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Usually I hate people who comment only with "I stopped reading at...", but in this particular case I'll make an exception. For myself.

I stopped reading at:

"As far as I know, no book on the history of physics mentions Tesla"

which is a statement approximately as correct as "As far as I know, no book on the history of the United States mentions Woodrow Wilson"
FT Web-based app more popular than app sold in Apple store
Blocking a sale because the receipt server is down is also not doing it right. If you have a client-only IAP (i.e. no server component) any pirate worth their salt is going to disable it, so you may as well be lenient about validating receipts or cache them to retry later.
I've updated the blog post with some edits that may answer some of the questions here.

-HMA
Foreign generics are illegal to import in the US because they violate patents held by US companies. Advertising an illegal import is one thing, but it's unclear how legal it would be to advertise something like "Come visit India where you can get generic Singulair while you're here!"

That said, dentists in Mexico aren't necessarily violating any US laws by doing business there, and you can't import dental work either.
In my experience with a variety of sites, Google's market share is easily 80-85% (according to the stats for each of these sites). And I don't mean technical sites, for which it's rarely below 95%. Whether you consider Bing alone, or you consider Bing and Yahoo, I don't buy for a second that they have anything over 15-20% market share at the moment.
There are a number of ways that you can sell app add-ons and subscriptions without using Apple's system. Hundreds, if not thousands of apps, such as Kindle and NetFlix, use alternate methods.
I don't think he's comparing FB to water, he's comparing social networking/communication/connection to water. Facebook would then be the utility company, with a de facto monopoly, but no check on its power. (Personally I think competition is the check, and I'm on team Google.)
I hear you. More cost transparency. I'll get it up on the front page asap. Thanks.

Right now I'm only delivering in the US.

I'll take a look at the submit/logout issue. Thanks again.
From what I remember of the program:

- no equity or debt price, just a grant
- cheap cost of living
- more adventurous than going stateside
I would assume not since you don't need access to any form of web hosting to create an app on Facebook. You simply fill out a few fields and click submit.
I think you need to check your facts. Amazon's Kindle app and BN's Nook apps were updated to remove in app purchases and completely remove all links to the Kindle web store even from the application [1]. Same with Spotify and Rhapsody [2] and WSJ [3] and Hulu [4] (Okay, that's enough links).

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/25/amazon-brings-kindle-newspaper...

[2] http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/07/25/spotify-rhapsod...

[3] http://www.slashgear.com/kindle-wsj-spotify-ios-apps-more-lo...

[4] http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/20/hulu-complies-with-apple...
Yes, if they have a good product.
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3. Focus on MVP outside the temptation to chase publicity
Right now its partially automated. I get a message if my algorithm can't figure it out.
This type of service used to be popular among expats from India at one point when Internet service in India was not as wide-spread. For some reason most of the companies providing this type of service died out (the government run Indian postal service still seems to provide such a service though). Maybe there is some lesson to be learned from why a lot of these companies failed?
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I'm sort of interested how you plan to make profit by billing unknown sources for use of your services...

A responsible business that wishes to comply with tax law and other important parts of making a living needs to have record of income.
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So what you are saying is maintenance! maintenance! and more maintenance.

This is no longer a great user experience and it's not longer a social network... No, this is without a doubt a media venture that will do anything to make their advertisers happy... at the expense of the users.

I wonder if you see your own contradiction? You had to go out of your way to make a point that users need to now attend the settings for every single product they use and maintain additional information. It seems that with every year things get more and more out of hand

Today, as an FB user I'm not happy. For one, I had to download a plug in for the new ticker (a news feed with in a news feed?) just to get rid of the annoyance. Tomorrow we will have to deal with a dozen more ticks.
Clicky's stats show Google at around 90% on desktop and 96% on mobile.

http://getclicky.com/user/#/marketshare/global/search-engine...
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I wouldn't call it an either/or question -- tech media (for example) is going to hit a really specific band of end consumers. Is that the entire universe you want to go after? If so, great, but if you're looking to hit a really broad spectrum of consumers you need to combine a range of techniques -- tech media, blogs, social, SEM, general media, etc.

Each one has strengths and weaknesses -- as well as "tricks" like they're talking about in the video. Display, for example, can get you really, really broad coverage. And it's SUPER cheap. But you have to know how to target and measure it, and whether it can meet your goals.

