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> I'm really hoping they'll be charging extra for the wifi hotspot
> feature like they do with Android

If they don't end up charging extra, I'll be happy to charge you for it so that you're not disappointed.
It makes it easier for others to contribute in a couple ways.

* Other companies can feel as though they have a say in the direction of the project, and they can more safely commit developer hours to it with less fear that their patches will get NAKed or similar.
* A lot of open-source developers are familiar with the ASF's ecosystem (web hosting, version control, bug tracking, mailing list).
* A company can use the project with less of a chance that the license will suddenly change, or the project will become closed-source, or similar shenanigans.

The notion of "dead" and "alive" you're using doesn't seem to pertain to whether development is still happening, it seems to refer to whether or not the company that happened to write the first version of the code happens to find it commercially useful enough to keep running the project. It seems reasonable that you could write something and not want to continue developing it, but realize it's useful and want to put it in capable hands to bring the project forward.
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Perhaps the skype announcement that was floating around will ameliorate that somehow.
Queue Robert de Niro as a lightning pirate in an airship! Let's go get some anti-matter!
There's no way this happens. Rumors suggest Apple tested this CDMA iPhone 4 for a year, so you have to assume they've already developed a CDMA iPhone 5.
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Privatize profit,

socialize loss,

blame the free market,

and strut like a boss.
I doubt that - the potus press secretary has have a pretty broad understanding.
Maybe I missed it but how/where can you sync all that with your phone then? At least in the past, this is where the whole Apple "PIM" suite was really shining for me: effortless syncing with mobile and smart phones without installing additional tools. And I agree, an easy, built-in option to sync several Macs would be great.

Oh and complaining about iCal's interface is really moaning at a rather high level.

At work I have to use Outlook for email, contacts, team calendar and our team todos and I cannot stop wondering how this thing is used by anyone let alone tech un-savvy people.. so I thank the FSM for the noodley goodness and simplicity that iCal is for me.

And I wish Google Mail would finally allow me to update entries from iCal and offer syncing the todo list. Then I would be completely happy.
The spend side is highly dependent on those around you.

Make $100k while your neighbors make $75k - rent is $800/month.

Make $100k while your neighbors make $125k - rent is $1500/month.
of course. robbing poor people is the credit card companies' job.
If LaunchHear really has one of the fastest response times then that's pretty funny, considering we currently pay about $4 a month for hosting.
I worked with Andy on Crash 1 and 2. GOOL (predecessor to GOAL) was rough around the edges then, but incredibly productive to work in once you got the hang of it -- for all the reasons lisp hackers routinely cite.

Then, at ITA, we used Lisp for the QPX airfare pricing system. Both projects used lisp because the early people at both companies came out of the MIT AI Lab: Andy and I at Naughty Dog; Jeremy, Carl, and I at ITA.

The issue with lisp -- especially in light of decent alternatives like Ruby and Python -- is that it's hard to find developers. Yes, you can hire from the higher-than-average-talent set of current lispers. But that's a finite and shrinking set. I think that both Andy and Carl (who wrote the basis of ITA's lisp airfare system) would probably tell the current crop of startup hackers to use a more popular dynamic language. Personally, I'm using Python now, and Peter Norvig's comment about the psuedocode-like nature of Python really resonates with me.

But the main reason the popular dynamic languages are winning now, IMO, is all the code you don't have to write. Look at CPAN, PyPi, and whatever the Ruby equivalent is: there are hundreds of really well-written open source modules to do all the things you need to do on a big project. CPAN was first, but Perl poses so many syntactic challenges that it's hard to use it for a big project.

In terms of productivity, no language design can compete with not have to write code at all. That's the bottom line for me these days.
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That is an argument. However the article doesn't have that conclusion. It concludes:

"I'm with Matt Yglesias, who writes that it's hasty to blame the nation's financiers for literally stealing from the middle class' wages. It seems much more likely to me that a smorgasbord of both conscious public policy decisions (like outsourcing, free trade agreements, and low interest rates) and unintended phenomena (rising education and health care costs) combine to make the rich richer and the poor no richer."
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(My parents are from Taiwan, they came to the states for grad school, I was born in the US)

To reply to your last statement: Some of the families that we know continue to discipline their children during college. In the case that they only have a single child, that means the family picks up and moves to the college town of choice. I would be curious to know how these kids fare in the workplace after college.

On the other hand, I have seen other families who have treated their children with strictness (where the parents were themselves teachers/professors), have their kids rebel against them in college. Their personalities did a complete 180 as they were suddenly relieved of the harsh treatment, which often landed them into trouble.

