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Its a great plane. I have flown in all the big jets. The 747 is the best. In a 19 hour flight I would choose it over the new 777.
Since the shorthand expression is for percentages, it implicitly expands to 50/100:50/100 (as 50% = 50/100) , or in more absolute terms, 0.5:0.5 .

While 100/100 expands to 100/100:100/100 , or 1:1 of course.

You might say the ratios are equivalent, but of course, you have ignored the units (if a relationship can have units).
Looks like a good start, but going with MeeGo is a fail in my book. Intel and Nokia should throw their weight behind Android and focus on making the best, fastest Android phone, with better features than anyone else.
The only sufficient ingredient for success is luck. Luck is out of your control so the best you can do is to put yourself in a position that increases your chances of being lucky. That includes surrounding yourself with good people but fundamentally, the best way to be lucky is to keep going and not giving up. Perhaps that doesn't feel quite right because it's not sufficient, you're not guaranteed luck by being determined, but the alternative of saying "be lucky" isn't very meaningful.
It may be the problem is that we end up with too many of these things self-replicating all over the place like rabbits!
Because it's easier than critical thinking?
I started withTXT in 2004. We had a group messaging product, GroupTXT, that was marketed to Fraternities, Sororities, and other university student organizations. The product was fairly successful, but even with the organizations paying healthy monthly fees and some advertising revenue, the messaging costs were eating us alive. At the time we had direct SMS agreements with the major cell carriers. I havent kept up with the industry and with costs, but every time I see a successful SMS messaging company sending millions of messages I always have to wonder how much investment money they are burning through.
Plus they´re also competing with WebOS once HP gets them back in the market, which is arguably a superior product on a technical front.
Sure, but I don't think your complaint is with the book. You can't blame the evidence for the case the prosecutor makes.
Those task killer apps were just idiotic. There were numerous blog posts debunking the need for them, or their utility. Systems that were not being micro-managed performed better than those where the user tried to outsmart the automatic task management.

And, the only complaint I have about copy-paste is how rarely it is available. It works great, when the option is in the menu.
I wondering how long the process took.

And kudos on your site design ... it made me go look at the actual site ... and download the software and now I'm backing up my entire hard drive using bvckup:)

That product name is funny though, I wouldn't know how to direct someone to it verbally other than to say "I'll fb you the link"
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I think, my problem is how to connect to the right one.
Every single person who hears about it on TV or radio.

Or rather, every user who doesn't because the producer can't work out how to pronounce it, so it never goes on the teleprompter.
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I think this is an excellent question. What is brute force anyway, but a perspective of scale? Take any complex system, break it down enough, and it starts to look like brute force.
Probably Nokia should write the emulator of Android and iPhone API? Something like cygwin. That would give them a lot of apps.
It is more like being in a Walmart full of zombies and having all the Walmart employees killing zombies as fast as they can but then when you ask what is up with all the zombies they hand you a shotgun so you can help them by killing the zombies in your immediate vicinity.

On the one hand, in an ideal world there wouldn't be a large and ever growing number of zombies at Walmart, but on the other hand, thanks a million for the shotgun because I'd rather get to killing some zombies myself than whine about the fact that the Walmart employees aren't killing them fast enough while they are eating my brains.
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You look at their roadmap and look at yours.

While Android is doing well there are a LOT more Android phones and competitors. I suspect they went to Google and said, "we need to be the premiere OEM" and Google said, "screw you."

Then they looked at tech roadmap and maybe thought by end of year WP7 looks as good, if not better, than Android. They won't have a phone ready by then anyways, so the fact that WP7 is behind Android now isn't as big of a deal.

And if MS said, you're our premiere partner and we'll even give you a payout on phones sold... then it's a no-brainer.

Based on what MS showed today at MWC, this race tightens up, not spreads out.
I signed up on Quora the other day and spent some time poking around. It appears to be a synergy of Yahoo Answers and the Lake Wobegone Effect.
"They basically want to outsource their OS development."

So ship stock Android, thus outsourcing OS development to Google. I agree with what SwellJoe says, haven't heard any credible explanation of how WP7 allows differentiation that Android wouldn't.
Examples don't mean to help, they were meant to illustrate the point that followed. The ease of pronunciation and the ability to spell the name from its audible form are not all that important in the online context. This is a conjecture, not a fact, but based on what I've seen so far it appears to be a valid one.

Moreover that stumble that your brain does when seeing it for the first time, it makes the name memorable. Compare to something like "Super Backup" - fine, easy flowing name, all clear. A week passes, and what do you remember? Was it a "super" or an "ultra backup"? Now imagine it was called "Duper Backup" - the same thing as with Bvckup, this quirk makes it more memorable and in the end that's what counts.

