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> folks overestimate my skill at hacking

Actually, I was under the impression that you were mainly known for BCC, which doesn't look that technically sophisticated (of course, it does require good marketing/SEO/etc, and your candid posts and expertise are very welcome).

Care to brag a little?
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"And to those whose Nokia/Windows smartphones will give them the mobile variation on the MS 'BSOD' while calling 911, my condolences to you too."

Just a giant frustrated douchebag who likes Android. Why is this even submitted? It's clearly trolling
And if they're running on OpenJDK, their runtime would be covered by the OpenJDK patent grants, which might allow one way to sidestep the current Oracle/Google patent litigation over Android's Dalvik. Unless Oracle's legal department comes up with some chicanery to block their supposedly GPLed, open-source codebase from being loaded on a mobile phone.

(Disclaimer: IANALawyer. Consult your own before betting your company.)
Nokia has of the order of $13 billion cash on hand. I imagine it would have to be a substantially larger investment to make their heart beat faster.
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People have been whining about how the DDOS is restricting the speech of MasterCard, not realizing that it has nothing to do with speech, and everything to do with adding an economic incentive to do the right thing.

While it also may be 'restricting speech' (corporate personhood has come a long way...) that's a side effect, not the reasoning or purpose.
I said I'd update HN on my PayPal experience so here it is.

I've been using this feature (embedded payments) with the microtransaction fee schedule since last Friday, and have collected around £1,500 with no problems or account limitations.

I was expecting some limit on my new account, but as I supplied all the information required (passport, bank statements, the works), everything went very smoothly and I have to say that the embedded payments system is quite slick and converts well.
Well... I assume they could use Monodevelop on BSD...
How does it compare to BookingBug ?
Simple: you order the truck drivers to stop receiving data from Google's tubes!
Oh yeah, Microsoft is totally fine with us supporting MeeGo. Don't worry about it.
poor nokia is going the way of the dodo (and zune, bing, you get the picture)
As always here in HN we tend to focus on the actual technology and platform rather than what it do for normal people.

This is a great win both for Microsoft as it is for Nokia and as it is for the millions of people who are just regular phone users.

Yes nokia will have to build an ecosystem (http://000fff.org/the-power-of-digital-ecoystems/)

But they still have huge market share with people who are not likely to care that there exist an iPhone because it's too expensive.

And if the market is in fact trending smartphones in 2011-2012 nokia will have great opportunity to develop a market into a smartphone market with their existing base.
Google is to big too be killed, and has already shown its willingness to play to the public gallery over government censorship. I'd assume the MPAA isn't suicidal enough to challenge them in any meaningful way.
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> While #Wikileaks seem to have some problems: #Anonleaks will be launching very soon. To start it will release 27000 mails of greg@hbgary.com

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If I may ask, what's your business? 1500 pounds is quite a lot in such a short time, for a new service.
but other companies like htc, motorola etc. can also manufacture WP7 phones.

and nokia cannot make too many changes to functionality even if allowed as it would fragment the WP7 app-market. even gui based changes would kill the ui-consistency that MS is touting..

so i do not understand how nokia is differentiating itself by becoming a WP7 phone manufacturer...
Your description text needs help, particularly the first sentence:

Socl is the social calendar and to-do list. Your calendar events will be posted to your social world(only if you wish)

1. Socl is not the social calendar, it is a social calendar. I don't know why the "-ial" in social has a strikethrough. 2. You need a space between the end of "world" and the beginning of the parenthesis. 3. Socl is in its early stage - something like a pre-alpha. Wait, "something like" pre-alpha? I think you mean "pre-alpha", right? It would be much more succinct and better in every way to simply say, "Socl is in pre-alpha release" or, alternatively, "Socl is pre-alpha."
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I think Shakespeare puts it best...

'poor and content is rich, and rich enough'

If we base our self esteem and judge our success by the work we do, then we'll always be found wanting. The ultimate goal of life is happiness in ourselves or others (which in turn often brings us happiness). While a successful start up may bring us satisfaction/money, it is ultimately only a cornerstone in our lives.
I've been using the micropayment account for almost two years - not sure why this is news except maybe they're now not hiding it? My minimum sale is about $4, and the micropayment works out better for most sales up to around $12, at which point I use a different processor. Using the micropayments approach has saved me a decent amount over the last couple years. Good to see them promoting it more heavily. What I'd wish is that they would allow you to use micropayment pricing and traditional pricing on the same account, and simply give you the micropayment pricing on payments under $12. Not sure why they can't/won't do that.
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Nokia were clearly the leader 10 years ago.

