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Ultimately everyone who wants a tablet will have to make a private decision of what they want for themselves. I have both an iPad (well I got it for my three year old daughter) and a Galaxy Tab and I have to say I love them both and they both have been life changing. If you get a Xoom, I doubt you'll be disappointed, because going from not having a tablet to getting one is going to be an amazing experience. I don't imagine the Xoom is being marketed to people who already have an iPad so there you go. Get an iPad for the many (wonderful) apps and media or get an android tablet because despite the many flaws in Android, it is a kick ass operating system and because you can actually purchase kindle, nook and epub titles directly from the e-reader apps. Listen to all the pundits and reviews, and then make a thoughtful decision and be happy with the one you made.

Steve Jobs and John Gruber might not see it this way, but despite that there is some truth in the 'copy cat' nature of Android, it is a good thing that iOS has competition. It's not just lackluster competition either, Android is awesome.

Nuff' said.
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The dev channel of Chrome has lots of issues (e.g. gmail has problems too).
How do you work out what people want?

Then how to you change to make sure that your product is targeting the wants of the largest addressable market?
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Remember this article when you hear the "hundreds of resumes per job opening" argument in a debate on immigration laws.
Or you can get it from the social graph API:
http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/sample...
I would be happy to donate to Peter personally, except that Paypal is will likely freeze his account in the next few days specifically due to a high volume influx of varying dollar amounts from a variety of sources without a physical product or service provided. So my donation must go elsewhere than him personally, and that makes me very sad :(
I know it has issues, but for me Gmail is fine. The version before the one I was using displays the profiles fine. So who knows.
I've heard that there are non-uber cabs in San Francisco, but I've yet to successfully ride in one.
Even amongst those available on the job market, the "top 1%" is highly subjective based on an employer's interpretation of employee virtues.
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Many companies that require simple yet flexible and powerful telephony may not have any coding skills. TellFi is offering an idiot-proof solution. Thats invaluable.

Even if you have amazing coding power on your team (or personally), it comes down to opportunity cost. As a coder, it might be pretty cool to feel that you hacked together your own phone system, but then if you want to change the routing system or welcome message or something, do you have to hack some more? And when does that end?

Maybe that time can be better spend elsewhere (i.e. improving on something that only you can do - maybe something that improves your product).

I personally think TellFi looks really cool, and the built in analytics is super cool too. If I lived in the states (they only provide US and Canadian numbers) I'd definitely give it a whirl.
Square bypasses that, they deposit into the bank account every business day. There are some exceptions for larger transactions.
Anyone know why the Windows installer takes so long? What's it doing for an hour and a half?
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Some suggestions :
1) Make the link for change from Fahrenheit to Celsius more obvious
2) Check https://datamarket.azure.com/browse/category/weather/ for weather related data ( historical & imagery)
I think that it is still a delusion, even if you add the "currently on the market". The best people currently on the market won't probably bother sending you an application - they will probably just take advantage of their networks.
Movie theatres have an important place for North American society. It's a place that teenagers can go and mostly stay out of trouble. If they want to watch shitty movies, they're welcome to that. :)

I'm fine with this situation. If creative people make TV and movies for adults and they do it on HBO or AMC, that's fine. The cable channels have changed the rules the game - you can be creative without Hollywood.

These days, I think the theatre experience is negative for most of us. We'd rather be at home watching on our flatscreens anyway.

It's similar to what Conan did by moving to TBS. It shows that the existing power structure, (network TV) can be circumvented using other means. The web makes it possible for word of mouth to travel quickly, I can watch Conan online for free, he gets ad revenue just like he did before and everyone's happy except an irrelevant NBC.
Your point about hiring's a good one, but there's certainly a developer drought here too -- sounds like it's worse over in Cali.

On the flip side I've found bootstrapping to be a viable option in Boston/Cambridge. There's enough demand for developers that it's reasonable to find good contracting gigs (light long-term or heavy short-term). A couple hours a week or a few packed weeks makes it so you can stay afloat without being at the mercy of Boston investors.
I'm not sure what polished means, in this context. Do you mean that there aren't entrenched vested interests within the firm, or that people are asked/enjoy being flexible and moving around the product line?
For a while, http://whatismyip.org/ returned your IP in plain text, but no longer.
What is this argument, and which side is it on?
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And hopefully burdened with less administrative tasks and armed with more data that tracks progress and speed of learning, teachers can act more as a curator of knowledge (and guides, as you described) that cater more specifically to the needs of each student. It could very well be that in a few years, our children are bombarded with more educational content that they know what to do with, and the roles of the teachers will also rightfully shift.
They only ever applied for one or two jobs in their lives.