I have to put a disclaimer here though :) I have rather unconventional views of what makes or breaks the logos and names. I got flamed more than once for these views on Logopond and Typophile, but I still firmly believe that a small quirk in the name goes a long way. See, for example, http://dribbble.com/shots/92904-Puzzle
Point taken, given I haven't read the book I assumed the book made the same conclusion that was being forwarded on this thread.
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Your vision is like a scene out of Wall-E!
<spoiler>This happened on the first episode tonight... Ken Jennings guessed "1920s" and Watson guessed the same thing</spoiler>

Either they ended up not implementing this, or Watson didn't hear him correctly :)
I agree, I drive both in the US and Ireland, and in Ireland once you know the rules of navigating a roundabout it's usually trivial to navigate all roundabouts. Just look at the 3 pics on this page:
http://www.drivingschoolireland.com/roundabouts.html

In the US (at least in the Boston area) it's another matter, and it's almost as if people just don't know what they're doing, and after doing my driving test here I'd believe it. :)
Well, Plan A seems to be hitching their wagon to the richest and most powerful software company in the world who has pledged to give billions of dollars plus rights to customize a modern mobile operating system. So comparatively, Plan B is just sour grapes.
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And the mome raths outgrabe the bloody turtle shell.
> Every single person who hears about it on TV or radio

That's not "practically speaking". If I ever to get a TV coverage, that'd be of TWiT or similar, and I'm sure Leo can manage to pronounce it and follow-up with the URL on the screen.
This feature exists in the software. But only people with administrator rights have permission to view deleted pages.

If you want to see a deleted page you can usually ask an admin. They will generally restore it somewhere where you can see it unless it was deleted for some privacy reason.
Hunny is how 'honey' is spelled in Winnie the Pooh.
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The difference may be who does the differentiation. I think part of Mokia's problem is their developer talent isn't super strong. Them doing significantly dev on Android is a problem. If MS adds support for Nokia functionality on WP7, Nokia can focus on HW quality and drive requirements for MS to build the SW that exploits it.

From what I can tell the negotiations with Google and Nokia went really poorly.
I'm having the same dilemma in trying to decide if I should develop my own internal commenting system for my new site or just go with Disqus.
Why does Watson need so much computing power? I don't know of many NLP algorithms that are so intensive?
And so is HN. Are you OK with that too?
>Who knows? I needed information on Alice ML today, but alas that was not to be.

Are you seriously telling me you sat down with an internet browser and couldn't find any information about that specific programming language? It's far less notable than I assumed in which case (it took <30s to find http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2007/1262/ which suggests to me you're lying).

>Imagine, people who know nothing about a subject telling you weather that subject is important to you!

That's not what is happening - Wikipedia uses a democratic process to determine if something is considered notable by the community. We/They say nothing about whether something is important to you. If something is considered not to be sufficiently notable for Wikipedia that doesn't mean you can't write about it, blog about it, even create your own wiki about it.

>If I happen to be an expert in Korean clam harvesting operations, should I be able to write an article on that? Who the hell cares if you don't personally take an interest in it.

Of course, I'd be interested in that, I'm also interested in obscure programming languages too.

However, if Korean clam harvesting is no different to Japanese clam harvesting, which is more-or-less the same as Chinese clam harvesting, then they should be noted on a general article about clam harvesting you don't need a separate article for each country (given the imaginary constraints I've set) nor do you need a different article on each company that does clam harvesting, each location, each person working in each location, ...

>To your example, it might be of fantastic importance to me to know what are popular breakfast foods in your country or what kinds of logos kids are wearing these days. A page about Breakfast practices or marketing to children then would be fantastically important to me, but maybe not to you.

And there you have it, AFAICT you just argued for my point-of-view.

The point is that it is largely irrelevant what I had for breakfast, what the design on my son's pyjamas are but a general page about breakfast is apposite, a general page about use of cartoons in merchandising is apposite.

Similarly it's not important to list every programming language and variant ever. If it's important to you then you'll find the information in a relevant place that gives fine esoteric information about this specific field.
I think those benefits are overstated. You've still got to make significant changes to the interface if you want it to work well on a touchscreen device.

And is the backend any more portable from regular C++ > MeeGo compared to iPhone, or Java > Android?
Oh, oh yes. Thank you kindly. I was literally about to embark on this very feature. Let's take a closer look...
I found Wikipedia's answer to be of much higher quality (and properly cited).
I got sort of an open question: Is there a platform independent API for development for WP7, iPhone and Android? It'd be great to write for one idealized target and have it run on all three ... or more if they make serious inroads.
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the vast majority of consumers do not use their computer in the way in which IBM intentioned to speak, as a calculator or database

The lesson being that this technology, like computers, holds nearly unlimited potential and yet it's still too early for us to predict quite how its going to be used.

