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I love startups and the thrill of success. But there is nothing that a successful startup can bring you that is anywhere near the feeling of having the love of your life tell you that she loves you back.
Do you by any chance know Jack Lange? That's the only other time I've ever seen an artifex.org domain.
Ah yes, the old Palm strategy. Once you've let your internal OS completely stagnate, ship Windows Mobile on your phones.
Has anyone tried using video instead of photos and blurbs?
This is kind of a bummer. I was hoping to see an N9 with Meego, and I don't think that's going to happen anymore.
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My prediction FWIW: more lawsuits. This diagram is about to get some more lines- http://infobeautiful2.s3.amazonaws.com/whos_suing_whom.png
This will be interesting in terms of hardware. Windows Phone 7 has some steep system requirements. Will Nokia's existing phones even be able to accommodate it?
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RoR or Python/Django would do. RoR is probably in more use then Python, but Python/Django is a solid technology. PHP is on its way out.
I wonder what this means for Qt, given that the Windows Phone of today runs its apps in a CLR/Silverlight sandbox.
Make that plural in Nokia's case...at least two operating systems. They had little chance of succeeding on their own with such a fragmented ecosystem.
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Has partnering with Microsoft ever worked out well for a failing tech company? I can think of a few examples where it has failed spectacularly.
good bye Meego :(
Nokia already has at least two OS: symbian and meego. I'm not sure if mobline shouldn't be counted as well. As well Nokia has Qt.
Well, I suppose you don't always do the smartest thing when you're standing on a burning platform.
There's the Nokia version too: http://press.nokia.com/2011/02/11/nokia-outlines-new-strateg...

From the Nokia announcement, but not MS: Under the new strategy, MeeGo becomes an open-source, mobile operating system project. MeeGo will place increased emphasis on longer-term market exploration of next-generation devices, platforms and user experiences. Nokia still plans to ship a MeeGo-related product later this year.
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No, unfortunately it's not going to happen. A few days ago Reuters reported that Nokia slashed the first MeeGo device before it even hit production.

My guess is that dropping the project comes as a result of signing this deal with Microsoft. Nokia seems to have opted for Windows Phone instead of MeeGo.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/09/nokia-meego-idUSLD...
Interesting timing. My wife is an electrologist and -- I'm not kidding -- just today leased an office for herself so she can move away from the politics of the spa she's at right now. And she needs a scheduling system exactly like this.

I'll let you know what she thinks.
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There needs to be uniformity in the OS though. I don't think more than 3 can co-exist in the long-term. Users don't want too many options in the OS, but the hardware options is a huge plus.
Well, Palm also had that perpetually in-the-works Linux based update that never seemed to materialize in shipping products...

Which is another similarity to Nokia, come to think of it.
I still hope, that they will release n9 with meego this year. Nokia with Windows phone os doesn't sound right.

This announcement doesn't really come as surprise. IMO it will be success, if Microsoft opens it os to other frameworks.

edit: As we can see, it comes as a bad news to nokia really. Todays pre-mareket share value have droped already by ~8%.
Hey Rhodee, Reed here from Punchd. We shot that video on a Canon EOS Rebel which gave it the great depth of field. My good friend Mike is a photographer, so he set up the shots. Chris did the voice over (he's got a nice tone!), and Niket edited it together and messed with the colors in After Effects.

All in all the shooting took about 20 minutes and the editing an hour or so. Fun little project with a couple friends :)
i think they opened google.com because bing was not good enough to come back to!
RTFA, Google sends a code to your phone.
Hardware ooption is not a huge plus if you see for performance. Why Apple's products are working so smooth is because of the dedicated hardware.
Bye bye maemo ,meego and qt.

You could see that coming from a CEO that comes from MS, Nokia is desperate to not lose their phone position and MS desperate to losing the new desktop as all paradigms sift, losing OS control and people using Office(there was a time everybody used Wordperfect, people started using word as it was ready for windows before Wordperfect).

MS could design phones this way to compete with Apple, and Nokia could use the MS experience in OS.

I don't think is a good idea to partner with MS, companies that do tend to be screwed sooner or later, MS always winning.

Nokia reminds me more and more of SGI,I remember when MS windows NT was their salvation, I wish I'm wrong.
The N8 has a 680MHz ARM, 256 MB Ram and hardware accelerated OpenGL-ES 2.0. If they can write a DirectX driver for the GPU, then that should be good enough.

