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I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss it - the money could have gone towards this important acquisition http://www.flipboard.com/press/flipboard-acquires-ellerdale

Obviously, iPad may not be the only platform, it seems good enough of a prototype to get Kleiner Perkins attention (remember they've allocated a few hundred mil for iPhone + iPad apps?). I wouldn't be shocked if they've already partnered with Nook and Kindle.
How is this different with an RIA vs non-RIA web app? You mean like something in Flash or Flex vs HTML? Not sure I get what you mean.

Are you saying it's more work for a localized app (coolapp.com/customer1/) to interact with services.coolapp.com than with coolapp.com/customer1/services. And does the latter imply that there would be massive redundancy or can one go about routing queries to avoid that?
Have a look at http://techmeetup.co.uk/

I went to the Techcrunch event in May and there seemed a few interesting wee companies and at least one sensible VC around.

Edinburgh is a gorgeous city with a great atmosphere and fairly convenient for the Highlands if you like outdoor sports (the skiing in Scotland last year was particularly awesome).

The main downside to Edinburgh is that travel can be a bit painful - although it is a lot better than it used to be.
The curse of choice... (no sarcasm intended)
London cheap compared to Germany?! Compared to Scandinavia perhaps, Germany no.
>Droid 2 on verizon (out in about a month I believe) if you have philosophical objections to Apple

...or if you want a professionally functional notification system, or widgets, or strong universal voice support, or...

Seriously, whenever someone starts in with "philosophical objection" they're propping up a garbage strawman. I choose Android because, in a hundred and one ways, it provides me a more usable, more powerful, more useful device.
Moreover, whenever you are searching a problem space there is not guarantee that a solution is optimal. All you have is this heuristic that it is good enough. This is quite acceptable if it's an industrial process, but when's people's lives are at stakes it gets harder to stomach. The what-ifs would still remain.

By the way, have you seen Palantir's solution? (see: http://www.palantirtech.com/) It's really, really interesting. It is described as a search based solution that shows the interconnections between data from different govt. databases and allows for real-time analysis. I wonder what it must be like to run it.
Wildcards have come down a lot in price. I think you can get one for about $200 now. I'll probably need one anyway since nearly the entire service is going to be on https
And even if you do, it presents itself as a USB mass storage device, so it's pretty much universally usable.
Yeah but my physician says it's better to look slightly downward at the screen. Which is kinda what you see with some of the standing desks too. Totally not an ergonomics guy... I just know what I was told. :/
It's not my statement it came from Mark Pilgrim. You can check it out here http://blog.whatwg.org/whats-next-in-html-episode-1
This is a bunch of anti-nuke nonsense written by non-experts in the energy field.
Sketching interfaces on the iPad with iMockups
Good point. In my case, it's really more document management based, i.e., each app instance (customer) has many clients whose private data they will be managing after it has been posted.
Glad no one mentioned Italy, don't even think about it. Just founding a limited liability company costs 6000euros+ (2500 of those are to be put in as starting capital MANDATORY and the rest is pure cost)
>Personally I still think the Apple way of pre screening is healthier

That's because you're stunningly ignorant, not only about Android's security model, but also about Apple's inability to catch anything but the superficial.
It's been over 32c (90f) in NYC for most of this summer and with relatively high humidity and I don't stink after being outside and taking the trains. Nor do most of the people here. I would LOVE it to be 25-30C most of the summer! In fact it's hit 37C (99f) a number of times here too!
Unfortunately I don't, as the chair I have now is a stupid dorm chair. Any office chair with an adjustable back will do, just make it go back 120 degrees...
You should visit a hacker news twitter feed: http://twitter.com/newsycombinator

It posts articles that make it into the top 5 of the site. Scroll through the past tweets to see what you've missed.
I'd rather die than quit coffee. The method I use with good success is:

a) Drink coffee without much sugar/milk. I prefer iced espresso drinks that end up being 50% ice or water. Drink it slow so the ice melts as you go.

