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iOS4 is just horrible in my 3GS. I hit "App low memory" error during my first hour of use, and now I need to clean apps in App switch manager to free up some RAM when the phone feel sluggish. It gives me additional thing to do. I only like the folder feature.
FTA: ``Google could have fought. It had plenty of tools at its disposal. It could have made phones that worked on all of those networks, and then sued those companies if they didn’t allow users to get fair plans.''

Does this sound at all like a well-thought-out, reasonable, or mature course of action to suggest that Google could have taken? I don't think so. What exactly does ``a fair plan'' mean? $0.50 less for unlimited texting? $10 less for wireless broadband?

FTA: ``That’s fancy language for: Verizon and the nation’s telecoms have yet again won, Google officially became a net neutrality surrender monkey, and you — as an American — have lost.''

Sounds to me like Wired is taking a shot at riding a wave of childish rage (and trying to get fat along the way).
Then there are the platforms that just stop shipping new versions for a decade or so.

Perl's mistake was not releasing another Camel Book for a decade. The Perl 5.x language and libraries have done just fine.
Oddly enough if you play through Portal with commentary on they talk about this constantly. Test players never looked up and they had to do elaborate things with the level design to simply get people to look up.
I was about to suggest Ctrl+B then did a double-take. Have they removed the bookmark bar from the dev build?

Edit: Ah, they've changed it to Shift+Ctrl+B.
If hosting your own e-mail is OK (or you can get an IMAP account somewhere) but you want a GMail-esque Web interface, http://roundcube.net/ is worth a look.

Further, a very popular "full service" alternative I've seen recommended a lot and have had recommended to me (yet I haven't used it ;-)) is http://www.fastmail.fm/ - worth checking out anyway.
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Just a note: the MIME type does not NEED to be application/xml. There is a big difference here: text/html will tell the browser "Hey, try to render this page. If something doesn't work do your best." 99% of web pages out there do this. application/xml tells the browser "Treat this as XML. If it's not valid, throw an error and quit." Naturally, most people are shying away from this option since one little mistake can make your entire website unusable.
I enabled the facebook connect for one month on my startup site and learned alot of things.
First yes you will get alot of signups, but most will never return, never make a single contribution and only came to say they did.
Second I will never do it again. The accounts as I said were of 0 value to the site or the existing users that had been invited. The invited users end up using more services and clicking through different parts of the site. They also care more about it when talking to others versus just being able to say they were there. Hope it helps.
Just wondering if you have any thoughts or ideas about a system like this. Or if its already been done. Even the ethics behind it would make for a good discussion.
on Windows, you use VMWare and Linux. Linux is hands down the best Ruby development platform I've used, whereas Ruby on Windows can be a bit sucky at times, especially with gems that require native builds
Keynote is a great, flexible application. I like to use it for wireframing, and then use Photoshop to create the individual page graphics (rather than designing the whole site layout in there).

Check out http://keynotekungfu.com/
I agree. I tend to shy away from large frameworks that are sort of "all in one". I prefer small tools that work well together, but can also be used on their own. For HTML5 I just use a simple CSS reset + graceful degradation when JavaScript is not available. If I "need" an HTML5 feature I make sure that there is JavaScript code to fall back on (but not a general framework) and that the whole thing still works if JavaScript is not available.
K-9's UI is kind of terrible though it is fully functional.
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The reason doctors spend so much on transcription is because they speak their notes. Often while walking around. To sell the system described would require radical changes in doctors' behavior and training. I don't think it can be done in any reasonable time frame for a bootstrapped startup.

I cannot comment on other potential vertical markets.
There are a lot of problems with tinychat. You can't even join multiple rooms. Of course, they have users, which is a pretty killer feature, but that's what I'm working on. :)
Is it just me or does it feel like the "Compose Mail" button is now in an awkward place?
And this is why the proposal leaves wireless out.

It may be possible to use technical measures (QoS etc) to reduce the latency problems on wireless for applications that need low latency (eg Voip).

Do we really want to regulate now to rule this out? I have very mixed feelings on this.
I completely agree that the hard bit is getting critical mass. I don't think video is necessary: there's already a proven demand for text-based chat, which is much larger than ChatRoulette's.
High school, TI-89 graphing calculator. Made some games using the built-in BASIC, then moved on to C. Twiddling bits to read input registers and write framebuffers was incredibly educational; that calculator taught me more about programming than math.
I get pretty bad lag (contacts, dial pad especially) on my Eris after a few days. Advanced Task Killer clears it up though. I feel like HTC Sense users get a lower quality experience in general. Poorer performance, cruddy built-in apps replacing the better stock apps, widget overload by default, too many bundled applications, etc.
I created some AOL "progs" in VB6 that did stupid stuff like scroll in the chat and faded your text different colors.
Ask HN: Launching a startup from within a "parent" company?
I'm currently gainfully employed at a smallish consulting company. I like the company and the owners a great deal, but I've got the startup itch. However, I know my company would be very sorry to loose me.

