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They've shot themselves in the head.

The thing is that it's a bad business move not only will they get bad PR. They will start losing traction on Java over time. By doing this they are trying to make sure that they get a slice of the Android pie, but this will only cause people to jump ship.

The thing is that Android is going to be a large ecosystem, and if I were Mr. Ellison I would pay Google to allow my technology to piggy back it. As then I could make products tailored for the language for developers and release them at a premium instead. Since, Java would be the de-fact standard for that ecosystem their sales would be through the roof.

If Georges Clemenceau were alive today he would have surely said, business is too important to be left to the suits.
Amen to that! I have come across several company blog posts where there is no direct link to the actual site. Clicking on their logo usually leads me right back to the blog.

Very annoying - For anyone else who gets annoyed with this - Clickable link - http://flattr.com/
(raises hand)

Although to be fair it only reached 10% after 401k matching kicked in, if I recall correctly. Can't pass up free money.
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Even if it is spam , this kind of idea always amaze me.And everytime, I am jealous to not having thinking about it before..

How many of these bots are spamming twitter already ?
Oh. I just noticed it right now.

I should have done it on paper and worked out it out more extensively. Is there anything else conceptually wrong in my reply?

Also, is there any way at all I can contact you? I would love to learn more from you. If possible can you please drop me a line at yesthisisananonymousid at gmail?
Yes!

And the first few claims generally paint way over the lines. It's in the later claims that you talk about the unique stuff that you did.
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I think it should be read as a parable, not a true story.

I think Max, who- or whatever he really is, once stated he's consciously creating some kind of online persona? No idea what he intends to achieve, though.
That is a great idea and I do not find it too spammy. Twitter could implement something like that themselves as advertisement (simple context aware text ads).
Great! I hope this means a whole generation of newly-educated people coming into the world with a tool they can use to rapidly increase the quality of their lives. I think this is exactly what computers are good for: giving everyone a chance to improve themselves and life around them, not just the enlightened cognescenti, not just the privileged few .. everyone!

I'm looking forward to hearing more about how kids are using these things productively, here's hoping there are going to be some innovative ideas from this sector of humanity, newly anointed with technology we've all come to take for granted ..
So, any tips on what I should do?

Find a co-founder, preferably someone who is a) not a teenager, and b) exudes enough gravitas to convince prospects that you guys know what you are doing.

The other things you might want to do is to meditate a while on your value proposition. If your potential customers are telling you that external factors (such as the desire to keep data off the books) are large enough to render the benefits of your service moot, you need to take that seriously. There are a number of ways out of that conundrum: increase the benefit of using your service, so that it outweighs the negatives (of potential exposure to the authorities); alternately, find a way to mitigate the negatives (i.e., a higher level of security/deniability, that would allow people to maintain their current practices); or, pivoting to another related idea that does not have the complications fo this one.
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I learned something just the same. Thanks a lot!
Clickable: http://quotesentinel.com

I'd prefer you look it through, but if you want to cut to the chase, log in using:
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password: hn

or register for a free account: https://quotesentinel.com/register/free

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And now the iPod nano has a video camera, can watch movies, play FM radio, etc.

Maybe it's more about the gradual introduction of all these things to the masses.
That may be the case, but one can't establish that with a cynical joke about a drawing.

This "analysis" was awful all the way through.
I like how the search engine made by Bing :)

(Click on Why? to find out)
Why should java as a platform die? Most people use the Sun JVM and you will still be able to use that others like IBM have contracts with Sun. So no problem there.

So if the JVM goes closed source it still wont go away because the support of Sun/Oracle will stay the same.

It would have a big impact but not as big as you discribe. I would still take the JVM because the the languages are better and I don't want to be bound to windows spezialy for servers.
I think his theory of an implicit patent grant by virtue of GPL2 licensing sounds like a stretch and would need to be tested in court. If the FSF thought it were true there would have been no need for GPL3.
Advice: This would have been a good opportunity to tell me what Flattr is rather than making the assumption that I have been eagerly following along with your progress and am as excited now as you are.

(Edit: Found the homepage, read it, still don't know. Tab closed).
I guess I'm referring to http://www.itworld.com/open-source/66329/suns-open-source-bo... - not-quite-JRE might be a more precise way to put it.
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Update: Nope.
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Does the Kindle support complex science books well? I bought one statistics book and the equations and graphs do not scale with the text.

