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These are all great points. The White House has really done Keynesian economics a disservice by limping into it. Republicans are often labelled RINOs (Republicans in name only) by their own peers… Maybe we should start to use the (Keynesian)INO label.

It all goes to show what a bad job of negotiating the administration has done. In this case, as well as healthcare and the debt limit, the White House surrendered key parts of their plan in the name of compromise. In the end, the opposition still calls you a communist, god-hating country-wrecker either way so it would be better to get what you wanted. That being said, and given the language of the administration I'm not sure they buy into Keynesian economics anyway. They certainly are cozy with Wall Street and use the language and framing of austerity all the time.

Politics tends to distort the models so it is important to hold people to account. You might not like Krugman's politics but he does put himself out there and make predictions. Speaking of which, does anyone follow any economists who are proponents of austerity that makes falsifiable predictions? I still don't really feel like I have found a good writer on that topic to follow.
I think you're prolly selling Android short and leaving money on the table in the process. All reports are that most code is fairly quick to port and the sheer number of phones is hard to ignore, even if many of them aren't app shoppers, there's still many many many that are and the app store will iterate quickly. Chrome sucked too at 1.0.

If you don't want to deal with the backend on Android there are solutions that shouldn't be all that different from Apple's 30% cut.
Microsoft attacked Android Phone producers, Google needs to defend them "against" Microsoft.

A bidding with Microsoft wouldn't make sense at all.
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This is true, but look at the state of most applications out there.
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Um. So basically, they just reinvented IRC, based it on an XMPP backend and spiced it up with a load of funky buzzwords?
Can you please refer the link where Linus says anything about XFCE? The link you provided doesn't say anything about Linus dumping Gnome3 to switch to xfce. It just says he doesn't like Gnome3 and wants Gnome2 back.
Would you say that saving all of that hassle is worth the 30% you give to Apple?
The full history:

Dec 13, 2005: "I encourage people to switch to KDE. This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease."
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00...

Jan 26, 2009: "I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do... the whole 'break everything' model is painful for users and they can choose to use something else."
- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/012209-open-source-ide...

Jul 26, 2011: "I used to be upset when gnome developers decided it was "too complicated" for the user to remap some mouse buttons. In gnome3, the developers have apparently decided that it's "too complicated" to actually do real work on your desktop, and have decided to make it really annoying to do.

I'm using Xfce. I think it's a step down from gnome2, but it's a huge step up from gnome3. Really."

Linus has always endorsed being pissed off at your interface and ditching it for something radically different. The current move, as you can read, is not one of satisfaction with XFCE. Clearly Linus just thinks all UIs are shit, and maybe that's a signal no one has figured this out yet, or maybe it's just a signal he's a curmudgeon.

(Edited for typos - I kept swapping 'Linux' and 'Linus.')
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I guess things aren't going to improve, even though I want them to. Living in/close to a city is the only option left for humans. Our minds are suffused with materialism. We are a generation brought up to prefer things that are inherently fast. We would not be able to settle into the countryside for our frame of reference has been speeding at a wild pace since we were born and we have reached a speed at which we cant stop.
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The argument I'm responding to states that if you know someone is a terrorist, then you simply prevent them from boarding planes.

That anonymity is the source of crime isn't my argument, it's his.

Clearly, you can be identified as an 'enemy' and still be dangerous. A good example is during time of war, soldiers are often uniformed and standing in ranks. There is no doubt about which 'side' someone facing you is on, and yet they are no less dangerous because of it.

Anonymity doesn't remove danger, but merely identifies that danger exists.

Wouldn't it be interesting if you could flag something to notify you if you're walking by a white supremacist?
"How many hours do you work a week?"

Weird question. "How many non-sleeping hours a week do you not work?" would be more like it.

After all, if you're having a blast, does it really count as work?
Our product is featured a lot on daily deal sites so we have to show a coupon code box. What we also do is include the logo of the daily deal site (Groupon, Zulily etc.) as a visual hint to the customer as to where the coupon might come from. That way, I hope, we eliminate the curiousity. Haven't ever heard from a customer asking for a coupon.
Speaking from experience, you can literally throw just about anything on the app store and it will make a couple hundred a month.

That hasn't been my experience. My experience has been that once you drop off the "new & noteworthy" sales tail off pretty sharply. The app store is very competitive now.
It looks lovely and pretty, but does seem like they're trying to re-invent the wheel.
Does make sense when you compare the numbers, Android is bigger than the iPhone now. Doesn't tell the whole story but is a valid argument.
I have a friend who likes to go out walking for (as far as I could tell) no particular reason. He doesn't walk 7 miles, but he frequently does 2-3 mile walks. Personally I've never been one to just want to go out and walk. I've considered buying a new road bike recently, but the combination of the hills and the weather where I live will likely prevent that idea from moving ahead.
Once Google has the patents to start injunctions and stoppages, they can get their competitors to the table. That's not nuclear war.

Google is a young company, but it's been in the phone industry at least since it bought Android in 2005. Apple created its iPhone and released it in 2007, so in the phone industry, Google's the senior.

