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Exactly. Also it seems that the UI is one reason symbian phones seemed to run so slowly - with any luck Qt based phones will run quicker.

Also, it shouldn't be too hard to target Symbian and Meego from the same codebase.

Coding for Symbian is not supposed to be too much fun, having good tools is half the battle and I expect the Qt tools to help, whether it'll be enough remains to be seen.
I knew some wall street traders who dropped out and moved to Tanzania for 2 years and had a sapling plantation. They say the locals burn the forests down around their villages because they are habitats for wildlife they hate, namely elephants and lions that routinely kill people.
Man, sometimes I find it hard to express how much I love watching awkward dudes with enough money to think they're important get into catfights across blogs.
It's tongue and cheek, but that doesn't make it a parody. Against the notion that it's satire: the fact that it doesn't make sense as satire (see slides #1, #3, #5, and #11).
AB then CD then BC: the graph looks like A-B-C-D but there's no chain A->D or D->A that actually permits infection.
It's not that these projects/people have vanished, they've just been eclipsed by the much louder self-promoting "social web 2.0" community. It's much easier to write naive single-actor code than mutually-suspicious distributed applications.

(also, you're forgetting at least git)
Yes, I'd say you pretty much hit the nail on the head.
I've heard some sorry stories for ~ 4 years, but depending on how full the quote lines are I think ~3 years is a good estimate.
It appears that the only result in Google for gold settlement foundation is your post (and i suspect mine as well now). Could you tell me what that is?
EU plans to end Apple antitrust investigation in light of relaxed iPhone rules
I'm posting this from my phone, so no links right now, but you can print in many more materials than just plastic, and they're working on circuitry... see the link I posted below, don't want to spam.
I really think Google is getting to be too clever for its own good. When I try to search for some Mac API, it will give me a blog post about an iPhone app, no matter how much I beg and plead. Bing returns precisely what I wanted for those "Where the heck did Google get that SERP from?" kind of queries.
As long as I'm allowed to circumvent it if I can, sure. Mostly I object to any legal mechanism that would cause a product I physically own to have restrictions on how I can modify it in my own home. But if it's just a technological restriction, sure, they can put whatever unlocking mechanism they want on their chips. I think people should be legally allowed to modify their own property however they want, but manufacturers aren't under any obligation to sell products that are easy to modify.

Alternately, if they want it enforced via contract, they could go the old-school IBM route of renting me equipment rather than selling it. But then they had better be prepared to take on all the legal obligations that someone renting equipment has.
Interesting. How about this: the rules of the market must be as general as possible to encourage as many participants with competing motivations to participate. Doing anything but this will create a market that is, by definition, less efficient and more costly.

Simple enough for you?
You should check out non - FDM processes; for instance, Objet machines have a 14micrometer layer thickness, so they're absolutely smooth coming out of the machine. There's so much more out there.

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Whoops, fixed that - "Global Settlement Foundation". By which I was trying to reference all the digital gold currencies (not that I think they're necessarily the way forward, but they're attempts)

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Capitalism was a product of earlier ("classical") liberalism, but has not been fully absorbed into society. A modern capitalist should be against bank bailouts, currency monopolies, and high taxes. These views undermine
established institutions and seek to distribute power, and are therefore liberal.

Technology isn't political (by doing instead of talking), but can still be liberal or conservative. DRM, paypal data mining, and national firewalls all seek to slow change and preserve established institutions, which is the fundamental tenet of conservatism.

The technology of web 2.0 is conservative in that it's the old thin-client model. Rather than your computer being your agent, it merely acts as a terminal into a monolithic system run by an institution that you're required to trust completely.

(case in point of having to edit this unrelated comment to post my already-written reply. I trust HN to kill stories to remove them from the front page, but I've no choice but to also allow it/them to prevent an already-established interaction between us.)
it will /probably/ get you out of your rackspace debt. My experience with credit card processors is that you have to co-sign personally, even if you have a corp. So yeah, he can probably walk away from the rackspace problem, but he's almost certainly still on the hook for the credit card mess.
I'm not really a fan of boiling down the complexities of life into pithy little sayings. Here's what a really smart person could do:

First, take the saying "The smart person accepts, the idiot insists" and build a strong argument in support of it.

Then, inverse it to "The idiot accepts, the smart person insists" and build an equally strong argument in support of that.
1) There's no reason that it can't print circuit boards with some conducting/semi-conducting materials.

2) Again, it's a material choice

3) This is already solved. There's a designer who makes clothing with these 3D printers, google it.
I could not agree more with this. I don't know any designer that is any good that can't code too.

