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It's not compatible with the original Pre or Pixi. It's compatible with the veer, which just came out, and the pre3, which doesn't even have a release date yet. It might be compatible with updated versions of the Pre2 but I don't think they're banking on people buying those.
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Why not build an app that keeps a log of every time you log into your email, stores it to x specified # of logins and sends you an sms showing your email activity including # of logins, what time and IP address.
That's not completely true; they are fighting words, but they're fighting words re-used from the Culture Wars, which still rage on. (Particularly in academia.)
There seemed to be an emphasis on remembering facts and proving intellectualism by getting degrees rather than using knowledge to accomplish things. You obviously have to know enough to get it done but without trying to actually do it you'll never have a good idea of what enough is.

It was also a reminder to myself that I needed to get back to coding rather than indulging in this intellectual tangent over the state of geek intellectualism.
When you are actually depending on that food it is a lot of work and even more stress. You're talking about just playing at raising food,
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It's probably an exaggeration but I believe Caesar's Gallic Wars has something about killing a third of the Gauls and enslaving another third.

Implacable patience would almost certainly substitute for a certain amount of brutality, but the more of one you have the less you need of the other.
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I use meetup.com for just that.
What's your "pitch" for your domain name? (Why did you pick it?)
some really silly names...
The point of the comment is the ad hominem. Ad hominem is a fallacy when it's unwarranted and not germane to the argument. Cringely's lack of credibility is my argument. It's semantically void to point out that this amounts to "ad hominem".

I'm responding to an article in which Cringely (paraphrased) asks "is 1024 and 2048 bit enough", answers "no", and then claims that if you fielded "4096 bit AES", the DoJ would come knocking. That Cringely doesn't understand what AES is is a minor point. That he doesn't understand the differences in capabilities between DHS, the DOJ, and NSA is less minor. That he thinks this has something to do with why we don't have IPv6 is baffling, all the more so because it appears to be the thesis of his article.

That this hairy ball of cat barf and innuendo plays on our autonomic fear of a malicious government in order to score page views -- a play that devalues real concerns about misuse of authority, by allowing authority's defenders to cite nonsense like this article --- is contemptible. It deserves to be called out as such.
Scary and sad. The only good that can possibly come from this is that the industry giants start pushing in earnest for patent reform. If all the big software companies seriously want a change, I think it can happen.
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Isn't that what Microsoft tried to do with Longhorn, and failed miserably at?
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Netflix is a subscription service. Apple's been approving Netflix and Kindle updates silently while picking on the small guys because they could, many small guys left the platform in frustration.
Pretty sure he's talking about meaningful work, not politics.

(Thank you, thank you, tip your waitress.)
probably title is bit too much provocative, but I am glad we agree on importance of this things
See if you can sell produce. I've heard amazing stories about people finding bizarre corners where folks love to buy fresh veggies and fruits... usually 90% residential.
I believe the spec is 1GB of RAM.
The DOJ would have most likely been looking for evidence of restraint of trade. http://definitions.uslegal.com/r/restraint-of-trade/

Note that only Section 2 of the Sherman Anti-Trust act even mentions monopolies. The rest of it deals with anti-competitive actions, of which monopoly may only be a potential outcome.
No, the mere possibility of restricting trade makes a "monopoly". Actual restriction of trade is "abuse of monopoly".
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> But they don't mention RAM or cpu.

How's saying that it's 1.2 ghz cpu is not mentioning cpu? As for RAM, Wikipedia page says it'll have 1 gb.
Check out www.inboxalarm.com which is something I built for fun a couple years ago. It's a free service and uses SMS to alert you the moment the image is triggered.
Heh - thanks, a mix-up with Jekyll there. Email sent - and I'll be bringing quite a bit of chocolate over!
Since I very clearly wrote that I'm 'creative' when it comes to programmer, I'm sure I'm not confusing those things.
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movies and I think you need more than 12 related anus to make a movie. So, I humbly offer these suggestions, compliments, if you will, the central plot already established in paragraph 12 attached anus.
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Yeah, I don't think everyone in US understand that people are way more conscious about the cost of each SMS message in other countries
> If i were to hack your email account there is no way i'd use the web interface to trawl through them one-by-one.

Well, I don't doubt that.

I'm just wondering how well "what I would do" generalizes, here.
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This was never true on the two dominant smart phone platforms, Palm OS and Windows Mobile. Development on the former required only Codewarrior while the latter VS.Net, which became free. Neither Palm nor Microsoft ever required you to pay them money either to develop or release applications, nor did they require approval for those applications to run on devices.

