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He is so naive to believe that a dry subjet like a patent lawsuit can actually distract people from a juicy news of an expected successor to the most successful phone model in US? And that too from one of the most beloved company in the gadget world?

If that is what Apple's strategy looks like, it certainly isn't working becuse I see at least one neew piece every day about the iPhone 5.
From what I heard around at the conference was $2K/day for a table. Not sure if that's what the author paid.
Ahh, the second controversial Richard on HN today ;)

Love him or hate him, Richard Stallman is nothing if not consistent.

The fact is that he is right on this issue. At this time Honeycomb is not open source software.

I'm a big fan of google, and as the story says Android is the best of a bad bunch (with regards to software freedom), but it's good that we have people like Stallman who can give us cause to stop & take a reality check (or unreality check, depending on your point of view...).
> TC Disrupt feels like an old-boys-club gathering where startups are the entertainment.

Very good description. It is a fun event, but we got 0 leads out of it. - Our startup IS successful and we are close to break even, so the idea itself is ok.
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I completely agree with your analysis. That said, this comment and your blog post seem to have avoided (probably unintentionally!) the two questions that seem to me to be most salient.

1. If you ranked the startups in attendance, do you think a 50th percentile startup would have gotten something useful out of Disrupt? A 90th percentile startup? (If so, in softer benefits like pulling together as a team or in something measurable?)

2. Do you think your traffic numbers for Trello would have looked substantially different on launch day without Disrupt? In 6 months?

In the first case, I wonder if there really are unfunded, 90th percentile tech startups that represent some sort of Cinderella story that just need the spotlight to get funding and attention. In your case, I wonder if 6 minutes on stage compares to a decade of organic SEO and trust (via your blog), running the most popular programming Q&A site, and cross-promotion opportunities from FogBugz, Kiln, Copilot, and others.
I wish journalists were forced to distinguish between "shipped" and "sold" numbers. Those figures can differ dramatically, and often in very telling ways. Who cares if Samsung shipped 20MM phones? How many phones did they sell? How large is their platform base, in terms of real, honest users?
I don't get this. Google is in this to make money. They are not running some kind of a foundation where people contribute and together they make software. Google has all the right to hold the code back and only share it with the partners that adhere to its demands and use their services so that the development is paid for.

Of course its another thing that doing all this they come out looking like a hypocrite preaching things like open and do no evil while practicing the exact opposite. But hey...
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NFC payments can still work when your phone is out of battery. The reader can still read it (just like your credit card has no power). Google Wallet, of course, wouldn't work.
Likewise HTC's Head of Product mentioned all HTC phones in the US as of next year will start having NFC.
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I think you can do this with Paypal's app + Bump. Of course, I'm not sure if you'd want to pay people using Paypal. This is one direction we've been thinking of (www.tagstand.com).
try dropping the ORM (or find another one)

Dropping or replacing the ORM is a big undertaking in anything but small toy projects.

Better advice is to run a profiler and crank up the ORM's verbosity in order to determine the extent of overhead imposed by the ORM, and something like pg_stat_statement and EXPLAIN ANALYZE (in the case of Postgres) to find slow statements and see why they are slow. This will give you a much better idea of where time is spent, to what extent things can be optimized, and whether the ORM is to blame for any performance issues.
Is it really? I thought it only gave a new capcha, without me giving a reason.
I mean, there is a difference between being unable to read a word because it's so mangled and not being able to type something because I don't have that typeset installed / can't read the language.
Googgle claims Android is open.

They don't get headwind because they don't have these rights, they get headwind because they claim one thing but do another.
You were probably unfairly targeted because you're not yet a very clear writer. Keep practicing. The post you're upset about was a reckless rant that hit more than one inappropriate target.
I'm currently living in Oxford and can say first-hand that bus clustering is a real phenomenon. It happens here all the time, and also I can relate it to my hometown (Kraków, Poland), where this almost never happens.

In Poland most of the buses have many doors and passengers board and leave vehicles quickly. In Oxford, boarding through front doors means that the first bus may stay on the bus stop for several minutes.
Apple scared of Samsung? :-) My guess the main reason iPhone 5 is delayed is due to waiting for iCloud. It might be for marketing purpose: building up anticipation to fever pitch due to the delay, thus generating greater demand. I hope Apple is making sure its supply chain is in tip top condition, or else we will see iPhone queue from Oct launch all the way to Christmas.

