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> I believe the article is talking about Android(TM), you're talking about the Android code in the source control, two very different things.

Ballmer's threat was about the risk of patent extortion OEMs incur when they make Android phones. Since he runs the company that extorts about $15 out of every phone Samsung makes, I would not be surprised if he had good information (despite being Ballmer).

Let's see how the racket goes now that Google has 17000+ more patents to defend their partners with.

I don't think anything like Android ever happened to the mobile space. Symbian was co-owned by Nokia and Sony Ericsson for a while, but was never open-source. I think saying a common Android stack would fail is premature. And my point is that it would survive even if Google tried to kill it, something I doubt will happen.

Motorola will, as Google has repeated many times, continue to be an independent company and will have to compete with other Android licensees in order to win preferred partner status. I strongly suspect they won't win frequently (as that would jeopardize the Android ecosystem)
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It'd be very unlikely that a funded startup will be giving a junior developer 0.5% nevermind 2%.

My advice: ask for market rates and view any equity as a lottery ticket with a drawing in 4-7 years.
"(they appear to have stopped on Friday)"

For anyone that knows anything about facebook development. We know that facebook releases on Fridays. Every Friday. This means its a feature and not an error.

It will take a little time for the updates to be released world wide as the system engineers release to users in increments. So because some people see it and others don't is understandable.
Which after seeing the tweets, was better than I expected. The big issues I have with it, as damage control (i. e. not counting the deleting of the backup and previous exchanges), are the lack of a real apology and the lumping of general profanity in with death threats in what supposably got forwarded to ISP abuse departments.

> Before I begin though, I’d like to thank the tens of people who felt the need to e-mail us death threats and general profanity. We have forwarded these on to your ISP’s abuse departments.
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> It included lots of features that suggest it was designed for heterogeneous clusters.

... all running Plan 9. I see your point - when it was conceived we had RISC workstations and Pentium PCs and they all could run some flavor of Plan 9, but today we have x86 PCs and ARM gadgets running browsers and x86 boxes running app servers and databases buried in data-centers. It could be built on Plan 9, but that's not how it ended up being.
That oversimplifies it a bit I think. The road gets burgled at the same time every week, so the police then patrol that road and the road doesn't get burgled. Which road is getting burgled instead? That's where it's nice to have already run all the stats.
60k is absolutely livable for SF assuming you fit the "recent grad" stereotype pretty well. Probably wouldn't work for someone with chronic medical issues, financial dependents, or things of that nature, but it's enough for a single person in decent health.
I'm not sure where the O would come from, but if Doug and Jules turn out to be the same person, I'm calling him O'Doul's.
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MS spent $9.5 billion of R&D in 2010, I would say they have a fairly decent lab, even if a portion is outsourced (or sponsored university projects).

And free involves things being free. Having to pay MS (and maybe Apple soon) every time you release an Android based product is not a free product. Remember that MS court case its won have been against core Android components but targeted at manufacturers so they can get revenue.

So releasing an Android products means there is a court precedence that you have to pay to use it if MS decides you are a target. From memory they where getting USD$15 per device, thats $3 billion a year (15 x 500000 x 365) ... far from free IMO...

And yep the currently released code is open source. I Expect Google to continue down that path.

But its a totalitarian system if they aren't releasing evolving code, you have no say how things are designed, you bow to Google engineer decisions. There is of course benefits to that but its also not freedom, if you wanted true freedom you'd branch Android and push the totalitarian aspects out of its design.
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Programming is a big field, I'm sure you can find something that suits you better if you feel like looking around more. Just as an extreme example, Inform 7 is just a subset of English that makes text adventure games. http://inform7.com/
I'm assuming that most of the people in Kenya buying a smart phone are going to be on the upper end of the income distribution.
Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to harm people to stoke your ego, too.

Let's say I flip out in my local bank branch. They're perfectly justified in calling the police, because it is a bad idea to yell at people at the bank - but they would not be justified in closing my account and keeping the money to "teach me a lesson", and that is essentially what happened here.

