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Google has no support, Facebook is staging a war against privacy, and Microsoft has some pretty meh software outside of Windows (when they bother to have any version at all).

I guess ultimately MS buying it was not the worst decision - a second-class client on non-Windows is better than Google not supporting it till the users give up and they can discontinue it, or Facebook defaulting to telling the whole frigging world every time you phone someone or sharing your Skype address with every scabby app developer out there.

But it was really a lame lineup to choose from. I don't know who I'd actually have liked to buy Skype, but not these three.
He's referring to South Asia. The answer to his question is that "Asian" implies "East Asian" in American English because the majority of Asian Americans are East Asian. In the UK, "Asian" implies "South Asian" (for the same reason).
India, Russia, etc.?
Huge distinction here: picture A was the 'home' screen, picture B is the 'menu' screen. The home screen only has four icons.
> Nobody needs advertising to be "willing to buy stuff."

Untrue. First of all, even if advertising "only shifted demand around," it would still be worthwhile because our country participates in a global economy and we export many products abroad (as well as import others, but that's a different question). Second, the statement that advertising "only shifts demand around" is just plain wrong. Advertising creates demand, and this creation is overall a positive thing (admittedly there are plenty of specific negative examples). For one positive example: Americans didn't buy into cars simply because of utility. They bought into cars because of the entire "lifestyle" image created around owning a car -- and this image was created in large part thanks to advertising campaigns. There would be many fewer cars around today, and our economy would be much slower were it not for advertising.

To naysayers below: as Henry Ford's famous expression went, "if I asked my customers what they wanted, they'd tell me they want a faster horse." In other words: people did not immediately buy into the idea that a car is something desirable. At the time, cars were clumsy, noisy, not very comfortable or easy to drive. The whole idea of a car as something to aspire to had to be "pushed" onto the audience, and Ford was not shy about doing it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T#Advertising.2C_mar...).
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There's often not a good answer to that question.

If you look at my family tree, I come from Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan, and Canada. We suspect there's also some undocumented Japan in there too.

This isn't trying to split hairs - there's legitimate reason to recognize all of the above in my heritage. My "origin" is complicated and is really hard to pin down into a single word.

So you end up with what stands out most strongly in my head - I'm Canadian, because that's where I've lived the longest, my primary language is that kooky Canadian flavour of English, and the sight of fries, cheese curds, and gravy inspires a craving like nothing else.
I have a feeling that Microsoft was suckered on this one. Google and Facebook probably had no interest in skype, but bid it up so Microsoft would have to pay more. You'd think after all these years, and having this same thing happen time after time that they'd know that trick and see it coming. Guess not.
Ah well, I guess there is nothing wrong in getting back to an 'old' yet 'proven' solution.
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So what REST really boils down to, versus the next best thing, is creating file types instead of protocols/APIs. And its value is based on the presumption that file types will be more stable and versatile, and less coupled to any particular service.

While I would agree with that, I question how often a developer actually has a choice of whether or not to go with REST. It seems to solve an entirely different problem than an API: REST is for public standards, not proprietary services. You certainly need to know which you are making before you worry about what architecture to use.

If the Twitter API were RESTful, it would be OStatus, and that's obviously not what it's supposed to be.
so he didn't want to be a Doctor?
He didn't want a wife? who was smart? beautiful?
He didn't want to be wealthy? He didn't want a family?

I don't get what you are trying to say here...
Maybe you are trying to say that he wasn't happy?
If you get all of that and you aren't happy, what will make you happy? being unemployed? being famous? maybe infamous?
I was just writing a bit about realism for my book the other day. Interfaces, such as Mac OS X's Aqua, actually represent a sort of "hyperrealism," with buttons that are impossibly juicy, reflective, and glowing.

It's funny, because interfaces have always represented reality in a metaphorical sense (desktop, window, document, trash), but now we take it up a notch to represent things that couldn't actually exist.
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I hate to be pedantic, but just because they send you your password in plain text, doesn't mean they are storing it in plain text.

Does it mean they are doing a shitty job? Yes. Is storing a password using two-way encryption more secure than plaintext? Laughably. Still...
Americans and Australians only refer to people from east Asia as "asian".

