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Why are we not seeing it now? Motorola wants to compete with Apple but they release something that’s not really competitive.

If you have any doubts about Motorola’s intent to compete with Apple head on, here is their Super Bowl commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09vmRWeNZSM

This video from Motorola makes their intent even clearer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRgesYJHKo

They don’t want to target the higher end of the market, they want to obsolete the iPad. They shouldn’t be surprised when they get then criticized harshly for not delivering.
Chatterous's Google Talk integration was so stellar (it's broken most the time now) that our teams used it exclusively for cross-team chat for the past few years. I was one of their biggest fans but now I know they're not giving it much attention anymore.

Given that, I really want to see convore integration with jabber/gtalk somehow, but I'm not sure how it would work for rooms+topics versus just rooms.
It's going to be completely irrelevant and out of date within 50.
A silly decompiler that doesn't even recognise for loop with a break (https://github.com/Laurelai/decompile-dump/blob/master/outpu...)

That said... I wonder how useful would github be as a collaborative decompilation space - grab a file, annotate / simplify as much as possible, send pull request, repeat...
Before the Arduino the Basic Stamo was the popular easy micro controller. After the Arduino will be something else. Before the Stamp was the Radio Shack 200-in-1 beginners electronics kits.

The Arduino is a great gadget to get people interested in electronics and micros, but it's not a revolution either.
I am british, and I could not stop laughing at the accent. You can tell its how someone not britain thinks how a british person speaks. Waaay to exaggerated.
appointed by the board of directors

trough the process known as "election"

Elop's background and shareholdings would be well understood by Nokia's board.

very optimistic statement
I kind of groaned when I saw this title on HN.

Problem? The title told me it was going to be a highly-emotional appeal to an audience already primed to agree with it. And the vote score only confirmed that assumption. Time to put on the old critical thinking hat.

What a great article! It was a wonderfully-put-together rant about what is wrong with IP law. I agree with every point -- including the outrage the author felt.

The only thing I didn't agree with? The premise -- that IP laws are blocking innovation.

Yes, as the examples show, there is a great amount of innovation that is being stifled by IP laws, and something is desperately needed to fix it. But let's not get caught up in all that emotional outrage at how screwed up things are. Instead, ask a simple question: to what degree is all innovation stifled by IP laws? Because that's the claim: that every kind of innovation is being stifled by the current crappy state of IP laws.

Clearly that's not the case at all. The newspaper boy who invents a new newspaper folder isn't being stifled. The restaurant owner who comes up with a way to wait more tables with less staff isn't being stifled. The media creator who packages his product in a way to increase stickiness isn't being stifled. It's just a bunch of examples that members of this audience already know and are sympathetic with.

I could go on. And on and on. So yes, in this one area in which we are all pretty damn angry to begin with, IP laws are totally destroying innovation. But in the other thousand or so areas from which most of us have little experience, they are not.

I loved the rant. And I love a great title and this article had one. A little hyperbole is good for the soul. So while I have no faults with the article, I'd just recommend a little bit of common sense when dealing with a premise so over the top. People have a tendency to take whatever they're really angry about -- and then apply it to whatever problems the world is facing. IP law is not stifling all innovation. It isn't even coming close. But it's definitely horribly broken and needs to be fixed.
If you're a linux geek then Android, if you want to earn money now - iOS, if you don't want much competition - go for WP7 (it's very small now, but it's guaranteed to have a nice chunk of market share in two years).

WebOS? Did you hear about any good software thing HP ever released? That company doesn't know the stuff and purchasing Palm doesn't change much.
Bill Gates: 'Souring' on Microsoft?
Thanks iOS in not an option at the moment. I'm quite commited to open source.
'collaborative decompilation space' (github-based or not) sounds like a sick idea, actually.
"Designers say the helicopter’s performance is quite unique, that it will not age. Special wear resistant composite materials are used on the helicopter’s fuselage"

I'd have thought that most problems with helicopters come from the engines and other complex parts, not the fuselage.
I am somewhat disappointed with Nokia and WP7 and I don't wont to go back to Windows.
FarCry was not to good. FarCry 2 was bullshit. Crysis how ever rocks. I really like the stuff I have seen from Crysis 2.
I dont know who posted this. But its my favorite blog post that I've done. Makes me sad. Kids grow old fast. I hope the advice is good for them.
Don't fret about cross-platform. However, if you want to do games, look at Unity3D ($$) - that is cross-platform.

I'm an iOS developer, now doing a deep-dive into Android.

Pretty much, the consensus among my iOS developer circle is that to be considered a serious mobile player you need three platforms: iOS, Android, and mobile web.