The really interesting question is if they'll do something interesting enough to differentiate themselves from their field. Given how dull the current lineup of Windows 7 phones is, they might have some real opportunities.
Nokia: Symbian and MeeGo not dead, still shipping this year
It might be also the Scheme manifesto, but in Python its so deep rooted in the community that its practically embedded in the language itself:

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Explicit is better than implicit.

Simple is better than complex.

...
good point. but from the sound of it, this finding too will likely earn a Nobel. we're talking about something which is very likely a subset of what's going to either achieve immortality, or cure/prevent cancer, or do both!
Can you name some spectacular failures after MS partnership?
Yeah, I saw this the other day too, but I was hoping it wasn't all true:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/mobile-it/2011/02/10/nokia-halts...

I was kind of holding out for that to replace my 3GS I guess. I don't really like Symbian, and I was hoping for a solid, well engineered phone with a real keyboard for a change.
Niket here with Punchd.

I'd recommend asking around to see if you have a friend with a DSLR camera that shoots video. With a little bit of practice you can easily get the shots you need to put together a nice video. I think people think it's scarier than it is, and I assure you I am an amateur, at best.

Key idea is to keep the video simple and fluffy as when you start to get specific and detailed it all becomes complicated. Getting the message across should be done in around 30 seconds to capture and fire up a potential audience.

If you have a Mac with iMovie you can easily dump those video files and start messing with it.

Ping me if you'd like any specific information or to bounce off ideas (my favorite thing to do).
Yes, Apple. It worked out well for them when they partnered with Microsoft in '97, whereby they got Office on the Mac and an injection of cash.
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Very interesting that the first response most HN commenters have when confronted with data that Bing provides better search results than Google is to doubt the data.

The very first reaction I have to most studies is to question first the methodology, then the data. Remember that 88.2% of statistics are made up on the spot.
sgi springs immediately to mind. Didn't work out too great form Palm either.
I wouldn't either. Grant McCracken calls it "forced fun" and he's totally right. Zappos reminds me of those lame activities they'd make you do in college dorms or at camp.

http://cultureby.com/2010/01/zappos-and-the-problem-of-force...
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from burning platform to slowly sinking ship. awesome!
If you need to do something else when you're meeting someone, that person can't be that important.

Having coffee is boring. The person across from you will make up for that if they are the one you are seeking. And if they're not, go sky dive - alone!
Actually I was wrong. 2 minutes ago Engadget reported that Nokia has not scrapped MeeGo.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/nokia-meego-not-dead-stil...
Did you notice the price? It is based on the current number of users (multiplied by 0.001). With the price rising like that is should be pretty easy to figure out an upper limit of how much users would be willing to pay for it.
Take a moment to think about how low the morale at Nokia is right now.
Yes, it has.

August 6, 1997: Microsoft invests $150 million in Apple, guaranteeing that they would make Mac Office until 2002. Litigation between the companies was settled, and Apple agreed to make IE the preferred browser on Macs for awhile. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-202143.html

You might still have some kind of a point because Apple didn't adopt a Microsoft operating system their 1997 deal. But you still need to rephrase your statement if you want to be accurate.

Partnerships don't save bad companies. SGI and Palm were running into the ground on their own accord.
i honestly don't think enough people are using gtk or qt.
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What are the sources of excellent geo-location data possessed by Google Maps ? I am wondering that, even with large amount of volunteer work involved, why is OSM data not comparable to theirs in terms of quality ?
And a large screen. Though I like my Pre plus, the screen is a bit too small.
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Well, as they say, a quick death is better than a slow, painful death..
what is your metric for quality?
I think you have all the advice you need here. Life is messy, it's not always the dream you watched in movies growing up. There is a reason musicians and poets alike have written so much about it. People talk on HN about start-ups being life, as with anything in life that gives you great reward there is a great risk. Love is no different. For you to find happiness you need to enjoy the risk of both. How you do this and manage these different aspects of your life depends on how you tell your stories.
does any think meego is really worth anything?

btw. i think i might've sold a meego developer some powder a couple months ago. i'm joking. i really am.
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that title makes one wonder why people don't understand hackers.
But he question is: Is this smarter than peeing your pants to stay warm :)
Yes it's true that people are rightly doubting the methodology.

However if the data showed the exact opposite result (Google having better results than Bing) I think the reaction on HN would be to accept the results at face value. This despite the fact that there is no reason (that I'm aware of) that Google search results should be inherently better than Bing.

In this instance, I think it shows the strength of the Google brand and how the strength of that brand sets users expectations for the quality of the results.
Indeed. A decent version of Android (for example, one without Sense) running on awesome hardware would be nice to have. I've yet to see anybody come even close to Apple in terms of hardware.

