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Absolutely.

People keep asking me what software I use to sync my Nexus One with my Mac. I usually tell them that, while DoubleTwist lets me organize media onto the device easily, you really don't need to hook it up to a computer: application backups and system updates are run over the net, for instance. It's usually confusing to them at first, because the iPhone requires a computer running iTunes at such a fundamental level.
The actual disassembly is done by smali, which the source code is in fact available for at http://smali.googlecode.com.
This is a good example of choosing the right tool for the job.

Because they're skipping wire laying in favour of remote SMS control, I'd say they're leapfrogging.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrogging
Are these rules on the 700MHz spectrum not going to take effect? I've seen nothing that suggests that's the case. Certainly a policy proposal doesn't have the force necessary to change these rules. If anything, those rules are evidence that wireless will become more open over time.
>Given that they claimed "Unlimited" bandwidth

I haven't signed up for a plan that claimed unlimited since the 90s. Maybe organizations around here are just more rational?

However I do have a 5GB plan on my smartphone. In an average month I use around 500MB, because there's only so much you can do on a smartphone, and they know it, but they monitor the curve and provide enough excess that I know that if I really needed it for a period, I could use it. They also sell data sticks for PCs, and they charge much more for lower caps, because of course they know that you'll use it.

My gym membership costs something like $19 a month. Technically I could go every open minute of every day, hogging equipment and space. So could everyone else. Of course then the gym could host a membership count in the dozens instead of in the many hundreds, and my real cost would be significantly higher.
Sounds like a good idea. Because, why should your wiki use its own custom version control system?
Is the voice recognition better than what google voice offers in its transcription service? Because I've found that to be horribly inaccurate.
Submission about the same topic from two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1589397

No comments there ...
I agree with you for most parts, but the interactions with China should not be mistaken for 'google taking the high ground'. Google was already losing horribly to Baidu to the point where they were giving away free music in order to try and gain users ( http://www.drmwatch.com/ocr/article.php/3726636 ). They made a sensible decision to leave, but framed it as a human rights issue to the media in order to gain sympathy.

In no ways am I defending Baidu or China. I am just saying they didn't leave because of their lofty morals.
They're called walled gardens. The real internet considers them damage and routes around them. Don't be concerned.
I just updated my phone with it, cant w8 to be driving and be able to use my phone's functionality without pressing buttons and whatnot
I think most would agree that those are failed democracies. Just because democracy does certain things in practice does not mean that those things are in line with the core principles of democracy, of which compromise is one.
Bear in mind that this article dates back to 2006. Jobs can see the world around him changing and adapt.
it's a little annoying hearing about but not seeing this "spin" language.
Be careful with the white noise, there is evidence that it may disrupt development of auditory neural pathways in children. http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20030417/white-noise-may-dela... This is because the brain learns to identify and manage familiar sounds, but there is no structure to white noise so the nerves are never able to develop a pattern.
I love the idea of this particular conference as the people I know that have been to it, including the guys at, for example Rapportive, came back from it with completely different views on the world and have been able to put a lot of what they learned into their businesses.

That is, in my view, a good thing, and something that should be flagged. If you think that is an advert, fair enough but I am honestly not aware of any international class events that focus on the process of creating sustainable businesses for this community. (There are obviously lots of tech events and lots of events about raising venture capital). I would love to be taught otherwise. I thought the idea of this list was to highlight things that the hacking community and entrepreneurs will find useful. Some will, some won't.
>The only way they'd be forced to increase prices for everyone is if they were breaking even

You mean as a whole company? Ha, that's a riot.

If selective customers cost a business disproportionately, they target those customers or fire them as customers. Get used to it because it's how the real world works.

>Don't come up with flimsy rationalizations just because it serves your personal desires.

I'm a data user, not provider. I gain no benefit by extra costs, caps, and overage fees. Those things hurt me instead of help me.

I'm also rational, however, and I have the capacity to separate my selfish desires ("I want everything free and everything limitless and perfect!") from the reality.
So they're the victims in this situation? They could have not made a profit from this. But since they decided that they would they made the compromise that would put them in that space.
You are being shortsighted and silly. Here are some excellent examples to show you that speech technology could be pretty damn amazing! The first one <strike>could</strike> will save lives.

(While driving) "Should I turn left or right at this intersection?"

(While shopping, examining a carton of eggs) "Were these eggs cheaper at the corner store?"

(While coding) "Any meetings soon?"

.....
Do I need to continue? The applications are endless, assuming it actually works. People have felt stupid in the past because the conversation would go like this: "note to self"....."I said, NOTE TO SELF not NOTICE ELF you fucking idiot machine!"