One outcome of the 'war' with Samsung might be Apple investing more in its other supply chain vendors as Apple is likely in the process of abandoning Samsung. This could only be positive for the industry as a whole.
So that it wouldn't compete with Google's non-existent tablet? There's something more here I don't know--deals Google has made with other vendors or somesuch...?
I am glad they are thinking about this. There is (weirdly, IMO) currently no good app that can do this on the Mac -- only the awful and ancient Fluid.app, and the horrifically abysmal FireFox+WebRunner0.1pre12whatever thing.

I love this feature on Windows, and it is our preferred method of deploying in-house web apps to end users.
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that's a perfect (missing) example for "a picture is worth a thousand words".

I don't know if it helps, but here's the picture I drew at the top of my patricia trie code. (Crit-bit trees aren't the same as patricia tries, but they're close enough for expository purposes.)

/**
* Our Patricia tree structure can be thought of as operating on strings of
* 9-bit bytes, where 0x00 -- 0xFF are mapped to 0x100 -- 0x1FF and 0x00
* represents the end-of-string character (note that NUL can occur inside
* keys). The field (struct pnode).mask is either 0 or a power of 2; if 0,
* the left child, if non-NULL, is a pointer to the record associated with
* the key thus far. For example, the strings "hello", "hello colin",
* "hello world", and "wednesday", each associated with pointers to
* themselves, are stored in the following tree:
*
* [0x10, 0x60, 0, ""]
* | |
* [0x00, 0x00, 5, "hello"] [0x00, 0x00, 9, "wednesday"]
* | | | |
* "hello" [0x10, 0x60, 1, " "] "wednesday" NULL
* | |
* [0x00, 0x00, 5, "colin"] [0x00, 0x00, 5, "world"]
* | | | |
* "hello colin" NULL "hello world" NULL
*
*/

Edited to add: And here's the node structure:

/* Structure used to store a Patricia tree node. */
struct pnode {
struct pnode * left; /* Left child. */
struct pnode * right; /* Right child. */
uint8_t mask; /* Critical bit mask. */
uint8_t high; /* High bits of this node. */
uint8_t slen; /* Length of s[]. */
uint8_t s[]; /* Bytes since parent's s[]. */
};
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"Fifth, debt burdens that cannot be eased by growth, savings, or inflation must be rendered sustainable through orderly debt restructuring, debt reduction, and conversion of debt into equity. This needs to be carried out for insolvent governments, households, and financial institutions alike."

How do you do that for households?
many of the physicians I work with still type(painfully slowly) with 2 fingers

Aren't those the people for whom typing on a tablet software keyboard won't be any slower? Surely, if anyone does, it's fast touch typists who have problems with slowdown.
someone is heard saying "this company is such a loser."
This is a redherring because the difference between shipped and sold is very small. Retailers don't keep more stock than they actually need. Except for high demand items and new products if it ships it's practically sold.

Unlike Apple, once the phone leaves the factory Samsung has very little information on where it will end up. They could call every retailer and ask for the quantity sold, but if they weren't selling the retailer would ship them back, ala Best Buy and the HP Touchpad.
My experience with micro-bus (Pesero) transport in Mexico City was quite eye opening. If you are able bodied, it is quite efficient transport. The rates are inexpensive and you can get almost anywhere in the city at 60-70% of private traffic speed.

What isn't mentioned in the article is that not only isn't there a schedule, but often times, there aren't even labeled bus stops -- there is just a route. So, it encourages another sort of optimization: people looking for a ride tend to clump. If you're on the corner by yourself and you're not able bodied or don't aggressively jump on the bus, you may be waiting for a very long time. Also, these micro-bus will pass each other by going "express" and skipping whole blocks of potential riders to resolve a clumping issue.

The routes themselves are fixed by some sort of agency, and there is a union that, with seniority each driver/company gets assigned to lucrative routes. The article claims the micro-bus are owned by the driver. I don't think this is that common, typically drivers are hired and paid on commission. Although it is true that Pesero are independently owned & operated.
Samsung taking Bada open source in 2012?
i think this is the original paper: http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/136
I have not been to this TC Disrupt, but watched most of it live. Our company was present in the Startup Alley and is competing with a startup which was there in Battlefield.

