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Except there are few, if any original ideas. Two people who've never met can come up with the same idea.

If anything, what's really the difference here is the level of risk the original "innovator" took versus the later "copycats". The first person takes all the risk in validating the idea. Everyone that comes after doesn't have to undertake that risk and cost.

Perhaps the author is talking about wholesale copying (e.g. copycat Mac stores), but then the title is misleading.
The whole "exclusive" web is played out. You are not special because you have access to a website.
Google could shut down Motorola Mobility's hardware business, keeping its patents.
> In all other situations your solicitor will instruct you to say 'no comment' to any question the police asks you.

Isn't that effectively the same thing?
I've heard the 3rd one a few times.
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"Here’s a P.S.A. for the copycat entrepreneurs with no shame in their game. You will never succeed."

Except for all the successful business owners who claim to have done exactly that and done way better than those they copied.

This is yet another person trying to stifle competition by claiming it's unethical.

Why is it unethical for multiple companies to provide the same service or product?

It's not. It is, however, unethical to call for a boycott simply because it'll make your business more profitable.
Doesn't work on Intel graphics (at least under linux with F15-era drivers). "This demo requires OES_texture_float extension." Float textures are pretty bleeding edge even for fancy GPUs.
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Motorola spun off into Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions. Think of Mobility as the classic consumer oriented Motorola who sells cell phones. Solutions targets enterprise/government.
Google has consistently had a number of products simply to better the marketplace as a whole. If the nexus line proved anything, its that Google is /not/ a hardware company, nor does it know how to market itself as one. Not only that, if they undermine other carriers, they will loose marketshare and therefore loose profits. This is clearly a patent oriented purchase, not one to compete with the other manufacturers.
Ah, the poor little rich minorities. We've simply got to protect them from everything. They "create jobs" or something, after all.

Though, that's actually wrong, too. 98% of small business tax filers earn less than US$250,000 a year, yet account for 64% of the job creation (or "net new jobs") in the last 15 years and employ over half of the working US population [1].

I'm sorry, but the rich are not bothering with a <$250k a year business if they're already rich, unless they're serial entrepreneur, hyper-multitaskers juggling multitudes of them at once. And, aside from Elon Musk, how many do you know that are willing to do that?

This whole mess is the placation of the rich because they'll "move" if we don't give them everything. The question is, what country would they move to? I mean, I'm sure Singapore is nice and all; but it's hot as hell there, and don't they have Universal Healthcare with government-mandated price controls, which is supposedly every rich man's nightmare according to Fox News?

Russia is nice, too, I suppose. If and only if you're former politburo or an officer, or just a jackbooted mafioso thug (or willing to take any or all of those on without Uncle Sam backing you up).

Hong Kong is part of a communist country that only recently has conveniently added capitalism to their repertoire. If that doesn't work out for them, how soon would they "nationalize" all of that island and it's hard-won successes contained therein?

Of course, others have noted Somalia, Mexico, and various developing countries. Take your pick.

"If you want to set the income tax at 95% of all money made over a million bucks? Have at it. It's not important."

If it's not important, why all the falsities about "taking everything from the rich" and stopping all defense spending and it not mattering? It would matter a shitload, no offense. DoD + discretionary spending (which the military swallows almost all of) is almost 40% of the entire budget.

What's left is Medicare and SS, which in 2000 was well-funded and flush with +2 Trillion in the kitty. The tax breaks of 2001 and 2003 and the wars of roughly the same time erased nearly all that and left IOUs. Now, you're blaming those programs for our downfall.

So, yeah, you're right, it's not about taxes, it's about those "poor people" who "do not even pay an income tax".

[1] http://www.sba.gov/advocacy/7495/8420
> We always had plenty of time to spend with our family and
> friends.
> If you cannot say that, I's say you failed.

Doesn't "not having plenty of time to spend with our family and friends" follows directly from not winding up at 5?

Regardless of what you consider a failure, the hard fact is most of the businesses demand time - a lot of time. And there are only so many hours in a day. For the starting days, putting up south of 12 hours is common, and that takes a toll on the time you would have spent with your near and dear ones.
One thing that beats me is how are they going to assert their position about openeness when talking to partners like HTC and Samsung? What credibility does google have when in past they have already tried to restrict access to newer android builds from partners who do not integrate with their apps.

As a partner, I'd be very weary of dealing with them. Google has a huge job of winning those guys back.