Rather than branching out on my own, with all the risks associated with that, it strikes me that it might be possible to reach a mutually beneficial compromise: I stay with my company, keep my salary (possibly with a pay cut), spend ~70% of my time on my own project, and we split the profits. It seems good for both parties, provided they believe in me enough to offset the short-term loss of my salary.

Does anyone have experience with this? What would you assume a reasonable ownership/profit distribution ratio would be for this kind of arrangement?

(using a throwaway account in case my boss reads this prematurely).
I'm not completely happy with the list view. The only blocking problem is that the person I email near every day does not even appear under the My Contacts subsection. I've actually found out the reason while writing - apparently My Contacts is a group and not all users are added. Is there no all contacts view?

Cosmetically, I don't really like a list as I can't tell from a glance who is who. I'd quite like a small magazine-style avatar+name+email block - on a grid 3/4 wide and 4 down for example.

I can't drag groups onto users as I do with labels which is a little counter-intuitive. All-in-all though it's not a bad addition, just not a complete one.

Finally I'd like an option to remove the Tasks link, rather than choosing one of three to show. Mostly small things but things I'd like.
Not cool enough was hardly the problem - count instead:

1 - the phone came with waaaay substandard service - no live customer service, barely service via email

2 - no chance for the wide consumer market to play with the phone or interact with the phone with online sales only

3 - mixed reviews from the professional tech review community

So while I agree google made an attempt it felt to me much more like a half assed try in the context of this thread
I feel your pain. Good article.
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This what I would do in your situation:

1) Calm down - Right now you are more than likely worried about your future, but being emotionally upset is not the best time to make decisions. I would suggest getting an Indian head massage from a professional, take one every day for 3 days. Go with one you find on Gumtree(don't look at me like that, it's just a massage).

2)Exercise - This also is targeted at your emotions, getting endorphins in your system. Doing this will allow you to feel happy and confident. Do 30mins at least 75-80% of your maximum heart rate for as long as you are in this situation. You can take a break once a week. If you are dieting, stop. You should try to keep your calories at maintenance level now. Cutting back on calories can lead you to be more depress or emotional.

3)Get around people who don't care - At this point you should try to put as much distance between you and any other person who would express sorrow at your current situation. Any contact you have with them is simply to inform them of the situation. We are trying to avoid you having a pity party.

4)Get a contract job - At this time you might want to consider finding a 3-4 month contract job to resolve your cash flow situation.

5)Borrow Cash - Before you get your contract job, you might need to get some immediate influx of cash to cover your expenses. At this time, you should be calling a family member to borrow some cash to stay afloat. At this point you should be calm and relax, reassure them that everything is going to be alright and soon you will have a contract job to repay them.

6)Don't Quit - When you are working the contract jobs, use this time to jot down ideas. Have about 1000 ideas over the 3months for your startup. This would keep the passion flowing for the startup. Also, it would be a good time to do customer development; find those 10 customers that the smart bear guy talked about. You might even have to pivot your start-up but that is all good, just don't quit.
And the social required "How are you?" question in the first place when the person asking really doesn't care and equally on the other side the person doesn't want to truthfully answer anyway,
It would be fun to look at the source, not minified. Anyone know if that is available? I tried to go the root url and got access denied.
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Most people's work, when submitted, gets reviewed by four people, and if published, read by a few people their sub-area of their area.

All of Computer Science is paying attention to this paper, and it wasn't even published anywhere. People popping up out of nowhere is a good thing. It's even a compliment to the work.
Points 1 & 2 are what I was referring to when I pointed out that google just doesn't work that way, they're not going to open a plexiglass cube in the local megamall and handhold largely clueless end users via their version of the genius bar, it's simply not in their DNA. I acknowledge that that is in fact apparently an essential part of the path to market success in this arena as evidenced by the sales numbers, but I'm personally underwhelmed by it and simultaneously completely grok why Google has no interest in doing this.

Point 3 is news to me, every review I read on the N1 prior to purchasing one was a "this beats the snot out of the iPhone" level heaping of glowing praise, and now having had one myself for two months I see why; it's completely true. It's the Ubuntu story in a phone form factor all over again; having the clearly superior product does not mean that you end up with significant market share or business success.
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I was interested in computers around age 17 (when I attended a vocational electronics school in the mid-80s), we made simple circuits and a few simple programs in Basic.

