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I'm sure it was a way to get phone-building experience at Apple without the risk of tarnishing the Apple brand with an inferior phone. Note that as well as any fundamental design flaws the phone might have had, the ROKR also had some superficial, Apple-imposed design flaws such as the hard 100-track limit; no doubt intended to ensure the ROKR wouldn't compete with any official Apple products.
Something similar did in fact occur.
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I don't know for sure, I think that people creating plus accounts just to check it out is a serious hit in itself. From my experience and what little I can remember of the conversations I had at the time, facebook was "also check" because "everyone's on myspace, why would I use facebook?" until the moment you realizes "oh wait, everyone I care about is over here too".

For that reason, I don't think plus needs comparable penetration to compete. The critical mass needed to get a single user to switch the network they are a more active on isn't the same as the mass needed to get everyone to do so.

If I go look at my feed on facebook, I can already see the makeup of my 'top news' changing because most of the people I actually give a shit about are already on plus. Its less that 20% of my "friends", but 5 or 10 more people and everyone I care about interacting with will be there.
That might be so, but I still wish people people reserved the praise for the genius part; saying "Steve is a champion who is not afraid of speaking his mind" is praising him for being an asshole.
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"An apparent excerpt" - please, if every "apparent" excerpt about Steve Jobs were true .... we'll he'd be Yoda
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This is my one of my first weekend (actually, it took more like a week) mini-projects, and as a long-time reader I thought it would be great to get some feedback from HN.

My aim was to create a tool that I'd find useful while learning something new. In this case, I rediscovered Java, learned about Java servlets and JSON, and I tried out the Google App Engine as a platform.

Feedback, advice or criticism for an aspiring micropreneur? I'd be particularly interested in feedback on the design and concept: are there obvious ways that can I make it more intuitive, more useful or more straightforward?
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Next time just convert the whole sum into dollars and be on your way.
You missed my point -- 100-1000$/lb is at least a factor of ten less than anything else.

(NASA is not noted for going factors of ten less than normal costs.)
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From what I hear, Feynman was a pretty nice guy. With men. He seems to have been pretty paternalistic and sexist as far as women go, according to both his books and articles on him [0]:

> The charming side of Richard helped people forgive him for his uncharming characteristics. For example, in many ways Richard was a sexist. Whenever it came time for his daily bowl of soup he would look around for the nearest "girl" and ask if she would fetch it to him. It did not matter if she was the cook, an engineer, or the president of the company. I once asked a female engineer who had just been a victim of this if it bothered her. "Yes, it really annoys me," she said. "On the other hand, he is the only one who ever explained quantum mechanics to me as if I could understand it." That was the essence of Richard's charm.

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
Consciousness sure is a fundamental property of your universe.
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The issue/argument here is not that writing tests is worthless but that in many cases the approach of "if we write enough tests then the code that solves the problem will eventually emerge" is doomed to failure or at least results in an extremely verbose approach to development.
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No doubt the world needs Steve jobs more than it needs one more nice guy selling life insurance. But Plenty of people have accomplished more than Steve jobs (gasp!) while still treating other people with a minimal level of respect. You don't tell people you just met to fuck off because you're a genius, you do it because you're an arrogant d-bag.
re: proportions: If Google+ was only for Chinese plumbers, the percentage of "problem" names (and the kinds of problems those names posed to the G+ DB schema) would obviously be different -- hence the usefulness of the term "web scale" when talking about this sort of problem.

re: "web scale" not implying/talking about global users... Do you know of anyone operating a web scale business that doesn't have global users? Even sites that are supposedly for US customers only (netflix, etc -- caused by regional licensing), still have non-US customers using proxies to bypass their geo filter...

Web scale /is/ global scale. :p
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Can you expand a bit on the distinction you're making between mocks and stubs, and why you believe stubs are both underused and useful?

Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, but I've found in my experience that bugs I miss in testing increase proportionally with my use of mocks or stubs. Invariably, when I'm forced to stub something and replicate its behavior I miss something subtle that comes back to bite me.
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I don't feel safe carrying a private key around with me on my mobile. It could be copied without my knowledge and brute forced in privacy. Whereas with password authentication, I can impose limits on the number of tries and also on the time between the tries. Am I wrong in thinking this?
Those phones at least have the vertical keyboards going for them, something few other Android phones have.
Ok let's try approaching this a different way for a moment. If all of that $1.8M in your example went to the electron microscope, and there was no overhead, how would any of the following be funded:

- the building housing the scope?

- The electricity used by the scope (non-negligible in this case)

- The staff to run it

- training to use it

- maintenece

- hr/legal/accounting services regarding the grant itself?

Furhter, without the above services, not only do you need to fund that stuff, you must now take time away from actually researching to hire those people (for free!), to manage those people and resources, and essentially not do science in order to save science from the evil humanities leeches.

My point, and the point you are conveniently being a disingenuous about, is that you can't just take some money and "do science" there is always going to be other factors necessarily involved.

As for proof of universities vs companies: I can only offer anecdotal evidence, but it is pretty strong. We do lots of research for various government groups, and I find it telling that when we first started working with the DOE on big grants, the were shocked at our overhead rates, which are half the national labs, and much less than other companies. Yet they are happy with our level of research, and have given us more research because they get a better "bang for their buck".

Similarly we had some pretty specialized work that needed to be done for one of our projects, so we considered having SAIC or Honeywell do some of that work. We couldn't because to get one engineer for 50% (half of every work day for a year) cost $500K (after overhead). For that we instead hire a good engineer, an appropriate work environment for him, and still had $200K to more tasks down the road. (not to mention the ability to get more grants in which that work is done now).
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People who are serial entrepreneurs or just people who like building things, get good at building things (quickly).

We learn to use the right tools for the job, we use new light weight technologies and we build our own frameworks and scaffolding to allow us to build things quickly.

We make the mistakes that take up all our time on previous projects and avoid them on the new ones we do.

We have a plan of action right from the start and know what we're going to be doing each step of the way.

The first time you learn something, whether it's programming, building something for the web or even just trying to use a certain API - it will take a lot more time than the future iterations. However, it's this process that will allow you to get more efficient in the long run.

A weekend truly dedicated to building something in one sprint can be far more productive than weeks or months of trying to fit in occasional hours of work in our spare time. Don't forget also, that a dedicated weekend (inc Friday evening) could be a total of 54 hours (if you don't sleep), as a comparison a bootstrapped project may only have a few hours a week available - therefore the same objective will take months to complete.
Excuse me for interrupting the budding flame war, but I have a question regarding the subject, which you seem qualified to answer? :-)

My experience is the same as (what I believe is) the usual criticism of tests-first.

I often need to rethink the API to my functions/methods, sometimes more than once. This goes for both external and internal APIs, so it doesn't help with detailed interface specifications between modules.

Test-first is a problem, since it needs a fixed interface before I'm ready to lock down the interface.

I tend to instead write inside-out; a few pages of code and then write tests for that code. That model isn't really kosher/halal/etc, according to TDD?
I never ask for code to prove a bug unless I can't replicate it myself. (On the other hand, if I submit a bug, I almost always provide code before being asked.)

In this case, though... It seems only 1 person has experienced this, and didn't care enough to even reply back. Closing it due to inactivity doesn't seem to be wrong, to me.
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What?

I mean, seriously, what?

The article seriously advances the following thesis: Creativity is basically easy; you just take something other people are already doing and make incremental changes; for instance, when Picasso painted Les demoiselles d'Avignon all he did was to paint a typical nude portrait except that he changed a few things. A prostitute instead of a standard Noble Classical Figure. A group of them instead of just one. ... Oh, yeah, and among those little incremental changes was inventing a completely new style of painting.

This is, to use the article's own term, complete bullshit. Deciding to take something and make a bunch of incremental changes is easy. Finding a bunch of incremental changes that (1) amount to something really new and (2) still manage to produce something good -- that's what's difficult.

