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> Would the other hardware vendors Microsoft has been working with be kicked out, leaving WP7 to run only on Nokia hardware?

Exactly my thought. Even if they are not "kicked out" I can't see how it wouldn't have a huge negative effect on all the other manufacturers of WP7 phones if they perceive it is not a level playing field. They would immediately redouble their Android efforts and drop priority on WP7. To me, adding Nokia but losing HTC, Samsung, LG and Motorola would be a giant net loss. So it doesn't make sense for me on the MS side.

And on the Nokia side, if Nokia goes exclusively WP7 with no fallback options they would seem to be taking an enormous risk - however much anybody likes it WP7 is just not proven yet - it seems bizarre to bet the whole company on something that is unproven and depends totally on another partner, especially one who has been so fickle in the past (eg: Kin).
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I'm referring to WordPress frameworks, like Genesis and Thesis.

I don't like PHP, so I'd prefer not to build one from scratch.
This is a pretty good book (from v1) and v2 looks more complete. I do like the writing in the Dragon Book, but the latest edition missed some things. Like the fact that SSA isn't used extensively is a mistake.

One thing that does appear missing from both books are some topics that should be of more interest... like compiling closures (and while it may only take a second of reflection to think of how to do it... its nice to have a textbook that also details it and any tricky corners that aren't obvious).
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Right, if you have Show Preview panel open.

Some elements depend on the size of your window, which, frankly, I like. I remarked on this because others have found the search not to be where they expect.
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Why does the subscription tell me I've subscribed to SynBioWorld?
The app store version, right click a message, choose either Label or Archive and Label.
The user interface look good. It's like posterious. I ve got this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /nfs/c02/h08/mnt/41076/domains/pen.io/html/functions/common.php on line 346
I use my iPad nearly every day. It's a better experience than my laptop (which I do use literally every day) in several areas:

* reading in bed

* reading long PDFs. This is my primary "work purpose". I read a lot of machine learning books and journal articles in PDF form.

* quick checking of email, when you don't want to sit down for a while

* looking up recipes while cooking

* social media sharing: when friends are over, showing them a new video on youtube, etc
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I think I understand what you are trying to say -- that the wiki is a bad technology solution to the problem. Its because the wiki isn't where the decisions are happening.

However, in most small businesses (and lets face it, theres more SMB then there is large or enterprise customers hands down) the decisions aren't made on a wiki, or even e-mail for that matter. In a company size of 60-70 or less its still way easier just to walk over to their desk and talk it out. Who remembers hearing a conversation ending with "don't forget to put this on the wiki?" This sentiment being true in my own workplace, the wiki is still considered the de-facto documentation on a subject (guess how many pages are up-to-date).

I believe any successful business collaboration tool will fully grasp facilitating interaction in a way that meetings or quick one-on-one's can't. Having technology outpace human interaction when it is humans that ultimately have to fully articulate themselves I think is the largest obstacle.

TL;DR - I think I agree with you, but the real solution is still difficult to solve with technology alone.
FWIW, when I see pen.io I get a penis/penile sort of vibe. Beautifully executed service, though.
Poll: Which 3rd party payment service do you use?
Online payments have always been a thorn in an entrepreneur's side. What does everyone use as a payment service to eliminate PCI Compliance?

I'm only talking about applications that remove PCI requirements, not payment gateways specifically.

What are the best payment services that make the user feel like that aren't leaving the site, but are removed in some way to eliminate PCI compliance?
Braintree (Transparent Redirect Form)
PayPal Express (Buy now buttons)
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I didn't explain it very well.

The point of the anecdote is that the null hypothesis -- that 5-star generals are there basically because somebody "wins" each battle and that a fixed percentage of these will win 5 in a row -- is difficult to distinguish from genuine tactical skill.

That's the point of the article too. We too often attribute to skill what can just as reasonably be luck. Partly because of survivor bias: Zuckerberg et al are the one group out of the hundreds of contenders who succeeded in getting runaway network effects. But if contenders had non-zero chances of success, somebody was bound to succeed. The null hypothesis is that Zuckerberg was just lucky and it is basically not easy to disprove, given that as I said above there's nothing particularly unusual about him or Facebook going into the fight.
How do they see if there is positive feedback? Do they just troll through my personal wall feed? I've heard some of my friends have been periodically seeing this feature as well.
Build it with me might be the one you're thinking of.

http://www.builditwith.me/
I'm actually implementing Refinery for a Rails app I'm doing for a client. It's the best I've seen, and the easiest way to give a client the ability to change their privacy policy and FAQs without paying me. They usually can't afford all the functionality changes they think they need anyways.
First, that is all the vast majority of people do on their desktop computers, yet devices like the iPad are far more convenient and prices about equivalently[1].

