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I thought about that, but saw no indication that that's what they have planned.

And even if that's the case, I'm quite skeptical that they'll keep up with future printings of every book they do. And what about classics that have an army of printed editions already? Are they really going to map out every single one and present users with a mile-long menu to choose from?

The mental image of Amazon interns surrounded by mountains of paperbacks, painstakingly entering page delimitations into the system, amuses me greatly.
Nokia had something good gooing with Maemo on the N900, they should just have pushed on with that. They had a software platform that was competitive with iOS, technology wise. Lighter, smaller and sexier phones with the Maemo software, it would have been awesome.

But instead they decided to start over with Qt and a partnership with Intel.

They ripped all progress out from under them.
A founding team who's already been working together for years or survived the bootstrapping experience match, or at least approximate, the criteria pg's looking for – a cohesive team that can handle stress well. My take is that the advice he gives is suited for people looking to start a brand new company during yc, not those who have already started and are applying to yc.

More importantly, I don't think pg's saying that length of relationship is a deciding factor. Rather, he's highlighting that you need to know you work well with your cofounders and the relationship – new or old – won't fall apart under stress and trial.
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This is freaking awesome. Now all we need are sane roaming agreements between carriers so we can actually use our iphones overseas ..
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And if you think that doesn't sound like a good reason, you'd be right.
Reddit is read-only?
Reddit has been stuck in some sort of read-only mode for quite some time now, (five hours so far?)

It is confusing me immensely. I will to them my inner-admin karma the best of luck.
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This memo is spot on, except for the optimism at the end. I think Nokia is toast.

At the end of the day, you can't create a best-of-breed product out of nowhere. You need the core competencies to be already present in your company's DNA.

Palm came back out of nowhere and created in the Pre a phone with great usability fundamentals, and an incredibly innovative contact/data management layer. But that didn't come from nowhere.... those are exactly the things that the Palm Pilot excelled at.

Apple created a phone with incredible industrial design that pushed the boundaries of what was possible in a category of device. These things, also, have lots of precent at Apple, in the Macintosh, the iPod, OS X, and the iTunes music store.

Google, in Android, built a phone OS that has incredible integration with networked apps, and is built on a well run open source project. But before they started, they already had the best network app development teams in the world, and many world class open source developers and evangelists on staff.

What does Nokia have? I'm honestly not that familiar with their history, but they appear to have had (at one time) world class supply chain management and global distribution. And solidly built hardware? Is that it?

Honestly, I think Nokia had the right DNA to make a huge contribution to cell phones when they were a brand new, untested product with limited global reach. But now that those issues have been nailed, the distribution channels are in place, and everyone's phones, from Motorola's Android phones to LG's crappy feature phones are "good enough" for the people who buy them.

My guesses for the big future developments in phones are the web maturing as a development platform (Google seems positioned to ride that wave), powerful new software APIs (social, location, augmented reality, AI, etc), new media distribution models (Netflix, iTunes, Shopify, etc), and of course design-driven expansion of the user experience (Flipboard, FaceTime, Google Maps, etc).

I don't see product teams at Nokia who appear to be executing in any of these areas at the level that would be necessary to dominate in them. And they would need to dominate in two or three to stop hemorrhaging customers.

I think they're toast.
Well, some of us were knocked on to hacker news as a result. It's like a cashflow waterfall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitization
My point is that he specifically called out Andriod and IPhone as competitors. While I agree with you that WP7 is not a serious threat at all, in my mind it doesnt make a lot of sense to say "we have been unable to compete in this field against Andriod", and then 2 days later announce "the new company plan is to use Andriod". With the rumors going around with them dropping Meego for Andriod or WP7, from this memo, in my mind the odds are increasing for the WP7 route.
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That's very interesting, I had no idea. Could you elaborate?
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Locked as in "locked to one network"?

