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I heartily agree with you on this point. I was quite suprised to see the lack of enthusiasm on this announcement.

I'm someone thats used a Mac quite extensively over the past year, and i have an iPhone too. Yet, i've just gone back to a Windows machine. Windows 7. Its a damn good OS, and you are right.

I hope they can find a way of bringing that goodness to their mobile platform. Lots of nice little surprises in Windows 7, so im hoping we'll see that in the Mobile OS when it matures a little more.

Everyone said the XBOX was going to be a disaster, and regardless of HOW MS did it, they STILL did it.

MS is perfectly capable of winning when it really, really wants too.

Will many developers seriously considering WP7, just for the ease of migration, and Nokia's logistics; executed properly this COULD be a win win.
Let's see... Start with UMV technology. Add human image recognition systems, natural language processing and speech synthesis, expert system-based medical diagnosis, and, say, a built-in weapons system.

I'll be in my bunker.
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No Qt on windows phones, although Nokia's site still says:

http://developer.qt.nokia.com/faq/answer/is_qt_compatible_wi...

"Is Qt compatible with .NET?

Yes. You can use Qt to create .NET-compatible applications. For details on how to do this, please refer to Using Qt objects in Microsoft .NET in the documentation at http://qt.nokia.com/doc/activeqt.html.
I think I'd just let Nikola Tesla do it for me.
Gtk is to my knowledge the first toolkit one could make a whole UI with, dynamic resizing and all, dynamically (from XML files loaded at runtime), using a graphical editor (Glade), and all of that since at least 2000 (I know I submitted some patches to it back then). No toolkit today replicates the same ease of development. Gtk has many binding to various languages, and is relatively well-documented.

Why has it not been successful? Well IMO because of several reasons: deep dependency on X, making its use on Windows a kludge at best; hostility in the community to making it viable for commercial use (basically, polishing it enough for integration, and willingness to compromise design purity for integration with native widgets), and the horrendous plague that seems to be the bane of many open source products that focus on Linux: how hard it is to compile, the many dependencies, not providing easy to use complete packages for Windows, ... On Linux it's no issue, you've got all dependencies already and otherwise your distro takes care of it. On Window you need(ed?) to download 5+ various packages with different build systems, somehow integrate them (with different build systems) into your build, and if you wanted to use C++ you needed an extra 3 or 4 (for gtkmm); and then the result was still a second-rate citizen on Windows.

Plus there was the senseless bickering between Gnome and KDE (yes yes, competition is healthy, blah - if I had a penny for every hour wasted on that, I'd retire on the spot), the 'GTK = C' FUD, and the lack of people who wanted to go the extra mile of making a produkt rather than a nice proof of concept. The people familiar with it didn't care to make it easier for others, GUI tools were considered to be for 'pussies' and 'VB programmers' and so the self-righteous dogmatist make himself irrelevant by being surpassed by products who didn't think themselves above the average programmer.

I'm still a bit bitter, at the time I was so much cleaner to write GTK application than moc-infested QT code (yes I know things have changed).
Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development
>molecular chemistry is a tough adversary

I hope you're sure the other party doesn't see this. Can't imagine that would go down too well.

That's all I am to you? Amino acid chains?

If obsession with love can be reduced to chemistry, then obsession with business must necessarily be understood similarly, and with a similar inward scepticism.

But yeah. However much you enjoy your work, it's not going to benefit it long term to let it give you tunnel vision. However fulfilling it is, you cannot live a one dimensional life and still be happy forever.
I also find it interesting that a few defunct microsoft webpages (such as http://popfly.com) redirect you directly to bing. Naturally, you'll follow the wikipedia or equivalent link to figure out what's going on.

I doubt this would generate a large amount of click-through data, but it makes you wonder what other tricks they have up their sleeves.
Were you thinking of this:
http://twitter.com/#!/vicgundotra/status/35182523650801664

#feb11 "Two turkeys do not make an Eagle".

From Vic Gundotra.
// Although there is prior art for the saying -- he was the one to apply it to Microkia/Nokisoft
HTC is differentiating quite nicely within the Android ecosystem on the UX layer.
"Why doesn't Anonymous rail against Jihad?"

They do, on a small scale. Some folks create some blasphemous cartoons of Muhammad and post them on imageboards. Some people print them out and post IRL.

Pick anything and you'll probably find a group of people waving the Anon flag and rallying against it.

TLDR answer: It just hasn't got enough traction.
Maybe Nokia is going to make ARM laptops running Windows 8. A laptop with Windows and seriously great battery life could easily be a hit, especially if they get it out before Apple makes an ARM MacBook.