Second, that is invariably how a disruptive product is defined. 'I have yet to see a use for 2.5" hard drives beyond certain toy value because the storage space is so limited.'

[1] Of course the iPad is less powerful for those dollars, but we are talking the vast majority of people who have never gotten their CPU beyond 10% utilization except when playing a movie with Flash.
Personally, I think hockey is a great outlet for developers (being one that plays of course). It is physically and mentally taxing, but most of all it requires teamwork; I can't think of anything that matches better. Sometimes you square off with someone on the ice and that's where it stays. When it does happen, it's far more raw than any staged combat -- I'll take that rush any day. Plus, you get a solid workout in the meantime!
For those who are new to Bitcoin and would like to learn more:

Bitcoin FAQ - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ

Bitcoin Wiki - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page

How Bitcoin Works - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_bitcoin_works

Installing Bitcoin - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getting_started

HowTo Mining Bitcoin: Fedora 14: http://bit.ly/fb54ye and Ubuntu: http://bit.ly/ewVzhu

The Bitcoin Faucet (free bitcoins) - https://freebitcoins.appspot.com

Buying bitcoins - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Buying_bitcoins

Bitcoin 6-Month Price Chart - http://bit.ly/hzVKpq

Bitcoin Community Portal - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin:Community_portal

Recent Posts here on the forum - http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?action=recent
I read the wiki on BitCoin and I still don't understand how the BitCoin forex market is made. Usually currencies are based on national GDP and that sort of thing, but I haven't the faintest as to what controls the strength of this currency. Can someone enlighten me?
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Is there a correlation between "quality of work" and "hours [...] put in"?
It gets to me too. It's what happens when a non-programmer uses programming terminology to describe something. The goal is to confuse us, and make us think "what am I missing here?".
I've used refinery for one of my sites and it is fine - but mind you, it's a VERY basic site with VERY basic needs.

This will boil down to more about what's the right tool for the right job, and you've not given enough details to answer that question. A custom theme is DEFINITELY not a reason to switch.

I would suggest that Refinery is great for very basic needs, but the ecosystem is nothing even close to what WordPress has to offer.

Refinery is well written - and great code to review if you're learning rails as described. You can find many more rails apps from which to learn too.

You'll need to search HN for CMS && Rails - just a day or two ago I saw something related to a new rails CMS but didn't follow it. In your exploratory phase, it might be worth reviewing - as I went to their home page and read briefly about the solution and it "sounded" good.

EDIT: Here's the one I read about a few days ago to save you the search: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189943
I'm with you on that, I expect the probability of 'drunks tied together' falling down to increase following the square-cube law.

I have a similar theory that the reason female washrooms always seem to have too few stalls is because their is a square-law going on. Ever notice how when your wife/girlfriend/friend goes to the washroom on their own they take roughly the same time as a guy, but when they go with their friend they easily take double the time it would for two guys, even assuming only one stall available. This is my reasoning on why buildings increase the number of washrooms rather than simply expanding on the one despite the extra washrooms usually being in inconvenient locations.

I think somewhere some architect built a banquet hall with a 100 stall female washroom and at a function all the women knew each other, meaning they spent like two-weeks in the washroom and resorted to cannibalism.
I use MaxCDN and will use it for this project as well.
Anyone want to offer some insight into what a bitcoin is?

(Sorry for my ignorance. I tried looking it up, can't seem to understand what it really is.)
What Google TV revolution? I developed a web app for the GTV Logitech box and it was absolutely horrible. I'm talking about both the hardware and the software.
I'm actually mildly offended that they're charging this much for what appears to be some basic research.

More ironic yet, they're asking people to pay $15-30 for information about accessing publicly available data.
Better organization possibly, ... design not so much.
This is definitely one of the sites I was thinking of. Thanks!
I've seen this strategy before for iPhone apps, and I'm still not sure I completely understand it - for instance, RunKeeper Pro was free for the month of January. In your case, is it to push sales of the Gaia GPS?

Thanks in advance for any info you might want to share.
thank you. i still learn english =)
price of bitcoins depends on amount of bitcoins in circulation and number of people using it.
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I think the important thing to focus on when starting out is getting a product launched and generating value, hopefully value which someone out there can attach a monetary value to.

Companies and accounts, while they are important, should only come as a second priority (or even lower, depending on your situation)

I would recommend getting rid of all the unnecessary burden and focusing on value.

I'm not sure how complex it is to dissolve companies in the US, but in UK it is fairly straight forward for a small company. Naturally, things get pretty complex if you've been established and active for a while.
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have you read the blog on Technical Analysis for bitcoin? You might find some good info there:
http://mtgox.com/blog
online currency which is not controlled by one issuing center but is being "generated" by all members of p2p network. this currency has limit on number of coins in circulation.
fight club = hockey with padding & helmet no? :]
"The next six months are going to set the foundation for the future of personal computing."

