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> Android has more power (and now equal market share) because
> of its underlying OS tools are Free Software.

Uhm? Xcode is free, and it compiles my iOS apps with GCC… go figure. And somewhere there is LLVM in the works, and Apple supposedly had some say in making it happen. And the there is WebKit somewhere in the picture.

> An iPhone out of the box can't do very much, you add apps to
> get more functionality.

Android does everything without apps? Interesting.

> meaning more apps, more advanced apps, and easier
> proliferation of those apps and features across different
> hardware.

Last I heard there was no shortage in quality apps for iOS. How far is iPhone apps market lagging behind that of Android?
How about possibility for developers to sell apps on Android market compared to that of App Store? Last I checked I still could not neither sell nor buy apps on AM in my country.

Are you really thinking that Android market share is equal to iOS because it is open? Not because there are more than one manufacturer and more than three devices they make with android?

How open is Android when it gets to under control of carriers? Where do you get source code for Google navigation app, or Google Voice?
Good hackers like to look at data, and there's none that indicates whether these people upvoting the random off-topic stuff are actually good hackers or something else.
"Perl is an amazing programming language. And, with its growing worldwide re-popularization"

Have I missed something? I'd kinda like this to be true, Perl is still my go-to language when I need to hack something together - not because I think it's necessarily "the best" language to do most jobs, but because I know it's "the best" language for _me_...

Has everybody _else_ figured that out too? ;-)
And even if they paid more back thant the university invested, it still has not to do anything with education. It is then just a part-time money making scheme to keep the university alive. Since such investments into the sports business do not have anything to do with the core business of the university, education, they could they could easily invest into other kinds of non-educational but profitable businesses like, for example, porn. It then also means that universities can obviously not survive financially just by doing their core business, i.e. by offering educational and research services and _have_ to invest into more profitable but completely non-intellectual endeavours.
San Francisco Chronicle jumps on the "tech bubble" bandwagon
While I'm morally completely against Sony's point of view, I'm not sure if there's much that can be done legally. Besides that, I'm a bit unsure about donating to a guy who does not seem to realize what kind of mess he's in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iUvuaChDEg
Post it to HN...

(It worked for me, even though I'm pretty sure you aren't going to target Sydney Australia in your MVP...)
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also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Gang_incident
> There used to be a time when Left-leaning people knew some history.

Everyone tends to view history from an angle that supports their preconceptions. You don't seem to be any exception.

> Terrible as the worker conditions might have been at the dawn of the Industrial Age, they were a vast improvement compared to the past.

How are you defining worker conditions?

A family with a small plot in the countryside could not occupy their full time with cultivating the land. If you travel throughout the deep countryside of countries like Cambodia, Vietnam, China and the poorer parts of Thailand like Isaan, you still see much evidence of this today.

People moved to the cities because they could make more money. It's that simple. In no way were working conditions an improvement if you care about hours, health and safety. The ready availability of jobs for unskilled labor also created perverse incentives for parents to send their children to work at the factories. That was true in late 18th and early 19th century Europe, and it is still true today in the poorer emerging economies.
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It probably happens all the time and you are just wasting your time even thinking about it.
Agreed. I'm still so upset about the Minidisc. I picture the engineers making this wonderful product and the legal team just crushing them over and over, making them cripple their own beautiful creation. Very sad. :(
At one point this operational oomph was Dell's strongest point with which they crushed the competition. Until everybody imitated them, which they couldn't prevent because they were in the totally commoditized PC market anyway.
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I've never quite understood the anti-TDD attitude around here, but an experienced developer and coach such as Mr. Markham being so confused about the scope to which TDD/BDD is applied is eye-opening.

The kinder gentlemen above have explained why the parent is fundamentally incorrect.
Care to eloborate how the Brazilian dating market differs from the European? I would be very interested to know more.
Facts don't matter. This is a new article of faith for Apple fans. Some Apple commentators still think that all Android phones cost the same as the iPhone because of Apple's magical supply chain. In reality, the competitors are delivering more raw hardware, at a lower price than Apple, mostly via building from generic, mass-produced, commodity parts. Clearly the same is true in tablets.