No one has a right to billions of quarterly profits, but no one has a right to violate others' intellectual property, either. Apple and Microsoft are profiting at these levels despite the infringement of other companies.
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I agree. There are many reasons why Google may have rejected the offer to bid jointly – and the offer's terms aren't clear at all. Also, posting private intercompany emails is unprofessional, even in response to a misleading tweet from your competitor. Even less professional is the "divide and conquer" positioning that characterizes Google's lawyers as lacking internal communication/coordination. Frankly, I get a bad smell from either side in this latest Twitter slapfight between MSFT and GOOG.
Awesomely clever. Can you do something about the browser history bloat? A couple drags of the slider and I'm stuck on the page forever, that might piss people off.
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Except that only techies are able to use IRC. You can throw this on a web server and anyone will be able to use it. You could use it for your church chat room or something.
Not sure if I agree with this definition of passion. I've always considered passion to be neutral. It's what drives you to do anything in life (make apps, make war, make love). But how you channel that passion into doing something either productive or unproductive is what matters.

But going with the article, startup founders definitely need at least a little bit of what he calls "obsessive" passion.
Google is going to need to hire a lot more lawyers these days... anti-trust inquiries against themselves, weak patent portfolio... Gonna be really interesting to watch.
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Er, no. That's like saying Linux is only CLI. It's outdated misinformation. There are loads of web clients, and you wouldn't believe what kinds of tech illiterate people I've seen on some networks.
Good point. Didn't think about it, thanks.
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This is awesome. I just wish it was a hosted service. Somewhat regularly I want to do an online group chat with some people, and there's no good way to do it. Yeah, you could spend hours trying to get Skype installed on everyone's machine, or teach people how to use IRC (yeah right). But with a nice hosted chat service, I could just click a button, and send everyone a URL and be done with it.

I'm surprised no one has gone after this use case. I would even potentially pay a couple bucks for a "day pass" or whatever. Convore could've gone in this direction, but their signup process is too onerous. I don't want to have to walk five people in my family through signing up for their service just to get a chat going.
very few apps make it onto new & noteworthy in the first place, so I don't consider that as a factor. From developers I've talked to, some have thrown pretty hastily put together weekend projects out on the app store and consistently make $5/day, which comes out to $150/month.

If you want to make more than 1K/month, then yes, it is pretty darn competitive.

Yes there are 450K apps on the app store, but if you have a well made app that fits a need and isn't "yet another flashlight" you're already ahead of 99.9% of the junk out there.
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For a one-person startup where my time is more limited than my money? Absolutley. 30% is not unreasonable compared to what you would pay a distributor and a publisher for shrink-wrapped software. Even then you would have to manage several stakeholders instead of just one. Visibility is also something Apple gives you if you are fortunate. Once your app hits the Top 100 charts or gets featured sales just take off like a rocket. I've been featured 3 times and while getting an Apple feature is rare, your chances are significantly improved if you have something unique and polished.
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But they're thoughtful enough to do their launches off in the ocean, where an accident won't kill bystanders.
google checkout doesn't have nearly the same traction as iTunes. That's why android apps sell significantly less despite having a larger install base than iOS.
That's right but I am also doing my own startup called Browserling now. Google is still my dream company though.
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There is a very-well developed multi-person JS chat: http://www.mibbit.com/

With great cross-browser compatibility and rich functionality like file uploads and in-line previews you can't go wrong. Uses certain well established IM transport protocol that plays nice with your text-mode IM client ;-)

Yes, you can embed it on your website. Either ad-supported or paid-for.
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I think Android should be even "slightly" more closed. Extreme openess doesn't work for consumer products, as Linux has proven before it. I wouldn't want Android to become another Linux in the mobile world. I'm not saying Linux hasn't done wonders since it existed, but it did mostly for technology companies. It's been a failure in the consumer market, and that's because of its "too" open model. Openess is a scale, it's not an either/or thing.
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Well, maybe that falls out from money being a "store of value".
I got your point. I agree with you actually.
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I think that's more a libraries thing that a language thing. For example, you can do very cool, HTMLy things using Racket's web-server/servlet and Scheme continuations, which would be incredibly hard to do in C.

But I agree with your suggestion that C should be teached first. If anything, because C's "computational model" is very simple: you know what executes when; it encourages a more common, procedural way of thinking, and it's easy to do side effects in single-threaded C.
Cool! Would love to see endless scrolling in there though.
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Can i please get the same UI/feeling, but with an IRC backend, no need to reinvent that. Aalso the irc protcol is kinda weird and bloated with extensions.
This is really the root of the problem. Computer science/programming is immature as a profession. There are not clear, broadly accepted rules for what roles exist and what requirements there are for one to fill the role.

Looking at building houses (just the construction side, not the mechanical systems), we have:
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- Structural Engineer
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plus construction employees not officially certified.
Each of these has a specific test, both written and practical (apprenticeship), and specific roles in the building process.

In software, we have no standardized tests, so companies substitute "BSCS" for "Software Engineer" in the requirements. And there is only ever one role officially defined; there is no separate "Software Programmer". Internally every companies has "Software Engineer I", "Software Engineer II", etc however this is rarely exposed in job postings and requirements and is never standard between companies.