I've noticed those from the UK call people from the Indian Subcontinent "asians". I never noticed how they reference people from East Asia.
It's worth remembering that Page & Brin could probably buy the major labels outright, and personally dismiss any lawsuits against Google.
That's the boilerplate. I'm talking about the actual site.
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Though I don't have data to back up my point, my impression is that there are actually a lot of Asian tech founders. (a well known example is Yahoo Co-founder). If you consider the population ratio to tech founder ratio, asians are probably doing a better job than some other non-white groups. Of course, if you compare the over-presentation of asians in elite universities with their presentation in startups,there could be a lot more asian tech founders. (i'm asian too)
It will serve the long term interests of Microsoft shareholders; sadly, Microsoft doesn't realize that.
Large swaths of Russia, Central Asia, and most of the Indian Subcontinent?
GChat is already totally cross platform since it's just XMPP. There are tons of clients out there. You can run your own jabber server and connect to @gmail.com addresses, even.
You are looking at this too much from your viewpoint as a consumer, not skype viewpoint as a Corp.
That story has only one flag, so nothing would have pulled it down. It does however have one of the strangest voting patterns I've ever seen.
Sept 1: 1 USD = 1.05 CAD
Now: 1 USD = 0.96 CAD

Not to mention that the valuation was done in US dollars, and the sale is being done in US dollars.
Which is great. It does pretty much everything the Windows client does (chat, voice, video, desktop sharing), without the big, gaudy, annoying interface.

I fear that it'll just go away, or actively get shut down by compatibility changes.

(My friends and I practically live on Skype. The one killer feature for us is persistent chatrooms; it's like IRC, except when I log in I get all the missing chat history I didn't get while I was logged out.)
Of course ... I've been a (paying) user of Skype for years, I don't care about what's best or least-bad for them as a corporation, I care about me!
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For a long, long time now, MS services (not directly tied to Hotmail itself) have required a Live account only, which can be created with any email address.
So make social and leadership skills part of the entrance exam to elite high schools/colleges and watch every one of these cram schools add soft skills to their lesson plans.

I'd also suggest adding ethics, but that's another conversation...
MS would do a lot better to buy 200 promising startups (especially in the mobile space)
I fail to see how this is a wise business decision. Skype has been losing money for a long time, and with cheap/free competition like Google video chat and FaceTime etc, why would MSFT invest in this?
I doubt it. I would hazard a guess that a this is a mindshare acquisition not technology. It might be branded as "Microsoft Skype" but to drop the name Skype would be a seriously stupid move, and Microsoft is anything but stupid. Bureaucratic yes, but not stupid.
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Here's a killed submission of the same story.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2527746
There would be many fewer cars around today, and our economy would be much slower were it not for advertising.

Or we wouldn't have built sprawling suburbs that make cars necessary.
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I think Skype would have been more valuable to Google, than to Microsoft--imagine having a free Google Voice number linked to your Skype ID. I think Microsoft was willing to pay a $1-2 Billion premium to keep it from Google and maybe a bit more to be able to use it as a bargaining chip with Facebook in their (MSFT and Facebook) pseudo-alliance.
Re: "suggestions on avoiding"

Is this for a rollover, animation, or something else?
(Mind posting a code snippet up somewhere?)
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Start with toastmasters, for chrissake. It isn't rocket science.
I think you answered your own question: to compete with FaceTime and Google Voice. I think they're afraid to sit this race out the way they did mobile and get left behind again.
One of Skype's major strengths is that you can use it to communicate with others regardless of operating system (for the most part... they don't have BeOS client, etc). Personally, I think there would be a large migration to something else if that changed:

1. Linux/Mac users would move because they had to.

2. Linux/Mac users that use Skype to communicate with long-distance friends and family would convince them to jump ship to another platform (if only to be able to do video conferencing).

3. People pissed off at MS would migrate on principle (though maybe only if there was a viable alternative to the way they currently use Skype).
They'll keep it for sure, maybe just sneak an MS logo in there. It's one of those brands that's achieved 'verb' status for god sakes.
Here's what will happen:

After acquisition, MS will put out a lot of PR saying that cross-platform is "very important" in this new acquisition, they will even release an updated version on cross-platform. ...of course that update will be screwed up as it has been "fixed" to make all versions more "windows friendly" at the expense of features that may be better on other platforms (i.e. scrap the Mac interface, kill open protocols, replace working code with .net tech, etc.).

Then after a few months of user complaints there will be MS's product performance review, since after alienating the Linux and Mac folk, they will declare there is no viable market for those platforms any more and close those divisions and thus drag it into the Windows only division.

Yep, I've been around for several of those (FoxBase/FoxPro, Bungie Games, Flight Simulator, etc. to just name a few) - if they were selling a shirt about it I'd have already worn it out.
Americans didn't buy into cars simply because of utility. They bought into cars because of the entire "lifestyle" image created around owning a car -- and this image was created in large part thanks to advertising campaigns.

Nah. Show me a country with a similar low density as America where people don't buy cars almost as soon as they can afford them.

