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Microsoft does not really care too much though if these products do not take off because in their eyes there is not enough money in them.

Using SkyDrive to augment your Office installation is great. Hopefully, they integrate it with Windows as a whole. I have a feeling though that when they think about that integration Microsoft wonders if the antitrust hammer will come down on them.
Whenever you give more control to outsiders (whether its government control over private industry or guard control over prisoners) there is greater opportunity for corruption. The reason you're seeing more outright corruption is because there's more at stake now. Government now has a finger in every business pie we make. In many industries you can't sneeze without getting approval first. When, with the addition of a provision, Congress can make or break a quarter, or hell, even an industry, there's massive incentive to cheat.

And, to be fair, they did string up Duke Cunningham. They've got to make an example out of somebody every decade or so.

Lastly, we're not really an oligarchy: we're turning into a Euro-style corporate state, which have seen this kind of corruption and entrenched powers for decades now.
Yeah, I would have liked to see specific things he learnt at apple.
Load testing tools, algorithms for caching, how and which metrics they measured etc.

I am trying to figure out who would find this article useful without any details.
What is the particularly damning thing about this guy, moreso than a typical politician?
The situation is unique. Most of her clients have next to no experience with hiring or evaluating a Wedding Photographer, so price acts as a greater indication of quality than usual.
IF AT&T doubled their pricing for SMS (for example), they would likely lose customers, because we all have a better way of evaluating quality than just price.
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Happy to share other data on this as we get it. Transparency IS good design.
You're right, every Apple customer watches hours of keynotes before purchasing the device. It's not Steve Job's explanation that makes them so understandable. The device itself explains its own purpose better than any other device.
It'll get a lot of users because a lot of people own iDevices. The product can completely suck and people will still use it because it's Apple and unlike MobileMe, it's free. Microsoft doesn't understand the cult following that Apple has.
<nod> I wasn't asserting that you were wrong, only that the user to whom I replied that implied the author of the article used it incorrectly was wrong in his assertion.
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works fine in Safari. I have all sorts of issues with Chrome using extensions that block normal stuff.
You can not do this.

The Voyager probes where only able to escape the solar system because Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune where aligned, and they could use the slingshot effect to accelerate when passing by them. These planets will not be aligned in a similar way until the 22nd century [1][2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Grand_Tour
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist#Limits_to_slings...
Did you see the SkyDrive features at the MS event? No. Actually neither did I. In fact it wasn't in the recent MS events. In fact it was announced with with a blog entry:

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archiv...

Why didn't MS talk about this at their special Mango VIP event? No idea. MS seems to think that getting too much attention for features is a bad thing.
Give me a break, the only people watching these keynotes are geeks.
Well to be honest if you deprecate the str* and array* functions you are pretty much breaking backwards compatibility.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be a good thing but those functions are one of the defining features of PHP imho
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Only if you don't count Bush taking us into the trillion dollar Iraq war without a congressional war declaration.

not that i want to debate the merits of congress.
The article title is bad and misleading. Here is what DARPA (not the US) is looking for:

A system to analyze legacy binary applications and "slice" out the functional components allowing them to be encapsulated and run separately as part of new more secure systems. It is assumed that the source code for the legacy system was lost long ago.

Specifically Darpa is looking for :

- Automatically analyzing and identifying binary executable functional components.

- Automatically slicing and extracting identified binary functional components into reusable programming modules, including defined inputs and outputs.

eg. performing a "projection" of the program. removing all instructions not related to calculating the inputs to the functional component. This is also sometimes called dependence analysis or taint analysis and has ~30-40 years of research. see: Frank Tip, “A survey of program slicing techniques,” Journal of programming languages, vol. 3, 1995, p. 121–189.

- Combining static and dynamic binary analysis to increase understanding and function of binary executables.

- Exploring formal verification methods to prove functional component properties.

- Developing intermediate representation language to support program slicing.

- Developing core technology to enable exploration and research for the BET program.
I was referring to "little endianness", where the least significant bit is on the left, which makes 10 = 1, whereas in big endian it would be 2 :)
If you are focused on finding a similar societal group as yours it is going to be a tough search, but if you are searching for similar in technology use groups - it is a easy way to reach here.