What they have to realize is that Android did not really win on being "android" it won because it was a "cheaper iphone" made by a lot of hardware partners. That filled the gap while iphone was content being exclusive. Now iPhone available with both major vendor and most other countries, its going to be a tough road.
Your website is pretty but not usable. On load, there is no call to action but a cryptic "Choose a direction". The wheel doesn't turn when dragged, but after clicking on the side of it the entire page moves around before a call to action appears. It's pretty, but the "Find a space" and "List a space" boxes should be visible as soon as the website loads. They should also link to a page allowing visitors to do exactly that - or to a page explaining that you're still in alpha and asking them to leave their email address.

Yes, you're in alpha, you can be a bit cryptic. But the focus of the page is a giant ship's wheel. If you absolutely need to keep it (because you've already spent so much time getting it right), there should be some indication that clicking on different sides of it gets different results, there should be somewhere on it that users can click to get both calls to action, when a call to action is visible the wheel should become smaller, and if the page is open for more than ten or twenty seconds you should slide both calls to action in, as clearly the user is trying to figure out what the point of it is.

Also, why "capitan" instead of "captain"? It's a distinction that most users aren't going to get, and you seem to own spotcaptain.com as well.
I have a hard time understanding responses like this and, in the end, they make me think that people a) really don't understand some of these new data technologies and b) are just as much on the anti-bandwagon as those that sit on the latter.

For people using MongoDB daily, their data is in the correct format, it is persisted to disk, it is stored reliably and it is fast. On top of that, it gives them flexibility as their web app changes and new features and data structures are added, it is easily viewed and manipulated in JSON-format, and if and when the day comes that they need serious scaling, it helps there as well. Also, in the world of EC2, it is straight-forward to set up replica sets to offer redundancy.

All these conversations sound eerily familiar to the Java guys bashing Ruby and Ruby on Rails about five years ago. If you want to stick with what you have, then no worries. I just think people should be excited that over the last couple of years, the "golden hammer" approach to storing data has finally been overtaken and developers have a choice about what technology best solves their data problem.
It's not that intelligence is irrelevant, it's just far less relevant than a lot of other factors. Also, people are quick to attribute someone else's success to an innate quality like intelligence rather than things like tenacity, hard work, etc., b/c then we don't need to feel lazy.
While I usually don't agree with the convoluted and twisted logic of Asymco, Gruber and Marco (they do get a lot of undeserved traction on HN thanks to its big section of Apple fans), I think this time he does have a point.

It will be a tightrope walk for Google about who and how to share the longterm plans of the OS with etc.
I'll finish reading this article later.
iPhone app developers tend to use a variety of ad networks, based on whatever pays best. iAds usually has the best CPM, but inventory can be limited - and the fallback is usually AdSense (or... AdMob, which is also Google).
In the context of this article, "only runs on Mac" is just fine, as Write Room also "only runs on Mac."
With Motorola, Google TV just got a huge shot in the arm
why did he return to apple? everyone forget this, because he couldn't have the same luck at his second company.

also apple would have forwarded the osx success a couple years if the acquired beos instead of next. so that was steves luck acting again
"Symbian was formed to be governed in a way very similar to the original Android via the Open Handset Alliance."

Riiiiight. I was at an OHA company during the early Android days post-Google. OHA was created by Google to make their subcontractors look like "partners" in Android development. There was no boss other than Google in this project.
They'll likely get the same access they've always had (which for some of them will be zero access).
I checked out your startup zuupy.com , its a daily deals site for business owners. I'm not exactly sure if YC would want to fund another daily deal site ( unless its a specific vertical, like daily deals for sports/theater tickets )

Not sure if you would want to put in $500k just for the sake of being in the Valley.. Alot of non-valley startups doing very well too. If you really need the connections, best way is to make a kickass product and the investors will come knocking.

Probably start with the hard grind - join a startup that offers a h1b, then go from there.
> start a wireless company then I think having an MBA would make a pretty big difference.

How would an MBA make a pretty big difference for a wireless company?
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They're roughly broken down as follows:

Moto Mobile: general consumer devices (phones, tablets, GPS nav, DSL/cable modems, IPTV boxes, etc.)

Moto Solutions: enterprise and industrial stuff (2-way radios, RFID, barcode scanners, networking)
it probably gives us a skewed idea of individual genius

No kidding. Confucius was a very smart person! Also, Moses.
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No I didn't know.

