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> It's the newspaper that claims that the evidence in inaccurate.

Article: "During the court hearing last week, Samsung's lawyer, Bas Berghuis of Simmons and Simmons, claimed that Apple has been "manipulating visual evidence, making Samsung's devices appear more similar to Apple's.""

Both Samsung and newspaper are claiming the evidence is inaccurate. The newspaper is the one which highlighted a particular illustration which, uh, does indeed seem inaccurate.

The court has indeed not yet made any decision on this.
Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Intern Edition)
Hey, HN'ers,

I noticed that there didn't seem to be many internship opportunities in the August edition of the "Who's Hiring?" thread, so I decided to take it upon myself to right this clear injustice.

Please include:

* Company

* Location

* Are you willing to relocate potential interns?

* What does your company do?

* What technologies are involved?

* Length of internship

* Paid/Unpaid

If you're looking for a passionate C/Unix/systems programming intern, feel free to contact me directly. (Email is in my profile.)
I haven't done research, but my comments above come based on what I hear from working with companies such as Activision Blizzard, Codemasters etc.
I'm a bit grumpy that the site kills my meta key (command, on OS X 10.7) when focus is in the "terminal", so I can't open new tabs or pages in my browser via hot-key. (cmd-n; cmd-t) Can't use the clipboard either.
Lesson 6, exercise "Otherwise..." is wrong. Here's the code:

var number = prompt("Guess what number I'm thinking of between 1 and 10!");
if(number === 7) {
print("You got it!");
// Change the following line.
} else if () {
print("Close! Try guessing a little higher.");
} else {
print("You were way off! Sorry...");
}

prompt returns a string, but then attempts to compare it with === with an int, which clearly doesn't work.

This is a really awesome site though, and I'm really excited to see it grow with more and more lessons.
Is IntelliJ on the road map?
Tech Boom Fuels Surge Of Creative Perks To Lure - And Keep - Top Talent
Just remove the Last-Modified header from all in-coming server responses? And remove the If-Modified-Since header from all browser requests? If these can be set to arbitrary strings without affecting browser performance, user experience etc why have these headers at all?
So what did I love doing when I was 12? Playing soccer. But as I explored what it was that I loved about soccer, I loved being the best player on the team. I loved leading the team. I loved playing creatively, doing the unexpected. I loved quickly finding solutions to problems on the field and planning tactics before the game to get an advantage. I loved practice and constantly improving. Now I do the same things that I loved when I was 12- but I do them with tech companies.

This greatly reminded me of Randy Pausch's last speech [1]. Please, if you haven't seen it already, you should find some time, today.

As for the author's points, it seems like some people are missing the point. He is not saying you should work for free. He is saying that if you involve yourself professionally in something you are deeply passionate about, something you would enjoy doing in your free time, everything else will come. And by everything else one means fulfillment, expertise and inevitably money.

You are better off seeking that something sooner rather than later. Hence, quit now. Find in. Enjoy it. Make money.

My 0,02 €.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
I hope they don't change the visual proportions.. I think I got 44 hard-coded in 100 different places in my apps, and this includes stuff like custom buttons and images.
This is an important service for businesses like Groupon.
What does a company like HP usually do when they have thousands of unsold tablets like this? Take them back and throw them in a landfill or will there ever be a clearance sale?
I think it generally tends to reduce the amount of surfing around for information, as the chances of one of two people knowing what to do or where to look are twice as great.

Also a huge benefit is learning. In that second example there is a lot of valuable skills transfer going on.
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I have to give the HP board the benefit of the doubt that when they hired the new CEO they knew he'd steer them in this direction. He used to work at SaS so his expertise is software services. He must have told them in the recruitment/appointment process that he'd give some things a shot (webOS, TouchPad etc.) and failing that, he'd steer them towards services and become more like IBM.

I made a lot of assumptions, but again, giving people benefit of the doubt.
Yeah, despite the hype, Apple doesn't pay /that/ much attention to this stuff: they mostly succeed at these design issues because their direct competition is ludicrously incompetent at it ;P. (Seriously: Android needs to hire a UX designer, although I will say that 3.x is getting much better.)

If you want a really awesome example, here's one that I noticed when I was first developing Cydia a few years ago, and had to do a lot of "iPhone-native CSS" (I am one of these people who stares at and slaves over individual pixels in designs) that I believe "cannot be unseen":

So, as stated in this document, cells are 44px "tall". However, this description doesn't take into consideration the effects of the borders: only one of the two borders can count for the spacing, as there are N+1 of them in a group, not N*2.

