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How would I have got it on there? I'm a technical guy but I never worked any of that out. I managed to get images off via bluetooth but never managed to get anything onto it. My second 3G phone a Sony-Ericsson was slightly more successful (I managed to stick some MP3s on it). But that was it.

Despite supposedly having email, video calling and internet both phones failed to do any of the three despite numerous attempts. I could get WAP but that was it (and typing a full url with the numeric keypad was a nightmare - it took about as long as the page took to render i.e. forever).

I and a friend got Nokia 3G phones at the same time sat down to make our first video call - a momentous moment. Total failure. Not even a pretense at a picture.

The Ericsson was a terrible MP3 player too. Really tricky to use. However it was a fantastic camera.

I stand by my assertion that Apple changed phones forever when it introduced the iPhone. Everything worked and was usable. Then, when they introduced the App store this was the first time I was able to use a phone with 3rd party software despite numerous attempts.
I think this article pretty much nails a key part of it. What Apple wants to do is implement a seamless digital world that Just Works. (It remains to be seen whether it does in fact Just Work.)

Oddly enough, you could accuse them of, once again, stealing ideas from Xerox PARC (and, once again, be redirected to Douglas Englebart et al) ... the kind of thing Apple is demonstrating with iCloud, iOS5, and Lion is essentially the computing paradigm described in a Scientific American article on Xerox PARC in the 80s (I wish I could give the exact issue, but the article described four basic kinds of computers - post-it notes, slates, desktops, and wall screens - all, except the post-its which were a rough prototype with a rudimentary display, sharing a common UI with data stored on the network.)

An interesting remark that touches on this topic on The Talk Show was (and I paraphrase) "how come this [the app-centric universe] feels so reasonable and natural and yet has taken so long to come". In fact, there was a huge detour in the opposite direction exemplified by OpenDoc (on the Mac) and OLE (on Windows). How many of us remember copying a table from excel, pasting it into PowerPoint and getting some kind of weird icon? In the 90s the idea was to remove the app and make the document (or perhaps the workflow) the center of attention. This may actually have been a Good Idea but it was (in the case of OpenDoc) badly conceived and not especially well-implemented. Or, perhaps, it was just too far ahead of its time.
Not as far as I know. The concepts are all open, I hope this is ported to other platforms.
I've just ordered a beagleboard-xm, and though I was initially looking for an ARM computer purely for the sake of owning one, it now seems like the perfect device for use as a personal 24/7 internet server. Should only draw 10-15 watts when operational, hope it works okay!
tl;dr:

the error is returned by the linker rather than compiler itself. It is not a bug, just size limitation of the default memory model. Linux x86_64 provides `large model' -- as pointed out by VJo, but it is not supported by GCC before 4.6, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6296837/gcc-compile-error...
Ok, that all sounds grandiose, but I think that perhaps people are overplaying the impact of iCloud. Yes, it's a big deal to be sure, but perhaps some pragmatism is in order.

The author gets one bit right, that what Apple is theoretically "killing" is mostly irrelevant. On the other hand, what Apple showed thus far with iCloud is more about the fact that they are doing the cloud quite a bit differently than Google is.

Apple is saying, yes syncing and pushing is important, but so are rich apps. They are showing that cloud doesn't just mean doing HTML5 apps. That is the right approach IMO. The cloud isn't just the web, it's your data across all devices in the best possible format for each device. Dropbox got this right, Apple is getting this right(on their own platforms), Google doesn't seem to do this as much yet and their products seem to suffer as a result.

I would love Google to do more with say Google Docs on Android than forcing mobile web apps down our throats, but they have a web-based advertising business to prop up so of course they love the web-only approach.

In theory Microsoft is doing some kind of hybrid approach or something to the Office cloud, but really I wish they would just put out a killer version of Office on all platforms. It would make them lots of money and would enable them to lock people into their cloud (for better or worse). As it stands, Microsoft's cloud strategy by comparison is to throw crap at the wall and hope something sticks. Thank goodness they didn't offer $9 Billion to buy Dropbox...
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Disagree with your opinion on resume 2.0.

Resume landing pages are marketing plays: they're targeted advertisements meant to get you attention.