Whilst at the front of the race they took their eye off for a little distraction called Symbian. The problem there was the complete lack of control over the UI. Symbian forked their UI for phone and tablet, and phone producers forked their own UIs again (UIQ, Series 60,80,90), making upgrading the existing UI centrally practically impossible. The only option was to start from scratch... oops. The committee appears to have made a big deal out of binary compatibility. Yet with today's consumer, that is not important on a smart phone, when we want to get apps from a store.

Nokia looked up and has realised it's now running on a different track to everyone else - the finish line moved and they can't catch up (3 years to get from the old UI's, and we've still not got shiny new Symbian in mass market products). Time to get into the current race.

The problem with branching Android, is that it puts them back in exactly the same sort of situation they were in when they backed Symbian. By going with Microsoft they have moved to a much more controlled system. Microsoft have buckets of experience with smart phones, and I believe that WM7 will be the XP of mobile. Let's just hope they don't Vista it.
Apple charges the high price without contract now because it is under the contract model still. EG: It sells to AT&T et all for $600 in the contract model and is subsidized. AT&T would not be happy if Apple sold that same phone without a contract for $300 or $400.

The nano idea is for a phone that does not sell subsidized, and is differentiated from the subsidized ones by not being the current generation. For instance, it might not have a retina display.

If Apple can make it for $99, they will be happy to sell it for $199. I think this is quite possible using year old chipsets and components. I can see Apple also making it for $140 and selling it for $199. Both provide sufficient margins. Apple also invested $4B in strategic deals to secure the supply of components last fall, which may allow them to get these components cheaper than everyone else.

I don't think margin is the problem, I think getting the networks to go along with the plan is the hard part.

This strategy seems a no-brainer to me, as Apple will soak up wide swaths of the market with a "feature iphone".

The other challenge, though, is getting manufacturing capacity to produce it. I think this means that this iphone will not be as stylish in order to make it easier to manufacture for less sophisticated contract manufacturers, and this subdued style will also help it differentiate from the contract phones.

Apple didn't want to sell subsidized phones in the beginning- they wanted to sell the phones and have the carriers provide lower cost service plans (because they didn't need to recoup the subsidy.) This plan didn't work and so apple relented.

We may be seeing Apple's second attempt at reforming the mobile industry... this time from a position with more power.
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In the worst North Sea rig disaster, Piper Alpha, there were six unlucky men who did jump from the rig, were rescued and were killed when the rescue boat got caught in a huge explosion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Alpha
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While you probably wouldn't want full-on telomerase in your 20s might be worth the risk if you're pushing 80 :).

Actually, you are much more at risk for cancer in your 80's. That might be the worst possible plan.

There are 7 distinct classes of damage that comprise the wear and tear resulting from aging. Addressing telomeres only addresses one of these. Read and learn:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/522716/Aubrey-de-Grey-SENS

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I'd suggest looking at some Java or C++ Q/A on StackOverflow. You can drill down by more specific technologies related to the jobs you're applying for.

Other than that, a quick Google search shows plenty of sites offering interview questions. Most of them look pretty bozo though.
Basic R&D is a cost that successful businesses--especially small ones--tend to externalize. Microsoft does a bit, Bell Labs used to do more; but you just don't start a FTL spaceship company before basic research has established a coherent theory of FTL travel.
I have missed several trains because of this, the ticket box with the shortest line was usually the one when some clueless grandma sieged the cashier with endless stream of questions about the ticket and travel directions and who knows what, with only few last remaining people, who have invested so much of their time that they couldn't justify leaving for another, longer, queue line.
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No problem! The business is still in relative stealth right now, but it's basically a way of raising money for charity events, so the high revenue figure belies the fact that I'll be passing on a majority of the cash to charity.

We're still in private beta, but we'll publicly announce the service in a month or two.

On the whole it was a great launch and I'm pleased with how things are going right now - let's hope it lasts :)
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ahem Sony Ericsson had one of the worse positions among all OEMs and they managed to do it..
When I read such articles, that's when you realise that people are resistant to change. It's like those people still using Windows XP because it's the best. Tech is in constant change, but at some point, some people just give up and decide not to join in anymore: not to make facebook accounts, not to join twitter, not to upgrade their OS, not to switch browser.

