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Not to nitpick, but lawyers are a special case. Lawyers don't do side projects because they can bill clients to do that research. Assuming they can find an excuse as to why it's relevant to the client.
"_" getting lots of airtime

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2602809
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At least this usage of affect carries a different pronunciation. The emphasis is on the first syllable here, rather than the second, making it SOUND like a different word than effect.
Oh, I see. Guiding you to lish and through fixing iptables sounds like great service.
Uh, I was asking what will motivate developers. I agree with the consensus here. If it's not shipping with apps, and it's shipping with features missing... it should be reviewed that way.

And besides, saying "Oh, 3g sucks but you can mail it off for a week to get LTE" is 100% completely different than saying "We expect the Android tablet ecosystem to grow".

Do you think I bought my D1 thinking that I'd be stuck with a trash Facebook app and basically no other apps to speak of? Again, I don't expect or even have a desire for reviewers to go out of their way to make such excuses... my entire post was just questioning WHY the ecosystem is so dry, even though the Honeycomb SDK has been available (albeit in a flawed state initialy) for so long.
What will cause enough people to buy this that developers will beat down the door to make great apps for it?

Simple. Price. The new Vizio 3.1 tablet is $350. If they can hit $299 by the holidays, these may well fly.

But the app ecosystem you say? Not important. What?! How can that be? Most users won't care about apps they don't know about, and most ppl don't know about iPad apps.

If I can demo the following to you:

1) HD video playback w/ some key apps like Netflix and Hulu

2) Kindle/Nook eReader

3) Music player

4) Web browser

5) Office suite

6) Some games

7) Nice scrolling and responsive UI

8) GMail/Maps

9) The price is $150 cheaper than the iPad.

I'm done. You're sold. The long tail I just don't think matters as much as ppl in the industry think it does. It's the exact same reason why OS X is viable now for most ppl despite the fact that the Windows app ecosystem is still much larger. The web neutralized that difference though. The web isn't quite as important on mobile devices (surprisingly), but the ecosystem gap isn't as important as it was in 1990 on the desktop.

The big problem with Honeycomb (Android Tablet) is that Google treats it like they do everything -- they shipped a beta quality product. They did that with Android for phones, but its pretty baked now. They did it with Google TV and with Chrome Books. But with Honeycomb and Google TV (especially) they didn't update them the way they do the Chrome browser. The problem with Honeycomb up to this point is that it was crap. It sounds like this is beginning to change.
In Australia:

You need to register either as a sole trader (get an ABN) or register a company (PTY LTD, with an ACN).

The first is free, but you can't have employees and you have no personal protection from anything that happens to your business.

The latter costs around $1,000 to set up ($4-500 if you do it yourself, the forms etc), and you will have a proper company where you will be the Director, and it can have it's own bank account, it's own everything.

Find a local accountant who has experience setting up companies and running the books (it's a bit more complicated than your usual personal tax returns) and they can usually handle it all for you, that's what i've personally done.

Yes you can run multiple companies. Yes you can have a parent company. It's all just a matter of how you set it all up with ASIC.

There's lots and lots of information on how to set up and run a business in Australia at:

http://www.business.gov.au

http://www.abr.gov.au
I'm certainly happy with how pricing has gone there: start out half the price of slicehost, then add RAM and disk space every 6 months!

It's a competitive industry, though. I could see how price of a given allocation of computer resources tends to go down, like we're used to seeing with hardware.
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Change is fine if it is aimed at making the overall experience better. From what we have seen in the past, any UI layer an OEM adds above stock Android just makes the overall experience worse, performance wise mainly. The reviews would never be able to foresee that.
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It seems like your point is that if you have side projects, your job is probably not hugely fulfilling. I can sort of go along with that, but that's going to be true for the overwhelming majority of jobs. For every Carmack or Linus, there's hundreds of developers doing necessary but unglamorous and non-cutting-edge work like B2B SOAP services or SAP integrations or yet another J2EE storefront. It's not reasonable to expect that most intellectually curious developers will be satisfied with their day jobs.
Forgive my ignorance, but isn't it normal to cache the DNS for 24 hours or so by default? I think it's typical (though I've never done it, so I'll apologize again if I'm talking out of my ass here) to drop the TTL down to basically nothing well ahead of the migration so that when you flip the switch, everyone will notice almost immediately, and then you can push the TTL back up to normal on the updated record.
I think the biggest problem that Android (Honeycomb) is having is that Google totally rebuilt the OS for the tablet. Where as apple did not make many changes to there iOS and the developers had to make very few changes to their apps code to make it run on the iPad. Android (Honeycomb) will be fine it is just taking developers longer to fix the code to run with all the new features that Honeycomb has to offer.
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I'd like to see it in use before signing up. Is there a way to view public limitgrids?

