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>Android has made excellent inroads in the mobile phone space because it is free, carriers need a strategic answer to iPhone, and have subsidy power to shift market share.

I know that until quite recently, in the U.S. Apple had an exclusive deal with AT&T for the iPhone. Apple was not similarly locked down in other markets.

Does Android have similar success in the UK and France where the iPhone is available on multiple carriers?

I think Android will be strong on tablets, but they are not today.

If Apple builds the iPad brand with premium apps that people buy, users will have the same inertia on the iPad that windows users have with Windows: I don't want to re-buy all my apps just to get the "also-ran" model from <insert tablet maker here>.

I believe that's the reason why Apple is touting Garageband and iMovie on the iPad. Apple is hoping that people stick around because of the software.
Having only recently read Peopleware 2nd Ed., I've been mulling over the audition concept in the "Hiring A Juggler" chapter - effectively having a developer present on a project they worked on, what they contributed and learned and so forth.

It seems like it would have value - allow the candidate to prepare and present on a topic they're strong on, and in-depth enough to allow cross-examination.

Has anyone any experience of this from either side?
I was in the not-a-bubble camp, but the Color money and then programmers on MTV have me reconsidering my position.

I know MTV is just a side effect of the movie, but still.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGTSTP
Same story here. Partner and I did a fairly complex micro-lending platform for a non-profit as our first major gig. Some of the work was pro-bono, some $35/hour range. We did well, gave them what they needed, and now we're booked with clients for the next six months from referrals and others who wanted to work with us based on that site. We've moved comfortably into the $60-80 range with pretty clear indications that we can keep pushing it higher.
Exactly - the premise of the whole article is incorrect.
> Why do half of people claim to be above average?

Because of illusory superiority. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority)
I think one of the key blockers would be the fear that the designers don't fully make sure that the virophages damages only the target cells and doesn't decide to munch on more useful parts of our internal ecosystem when its intended food supply runs out (or if it mutates).

Even if they have created something that definitely won't have adverse side effects (which isn't actually possible, I know, but bare with me on this for a second) they still have to convince the General Public that it is safe which could be an expensive PR job. Joe Schmo has seen too many zombie-virus movies and/or puts too much trust in things like Prince Commudgen's uninformed ramblings about grey goo, to trust anything they don't understand. Don't get me wrong: a fistful or few of such distrust is healthy for society, but from a commercial point of view it is just a potentially expensive problem to overcome.

They would also hit the nutty god botherer problem: this might only be a virus (and a modification of one, not the creation of one from scratch) but it could be seen as creating new life, something only the bi-polar sky fairy is permitted to dabble in.

And back to the impossibility of creating something that definitely won't have side effects for the patient and those around them: the companies need to be sure that the potential clean-up costs (i.e. litigation) or more than covered by the guaranteed profits - otherwise it is just safer to stick with the current treatment/business model, at least while it is turning a good profit.

(A quick note on my use of "nutty god botherer" and "bi-polar sky fairy" as they have caused heated discussion before: the many religious people I know, and I presume other otherwise sensible ones, take those as facetious jokey definitions (i.e. as they are intended) - the people who get offended by this sort of thing tend to be people I don't mind offending!)
In arc: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=6669
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Because Euro is pronounced you-ro, and the rule for using "an" is if the word starts with a vowel sound ("you" is not a vowel sound). I'm Greek, so we say Ev-ro, but we have no "an" :P
Another story that comes to mind is the guy who got detained for twittering that he would blow up the airport if he would have to wait any longer (don't remember the exact details, but it was obvious it was just figurative speech).

Writing acknowledgements in a book is a lot less casual than Twitter.

Why is this acknowledgment famous, anyway? I don't think it is very funny. I get the "fuck you all" part, but not the "severed heads" part. YMMV.
BTW the bug is fixed in the repository version.
"Non-deterministic" is a somewhat technical term... Wikipedia gives a good explanation of what aspect of this operation makes it be called nondeterministic. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_algorithm)
It has gotten some attention from mainstream media already , and that's nice imho. People should get "scared" and aware .
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/smartphone-apps-tracking-ke...

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/03/11/05
Here in Sweden, the iPad 2 costs less on introduction than the iPad 1 did. Possibly favourable dollar value with regard to the swedish krona did that.
umm... see that bit under the vote which says "xxx points"? That's how many many voted for that item!
1 is pretty unlikely. 2&3 are far more likely

It's funny you say "more likely" when the odds are still, to be blunt, stacked against you (I'm not trying to be a jerk, but you probably realize it's all still a longshot).

