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Unfortunately I had to quit the article about halfway through. It being a transcript of a radio broadcast made it pretty hard to follow, at least for me, but what I read was pretty fascinating, especially the part about the baseball player.

Does anyone know if there's a version of this that is formatted as a article?
I think 19 is the most common cut-off. I think some 20 still exist. So this 18 y/o QB may only get 3 years of eligibility. :-)
Maybe I'm being dense, but I couldn't gather from the notice the scope of the Italian law: Servers hosted in Italy? Publishers of said content irrespective of where it is hosted? Authors of said content? Would the website be blacklisted if it (loosely speaking the people behind it) do not cooperate with the law? Does Italy even have an internet blacklist?
Agree. What's even stranger is how differently we treat different types of deaths. Anything terrorist related is something that needs to be prevented from happening again, regardless of the costs. Yet as many people die each and every month in auto accidents as died on 9/11 yet we all accept that as the cost of freedom the automobile offers us.
The background image does not gracefully fill up larger width screens. It obviously can't repeat, but perhaps a gradient to soften the edges?
Considering how competitive it is if you have friends willing to vouch for you then do it, with so many applicants it's very easy for you to slip through the cracks whether you should or not.

Beyond YC don't be afraid to leverage your contacts in general, it'll help you succeed.
Geez, so many generalizations and false arguments. Some of you could use a basic reasoning class (possibly Philosophy 201 or something of the sort).
Exactly but seems like crowd here is completely oblivious to anything non Apple.
Post Gates Microsoft have just lost it.
I hear ya. I got inspired, I am working with an amazing team – a relentless backend engineer and ridiculously talented designer – and worst comes to worst I go back to school in a couple of years. I would always wonder "what could have been" if I passed this opportunity up, but if I fail at least I can say I learned a lot and gave it my best effort.
"The status symbol fades when everyone has one."

Exactly. Apple has not been a status symbol or part of the counter culture for YEARS.
Don't take my "back in your pocket" comment too literally. The CPU is going to go into low-power states quite frequently while you're using these I/O bound applications you describe, and the sooner it can, the better.

I don't think what I'm saying is controversial in the mobile industry. For example, here's an old article that has a quote about the effects of Intel's Quick Start technology from back in the year 2000 that captures what I'm saying:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2782/2

“"Intel has figured out that it is best to use full CPU power for a split second to finish a task and then put the CPU to idle as this conserves battery life the best. Although one may suspect that when running complex operations the CPU would not have time to go idle, this is not the case. To illustrate this point, Intel used an example of DVD playback. Very stressful on the system as a whole, Intel's quick start technology allows the CPU to "hurry up" and perform the DVD decoding operations and then go idle until the frame is displayed to screen and the next scene needs to be calculated. This saves battery life because, although the system may require 3 watts or so to "hurry up", the power consumption goes down near .25 watts when idle. By averaging these two numbers, one can quickly see how quick start can extend battery life."”
This upgrade reminds me of the upgrade from the Blackberry 9700 to the Blackberry 9780. In both cases: camera is considerably improved, processor and/or memory modestly improved, more interface eye (or ear) candy. It's no wonder that many people seem to be disappointed, given all the associated hype.

The iPhone 4 seemed like a huge step up from prior models to me thanks to a 326 PPI display, a much faster processor, and a variety of other reasons. I guess even Apple acknowledges this given the naming convention of going from 4 to 4s. Not enough of a change to warrant iPhone 5.
it's not an apples-to-apples (heh.) comparison, because Google builds their own speech recognition engine and Siri/Apple licenses the engine of a company called Nuance (at least, last I checked), and so their language scaling is limited by what Nuance can give them.
Can you tell me roughy how large your window is?
If it's not a unique disadvantage, do you really think it will affect sales? To overcome it I suppose they would need to find a more power efficient processor. MIMO is kind of a power hungry application what with the calculating a new spatial correlation matrix every few milliseconds. It would seem like the limitation will be universal to all other phones unless a phone manufacture buys some chip manufacturer with a mythical chip that solves the problem then keeps the tech to themselves.
20 hours, maybe more.

We hadn't been working on our idea for long, so we had to think about the answers to many of the questions in addition to writing them down.
Although the modern smart phone is to too great an extent a way for advertisers and vendors of time-wastes like mobile games and movies to sell to me more effectively, I do not want to go back to the bad old days before the iPhone when the oligopolistic carriers largely dictated what software ran on most kinds mobile phones.
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While I've certainly dropped it on hardwood floors for most of the drops, I've dropped in into ceramic, shut a car door on it, dropped it on concrete, on asphalt, on granite, and even onto my macbookpro, which was on the floor.