Web designers that can't code are just designers. So make sure you hire a web designer for your website and you will get a better result.
Market share for a phone which is not used for purchasing many third-party applications isn't structurally very sticky. If it's a commodity appliance-like device with, at best, Google Maps and a ringtone or two, there's no real incentive to choose the same manufacturer for your next phone, apart from brand identity and UI familiarity.

It's pretty different with iOS and Android if you've invested much in applications. The platform effect kicks in, along with the network effect of the application markets, and makes the consumer increasingly sticky depending on how involved they are in purchasing third-party apps.
Maybe, but you can have another startup. One particular startup failing doesn't have to mean the end of the co-founder relationship. And it would be equally a dick move to say "this too shall pass" at the beginning of a startup.
Ahh, too bad I can't upvote you a 100 points. Words fail me when confronted with this chart. I'm taking up the challenge to parse the ASCII art to convert to Graphviz as my next project.
The whole point of Arduino is that anybody can make clones and derivatives. The only distinction is that the clones cannot be called arduino, which is why you see freeduino, seeeduino, etc.
the features were not clearly marked as unsopprted. there were even price quotes for international SMS.
Hypothetical #1. I invent a very clever, useful, non-obvious electrical circuit that performs a valuable transformation on input analog signals. Patentable.

Hypothetical #2. I come up with the same idea as in #2 but conceive of it as a series of steps applied to a digitized signal. Each step is done as a little algorithm. It turns out that there is an isomorphism between these algorithmic steps, and what the circuit components in hypothetical #1 do. In other words, I've essentially conceived it as a simulation of a physical circuit.

Why should #2 not be patentable? It is in pretty much all meaningful ways the same invention as in #1. It is just implemented different. In #1, it is implemented by taking (non-patentable) physics building blocks and putting them together in a new, useful, non-obvious way. In #2, it is implemented by taking (non-patentable) algorithmic building blocks and putting them together in a new, useful, non-obvious way.

Conversely, would you argue that anything capable of being simulated via a computer should not be patentable?
Another argument for veganism.
so in the face of the 2 injustices you mention, you suggest that we give up more rather than try to correct the injustices. then I guess to extract further things from us, all someone need do is come up with some new injustice

actually, the two problems you mention are not that big a deal.

you can already deduct money spent on health insurance and if you're healthy, you'll probably spend less than an employer would have to pay for your insurance. When you're independent, you don't subsidize the expensive health issues and pregnancies of others.

and we have the legal system to deal with people who don't pay their bills and ways of screening them out to begin. why do I need more costly intervention from the government?
I'm not sure how Linode does it, but I've worked on dedicated machines that have separate, internal routes. (Slicehost VPSes have this option available -- unmetered -- too.)

When compared to heavy processing on large database queries, memcached -- even with a few extra ms of latency -- can still be a major performance win.

Although this largely depends on the applications you're making. I've been working with GIS applications lately, where a large distributed cache (most memcached clients automatically support sharding) is about the best you can do without a large hardware budget.
"as an engineer, you are much more less likely to meet good look people during your work". Well, yes, if the bartender is in a college town. The drinking life does tend to wear on those who stay with it too long.

The bartender might also be likely to be drinking too much, which could be hard on a marriage.
I hear a lot of "programmers don't do good Ui" as well as "marketers dictate bad UI" in my travels. I used to try to work out some sort of theory about which statement is true, and why. But then I experienced a revelation, Sturgeon's Revelation:

90% of everything is crap.

Therefore, if handed ten UIs designed by programmers, nine will be crap. If handed ten UIs designed by marketers, nine will be crap. Perhaps there is a characteristic way in which the nine programmer crap UIs are crap, but the observation that most programmer UIs are crap is not insightful and doesn't magically justify the idea of turning UI design over to product management.
>If you personally guaranteed any of the company's debts --- and don't ever do that --- the story is obviously different.

My experience has been that if you are a small, new corp, nobody will give the corp any credit without a personal co-sign.

I don't think it's silly to personally co-sign stuff. I mean, it's not something to be done lightly, sure, but if you need a lease, you need a lease. sometimes you need to take the risk
I wonder how the SecondLife people handle this--their "lindens" are redeemable for money.
Correlation is not causation. While it would certainly be nice if true, and it certainly passes the common sense test, this study does little to prove the causation.

For example, it could be that people who have the necessary genes for maintaining their better physical health are therefore more likely to stay active in their old age. So it could be their genetically better health leading to the behavior, not the behavior leading to the better health.

I wish science reporting handled this better.
If only market shares were fixed numbers. Myspace was doing very well before facebook came along. How could a current (and falling, in nokia's case) market share garantee anything about the future?
It was nice to see zedshaw reviewing C code in the comments there.
I think computer games can be different. Depth of play, size of universe, and an online community.

