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This issue should have been closed with the release of Android 3.0, which introduced full disk encryption. It is no longer an issue on the latest Android devices (albeit being limited to tablets), and will soon b available on phones with the release of Android 4.0.
Cool! Just out of curiosity, what's the justification for the million dollar valuation?
I made a juror selection app for the iPad that generates about $1K / month

http://www.front9technologies.com/ijuror.html
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Unless I'm doing something wrong, they need to do some optimizations to code size if this is going to be used client side nearly 30k is a lot of overhead for a function that returns "Hello, world!"

http://pastebin.com/P5MTvP5Q
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The valuation of the last round was greater than that. A combination of potential and % chance of reaching that potential. So really, plucked out of thin air by those with money :)
Clean Up Your Mess (http://www.visualmess.com/) is just a mini visual design tutorial and not a product, but it was a side project and it's made a few hundred bucks from amazon ads. I did not intend to make money from it, so it was nice surprise that I did.
Jobs actually is sort of magical, at least at Apple. One thing Jobs has that will be hard to replicate is that fact that he's Steve Jobs. His decision is final and adored. Forstall or Cook won't try an end run to try to make something happen and hope that with enough corporate backing they can put Jobs's back against the wall. Won't happen. With any other CEO it could.

It's not just the decisions that Jobs makes that are important, but the fact that a decision coming from Jobs means something to every employee at Apple.

Ive+Forstall are within a couple of orders of magnitude from Jobs (the only people who are even in the neighborhood of reverence). But the fact that they're two people, with two egos will probably mean that the two together as the visionary aspects of the company won't be as unified as a single Jobs.
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Picking another TLD is tempting, but I find it confuses people, even tech-savvy people. Maybe not if you have something kinda common like a .tv, but take what I did:

My username, across the Internet, is spiffytech. I registered http://spiffyte.ch. It's fun and a little clever, but since most people haven't heard of .ch domains I'm constantly saying "w-w-w dot spiffy t-e dot c-h. No, not .com. No, put the dot between the 'e' and the 'c'. Spiffytech. Like my username.". Even to tech-savvy friends.

Sure, maybe that's an artifact of my particular domain, but I'd much prefer if I could get the .com and just tell people spiffytech.com and avoid the confusion.
Ive has certainly made appearances during keynote speeches before. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JLjldgjuKI&t=0m25s

This idea that Steve can't possibly share the spotlight with Ive is absurd.
I remember when you first posted that here. I thought it was a cool idea, and I'm happy for you and your prospects with it.
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Four geeks.

Proprietary control (at the software or hardware level) isn't some abstract bogeyman that only Free Software Hippies need to worry about. It's a very real threat.
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I discovered this because unfortunately I was using the Option key to affect my app's window resizing in a different way...guess now I have to think of another key to use. :)
Has anyone tried to patent the 1-touch checkout for touchscreen devices?
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This is what I do, but if Google ever fails me I'd probably switch to fastmail.fm or similar service instead of setting up a server. Unless you're interested in the ins and outs of setting up and maintaining an email server, it's something I'd outsource on a cost/benefit basis.
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> I'll look up the specific case when I get home, but phone book publishers most definitely do not have any copyright claims to the phone number or addresses.

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Well, there's a big difference between saying "I felt uncomfortable in this particular situation" vs. saying "No guy should ever behave this way." I feel like she was saying the latter, and I've given it a lot of thought and I think that's not fair. Somehow I feel like she should take responsibility for feeling uncomfortable (which is fine, ethically) instead of blaming the guy for making her uncomfortable (which would be bad, ethically).

I'll probably just throw out this anecdote entirely and not learn anything from it. Oh well.
:-)

Admittedly, I got the impression that most people do not bother to read anything longer than 140 characters.
iPad, iPhone, and Android Tablet - I work in Consumer Electronics so the Android Tablet was a perk.
To amplify that a bit, in terms of accessing the file system, it's a pretty common security assumption that physical access and root access are equivalent. Since my phone is the system where I trust physical access the least, by extension it's the one where I'd most want a security model that doesn't assume that one can't read the file system the most.