And at this point, apps are a pretty big differentiator between iOS/Android and everything else. WP7 is going to struggle in that department.
qt. laughes
microsoft will send it toward the round file of patents.
have you tried silverlight in linux? its meth.
not good for your system.
There was actually concern about the housing prices for a while. There were also many guests on MSM TV shows who talked about the meteoric rise in housing prices. However, what you missed is the fact that the housing bubble lasted for a good decade or so. Bubbles aren't necessarily hidden and unknowable. The problem with bubbles is element of timing. People can spot an abnormal increase in asset prices, but predicting the timing of the reversal is impossible.

After a while, some people thought that the housing price increase was a paradigm shift towards more housing (i.e. a natural phenomenon because the price increases were seemingly sustained.
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Yup. A classic example of minimum viable product (although for phoenix far more than minimum). Phoenix was a breath of fresh air back then. Mozilla was as bloated and cumbersome as Netscape ever was, but Phoenix was fast, streamlined, and a joy to use.

The turning point was when the RSA patent expired and Phoenix could fully support SSL out of the box without any wonky add-ons. At that point there was no longer a good reason not to use Phoenix/Fire{bird,fox} and it started gaining huge amounts of momentum.
its a right decision - MS needs Nokia and mobile sucess as much as Nokia needs MS soft,

both sides are ready to contribute greatly to increase the tablet market share,

hint - creating and editing Excel files and Word files by mobile phones in the future
Yea, I want to make it clear that I'm not blaming MS for the failures of SGI or Palm, just pointing out the symmetry of failing companies grasping at the Microsoft straw and gaining nothing.
Not necessarily - match it up against a facebook account. If the account doesn't have a lot of activity or is very new you get to send fewer messages.
I was going to point that one out too. However, I think its success had more to do with Steve Jobs having returned to the helm than anything else. Perhaps they would have been ok without the MS deal, too.

I think dagw's point mostly stands, with Apple being somewhat of an anomaly.

Thinking out loud: Steve Jobs has always been a "man with a plan", and so his deal with MS was one step along the road to recovery, whereas a lot of the other MS deals have been companies that, lacking a coherent plan, started thrashing around grabbing at anything to stay afloat.
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A sinking ship and burning platform, what could possibly go wrong?
I hope Nokia and Microsoft are not joining forces like two drowning men, each trying to use the other for support.

I was hoping to see an Android phone made by Nokia.
I don't think is a good idea to partner with MS, companies that do tend to be screwed sooner or later, MS always winning.

You do realize that MS stopped "always winning" almost a decade ago?

SGI sank because they couldn't or wouldn't follow the market, which didn't need to pay $30,000 for hardware-accelerated 3D anymore once anyone could just drop in a 3D card into their commodity PCs. Lots of people (Mark Kilgard, for example) left SGI directly for Nvidia and other companies.

Hindsight is 20/20, but the one thing they could have done to save themselves would have been to ship an awesome 3D card for commodity PCs around the time 3dfx was influential (1997). They could have done hardware geometry acceleration two or three years before Nvidia did it with the first GeForce.

Carmack wrote this about SGI's NT workstation in 1999:
http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/carmack/johnc_plan_1999.html...

"I placed an order for a loaded system ($11k) from their web site two months ago. It still hasn't arrived (bad impression), but SGI did bring a loaner system by for us to work with.

The system tower is better than standard pc fare, but I still think Apple's new G3 has the best designed computer case.

...

For single pass, top quality rendering (32 bit framebuffer, 32 bit depth buffer, 32 bit trilinear textures, high res screen), the SGI has a higher fill rate than any other card we have ever tested on a pc, but not by too wide of a margin.

If your application can take advantage of multitexture, a TNT or rage128 will deliver slightly greater fill performance. It is likely that the next speed bump of both chips will be just plain faster than the SGI on all fill modes." (emphasis mine)

Too little, too late.

Edit: It's sad, really. Although I haven't booted it in years, I still have a purple Indigo2 in my closet, so I know exactly what it is that died.
I had worked in Motorola, our own Linux platform had been in the work for years to never see the light (but for some minor products). So Motorola rushed back to Symbian (!) while the market share was already plummeting.

Then came the cuts, which closed all software centers in Europe (mine included), when finally someone saw Android as the last ship.
Before: At least some kind of vision, build around Qt and multiple platforms
After: A little bit of dying Symbian, some open source development around Meego, some Windows phones in distant future

Guess this won't help in selling those Symbian E7 phones to companies.