Ironically Apple's true advantage, that it can deliver a better end-user experience per unit of hardware power, by clever holistic hardware/software/product/ecosystem design is pretty much the opposite of this new theory, and Apple increasingly finds itself in a tech arms race that it doesn't want to be in. It wouldn't surpise me if Apple conceded the high-end hardware in both tablets and phones this year to better pad its margins on devices that are expensive yet middling in raw power, instead focussing on user experience issues like battery life.
During the Unix Wars, the industry lost about a decade of progress on BSD and SysV, entombed in proprietary forks owned by failing vendors. I don't believe it was a coincidence that a rough GPL kernel built on the GNU tools quickly surpassed the others, because all the work became part of a commons that reliably benefits all its users.

> give you all the freedoms to do as you like with my code

The industry has a bad habit of leaving end users at our mercy. I feel they deserve a place in that sentence, and that's why my donated work only goes to GPL projects.
If I understand it right... (I probably don't) Aren't this sort of vertical restraints anti-competitive? Could someone please explain me how they locked competition and didn't hit any sort of antitrust laws?
Have you checked out qt-components?
http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/09/10/building-the-future-rein...
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"I'm extremely uneasy reading things that make any individual such an icon...Please can we let this personality cult dissipate..."

Personality cults are much more important than you realise. The post-modernist approach seems to be to downplay the significance of individual visionaries in favour of diffuse accolades attributed to the group or larger corpus. It's nonsense.

Shakespeare was an individual (not a nebulous, anonymous, amorphous collective) of unique literary gifts. Jobs is a design and technological wizard who single-handedly righted the ship. Tim Cook is a process engineering and business operations mastermind of the like that has never been seen since Carnegie. Ives' industrial design methodologies will blaze the path for decades to come.
I think the problem of Lisp is, that it's very powerful and very dynamic. As long you're working alone, that's not that much of an issue, but with more developers you need to add more security nets, without the aid of a powerful type system.

Most people love dynamic typing, because they hate the static typing of languages like C++ or Java. Powerful languages also need a powerful type system, that the developer can fully express his intentions, with the aid of a compiler validating them. Mainstream languages should start looking at type systems of languages like Haskell.
I recently co-organized http://hackitaly.org and it was a great success mainly due to:

- focus on a set of predefined APIs, which key developers from the relating companies present in the room

- a shitload of prizes from those companies for the best projects (each company decided who to give the prizes to)

- free breakfast/lunch/dinner

- redbull

- huge room with tables of 6 people

- no ideas pitching, just coding
Samsung designs and builds chips (the A4 with another name basically), AMOLED screens, RAM, flash, chassis and OS (Bada) for some of its smartphones. Probably even more so for its dumbphones. I'm guessing Nokia is also more "vertical" than Apple. And that's just immediate rivals in this industry, I'm sure there's better examples if you only limit it to "in the world".
Commentary:

http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2011/02/boy-without-cerebel...
I think really good high-level documentation would be a good place to start here. If someone looks at your code and immediately says "wtf", it seems like it would be good form to point them to a great piece of documentation. Without that, it seems unreasonable to ask your colleagues to dive into something well outside what they're used to seeing in that code base.
If you were in my shoes, and knew the company, what would you do?

What would I do? Not a damn thing.

It's not your job to right every injustice in the world; and it's questionable if there's any injustice here in the first place. Ok, she lied on her resume... big deal, getting a job is one thing, but keeping it is about performance. If she - in the end - can DO the job she was hired to do, does the lying on the resume bit really hurt anything? Not that I'm advocating lying, I'm just saying that "what's done is done" and that it's not your place to get involved.
Yeah, I was going to say, look at Toyota. They pioneered a lot of this stuff and are still at it.
I'm a poor college student with no PS3, yet I donated. It's up to the court to decide this war but the armies should be equal.
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People will pay without doubt $600 for a commercial product like Office but have a lot of problems to contribute with someone making software for him for free.

Additionally, corporations (which is where most of the money is in software) can't donate money. They have no problems paying $600 for a copy of MS Word (meh, it's deductible), but the managers/accountants would pitch a fit if you donated $6 of corporate money to whatever the currently popular OSS knockoff of Word is.
Have you considered that it might be illegal to tell them? There are laws that prevent other companies from giving most information to a hiring company unless the applicant has listen a person as a reference, and then only that person can give more info.

I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me this is really risky for you and doesn't provide any benefit other than revenge.
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There clearly seems to be an agenda with this post (and certainly in some of the comments). My question is, why would you make THIS your agenda?

Clearly there is a benefit to Universities having athletics. As other commenters have stated, this mostly shows itself in alumni donations, alumni engagement, and alumni pride.