Given 10 applicants of equal talent, who do you choose to give your time and attention to? This is where one person's extra time and effort helps them stand out. They also aren't huge time investments, and seem to have a good cost/benefit ratio.
addictive...yes...maybe...if i would just know what it is... no explanation? nada? why do i have to request an invite if i do not know what i'm asking for?
Is Bugherd pronounced "buggered" (as in the British saying for something that is f*cked up?)
Check out my GeeTasksLite app, I do exactly that. If you follow in my foot steps you should be ok.
Big bad Apple taking away all the success iflow was about to have in their dreams of being a third middleman of a zero marginal cost egood.

At what point do the people at iflowreader and readability put on their big boy pants and take some responsibility for lack of their dreams coming true?
After a few months I had a prototype and it actually worked. The application screen-scraped data, stored it in a database, presented it to the user, and then submitted data to an external system.

Much better decision than hiring someone that could do it in a day.
Misleading. China != Hong Kong.
I think it would save lives if Apple figured out a way to be smart with voice recognition and speech to enable hands and eyes free texting. It absolutely should be on the roadmap for them.
What is simple informational data? I've never heard that term before, and its not obvious what he's referring to.
Why I run shells inside Emacs
Unfortunately, with the WWDC announcements, it really doesn't look like HP has a better value.

For as long as the MS/Windows ecosystem is a going concern, a sufficiently well executed non-Apple tablet will have a market in those who are anti-Apple.
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That tactic, "reputation bankruptcy," is far more effective for individual persons than for a business, and in this specific case, it's pretty easy to programmatically detect. So I don't think much of that scenario.

However, yes, it's easier to game the numbers when the volume of reviews is low. That's an ongoing problem - for everyone.
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Yes, and he's still not beating his wife and that's good. Sure I'd have preferred it if it had come about some other way but this is still good.

The reality is that companies only do things for their own benefit, directly or indirectly, Apple, Google and everyone else included and we shouldn't kid ourselves that they do anything else. Google don't make Android because they love freedom or giving stuff away, they do it because they make shedloads of cash through advertising off the back of mobile internet use on a platform they control. You may love the side effect but I honestly think you're kidding yourself if you think they're doing it out of altruism - after all, don't be evil is looking pretty flakey in quite a few areas now.

(And please note I'm not trying to make this an Apple vs. Google thing, I'm just saying that this is what companies do - they do what works and makes them money).

But ultimately when people screamed and shouted for them to change this stuff, what outcome were you looking for other than it be changed? People spoke and acted, they listened, surely that's good?
Except that's not possible yet. The pitfalls, limitations, and complexity of languages with advanced type systems such as Scala and Haskell are evidence that the Curry-Howard isomorphism is not useful enough.
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No, the word I was looking for is emotive.

I'm happy to accept that negative is reasonable here, I don't accept that emotive in this way this metaphor is, is useful or a good reflection of the situation.
I'd have to go back through the literature, but reuse was not something I heard talked about much at all when I first seriously started doing OO in the 90s.

With that said, reuse with OO today is not in a horrible state, no pun intended. Things can certainly be easier, but I think design is the bigger issue. And the problems I see suffer in functional designs as well as OO designs.
You can use the rubygem to do just that: https://github.com/posterous/posterous-gem
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I took it to mean data objects.
There are definitely some exceptions -- it's what I do for a living.

And yeah, this is big news in the space. Google is clearly making a move into online display advertising, having all but conquered direct-response. It'll be interesting to see how they do. Display advertising has a vastly different set of challenges associated with it -- brands care first and foremost about the safety of the pages they run on, which means Google will need to be a lot more selective about the publishers they partner with for display, and brand lift through display advertising is a lot harder to measure than direct-response conversions.

(Obligatory plug if you're also one of the exceptions (or interested in being one): SAY Media, my employer, is hiring engineers! Check us out at http://www.saymedia.com/.)
Given that metaphors are about communication, that people complain about them all the time, and that communication is about other people, you might want to accept that they are bad metaphors.
> Can someone explain what the value a really experienced technologist adds is? (Additionally, can that value be provided by a first employee rather than a cofounder?)

