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It depends how you use the phone. Android phones can last between 5 hours to 3 days. It all depends on usage. Just because you heard or experienced 1.5 days of battery life with iPhone, and then you heard somewhere else that Droid X2 stayed 5 hours on a charge, doesn't mean the iPhone's battery is 3x better.

Games or heavy wifi browsing can easily eat into your battery life in several hours, regardless of the phone.
Well, I wasn't exactly implying that Government should be the biggest investor in these technologies, just that it should support it, and be its main priority going forward, like writing legislation to help it accelerate, etc.
"take pride in our products - we do"

pride when you make inferior product is not a good idea. Imagine the reaction of the people if just after I lose on first round of a Tennis open(I did) I scream to the stands: I'm so proud of me!!!

"Apple is in it for the money, we're in it to make our lives better"

If they say that they will be lying. Actually Apple has so much money in the bank that they could take the luxury of not being on it for the money, while RIM needs it to survive. Does Steve Jobs is there for the money? I bet you not.
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This would only be accelerated by the explosion of mobile devices with native facebook apps.
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I think it's just because smartphones are now just normal phones, and using Android for free is the best option for all those phone makers who were going to keep making phones in some capacity regardless of how well the iPhone did.
I work at a large multinational software company where distributed teams have been encouraged across all projects. I live in Ireland and work in/for a U.S. team. Many of the U.S. team also work from home.

Recently the edict came down that working-from-home for those employees with an office was not acceptable. It listed a large number of negative consequences (loss of career prospects, management visibility, team cohesion, and social interaction). Each and every one of these applies to me as part of the distributed team (which is still being implemented) but apparently the double-standards are ok.

Working from home is a no-no but working from another country is just fine!
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I've seen an extremely wide range of timeframe depending on the business and market. Some as quick as a couple months to some being longer than a year. I don't think I can give an average that would be meaningful base on the number of companies I know of.

That said, it helps to work on a cashflow project first to sustain living before diving into a startup like project that may take awhile to bring in enough profits to do the same. This is why some people recommend working on your startup on the side even though I know most would prefer diving into their startup overtime from day one. The problem is this isn't realistic for many people and underestimating things doesn't just go for estimates of when profit or funding will come in. It's in all areas.
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I'm thinking FF 3.6, which came out January 21st. [1] If you zoom in on 2010, you'll see the drop happens around the end of January. [2]

[1] http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6/releasenotes/

[2] http://trends.google.com/trends?q=facebook.com&ctab=0...
Once we got catastrophic backup

rsync -a --delete /home/project/ /mnt/backupDisk

Left unnecessary slash after "project" and rewrite all content on "backupDisk" by project files (instead of sync project folder on it)
Ok, HN, what's with you? I see no trace of anything offensive, trollish or off-topic in parent's posts, and yet they're all downvotted to oblivion. Come on!
"software applications including Word, Excel, .. flash video." 1100 Rupees, which is the consumer price, is $25. Windows phones with mobile Word start at ten times that, with very little or no profit. This can't be true.
Node.js. lol.
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One of the reasons why I have not visited Facebook since about a year now. I do not want to hand over control of my life to some company feeling fit to do with my data what they want at any time.
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It's the iPhone who is preventing you, because Apple made it possible, so here's the scenario :
"Organizer : Hey apple, block this guy from taking videos of my event"
Apple : Oh no problem, he'll just see dead fish instead ROFL"

If the organizer does not want you to take videos, you should still be able to, but if you do or don't, it should be your decision not apple's. So who is telling you what to not film?
I don't think improving lives only mean going out and saving lives.

Hipmunk is improving life by making us get rid of ad-ridden travel sites.