For fiction I still prefer small paperback books. Easy to swap with friends and simple to use.
While I haven't seen any numbers, I think that there are alot of these bots. I have even less of an idea if any of them are contextual alot. Right before I was suspended, I believe that there was a report that came out that suggested that a large percentage of Twitter's traffic was caused by spam bots like these. I'll see if I can find the report and verify the numbers!

What I do know is that there are certain keywords that put you in line to be tweeted at for some product or website. Some keywords have more bots trolling the search API than others.

UPDATE: I wasn't able to find the report I was looking for, but I did find the following blog post. It contains a graph that shows that SPAM used to account for about 10% of Twitter's traffic. This number is now below 1%.

http://blog.twitter.com/2010/03/state-of-twitter-spam.html
I was JUST about to write the same thing! I see this all the time on blog.(app) sites -- annoys the hell out of me!

That said, I love the idea of this. A nice way to say thanks to people without having to go through paypal hell :D Might also inspire me to write more than "what I did on the weekend" blog posts ;P
I don't know how roaming is supposed to work, but I'd be very surprised if your feeling was grounded. Here's why:

(1) You keep the same phone number, wherever you are.

(2) Calls don' end even when you move.

Which means they can keep track of state, and link that state to your phone. Id' be very surprised if the same kind of mechanism couldn't be use on IP technology. My bet is, they do: have you ever noticed having to constantly reconnect when you drive in a well covered area? If not, that most probably mean that they keep track of the NAT table associated to your phone, and of course your private IP. In that case, I can't fathom why they couldn't do the same with a pubic IP.
Oracle/Google lawsuit - has Enterprise dev in Java just jumped the shark? Mysql?
And what is going to stop the heirs to Microsoft's patent portfolio from suing you, ten years hence?

Microsoft's conversion to open source is going to have to be really really convincing after yesterday's precedent.
It appears that Twitter is starting to move in this direction. I recently read that they now embed what they call "Promoted Tweets" (another word for an ad) in their search results. I'm wondering how long it will be before these start showing up in our timelines.
Interesting. I'm a full-time Ruby and Rails developer, and I host/manage a few Rails sites personally. I'd beg to differ with whom you've been speaking. As betageek said, mod_rails makes it a breeze, plus it can be used with either Apache or Nginx.
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how is this different from any generic random-user chat app, other than the "compassion" theme? is there anything technologically unique? not trying to be harsh, just honest.
The want make a VM, compiler and a OS in Phyton. Its just not going to happen.

Go is not ready for something like this, NO CHANGE. Go as a Language and as a Platform is not ready.
I can empathise. I am in a similar situation: after months of development and me (amongst others) banging on about how we are giong to be waving at the deadline as it whooshes past. TPTB have finally stood up took note, and are now getting their asses in gear over how to sort this. I ensured we kept burndown charts, measures of productivity and efficiency. We then used these to do projections on where we would finish based on optimisitc/average/pessimistic figures.Do this on an ongoing basis and hopefully people will realise sooner rather than later whats going to happen. Oh and ensure your governance is in place. Make sure reporting to TPTB is regular and as close to warts and all as you can keep it. That way if things blow up and people start pointing fingers there's lots of information to back you up!
I'd prefer the iPhone with solar batteries on the backside.
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I'm surprised the eInk particles look like rocks at the bottom of an aquarium. All this time I was led to believe they were uniform, like tiny spheres.
I'm not saying it's a terrible idea, only that it's probably a big portion of their motivation to centralize and control map distribution.
There has to be more behind this. They can't be suing Google just because they wrote their own embedded Java VM because if they were they'd be suing RIM too.

And they certainly know RIM develops its own since they say so right on their own site: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/index-139239.html

RIM's support for J2ME includes development of its own Java virtual machine (JVM) 1, which supports the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) and the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP).
A source:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/ar...

"Ellison's best friend … Steve Jobs … did double duty as the wedding photographer [at Ellison's wedding]."

Also Ellison was on Apple's board for a few years after the second coming of Jobs.
Where are you from? As far as I know this particular theme would probably be illegal in Germany.
Google didn't use Sun's open sourced version of Java as the base for their VM. They implemented their own VM from scratch and are thus not covered by the patent protection offered by the open source license.
wrong Java is a language nothing more. Sun just sold it as a platform.

