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This makes it even more obvious that Microsoft pretty much owns Nokia, so the situation is not much different than Google owning Motorola. Why else would they invite their own competitors to compete with them? Would Samsung go out and say "Please, we need more companies to compete with us!" ?

The Microsoft-Nokia situation is actually worse for the others,because Nokia actually does have a special deal with Microsoft for WP7, and their other partners would not be equal to Nokia at all. Plus, Android phones are selling in millions. WP7 ones are not. So that's at least 2 huge reasons, why even now, the WP7 deal would still make manufacturers worse off than with Android.

Also, I don't think the acquisition of Motorola will slow Android down. In fact, I think it will help it grow even faster now that more companies will step out into the light and start developing for Android. I'm sure there are quite a few companies out there who preferred to stay out of it until this patent issue was resolved. And I'm not even talking only about the smartphone industry here. Android could be used to make a lot more types of devices "smart". So Motorola acquisition and their patents should help catalyze those markets.
Ask HN: Evaluate my side project please?
I've been working on a side project lately and I'd love to get some basic feedback and marketing advice - randomfreeapp.com.

1. How do you feel about the page? Is it intuitive? What would you change?

2. How would you market it/drive traffic?
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> You don't have to compete. [...] It might so happen your unique perspective is what is needed to make some breakthrough happen.

Precisely: stand on the shoulders of giants. It does require work to climb all the way up, but just not as much as would be needed to redo all that made them giants.
Well computer science is not only about programming. Programming is a big part of it and people without a degree might be good programmers, but do they really have gone through all the math and theory by themselves or just skipped it alltogehter ?
For example most people without a degree might not know what Big O Notation is or how it works or why certain data structures are better than others.

So it depends much on the work someone is going todo, relativly simple programming tasks ? No degree required.
Working on something that scales to millions of users or has to run with exceptional performance ? A CS degree would atleast tell me the candidate has learned about the theory required for this.

Generally for a good CS grad its easier to get really good at programming, than making a programmer comfortable with all the theory.

Try to get into any of the TOP software companies in the world without a degree and i wish you good luck (not impossible though).

I say this as someone who quit half way into his Bsc to start a company btw ;)
I completely agree with the last line here. All too often I hear about people saying "I will miss my friends/coworkers/boss/family [if I leave my job]". Life is too short, and they'll move on. Just do it.
I know, the tone of this piece is just drearily familiar.

Nothing substantial, just vague speculation about impending doom, all phrased so as to be just "asking questions", then a cosy reminder of how great Windows phone is.

Oh, Nokia
He decides between one selfish goal and another, and its a "Principled Decision"? Maybe he means Rational or Objective.

I've quit six-figure jobs with kids at home and a mortgage. Not because I wanted to 'find myself', but because the founder was evil. I like to think that was a principled decision.
Indeed - interviews with good questions and substantial answers are so rare these days that this was really enjoyable to read. It also helped that this was not spread over 23 pages with a paragraph on each page.
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Maybe - but nobody uses Front Page, and for good reason. The tools need to reach some critical point of utility and dependability before business will make single-vendor investments.

Still, it absolutely defies reason that a business would need to hire someone specifically to edit a bit of text or change a font on a web site. Once a credible product along these lines hits the market, the terms HTML and CSS will disappear from the overwhelming majority of job descriptions, forever.
the post is from last year. maybe is interessting what happened in the last 11 months :)
Thanks :)

(And yeah, I understand that I could have done that myself and hence the downvote)
Gall's Law:

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%27s_law
> it can capture the whole page instead just the screen area.

Screengrab for Firefox has been doing this for a long time now. It also allows you to select a region to capture with your mouse.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/screengrab/
This graphic only tells part of the story and the easiest part of the story. What the rental/some of the economic fundamentals are right now. When deciding to purchase for investment and to a lesser degree a personal residence, the decision to purchase or not should be driven by the future not the present.

