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Arrington apparently believes that Buffett's op-ed is part of some master plan to make it harder for others to get super rich while making it easier for him to hold on to his wealth. If Arrington truly believes this, he hasn't been listening to what Buffet is saying.
Any lean app is always good in my book, but if it doesn't detect which app is 'phoning-home' and letting me know... it ain't much better than Little Snitch that I'm currently using.

I'm just attracted to the smaller memory footprint I guess and the simple UI. :D
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Fright Night manages to get exactly what is supposed about the characters. Not exactly a work of nature to begin with, but nevertheless, the key is there and plays, maybe a little higher, but it gets the point quickly.
Ask HN: Why is it so easy for Anonymous to hack websites like that of Sony?
Are the Sony developers just incompetent or are the Anonymous guys just super smart?
You basically said everything I was going to say. Isaacson is a master biographer, and being able to interview his subject should (in theory) help him do an even better job (Jobs?). I'm pre-ordering it too.
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Well, the first and most obvious example is the inconsistency and arbitrariness with which Apple approved or rejected AppStore applications. Gruber was probably Apple's most vocal critic at the time. Apple have improved a lot since, but still have some way to go in that department.
I've been watching Mulally a little bit over the past few years. What source(s) of information would you say are best to get a better idea of his thinking and of what he's done? Do you get all that only from interview and maybe annual reports, or is there a better source?
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That patent portfolio can't be that threatening to neither Apple nor Microsoft, considering the fact that both companies are already in litigation against Motorola and those specific patents, and so far it's not looking grim.
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You disappointed me when I clicked that link and found it didn't exist.
>Motorola has a bunch of video patents

Motorola Mobility or Motorola Solutions?
google never cried sour grapes on nortel

The argument for this is pretty simple: They bid up several billion dollars. They lost. Suddenly, they decry the bidding as anti-competitive. Sour grapes.

"The winning $4.5 billion for Nortel’s patent portfolio was nearly five times larger than the pre-auction estimate of $1 billion. Fortunately, the law frowns on the accumulation of dubious patents for anti-competitive means — which means these deals are likely to draw regulatory scrutiny, and this patent bubble will pop." -- http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-a...
> You can write GPL'ed device drivers for Windows - doesn't make Windows GPL.

The public interface exposed to Windows drivers is _much_ more shallow than the public interface exposed to Linux and Solaris/Illumos modules. Not coincidentially, the Windows driver exports overlap a lot with the interface that Linux allows for usage in proprietary drivers.

Instead, KVM uses a lot of hooks into the kernel innards (into the scheduler, into the MMU, etc.) that are marked as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL in the Linux kernel, and the Illumos port does use some of the same hooks.

I am not a lawyer, so I don't have any clear answer. I also work for Red Hat, so even if I had one I would not want to say it (should not say it). But the licensing question is _not_ an idle question.

Also, the licensing question does not detract anything from the awesome work of these guys.
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You can't easily index javascript sites.

With javascript it's not a document, it's an application.

If you are writing an app, then sure, use javascript, and don't worry about it (even if you could do it server side, I rarely see the point).

But if you are writing a document then you should at least have a fallback, and reserve javascript for less important "flair".
The worst thing is that Google is now invested in the problem by $20 billion more than it was previously. The more invested U.S. companies become in patents, the more difficult it becomes to make change.
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I had to google to find out who Mullaly is.
And frankly, Jobs having his vision for years (check out his 1997 WWDC video) and bringing it into fruition looks much much more impressive to me than some cost cutting.
Really? I've heard mostly good things about motorola build quality.

Personally, I've had the OG droid for a year and half now, and it is rock solid -- I've taken terrible care of it, drop it on concrete all the time, and yet it still works fine.
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Neither, making a 100% sure that every security hole is plugged takes time, and as such money. Corporations simply do not want to pay extra for this (in most cases).

The Anonymous guys on the other hand do it in their free time and as such have a far greater amount of time available to find bugs than the developers had to find&fix them.