Gruber needs to make the leap and become a political talking-head on cable news already.

Unleashing lines like that without a hint of sarcasm or irony? You can't teach that, folks, that's god given.
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Security Now on TWIT tv covered Bitcoin today. Steve Gibson does a pretty decent job describing it. http://twit.tv/sn287 Bitcoin coverage is from 0:41:25 to the end of the podcast.
I'm more confused than when I started. I understand the concept, but not the ecosystem or money supply... or exchange rate.
So I don't have to reply individually to all replies, I'm convinced to give Sparrow a go. I've never felt at a loss in Apple Mail, but I'm always willing to give a new product the chance to win me over.
likewise :)
Because they will still get revenue from impatient people like me who impulse buy it due to the fact that there isn't a non-mac-store copy available. ;)
OK, I understand how they're created and how many there are. But why?
Find people who can execute your ideas (or part there of) for you. Think of your time as a finite resource, which it is.

You have two options:

1. Do less of your ideas by focusing on what is most important.

2. Use someone else time

Not everyone can be a specialist at everything. Know what you are good at then consider outsourcing what you are not so good at to someone who is better than you. They will do a better job and most likely get the job done faster too.

Though this is assuming your ideas are worth pursuing.

EDIT: Remember you don't only have to outsource things such as programming or graphic design. What about things such as book keeping or house keeping.
I think I read somewhere that the value is derived from the amount of electricity and hardware required to mine for a bitcoin.
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I loved my 770. Still have it in a box somewhere. It had a great browser for its time and made a good ebook reader. Vastly foreshadowed my use of an iPhone today. That's all I used it for though and at some point I shelved it.
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The idea is that it's not under any entity's control, and the amount of currency grows in a predictable (and decreasing) way. This should prevent the crazy inflation we've seen occur with normal currency where the government can always just print more.
We've been on convore for a few weeks and for certain things it is starting to replace HN for me. There's generally enough high-quality HN-caliber folks to have a quick and intelligent discussion about MongoDB on AWS or whatever, something I always wanted #startups on IRC to be.

Careful though: could be addictive as hell. ;)
Absolutely. "Oh, I need <insert obscure file> to compile this?" apt-get and 15 seconds later, I'm good to go.
Not really, but to make MORE bitcoins yourself you would need to expend a fair amount computing power that chews up a fair amount of electricity. Here's a chart showing that possibly as the price rises, the amount of computing power (and thus electricity) rises to match. http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=2399.msg42269#msg...
Well count yourself wrong: http://www.amazon.com/Fingerworks-IGESTURENUMPAD-iGesture-Pa...

That thing even let you switch between apps with gestures.

The iPod scroll wheel isn't an Apple paradigm either; jog dials for menu selection existed years before the iPod. I remember seeing it on the minidisc recorder in our school's music department.
It's a common case in PHP, but might have less to do with the language's inelegance than the size of the app. I doubt a comparable CMS in Python/Ruby/etc, with a similar number of contributors and plugins developed over 8 years would really be much better.

(Rails/Django might be a different case, due to the benefits of having an MVC framework as base. But these exist in PHP as well)
Intel is pretty heavily involved in MeeGo, an open source operating system targeting all sorts of post-PC environments.
Wow. The value has roughly 4x-ed since I was looking at bitcoin for the first time a couple months ago.

Maybe it is worth it to implement my idea of writing something that tries to get free cycles out of EC2 Spot instances by predicting when the price will rise and spinning up instances before it does. (They don't charge you for fractional hours if they kill you due to a price increase.)

EDIT: I think it's actually gotten a little less favorable to generate bitcoins. My cheap VPS peaks at 1M hashes/sec, which according to http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php used to mean it would take around 250 days to generate a block, as I recall. Now, the value of a block has 4xed, but the average time to generate a block at 1M hps is now 1300 days, which is more than 5x as long.
Female washrooms also have queueing inefficiencies compared to male washrooms. Women need a stall no matter what, men only need a stall in some cases and a urinal for other cases. And urinals have much higher throughput.
Does this mean that people are actually paying for bitcoins or that, based in bitcoin's own systems they are worth more than $1?
The intent is, in the end, to increase sales of our paid app(s). We also do have a Gaia GPS Lite app, but we wanted to have a completely free, non-ad-supported, non-lite restricted app that lots of other companies are actually charging for.

There are many paid analogs to Offline Topo Maps.
But it wasn't really at the time. That's what's interesting.
I do agree with the buzzword comment, but her pattern, however it is named, is a good one. We have been using at uShip.com for about 20 months.

