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The story of the Torch contacts list debacle is just astounding. How on earth could a system ship with redundant, easily-desynchronized versions of the contacts database? To me, that says the architectural problems run deep, and further, that there's no effective user experience apparatus in place to even try to deal with the usability problems that inevitably bubble up from it.

One thing the author doesn't really touch on, though, is the acquisitions that would appear to be directed right at remedying these problems. QNX has already been integrated into the Playbook, and by all appearances it's destined for BlackBerries, where hopefully it will sport things like a non-ludicrous contacts list API. The acquisition earlier this month of Swedish UI design firm TAT shows they understand that need, and could actually be a huge turnaround if TAT is actually given enough latitude within the company.
Given the level of abstraction in most modern programing languages/ operating systems it's really hard to say that any modern language could implement quicksort in the most strict definitions.

For example, is a quicksort 'in-place' if your memory gets swapped to disk?
Seems this at least holds true for Oracle 11g, IBM DB2 10 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Of course, this post beeing from 2005 it was none of these versions, but you sort of get the idea :-)

Source: http://www.jpab.org/Microsoft/SQL/Server/2008/IBM/DB2/10.htm... (You can try with different databases.)
I've got to add a page-specific button, to turn it on and off. Poking at it now, as I hadn't thought of that purpose :) I think that requires "tabs" permissions though, which warns everyone it has access to "your entire browsing history".

edit: yep, it will. I'll get on it, though.

edit2: think I should have the switch just show names? Or the points as well?

edit3: Another idea: double-click on text, and if it matches a name, it'll reveal and highlight. How's that sound?
Same here. I was looking to see if anyone had noticed that there was no zip code (I'm in '0028' in HW) specified for Hollywood.

...Wondering if there was anything specific that you guys specified on your app?
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Two into my town (Nashua, NH). I have one.

I wish I could find out who the other is somehow.
Fossil? http://www.fossil-scm.org/

Not sure why everyone recommends trac, my personal experience with trac has been that it's too simplistic.

Since you want to track bugs across several projects, it may not be possible to find a hosted free bug tracker and should perhaps checkout redmine, bugzilla (a pain) or mantis and install it on your own server.

A simple way to try out is use google spread-sheets or even your own local spread-sheet.
I don't believe HTML is Turing complete, and thus it's difficult to argue that it is indeed a language for computing.
It's all just scientific poking :) but I'd try for example to address the audience instead of describing app it self. Now you have "Twitter Machine - tool packed with features" so maybe just "tool for Twitter stars" or something like it would work better. What you should understand is that you are basically trying to get people to pay for using Twitter :) so you have to be talking with hardcore users and providing some solid arguments.

Hypothetical but I hope it helps :)
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You could embed a link into the page and/or add a keyboard shortcut.

Another idea: don't censor the author & the user's own posts.
The algorithm design manual is a great book. The only downside is that the CD that comes with the book is full of media in 1995 realmedia format.
The "Android is free" bit is remarkably foolhardy, so it is surprising that it appears in so many articles.

I've heard that Microsoft charges somewhere in the range of $10 / unit for Windows Mobile, generally for an image that you quite literally set some flags and you have your gold copy (at least pre Windows Mobile 7, as my experience was with the CE variants). For Android the individual handset makers take on tremendous responsibility, not to mention that they often - for reasons of differentiation - decide to apply a generous layer of spakle on top. That doesn't come for free.

Android isn't and has never been free.
It's not an issue of being emotionally scarred it's an issue of losing one's passion.

Again it's not the same as other closed Betas. It's a movement towards an entirely different computing model. One that not everyone accepts is valid (in fact I'd argue most don't think a completely browser based computing experience is valid at this point). So what Google needs more than anything is people who are passionate about that idea and who will strongly advocate for it.

So when people are rejected from the program I don't believe they'll cry but I do believe they'll feel less passionate about the idea as a whole.
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Agreed about the hour over 15 minutes. I can understand that they don't want people essentially renting apps for free (which is what was happening with a lot of casual games). On the flip side I bought a racing game recently and not long into playing it realized that it was just too frustrating -- the blame laying entirely on halting GC that is just destructive to gameplay, hence why it's fixed in 2.3 -- so I returned it. That was likely 20 minutes after installing.
One's headed to my zipcode. That's interesting because ours is a smallish town. However, there are quite a few IT people around (where both me and my wife works).
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I had to look up what the `:' operator does and it adds an element to the beginning of the list. So the last line should be