There are 3 things
Java the Langauge
JVM
and the JDK (not sure if this is the write name i just meen the libs around it)
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http://www.businessinsider.com/android-revenue-2010-8

Google's Android bet is paying off spectacularly--not just in terms of smartphone market-share but financially, according to Eric Schmidt at the Techonomy conference
Eye strain is definitely antithetical to reading. That said, I'm not too worried about it with an iPad type device: I am looking at screens all day every day, and eye strain just isn't a problem.

Perhaps when I get older/my eyes get broken in more. But for now, I'd be fine with reading on something with an LCD - it really doesn't bother me.
Lets hope that Java will get thrown out of teaching. Its posible the worst langauge for teaching.
I won't be using this service.

The owners of flattr also own thepiratebay. I remember hearing a speech a few months ago talking about how everything should be free, just like when we were children (we need to learn to share). They have no regard for the rights of developers and have no problems giving a clear and direct roadmap to a free copy of your commercial application.

If they really believed in sharing, freedom, and rainbows, why does Flattr charge a 10% surcharge on top of every transaction (more than even Paypal). I might use them if they didn't make a profit and only paid for the infrastructure and bandwidth of the service.

It seems most people here don't see them for what they really are: a bunch of greedy fucks.
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There wasn't any cooperation available, unless Google wanted to pay megabucks for Java ME, and force their developer chain to do the same: Java ME was never open sourced.

Essentially, Sun said "We will give away Java, Open Source, as we planned to do. Oh, not mobile, because Nokia uses it and it makes us lots of money. Of course, we all understand reimplementing Java ME would be far too much work for any one company to do. Feel free to license."

Google said "Eh, we'll just write our own JVM that runs on phones, thanks. That's how we roll over here."

Now there are lawsuits, because Sun tried hard to make sure you had to pay if you wanted Java on mobile devices.
To my eyes, Max Klein headlines occasionally look as if penned by Tim Ferriss.
If even R.J. Lipton would "hesitate to draw parallels" between Wiles and Deolalikar, how much more so should we? As Terry Tao writes, the consensus at this point seems to be that Deolalikar's general proof strategy -- exploiting independence properties in random -SAT or similar structures -- does not have much hope of establishing non-trivial complexity separation result. Link to Tao's comment on Lipton's blog: http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/fatal-flaws-in-deol...
So the 'successful business' which sprang from nowhere over the past year doesn't actually exist? The whole 'relocate to China to save a few bucks' craziness didn't really happen?

That would explain a lot, as this emerging story reads more like a fictional dot.com tale.

Edit: Thanks PRS. I won't be wasting time with 'Max Klein' posts in the future.
My keywords: "with, from, have, that"

I think the algorithm could use some work.

Also, the book suggestions are greyed out/faded. Makes me think there aren't any suggestions, you should make the icons come through in full color.
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Bernard Madoff.
A. If you are paying a monthly fee, what difference does it make if that fee is called a hosting cost or a retainer?

B. You will ultimately either pay more, or get less value, if you decouple your expert support from the specific hardware platform that your expert support understands best and lives with every day.

C. If you only pay your experts when there is an emergency, there is no incentive for anyone to help you avoid having emergencies. Nor will there be anyone but you to look out for emergencies before they happen, or prevent emergencies by doing routine work like testing and applying patches. And you will have to get really good at finding freelance experts and convincing them to drop everything, reorient to your system, and fix your problem in a matter of minutes as your server is in flames; you may have to pay premium prices for that. It might be cheaper to just pay the insurance bill.

Disclaimer: I work at Acquia on Acquia Hosting, a product which is like an EngineYard for Drupal.
Was it phrased as "aspirational 4sq"?
A "method" which is not being acted out physically, but instead is in someone's head or written down on paper is a type of idea. So some ideas are patentable, others aren't. The mantra that ideas aren't patentable presumes some other category of thought completely apart from ideas. Besides, what could be more purely and precisely methodical than machine-readable source code, in this case Smalltalk source code?
> I'm not sure this latest patent warfare will convince anyone that Mono is a safe bet, quite the opposite in fact.