The point is...if Google can do it well, it will take off.
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I am very glad, that I can just buy separate SIM cards in Europe.
What happens if the IPhone 5 can stream your music directly from ITunes?
Well, my observation is that schools where the general requirements have been reduced have allowed the majors to fill the space by upping their own requirements, whereas schools with more general requirements have fewer per-major requirements, so it seems to be a tradeoff. I personally greatly prefer the 2nd approach, e.g. Harvey Mudd has 1/3 general science/engineering core, 1/3 humanities/social-sciences, 1/3 your major. Contrast with many engineering schools, where your major takes up >2/3 of your courses, which I think is a rather oppressive way to do things.

It's possible there could be a school with fewer of both kinds of requirements, where students get a build-your-own-major sort of deal. But if we're going to choose between more general requirements or more per-major requirements, I greatly prefer the first: to me, the 2nd ("all CS majors must take systems, theory, databases, and 2 of the following 4 classes") is a lot more compulsive, and generally results in useless specialist classes being added based on who's politically powerful within the department.
The smali code that is generated is in fact reassembleable. The smali format is meant to be as close to a 1-to-1 mapping for the dex file as possible. Disassembling and then immediately reassembling something will produce an equivalent (almost identical) dex file. The only things that might be different are misc. internal details, like the order of certain items, etc.
FontSquirrel and The League both have some great faces that display very well in modern browsers.

The Open Font Library guys appear to be struggling, however: http://skitch.com/jm3net/dt3cr/broken-font-library [screenshot of the fonts not working in Chrome]
you may have luck with phpicalendar.
I switched from the iphone to android and I agree with your assessment. Android's UX is good, iPhone's is great.

I have high hopes for Android 3.0 (Gingerbread, due in Q4) which is allegedly going to be a major UI revamp.

In the mean time I'll enjoy my flash, portable hotspot, tethering and non-ATT carrier :)
Multi-touch events are all based on screen coordinates (ie. you're touching the screen). While it might be helpful to read multitouch events from trackpads in web applications, it's not really the same thing.
What Google did would only be the beginning if there's not action. Telcos won't be worried anymore if Google/Verizon goes through.
JSOP: Welcome to JSON REST with more HTTP abstractions that are useless. Say goodbye to the fits-my-problem-perfectly solution!
Also depends on what you consider 'startup success'.

Many of the startups we hear about being acquired doesn't really mean they succeeded. Only means the founders/investors were able to make a quick buck from someone willing to buy it.

It must be quite a 'hollow' success to cash out selling an unproven business model to some bigco.
Exceedingly legible on mine even at 7-8pt sizes, but I should note that I'm very accustomed to reading Garamond and may be inferring more. I know my first impression from the iPhone 4 was that it was blurry; I think this is because I could no longer see the pixels, which I had apparently been subtly keying off. It is definitely not blurry, but still sometimes disorients me.
>I am just saying they didn't leave because of their lofty morals.

So they risked giving up 40% market share for the hell of it?
HTC started the rollout of 2.2 for the Desire last week. The Desire is selling well in Europe. I presume they're also rolling it out for the Legend, which was heavily mass-marketed for the last 3-4 months. I have the impression HTC is the main Android vendor in Europe at the moment. Just this rollout will push 2.2 deployment numbers up, I think.

As far as I know this is the first mainstream upgrade of phones from 2.1 to 2.2 (apart from the Nexus which is, imo, niche). Or did I miss any?
Not necessarily. There are international providers. Authorize.net, for example, allows for international payments.
What sort of examples would you be most interested in seeing?
Well a lot depends on the other adult(s) that will be helping to raise the child. I do have one piece of advice though:

No matter how much time you think kids will take, it will take longer, even if you take this advice into account.

Remember that guy in college who started playing EQ and (nearly) flunked out? It's more time-consuming than that.
Marijuana production employs 250,000 people in BC? Bullshit. That would be more than 10% of the total labour force.

I could believe that 250,000 people in BC have smoked marijuana at some point in the past year. I could maybe believe that 250,000 people in BC have grown at least one marijuana plant at some point in their lives. But there's no way that 250,000 people are currently employed in the industry.
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He's made a point about monetizing it from the beginning, so one can assume that he's earned more than just the $20k: he's trying to show buyers that it earns money, and the best way to do that is to have it earn money.
Joining a startup is not inherently impressive. The characteristics of employed developers that I most admire are: intelligence, loyalty, and ability to execute (read: ship code). Being employed doesn't affect my opinion of someone regarding those characteristics.
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Go to the movies now, because you won't be going again for a while.
I think that anyone that knows me would say I am not driven by money and I was making a flippant comment about cars. The issue for me is not actually about being rich or buying fast cars but about being in control of your destiny.