What made Picasso famous for his creativity wasn't the fact that he made a bunch of incremental changes. It's that he spotted some things to change that other people hadn't thought of changing (e.g., you could say that the step from "show everything from a single perspective, or at least make it look as if you're doing so" to "use a variety of radically different perspectives to show objects from multiple viewpoints and produce a sense of fragmentation" is just a matter of Changing One Thing -- but who'd ever considered that as a Thing that could be Changed, before the cubists came along?) and that he was able to produce compelling paintings despite making those radical changes.

(I don't disagree with everything in the article. In particular, the idea that you shouldn't ever reinvent the wheel is just as ridiculous as the article says. But the alleged recipe for creativity is silly, and the alleged example of how it works is beyond preposterous.)
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They actually sell and dump pop music like that, create fake demand and sales.

I can remember a great rant by Andrew Lloyd Webber having a rant over this. It was with Westlife singles, they where mass shipping to stores to rig sales, and dumping stock to create demand. He lost his cool because he had 1st and 2nd place in the charts and the practice was pointless as it was just costing him money he didn't have to loose as he was his own competition.

Having friends who work in retail I have heard stories of cheap other stock products (like high sale TVs) being sent cheap to make up for having to hold stock people don't want, I believe that practice is common. Loss leader I think is the term for doing this.

Not saying it's happening with phones, but other products with obviously cheaper manufacture costs for sure.

Anyway Androids futures in the courts right now, in the hands of Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle. No amount of sales is going to mean anything if legal blockades and patent fees add up.
I think this might show that stories disappear from the front page too quickly -- although of course slowing that down would result in frequent visitors seeing less new material.
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Stephen Hawking on Isaac Newton from A Brief History of Time:

ISAAC NEWTON
Isaac Newton was not a pleasant man. His relations with other
academics were notorious, with most of his later life spent
embroiled in heated disputes. Following publication of
Principia Mathematica – surely the most influential book ever
written in physics – Newton had risen rapidly into public
prominence. He was appointed president of the Royal Society
and became the first scientist ever to be knighted.

Newton soon clashed with the Astronomer Royal, John
Flamsteed, who had earlier provided Newton with much-needed
data for Principia, but was now withholding information that
Newton wanted. Newton would not take no for an answer: he had
himself appointed to the governing body of the Royal
Observatory and then tried to force immediate publication
of the data. Eventually he arranged for Flamsteed’s work to
be seized and prepared for publication by Flamsteed’s mortal
enemy, Edmond Halley. But Flamsteed took the case to court
and, in the nick of time, won a court order preventing
distribution of the stolen work. Newton was incensed and
sought his revenge by systematically deleting all references
to Flamsteed in later editions of Principia.

A more serious dispute arose with the German philosopher
Gottfried Leibniz. Both Leibniz and Newton had independently
developed a branch of mathematics called calculus, which
underlies most of modern physics. Although we now know that
Newton discovered calculus years before Leibniz, he published
his work much later. A major row ensued over who had been
first, with scientists vigorously defending both contenders.
It is remarkable, however, that most of the articles appearing
in defense of Newton were originally written by his own hand
– and only published in the name of friends! As the row grew,
Leibniz made the mistake of appealing to the Royal Society to
resolve the dispute. Newton, as president, appointed an
“impartial” committee to investigate, coincidentally
consisting entirely of Newton’s friends! But that was not
all: Newton then wrote the committee’s report himself and
had the Royal Society publish it, officially accusing Leibniz
of plagiarism. Still unsatisfied, he then wrote an anonymous
review of the report in the Royal Society’s own periodical.
Following the death of Leibniz, Newton is reported to have
declared that he had taken great satisfaction in “breaking
Leibniz’s heart.”

During the period of these two disputes, Newton had already
left Cambridge and academe. He had been active in anti-
Catholic politics at Cambridge, and later in Parliament, and
was rewarded eventually with the lucrative post of Warden of
the Royal Mint. Here he used his talents for deviousness and
vitriol in a more socially acceptable way, successfully
conducting a major campaign against counterfeiting, even
sending several men to their death on the gallows.
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This implied accusation of the victim to be, somehow, the cause of the misconduct (as in "you can't expect to be dressed like this and not attract unwanted attention") is one of the reasons such attacks are sometimes not reported.