(I'm not especially klutzy, I'm an iOS developer, so am constantly handling the phone and plugging and unplugging it from the cord)

That little sucker is hardy.
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The 2 .NET shops I was in had a pretty bad way of commoditizing the developers working there (and thus started believing offshoring was the way in this, the year of our lord, 2011).

This also led to them working in bringing the code to the lowest common denominator level and was a frustrating nightmare. I was a lone wolf and when I mentioned that I had implemented a couple systems using MVC and jQuery on the front end it blew some of the developer's minds. It's a shame because the framework is capable of a lot, it's just the enterprise shops are terrible of taking advantage of it.

Needless to say, I'm not a .NET developer anymore.
This came to the attention on the foundation wide discussion list earlier today (I think this is the first time the foundation were aware of it too...) & I've been digging into it.

The law they are protesting basically says as follows:

- Any party can post a notice to the owner/publisher of a website or blog etc. telling them to correct information (and provide the new information they require) and this must be done within 48 hours or a fine can be imposed.

Obviously it is a silly law. Italian Wikipedians are arguing that it is risky for them because it leaves them open to receiving these notices and having fines imposed; and so they have shut down (on their own initiative) it.wiki.

There is a lot of FUD flying around... but as best I can make out:

- There is nothing in these new laws to actually blacklist of close down Wikipedia for non-compliance

- There doesn't appear to be a way to use the law to target editors individually (although as with many laws it's really hard to make it "fit" into how Wikipedia is structured..).

My own view I laid out here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/5630...
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Now wait a minute, is this a law or a proposed law? If the former, they're complying. If the latter, they're having a hissy fit.
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I don't understand how this is supposed to make sense... Isn't it just as possible for an Italian to be offended by something written on the English wikipedia as it is on the Italian one? Why don't they just shut down wikipedia as a whole then?

Also, unless their servers are physically hosted in Italy or they have a number of employees based in Italy, I see no reason why they should abide by this law. Doesn't China lawfully demand censorship on every website? Maybe it's time they move their servers to Iceland...

I can't help but see this as a mostly a politically motivated action, a form of protest and a way of spreading information about this paragraph among the Italian public, and I cannot see how this is in the spirit of Wikipedia's neutrality...

Edit: a somewhat similar attitude is present in this post on the mailing list http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/56247
>Schools do not prevent students from seeking other educators.

Except to the extent that locking the student in a jail for 6.5 hours every weekday would be considered preventing the student from seeking other educators.
This is obviously serious, but the "Wikipedia shuts down Italian site because of Berlusconi's "Wiretapping Act" title seems to be inaccurate.

The wikipedia page talks about a "proposal, which the Italian Parliament is currently debating".

It appears that the proposal is not the law (yet)
Hi Josh, which DogPatch Lab are you working out of? The NY one?
This is the fruit of my spending over 2 weeks learning Chef. It produces an EC2 instance with the latest everything (Ruby 1.9.2-p290, Nginx 1.0.6, Mongodb 2.0.0) and does rolling restarts of the unicorn processes when new app code is deployed. The deploys are nearly seamless, similar to the experience on Heroku.

Here's an earlier post on a more basic Chef setup: http://reedlaw.smashingboxes.com/Rails/Chef/2011/09/19/setti...
What this means is that Apple is opting to disable the CDMA radio unless it is sold to a customer on a CDMA network. They avoid paying licensing fees to Qualcomm this way.
>I find that anything that intrigues you, can be self
>taught and learned through enjoying your curiosity.

I sometimes wonder if that's a reversal of cause and effect. I've known many autodidacts, myself included, who've become interested in a topic and quickly hit a wall. The difficulty causes frustration and the autodidact loses interest and moves on to a new, easier subject. That there are so many self-taught learners in technology might not be an indication of our brilliance or natural inclination, but just this subject being the low hanging fruit we all grab onto.
yah, you here? i'm wearing the Princeton shirt today haha
This is a typical response from someone with the social skills of a child. But this seems too common these days..
You folks are so blindly enamored with the "free market" that you'll keep singing them praises even as they go about skinning you alive. Pavlov would be proud.
I guess it depends on the handicap, but presumably the iPhone is really useful for the blind: http://behindthecurtain.us/2010/06/12/my-first-week-with-the...
Why don't they just shut down wikipedia as a whole then?