I am more then willing to invest in any city on that chart if I know some or better, all of these:
- population is increasing
- employment is increasing
- income is increasing
- the neighbourhoods I'm buying show pride of ownership
- public transit improvements (highway, LRT, subway)
- supportive government (proactive business development office)

Though this infographic is very cool/informative, buyers should concentrate more on the future then the present. Just because it's cheap isn't sufficient reason to purchase. And if you want to live in an area with a negative outlook renting IMO is best.
Typically rent >= ownership costs, otherwise landlords wouldn't be making money.
Well, imagine if you will you were stalking some person you kind of know but not very well, or someone who is an ex-whatever, etc...and that info gets out, and they know. It could spell disaster. Sure, it's entirely the person's fault for stalking in the first place, but the internet enables that so...
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This. Is one of the things I love about HN. When you can write a critique of a product, and hear from someone directly involved in it, that's a fantastic thing. When they're a fellow-HN reader, even better.
That's a good analogy, because until recently, I was writing all my PNG files by hand.
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"If the former, and you want touchscreen, you're pretty much out of luck. Sorry."

Not really. I have a SmartQ V7 tablet that triple boots Android, Linux, and Windows CE. They exist but generally aren't great. The V7 has a resistive touchscreen and is a bit old at this stage but does web browsing and HD video fine. I also got Debian up and running on it.
Pfft. I thought that was just California. One would think that that would have encouraged them to underwrite a little better.,, And who the fuck would rate any tranche of non-recourse loans AAA?

How long does it stay on your credit history (officially)?
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I think the idea of setting time aside in your youthful life where you invest in yourself and expand your horizons is a powerful one. It makes the world a more interesting place and pushes human achievement. To what extent a university helps for this might be debatable and will depend on the person and the university, but I wonder if an average person would earmark 4 years of their life to learning and improvement left completely to their own.
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ah, well, if you happen to arrive before the 18th of september, let me know!
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Why couldn't this just as well be "AT&T reacts to Google Talk"? I know that ever since me and all my friends got Android phones, I've stopped using SMS entirely and only use Google Talk.
How much serious and good advice were you expecting from someone who says "Sleep Is a Waste Of Time".

And as an alternative to climbing: learn to play guitar or bass!
My roommate is infatuated with this girl he's known since HS. I just ran it on his laptop and she's at -68. Everybody else is above -4.

Can anybody beat that?
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In summation: BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!
I think the point is that a static site is trivial to move.
Cool. I'd love to be able to upload an image, or series of images, to draw over.
He has some other postings from 2010, as well as 2011:

http://www.tawheedkader.com/2010

http://www.tawheedkader.com/2011
So rent would be 12% per annum? Meaning if I pay 1k per month, the place is worth 120K? Enjoy finding that in a place that isn't shit-tastic.

I have heard 7% is a reasonable long-term.
Here is a much better article about the chip and how it works: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4218883/IBM-demos-co...
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I think your point is generally true of computer science graduates, but there are a great many wishy-washy vocational IT degrees for which employer and employee would both be better served with an apprenticeship.
So how are iOS app developers supposed to test for these undocumented variations? Are you planning on writing a Jailbroken-phones-crazy-ass-hacks test suite for us?

In one of our games, certain jailbroken phones broke the shadows under a character. How do we even begin to debug that? Especially when the only bug reports are 1-star reviews with no way to contact the user?

One of the beauties of the iOS platform is that there is very little variation, and any changes are well-documented and you have plenty of time to test for them in advance. It's one reason it's so popular to develop for and the apps are so high-quality.
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This review is seriously flawed. The author only reviews the Live USB version, and is disappointed that the distro is using 320Mb of RAM (!). And claims it doesn't feel faster than Gnome.

The distro will tend to use whatever RAM is available (as it should). LXDE is -absolutely- much snappier than Gnome on an older system, but the reviewer is presumably on a system that is "too fast" to show that.