Language won't be a barrier. These days 4 out of 10 people in Asia use English for day to day communication (my assumption as Asian). You need to first find those 4 with whom you won't have language barriers. Then, figure out whom to partner with. It's easy.
We're going to make some changes to correct this. Thank you for pointing it out.
He's much more entertaining than the typical politician, which makes him extremely dangerous.
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Those little tiny pedal arms on the Strida... they look like a lot of work and not much velocity. I've gotta try one anyway, because it's just such a cool concept.

P.S. Where would you ride something like the Strida? Surely not the sidewalk, but can you ride fast enough for the street?
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Don't know if that would even be street legal in the states.
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That he has managed to stay in power for so fucking long despite being the lowest of scumbags even compared to a typical politican.
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This is absolutely a ridiculous practice. I cant recall any other tech blog who follows this. Even big time news publications like Nytimes etc, wont do this. I unsubscribed to their RSS feed, just for this one particular reason alone.
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Deprecation is not the same thing as removal.
Here's a 2 minute video about Lefkofsky by Bloomberg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_UYtYAChi8
If you're an entrepreneur and you haven't felt this already, you're lucky. The first quarter of this year was horrible and the bad news is just getting started. There hasn't been a single policy on either side of the aisle that is going to change the current situation. Here's to 2012...13...14...
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Oh yea, I emailed them. The response was literally "We are sorry, but this feature is not currently supported ... [after a few more email] ... and most likely not going to be supported in the foreseeable future."
Even if they are both guilty, that doesn't make either party less guilty.
For guys who say it would be easier to do this on windows: I have worked on windows a lot but nothing on windows would stand against the simplicity of mdb-export myfile.mdb marks > marks.csv, this is obviously subjective.
Yes I read that. I was trying to answer your question about how this is handled by Python (or any language which doesn't have PTC) programmers.
Sure, that's what's neat about a market. The customers wouldn't pay this price if they thought it was unfair. It's not like he has a monopoly, or there's any other pressure for the customers to buy his product. If the customers are getting more than $20 of value, then charging $20 is a fair price.

Also, over the long term, it could allow him to cash out or retire or whatever sooner, so the total amount of money he takes from other people over his lifetime might not go up as much as you'd think.
I don't know if this info is limited to tech communities or what... Is the general consensus that this IPO seems very scammy outside of the tech world?
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Here's another man who screwed up a country: Russia's Putin. In power since 2000, insane amount of fraud, perpetuating corruption, no free speech, no rule of law, police state and pretty much any other state-level deficiency you can think of, and at a much bigger scale than you can imagine. As a result Russia's state is much closer to Nigeria than pretty much any EU country (no, I'm not pointing at Nigeria randomly, it's true) and the brightest people are fleeing the country as if it's a sinking ship (and, well, it is).
My favorite is from a friend at work @Dispensa:

There... There is... There is nothing... There is nothing funny about path MTU detection.
Thanks for the well wishing, veb! And our dev definitely hustles so our users don't have to. He is a hard-working PHP magician.
One doesn't have to spend income wastefully or with a focus on improving one's lifestyle.

You can hire another developer to bring more software into the world, you can donate it to charity, etc. Income is merely a "money option", it doesn't mean you have to exercise that option in any particular way.
The problem I think is not so much a technical/business split, but the fact that the bar to be a 'technical' cofounder is a little higher, where anyone with an idea is an 'idea guy' or a business type. so while there are certainly just as many very bright business guys as there are very bright techies, there's a ton of not very bright people who end up being 'business people' who give the intelligent business people a bad name.
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Nice, thanks again.

>> "Carrefour’s Asian strategy is to stay the course in China and Taiwan, [...]"

Looks like they only pull out of South-East Asia, not China, though.
It seems to me that the author was very proud of the O(1) sophisticated caching algorithms invented at Apple.
Italy produces some of the most desirable products: cars, clothes, consumer goods, motorbikes, food....
Google is the "cloud".

Apple gives the "cloud" branding and a logo.
Thanks for the detailed response. The rebalancing situation is interesting.

Another interesting link I noticed was a discussion on LtU that solves the posed question without using TCO, but it does use types which would again be cumbersome to use in Python.
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It's the scale, man. The sheer scale of it.
Average corrupt politicians have a mistress, or two, or three; he has a harem of a couple dozen, several of which minors. The average corrupt politician casts his shadow on the media; he owns the media. He has brought the concept of "conflict of interest" to a whole new level.
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"Am I the only one that cannot stomach the idea ( doctrine ) that one should sell his product as pricier as he can get away with or so that one maximizes revenue?"