This is an action purely by the Italian community. The foundation were not even aware of it till a few hours ago :)

I see no reason why they should abide by this law

It's a protest against an upcoming law that ma lead to Italian editors being fined for not editing Wikipedia to the demands of companies/people.
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I don't think he's complaining that there is no CLI utility by default, but rather that he can't write one other than by going through Quicktime, because instead of a widely accessible (e.g. HTTP) server, it has some proprietary driver.
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Of course what spins in the rumor mill could possibly be indicative of what future iterations of the product could hold. It's a well-documented fact that Apple's product pipeline is planned out for at least the next five years. However, my point lied in the fact that Apple didn't leak anything to quell overzealous rumors (which is customary for them - of course they wouldn't comment on it publicly, but Apple does leak information to journalists to guide speculation and hype).
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one of the best concepts i've seen from apple. yes, siri does not do all that, but, you certainly can manage most of it with all the apps available..nice find, nice find indeed!
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Intel does this with their tick-tock yearly processor rollout

All numbers seem to indicate that apple can't even keep up with the iphone4 demand more than a year after the release
It's unfortunate that all non-software industry companies are getting tarred with the ".NET Shop" brush, because much depends on the company culture and who is running the development group. I've worked in some great gigs (and one or two awful ones) in settings you might not expect to be interesting and fun.

I'm hiring at the moment, and it's definitely in the "great gigs" category. Bonus, as part of this gig I occasionally get paid to ski and climb. Not that this has helped me find good candidates yet.
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Who even has the ability to delist it.wp? Does the Italian Arbcom have the power to remove the wiki? I would have thought that only the Foundation itself could have made this call. It appears they've redirected every page (even those that don't exist) to the notice. This would seem to require a hell of a lot greater access than any mere editor would be afforded.
Very classical material, especially if you've ever been (as the author) writing demos/intros in the 80s/90s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene). I have many memories of writing basic programs that spat out sine tables, since it wasn't possible to compute something as complex as a sine in real-time.
I have an Android phone, ATRIX specifically, yet I recommend an iPhone to any non-technical person I know looking for a phone. The main reason I do this is consistency. Android has come a long way, but iPhone still has a more consistent interface to include the applications.

If they have questions any other iPhone owner is a potential support person. If they get some Android phone they either contact me, need to find someone else with the same phone or someone who is willing to learn the UI shell of a given vendor and where things are on that device.

None of this has anything to do with status symbols. The last person I recommended an iPhone to was a retired police officer who wanted something to get information on but did not want to deal maintenance like a regular computer.

After talking to him about the different approaches, including how iPhones prohibit you from doing things that are possible on Android, he was confused why he should care about not being able to do those things. He didn't want to validate permissions of applications when installing them, he just wanted them to not screw up his phone.

He was more than happy to give up some freedoms that he may never have used in order for someone else to try and protect him from malicious apps or to have everything "just work." I can't see that ever going out of style with people that could care less about underlying technology.
I think Java is much easier to learn because the online documentation and community is superior to C#'s. I've also found that you can't understand the entire stack in .NET because that information is often just not available. You could argue that this makes .NET simpler, but we all know that software abstractions leak. When they do, it's nice to be able to peel the abstractions away.

Oh, and Scala naturally lends itself to writing maintainable and bug-free code.
How often do cars break down now compared to 30, 50 or 80 years ago?

Major car failures in cars first 5 years fell by 1/3rd between 2005 and 2010.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/06/more-reliable-cars.htm...

So, I'd expect a lot less than 30 years ago.
For those in the US curious about their upgrade eligibility, use this link: https://buyiphone.apple.com/WebObjects/IPACustomer.woa/wa/IP...

I'm finding that I'm eligible for the fully subsidized price after only about 17 months from getting my iPhone 4.
So the game screws you over before you begin. It's like a car racing simulator where you start out three feet from a wall, travelling at 120mph. And every time you crash, the game tells you that this just goes to prove that driving is dangerous.

Or like playing QWOP and concluding that running is hard.
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Hissy fits are not unheard-of in the wikiverse.
I think that's what happened. I guess my meta joke was misunderstood...
Maybe there's a problem in my situation then. I've not yet found a job that was both interesting with "compelling" pay. Good pay, often yes. "Good" meaning I could pay my bills and have a decent life. But that's not "compelling" to me.

I'm not expecting "fuck you" money, but something that pays enough to compel me to be in a car for 2-3 hours per day commuting, or something interesting enough to compel me to move states.

We probably have different numbers for "compelling" pay.
The prices you saw are the carrier subsidized prices. The carriers buy the phones from apple and then subsidize the cost, and try to make a profit over the length of the contract.

