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Sun should have 'gone consumer'. (SGI, also, should have gone consumer.)

If you'd made a decent laptop, or if SGI had made a decent laptop, things would have been different. Why the hell am I buying a Unix workstation, in the 21st Century, from Apple?

Imagine what could have been if SGI and Sun had made the leap to laptops. Yikes!
You might look into robots.txt and then reconsider your point.
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First of all, the modern desktop OS is patterned after the work of Xerox PARC.
Second of all, that form factor was used before Apple introduced the Powerbook.
Last but not least, best phone doesn't equal slab of touch-sensitive glass that drops calls when you hold it wrong. Touch screens in general aren't a great fit when it comes to phone use. If we're talking phones, models like the Nokia E52 beat the pants off of any touch model.
I think this is the biggest issue with the new subscription rule: Not the 30%, not the requirement to price match, but that it's just so confusing that nobody really understands what applies and where.
I think the website should tell me about the product before asking for my e-mail address. I visited and the only thing I saw the a box begging for my address. As of now I still know nothing about the product.
The problem is that gmail stores your email on Google's server, and that the US government can therefore coerce them to get that information.

The solution is for everyone to use encrypted email, where the decrypted data only exist on your hard disk. Governments and powerful people can still get at it, but to do so they have to burgle your house, which costs them time and money (so they can't do it to everyone), popularity (in states that have to care about what the public thinks, they can't burgle everyone), and also alerts the suspect.

So why don't people do this? I use gmail because it's convenient. The solution to this problem is obviously to make locally-stored email as easy to read as gmail.

As it happens, I'm working on a project ("Shout!" is the current working title) that aims to do just that (among other things).
This is an incredibly ignorant article. Why is this on the front page of HN?
So, since I want Apple to have strong competition, I’ll urge you to build Android apps

Points 1, 4 and that sentence are possibly the only sensible things written in the whole article.
Without you, we would never have gotten Earthlink Network off the ground, for example. I forget - didn't Earthlink pay you a license fee, back in the day?
Further, you should eat well and wait for your muscles to recover, the optimal time to retrain is during 'overcompensation', 40-60 hours for endurance and 48-72 hours for power, strength and mass.

As well, you should exercise 'weak muscles' to avoid injury, for people sitting in front of computers a lot it really helps to exercise the back muscles.
So 9/10 people come to you, most of the time you quote them $3000/$3500 irrespective of their budget and they walk away?

If you don't want to call them "packages", that's fine -- but if you're giving fixed-price quotes of $3000-$3500 irrespective of the client when all they really want/need is 10-20 hours of your time you might be doing yourself a disservice.

By the same token, if your experience tells you that you really need the 75 hours to do a good job for a client, then don't sell yourself short.

Maybe you need to ask your clients to clarify what their expectations are in terms of hours and incorporate that into your quotes?

Maybe you need to clarify that you can be flexible with the overall price in exchange for less time (e.g. maybe do fewer revisions, simpler designs, whatever -- I'm not really a design expert).

Or maybe it's time to start billing by the hour? :)

Of course, you may hold yourself to a high standard and feel that you require that much time to do a "good job" by your clients. That's fine too, but understand that's a business decision that will leave you with fewer clients.

Just my two cents, but hope it provides some food for thought.
It's perfectly reasonable - the only similarity between Android and iPhone is the form factor, they can still hate the differences, and there are important differences.
Not sure if you're being humoristic, but any car advanced enough to have this IQon technology most probably also has a regular basic in-car computer, and those tend to track mileage by default. You don't even have to key in the numbers.
IIRC, what's expanding is the distance between particles. Technically, the particles in your ears are moving farther apart, but the forces that keep your ears attached to your head then conspire to keep them in approximately the same spot. The expansion still happens, it's just that the effects get propagated to places where mass density is low, aka between stars.

Then again, I could be totally wrong about that.
But with access to the CAN bus, you can write an app to calculate milage automatically. You can analyse mileage for a cold engine, between fillups (remember you have access to the fuel gague), by road (GPS tracks) - some pretty interesting options.
I'd get more work done ... maybe
In a democracy the solution to this would be to form a political party, win elections, and thus force the state to change policy.

Unfortunately I doubt that the USA is sufficiently democratic for that to work. So a better solution would be to write software that makes it a lot harder for governments to know what people are communicating on the internet.
There are quite a few teams working on driveless cars. for example six won the last DARPA challenge , a european funded vehicle won did a 8000 miles trip from italy to china , israel is using similar technologies for military purposes, and GM and folksvagen is working on systems.

from the other side , google's total investment in the project is a yearly $15 million ,which is not unsourmountable.

