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I owned 3 different Android phones over the past 3 years. My wife owned 2 models different from mine over the same span. My experience is based on using 5 different Android models from different manufacturers. Although I'm focusing now on the things I did not like, the fact that I stayed with Android for so long should suggest that there was plenty I did like.

Battery life was terrible on every Android phone I used. I could not get through an 8-9 hour work day with moderate use (an hour or two of streaming, maybe a few web pages, some texting and a brief call or two). I can absolutely confirm the weird battery issues this user experienced. On multiple phones. At times, the phone would get warm (not scorching hot in my case) and the battery would go from close to a full charge to nearly dead in the span of an hour or so. I kept spare chargers everywhere. Five freakin' phones.

I finally gave in and switched to an iPhone. Now I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner. Maybe this is a little dramatic, but after using iOS for several weeks I have come to the realization that Android is flat out trash in comparison. I like having an "end call" button that is actually responsive and, you know... ends a call. On Android I would press it several times before the call would end. Just about every time. On too many occasions I had to pull the battery off.

The unresponsive button thing isn't isolated either. Push a button. Wait. Wait. Push it a couple more times. The whole thing is agonizingly slow. Try to unlock the screen. Crap. I have to push the button 3 or 4 times. Arrgghhh!

Don't even get me started on typing. The keyboard would lag on a regular basis, to the point where it was just not practical to use it for texting. I would start to type, the keyboard froze up and then a bunch of special accented characters would show up. Turning off basically every feature of the keyboard like haptic feedback and auto-correction would help, but the typing experience was still the worst of any phone I have used since T9 predictive text has been available.

Apps crashed left and right. I'm not even talking about random stuff from the Android market. I'm talking about the built in ones. I had a task killer installed. It was my most frequently used app. Let that sink in. My task killer was my most frequently used app. I was constantly killing things that were slowing down the phone or eating up battery for no good reason. Search the Android market for task killers. There are tons of them. Some of them run in the background and automatically kill stuff in an attempt to improve performance.

I could go on, but I'd rather not. I'm just glad I don't have to use those Android phones anymore. It will be a very long time before I would consider buying one again.
I've never left a VZW store with an unactivated phone. Even with the android devices, they set it up in the store (even if I mention that I can do it later ::shrug::).

I've only ever had to activate phones I've gotten in the mail.
Well, it's easy to rip into a straw man.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/ray-kurzweil-responds-to-ray-kurzw...
No. You're missing the point ENTIRELY.

As average bandwidth consumption PER ENDPOINT increases and moves from very bursty to somewhat constant bit rate, the effects up the cost chain start to chip away at the design parameters that went into building the infrastructure we're going to live with for some time. Replacing that infrastructure is costly so pricing pressure is used to delay that replacement event. It's all about ECONOMICS.

This is the case whether we're talking about urban or rural areas. It's definitely more acute when we're in a rural area, but the first-mile is only part of the cost of delivering b/w. The rest of that cost is driven by indirect factors.

Case in point: a very recent government regulation resulted in a network upgrade that cost $71 million in new hardware ALONE. Add in the labor costs associated with testing and installing all of that hardware and you're somewhere north of $100 million. That "upgrade" added not a single bit of capacity to the network.
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I find it interesting how people handle crisis. You can act on feeling, or you can act on logic. They (airbnb) need to be more logic based in their approach and state the facts: Our system is not perfect. We are making adjustments. We will compensate this person for their loss. Instead, they are providing tons of great coverage to the press.
Maybe because iPhone is unavailable from the carrier?
Yeah tried that. But didn't work. If anyone is interested you can send me an email to talk offline.
These are interesting, too:

This is interesting but on a different topic: calories:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/

This is about salt:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to...

This on dairy products:

http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v64/n6/abs/ejcn201045a.ht...

This is an interesting account of veganism:

http://voraciouseats.com/2010/11/19/a-vegan-no-more/

And another interesting article on corn-syrup:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/
IMO, RMS' reactions are rarely "over the top"; in fact, if you look at them, they are almost always completely consistent with his beliefs surrounding free software.