It is also worth noting that facebook contracted her to help them reduce their out-of-control CSS. I don't remember her exact numbers, but I know she cut down the size down by >50%
I think it's the exchange rate - you can buy 1 bitcoin for $1.
Thanks for the feedback; we're aiming for a "this is what people think of me" site. At first most people seem to be using it for joke purposes (mess with their friends), but a longer-lasting goal is more a "wikipedia for people" that is sourced from friends.
Would be cool to add a grouping by hashtag function.

So I choose the page name for my first entry to be Test123, and I also add hashtag #StartupPosts

Then later I make an entry called BlahBlah1 and hashtag #StartupPosts , it groups the two together. Then users can search by Hashtags to find posts.

Also, common hash tags would allow people to search content from multiple users. For example #Religion would have a bunch of religion based posts, from different users etc.
Personally, I find that... unlikely. Of course, that's a market I know nothing about, so I could very well be wrong. It doesn't really change my argument, though. s/desktop/consumer hardware/g and you get the same meaning. It's the mass market that makes things cheap, and if you can cram enough power in to a tablet CPU that it can replace the desktop, you can bet that us server folks will start using those CPUs (maybe modified with ecc support in the ram/cache) for our own applications

The real difference for us server folk is that tablet CPUs are always going to be behind the curve in terms of raw power. Likely, that will result in server boards accelerating further in to the 'massively multicore' direction they are going now. Which is okay with me; 1024 chickens, for what I do, actually work better than four strong oxen.
CPU mining produces a tiny fraction of the level that GPU mining does. Even on Amazon's GPU clusters, it is a money loser: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1793.0 If you got the GPU hardware, though, it can be worth it to mine! Read this Twitter stream: http://twitter.com/bitcoinminer
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A drop in email use is no biggie. If it's just about communication, people will IM, facebook message, tweet, SMS, whatever. No biggie. But email isn't just about communication; it's also about identity. And as far as that aspect, email will never go away. At least, I believe, not in my lifetime.

To put it simply, as long as you need an email address to sign up for Facebook, email will not go away.
That's not even a touchscreen. It's a trackpad with multitouch gestures designed for use with a desktop-based GUI on a PC. How is that equivalent to the iOS UI paradigm? That's like saying a mouse is equivalent to a Xerox Alto.
I'd prefer to call it the new set top box revolution: Roku, Boxxee, Apple TV, Google TV.

Still, they aren't catching on, and I can't tell if it's because of Netflix's ability to be everywhere, or if it's the cable networks blocking the momentum. I suspect it's a bit of both.
Love the idea. I was thinking of something similar - my implementation was a bit different but I like the idea of hashtags.
A gentleman's agreement between a certain faction of econ-crypto-tinfoil-hat-botnet nerds to assign trade value to the wastage of increasingly large amounts of electricity.
Ecosystem? How about the Payment portion of the ecosystem ... let's take a "competitor", PayPal, for example. When you send $100 to a business using your Paypal, the recipient gets $97, or less. With bitcoin, when you send $100, the recipient gets $100 (at least until fees are necessary ... but even when that starts being necessary the fees should be just a FRACTION of what Visa / MC / PayPal / etc. take.)
All of the above absolutely screams BULLSHIT harder than anything I've ever read before.
Given we've already had a few different iPhones, if the rules are different shouldn't we know already?
This article makes illogical conclusions.

Here is the primary source:
http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/1/W...

The chart in the original post has in its title "Web-based e-mail". That chart represents the amount of time spent using web-based e-mail. Not the number of e-mails sent or received on web clients. Not e-mail app usage. And not mobile usage.

Mobile e-mail usage amongst teens has gone up 40%. Isn't that a more likely reason for the decline in web-based e-mail that an unquantified Facebook influence?
There really isn't anything outside of HTML, or perhaps Squarespace?

I'd love to find something in the middle.
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Is that before or after Geocities?
you are missing the xbox.
Hi, I'm on the Refinery CMS core team. What is the URL for your WordPress site? That will help us let you know if you should use Refinery :-)
That wasn't always the case. There was a time before I was born where you either had a phone through Ma Bell or you didn't have a phone.
iPhone 3G has an ARM11 620 MHz processor (underclocked to 412 MHz). I'm not sure what a Samsung S is (Galaxy S? Nexus S?), but if you are referring to a Galaxy S, the Galaxy S is quite a bit faster.
Except I think one of their USPs is that they have a desktop app
http://bluerize.com

Mostly need a better way to handle media, show schedules, and build a better design template. Also plan on adding some community related features.
For web design/mockup work, Fireworks is way more suitable than Photoshop. It's also a lot cheaper.
This is still wrong, since coin flips are independent events, and events that are totally independent can't affect each other's probability. I understand your reasoning, but it is flawed.