I have a feeling that Vanjoki knew what was coming and gave his peeing statement in order to have his opinion on the record.
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Wouldn't Android a better choice than Windows Phone?
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They're mad.

Firstly, tying one company struggling to keep afloat to another struggling to take off (in this domain at least) is hardly the obvious ideal strategy.

Secondly, they're about to go onto what, their fourth platform strategy without large-scale wider support? And they expect to retain developer support and internal morale?

Thirdly, coming so soon after the news that Dalvik's porting to their previous preferred platform looked to enable broad compatibility with one of the major software bases to their platform, what's the point in this - they're moving to largely unsupported platform that's less compatible with alternatives than where they were.

This feels like the move of a new top dog who doesn't fully understand the situation but wants to be seen to be doing something, and so has called his old friends. Bad, bad, bad idea.
I am extremely disappointed with the new-fangledness in the newer Google interface changes.

The 'instant' search is just a jarring user experience in the way it does massive unpredictable updates to the screen at every keypress. Even worse is the new image search results screen - mouseover on any image makes the search field lose focus, it even does this when fetching the first page of results, so you have to click the search field again every time you do a search.

Even the suggestion search field they introduced a few years ago was a dubious value proposition - I personally got better value from the standard text field's 'previous entries' than from the suggestions.
For emacs, I use the following:

1. I create a TAGS file with exuberant ctags (not the default etags - note that both have a file called etags, to find out which one you have, issue `etags -v`.).

2. Use the ido-find-file-in-tag-files mentioned here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TextMate Answer 3, mapped to `C-x C-g`.

This might be a bad choice due to C-g, but it's close to C-x C-f, so I prefer that.
Hey folks, an opinion from the cofounder at BluSynergy, the customizable billing provider. Depending on your requirements and your desire to stay focused on your core product:

1. Rolling your own with a gateway like Paypal or Authorize.Net is often the easiest entry point (for US based startups at least), provided your requirements are not too complex. Especially if you are just getting started with an uncertain revenue prediction, there's little justification in trying to take on more sophistication. Do what's easiest for you - sling code or outsource to a SaaS billing provider. Unfortunately, the underwriting process is controlled by the credit card companies and tends to be cumbersome. No shortcuts there.

2. Once you've got a customer base, then you get the feel for the issues. Some examples: Mid-month upgrades/downgrades, chargebacks (customers disputing the charge directly with their credit card issuer), orders expiring, corporate customers wanting to pay by paper check, adding 1 time service charges to monthly bill, house credits or refunds, early termination fees, etc. Then you start thinking stuff like, gee, if I could notify my annual customers in advance I'd reduce a good deal of chargebacks and automate a lot of renewals...and so on... At this point you definitely want to consider either a SaaS billing solution or buying a platform and running it in-house (ya, we do both). And, now that you've got some volume, you'd want to switch CC processors for better rates. Let's hope you can get YOUR data back...

3. If your growth has continued past the above stage, then you want to be able to customize. Typical examples we see: commission and affiliate payouts, master billing (one consolidated corporate bill, a la your corporate telco+internet bill), custom payment retry logic (eg. ACH when paychecks are most likely to hit the bank), customer segmentation tactics (e.g. coupon codes for VIP customers to entice renewals), advanced billing models (eg. peak concurrent usage, or annual averaged billing), blacklisting bad cards, etc. The founders of BluSynergy spent two decades doing this kinda stuff for the big guys. Our specialty is that we designed the system from the ground-up to easily implement this level of customization (often less than a week) while still running in a cost-efficient multi-tenant model. And it's not just for the big guys anymore :)

Now see if any of this applies to your revenue strategy. For many, #1 above is still the best bet if your requirements are simple. There will be a migration effort when you get to stage 2, but at that point it's a "good problem" to tackle.

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Even though public repositories lack a search box, they are still searchable by adding /search?q=$keyword to the url:

https://github.com/ry/node/search?q=runshell
What choice does Nokia has?

1. Choose Android and be delegated to one of the hardware supplier amongst HTC, Samsung etc (not necessary the preferred one).

2. Stick with Symbian, Meego and be slower and further down road (Users don't care about the OS. Just whether it works. I would argue that developing OS internally is just playing catching up with minimal hope of overtaking the others significantly)

3. Try Microsoft and hopes the strengths compliment one another (not-too-bad windows phone 7).

I don't envy Nokia. It's a tough choice. Effectively, they are trying to move into a field just disrupted by Apple and competing on a sustaining basis. Doesn't bode well but what other alternatives do they have?
No, thanks. I'll just continue to treat all people as capable of performing amazing things and accepting them as they develop to whatever extent.