I think when he says 'improve life', he mean create something which is better than what we already have. It can be any market or niche and may target a small user audience too but as long as it's better than what we currently have, it's improving the overall standard of life.
interesting - I definitely felt like I was floating to the left the most
I was interested in your game, I played Galaxy PBEM some time ago, but you have few flaws:
1. You assume that everybody played board game, which I haven't, so you don't have an easy introduction for a new player.
2. You have single player game, but you set up a high barrier to try it, I don't understand why you need logging in when a cookie will be enough.
Slowban and Hellban
I am the subject of both of these sanctions on HN.
I think it's a sneaky way to treat people.
Yeah. The idea that I couldn't roll back a transaction if there was a problem, or that part of my data might get through while others didn't is a terrifying one. My customers _care_ about their data being accurate.

And similarly - most of the data I work with is naturally relational. Having the database make checks to ensure that invalid things aren't happening is a lifesaver against coders making a stupid mistake (and everyone makes one from time to time).
Having taken a ruby app through mysql => mongodb => mysql there were several reasons that I wouldn't recommend mongodb as a goto solution for persistence.

1) Your tests have to be document aware. Models that are embedded within a document are very difficult to test in isolation from the rest of the document. You need to build the whole document before you can test any persistence related functionality.

2) Refactoring relationships is difficult. When you start building an app you don't know how the model is going to turn out. With a relational model that's fine, you can add/remove relationships easily. With documents your models are organised into hierarchies that they have to be aware of. The code that handles this hierarchy is incredibly brittle. If you move a model from one document to another, or just it's own document, you're going to have lots of code to fix. Maybe it's a case of needing some new refactoring patterns, but rest assured, they'll be far more complicated than refactoring patterns for relational stores.

3) Mongoid and the uncanny valley. It looks like activerecord, but I spent an inordinate amount of time working around bugs and methods that you expected to be there that just weren't. Admittedly this was before the stable version was released(the recommended version at the time) so things may look significantly better now.
Wolf3D for the iPhone was supposed to be programmed by a different team. He simply found it to be a poor port when they presented it and wrote his own version in a couple of weeks. Seems like a side project to me, regardless of its distribution.
In my opinion, this is not a "neat trick", this is simply not-so-subtle blackmail and brute-forcing and it is far, FAR from "respectful" but go ahead, show us how you get a meeting with Steve Jobs and the president, Barack Obama, using this.
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Maximilliano who already know how cruel Bernarda at Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 169 Max reminded Bernarda to keep the attitude and words. Max warns Bernarda that if Bernarda re trying to harm Maria and Victoria and Juan Pablo Jr, Max will not stay silent, Max be dragged Bernarda to jail, and could certainly be very sorry of Bernarda. Is Bernarda afraid any threats of Max? Watch Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 169 that aired tonight.
No of course it doesn't neccessarily mean that. Like most things in life; it depends. If you feel that your day job is fulfilling your interest and happiness as a developer, I'd say you don't need to work on side-projects, you're probably learning plenty during the day.

But if your work gives you restricted oppurtunities to try new technology, or burdens you with outdated tech and boring work, working on a side-project can reignite your enthusiasm in programming, which can never be a bad thing for your career.

Also, theres nothing to say you need to spend huge amounts of time on a side-project, maybe a few hours a month just to try a few new things. Sure, you won't become an expert in those things, but you'll get a feeling of what it's about.

And choose something fun to inspire you, nothing is more mind-numbing that coming home to work on a side-project that actually bores the hell out of you.
I don't understand why he talks about an ORM (object-relational mapper).
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Ask HN: off the shelf web design?
Many HN users have suggested using a theme from themeforest to get started with their website or web app.

I've spent several hours looking on there and whilst they have some gorgeous admin themes they're too business-like for my app. It's a group buying/coupon site aimed at consumers in a very specific niche.

The non-admin themes are largely geared toward blogs which again aren't suitable. I've also tried many of the theme resellers I found on google but same problem.

Does anyone have any other resources they could share?
You're disappointed? Unless you're an Apple shareholder I'm trying to think why anyone would want a single company to have a monopoly in such an important market. A monopoly with a control freak like Steve Jobs would have been scary, thank goodness for Android!
funny when I google for that your comment is now the top result. I presume this article is the event that you're referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812
I loved this quote (I'm paraphrasing)

Reporter: What kills young startups?

