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That's a great summary and I'll add a few points here.

VCs and press have very short attention spans. They are only interested when someone they know and respect is interested. Because they are constantly bombarded with crap, they constantly have to make decisions who to pay attention to and who to ignore and dismiss out of hand.

If you just pay your own fare to get a table nobody is vouching for you. This sends a signal that if nobody does why should anybody else? Now the companies presenting on the stage are there because Techcrunch is implied to have reviewed the whole industry and picked the cream of the crop. Because there are fewer of those it is easier for VCs and press to focus their attention. Spotlight is scarce and is usually pre-negotiated.

Going to conferences is fine if you are gathering industry intelligence or looking for very specific types of customers / partners, but to really attract VCs / press you better have inside track beforehand.
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At least according to this article, HP shipped 270,000 TouchPads to Best Buy. Best Buy, in turn, sold 25,000. Anyone estimating the number of TouchPad users based on HP's shipment numbers to Best Buy would have been off by over an order of magnitude. (Before the $99 fire sale, of course.)

So it's clear that, at least in some cases, the difference between shipped and sold units can be quite dramatic. Without getting the actual number of units sold, minus the number of units returned, (or getting some other stat entirely, such as unit activation/registration numbers) it's rather difficult to accurately estimate a product's actual user base. The best you can do with the shipping unit number is guess, and your guess is as good as mine.
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Why you're expecting something good form a "market place"? Even Zarathustra spake that it should be avoided. So, "walk proud, William Blake" if you've decided to come here. ^_^

You have basically two strategies - being what you are or being a karma-whore. First one is better in the long run.
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I don't understand why people insist on maintaining it, other than because it is a light-hearted way to subconsciously exclude certain groups from conversations, present company excepted.

As far as the plate itself goes, I don't buy the more extreme things I've heard about carbohydrates, but I never found myself suffering for having avoided grains and reduced fruit, although I did suffer for having eaten too few vegetables and protein. Your mileage may vary I guess.
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Is there a way around this beyond adopting Android's flexible UI approach?
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You have to make judgements about a person to interact with them, what level of understanding they have on the subject, what sort of vocabulary they'll understand, whether they are likely to judge you harshly, how to make them feel comfortable with you, etc.. Either you have incomplete information, you have all information or you have no information and presumably then avoid interaction. To be practical I think that it is actually a necessary part of social interaction, at present, to judge others based on incomplete data.

However, I could see the point where interactions would start by exchange of a data file, giving far more information than we ever normally get from even an acquaintance, which would aid interactions.

On the contrary I can't see how things can work without making judgements about people (what language to start a conversation in for example) when interacting.
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> It was a contrived example, and your extrapolation that Oracle's income would fall in direct proportion to how many servers their product was deployed to without their permission does not follow.

Oracle's income is proportionate to the number of licenses people buy, with some revenue from services thrown in too. I don't know the percentages of each one in the total, but to state that drastically fewer licenses would not lead to much less revenue seems somewhat disconnected from reality.

> So first question: Why not 30? 300? Perpetual? 3 months?

Because, like I said, it's a compromise. We as a society pick a number that best balances the needs of IP producers and consumers. In theory. In practice, I don't think the numbers are ideal right now, and should be rebalanced. However, there's a big difference between some rejigging and throwing out the system in its entirety.

> And I'm not averse to just keeping pharma patents until we some something else figured out - but let's not pretend that because scientists today are funded by a messy, inefficient system, they must always be so funded.

Democracy is a messy, inefficient system too: it just happens to be better than the alternatives. If you don't have a superior system to propose, throwing out the existing one seems like a very ill-conceived experiment.
Even though i would like to agree with it, i believe it's a simple case of "sample bias". you deduct a general rule out of personal experience or anecdotal "evidence".

if someone does great at school and later sucks, then this is a story worth telling. if somebody sucked at school and then later achieved (relative) success then this is another great story. if somebody which had a strong interrest in chemistry and was an A+ student later becomes a chemistry master then this is a boring story, if somebody was a complete drunk and now holds speeches about neanderthal RNA then this is a good story (sidenode: yes, dominik i'm talking about you....).

but then again, i could be wrong, but i'm very sceptic of such claims - especially if they sound like a great story.
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If Google didn't want for others to "take advantage" of its work, then they shouldn't have released Android as open-source in the first place.

In spite of people telling that Android is closed because it has a closed development branch, the one thing that you can do with open-source is to fork it if you're not happy with the current status quo.

But to fork Android 3.0 -- that's exactly what you cannot do. And that's definitely not open anymore.

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They don't own the market, but they hold a good deal of patents in the field, and are very aggressive when it comes to using them against competitors.
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I mostly only go to conferences that are either free and fun to hang out at because they're fairly techy in nature, or places where I get accepted as a speaker, which means: 1) I get in for free, 2) I may get some of my expenses reimbursed, and 3) I'm set up to get more attention at it anyway because of a speaker badge and of course my talk itself.
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This silly analysis doesn't even pass the smell test.