In this case, the top border is included in the 44px "rythm", but in either case, that means that the open area inside the cell "between the borders" is actually 43px, an odd number. Of course, the fact that it is odd is unimportant: you just have to be consistent.

This is why the height of the switch in that example is actually 27px: that way it will feel balanced. Meanwhile, the height of the right chevron disclosures is likewise odd: 13px. The slider control is a 9px bar with a 23px handle. Even the little speaker is 5px at its narrowest, and 23px at its widest.

Great, right? Only... now that we've been staring at this for so long, you might notice that the text looks imbalanced, because the cap height of the font Apple uses is 12px. This is also why I say the top border is included: the text is a half pixel higher than really feels right.

Of course, this is a subtle issue, and I'm certain that a pixel here or there is the kind of thing a normal person doesn't notice, but it slowly drives people like me /nuts/ (which led to a bunch of little tweaks--even requiring custom chevrons--in the CSS I use for mobile websites).
I suggest, to make this easier for beginners, that instead of having a single hint for each exercise, instead provide a series of hints, culminating in just giving the complete solution. That way people aren't stuck forever on one exercise.
Thanks, this is great advice! I will absolutely do this, not because I want to deceive people, but because I do want to turn this into a real business. If I structure this as a real business, then it puts my head in the right place as well.
"If you divide 480 by 44 you get a remain­der of 20. Divide by 11 and you get a remain­der of 9. 460 can­not be divided into equal parts of 11 nor 44. The ver­ti­cal rhythm is corrupt."

I would actually argue that the remainders are a good thing.

When viewing a list, they act as a nice visual indicator that there is more content below. If the last item directly lined up with the bottom of the screen, it would not be as easy to differentiate at a glance. By showing half the last item, it encourages the user to pan down to see the remaining content.

Certainly some would suggest I'm claiming "it's a feature, not a bug" and maybe that's true, maybe the remainder it is unintended, but I think it does make more sense to have the bottom element in a list half showing to alert the user that there is more content below.
Apple's Dutch lawyers won't stop with the Photoshopping
I think a lot of Apple fans, myself included, knew the iPhone and iPad were going to be disruptive.
I agree that for most companies, it should only make you a more attractive candidate. On the other hand I have found that learning new tech void of solving a real-world problem can only get you so far. My suggestion is to focus on a real problem and use new technologies to solve it to gain the exposure your looking for.

Once you've learned what you want to learn, contact me, we are always looking to hire people that truly love programming.
Thanks! My previous work history is stable, but I definitely am not someone who would jump around, but thanks for that insight, it will be something that I keep in mind.
YES. Patrick. FUCKING McKenzie. I don't know this if this is appropriate for me to say, but it is 2:18AM where I am at right now, and I've kind of been hoping you'd answer. Why I haven't emailed you instead I don't know.

I'm only getting into the whole marketing thing now, and I gotta say it's pretty interesting, and studying it is not a grind at all. I am a programmer, and I thought search marketing would be a nice skill set for my new hobby of micropreneurship.

It's really interesting how you mention that there are people who are good at teaching SEO, and people who are good at actually executing SEO. I guess I should start applying what I've learned!
This sense of entitlement and immaturity, especially considering how lucky we are to even have jobs where we sit in front on computers all day, drives me crazy.

I think the world of startups is unfortunately filled with youth that expect candy and fun and complain when it isn't, all the while making enough money to put them in the top %10 of salaried wage earners on earth.

Honestly I wouldn't mind seeing more Marines in startups. Running up steep mountains in sub-zero temps while being shot at after not sleeping for a week, on top of being hungry would give you some perspective on what to complain about.
I suggest creating a scoring app, say for baseball or basketball or cricket. You need to enter the player names and then start scoring with simple tricks. The real creativity is in how easy you make the scoring app. I know there will be existing apps, the challenge is in making it easy to use.
my co-founder and I don't pair program per se but we both are familiar with each other's main domain and often switch (front end/back end) when the other is stuck or frustrated. this works pretty well, I've found, and has the added bonus that we both know the product back to front.
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Curiosity about an obviously made-up acronym is not enough to get me to visit your blog.
It also seems a bit too eager to accept solutions as correct. For example, you can pass Lesson 6, exercise "Dot your I's and cross your T's" without fixing the = vs == confusion. I put this in to test, and it passed:

var response = prompt("Do you like me?");
if (response = "yes") {
print("i like you too!");
}

It passes because assignments return the value of the variable assigned, but it should fail the exercise, since it's conceptually wrong.
What? The cloud IS Oracle, IBM, SAP, and HP's future revenue model. They are going to build the cloud, build the enterprise cloud services, and bill out consultants specializing in the cloud. HP's future is nothing but the cloud moving forward. HP makes the servers that are the cloud. HP's business software will sit on its servers instead of yours. HP's consultants will charge you $$$ to tell you which services work for you, provision everything, configure it, do the integration, and host it for you in the cloud for a recurring monthly fee per user.

