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Do we know enough about the terms of the partnership to know that? MS is certainly capable of screwing over their existing hardware partners (see also: PlaysForSure) My hunch is that Nokia wouldn't have gone for the deal if they're just going to be another mere supplier.
The article is a bit flippant about the quarantine. If they hadn't been quarantined, and if there was a pathogenic life form on the moon, we would have been in serious trouble. I hope the same precautions will be taken with Mars missions.
Working hard and long hours is a part of my life–so if a partner doesn't mesh with that they don't mesh with me. I luckily tend to only be attracted to similarly driven people, so it usually works out for me. The few times I've strayed personality types there have been problems.

All and all, I do consider the force that makes me obsessed with a project to the point I can't get up for hours on end the same one as the one that makes me neglect the project a week later to experience a wonderful new and intense experience and I'm grateful for it. I'm lucky that I have the freedom to wander wherever my passion is at the moment.
Yea, in this case HTML/HTTP is being abused as wrapper around an app written in JavaScript, which loads and manipulates the content you see in your browser.
Honestly, I don't. Over the years I've trimmed almost all my online shopping down to 6-8 sites that have basically never screwed me over. I order, I forget, stuff shows up without me doing anything.
I didn't know that, but in no way does it really dampen my enthusiasm. To me, Win7 proved Microsoft was still King of OS's, so I can't wait to see their upcoming flagship mobile product. I am sure they will take the lessons of Android and iOS to heart with the first major launch of this partnership. This is a huge opportunity for both companies to take the mobile world by storm. Color me disappointed if this fails, but I think it has more potential to shake up the industry than anything else announced so far thus year.
Both these ideas are already done. Thread and zoosk. Google thread because it looks like its not active anymore.
Sure, IRIX could run in 8-12 mb if you turn off X. But that means no graphics and no browser. I don't mean to be rude, but have you ever actually used an SGI?

In 1996, the O2 started at about $6000, and listed for more: http://cgi.amazing.com/internet/faq-6.0.html

As for the Indy, see http://www.siliconbunny.com/mirrors/www.tc.umn.edu/dols0011/...

"At the beginning of its life, the Indy came standard with 16MB of RAM. IRIX 5.1, the first OS for the Indy, was the Windows NT 4.0 of Unices, magically able to, performance-wise, transform an R4000PC Indy with 16MB of RAM (the standard configuration) into a 386SX with a weird blue box.

SGI realized this and quickly upped the box to 32MB, at considerable cost. (As you may recall, 16MB of parity 70ns RAM was hardly cheap in 1993-1995.) Subsequent IRIX releases made huge improvements in memory usage."

But not enough improvements in time to beat back the PC, of course.

"The Indy packs a decent amount of power into a very small (16"x14"x3"), simple, and elegant package. The chassis is just three parts: The "tray," which is sheet metal; the power supply; and the skin, which is a one-piece plastic cover with a thin sheet of metal covering the bottom of it to meet FCC compliance. The steel tray occupies the entire depth of the Indy, but not the entire width; four inches or so of the left side belong to the power supply, which occupies the entire depth of the tray and is a separate box. The whole unit is, although well-built, very economical and, dare I say, cheap. Speaking as someone who has had an opened-up broken Indy sitting on his basement floor, this is not a machine that screams "I cost $10,000." It's obvious SGI made a darn nice profit off these buggers."
How would you describe today's personal computer to someone from 19th century?
I have a couple:
1. 1000 X 10000 Abacuses put together
2. Magic box that gives you all the answers (well, most...)
No, MS has been throwing _a lot_ of money at the Xbox for years and i'd say succeeded.
On point 2 - I tend to find that if I write unit tests at the same time as I write code then the code is structured to be easier to unit test. Writing unit tests for code that has been developed without any concerns for unit testing can be a complete nightmare.
The line in the announcement about pushing these devices into new pricepoints actually gives me some hope for the marriage. IMO, the next phase of the smartphone race will not be about having the hottest high-end smartphone - I think the winner will be the one that can make a smartphone platform pervasive on entry-level phones.

