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As a former IBM employee, you can pretty much use what ever type of machine you want for your work as long as it doesn't interfere with what you do. There is a significant Mac subculture internal to IBM, and they love and suppor it. However a huge percent of their 600,000 employee's still use IBM branded laptop's and desktop's.
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w3schools? thats where i learned. hmm
Good on you for having the foresight of having enough runway for yourself in terms of savings. Moving back home was definitely a good call too.

It really depends on what side of the fence you're on. While you "can" start an awesome company outside of the Valley, it can be challenging (not impossible) to raise money for a pre-revenue company that has a sole founder. Starting something in a major metropolitan hub be it NYC, Boston, Seattle, (insert major US city flush with VC money) can afford you advantages such as connecting with a supportive and entrepreneurial community. It'll allow you maybe even find a co-founder as well.

And don't forget to signup for the www.startupdigest.com to be in the know of all things startup in whatever city you may decide to settle in.
I like the "make Nokia leaner" part. But I don't think they are in touch very well with the marketplace. Personally.

I'm considering putting together some fun and easy mobile games for some mobile device in 2H 2011. I can select iPhone, Android, or, I guess, WP7.

I'm looking for a platform that has these features:

* Nearly free to register and start developing
* Provides app store & DRM mechanism
* Doesn't eat too many profits.
* Ideally, lets me program very fast, think Ruby on Rails or similar framework.

Okay, so that doesn't exist as far as I know. If Nokia can reboot to provide the above - then they can probably provide a fourth option.

Nothing I've read so far indicates that they are going to roll that route.
Try this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stop-autoplay...

See also: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Muting_browser
There is also this part: "The franchise was long known among activists in Belarus as an unsafe place."
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You mean the Sun project?

Ok, I guess I was thinking of open source projects that were not initiated by a large corporation.
They already own Qt and all intellectual property associated, so why not use it? It's also a cross-platform toolkit with a clean interface and lots of mind-share.

The whole MeeGo operating system is using bits and pieces from the Linux ecosystem.

There's nothing wrong with that. The difference between them using MeeGo and them using Android or WinMo 7, is that with MeeGo they have complete control, as it's their platform.

WinPhone 7 is light years ahead of anything I've seen from Nokia

This statement doesn't hold water. I've tried WinMo 7, and it is decent, but all I could say about it was the same as for Windows 7 ... it is not that bad, but it's late, and limited, and those animations are causing me nausea, and tell me why should I choose a Windows again when I tried so hard to get rid of it the last time?

Also, speaking as a developer, porting games from iOS / Android to WinMo 7 is not really possible without a 100% complete rewrite.

And what happens when they completely break backwards compatibility again for WinMo 8, like they did with 7?

Now you've got 3 problems.
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Plenty of cars can do that.

Of course -- I don't think there's too many vehicle's on land with the momentum of a 747 at 320km/h. And definately not many that can compare on a momentum:surface friction ratio.
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Shouldn't that be "Facebook's Growing graph of Frenemies."?
If you're dealing with message passing architectures a language like Scala is a good way to go. Actors or Mailboxes in F# parlance fit perfectly with the way the architecture was described.

His point about code fashion is also equally valid, what Seurat did with pointillism is impressive, printing a picture on on your inkjet is not, even though what Seurat did is essentially the same thing.

Coming from an imperative background writing in a functional style has risk, coming from a functional background imperative style has risk. You can implement the lambda calculus on a UTM and implement a UTM in the lambda calculus, for all intents and purposes they are the same, however, in terms of elegance they are far different. (And there are arguments on both sides as to which is more elegant).

I tend to agree with you particularly on 'enterprise architects' but the solutions are usually a reinvention of the wheel rather than marrying two disparate technologies that actually fit quite well together. Scala or another functional language is a great fit to a message bus architecture. Doing something for the difficulty of it usually doesn't attract a lot of smart minds, putting two things together that at first one wouldn't think of but that makes sense WILL pique the interest of a talented developer because he wants to see if it actually bears fruit.
Then there's throwing good money after bad, knowing when to fold, and cutting one's losses. Idioms go both ways.

I find it telling that a smaller company like Palm could take Linux and roll it into WebOS in an amazingly short time but two massive heavyweights, Intel and Nokia, haven't managed anything close to the same.
Sounds a lot cheaper than suffering this though:
"No it doesn't sound fair!! What, you can't remember something like that either??" or "You are ALWAYS Tired, God I have to do everything, why did I marry you..." etc, etc.