Ultimately I think your value function has to heavily and positively weight the work you're doing for 12 hours a day. If you're missing your free time I don't see how any rational person can voluntarily continue working those hours.
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This could have easily been an April fools joke
For HN, a story of what you've done, what technology you used, what problems you had, and how you solved them, is at least as interesting as the product itself. Then people might look at it for a bit to evaluate what you've done, and maybe get hooked. From what you say, I would consider using it, if only my browser supported it.

Hope that helps.
It's opt-in

You may be right about it being opt-in - although the "We locate 180 million [phones]" makes that unclear. I don't see how they can claim that if it is opt-in.

definitely no way to get a locate without a device owner providing permission to do so.

It's not clear to me what you are saying here. The carriers know where every phone is (by the cell being used), which is the location used for non-GPS enabled phones. Veriplace may not let you as a developer see this, but given that veriplace seems to get access to your location without permission, I think it is misleading to say there is no way to get access to your location.

these companies are tightly regulated and strictly watched over by both the government and the carriers. It's not these services that should be the concern, it's more so data retention policies and what not of carriers where the data originates.

See, I disagree. I think if Veriplace can get this data then it isn't beyond imagination for other companies to get access to the data from the carriers too.
Been running it for about 15 minutes now and its still downloading the tweets/photos. Anyone else experiencing this sort of delay?
I assumed he meant Woz.
>>Strip.py

Write in Erlang. Surprisingly, Strip.er and Stripp.er are free...

Eritrea is an unusually disgusting dictatorship afaik, so they'll probably be happy to sell domain names (along with body parts of people with the wrong opinions). Lots of English words end in 'er', right? Another business idea -- offer to administer the top domain.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.er
If you have ever worked with GPS you would know that it is terrible in near-field applications. for eg. you can't pin a user to an exact location, let alone which floor of a building they are on. Color's attempt to solve this problem by using bluetooth, image recognition, the microphone etc. is very important.

That alone could be a killer application.

Thinking back at the Color launch, I don't know what they could have done different. They had a lot of coverage, but the lead story was criticism over the amount of money raised.

This leads me to think that the startup and tech audience today is a lot more pessimistic when fundraising is involved. Only a few years ago raising $41M from Sequoia would get a lot of positive attention. It would be something that every entrepreneur would loved to shout from the rooftops. The lead story would be 'there must be something interesting here' as opposed to 'wtf are they smoking'.

The attitude may have changed because of the financial crisis, or general pessimism, or because the audience is expecting every startup now to be bootstrapped and funded with $10k.

Color did find themselves in a tough situation with a reaction that they likely didn't foresee. I wish some of the initial coverage was in-depth and analytical as some of the follow-up coverage has been. The entire point of pre-briefing and embargo's is supposed to be to avoid the rash quick judgement.
Actually, speaking as a Brit working in IT who has supplied various public sector organisations in the past, I think it's rather more likely that this would have been written by an outside agency to contract. And I wouldn't expect they were paid waaaay more from that experience either.
Erm... why did they fire you?
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akkartik made something similar - http://hackerstream.com.

He's been experimenting with promoting his site. Perhaps you should talk to him?
Navia Systems is designing nondeterministic hardware.

http://www.naviasystems.com/
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The 357th time I complained to my brother about salaryman hours, he told me something that stuck with me: "You chose that. Not three years ago, either: you chose it today, because you could have quit but didn't."

You are choosing, right now, that the next thirty minutes of work on whatever is more important than calling mom. It may be. Is it always? I'm downright fascist about not wasting time on low-value activities at work and I still leak huge portions of my schedule. Are you sure that never happens? I mean, by the end of a week at 100%, I'm barely mentally capable of evaluating whether coding will be productive, to say nothing of actually coding. You've been doing that for years? How do the metrics look?
PHP leads to premature optimization. The root of the root of all evil.
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It's hard to foresee which parts of the framework will need optimizing, it's not like they go and build a website with stackoverflow level of performance requirements as part of the development process.
My parents are very much left wing but have no problem with arbitrage (unless you rely on people's lack of knowledge or on their stupidity to pull it off) or charging market prices.
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Not sure how helpful this is, but I ran the development of Live Nation's site before the TM merger.

The key systems you're probably looking for access to are TM Classic, TM Archtics, and the Paciolan platform, all of which are owned by Live Nation Worldwide now.

Classic has historically been the primary ticketing platform for concerts and events, while Archtics is a newer (i.e., not written in VAX Assembler) platform designed to be more extensible for sports ticketing packaging. Paciolan is a separate system that was licensed by venues so they could run their own ticketing system. TM bought them out a few years ago.