If Nokia and MS get WP7 on every entry level Nokia, they might be able to disrupt the high end players and bring quality to the low end that Chinese competition will haage trouble matching.
Ask NH: How would you describe Internet to someone from 19th century?
Some ideas:

1. "It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."

2. Super fast postman that deliver your mail instantly (Probably applies more to e-mail)... Still...
I remember an article perhaps 10 years ago about how these were displayed in the a (public?) CIA museum.
Sure, they might get some perks, but I just don't see MS having it in them to really give them a long leash.
We just alter the criteria for selection. Evolution is still there.
It's like a telegraph that allows you to stalk friends you knew at school.
Nokia signs a suicide pact with Microsoft? Desperate times lead to desperate measures, but I don't think Nokia jumped from the platform here, instead they have decided to huddle in a corner with MS. This will be the death of both. I am resigning my Nokia Ambassadorship as I type. Of all the players it could team up with this is probably the worst. MS like to control the platform, but they do a very poor job of it (unlike Apple). Nokia would have been far better off by making a deeper commitment with Intel. It is a sad day, the end of an age.
My impression is that nobody but an ex-Microsoft employee would even consider such idea.

This partnership benefits Microsoft's executives in the mobile division, who will have their vindication in a major phone maker going with their platform instead of Android. Their bonuses will be outlandish this year. It hardly benefits Nokia, who is betting the company on an unknown platform nobody else is betting on.

A friend of mine usually said that when you see two lines in the bank, one being much shorter than the other, you can bet the short one is the wrong line for you.
> Has anyone ever come out of a Microsoft partnership stronger?

Microsoft, of course! What a silly question! Why else would they partner with someone?
That's a really bizarre analysis.

I am sure that Dropbox is able to squeeze some extra efficiency out of their storage requirements by storing only one copy of very frequently stored files, but it is a long way from there to "printing money legally."

Plus, I doubt that anybody on Dropbox is maxing out their storage, much less everybody; any analysis based on that assumption is doomed to failure.
my honest suggestion would be not to just interview and hire a CTO, CTO for a successful startup should be a friend, partner, who has the passion for what your startup is about, not just someone who is capable of doing the job. Best way to find that person is networking at local tech events, incubators... keep an eye out for people's blog / comments on various blogs about your field of startup, that will reveal passionate people, contact them..
Personally falling in love motivates me to do stuff more than anything else. Even if it didn't, I would still want to fall in love more than work on a startup. Why work on a startup now, so that you can fall in love and be happy later?
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This is the definitive proof that leaving Nokia back in 2008—when they pretty much killed Maemo—was the best decision I ever made.

They've made two major platform shifts in just a few years. From Maemo to MeeGo and now from MeeGo to Windows Phone. Not something that inspires confidence in the company or attracts talented developers...
Aeron's aren't actually a bad bet for a funded startup. They're durable enough that if you buy them used, they retain practically all their value if the company flops and has to auction its assets.
1. Theres always startups looking for talented developers. I think most startups would give you a good look if you have technical experience.

2. Whatever language you know best.
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There was a bit more to it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company

Microsoft also got a patent cross-licensing deal with Apple, IE shipping as the default browser on Macs (a blow against Netscape), and a settlement on some messy lawsuits.

(I imagine a lot of lawyers got paid, too... what a mess!)
Actually, I was talking about the backup method. Happily, that's a list of printable one-time codes. (Obviously, locking you out of your GMail if you lose your phone is not acceptable.)
> What Microsoft gained (aside from a good return on investment) was something that they could point to when negotiating with the DOJ. A strong Apple was absolutely required for Microsoft to remain intact. So what Microsoft really got wasn't a partner, but a competitor.

Yeah, it was a sort of cynical "partnership". I think your analysis is bang-on.
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This is the right way to test AI.

"Alan Turing, meet Alex Trebeck."
because Microsoft didn't really get much from Apple

Well, aside from quietly forgetting about the stolen Quicktime source code: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company
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> "There are other mobile ecosystems. We will disrupt them. There will be challenges. We will overcome them. Success requires speed. We will be swift. Together, we see the opportunity, and we have the will, the resources and the drive to succeed."

