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Check out these two slides from the Nokia-Microsoft presentation:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/rip-symbian/
Symbian goes to 0.
Meego is cut 75%.
Services cut 20%.

As for QT, here is what the press release says:

"Qt will continue to be the development framework for Symbian and Nokia will use Symbian for further devices; continuing to develop strategic applications in Qt for Symbian platform and encouraging application developers to do the same. With 200 million users worldwide and Nokia planning to sell around 150 million more Symbian devices, Symbian still offers unparalleled geographical scale for developers.

Extending the scope of Qt further will be our first MeeGo-related open source device, which we plan to ship later this year. Though our plans for MeeGo have been adapted in light of our planned partnership with Microsoft, that device will be compatible with applications developed within the Qt framework and so give Qt developers a further device to target. "

So, QT on Symbian dies with Symbian, but stays on with crippled Meego.
There is no other "something" to be done to save Nokia. It brings benefit to Microsoft, and it saves Nokia.
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Oh wow, I hadn't thought of that.

Yeah I imagine this is likely to piss off Nokia's most loyal developers.

I doubt Linux distributions are going to notice. QT will continue to be a rock solid first class platform even with minimal new development. It already has more features than it needs. They could probably coast for a decade before it begins to hurt on Linux.
Generally they don't; their overheads are covered by those with a vested interest in supporting their continued existence.

Usually they exist to analyse details and implications of policy decisions proposed or opposed by individuals and organisations that fund them.
It is certainly better than nothing. I just took issue with the article's repeated insistence that it'd make phishing harder/impossible.

It does many good things. That is not one of them.
The problem that has always existed is someone will come along, think they can do it better than everyone else that has come before them (basically that they're smarter when they're probably not), or is delusional enough to believe their the first to think of an idea, and when asked how they're different, they say crap like "we're going to kill it with X which is what Y company isn't doing". It's redundant and unbelievable how many people think this way.
And now the true FUD campaign begins...
If we think about the revenue coming in from app sales (I don't know for sure if money coming in from selling just the phone is bigger than that) it's sensible to get more people to buy something that can put iPhone apps in.

Oh and with Nokia seemingly jumping off the cliff, this iPhone nano thing can seem more sensible, though it's highly unlikely that Nokia scene influenced iPhone nano even if it turns real.

Then again the company being "Apple" I'm pretty sure they won't ship second grade products no matter what (Not an Apple fan myself).
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Gmail is also printing money.

Check your email box, about 80% mail are mass delivered, maillists, notifications, etc. Gmail has to only store one copy
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I was part of getting something similar off the ground the other year (Web Ecology Project, www.webecologyproject.org).

From what I've seen a Think Tank basically acts like an academic research group, but does commissioned research when possible. Getting started is a bit of chicken and egg thing, but once you're rolling you're kicking out research which seems to entice private companies into wanting to know more or use your tools.

With Web Ecology Project, we started off doing research on Twitter stuff, happened to grab every tweet out there on the Iran Election in 2009, self published a paper, and then boom. Tons of people wanted our data, expertise, analysis, etc. We weren't ready for this business-like shift, so we somewhat self-imploded for being able to run with it business-wise, but we're still doing research.
It's in Debian(http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/e17.html ). And the EFL just reached the 1.0.0 release: http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=news/show&l=en&...
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Plus Nokia certainly negotiated a great deal. If they get WP7 licenses for 1$ when others get it for 10$, they have room to provide better quality for the same retail price, while making comfortable margins. It's not because Apple develops its own OS that this strategy is the best for everyone. Nokia should better be the next Dell than the next Amiga. Also, carriers can't break WP7 like they can break Android (and block its updates).
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CEO selects appropriate thinktank, says, "I run an oil and gas company. I need you to produce articles that are critical of global warming. Here's one million dollars."

Thinktank goes and hires a couple of global warming "skeptics" for $50K/year. They produce writings and speakings, which the thinktank personnel shop around to appropriate outlets for minimal fees. Op-Eds are distributed to newspapers. Pre-edited 5-minute segments are distributed to TV news programs. The media outlets are happy to receive ready-to-publish content for cheap.

You the viewer receive all this information against global warming from a "neutral, non-partisan" thinktank. You are likely to believe it. The name of the CEO's oil and gas corporation is never mentioned.

Money laundering is taking money from illegal sources and turning it into clean, usable money. Thinktanks are engaged in the practice of idea laundering.
Doesn't matter - Nokia will cancel Qt in the next round of budgets.

The real question is how screwed are C++ developers in general?