We may see them as "over the top" because we aren't as principled as he is.
If nothing else, you've made me think about my position.
He was the Design Director for NYTimes from 2006 - 2010. The re-design he refers to is a critique of the NYTimes website. [1]

Regarding the footer disclaimer, it's probably because his newspaper-like blog/site design is also sold as a Word Press theme. [2]

I wouldn't call him the Steve Jobs of his industry, but he has been a big proponent for (what I consider clean design with) grids. [3]

[1] http://www.subtraction.com/about

[2] http://basicmaths.subtraction.com/

[3] http://www.subtraction.com/2004/12/31/grid-computi
I'm not jumping on the conspiracy theory bandwagon and think that the idea is nonsense, but hypotheticall, if I were trying to make Airbnb look bad (and had had spare cash to do it with), I wouldn't just pay someone to say it happened, I'd also per someone to rent the appartment, and actually do this stuff, so that any checks show the crime did indeed happen.
Hi, I've been where you've been. From early programmerhood I've lived on a steady diet on coca-cola, pizza, crisps and other fast food. It was by no means an extreme diet and probably more healthy than an "all-in programmers diet" Even though the diet was pretty unhealthy I still maintained my weight in my early 20-something years.

When I was 30 my weight ballooned into the overweight area, and this was even when I was doing plenty of exercise. I started experimenting with different diets, wanting to find something that I could actually enjoy, didn't leave me hungry and didn't require preparation. Some diets worked health-wise but was too complicated and too boring, I've finally managed to find a diet that suits me, it might not be the one that suits you but I thought I mention it anyway.

The first thing you need to do is to stop eating sugar and that includes any High fructose Cornsyrup. I stopped having sugars in my coffee and eventually got used to it. Soda's was harder, I've eventually learned to enjoy carbonated water with meals and drink coffee and tea for programming fuel (A habit I plan to experiment with dropping)

The next thing is to cut out any fried food. It's a no-brainer since it's easily one of the most unhealthy things you can eat. Not so much for the fat content (which weirdly isn't as unhealthy as you think) but because fried food is loaded with carbohydrates.

Next you need to find a plan for what you actually should eat. I tried to find fast food alternatives that I could enjoy but that was more healthy, things like wook, thai food and sushi. It'll be a bit more expensive but you'll save lots of money from not drinking soda/candy and other crappy snacks

Eating out all the time is boring and expensive however, and the food isn't always that good so you need something healthy you can cook at home. My rule is to build meals around a quality protein (fish/beef/chicken) and have that with a vegetable that provides carbohydrates. Lenses, spinach and beans are especially good. Mix that with some other vegetables, spices and a non-carb sauce (ie bernaise) and you have a very nice healthy meal for the same price as eating out that you can prepare in 3 minutes. Hamburger patties isn't as healthy but since they're easy and probably more healthy than the alternative feel free to endulge.

Yeah, and no bread, rice, pasta, grain, potates, candy, fruit juice, cereals either if you can manage.

Eat eggs for breakfast, like 3 eggs in an omelett with some sallad and an avocado

The really good thing about this diet in contrast to other I've tried is that I'm not hungry, the cravings for sweets and snacks has essentially dissappeared and I need less portions of stuff.

This might sound extreme and I don't recommend you do everything at once. Start shifting parts of your diet and se what works, try having some of these meals and see if you like it.

Finding a diet that fits one taste and lifestyle is a continous process so take it one step at a time.

I think my diet pretty closely follows the Paleo Diet (though I don't really subscribe to all of it). A really good book to read is Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It by Steve Taub
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Airbnb is a business. And honestly their behavior is exactly what I would expect from them: dont admit any liability, offer words of consolement.
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BCC is Bingo Card Creator (http://www.bingocardcreator.com/). It's patio11's business, a tool for schoolteachers to easily create bingo cards for their classes. It's not sexy, but it's enabled Patrick to quit his job as a salaryman and work exclusively on his own projects. He's more concerned with profitability than with his (or his businesses') image, and here, he's saying that a big / complicated app isn't necessary for a business to be successful.
Sublime Text is awesome! Even though it's still in beta and missing lots of features, I still bought a license for it last week.

As a Mac user, text editors are a pain in the ass. When you're booted into OSX, you wish you had access to your Windows-only text editors. When you're booted into Windows, you wish you had access to your OSX-only text editors. Running Parallels just to edit text is over kill. ST solves this problem beautifully--on Linux as well!

The best part is that the license if PER USER instead of per machine, so you can install Sublime Text on all your different operating systems.

I also want to mention that the config files and plugins are written in Python. Yes, the config files are actually Python files. I haven't made a plugin yet, but the API looks great and simple to use.
It kinda sounds like Reddit and Digg but the social model is very different and it also focuses on privacy and user engagement.
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To find out the perfect match, there are different websites which are providing this service to the people. This service is easily available through the use of the internet and in many situations this
I agree, and in a lot of cases I find that to be a sad truth instead of acceptable.
The question is not really what does the computer depend on, but what does _the program_ depend on. The boolean algebra that computers are an implementation of is very simple and can be implemented in a wide variety of ways and regardless which one you choose, programs can be compiled and ran using the new architecture obtained in this way. So you could hypothetically build a biological computer that would realize ANDs, ORs etc., in the end providing the same instruction set as our current PC, and the unchanged Linux source code (example from the parent post) could be compiled an ran on it. In other words, while our computers depend on laws of physics in some way, those laws are not part of the computational model.