Yes, we had a TV while they were growing up. A small set in the family room. The boys never used it - it was for my wife.

Sure they played their share of console games - at other people's houses. That was social.

What's bad is having your own console in your room for instance. No need to share, no social interaction, no reason to come out of your room for 13 years in fact. That's sick and disfunctional.

We are in fact a heavy computer-game-playing family. We have over 100 titles on a shelf. But we played them at appropriate times, WITH one another, either networked or all sitting behind the keyboard and collaborating. Some of the best family times that they remember.
Wow, this is the first time I see Startup School being announced for this year. Am I the only one who seems to have missed it? Luckily, I was able to get my application submitted within 3-4 minutes.
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Its also one of the 3 jokes they use on family guy.
"In what way are nonpaying customers valuable in a freemium pricing model"

They keep your user from using a competing service (whether pay or free).
There is absolutely no reason anybody should be able to buy information about order flow.

High freq traders like to pretend that they make money because they are so smart and so fast, but the real reason they make money is because the exchanges are willing to sell them information about somebody else's orders before those orders are executed. That of course is highly unfair to the person whose orders are being sold.

Selling order flows is basically an act of greed by the exchanges which screws over most of the stock trading/investing population in favour of the high freq traders and also dramatically destabilises the markets. This is terrible because it is the ordinary investors that perform the function that the market was created for (providing capital to business) and this high frequency trading stuff appears simply as a huge tax on ordinary investment.

Congress should simply ban the exchanges from selling any information about incoming orders. If I order to buy or sell a stock the only thing I want from the exchange is to buy or sell the stock for me. I do not want the exchange to tell somebody else about my order before it is executed so that other person can screw me over.

If the high freq traders are really smart they should figure out how to make money without getting the order flow info.
The wording could be better, but the intent is very clear. Twilo is still ok in my book.
Less efficient and more costly might be acceptable trade-off depending on "by how much?"

Like you say market shouldn't be favoring one type of participant over another. Seems to me like market favors HFT guys more than others these days.
I do it when ever it feels right and I'm focused, when ever that might be. Some days that's 8 hours straight, other days I go sit on the beach and think.

Nothing happens at 6am for me, so saying "everyone should do X" is about as pointless as any other 1 rule for all or generalization.
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I believe that the dupe detector only compares against stories in memory, so old links that haven't been loaded in a while will not be caught.
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Body and mind, a good point to remember indeed.
Which of his points offend you? I found myself agreeing with many of the slides, and they seem to map pretty well to successful startups.
Oh and it's in a proper environment, i.e. not an office.
My work is indirectly related to proton beams. Your comment about energy deposition in human tissue reminded me they can be used for cancer treatment that's localised to a certain depth. In fact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_Beam_Therapy would go some way to answering the original question about the interaction between the LHC beam and a human hand. Presumably we can take it as given that there is some sort of exit window (not sure what material would be best?) from the beam guide into the air.

Aside from the bremstrahlung, proton beam interactions with matter include spallation from heavy nuclei (giving neutrons) and the formation of muons. Both of these would deviate from the original proton beam direction and irradiate other parts of the body.
You don't know what you're talking about, unfortunately. No one buys order flow. The only time your order won't receive price time priority on the US equities markets is when your broker internalizes the order and matches or improves the price as compared to the NBBO.

And if you're thinking flash orders then you're also wrong. Not only is the practice not used anymore, but even if you're order is flashed it will only match if the price is improved.
remember e-gold? that ended in tears for all involved. Hell, I've still got approx USD$200 in e-gold I can't get to.
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Nvidia. Tegra platform will totally dominate the mobile chip market in 2011. Most of the tech companies have already partnered with them to get their chip.
I just ditched cable tv and bought an antenna, I can pull in 20+ channels, most of which are HD. I also ordered an Apple TV to supplement this setup, if they ever start shipping them. So far, I really don't miss cable and I'm saving about $50/mo., before equipment costs.
I want to chime in here, because this thread is painful for me to read. We are developers, we work with dozens of APIs on a daily basis, and we work really hard to help developers succeed.

I just want to lay out what we're currently doing to achieve our goal of being one of the most accessible API companies in the world, and encourage you to tell us what we can do better. Right now we communicate status via our API, documentation, FAQs, forums, and social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, and IRC chat. We can also be reached by email 24/7 as well as over the phone from 7am to 7pm Pacific Time. Finally, we publish the status of all our services at status.twilio.com

In the case of international SMS, we saw high rates of undeliverable messages starting on August 16th and we have communicated this via our status page, forums, and email support channel. When it became clear to us that we wouldn't be able to restore service, we emailed customers who were impacted (yesterday) to let them know. While the service hadn't been working for awhile, people were checking back with us regularly, and we wanted to keep them in the loop so they could find new providers if needed.