To be more marketable as a developer, there is no single platform that you want to learn (the true answer is to strive to become a better designer than coder - the best coder I know personally is a better designer - and that is one of the reasons he's had top-10 App Store apps). Learning Android has less of a learning curve. Knowing both iOS and Android is hard - I'm trying to do that now - and I've given up - shelved all my iOS projects to focus on Android.

Android is going to win in the long-run. WebOS is going to be a footnote in the history of tablets (unfortunately Nokia didn't buy them 2 years ago). Windows Phone 7 is a wildcard. By mobile web, I don't mean rich HTML5 - I mean decent mobile optimized websites like http://shakeshack.com

If you are going to study iPhone, just dive right in. The analyzer will save you from the most egregious of memory leaks and retain cycles. You will realize that your code you are writing sucks three or four iterations or generations down the line. Don't fret about that. You will go back and forth between the benefits of IB vs writing code for UIs directly.

If you are going to study Android, the code from OpenIntents is some of the best written I've seen so far [1]. A lot of the Android examples don't cover non-trivial stuff (like how do you have a ContentProvider that can handle multiple tables, how do you skin). OpenIntents shows a way, maybe not the best way - but decent, how to do all of that.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/openintents/source/browse/trunk
And by the way, the ownership table that is linked to isn't even CORRECT. Not even remotely.

Sinofsky isn't listed, and just 2 weeks ago he reported 737,000 shares, which would make him #4 on that list. [1]

Ray Ozzie has just under 1 million shares, and again he's not listed. [2]

The way you assemble these kinds of tables is by mining the SEC filing Form 4, "Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership of Securities". But you have to include every Form 4 for your data to be at all accurate.

So already we can see that Elop is #9, and that's just by me guessing two people who seemed conspicuously absent. There could be dozens of others. And don't forget that non-executives don't have to report their shares. I would bet a few grands that there are senior developers who have been working at Microsoft for 15 or 20 years who own more than $3M in stock.

In fact, I just cast my first ever "flag" vote on HN. (With gusto, I might add.) This doesn't deserve the #1 slot.

[1] http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?...

[2] http://biz.yahoo.com/t/12/7827.html
Doesn't this really just show that he has consistent beliefs and behaves rationally?

What would it mean if he switched nokia to windows while holding a lot of google stock?
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Germany.
What you is quite true. But isn't Symbian a good bet if you look at sales figures?
Because people would make a macro that would "report to spam" their competition from different IP's.
It would be a cluster F*.
Why Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups
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There is the Notion ink adam http://notionink.com/techspecs.php
priced at around 500$
It's relatively easy to downsize IP laws with a single change: If they are property, tax them as property.

e.g.

Every year, a patent/copyright/trademark owner has to state the value of their "property", and pay 1% tax on its value. That entitles them to sue each defendant for said value (maybe 3 for wilful infringement, but that's it). You can make it easier by declaring the value of the "property" at any point in time during the year until 15-apr the following* year, so you can evaluate in retrospect.

Now, all of a sudden, it doesn't make sense to hoard patents or copyrights as much - If you value each song at $100K, then it costs $1K/year to maintain that copyright.

I'm sure Intel/Microsoft/Apple would actually evaluate what does and doesn't need patent protection when they have to pay millions of dollars per year to maintain it.

Furthermore, it's only reasonable - paying tax for having the state enforce your "property" rights.
Boeing 747 was first flown in 1969 and is still being made new.
You are aware that it is over 100 years now from the beginning of the war on recreative drug use? IIRC, the first restrictions were put in effect in the US in 1906.
Bread and butter is Python for me. The reason why Qt was / is very interesting.
Any experience with the Android Scripting Environment http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ ?
The entire article is just a bunch of suppositions, no evidence to sustain any of them.
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Great advice thanks. It will be probably Android. Apple is not an real option for me.
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Learn them all, don't pigeon hole yourself. Or at least lean the basics of all of them, then focus on the one with the best developer tools or the one that you enjoy working in.
5 examples of how to make your site addictive using early wins
Snow is an idiotic argument. In fact if you like winter sports Michigan has an advantage in more consistant snowfall due to the proximity of the great lake (a huge benefit itself). Better to live in a place prepared to deal with snow then set up shop in the south and have you business and community shut down and clear out like a post apocalyptic city.
What if Lisp were invented by the Japanese?
Tweetdeck sells for 30m I really should have finished this side project...
This decompiled output shows a very nice example where C can really be no more than "glorified assembly". (Anyone help me with proper attribution for the quote?)
Startup Quote: Mark Cuban, co-founder, HDNet
I agree that this is a problem, but I fear it's not as easy to solve as with traditional libraries that store books. For data to be useful you need a lot of very formal high quality metadata, and that metadata has to be collected by the original researchers as part of their process. So I think there has to be an incentive or mandate that makes researchers collect and document data in a more systematic way. Librarians cannot do it for them.
Man oh man. That would take a long time to figure out. Is this really the best a C decompiler can do?
Every no gets me closer to a yes.