The reviewer should have (a) installed it, (b) used a slow machine with a couple different levels of RAM for fair comparisons (e.g., 512Mb and 1Gb -- while 256Mb will work, it will start swapping once Firefox is in use, and 256Mb of RAM is very rare even on very old machines like the one I'm using now, which is 5 years old and has 512Mb of RAM soldered to the motherboard).
Mythbuster: Does Tech have a faster time to exit vs Biotech?
Compares time to exit via IPO for the venture-backed life science industry vs the venture-backed tech industry.
As I commented in the article, I'd be very interested to see time to market and exit multiple for IPOs and M&A in both industries.
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I'm totally on board with not judging what gets people their warm-fuzzies, so long as that's what they're claiming it as. Personally I'd just like to see far fewer things like this whose purpose ends up being to share cat pictures. If it's being advertised as game-changing, that claim needs evidence; I'm pretty skeptical and don't mind judging in that case.
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Can you elaborate on your skills ?
Check out my golang implementation of astar: https://github.com/humanfromearth/gopathfinding
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I think the biggest brazilian online bookstore does this with (imported?) books: if I search for, say, "Types and programming languages", they say its imported and will take 6 weeks plus shipping time to get to you. They never mention they are going to buy a single copy from Amazon for you and put some % on top of it. I don't know how they implement it to integrate with Amazon book list. I could do it for less % though...

On the other hand, they are providing some value: isolating customers from changes in USD rate and providing customer service.
they are worried about the people they trust seeing which profiles they've viewed

In other words, you don't trust the people you trust. Perhaps you need to rethink your behavior, based on your revelation that you don't actually trust them.
From the article:

"As for Nokia, Elop appeared to suggest that Google's move reinforced the logic for Nokia's agreement with Microsoft."

I don't think he believes the situation is different to the MS/Nokia deal. He's just spinning it in his favour.
You may not be familiar with Scott, but he's considered a serious expert to many professional programmers (myself included).
Because iMessage falls back to SMS and it's the SMS app everyone with an iPhone uses. So it's easy for people to get started. Certainly many people will start using it unknowingly. Convenience and zero-cost signup is powerful. Carriers are stupid, they can't find decent solutions but they can certainly see trouble ahead.
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Think through the implications of those numbers you've posted, and particularly think about what that might imply about the distribution of wealth in the US.

The bottom 60% of the US population has around 5% of the aggregate wealth. That's the majority of the population.

The top 20% of the US population possess 84% of the wealth. And the curve is very steep, too; the top tenth of a percent holds a whole lot of that wealth, and it's increasing rapidly.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec11/makingsen...
Patio11 said it best (re: "do I have to go to college??) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1182552

edit: just re-read your comment, and I realise you're not necessarily taking sides and merely speculating if the average person can get by without the investment into college. I agree so strongly I would upvote you twice.
Hopefully this issue will get back on the table with increasing mobile internet usage, and people bouncing off because of poor load times. I cant count the number of times I have to hit the back button just because it takes too long to load.

I really do not want to see that 1mb picture of your dog mascot, but i was actually interested in your 5kb product description... Oh well if you dont care about your site, you probably dont care about selling your product either.
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Well, better late than never...
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If you have folks with non-ASCII names, here's a Python three-liner to convert the output of first_degree.php to a text file:

with open("first_degree.php.txt", "w") as f:
for e in json.loads(open("first_degree.php.json","rb").read().replace("for (;;);",""))["payload"]["entries"]:
f.write(("%s %r\n" % (e['text'],-e['index'])).encode('utf-8'))
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a few other tricks:

- increase the cost of traversing nodes that are within known enemy firing zones

- in some circumstances if the destination is unreachable it might be desirable to still compute a "best effort" path to the node that is the minimal heuristic distance from the unreachable destination
One thing that annoys me with search engines including DDG is where they return results for the word they reckoned I meant to enter rather than the word i did enter.

So if I enter axemple.com I get a pile of results for example.com and an option to see results instead for axample.com

In the past they would have showed me results for what I actually typed with an option to see results for the other.
Degrees are usually a signal about how well the person is expected to perform. A degree from a top school with a decent GPA means that not only was this person select among many to attend, but they also managed to go through it okay. That is why employers ask for a degree in anything for certain jobs. They may not care about art history, but a degree is a good signal that "hey this person is smart."