This is different with the DNA. There is no middle layer like Boolean algebra to abstract-out the device that does the computation. The protein that will be the result of connecting the amino acids specified by the DNA, it's form and function, is very highly dependent directly on physical laws in a very complicated way - if you simulate protein folding (and consider how hard this is in the first place), you can see how much the outcome will vary when you for example change the value of some physical constant by a small amount. Then all those proteins start interacting with each other in highly complicated ways, also dependent on a wide variety of physical laws and on the outside environment, and if you consider DNA a program, those physical laws are parts of the computational model, of course if the concept of a computational model makes any sense when studying non-man-made artefacts. That's roughly why applying computer science metaphors to the DNA always sounds a bit ridiculous to me.

Of course, it is a different question whether we can find a computational model that would explain to us the working of a healthy, fully-developed human brain, I think it is worth mentioning as it is easy to confuse those two questions.
Not a lawyer and I don't know anything about San Francisco laws, but I'm a former police dispatcher and I've worked in the insurance industry.

Burglary is usually just breaking and entering plus some other crime. Breaking (the legal term) doesn't actually require anything be literally broken to gain entry (i.e. theft or duplication of keys and lockpicking still qualify), and you can still "break" into rooms of a home you've been invited into in some jurisdictions; so if you were not explicitly permitted into an area and a reasonable attempt to prevent you from entering was made (closed door, locks, gates, etc), it's breaking. Not all jurisdictions require a theft to occur for burglary to have been committed, there's a multitude of crimes that might qualify: kidnapping, assault, battery, rape, arson, theft, vandalism, and others might all be valid secondary crimes that would create a burglary and some places don't even require that, the mere act of breaking and entering is sufficient.

Going through someone's document may not be criminal, but copying the documents is probably criminal identity theft and that in tandem with them being in a locked away closet would probably add burglary to the charges even though the host had invited the guests into the house. From the original post's description of events, there'd still be felony vandalism and felony theft too, although if she actually reported to the police that she had essentially sublet her apartment through AirBnB, she's most certainly exempt from making insurance claims that would make her whole again.
I think you missed the point. A different high-contrast fixed-width three-column layout? Totally cool. Just don't take his CSS to do it.

(Yes, this is commonplace; his little footer blurb will probably do nothing to stop somebody who wants to, but I can't blame him for it.)
My opinion of RMS's "over the top"-ness comes mainly from my time on the MIT CSAIL mailing list where his comments were routinely annoying and unhelpful.

Someone would email asking a question about Windows or Photoshop, and RMS would invariably chime in with something like, "you know, you shouldn't use that, it's like supporting a dictator."

So it is with that background that I was impressed with his comments here. On that mailing list I actually would say over the top reactions were the rule, rather than the exception. That said, maybe taken among all his public fora, he's quite reasonable. I haven't seen/heard him much elsewhere.
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Berlin resident here. I agree that it's a tough problem to solve and would make verification of hosts (maybe prohibitively) expensive. You'd have to check that the person listing the place is a) actually the tenant, b) is in good standing with the landlord, c) has permission to sublet (without pre-approval of individual subletters by the landlord).

In practice, most Berlin landlords won't ever notice their flat being occasionally sublet to tourists by the tenant, but they will probably not be too happy when they notice.
This would soon get very big if all Pirate Parties in all countries would do the same thing. I think it's time for a final standing and confront RIAA/MPAA head on, before they get away with too much censorship legislation, made in secret meetings and deals, behind people's backs.
So what they're saying is they use Google?
This isn't an isolated incident though.

Their whole business model pretty much is built on the fact that things like this will happen. A lot.
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OK, so they're an insurance company, just like ebay. And Google isn't really a search company but an advertising one. So what?

Your underlying premise seems to be that a responsible business model isn't viable. Is your argument that therefore companies should be irresponsible where there is profit to be made?

I would argue they become an insurance company, or make it clear that the householder assumes all the risk and makes it possible for them to minimise that risk i.e. by removing the obstacles they provide to investigating the other party.

This incident is suggesting that instead they mislead the customer regarding the risk, deliberately reduce their ability to manage that risk, in order to maximise their profits.