MSFT's offering is switch to managed C++/C++ CLR and use WPF - two doomed technologies together. Or there is always MFC

Apple say don't even try with C++ just switch to objective C

Your only choice is GTK (from C) and plug into the rich commercial opportunities of Gnome and Linux on the desktop.

So is C++ on the desktop dead?
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Lighthouse was an experimental project to redo the framebuffer architecture. Some enterprising developers hooked it up to Android's surfaceFlinger and boom, you're running on Android. It's also been shown to run on iOS.

Lighthouse isn't really a full Android-Java/NDK integration suite, although it's a very good foundation for one.
And for the C++ community - not on mobiles.

What gui framework can we now use - MFC and Gnome?
I like the concept a lot more without the bidding war.
Being open and clear is definitely important, but so is being measured. Since I was the majority partner in my ventures I had to learn HOW to say certain things because my word carried more weight. Some times I would say things about our product direction out of frustration with a specific event—thinking out loud—and would create issues with my partners. This was especially true early on.

As our relationships evolved we learned to read each other better but it took time to get to that point.
What do you mean $0? From what I heard Microsoft paid several hundred million dollars in this deal.

Ah, here it is:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/17800/google_and_microsoft_of...

Note that a couple of hundred million was on the table from several bidders. If there are more than a few living braincells left at Nokia they probably got significantly more out of it than that.
Harsh. But not wholly inaccurate. I think it really depends on who you work for. There are some think tanks that do policy and some that do politics. Policy is about the analytical development of rules and procedures. Politics is exactly what Jellicle described.
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Since I can not contact Mr. Paul Graham directly I will try to do this here.

If he has time, maybe he will write me back.

He knows how to find me.

My comment which you have deleted was actually a very "special" anagram, which I will explain to Mr. Graham if, again, he has a little bit of time.

Regarding the first page of this site, I find it quite easy, without too much self-praise, to see the details on the human head that match with the details on Apollo's head, to say the least about the resemblances. Also there could be a lot more to add about the different interpretations regarding the two figures. Again, to say the least, one interpretation could be that the picture represents progress.

Regarding the essay about wisdom and intelligence, cause it is the only one I had time to read, for the moment, I would say the least, without wanting to be rude, "The more you know, the less you know".

I apologise if I seemed rude, in any manner, when writing this comment.

Thank you very much for your time.
Good point! Actually, in early stages of our development, it was accomplished using two different queries and we needed to combine them to a single query. It was just a scratch and maybe it caused a bias which prevented me to see shorter way.
Good. This will hopefully force the matter and get all the patent claims out in the open. I doubt that actual holders of patents will play their cards close to their chests here because the upside of the cut of the bundle license for their patents through MPEG LA will be so large.

While I wish you couldn't patent software or algorithms we cannot ignore the fact that you can by simply willful ignorance and wishing that the patents go away if we just not think about them.

At the end of this process the thread from submarine patens will be vastly reduced and hardware manufacturers and companies like MS and Apple have a realistic road to supporting VP8.
Cancer and aging are really the same problem. If we solve the other 6 forms of molecular damage and dysfunction, but don't solve the problem of cancer, then we all just get to be healthy for about a century, as if we're in our prime, but then die horribly of cancer.
The only way it can work is if the person managing the source of work knows exactly what they're looking for. If the project manager can read and recognize what a well coded project looks like, then the model can work. But often the only thing that matters (especially to the type who would immediately want to outsource) is the end result.

A friend of mine tried outsourcing an e-commerce site to somewhere in India from freelance.com or one of those sites to save a little time and money for a project he said he could do for someone. He had absolutely no programming experience and didn't believe my "you get what you pay for" type attitude. A week or two and a few hundred dollars later he was all excited about how he was able to "manage" the developer and get everything done. Within a week the site was offline, completely destroyed by a script hacker exploiting some weakness in an out of date version of osCommerce. I think he just had to learn that lesson for himself though.
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Free event and action dashboard for startups - Is this is a useful idea?
I think the book a beautiful mind is a more accurate depiction of nash's life rather then the movie
OH WOW LOL thanks for the screenshot that looks hilarious! Nothing at all like the lower resolutions. I wonder how many people browse at super high resolutions though. Either way I'll definitely figure out a way to satisfy all resolutions. I was just trying to go for something atypical... not a big fan of the cookie cutter startup landing pages I see all over the place... but I guess there's a good reason they all look similar.

As for the objective, this app does quite a bit and it's all fairly specific so it's hard to narrow it down to a single concise tagline. I've tried to highlight the main idea though in a number of places... which is basically to make the lives of touring bands/management easier. How would you suggest I let people know what all the app can do (it does a lot!!!) as concisely as possible?