As others have noted here, international SMS is very hard, we're trying to be open and keep everybody in the loop. We're very sorry for any trouble this has caused. You can always reach me at danielle@twilio.com
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Looks like Zed got some different Cooper's book than I did.
Or misread it completely.
"Inmates are running the asylum“ was one of the most useful books I ever read, it completely changed my attitude. It's not "don't let programmers to do interfaces", it is "build interfaces for intended users and intended usage".
If Zed thinks that Cooper's book is idiotic then he is just unable to get what it's all about (like many other nerds — and that explains why open-source is good for servers and sucks in UI department). I hope he sticks to building awesome web servers nobody needs.
Excellent read. I found myself relating this to the division between hacker types and the MBA types. I think the comparison is close as sometimes the product people are the MBA people.

As a hacker, I enjoy having large blocks of time to create what I think is good and not coding some autocratic vision of a product. As I've grown older though, I have come to appreciate and value the interaction between MBA types and myself. In one particular project an MBA type brought me valuable information about what we were doing well, how we compared against competitors, and what he thought our customers wanted. He then told me to run with it and stepped out of the way. I thought that was pretty neat.

Another thought - A quote from the article:

"A sudden rise in Long Beards simply copying Product People Products but doing it cheaper using their cost reducing backend skills."

reminded of the Paul Graham essay "Copy What You Like"

http://paulgraham.com/copy.html

... and copying something you like is probably a good way to bridge the gap between back end "long beard" and product designer.
I don't think thats really true. In my experience its far more common to run memcached on a separate server (or servers, it is clusterable) than it is to run it locally, at least for anything serious enough to require separate web and database servers.
Ask HN:  Any ebook readers analyze text in interesting ways?
For example, an ebook reader might use computational linguistics methods to visualize the content in various ways (e.g. using different text colors to indicate various emotions).
The price for the cupcake CNC (previous model) HAS come down while supplies last -- you can get it really cheap. The Thing-O-Matic is a new, much improved model.

I believe it made the rabbit; I've seen similar things made by cupcake, and thing-o-matic is supposed to be even more preceise.

And last but not least -- it's all open source. Build one yourself if you think the price is too high. I think their profit margin is very reasonable, and if you try to build one from scratch it is probably going to cost you at least as much in bill-of-materials-and-lasercutting alone.
They can easily take the mechanism away from new processors, any time they want. For all anybody knows, this might be profitable.
When I get a bit tired of working on software, I work on my hotrod ('72 Dodge Challenger), which has no computers (or even electronics) of any kind in it. It's very refreshing to work on totally mechanical systems with my own hands, and have them come alive.

After a while, I'm ready to go back to the keyboard.
You could get rid of some of your limitations and make things easier on yourself by using the same technology we use to run memcached at heroku: http://github.com/northscale/bucket_engine

In its current form, it's binary only (because we do vertical multi-tenancy there and have no control over multiple applications being on the same instance). It'd be pretty easy to make an IP address based ACL mode for the thing and then you could run binary or ascii just as easily.

Advantages:

* Key containment (e.g. you can do flush_all)
* You don't have to hack up your own memcached server
* Binary protocol is a bit easier on the server with things like large multi-gets because they don't cause so much request swell

We've also got some basic management stuff for creating and manipulating instances (independently of auth, since we let SASL deal with that).

Disadvantages:

* You'd have to hack in your IP addr -> bucket mapping
* If you want TTL limits, you'd need to hack that in, too

Of course, I imagine both are quite easy and would be welcome contributions to the project. :)

Let me know if you're interested and need any help.
That's a really good point - but I think a really big issue is that a lot of programmers (and I don't know why) seem to think that a good User Interface (API, Visual, Docs, etc) is just not needed.

That; and the attitudes range from "who cares" to downright hostile "if you can't understand it, you're stupid". I say this as a programmer (who spends a lot of time on the "user" facing components), not as a business person.

That attitude has to change - I don't care that the business people think hackers are Eloi fit for the slaughter while they are the Morlocks - the intelligent ones. Good business people don't have that attitude, good business and product people do care about scalability, supportability and quality. Those that don't will fail.

On the other hand, the constant refrain I hear from people in my own community and profession about making something usable and intuitive just makes me upset. I can't change the broken business people - I can try to make my corner of the world better.