Setting aside the moral and legal aspects of such a strategy, I doubt that's good for business. Who wants to trust their home to a company with a reputation for cutting corners to make money?
Also take note: Vendors often lie.
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What Windows text editor do you miss when on OS X?
ef that. take care of your customers or before you know it, you won't have any.
As a VIM user I find that amusing, people that use editors other than Emacs and VIM are very disloyal to their editors, I've been using VIM for years, and I'm not switching to another one...

Just out of the curiosity, what editor do you use on Windows?

PRO Tip: Pick an open source editor, so it's always updated (ejem TextMate).
never imagined this type of thing would happen in startups - top level bureaucracy. Doesn't this happen in big corps?

Maybe I'm looking at this whole black cloud of bad PR in a simplistic way but why is it so hard to bring EJ over or fly over to her, assess the situation, put her in a hotel, replace her stuff, help her find a new place. Doing that will get AirBnB much much more popularity than their famous cereal box story that we've heard so much of.
Well, it's a bit of an attention seeking title and it seems people are taking it literally. I wouldn't bet that Sussman literally means it. "We really don't know how biology computes" sounds more like it.

I have never seen any reason to assume that there's something deeply different about the way the genome or the brain performs computations. My guess is it will turn out to be interesting from a technological point of view only.
6) Say you're sorry. Not because you caused this, but because a bad thing happened to a customer and it wasn't prevented and you weren't prepared.

Saying that you're sorry doesn't mean it was your fault or even have legal liability (which they might), it just means that you have a heart.
i haven't heard anything negative (as i said, the general response is a positive "buzz"), but i agree you might expect it. it might be because the kind of people i talk to are more developers than founders, or because i am a "gringo" myself, but i think there's also a feeling that it is helping locals. also, there may be similar schemes for local businesses - it wouldn't surprise me. i know other chileans read here, so perhaps one will answer?

ps also, if your experience of latin america is mexico, i should add that chile does not have the anti-gringo sentiment you find there. not at all. it was a real shock for me, to go to mexico...
What's the cost of living like down there? What's the equivalent of ($40k in Chile) in a typical US city? i.e. ($40k in Chile = $x in Atlanta).

Seems like a cool program, just trying to understand how far that $40k would go (or even the $5k that you can pay yourself).
Since it's a frequent topic of discussion here, it's worth pointing out that Chile is still not bound by the Patent Cooperation Treaty (http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/pctstate.html), although they are taking some steps in that direction (http://chile.usembassy.gov/press20090731_mou.html).

If you have a product that you think might be popular enough to run afoul of the U.S. patent mafia, it might be worth consulting with someone versed in Chilean patent law and trying out a launch there instead.
I guess it depends on location, because around my area, all I see are 'GET UNLIMITED TEXT AND DATA FOR ONLY YOUR LEFT LEG!!" ads all over the place.

Also it could quite possibly be that I am indeed living under a rock as I am very satisfied with my carrier so I don't actively look at plans of others.
If someone asks me a question, I give them an answer based on my understanding, and it turns out not to be so, I am not lying. At the time, I thought it was to be so.

By going along a strict definition of a lie being "an inaccurate or false statement," I think it is misleading especially compared to the other definitions: "a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood" or "something intended or serving to convey a false impression;"

These other definitions relate to intent, which is a factor in determining whether a statement is a lie or not.
Its not a customer service issue..hold on wait..let me explain..

Its an identity problem..How do you have processes and procedures in place that uses identity as the qualifier of being able to trust a person to temp rent to ? Fro example, world wide what do we use as the identifier to get all this info? Is it a credit card number? Is it a credit card number and other pieces of info?

Look at the processes of PayPal..similar identity/trust problem or Amazon Stores..

I submit that Airbnb has not solved the identity/trust set of problems yet and that is their stumbling block not reactions to customer problems as the techmedia has blarred..
Android gets the OS headlines, but the iPhone is the most popular smartphone
The same could be said about the Windows ecosystem, too

Which is why Microsoft changed the OEM model. Customers were complaining about a poor OOTB experience and blaming microsoft for it. As they should, since its MS on boot, MS on desktop, MS on start menu. If Acer's, Asus, or HP's poorly coded background widget is causing system crashes most users are going to root around for it if they barely got started with the thing.

Now, you can't sell a PC with a Microsoft sticker on it without verification now. (Notice how all the ads say Genuine Microsoft Windows 7 Premium). It's not because HP is slapping bootleg installs on there PCs, it's because they sent that model to Microsoft and they assure you you won't have a crappy experience the first time this PC boots.