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I've actually considered reviving one of my ancient phones as well, I rarely if ever use any of the more advanced features of this phone anyway, I use mine to call and to very rarely send sms messages. I've used the browser once to see if it works (it does). So I really don't 'need' a fancy phone. I guess I shouldn't complain too much because the phone company sent it for free because they apparently make too much money on me but still, basic functionality should simply work as good or better as in a previous release, why regress ?
Man, this is depressing. As are Apple's terms for the iPhone/iPad store. I'd advise anyone who wants to develop for the iPhone/iPad to stop dealing with iTunes, distribute their work themselves (free and open source) and invite people to jailbreak their products in order to install it.
This is why I so glad HTC exists. They seem to be able to compete at a fairly good level with the iPhone. Motorolla is shooting themselves in the foot all the time, and Nokia hasn't really produce any real competition lately.

I'm now an HTC fanboy.
Glob was already a word. Dictionary.com claims it dates back to about 1900, and might come from the blending of "globe" and "blob"
"Light a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a night. But set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
And lose out on whatever chance they had of making a decent profit? I doubt that this jailbreak ruling is going to result in a spate of common-joe iPhone hacking.
Ah, and the whole dieting process has a nasty trap built right in, because your willpower diminishes as your blood sugar drops.

I don't have the study in front of me, but I recall the effect was pretty clear.
Take an existing product and put a clock on it.
I've long thought there is a serious opportunity in connecting organizations who provide fun things to do with people looking for fun things to do. I had an (unpursued) idea a while back to create a single-serving site called, "What should I do this weekend?" Another idea was a subscription-based service that organizes adult "field trips" every weekend.
Thank you! I think many of the more recent Linux users will spend the entire day without once using a GNU tool, except indirectly. And, of course, you could say the kernel and most of the tools were compiled with GCC, but that's not something to be proud of--that just means Linux is full of GCC-idiocy and potentially breaks every time there's a minor upgrade in GCC.
Fillum Fallam, a film short printed by hand
Three months ago I made some photos in my toilette, exposing photographic paper to the screen of my IBM R51.

I called them 'laptopograms'.

Two weeks ago I launched a Kickstarter project called 'Fillum Fallam'. This is a film short to-be.

I intend to shoot it on 16mm and print each frame by hand. The short itself revolves around themes of food and film.

These ~3 minutes of film / ~3000 frames will take up the next ~8 months of my life.

I am trying to crowdsource the budget via Kickstarter. Do take a look: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cixa/fillum-fallam-fi-allu-am-0
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> but what I find surreal is how much computing power in our hands that we take for granted these days.

Computing power that is ruined by the appallingly-poor quality software that was obviously rushed out the door. It's really shameful and depressing.
Surely one of you hackers can offer us a practical application for any nifty math tricks on display in these comments.

I'm, ah, coming up blank on this one for now.
An iPhone App Market That Doesn't Require Jailbreaking... Which Apple Can't Stop
I have foun it interesting
Usually company stock is offered on much better terms when it is part of your pay package.
it is integrated with FB, nice!
Nice post, thank you!
Three months ago I made some photos in my toilette, exposing photographic paper to the screen of my IBM R51.

I called them 'laptopograms'.

Two weeks ago I launched a Kickstarter project called 'Fillum Fallam'. This is a film short to-be.

I intend to shoot it on 16mm and print each frame by hand. The short itself revolves around themes of food and film.

These ~3 minutes of film / ~3000 frames will take up the next ~8 months of my life.

I am trying to crowdsource the budget via Kickstarter. Do take a look: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cixa/fillum-fallam-fi-al...
Fully agreed, I think wave was an awesome concept, but a terrible implementation.

Managing email programatically in particular for me is a nightmare, sendgrid is an awesome service, but processing incoming email should be much easier. (I have yet to try lampson)
Informal music notation. Existing systems are fine enough for formal classical notation, but if you want to make a quick rough sketch (e.g., lead sheets in The Real Book) it's pretty cumbersome, and the amount of time & effort it takes doesn't seem commensurate with the sort of document desired.

I've been pondering this off and on for years; I think it might require a pretty fundamental switch in how the data is entered. So far the best I've come up with is, uh, pen and paper...
The whole story is very skimpy on details but it seems this guy is trying to pull off quite a bit of hacky and "clever" tricks (I'm gathering this from the posts about two previous rejections). Considering this, this doesn't seem to be as frivolous act of Apple as it is made to be.

On top of this, the complaint that Apple do not respond doesn't ring true with me. In my experience, at the very least in the past 6 months Apple have become very prompt in responding, especially to rejection issues, and have provided a contact phone number to further expedite the process.

To me this looks like some guy venting his frustration that Apple are calling his bluffs and is a good excuse for people to gratuitously bag on Apple.
Indeed, good point!
32 people is not a small company any more, and if every engineer you've got is also a support person on call for your customers you can't really say you don't have support staff, just that you don't have dedicated customer support employees.