For my purposes, the chances of an attacker having physical access to my systems in a rack in a major data center approaches 0%, whereas the chances of an an unauthorized party at some point having access to my phone approaches 100%.
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Ed Catmull is the only plausible external possibility. He would be excellent at making sure what works at Apple stays that way.
You should try it on a larger code base before jumping to any conclusions, you'll see that 30k grows quite slowly.

EDIT: sorry, I meant larger pure ClojureScript code base.
don't you realize that your chip is an bluetooth-serial interface?

at the end, you'll have to implement RS-232 on your microcontroller to get access from that bluetooth chip...

> Fully configurable UART
> Press the 'A' character from a terminal program on your computer and an 'A' will be pushed out the TX pin of the Bluetooth module.

Yes, they are talking about THAT terminal and THAT TX pin...
Hampton Catlin (creator of Haml and Sass) was working with us at Unspace when he went home for the weekend and came back having written iWik.

He made $60k or so before ultimately selling it to WikiPedia and becoming their director of mobile development.

Not too shabby!
I don't have a multi-monitor setup, what does it do?
What does he mean by "all sales fail"?

Yes, high cost of sales is a problem, but I've never seen a startup fail for being hustlers; more the opposite.
I didn't read either the article or what you did carefully, but I do wonder if either (a) you're supposed to run the output of their compiler through Google Closure's compiler which removes most of the code (which is probably library functions unused by your little function), or (b) the 30K is a pretty much one time cost, and if your code grows the output increases moderately.
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This is why i have my own personal blog, and am considering moving from gmail to my own domain email
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This only affects email accounts as far as i can see. It does not affect gmail accounts though. Only emails where you have to use other protocols like POP3. Although i still believe it shouldn't be plaintext, but it's not nearly as bad as it seems.
NewsBlur - http://www.newsblur.com - a visual RSS feed reader with intelligence. I have a few hundred paying users and a few thousands free users. I develop it almost entirely on the train, which I'm on for almost an hour and a half everyday.

It's a ton of work and is profitable in the sense that the hundreds of dollars a month in server costs are just a bit more than covered by the premium users. But otherwise, it did help land me a number of great connections, both in NYC and SF, where I just moved.

I code in the open. NewsBlur is entirely on GitHub: http://github.com/samuelclay. The iPhone app I'm working on is also there, so some folks use it as a way to send me issues, others go so far as to add their own pet features. It's kind of neat to see a community spring up around the code itself.
Car dealerships, optometry, beauticians, farming, general contracting, you name it there's a regulatory blanket over it. In most states you can't get glasses or contacts made without a prescription that is less than a few years old, for example.
I believe it's already going through Google Closure. That's what {:optimizations :advanced} does.

I'm certain it's a one time cost. Though I suspect that given that Closure [optimizes out unused code](http://blog.fogus.me/2011/07/21/compiling-clojure-to-javascr...) the more I use of the goog namespace, the larger that baseline will become.

That being said, 30k is the size of minified jQuery, so folks that are alright with building apps on jQuery won't find 30k to be that terrible.
He's talking about Bingo Card Creator
On the iPad, the custom control is decidedly worse. The native one is larger and more appropriate for the device. This idea of custom UI elements seems really bad. It's gonna be worse than native on any platform. The issues with native controls should be addressed on their respective platforms.
Made a wireless stumbler for iOS in about two days that sold a bit over $100k total.

Admittedly, I spent probably another day in random debugging for version 3-ish of it (just went walkabout in Chicago with a debug build, logging AP details when it had bad behavior). And then ungodly amounts of time answering e-mails and on the phone with the iOS app review team, but that was long after the "weekend project" phase.
The OP asked about profitable side/weekend projects. This is a project I worked on on the side, and it made money. So why did my comment get downvoted?
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Given that Google Closure optimizes out unused code, I'm going to guess that the more that the Google Closure library is used, the more of it will be added to the minified source.

As a point of reference, their sample twitterbuzz app which uses the Google Closure library is 100k minified.

