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According to dr. christian wentz, the organizational structure of many large innovative companies (Toyota, Procter & Gamble, GE, 3M, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Sony, Hewlett-Packard, DuPont, Honeywell and Whirlpool) , followed certain rules: [1]

1. Delegation of Decisions to Innovation Teams

2. Integration of R&D into the Business Units

3. Co-Location of Teams and Departments

4. Central Innovation Teams

5. Central Innovation Funds

7. Merger & Acquisition Department

Google's recent move is just options 1,2 in this list. nothing special , just a common practice in their situation.

[1]: http://www.the-innovation-machine.com/?p=83
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"I see pure, unfettered democracy in action."

I see an extremely tiny minority using intimidation in an attempt to force political outcomes they could not hope to achieve by democratic means.
I'm curious as to how many people have substantial experience with both, such that they can make a reasonable comparison.

(I don't know whether to expect that'd only be a few people or quite a lot of people).
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My mistake. Canonical's founder is from South Africa hence my confusion.
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Hmm. This isn't in any way, shape or form, like Apple - except for the one guy at the top...

http://www.cogmap.com/chart/apple,-inc.

Apple seems to be divided into Design, Software Engineering, Product Marketing, Applications, along with Operations and Legal, etc.
Mark Shuttleworth started his company in South Africa, and he has bankrolled Ubuntu with what he got from selling it. So while "made in Africa" isn't quite right, there's a component there, in a somewhat roundabout way.
Thanks for the response.

If I was building an image for the first time I no doubt could easily make the same mistake. It'll definitely be something I make sure of I ever decide to make my own image in the future.
News Corp didn't have a clue what to do with Myspace, either. Social media isn't terribly useful for what Murdoch does with News Corp.
I was about to say that. It's never possible to be sure that something will never happen. Forever is a mind-bogglingly long time.
Or co-miserate in http://wompt.com/chat/yc/rejected
One blog that I follow is iDev Recipes. While not purely a design blog, it shows how to replicate interesting UI elements from nicely designed apps.
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and two extremely profitable groups (one in the case of Google) funding the other four (or five, in Google's case)

Microsoft also did the 'more nimble' thing 6 years ago:

http://www.seattlepi.com/default/article/Microsoft-announces...

Which lead to turf war, and over half the org heads were let go over the past 2 years (Ozzie, Allchin, Allard, Raikes, also Bach and Moore)

Google is now also structured as a tech conglomerate, there aren't many of those. It is something that Microsoft went through 20 years ago (ie. going from a one-product company to something more).

There are many parallels, just hope Google learnt something from the Microsoft experience of structuring and management.
I built an isometric strategy game in HTML5 and had to give up because of lousy performance in most browsers (barring Chrome).

Maybe my code sucked, but I'm not a complete amateur either...
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I think it also has to do with the fact that the iPhones have a fixed set of specs. With android you never know what kind of specs your users phone has (screen height/width e.d.). But with the iPhone you're always sure what controls your user has (touch screen instead of controller).
Maybe you're right, we'll see. A good climate for long-term science would be a sustained, growing economy, instead of the bipolar downswings/upswings that we're seeing the last decade.

Otherwise: There is a new upswing, all new projects, talk about going to Mars. Then a new crash, it's all cancelled again.. and so on.
Ok, but Canonical has directly or indirectly written, what, 0.1% of the code in a typical Ubuntu install? Maybe 1%? There are tons of hardworking (and overwhelmingly non-African) programmers that are forgotten every time the press writes another breathless piece about Ubuntu. (Or, for that matter, Red Hat - their contributions are much larger, but still a tiny part of the finished product.)
Google is kind of the Microsoft of our generation. I'm sure in a few years people will be calling to have some part of Google separated from another part of Google.
I don't understand what you're trying to express. You seem to be skeptical but don't offer an explanation.

The reorganization makes sense to me which is why I don't understand your comment.
I agree about a stable economy, it's hard to do long term science if available resources keep changing.

I found this graph: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Real+Gross+Domestic+Pro... (Switch it to logscale.) The most obvious thing I notice about it is the totally flat result after 2000, then improvement (but not as fast as before), and now back where we started.
Yes and No. A good entrepreneur needs to be able to execute and part of that is spending time on the right ideas and features for that idea. I'd say the ability to assess sensibly the question 'Am I working on the best thing I can be at the moment' is more important than dogged pursuit of a single goal.
I would say the owner was also being scammed, otherwise you wouldn't have been allowed to try the card before buying it, or at least a working card would have come out after the first try failed...
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I know quite a few other languages but most of my day to day work is in C.
I don't, my computer can't run Eclipse and the emulator at the same time without stalling out.
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It's stupid.
Economy doesn't exists in a vacuum. It' very influenced by politic. And saying politic I mean the way a society decide to use its finite resources AND the rules a society define for his citizens. And an Economy simply lives there, in circle of rules.