If you ask someone thoroughly steeped in the status quo what it's good for, he's very likely to think of it as an extension of current economic properties. (faster, cheaper, sooner, more custom, etc.) He might even realize its potential to be "disruptive". That's where the Economist article is.

Once you start publicly speculating where the post-disruptive state might settle, then you become a science fiction author.

Will there ever be a point at which an average consumer will need such a steady stream of durable goods that a dedicated 3D printer will become a necessity?

Hang out outside a busy WalMart or Target some Saturday afternoon. There's your steady stream.
Seattle has had some good outcomes. There's some great companies up there and a thriving tech sector. UW Comp Sci is a quality program too. And lastly, there is a sizable amount of VC activity.
What Open Source projects did Apple threaten with lawsuits?
The other (unwritten) upside being that therapy can help with a lot of other problems too... Of course you should openly talk about it. But sometimes an appeal to authority does wonders to get the point across.
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Touche! I always get frustrated upon knowing that the answer is blurred and I go "Ack expertsexchange"
This looks interesting. I wonder if it will have any influence on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month.)

Link: http://www.nanowrimo.org/

On a slightly different note, I did NaNoWriMo this year with a friend. I would have loved a way to quickly give/get live feedback with my writing partner. If there was a community of other writers who also wanted to take part, that would have been incredible.

I suppose that I could have used Google Docs, but something geared towards writers would have been amazing.
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Perhaps there will be a 'Kinkos' for all your 3D printing needs on every street corner sometime in the future. Head down there with your broken dinner plate or your foot measurements to have a custom item printed off as a replacement plate or custom shoe.
The interface is clunky. I don't like how the format is "the farther you are away from the point you started on, the more you accelerate." I prefer to have my mouse cursor stuck to one location, which I can then move around.
> Plan A seems to be hitching their wagon to the richest and most powerful software company in the world

... the same company that has been trying for more than a decade to produce a marginally adequate phone experience and has been consistently failing, with great comedic value, in each and every attempt to challenge whoever is the market leader at a given point. Nokia, who was the leader of this market on more than one occasion, is hitching their wagon to a goldfish who seemingly can't learn from past experience.

Sadly, this Plan B has zero chances of flying. The board is on Elop's side because they are betting Nokia is doomed and the billions Microsoft will inject will give them both time and some added value when they gut the company to sell its parts a couple years from now.

Nokia is gone. We'd better get used to it.
It does make me a little sad that there are companies that are not "revenue focused". It would be a shame if the word "revenue" started getting thrown around with the same disdain as "lifestyle business".
This discussion might be of value to you:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2500716/open-source-comme...

There are also lots of other discussions related to this on SO.

In my opinion: with disqus you get to be lazy. That's fine. I use it on my personal site. I don't think it allows for infinite branching (like on Reddit), but that requires a pretty nifty nosql solution, were you to do it on your own.
Since there is a potential conflict of interest between the work you do for the company and the work of your startup, I would advice you to take a closer look at the terms of the employment agreement as well as the local IP and ownership laws governing corporations and their employees.
Hoping that a corporation might let you of the hook is because what you are doing might be helpful, might not be a good thing to err on.
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An entrepreneurial VC would see this as an opportunity - there's probably a great untapped market for VC's willing to move a few hundred miles east.
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Tell HN: Disagree ≠ Downvote
There's something I've noticed getting progressively more common in recent months, which i think is a Bad Thing (tm): Downvoting when you disagree with someone's opinion.

Downvoting should be used when someone says something which is unconstructive, offensensive or antagonizing (bait).

Opinions which differ from yours, especially about subjective topics such as politics, should be encouraged. It's true that opinions can be unconstructive, offensive and/or antagonizing, so your you do have to use your judgement.

What to do if you don't agree with a comment? Either skip it and move to the next comment, or reply with your own thoughts on the subject. Even if the person is factually wrong, replying with a correction (or upvoting an existing correction) is far more constructive.

As a general rule, if you aren't sure, simply move on.
I think the authors are underestimating the challenges of commercializing and then gaining market share with the MeeGo platform.

First, there is a question of development and time to market. By the time Nokia launches MeeGo and handsets, Android, iOS, and others (WP7, RIM, Palm) will be further entrenched in the market (e.g., market share, brand, hardware partners). Second, there is the fundamental issue that succeeding with MeeGo hinges not only on the OS but also on a thriving application market. Because of the application markets, there are strong network effects with mobile platforms. These network effects make it very difficult for a new platform to break into the space.