I am one of those kids who was pushed into piano at age 4. I'm not going to lie - I hated playing for maybe the first 3 or 4 years. My dad would sit with me and force me to practice over and over again. But one day, something clicked, and to this day I have a greater appreciation of music than any of my peers, and I also have a love of music that can only come from myself. I didn't need my dad to force me to practice - I wanted to.

I think that my parents eventually switched tactics during my childhood (for better or for worse) after they were convinced that I would choose a path for myself that wasn't detrimental. I'm thankful for that - I find that I have pursued a lot more hobbies on my own and experienced things that didn't fit the asian mentality.
My guess is Tim Cook didn't want to talk about iPhone 5 features that Mr. Jobs may reveal this summer.
"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system."

- George W. Bush
I think you've mistaken my argument as being against pipelines, but in fact I was arguing in favor of pipelines and against one-off tricks like "grep -c". Yes, "wc -l" needs to be memorized, but once, for everything you ever wish to count, as opposed to once for every command. In this respect, "grep -c" has the same problem as you pointed out concerning "lines".
Boy I'd be happy with 10%/year or 5%/year right now. I think you're still living in 1998.

Eventually it's making more on its own than you're putting in.

This actually takes a long time.
Is the antimatter arsenic-based?
The CDMA Development Group announced provisions for SVDO, or Simultaneous 1x Voice and EV-DO Data in 2009, but there hasn't been much news on it since.

My guess is that Verizon will just continue upgrading its network for LTE instead of making this interim upgrade.
love this:

#Ironically, ATT service here at the Time Warner Center
for a Verizon event is excellent.
by jtimmer at 1/11/2011 4:30:14 PM11:30 AM
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66% correct.

And if you can get that consistently at the University of Pune, Bob's your uncle and the universe is your oyster.
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For iPhone, there's MobileOrg: http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/

For Android, there's MobileOrg Android: https://github.com/matburt/mobileorg-android/wiki/

Both can be set up to sync Org files via DropBox.
Judging from the general numbers of successful individuals having been nurtured in "rich" environments (e.g. you'll find _much_ more kids going on to college in suburban schools than in inner-city schools), I would guess that either 1) the importance of success and the things that are required to achieve that success are clear to them - and so, they're better set to make wise, informed decisions, or 2) they've already gotten into a good work ethic - and if you're there, then it's easy - you largely have it made.
Thanks for reading the post (yes - it's long) and interesting point. But information alone isn't enough, right?

There is the conflict of knowing vs. doing. So having info helps on the knowing side but not getting investors, being in the wrong location are also issues of not doing.
Why is having people driven to fulfil their potential a bad thing?
Don’t be ashamed. They’re not, and neither should you be.
"She sleeps only a few hours a night and sips a homemade concoction of clay, salt and chlorophyll." What is the purpose of this odd elixir?
So which one will Steve be using now?
because it's not fa-airrrr
That would be a significant engineering change (above and beyond CDMA that they have been working on for years, and for which chipsets are mature) and would essentially make it an iPhone 4.5. LTE will certainly come to the iPhone 5, due in just a few months.
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In the UK O2, the original iPhone network, have in the past held off letting any new customers buy the new iPhones for the first month to make sure their existing customers can upgrade first.
Actually what hurts my productivity is after spend some time in HN. My mind is cluttered with different ideas from the articles which I have read that is more difficult to focus on the task at hand.
"But in fact, in the end result the Scala collection libraries are actually unique, nobody, no other language has a library like that, where you say you have a rich set of collection types, a rich set of collection operations, in particular bulk operations, that take function parameters like Map, Filter, Flat Map, these sort of things and you have the uniform return type principle which says that every operation can be applied on a collection and yields the value of the same collection as a result. So if you apply a map to a set, you get a set, if you apply a map to a sequence, you get a sequence. "

Anyone knows how Scala's collections compares to C#'s linq?
"Compared to 100% in the countries I mentioned. Also, healthcare in the US doesn't even cover the full cost, there are still premiums and deductibles and dental is usually ~60% compared to 100% in other countries.
Your argument is based on blaming the poor, over and over again. It must be easy blaming the most vulnerable class."

I'm blaming people that can work, but choose not to due to their free will. Are these people poor? most likely, yes. You lump these people in the same group as the people that are physically or mentally unable to work.

Quality and quantity are different. The US may not have the best overall coverage (due to cost), but the quality of our hospitals are the best in the world. I personally wouldn't want to go anywhere else.

I would love to have universal health care, but it's just not a scalable system. When people know everything is covered, many will go to the doctor or hospital when they don't really need to (hey, I'm paying for it). This will result in long lines and too few doctors for too many patients.