That's what this post is: someone refusing to face the changing landscape of tech.

Mobile is greater than what it seemed to be at the start. Mobile operating systems are no longer button phones, they are computers, and they are going to integrate with the desktop tightly. That's the new world, and in such a world, there are only going to be just a few platforms.

Nokia had almost zero chance of being the new platform. Microsoft continues to maintain strong platform presence on the desktop, browser, gaming console/set-top, and they have brought in a strong mobile platform, even if sales are lack-luster now.

Android provides a free, single platform for everybody else.

Apple has their iPhone eco-system, which is not open to others to use.

If Nokia stays on their platform, they will surely fade into irrelevance, and at some point they will need to switch to Android, and be years behind all the other Android clones. That would be the end of Nokia.

The Microsoft-Nokia deal basically has given the Microsoft mobile platform relevance, and it means that a big chunk of the mobile market will be MS/Nokia, and that will ensure that Nokia remains relevant.

With this move, the integrated platform market has basically been divided into three equal chunks (Android, iOS, MS) and for the new few year people are going to have to choose between those. Nokia as a hardware manufacturer - if it does good deals with MS, will basically form one-half of the third major platform. That's how it will stay relevant.

After this deal, Android is likely going to become more popular, because most other hardware manufacturers will bet full-scale on android. However, the problem is that Android lacks a desktop environment, so canot be as tightly integrated as the other two platforms could.

So I expect Android to take the role of feature-phones now, while MS and Apple control and split the high-end market.

I'm not sure what role blackberry will play in all this.
Even _ Allan Odgaard_ is working for GitHub now?

More seriously, I wonder if this would be an interesting direction for GitHub to move in; sorta picking up where Heroku left off. They already do let you edit files via the web, it'd just be keybindings... and a ton of other details since I know nothing of GitHub's internals.

In fact, that's probably a terrible idea. But something to think about...
While I'm not saying 600-700 is fair price, I'm sure a lot of money went into R&D. I wouldn't doubt that R&D accounts for a significant portion of the difference in price. It would be interesting to know how much profit they are making on each device.
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It seems that often people underestimate the amount of engineers a company requires as it grows, I saw similar statements in a Twitter thread a few days back.
Blown away, the video is really crisp-I show it to people often. Thanks for the advice Reed!
One day you'll realize that those opportunities with the opposite sex that you've been blowing off because you had "better" things to do... Well, those opportunities only exist in the past.

Regrets are almost always about things you didn't do. Almost never about the things you did do.
As someone who managed off-shore projects, I think this model can be made to work only if the coding part is offshore. The design part would have to be done on-shore in a majority of cases. The problem with outsourcing design is that you may not have people who understand the business or the dynamics of the environment they are designing for.
Yes, there are several more UI toolkits, I haven't followed E development for 10 years though. It was the Linux darling in the late 90's, but afaik it was Rasterman working on it mostly on his own, and when alternatives showed up, E (as in, the window manager) became irrelevant. Is it still in modern distro's?
Nokia will be able to customize 'everything' in Windows Phone 7
Kind of a running gag in the Ubuntu world. Funnily, Mark Shuttleworth himself filed it in the first place, but still it's been declined for every single version :)
something about the t-shirt under the shirt look that detracts from the article.
Interestingly, that's not because you'll get a thermal shock that will kill you. The body is surprisingly good at maintaining temperature for a while after being plunged in icy cold stuff. The problem is, it's so good at it, that it will block off the arteries to your legs and arms to stop them from leaking so much heat (better survive without limbs than die with them), and you'll drown because you can't swim. As far as hypothermia is concerned, you have about an hour before passing out due to hypothermia. But you have about 10 minutes if you're not wearing a life jacket.

http://mariovittone.com/2010/10/1-10-1/
um... didn't Microsoft pay Nokia a lot of money for this deal?
Use what you like and are comfortable with. It's pretty much a matter of taste.