WebOS has nothing to do with capitalizing on the cloud. It's just one of many clients to the cloud.
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I don't really see that statistic as a problem. It seems to me that shipping slightly more content than most players are expected to finish is actually a good thing, especially in traditional game development where you are selling a more-or-less complete product (where the business plan doesn't involve skimping on the core product to explicitly to sell expansion packs and other add-ons). It means there's enough content for most of the audience.

There's very little correlation between content completion percentage and overall game enjoyment / purchase satisfaction.
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Analysis: Hewlett Packard's big strategic U-turn
Why stop there. Just say stuff. We already knew stuff appears everywhere in nature.

Cause exact words have exact meanings. Fib sequence != fractals
Stealing and copying aren't the same thing. The fact that you use the words interchangeably is a testament to the lobbying power of the RIAA/MPAA. Interestingly enough it was those same organizations which brought the word "piracy" into common usage to describe copying a disc rather than raping and murdering and robbing seafaring travelers.
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Even more: because you didn't click on your contact's name in your contact list?

I click on my dad's name in my contacts list and it shows his home phone, cell phone, and address. Next to each is an icon allowing me to "call the phone number" or "launch Navigation for this address".
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Changing of the operating system is a complex and a challenging task. The changing of the operating system requires the user to perform some simple steps. As a first step the person must work for the
Thanks, for the reply!

Working on real problems is definitely my intent. I have background in developing shrinkwrap enterprise applications, which I believe is a dead industry going forward. I need to get experience in the way business is done these days, which is web-scale backends dropped right on the internet, and iphone/web front ends. My current job won't get me that experience, so I figured that now is the best time to strike it on my own, and build the entire infrastructure on my own and/or with my other programming friends. I'm treating this as a real project, not just a hobby, and my milestones involve releasing working, quality products, so I agree that solving a real world problem will get me the best experience.

Thanks again for your reply!
"A" modern San Francisco, not "the" modern San Franciscan. Amusing, but why paint everyone in a negative light. It's an amazing city with a great variety of very different and odd people. No need to stereotype us as all being technology-addicted social network whores.
Its hard to compete against a religion.
And for the love of all that is good, recognize that not everyone is alike. Not everyone benefits from the tips in the article. Some are actually harmed by them. It reduces their creativity and morale, not increases it.

There is no one-size-fits-all life plan.
Copy/Paste as horrible I think is oversold.

I would never paste in a snippet of code from a bad programmer because the code would look ugly and wrong and it would be obvious.

So the risk is bad programmers copy/pasting from other bad programmers. Sounds like an argument against bad programmers, not copy/paste.

Not everything should be abstracted into a library. I think the example in their screencast is a good one.

Yes, if the snippet has a bug, you're copying that bug everywhere. But if it doesn't, it saves you from writing a potentially buggy implementation.

I believed for many years as a programmer the dogma against copy/paste. Now i use it, as I use any other tool, in a way that I find appropriate.
How a Coding Obsession Killed My Startup
Did they change the article? I didn't see that in the text or videos.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich to replace Honeycomb.
Somebody with the power to do so, please flag this. It's only two and a half sentences. The rest is behind a paywall.
new goal: Become a ..wait I gotta check facebook & twitter... where was I? Oh yes... New goal: I must become a modern San Franciscan ;)
This Comment Is Criticizing The Title Of This Post
Right, but given the labyrinthine nature and colossal volume of software patents created over last decade, having your own trove and a team of lawyers to pore over them is best chance at catching prior art.
Very good point Groxx, my own experience with this was looking for some snippets recently and Google ended up directing me to DZone Snippets[1] for and what I found were snippets from Java 1.3 to do the task that in Java 6 had been completely reworked with some of the new APIs and language features.

So you have a very good point, for longevity, that the snippets need to be versioned.