On top of that most "hacks" by Anonymous are done using automated tools that find and exploit SQL Injection vulnerabilities. Combine that with that Anon doesn't publicize about the times they don't get in, it's easy to make it look like you know what you're doing. But if they find a SQLi vulnerability in 1 in every 10.000 websites they 'test' it's suddenly not that impressive any more.
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I have an idea, just to make you think for sometime, "YouTube of Text".
just FYI, the "Droid" brand is licensed by Verizon, not Motorola. There have been many "Droid" phones, all of them on Verizon and from several different manufacturers.
Actually, our port does not use these hooks -- there were zero mods to the illumos kernel to support KVM per se.
Perhaps not, but they seem perfectly willing to use their search monopoly to help their Android business.

When the original Nexus launched they ran an add on the google.com homepage, right under the search bar, for what? Two weeks?

Can you imagine what that would cost any other manufacturer? I'm really surprised they haven't been called on it yet..
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the acquisition will allow Android to do Apple-style seamless hardware/software design.

It will allow Google to do that, but I'm sure that's what you meant to say.
Thanks. That is a good answer.
So they'll get around $133mil per delivery trip, comparable to the Soyuz Progress (which is around $150mil).

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I meant tails! I was tired when I wrote this, hence the grammar and spelling mistakes!
I think you skipped the other part of recoiledsnake's point about how app sales create lock-in. To me, that is the bigger reason for Apple's focus on apps (and on controlling the content delivered to iOS devices).
I am still using XCode3. Version 4 is pretty buggy and unstable to me. And the transition is not seamless.
Once I tried to put a project on dropbox and worked alternatively with version 3 and 4. A mess.
I will stick to 3 until 4 gets more stable.
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is it to do with this : http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ ?
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A part of me can't help but think that people like this would make excellent employees -- and lousy founders.

Maybe we shouldn't fear China.
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Google bought a lot more than just patents.
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And another - would be great to see this come off in London.
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The weasel word here is 'suddenly'. They first tried to win the game the easiest, surest way. Now they have to resort to an unsure, annoying, longwinding way. They probably always considered it anti-competitive. That doesn't mean they first and only try to resolve it through playing that card.
This is just a hypothesis based on very little actual knowledge, but perhaps a very long scheduling interval is responsible for the slowness with smaller reads? Consider this scenario: the virtualization hypervisor is on a reasonably loaded system, and decides to block the virtual machine for every single read. Since the physical system has several other VMs on it, whenever the VM in question loses its time slice it has to wait a long time to get another one. Thus, even if the 32K read itself happens quickly, the act of reading alone causes a delay of n milliseconds. If you increase the read size, your VM still gets scheduled 1000/n times per second, but each time it gets scheduled it reads 5MB instead of 32K.
Apparently IE and Opera use the old editor.
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Units and market share don't mean much if your margins are razor thin (or, worse, nonexistent).
Assuming the changes that were introduced in MongoDB 1.8 for single-server durability, writes are being put to disk with journaling. So, the data is written to disk.
Sour grapes would be if Google had said "the Nortel patents suck" after they lost.

What you're describing is closer to "they ganged up against us".
Take consulting for example. Charging a low rate seems alright except you begin to notice every single one of your competitors charge 3x what you do. In a way, you don't feel like you are worth what the competitors are charging so you just accept work at the lower rate you charge.

In a way, your scared to ask your current clients to pay more and your not certain about how good your work is but everyone else says it's good.

Same thing also for employee when you find out everyone else makes 3x what you do.
Are there folks out there that are afraid to compile code and modify it?

Some developers (myself included) may have a general preference for sticking with the "official" packages to avoid extra work when bringing up a new machine or migrating to a new distro version.
totally agree, some "shortening" services simply give you some value add services like - http://sclst.mp , http//su.pr etc.
Genuine interest: why is it so important to go public? What does your company win by doing so?