You're comparing Apple's smart phone ecosytem against other companies' dumb phone ecosystems. A more reasonable comparison against other smart phone platforms shows that Apple's is unusually restrictive.
I find one of the most important functions of Lunch is to take a break and clear my head. My hands tend to be occupied, so if I'm home I'll watch an episode of something on Hulu or read HN. If I'm out with someone we'll just chat.

It's really quite refreshing and I love the feeling of having solved something over lunch that was frustrating me all morning, without having to think about it directly.
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So the following blog posts don't hold any such connotations for you?

https://www.iflowreader.com/Closing.aspx

http://blog.readability.com/2011/02/an-open-letter-to-apple/

And those are just the tip of iceberg. Is killing the dreams of small businesses built on months of blood and sweat and money for no good reason an acceptable practice?
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I think i'd feel a little more sorry for Microsoft if it weren't using software patents to fight Android.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870346610457552... (search for "patent fee")
I think your "dying" is wishful thinking -- postmodernism's popularity came about at least partly because it offers genuine insight. I think that over time it will settle down into a mature discipline, rather than a fad.

And outside of academia, it's very hard to point at any cultural artifacts (films, literature, advertisements...) that aren't deeply influenced by postmodern.
Thanks for the reply. That's interesting. Do you know if this was by choice or if they just couldn't make their original model work in Durham?
If he's cautious enough to do two-factor auth, he probably doesn't leave his accounts logged in. Plus you have a whole lot of other problems if someone owns your personal machine.
Very clever.

How is the randomness produced?
They need to think about what the word "must" means.
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"We're sorry, but this experiment was designed to work with Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) blah blah blah"

Im sorry you suck.
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> Besides, I kind of like having rebels for kids.

Well there is your problem, but let me explain why it is a problem.

An iron fist of sorts is very much needed for successful parenting. This falls into my general theory of life: Clear rules result in more fun.
Definition: An attribute of a perfectly clear rule is that it never changes.

Why do rules result in more fun? It is because there is too much choice without rules, and humans want to test the boundaries of any game before they starting playing 'for real'.
Consider this example: You jump into a parallel universe, everything could be different. You can hardly enjoy yourself unless you first defined how the world works = how to move, what to eat, what to avoid..all that.
After that, you can start living your life.
So when you tell your kids that they have to eat their vegetables, but after they complain for a few minutes, you change your mind and tell them that 'just this once' they can eat something else instead...the rules vanish. Suddenly anything is possible. Maybe it's possible to never eat vegetables again? Maybe she was just kidding? Maybe there are no rules? What rules are there?

The kid is certainly happy at first, but now the boundaries have moved. It has to test them again!
This theory also explains why games like Tetris, Mario and recently Minecraft are so incredibly popular. They are based on a very well defined set of rules. People love to experiment, and they can do so freely in a world which is safe to experiment in. They love to maximize efficiency within the bounds of the ruleset.

I have recently seen it with my dog actually. He was always barking at anything that moved while he was outside in the garden. Earlier I sometimes got annoyed enough to force him inside. He was very displeased and didn't understand why he had to go inside, and why I was so upset.
His barking never stopped of course, he couldn't ascertain the underlying ruleset.

A few weeks ago I started to move him inside at even the tiniest whiff of a bark. No exceptions, ever. He adapted incredibly quickly, he barks much less now, and he even waits outside the door when he hears me coming because he doesn't want me to get upset. He now understands the rules, and we both like it more.

If you ever tire of your kids' constant rebellious nature, it will be far too late to change it. They adapted to your parenting style, and they will care very little for your very much unexpected change of mind. In fact - if you put up a fight - they will be the model screaming teenagers we all shake our heads to on TV.
I have heard a lot of actual talk on tech forums about the Transformer and people trying to find it and excited to buy it. Way more than the other tablets.

I wonder if Asus just didn't send review units to Engadget and Gizmodo. OTOH, isn't the press supposed to be covering things on their own??
Why should I trust what is basically a Micro Focus press release?

I actually had to use Micro Focus COBOL in a project once. It was awful: COBOL the worst language ever (awful syntax, no local variables!) But what's worse is that the Micro Focus product is nearly unusable (at least on unix platforms). It's loaded with copy-protection garbage, and the installer is deliberately left in a broken state so that you must call Micro Focus support (just guess what a support contract costs: it's not cheap.) This should not happen when you drop three grand on a compiler.