The existing PC manufacturers are all pwned by Intel, so there is room for someone new. (And probably for a startup trying to become the Dell of WARM, for that matter). Note also that both the WARM announcement and this one are big screw-yous to Intel.
HTC.

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Sample size of 40.

Margin of error c. 15%.

Take this with a huge lump of salt.
"As of April 1, Nokia will also boast a new company structure"

I am not sure what to read from that.
Keep in mind it's going to be while until the first Nokia WP7 phones are released, so 1Ghz will probably be pretty standard by then
IE9 won't be available to WindowsXP Users.
Yes, but large projects often need to use recursive makefiles, which are notoriously flaky at detecting what has changed (if anything).
"Nokia and Microsoft enter strategic alliance..."

It's a shame it's not about consumer happiness anymore. Just winning the competition.
I'd say that in the 10 or so years since firefox 1.0, the average computing power and requirements of the firefox user have shifted enough that the goalposts have moved.

Firefox 1.0's USP at a time when browsers were bloated was its lack of bloat. IMO thats less of an issue now.
I personally consider generating Fibonacci sequences a spiffy example of recursion since due to its tree-recursive nature, one step further on top of linear processes generated by factorial-like implementations. For instance, this very fact can be used to study exponential time complexities and serves as an introduction to important concepts like memoization.
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Playing with Nokogiri and IMified
Why don't they use the session nonce instead of double-submit cookies approach to CSRF prevention?
Microsoft has released the IE9 RC yesterday. After seeing the requirements, it is surprising to note that WindowsXP is no longer supported.

Will this cause a mass switch to FF or Chrome?
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When deep blue beat Kasparov, IBM quickly moved to shut down the program. Let's hope it doesn't happen in this case, if Watson wins.
Not just an ex-MS employee -- the former head of Office (and the rest of the business division) who might still hold a truckload of MS stock.
Taxation on things is a normal thing that is allowed to all individual entities within their sphere of control. If you own some item, you can effectively set up any taxation system on the usage of that item that you want. The governmental entity is allowed taxation powers because the people under its authority utilize its public benefits, such as police work, court systems, legislative considerations, and so on.

Likewise control of commons exists on an individual level as well -- if you are near a certain amount of water, you are generally free to own and control it. To the extent that you don't secure and maintain your property, your ownership is a vain deed.

Rearing and teaching of young is a really easy one, commonly given to individuals. Do you think all children should be taken out of individual households and placed in government-run child-rearing centers? That's what this one sounds like, and that is horrifically scary and ridiculous.
Android is for a large deal open source. That would enable Nokia to continue their Meego strategy, along with Qt. They don't need to develop the API and core sets, but can focus on the apps (higher level). That means either laying off a whole bunch of devvers, or moving them to app development.

Also, linux can use some decent developed UI toolkits. Nokia easily can cut a deal with Google for Android store revenue sharing. Especially if Microsoft is in the market, too for alliance candidates.

Choosing Android makes actually quite a lot of sense to me, from a Nokia POV.
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Fixed link: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/activeqt.html

Apparently they integrate Qt with .NET via COM, which AFAIR is not available on Windows phones.
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I'm reminded of the best personal advice ever given by a Physiscist:

"Dear Mrs. Chown, Ignore your son's attempts to teach you physics. Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is. Best wishes, Richard Feynman."
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See my replies here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2203359 . The gist is that people don't really endorse Anonymous's actions, but the actions are unsurprising and generally uninteresting. The interesting part is the psychology and behavior of HBG[F] and its executives, specifically Aaron Barr, so that's what everyone is talking about. The silence shouldn't be taken as an unspoken endorsement of script kiddies.
Also remember that compiling code can use memory. I once had a compilation causing the machine to swap. That took a while to compile.
How can Microsoft send a Nokia asset to the round file of patents? They didn't buy Nokia. Also, the performance of Moonlight says nothing about Windows Phone.
It was inevitable. Personally, I was hoping Nokia would go with Android.

I'm not sure how well this partnership is going to work, but it might take a while to get used to the idea of non-Symbian Nokia's.
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I don't see how the two stores can be merged. The WP7 marketplace only accepts Silverlight/.Net based mobile apps.

Stranglely worded.
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The "hard problem" of consciousness only exists if you start out with a dualist prior. Otherwise it is mysterious in the same way as the non-symmetry of matter and antimatter is mysterious -- it is not explained.

