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It would be a fascinating (and somewhat frightening) world if cheaters and criminals acted intelligently.

Luckily (for most of us - unluckily for bored police detectives) they don't. Writing a check may feel like a temporary solution, even if the crook knows it will bounce, thus it relieves a modicum of psychological stress. The crooks do it. It's like talking to the police - it makes one feel more innocent, even if it's rarely (never, according to some) the logical thing to do.
because... the server might send a broken .js therefore forcing your chat client into sending plain text.
With respect, I think this is exactly the case people have legitimate worries about, but also the case that we must clearly refute. Why should this idea be protected? Does it benefit society? I think the answer is yes only if one person having the idea makes it get implemented significantly more quickly than it otherwise would have. But I doubt that is usually the case. It's far mor likely that either a) the idea isn't really very novel and would have been produced soon after anyway by someone else or b) someone having a patent on the idea makes those with the ability to execute on it (or the capital) do something else. Or both. Patents should only exist to benefit society, since they have the force of law. I think most of us struggle to find even single instances where that has happened.
They really shouldn't have bundled Android with GMail like that.
I don't currently own a smartphone
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WP7. I previously had an android and it just felt like a chinese iphone clone. This feels different and great.
[IANAL] Of course, it's also blackmail to threaten to approach the police about crime B if crime A is not rectified - that A is a crime is irrelevant. Not that it's applicable here.
BlackBerry - got started on the platform when I was given a series of them at Big Companies, and stay with them for the keyboard and BlackBerry Messenger.
you can have a smartphone without a data plan, just connect to wifi networks at your work, home, bookstores
I voted Android, which I used when cash flow was better, and I intend to go back when cash flow improves.

To answer your question as to why I don't [currently] use a smart phone, the phone plan plus data plan is not currently worth the opportunity cost for me. Currently using an old Palm Centro without a data plan.

I do miss my Epic.
> I have to ask though: Is Greenspunning such a bad thing?

Yes, because if you knew you needed Common Lisp, you'd just use CL, rather than an ad-hoc informally specified implementation of CL. In general, the half implementation has half the value of the 'real' implementation.
I don't use a smartphone, just to save money.
I don't have a smartphone. I have a Samsung "feature phone." The only features I use are the phone, SMS, voicemail, contacts list, clock, and alarm clock. There are other features, but I never use them. It costs me $16.80 per month, including tax.

If I travelled more or worked away from home, I might find use for a smartphone.
I own an iPad and 3 iPhones, but I dont use one as my mobile phone.
I use a stupid cheap heap of junk that works brilliantly to make and receive phone calls and text messages.

At the end of the day, all smart phones usually add is another distraction.
I have an iPhone because my family's company pays for it. If it didn't, I doubt I'd have a smartphone. We all got iPhones because we're using Macs (I started that trend with a PowerBook in 2004).
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The guy basically wrote an operating system (That's what megatexture really is, a complete OS VM and scheduling system) he's remarkably calm about it. Lesser men would be brag left and right about 1/10th of that sort of accomplishment.
B) Create an alternative parallel system to the copyright / patent system, where companies, individuals, and other legal entities can choose to pay a fixed percentage (say 10% or 20%, perhaps depending on the industry) of their profit / income after expenses to a government fund, granting them total immunity from claims of infringement of copyright and patent law.

Creators of works and ideas then file a return of how much work went into the ideas they are selling, and a good faith description of what other works they used to produce their works. This goes into a formula to distribute the money from the government fund - taking into account both the utility of ideas and the effort required to create them.
Sprint won't let (me) use my Epic without a data plan.
Absolutely!! I think if someone is really that necessary or could add value that could make a drastic change, you should ask him to become a co-founder.
Every founder would want the best people to work for him, but can they afford them? And if they can't how far are they willing to go to get the person.
A person can work under his pay-grade only if he thinks he owns the thing and can see his future connected with in terms of prosperity and happiness.
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When I first saw it, the app was $1.99. It is now $2.99.
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I don't currently own a smartphone, but I develop industrial Android apps for tablets.
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I still like the idea of an Android better than an iPhone, but the foot dragging of Samsung and Sprint to update the Epic makes me at least think of changing to iPhone, or another Android manufacturer, or another carrier. That's a mighty expensive chunk of plastic to be abandoned (as I assume Sprint/Samsung will, based on their non-enthusiastic update) after a year or two (again, assumption/prediction).
I have a WP7. Owned an iPhone for 3 years then switched to Android last October. Switched to WP7 2 months later. Really, really enjoy my Samsung Focus. My biggest complaint with the phone is the browser font rendering can be pretty bad in portrait if the webpages are > ~800px wide, but supposedly the Mango update is going to be a big IE update so hopefully that gets fixed.
I'm a proud WebOS user, though I'm getting mildly jaded at the delays in the Pre3 and the fact that it's still not entirely clear if Sprint will have it. My (launch-weekend) Pre- is getting pretty old and tired, and I'm considering picking up a Nexus S if there isn't some more Pre3 news soon.
iPhone: Frankly, originally purchased because that's what the c-level people at an old job had. But, beyond that I just want my phone to be simple - UX/UI, updates, etc. and I'm a sucker for great design.
What are his initials to his name? This sounds all to familiar, is the correct area etc.