- Not that I hear that from anyone. Perhaps different strokes for different folk applies here?
- (PS: I love you honey)
I love their response to Feynmen's desire to "do something real".... "So we sent him out to buy some office supplies."
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> its pure reaction time may be its winning factor.

Indeed. Jennings himself has said that his buzzer instincts and reflexes created his winning streak more so than actual knowledge. You can easily see that when he clicks and then comes up with the answer a few seconds later. About half of all Jeopardy questions are known by all three players so it's a tossup as to who buzzes the fastest.

I'm not entirely clear how Watson buzzes. The general Jeopardy buzzer system is that an offstage operator presses a button to enable the buzzers as soon as Alex is done speaking. That button also turns on a light near the board to alert the contestants. If you press too early, there's a 300ms lockout until you can press again. We've been told that Watson uses a physical arm to press the Jeopardy buzzer, but we haven't been told exactly how Watson times it: does it listen for Alex to stop speaking, or use an optical sensor on the light, or some other method. An optical sensor would seem pretty hard for humans to beat on timing.
Found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfNBWJTGEEA and it is good quality.
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Maybe, he's popular with my children/sibling/neighbor kid with the weird hair.
Yes. He is a legitimate star who deserves regular media coverage.
Of course! The beauty of his music and silkiness of his voice makes Chuck Norris weep uncontrollably!
Well Elop just dumped Intel the same way, so I guess it's never a problem.
This is where the ageism and the relative inexperience comes in. I think I have a solid foundation, but being 19 and not having a ton of work experience has gotten me laughed at before. That being said, I'm pretty sure I can pass just about any programming interview test designed for the average programmer.
This happened long ago, in the pre-internet era, and a few minutes of searching yielded nothing to substantiate it but it is true to the best of my recollection.

McDonald's has long had a "Birthday Club" where you could fill out a form with your name, address, age, and gender. They would mail an invitation to you for your birthday with a coupon for a discount and free ice cream for you and your friends.

Someone (not me!) wanted to take advantage of the free ice cream so they filled out the form with a made-up name, the correct address and a birthday that wasn't far off. The invitation arrived in the mail with the coupon. They enjoyed the free ice cream and soon forgot about the whole thing.

About ten years go by and they get a letter from the Selective Service System reminding them of their obligation to register within thirty days of their 18th birthday. The letter was addressed to no one they knew. Then they remembered... It was the name they used long ago to get free ice cream at McDonalds.

It's amazing what you can find on Flickr. Here are images of the Ronald McDonald Birthday Club form from 1975:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wafflewhiffer/3093556082/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wafflewhiffer/3093555518/
I think w3schools bashing is unjustified. It's good enough for most things. I use it all the time for a quick reference. I've never found anything there blatantly wrong or misleading besides the domain name.

Looking at the list on w3fools, it seems a little pedantic (aka nitpicky).
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My thoughts were to borrow a page from wikis and make links between documents a part of the model.

For actual documents (blog posts, comments etc) I'd place them on disk. Metadata, including links between pages, would be in the database.

With Postgres triggers + NOTIFY you can cause invalidation based on INSERTs and UPDATEs.
Yes, AFAIK Jennings and Rutter have only ever faced off in the 'Tournament of Champions that Jeopardy has every so often, so probably 3 times at most (I'm almost positive it was more than once).

Also, I actually came up with my prediction over the weekend so the scores obviously didn't factor into it; however I do feel like I was heavily biased toward a human winning this challenge, or at least winning one of the games. The human players have enough game-play advantages (anticipation, buzzing before they have an answer, etc.) that either Brad or Ken will be able to stay very close to Watson until Final Jeopardy, at which its anybody's game.

Then again, as an optimistic Cub's fan, my track record for predictions is, well, less than stellar. :)
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GetJar scraped my email off of the official Android market and spams me relentlessly with it. They can go get bent.
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The Terminator famously used 6502 assembly code from the Apple ][ boot ROM for the robot's point-of-view camera.
I had a similar experience.

My current setup involves nginx, wp-supercache, php-fpm, apc and mysql query caching. Plus an nginx rule that sets expires headers on all my static files.