I got more interested in my early twenties, a friend of mine was a programmer and the computers an individual could afford became more powerful. (I was never very interested in Commodore 64 and its ilk, they seemed too constrained to be useful.)

I started programming in my late twenties, when I attended university and got a CS degree.

I'm not still not entirely sure that I have a passion for the hacker lifestyle. My view today is the same as when I was a teen - computers and programming can be very useful tools, but I find tools interesting only to the extent that they can help me solve an interesting problem.
It doesn't make sense: everybody who have a Facebook login also have a gmail, so why not not just allow people to login with that?
When I was a kid I played with lego's. I followed the instructions line by line, never missing a step and making an exact replica that was on the box :) Programming in it's simplest form.
It's fairly early stage. The project was initiated 6 months ago, but it's not funded yet. They are still working on building a working product. The website will be 1/3 of the overall product strategy.

The titles are meaningless at this point because I am also doing marketing and strategy. What I am told is they want to work out an equity strategy based on milestones I deliver. The first milestone, they said, would be the entire website, fully integrated with the proprietary app they are building.

Is this reasonable? Especially considering that the site is an essential part of the product.

I heard elsewhere that an alternative is to use the "sweat equity" algorithm.

http://www.torquepowered.com/community/blogs/view/16191

But seeing as we are all working remotely, it'd be hard to ensure that everyone is working fulltime on this project.
The problem with RoR, isn't RoR. It's the community. I've frankly never seen a worse community to outsiders. Every discussion I've had with them, they end up basically saying, "RoR makes things so easy that over the weekend I reimplemented Google Maps in Outlook Web running Gears of War, with multitouch support -- all HTML6 compliant. And then on Sunday I watched football. MS sucks."

But then you begin to peel the onion and you start to realize -- that onion looks kinda similar to this other onion I was using.

Don't get me wrong, RoR is good technology. The community oversells it, and the most outspoken are kind of jerks (for some reason the Java, Python, C#, C++, Haskell, Scala, Clojure communities don't seem to have the rudeness or jerkness).
I started as a cracker. I cracked sharewares and games for all the kids in school and was somewhat sought after. I ruled the schools' Novell LAN with an iron-fist and a well-stocked boot floppy. Sure, I was mostly more talk than walk, bragged a lot; but on several occasions, I was able to pull off some stunts before a thankful audience of "cool kids" (you're welcome, Imran ;-)

But as I got better at reversing, I needed more sophisticated tools, and I needed to write them myself.

I usually did my cracking on request, cobbled up something quickly before class or early in the evening, and took floppies of keygens and patches with me to school in the morning. I wasn't exactly a jock, but I was cool; had gelled hair, baggy jeans, a walkman, wore sunglasses in class, etc. Pretty much riding on Neo's coat-tails, thanks to the then new movie, The Matrix.

But I distinctly remember one winter when I didn't give a shit anymore. I was developing my own x86 disassembler and had hand-written opcode tables on my wall. I remember waking up later and later for school, not bothering to dress, avoiding friends, and refusing to take crack requests.

I pretty quickly out-grew all my familiar tools and techniques. The official Microsoft and Intel documentation wasn't cutting it. I was fedup with crap "popular opinion" in the assembly-programming fora. I realized all the crackers and black-hats were mostly full of shit and didn't know what they were talking about. I "felt" my tools were primitive, and there was more to life than mastering the quirks of crappy compilers and assemblers from MS or Borland. I had just watched my treasured knowledge of MS DOS go obsolete, none of the old tricks worked.

So I bought myself a bootleg, Xerox copy of the Dragon Book. Soon after, Tanenbaum's OSD&I.

Boy met theory, and boy had to grow up fast.

I realized I loved programming when I no longer did anything else :-P
you know what else should be stressed? collective bargaining..it helps sometimes when your fellow coworkers band together to get a raise or to make the work environment better.
Not really that true, I have an 3rd gen touch and a Moto Droid, and I much prefer the android device. Better resolution, better browsers (parallel load of tabs, faster tab switching, capability to render more than one tab at a time, flash integration (skyfire), etc), better integration with other applications (youtube, quickoffice, music app, gallery app, etc).
What? A big corporate behemoth like GOOG being a hypocrite? How utterly, utterly shocking.
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Ok, I didn't vote you down, but let me help you out:

The fact that the mistake you made is only one line of code has nothing to do with anything. A single-line coding error (blindly offsetting malloc's return) broke all of Flash. Every line counts.