There's nothing you can do in Django that you can't do in Rails.
Hm. socasion, socimark, evencial, daycial, plancial. All open com's. Not awesome, but that just took a moment. Not having a .com is an unnecessary barrier.
Not a comment about the service, but I was surprised at the choice of Comic Sans. Especially with the hate that font seems to receive.
Yes. But it would not be the same company.
Thanks, I will check that out. I definitely have the script and the animation I will look to partner with someone. I can't say this enough, but thank you to everyone its nice to be part of a community of folks struggling with the same ambitions and challenges.
> Most TDD advocates are overboard with it imo;

I've often found that dogma is useful for the beginner, because practice is needed. When you mindlessly apply something, you focus on the application, and not if it's appropriate.

Once you've got the application down fine, then you have some experience to base your decision on when is and is not a good time to actually apply things.
You badly need a screencast or image-slideshow on there - show, not tell!

I had to force myself to read through that text-pitch - under normal conditions I'd have closed the tab after the first 1-2 sentences. Partly because it's not well written and partly due to the fancy font that makes it hard to read.
Keep in mind that Nokia's clients are the telcos, not you or me.
No native code on WP7 is for me a major downturn. To port my apps to WP7 I'd have to do a complete rewrite - and that's work I won't do for an unproven market/platform.
> and that will ensure that Nokia remains relevant.

Nokia becoming a WP7 OEM does not make them relevant. They're going to go the same path as they would have had they gone with Android instead: just another phone OEM.

Though between WP7 and Android, WP7 is probably a much better choice for them.
As stated in the blog, the Formspider framework had a Java renderer that uses DecimalFormat and we needed the same functionality on the javascript side which means formatting numbers with variable masks such as "$#,#00.0#" or "00.0##%" that is defined by the user. So sprintf is not the same.
By the way, this code was wrtiten in 2008.
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If you wrote an email to a VC without being able to demonstrate that you picked up basic writing skills in high school and college, you'd have a longer road to travel to convince them of your overall fitness for funding.
This article seems to miss the fact that Nokia are planning to continue with MeeGo development.
Investing: Great if you can get a position in a market that is open when the news is announced and thus be there for the fall....but it sucks if you have to get in after the stock has declined and then you're hoping that the impact will take a couple days.

I wouldn't try to play something like this. I've done highly leveraged, highly speculative investing successfully in the past. But even then, I was making bets on the order of weeks and months, not minutes.

Do you think it is a sure thing that nokia will be down by %20 beyond the current price over the next year? IF you can make that argument mathematically, then it is soemthing worth investing in. (at least, this is the method I used. I can't say anything about nokia's valuation as I have never analyzed it. But I only invested in mathematically sure things that were consistent with the overall trend.)

PS- When I say "sure thing" I mean "presuming no black swan events". I know there is no really sure thing. I also used leverage and hedged to limit my downside.
Less choice for them to target different stores too...
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Communication and team bonding. I've regularly worked with teams that spanned across multiple offices, and without doubt there's huge communication barrier introduced with distance.

Even development teams which are split across different locations in the same building see this problem (to a lesser extent). It's one of the main reason investment banks will put developers on the trading floor, seats on the trading floor tend to be very expensive (everything has multiple redundancy, etc) but the teamwork advantages are so great that it's worth doing.
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Nokia wants to be Apple but acts like Dell, this does not make any sense.

Disclaimer: Being Dell is nice, but you need to think like Dell concerning their, much lower, margins. And whatever Microsoft tells you, you're just one of many and compete with HTC, not Apple.
A great example of this comment in action: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2201247

Go read it and upvote it, if you didn't see it yesterday. Good stuff.
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"The N97 coulda been an iPhone killer and the N8 and E7 all exhibited potential they might have been big... if Nokia ever really put their mind to it, they coulda crushed the iPhone"

I'll have two of whatever this guy is having.

Nokia doesn't just have a problem with execution it's not just about a features check list of touchscreen, appstore, music and gaming.It's about the attention to detail and ruthless application of quality in hardware build, software and UI. Nokia never even came close.
Android and WP7 make no difference for Nokia. In fact WP7 is clearly a better deal as they can talk and negotiate with Microsoft's moneyhat and they become by far the foremost WP7 phone maker. They bring a lot of hardware expertise and knowledge to Microsoft's camp. Going with Android, they'd just get to get bent.

If their choice was to get out of software and choose between WP7 and Android, WP7 is a much better idea.
Hi Niket! I appreciate the offer I will certainly take you up on that when we start rolling with concept. Great app BTW
Why didn't they choose Android?