Lightning may look perfectly suitable for scientific investigation now, but it was as much a "hard problem" in other times.
So, what will happen?

1) Qt c++ devs will invest in Visual Studio and learn silverlight/XNA

or

2) Qt c++ devs simply switch to c++ development for iOS + Android
Nokia just made the smartest move
Absolutely. Until you have a minimum viable product, there is no point shelling out money on hardware or inventing languages or writing your own data-store.

Latest case in point being Asana Whig started out writing it's own language but wisely decided it's better to ship first.
Wow, Google partisans need to calm down a bit.

The reduction in Big G's search engine monopoly is good for the market and good for tech in general.
It could just mean that bing maps would use nokia imaging data.
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Are there any greasemonkey gurus out there who could write a script which adds a box for this onto public pages?
Yes, this is confirmation of the demise of meego and qt (in the phone space at least), which is sad and disappointing.

But Nokia is in a very different position to SGi and is doing this deal for different reasons. Nokia urgently needs a decent OS - Symbian is the main reason Nokia has such a weak market position in smartphones. You can debate the merits of WP7 but its better than Symbian.

The next issue is apps and ecosystem. This might not work out, but a Nokia-supported WP7 market place has some chance of reaching critical mass and fighting it out with RIM and HP for third position after itunes and android.
haha the losers are partnering up. Nice move. This was visible from many years ago. Starting from details like how microsoft windows annoys you to install updates or creates pop ups and how slow your machine gets after a while. Also take Nokia's mediocre symbian GUI with no developer/hacker perspective whatsoever on their devices.
I wish Nokia bought Palm when they had the chance.

However I don't find this deal too bad for Nokia, we don't know the exact terms behind it.

Now the smartphone OS market is getting more and more interesting =).
Ask HN: How to deal with first BIG client?
You've set up your business, excited about potential new customers. You pitch to the big hitters, start a dialogue, send them a quote, and all of a sudden they say, to your horror, "Sure". Oh dear.

It's the first & largest project you've ever undertaken since going solo. You're loathed to turn the work down, but you know that this could be a sink or swim moment.

How do you deal with that first big client?

How do you manage their expectations?

Is it wrong to admit you might be out of your depth but still take the job on?

Should you break the job down into smaller parts and create a constant feedback loop?
What happened to MeeGo? Can anyone tell me why Nokia couldn't ship MeeGo phones sooner?

It was in a seemingly-near-finished state a year ago. I thought it was really promising - I even ran the netbook release full-time on my netbook for a while. It was recognisably a linux distro, with a beautifully shiny UI and some convenient social features. Nokia had already shipped several linux devices such as the N900, yet suddenly they become unable to get something out of the door. Does anyone know what really held them up?
It's a parody of vim, pretending to be more hardcore.
I thought neither iOS or Android use C++?
I asked this before to the HN community, but I didn't get much feedback; please share your thoughts. How come domain registrars have not developed this eons ago? [+] Isn't that arguably the most critical gateway for a community of web developers? I humbly ask these questions as an amateur and aficionado without any deployed commercial sites, so maybe the pros in here would beg to differ with my paranoia.

[+] Better yet, why doesn’t some HNer take up launching a security-oriented domain registrar? ;-)
A lens through which any text can be read, any image viewed, any voice heard, and with which one can correspond and converse with any person in any place.
True. I agree that it's one of life's points. However, oftentimes maintaining a relationship can be distracting.
The solution would be to limit reproduction, something we should be considering even with the current population size. China is on the right track I think, if they'd only pursue it with an incentivised system rather than law.

I'd do anything to live forever in any capacity. Even just to watch, how could it ever get boring?
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is just a bunch of people without a leader who hear someone suggest something, hear someone else give instructions, and then do it because they think it sounds smart. It's just like any other bunch of people doing that for any other thing, it doesn't have to be a DDOS or harassment. It could be religion. Some guys hear Muhammad or Buddha speak, think they're pretty smart, and decide to start doing what they say for a while; the group is not the taste-testers, but the devoted followers. Anonymous is the undefined mass; people with leaders in IRC rooms are the individual organizations plucked from an undefined, unorganized mass.

Treating Anonymous as a coherent group with a coherent leader is the same thing as saying "Humanity today DDOSes MasterCard", "I'm publishing a list of humanity's leaders", etc. It's a completely meaningless misnomer; there is no cohesion to humanity whereby one could direct any significant portion of the entirety of humanity, just as there is no cohesion to Anonymous -- it's just a group of people without definition or mission statement, and it is too broad to mean anything.