That being said, this is alpha software so it's hard to criticizes it's lack of output optimization at this point.
I just have a website. It's almost all word-of-mouth, blog posts, and people posting on forums recommending it that drives traffic. I do some Google Ads.
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If only there was some country with good electronics copying abilities and no regard for intellectual property...
I agree with Panos that the problem is systemic and needs to be treated on a system-wide level. However, I think that parking violations are not the best analogy and obscure the dynamics a little.

With traffic congestion, the problem is not cars on the road, the problem is too many cars on the road. So if someone is double-parked and is not actually blocking anyone, there really is no fundamental problem.

An academic institution wishes to protect the integrity of its grades and degrees and also wishes to encourage honest behavior in its students. In this case, each individual act of cheating is a problem. The problem is not just too much cheating, but the presence of cheating at all. An academic institution does not plan for a cheating capacity of 20%, for example.

So I would suggest that the analogy works better if parking violations were replaced with bicycle thefts, since every bicycle theft is a problem.
Btw with Google+ this will only be more common. Now it's not just a matter of did you spam someone with your Gmail account or did you break the Adsense ToS... but did you post anything at all on Google+, status update, photo, link, etc, that Google didn't like.... boom, no more Google account for you.
"I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way." -- Rasmussen Lerdorf, inventor of PHP

But to your point, he also said: "I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems."

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Instead of our government trying to spy on us, perhaps we should try to turn the tables and enact some more laws and rules that lets the citizens spy on them.
I did some stuff one afternoon about 4-5 years ago and it continues to pay my mortgage ever since. It's the goose that lays the golden egg and under no circumstances do I mess with it.
From the thread (Nathan's comments). Seems like a real asshole:

snip

OK, so now I have to keep FG honest by relating two of his classic comments during the meal.

We were all mesmerized by the black truffle series. After the braised/raw endive dish (which arrive in transparent packages "en papillote"), there was a pause in the conversation. FG broke the silence with a profound observation "I think that the black truffle really helped that dish".

Reallly? The endive wasn't enough by itself? The rest of us didn't know whether to laugh, or quietly tell the server to stop pouring him wine.

But the classic of the whole evening is when we went back out on the terrace to have petit fours. Thierry Rataureau turnes to FG and says "So, Steven what do you think?" It was Thierry's first time at elBulli and he was contemplating the meal.

FG, who had noticed how little light there was on the terrace turned and said "I think I'm going to need flash".

That's the kind of deep culinary insight that we've all come to expect from him

A great time was had by all of it - it was a great group, and a great meal. It is also the end of a era, which made us all a bit sad, but also happy that we had been there to partake in it.
Maybe.

But drawing a conclusion for most females with n = 2 seems...tremulous. And expecting some sort of resolution between two different situations for which you don't have the complete context (nonverbals are key) is also going to be difficult.

Now that I think about it, if you're looking for your own reference point, you might as well start with whatever your gut says, and alter from there. You'll learn quickly where you need to be. You're probably going to be too aggressive or too timid, and the only way to learn is to get out there. I was too timid, and some girls cut me some slack...but many did not. But I don't regret being too timid (despite missed opportunities) because, well, that was me, and I had to learn those things. I'm with a wonderful woman now, and am pretty close to where I'd like to be, and where I feel I should be on this scale.

Best of luck.
Any chance you'd share what it was?
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How was Ballmer a "math geek"? He strikes me as an extroverted business guy - but I love having my assumption subverted.

Wiki says he did maths and economics at Harvard - sounds business oriented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer#Early_life and magna cum laude seems to mean 2A/2nd class/B/Distinction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_cum_laude#Types
If you read the full text Oasis Research has the same exact Texas office address as Lodsys and Oasis Research has Certificate of Interested parties listing IV as getting a portion of Oasis Research revenue.

If Lodsys is the patent trollester collecting IV revenue through a Certificate of Interested parties back deal with IV that might explain how methodical Apple is moving to decimate Lodsys/IV..

sounds like we are being had by IV...whereas they license a patent than turn around sell patent to a party where they take aback-end deal percentage of revenue and that new company than sues for patent infringement the same companies that licensed said patent with IV..for me that is cleary somewhat fraud..
I hate all of this talk because it's disrespectful to the man who has given his all and is very much present (and a man who certainly reads the Wall Street Journal). It's interesting to note that prior to this meme of "who an replace Jobs" the #1 meme was always "when is Apple going to die?" For my money on both accounts you'd be foolish to write off Steve Jobs until the fat lady sings.

