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I am afraid they mean it. I think it's about the perception how the mobile phone should be like. Not everyone considers the iPhone+iOS to be the best concept. I personally know people who think that nokia dumbphones are the best mobiles, or that Win 6.5. is currently the best mobile OS, etc.

I don't believe that most of the Nokia people perceive the situation as being surpassed by Apple.
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I've read disturbing things about the goals and techniques of boot camp. I assume what soldiers are subjected to today is at least as effective as that which enabled the Kent State and leaked "Collateral Murder" shootings.
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"We are sophisticated enough to help buyers and sellers in such deals valued at many millions of dollars and flexible ENOUGHT to provide cost-effective help for small business deals as well."

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What is wrong with WP7, except of the lack of apps? Or what is wrong with Microsoft in terms of providing developer tools or marketing support for their products and 3rd party programmers?
Wow...

HBGary was a real piece of work it seems. Well, you become visible when you're sleazy and stupid.

The thing about this stuff is it was proposed to a law firm that worked for B of A.

I assume that the way a major corporation would operate is to never directly deal with "gutter punks" like HBGary but rather to hire someone to hire someone to "do something, I don't want to know what". When HBGary folds, I again assume that another group can be hired by a different law firm that can be hired by B of A, who still won't know anything about it.
You should have told them not to be evil.
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Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2201469

... with much discussion.
Indeed, that was the first thing I listed. In an emergency you should condition yourself to jam on the brakes. That will stop the car, even if the accelerator is running.

However, some people will try to apply the brakes gradually (as you would when coming to a stop normally). And in that case the brakes won't respond as one might expect. If the brakes don't seem to work, push harder until they do.
Have you worked at any large companies and had success with that? I'm used to dealing with people who don't know who wrote the agreement, have given it to thousands of others "without a problem", and treat me like I am a bit odd for actually reading it, let alone trying to change something.
Same here. I'm not a conspiracy nut but let's face it -- it would only take a dozen or so well placed back channel e-mails to get things rolling. Suddenly everyone else is obligated to talk about it because it's the big story. Full echo chamber effect. My guess would be more of a commercially driven agenda though especially for the commercial news media that pays the bills with auto advertising. Throughout the witch hunt I'm sure their ad buys from Toyota didn't suffer at all and they helped secure their long term US interests. Win-win situation.
Haha the last one was great
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In part, this is what we're working on solving at Timetric; the skills gap between people who understand the physical nature of data and people who have the domain knowledge to tell you what it means.
Supercharged, unreliable, unsuccessful sadly.

Other early very high power engines:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_engine - 1941 450bhp to 1966 840bhp, equally unsuccessful

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W125 - 1937 600bhp, championship winner
Yeah, because the electromagnetic field contains energy, which can be converted into other forms. A system's temperature is 'how readily it gives off energy'. It need not have anything to do with particles or speed.
This is much better than the $15k Anybot. I can't figure why they put such a tiny screen on the Anybot. The face on the screen needs to be visible from a distance after all. Ideally the screen should be big enough to fit a face at 1:1 scale. Or was the design goal "one-way" telepresence?
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that's been ripping you limb from limb for the past three-and-a-half years.

Even though Nokia was never really popular in America, they had and still have an incredibly strong presence in other regions - especially Asia which has a robust mobile market.

Sure, their smart phones don't compare to what iOS or Android offers, but there's a ton of people out there who aren't using phones like those.

I carry an iPhone 3GS and friends/family are always ribbing me because my 'smart phone' can't do basic things like send ringtones or songs to others via bluetooth or even contacts via sms.

I'm just saying that there's a whole world of people out there who have a completely different use-case for their mobile phone and Nokia still dominates that market.
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pretty neat/cool .. cant wait :)
For me it's the fact that 9 times out of 10 it just wastes time. I want to do a search for these keywords, I don't want suggestion, I don't want preview, I don't want a selection of related pictures, please get out of my way, thanks.
Thinking Renault engines...

Around that period they had the central display at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Clearly their engine management shop had been bored one day, because they'd written a test programme which enabled them to play tunes on the engine just by revving it, and were showing off for the assembled crowds. It's honestly that fast revving and high pitched that it could do a pretty decent job.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XR7OpM2Ufk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aArSn4IhHI
I think it's simplistic to discount the effect that the bureaucracy, turf wars, and the split-up of the various units as well as trying to push dozens and dozens of different models would have had on the design ethos in the company. It'd say it's more that all these externalities forced the departments to focus on things other than maturation of design to stick around.
The only way you could say Symbian was an abject failure is by comparing it to Android or iOS. Before those two systems came out, Symbian was the best mobile OS that was available.