This is my main problem with this deal: both parties are hoping that by combining they will achieve something totally uncharacteristic of both of them individually. Neither MS or Nokia have been fast at anything for the last 10 years. Are they really going to suddenly be nimble together?

(I guess I'm just spelling out the "two drowning people tied together" analogy).
I'm also curious. I suspect once the iPad2 and a slew of Android tablets with front-facing cameras are in the wild, we'll see lots of interesting software...
Nokia still makes most of its money with dumbphones. You know, feature phones that are good at telephony and texting but not much else. Many people still heavily use these, especially in poorer countries. Nokia never really had a widely successful smartphone.

So partnering with Microsoft for smartphones doesn't look like a bad idea to me. They certainly know how to build hardware, even at large scale, and Microsoft will supply the software.
The TIOBE index is very biased (the famous "__language__ programming") and in my opinion can't be used as a reliable source for declaring the death or the raise of a language.
Ask HN: When you raised money, did you use an offering memo?
We are about to raise $1.5 M in the US from a set of people who are not business angels.

Our lawyer is telling us that for that amount we do not need a complete offering memorandum, but that we still need to have him draft a legal document explaining the risks involved in the investment. It seems legitimate but I've never heard of such a thing.

The cost of preparing this document is around $5k, so I'm wondering whether we really need it.

I'm interested in feedback from those of you who have raised money knowing what you were doing (in other words, who know for sure whether this document is necessary or not) - keep in mind that the investors are not professional investors.

Thanks - much appreciated.
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Have you personally used PhoneGap? It sounds like you don't quite understand how it works.

For an iOS PhoneGap project, inside the Xcode project there is a 'www' directory into which you stuff your HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files from your mobile web app. PhoneGap then creates a webview and loads your index.html in it.

PhoneGap by itself cannot be used to make any kind of an application. You also need a web app that works outside of PhoneGap (barring some PhoneGap-specific JavaScript APIs which you can optionally include to get access to device-specific information and features), and that web app presumably would either use one of the common frameworks or be written from scratch.

Hence my point that what's more interesting to know is what web app framework they used, since that'll have a bigger impact on performance and especially usability than just "it's PhoneGap".
is it not a slight conflict of interest when former MSFT exec who just became NOK CEO makes a strategic partnership with his former company?
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> Am i the only person here who finds this really exciting?

Microsoft execs from the mobile division will have huge bonuses this year. They must be very excited.

> Windows 7 is probably the best piece of software I have ever used

I had to force myself not to laugh. What have you been using, pal?

> and yes I have a MacBook pro and an iPhone

Seriously, what's so good about Windows 7?

> so I'm not some fanboy

Nobody accused you of being one, yet.

> with two juggernaut companies putting their very survival on the line

Only Nokia is dying. Microsoft will go on for at least a couple decades before it hits the ground.

> no matter what happens the consumers will be the ultimate winners of such brutal competition

We will have the same number of competing platforms (Nokia won't be the only one selling WP7) at the cost of losing one stellar hardware supplier. No. That won't be good.

The thing is, with Android, when Samsung makes something good to it, everybody benefits, LG, Motorola, the Apache Harmony folks and it trickles all the way to Red Hat, IBM and even Oracle. Even Microsoft, because a lot of their stack is BSD-ish and Microsoft can incorporate it, no questions asked, into whatever products they want. If Nokia ever succeeds in making something that kind of makes WinMo7 suck less (I gather it's a somewhat decent platform) Microsoft stands to benefit the most.
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> Win7 proved Microsoft was still King of OS's,

No fanboy, you say...
Both were developed on Visual Studio?
I wouldn't consider that "succeeding".
And once HP bought webos, it's now as the hot new thing in the press.

Sometimes it's not about the technology, it's about the company. Meego was just a year away from being an awesome mobile OS. It, and it's predecessor Maemo, have been just a year away from saving Nokia since 2008.
Does MS really do OS development in Visual Studio?

[NB I rather like Visual Studio, but I don't think I'd do OS development using it]
See:
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and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_Al...

You can download the Google Authenticator app.