Heretofore most participants in "Anonymous" raids, etc., have been users of 4chan or similar message boards, but again, that's a very expansive and large group, there is no significant percentage of its users involved in any one attack or following any one leader or chain of command. It, like our previous example of the entirety of humanity, is too broad of a definition to have meaning.

An organization is not an organization until you have leaders and subordinates with definable positions. Before that, it is just a bunch of guys talking about ideas, some liking some, others liking others, and coming and going as they please, some involved in one event under the one marshal and then going to one held by another. That is not an organization, but a bunch of drifting, undecided people. And that's what Anonymous is, too.

You do not have a terrorist or criminal organization just because someone can drop in to a common forum and get a bunch of script kiddies to act as his personal botnet for a single event. The participants are not initiated into his group and they have no obligation, affiliation, responsibility, or position in it, they are just guys who heard an idea, thought it was cool, tried for a while, and moved on.
They might have to start putting decent processors in their phones.

Besides its other problems, I'm sure people wouldn't hate Symbian so much if it was just snappy. Symbian phones just seem to have that quarter-second time constant on everything they do. I'm sure there are architectural reasons, but Nokia haven't helped by putting undercooked processors in all their 'smart' phones.
If the people using IE (whatever version) on Windows XP were unhappy with it and aware of competing browsers, they'd have switched to Firefox or Chrome already.

I'd expect a lot of people using IE on XP are using IE6 (to access intranet sites that break in other browsers), and wouldn't want IE9 even if they could have it. Anyone got any figures to confirm/refute?
C++ is one of the languages blessed by Apple in addition to C, Objective-C, and Javascript.
Everyone thinks their personal pet political viewpoint, cause, issue, or ill-informed rant is important.

If you allow some 'important' off-topic posts, you need to either have an externally-imposed decision on what's important (ie, a moderator who uses their idea of 'important'), or accept that you're going to see a stream of 'important' posts that you don't care about.

As a community maintainer and moderator in the past, it's an issue I've struggled to get people to understand, as they all assumed that their pet issue was important enough that it didn't matter it was off-topic.
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Google is going to be making money from advertising to HP (and everybody else)'s customers anyway, unless they've got alternatives for Youtube, Gmail, Google Nav, Google Ads and Google Search cooking in the labs. This even applies to Apple though they've made tentative steps in some of those areas.
Note for web developers: Browsers on Windows suck at rendering most custom fonts. If you feel that you definitely want to embed your font, at least please check it on Windows first, play with font sizes and positioning and make sure they don't look silly.
Ask HN: When should I raise price for my product?
Dear HN community,
My startup videolla.com needs your advice. We launched in Nov during HN Nov launch pad. I decided to put a minimum price for product - $5/month just to measure interest.

FFD to today. We has like 49 paid customers, around 400 free customers, with 1-2% conversion visitor -> customer(we are still experimenting with homepage layout but that seems to be quite reasonabl number). So site pays for itself(servers, hosting etc) and brings few bucks/month We had zero marketing bugdet/zero press attention and site grows mostly organically(thanks to embeds of existing customers) and viewers becoming customers

So my question - should I experiment with prices at this moment and try to raise them or continue experimenting with project and maybe try buying some traffic with ads?

Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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You are assuming that 'CommanderX' had a clue what he was talking about.
A perfectly reasonable interpretation of those logs simply assumes that 'CommanderX' rather liked the idea that Aaron thought he was some kind of super criminal, and didn't see any reason to deny it.
A second perfectly reasonable interpretation of that conversation is simply that 'CommanderX' thought Aaron was a twat and pretended to be some kind of leader for the 'lulz'

If you are inclined to believe that CommanderX is a criminal mastermind, then the conversation could certainly be interpreted that way. Personally I struggle with the idea that a criminal mastermind would simply reveal himself to anybody who asked him about it.

My own interpretation of that conversation is that CommanderX said what he thought Aaron wanted to hear, and implied things that flattered his own ego.

Which speaks not at all to the actual level of involvement CommanderX may have had in the events that transpired, or his knowledge of them.
The idea of restricting your width to [a number] makes sense for the tiling reasons mentioned by the other commenters.

However, since everyone is shipping widescreen monitors (which I think means UI design should stop making tall toolbars, but I digress), I find that a width of 100 characters suits my code better.
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No, it's from well before that. Vic's quote is right on spot, btw.
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Android now offers the possibility to create entire apps in C++ using the NDK. On iOS you can also use C++.