I agree that Nokia is better at hardware than software, but I wouldn't go so far as to call Symbian a complete failure. It served its purpose at its time and did it well.
[My old N70 with S60 from years ago ran a python interpreter on it. Can iOS do that? :) ]

It's biggest issue was probably fragmentation.
There were too many releases - Symbian 3, 1st Edition, Symbian 2, 3rd Edition etc...
That made it difficult to write software that could target more than a handful of the latest models. And with so many models available, the audience you reached was significantly less.
The most intriguing point is "Why doesn't Storenvy accept other payment modes than Paypal??? "
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Ugh. It's 3:30am EST, and my Nexus was going off downstairs. Over 800 emails so far without so much as a by your leave. Filtered it to a label and turned off till I can investigate tomorrow, goodnight.
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We are currently building support software because we thought that the options did not fit our needs. We'd love to get some more beta testers. http://suplify.me
> ...an abuse of notation, in the same way that people say that Quicksort is O(n lg n) on average.

I think I may have misunderstood what you meant by this. If I have, I apologise, if I haven't...

Talking about the average-case complexity of algorithms with Big-Oh notation is in no way an "abuse" of that notation. If the average time complexity of an algorithm is `O(f(n))`, then its running time averaged over all inputs of size `n` is bounded above (in some sense) by `f(n)`.

I guess that statement doesn't say that the number of comparisons or swaps or "steps" the algorithms must make to complete is `O(n lg n)`. Perhaps that's what you meant.
I was roused from sleep by my Nexus melting by the 800 emails all hitting it at once. No opt-in, fortunately it was downstairs on the coffee table.

I filtered it all to a label. 30K users in the group getting sending messages all at once. What fresh 200-300 emails at once at 3:30am EST. What fresh hell is this? Did an engineer make the entire list global by mistake?
but aren't axioms considered to be self-evident?

usually by observation?
Point up for raising awareness of fiverr.com

Well, I'd never heard of it before, anyway.
A recent report by Comscore stated that: email usage declined among those aged between 12 and 17 by 59%. (http://bit.ly/eSiT93) - perhaps social media will be the answer?

There is of course a function question here as well, i.e. younger people are simply communicating with each other socially (as you note), and so it makes sense to go via facebook.

I think in the work place, email is still needed, as you say it's the only 'anonymous' method of communication. Unless collaborative tools such as group chat, instant messenger, or others, become so ubiquitous that there is no need to have a simple form of direct communication.
"I don't mind people disagreeing with theism, or talking about it. What I don't like is the implicit attitude, which can often be, "you believe in something other than pure hard science, and I don't, so I'm smarter.""

unfortunate, because the usual representation of the believers in media are tea-partiers/creationists etc. or the ones who voted for bush because "he prays and asks god for his decisions, so he's good"

but it could also be because, to become a non-religious person from a religious person requires a _lot_ of reading/searching for answers(evolutionary biology, reading about other religions, cognitive-biases etc)

"But you're probably just too self-righteous to even read this inspiring post"

assertion without proof. ad-hominem. delusional.
How is that “like Bing”? I just signed into Bing to test this and, well, this is how their topbar looks:

http://s.deno.pl/bingbar

If anything, it's Bing's topbar resembling Google Search rather than the other way around. And, mind you, Google started pushing their online profiles[1] some while ago—it was only a matter of time until they integrate it better with their main product.

[1] http://www.google.com/profiles
I like the WP7 UI so I'm looking forward to that combined with Nokia's build quality
I'm, in the UK. My employment contract is quite specific on these things.

The company owns any IP I produce, and I'm forbidden from working on side projects... without permission from my manager. So given permission (in writing) to start a project, it'd then be all mine.

Agreeing these sorts of things prior to spending time/money on your own stuff should avoid most of these legal haggles.
But why? If you went to Uni and learned C/C++, you must have picked up whatever scripting language you had to use very quickly. What would have been the point of spending a Uni semester on it?
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While i like the change, I don't understand the choice for a drop down menu at the right side. Rolling over a button to read you name and email, a link to your profile (which I most probably will not find very useful ) and sign out button (which I want to be super easy to access) seems just adding complexity (both visual and behavioral), without improving anything.