I don't have a very deep knowledge about this , but my guess is that the big competitive barriers here are gaining enough real life experience , legal and regulatory barriers , and branding.

The companies that would make most the money from this technology would have those strengths. this looks more like a big car company than google.
I don't understand this argument at all.

Why did anyone buy an iPad when they came out? There were no iPad specific apps when it came out, and yet it sold well.

Clearly, Android has a good web browser and email client, and that's enough for many. Just as clearly there are a huge number of non-tablet specific apps that will run fine on the Android tablets, and Android developers are desperately releasing tablet apps as fast as they can to try and take advantage of the "gold rush" when a new platform launches.
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And the copyright industry has lots of money with which to bribe politicians.
>Others, like a commenter on the National Federation of the Blind’s listserv, consider him “disgraceful” for promoting behavior such as tongue clicking that could be seen as off-putting and abnormal.

Appalling. Forcing people to be cripple because solving it might be "off-putting" or "abnormal" [1]. Blind people being able to do all the things the sighted can do (and more in some cases) is worth hearing a few clicks now and again.

[1] I say "solving" because Kish doesn't seem to be at a strict disadvantage. He has disadvantages and he has advantages in areas we don't (e.g. finding the way out of a car park, "seeing" around corners, etc.).
Agreed on the shyster / snake oil point.

The fundamental business model of most gyms is to sign up as many members as possible, irrespective of whether those members then attend (that is why you have membership 'contracts', direct debits, etc...)

Hence, gyms are optimised for increasing sign-ups - not for getting you fit. So things look shiny, modern, relaxing, appealing to some imagined lifestyle. Then in reality you end up sitting on your couch eating crisps ('chips' Americans) and feeling guilty.
....does noticing the "try a flash free test" link scores as a win, or it was a bug?
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Do you think I should perhaps switch the request box to the bottom of the page? This way the 'Benefits' would appear first? This would push the sign-up box below the fold but I guess this might be better if it appeared to you like I was begging for your email. Any one else care to comment?
Any place within 100 miles of the US border is a Constitution-free zone:

http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty...
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Thanks for the link. I recently injured my neck (c5-c6 and c6-c7), and the physical therapist has suggested a few exercises, but was unable to explain the purpose or benefit of them.
I'd also put some more information about you the the product in your HN profile (you currently only have the url).

This adds credibility to your comments, and also provides a non-spammy place to promote the product (since people will only view your profile if they're interested in learning more about you or Mighty CV).

(Feel free to see, and provide feedback on my HN profile where I do the same.)
As a squash player, one thing I hear often, and also tell people myself is: You don't play squash to get fit, you get fit to play squash.

It's a bit opposite of what you are saying, in the sense that you want to do alternative/strength training next to your sport to improve your game. This mentality and way of training has radically improved my own game the last year.
[citation needed]

Here's another anecdote: No lifting weights, only running & cycling and lately swimming. Pretty much the opposite of what the article is arguing. Since I started this I'm doing I'm doing fairly well, six pack included. I went to the gym once, and saw bulked up guys getting 5 pull ups. So I tried that and could easily do 30. Lifting weights may make you look like a bodybuilder, but are you really fit?
I think the "problem" is that most people just don't need that kind of thing until they get really big.

When you're small, a language like Ruby or Python that's faster to develop in is more of an advantage.
I personally do not think it has any bering on the rate, you charge what the market can bear. Outsourcing was supposed to be the cure to the expensive American and European work force by leveling the playing field. What no one accounted for was there are only so many people in the world that are even interested in doing jobs that are technical in nature. That amount of people is a very small segment of the population so even with Eastern Europe, India and China now supplying the global technical work force there are not enough skilled people to go around. While the market corrected itself, it slowed wage growth, but those days are over and you should charge accordingly. A lot of people in emerging markets like India think they have to undercut US prices to compete which is just no longer a reality, the reality is there are not enough hands to reap the harvest and your leaving money on the table if your trying to compete based on price.
... if you use PyQt4 and WebKit as your basic building blocks, of course. Basically all the application code does is connect things together to make a browser. Still, quite neat.
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worship: http://www.google.de/images?q=steve+jobs+messiah

rituals: the constant plugging in of iphones and ipods into iDevices to recharge/setup

Couldn't resist ;)
Not to sure I agree on the premise of building android apps because "Even a crappy app. Even one that does nothing but make fart noises" will get noticed. I don't want to associate my hard work in an environment devoid of quality. If the same argument had been made that there is a land grab situation for placing yourself at the forefront of 'popular' android applications then it would be a diffrent matter.