Except for prepaid 20EUR-phones and perhaps the iPhone, which phones in Germany come locked?
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A C++ framework on top of a mobile OS in which most interesting things happen in the Dalvik VM? What for?
Homeless folks still have to pay sales taxes

And a lot of cigarette taxes and booze excise taxes. Really poor people pay a much larger proportion of their incomes in taxes.
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So this is interesting... I've actually noticed a number of Y-Combinator startup sites running unusually slow today (Reddit, Notifo, etc). Are they all running on Heroku, or does this have something to do with Amazon EC2? Wish I knew more about sys admin stuff..
$1/minute is $60/hour, which isn't bad. People work on Mechanical Turk for a few cents per minute.
>> I will personally continue to build #!-only websites, designed exclusively for javascript enabled browsers

We as web developers just spent the last 10 years as slaves to IE6 and saying "oh how I wish developers would/could develop for standards, not just with platform X in mind". And here we are again, setting ourselves up for an even worse situation than the IE6 problems. We have sites designed with only (iphone | IE6 | javascript-capable) in mind. The reason of "it's too much work" is the same answers given time and time again to the sites only designed for platform X, but that's not a good reason to do something when the platform you're delivering it on is by definition a network of variable capability platforms.

It's fine if we want to try to push the state of the art of rich internet apps, but at what point do we stand back and realize that we're not building a website (a collection of HTML documents on the world wide web) but rather delivering a javascript executable to our user that just happens to be renderable in most modern web browsers?

I don't mean to single you out, it's something that we all having to deal with, but is there anyone at the standards organizations that are listening to the pulse of the new web? If people want to deliver applications to users via a URI, why do we have to include all of the extra baggage of HTTP/HTML/CSS/Javascript?

If we as the artists of the web are going to break the implied contract of what the WWW is, we should at least be honest with ourselves and work toward a real solution rather than trying to staple on yet another update to HTML to try its hardest to pretend to be its big brother Mr. Desktop App.
"There will also be requirements for developers to display Yahoo brands on their BOSS-based search engines."

Deal breaker.
I thought the idea was to become the chicken, not the pig? But my management lingo isn't fluent.
Pretty much none of those are generally true across Europe.

Restaurant opening hours vary dramatically by country, largely due people tending to eat at very different times in different countries. To pick a restaurant I walked past yesterday: http://www.restaurant-thierry.fr/index.php?p=contact — open 12pm–3pm and 7pm–11pm. From my experience here those lunchtime hours are fairly common, although more restaurants would open earlier than than in the evening (unlike Spain, where lots of restaurants don't open until at least 9pm or 10pm at night).

On the assumption that #2 is "no later than", then where there's consistency at all it would be noon, rather than 11am.

Check-in has almost no consistency at all. I'm currently in France, and lots of the hotels I've been looking at have a 6pm earliest check-in. Many others are noon or 1pm. I haven't seen one yet that's 3pm.
it looks like ec2 is messed up tonight. i am guessing reddit is trying to stay above water until things get sorted out.
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Really? He tested and measured a few different approaches. Do you think he's advocating just using his approaches without measurement?

The problem, to me, is that he's not explained why the faster versions are faster (we don't know, because there's no disassembly), and the whole thing isn't reproducible because we don't know which compilers were used. For all we know, another compiler does better with the "slower" code.

They're trained in EE, not programming, and do enough to get through their design.

My EE friends definitely know assembly language. They also know that many chips don't have divide instructions, and at the very least, that the compiler can use other ops to work around that. Even for EEs who don't know, I don't think showing them the decomposition of the division would make their brains explode.

Debugging arm or mips assembler is considerably different than x86.

[citation needed]. I'll admit I've not done any work with MIPS, but I didn't have any trouble with ARM. Sure, there's Thumb mode, but that's pretty much it.
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The workflow stuff looks cool, but between swapping Caps_Lock with Control_L and claiming M-x "involves scrunching your left hand up", I think most hackers would benefit more from learning better touch typing, rather than moving their contortions around the way the author does. You weren't meant to use the same hand for the key and the modifier--that's why there's another set of modifiers for your other hand, and why moving Control_L but not Control_R into easier reach will tempt you into dangerous habits.
I'm not submitting this as a flamebait. On the contrary, I'm fairly interested about HNers opinions about how these frameworks compare. I have little to nothing front end experience(and want to learn a JS framework). In my inexperienced view MooTools seems cleaner, but jQuery it's way more popular.
Integer overflow behavior varies a lot between languages; it can be undefined, some wrap around, others promote to a larger integer type, others convert the type to something else, and some clamp to the largest (or smallest) value.