To complement investments in MeeGo and WP7 for the smartphone market and Symbian for the feature phone market, Nokia should immediately invest in an Android strategy as a fail-safe. I understand this conflicts with Nokia's historical strategy of controlling both software and hardware, but it's quite possible that Android will eventually emerge as the winner-take-all platform in smartphones, aside from Apple/iOS and several niche platforms. If this were to happen, Nokia's singular bet on MeeGo (or WP7) may destabilize the entire company.

In short, I propose that Nokia pursue a four-pronged strategy, pushing forward with MeeGo, WP7, Symbian, and Android -- Symbian for feature phones, which still account for roughly 80% of the worldwide mobile phone market, and MeeGo, WP7, and Android for the smartphone market. As uncertainty is reduced over time regarding 1) the potential of each of the smartphone platforms and 2) the pace at which geographic markets are shifting away from feature phones to smartphones, Nokia can appropriately adjust its investments. By making investments in each area, and adjusting the relative amounts over time, Nokia can better ensure its survival and prosperity despite the quickly evolving mobile phone market.
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When you think about it, using Windows phone is actually Plan B - and while that horse might be in last place at least it's a horse.

Plan A was to internally develop their own hardware, running their own OS, offering customers items from their own ecosystem.... and they've kinda being fucking that up for the past 3-4 years. Hence Windows Phone Plan B.

So really these nine shareholders are offering Plan C, and their Plan C seems to be essentially going back to Plan A with a promise that this time it'll be different.

If I was an impartial Nokia shareholder I know how I'd be voting.
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Sure, but it's ~37 degrees there now and ~75 in San Francisco. Quality of life is important, too.
Yes, it's called HTML5 and Javascript. (Seriously.)
I should add that in Ireland there are still people who can't navigate roundabouts/traffic circles/rotaries, but I think due to the less dense population it's a bit less of a problem (except for some motorways around Dublin).
It's not 7pm on the West Coast so DONT READ FURTHER if you're still waiting on KABC in Los Angeles to show it.
Your examples should be real life scenarios. Post as a user would about his friend, or a girlfriend. Otherwise, you're not showing the user the value of your application to him. Just how it works.
I wonder if Disqus would promote people to comment or shy them away from it (maybe they don't like disqus for a reason?) Perhaps it makes sense to start with Disqus and if people request it build your own.
Hi aditya, take a look at this presentation for some tips.

http://www.slideshare.net/storymix/lean-startup-meetup

Also, cold calling, twitter, looking for introductions or emailing directly are all possible ways to reach your potential customers. One of the primary ideas of customer development is testing hypothesis. One of these hypothesis is how you plan to reach your customers, if there are customers out there. This is a good time to test that marketing hypothesis as well.

Articulating your message clearly to indicate what the person has to gain from talking to you or what the win for him/her is might be a good idea too.
Interesting that they see outsourcing and distributed development as bureaucratic and inefficient. I wonder if this sentiment is becoming more common in the industry.
They asked me if my last name was really "Gs". I told them yes and didn't hear from them after that.
The Tour of Scala is very succinct. It is basically a list of language features and how they manifest in Scala.

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/104

Each feature has both a description and an example. I became productive very quickly using almost exclusively this tour.
I did a bunch of work with Nokia back when I was working at Orange. We had a project to build push to talk software on Series 60 phones. Besides the idea that push to talk is a horrible idea, my job was to work with Nokia to make sure the software worked properly. We had some lower level software from our hardware provider (Kodiak Networks) and some UI code that we had built ourselves.

As these projects tend to go, things didn't go well. due to various issues in the Nokia closed source software layer there were a number of bugs we (Orange & Kodiak) couldn't fix. We decided to fly to Tampere (one of Nokia's R&D locations) to fix the problem.

Tampere is a lovely place to eat Reindeer. However, not once did I meet an engineer who could get shit done. Not once - Nokia never paired us with a serious developer who could even attempt to fix issues in their code. They surrounded us with product manager wankers and threw in a 22 year old engineer who wasn't able to make much progress debugging the problem. The Kodiak engineer was all ready to attack the problem with a dev board and a JTAG but no one would let us in the lab. What a clusterfck. Apparently a good bit of the S60 development wasn't even done in Tampere (or Finland). I think it might have been done in Japan. I think these sort of issues are what the author of the article alluded to regarding distributed development teams.

Perhaps I only saw a small slice of the Nokia culture. But it was really* bad.

I'm glad the guys behind nokiaplanb.com are passionate about fixing Nokia. Much as I think the M$ alliance is a waste of time, I admire Elop's bold actions. I can't see continued development of MeeGo as useful. What I have seen to date has been unimpressive and late. Additionally -why not just use Android as the base OS and innovate on top of it?