Other reason probably have to do with the fact that when recruiting 18 year old kids to pursue a 4 year course of study it may be helpful to select individuals that have show the ability to focus on something to a level of success. It takes a lot of effort to be a collegiate level athlete in anything. My guess is that this generally and consistently translates to the ability to succeed in academics and life in general. When your 18 you may not have had a whole lot of chances to apply your self to anything. Just something gets you halfway there.

At least 6 US presidents have played athletics for a university.(random tidbit)

I didn't play. I received an academic scholarship for making an awesome grade on a standardized test that I paid a bunch of money to prep for. Yeah me. At the time I thought they gave it to me because I did awesome on the test. 15 years later I look back realize that it was the fact that I did the focused work to succeed that they were more interested in.

Beyond the actual contribution of athletics to the University ecosystem, why do we have to live in a world that is so small that we have to make a decision one way or another? Who peed in your cheerios? Who is hurt by college athletics? Certainly there are some issues around Football Concussions at the moment, but that is addressable outside of 'Lets get rid of sports because you don't have to study'.
Yeap, that's exactly it...
I don't get it. I suspect it doesn't work on Chrome/Win7 because there's a blank spot on the page, and I don't see anything that shows time, no matter what I click on.
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The MeFi thread on this a few days ago had some good content, including the abstract from a study on just how drastically housing the homeless and/or alcoholic reduces overall costs to society

http://www.metafilter.com/100658/Everyone-is-going-to-keep-d...

I still don't know how I feel about it, though. Just sad rather than strongly for or against.
"Perhaps he/she is a non-native speaker and that's adding to the trouble?"
- that's a red herring.
I couldn't finish it.
gotcha, your post was filled with so much genuine enthusiasm that I was confused :)
In a way, their employees have already decided the matter. They looked at the founder risk/effort/reward and decided being an employee is a better deal.

Of course, founders also looked at it and decided being a founder is a better deal.

So, everybody's happy and all's right with the world.
"I'm waiting for the day when someone comes up with a handicap for programmers so that we can all write code with the same ability as the least intelligent and least experienced members of our teams."

Java? ;-)
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Meta: That would be this post:

http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2006...

Which I think has been posted on HN before, Ron Garret's popped up a few times here, but it's still a great story.
"Perl is an amazing programming language. And, with its growing worldwide re-popularization"

Just because this guy says it is so, doesn't make it is so. Tell me 1 metric that tells me definitively Perl is coming back. If this guy told me Perl is never going away, I'd believe him, but when he told me Perl is coming back, with no data to back it up but his ass, and use that as an excuse to brain-wrap the next generation of programmers to think in an alien language that looks like comic characters cursing with $_@qw()<>$@{}*&lc()~>>>$.$/$<$:, I'd brand it as a trash.
As cliche as it may sound, the key to America's success is the "American Dream." As long as the dream is alive, the US will be OK. My parents immigrated in 1992 with 2 small kids, little to no English and no money. Fast forward to today- they own a business, 3 homes, have put both kids through undergrad (I've gone on to complete a masters) and have achieved a fairly comfortable upper middle class lifestyle.

Why am I telling you this? As long as "the little guy" believes that if you're intelligent and willing to work hard, you can achieve great things in America (in many places around the world this is not always the case), this country has a future. I for one, believe in the American dream and am willing to work hard to live it and preserve it for generations to come.
I just told you I was not trying to be literal. I used the term because the assumption is that HN is for good hackers in the sense that it is employed in the guidelines, intellectually curious people. Obviously this is seriously bugging you. Would you be happy if I remove the term?

As far as the article being off-topic.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
"Uhm? Xcode is free, and it compiles my iOS apps with GCC… go figure. And somewhere there is LLVM in the works, and Apple supposedly had some say in making it happen. And the there is WebKit somewhere in the picture."

Xcode is gratis, not Free Software (i.e. not GPL, not X11, not CC, nor BSD-style licensed), Webkit is Free Software, but Android uses it as well.

"Android does everything without apps? Interesting."

I never said Android does everything without apps, Android is more or less as functional out of the box as an iPhone. I made a point that because more of Android's OS tools are Free Software that any app developed on one Android device by vendor A can easily be used on another device by vendor B. Easier proliferation of apps is made possible because of the partial liberation of the Android OS.

"Last I heard there was no shortage in quality apps for iOS."

Thaaaat is true.

"How far is iPhone apps market lagging behind that of Android?"

iPhone still has more apps I believe, though some complain that there are too many to find a suitable app at times.