Apart from that, I hope that they will add an option to customize the links on the left side.
> I personally know people who think that nokia dumbphones are the best mobiles

If voice calling is your main and only application, they win hands down. Good sound, easy to use even with one hand and without looking at it, one week use on a single charge...
My university offers degrees in both Comp Sci and Software Eng. Over the course of a 4 year undergraduate masters programme I think we took maybe 3 different modules (where a module is 1/12th of a year).
Can you define what you mean by "the end of email" please. Do you literally mean no use of protocols like smtp, imap and pop? Or do you figuratively mean no use, so a 90%/95%/99% reduction in legitimate (non-spam) use?

It's worth noting that mailing lists could have been replaced by blogs and web-based forums a decade ago, but they were not. Before that, usenet was arguably superior to mailing lists, but it was usenet that died out{1} and mailing lists survived and thrived.

It's worth noting too that though newspapers are being killed off by the internet+tv+radio, they are still around, and will continue to be around for much more than a decade, despite repeated predictions of their imminent demise.

So, even if you can persuade me that e-mail will die out (you haven't), I will remain sceptical that it will happen within 10 years. Certainly not within 5.

{1}: Usenet is still around. Apparently.

P.S. "Email's a standard dating back to the 1970's, but amazingly continues to be widely used..." AM radio dates back even further and continues to be widely used also, despite the long-available superior technology of FM radio.
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Surely in a case which revolves around technology like this it's reasonable to expect the judge to have some technical knowledge? The job of a judge is to interpret the law as it applies to a particular case; if they have no knowledge of the context in which the case has arisen they could very well come up with a bad/nonsense interpretation.
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These days I see lots and lots of tech evangelists particularly from companies like Microsoft, AWS etc. What is general opinion among HNers about this new trend of tech evangelists. To me they are all words, no substance. I am very much skeptical about their impact and ability to promote product and technology for the company - or may be that's just me. Recently I went to a Microsoft workshop, most of technical sessions were simply overshadowed by one technology evangelist, in fact he hacked away the whole workshop. No one from technical team was able to speak out about their experience as this guys was popping every here and there. I was very annoyed. In past, I met several evangelist and one thing which I noticed is they all like talking to an extent where you really want to run away from them. I am not saying it is bad thing, but I am not convinced this is necessary. Why companies like Apple or Google don't have tech evangelist, or do they have?
IE is what's wrong.

Because up until WP7, doing mobile web apps for smart phones meant being able to write standards based code plus some webkit specific CSS for fluff.

But now we got to deal with this frustrating piece of crap that is IE on a mobile platform with significant deployment. Gone are the days where at least in the mobile world you were able to write code and have it work in all browsers with spending hours after hours working around bugs in IE.
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US Companies, including Google involve themselves in politics (both domestic and international) all the time. I think it is a bit silly to say that "tech companies don't want to take political positions".
At my university, Software Engineering is a more theoretical course than CS, with no compulsory programming, and indeed no option for programming in year two, except for a Java module in year one, you do have to build a piece of non-trivial software for your final project though.
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Great, another article pushing the viewpoint that hardware and software doesn't matter, that investment in technology is a waste of time, that what really matters is slick marketing and pretty packaging.

What do they think makes the iPhone battery last more than 20 minutes or an Android app pop up on your phone when you click install on their pc website -- pixie dust?
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You can also work at a high level in CS research without doing any programming.
sorry, decided to give examples instead.

*i had originally asked for examples of phenomena

i don't think i need predicate logic notation to get that :D

the reason i said phenomena-inexplicable was because there are a lot of claims made by religions that were later found to be from other natural causes.

ex. in christianity:

- diseases were supposed to be curses and punishments till the germ theory was discovered

- creation story does not hold with modern evidence

- there are contradictions between biblical incidents and historic records(bethlehem census, great flood, etc.)

- the nature of heaven, hell, souls are supposed to be unanalysable

- without an understanding of astronomy, there are implications that heaven was located above the clouds(angels with wings, looking down from heaven, etc.)

- jesus had conducted exorcisms in the bible, they are considered silly now

so, professing to be religious and accept scientific discoveries at the same time seems difficult..