I've seen this at a much smaller scale with a few of my past employers that have "unlimited technical support". Those companies were always over-worked and couldn't afford to hire more staff. This was because people would call us up for the smallest things. If they were charged per-hour or per-call, the business could have scaled much better. The customers would have also gotten better support because the staff wasn't over-worked.

Even though you probably will deny it, this does happen in Canada and many other countries that have government-run healthcare. All of my relatives live in Canada. Most come over here for any major surgery because the waiting list is too long. I know this is just anecdotal evidence, but I've heard this many times before. I know it's not an isolated incident.

If there was a system that limited doctor visits (IE: you get a limited amount per year) and then you were charged money after that. This would prevent our hospitals and doctors offices from being swamped and possibly allow us to keep some sort of quality. I know it would never happen, because the government-run healthcare advocates want all or nothing.
Redux [1].

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[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1653891
The problem is that the intersection of fosstards and serious print designers is vanishingly small. If you're doing pro press work, you're going to buy the tool that everybody else uses and that print shops have standardized upon. That tool is Photoshop.
Money, power and greed. It's a force like gravity. Let's call it MPG The more some people get the more that seems to fall their way. The acquired resources will be used to keep the MPG going, everyone else be damned.

The number one enabler is the politicos who bend rules, ignore laws and create laws that disrupt an otherwise functioning system in an effort to strengthen MPG for those who have it and potentially acquiring some leftovers for themselves.
I can sum this up for me and my family (fyi...we live quite meekly):

We don't feel "rich" because if something catastrophic happens (one of us loses our job, major health problem, really bad turn in economy again) we are not insulated despite all of our savings for the rest of our lives. We have, perhaps, 2-4 years ability to stave of bankruptcy and the lot. That number is different for everyone, but the "rich" don't think about that, ever. They are set and will always be set unless _THEY_ do something stupid with their money.

Bottom line: I am not rich because I am not in control of the rest of my life still. I am dependent on the system and the people who actually control the system still. "rich" and "money" have always been about freedom to me. Because I am not truly free, I am not rich.

Make sense?
Sorry but that last sentence of yours doesn't make sense to me. From the discovery that it is created frequently on Earth, it does not follow that it won't exhibit any interesting properties nor that it is common in the universe (except by a generous definition of "common").
Anyhow, the main mystery remains: the Universe should be 50% matter and 50% antimatter, so where has all the antimatter gone?
Yes. Mark Suster has said that you can grow to ~100-200 engineers in LA but it would be hard to go much beyond that. Groupon can hire all the writers and salespeople they need in Chicago but they opened a development office in Palo Alto to get access to a bigger developer pool.
Ask HN: How many fonts are preinstalled on Android?
iOS has 40 (for iPhone) or 57 (for iPad) font families. Stack Overflow seems to indicate that there are only three on Android.
I wonder about the "value of degree" graphs in these articles. I don't think they tell the whole story.

In particular, over a person's working life they'll typically increase income by gaining experience and probably jump jobs a few times for a pay raise, particularly early in the career.

Consider that college student with a summer job or the waitress putting herself through school; they will be part of the income statistics for "no degree" but clearly the lack of a degree isn't necessarily holding that person back. The fact that they've chosen to go to school rather than work full time hurts their income.

If that's not clear, consider two people, one who graduates high school and becomes an electrician, and another who has a part time job and goes to college. They're both included in the high-school graduate category before the student graudates, and the student's income drags the statistic down.

Now the student graduates and immediately gets a job with a salary on par with the electrician. Even though they're now making the same amount of money, the statistics show the "no-degree" person is far worse off.

It seems there's a significant demographic bias at play here. Arguing that a specific person is likely to benefit financially from getting a degree based on that data seems wrong.

And the salary chart doesn't include the opportunity cost of not working during the time it takes to get a degree, or the actual cost in tuition, etc.
Yup, this hits the nail on the head. I was in the same situation- I lucked out into a very nice fellowship whose stipend the first four years of grad school started out one or two kilobucks higher than the standard level, and (amazingly, for a grad school stipend) went up a little bit each year. By the end, I was almost at $30k, and felt like a millionaire compared to friends who were on the school's standard stipend scale. Of course, during the fifth year, for various reasons, the fellowship's funding agency adjusted their stipend scale, at which point I discovered that there is a very real difference between making $25k and $30k. Even better, my funding ran out entirely a few months ago, so the last four or five months of my PhD have involved living off of my savings from the previous five years and the odd bit of consulting income.