Does nobody work in high school or college anymore?
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Email works because everyone uses a web-based email, namely one of three: gmail, hotmail, yahoo.

The end result is the same: a few BigCompanies have access to alot of your data.

I think most people here on HN use gmail (but I could be wrong).
yeah. But the weird part is that we were testing for exactly that!

Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt

and returning 173. Now we are going to be looking for that, and if not found, try looking for /Receipt.

According to http://getsatisfaction.com/firemint/topics/it_wont_start_on_... it is actually Receipt.

I don't know, which one is it?
I am worried that it might be one of the OTHER places where 173 is being returned. Such as if Apple's Root CA is missing.

I thought that whole /receipt thing as autogenerated by apple.
I vote we stop linking to articles behind paywalls/loginwalls, like this one.
This is a great addition to php's toolset.

And for those, who want greater flexibility, https://github.com/indeyets/appserver-in-php is a Ruby-Rack/Python-WSGI style solution which gives you possibility to initialise objects, open db-connections, pre-warm caches, etc. before serving requests. Provides HTTP, SCGI and Mongrel2 interfaces
Most people do. Not all.
The point being that you could choose to roll your own if you wanted to.

I bet many people on HN have their own domain and their own mail server. Hell, for a few dollars a month you can get a web hosting company to set it up for you.

For those who care about those things, they can do that and still be able to communicate with people who use gmail or yahoo mail.
thanks, may i explain why i am asking.

maybe this will out of scope too, but i was interested in stories when a business-oriented person with knowledge of interpreted languages but without knowing the DB part succeeds in creating an online service, like here

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2230268 (the parent is the story itself)

so i want to think that the database tools (or particular database engines, chosen right) might help more people to succeed, while knowing the basics of things like OO, normalizations and such.

OR should we leave business to businessmen and developing to geeks?

(and is The Social Network movie showing a complete computer nerd get the common human psychology so right a total tale? :) )
I'd suspect he means the argument that goes like:

"There are hundreds of resumes submitted for every job opening in Industry X. Why, then, are we STEALING AMERICAN JOBS by allowing H-1B visa holders to enter the country and take this opening?"
All my friends that are really good "never went on the job market" and got hired following to their summer internship, and a few others (good ones) and I went forward to a Ph.D. This proves nothing, but brings some evidence.
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The other "bootstrap yourself with Scala" links:

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8610

http://www.tikalk.com/java/blog/simpler-parts-scala

and i think the Pragmatic, Venkat Subramaniam, mid-09 text is still a good intro, modulo the 2.8 stuff:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Scala-Multi-Core-Complexity-Programmers/dp/193435631X/
There were way more than 16 iPad apps available at launch, and the ones that were available were also top-notch quality (especially the Apple Pages/Numbers/Keynote suite).

3 months is an eternity in this industry. No one's going to pass on an iPad or iPad 2 in favour of a Xoom on the vague promise of more apps coming in 3 months.

You sound like you are lamenting what ought to be, instead of what actually is, today.
According to Google it is:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...
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If this had/has an API it would make for a great game-board for MMOG's/on-line-&-offline-games or even strategy-games. Imagine adding textures for units and/or craters (though I'd guess this latter would be banned pretty soon).
Bittorrent is different. You don't care who the other nodes are, all you care about is you're connected to some nodes, and the client takes care of that for you.

Like others said, the only way a decentralized facebook would work is when everyone uses one (or two) central nodes (site) which will most likely be run by something like Google or Microsoft, and the end result will be the same: big company has access to all your data.

The "Like" button probably wouldn't work though. If you're some external website, which "like" button will you embed? Google's like button? or Microsoft's?
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Sure. We can talk about this. I would think more about these features and let you know about it.
This, I think:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JSONP

Under the same origin policy, a web page served from server1.example.com cannot normally connect to or communicate with a server other than server1.example.com. An exception is the HTML <script> element.
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Wow,

It certainly gives you a feel Red Hat is feeling some resentment concerning those who "take" "their" source code.

RH is one of the largest businesses based on open source software. What's up? Are they feeling so much pressure they feel a economic need to stop "free loaders?" Is it simple greed?