The article does make a very good point though, the best way to reduce customer support is to improve product quality.

Customer support is one of the few areas in a virtual enterprise that does not scale, the costs can very quickly eat up your revenues.
If this is story 30, and there are 225k apps in the App Store (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store), then you have a 0.01% chance of this happening. So it's understandable that the author didn't know that this is what was going to happen.
What model are you using? My n900 takes about 1 minute to boot, has never (during the last 6 months) crashed or dropped a call (that's probably more of a network problem anyway) and the back cover is the only part that even can be taken off (and this far is has never come off by itself).
I'm getting a strong whiff of "people keep telling me this is sexist for some unknown reason, so I'd better put a little effort into justifying it".

A few useful ones in there, but too much crap to wade through.
We are actively looking for market makers for smarkets.com . No fees and very little competition, it may be worth checking out if you want somewhere easy to get started.

We just released a public API: http://apidocs.s3-external-3.amazonaws.com/index.html
Not to mention that it will actually work better on Android with the ability to run in the background...
It's not exactly like this is a secret. Steve Jobs talked about the "openness" of the web as a platform explicitly at WWDC.
That is not even wrong. Look up non-ionising radiation. Either that, or great troll.
Ask HN: Learning about iphone game development
I'm trying to learn some iphone/ipad game development but I'm not sure on where to start. What I want to do is being able to create simple 2d games, but I'd also like to learn more advanced stuff in the future.

I know that AI will be of an essential role in this industry but I'm wondering if there are any book/tutorials recommendations for developing games specifically for the iphone ecosystem.
Expense reports - eg. receipts collection, sorting them, scanning them (even if some solutions exist) but then accountants always want it in a different format/system that I use. (no standard especially outstide the US)
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Good thing the author has a decent vocabulary, otherwise that might have been rude.
Get a mp3 player.
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Ah, alright, fair point. Maybe we could coin a new term: "The HighVolumeProfitableCrapMonger's Dilemma"
I wonder at what level people really do care about that.
Start here: http://www.idevgames.com/forums/

This forum has been a huge help for me. Lots of good info on writing a correct game loop for iPhones and working with opengl code too.
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Thanks for your explanation. It's a reasonably comforting answer, since it suggests that as long as I spend time picking up concepts (which I have been doing ever since I went into software engineering) and connecting my problems to those concepts, there is a reasonable chance I will stumble upon a beautiful solution like a Levenshtein automaton, if it exists for the problem at hand.
This is an N96, the button issues were with the previous phone, which was one of those with a little stick to direct the cursor. When it decided to lose the stick (just like that, it simply fell out) on a gravel road somewhere in Colombia it really was pretty awkward, the phone was pretty hard to use without it.

I've tried to detect a pattern in the dropped calls (make and model of the phone on the other side, network cells I'm in and so on), without any effect.

The phone has plenty of free memory, the techs in the store assure me the phone is ok (it's been back a few times already), latest firmware, and so on. The mechanical issues seem to be closely related to the way the back cover fits on, it's a very light 'snap' fit and nothing at all will make it come off. Because it's a slide phone I can't tape it in place or something like that.
I've got a chrome extension called "hckr news". It shows you which comments on a HN thread that are new since the last time you visited that page. So far I'm liking it
On related body hacks: holding your crap back bumps mental capabilities by 50-80%.

(Yes, I've got a couple more of these. yes, you can ask for it ;) )
Sorry for the accidental downvote. I meant to upvote because I have been thinking about (more formal) music notation on and off for years, too, trying to come up with a better format than Lilypond.
Yes. Including denying its users any freedom.

"Freedom" is not black and white. Sometimes you need to deny users one freedom in order to give them another. For example, Spotify is a non-free application and it has DRM and lock-in and nasty things like that (no doubt required by the music industry). However, it's completely changed the way I listen to music and given me freedom to listen to more music than I could have done before. I have essentially traded the freedom to tinker for the freedom to listen to music.
Options/Exit is a long time Symbian thing. Since the OS in N8 is an evolutionary step from the current version of the OS, they probably didn't want to change things too much.

Anyway, this is actually one of the least problematic aspects of Symbian and not a disaster at all.
Lack of time - Seems as if I can't spend enough time with people I care about.
Hah! That's a keeper.
It has a crumpet button. I don't think you're in their target market.
"Over many years, I grew frustrated with teachers, their methods and their curriculums." hits home.
Psychological pricing - don't tell me that your product is $9.95; say $10.
For sure - a relief from the cheerleading or timeshare selling feel it otherwise had at times. I would have enjoyed some more to & fro on that. My startup was acquired in more than a talent acquisition deal but far less than a big swing for the fences (55MM but entirely founder funded).