I was burned for 20K. The man was a professional bad debtor.

He built a relationship with me for 6 months, having me do work that he initially paid for in cash or check, which always worked fine. Over time, the jobs got larger, and more costly, and we moved to 30 day terms. I never bothered with a credit check because he built a relationship that started on pre-pay cash.

His last job was to hit me with the 20K job. Bad check and it was all over. What really sucked about this job was it was not all labor, and I had employees do the labor which also cost me. My cost of goods on this job was 75% of the total, which I had to pay to my vendors.

I sued him in small claims for the max amount in my state. I sued him two times by breaking the job into two invoices so I could try to approach the total amount owed. Merely serving him took weeks and required I hire a pretty ruthless process server. He was good at hiding out. I received judgement and won the case.

He never paid. I sent him to a collection agency who called me back in a day to tell me they knew of him well. There was and is no way to collect.

His son has the same name as him, which is part of his scam. He is "married" or at least with the same woman for decades. All assets are in her name, but since they are not married there are no mutual assets to have liened or seized.

The only thing I could have done different, perhaps with more research, would be to have a sheriff on the courthouse to take his car on the spot. That may not be possible, and really depends on the circumstances.

In the end, the only thing I was able to do was harass him on the phone and dig through the work I had done, locating the people he resold my work to and warn them to cancel all payments. Once of his clients was nice enough to hold payment back for a time and give it to me as long as there were no legal repercussions coming from the scammer.

His initials are T.W. in case it is the same person. I still hold judgement to him this day. If he ever opens a bank, buys a house, gets a credit card, or does anything that can be attached as far as funds, I will get in a line and maybe get paid after all the others are paid in the order in which he screwed them.

This will end up being a lesson learned. Sorry to hear about this for you.
If you can tomatoes and save them for winter you've accumulated assets or inventory or whatever, but not savings.
That really doesn't address the problem at all. Legitimate technology companies would still try to litigate each other out of the market with bogus patents. They would just have to make use of the bogus patent in one of their own products, which would be trivial. In fact, even the patent trolls could trivially productize their patents, or make a deal with a real tech company to do it.

The intended purpose of patents is largely to protect your idea while you develop it into a product. By the time the product is on the market, it's often too late to patent it. For example, drug companies often do 7-8 years of research between patenting a drug and releasing it.
I regret sounding critical. The book looks really interesting.
At all these places I have a computer with me
I know this probably isn't helpful to hear at this stage, but I'm going to say it anyway for everyone's benefit. We've learned this lesson the hard way, but fortunately didn't have to use all of the following advice.

Always take a part payment up front before starting work. Between 30% and 50% is a fairly standard and safe amount. Always take another part payment after demonstrating your progress. Ideally upon final delivery the balance to be paid for your work should be less than 30%.

If clients are unhappy about paying you up front, you need to ask yourself why they're unwilling to pay anything to start, when they will be paying $10k to you in the very near future.

If they don't trust you, they'll work with someone else. You need to be able to trust them too, and taking a part payment up front is often the quickest way for you to learn that they are trustworthy.

When a client isn't able to pay, you should try and negotiate payment in full over time. Regular, small payments give them a chance to pay off their other creditors and give you regular indication that they're trying to pay you back.

If they refuse to pay, or miss their regular repayments, don't be afraid to go to a debt collector. Make this clear when you are negotiating the payment schedule. At this stage, any money you can get back (less the often expensive debt collection fees) is a bonus.

Even if the amount is paid back in full, we make it a rule not to work for this client again.

For an amount this large, you should definitely talk to a lawyer. Keep a close eye on your cashflow over the next few months.

Best of luck recovering the payment!
Lone Star Ruby Conf. Hopefully PyConf 2012.

The only conference I've previously attended is No Fluff Just Stuff (Java focus) and it'll be interesting to see how these compare.
But you lose their data if someone takes over their server and deletes the data.
Different guy. But almost as crazy.

I'm working to build a site exposing him and will post here. Hopefully a few HNers will blog about it and help other web devs/designers stay away from him.