As for the presentation, it all goes by pretty fast on my resolution. I'd guess the reason it seems like such a crawl is because your resolution is so high. I'll figure out a fix for this as well.

This is how it looks on my resolution:
http://i.imgur.com/XmpRl.jpg
I'm about to turn 50.

I've had a /great/ last ten years. I'm not sure what the next decade is going to be like, but keeping fit and keeping up with industry stuff that matters are high on my list.

I've seen many older developers "die" by

- Getting into management (and not keeping up technically)

- Becoming complacent and not learning new things on a continual basis

- Getting stuck doing the same thing for years

I don't mean you should be a butterfly -- nobody likes working with someone who's only spent three months on any project and to whom everything new and flaky is "oooh, shiny!" -- but I've seen too many people just get stuck and seem not to care.

My father in law retired as a C programmer when he was 75. I've seen people considering starting a start-up at 60. If you take care of yourself and your industry smarts, I don't see why this couldn't be you, too.
From what I can deduce, they get paid to cheerlead or spread FUD by parties with a stake in their area of expertise.
thats common with most movies they have add a certain ficiton to it for entertainment puposes like i.e the social network im sure the real truth about mark zucherberg wasn't conveyed properly!!
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"a little more reliability" includes the network. So, until recently, no.

But, yes, I would love to own an iPhone on Verizon.
The page takes too long to load. It is blank for a very long time. Then everything suddenly appears on the screen at once.

If you can't fix the load time, at least add a better loading indicator so that people don't close the window.
Thanks, I'll keep that one in mind.
exactly. Using an IN statement with a subquery is textbook "how to make a query slow" - it forces a sequential scan. No-one who understands SQL would write a query like that.
The article seemed to imply that the notice-sending process is automated. Probably there's no one checking that threats meant for residential ISP customers aren't being irrelevantly sent to large Internet companies.
No PR campaign can save Nokia from this well-deserved disaster.

Btw, NOK is down 15%
aka a "false dichotomy"
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Furthermore, the "Sign up now" call to action shouldn't disappear when you play the demo video.
Like most good ideas, it came from Haskell :)

The part that bothers me about the list comprehension section is that conflating list comprehension and lambda. Is it telling me that list comprehension is better than map/filter or better than lambda? I don't know. Quiet honestly, in many situations I find:

halves_evens = lambda nums : [i/2 for i in nums if nums % 2 == 0]

to be the cleanest.
Heh. I have a macbook pro.

Android does the gmail / google calendar sync fine. If there's one thing Android has never messed up, it's that. My Android phone messes enough stuff up often enough that I do wish I had an iPhone instead.
Not sure this is well-deserved, but it certainly has been a couple of years in the making. Who didn't see this coming?

Oh, and there go our tax euros. Symbian has been given EU tax money to develop a "European localized mobile operating system"
I've seen at least one company go under when their management team decided to have all the "design" done in the UK and then they shipped a lump of UML to $COUNTRY and expected a finished product back.
Maybe next they will try Bada?
Xbox for one
This is my experience too. I resisted learning Objective-C very much, and tried to avoid learning it via MacRuby. But once I actually resigned myself to really learning Objective-C, I really enjoyed it.

Like Ruby/Python it has a specific style that gives you a different perspective than other languages. I now find myself using ObjC style-isms in other languages.
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Great point. I had a similar experience with the healthcare startup where we would take developers (when they came in town) to our client requirement gathering sessions. While one could easily argue that is not their role, they always offered great input and I think it furthermore motivated them to better understand issues and opportunity areas.

I wonder then if remote
Agreed. And in even less time, he could have walked on stage with an unlocked Android-based smartphone. What would Nokia have to lose from offering such a device? Does the new partnership with Microsoft prohibit such a move? If so, it seems like a limiting move for a hardware manufacturer that harkens back to the early days of Windows.
There's no question that correlated subqueries are piss-poor in MySQL and instead creating derived tables is quicker.

And in most cases it'll be quick enough.

But I have exeprience recently on much larger datasets -- always over a million and often upwards of 10 Million -- and the truth is, 2 queries is better.

I didn't read the SQL closely enough but most cases of subquery (whether in the select, from or where clauses) is to do in 1 query what really takes 2. So assuming that applies here, yeah, if you've got large datasets, doing several simple queries is better than fewer complex queries.

The MySQL query optimizer is just not there. It's not game-day ready the way Oracle and MSSQL is.
Better than continuing with Symbian and having to lay off all the employees in a few years time.
I guess this is going to be game changer - bottom of pyramid at BRIC and other similar markets is huge and targeting them is a smart move ... i wish apple replicates this for all their product lines ...
I'm looking forward to when this guy writes in with his horror story about how Paypal froze his account and stole all his money.