I find it a shocking lapse of professionalism to do anything like this, and I find it incomprehensible that an adult could think it was justified. Seriously. You just don't act like this in the real world and hope to stay in business - sooner or later this attitude will kill you. Customers do flip out and tell you to fuck off, they just do. You either learn to act like an adult about it - maybe step away from Twitter for a while - or you quit, and get a job that doesn't involve interaction with customers. Or co-workers. Or anybody else that might harsh your fragile calm.
I appreciate the well-sourced comment, upvoted. Although I'm not sure exactly what you're arguing. All those points I agree with. Any discussion of IQ must be based on a realistic interpretation of its meaning. But this doesn't mean it has no real world value at all.

I would disagree with the focus on ability to do "academic" work as the only useful result from IQ. While academic challenges is the "tool" we generally use to measure IQ, it is likely to be measuring something that goes much deeper than just academic ability (g factor). This can be seen by the high correlation between different types of intelligence tests. The academic style questions are simply the tool used, since its assumed that most people have had (roughly) the same exposure to the concepts.

The most obvious real world result would be that people who have IQ, and thus have a mind that is able to perform academic work at a high level, would also be able to perform various "knowledge based" work at a similar high level. It seems pretty obvious to me that there is much crossover in the mental faculties needed to do academic work and "real world" work of business value. Since this is the direction the world is moving, it seems short sighted to want to dismiss IQ as having no real world value.
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They did have the backups - and said so - and then deleted them just to be assholes. So it's moot whether they were responsible for backing up the data; the issue is they deleted it on purpose just to hurt.
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Paul Bloom (Psychologist at Yale) did a fascinating talk on a whole lot of different examples of psychological contagions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWOfP-Lubuw
true, i guess i enjoy explaining things to people and thought maybe I ended up in development because I'm an introvert..
Hey - My name is Blake Ross and I'm a director of product at Facebook. Your statement is wrong. Facebook pushes code every day of the week, and our big weekly push is on Tuesday.
I wish you all possible luck in your non-customer-facing career.
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Great points about the information flood of banality - not just 'facts', but factoids, op-ed pretending to be fact - that has reduced the depth of public discourse to that of a 3-day puddle. And thereby made our society far more prone to twisting in the wind of every blow-hard shock-jock and politician willing to hammer their talking points to death (IF that politician is the recipient of Murdoch press support, of course, otherwise, talking points vanish into the ether).

Far more prone to acceding to corporate fascism (witness the slide of the USA and UK in this direction) dressed up as 'the all-knowing Market'. God is dead (which was Nietzsche's question, not finding by the way), long live The Market!

Uncomfortable, unsettling, mold-breaking ideas - AND a passionate discussion of them in their wake, placing them in context, searching out their salience, noting their blind-spots, etc - and popular curiosity and interest in the writers and thinkers who produce them, are life-blood to a civilization.

Ideas are still at large and very much alive in many non-anglophone countries. is this the saving grace of NOT being native speakers of the the English that rules the internet?

I'm interested in seeing information technology become idea technology. Any ideas about that?

Meanwhile, the internet reminds me of nothing so much as one of those bowls you have somewhere around the house into which miscellaneous oddities accrue over time, none of which will ever be used, but it seemed good at the time to put them somewhere... You know what I mean?

I mean a constant 'feed' of junk...Exhausting indeed, to host it anywhere in your actual head. And so much is coming in that memory is buckling under the strain and having to be downloaded to Google, which just further strip-mines the mind in its effort to retain the component parts that build genuine, socially valuable knowledge.
>Oh well, no political career for me.