Lets not try and encourage crap android applications because there is no quality control guidelines ( be them good or not good )
I guess the lesson to criminals is clear: make sure your victim is poor. Beat some homeless person to death and make a video? Excellent. Re-broadcast free broadcast TV? Lose all your money and spend the rest of your life in prison.
> I wonder if it is a regional thing.

It is.
The iPhone has been able to drive cars since version 3.0.1. Google should really be focusing on making lists more springy at their ends instead of this sort of trivial thing.
The naming thing is such a big issue and I don't see why everyone just keeps on getting it so wrong.

For an example, I bought a Sony Vaio laptop a few months ago. Great piece of kit and I love it, but trying to work out what to get was bewildering - there's 7 or 8 categories with single letter names - 'S-series, Y-series, Z-series, F-series' etc.

What do they mean? Which should I be looking at? I had to scour through comparing until I realised which one I should be looking at.

Compare that to Macbooks - you've got:
Macbook (the standard, economical)
Macbook Pro (high performance)
Macbook Air (portable)

It's pretty clear to most people interested in buying a Macbook which one they should look at. Also relevant is the fact that Apple don't put too many versions out keeping things in well defined clusters.
Once a client gives me some specifics regarding their projects, I can estimate how much time it'll take, and I quote a fixed price based on that. In most cases my estimate is either spot on, or off by at most an hour.

The problem with offering a "lower price product" is that none of the clients want them, although it is possible that I simply haven't marketed it properly.
There's an emphasis on improving scores and people get carried away for sure. But in the two boxes I've trained at there's a culture for good form and working on technique. "Honesty in motion, honesty in counting".

I believe it's a CrossFit thing.
Maybe I'm the weird one, but in nearly a year of using my iPad every day, I've simply found that apps don't matter nearly as much (for me) as they do on a phone. There are a handful of really popular apps like Kindle and Twitter, but those are also the ones that run everywhere. Looking at my iPad usage, there are only about 10-12 apps I use regularly. Most of them have equal or better Android versions (browser, mail, kindle, zinio, etc.). The one app I use that has no good replacement is Papers.

Like I said, I use my iPad constantly. But the things I hate about the first one, I hate about the second one too (notifications, no filesystem access, low-res screen). It's smaller, lighter, and faster, but the first one was small, fast, and light enough.

Meanwhile, I have an Android phone and there's a lot of stuff I like there. Especially on a large screen like the iPad/Xoom, the iOS notification system and static grid of icons on the home screen are just criminal. I'm going to buy a Xoom and give it a shot.
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It very much depends on a problem you're trying to solve. For a wide range of tasks Erlang is a very natural fit. In my last two projects (server monitoring solution and mobile twitter client) I used Erlang mostly to cut the development time.
This feels like my method of blog post promotion. I read the posts where I comment carefully, if they fit with "me", I write a relevant and interesting comment (trying to add my grain of salt to whatever the post was about), and a link back to some relevant post in my own blog. Some days I feel like I'm spamming, some days I feel that I'm just doing what I should. Who knows? Try to be faithful to yourself: if you add to the conversation, I don't think that adding a back link is a problem: it can solve a problem for one out of a hundred. If it can, and would only bother one out of a hundred other readers, I don't think this is a problem.

And no, I won't post a link to a relevant post now ;)
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Ask HN: Changing languages, professionally
I've been coding since the mid 90s and delved seriously into 10+ languages, but almost all my professional experience is with PHP. It wasn't the plan, it just sort of happened. On the other hand, I've spent most of the past year working exclusively with Node.js, both on open-source projects and on a closed-source venture that never took flight. I had hoped that even if it failed, it would springboard me to a career using something besides PHP.

It didn't work.

Lately I've been going after Node.js work and consistently getting denied because my resume still just says PHP. People skim, they don't really read the cover letters or click through to the Github profile full of Node.js projects. Which makes sense. I understand the spam that job ads attract.