There was a lot of sniping concerning Red Hat and Ubuntu's contribution to desktop Linux a while back. Another salvo in the "free loaders" battle?
Besides the obvious brilliance in every single word in that article, Joel;s strongest advice is the part about hiring summer interns and also begging for people to intern with them. Of course the underlying assumption is that you are not giving offers to people who are too qualified for your job and that you/your company/company culture are/is not trash.
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I think the question should be downvoted because anyone who's got a web browser to visit HN also has Google and a web search widget just a click away. And Mr. Rails/37Signals is the top result for a search on DHH. Downvoting paolo's attempt at an answer is not cool, however. Or least, it's less understandable.
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How is this going to affect search results when someone googles my name ? This could be very useful because I have a very common name and it would be nice to get bumped up a bit because I have a google profile.
1. thanks! at first glance looks like the mysql setup didn't handle loops well..

3. you were remarkably calm and didn't pay any attention, though the neighbouring house could be on fire, god forbid! :)
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To add to that: how do you get what people want to the people who want it? Without hunting them down, they're unlikely to know you've solved their problem(s).
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Mobile payments have been around in Africa for years, mainly because there's no legacy systems to compete with, and the lack of a solid banking/payment processing industry has made growth occur unopposed.

Whereas the incumbent players in North America (most credit card and payment processing juggernauts) will most likely put up more of a fight against systems like Square.

There's a recent podcast about the mobile payment industry (http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2011/02/spark-139-february-27-march-...), check out the part about Mobile money in Kenya, and the Smartphone wallet.
Not sure if this comment adds any value (I really need to go to bed) but how about requesting an action before showing people the search results for the first time?
Kinda like http://www.tweetperview.com for searches.

Another way to monetize without a pay wall would be to use CPA ads, though some of them are scams...

Have you checked out http://sxc.hu yet? They have been online for a few years now and they monetize through iStockPhoto aff links.

Hope this helps :-)

Good luck!
The top 1% don't actively look for work. They are already working.

The top 1% is the gold dust that every head hunter in the country wants to get their hands on but how do you quantify it? As an earlier commenter stated, the top 1% is entirely subjective. If you asked ten different companies to select the top 1% of candidates, all ten would produce different results.

Those reading this article hoping to discover how to include themselves in this illustrious 1% will once again be left dissapointed because the final decision is always made by a human and humans are fickle, contradictory beings meaning that the golden formula just doesn't exist.

I work in the recruitment industry and I hear people say all the time that recruitment is a science. Whilst the process may have a scientific element in theory, when it comes to hirirng managers perception of candidates suitability, all science goes out the window and is overruled by ego, emotion and greed.
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I don't consider myself to be in the top percent of anything; but I'm not even taking advantage of my network, it's the other way around - my network takes advantage of me :)

I.e. every couple of months I receive a really good job offer (discounting the shitty ones), just because someone knows somebody who knows me. It's getting really hard to say NO too.
Yeah I had noticed that but didn't think much of it. It does get kind of annoying.

It shouldn't take long at all to do... so I'll add a div with a fixed position way off the page and out of sight to preload the images since I want the landing page(s) to be 100% functional without javascript.
I agree 100% on the power button placement. I stopped by the Verizon store today to try it out and it literally took me several minutes to figure out how to turn it on. Of course, once you know where it is isn't not an issue, but it's not the best first impression. I imagine most people will fumble around the sides for a few seconds before they just give up and move on to the iPad.
The point is not whether the system understands Chinese, the point is that such an "algorithm" or "system" does not produce human-like consciousness.
I have the new top bar in gmail, but not in greader.
My understanding is that this has a lot more to do with Oracle representing Red Hat's work as their own to their customers.
The other "bootstrap yourself with Scala" links:

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8610

http://www.tikalk.com/java/blog/simpler-parts-scala

and i think the Pragmatic, Venkat Subramaniam, mid-09 text is still a good intro, modulo the 2.8 stuff:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Scala-Multi-Core-Complexit...
Can be really useful? or it is a new simple way to waste your time.
A walled garden is unquestionably better. It isn't fool proof but it's the same situation as security: you can't make your system completely secure but you can make it more secure than the next guy. The Android store is the next guy.
I like IF, and I'm wearing corduroy trousers. :(
I think it's fair if it's aimed at Oracle given Oracle's record in terms of "supporting" open source. It will probably hurt a lot many others though, including CentOS.

I would be happy to provide a free copy to anyone that might want to use Patch Miner (http://patterninsight.com/patchminer/) to verify patches in one of the free distros
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Hyperbolic nonsense as explained here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2283338
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> CentOS is built from the RHEL source by a limited number of volunteers and Red Hat's change in policy will mean more work for them unless more volunteers or other companies step in and provide them with assistance.