If that sucks and feels unfair, I agree with you. You can mitigate this problem by not writing security code.
Home resets your state completely. Much more sane to do that than leave state hidden around. You want what you were just doing? Back. You want to do something different? Home. Simple.
55-45 is pretty close to equal. His comment still stands that get it would be hard to find straight fructose. In addition, I'm not sure how 55-45 invalidates any of his argument, mainly that glucose is always around with the fructose.
I'm coming to really like the new collections library. It took a little getting used to but now that I'm finding the idiomatic uses it's very nice to work with.
Stackoverflow does exactly that. They have big buttons for all the major identity providers, including Google, Facebook, etc. and a text field at the bottom for manual openid login.
Ask HN: what do you know about virtual assistants?
I am interested in getting a VA to do fairly basic market research for me. It would be along the lines of, "use Google and Twitter to find people who have complained about Home Owner Association (aka HOA) fees in the past 2 weeks. Please include the source URL and the person's email or Twitter handle".

Have you had success with VAs or VA agencies? Are they good for work like this?

I am particularly curious about the bang-for-buck you get from India- and Philippines-based agencies, and what techniques you use to manage VAs.

Thanks HN!
Yep, android has always been similar to how iOS 4 works. To do multitasking on a mobile right, you need to save state when you get backgrounded anyway... so rebooting the phone basically loses you nothing.

That being said, the only time I reboot my phone is when Pandora hangs itself into an unrecoverable state (100% pandora's fault). Still better than the iOS pandora player though.
Ugly it definitely is.
Last time I tried it I saw a significant decrease -- as much as 50% lower signups as tracked with Google Website Optimizer.
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You should talk to your co-workers and ask them what their experience was asking for a raise. Another idea is to compare salaries and then see if maybe most workers deserve a raise too. If the management keeps denying raises, then you can collectively bargain for raises...I'm not sure how big the company is, but it's kind of a pain in the ass to sack 5+ workers at a time and re-hire especially when there are projects going on.
I was under the impression that Google put a special clause in their charter(?) that gave them special permission to make decisions that appear to go against their bottom line.
Negotiating with the help of other workers (also known as collectively bargaining) also works and works much better in most cases than a single person.
Ip is extremely important in numerous markets including biotechnology, clean tech, fashion, publishing, and many others.
As long as it isn't your only authentication method I don't see harm in adding it.

I'm extremely turned off by sites that want me to sign-on, with the only option being Facebook, because I've had enough of sites demanding irrelevant permissions they obviously don't need (you need my email, not to be able to post to my wall). If I really want to sign up for something I'll do that and 'fix' the permissions in Facebook but it really peeves me.
This is just off the cuff, but based on having a fair bit of experience in things like this...

What you're describing doesn't sound like the beginnings of a real solid company. IMO, what you're most going to get out of this is experience and resume fodder (which will likely be highly valuable in the future).

EVERYTHING is always negotiable. Rather than put up a shit fit up front, it's probably best to take the 5% and start plugging away. You could push and argue for more, but it's more than likely you'd be spending time arguing for a larger stake of nothing (not trying to be negative), especially if you're only being offered common shares anyway with no preferences.

IF the thing actually gets legs, than a large part of it will be due to your efforts, and you won't have any problems arguing for a second grant during the next funding rounds (which would pretty much obliterate any grants you get at this stage anyway).
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Except we do get 3G on our Kindles, we got the iPhone years ago, and our 6 gig data plan is a better deal than AT&T's 2 gig top-end plan
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Your /venue/ links don't seem to be working but this is a great little toy, works much better on someone with a lot of checkins.
And by ruthlessly competing with each other () they achieve the highest profitabilty in the world http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/09/04/tech-profit.ht...

they do compete ruthlessly, you should see the golf games when their chief execs get together at their price fixing meetings.
Read, yes; publish, no. I did my undergrad in math and am friends with many math master's/PhD students at UBC. I can't imagine getting a master's without reading a research paper. If that happens somewhere, I wouldn't think that their degrees are worth very much.

Publishing is another story. Reading current research is one thing... actually successfully advancing the state of the art in an area of pure math is quite another. (Applied math is another story altogether).
Did it really try? Did it spend any money on advertising? Did it give the project a chance to succeed? Did it push back at the carriers?

Blame the market all you want, but if Google aren't even going to inform the majority, that ain't the markets fault.
So more lenient movie moral codes wrt censorship and larger budgets for action, combined with a growing expertise in stunts and fight choreography, and a growing movie industry eager to entice audiences into theatres with blockbuster escapist theatre, result in a greater percentage?

There, I drew my own conclusion. Provided the data is true.
Except for Apple, who have done very well. They have not compromised to most carrier concerns, you don't find an ATT logo on the iPhone, or dodgy software apps you can't remove, or hardware switched off. Apple has done more to change the carriers than anyone else.

Sure, they have had to pull some apps (although both ATT and Apple deny it was due to the carrier).
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"a former yakuza boss named Tadamasa Goto"

Goto considered harmful, indeed.

In seriousness, this is really cool