But, at this point, what I built would work for mute people, rather than deaf people, since I don't transcribe what is being said. I imagine I could work something out, but seeing what Google Voice does with this, I'd be surprised if the quality were useable.
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Well as far as I know, Google search doesn't tweak its algorithm to rank Google owned websites higher. This alone gives them some credibility...
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It totally depends on the site. For developers, engineers, and anyone familiar with the software industry, it might feel played out. But to people like my family and numerous friends who are NOT in the industry, it still feels exclusive.
“Nutter”? Really? Being wrong doesn’t make anyone a “nutter”.
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Later down there's a whole section titled "OPPORTUNITY FOR GOOGLE?"

Would've been nice to see that news a few weeks ago, then today's acquisition wouldn't have been so out of the blue.
This seems a bit excessive and weird. Why does Mozilla assume that the About Firefox window is where users go to see if an update is available? Even if that's true, why hide the version number? Chrome doesn't, and it's hardly confused people there.
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Listings are valuable. I know AutoTrader.com works hard to protect its listings from mass downloading.
Very cool, with lots of potential, but definitely not done. The biggest annoyance is not being able to pick (or even differentiate) between different models of a particular brand. For instance, there are 117 BMWs, but no way to view just the 335i models, either with an actual filter, or even visually. Mousing over 117 dots = not fun.

Also, a legend that explains dot size and color would be super easy to implement and tremendously helpful.
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The problem is, to get off of the analogy, that Google will be very tempted to design a great iPhone compete device. It's no secret that the iPhone is the best HW/SW integration on the market. For the first time Google can actually build something with no compromises w/ respect to Android.

I think Google's next play will be telling. Will they:

1) Buy a HW design/integration company - ala Intrinsity.

or

2) Spin off Moto Mobility, but keep share all patent rights (so either company could litigate).

If you see them start recruiting for people/companies like Intrinsity, they're going down the Apple route and partners should be worried. If they spin off Moto Mobility (and don't own much of the resulting company) it will show dedication to Android.
Is it really that surprising that the ad impressions on a platform where the majority of the popular apps are free and ad-driven is outpacing the ad impressions on a platform where the majority of the popular apps are paid-for and thus don't feature adds?

Until there's some parity between the Android Market and the Apple App Store, such that developers can easily accept payments from every supported country, then reports like this are going to continue to be meaningless.
Besides android vendors aren't really profitable by big margins. Motorola in fact has continued losing money for past few years even after introducing android.
Apple has enough money and more vested interest, they would be more likely to buy ARM than Google (or at least block Google's attempt at a buy out).
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You realize Google does this a lot already ?

They operate in so many markets they have to have internal chinese walls between departments. The ads team is separated from search team, and the search team is separate from their analytics team. Google knows that these internal teams would have conflicts of interests so it keeps them separate.
I wonder about this too. Google made those bizarre bids like $3.149b, almost like they weren't really into it. They could have just been feigning interest to drive up the price. They probably would have been happy to acquire the patents for a good price, but they clearly already had another (more important) acquisition in the pipeline.

The Motorola deal I think is a lot better because it's not just patents, it's a whole hardware company with hands in a lot of pies that Google is in, like cell phones and set-top boxes.

I think they'll get a much better return on their investment into Motorola than they would out of Nortel patents.
You actually don't "have to" do any of that. If you don't wake up early tomorrow or take your kids to school, you will not be hauled off to jail and the world will still go on.

What you're really doing, if you stop and think about it, is making a deliberate choice - between the cost/benefit of sleeping in and taking it easy, and the cost/benefit of employment/income/future of your children. You may not think of it as a choice, but it is. Plenty of people decide its not worth it, and don't take their kids to school or hold a job. For you, the inconvenience of your morning is offset by the value of a more secure future.

So when you say you "have to" do these things, that's false. I wouldn't even call it "pushing" yourself. You actually want to do it, because you value it on some level. The fact that its not pleasurable or emotionally exciting doesn't even enter into the equation of deciding.
Wow this is huge. Having an OS be able to run both ZFS and KVM enables fantastic things. For example you can store each virtual machine disk template on a dedicated ZFS filesystem, and use "zfs clone" to rapidly deploy VMs (instead of using the KVM-level support for base disk images "qemu-img create -b ..."), as well as "zfs snapshot", "zfs revert", etc. The main advantage being that these clones and snapshots are possible while using the simple and fast "raw" KVM disk image format instead of the notoriously slower "qcow2" format that was, until today, the best format supporting base images and snapshots.