They're scared of Samsung so they ... massively delay the release of their new phone.

If you were really afraid that you had lost the market you wouldn't take your sweet time, you'd be rushing like crazy to get the iphone 5 out as soon as possible.
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I think you're doing it wrong if that happens.
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Well Nokia has definitely committed to NFC early on. All their recent smartphones have NFC, and all future models will have it. There's the device list: http://www.developer.nokia.com/Devices/Device_specifications...

Also their recent accessories support bluetooth pairing with NFC, with single tap.
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You missed that point: with Tropo you don't need "an app", you can do it all as a Ruby/js/java/etc script hosted by Tropo. It's obviously limited in scope but very useful for small apps
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> a lot of entrepreneurs are turning to Lean for a framework that will lead them to success ... But right up there with misunderstanding #1 about Lean ... has got to be this particular misunderstanding

I agree with what you're saying but when the strap line of the book is "How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Companies" [emphasis added] the misunderstanding is, well ... understandable.
He's not arguing that crit-bit trees are better than hash tables, he's arguing that they are a better choice for the fundamental set datatype for languages like python, perl etc etc.

When you write an application, you know the performance requirements of the set representation you choose & can pick the most appropriate for your application. A language designer doesn't have this information: their choice of fundamental datatype affects everyone.

Bernstein is arguing that they should choose a set representation with good performance for as wide a range of features as possible rather than one that performs well for a small set of requirements, and very poorly for others.

I can see arguments both ways here, but FAIL is a bit too strong IMO.
I am not sure if I trust your research. How have you traveled - did you seek out poor places? I don't think tent cities emerge at the typical tourist locations.

Are you saying that there is no problem in the USA, no financial crisis etc? Because I have been hearing other things - but I know the media likes to hype, too...
Just to note that you can have "left" leaning views without having any relationship to the ideas of Marx. The co-operative movement arguably demonstrates that you can have very succesful businesses that have a social component:

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What I'm curious is how much practical counsel it has. I'm a huge fan of Rob Walling's "Start Small, Stay Small" because it is just overflowing with actual, concrete advice. One example is that he comes out and gives you some actual numbers for product prices.

A lot of "great business books", like Crossing the Chasm, on the other hand, can be fairly easily summed up in a few pages, even if the ideas are certainly good ones.

I'll probably get it anyway because I'm a sucker for business books, but honestly with many of them you're not missing anything if you read the summary.
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Wastefully compared to what? Do you know of any other organization that provides essential social services to hundreds of millions of people?

Do you have actual facts to supply here? Can you provide an a legitimate comparison for us, or are we supposed to simply accept your free market mantra?

The existence of waste and inefficient behaviors does not mean that the system is wasteful.
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So what? They all depend on the sun, quantum-scale interactions between atoms, and on the evolution of life on Earth too. Those are just as arbitrary as any other point being made here.
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Thank you! It's ironic that on a site like HN, so much of the commentary about home lending is based on rhetoric and dogma instead of fact. I wonder if GP even knows what Fannie or Freddie do.
Doesn't seem like his referring to the company as much as he is the presentation.
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Could it be that they're talking of the previous presentation? Does anyone know which it was?
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I'm not sure he's necessarily talking about Farmigo, he could just as easily be talking about another company.

However, I will say that the Farmigo idea does not seem to be super "disruptive", as I'm sure I've heard about CSA food delivery for at least 5 years. Unless you consider making a vertical search and taking 2% "disruptive".

(I should temper this by saying that I do think it's useful and very nicely designed)
That is the big announcement on the Developer conference?

A little disappointing. This will be moderately successful, because all the People will put it next to their like button.

The Like button is used because people like to give active statements about something. I don't have any data about this, but i assume the usage is declining because there is no real benefit for liking something.

Where is the benefit for clicking Read, or Watched? They will probably argue "Sharing", but there are already too much Kitten videos on Facebook.

What happened to the Social Graph from the last f8?
There were some big buzzwords like "everything is connected" , but i still don't see what changed since then.

They have so many brilliant Developers.

The best thing i can remember is HipHop for PHP and the Open Compute project.

They don't really try anything out of their comfort zone. The whole Deals thing got almost no promotion, was introduced silently and disappeared silently. There were some rumors about a Facebook Phone, that would have been interesting but no...
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...or so an idealized explanation would go. There is nothing I have that actually proves that claim.
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I too have seen this pattern of downvoting comments by the same author (i.e. me). It seems that some people here are disagreeing with a comment and then punishing the author my downvoting other comments by the same author.
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The friction of having to choose yet another password to sign up for an account is negated somewhat by using a FB/Twitter/Google-type oAuth/OpenID solution.

I'm a big fan of federated login and prefer to see it on sites where possible. But equally, I'm not sure I agree about making your site completely dependant on FB. Although if the app also requires social graph, then they're not really losing out all that much are they?
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