Also, this is an odd response to give when I do a password reset request w/ no email:
"1 error prohibited this user from being saved: Email can't be blank"

Like the idea though, and also like the nice clean look you've given it
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The review seems a bit biased. Sure, Apple may have a head start in many aspects but this is just generalizing and reading between the lines of a different review with assumptions and speculation peppered throughout. The Android platform may not be the perfect developer ecosystem when compared to itunes and iOS apps, but there's plenty of gems and the developers behind them will eventually crawl onto larger screens when they figure it out and have the time. There's plenty of applications already in the marketplace for legitimately getting media onto the device which Marco either overlooked or dismissed. The Android marketplace even has a movie rental section which isn't hard to miss either.

The good reason for picking an Android tablet over an iPad? Easy, no stupid lock-ins.
I have to admit, I came into this discussion in support of the chapter and the author (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2664502 for example), but after reading Zed's replies I'm turned off by his elitist replies, such as on multiple occasions telling people that they "can't read".

Clearly there's a lot of support (443 votes and counting), but resorting to this sort of insulting just doesn't lend anything to the conversation. And I think it's a worthwhile conversation to be had.
>What about the auxiliary scripts that need to be written for some tasks to automate some task that is ancillary to your product? If you are writing a ruby script for those tasks that are useful but could be done by brute force methods I don't see a problem with that.

Pfft.

Any semi conservative workplace, anywhere: "What? No, who the hell would maintain it? Stick to <tools of choice>."

Although I like to think I'm a bit cooler and down with the times and the hip words the kids use would probably say something like, "So help me god, if I have to learn Erlang at three in the morning to fix some bullshit you cobbled together I will fucking end you".
Hi Walter - Thanks for posting your site and describing the changes you've made as well. It's interesting that you've focused on spelling/grammar errors (despite it being a slang site), and still haven't noticed any improvements.

We have a lot of members from around the world, who may not have English as their first language. We've thought about correcting some spelling/grammar programatically, but since we have a UGC site, and each review is tied to a real person, it seems disingenuous to rewrite someone else's words.

I recently read an article about how Zappos uses Mechanical Turk to correct grammar and spelling in user reviews (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110428/02453114067/zappos...), and one of the comments that stood out to me was:

"Grammar, punctuation and style are part of how we decide if a review is credible. For Zappos to artificially inflate the credibility of reviews by changing those qualities is a form of fraud IMO."

I don't know if I'd call it fraud, but it certainly artificially inflates the credibility of reviews, and that's something (in addition to the rewriting someone else's thoughts part) we don't feel comfortable doing.

(For your site, since it's a dictionary, seems like a better fix and I'm surprised that it hasn't yielded any improvements)
There are places where it's a criminal offense to go deface some person's facebook?

First reaction: AWESOME. I won't see any spam about that in the feed (which I rarely view anyway).

Second thought: This cannot end well. It's so easy to spoof stuff that a lot of innocent people will have to deal with similar situations before the law gets repealed (if it gets repealed, most likely it'd just stop being enforced).

Unfortunately, most people would never think about how bad it could end, just about how people won't be annoying them on facebook.
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That's funny. When you're 20 and just starting out you need that sort of intensive learning.

When you're 30 and you're seeing the same thing with a new name for the 2nd or 3rd time it takes a lot less effort and time to keep up.
But that's not how a side project is typically defined. Again, if I did a new feature in IBM DB2 that took me a day, would you consider it a side project?
Sigh. You appear to be in a selective parsing frenzy. Have fun with that.

You attempting to draw Big Important Distinctions between the bits of that particular passage that are 'personal opinion' and 'statement of fact' is at least entertaining, given that the whole piece is _all_ pure opinion.
Maybe in Europe. Here in the USA, law enforcement is much more manipulative and narrow minded. If they're talking to you, they already think you're guilty, and they're trying to twist everything you tell them to fit their story.

Don't ever interview with police without a lawyer present.
Is country/peasant worker vs city worker an ethnic divide? Sounds more like a class divide. (ironic in a post-maoist country)

The urbanisation figures in china are highly suspect. Given one child policy is primarily policed in the city and intentionally lax in the countryside. This coupled with the fact their census seems (unconfirmed) do NOT count unofficial residence (i.e second/third/etc children). It makes it very hard to get a real picture of China's urbanisation stats.
> I doubt they all signed up just to post a 'lol'.