For CS it's a little more practical but a degree is still fundamentally a signal. As is an active github account, blog, etc...
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actually, you are:
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/users-treat-crit...
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Sometimes I wonder , what if there is no free will ( Its not like we know Free Will exists for sure yet) - This whole charade of using your drive and determination or the lack there of to do things may be just the way nature always wanted it to be.You are just the puppet playing out your part

Edit: Considering the amount of blogs/books that are written around "Self Help" type of topics which might all be a waste of time if there were nothing like free will - do you guys think about this at all? If so how do you deal with it?
I know what you mean, but the link you provided doesn't actually seem to be doing any HTML encoding.
PNG output from Photoshop is just as bad as Muse's HTML (PNG optimisers cut "Save for web" sizes in half).
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Yeah, emoticons are efficient. I just feel like a chump using them, like using a megaphone in a restaurant. It works, but everyone else thinks, "Why can't that jerk just speak clearly in a normal voice?"
Agreed, that's why I wrote free interaction, meaning the same kind of freedom you have in the other dimensions. Achron is the only concept I know of that has fairly free interaction with time. However, there are a number of games that have deeper interaction with time than just save games, consider the variety of games that now offer some sort of "rewind" feature of the kind pioneered (afaik) by Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.
His mad skills, just saying.
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With Facetime, iOS4 already has VOIP (much like iMessages, limited to other iPhones — or at least macs for facetime)
> A lot users cannot use Google Apps but since there are some user for whom the service works Google can say "100% uptime"

Complex systems like Office 365 or Google Apps very rarely go down completely. Let's say you have a million users using the system for one hour. One of them can't get access to anything in the system. In this hour, you can consider the system had an uptime of 99.9999%.

It's often more complicated, as the users can get access to parts of the system while others show missing or outdated information or some functionality doesn't work.

I too get frustrated by Google's attitude sometimes, but let's face it: they serve a lot of people. It wouldn't be practical to offer human assistance and, if they did, you'd end up waiting for hours until you got to a knowledgeable human being.
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How to write an analysis essay is an exercise you would have to master if you want to learn how to write thesis. Analytical skills are inherent in all of us. It just takes a bit of polishing and practice till we get it right.
Even if it's not the best implementation, it could be considered as scaffolding upon which to improve.

While you clearly have enough experience with A* to tell the difference between a good and bad implementation, I've not got the same background (I've been reading about it, looking at flash implementations and trying to figure out how the heck I was going to do it in JS+Canvas).

Maybe there's a short list of glaring inefficiencies or places where this implementation is behind the curve. What's it missing?

I'm sure that for the OP this is a reasonably significant achievement, to me it's voodoo... and to John Carmack it's something else.

I doubt Carmack would be so derisive of someone's professional development. Would you tell an 8 year old that their finger paintings were pretty crappy too?

Criticism can be valid and encouraging if delivered in the right way.
kind of stumbleupon for free apps?

Nice idea! Perhaps you should make is clearer what exactly it is all about :-)

Good luck!
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Due in part to cultural differences with the rest of the middle east, Israel is often classed as closer to europe. (As is Turkey as well)
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They have been in operation for a month or so. Give them time. With two major incidents reported since they started, they are certainly not wasting time.
I'm skeptical that this is going to happen on its own any time soon. While the legal frameworks are in place to prevent discrimination on sex/race/age/etc., I think we should put similar mechanisms in place for formal education. Especially when so many degrees are worthless as a measure of skill, so they've become irrelevant to the job at hand just like a person's race.

Make it so that employers can't ask for education, just like they can't ask for age, nor make a degree a job requirement. Of course when an applicant comes in for an interview, their race and relative age quickly becomes apparent, so it's not really a matter of information hiding as removing a more-and-more irrelevant filter. There's also nothing stopping an applicant from explicitly exposing their age/education/etc. on a resume or during the interview, and I'd still want to mention an MIT education if I had one. At the very least you would want to talk about school projects since you may not have any other experience, but that's up to the applicant. The question is "What things have you made? How did you do it?", not "Did you take a data structures course at an accredited university?" I'm not even sure it would create that much extra burden on HR departments since I hear they're already swamped with applicants matching degree requirements.

On the other hand, a free market approach may be to just leave it alone and let the tech companies that require CS degrees, or black people only, suffer to the companies that care about skill alone. I'm pretty okay with that too as a practical outcome. The question there becomes really philosophical and whether you want a big government to slim down in an inconsequential way or continue its historical path of trying to enforce certain moral directives on supposedly less enlightened people.

Downvoter(s): would appreciate a discussion on which idea(s) is/are most offensive to you. There's the additional filter of "this person made it through a 4 year program and may therefore be determined/have long-term goals/etc.", but really I don't find that a very compelling or useful filter for many jobs.