The good news: most Paciolan systems are still out in the field, and the system itself is fairly well-documented, so if you contact the internal ticketing agent for a Paciolan venue, odds are good they can give you access to the API.

The bad news: Classic and Archtics are very, very closed. Classic is actually a green-screen application that's been adapted to the web and whatever else. For the most part, the backend still thinks it's talking to a tty. Archtics is somewhat less ancient - I guess it's only 15 years old now. But it, too, isn't really current by any stretch of the imagination.

At LN, we were TM's biggest customer by a mile, and even we couldn't get them to give us decent APIs. So I wouldn't hold your breath. Plus, about a third of all venues have their systems out in the field, so you have to connect to them directly. On top of that, the promoters (the primary customers of ticketing) aren't too keen on the data being out there.

If you're just looking for venue information, contact Pollstar. They sell a well-maintained list of venues and important venue info.

If you need more info, my email should be visible in my profile.
Three things: regulations, regulations, regulations.
I think it's shortsighted, naive and optimistic to expect that subsidization of "fresh produce" would produce any better results than the current system.

After all, there's nothing inherently wrong with corn or cattle when they are produced in traditional ways, ie. corn that is not optimized for yield, sacrificing it's taste, and cattle is fed on grass, not on corn (which makes it sick).
Thanks Man.
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Karma harvesting bots. I thought of it a while back and I was sure it already existed.

Thanks for proving it! I do like the term of "harvesting karma".

In reel life, that would be a good deed automatically actioned based on a set of inputs? Such as grabbing the mail of the neighbour on the way in?
There is actually a (minor) difference. Amazon really is streaming the MP3s, while if you play one from Dropbox it downloads and plays and plays (technically it could be played while downloading, but this is actually uncommon).

There are slight technical differences - in streaming MP3s there is metadata embedded inside the files - see, for eg the second part of http://nicklothian.com/blog/2009/03/18/random-mp3-metadata-c...

Exactly why this would make a difference for licencing purposes I'm not sure, but I would note that there is a special "streaming" licence.
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Even then. I don't see how $499 is $100 lesser than $399. It's wrong information being interpreted wrongly.
You really need a better class of client. A couple of things that I have learned: 1) you are more likely to get paid by big companies because the person writing the cheque isn't spending their own money, 2) you are more likely to get paid by people you meet face-to-face because its easier to be an asshole over the internet, 3) bizarrely you are more likely to get paid if you charge more because it weeds out all the penny pinchers. The last one is really important. Just by charging more you put yourself in a different market, one which is generally more professional.
I think the problem between tptacek and me and the others arguing is that many of us are not from the USA... The USA being an At-Will employment system, there is not as much downside with hiring someone full time and the health care issue is specific to the US...
just keep at it man!!!
Thanks - it's new to me that "you" is not a vowel sound. Isn't it pronounced exactly like "u", which is a vowel? So generally never use "an" if a word starts with "u"?
Really? Well, I guess you're not based in Echuca then....
Hi Metageek,

I am slightly a slightly inappropriate person. My apologies.
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Jacques, perhaps you could configure your blog so you can choose to submit your own posts automatically to HN when you post them? That might reduce the tendency of people to try to rush and post them first, assuming the majority of posts are actually suitable for posting here.

I don't think you should worry too much about it either. Your posts seem to keep gathering a high number of votes whenever they appear on HN, so this is a sign that they are useful and relevant to the community. If an irrelevant link gets posted and it only gathers a few votes on the new page, then what have you lost? What has the community lost?
Why not? I can imagine that there's only one problem with that: You don't have enough money to support yourself so that your startup needs to be done ASAP. Then I would recommend to do some contracting work. This has two nice effects: First, it gives you money to let you support your startup in the long run. Second: It makes you more productive, because the time you have available to work on a startup is reduced. This constraint makes you focus more on the stuff that really needs to be done. Oh and third: Every idea needs time to evolve. I mean, real time. Not time you invest, but time doing something different. Just waiting-time.

I believe, if you cannot afford taking a break from your startup, your startup has a conceptual problem.
I disagree with a few comments here- if i go home I am just going to play xbox, would it not be spent better writing code?

Plus I enjoy what I do in the office, it can be stressful but its not like 12-16 hours hard physical labour.

I dont work weekends though other than answer email or support requests
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Remember that the VAST majority of people using the MS stack will never have any performance problems. Most websites see very little traffic.

It's not in MS interest to spend too much time optimising for these niche cases. That's time NOT spent adding features to attract more paying customers. It's better to optimise for revenue.