I'll take a shot at this.

There is a large gap between "good enough to get the job done" and "stable, maintainable, and secure." It's important to get the kind of technical person who has a solid grasp of the proper way to develop software. A cofounder will care a lot more about building a lasting, maintainable business than random programmers will. Someone has to take pride in the codebase and take responsibility for auditing others' work as well, and it's hard for me to see a non-cofounder really caring enough.

A technical cofounder will be much more invested in the enterprise when things get tough, and in a startup they will! Something will break, someone will attack the site, traffic will peak unexpectedly, and as a founder you will want to know that you have someone who is capable and willing to handle those issues when they come up. A contracted programmer certainly will not fix issues like that cheaply, and even an employee is likely to seek other options after a few such incidents.

If you want to build a thriving, lasting company while minimizing difficulties, there is no substitute for a good technical cofounder.

Edit: While writing my comment, biot explained my first point in a more concrete way.
> And an edit to add: there is definitely influence from the ideas generated academia, however. For a really obvious example, Neo is reading Simulacra and Simulation in The Matrix.

It's a prop. If you're going to argue influence, shouldn't you be pointing out how the contents of that book were somehow reflected in the movie?
Never! My metaphors are good like other things that are good.
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He expands on that when he talks about an "associative model" of information.
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Would anyone mind explaining what the difference between all these ad companies is? In my mind, ad companies are kind of like finance companies, in that they all have the same goals (beating the stock market/displaying optimal ads), and differ mostly in their exact algorithms and technology. (Compare this to "standard" tech companies, where it goes the other way around: their products are very different (e.g., Twitter is not Facebook), though their technologies don't really differ that much from each other.)

Is this accurate?
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> 'switching to a different branch' and 'reverting a file' are both operations that make your working copy (partly) match a branch

git revert is the "undo committed change" command.

git reset is the "discard uncommitted change" command (what is called "revert" by Subversion, Mercurial, Perforce, Bazaar, Darcs, Fossil, and SVK).
From the article:

* They falsely claim to be affiliated with Airbnb, or be the “international version” of Airbnb.
* They claim that they are part of Ebay and/or Groupon. We’ve confirmed that this is not the case.
* Their employees pretend to be Airbnb travelers in order to give you a sales pitch in your home.
* They are duplicating personal profiles, descriptions, and photos of your Airbnb listing without your permission.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic, so I am taking it as you were serious.

There are arguments both for and against taking a few months to do it yourself when someone could have done it in day.

He invested his few months and now he has the credibility and experience to implement the prototype himself, talk to technical founders, manage contractors and see through bullshit.

On the other hand, if this was all his prototype was, he could have paid someone hourly rate to build it and then launched early and improvised. He could still have learned on his own time - he would have saved a lot of it by trading it for some money.
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>Many tech hipsters hate advertising

If that's true, I'd recommend they (and anyone who has a distaste for advertising) watch Art & Copy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_%26_Copy.
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"It is therefore better to communicate too much than too little."

I can't disagree strongly enough about this. When you're on a team greater than 2 or 3 people, using hyper-communication like this suggests would consume the majority of your time. Instead of, you know, getting shit done.

It's not the quantity of communication that's important as much as the quality of the information being communicated.
> I think he's saying that it can be harder to change cultures than it is to say, simply invade a country. The US rolled into Iraq with no problems at all, but how long would it take to truly change the people and culture? Would it even be possible?

Why would it be necessary? The West could easily get oil from iraq without any involvement of the Iraqi people.

I write "the west" because the US doesn't get much of its oil from the middle east and oil's fungibility is a US choice. Neither of those things are written in stone.

As a matter of policy, the US could decide that oil doesn't leave the western hemisphere and let the europeans, chinese, and anyone else who cared handle the middle east. The western hemisphere has more than enough resources to handle US needs and europe could decide to simply take the oil and ignore the people. There's not much that any of the middle eastern countries/peoples could do about that.
apples and oranges. Sure that's true if you want to dwindle history down to just dates and events. The value of history(I assume for most) is in the meaning and lessons we extrapolate from it. You can argue it's an objective process when at its best but it isn't necessarily consistent across all perspectives.
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Isn't this just a housekeeper?
Why doesn't Code Quarterly have an RSS?
Nothing is worth without some level of testing. this also applies for execution.