There is a fine line here. In my mind a product should be priced relative to the value it creates for people. If this price point provides more money than one needs to sustain daily life then I think its a perk. Besides that if I make a product that is making more money than I need, that gives me more of an opportunity to do a lot of things. Anything from building better more awesome products to donating my time or money to charity.
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>> In short: don't take pricing advice people who aren't giving you money :)

I think that's the key to succeeding in business.
Just a miscommunication, then. I was wondering if there was a way of getting around the problems of the iterative approach in Python. After more reading, it seems it could be possible, but messy.
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Sadly, can't get past the horrendous sound quality… :(
And don't forget that if you cross Putin he will chase you down and assassinate you with radioactive umbrellas.
I think the fact that you took the time to learn how to code sets you a field apart from other potential co-founders.

The situation is kind of a mirror of the whole designers that refuse to learn how to code thing. If you look, even if they don't do it, the designers who at least learn how html and css work turn out work that is leaps and bounds better web design. Likewise, business type people who learn how the technology they're building their business on, run companies that are leaps and bounds more efficient and potentially leaps and bounds more profitable. (not to mention that much better to work with)
I noticed the same and it is interesting that hyped-up "social features" are absent. But I don't think it is necessarily a bad or old-fashioned thing. More like, hm, old-school and retro.

Think about Facebook: It is part of its DNA that they want all data of their users to be open. But most of my photos, videos and documents I don't want to share with the world! I treasure every bad photo taken on a boring vacation, but I don't care to upload everything to Facebook or Flickr.
Interesting, but I already use Sencha Touch to "mock up" and quickly iterate on iOS user interfaces. It's a more code-intensive approach than I'd like, because it's meant to produce full featured web apps, but it's easy enough to quickly produce a usable interface that I don't feel like I'm doing twice the work when it comes time to make a native app. Put several 320x480 iframes pointing to different mockups on one page and I can compare them all at once.

Or I can just deploy my "mock up" as is and have the web app be instantly available on all platforms.
Skydrive is also quite useless with file restrictions like no files over 50mb. Why not just use Dropbox?
Auto-save coming to games since 10 years ago. Who cares? This is OS-wide auto save and heavily promoted as how all modern OS X apps should behave. That's far bigger than implementing it in one suite of software and stopping there.
This has to be welcome news for GroupMe and other Twilio SMS heavy startups.
Microsoft had a shot at this with Hailstorm[1], it's too bad that it was killed.[2]

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb263932(v=vs.85).as...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/business/technology-micros...
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Today (1 dat after) the record/play button started to work for me. I guess they decided to make it available in other countries too. I finally could listen to your compositions.
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Microsoft need to do more of what they did with XBox - spin off a smaller, more agile brand that doesn't invoke the image of dusty CRT monitors and lumbering corporate IT.

Apple's brand identity works for selling consumer products, but nobody really finds value in the fact that their music player or phone was branded Microsoft. Their brand's strength isn't in consumer tech.

Apple didn't manage this by standing still, either. Their brand used to be Apple Computer, and their logo was a cheesy rainbow. That doesn't cut it with 21st century consumers, so they redrew their image.
i'd say that being a business guy means being good at strategic planning and keeping the company/startup on task. You can outsource things like legal, and hire for marketing skills, but you need to be a good manager to co-found a technology startup and not be one of the technical co-founders.
Personally, I buy lots of organic food products from Italy (e.g. laselva-bio.eu) as well as clothes (e.g. slowear.it), and for a simple reason: They're the best on the market.

You have endorsed the quality of Italian products made by private business enterprises. To keep this discussion on topic for Hacker News (ahem), I wonder what you think about how well the current Italian governmental administration is allowing business owners like that to succeed. The overall economic growth figures for Italy reported in the submitted article suggest that the preferences of consumers like you are not sustaining steady economic growth in Italy. Could that be the result of government mismanagement?
I'd guess that $995 was within the $1000 corporate credit limit, and $1495 was not.