So if minimum wage let some people out, the same happens not letting children work. And why taking care of people with physical problems (no hands? no legs? why the State, using public money should care? You are a problem just let you take care of yourself)?

You set the rules of your society. It doesn't exists something called free market. The market is defined by the rules of the society AND the society change in time AND space. So the market change in time AND space.

And these Friedman bullshit are the same you hear over and over and over.

And I'm a bit tired.
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This seems like bogus reasoning. When a minimum wage was introduced in the UK unemployment went down, at least for a while. The article contains assertions, but no experimental results. An experimental economist would experiment with different minimum wage levels and observe the results.

I think the bottom line is that economies are complex systems, and simplistic "just so" narratives which don't take multiple interdependencies (themselves adaptive systems) into account are typically insufficient to describe the dynamics of these systems.
Agreed. Limiting key lifetime in that way is an essential feature that improves security.

But the title is worded like he found a structural security hole, that's simply inflammatory and annoyed me.
Really depends on what you're going to use it for. I tried to cover the basics, but people can go way beyond that.
To be fair, the title was "May Never", not "Will Never".
I switched from iPhone 3G to HTC Desire. My conclusion is that Android is more raw, flexible and dynamic, while iPhone is more user friendly and more static.
No argument there, but I wasn't talking about the code.
Thanks for your advice.

It's on the top of my todo list.

Just after some real life stuff.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I'm aware, GNU has nothing to do with SCTP. Linux supports SCTP.

My non-GNU Linux system talks SCTP just fine.
I recently bought a Nexus S and brought it into a hostile environment (http://www.madebysofa.com). I used it for a while now and am building an ongoing review: https://gist.github.com/892043

PLUS

- You never have to attach it to the computer, not even for software upgrades
- Call quality and reception is sometimes better then my iPhone
- The dashboard or home is really nice with widgets and shortcuts (like wifi settings)
- Regular mini USB cable, although iPod cables are pretty common now too
- I don't really feel like I miss any apps, and most standard apps are done very nicely
- Some stuff is really smart like having a 2 second delay for locking after the screen dims down
- Most of the time it feels pretty fast
- I feel like I have more insight in the device (which is good because I'm geeky)
- I like how I can for each app see what they are allowed to do and disable stuff (like background syncing) in the app manager. Although I never do anything with it.
- The Firefox browser is actually really nice

MINUS

- It feels like an actual computer doing background stuff sometimes
- Battery life is a lot worse (~50%), especially with syncing turned on
- It charges reaaally slow, or maybe as fast as an iPhone over normal USB
- The browser gets really slow with large pages
- There is no easy way to see what Android version you are exactly running and see a changelog
- If you're somewhere with speakers, the is a bigger chance on a iPod connector then a jack-jack
- For running, the earphone jack on the bottom is not handy with an armband
- Wifi reception seems actually worse then my iPhone
- Couldn't find a snooze function on the default alarm
- Taking a call while running (with music) was ridiculous, i ended up having to reboot the phone
- It seems the browser has a lot of problems when switching networking (wifi to 3g etc.)
- Phone itself feels a lot cheaper then an iPhone, but still decent
- The camera is extremely shit and audio with movies is a joke
- Overall it feels way less polished (unexpected delays, stuttery animations, weird redraws)
- I feel like I have no control over which app is running until I go into some task manager. I think they only keep running when it makes sense (navigation, mp3)
- Wifi receptions is worse then an iPhone, and most apps (like the browser) are really bad at dealing with bad network connections.
- When the phone gets stuck (mostly in maps or the browser with lots of js) the only way to reboot it is to peel out the battery. Eek!
- Flimsy USB cable/connector are really frustrating when you need to make a call while charging
- A actually have to travel with a phone charger on me again
- It feels like app updates are available sooner/more often on iOS

SUBJECTIVE

- I like the look of the icons and most Android base screens
- I hate the Android font, a sort of thin Verdana
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Technically C# isn't a static language anymore :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_4.0
Here's a blog post I wrote this week about a Samsung initiative to provide capital and equipment for promising projects out of the University of Cape Town (in South Africa).

http://onesizefritzall.blogspot.com/2011/04/samsung-smiles-p...
I don't think it's even slightly true that "a lot of Android phones ship without a way to install third party apps".