b) Drink a 1:1 ratio of water to coffee. If I have a 20oz iced Americano I drink 20oz of water before having more coffee.

c) Pay attention to your pee. Easiest way to see if you're getting dehydrated.
I agree somewhat, but I think it's mostly due to precedence. There are plenty of examples of URI component set ups that are (and feel) secure (gmail on https for one).
Gruber claims that Apple caught the antenna bug two years ago. Why then, after all of the reports, did Apple claim to be working tirelessly around the clock for some 22 days to find the issue? Secondly, it isn't "one spot": Touching the antenna anywhere attenuates and detunes it, which is why no other phone has an antenna in places that you touch. The whole bridging antennas thing is a red herring.

I fully expect an upcoming revision of the iPhone -- perhaps even the white version and then a Rev.B black version, to have a coating on the antenna.A simply layer of epoxy and it would still look groovy and would eliminate almost all of the issues. The downside is how that will wear over time, which I'm sure they're testing right now.
Yeah, but by then we'll be able to build everything with 3d printers, so all they'll need is the specs.
Until about five months ago, I had been using the legendary Motorola F3 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_FONE_F3 ) for something like two years. Amazing phone, just the absolute basics: even SMS messaging was somewhat difficult. Due to it's e-ink display the battery lasts almost a week. It was a great conversation piece too.

Let us face it. Anywhere I am (home or office) I have at least 4 different ways to connect to the web and waste my time over there [;-)].

Actually, it was for this reason that I moved on to a blackberry, I was constantly spending time checking my email. Naturally, by the time you open your browser you go on to check other things etc etc. Now I write (personal) emails almost exclusively from my blackberry and it has made me much more productive.

I would have gotten and Android if there had been a model with physical keyboard which I could have gotten, but alas it was not the case.
You mean that when people use the word HTML5 they don't use it to mean the w3c spec, they mean it in the buzzword sense?
As someone who used an Ubuntu box for a media player for 6 months, I have to say that Linux is _almost_ good enough. My major problems included:

(1) Because there was no cooperation between the decoders and video cards, playing HD 1080p content at 60 FPS would skip a lot. Perhaps a beefier CPU would help, but the same machine running Windows had no trouble.

(2) Samba, or at least Ubuntu's version of it, is very flaky. Some days it would see my networked drives, other days it wouldn't.

(3) Moonlight does not handle DRM content from Netflix. If my TV or XBOX did not already handle Netflix, then this would have been a show stopper.

All that said, I did run it that way for 6 months, so I guess it was "good enough".
I did not know there was a "great" debate between Textmate and Vim. I would expect the camps to be rather far apart. It would be nice if the "new" version of Textmate would come out. It seems to be floundering.
I mean I tried to define HTML5 in a way that's the most meaningful to most people.
$499 for 250GB BW seems a bit too much.
I'm with you on this. It's basically the Nexus One hardware, with some quite minor differences and some HTC-specific Android customizations. It was already pretty darn good, but with last week's OTA-upgrade to Froyo, i'd say it's an excellent smartphone.
> We don't really use much tech from 50 years ago, hardly any from 100 years ago, and it just gets worse from there.

Printing presses, microfiche, film, radio, telephones, television, computers, light bulbs, electrical sockets, toasters, cars, bicycles, electric stoves, speakers, microphones, projectors, etc.

Technology is not nearly as fickle as you'd think. Remember, 50 years ago is only 1960. VHS tape technology is almost 40 years old. Sure, things are moving faster now, but things that work tend to stick around.
Yes it is, but the spec covers only a subset of what people are referring to when they say "HTML5." The official spec [1] outlines what is actually part of HTML5. This includes a bunch of stuff, like <video>, <audio> and <canvas>, but not the new javascript apis like local storage, drag and drop, web workers and web sockets, nor CSS3, nor SVG, etc.