Thinking of the powershift to founders.. and future bigger attempt, I'm not convinced yet to even consider outside money.
Not only that, they are typically psychology students, which further narrows down their typical ages and educational backgrounds.
I will look into adding export to GPX. As a simple tool for routing I definitely want you to be able to get your data out of it for use with other tools so this will be high on my list of things to do.
I was thinking of this same problem yesterday. I will try to hack together a Firefox extension for this over the weekend to give the HN comments page Slashdot type filters (min. point thresholds), and date sorting.

Will post on HN if it works well.
It depends very much on what model you use. They have tens of models...

I don't know much about the N96, but my E72 is a good phone. As usual the Symbian firmware has some bugs, but other than that I'm getting very good internet/call quality and it has a solid build.
So if I want to read it on my old Palm TX I can? No of course not because the DRM won't let me convert it into a format any of the eBook readers for the old Palm OS support.
This is only good in big diameter ropes. I wouldn't suggest tying this in monofiliment.
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That only works for music that sticks to a western scale though. What if you are playing blues or jazz or indian classical music?
I was diagnosed ADHD before it became a fad, and I've gone through a number of different medications for the disorder. Every one affected my ADHD in distinctly different ways. and Ritalin in particular did exactly what the comic describes. (Productivity at the expense of creativity.)

The three that had any sort of effect were Ritalin, Strattera, and Adderall.

* Ritalin was robot mode. I'd get work done, but only in areas that were analytical, not creative. Off the Ritalin, my problem with creative writing was being easily distracted and procrastination, but my papers were (reported as being) entertaining with a sense of "flow". On the Ritalin, I was so analytical that my teachers started accusing me of plagarism, because it looked like I was writing for an encyclopedia.

* Strattera: Strattera had very little effect on my concentration or procrastination. Where it had a dramatic effect was my impulse control; it inserted a short buffer of introspection between thought/desire and action that had sometimes been missing. Off the Strattera, I'd buy a box of cookies I'd never tried before, because they looked interesting; no second thoughts would emerge at all. On the Strattera, I would think that I didn't need the calories, they were just a different arrangement of chocolate and biscuit, and a waste of money in any case. Didn't help with my schoolwork, but it did have a very positive effect. (Especially on my diet and my entertainment budget.)

* Adderall: Adderall is what I use now. It gives me extremely intense focus on whatever I am doing, without reducing my enthusiasm for the task or my level of creativity. The primary downside is that it allows that focus on anything I'm doing when it kicks in. If I'm doing the dishes when it starts to work, I'll do all the dishes, then clean the kitchen, reorganize the cupboards, clean the fridge, and only then start working. My tactic is to take the pill with my coffee, set a timer for 1 hour and play some casual games, then start on a problem for my job. When it kicks in, I'll be set. Adderall is notably different in SR and XR varieties as well; SR is a short intense spike that lasts 2-4 hours, whereas XR works after an hour and a half and keeps rolling for 5-9 hours, depending on food/caffeine intake.
I've been typing with Dvorak for about three years now. I personally can't fully touch type, and never have been able to, although these days I'm getting pretty close if I stop thinking about it and just start typing.

I've noticed a dramatic reduction in wrist strain at the end of the day, mainly due to the shorter movements for the majority of keystrokes, as well as the proper alternation between hands. Both are hallmarks of the Dvorak layout's primary design requirements.

Regarding impact on programming efforts, My biggest complaint is that the brackets are on the number row instead of just above the home row, but when I'm writing Python code, I use them far less, so it's not much of an issue; when I'm writing PHP, C, or Java code though, it can get a bit annoying, but it's a good trade-off since the +/= and -/_ keys are now closer at hand.

For my editor, I've been using Vim for longer than I've been using Dvorak, but I've never used the hjkl keys for normal movements; I bought keyboards that specifically have the arrow keys right under the Enter key, so moving to use those is very simple, and allows me to use Vim without having to remap any of the normal movement keys.

In all, I highly recommend the switch, especially for anyone who plans to do a lot of typing in their daily routine. The benefits have far outweighed any of the drawbacks. And purchasing a purpose-built Dvorak keyboard will be one of the best investments you can make. I personally love and highly recommend the TypeMatrix keyboards [1], not only for their great layout, but because it has a physical toggle switch for moving between Qwerty and Dvorak layouts, which is priceless when you want to be able to play games that aren't friendly to non-Qwerty layouts.

[1] http://www.typematrix.com
Given that G.M. destroyed their first electric car of this decade why would anyone trust them to build a new one but somehow better the second time around? I've never heard of a company purposefully destroying capital in the way G.M. did. This has to be collectively the stupidest corporation in America right now.

