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This is incredibly useful! The existing paradigm, that users can make a "decision" about whether or not to use an app based on the permissions it requests, is just not true. We shouldn't have to make the decision not to use Angry Birds or Pandora simply because they request location information, or information about the "phone state" (er, unique ID).

This feature finally allows us to continue using the apps we want, without having to give them access to all of our personal information in exchange.
I think the point above is there was no need for Nokia to abandon meego as their mobile platform just because it is too late to arrive at the party and doesn't have enough developers building apps for it. As long as it got the core experience right.
Hot damn! This is a sweet app. I've been trying to get into github but I do not like the command line. This is a sweet app and should get many n00bs like me into github.
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Agreed. But then, 3-person groups are more common than 10-person groups (where it's hard to get anything done b/c everyone wants to speak and so on)
That's why when I was a consultant, I'd also buy lottery tickets. Win-win! Or was that lose-lose? Eh, something like that.
"First to file" was put in to bring US law into alignment with the rest of the world, not that I think it is a particularly good idea.
Maybe there is a niche for a not-so-smart phone: like a dumb phone, but with a usable web browser. I could live with a phone like that.
Was this similar to Oblivion? Where you had to plant some gas valves to relieve the pressure on the planet? Awesome, frustrating little game :)
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Surely this study has already been done? It seems like an obvious one to do.
Could someone explain what the difference between a independent consultant and a contractor is in the software industry?
If "all you need is 10 apps", then the platform is relatively unimportant, and it doesn't matter if you're just distributing someone else's software.

Personally, I'd add a few apps to his "must have" list - Kindle, Netflix, Wunderlist, Rdio, Facebook, iTalk (Dropbox-enabled voice recorder), Dropbox, Instacast (high quality podcast app), Downloads, The Economist, VNC software, Audible, ComicZeal... Also, I expect a robust tablet ecosystem, strong syncing/backup capabilities and good accessories. The N9 isn't looking too attractive to me.
What ever happened to the Kickstarter project to create a native GitHub app?

Is this it? Is this something else? Is that project now doomed?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sferik/hubcap-a-github-c...
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Thats what I do (tower for the GUI). The mercurial plugin on the other hand is great.
If that were true then the US military should have easily destroyed Al Qaeda and the Taliban. There is plenty of information on 4th generation and asymmetric warfare on the net which will help you understand why.
Yeah, I've considered other options. Riak seems really nice, actually - I'm going to be trying that out next. I do like MongoDB's support for Windows, though. I'm also hesitant to use Cassandra, considering all the trouble that Reddit's had with it [1].

[1] http://blog.reddit.com/2010/05/reddits-may-2010-state-of-ser...
We could do a better job a explaining the differences, thanks for commenting.
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> The bill generally updates the process for challenging patents and would change the patent system to one that awards a patent to the first inventor to file a specific claim.

> Currently, the first person to invent something has patent priority, whether or not he is the first to file an application.

That sounds to me as if they are eliminating, or at least weakening, the idea of prior art preventing the award of a patent. Scary.

Of course, this was written by a journalist, not a patent expert, so who knows what the real situation is. But it's still scary.
Because the lifestyle is too good? I guess if you get used to that much money it could create a motivational problem, but that could happen regardless of what you're doing. Don't forget the valuable things that consulting teaches you:

* How to maximize billable hours. This translates well to finding your minimum viable product and staying focused.

* How to hustle. I guess it depends on what kind of contracts you are getting, but the client relationship has parallels both to the customer relationship and b2b relationships. You often have to sell your ideas to your clients.

* How to build a lot of different things. If it's software you're doing, you'll get more under your belt by contracting than working at one company for a long time.

* How to run a business. You will learn a reasonable amount about the boring accounting, tax and legal issues of running a business. May not be super-applicable, but on the other hand it's a lot more useful than the distorted edicts that make their way down the corporate pipeline ostensibly because of some business or legal requirement way outside the view of the rank and file.

I guess when it comes to entrepreneurship I'm a glass half-full kind of guy. Pretty much any job you have can lead to experience that helps you succeed as an entrepreneur. Even a burger flipper may see things on the inside of the fast food world that could form the seed of a startup idea. If there's one thing that good entrepreneurs have in common, it's a relentless pursuit of success using the tools they have available.
I disagree with your logic. You can find a good reason for anything. For example, Kickstarter chose to make funding a project an all-or-nothing deal (either you raise all your funding or none of it). This creates a sense of urgency that has contributed to the popularity of Kickstarter -- more projects get funded because of this. Obviously someone who put $10K as their amount might still be able to do their project with less, but that defeats the effectiveness of the site as a whole. The same can be said for the time limit, though it's a smaller issue.
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The data really doesn’t look that statistically significant to me: http://hbr.org/2011/06/defend-your-research-what-makes-a-tea...
Awesome services that anyone would want to acquire. Who's paying for them, again? Yahoo's cash balance doesn't even scratch the surface of the cash required for this list...and something's telling me that they won't want Yahoo stock in exchange for their blossoming and valuable companies.
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> That's why people don't do that. They build a solid pipeline of consulting work, then they hire people.