For example, if you're using PHP, an integer will turn into a float when it overflows; if you then push the value into a MySQL databse, it'll be clamped.
Oh, that explains much.
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if your utf-16 is canonicalized, it's code point count and character count likely diverge anyways, particularly when dealing with scientific data.
Not what I was interested in. I'm interested in the technical details of serving a superbowl ad and the traffic numbers one brings in.

Those are responses to the ad content itself. Interesting, but not the meat I was looking for.
No, Sony tried to lock-in as well, e.g. Memory Stick, Minidisc, etc. Sony anything worked better with Sony anything-else. You saw this in the marketing too, SonyStyle etc, you could buy every electronic device from them and they'd all integrate nicely. Exactly like Mac, iPod/Pad, iTunes, AirPort, AirTunes, AppleTV...
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Seems to work alright for Apple - even though they're doing gangbusters on App sales, it seems the majority of iPhone's profitability comes from hardware sales themselves, and this is without any real shades of planned obsolescence.

Nokia is renowned for their hardware build quality - well in advance of LG, Moto, or Samsung. I think the market has spoken that they want the full experience - solid software, beautiful hardware, and impeccable integration of the two. Samsung IMHO has fumbled that ball up until now, producing cheap-y hardware coupled with lazy software integration. There's a lot of room for someone who knows what they're doing with Android to come and eat their lunch.
Nokia already produces some of the best phone hardware there is. If they got Android onto it, I'd upgrade in a heartbeat.

They also know how to differentiate without creating fragmentation. Most Android products suffer because of fragmentation - different OS versions, different hardware, etc. Nokia should know to create a core platform or 2 (standard screen size, hopefully upgrade support), and then make money on marketing prettier models to the people who'll buy them.

It's obvious that they need Android, maybe with some "value added" features tacked on (but not in a tacky way).

OK, crappy feature phones may be "good enough", but mobile phones has always been something of a fashion business. Nokia is good at this game, they just got blindsided by the iPhone and Android.
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Lord, I'm old. Don't know when that happened.
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And what I'm trying to get at is that there are about zero CS graduates that do not know that integers usually are limited to the word size of the architecture you are working on.

If you're talking about really crappy schools and crappy students, then I agree, but what is there to debate then? There are no crappy engineering schools or stupid engineers?

The kind of people who write a program that stores telephone numbers as primitive ints are not CS graduates.
Just to be clear, we are talking about new PCs here. Not ones that are 2 years old that the user has loaded with rubbish themselves. Do general users really ask you to "repair" their brand new PC?
The Xbox doesn't fit MS's business model either. If MS were to go that way I think they could make a decent go of it.
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Disregarding the fact that all CS graduates know how integers are represented, You don't need to know anything about that to know that you should not store phone numbers as ints.

You will typically normalize telephone numbers when storing them, that means prefixing them with their national code and two leading zeroes or a plus sign if you want to be fancy. Neither a plus sign, nor double leading zeroes lend to storing as an integer. Even if you're not fancy and normalize your number, there are numbers that have leading zeroes.
I'd gladly accept $1/minute to do interviews (probably less if I actually thought about it, but $1 is a no brainer).
Eh?

The CD-R spec was published in 1988. By 1995 the drives were still expensive but patently heading on the road to being cheap commodity parts, by 2000 they were clearly commodity parts fitted to many, many PCs.

Microsoft had ample evidence of the possible when the feature was launched and plenty more time to correct the mistaken assumption within the next few versions. That they didn't see this coming is a terrible indictment.
You can't blame the pre-installed bloatware when the PC is old. It's slow because it's old. It's gone through update cycles and has had software installed that slows it down.

(The whole question of windows needing occasional reinstalling is another issue)
> But to take it a step further I'd say that the number one rule I've learned from doing mobile native apps the last few years is that ideally one should NOT be making mobile native apps. Make a web app, that just happens to look and interact decently on a mobile device.