The advertising was certainly prominent, but it didn't drive the fundamentals.
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When "oriental" became un-PC, Americans started using Asian as a replacement even though there are many non-oriental Asian countries.
Sure enough. In fact, there are several. They weren't autokilled. They must have been killed by editors. I will investigate.
With the emphasis on 'did,' I would assume that the grandfather was still acting like he hadn't done enough and, "I did everything that you asked me to," is the rebuttal to that. Sort of like this scary Asian dad that my wife encountered on the subway once (yelling at his ~7 year old kid):

This is not perfect! It must be perfect! Not 80%.
Not 90%. That's not perfect! Must be perfect!
I certainly hope that it's not a rushed product that's aimed at beating Apple to the market.
Is their own videoconferencing solution that broken to begin with? Seven billion is a big chunk of change. And tech M&As typically do not end well.
They could, yes. They could require all transactions to go through a wallet they implemented. Or simply require all transactions to send 30% to Apple, though that'd be hard to prove, and would require an even lengthier review process.

But I doubt it's in their best interest to do so, honestly. I'd love it, to be sure, but unless / until Bitcoin gets more acceptance, and makes it past a legal barrier or two, it's high risk and high cost for them.
I find it ridiculous that I can't find another desktop email client that will natively work with exchange/MAPI, and Microsoft knows it.

http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/
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Dividends reward short term shareholders. Capital reinvestment rewards long term shareholders (if it's successful).
Looks much much easier to use. CocosDenshion was a good idea but in practice it is flawed in the things that the author of this library talks about, which is that there are annoying bugs in iOS's and both audio engines (openAL & AVAudioPlayer) need to be handled differently.
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WTF, I ask someone why they consider one browser more secure than another and I get downvoted, what's wrong with the question?
Gas prices are suffering at the same fate as the financial crisis: speculation
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They party a bit, then go back to being normal average everyday people -- except some slightly higher percentage lands slightly higher paying jobs at the start with a decreasing pay differential over time with their peers.
But, membership in the UN is as of yet voluntary, yes? Membership of states in the US, for instance, is not.
It's as if you just described the entire "Anonymous" thing in one simple sentence fragment:

> it's all just a bunch of circle jerking.
if MS absorbs the Skype technology into their own IM/chat/communications systems - and skype users are left out on a limb - where do they go?.

They stay with the MS product line happily perhaps, or they go to __________?

gChat/open/xmpp?
Jump all the way to Apple FaceTime (seems a far jump).
Or with forthcoming p2p flash video ease-of-dev/ease-of-use, does this all just become super common/easy to access?
In summary, we are essentially paying for the middle to upper-class's retirement portfolios.
I've seen an implementation of audio recording with CocosDenshion and AVAudioSession, but Denshion doesn't do any of the recording. It's only used for playback afaik so you can probably still use ObjectAL with this method.

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/cocosdenshion
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> "and watch every one of these cram schools add soft skills to their lesson plans"

I'd be interested in knowing how. You can't learn soft skills out of a book.
I patiently await the day when artists are able to cut better deals with AAPL, GOOG and AMZN to market and sell their content directly - probably at a 70/30 split like the apps and the books.
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I agree that there is some allowance for creative expression, but go back and re-read the first paragraph of that article. Does it add anything at all to the story?

In my mind it doesn't. With so many other things in life vying for my time I'm loathe to read and digest such fluff. It reminds me of what I used to do in school to boost my word count on papers. I'm sure professional writers labor under similar circumstances at times.
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I answered that, they earn more money on average than whites, blacks, and hispanics.

What other markers are there "in life" than earning money to measure success? It's not like they're just adrift in an ocean of nothingness delivering lunches, whipping lattes and mowing the corporate office lawn. They are achieving more in academics and cash than other races. What's more to "success in life" than education and cash?

I guess it's not the achievement, it's the expectation. Asians achieve more, yet are looked upon as still inferior by others arbitrarily moving the yardstick from "make more money" to "be CEO". So, when Asians do get there (either by founding their own companies or moving into it) it'll be "yeah, but can they dunk a basket or sing like Britney".

I think I detect a higher expectation from simply being born a certain way. I guess simply being Asian is alot to live up to.
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HN views seem to be slanted on this subject. It's not "hedging" or "being cautious" as much as it is just being smart. Working on a business in your spare time till it makes more money than your full-time job is what most people who have bills and/or families typically do. It's risk-averse, and, if you don't want to quit your full-time job, a great way to make a lot of extra money.
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> The code blog author writing useful advice is great. That same blog author submitting all his posts to Hacker News contributes nothing more to his greatness.

Submitting his blog to HN is part of communicating - and - spreading his advice to an even wider audience. And it's these sort of people who develop a following, influence and success.

You seem to be under some misguided belief that technical excellence is mutually exclusive to communication skills. On the contrary, what the other posters have been saying to your post is that you need both to be truly successful - they are both important and both need development.

A marketer who has nothing worthwhile to market is no better than a technical person who can't communicate his achievements.
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I get the sentiment, but do you really think a) that there are 200 worthwhile startups in the mobile space, or b) that there are 200 promising startups that you could acquire for an average of $350 million each that would have anywhere near the chance of establishing a network effect as big as Skype's in any kind of reasonable internet timeframe (say, in the next 5 years)?
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