It's taken me several years of learning, but now Wordpress doesn't run insanely slow.
Sorry, but I missed the "obvious" part. He says that this incident made him "wary of the franchise", I think its pretty clear that he is not absolutely sure. Combined with the rumors, I do think he has a case.
I don't like the added bit on "No."

I only know of him because of the internet in general -- since I don't live in America right now -- and I don't particularly have anything against him as a singer or as a person.
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This is what I don't understand. Why drop Maemo for a partnership with Intel and a long road integrating Maemo and Moblin into Meego? What was Nokia getting out of it? What could a "strategic partnership" with Intel have that would ever be worth delaying to market a single Maemo device?
Wouldn't disagree with you on porting.

Backwards compat w/ WinMo 8? You rewrite your apps and get to sell them again :)

Nokia has also switched from Symbian to MeeGo so what's to stop them from breaking compat?

The point of directing a public company is to do so with the best interests of the shareholders, I could be wrong but I have a feeling the majority of the shareholders of Nokia would be happier with Elops plan than the plan of these guys.
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How are the two situations any different? Just because a program has an entire block of text in memory doesn't mean that it can instantaneously build all the data structures needed to process and make sense of it. We both "read," Watson's "reading" just takes place in its code.
It's really irritating how Gawker sites detect that I'm not in America and force me to go to jp.gizmodo.com or jp.lifehacker.com, rendering the link itself entirely useless.
"Does your team usually write code whose correctness relies upon undocumented and unreliable correlations, correlations whose magnitudes can vary widely as a result of implementation details?"

I loved this implication on a Microsoft website.
Building cross-platform apps that run on all of them in C++ is also doable, since you can share the business-logic.

What about the OS-specific APIs? I would be more confident in a mono-type framework that makes Android ports much easier.
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It really doesn't.
Just because a lot of people use it (and are emotionally attached to the editor just like the article said) doesn't mean it's a good choice to learn.

If you have time and will to learn Emacs and customize it to your own liking, do so. But there are more efficient editors with shorter learning curves out there which do a lot of those things out of the box.
Prove them wrong. Do you own thing.
Android was in last place by a huge margin, too.
It's very different. The humans have to decode the visual and aural representations before parsing for meaning can commence. The computer should have to do this too, but that step has been done in advance for the computer. This gives the computer a time advantage not because it was faster at computing, but because necessary computing was removed in advance from its task.
I disagree. The platform has to first exist and be attractive for developers to wanna invest in it. This is the big advantage WP7 has over MeeGo.
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This is a great idea - and extensible beyond just rentals.
Note Rutter has never actually lost at Jeopardy (he has been behind on a daily total, but always pulled a win off in the end).
You do realize your comment is partly retarded right? While I strongly believe that stuff can happen whether its the right time/place or not, I also strongly believe positioning yourself for things to happen is important too. Yes, persistence, hard work, and vision are all important.

However your comment or rather your example is blatantly bad. For starters, they brought back Steve Jobs who had massive connections beyond any of the other CEOs who were leading Apple at the time, and definitely more than most other people out there. Most people aren't in that position and surely don't have the type of influence Steve Jobs does. He's bigger now than he was in the 90s by all measures but make no mistake, Steve Jobs was an icon even back then. To use Apple as an argument for this is just plain bad.
It seems to me like it was the government that started the whole mess.
It's a strange one, given my experience I can earn pretty decent money but I just have the urge to do something for myself, it's a bug that doesn't go away with reading HN and seeing great startups each and every day.

I am working on two projects at the moment, why two you may ask!? I just can't decide between the two. The first is a listing site for storage, land and parking spaces. The second is sort of a crowd sourced sports funding site.

What are you currently working on?.
Notice how they made the post on Feb 14, but show only data for Feb 1. Is it really surprising that the first day with the new system saw fewer transactions? Making claims that this move "permanently hobbles India's mobile commerce" based on evidence like this is surely unwarranted.

I really think 3D secure is a good move. All it requires is entering your internet banking password at the time of making the transaction. Is this really so bad for usability?
We do? I thought it was the blue IE6 'internet' icon?
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Have to disagree strongly. A seller and a buyer have found a value for the individual share (or package of shares). The value of the company is not the multiple of shares x price paid, because not every share in the company is going to trade at that value. There will be a marginal change in price for each additional share sold. The other 98 people in the room may have other reasons for not buying or selling. They may agree with the price, they may not. They may think the price is going higher, they may not be even listening to the prices.