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Good point, I've heard rumor that some of the DEC compilers for Alpha were actually advanced enough that they'd perform many complex calculations in compiler itself, this led to problems with SPEC where the benchmark would be computed in the compiler itself and the program would basically just print the answer.
> Killing OS 9 to start completely new in OS X

WWDC 2002: Steve Jobs presides over the funeral for 'The Death of Mac OS 9'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7xQ8i3fc0
For the Internet, squeezing it down now would be both impossible and unacceptable. Cyber-threats have existed as long as electronic communications, but what makes them more troubling now is the every-where, always-on nature of global communications networks. The real threat is when a coordinated, well planned attack is launched--because nobody is quite sure either how to stop one, or how (or against whom) to retaliate. I wrote THE CHINESE CONSPIRACY as a fictional "thriller" to illustrate how it could be done, using only "known" technologies in a well organized, multi-year plan. I hope it doesn't happen.
Your own should be left alone (are they hidden?). Author I think I'll leave for a future version, where I'll have loads of options (what to hide, when, etc), and I'll add that to the list.
Shouldn't you take into account WHY they have restrictions?

Last time I looked at these kind of restrictions in databases or app servers (some of those have them too), it was clear that some of them were there to protect against the others.

Consider that when company X prohibits this, it immediately gives them an advantage over their competitors, as X can publish benchmarks showing that X is better than the competitors, and the competitors can't run counter benchmarks.

Because of this I've seen where company Y would then add restrictions, but they would not actually prohibit publishing, but rather would require that if company X publishes, the publication must include complete hardware and software configuration information to allow reproduction of the test, and X must grant Y permission to publish benchmark's of X's product on the same terms, regardless of any restriction in X's license.
He (you) is (are) only 16 so I give him (you) some leeway here but this makes the same mistake a lot of technology pundits do in assuming users will have to adapt to technology rather than technology adapting to users.

The idea that you simply won't be able to maintain multiple social circles in 5 years is patently absurd. Mother's should not have to hear about their son's sex lives and Son's don't want them to. The fact that Facebook currently makes that happen is a flaw in the technology not a flaw in society.
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Agreed. A solution requires one of two things to happen: every hacker to start using a new term, or every hacker to 'reclaim' the term.

Reclamation is out for two reasons, one, we have a really poor narrative, and two, try organizing hackers.

Using a new term is out because technically we're right and in the hacker mindset logos trumps all other forms of rhetoric, and two, try organizing hackers.
I was actually pretty hopeful about RIM on the QNX and TAT acquisitions, but I am worried about the emphasis on AIR on the Playbook. I just don't see anyone reliant on a cross platform environment (more than a framework) as being able to get the most out of the unique features of their system. It also might not be a happy choice for their existing Java developers.
I'm curious how a list of tracking numbers was obtained/derived. Anyone care to guess (or know)?
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Interesting. I can't listen to classical music when coding. I think it's because I'm used to listening to that particular style actively rather than passively as I'm used to with most music.
I happen to work for a company looking at iPads. I can tell you there is concern about jailbroken devices. My team and the art department uses macs and everyone else uses pcs with up to date copies of XP with IE8 and Firefox. Firefox is the recommended browser for internal use.
This article seems to be more concerned about "hacker" vs "script kiddie" than "hacker" vs "cracker" which most comments here seem to be focused on.

But on that topic I'm actually less pessimistic about the use of "Hacker" than I used to be. Self-described hackers are I think more prominent and with movements like hackerspaces which attract crafty & creative types there's leakage into the non-technical social groups as well.

Even a company like Facebook uses the term http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1990014 even if it leads to misunderstanding.
So I just did this last week. I told my boss I would like to transfer, but I told him that I have really appreciated my time there, and I want to work with him to make the transition as smooth as possible. He really appreciated it, and there were no hard feelings. We are going to have a little chat with the rest of our team during our next staff meeting and decide how long they want me to hang around to keep the transition smooth.
If you think you have one headed your way - you can call UPS (1-800-742-5877) and track a shipment, speak the tracking number and then hit 0 to talk to an agent and tell them you want to confirm the address for your package. They will tell you where it's going.
:) I use White Noise app on Android and use Extreme Rain or Beach or Windchime sounds.

Also, instrumentals without vocals (taken from Jamendo [particularly that of artists Silence / StrangeZero], or mellow ones (SomaFM Lush) are others that I play in background. Helps me a lot.