"How about possibility for developers to sell apps on Android market compared to that of App Store? Last I checked I still could not neither sell nor buy apps on AM in my country."

I don't know how the Android Market works, but if a country limitation is in place I would assume that either the carrier is responsible or that your country is banned just like some countries are banned from buying and selling apps on the iPhone App Store as well.

"Are you really thinking that Android market share is equal to iOS because it is open? Not because there are more than one manufacturer and more than three devices they make with android?"

No. I know that the Android market share is equal to iOS because it is partially Free Software which makes it easy for multiple manufacturers to make more than three devices with Android, and that makes Android proliferation in the world-wide market easy.

"How open is Android when it gets to under control of carriers? Where do you get source code for Google navigation app, or Google Voice?"

The base OS tools are always Free Software no matter which carrier is selling the product. And you can't get the source code of neither Google Navigation nor Google Voice, this is one of Google's Android evils.
I'm not sure about the market, as it doesn't seem to be explored, but the culture is certainly different.

First and foremost, we don't have the concept of a date in the same way, and we don't have the concept of a pick-up bar/pub either. As far as I can tell, most people would be really unhappy with posting their face and names on a butcher's shop-like website, in the same way that most people wouldn't want to admit they're out there looking for dates (it makes you seem lame) while flirting a lot.

The interaction patterns between people and specially couples are different, so it's hard to say what would work over here, but outside of the gay market it certainly doesn't seem to be a traditional dating site.
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"The High School Football Team" is an incredibly common movie and TV stereotype, that has no equivalent whatsoever over here, and until recently I never really thought about how completely different the situations are.

How did this happen? Why did junior sports become attached to high schools and colleges in the US when there's nothing like it in Europe?
That is not limited to adulthood. Old age, too, is postponed longer than in previous generations.

It would not surprise me if both correlated highly with life expectancy.
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A better question is whose going to maintain all those for-loops that are buggy because human error means even a basic thing like a loop will get screwed up. Managers are always talking about code reuse but as soon as you pass a function, they are like "Woah thats crazy how can we maintain that"

Only managers would think that

int accum;
for(int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++){
accum += arr[i];
}

is more readable and maintainable than...

arr.sum(x => x)

Oh look and even though I've written a million for loops depending on the language there is a bug because i didn't intialize accum.
Wouldn't that only work if the json/javascript is pretty-printed and not minified?

I'd think this problem of comments in JSON requires a solution that is part of the JSON specifications rather than dependent on individual parsers implementations.

Or perhaps JSON only really shines as a data interchange format and not much else.
the TDD process isn't relevant to the high level "problems" I want to solve

In most businesses the opposite is true. Test Driven Development isn't really about testing low-level functions, it's about making sure the code and the business logic behave in the same way. TDD really comes into its own when you start using the tests as documentation on how the system is supposed to perform. A company using TDD can very quickly adapt to change because they can be confident in their code.

The reasons TDD isn't suited to startups is more that it's a heavy process which doesn't fit well with a small, tech-heavy group of people who aren't selling code.
Donating. I don't have a PS3 either, but jailbreak should be legal and I hope this can set a good precedent.
It is impossible since you can't sync the sound properly
Just donated, this is not just a matter related to gethot but also a matter of freedom. Soon or later we should try to win the battle and have an international law stating that once you get some hardware you can put any kind of software inside that hardware, exactly like you can cut everything you like when you purchase scissors.
In the UK there's the British Universities competition (used to be BUSA in my day, now it's BUCS - http://www.bucs.org.uk).

It can in no way compete with US college football in terms of attendance or revenue. However there is no revenue to speak of, teams are funded by each Uni's sports union and by the players themselves. And all the money goes towards paying for facilities, transportation and maybe new strips every other year.

All the same it exists, it's well organised and has many thousands of participants in lots of sports each wednesday afternoon.
> Apple owns Intrinsity, which designed the A4 processor.

That's a pretty long shot. Intrinsity clearly improved the A4, but overall A4 is a very standard Cortex A8 SoC.

> Apple also owns P.A. Semi, which contributed to the A4 SoC.

I have not seen any analysis or information pointing to actual PA Semi input in A4. Where Intrinsity is well known for improvements to existing designs (power-wise, mostly), PA Semi is generally credited with brand new and unique design, which the A4 isn't. I also understand most of PA Semi left after its acquisition.
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