The cool part is all of these techniques can really reinforce each other.
I'm going to try this next week; this is something we could use at work.

Plus, can't beat the license.
This.

Putting people into space is very expensive compared to putting unmanned instruments into Low and Medium Earth Orbit.

Our nation isn't doing well financially right now, and I see NASA's priorities as logical. They're getting a lot more knowledge per dollar spent right now.
We are not based in the US, we are a UK company, and operate using UK law only.
I wonder how the Cold Fusion fiasco was presented back in the 90's? Not that they are at all similar, but those were certainly bold claims as well.
At this point I'm 99.9% certain that we're looking at some kind of experimental error, but being unfamiliar with the details I'm not about to start speculating on particular things that might be wrong. Any possible error that I could think of would probably, if presented to the experimentalists, result in a rolling of eyes and a "Don't you think we already checked that?"

To put it in terms that people here can understand, suppose you're three days into tracking down some incredibly obscure bug and your mother asks "Did you try turning it off and turning it on again?"
As a coder who writes, seeing someone having success with building writer tools makes me happy, since that's the path I see myself going down at some point.
IANAL, but it sounds like a clause like this flies directly in the face of the First Amendment to the US Constitution. I very seriously doubt that any company can control its former employee's true speech.
that article is a lot of ass. the timestamps in the packet are generated at the exchange(not on the wire) where its on different physical machines... perfectly reasonable for each machines clock o be a microseccond or two off.. about the resolution of GPS time sync.
It's probably related to a new hack that intercepts/fakes the in-app purchase calls on jailbroken phones; it allows the user to get "free" in-app purchases, but with invalid receipts.

I'm sure a lot of devs weren't checking receipts and got stung by the hack. So they started verifying receipts, traffic goes through the roof, Apple's servers fail under the load.
The other article on CNN about this shows Schmidt taking oath. Could some of these statements, founded on inaccurate information, be considered perjurious?
It seems clear to me that what Schmidt meant with the comment is that the industry is volatile enough that some commentators predict an upset. This is obviously to counter claims that Google is too big or too powerful, which is also obviously what the hearings are really about. That's not a "bald-faced lie."

Saying Schmidt lied to Congress is the bald-faced lie.
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No, I think it's expected that he's going to put the best possible face on everything. He won't get called on it unless he manages to actually harm someone, which is very unlikely since he's on the defensive here.

Edit: Note that he called her a commentator, not an expert :)
Not sure if this has any practical use, but it would be interesting to tie user comments to a specific time in the video so that you can see comments about specific parts of the video. For example, instead of watching a video, then scrolling down to read a user comment like "watch the blooper at 3:57", you could have a ticker below the video where "watch the booper" popped up at 3:57. I know the video author can add annotations, but users can't.
I really don't understand why people are trying to compare lifepath and facebook timeline, from my point of view they are completely different. Facebook creates the time line based on your activity, lifepath guesses your past/future. This plus the amazing graphics made me want to get an account.
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There was nothing false about what he said. His statement was prefixed with "some commentators note...", which is absolutely true. Unfortunately, the word "commentator" has mistakenly been conflated with authority and accuracy in popular culture, even though a "bored Mashable reporter with a journalism degree and Excel" is technically a "commentator". Any sort of analysis, such as the questionable linear extrapolation used by the Mashable reporter, is also treated as authoritative and accurate and amplified through the echo chamber of the popular press. That failing is not Schmidt's, but our own.

For his part, Schmidt was doing what hired goons are hired to do -- mould the truth, but never to the point of (detectable) perjury. You can bet your life that there is an army of lawyers with sweaty brows in Mountain View poring over every possible response to every possible question.
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I use a MBP 13' as my everyday laptop. Now It's been 3 years and I've been very happy with it, but now I would like to come back to Linux. It's not MacOS that keeps me from doing that, but the MacBook as a laptop, and its features/design.

Aluminium case, neat finition, robust case, backlit keyboard, multi-touch trackpad (that I heavily use), magsafe power port ... are the features that I will miss the most. Are you aware of a non-Apple robust laptop that could offer features somewhat similar ?

Note : I don't want to bootcamp with linux or refit on a MB.

Thank you for your insights.
I used to work for a government as an employee and got fed up trying to deliver projects. I'm not the sort of person who can sit still and let the hours tick by. The whole culture of "not my problem" and staff to incompetent to do there jobs drove me nuts.