The fact of the matter is that Steve Jobs on "medical leave" is doing a much better job of managing Apple than quite a few other tech companies where the CEO shows up each day and is in perfect health.
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A thought experiment: in the USA, a minor's assets belong to the parents, right? So, ipso facto, the parent holds the copyright. What if the parent refuses to allow a copy to go to Turnitin?

Further, minors cannot enter into contracts. Would Turnitin's license agreement be a contract, and hence void since one of the parties was a minor?
But... If I'm a hedge fund, why even own Greek debt plus the insurance? Just buy the insurance, and burn Greece. I'd also be buying (CDS) on other tipping-point countries, and watching the knock-on effect.

Ah : But that demonstrates how terrible CDS is, and how amoral hedge funds are. Actually (IMHO) the fact that Greek CDS was so cheap to buy was just an indication of how little trust people have that politicians respect the law in European countries. It would have been far cheaper to have sorted through this mess on day one, rather than spending taxpayer funds giving Greeks a lifeline when the changes that they have to make were always inevitable.

And now the politicians words have been demonstrated to be completely worthless, there'll be a lot more pain - in countries where it might otherwise have been unnecessary.
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The rest of the text basically says that select elements that are not required don't have placeholder text; that select elements that allow multiple selections don't have placeholder text; multi-line select elements don't have placeholder text, and that if the first option is inside an optgroup element, it doesn't count as placeholder text.
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I liked nethack, angband, and rogue.

Then I found ADOM -- (www.adom.de), which is great fun, but turned into a "second system" problem with JADE (development slowed so he could rewrite entirely in Java...). Still, amazingly fun.

I never got into dwarf fortress or minecraft, but will check them out more after 25 August :)
You're correct, but I think this also is why it needs to be Cook.

Essentially, Apple is a one product company. That product is "the mac". The "mac" comes in the form of a combination of software and hardware. OS X on Macintoshes is the past, iOS on iDevices is the future. All of that is Forstall (if I'm understanding things right.) And even then, the hardware is merely the box for the software. They make a very great box.

But Forstall is the "new jobs" in that regard. Ive can demand that it have fewer buttons, and Schiller can demand that marketing be on message, and Forstall has to listen to them, and if he doesn't then Cook should have their backs. Cook is thus well placed to be the "vision guy" (and yes, I think that is a legitimate description and that he'd be just as good as jobs at it) whose got his finger on the daily operations but also is looking 5, 10 & 15 years into the future.

Apple University is the glue that holds these four guys together and keeps them on the same page. Plus, of course, The Writings of The Chairman from Jobs over the years.

In fact, I would bet good money that there literally is a book within Apple, that probably only has a dozen or fewer copies, written by Jobs about the Apple Way and presenting his vision for the Apple Way. In a way, his living will to the future.

I think this book is Apple's equivalent to Cokes "secret formula", only Apple doesn't trumpet that they have a secret formula, they keep even the existence of it secret.
A. There really was no tech industry in NYC if you went back in time to just 20 years ago. On the other hand Boston is home to MIT and was really a hub of the industry as late as the 80s. So in terms of tech for eons Boston was bigger...
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"Social is "done", it's now a feature, don't go do a social startup."

= now is the BEST time to reinvent social as everyone thinks they have it figured out...
If a phone was rooted like as a action, the exploit to get root in the first place is probably still there.
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How much does the app cost? Are these one-time sales? If so, what's your best source of customers?
Flake may be too strong of a word but Woz is a little odd. It's not that he praises the competition but that he doesn't seem to be aware of the potential media storm that follows it. He also mentions that he only carries hundreds and advertises his whereabouts on Twitter. Then there is the painful appearance on Dancing with the Stars. It just wouldn't be the way a potential CEO would act.
Right action or not, why isn't Google giving out warnings? And allowing people to download their information from Google services once they get banned?