"What I don't do is condescend, or paint with a brush broad enough to cover everyone in a class of humanity I seem not to have taken the time or effort to understand."

there is a reason the debate _has_ to happen:

- accepting religious opinions as respectable has led to a majority of americans to consider evolution as untrue.

- education policies are being influenced to paint evolution as just-a-theory with undertones that it is a fringe group with a political agenda

- religious people who believe in and look forward to an armageddon have been in charge of a massive number of nuclear warheads

- stem cell research has been set back by almost a decade

- abortion clinic doctors have been shot

- the representative of god on earth has said 'child-molestation is bad, condoms are worse'

- the catholic church has systematically protected child-molesters under them

- the islamic world has become more extremised because the clever american government thought it would be a machiavelli move against the ussr. we know how that turned out

if the result is that people think atheists are condescending, small price to pay if we can get fewer people to blow each other up because their imaginary friend says so.
On another note, storenvy.com is really well-crafted. I just spent an hour browsing the products on the many stores. The UI is really a job well done.
had no concept of how fast orbital velocity is

Umm... what do you mean by that? I consider myself fairly well versed in science, but I certainly can't rattle off the average orbital speed of a GPS satellite.
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great points, it's more figurative, i just needed a catchy title ;)

i think social app communication features are much more usable than email, there's also a linkage between users in social apps that can be leveraged to provide even higher levels of usability: CRM integration with contact management, calendar, customer support, etc.

imagine that your company got rid of email altogether and used something like a facebook app for all communications.

i view facebook and social apps as a communication tool with multiple dimensions as compared to email, a social app being a superset of email. so why carry forward email, other than that it's a legacy standard being used by a lot of users at the moment.

imagine business cards of the future:

Name

Social App ID

there would obviously be some time before this would effectively take hold of the greater amounts of users, but i think that time is soon.

if facebook added an administrative interface and made it multi-tenented, the pitch could be to throw out your exchange server over time. i'm not sure what the worth to their strategy would be in the future to take on enterprise users, but i imagine it's quite valuable.
thanks!

didn't know 'cause this was a while back..
Well... Starting from Android you can make as many as you want. And they don't even have to look like Android - My Nook run Android and looks like a Nook.
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This has been discussed extensively on car forums, and motorcycle forums as well. You can:

- Shut off the engine

- Put it in neutral

- Stand on the brakes (all but the most souped-up aftermarket monsters will have brakes that are stronger than the engine. Please note, STAND ON THEM. If you drag them lightly, you run a higher risk of overheating them, rendering them useless)

- Use the emergency brake

- Use the clutch (if it's a stick)

- Pull all large fuses from fuse box

- Induce a spin

- Drive the side of the car into something like a divider to scrub speed

- Run into the back of another car traveling close to your speed. They will likely slow down, slowing you down.

In short, there's a whole lot of things you can try. People just don't always know very much about driving/cars, or don't think well while panicking.
> would position them at the top of the WP7 hierarchy

This is a mistake many Microsoft partners make. Nobody but Microsoft is at the top of the WP7 hierarchy. If WP7 is a success, Nokia's efforts will be rewarded by lots of competition with more money (because they are already riding the other hit, Android), not relevance.
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I'm sure Job's reality distortion field has won a few million sales, although I do agree that to someone on top of tech, a lot of this evangelism for (often mediocre) products comes off as inane.

That's okay, though. Although we at Hacker News would probably call ourselves enlightened, I hate to say that this stuff is probably marginally swaying people's wallets, which is all these companies seem to care about. (I'd know, I work for one of them)
thanks for adding data points, and one thing i failed to point out is that email is a standard. the standard is what allows different vendors to provide interoperability. so a microsoft exchange server can talk to a mac mail app and mail generated by lotus notes could be stored and processed by gmail.

until a standard is created to say what should be included in the "communication tool to supercede email", you're stuck using email and loosely coupled instances of apps x, y, z.

it would be pretty hard to get a large company to shift off email, perhaps getting employees onto a social platform in conjunction with email will be a nice transition path.

imagine stepping into a new job and on day one getting an email address and a social app ID. i think this could be a big play that could get more and more users off of email, the old way, and onto the new way.
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Also the 747 was originally designed as part of a competition to provide a larger Air Force transport than the C-141. In the event, it lost out to the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy and was re-purposed as a civilian airliner and transport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747
Nobody I know interleves their response when replying. How about an email client that doesn't allow this, like facebook.