I've heard of portable media players or Nooks that run Android but don't have app stores (though the Nook is getting one). I've heard of tablets that don't have the official Google Market, though they often have an alternative market and relatively simple steps for the user to get the Market on to them. There's even 0.4% of "Android" phones that are running OPhone and so while they can run Android apps fine, they don't come with the Google apps or Marketplace, but again they have alternatives.

Do you have any links to what you mean by this?
Not to mention we're throwing much more effort into getting people moving faster, every day, instead of throwing all of our resources getting the ultra-rich faster, sometimes.

Think advances in high speed rail, infrastructure development in mass transit everywhere (except North America, it seems)... Instead of pouring billions into a few showpieces like the Concorde, we're finally working on getting everyone moving faster, more frequently. This is a good thing.
I might say the same about AppCode (edit - aimed more at the folk bashing the UI than the parent).
Well, if the Google infrastructure is so massive that it will dominate the bitcoin generation: 50 coins every 10 minutes.

Not worth the electricity I think. Let's talk real science instead of self-enrichtment for a change.
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The majority of the OS X -specific aspects have to do with how it launches (launchd .plist files) and how it automagically resolves .dev domains (using /etc/resolver - see: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin... )

Substituting launchd is easily done with any process launcher of your choice. As for the .dev TLD trick - that's a little harder, as OS X 10.6 has support for flat files inside /etc/resolver/* which the name of the file indicates what configuration/settings to use when resolving that domain. As such, they just drop a file named 'dev' in there and tell it to look to localhost on a custom port for DNS resolution. Then they run a mini DNS server on that port to resolve .dev domains to localhost.

Probably the only way to do something similar to this for linux would be to run a name server of your own on your box and add a custom zone configuration for the .dev TLD and recursive lookup for anything else.
Still it begs answering this question first in order to understand the nature of the problem: why hasn't rich Europe produced Internet giants like Google, Yahoo and Facebook?
Ah good, something we can point to the next time someone complains about XCode.
I think those saying "this is a minor issue" are downplaying the problem here. Imagine your co-worker gets up for a 2 minute bathroom break (or you had 2 minutes in the boss' office alone, or at an associates house, etc) - what could you do in 2 minutes? Sure you could try to install a keylogger but this requires some knowledge, prior preparation and is susceptible to detection. You could copy off his private work but this is slow, not much you copy in 2 minutes.

Knowing this security hole, within seconds i could easily copy one small file (or upload it to crate, or just write down the machine hash or upload it to codepaste etc etc) and know i now have all his private files - for life - and not just files now but all future possible files (or at least until he changes his password; but how many people really do that regularly?).

Checking that 2 machines aren't using the same key would at least notify you that something had happened, although it may occur too late to secure your existing files.

Another option is tie the key with your IP address, and when a new IP address is detecting you need to enter in your credentials to get a new pass.

I think at least some hashing with create a unique computer stamp (username, OS version, mac address, processor hardware name, etc) would go a long way in making this more secure; it's not perfect (these things can be faked), but it certainly stops Johnny Amateur Hacker in gaining access to his friends/co-workers/bosses private files.
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This scripts vs binaries situation reminds me of something in the linux kernel: you can't use the sticky bit against scripts. When you add it, it shows as sticky in 'ls -lF' but doesn't work when you go to run it. Sticky bit is only for binaries.

It seems stupid, but on the other hand I never see people abusing the sticky bit, possibly as a result of the higher barrier to entry.

On the other hand, it causes me inconvenience every time I want to do something legitimate with it.
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Ooops! Hah, that could have happened to me.

But it's a good lesson to people to be careful as to what AMI images they use. A SSH key is pretty easy to detect, but malignant people might plant more subtle backdoors.
Re: “is 6 dollars less than 5 pounds”, this is how Wolfram Alpha interpreted it: “TrueQ[$6 (US dollars)<5 lb (pounds)]
”. It interpreted pounds as a unit of mass, not as the currency and gave “False” as a result.

You have to pick “British Pounds” from a list of other interpretations in order to get the right answer, “True”.

I don't know what it says about your argument, other than it's hard to tune the engine.
Eagle Scout here. We got rejected as well. I wonder how much bearing gold/eagle awards actually have on the yc selection process. Are you out in the bay area Katie?
Agreed, just it adds another "I need to test this" configuration for devs. Have you found that many apps don't support this resolution?

Google actually tracks screen sizes of devices that access Android Market:

http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/screens.htm...

It appears that 240x320 (small + low density) accounts for 2.3% of users.