It appears that inconvenience cannot be created or destroyed; the merchant account people frontload the inconvenience, and then, satisfied you probably aren't a crook, leave you alone. Paypal backloads the inconvenience - signup is easy, but then at any time they might freeze your account and steal all your money.

Seriously, there's a huge market for a transparent, straightforward merchant account provider.
Butterflies can be great too. Not the part where they've never spent more than three months on anything, but the part where everything new is "ooooh shiny!" is very important for everyone involved.

It's just probably best to save the "Oooh shiny" for exploratory pet projects until shiny becomes reasonable stable.
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Blatant plug: What you want is near-shoring. Canadian development shops and remote Canadian developers are like "Mexicans with sweaters." Lower cost-of-living, we have our family's health care taken care of while we work on your start-up, and our subsidized universities churn out a steady stream of new grads.

Add in the fact that we speak English (even if our spelling has idiosyncrasies like "cheque," "colour," and "centre"), the ease of flying back and forth, and the fact that we work in the same bloody time zone...

And one more thing: Major Canadian cities like Toronto and Vancouver are an incredible melting pot of cultures, so you can find people who speak English and French, Hindi, Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, Spanish, or whatever else you may need as you build out your Global empire.

If you must go remote or outsource, I suggest looking North of the 49th before you look in South-East Asia.
Old developer here. Nice to affirm that these are "myths" in the sense that they are often not true, but given a random old guy these may be quite accurate. These are observations that people have made of real individuals that do not generalize to the whole group.

> Myth: Older software developers are more jaded and cynical and therefore, less desirable in the workplace than younger ones. Younger developers are more enthusiastic than older ones.

I would have to say I have been both growing in enthusiasm and getting more jaded. The getting jaded part means you no longer want to hurl yourself at something that experience tells you is doomed from the start, but the enthusiasm means maybe this new twist will make it work.

One of the great powers of youth is ignorance - the kind of ignorance that enables you to take on projects that are too big and require you to push beyond your original capabilities until you conquer. This ignorance is the source of tales that start: "if I had known what I was getting into...."
Of all the places; really? You went with the "rockstar" moniker for hires?
This should be a lesson for everyone: Don't use Oscommerce. The code is terrible, lots of security flaws, and it's not easy to update. Since html templates and business logic are mixed, you need to manually make security updates to your files. I suspect this is why so many installations get compromised. I recommend: Magento, opencart, or interspire cart (this one costs money, but you get the source)
You're going to HTTPS on full-screen very fast; you might get better performance with some HTTP+CDN integration (if possible, I've not examined the code at all).

The mobile landing page should probably provide a link to what the app does (since the fs didn't load at first for me, it's what I saw first).

The main page is very cluttered -- try reducing the amount of text, and adding more significant white padding between your columns, and remember that not everyone comes to see your site with a 29" screen.

Still looks far better than my UI skills any day :-)

Edit; Just tried to play the videos, and the audio is clipping badly (linux, chrome); A filter pass through on peaks/troughs would probably be wise
Based on the design/workings of the site, the blurry onmouseover images are quite hard to read, especially with the small font.
Also, to avoid using plugins (which everyone hates), can you not use HTML5 or flash?

On a large screen (1920 x 1080), the site still works but it's pretty spaced out and harder to read. Maybe try limiting the size by setting a fixed width/height?
Well, I suspect they didn't go with Android because they didn't want to get lost in the shuffle.

It might be easier to make some sort of a splash using an OS that feels somewhat new.

And WP7 is very good phone platform, as much as people would like to believe the opposite.
I'm no designer, but I'm pretty sure you're violating a whole handful of design guidelines here. The site just feels like one giant fullscreen flash ad.
Some design suggestions...
The second 'play' button looks like the css was messed up, positioning the text in weird places all around it. Until I realized it's an image. You should DEFFINITELY clean those up, it looks like an accident. Maybe vertically stack them above or below the appropriate play buttons.
Second, you can barely notice that tooltip to see the video on the bottom. You have a lot of empty black space right under the RELA on top... maybe have some intro text or a link to the video there the first time somebody visits the page. It took me a good 45 seconds just to figure out what the purpose of the site was. A couple sentence description right at the forefront would really help.
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It's certainly a cardinal sin on MySQL but commercial platforms have optimizations that make these correlated subqueries performant.
Another plug: Americans living overseas. There's a ton of us, and we speak English, have US bank accounts, and understand American culture. We're also likely to be back in the US every so often...
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