But testing/evaluating an idea can be easier than full blown execution. and you can use it to estimate how likely your idea would succeed.

And at this point your idea has some value.
Eh, more than a bit. The epithet you chose echo the exact words I hear from many white collar execs trying to turn "social networking for baby boomers" into some sort of cash cow, believing that licensing a 200k per year social networking software and getting millions in capital is The Right Way.

I understand your article wasn't actually about that and it was more about the self-empowerment you found through doing it yourself. I'm in full support of self-empowerment - but I will say this: technical cofounders are strictly not overrated. As has been suggested many times in this comment thread, a balance between a good business cofounder and a good technical cofounder is a great way to do it.

A one-man technical founder can get along without a business person or even outsourcing to a business consultant; a one-man business founder cannot get along without a technical person or without outsourcing to a technical contractor/consultant. Additionally, I applaud your self-driven effort, but it is a common mistake to think you can take over the world after 6 months to even 4 years of self-taught programming experience.

As a business person, you did well by learning just enough to build a prototype, from there, you should be able to attract a technical cofounder that has the skill and talent you are ultimately going to need in the long run and probably don't have the time or desire to pick up on your own.
Note, however, that a good crowd-sourced traffic monitoring app could deal with that, without having to know that it is a DUI checkpoint. It just needs to know that there is an area where traffic is slow.
Haven't gotten around to it yet. Definitely on the list.
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How would you guess that your information was stolen?
Yeah, that's what I heard. I just had cloud on the mind, and made that typo.
Core Articles referenced. Skip the blog post

http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html

http://snarfed.org/why_i_run_shells_inside_emacs

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4911.html
He did say in the past 20 years. Everything you're talking about occurred outside of that time frame.
Great post. I want to call attention to Will's first comment from Josh Strike, who articulated what I'm thinking pretty well.

(Doesn't seem like I can link to it, so I'm pasting - and truncating, so I encourage you to read his full comment):

Most coders are autodidacts. The ones without a DIY ethos drop out pretty quickly. Frankly, the reason the tech side feels free to give the business side a lot of crap -- other than the fact that you guys make more than we do, in mysterious ways unimaginable to us -- is that the business heads tend to lack that DIY drive to figure it out for themselves. Basically, wasting our time with things they could google, or learn to do, if they were as diligent as we are being (and we, being paid less to do more, feel a right to gripe). But you don't sound like that; actually, you sound like you took the hacker mentality and applied it to business, which is what we'd all like to do. SO, bravo. The fact that you did that is great. Don't rest on your laurels (or your co-founder); keep improving yourself.

[...]

The most important thing to remember if you're going to delegate -- whether it's hammering nails, making pizza dough or writing code -- is that the guy with his hands in the pie has the power to demolish you if you don't understand what he's doing. And lives by the sweat of his balls. So buy him a beer...and never consider anything to be magic. If you do, you've just put yourself in the dangerous position of not being able to fix it when it breaks down.
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So non-obvious (by the PTO's standards, or even by some wise person's standards) mathematics should be patentable?
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No, the point is that you can't optimise the other 99% because that optimisation only works if hardlinks aren't allowed.
I'm glad someone is finally discussing this. IntelliScreen was the first app ($10) I ever bought on the iPhone -- long before Apple's "magical" app store even existed -- through Cydia/Rock (or whatever it was called at the time...)
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Thanks for the heads up; taking a look into it.
His actual criteria for taking the time to find a bug is reasonable, but I take issue with the assertion that its not a bug in code he wrote most of the time.
It would be more fun if it compiled to FORTRAN and used f77 to compile it ;-)
Not to mention "hampster," regardless of how "Hampster Dance" was spelled
There's actually a whole ecosystem in between advertisers, publishers and consumers, with a bunch of different layers.

Here's an illustrative graphic:
http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2010/9/28/the-display-a...
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Does anyone here use clojure in production? Is it useful in a webapp context? With a SQL DB?
Google is not forcing web apps on mobile devices. There are Android apps for Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Maps, and Reader.
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