While unrelated to UI, another very handy page tracks Android versions in use out there. It looks like 2.2 has become the most common version in the last month: http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...
What I meant was that given the choice between two tools, one of which is pleasant to use (for whatever reason) and one of which is not, I will always choose the one that is more pleasant to use.

This is the crux, for me. After years of becoming accustomed to the million and one tiny points of attention to detail about the development experience (as opposed to the user experience) that JetBrains are known for, this announcement is fantastic news. XCode is painful by comparison.
As of Q4 2010 the global sales were equal (10 million iPod Touches and 7 Million iPads and 16 million iPhone vs. 33 million Android phones). The Android sales were growing faster up to this crossover point, but while that means they'll have higher sales in the future, it also means that Apple currently have a higher installed base, which should last a few more months.
Heh, i was wrong.

this became a huge list of pros/cons of each phone.
Is that true, though? Is the USA really running out of money?

I simply don't believe it. The USA is still the biggest economy of the world, which makes this a resource allocation issue instead of a resource issue.
I'm sure devs would love a snazzy UI framework that "just works" on popular screen sizes. I, for one, would use it. If it was open-source and distributed under a permissive enough license, even better.
I was thankful for GitX in the past, but there are many git clients I would recommend over the ancient and no-longer-evolving GitX (even the venerable brotherbard fork that saved the day when it was needed most--e.g., before there were any good clients competing in the market).

So far I have purchased SourceTree and Tower, both of which are a lot better than GitX, IMO.

I'll be giving Sprout a whirl, too--looks good from a skim of the web page. (And the new name is much better!)
You have to go back further in time for the analogy to make sense. Which platform was Powerpoint originally written for? Seems crazy that it was written for the Mac now that it's so associated with Windows and Microsoft. Even the fact that Adobe Photoshop was a Mac program first seems a bit unlikely as Adobe has been treating the Mac as a second class citizen for a while.

They're basically predicting the same early lead then loss of market share, then mindshare will happen again, not saying that it's already happened.

Also, note that the "Mac users spend more money on software" argument was very popular, even (or indeed, especially) in the bleakest of dark times for the Mac platform. Meanwhile, software that was given away for free and/or relied on network effects (Skype, Firefox, various P2P things) generally started and focused on Windows, because that's where the people were.
It's interesting that it's almost impossible to pin down a verbal guideline for what people should be submitting (besides "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity") but pretty easy to point to a given article and say that, yes, this definitely is Hacker News.

It'd be pretty awesome if we could have an HN that's just this sort of stuff (with a strong tendency toward false-negatives vs. false-positives—i.e. no "maybe good", only "definitely good.") I wouldn't mind even if it only had two or three new posts per day—fewer, guaranteed posts means I could actually stand to add it to my RSS reader, vs. the current HN which is more of a firehose: good to stick a bottle in every once in a while, not good to stand in front of.

Thinking on that, here's one way it could be implemented on top of the current HN: if there was some sort of "way, way up"-vote button that (besides being an actual "I wish I had N upvotes to give this" upvote-N-times button) worked as a sort of moral negative to flagging, such that when it had been hit [some threshold] times for an article, the article would get linked into the "/awesome" sublist, that might be enough to make it happen—if we trust the userbase to not abuse it.

If everyone started to way-way-up-vote everything they currently just up-vote, perhaps one could stick a CAPTCHA (or three) on it to make it just annoying enough to disuade abuse (at the cost of further false negatives from people now too lazy to use it.)
Are we turning into an anti-dissent crowd? Look at the downvotes - the same number, and why? Because somebody had a different opinion? Because it's so easy to downvote here and not let out your identity or have to explain why you did it?

Tolerance of, nay, encouragement of dissent (not insubstantiated rants) is the hallmark of a healthy community.

Btw, if you choose to downvote this, please explain why and what I am missing. Thank you.
Maybe Google's social could be truly open.
Excellent link. This is exactly what I was looking for. Any other sites like this?
It appears to me that the dent is really small (especially in log scale). What's all the fuss really about? Seems just that politicians are making a big issue out of this and using it as a rationalization to make cuts that they already wanted to do anyway.
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Yes. If we ever manage to build a space elevator for example, it will open up the entire inner solar system for exploration / colonisation, at which point the people that continent hop today will be able to world (planets and large moons) hop tomorrow, with a corresponding jump in the maximum speed that a person will travel at...
No argument there, but I was talking about the code. ;-)

Seriously, though, good point.
This is not cool - harrasing the man's wife, investigating the "schools their children attend".

If you need to go after Sony the cooporation or the CEO, do so when they assume that role, but stay away from family and personal business.