Well, actually /b/ often raids web pages and do such things. If anybody working at GitHub can correlate the comments and the age of the accounts, I wouldn't be surprised to be surprised.

Plus, to me, it appears more like /b/ than reddit. I have a very limited experience in reddit though (yes, those anonymity-driven, fast-flowing communities are interesting).
Even 'srm' and similar tools might not work as expected on a solid-state drive with its own firmware and wear-leveling.

It's possible to protect your bitcoin keys from an arbitrarily-later malware incursion... but very hard, in ways even most power-users don't consider.

I like bitcoin. The current sharp edges and tragic mishaps are useful, for now, for learning about a new medium of exchange, which operates on a logic different from almost anything that we could easily analogize to.

If bitcoin or a successor takes off, I suspect carrying large balances will require specially hardened devices – secure VMs inside handhelds, perhaps?

And, a general desire for some recourse against instant irreversible fraudulent transfers might make the 'finalization' of certain transactions dependent on a remote secondary key approving (or failing to cancel) a payment, within a timeframe sufficient to deliver second-channel notification/confirmation.
> You're rather likely to get your money back from a compromised bank account.

That's not clear:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2633280
As far as I know this would also have been possible in o3d. My current app,stated out on o3d but I think the webgl move was smart. Now if they could maintain the o3d-webgl library they wrote for the change, i would be really happy. I feel that they abandoned the o3d crowd and a pretty good library.
This article didn't prove anything. The author got lucky that he ran into a legal department that found their own error.

"If he has gone all lawyered up and refused to talk to them he would have essentially confirmed everything that they assumed they already knew. They would have arrested him, and only by the actual trial would the truth come out."

Obtaining a lawyer does not in any way imply guilt - you are exercising your right to an attorney and proper process of law. Watch the video.

"If you are innocent cooperate as much as you possibly can - up until you are arrested. Once you are arrested, then, and only then, is it time to get a lawyer. Because if you are arrested then they think you are guilty and cooperating is not going to change their mind."

No. If you are _accused_ you should get a lawyer. A seemingly innocent statement can be completely taken out of context, again watch the video. Also, you are being foolish if you think you can change an officer's mind about arresting you by talking to him. I'll say it again, whether you are guilty or not, the only words out of your mouth when you are accused of a crime should be "I'd like to speak with a lawyer"
It occurred to me the other day that writing a lot of code might actually be a bad thing if it caused one to become bored with programming.
It's a slippery slope, if you're the main suspect in any case by talking all you're doing is giving them information which they can use however they want against you. If you give them no information the burden on them is to dig up whatever they can, if they can't, too bad. For example, in this case clearly the author is technical enough to have perpetrated this crime, and by divulging your technical knowledge you just make yourself more of a suspect.

Also, better to have a lawyer with you advising whether you should answer such and such question. Remember, the police are not your friends, as much as they would like to make it seem that way, they want to charge someone with a crime and close the case, everybody says their innocent.

It's real tough as lawyers are very expensive, and the police, feds, etc. will make it seem as if you don't need one, lies, all lies. At most, say it wasn't you, I was at such and such, any further questions, refer to my lawyer.
How is that not the point? For a for-profit business, to make a sale eventually, is the major point.
Never seen PG talk before, figured he'd be another west-coast asshole, but he seems super down to earth!! Think I might apply to YC now..
It's a beta for something they never even meant to make a pre-alpha of. They probably just don't want to be held responsible when a commercial user makes a fit over lack of support for bugs he found in beta software
The issue at hand is if someone doesn't program in their "spare time" or have "side projects" are they a bad programmer.

So what is a "side project" and when people ask you questions in an interview like, "what are some of your side projects?", what are they asking?

They're not asking what did you ship as part of a corporate entity in most cases. They want to know, specifically what did you do outside the context of your job. If you work for EA, its hard to claim that an EA game is your side project. Just like someone at MS isn't likely to claim that a new Word feature is their side project, even if they did all the coding for it over the weekend.

And if he ported Emacs to the iPhone that would be a side project, by most measures. He'd have to release the code since its GPLed and ID is not likely to sell it.
Can you two just get a room?

I think this subthread is providing a fine counterexample to the idea that hiding comment scores magically improves the quality of discussion on HN.
Is anything similar happening in Europe?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865...
I believe this is the preceding video to George Bruch's.

I found both to be compelling.
While I concur to the premise, I must disagree with the drawn conclusion.

At the risk of speculating, I'd say MS need some more time before the release the commercial license, for the reasons mentioned by you (robustness of the code, staffing tech support etc.) and also to possibly see the reception of the software by the developer community, before deciding on commercial terms (It IS labelled beta afterall).