AJAX originally meant (as its name implies) the use of XMLHttpRequest to asynchronously load xml data from a server. However, it quickly became a buzz word that meant increased interactively on a web page outside of the page reload. HTML5 has similarly evolved from describing a limited set of new standards to describe a new way of building highly interactive, desktop-like web applications and encompasses a whole host of W3C standards, recommendations and working drafts.

For some evidence that this expanded definition has become the norm, take a look at the HTML5 Test [2], which has been linked here several times. While not anything official, only a handful of the features tested are actually part of the HTML 5 spec.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20100624/
[2] http://html5test.com/
It's so boring to read Grubers fan posts over and over again.. Why are they so popular on HN? They are usually full of subjective opinions on how great Apple is, nothing more.
More and more people are switching to Vim at the moment. Especially in the Ruby On Rails community.
Amazon CloudFront does not provide any security against copying your rtmp/http stream and paste it in any other website.
Some SSDs are simply slow. Remember when Apple first introduced SSDs and while it reduced heat/noise and make it more shockproof, they were actually slower than HDs.

I'm going to guess that the second HD being tested is a OCZ Vertex LE, which is one that I have. It's a ridiculously fast SSD, however it has a lot of variance based upon the compressibility of data (as the Sandforce controller's advantage largely comes from dynamic streaming compression).
I agree with you that it is sometimes (perhaps often) psychosomatic.

I myself experienced much improved condition when I stopped being fearful.

Would you agree that in at least 5% of serious cases, the physical not mental problem is the main thing?
Not the same thing.

I miss the blinking light, too. Ironically due to moving from an android device that had it (in many colors, too!) to one that doesn't have one (samsung galaxy).

Setting a recurring sound is no substitute.
It pisses co-workers off when you leave it on a desk. And it pisses yourself off when you have to get up at night to shut the damn thing up.

On-screen notifications are no substitute either because, well, you have to activate the screen to see it.
To interact with others you need to really break your
focus, but that causes you to slow down, so maybe you try
not to do it, and before you know it everyone else has
gone home and it is dark and you're wandering through
an empty parking lot...

Supposing that programming is indeed more isolating than other professions, that programmers are personalities more prone to isolating themselves in the first place and that this leads to a significant amount of mental health problems. What could Zed write that, in similar vein to the remarks about various physical conditions, would prevent people from acquiring those problems? What could you have read and understood and believed enough to have stopped you from taking on a job during which you went 18 months without enough social contact?

(Not trying to bait you, just honestly wondering what you think would help, because I feel I only solve/understand such things by experiencing them)
Thanks for all your comments!

Is there an argument to be made in favor of either approach as regards security?

I was thinking of a URI component structure that would use each customer's office address/credentials (gathered at sign up) e.g., coolapp.com/john/doe/MD/Newton/MA/02158/
Having used both in real life and for development my OPINION is that iPhone if far and away the best device on the market.

A lot of people I associate with who own Android phones agree with me yet they tell me they refuse support Apple's policies and are voting with their dollar. And I completely understand their view point. Do you?
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Perhaps some might call me petty, but in my mind, credibility takes a serious hit when mistakes like "many more have there chips on the table" are made.

That being said, I think this is a good attempt to encapsulate HTML5 into a short statement (which should, as others have pointed out, really be broken up into multiple paragraphs). I'm not so sure it is a good encapsulation; but certainly a good attempt.
Here's the catch: Transmitting 5TB at 9600bps takes exactly 132 years, 1 month, 14 days, 21 hours, 24 minutes and 27 seconds. So the time capsule would be opened before you're done loading it.
The second SSD probably has better* firmware or flash or both. It's basically maxing out the SATA II bus no matter what you throw at it.