Let this be a lesson to other grad students out there: save like heck, 'cause you never know when there's going to be a gap in your funding, or a change in its level.
> and yet there are all these people out there that make more than 10x or even 100x their annual income

Where by "all these people" we mean an extremely small fraction of the population. If I think about things honestly, I'm paid more than almost everyone I interact with regularly. Many of these people aren't lazy or stupid or dropout or what-have-you. They also went to good schools and got good grades and are excellent at what they do; but it turns out that the "brick wall" in their field is a fraction of what it is in the tech industry. So, yes, I know a few people making more than I do, mostly in jobs I don't want to do, with working hours I wouldn't tolerate; but I'm not feeling too sorry for myself.
Because "fulfilling your potential" isn't necessarily the same as "being happy" (although achievement is one of the components of long-term happiness, according to my understanding). Focussing too much on any single aspect of your life will leave it out of balance and unhealthy.
> Five thousand dollars is easily two annual trips to Hawaii

Have to nitpick here. $5k is one average Hawaii vacation for a couple. It costs almost $2k just to fly out there.
Curious, how big do people think this will be? Will Apple double its US userbase or will it be an incremental bump? I tend to think incremental.

The people in the US today who really want an iPhone have moved to ATT. The holdouts are those that:

1) Hate AT&T.
2) Are on a business plan who is tied to Verizon.
3) Those on a family plan, but aren't calling the shots.

For most of the people in 1-3, they already have a Verizon smartphone, and likely a relatively new one. So they'll trickle over the next year to 18 months.

Completely new accounts will go to the store and look at the phones. The iPhone looks less good, side by side, compared to the Droid X. With that said, there's no brand like the iPhone brand.

In any case, I think the sales on Verizon will be telling. Did people move to ATT to get the iPhone, or is there still tons of demand on the other carriers for the iPhone (obviously there's demand, but is it proportionate to the amount of demand that exists on ATT).
> About one in five of us is retired. About two-thirds of us who are working are self-employed. Interestingly, self-employed people make up less than 20 percent of the workers in America but account for two-thirds of the millionaires. Also, three out of four of us who are self-employed consider ourselves to be entrepreneurs. Most of the others are self-employed professionals, such as doctors and accountants.

Many of the types of businesses we are in could be classified as dull-normal. We are welding contractors, auctioneers, rice farmers, owners of mobile-home parks, pest controllers, coin and stamp dealers, and paving contractors.

"The Millionaire Next Door"

http://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/index.cfm?book_number=242...
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How about a chart of teas and their L-Theanine concentrations?
Damnation, now I'll have to get a Verizon iPhone so I can replace my Mifi (for which I'm paying the same monthly amount for a wifi 5-user EVDO hotspot).
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What does it take to feel rich? These articles never seem to say.
For myself quite often. My boss calls me and lets me know that 'x' server is having 'y' issue. I'm on my phone's wifi hotspot so I'll log into the server and answer questions while we talk over what is going on.
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I am of the opposite opinion, but perhaps I can be converted.

Do you have an example of where it would be required to use '<-'? Not just median(x <- 10), but a use in which there no simple '=' alternative.
This.

If I went back in time or have an opportunity to tell a kid like me growing up, I'd tell him that don't look at all of the kids who are jumping through the hoops for parents or for the Asian sub-culture. If you do your own thing, you'll be the envy of everybody else who is secretly insecure to buy into the crap.

Kinda of like in a night-club/bar, 99% of people there only hang out with people they came with; but everyone envy that one guy who came by himself to strike up conversation with strangers and don't give up a fuck about other people think.

PS: I second and confirm also the phenomenon on the East Coast. Some people who went to MIT or CMU, have resumes that Chinese mothers could only dream about, work at the same place I do along with people who went to state/community college, writing enterprise shitty code.
One of my friends (who happens to be Chinese and was raised in a home like this) remarked, "but look at the kids! See their smiles? It can't possibly be abuse!"

I replied, "have you ever seen pictures of the smiling performers in a North Korea propaganda play?" Of course they are smiling.

1) They don't know anything else, so when they do things that bring them positive reinforcement, they show happiness (most people prefer to be happy than sad, so they work for those goals)

2) If they showed unhappiness, it would probably be considered a bad attitude and pushed into a feedback loop of negative reinforcement, wanting to stay out of that loop can make many people smile...habitually

Evidence: There are dozens of videos on youtube showing North Korean children playing virtuoso Guitar or Xylophone or whatever smiling their fool heads off. And there's not really a way for anybody to claim they have a fantastic, fulfilled and successful life.
Greed feels like a ladder but is actually a hamster wheel.
who knows? my brother switched to ATT for the iphone, while my GF is holding out for it to come to verizon. neither are on company or family plans.
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People don't have to get credit cards. They don't have to buy stuff they can't afford.

People should be taught self restraint and living within their means in schools.

Personally I wouldn't blame credit card companies one bit. They are taking money from silly people who are giving them money in return for crap they don't need.
Be in sales. This will have some overlap with your other ways.