PG: The back button

Brilliant
Same thing happend to a german professor in 2008, where they also accidentialy swapped IP numbers. The accusation was child pornography, the news got hold of it and, of course, his reputation was deeply damaged.

Original german article: http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Unschuldig-unter-Verdacht-291...

and translation: http://translate.google.de/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl...
At work, we had a USB drive full of Ghost images. Someone else didn't know how to use Ghost that well and they managed to nuke the partition table by trying to write an image on the USB drive onto the drive itself... or something like that anyhow (newer versions don't let you do that any more, I note). Fortunately, they didn't destroy the data itself.

I rebuilt the partition table and saved all of our backups.
Here in Slovenia they tend to investigate cases like this. I'm usually on the "give us the IP of this user" side of things (we run a social network page), so I usually don't know how things get resolved (and how long it takes if they do).
As someone with a math background who came into programming this statement is very true. It's ironic that I've worked on missile defense, NASA satellite, and UAV routing software only to see my coworkers dream of jobs with webpages or distributed systems. Science work _is_ interesting until you've done it for a few years. Then, it's just another application of the same thing you did last, in another context.

And by the way, you ever see the kind of code scientists write? You'd burn your eyes out. No, it's not "good code," it's "good science." There's a difference. The humble ones nod their head and say "I don't understand the difference." Good luck finding a company like that (www.aer.com <- John Baldwin's group, they're hiring and have awesome management.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

Annoyingly enough, he has the same day job as me. My side projects don't get used across the internets :(
And Matt refers to this blog post by Amit Singhal to give the official word on what Panda does. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-guid...

That link answers one of my question about Eric's article, which is why TravBuddy took the steps they did take.
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This is great. I work for a blog network that got hit similarly hard by both Panda updates, and we've done a lot of the same stuff (removing and/or de-indexing short/no page view content, improving our site map and linking system), but scrapers continue to be our biggest issue, especially the ones we don't syndicate to. These can rank higher than us in Google as well, and we continue to try to find a way to flag them or submit removal requests without having to do each one manually.

This is a great write up though, it's good to see that others are trying the same things as we are.
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A bit off from what you're asking for but in the future, I would find an attorney that

a) does not have a personal relationship with any cofounder (hopefully already obvious in hindsight) but...

b) more importantly, represents the company and not the individual founders. its important that you guys understand if something happens, good attorneys will disclose they're representing the company, not you. If it comes down to it, they'll gladly sue you in the interest of the company. As ironic as that sounds, personal attorneys and corporate attorneys should be separated.
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I didn't know the last one. Nevertheless I find the mix of functions with no arguments, function values and optionnal parenthesis quite confusing syntax wise.
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A physician is not generally creating new stuff, just using stuff that is created by someone else. Programmers create, and creation requires a much deeper understanding of a subject than just using.
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"Don’t make any assumptions."

Impossible.
I once read a story about a Korean aircraft hitting a mountain where the blackbox recorded the last minutes. They copilot and engineer (used to have those too) would only speak up a few seconds before impact. Before that they would only make vague mentions of being off course.
It seemed and still seems unbelievable that someone chooses death over telling a superior that he is wrong.
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yes but has anything been built with it?
IANAL, but arrest, by definition, means to take into custody. Technically, arrest includes the right to transport someone, and some laws in some jurisdictions grant powers to detain but not arrest (usually in association with search warrants or traffic laws).

In most legal jurisdictions, police can question you without arresting you -- but if you aren't under arrest, you are free to leave at any time. There is not usually any legal limit on how long such questioning can last -- it is a meeting between two consenting legal entities (you and the police) and either party is free to stop the questioning and leave. In some cases, your answers to the questions under this situation could bring you under reasonable suspicion and be grounds for arrest -- and a lawyer could help with that.

If you are being 'held' (meaning you aren't free to leave), then you are under arrest, essentially by definition.

I believe many civil liberties organisations explicitly asking something like 'am I free to leave?', forcing police to either acknowledge that you aren't under arrest and may leave if you wish, or commit to legally acknowledging you are under arrest, requiring them to justify it in court if you sue them.
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There we go... "Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces"
I heard a different story. RBI asked PayPal to become a bank-like entity. PayPal refused to do so.
So, RBI has the right to enforce its rules.