This guy is such a scumbag he subcontracts out the work and I know for a fact the original client paid him the money. He doesn't want to pay me a fraction of what he probably got paid.
The prevailing theory is that it is truly random. Check out the Wikipedia entry on theories that aimed to eliminate that randomness, called hidden variable theories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory
Still like WebOS for pure UE. Now on a Nexus S and mostly happy except for atrocious battery life. Was on iPhone for a few months but couldn't stand the lack of multitasking and crappy notifications.
Awesome Healthcare Startup Looking For a 3rd Co-Founder
Hey HN, We are thirsty.com (based in the bay area) and are launching a really awesome healthcare startup hoping to make a huge difference in the consumer healthcare space.

We are looking for someone extra to help us out with either front-end or back-end work. One of us is mostly focused on the front-end and design and the other back-end. Our app is built in Rails.

We will be raising money very soon and feel a really cool third co-founder would be nice to have. Please be a passionate guy that likes to shake things up.

Email me at: michaelabehsera@gmail.com

Thank you :)
Pre 2 and Touchpad owner here. I, for one, am not waiting for Pre 3 because I am pretty happy with my Pre 2 as it is. And I have doubts whether HP cares about phones at all anyway.
It would be the polite thing to do, so that he's not blindsided with a criminal record.

Politeness is not warranted in this situation. This guy sounds like a defacto asshole and deserves to be in jail.
It includes the functionality to mount NFS/SMB/FTP shatlres and those options are a part of the UI. Now, like I said, I haven't used Gnome in a while, but I remember finding this somewhat frustrating since I know how to use the mount command. By contras, thunar is very simple in what it does and it does it well.
A relative recently purchased a Samsung WP7 phone. I was highly skeptical until I spent a few minutes playing around with it.

The UX experience (design, speed) was about as smooth as my iPhone, smoother than Android devices I've played with.

Right now there are not enough apps for WP7 to make it interesting to me, but if MSFT can get devs in large numbers to develop for the platform, then Apple will have to watch out. Historically, MSFT is good at making programmers develop for their platform, so the next couple of years should be interesting.

EDIT: The relative bought the WP7 device because it was much cheaper than an iPhone.
ahhh !! just what it would feel like to have your foot in your mouth !!
As I've stated below, I'd lose majority of my clients if I required 30% upfront payment. Truth is when you work with agencies and corporations, they are usually not willing to pay in advance. And yet they provide me with bulk of the work.

This scumbag operates behind a sham agency. He's presented at conferences such as ad:tech giving him te SEO appearance that he is legit. It's when you dig deeper and search the court databases that you learn the truth.
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I would be with you, but Virgin got me on their $25 / month unlimited data, 300 minutes plan. I hardly talk on my phone, but being able to tether from anywhere has been a big win.

Now I think they charge $35 / month for the same plan.
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The action can be fairly well drawn and the stakes are revolutionaries. The monkeys look so real and CGI are also very detailed. The action right at the end is actually very intense. This whole sequence of the entire Golden Gate Bridge is phenomenal
They'd need to defeat https first.
Macs are nice now if you can spend someone else's money (like I did), but iOS policies are a direct threat to the independence of our profession, and I doubt anyone's ever going to pay me enough to hold my nose and contribute to that dystopia. Also not eager to get locked into an unmanaged language everyone else dismissed decades ago.

I've been meaning to get an Android from a vendor with a good attitude about CyanogenMod, but they keep announcing new models before I finish my homework on the current ones. My POS featurephone ("powered by Java ... please wait") is bearable for the moment.
I'd like to play devil's advocate for a moment. Many of us would have agreed on Zuckerberg and Netflix on this list back in 2006 and probably on Linus as well. Some of us would have even been pretty vocal in defending Blu-ray and/or HD-DVD. Maybe at this very moment someone is not convinced that Steve Ballmer should be on the list.

The fact that 5 years later some events altered the course for some of these guys' projects doesn't negate on the arguments put forth to include them.

We already know what Hastings and Zuckerberg did to stay relevant. Torvald's inclusion is explained as being by design. That is, Linus himself is designing the growth of his baby toward as much self-sufficiency as possible. Lucky for us there was the Bitkeeper debacle and he had to pull his ass out to give us Git. Right now the kernel is at version 3.0, most distros out there (including Ubuntu) still uses something like 2.6.xx and people are nonetheless very happy. I'd say, seen from a purely Linux angle, it would make Linus a lot less relevant.