* By "better" I mean it performs better in the benchmarks you used. A firmware that wins benchmarks often doesn't do correspondingly well in the real world. For example, Intel's SSDs are sub-par in sequential read/write benchmarks, but they perform much better in most application benchmarks.
Get an N900. I've had an iPod touch for close to a year and a BB curve 8900 for 1.5 year. I still use the former for music, but no longer for browsing or apps and I've entirely replaced the latter. As a developer there are just layers and layers of goodies to be found. Hint: forget about the Ovi and Maemo Select pointers pre-packaged on the phone and go straight to maemo.org for apps, that's where the interesting stuff for a techie is. The only caveat here that you have to be aware is that Nokia has folded all Maemo efforts into MeeGo (a merge with Intel's Moblin.) So to an extent there seems to be an evolutionary disconnect, but keep in mind that the N900 is THE device used by MeeGo dev teams (a slew of people from Intel and Nokia).

Android is still very much on my radar but for purely professional reasons. The fact of the matter is that having used Linux since '95 there is nothing in that environment that even closely resembles a Linux environment, despite it using the Linux kernel (i.e. the user-space has nothing to do with a classic Linux user-space.) In addition, while their platform is "open", their development process isn't. IOW, you get code-drops every so often with no possibility of participating and/or looking into the bleeding edge. Meego, on the other hand, has been engineered with that in mind.
Slight nitpick - that story is about shipping what became the Netscape browser. NCSA Mosaic had been out for over a year at that point.
Truly, Apple has become the most boring tech company of today. Months and months of discussions about phones, antennas, internal policies, petty theft, and now business executives. It must be hard being an Apple blogger, and feigning excitement over such trivialities.
Cool! I would say get out of the building and bring this to some schools. Get it in front of kids and TEACHERs. They might be your best evangelists. One TEACHER has many STUDENTS who have twice as many PARENTS who have checkbooks.

Also, it would be especially cool if each background graphic related to the sentence presented -- like a second tier for reinforcing the learning experience.
How to get Visas to other countries to travel while doing a startup?
There have been two recent discussions on the best startup cities in Europe, and the World. As an American I find it pretty hard to get Visas to those places for periods of a year or longer. Can you guys share any advice on that?
I sit the same as the GP, if it helps. Large cheap IKEA chair, with my feet up the wall and leaning back as much as I can. Never ever had any position problems.
There are a lot of amazing solutions on this page. Things that I haven't even thought about, but why do we have to assume that a data reader cannot be kept in the capsule itself? Why should we create something of arbitrary complexity that will cause people to just tear their hair out in frustration?

Since the basics of logic will not change and since theoretically any computer can simulate another. Why shouldn't we just keep a hackable computer with detailed visual instructions and specifications? Further, to enable someone to read the specifications we could have a "learning board" with the symbol and the component next to it. Also, we could even have a haptic output with which people can interact with the computer.

Let's assume that we have a nuclear battery made out of Technetium. Now this feeds into a bank of capacitors and high performance rechargeable cells. Slowly over time the batteries are kept topped off and they are "exercised" by the computer. Further, for redundancy 4 or more computing units in parallel could be placed that would wake up sequentially and call the others to check how the entire unit is working. If we keep something like this in a hermetically sealed environment and we use the radiation source to manage the temperature and use passive cooling technologies for letting out heat. It should be able to sit still until someone finds it.

Now the data itself would be stored on a series of solid state devices [edit: a specially designed optical storage medium would be far better, but this is 50 years not 1050.] attached to a display. Why shouldn't this suffice?

Presuming that civilization has not collapsed anyone should be able to read it.

By the way, the Phoenix lander has a DVD that tries to do just this (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(spacecraft)#Phoenix_DV...). It even has this awesome intro by Carl Sagan. (hear: http://www.planetary.org/special/vomgreetings/greet2/SAGAN.h...)

[edit: Dyslexic errors.]
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Do you do your best thinking when you are sitting down, staring at a monitor, or when you are pacing* around the room?

I prefer standing, as it is so easy to take a step away from the computer and really concentrate on the problem at hand. I find the computer can really distract me when I need to think.