Summary: avoid COBOL, unless you want to rely on a company that should have been out of business long ago (and it probably will be; just wait a few years), and a language that should never have existed.
When I owned a Palm, software was prohibitively expensive, hard-to-find, buggy and rarely did what it advertised.
A few silver linings for accused infringers:

1. It could have been worse -- as correctly pointed out by carussell, the Supreme Court decision merely validates the the way courts have been deciding cases for the past 25-plus years;

2. The Supreme Court's opinion [1] urges judges to give specific instructions to the jury that it is allowed to take into account the fact that prior art introduced at trial was not considered by the patent examiner. That will be useful for defense counsel -- you can never know whether a given judge will agree to give such an instruction, so it'll be quite helpful to be able to refer the judge to a Supreme Court "suggestion" on that point;

3. The concurring opinion of Breyer, joined by Scalia and Alito, emphasizes that the clear-and-convincing standard applies only to proof of facts and has nothing to do with the ultimate legal question of validity. That, too, will be useful in trying to get the trial judge to give the jury a specific instruction on that point.

[1] http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/10-290.pdf
And pair that with the well-known facts that:

* quality takes time

* the amount of low-quality "ship it in a hurry" code is immense.

And we quickly see that "shipping code wins" is the root cause of our crap!
To add to what necubi said, it wasn't true for Symbian either, so that covers all major smartphone platforms before the iPhone.

This "bad all software for their phones" is an oft repeated falsehood that really needs to be stopped.
I used to be in your camp, actually, and I've come around based on a number of things I've learned recently. The real problem is not that SMB's shouldn't be buying brand advertising, the real problem is that they shouldn't be buying brand advertising the way large businesses do. Shoehorning them into the same sales strategy/pipeline won't work at all.

As a matter of fact, they already buy and see value in brand advertising. Local businesses that sponsor local sports teams are simply building brand awareness. They'll pay money to slap their logo on any number of things without expecting some measurable conversion, and they still see value there.

Social media makes this even more interesting. All these small brands are creating engaging content and looking for ways to get it in front of people. Rather than worrying about converting to sales, many of them are attempting to do things like pick up Twitter followers and encourage content sharing. It's very much a brand based activity.
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Poll: Best site to use to run a public event
I'm currently organizing a public event (a YouTube gathering) and I was wondering what the community thought the best single site was for promoting the event & gathering an attendee list (i.e. let people rsvp in one way or another).

I was using facebook events but another post on HN today (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2637291) made me wonder if I should try something different.

I'd like to know both what people are most comfortable RSVPing with (end user) and also as an organizer what site provides the best tools for keeping guests updated.

I've listed some of the popular ones below but please comment on any better choices I might have missed. Thanks!
Facebook Events
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I couldn't get the article, and finally I went to http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blogs.g... for Google's text-only cached version.

There is a very simple reason why this is true. Usability researchers have known and repeatedly verified for at least 20 years that regular users simply don't "get" directory trees. They don't understand the idea of directories within directories within directories with files scattered at all levels, and the same file possibly being in multiple places and each copy being potentially different.

We're not talking illiterates. We're talking about college graduates who have used computers for years but simply don't understand this basic concept. And if you try to explain it to them you'll hit a blank wall.

You can know one of these for a long time without noticing this lack of knowledge. They will successfully use files that are in a directory system. But when you dig deeper you realize that they have memorized actions. "I click on this icon, and search for my file." "Wouldn't it be nicer if you organized your files into folders?" "You can put folders into that icon???"

It is a surprise the first time you realize that someone you know, who is not an obvious moron, really doesn't understand the idea of a directory structure. And it is a surreal experience to try to explain it and fail. It is doubly surreal because everyone who actually works with software has to understand this point so you lose track of the fact that some don't. It can be hard to believe that these people exist. But they do and they are in the majority.

This is a huge problem for anyone writing consumer software. It may make your software more flexible, but as soon as you expose the filesystem to regular users, your software is not going to be user friendly. Therefore popular applications like iTunes go out of their way to hide the existence of the filesystem from users.