I, for one, have been wanting to use ZFS specifically like that for a while. This does not compare at all to running ZFS on, say, an NFS server or iSCSI SAN serving data to a server running KVM (ZFS data integrity is only verified remotely on the storage server, it is slower, etc).

Who ported KVM to Illumos? I know some old version of QEMU was running on Solaris at some point in the past, but I had no idea they had a full blown KVM port.
Now that Google has sunk $12.5B into the patent system, I fear the fight against software patents has lost it's most powerful ally.
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by that logic when microsoft was trying to buy yahoo a couple of years ago they were getting a huge discount compared to the 2001 high. Microsoft should have really upped the offer.
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Oh, that's why NOK is +13% today (while GOOG is -2%).
>Who's the hostage? It looks like they are trying to say Google is now responsible to ensure Android is defended.

What if their reaction was frank? Something like

"We are concerned that this acquisition is lopsided and will hurt the major OEMs since now Motorola will have very big advantages that we won't. The DoJ and EU should look at forcing Google to give the same access to Android to us as they would do to their new hardware division."

>Who's the hostage?

The fact that it was a canned PR release from Google that they echoed instead of the above shows who's the hostage.
You should check out VAST or Oodle as data sources with an API to plot your graph.

I really dig that you did here. I would only add that "Better" isn't always the cheapest option.
I will, this was just the first article in a series of talks and articles.
Is it me or does this mean "cookies that can't be undeleted" contrary to the intended "cookies that can't be deleted"?

One should rather say "Non-deletable cookies".
It's pretty easy to make Redis basically ACIDic (use MULTI/EXEC and WATCH with AOF on and fsync on every command) if you really need to.

In practice you probably don't. Financial transactions should take another path, but for almost everything else, you can probably afford the few seconds of data loss you may encounter.
I think it's the right move. Today I was shocked that FF 6 was already out and I went searching to see if anything new had been added. Less-important version numbers will train people to expect gradual improvements rather than drastic changes so they won't be disappointed.
UPDATE: As a data-collection experiment, I've dropped the price to $9 for the time being.

(If you already purchased and feel left out, send an email and we'll figure it out).
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I don't have a strong opinion one way or another about this. On one hand, I am comfortable being able to get my software version number for pretty much any app in a convenient place. On the other hand, the thought that web apps (and perhaps apps in general) could transcend beyond the point where you even have to think "which version are you running?" is really intriguing to me.

Software versions seem like one of the most visible technical aspects of the software these days, and they matter very little to the average user. I think versions become largely irrelevant to _most_ people once their software reaches a point where they are constantly running the latest version.

That all said, what is the harm in having that version number appear in the about window as well as the notification about the latest update. It seems like an odd change for Mozilla to ruffle feathers with.
I share your curiosity, and have adjusted the price as an experiment. Let's see what happens.
Illumos. I'm still very excited about this project. Let's not forget how powerful OpenSolaris still is.
There is not a singular cause for procrastination. I've mentioned it many times on HN, but I think it's again relevant to recommend "Procrastination" by Burka & Yuen.[1]

Half the book is spent helping you investigate the root cause or causes of your procrastination, which can include fear about control (losing OR gaining it), as well as fear of success, fear of failure, fear of separation, fear of attachment. They discuss the influence of family and culture, gender, and the role of ADD & executive dysfunction.

The second half of the book is a practical guide to coping with your procrastination and habitualizing better behaviors.

If you're serious about procrastination, my only advice is to listen to the experimentally & research-backed psychiatrists.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Procrastination-Why-You-What-About/dp/...
Well since they have a lot of former Sun engineers working for them I don't really think they have to SAY Solaris. As others have mentioned there are trademarks involved here too. Sun/Oracle have been hemorrhaging talent, particularly the former Fishworks team, for a while now and a lot of those people are ending up in places like Joyent.
This seems a bit excessive and weird.

One of the primary reasons I declared Chrome my browser of choice (this was among other reasons, mind you) was that just around Firefox 3 there came a time when I had to update it seemed almost daily. To keep my foot out of my mouth, I checked to see if maybe there were settings on my system that were coming undone upon shutdown and boot, negative. I grew quite annoyed that every time I launched I had to go through an update process again.

This is a change I personally am in favor of, and can only assume is the case for other non-power users of the browser. Thankfully though they're making that information available still through the about:support page for people who find that information relevant.
watch for an increase in frequency of this kinda storyline over the next few months.