To me that sounds way scarier and more difficult than doing a project on the side until it's big enough to mostly support me, and then cutting back on the real job/consulting.

I guess if you're in a very lucrative field - like you are - things might be different, but it seems like it would be so easy to just get caught up in 'building a consulting business', which strikes me as requiring a different set of skills than a 'building a product' business.
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Is it just me, or does the article date say "July 22, 2011" when it's June?
Well, there is certainly more than 1 possible explanation for this data, and because the real world is messy the real cause is probably more than 1 of them. Other people have already mentioned increased competitiveness from males and diversity of opinions. I'll offer another explanation, which fits well with "traditional" gender roles: women are better at collaborative work and facilitating collaboration among others.
Huh? It's the only language that works on browsers. That's how it got 'amazing'.
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The example I use is running vs riding a bicycle. You can't coast forever on the bicycle, but you can get some speed up and coast for periods of time with no problems. Running, the very moment you stop expending effort, you stop.
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The metaprogramming capabilities in Clojure greatly exceed those of Ruby, so that's a bit of a weak argument if you're impressed by things of that nature. Also one shouldn't forget about Clojure's concurrency model and functional purity which lend themselves to correctness and scalability.

Just because it doesn't necessarily better solve your class of problems doesn't mean it's unsuitable for other people's.
Python, or JavaScript perhaps? Not sure, but I would evaluate all other options before falling back to Java.

Clojure or Scala might be acceptable (Java VM).
That's my understanding of their process. Though their business model has advantages of scale similar to other forms of insurance, I really doubt if it's enough to over come overhead with electronics. I'd bet their business model in more complicated though, they must be extracting value somewhere else. Unless the extended manufacturer warranties are hugely profitable and that susceptible to undercutting.
My point was: you cannot simply just like that loose money without any trace of what happened... it's not like you can just "DELETE FROM accounts" and it is totally un-tracably gone.

I would trust more in the people who design our SWIFT and other transaction systems.
It certainly is a downside. Blowing your estimates (as a solo consultant) means they don't ask for you back.
you should not have to..

also CDT-ADT integration was moved from Eclipse Sequoyah to Eclipse CDT
I totally agree. A good cheap tablet (weblet?) like that would also be very useful to me.
For the past 2K+ years philosophy has been unsuccessful to establish whether the world is more real than (or whether it is real at all outside of) our perception of that said world. Internet/VR adds one more layer in between our perception and the world (even in the case if the world is completely inside the perception). Philosophy is going to boom (in all senses) in the 21st century.
I mostly agree with this, however one good thing about consulting is that you get to see a lot of different realities in a relatively brief period of time, which might be a good way to generate some product ideas, and also sort out what you like and don't like about how different places are run.
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First time an application has been unsupported on my Core Duo (32bit) Macbook Pro. Is there a reason for it, does the application really require a 64bit OS, or did the GitHub guys just forget about us early Intel Mac owners?
The assumption that startups get to that point, when most don't even come close, is (to me) more dangerous than "consulting is like selling crack."
In the UK, pretty much all of our banks have this now, so it is technically feasible (it's almost instant between banks participating in the scheme).
No argument on the app usage side of things. I think if you drew a giant venn diagram of actual app usage on iOS, it'd look like a giant circle with fuzzy edges, but I think that's missing the point. "The platform" isn't synonymous with apps. The platform is becoming more than what runs on your phone; quite the opposite.

Both Google and Apple have built the type of platforms being referred to when casting doubt on the future of MeeGo. The central feature of those platforms, up until about six months ago, was their capability to run applications. This is shifting quickly to the ability to store data in a way that is transparent to the user.

Google can, right now, give you seamless, transparent access to documents on a phone, tablet, or desktop computer with no thought or action from the user outside of logging in and browsing to the location of the document. There is no syncing. The same is true for email, calendar, and contacts. When iCloud ships this fall, Apple will be in the same position. What would it take for Nokia to bring MeeGo to that point?

This is "the platform" that I can't see Nokia building, and I believe it's going to set the bar for every major player in the space in the coming years.
Fair points, indeed! I can clarify:

1. Floating inspectors drive me bananas unless they can be pinned in the app "wrapper".

2. A new window for every document makes me crazy, because I like to use tools like Witch for doc-level tab switching.

3. The push away toward full screen apps and in-app file management is, IMO, a good thing.
Except Nokia didn't abandon Meego. They're strategy is pretty straightforward and sound.

1) Focus on WP7 for the short/medium term. They'll be the premiere phone on the OS and if it takes off, they'll rake in the cash.

2) In the meanwhile MS gives them a boatload of money.

3) Develop Meego in the background and push it later down the line.

The problem, as noted in the leaked stories, is that they didn't have a pipeline of Meego phones that would be ready to go. And while the phone design looks great, the OS looks a bit stale still. So get the OS in good shape, while not hemorraging too much cash.
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I recently left at&t interactive, the definition of large corporate culture, and they gave all developers macs and were using github:fi.

I'm now at another giant company you have all heard of. We all have macs and are using github.