>>instrumental jazz or classical

hmm. Even this, I like. Jazz / classical piano/violin. [ e.g, OSTs from The Conversation, by David Shire]. At times, even celtic music helps for me.
Cannibalization is not the norm. There are many successful platforms which didn't go the route of cannibalization. Ex - windows.

The OS 9 - OS 10 example is more of an exception than the norm. In the case of OS 9 everyone(even Apple people) knew it sucked big time. They tried hard for several years to fix it's problems or try to develop a new one. There was no way for them to continue with OS 9.

RIM isn't exactly is in such a bad situation. Agreed that they need to woo developers much much more to their platform but that doesn't warrant cannibalization. They should continue innovating but should be more evolutionary.

The bad thing is that for a long time RIM sat on it's laurels without much innovation. Good thing is that they still haven't lost the market share. They already moved from their strong place of qwerty keyboards to touch screens. Much more innovation is needed. Not just copying others but having a vision of the future and then aggressively executing on that vision. They did it once before which made Blackberry such a cracking brand. Now they should do it again.
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How does the market break down? How much of your commercial projects are performance based? installations? producing video to be streamed/aired later?

I'm working on Blender and looking to get more into the 3D and AR space. It would be good to know whats in demand now, and what kind of demand new tech is going to create.

btw I'm learning OpenCL and a while back I saw that OF was experimenting with it, is that still happening?
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I work in an open plan office as well... And it is a mix of client facing staff and developers. For them it works really well. Not so much for us devs. Sennheiser CX300-B's are a real life saver. I tend to listen to Daft Punk or other music that I know really well (with the general exception of classical). I have found that brown noise also works very well.
Eh, even Windows could be argued to have followed this pattern, with Windows NT. Different foundation. They did end up supporting the 9.x APIs on the NT platform, to create Windows XP, but the fact is they still released a “competing” version of Windows first.
Not sure about the parent poster, but in my case, yes. Well. The head honcho's for that department anyway.
Where would the money have come from? It was all in Paypal because we used it for equipment purchases as well.

That's where the "playing ball with us" part comes in. We could've refunded the money had Paypal unfrozen our account. We couldn't refund because Paypal wouldn't unfreeze our account. They never distributed refunds to the complainants. They kept all of it.

The Kafka-esque absurdity of it was overwhelming.

All our problems were rooted in Paypal's unwillingness to unfreeze our account and make the refunds. Had that happened, Paypal and eBay would've had no outstanding complaints, and we could've used the rest to get a lawyer without trying to appeal on a percentage basis.

Which didn't work, which was also bizarre to us since it was, as you said, an open and shut insurance claims case.

It's been years since all that happened, and I've since paid off all my outstanding debts. I prefer not to dwell on it, as I've gone on to put my software career together nicely.
I called them a moment ago and did the same thing. Unfortunately she said that their system is down for maintenance or something but it should be back up sometime in the next few hours.
Confirmed, this works. Sadly I'm not the one getting it. :(
> 3) Napkin stage ideas. Most of them will be culled before shipping. Why should I dedicate my limited time on a project which will probably be shelved, when I could instead work on something which will, with certainty, help people?

Thanks for this. I've spent too much time helping people work out the scenarios and options for projects which will never happen. I only recently started realizing this for what it is, and you just summed up really well exactly the problem with it.

A couple other observations - a friend of mine makes nature documentaries and commercials, and he's constantly getting requests from people who want to work for free for him, get mentored, get advice, "look at my stuff", etc, etc. He says whenever anyone asks to work for him, with him, etc., he gives them a simple, straightforward, ~5 hour assignment to do. That cuts 90%+ of people right there.

> I enjoy backing underdogs, not losers.

I've found "helpful-but-not-compassionate" goes a long ways, since I almost never get requests like this any more. I write all over the place "drop me a line, what can I do for you, etc, etc." Lots of people take me up on it (I got 23 emails from people today, most were interesting... this is a bit higher than normal).

But I find losers like compassion. Instead of wanting to win, they want to feel good about being losers. Thus, any help you give them is useless to them, until they gain a real desire to win, and ideally evidence some of that desire. If you write touchy-feely stuff, you get people coming to you ostensibly for advice, but secretly just wanting a shoulder to cry on, which is worse than useless if you want to build real world stuff.

Ultra-practical, humble, disciplined, hard working, willing and eager to serve, charitable, empathetic, but absolutely no compassion seems to attract just about everyone you could really help, while turning off most people who want a shoulder to cry on. Of course, no compassion completely outrages people who have compassion as a heavy part of their identity.