I am excited about Business of Software as it looks like an event put together by cool people from owner-managed businesses who want to stay in control of their businesses and grow them at the same time - or be able to understand and appreciate the alternative options open to them.
Posted by the husband! I bet that was an interesting conversation you had with her about static vs. dynamic pages. ;)
The sun rises in the east.
Interesting. But what is their approach to security? Capability-based? Or simply not connecting to computers you don't trust?
> to fill the space

This is another deep problem with education. When people are forced to become "educated", school devolves into a holding pen. Why is it that we all went to college for four (or more) years, other than tradition?
For context:

> Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090129_interview_richard_whi...

From Linked-in profile:

President at NetsEdge Consulting, LLC (Sole Proprietorship)
VP of Federal Law and Policy at MCI
Senior Director for Global Public Policy at MCI
Director of Federal Law and Policy at MCI
Regulatory Counsel at IDB WorldCom
Associate Attorney at Sutherland, Asbill, and Brennan
Associate Attorney at Bishop, Cook, Purcell & Reynolds

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

> MCI, Inc. is an American telecommunications subsidiary of Verizon Communications.
How about a chatroom?
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Awesome! The wiki was the weakest part of the github ecosystem, and it's wonderful to see it get some much-needed love. Besides being git-backed (and therefore portable), the new wikis also finally have markdown support. The pace of releasing new features that Github is able to maintain is incredible.
Both the Dow and the S&P 500 posted negative returns in 2000. (And, FWIW, Bush didn't take office until 2001.)
The other question you need to ask: how good of a database is your version control system? Git definitely provided some challenges in this regard. One example: we can't simply list recently updated pages. We keep them in a Redis sorted set :)

UPDATE: Okay, Scott Chacon just popped into Campfire to school me in git: `git diff-tree --name-only HEAD~10 HEAD`
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The statement could be interpreted to mean that Apple has failed at providing cloud computing experiences. Either way the result is the same: if I want to sync via the cloud with Apple then it's a pretty crappy experience.
I wonder if you can modify the action commands. I'd make the note to self command a self referential 3rd person "note to elblanco".
They would argue that it's not unnecessary, what they're doing. They're not doing it just to make developers lives difficult.

The process annoys me too, but I can see the reasoning behind it, and I think a lot of it is prudent.
I hate null pointers because library writers are misusing null pointers.

One example I can think of: BeautifulSoup.
If no search results are found within the document, it returns None or something similar.

And when that happens somewhere in a whole chain of queries, you're ending up with an exception.

This shouldn't happen ... I want the result of the whole chain queries to be NULL, and I don't care which link in that chain started it.

So languages with Monad comprehensions (or dynamic OOP languages where you can override the runtime dispatching) ... have an advantage here because you can use the Maybe monad.
I didn't run into it much through the next 800 pages of the dome. I'm almost half way through Catch-22 and it is essentially built on this type of sentence.
What an appalling and offensive use of one's time.

Make not-so-much money by providing generic content on a subject until X level of popularity is reached, at which point you transition the audience into a not-astounding paycheck and the web property into a commodity valued solely in visits.

And the world moves on, nothing bettered, and very little changed, beyond a tiny shifting of money ownership.
Nothing stunning, no new thinking, but a good set of broad fundamentals.
Cellphones are everywhere in India. Practically everyone already has a cellphone, or is going to get one this week. Text Messages (locally called SMS) are often free, or are dirt cheap. It is common even for low-wage workers (day labourers, porters, gardeners) to have cell-phones in India. This is, in part because the landline infrastructure is very poor and unreliable, and a open economy has meant that cellphone operators have been able to provide good service for really competitive rates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_in_India
Joel Spolsky explains it is easier for technology people to learn basic business than other way round which is why he says,

"The great software companies are going to be run by software developers".

Not actually my words though I believe in the point.
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Good catch. Maybe I am naive and am fooled.

Maybe I should follow JWZ's step. Selling alcohols is more lucrative than programming!
Joel Spolsky explains in the little video, (at about 1 minute 10 seconds), it is easier for technology people to learn basic business than other way round which is why he says,

"The great software companies are going to be run by software developers".

Not actually my words though I believe in the point.
Now - if we can get Issues doing the same thing by building on top of something like YABT or some other text-based approach to issue tracking, that'll be awesome.
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Pharma hack and their C&C (Command & control) server
And developer/producer interest in the Android platform just notched up a little farther.
Be the parent you want to be. A lot of people are going to talk about what the best way to raise a kid is, but you are going to know your kid better than all of them, so do what is right for your family.

Dote on your wife. Give her a foot rub every night.