The tides are changing.
Interesting, thanks. I'll check it out. Does this support building a demo app, i.e., can it have a public url to the jboss app I would deploy so I can send that public url to others to view?
In my experience a startup requires much more from you than consulting. In a startup the team expects you to give 150%, when you are consulting you can pace yourself.
You don't need to spend all the money you earn. If you save - that money will stand you in good stead when you're living on close to no income running a start-up.
...did these teams have managers or were they self-managed and fully collaborative/co-operative? Because that may be a factor as well...
I'm not sure I agree that the app ecosystem doesn't matter, but one thing is for sure, there are way too many app stores being launched and most of them suck.

Certainly it would make sense to focus on the core user experience first instead of some half-baked attempt to confront to out do Apple's whole platform.
Yeah, I was surprised as well. As integrated as everything I would think replacing the main board would replace every component in the chain that could cause the problem.

I'm very curious about the diagnostics as well, I'll update the post with any additional information I get.
Or perhaps the trucker, the gas station attendant, or both get nabbed by crazed mobs of people wanting to loot the contents of the truck and the gas station. Watch some videos of, say, the LA Riots. Here's a video of truck driver Reginald Denny getting beat by a mob. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc_SgpyJWRY During the LA Riots there was a lot less reason for people to loot and go crazy than there would be in a food and money disruption situation. I admire your confidence in believing in the best in people, but personally I'm skeptical about that.
I think you may be over generalizing here. Yes there are vast similarities between MongoDB and other NoSQL databases but many of the issues he pointed out here are specific to MongoDB (and certain versions of it at that).
Judging by their use of chameleon, and their general UI choices, I think we can expect an iOS client from github as well in the future (using the same codebase as this desktop version). I think that OSX + iOS > Windows users in that regard.
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The problem is that this phone would likely be on the same data plan as smart phones -- especially as HTML5 comes of age. So while the phone might be marginally cheaper (a 3GS is what, $49?), it'll still cost you the same amount per month. That makes it a non-starter.

That's largely what happened with the Kin. Of course the great untold story, is that the Kin is selling really well now -- as a feature phone.
The hardware seems excellent but the UI feels like another icon based copy-cat of the desktop UI metaphor like iOS and Android. Even WebOS had some new things going for it.

For the sake of UI variety, I would pick WP7 to be in the top 3, atleast it offers an alternative form of UI radically different from the same old icon based desktop UI metaphor seen from almost 3 decades now in iOS/Android/Meego/WebOS. http://img.zdnet.com/techDirectory/_PROGMAN.GIF

Principles of Metro UI Decoded. http://www.riagenic.com/archives/487
So it appears as if they're about to create a fund that they can appropriate to whatever cause they want instead of the underfunded patent office. Great... That's what they've done to infrastructure funds in many states.
you think the average git user is on windows?

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If you've ever tried to write such a thing in Python or Javascript (node.js anyway) you will eventually come running back to the JVM. Java is not perfect but the JVM is close to it.
I assure you I get that point...I just doubt it...and I believe it could be easily figured out. Just a lot of speculation that this is actually happening...its funny how they can be criticized for not having their site secure enough and for not "rushing" to get it back up at the exact same time.

So far there has been no evidence that Mt.Gox did anything except get hacked...even Tradehill was using the same encryption that Mt.Gox was until the hack...everyone upgraded after the incident.
This is a really fascinating presentation, and an easy read. The major conclusion is to think really carefully about abandoning a SQL database for noSQL. A little more info on the postgres solution and their experience with replication would have been good.
I think it's more like a step sideways. The main issue with patents right now is the low bar for new patents, and this bill doesn't seem to alleviate the problem.
Right, but you build on the platform you like/know first, then you expand to others.
and there's always git gui
Microsoft tried that with the Kin.

The problem (at least one of the problems) was that it still cost as much as a real smartphone. Particularly, the monthly plans were still the same, which I think makes potential buyers pause and say something like: "If I'm going to be paying this much money per month, wouldn't it make sense to at least have the ability to use apps, even if I don't need them now".
Except for Twitter...

This is a variation of m0nitaly's point: I would say "except for Instapaper, Reeder, and Twitter..." and Jasber would say "except for Rdio and RunKeeper..."

Even if apps 1-10 are native, I'm hanging onto my iPhone for numbers 11 and 12. The native iOS experience is great, but those two or three non-native apps make it sublime.
And here are the docs for Git hosts who haven't yet implemented smart http:

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I'm glad to know that I'm not alone in doing this.
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Only a small logo on top right but this was my first thought as well. Not quite the same font but same proportions.
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My puppy had chewed a part way through my Logitech G15 cord in a few spots. It would work from depending on how I wiggled the cord. Now, it's gone.

I'm not a gamer; it was reco'd to me years ago, but I have no use for the macro keys.

What's the most comfortable keyboard (not split/"ergonomic"/whatever those are called) you've ever used?
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N9 is fucked, not just because of the lack of third party devs developing for the MeeGo platform.

As per Engadget, Nokia plans to have N9 on sale on Sept 23, right after the iPhone5 launch and several Android, WebOS and Mango phones that will be released between now and then.

Sounds like bringing Knife to a Gunfight? The processor underneath the N9 is already dated and they think releasing end of third quarter was a sound idea? WTF?