But I did notice that presenting in Battlefield gave startups a lot of press if their product was good. But visibility in Startup Alley was far less.

I am from India, far from all the on ground activity in the valley and in US in general. That said I firmly believe that TC Disrupt itself needs much more competition (beyond Demo, Launch...). The event, in some parts seemed to be a little under-prepared for. The startup ecosystem needs more such events, each competing to get a small number of curated startups a leg up.
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What are the units?

These are appallingly presented charts.
I seriously doubt that figure is 10% if you only consider competent programmers in current technologies.
iPhone 3GS:

IV: 7.4m
I: 8.7m
II: 8.8m
III: 8.4m

iPhone 4:

IV: 14.1m
I: 16.2m
II: 18.7m
III: 20.3m

Notice that drop in sales of the iPhone 3GS right before the iPhone 4 came out? That didn't happen to the iPhone 4 in the third quarter. Its sales increased. (The iPhone 4 was announced two weeks before the third quarter ended and it started selling at the start of the fourth quarter. That might explain some of the difference, not sure whether that's the whole story.)

I think Apple is doing alright.
That company is screwed once their employees realise that they have a highly valuable skill and that there is an employee shortage out there.
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No, locking down stuff like that is not 'freedom' in his (and mine) book. Locking down a device so that the _owner_ of said device cannot mess with it as he likes after paying you is not related to freedom. It removes freedom.
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Except that as I understand it..
* There are now more apps on Android than iOS
* Java is a lot wider used outside of smartphones than Obj-C
* You missed completely the point about the 90%ers
I guess you are a troll but I will hassard a reply: Among educated people the average unemployment number is 4% (educated = those with a college degree, including communication and womens degrees).

In The Valley? Properly more like half to one percent.
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webOS software devs are still there. https://twitter.com/#!/SirKneeland/status/115994758777815041
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Right. These chinese... Like - MIUI.

These guys sure ruin the Android brand with a cheap and beautiful phone after spending lots of time to make Android actually nice to look at and much more pleasing.

Disclaimer: I'm back running cyanogenmod now, but that's mostly because MIUI on my piece of kit isn't rock stable yet (neither is cyanogenmod, but..) and because I'm actually not that much into bling. But MIUI was definitely sweet and showed innovation.
That is why articles like this do not belong on this site. It's just politics.
Google is in this to make money. They are
not running some kind of a foundation ...

Everybody knows that and really, it's not worth repeating it because that's no excuse for acting hypocritical.

Google said Android is and will be open-source. Google said that it wants to foster an open ecosystem. If Google makes money off Android, that's precisely because of those promises and companies should really be held accountable when breaking promises, just like real people. As I already said, Android would be nothing if it were just another proprietary Windows-wannabe.

If some friend steals from you, will you still consider him a friend, even though he stole from you to feed his children? Wouldn't it have been easier just asking for money, instead of stealing / lying about it?

If people don't get away with it, why should companies?
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Would it be difficult to use protostuff or protobuf instead? Or maybe Thrift is better for this purpose in some way I don't anticipate?
This sort of thing makes me even more glad I live in the Northwest (US) where it's not only acceptable but the norm to wear a t-shirt and jeans to any meeting or job interview.
I can understanding Google wanting control over who implements a not-quite-ready Android version. But, purely from a development perspective, if Ice-Cream Sandwich isn't fully OSS, it will decrease my enthusiasm for the platform enormously.

One of my main reasons for investing time into Android is to eventually involve myself in the sources (and not just the Kernel sources), for fun, profit and security. If they take that away, they'd be little reason for choosing it over the iPhone.
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Yes, but it is not Android doing the locking down, it is individual vendors. So Android is not to blame for that.

Edit: so your complaint is that Android id not on the GPL? Or why the downvotes? Indeed, the GPL would be more free in a way, more restricted in another way.
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> I've come to the conclusion that the reason people focus on things that don't ultimately matter is because it's easy.