(And since everyone does that, people have no reason to learn to understand the filesystem, and the cycle repeats...)
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I kind of like the ribbon toolbar, because it's logically separated into groups I often use. The one thing I don't like about it is that on widescreen laptop displays, vertical space is limited anyway, and the ribbon takes away a good number of vertical pixels (coincidentally, I also dislike widescreen displays, especially 16:9 ratio ones, for this reason)
Congratulations to Max, Damien and Martyn! Great team of highly intelligent people.
Here is the way I (not the GP) would make the case: at the time HTML was invented, we had e-mail, chat, bulletin boards, ftp sites, and news groups. You could download pictures and movies and music (although the bandwidth and processing demands were prohibitive, especially for movies). What we didn't have was any way to visualize this: oh look, someone said that, referring to this, which is visualized by a thumbnail, which takes me to this other thing when I click it. Once this happened, the value proposition finally became obvious to a large swath of the population.
Err, I take it that you haven't been keeping up with the hoopla? Both the Netflix and Kindle apps were totally affected by these rules and would have had to pay up 30% of their subscriptions/ebooks. The deadline for enforcement was June 30th.

In the meantime, Apple started killing off the small guys while approving updates to Kindle and Netflix. Things were suppose to come to a head this month.
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For some reason, I got a strong "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" vibe from that. Thanks for sharing.
Why do i need to provide you data?

You pulled a statement about behaviour out of thin air, and it wont hold up to scrutiny. Now its being scrutinised, you are dodging it.

1) What percentage of all hackers count as "hackers with a brain"?

2) How do you know most or all "hackers with a brain" would not be caught by this, without generalising from your example of one (you)?

3) Since both of the above are unknown, how can you use those as arguments to justify this being an ineffective precaution?
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Ask HN: Getting a job abroad
Hey Everyone!

I have been working with server engineering and administration on high-demand environments for almost 6 years now - and I'm happy with my job, but not with the place where I live. I'm in Brazil, and I wish to move to somewhere else, preferably Europe (but I'm considering oher places).
I have a decent english and a good german, and obviously native portuguese.

Now, what do you think that would be the best way to go? Sending resumes from here, traveling to another country and visiting some companies, try to join a big international company and hope for expatriation?

Thank you!
You make some good points.. I created a poll "Best site to use to run a public event" to expand upon this topic.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2637986
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Everything that I memorize I put in there. Makes it way easier. When I go to a conference or something and take notes, I put the key points into Anki so i won't forget.

If you do it every day you'll get amazing results, however I'm not that dedicated, but do it multiple times per week anyway.

Basically it makes my life a lot easier to have certain things memorized, and Anki makes memorizing stuff easier.

A lot of people (esp nerds) believe it is a sign of weakness to use flash cards. It's their loss.
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I grew up in Durham, NC so it's great to see startups like Adzerk doing well. It's clear that the startup scene in the Triangle (with all the tech talent, access to universities, etc.) is blowing up. Keep it up!
1. The idea of wireless sync is so obvious that customers have been asking for it since, oh, half a decade ago when iPhone was introduced.

2. The icon, while similar in concept, is literally nothing more than Apple’s standard “sync” icon plus Apple’s standard AirPort (Wifi) icon.

3. (Bonus) After rejecting the app, which did perform activities not allowed in the SDK, Apple expressed interest in hiring the kid anyway.

Manufactured controversy. Snore.
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As Gruber writes:

>Apple doesn’t give a damn about companies with business models that can’t afford a 70/30 split. Apple’s running a competitive business; competition is cold and hard. And who exactly can’t afford a 70/30 split? Middlemen. It’s not that Apple is opposed to middlemen — it’s that Apple wants to be the middleman. It’s difficult to expect them to be sympathetic to the plights of other middlemen.

..

>This is what galls some: Apple is doing this because they can, and no other company is in a position to do it. This is not a fear that in-app subscriptions will fail because Apple’s 30 percent slice is too high, but rather that in-app subscriptions will succeed despite Apple’s (in their minds) egregious profiteering. I.e. that charging what the market will bear is somehow unscrupulous. To the charge that Apple Inc. is a for-profit corporation run by staunch capitalists, I say, “Duh”.

>If it works, Apple’s 30-percent take of in-app subscriptions will prove as objectionable in the long run as the App Store itself: not very.

The above was from http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/dirty_percent

Looks like Apple didn't really succeed and backtracked once Amazon and Netflix started threatening to pull their apps which would make the iDevices much less valuable to many users. You can only pillage the ecosystem so much before it starts hurting you.
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Malaysia is pretty liberal, but there's still a lot of content, like pornography, that's illegal there. It's probably not just about protecting American content providers.
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Durham's a great town putting a lot of effort into enticing startups to settle there. Check out Bull City Forward http://bullcityforward.org/ an incubator backed in part by the city.