Imagine if someone breaks into your home and steals your TV and, when you file the report at the police station, the cops implies that, by having a simple lock, you actually invited people in to steal your TV.
If we mention we have 1g of ethanol, the same thing will happen if the agent is unaware of such thing. It's better not to mention anything that sounds foreign or unconventional. It's their job to dig deeper when that happens.
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I get your point, and I understand why this happened, but before recent events, O'Reilly's viewpoint was probably: Why would O'Reilly think it needs to have policies outlawing unprofessional and possibly illegal behavior in a professional conference?
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I've always thought of testing as simply a way to verify that your code does what is supposed to do.

I tend to agree with you that TDD as a development methodology is deeply flawed. I have never found that the act of writing a test case and making it pass has helped me with the actual creative process of solving a problem via code. In fact, I'll frequently dash out a method I'm writing quickly, and then go back and reconstruct it piece by piece via TDD.

The main benefit writing tests first gives you is that you know your test is actually working (i.e. because it first fails) and that the code you implement actually passes it. It also keeps you honest because it prevents you from writing "extraneous" code, i.e. code that exists but is not specified by a test.

So yeah, I totally agree with you that the cult of TDD kind of sucks. But I haven't stumbled upon a better way yet. I've often thought it would be cool if there was some way for e.g. your version control software to be tied to the code you write that passes certain test(s), such that you could somehow verify that without that code your test fails and with that code your test passes. For the present though, TDD tends to work pretty well for me.
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I'm not an expert in this things, but can't sms messages be spoofed quite easily?
I suppose this move was inevitable, but still sad nonetheless. As a resident of Waterloo, ON, these layoffs will have a large impact on our town.
I am unable to edit or delete any of my comments more than a few minutes old. I assume this goes in hand with the fact that I can't downvote folk either.
Long time HN reader, first time poster.

This is my one of my first weekend (it actually took more like a week) side projects.

My aim was to create a tool that I'd find useful while learning something new. In this case, I rediscovered Java, learned about servlets and JSON, and I tried out the Google App Engine as a hosting platform.

Feedback, advice or criticism for an aspiring micropreneur?

I'd be most interested in feedback on the design and execution: what could I do to make this simpler, more intuitive, easier to use?
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Yep. I can't remember the last time I was not asked this question whenever I was going into a country for anything more than a day.

As the article mentioned, he was asked about credit cards: this definitely has been my saving grace and on at least one occasion, I was asked to see how much credit I had available to me. For me, at least, it helped that I had a fairly high limit, and my latest statement to show that I wasn't close to that limit.

One other thing that works in your favour is a return flight as well as prebooked/preplanned accommodation. If you can show that you already have 'where to stay' worked out (this includes a phone number and address, especially if staying with friends), and that you have already worked out how to get home, that kind of stuff makes things a lot easier. In my experience, at least.
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I presumed they can be :) so my systems needs a text like this:

<machine nickname> <passcode>

It is on my todo list to improve this at some point - but not had chance yet.
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I'm all for bringing back vote counts, I do sorely miss them... but I have to ask, in this particular case, how would mankind be served if we knew that 127 more people agree with cstuder? Maybe I'm missing something, this is an honest question.
I could wish for more details on why the other 2 were closed, and exactly how Yu's 3 stores looked and branded themselves.

From what little is in the article, Yu seems to copy Apple slavishly and it seems his stores would be a good addition to Apple's official network. He obviously cares enough to get it right.
Arguements about government ownership of EADS aside - the important part is that ESA is free to launch on Ariane, Soyuz, Chinese or any other rocket without it becoming a congressional matter.
The headline for this article is wrong. The numbers include dumbphones as well as smartphones.
When Google announced 550000 activactions/day last week, people demanded sales figures suspecting fraud. When Samsung releases sales figures, people demand activations. Huh?

People, there's no conspiracy, no one throws away shipping containers full of Galaxy S 2s and Android is selling and being activated and used briskly. Get used to it.