I understand companies who need the one-time cash injection to stay ahead of competition. It doesn't look like you guys need that much. So what is it, then?
At the time they were hacked, at least according to multiple sources, Sony had no firewalls and were using old versions of Apache and RedHat that hadn't been updated to the latest security patches. So yes the Sony sysadmins are incompetent, but I think the leaders at Anonymous are a bit smart too. You also have to consider that if 100 people are looking for a security hole in the same piece of software, they're probably, eventually, going to find it.
Isn't that just profit for that year, not including all of the sunk costs to get started?
How is one single teacher going to deal with thousands of students?
This is so awesome. Things are moving forward!
+1 for London please. Dmitri's Hacker News Meetup is popular and the startup scene is buzzing here.
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I hope that someday you can work like that. But I doubt that people can work like that when they are not able to test their code. At least adding unit test capabilities is absolutely nessesary for that.
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Couldn't they see patent reform as a way of avoiding having to spend billions more in the future? I suppose it depends on whether each company sees the patent game as a cost or a profit center.
"We were usually able to knock off at 5 p.m."

That's what 37Signals always preaches.
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I'd certainly like to do an event in London. Would be hard to arrange for everyone from YC to make it over though.
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Did they really just black-out his surname in the Facebook screenshot, how do they not see the flaw in that theory?
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See the subsequent writeup on SQLite and how it handled the same dataset magnificently. About the checking of responses, if you read the article you will see that previously stored data just went away, it wasn't failure to store outright.
If you read the article you'll see it's talking about exchanges, not those trading with them.
Increased tax 'revenues' won't do anything to balance the budget, it just offers a little more spending leeway. The problem is spending.
>> There's plenty of empirical research that suggests "low level" mastery is all you really need for creative "high level" stuff.

Is there any chance you could you please provide a citation for this? I'm very curious how that research was done and in what contexts.

I'm of the belief that "low level" mastery can result in good creative outputs, but in a lot of cases it's a matter of luck as much as skill. The mastery in one area is supplemented by knowledge in other areas -- it's a sort of interdisciplinary approach to innovation that can have good outputs but I would think also come with a low level of guarantee of innovation and poorer repeatability (see young startup founders).
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Little off-topic, but there's a thing that comes to my mind every time that I see articles and discussions about things going very bad for people somewhere in China, or things going very good for people somewhere else in China:

We're talking about country that has two times more people than the whole Europe combined. In such a big population, pretty much everything will happen. There will be places with riots, and at the same time there will be thriving cities and happy citizens somewhere else. I think that on this scale, it's much more easier to have a selection bias (and our wonderful, always-telling-the-truth traditional media aren't exactly helping).

While I'm not defending Cisco here (I don't like them anyway ;)) and not denying that there is lots of human rights abuse going on in China, I think it's worth bearing in mind that China might not be a everything-is-bad-everywhere-for-everyone country.
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"We were usually able to knock off at 5 p.m"

Actually I am pretty sure I heard/read that a couple of times (or equivalent, not completely busting their asses).

"We always knew better than our customers. Eventually, they realized that."

Apple?
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My impulse would be to modify libc's readdir() to use a larger buffer size instead of using my own C program. Would that much stupider for some reason (besides packaging/dependencies)? Do libc clients expect 32k buffers and die if they receive something else?
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Another example, I'm not sure it qualifies, is that Gruber never liked the brushed metal theme and the inconsistency with which Apple applied it to different applications.

Apple did eventually retire the brushed metal theme and is getting a bit more consistent in the styling of their applications. Still some way to go here, too.

Apple and Gruber has generally diverged in how they think the Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) should be applied. Gruber has called them out for not applying it as consistently as they did in the past.

But regarding the HIG, it seems Gruber has resigned and is now calling the HIG basically defunct.

I think in general, Gruber is not trying to be right/wrong vs Apple, not trying to offer a strong opinion, except in some unusual cases (see: AppStore rejections). Mostly, he is just trying to understand Apple, and to offer his analysis since Apple is famously quiet and other analysts are often clueless as Apple is a bit of an oddball in the corporate world.
> we might find ourselves merely working a job for a paycheck. At best we would be working on someone else’s dream, at worst we’d forget that we had dreams of our own.

Yeah, standard cupcake. But what I always found puzzling about entrepreneurs/SMB owners who write things like this is, how do you then go out and convince other people to work for you? Are you bullshitting candidates while actually looking down on them as tools that are stupid enough to "work for your dream" or have "forgotten they had dreams of their own"?
Could somebody - for the love of god - FINALLY explain to me where in this quote he is saying they're going to sue other Android phone makers? Because all I'm reading is Motorola explaining IP is going to be a differentiating factor - both in terms of avoiding royalties and collecting them.