Edit - From http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kine...

> "This SDK is designed for non-commercial purposes only; a commercial version is expected to be available at a later date."
Shouldn't that assumption be stated at the beginning of the survey? 90% of my bookings are for work or leisure, rather than any occasion.
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That seems like a highly non-scalable solution.
Once you've got a family, that changes my friend ... you need to set aside at least an hour a night to teach your kids how to code.
It could always go the way of the 30 year civil war in Mexico or Egypt..in which case you will see a marked increase in both protests and crack downs
Honestly, the $30 is my initial thought from the price analysis based on initial customers. They are paying about $250/+yr service fees for the desktop software, so based on experience it seemed like a good place to start. I am most definitely open to charging more and have entertained $50/mo/etc.

You are most definitely right about what I highlight about the project. I have difficulty, honestly, deciding if the "one time click" or the "we organize everything for you" is the most beneficial feature. I personally know some offices that pay two people $50/hr to sort the notices, and not only handle saving the "one-time-clicks" but also inputting the information into an application.

This web app handles all of that. I guess I need to re-think my focus.

As far as the typo goes, thank you. I shall take care of that once I get back into the office. Slightly embarrassed that I missed that one. :)
I'm reminded every time I watch Bloomberg I'm reminded just how high quality they are, and how intelligent their anchors are relative to any other large media corp.

Additionally, Paul, thanks for being frank and great. It makes me so happy to see you as the face of not only YC, but increasingly of tech startups in general. When I get around to implementing a good idea, I've got you to look to not only for interesting me in programming through Lisp, startups through YC, but also for increasingly the visibility and viability of tech startups.

Definitely worth watching all 14 minutes.

EDIT: Also, still a little bitter over "the real money's in hotel search"… dzoblin's & my Summer '11 (I think) YC application was that. Though admittedly not far along, and the idea was still in development. still ;)
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I don't think anyone needs that amount of intensive learning. Eight solid hours a day is plenty to be an expert after a couple of years.
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I think this is Apple way of controlling everything you do more and more with there devices, this is also true with Google and there Chrome OS. They want you to be become dependent on them and only them for all your needs.

There is a lot of people out there that don't want to think when it comes to software or hardware. They want something that works and is easy to use. With the size of both these company's I could easily see each taking about 40% of the market and leaving everyone else fighting for 10%.
I guess I'll blame arstechnica for the misunderstanding then. I'm sorry, but I have an exceedingly difficult time calling anything "open" when they sit around and sue people or make promises not to sue them for arbitrary windows of time, due to the fact that they (the consortium) hold patents that they use to troll for profits.
Build, license or buy their way into an ecosystem. Apple's current formidable strength is its ecosystem of content (app+media) and peripheral of hardware devices (iPhone + iPod touch + iPad + Mac).

Let's make a bold assumption that a Mac counterpart isn't needed. Let's make it even simpler, we'll just need an iPhone+iPad combination of hardware.

Start with a partnership, say HTC with Amazon. So you can have decent hardware for a phone and tablet from HTC, along with content (app+media) from Amazon.

Maybe it's hard to forge such a partnership, maybe there's a dozen of reasons why this isn't possible, maybe HTC like it's current way of business, maybe Amazon is building it's own hardware, but I know I'd want to do this to win.

When you can't win by yourself, partner with someone else so you can win together.
To continue coding in your spare time, you must have a real exciting project to work on: to learn a new technology, or to build something you really love. Without that passion, you won't have the extra energy to do that and it won't necessary to be beneficial.

So try follow your passion. If your passion is to write a novel, play guitar, do that. If your passion is to build a new web app, do that. Don't code just for the sake of coding. You cannot lie to yourself.
If you enjoy programming do some development in your spare time. Find a project that interests you. Programming is a tool, master it by all means if that is what you want. However, don't lose grasp of the fact that there are numerous other pursuits you can take up. Learn a language, build a house, learn chemistry, send a rocket into orbit, make an erotic film, excel in martial arts, whatever it is that you want to do, do it. Have a diverse range of experiences and regret nothing in life. Don't just be a developer.
Why do news stories such as Anthony Weiner's junk shot or Charlie Sheen's implosion last for weeks in America's news cycle?

But there's hardly any news coverage of NBC-Universal merging with Comcast or commentary on FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker cashing out to become Comcast's chief lobbyist right after approving the merger?

Doesn't it seem that the latter story is what the 4th estate should be doing in order to protect a functioning democracy?... or am I missing something?