More here...
http://techie-buzz.com/tech-news/paypal-rbi-guidelines-flout...
How do you assess someone's Github profile?
From programmers.stackexchange.com:

"Lots of people in the open source community say they strongly consider a candidate's Github profile when hiring.

I'm active on Github, with a few projects of my own and some contributions to others. But looking at my own profile as if I were an employer, I see a lot of noise: projects I cloned but never contributed to, etc. The projects and patches I'm proud of don't stand out.

If you assess people's Github profiles, how do you do it? And as a developer, should I do anything differently - for example, delete cloned repos I'm not actively working on?"
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You're asking too many different questions at once.

It's possible to have 'successful' side projects, if you define success as simply not failing.

It's not possible to have a runaway success like Minecraft while you have a day job, though. It takes too much of your time to keep it going.

As for learning, you can learn anything you want. Just go to it.
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He's also ignoring the existence of youtube, which is an incredibly popular platform for watching video on. In the UK we have several platforms for watching on demand TV, which are available in any web browser. The author clearly hasn't done the most basic research.
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You can only infer that if the iPad 2 were released simultaneously with the iPad 1 and with otherwise identical specs.

The iPad2 is the /next/ product Apple released: of course it will sell more. Apple are exceptionally good at getting people to buy into their annual refresh.
ALL of my PROD environments are unreachable from DEV boxes, for a good reason.
This could be my new FML.
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Canonical URL. When you reach the page via tag list or category, have it rel=canonical the article URL instead of tag or category URL.

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I think trusting the police, or any institution is a big mistake. People are just people, and the police or medical profossionals can be just as lazy and inept as anyone else in any other line of work.

In fact, I would say in the police it's worse as they learn to dissasociate with people's problems since they see them every day.

Case in point: We were involved in a car crash. The guy crashed in to the side of us and span us 360 degrees. Immediately after the crash I checked on my wife and she said she was ok (I think she was in shock, though, later she had to be cut out of the car, needed oxygen, and was taken to hospital). I got out to see if the people in the other car were ok and saw them try and drive off, but their car was too damaged and they just drove into a few parked cars. I had a clear view of this.
When the policeman arrived that night to take our statement it was clear he'd had a long day for whatever reason. I told him I saw the other car attempt to drive off.

"Are you sure, sir?"

"Yes. There were other people there, didn't they say the same thing?"

"No."

"There must have been damage to the other parked cars, though, what about that?"

"The only damage was your car and their car. Remember, you'd just been in a crash, perhaps you're misremembering?"

"But I could've sworn...."

"Are you sure you wish to pursue this? No one else reported this."

"Er, ok, er...."

It was only many months later, when we received the witness accounts from the insurance company, that we realised the witnesses said the same thing as me. Neither the insurance company not the police cared.

Maybe there's an extra form to fill in if someone tries to drive off.
Well, I think difference between China and Europe is geography, and now a common language. Mandarin is spoken basically everywhere, except Hong Kong. Even the border provinces like Tibet (Xizhan) and Xinjiang (formerly a Turkic country) have a lot of Han migrants (or colonists, as some might say). It's easier to hold a country together when you share a common language. There are local dialects and languages, but school kids learn Mandarin, and the writing is all the same (though obviously the grammar, phrasing, and idioms will be different).

As for geography, China is very flat. It was flat 5000 years ago, and peasants (the occasional ruler with a civil engineering fetish) have been making it flatter for millennia. There's nowhere for an army to hide. Dissenters can hide in the concrete jungle, but you can't make any real strongholds. Also anyone who holds the Yellow River and Yangtze River will have strategic control of most of China, and the two rivers have been linked since (IIRC) the Qin dynasty.

As for the "small towns" being a little, well, dead, that's partly a result of rural poverty (and taxes redistributing wealth to the capitals); but also (as you said) of the bigger cities being of interest to young ambitious people.