I think this is one of the problems with how we analyze these things. We always want to focus on the very top and point out that those that lead us aren't the brightest of the bunch, but are oozing social skills. Yes at the very top, social skills, being alpha, being able to persuade and lead, etc, are much more critical than a high IQ. But for the rest of us in between, IQ likely does correlate at least somewhat to enhanced life outcomes.
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What do you think of putting less than +30? I've only ever done any large work with long standing clients that pay quickly. Would the majority of clients not agree to it? Could be a way to ensure that it ends up being +30 even with the client dragging their feet.
Again: enough. These people do not matter. We can stop wasting time talking about them. The travails of people who run into payment problems over $5 web hosting accounts do not constitute "Hacker News". This is a fake controversy. We do not need to evaluate what either side says; neither side matters.

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Seems to me like Doug is just digging them deeper.
No, actually, if he's technically good, I would also keep him with the admonishment that if he ever interacted with a customer again I'd play tennis with his spleen. I was perfectly happy with this post through that part.
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They have a different writing style, although he did appear right out of the blue..
You're right, as I discovered on reading the cached Jules post:

> So let’s just recap a little; we have 1 account that is suspended with full access to a backup of their data and their domain names. We have another account that is fully terminated, with all data removed, due to severe breach of our terms.

The why seems to be swept under the rug in Doug's post.
GOOG's market cap is $174B. A $12B cash purchase for Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc is not consequential to GOOG's balance sheet. (But it does seem like a big premium given that that price is above their 10 year high.)

There is obviously integration risk, but I believe the integration risk is low compared with the potential upside.

The reality of our world now is that almost everyone in every country living above poverty will own a smart phone.

Buying Motorola gives GOOG the ability to capitalize in a different way than just search and whatever value they get from the patent acquisition is bonus.

5 years from now, this will be viewed as an intelligent acquisition which provided a lot of value to GOOG, but most likely not the way most people are looking at it today.

*Scott's micro-basis is not a good way to look at this acquisition and by not looking at the big picture (mobile growth) he may have made a serious error.
It also should be pointed out that paypal disputes can sometimes be automatically opened by paypal - I had one opened once, and the automatic system didn't even offer an option to comment and say "Yes, I did mean to make this transaction"; I had to call in to get it resolved.
> profanity equals abuse

which is illegal under an internet law I just made up. You could go to jail.
It's a phenomenal case study in how not to do customer service and social media at a small tech company. I think there are a lot of people in the HN community who could learn a thing or two from this discussion.
So they're standing by their decision to kill an account because their feelings got hurt, which is already enough to make me doubt their professionalism. But the part that makes me choke is the phrase "the language used by yourself". While it's true that the subjunctive mood can help defuse an emotional situation by deemphasizing the agency of the action, you're doing it wrong. For God's sake, learn English.
You can ask for whatever you want. You'll only run into problems with BigCo's if you do one of two bad things:

* Refuse to sign unless the BigCo agrees to your payment terms.

* Actually expect the BigCo to perceive time elapsing in a way that will get you paid in 30 +/- small n days.

They won't get offended when you ask for net+15. They might even agree. But you're getting paid when the stars align, not when you think the contract says you're getting paid. Established consultancies devote a small but palpable bit of effort managing this issue.
Servers in a data center are a very different beast than portable devices. They also have far fewer regulatory restrictions than cell phones; you don't need to register your custom server with the FCC, after all.
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> How many people in the world have never made even a single phone call?

Not that many, actually. Mobile phones, and thus phone calls, are now pretty pervasive in homo sapiens.

I agree with your other points, though.
I can't agree here. Nobody owes the world comments, and most particularly they do not owe the Reddit hivemind the opportunity for a good one-minute hate.
One of the tweets they've removed pointed you to their webutation page (http://www.webutation.net/go/review/thiswebhost.com) and bragged that they had 100/100. I remember reading it and wanting to reply, "not anymore..."
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It's not a RSS reader

I know it's not an RSS reader...my question is why would I use this app instead of just using an RSS reader. I'm not going to browse Engadget or TechCrunch on a text browser if I just want to read the articles...that's what their RSS feeds are for, and there are some very nice apps for reading them.
They might not even be trying to "stretch" it (a large company could give a crap about the float on an indie consulting invoice); they might just run accounts payable on a state machine in which the part that elapses a timer hasn't started yet. There might be all manner of reasonable reasons for doing it that way; for instance, if they accidentally release payment early, they may screw up projects by blowing expectations.