How do I get past this chicken-and-egg problem? Do other developers talk about open source projects directly on their resumes, right alongside paid work? And how do you sell experience gained on a closed source project with barely a name and no associated company, website, or other marketing? I've got this sinking feeling that I'll have to go back, launch the startup and then tank it just so that I have something easier to reference.
Scoble thinks he knows what he's talking about, but sometimes he really misses the bar. He needs to sit down sometime and really program.
Lots of these tech journalists haven't seen enough of the reality of developing software. Leo Laporte, Scobleizer, etc.
It would be hard to find such a community, hence very disappointed...
I'm not sure about other browsers, but I'd like to point out that Firefox with Noscript is very effective at preventing the print popups.
> But put me on the beach in Thailand for 5 months and holy crap, what a difference.

That's my dream right there.
I'd add open source project along jobs. I.e. if you "worked on open source project A from april 2009 to june 2010", put this along "worked for company A from march to august 2010". Add then a link to the relevant repository and let the interviewer decide if it is relevant or not.
One thing he didn't say that is, in my opinion, a result from all those things, is getting and staying in the zone. If there is a harder place to get into the zone than a "war" room, I can't think of what it is.
What does that change? Perhaps these content providers should look into a DMCA takedown request and reconsider their position. The target of this raid wasn't hosting any content himself, he was only hosting links that most likely went out to large video sites, where the copyright holder could request a takedown. My understanding is they were simply annoyed at this guy's aggregation of the links and added him to the target list.
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Because not everyone shares your opinion.
Almost like a taxi?

I guess with driverless it's more like cloud carpooling.
Insane.

1. The US government now isn't even trying to pretend it doesn't only work for obsolete corporations. This is all make-work crap. They know the streams will be published somehow.

1a Until the supremes work out and declare that (soft) money is not protected speech, America will be an absolute, undemocratic plutocracy.

2. Why allow someone to register a domain that is obviously to be used for exactly this purpose in the first place?

3. The penalty for using frames on a site is now 5 years in prison.
Why not put Free / Open Source on your resume so they can't avoid seeing it? Experience is experience.

A company name, length of time, and languages / platforms used is really all you need to say if there is nothing better to put in the space; I expect references would be helpful for most clients in that case, however.
I haven't done any of those things. Yet I'd wage it would be better to live on a shelter than on the streets, unless one has some serious psychological demons, in which case an hospital with specialized care should be preferable.
It's expensive, but relative too. Last time I ran the numbers London was was more like 1.4x Paris, but it might be 4x somewhere in rural Wales...
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Erlang is real fast to develop in. We write a lot of Erlang (switched to Erlang from being a Ruby shop in 2004) and it is lovely, fast-to-build/debug/change.

It is dynamically-typed (but you can do static analysis with Dialyzer to check that it is well behaved - sort of semi-typed, best-of-both-worlds).

Although Erlang is not (usually) interpreted, you can hot load Erlang binaries into a running system in the VM which is super-cool and makes development an unalloyed pleasure.
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I responded to a similar question yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2285213

Just because you have some technical skill, doesn't mean you have to put it prominently on your resume. If you don't want to do PHP jobs, take PHP off your resume.

Can I program COM/NAnt scripts/batch files? Yes. Do I want to get paid to do it all day? No. Do they appear on my resume? No.
The only thing I agree with in the article is that cardio machines in the gym are a waste of time.

Not sure this is really true or that it matters. A 5 mile run on the treadmill at an x minute pace is the same as a 5 mile run outside at an x minute pace. Advantages of the treadmill include being able to keep a given pace without making any particular mental effort. Advantages of being outside is that it's not boring.
Scoble is missing one important thing: there is absolutely NO way of finding out which apps are designed to work on Android Tablets, and which are built only for phones and will just (crappy) scale up.
Right. Then they need to count Etcha-Sketch in there too.
Worst use of the word "unlimited" I've seen recently.
How many apps do you need? Don't get me wrong, I think the iPad is very, very good. I use mine every day. But I just took it out and counted the apps I actually use really ever, and apparently 64,987 of those 65,000 apps could be deleted tomorrow with no apparent loss of functionality for me. Of the 13 remaining, at least half run everywhere (Kindle, Twitter, etc.), several others are nice-to-have ways to access web sites (Alien Blue for Reddit, Instapaper, FeeddlerPro for Google Reader), and only one by my count has no suitable replacement outside of the iPad (Papers).

Yes, everyone will have a different set of apps they use, but there's no realistic justification that "SearchEngines.ru Forum" (from the recent release page I just looked at) is adding much value to the platform. A lot of those 65,000 are apps like those. Realistically, if you have maybe 1500 of the most popular apps, you have enough to pretty well serve the market.