Think of it like inventory. If you have 100 cars in a lot, and you sell the first for 10,000. Is the stock worth $1m? For accounting purposes, yes. Are you going to get $1m if you sell all the cars - no, you're not. Either of two things is going to happen - only 50 people want the cars and you have to start discounting to move the rest, or, once alerted to the sale of the cars, 200 buyers turn up and the price goes higher. So the total value of the cars isn't really $1m, apart from on an accounting sheet. Same as market cap.

The other 98 people in the room haven't assigned a value to the item. You've only found a market for 2% of a company. The other 98 people may sell at a higher or lower amount, but for each one that did, there has to be a supply of buyers at that level.

Summarized : market cap is the total value as derived from the current opinions of the people trading shares. It's not the same as total market value, because you could never buy the entire company for that amount.

Yes, I know 2% turnover is a high value, chosen to make it a simple example.
I played around (rather ineffectually) with David's Haskell code, back when the whole "Yacc is Dead" stuff was here, and I still tend to believe that Haskell results in less code when laziness is involved :)

That said, I think I really like define/fix
Without altitude and temperature a Mach number is rather useless. (Depending on altitude the temperature and pressure changes which has an effect on the speed of sound.)

Also was this just the Mach experienced at the leading edge?
The android operating system and UI is a direct ripoff of the iPhone.

Because having shortcuts on the main screen and a toolbar was never, ever, ever done before on the desktop.

Also, what will happen when iOS will add screen widgets? Will that be a ripoff of Android?
Adding virtual screens in OS X, was that a ripoff of XWindows, Gnome, KDE?

Apple contributes very significantly to the open source community.

I love them for WebKit; but that wasn't even original work, as it's a fork of KHTML. It's also debatable if they would have released it if KHTML wasn't LGPL. It is an achievement nobody can take away from them, but often in big companies the right hand is not aware of what the left hand does, and this release had benefits for them much bigger than for you or me.

you claim they "took" the kernel, but the reality is the kernel
was developed by them based on easrly university research,

While Darwin is based on XNU, it is also dependent on critical pieces taken from BSD / various BSD libraries. Not a bad thing, but you're making a broad statement there that's not accurate.

Google .... steals Sun's work, and you don't care about this theft,
because they released it as "open source".

It is not theft.

Unless you mean that implementing a supposedly "open standard" is theft; or that reverse-engineering (which is perfectly legal) is theft; or that Java is in fact not a standard and Sun just lied about it and we, like "Ovis aries", believe anything instead of reading the fine-print.

I dare you to make a complete analysis of the claims made by Oracle, and tell me what Google stole.

This is why I don't contribute to open source project.
So many of the advocates of open source disrespect anyone ...

Loud mouths don't contribute in general.
The people actually working on open-source aren't the same people that bitch about other people's usage of said open-source software.

When the open source community starts giving the
respect for rights that they demand from others,
then you'll find you get a lot more support.

I always look forward to such pieces of insight. Brightens up my Tuesday morning.

people seem to steal code from Apache products
and then put it in GPL products

You can't make such claims without providing citations.

PS: I have nothing against Apple's usage of open-source, that's what open-source should be about: the freedom to use it / modify it. I also don't like GPL and prefer (such as yourself and Google) Apache 2.0. I also think the parent's remarks are way off mark. That's not the point of my post.
Your most probably right, however with visa restrictions being just 3mths stay I figured my time was better spent getting the projects towards prototype here by myself. I suppose with skype having a remote co founder is not out of the question these days, just always helps to meet people in person I feel.
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Completely agree. It's one of the websites that I evangelize about.

Congrats to the whole Songkick team!
I am also experimenting with full-page caching and cache invalidation. Here are my prototypes:

https://github.com/ertug/dynasta

https://github.com/ertug/jphpserv
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It's a good idea, though I think we currently already have colonies populating other worlds and moons in our solar system. I just need to find the sign up sheet to go join one...

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/418/161/Population_limits_of_the_earth_and_the_solar_system_factoring_in_improved_technology.html
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To counter point, 5 years back when our company sold our software product to Nokia, I flew to Finland to talk about architecture and implementation.

Ended up giving a lecture to 8 (+2 PMs) Nokia engineers, many of whom asked the most intelligent and domain relevant questions I heard so far. (3 even asked me to stay after the lecture and go over detail).

Things got done
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