The burden of a child kind of weighs heavy at times - "holy crap I could serious fuck this kid's head up!" - but remember that most people grow up to be okay regardless of their parents. As long as you're a good and loving person so will your child be.

If you're like me, jokes about kids are going to become seriously unfunny for a few years. If you watch cop shows and dramas you'll notice a lot of kids dying or being threatened and where you might not have had those heartstrings to be tugged in the past, when they first get installed they are fiercely powerful.

My favorite book about childhood development is http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Going-There-Brain-Develop/dp/055... "What's Going On In There" which was written by a neurobiologist because she started thinking about what was happening when she was pregnant. I consider it the Hacker's Guide to your Kid's Brain.

My oldest is 4 now, he's about to start junior kindergarten. Seeing him (and my youngest who is 6 months) develop is fascinating and rewarding. Don't give up on your goals and dreams but remember that there's always going to be work waiting for you. Your kids are only kids for a while.
My wife is like that for a specific reason. While I do a lot of coding and development, it's not really my main interest. My main interest is making awesome interactive experiences.

Programming is my hammer. I know how to use it, but I prefer talking about what I do with the hammer. In turn, my wife knows about what you can do on my latest web project, and has no clue about coding.

Might be a slightly different context than the article, but I wanted to point out that there is a difference in the technical aspect of somebody's work and what "they do".
I just tried it out, and I have to say, yes. It's remarkably good. I only tried about 6 phrases but they were all exactly right.
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re #2: Overdraft fees are only opt-in for certain classes of transactions, namely ATM and non-recurring debit transactions.

Checks, ACH transfers, and recurring debit transactions can still generate overdraft fees without an opt-in consent.

re #4: The networks pulls the trigger, but the standing orders come from the issuing institutions. Fraud detection is often used as a differentiation feature by the networks to attract bank customers, the networks themselves don't have a direct incentive to prevent fraudulent transactions beyond this: they don't stand to take a loss.
I'd say something like "Last week I build a website where you can do x and y. Somebody just did z on it and it was so cool because of...". Frame it in practical real-world terms and present it as an exciting, high-tech thing you're doing.

Don't give facts, tell a story.
Read the article and when at the very beginning I saw it was written by a lawyer I had a bad feeling about what the rest of it would be like. And I was right.
I'm not at a startup (anymore... we got bought), but we're using Groovy for unit/functional testing.

It's a nice compromise when you want something that cuts through boilerplate with metaprogramming/duck typing but can keep tight interop with Java where you need it... and you need a quick learning curve for Java devs.

That said, stack traces are horrible, debugging in Eclipse is difficult to impossible depending on how "dynamic" you get, there's no interactive debugger like pdb.set_trace() (that I know of) and the flexibility of the syntax can get out of hand quick. Great for limited use, like making mini-languages and glue for testing. Wouldn't want to support a large application written in it.
That's my point. The iPad came out in 2010 and is a big flat paper-weight without an iTunes powered computer to plug it into. He's still selling the digital hub.
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How do you know the problem doesn't exist? Even if you are pre-computing it, wouldn't you like it to go faster, like encoding a video or rendering a ray-traced scene? There are an infinite number of polygons.

Of course caches are important. But it isn't the only thing. That's why programs aren't all giant databases. Memoization != better caching either. That is simply naive. If your algorithm can fit in L1-L2 cache, it can be better than loading a giant hash table or tree from disk.

I'm not trying to be mean either, but you have all the signs of a junior developer who thinks there is nothing left in CS to challenge him as he churns out enterprise crud where caching is the only thing he can think of that matters.
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Exactly. If Google with it's billions and market position is willing to bendover like this, what chance do smaller players have, even a consortium of them?
The voice recognition better than with google voice ohh for cynics transctription service because i've found that to be a horriby inaccurate.

(Your question, spoken by a norwegian, transcribed by the new Google Voice Search)
"A Cynic Is A Man Who, When He Smells Flowers, Looks Around For A Coffin."
I don't doubt that you'd accept the occasional inconvenience to other people. Try having your own money taken away from you and report back to us about the "inconvenience."
Indeed. ACH processing is dirt cheap. I also wouldn't be surprised if the terms of ACH transactions are more favorable to PayPal than those of MasterCard/VISA.

The ACH system has very strict rules guaranteeing payments once they clear the network, as opposed to the more consumer friendly rules that the card networks offer. ACH, afterall, is meant to be used by financial institutions that know exactly what they're doing.
I can highly recommend KeePassX for Linux. It's just to store logins - but for that it's a great piece of software: Intuitive UI, fast and easy to use, and it's easy to manage a large number of logins with multiple folders.

http://www.keepassx.org
For what It's worth, both my FIOS and my data plan from T-Mobile claim to be unlimited. I have yet to read the fine print.