I disagree. See Patents section:

http://www.mono-project.com/Licensing

The part Mono inherits from MS (C#, CLI etc.) is "irrevocably promised" by MS (see http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx). Other parts, libraries for example, are re-written from the ground, omitted or already open sourced (see ASP.NET MVC).

Microsoft's Developer Division is doing great things for being open lately.
The difference between the App Store and the Android Market is that the latter is not as actively policed. The Android Market has a fairly restrictive content policy, which (among other things) prohibits "promotions of hate or incitement of violence". While it's easier to slip prohibited content into the Android Market, it's not supposed to be there and will likely be removed.

http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html

The freedom of the Android platform is that you can put what you want on your device. The same freedom does not apply to the Market -- if you want Market-prohibited content, you need to find another way to get it. This renders most of the article moot.
Oh wow, memories... my first sysadmin job had our servers in the same datacenter, in 2000. It was originally called Wavve, and had been built with dot-com VC, so they had all the toys -- biometric identification, massive stacks of batteries, Starbucks-inspired architecture, riot-proof glass...
I love Calvin and Hobbes but Watterson famously does not like these sorts of derivative works. Still, awesome service.

Service appears to be struggling to stay up.
Dude, i encourage you to read more... and do the math, re expected values in probability

also, the money is not lent out -- it's invested. the investor gets equity, not a loan.

and the money invested generally does not go to the founders, who could earn more by contracting than through salary, typically. it goes into the biz...
Yes it would be illegal in Germany, but here in the US we do have freedom of speech. From flag burning, to KKK rallys and in this case Nazi insignia are all examples of free speech, and protected by the Constitution.

Google can censor this but that would also be sacrificing free speech.

I think its a disgusting theme but I don't think it should be censored, maybe they should get their keywords sorted so it doesn't show up when looking up "Jewish".
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I can't wait to get my next kindle. The iPad is nice from the perspective of video and the like, but it is still very much a computer screen. The Kindle simply feels exactly like mutating paper.

It'll be really cool if Amazon ever figures out colour on the kindle.
Come on, Oracle, Google has used Java in more creative ways than you have - like running map/reduce on a Nexus One farm http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/04/pushing-the-limits-of-d...
Interesting idea (to suggest based on already written content).
Maybe it would be considered less "spammy" if it would be just semi-automated, i.e. more like an "expert system". Also, it it would work for popular forums like PHP BB or others, would greatly extend it's usage (so not just on Twitter).
Already being discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599584
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Jonathan Schwartz had a great article about patents and IP where he relayed some stories about the stand offs between companies with regards to patents. Seems very relevant here: http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artis...
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Uhm.. there's another option you know? Like maybe your time hasn't come yet?
Just because lazy people in North America couldn't be bothered working it out any more doesn't mean Twitter shouldn't set a good example. Ignoring it is not correct, the distinction is correct. It's not a dialect, either, given that it's, uh, the original.
Have you looked at ditz?

http://ditz.rubyforge.org/
I like to think it was my awesome highspeed editing ;)
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Suspect parent was meant as a joke, but it does seem like this legal action might have interesting ramifications for Parrot. (Both positive and negative.)
Can someone fire one up on the iPhone 4 display?
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http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1353307 yields the following information:

Max Klein does not exist. He is an identity created by Mark Essien (www.essien.org).

The posting is worth a read in my opinion.
hire contractors (or setup a team) and isolate them from the rest of the business. happens in both small and large companies all the time.
I'm surprised more people aren't speaking against what you did... I guess people aren't too bothered about spam until it gets above a certain threshold, and I guess it's only Twitters money that people like you are wasting by abusing their services and breaking their T&C's
Ruby, because it's relatively easy to find Ruby developers who want to work in a startup environment.
Sadly, I lost my corpus some time ago so until I pull more data from Twitter (I've got a script doing this as we speak) the suggestions are going to be a little weak.

The book suggestions are faded unless you mouse over them - if you click on them, you will be able to see a description of the book (as provided by Amazon.) I'll experiment with different design elements to see how I could make this more intuitive. Any suggestions?
Sent email, rather than doing our correspondence here :] Left Dorset last year, now in Hampshire again.
This link is from when a similar thing showed up in the main Google search results:

http://www.google.com/explanation.html
Decent approach--like the segmented site integration.