Now, something that would've made CNN look much better 5 years after posting this, would have been to moderate their zeal by excluding stuff like "But as respected as they might be for their past achievements, their best days are behind them", especially when covering the ever changing tech business.
+1 to both. Like you've put up on your careers page about candidates doing a web-app challenge, we're going to launch real-world challenges pretty soon!
Well, there are market data feeds, and then there are market data feeds. For example, say you want to write a program to look at all option data in North America. You can go pay for a full feed from OPRA. This requires over 1Gbps bandwidth from the exchange and processing power to handle over 5 million messages a second doing whatever it is you want to do with them.

I asked around back when the other HFT topics popped up and I believe a low-latency raw feed from Bloomberg would run somewhere in the $5k-$10k /month range depending on configuration before you tack on any fees the exchanges add for realtime vs delayed access per unique user. I'm curious whether startups actually want feeds like this, or say, would want to use a node.js async front-end on the SDK..
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These aren't merely "reasonably well-known" people. They're people who changed the world in one way or another. Though, the people who had most changed the world back then, turned out to continue to change the world...their boldest choices turned out to be the most wrong.

So, you might be right. Where they went bold, they got it wrong. Where they chose people obviously in decline (Ballmer, Schwartz, etc.), they turned out to be right...but it wasn't surprising to anyone (me included, as I remember reading this article when it was new).
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>> iOS policies are a direct threat to the independence of our profession

And have also granted thousands entry into this profession by creating a few billion dollars in wealth.
No other phone has feature parity with my four years old symbian phone. It has a physical Ctrl key for use in putty (sadly, no Meta).

But apart fron that, yeah, Nokia can't program their way out of a paper bag.
Out of politeness, I told the guy that date x would be the last day I would be available to do any minor fixes or work for him due to continued non-payment.

What does he do? Use that against me to argue that the project didn't really finish until the date in my courtesy email and that he's got another few days to pay me and make good on the returned checks.

Of course his own arbitrary deadline for when payment is due have long come and gone with no payment.

And don't even get me started about the returned checks impact on me financially. My account went from positive ~4k to about -5,900. My checking account is couple weeks from being reported if I don't get in the pos.

I'm bouncing back but wanna do everything possible to keep others from going through the same shit. More on that soon as I launch a site warning others of this.
Yes, a tech reporter of an enterprisy site doesn't know the difference between Windows Phone and Windows Mobile

Whose fault is that?
> Just don't include or load the Win32 subsystem.

Wishful thinking. If you develop a nontrivial app for Windows, you must go down to the Win32 API. e.g. Hardware assisted Video decoding, Direct3D, many COM apis are not at all or not properly available in .net. If you don't load Win32, nothing except simple .NET CRUD apps is going to work.
I have an iPhone4 and WP7. Switched completely to WP7. On the iPhone always looking for an app. On WP7 everything just works, hardly need any apps. There still needs to be a few things created, instagram for one. But most major apps there more will come.
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It's ironic that considering Torvalds to be irrelevant in light of how "Linux has outgrown a single person" is in itself proof of his success. The reason Linux was so revolutionary was that it was built to be decentralized and extensible. I was impressed to see this acknowledged in a CNN article.
Just make sure it's on Cyanogen's list of supported devices. I love my MyTouch 4g that I bought for cheap on Craigslist. I'm running 2.3.4 with root access, tethering and zero crapware. And it's more stable than most manufacturer ROMs.
You can use ettercap filters to downgrade an https connection to http
Had an Android (1.6) for a year. After the initial excitement wore out (a week), I could barely answer a phone call since the interface bugged out everytime. The battery wouldn't last for a work day, and every app froze/crashed randomly (including contacts, phone app, and other system apps). The only good experience was MotoBlur syncing perfectly all my profiles, yet it's interface was just as crappy.

I already had a MBP and an iPod/iPad so wanted to balance things out and experiment with development. It was a terrible idea - I'm infinitely happy with my iPhone 4 now.
I use WP7 because it has a lot of apps and the nice metro UI. iPhone and Android look jaded in comparison, just like a desktop UI on a phone.,

But HN is a wrong place for this poll, there is a sizeable section of people who are anti-MS on here and there are even people who call commenters who say anything pro-MS as paid shills. Numbers of wp7 phones in the US might be between 2 million and 4 million now and the developer tools are supposedly pretty good so some devs are reporting that it's easier to make apps for WP7 compared to other OSes.
May I ask you, how is this possible?
I've recently purchased a Nexus S. I've played with Android on other devices, but I've gotta admit, Android 2.3 looks so much polished. Nexus S is probably the closest of the Androids to the iPhone in terms of minimal interfaces. I've also had an iPhone and I loved it, but the Android platform seems more hackable so I guess I'll stick with it for a while.
Gmail isn't bundled with Android. In fact Google went after CyanogenMod for bundling it.