I don't understand this statement. I thought CentOS basically just recompiled the source RPMs--why does pre-applying the patches affect them negatively?
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That's what I was thinking as I read the article. "The foreigners are gonna eat your lunch, Hollywood. You're living on borrowed time."
That's hardly "obfuscation".

> Now though, the company ships a tarball of the source code with the patches already applied.

No obfuscation what so ever.

Unless you define "source" as "source code + version control history".
Its simplicity sets it apart from the usual suspects, which is great, although I'm not sure that it's a startup.

Some quick observations:

1. Try input#q:focus { outline: none } to get rid of the browser's focus glow on the search box, it's somewhat distracting.

2. It would be cool to have urls like http://howistheweather.in/10001 or http://howistheweather.in/San-Francisco. Or at least make the existing http://howistheweather.in/#10001 type urls work (by which I mean bookmarkable).

3. Hourly view would be a great addition.

4. Sliding share bar is distracting. Personally I can't think of a reason to share the weather (well, other than to gloat, I suppose), but either have it always visible or take it away.
The problem for Microsoft is that when they do that the third generation of iPads and the second generation of Android tablets will probably already be shipping or shipping soon. It at least doesn’t look like there will be a tablet with a Microsoft OS in the first half of 2011 and I’m highly doubtful that there will be one in the second half — early 2012 seems more realistic.

Microsoft has demonstrated that it can deliver a very competitive touch OS with Windows Phone 7 but it’s at this point still doubtful whether Windows phones will capture any meaningful slice of the smartphone market. A tablet OS from Microsoft would be similarly late to the game.
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On anthropomorphic terminology, I always found his thoughts[1] on that fascinating. While I'm not completely convinced it's a flaw in every case, I find this kind of thinking almost impossible to avoid without lots of effort, which is probably a condition of being human (and learning BASIC first) :-)

[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/EW...
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After you clear to the linked bank account, you need to be sure to move the money into a second account, as they are permitted by the terms of service to attempt to withdraw from your linked bank account any and all money they deem necessary up to the total amount received for all transactions for a good deal of time. I strongly advise you link a non-primary account for this reason.
Well, it seems like that could be dealt with through an information campaign...
for #2 see my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2283301
How did he make sure that the compiler wouldn't optimize them away?
Nokia can't do it, but the people don't like their Symbian UI. Those are the priorities I guess.
That was a great article. Thanks for sharing!
Shoddy at best? iPad 2 ships on the 11th, with an enormous portfolio of apps. Do you think that's worth nothing?

I'm betting the average consumer cares about four things:

- How the product feels in the store. (Is it solid and how responsive is it?)

- What they can do with it. (What apps can I run?)

- Who's recommending the product. (What does the NYT say? What do my friends say?)

- Price. (Can I afford this?)

On which of those things does Xoom beat iPad or iPad 2? Who will walk into a store and see the Xoom next to an iPad or iPad 2 and say: I'm gonna buy the Xoom, even though it costs more, doesn't run the apps my friends are talking about, and isn't recommended by anyone I know! Hell, I'll go out on a limb and just guess, since I've held neither a Xoom or iPad 2, that the iPad 2 feels better in my hands. Past performance being a future predictor, I bet Apple nailed that experience.

So, given that, is the argument that there's only 16 apps shoddy? By your post, it's an argument that there's no unique content for Honeycomb for the next 6 months – that there's no unique content vs. iPad or iPad 2 for the next 6 months. And don't forget that those 6 months are not a vacuum of development for either Apple or 3rd party devs. Apple's likely to announce a new iOS release, and there will be tens of thousands of new, unique apps posted to the iOS App Store.

I think that's a pretty solid argument against Xoom, especially since Xoom loses on every other factor (I think consumers care about) right off the bat.
I find it quite interesting. For me, aside from email all of the areas he touches on constitute noise, angelgate, bin38, all that jazz. Obviously it's noise to me because I'm completely disconnected from that world. I definitely agree that we're growing into a world where there is a heck of a lot more noise, in fact compared to the 90s I'd say it's pretty deafening these days. I hope that people have become smarter consumers of media and discussion to cope with this, to be able to spot obvious spin and hopefully see through it.

But as we grow used to the noise around us I wonder if there's still a place for a disruptive technology that filters noise and provides us only with signal. Would users feel as though they're missing out? Would the quiet make them feel unsettled?
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see my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2283301