- Mark Cuban (@mcuban)

http://startupquote.com/post/3273253182
Wait a second, though. Team dynamics are a key factor of any startup's success (as snprbob was just saying at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208326 ). Difficult people screw that up.

So "sometimes we make money with brilliant people who are easy to get along with, most often we make money with brilliant people who are hard to get along with" may well be an accurate description of Sequoia's results, but the most likely explanation for it is that it's due to how they're selecting during their funding process and then how they're interacting with the companies once they've funded them.
Flowdock is intended to fill quite a different niche. It's supposed to facilitate teamwork, not spontaneous group communication. But if that's what you're looking for, Flowdock does do the job. I participated in the beta and found it quite nice.
Silly hackers; users don't want an OS. Users want a product that works, is easy to understand, and looks good.
What do you use for product delivery (software)?
I'm selling an app over at http://zazensuite.com/mac and though it's soon to hit the Mac App Store, I prefer to sell it on my own as well.

The issue I'm facing is product delivery. I'm using E-Junkie/Paypal, but I'm not happy with that solution because the interface is confusing to customers, and it's more difficult than I like for email follow up and delivery.

Any suggestions?
My experience at companies large and small is that employees prefer likable competent people over jerks and fools. Why isn't that also in the investors' interests?
Apple saves a lot of money by pre-buying things like flash in massive quantity. It will drop millions all at once to ensure that it gets better prices than anyone else can get from it's suppliers, which helps keep costs low.
"...most often we make money with brilliant people who are hard to get along with, but we rarely make money with normal people who are easy to get along with."

The former sounds just like Steve Jobs and the latter sounds just like John Sculley.
And even at $999 people would have lined up in droves.
That's a bit inaccurate: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2010/09/moron-why-c-is-not-ass...
It wasn't just the two movies, it was Jenny and everyone who came after her. You're right that it got attention, but there was frankly no reason to expect it to given it was a trend that had already played out once.

I agree with you that funding and connections are not sufficient. But it is the limiting factor in the sense that there are more strong perserverant teams out there than there is money to service them all. And a team's strength is not a constant: most teams are only as strong as the list of mistakes they've made. Having funding gives you the luxury of making the mistakes and getting strong.

Perseverance is important but what it means depends on the context. A trust fund baby who keeps trying new businesses doesn't have much to lose, while a guy with a family to support who uses all his free time to work on his startup is making a huge sacrifice. And while I believe that perseverance is generally rewarded in many ways, the likelihood of it being rewarded with massive wealth is greatly overestimated.
It also makes me wonder how they evaluate "brilliant" - surely someone who makes them money is going is more likely to be evaluated as brilliant so the argument then becomes circular.
TFA discusses why engineers are better off joining a startup rather then some bigco.

Why not take it further, and explain why joining a startup is better starting one?
Job Growth in U.S. Driven Entirely by Startups
> but the should support the Android-Port of Qt

That makes absolutely no sense for Nokia, at any level of resolution.
> Users want a product that works

Like WP7?
When is the market is essentially all high end (everyone wants the iPad to be the computer for the masses, but all surveys show it is a luxury item currently), I don't think targeting that the high end is a bad plan. iPod knockoffs never won despite a lower price, so why not go for good build quality at a high price?
Strictly comparing the bottom left quadrant (the "lovable fools") to the upper right quadrant (the "competent jerks"). Everyone would rather work with someone who is likable and competent.

In a large company, dabent's "BigCo", as long as you're getting your paycheck, an easy-to-along-with but less competent coworker may be less of an impediment to your ability to do your job than a competent jerk. It may also be that the article's authors were not using the same concept of "difficult" as Fred Wilson was.
This is the one thing that I constantly struggle with. I'm glad it's not just me.

One of the most difficult things I faced when moving from commercial programmer to startup guy was the completely different attitude. In the commercial world, it's caffeine-fueled, high-impact, change-the-world, deadline-driven coding.

In the startup world, it's slow-and-easy, strip out everything you possibly can. stop thinking about changing-the-world, little baby steps, and you are never done. The work is just as hard, but it's a different kind of work.

It's just a totally different frame of mind. As much as I read about startups, I never really got that part. I don't know why.