The software industry could solve all this hand-wringing by creating a set of standardized roles, testing to create Certificates of Qualification for each, and getting HR departments to require these. And it would be possible, even with an established industry. Canada has added several new Professionals over the last decade, working with the existing industry to define the job, requirements, and build a phase-in plan that allowed the industry to continue operating.
"If you are seriously looking to make some side income, and potentially even quit your job, I don't think there is a better option than iOS development right now."

"If you want to make more than 1K/month, then yes, it is pretty darn competitive."

So.. Do you make more than $12K/yr?
I believe they can. Stanford is still the patent holder and is charged with enforcing their patent but they could put it into the exclusive contract with Google that Google is the enforcer under contract by Stanford. Of course when Google's attorneys send out C&Ds they will need to mention the stanford-Google relationship and not misrepresent that they are the patent holder.
It seems you missed the part where he said "teach people how to use IRC (yeah right)".

The frontpage of mibbit is an instant "close-tab" to a non-nerd user.
It could be argued that that 100K is the price tag associated with the centuries of learning accumulated; i.e. that is simply what it costs to have yourself suitably trained and prepared to safely pursue your intellectual curiosity, and therefore an unavoidable expense (unless you don't mind moving to e.g. North Korea).
I also started billing this way earlier this year and it has helped me focus. Now if I get distracted while I work I feel like I am wasting time, and know I am not going to be rewarded for it.
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Big data and scaling are networking problems, which are indeed hard. Networking doesn't have to be done in a browser at all however... Web development is strictly what happens over HTTP and it's not as difficult as several developers have made it out to be in this topic.

The parts that are difficult are so because of poor tool support or weak libraries (browsers, JS).
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As a 13 year old, I put my first application on the store in October 2009, and all it does is play those mosquito ringtone sounds, and I still make ~$300-400 a month. It always manages to maintain the top 50 Entertainment in some random country.

EDIT: Top 50 Entertainment for iPad, Top 100 for Entertainment for iPhone. I would recommend making your app universal, even if it is just to make the app fill the screen. There is a much smaller pool of silly apps for iPad ;)
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Yes. Made ~75K last year. On track to triple that this year (I've released 2 more apps this year).

In response to below:

- How? Started off first app as a side project, released on app store. Got traction and went from there. Then started releasing more apps and each of those did well also.

- How long did it take you to reach this point? Released first app May 2010. Quit soul-sucking BigCo Dec 2010. Started traveling the world Apr 2011. Released second app last week (both are ranked Top 5 in sports on iPhone & iPad).

- Was luck a big factor? (Honestly.) - I think less so than for most apps. My app is pretty niche and I knew there was a market opportunity and took it. It was definitely not just throwing something out there to see if it would stick. I knew the market and knew there was pent up demand for my product because I am part of the community.

- Is your revenue spread evenly across your apps, or does it follow a power curve? Does your top-selling app account for around 50% of your income? - I have 3 apps. One accounts for 50% the other 2 account for about 25% each. Each of them are considered pretty successful by app store standards (currently all Top 5 in category).

- How did you market / promote your apps? - Did not do any marketing. Just released it and it grew organically.

- How did you decide what apps to build? (Probably the most important question.) - Built something that I needed to have, and I knew others would pay for. Much easier to do this if you have other interests outside of nerd-dom. Hint: Stop reading hacker news so much and get a hobby where the majority of participants are NOT technical.

- Do you have a "launch strategy"? Well, this is a bit of a cheat since I already have a pretty large userbase. But I have code in my app that notifies the user when I have a new app and links them directly to the app store. That's how I got traction for my 2nd and 3rd app. I'll give you an example of how powerful this is. When my 3rd app was released last week, iTunes rankings were broken. I did not show up AT ALL on the app store except via manual search. Despite this, I shot up all the way to #4 in spots purely on downloads from existing customers and (I suspect) word of mouth to their friends. Lesson here is to not just get customers, but get fans who will evangelize your product for you. That's probably the best advice I can give.
No, I said SICP was by far my favorite book. I already knew how to program before joining the university.. my goal there was to go deeper than what I already knew.

However, the big majority of my colleagues there didn't want that. They really enjoyed "Design patterns", "C++".. but hated anything potentially more abstract (Like compilers, Algorithm). Note that I'm talking about software engineering.. and not about computer science, which is really different imo (as engineer might have a more practical mind).
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Works out that around 31,191 people rule america.

That works out at about 33 people per member of congress. A manageable number I suppose, should they all decide to lobby.

I do find it highly unlikely that they'll ever reach a consensus at those sort of numbers though.

That said, around 1,245 of the top 0.01% should statistically be sociopaths, which is a concern.
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To put it into Buddhist terms, obsessive passion is one where the subject is attached to the result, or end goal, while harmonious passion is when the person cares only about the process. A technique for transforming the former into the latter is meditation.
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That said, around 1,245 of the top 0.01% should statistically be sociopaths, which is a concern.

Assuming an even distribution… which is unlikely.
EVERY software patent is bogus - companies rather waste time and money fighting each other over "link phone number to contact" patents instead of actually developing products.

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