I remember after one restructure I gained a new team member. HR dissolved her role, writing crystal reports with a GUI, and made her a .net software developer. I can remember one day trying to explain how an IF statement worked to her. There where members in my team which may have been better suited for the special olympics than programming.

Then one day I gave up and quit. I contracted myself back to my manager and since then my ability to finish a project on time and budget is something I'm proud of.

On the money side I don't think I really earnt a lot more, I sure as hell charged what I could get. But the fact was there was a lot more down time/unchargable hours, time lost chasing the next project. I had to buy/lease infrastructure of my own, liability insurance etc... When I tallied it all up I think I was probably 10% up on what I was before hand but doing so much extra work. But I did enjoy it a lot more being able to actually sit down and do a days work.

I did about 6 years in total working for government (3 contracting) and Im solely working for private sector now.
Nice! I remember being surprised that .gitignore didn't do this.
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Seems obvious then to say that medical spending is misdirected toward treatment from prevention. It's a tough sell, though, because Americans, to make a broad generalization, don't like to be told what to eat or how to live. What we miss is that Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Beauty, Big Auto, etc. tell us what to eat and how to live all the time, we just don't notice.
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Late 1980s — early 90s, it turns out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion#Fleischmann.E2.80.9...
Sounds like a lot just for the Moon.

The whole Juno mission to Jupiter is currently budgeted at a mere $371.1 million.

(Or for $500 million, we could give a loan guarantee to Solyndra and watch it go bankrupt!)
Maybe something from System76, but that is the best I can think of.
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Exactly. I in no way set rates to hit the mythical 2000 hours a year number that recruiters love.
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Can't answer your question, but why don't you want to install Linux directly onto the MBP?
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Does auto-shared content not go into the timeline? If it does, then this article is absolutely partially about autosharing.

If not, apologies, it's hard to keep track.
The developer agreement indicates that only authorized payment processors can be used. AFAIK, Google Checkout is the only Authorized Payment Processor.

Good thing for the GOOG, too, because reliability and support is often so bad as to be comical (you'd have to cry if you didn't laugh--there is a reason that this comment is top-voted right now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3031478). I think a good many developers would jump ship to something else in an instant were it available.
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Heard about it, never experienced it.
Same here. I wonder if there's a convenient way to grab the survey in one big text file... just too lazy to copy-paste page by page.
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> Pointers are not ints. First off, pointers are unsigned data types. Also, on 32-bit systems, they're 32-bit unsigned longs, and on 64-bit systems, they're 64-bit unsigned long longs.

Just want to point out that "int" is not a fixed defined size in C++ either, it just has a minimum size. You equally cannot depend on the size of int or void*.
IANAL, but I don't think the executive branch has the authority to do what the petition is asking. The patent office merely interprets what Congress and the courts tell it - while there is some interpretational discretion, I don't think it extends to the point of rejecting all software patents and certainly not to the point of retroactively invalidating all of them.
We should talk, because I've developed a lot of the stuff you're doing (OTA distribution, analytics, crash and error reporting, bug tracker integration) internally. This was back before both TestFlight and you launched, and we needed a solution so bad that we wrote our own. Would love to talk further if you're interested.

Also, the line about your documentation did not instill me with great confidence:

> HockeyApp provides an open and well-document API which is based on HTTP and JSON.
As someone who has been trained in the law (admittedly by a large prime defense contractor) it's not that hard to understand.
I've said this many a times, over and over again, but it bears repeating - again.

If a one cheats on a spouse and marries the guy or girl she cheated with, that new marriage is doomed to failure. Sooner or later, the situation becomes unbearable and you either have an explosive divorce, separation, repeat infidelity, violence, the 'silent treatment', or some other unhealthy and dysfunctional dynamic.

There is no difference between lacking integrity in a marriage and lacking integrity in business. Facebook is a bubble. The founder, Mark, is unrepentant and left people feeling screwed over. He can deny it all he wants, the reality of the situation is different. He can even try to cover it over by his commitment to the Giving Pledge, but the lack of integrity and the anger some of his former partners rightly feel has not altered one bit to this day.

Sure, they may have made money and have gotten appeased somehow, or even 'beaten' in court, but this still does not change people's feelings about what happened.

Facebook is rotten in its foundation. Everything else that was built upon that foundation is bound to collapse.