[1] http://snippets.dzone.com/
I said, "No, I'm never going to leave Hewlett-Packard. It's my job for life. It's the best company because it's so good to engineers." It really treated us like we were a community and family, and everyone cared about everyone else. Engineers—bottom of the org chart people—could come up with the ideas that would be the next hot products for the company. Everything was open to thought, discussion and innovation. So I would never leave Hewlett-Packard. I was going to be an engineer for life there.

- Steve Wozniak, interviewed by Jessica Livingston in "Founders at Work"

http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html

How sad that it's come to this.
Since college I've quit four well-paying jobs despite my family and friends urging me not to. I quit because the jobs were not a good investment of my time. Every day I spent at those jobs made me less valuable to the employers I desired to work for.

After quitting each job I lived from savings and worked diligently creating my own products. The products themselves were not spectacularly successful. However they did help me get my current job which is awesome.

My point: try to make sure you invest your time wisely. Jobs don't need to be perfect (none are) but they should help you advance to the next "gig" (own company, early retirement, better job etc).
He needs to do the same experiment during the wintertime when the angle of the sun changes. You won't get accurate results until the experiment is performed year round. Different angles of inclination perform better at various times of year, and there are some thoughts that multi-inclined arrays average the same output as uniform arrays.

Remember, a tree only has leaves in the summertime, not the winter. :)
I'm waiting to see how I can get my free TouchPad. Better to put it to use than the throw it away, right?
With patent valuations going through the roof, will we see a rise in salaries of engineers who crank out patents?
It was a typo. Fixed.
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Can anyone cite exactly what laws FB is breaking and how they're breaking them?
Is FB gathering data beyond the basics of URL and title?
Is FB using traffic data gathered via the like button as claimed here (with citation please)?
I like the comparison of the two languages.

As an aside, I don' think the author is a native English speaker. If you read this and have problems with the grammar (noticeable lack of "a"s), read the blog as if Pavel Chekov was reading it you. Much better.
Thanks. I'm passionate, although maybe not where fruits are exploding out of my mind :) But I do believe I have enough passion to sustain me, so thanks for pointing that as being a need.
Does anyone have any experience with Autonomy and its IDOL technology? I visited their site and they look a little bit shady :)
I personally know of one SEO who earns upwards of $50k/month. While not exactly super rich, I wouldn't complain about that kind of money!
Ha. That's a nice idea. Let me see if it works :)
Rethinking the check-in and flipping it on its head
Part of the controversy with this article is that it is combining two separate ideas into one concept, blurring the differences.

Implementing software is something you can absolutely get better at with experience, discipline, and practice. You only need to look at your old code for evidence of this.

Designing software takes imagination and creativity. Experience and practice may give you a tool chest of preconceived ideas to use when designing your own software, but it isn't going to help you conceive completely new ideas yourself. That requires thinking outside of the box, and it's not something you learn by studying the nuances of implementation. It's not even something you learn by studying programming. IMO this is what Atwood is talking about.
I really like the detailed analysis, but I'm not sure about the changes he proposes. For example, those 32 pixel toolbar buttons in his example look... off.
In your logo, I think the shit needs to be bit more explicit. It just looks like cream or something.
Well I didnt say she's perfect lol. Trees are just a great example of how evolution has done a pretty good gob on a specific trait. Now compared to how long humans have been around and our constant changing environments and diet, medicine and other advancements keeping us alive, trees have had quite a head start for getting stuff "right"! But yes intelligent design is garbage. But what happens if we design an intelligent race and set it loose on another planet and they start doing stuff they weren't designed to do? lol. Bad designer or stupid creatures? I'm just having fun here...
The second page said something about "The most interesting results were in December..."
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That is what they think.

MySpace bought HP servers, but Facebook doesnt. That market will commoditise too, as cloud that uses software not hardware redundancy doesnt need the high margin features.

And the future of business software is gradually being built by Salesforce, Google, Dropbox and so on. The landscape will change drastically.

While there is innovation in clients, owning a platform is still part of a viable strategy. There is still an opening for a business friendly platform, as Microsoft can still lose and RIM is weak.
Kiva, in San Francisco, has unpaid internships available for both tech and non-tech positions. They typically last 3-6 months, and it's a whole lot of fun if you are in a situation in life where you can get by without pay while building some skills and hanging out with some really neat people. Perks include regular servings of real Coke, donut holes, movie & game nights, free coffe and booze, and getting to help entrepreneurs from around the world. http://www.kiva.org/volunteer
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