The Volt will likely fail because of its massive price and less than optimal features. Why would you buy one over a Prius anyway? At least with the Prius you'd be getting a quality car made by a quality company. I have no idea why people are buying cars made by G.M. these days between the poor quality history and getting bailed out I have no interest in doing business with them.
Roaming cell fees - when traveling abroad (there are some ways around but very cumbersome)
That works for C, but I was looking for the Python example.
Guitar player?
Problem: Designing clean architectures to solve an unfamiliar class of systems programming problems

This goes beyond design patterns - I mean designing systems with a dozen or more components that interact in complex ways. My first few cuts have lots of rough edges, and as I redesign the system, cleaner solutions appear. I work on lots of almost-real-time robotics systems, and good solutions for normal apps have subtle-yet-fatal problems when you need a small average latency at 100% CPU load
its simple.
donate all of your money to charities.
donate all your gadgets to the local Salvation Army.
you will soon be motivated.
This might be true, but I personally find it pretty embarrassing that Microsoft has made more contributions in terms of code than Canonical to the Linux kernel tree (as of a few months back when GregKH gave a talk at MS).

Don't get me wrong, Canonical is within their rights to do all of this, but from a moral perspective I think they owe it to be doing more towards contributing back to others' work instead of always promoting their own projects in Launchpad
Don't rule out the nook. Since the nook supports ePub(with DRM) you can probably check out eBooks from your local library. Since the Kindle is a closed ecosystem that does not support ePub that channel is cut off from you.
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Fanboys and bad journalism.
Drivers that run red lights.
... except that the N900 isn't Symbian-powered (and we're talking about Symbian phones here)
Phone calls - makes a lot of noise and interrupts me regardless of what I'm doing.

I want some people to be able to reach me right away, while I couldn't care less for others. Creating barriers for interruption based on:

a) the person calling

b) the time of day

c) the activity I'm involved in

needs to become more accessible and intuitive.
I used to have an E71 - dreadful OS/software. Email client formatted emails horribly. Browser was awful. I use my Android phone so much more, for web surfing etc, because the usability is lightyears ahead.

By the way, does anyone want to buy an old E71?
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IMHO the only problem with Google Wave's implementation was that it didn't integrate with normal email, limiting its network to Google Wave users. This seems very obvious, but I rarely hear people mention this when Google Wave comes up. Did you have something else in mind when you said it had terrible implementation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1100

This is my phone and I had it for years.

Yeah, it doesn't receive email or allows me to browse the internet but it already crashed into the ground and got wet more times that I can count and it still works. The battery still lasts 2 weeks.
Apple fanboys.
I think GP was being facetious. There was a story recently about how hardly anybody makes any money off Android apps, and OVI hasn't even been part of the conversation as long as I've been following it.
Modern Psychiatry - Parts of it are updated for the modern world. The rest is still pretty much medieval guesses sans experimentation. Accurate unbiased information for someone in distress is hard to obtain, which compounds the problem.
Of course, but the traders are taking risks in the sense that they can get fired for losing money. Programmers generally won't. They have a lower-risk, more secure job.
Most of the new technology has been run on Linux because Linux is an operating system for programmers. Windows is an operating system for consumers. These are different concepts, that explain why programmers love Linux so much, and why normal people hate it and use Windows/MacOS instead.
Ask HN: When was the last time you told a lie?
I was reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Marketers_Are_Liars
100% and 80% solutions - Olin Shivers
Something tells me you just read http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/29/apple-religion/.
I could not disagree with you more - my mother has a dropbox account (and she is _not_ technical), so does my brother, my grandmother (though only because I set it up for her) and pretty much every person I know who is working on anything related to computers.
And people say TSLA's a bad buy.
> Not to mention compiz/beryl had desktop effects before any other operating system.

You’re joking, right? Mac OS X has always had some sort of desktop effects. Hardware accelerated Quartz Extreme was part of 10.2 in 2002. And Exposé was introduced in 2003… All before Compiz/beryl.
To be fair, American taxpayers have been subsidizing the Toyota Prius for years too. Why the Volt costs so much is beyond me - the technologies should be reasonably mature by now. But GM has to head in this direction. They can't just build shitty SUVs and crossovers.
Bill G cost the world far far more than he donated. Lost productivity in the first world = less money = less giving. But, 30 billion in chump change is a lot easier to locate than 100's of billions in economic harm.

PS: Consider how much time/money was wasted because IE tried to avoid standards compliance. IMO, the world would have been far better off if MS had spent an extra billion making better software and Bill never donated a single cent.
I know where you're coming from, but when the combination of online check-in and dedicated bag-drops is in place (unfortunately, sometimes, especially when flying on budget airlines, it's not), flying is pretty painless. And painless, affordable transfer from A to B is my definition of a great airline experience.
Online Payment Transaction Costs - every time a new player enters the field like Amazon Payments/Google Checkout entering into Paypal's domain they all converge on the same relative pricing scheme.
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