That's the price you pay, I guess. I reckon all the practical people will look at these comments and nod, and the people whose hearts bleed will be outraged. That's not actually a good thing in my book, but so it goes. All life includes tradeoffs.
What matters here is the marginal cost of sending cheese rather than some other mass to simulate a payload.
It makes for a pretty graph but has two serious flaws.

Measuring GitHub projects to measure the size of a language creates a heavy bias towards open-source friendly languages [1]. C#, VisualBasic, ColdFusion and ObjectiveC all exist way above the trend line because OSS projects on GitHub are less likely to use non-OSS languages. ObjC might be OSS (not sure) but iOS projects tend not to be OSS.

Likewise, measuring the number of posts on StackOverflow doesn't correlate at all well to the size of the programmer base (even if used as a sample).

[1] not that I'm against open-source projects, but I'm sure most HN'ers would agree that you want the data itself to be free of bias and leave the bias to occur only in people's conclusion of the data.
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» How is that any kind of rebuttal?

A free competitor in the software world can have more users, but that doesn't necessarily mean your business is failing. Similarly, Apple has had many fewer users than Windows for a long time but it's doing just fine compared to most Windows hardware vendors.

Other phone vendors have moved from Windows Mobile & Symbian to Android, partly due to the free O.S. The customer profile of Symbian or Windows Mobile customers is likely not that of RIM customers, so it doesn't necessarily drive RIM's failure (although it could certainly increase the odds). He's looking for the problem that will mean RIM's failure.

The sexy marketing issue is similar. If RIM has survived okay up until now without it, good marketing might not cause the business to fail. It will certainly add to the danger, but the issue is again discovering the likely primary cause of failure.

That cause seems to be saturation of RIM's main customer segment(s) and an inability to grow outside of those segments. (Obviously, bad marketing and free alternatives are possible root causes of the latter!)

Please don't be driven up the wall - it's just an opinion :)
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Incorrect, Facebook or the company that kills Facebook will figure out how to convey multiple identities from a single account.

Facebook will soon enable us to better manage multiple identities in the same way that Outlook's delay send feature helps us with working all hours of the night.

Eventually photos from your xmas party will only be viewable by your coworkers and photos from burning man will only be viewable by burners.
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I thought it was brilliant, liked the uncensored honest tone, and will link to it in the future.
Calling a script-kiddie who pushes the start button on a DDoS program a "hacker" is like calling someone who turns on a toaster a "chef".
I'd definitely be interested, something along the lines of a 20-30 minute show that answers two or three questions in a good amount of detail would be very useful to me.
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I listen to music about half the time I'm coding, but I almost always have my Bose QC 15's on. Wearing them with no music playing blocks a ton of distracting noise out. While expensive, they're one of the best investments I've ever made.
What good are points if people can't see them?
Yeah, unfortunately for me as someone who lives in a 55xxx zipcode.
Sorry I mean it will be delivered on the 15th.
Would listening to music you like also release dopamine, and therefore make mundane work more bearable?
Another version out. Now there's an icon in the URL box - click that to turn it on and off.

The permissions change is a necessary evil, unfortunately. Though I doubt it'll need any other permissions after this, no matter what I end up adding.
So yea my hypothesis is that listening to music you like would release dopamine and make mundane work more bearable. It's also how psycho-stimulants like Adderall help ADHD people focus.
i dont need a tracker to know that i will not recieve one... :/
Maybe show censored names until the vote, either G*x or even User 1, User 2 etc.
Good idea, but I suspect the sort of person who'd install this is the conscientious type who wouldn't vote prejudicially anyway. I hope I'm wrong but it feels like selling handcuffs to criminals.
Govt will not take any action because Wall Street floods politician's election campaigns with dollars so they play ball. If they don't play ball, Wall Street funds a challenger to the seat.
nice! i was thinking about the version issue and thought about how to jail a jquery obj only ro your function scope... gonna read into this, simplify it and update my code :D
Two comming to Stanford ... but I am sure 100s must have applied :(
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Are these being shipped directly from Google? Spoke with UPS about the two going to my ZIP (neither are to me) but the lady said that it was from "Insight"
Facebook already allows you to group friends together and assign permissions based on those groups. I can post a status update right now that everyone except my family can see or a status update only my high school friends can see.
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>I urge everyone to adapt to these social changes and not try to fight them. Resisting the inevitable is counterproductive. Adapt to them completely, and conduct yourself in a manner that [...]

Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
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