* This is part of why I find whiteboards so helpful. They give me tons of space to think, both physically and mentally.
you are saying that it should say "many more have their chips on the table". That was an honest mistake. I proofread, a lot . This has been sitting on my editor for 2 weeks, at least. I just miss things like that. Thanks for pointing it out.
While these are some rather colorful and interesting ideas, might I suggest ROM chips?

goes back to playing 30+ year old Atari games
That paper is written just a smidgen above my reading level.
That's not a lot of money. Neither relatively nor absolutely. For contrast, starting a GmbH in Germany (llc equivalent) requires a 25000 euro investment plus all the fees and legal cost. Starting a B.V. in the Netherlands requiresna 18000 euro investment, again not including overhead and registration. The US is the exception, with its liberal LLC and bankrupty laws. In europe there just are a few additional hurdles.

I agree that italy should be avoided, but for other reasons (mentality, corruption, etc)
Apple is about as boring as every other tech company when it comes to those issues. The big difference though is, that people talk about it when these things happen there. With every other company everyone just ignores it. That makes Apple one of the most (or the most) exciting tech company to many people.
It would have been nice to have a link to that as part of the post itself; I thought that was a odd thing to say. But I'm definitely going to read that now.
Regarding the plugin issue, the solution is already around, .vba files: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/pi_vimball.html

Actually, the doc says that you need to do the following:

vim someplugin.vba
:so %
:q

With macVim, I found that simply double clicking the .vba in finder does everything needed.
Some people claim Lisbon to be the upcoming Silicon Valley of Europe: http://seedcapital.pt/2009/11/18/lisbon-by-the-sea/

That's where I live and work, can't say it's easy to get money but I'm pretty sure I don't know the right people yet. :)
I always presumed that's why the originating website appears in brackets next to a headline. So you can avoid reading sites you aren't interested in.

I'm surprised this so far has alluded you.
Bratislava is probably not as cheap as you might think - yes, Slovakia in general is very cheap and that might be true for most parts of the country, but Bratislava is more westernized. Don't get me wrong though, it is still cheaper than the average city in Western Europe.

I am not sure if there is much of a startup culture here, though...
They really should have covered Opera if it was the only one without extensions, but I don't know how much effort it would have taken, I hope it wasn't out of laziness.
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Reading your comment on my iPhone 4 made me curious: after a few minutes of trying, I can't make the signal drop enough to lose bars by touching it anywhere besides the gap between antennas, which makes me lose two bars every time. Even if touching it anywhere should theoretically cause a problem, it's definitely much more pronounced when you bridge the gap.
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See remarks at 36:50 in the transcript.
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I was in a similar situation about a month ago -- no smartphone, felt like I was falling behind.

I ended up getting an iPhone, because it's what people have now, and there's probably a bigger market for contract work on it right now. I also have a Mac, though. Longer-term, I'm betting on Android to overtake the other platforms (mostly as a matter of cost), but it's still in the stage where startups and early-adopter types are the main users, as opposed to the very mainstream iPhone.
Great thread! I have worked (and continue to work) for a handful of startup-type companies in Liverpool (NW England). I don't have a wide enough experience of European cities to say it's the best place to start a business, but it's a great place to live and relatively cheap to rent office space and similar. Historically there's been a good amount of public sector funding available (although whether that will continue under the coalition government remains to be seen!), but of course there isn't an "VC ecosystem" equivalent to that of London.

All that said, there are amazing, interesting and fun people here doing cool things with tech, and there's the beginnings of a great scene. I love it :-)

But my main reason for posting was to ask: is there a directory of some sort compiling answers to questions like this for cities globally, detailing the sort of recruitment and funding opportunities available, as well as what sort of startups are already based there? Almost like a "Crunchbase for cities"...might have to think about knocking such a thing together if it doesn't already exist!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_cities_f...
Get 300 modems, then. You will be done in less than six months.
If it's media, store it on 80+ iPads. Bundles the reader with the data. Only requires AC power in 50 hrs.
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From the article: "Unfortunately users will still see the updating progress bar on load"
You are right, how can I forget Lidl :P.