These algorithms are known. You can implement it yourself if you wanted to.
The board probably hired him to make this happen.
> It seems like Watson is mostly a really sophisticated algorithm on top of lots of brute force (2880 processors?!). Though I guess it could also be said that humans are just ugly bags of mostly water.

Arguably Ken Jennings is mostly a really sophisticated algorithm on top of lots of brute force (billions of neurons?). And computers are just pretty blocks of mostly silicon. :)
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My favorite quote about this is "beause two bricks float better than one". I no longer know where I heard it first.
I am quite sure they don't use Emacs on Linux ;-)
Merging the stores is probably the best decision (along with the idea of going with WP7) I've heard Nokia make in 10 years.

This is going to solve a HUGE fragmentation issue from an app store perspective. Also, this should simultaneously provide a far great user experience.

I think Microsoft has a winner as far as their mobile OS is concerned, now they just need to work their asses off and deliver the next point release update before August.

That and also make sure they do everything in their power to make the development process uber smooth.
I agree, I highly doubt that the percentage of storage that is non-unique is enough to increase Dropbox's profit margins significantly.

I'm certain they use this and several other techniques such that each user reflects a far less impact on Dropbox's storage than the 50GB bought, but if that's printing money than Amazon would be a first world country by now.
It never occurred to me that you need a lot more processing power to compile code than you do to run the software you're creating

It never occurred to you because it isn't true! You could for example write a trivial raytracer that compiles in seconds and takes hours to render a scene.
It's more like setting the platform on fire to stay warm.

oh... wait...
So... Anyone wants to bet that Elop will be back to Microsoft (or something Microsoft controls) in less than five years?
shouldn't they have disclosed that?
They could make their Meego-based phones incredibly easy - and fun - to develop for!

They could attract developers by doing the one thing that nobody else wants to do: ship the phones with the compiler onboard! :)

This would disrupt things immensely - imagine if, all you had to do to build an app for your phone, was connect to it over a web browser, or so on ..
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> Windows 7 is probably the best piece of software I have ever used

1) Maybe you should use more software (not that W7 is bad, but I wouldn't say it's the best evar)

2) Windows Phone 7 isn't Windows 7, not even close.
It could be that the Nokia execs had already decided that partnering with MSFT was their best bet, and then found the CEO with the best chance of making that work.
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> The biggest problem I have with the Turing test is that many humans can fail it.

This is precisely the reason why I think AI has so much potential.

It doesn't have to be smarter than the smartest human to be of any use. If it's at least as smart and knowledgeable as a fairly dumb or ignorant person, then it could be incredibly useful. What's the use of building a fleet of robot servants if we can't load them with an AI which is at least smart enough to carry out chores, follow orders and communicate about everyday objects. We don't have to load them each with Einstein AI, just Bubba AI would be a big win.
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I was talking about mobile phones, not games. It's superfluous to say that there are many differences, many of which do not play to MS's favor in the phone market.
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I would love it if you added something between full archiving and the basic account.

I want the freetext search, but don't need to be able to access the archived page (except for the equivalent of Google's text cache if the remote page is down).

So yes I want archiving, but I don't need asset archiving for things like the images, css, javascript on the pages. And yes I realise for a lot of hashbang sites this would break, but that's just dandy with me.

I could sign up to the archiving, but with over 1,700 bookmarks I hesitate... will it go and download all of them? I think that's creating a burden on your service so I am not upgrading. I'd even pay the same price, or damn near it, as the full archiving, but I really want to get the fulltext search in a guilt-free way.
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If you're still following.. I just noticed this with some real numbers.

Responding to a question from a journalist, Thodey said Telstra had sold some 400,000 Apple iPhones in the second half of 2010 and registered some 70,000 iPads. New iPhones was 400,000, the CEO said. And if you want to keep going, 290,000-something Android smartphones in the first half as well.

So Androids is definately catching up.

Telstra are the Ex-Govt Monopoly and have an awful lot of land-line customers.. But they have poured a bunch of money into their mobile network in the last 5 years and dropped their prices enough that they are almost price-competive + better coverage.... But it is still the expensive network -- someone like Vodaphone would likely skew cheaper (potentially leaning towards Android some more)
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