In any case, yeah: some of your best clients will do a terrible job paying you on time. 'slife in the big leagues.
They had me at the exclamation point, and kept me rolling all the way to "this is why comments have been disabled".
So because you have the opinion it's faked, you're going to tell the rest of us how we should react and what we find interesting?

Thanks, but I'll make my own choice.
I hope that competition will kick in, once there's enough for RAM and CPU for everything you'd ever want, and batteries become the next differentiator.
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Which gets right to the core of GIMP's marketing problems. For years, users wanted a cheap Photoshop clone ... they got GIMP. Because it's not a near-clone of PS, it hasn't caught on as well outside a small group.
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They had already terminated their service agreement with this person. If I were a low-margin hosting reseller, I wouldn't bother to keep around the data of ex-customers either.
The length of time the ARC compiler is in beta is a blink of an eye relative to how long all the production apps based on QuickDialog are going to be in production.

Good on him for writing a maintainable library, instead of one that will need a major refactor in 30 days.
I don't think it's faked. I think it's a waste of our time. I think this is an unprofessional tin-can web host grappling with an unprofessional penny-ante web site making an amount of noise completely out of proportion to their relevance. Like I said earlier, the only thing any of us have to learn from these people is: "don't be these people".
Booo....the video is in Silverlight.I cant watch it on any of the devices I own (besides a desktop :( )
I'm just going on take-home pay, tacitly assuming that the infrastructure required to support a person is roughly equivalent. And honestly, Blackwater's infrastructure also probably cost more, but I was just looking at salary. Mercenaries are expensive.
People alive today are descended from people who've been through a multi-thousand year selection process, where the main factor that determined whether you lived or not was how important you & your parents thought it was to drink really clean water. It's no wonder people are pretty touchy about the water issue.
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Except that they did keep the data of the ex-customer that didn't curse at them, and have now reinstated his account.
I fail to see how the size of the company should affect one's perception of an OS. If WP7 was made by two greasy dudes in their basement, I would still think it is just as nice.

I've used the clipboard once since they've updated WP7 with it, but perhaps I'm just not a smartphone power user.

Regarding multitasking, frankly I like iOS/WP7 solution far better than Android. Android runs fully background tasks, meaning all those poorly coded applications can chew away at your memory, cpu and battery life. The iPhone forces apps to hibernate, or at most keep one thread open for background processing or streaming. The rest of the app is suspended. WP7 allows tombstoning your application and you can push updates through Live Tiles. With Mango WP7 will operate basically like the iPhone.
> I assume everyone will agree with this statement, but I'll state it anyway: You can't cancel valid accounts! If the account is paid in full, and assuming the account isn't being used for nefarious purposes, you cannot cancel valid accounts for any reason.

I'll agree with that, but with qualifications. Certainly you don't just cut off somebody's service. But there are pathological clients who aren't worth keeping on. I don't want to go into details, but I've personally seen one particular case, at a hosting company I once worked for, where it was no longer worth the time and aggravation to keep a certain customer, despite their (as far as I knew) flawless payment record.. We gave them a month to find another service provider, but there was no way we would allow them to remain a customer after that.

As a business, you have the right to deny service to anyone for any reason, aside from certain protected classes such as race and sex. Unless you're broke, you can and should exercise this right to whatever extent it benefits your business. And even if you're broke, sometimes you should consider it.
Could it be that your CDN and caching will refresh on Friday?
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Can you tell us if this is a deliberate move by Facebook to sensor such links? Do you intend to further sensor the spread of google+ ?
I'd make a comment about backtracing, but instead--

I don't agree with email-bombing the company with profanity. I do agree with email-bombing the company with well-worded emails about how you're canceling your service over this and/or not planning on doing business with them.
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What the heck is apple doing with these battery issues?
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The point about margins is perceptive. Hardware is a very different business.