Absolutely.
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Android 3.0 or 3.1 are not on phones, though.
Free is hard to beat. Actually, Amazon streaming is better than free. Instead of giving $96/year to Netflix, I can give $79/year to Amazon for a Prime membership, get streaming thrown in for free, and get the usual Prime benefit of free 2-day shipping.

As far as the interface goes, are you really watching on your computer? I bought a Blu-Ray player just to stream Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. Works decently enough.
I don't think any phone solves the multitasking problem UX-wise quite as elegantly as the N9. iOS' double-click and Android's long-press isn't anywhere that natural, not to mention that there's live view of all applications which shows updates without even switching apps. That's really useful if I have multiple chat windows open for example.
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As a Touchpad and Pre3 user, I can honestly say that these guys done a great job in delivering these devices (I love them both, yes I am a long-suffering webOS fanboy), and this is a terrible reward for all of their hard work. Wish them all well in their post-HP lives.
Nothing wrong with buying hardware yourself if you know what you are doing.
I help run a dedicated hosting company in India, one of the biggest. Most of the hardware we get in our colocation facility from customers is atleast 2 generation old processors and almost always the wrong form factor and it has typically costed them atleast 2x of what it costs us to buy the same hardware due to our scale of acquisition.

There are advantages of a Hosting company buying hardware for you and amortizing it. It is impossible for a small startup buying < 5-10 servers to achieve say a cost of Rs. 100-200 USD per month per server including amortization ( say 24 months ), bandwidth, power and remote hands per server.
And I super agree with the fact that it is easy to run high bill on cloud hosting where you pay through your nose for everything except perhaps the base level machines for the privilege of being able to burst your load to 100x. Only about 2% of the customers on cloud actually require burst capacity beyond 2x. It is easy enough to achieve cost savings of 30% with always-on 2x capacity using standard dedicated servers from a dedicated server focused hosting company than buying capacity on the cloud and using maybe burst capacity 5% of the time.
Do you know a way to generate CVs in europass[1] format?

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I saw an ad somewhere saying entry fee was about 2 grand. I almost fell out of my chair laughing. The only types of public conferences worth that type of money are high value supplier/vendor conferences, where you've already got a product line and can leave the weekend with actual and prospective customers. Informational conferences, where there is a high signal-noise ratio on the state of the art in your industry may also be worth attending, but usually for a couple hundred bucks at most, not 2 grand.

At that price point, probably the only people who should be at a PR launch type conferences like Disrupt or Launch.is are VC's press, and already successful founders looking for something to do on a Thursday. VC's and the press are there to do their job -- get leads and invest or write. And when they leave, that entry fee is going into a company expense report. The startups in the audience are just there to get inspired and rub shoulders, which isn't a good enough justification for the cost.

If you haven't made it yet, get back to the lab and go build.
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Yes, but for how long? If I was there and saw one side of the team cut, I'd start polishing my CV. Maybe HP moves the software people around so that they never get "cut", but honestly I don't think there's much hope for anyone still working on that platform.

HP's stock is at its lowest point in the last 5 years. I'm not sure if it can afford to keep those Palm people around.
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I've done well for myself but I was definitely not a great student. My theory (which may be wrong) is that it has to do with the fact that some kids learn differently from others, and don't necessarily do well following the traditional public school model.

I was the kid that never did his homework, never read the books before the quiz, and always skated by, primarily because I only like doing things that I know I can be great at -- things I'm passionate about. I was always spending my time hacking on computers and learning things about software development while other kids were studying for the AP exam.

There are plenty of overachievers in school that go on to do great things, but public education doesn't seem to be well-suited for those of us that excel at taking a more unconventional path.
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If anything, I think they're undershooting.

Think of a non-tech company with a website. Anything. Chipotle, there. They have a website, online ordering, and a mobile app which actually does stuff. Do you think 90% of their code is customer visible? I really doubt it. They have code in the POS, code in the planning department, code in payroll, code in accounting, code in purchasing, code in site selection, code in accounts payable, code in marketing, code in... code in everything. This doesn't even code you need to raise the corn, to feed the pig, to deliver it to the slaughterhouse, to ship the carnitas to the store, etc.

This is tangentially related to a post I hope to have up tomorrow. We live life swimming in an unseen sea of software.
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