The only thing it is useful for is stalking on other people's "Relationship" status and giving the wolves an opportunity to go after its prey when that changes or a sincere thought or feeling is shared on it. That's what Mark wanted it for anyway, since he never quite outgrew his adolescence, nor did he ever found God.
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Has the search engine been volatile at all over the last five years? It seems to me to be extremely stable compared to other areas of the web. Eric Schmidt knows that Bing isn't going to be eclipsing Google any time soon, I think that's what the author was getting at.
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I don't want this to turn into a huge thread listing all current NASA missions, but I just want to put in a word for Kepler, which to me could be easily the most important NASA mission going on at the moment.

In 1994 we knew of zero planets outside the solar system. Ten years ago we had a handful. Now, thanks to the Kepler mission, we're on the verge of really understanding how common planetary systems are, how they form, the typical distribution of planet sizes and orbits, and how common Earth-like planets are likely to be throughout the universe. That's a big freaking deal.
Oh, I know from following `koush` (RomManager, DeskSMS) on Twitter that Google's payment processing is a bit miserable. He's posted more than one screenshot of mass verification failures.

I'm looking at the Dev Agreement and I don't see the parallel verbiage to Apple's "Apps utilizing a system other than the In App Purchase API (IAP) to purchase content, functionality, or services in an app will be rejected". I can think of a fairly significant list of applications that have unlocks via PayPal or other methods other than Google's in app payment that ties into the Market.

edit: It appears to be in Section 3.3 of the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement: "All fees received by Developers for Products distributed via the Market must be processed by the Market's Payment Processor." I wonder if they're simply not enforcing it... Lame Google...
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This is a nice idea, but I can't sign a petition where the grammar is that bad.
Without a price shown, I did expect it to be free. Except that I know a stamp costs something, so that was weird.
Good lord, can we petition them to write the petition in English first?
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The US is still the leading destination for wealthy medical tourists. If you want the best medical treatment and money is no object, you'll almost certainly get better treatment in the US than in your home country.
Personal choice, for me Mac hardware run Mac software. And linux support of mac os hardware is not stable, except on Ubuntu maybe.

My MBP is old, the trackpad and the battery are almot dead, and I don't want to spend $$$ on a new MBP just to setup a linux on it. I am sure there are good laptops around here I haven't been able to put my hands on.
I think conventional wisdom is to cut features till you have a MVP and then you can release early, but have a product that doesn't suck.

Releasing early by skipping bug fixing you will make a bad first impression, and that'll pretty much destroy any benefit from launching early.

edit: Note - I am not saying sendwrite has lots of bugs, just commenting that launching with lots of bugs is a bad idea.
Members of congress != people who write the laws. A member of congress is the politician. He talks. He presses the flesh. He casts the actual votes. I recently saw that is it 70% lawyers, 15% career politicians, 10% businessmen, and 5% other.

But behind every congressman, every senator, and of course the President, is a group of experts. Every policy paper is written by a staffer. Nearly every political decision is made by a staffer. When they talk about a Congressman's staff, they are not talking about the intern getting coffee. Those guys are topical experts - usually based on what committee the guy sits on. Those guys are not dumb, and a lot more of them have econ degrees.

When I was figuring out what to do with my life it was become an engineer or become a staffer, I spoke to a couple guys in it. The typical road is go to Georgetown or George Washington University and get degrees in economics and political science or public policy, intern during college on a campaign or for a congressman, and then work your way up to a paid position. It's quite competitive.
Wonder how much hosting 30k free apps costs them?
Please consider my comment retracted (I can't delete it); Andrew did a much better job than I remembered.
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There is much debate over whether software patents encourage or discourage innovation. There are a lot of arguably obvious software patents (e.g. "Method to retrieve backups from the internet"). Since the USPTO only started issuing software patents in the late 1990's, some or most of these patents are predated by plenty of examples of prior art. Imagine if a movie screenwriter were suddenly able to patent the romantic comedy, or the buddy-cop movie and then use these patents to sue anyone who tried to make a similar film? How many movies would not be made just because of the fear of litigation?
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Dupe from earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3028999

Same complaints on that thread. We as a community seem embarrassed to sign something which has such awful grammar.
Anyone who doesn't have extensive experience with both is poorly qualified to comment, I think.

There are great things and lousy things about the US healthcare system. In terms of the people and the facilities, nothing is better. But the financial and administrative side of things can be a nightmare.
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