I'm not saying MS doesn't care about performance, of course they do. I'm also not saying the stack is poor. You just have to see it though the lens of their business model.
I think the real question here is - why does it cost $100 to have 3G ability when a 3G dongle is just a few bucks?
It makes sense. Their biggest running cost right now will be Amazon. Up to a certain size S3 makes sense as it would cost more to run the infrastructure yourself and it might be less flexible (scale wise) as a smaller operation can't afford to have an awful lot of spare capacity lying around. As the userbase continues to grow though, there will come a time when running their own infrastructure will work out cheaper and more flexible and they might be able to profit from it the same way Amazon do (remember: Amazon's "cloud" services came about from wanting a way to make profitable (or at least cost neutral) use of all their spare capacity in the quieter ten months of the year), so they would be daft not to at least have some embryonic plans simmering away on their R&D people's back burners.
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"Testing" a web app when it is not your job to do so is self evidently a suspicious act, just like walking down a line of cars testing the door handles to see if any have been left unlocked would be a suspicious act.
Looks like the article made the author some bitcoin on witcoin too http://bitcoin.witcoin.com/p/862/The-story-behind-witcoin-an...
The problem is that if just 3 people auto-submit the post in the first minute, it's immediately at the top of the front page. Often, many people will reflexively upvote something by jacquesm, so the result is that a top slot on the front page is taken up for some time, perhaps by something that's not really worthy of discussion. This takes away attention from other, more worthy posts. There are only 30 slots on that front page.

This used to happen with 37signals too - I'm glad to see it stopped happening there. Time to stop autosubmitting jacquesm as well!
Agreed. I'm still confused how they are going to make this interesting to the masses... Hell, even watching Coders code as a Coder can be dull.
The conclusion of the article is that by pricing relatively low, Apple makes "the attractive new market for tablets a lot less attractive for companies planning to sell less than 10 million tablets this year."

While the claim that the new iPad is cheaper than its predecessor aims to highlight Apple's pricing strategy, it is not a premise. Even if the iPad 2 was more expensive than the original iPad, it could still be cheap in relation to competitive offerings. It could be sold at a price allowing only for small profit margins without economies of scale. His premise is that it is.
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Yeap, it gets like this for users with many (>5000) tweets, a big number of which contains some link to image hosting services or foursquare . I guess that the amount of retrieved locations will make up for the wait.
I had somebody recently launch into me with a vitriolic attack on HN (they deleted the comment almost immediately) which started with something like "I know you probably think you're special, what with 18K karma and all, but..."

People take this karma thing waaaay too seriously.

I know I find the site dangerously distracting, and a large part of that is watching the up or downvotes on my comments -- it's kind of a realtime indicator of whether I have my finger on the pulse of the community. So I'm as much to blame as others.

I've said a few times that somebody should monetize this karma nonsense. Set up an auction clearing house where karma can be auctioned off for cash.

It probably wouldn't amount to much, but it's just the kind of out-of-the-box thing that HN should be messing around with. I'm just trying to guess a number, but I think you could pull 5 percent off each trade and make a nice bit of chump change, without changing the look and feel of HN at all. (If it bothers purists or interferes with the running of the board, then simply keep a separate list of "natural" karma hidden from everybody and use that for the system stuff)
Now only if everyone would switch over to DiabloMiner for their Bitcoin mining needs.

http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1721.0

Disclaimer: I wrote DiabloMiner ;)
Thanks for posting this. Portland + Seattle also have underground restaurants (which got so trendy they bore a legit manifestation, "Family Supper" ah, Portland...)

I did some research about this since yesterday and found mostly information for selling food you make in your house, but sell outside your house. They call it "cottage food," (i knew the expression, but not what i meant legally). I found out that "cottage food acts" are enacted state by state, and that Oregon (where I live) has a permissive one.

As for serving food right in your house, i haven't found much info yet.
Do you mention it in your resume or cover letter? We try to look up information about people (blogs, open source contributions, etc.) before or between interview rounds, but it depends on how much the candidate pushes it and how much time the interviewer has to look into it.

Just having committed to an open source project would put you way ahead of most of the people we interview.
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Right, that's because no sane prospect (or rather, a prospect you'd want to hire) would go along with it. A reasonably competent developer has several options to choose from - it's just not rational to spend 10+ hours on each job opening; you wouldn't be able to coordinate and assess 5 or so offers in a reasonable time (when looking for a new job, people will apply at various places, compare the offers and take the best one).

Most competent people would scoff at a suggestion like this, and I suspect that competent employers know it.