 90"? Really? So we're all going to work until we're 75 and hope that modern medicine is able to wind back the clock of youth and add useful working years, rather than just prevent our aged bodies actually dying? Who's going to pay for 25 straight years of education?

Lifespan increases are not due to dragging out the time where one is feeble and sick, but by increasing the healthy part. People in their 50s are 'younger' than they were decades and centuries ago. Thinking that the increases are increases in morbidity has been called the 'Tithonus error' or fallacy.

Here are some links for your perusal:

- http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=compression+of...

- http://www.jstor.org/pss/2664720

- http://www.longevitymeme.org/articles/viewarticle.cfm?page=1...

- http://www.courant.com/health/sns-200910201351tmspremhnstr--...

- http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/87/8731sci2.html
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Sorry about the title, I noticed after that it sounds, erm. ...
Identity - I am sick of having to create accounts on every website in the world, OpenID is an awesome solution but it needs to be implemented ubiquitously, I do not want everything tied to my twitter or facebook account.
Integrating eAccelerator Into PHP5 And Lighttpd (OpenSUSE 11.2)
What do HN Crossfitters think of my startup?
Payments - I am tired of entering 20 things every time I want to pay for something, paypal has been problematic with cancelling accounts and generally being untrustworthy.
Tell me with a straight face that wasn't on purpose ;)
Ex-Apple dev pushes multi-touch SproutCore apps
Too much choice.
Banking - My bank has a website that the 90's would be proud of, it gives me little to no information about my spending habits, transferring money is a nightmare, and using kublax (similiarly mint) had my account banned for security purposes.
Arranging travel schedules, tying together train, plane and car hire.
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"Apple’s App Store was a constant source of stress in the development process. Every time another story of Apple randomly booting an app from the store came out, the whole team quaked. The idea that we could do all this work and then Apple could deny the app, or even keep it in limbo forever, made us second- or third-guess every design decision. “Will this pixel hurt our chances of getting accepted?”

Apple is killing the creativity of their developers with the uncertainty of their App store policies. We made it through okay, thankfully, but I can only wonder about how much more interesting the store would be if Apple had given developers a clear list of rules, and promised to stick to it. The Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt people have about the App Store was entirely optional – Apple brought it on itself, and it’s not going away."

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Totally spot on. I'm not even in the iphone/ipad development space (yet?) but among the people I run with who are, that's a big question mark for them, and something which is feeding in to the Android hype (rightly or wrongly). Whether Android is a better platform for a particular need is coming second to "there's no one to arbitrarily deny our app distribution" (assuming nothing illegal or malicious still). Yes, that's still balanced out with 'there's more money in the Apple ecosystem' but that might not hold true forever.

With magcloud, there's no guarantee that the next update version will be accepted, or the next one, or whatever. Based on the reports we've read from others, magcloud might use an icon that Apple reviewers don't like, and magcloud v2 on the ipad might not be accepted. Insanely arbitrary, and Apple will need to do a lot to win back the trust of devs who have defected (assuming there's anything they ever could do to win it back).
I used to do research for the OED and generally if there's evidence that a verb is common in the field (used in magazines, books, etc. by multiple authors and not just in reference to it's original usage) then the OED is willing to include it.

If there's a term that you think matches that criteria but isn't included you can gather up some relevent citations and send them in and they'll consider it for addition.

To get a transparent look at how they do this kind of thing have a look at:

http://www.jessesword.com/sf/

The OED ran an open research project to gather evidence of science fiction terms as they figured the online SF community would be much better at finding this evidence than their own researchers.