Yeah, make a web page so I would need to start the browser first, then wait for the page to load. The GUI and the experience will be completely different than anything what I already have on the phone, not to mention that the GUI will be suboptimal. Transition between screens in the app will be dependent on network coverage - if I'm in the bus and it stops on some blind spot just when I clicked the button, I'll have to watch white screen (or an error message) until the bus moves. And for what? To "save developers a lot of pain". Sounds reasonable, I'm sure I'll give you my money.
I worked for Sony Ericsson when the iPhone was revealed. My job was to translate the thousands of pages of operator requirements that came in (within my technology area: Java) to a technical roadmap for the coming 2-5 years. So I have a fairly good picture of how the market for mobile phones work wrt to the interplay between operators and manufacturers.

It's hard to grasp just how revolutionary the iPhone was. There are so many tiny things that's not by itself a revolution, but adding them all up and you're going disruptive.

I tried to compile some of it in a list here:

http://blog.opportunitycloud.com/2011/01/21/what-apple-did-w...
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Ask HN: Which design tool (open source) do you use for webpage design?
Which open source HTML editor do you use for webpage designs? I have basic knowledge of HTML+CSS and have been using notepad and more recently Aptana to create web pages.
I went to University in Sweden, this was the first year in an undergraduate program. A public university of course, we're dirty socialists after all ;)

We learned denotational and operational semantics but only used operational semantics in the exam.

I can't imagine private universities being of higher quality. It's not true of private primary schools or private high schools here.
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I think the title of the book is misleading, it should be "the 4 hour work and 30 hour doing something you like that pays your bills week". But it is a lot catchier to call it 4 hour work week, which in my opinion is the only negative thing about this book. From the title, you think you don't have to work and get enough money to do whatever you want, which is just wrong.

If you like your job at the startup, you did exactly the right thing, there is nothing better than doing the job you like and even get paid for it.
Actually, I also thought the $1 per hour thing sounded low until you wrote it's $60/hour --- a fantastic rate. Funny how numbers play on your senses...
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I agree with your main point - that being a great leader is more caused by other things and not at all by washing dishes.

It's funny that you thought of a story about dishwashing in response to the dishwashing story :)

The headline intentionally gets causality wrong in order to attract attention. Misleading sensationalism is pollution.
Comscore numbers vary wildly for sites that don't reconcile their numbers w/ comscore's. And only sites that publish rate cards for displa ads really do that.

I remember once when comscore reported that delicious had dropped to 44k uniques when we had millions of actives, much less uniques.
I have been looking for a good open source editor for HTML for a while.

I use Codelobster for PHP. It is outstanding. I don't know if its open source but its free.
The author mainly focuses on mobile devices. I would like to add that even on desktop, native apps feel way better than their web based counterparts. Switching from Google Reader to NetNewsWire, from GMail to Sparrow, Twitter web to Twitter desktop app, SoundCloud web to SoundCloud native app, are just some examples. Ideally, data synced on the web, with clients on the desktop seems like an ideal possibility to me. Or maybe its just me who thinks this way.
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Others may want to avoid the overhead with a full page
refresh as users navigate the site.

Avoiding a full-page REFRESH only makes sense when the current page does NOT change (e.g. doing login).

Speaking about overhead, to avoid bandwidth problems related to page-switching 90% of websites out there would be better off if they just added the Cache-Control on their static assets or GZip the content sent (yes, it's kind of ironic that so many developers ignore common-sense techniques already available in the HTTP protocol).

Also, if the overhead is in the server-side processing done, then offload that processing making it async and cache the results. Why is that so hard?

For me Twitter's new interface is slower and more cluttered than the old one, without providing the benefits of the iPhone client I'm using. It's a disaster IMHO, so speculating they only did it because it's cool is not unreasonable.
Ask HN: How do you handle sensitive information (passwords, SSH keys, etc.)?
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Basically I'd like to prepare detailed procedure (checklist?) that would lower the possibility of losing this kind of important data.
Couldn't disagree more. I switched to Twitter web and Gmail from desktop counterparts several months ago, and haven't looked back since.