The "...from Android phone makers" is added to the "collecting them" by the guy who wrote that article - very disingenuous, and of course, folk like Gruber gobble it up without a second thought. Pathetic.
Sounds to me like everything fell into place because you shifted the blame to someone else; absolved yourself of responsibility. IMO this achieves nothing in the long run.

But whatever makes you happy, I guess...
I use Phing (www.phing.info) to run the entire process which includes:

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That hasn't been reported on as widely in the mainstream press as the wave of moving work abroad a decade ago. It will take a time for the message to settle among the broad public.
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One of the hardest things when communicating with customers is not taking it personally. Don't take criticisms or complaints as personal attacks and above all else resist the temptation to try and "one-up" your customer.

Loads of times we've received pretty insulting emails, but done our best to be polite and helpful back, more times then not we've received a really thankful and praising email back in response. A lot of times customers forgot they're sending a message to a real person, and just think they're contacting a faceless corporation.
That point is a clear but unrelated piece of strategy. Apple doesn't want Flash for myriad reasons before you even get to "maybe people wouldn't build as many native apps."

I think you'd get a chuckle from the Apple brass if you asked if they were worried that people would stop building apps if only they had access to Flash. Of course they wouldn't — the UX and fiscal rewards are unbeatable.

Apple creates lock-in all on their own by providing a solid set of developer tools and APIs, along with UI/UX patterns that work really well. You get some great stuff on iOS that's tough to build, and so tough to find, elsewhere. Flash wouldn't change that — it's general purpose, not specialized to the platform.

It's a bit like saying you don't eat sewage because it's bad for your health. I mean, that's true, but the real reason you don't do it is because you find it revolting to the senses. Apple may enjoy strategic benefits from their Flash stance along the lines of what's been described here. But their opposition to it comes from much more high-level, basic concerns.
Pretty dumb to tweet "go fuck yourself" before you've got your data off their servers - given you've only just seen that they clearly take things personally and act like kids.
Thanks for the confirmation :)

It's good to see entrepreneurs actually talk about 'the real factors' behind the sale.

I think you are the first person I have ever heard that has publicly said "I began to dislike the place and the employees - not the customers", which is something I have always wondered about.

If starting & building a company is so exhausting, why aren't more entrepreneurs saying they sold because they were tired and wanted to move on?

It's almost as if they are ashamed, or is there 'peer pressure' from the buyer to make sure to keep the transaction acrimonious. Not sure what it is, but it was good to hear a 'real' perspective for a change - not the PR/polite spin.
It's true that Motorola is not the most exciting handset maker. However, if Google could just get rid of the nonsense and get Motorola to create "pure" devices, some very good things could come out of it. They are certainly capable of it.

Personally I am hoping to hear an announcement of the Xoom 2 as soon as possible.
Just fork a project to your account on github, edit in Ace, and then make a pull request when you are done.

I'm not sure that would be plausible for anything other than documentation or maybe typo fixes in string literals. I would ask contributors to my projects to make sure they've run tests (and made new ones, if need be) before sending a pull request.
Upvote for the Schopenhauer quote. As cynical as he was, he would have been an excellent devil's advocate role VC.
It drives my boss crazy that the universal icon for Save is a picture of a floppy disk. We haven't been saving documents to floppy since 1993! But it's also scary to be the first one to buck the trend, so our product uses the same floppy disk as everyone else...
It's doubly worse at a porn company. People already half-expect you to be scamming them somehow, and come into it with apprehension if not outright hostility.

The upshot is when you give them amazing customer service, they turn into instant evangelists :)
Yeah, and it's really just getting specialized facilities to do the grunt work. The 'research' itself isn't outsourced or whatever, it just looks like a system for more efficient allocation/utilization of capital equipment. Which is only relevant for an, in my estimate, smallish percentage of researchers (percentage-wise, maybe high single or low double digits?)
They seem to suggest the 'winning' icon for their purposes was simply 'www'. (Perhaps, it was also blue and underlined, which are strong cues to average users of linkishness.) But, there's no example image!