I'm also interested in what people do to fight this, as I find myself constantly drifting off thinking about how such-and-such a product might change everything. Such thoughts haven't done a damn thing for me but distract me from what I need to do right now. They also make me think of each little step as some huge thing that it probably isn't. Maybe after this big blog article the product will finally get huge traffic! Maybe this next feature will finally spin the product up into the stratosphere! Maybe I'll get accepted by YC and that will be the game-changer!

Then when the next big even happens (or not) and nothing huge really changes? It's this huge build up and let down. Makes for a very bad emotional roller-coaster ride.

Thanks for the article.
Would you like people to talk about you like this just because you switched jobs after 2 years time?

if I switched 3 senior executive jobs in 4 years and then went on to become CEO one of the most known companies in the world today, then yes, absolutely.
My only thought is.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2vWQFHP3D0
The End Of History, Part II
Ask HN: Which JS mobile frameworks do you use?
I have been playing with JQtouch, which is great but JQuery mobile also looks promising and I see many options on http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/35501579/JavaScript-Libraries. Any thoughts on your experiences with these would be appreciated.
The labor unions will kill any such effort. The whole state of Michigan is just in LOVE with the labor union efforts that killed Detroit. Until Michigan gives up on labor unions, f'get about it.
"He stands to benefit handsomely"

No he doesn't. WP7, even under the best case circumstances, will have limited impact on Microsoft stock. People with tens of millions of dollars are connected to far better investment opportunities than making a stock bump up in value a few percentage points.
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Nice to meet you Mr. Brown. How do you do?

English curriculum in Soviet schools was meant to be based on British English, but of course precious few teachers ever traveled to the UK or interacted with Britons.
I'm pretty sure those traits can be influenced by parents - but the real question is what the long term success rate is. I've met people who did really well because their parents provided that kind of focus, but I've also met people who were completely screwed up by it.

Our own approach has been to make sure our son has had a lot of opportunities to learn stuff (e.g. he has been skiing since his 3rd birthday) but we do try and ensure that these things are first and foremost about being fun rather than an ordeal.
Consumers pay about $600 on average for an iPad. If all iPads were equally popular the average would be more like $665. Apple’s most expensive iPads are not their most popular.

I do believe that only good quality tablets can compete head on with the iPad but I do also think that the price point is important. Apple has shown that it is possible to make a high quality $500 tablet.
Considering his job until now at Nokia, I would say that making it more valuable to leave should be the highest priority to anyone foolish enough to hire him.

Whoever does professional placement for him, however, deserves serious credit.
Heh that's Roy Schestowitz, I can remember him flooding Digg years ago. Nobody's certain if he's really a particularly hardcore anti-Microsoft troll or if he's actually paid by Microsoft because he's so ridiculously zealous it reflects poorly on everyone else.
Perhaps he learned his accent from watching Harry Potter hims. I kept expecting him to chastise young Mr. Potter.
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"which are still pretty pricey for the hardware thats in there"

Only when you compare unlike with like. As soon as you look at similar spec, design and build quality it is a different story.

Like the Dell Adamo "Macbook Air killer":

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20031079-64.html
I'd do it this way, using Guava's functional programming ability + static imports where it makes sense:

import static com.google.common.collect.Lists.*;
import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
[...]
public static void main(String[] args) {
List<Integer> list = newArrayList(1,2,3,4);
System.out.println(Iterables.filter(list, isEven()));
}

private static Predicate<Integer> isEven() {
return new Predicate<Integer>() {
public boolean apply(Integer input) {
return input % 2 == 0;
}
};
}

The lack of closures is seriously felt when creating the "isEven" Predicate. This will be a lot cleaner next year (?), when closures are introduced in the language. For now, we have to live with the verbosity...

It's possible to hide some of this verbosity and write clean code. For example, I often extract the function / predicate declarations to utility classes to avoid polluting the code. In this case, I would move the "isEven()" method to a "MathPredicates" utility class. The code ends up looking like:

List<Integer> list = newArrayList(1,2,3,4);
System.out.println(Iterables.filter(list, MathPredicates.isEven()));
Yes, but they made no claims about that. In their little corner of the universe the helicopter is the air frame. Those engines, rotors, tires, batteries and whatnot are just incidentals that people insist on bolting on.
Yes, well put.

It helps me to act like a robot. I put the Machinarium soundtrack on and treat those oncoming emotions as voltage spikes and work at a steady level with my hands shaking and a maniacal grin fighting it's way to visibility.

Another real problem with the spikes of excitement (besides the authors point that it wastes time) is that the spike has to level out. Instead of working on the project with a steady force, you sprint and crash which is ineffiecent for our brains.
Engines and the rotor assembly are relatively easily replaced. In fact, engines are routinely rated for less operation time than the expected life time of many air craft today.

The fuselage and avionics are typically the most expensive parts of an any aircraft.
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