Joel's article on pricing ought to be required reading, even if he offers no hard and fast answers: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
Phoenicians circa 1000bc:

"We won't make it to america unless we build ships as large as a stadium and can put a thousand slaves with oars in them. But then, where are we going to put all the food to feed them? Well, we let them die and throw them in the ocean, only the stronger will deserve to be called the first american settlers"

We don't know yet what the future may teach us.
On the one hand, do want. On the other hand, if I remember correctly the only people that survived the Endor speeder bike chase were Jedi. On the other other hand, maybe this would finally fix the "drunk driving" problem, one way or another.
Although, I don't agree with everything I find some truth in the article. The only time I need a phone number is the first time I enter someone in my phone. Otherwise, it's just a username after that point. Skype recognized this and I see no reason we can't get rid of phone numbers all together in the next 10 years. My only fear is that the legacy systems of the past will carry on because of the "sacred cow"...sort of like how racism keeps hanging on with older generations while the new generation moves on silently thinking how crazy the older generation is.
How much of Microsoft's difficulty integrating things into Windows is a result of the anti-trust lawsuit they went through? People seem to forget that Microsoft went through 3 years of worrying that the government would break them up because they bundled a browser with Windows. That had to have changed how they felt about bundling new things into the OS. Or do people think it was long enough ago that the culture has moved on?
Could you perhaps be more specific? I'm no McKenna expert, but so far as I can tell (1) calling bullshit on mainstream ideas, as such, is commonplace and does little to "set the agenda for humanity for the next 500 years" and (2) McKenna hasn't, in fact, provided any ideas we have any reason to think will stand us in better stead for the next 500 years than, say, the conventional wisdom would.

So would you care to give some examples of what McKenna's said that will "set the agenda of humanity for the next 500 years" and explain your reasons for thinking they'll do so?

(For the avoidance of doubt: (1) I am not claiming that the current conventional wisdom is in fact all we need for the next 500 years, just doubting whether what McKenna has to offer is any better; (2) I am not claiming that McKenna has had no good ideas or insights; perhaps he has, but so probably have any number of stoned undergraduates; what's useful is producing good ideas that can be identified as such and distinguished from the dross.)
This is exactly right. It is not possible to predict technological advancement. 250 years ago, the idea of traveling between London and New York within a few hours would have seemed ludicrous ... and yet, that technology is easily available to most people today. We may never leave the solar system, but then again, we just might.
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and there are many other companies to benefit from this. reminds me a bit when i needed to reverse engineer a sourceless binary and write a wrapper to its important parts.

yes, the article title is bad.
Sometimes the market is just not there, and it's more about the timing.
Suffice it to say you don't really love your country, you just like the idea of it/
IDK if they are aimed at the same market, but HeyWire messages are free.
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I'm not sure how we can take this seriously without proof.
Apple is far bigger than their cult following. If you attribute their success to the cult you are only fooling yourself. A cult alone doesn't buy 200,000,000+ iOS devices.

People generally do not use Apple products that suck, not everything they do takes off. They are just vocal about things that take off and very quiet on the rest, e.g. dismissing AppleTV as a "hobby" even though they clearly want it to take off.

You can attribute Apple's success to marketing, cult, whatever you want but at the end of the day Apple makes good products and puts a lot of care into them, and that's why they sell.
My answer to him was, "John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."

http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
All that power and responsibility, and not being compensated for it could be dangerous. Wouldn't it deter anyone who wasn't wealthy from office, and/or make them vulnerable to corruption?
Branding is a relatively small issue. The bigger problem is that Microsoft's products simply don't "just work" as digital hub solutions. You can make them work if you want to muck around with home groups, addresses prefixed with //, domains, confusing file ACLs, and "shares". But it takes a lot more effort than just putting in your iTunes username and password, which is how you hook up your Apple devices.

The downvotes are coming from . . . people who think setting up MS home sharing is easy? (Maybe people who have never done it -- I have.) Or people who genuinely believe branding is more important than the product being branded? I have no use for either of these perspectives but I am curious.
In the article he states that he will be fully covering the rotors.

"The propellers, which are currently largely exposed, will also be fully covered in a mesh to ensure limbs don't get too near the blades."
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HeyWire doesn't seem to offer an SMS API. If they did that for free, I'm sure they would be out of business in no time flat.
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Yes. In this case the control is going to help them I think. For one thing it's impossible to both comply with Apple's developer agreement and infringe on the patent. If you use Apple's API you should be protected from infringement due to Apple licensing the silly patent, if you don't you get rejected by the App Store.
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