The presentation was a little bit sloppy, because previous presentations would have footnoted that these were with a new 2 year contract prices, not "we're selling these phones at these prices".
iChat is XMPP.
The cost of 16GB memory is apparently $8. They are making a killing out of this.
I'm moving on from a (near death) 3G, so I'm thrilled if the disappointed fanboys stay home on launch day. It would be agonizing if I had to wait for months while the early-adopter crowd huddled outside of Apple stores to replace their in-contract iPhone 4s with the newest shiny.
It's not much, but I emailed the (Honorary Vice) Consul for Italy in my city. You can find yours at: http://www.nerone.cc/io/consulates.htm
The language Wikipedia's a fairly autonomous (which is good, FWIW, except when it goes wrong) with the Foundation trusting them to follow the core community ideals

As to how they did this; MediaWiki has a Commons.js that is editable by admins. They stuck some JS in to redirect every page to their statement. The content is all there; just "hidden". Turning off JS will allow browsing the site (I think).

EDIT: you'll also need to find a way to remove this piece of css: .portlet, #column-one, #firstHeading, #bodyContent, #footer, #catlinks, #siteNotice, #siteSub, #contentSub {
display: none;
}
The same law exists in France, as far as I can tell; I happen to have encountered that due to signing up for a hosting provider (gandi.net) originally based in France, which noted that particular law in their terms.

I can see how such laws could seem like a good idea to someone completely unfamiliar with how the Internet operates ("Someone is wrong on the Internet!"). As it stands, it sounds like a good reason to never host anything in Italy or France that talks about other people in any way.
I opened a doc today where libre office would crash predictably once i scrolled past some page.

The whole office software system hasnt evolved much since frameworks on my brothers XT 25 years ago. By that i mean it is still as painful, it sure has more features now.
iPhone 3G came out in 2008 - nice, because it was new - but yes, had lots of lag - better than the competition (at the time). 3GS gave it a bit of a boost. iPhone 4 was the first (in my experience) iPhone to significantly reduce lag/latency in most areas - the shutter speed was it's achilles heel (it sucks). I'm upgrading to the 4S for one reason only - Supposed zero shutter lag.
Well it seems like their trying to prevent a proposed law from becoming an actual law. Whether the threat is significant enough to warrant this action, I can't judge but it is a pretty effective form of protest, you have to admit, given that wikipedia is largely taken for granted these days.
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If the 4S is using, more or less, the same GPU as the iPad 2 it has at least one major hardware advantage. (there seems to be about 8 different models of Galaxy S so possibly one of these random models has a better GPU than the other?)
Some of their discussion on the mailing lists positions it as a strike in opposition to the proposed law.

It does seem to be generating some coverage in the Italian press, so might be partially successful if that was the objective (we'll see if that discussion does anything to derail the law).

edit: To clarify, "their" is the Italian Wikipedia-editing community, which seems to have voted something like 40-3 among active admins who participated to blackout the encyclopedia. The U.S.-based Wikimedia Foundation wasn't involved. Presumably the Wikimedia Foundation could force it to be turned back on (they own the servers, etc.), but so far are not intervening.
How about whysosirious.com
> and I still smoke at most 2 packs per month

That's atypical, the typical smoker smokes between a half pack and a pack a day. I'd even say you're not really a smoker, you just dabble in smoking.
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I am definitely not happy with the affordance on those token targets ... spent a couple of days trying to bend something together that works better, but I think I was lacking the critical insight of not using drag and drop for tokens - the idea of "click and select" could work really well.
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It's also worth remembering that the Kindle Fire's firmware is based off of Android 2.1. There are some major performance improvements in 2.2 and 2.3 (JITing, better kernel memory management, concurrent garbage collection, etc.) amongst a lot of other improvements. It seems likely that Amazon will refresh the firmware for the Fire in a few months, that will only increase sales.

As far as the market overall, it's effectively untapped at this point. Long term, tablets are going to be the dominant personal computing device. That's a market of, say, 1-2 billion tablets within the next 10 years. Definitely not tapped.
Be careful about the As Seen On YC link - my first impression was that you were in a YC class and it's really you submitting your own post to hackernews. Seems a bit sketchy to me...

I actually like the old design better. It has more character with the cartoon guy and the video. There is a pleasant color scheme vs a full screen stock photo of a mailbox. Maybe try incorporating the envelope input box thing with the some elements from the older design; the new design seems to be missing the human element, which seems important since the business is about people buying something for others.
Nice. But I think the ideas can be restated in a way that is not especially specific to Ruby. Rather, this gives us a way to judge code and languages (does the language effectively support the writing of unobtrusive code?). It also suggests directions in which the development of a language might go (improving such support).
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nerds haven't been all-about-the-Windows-ecosystem for a decade or more, if indeed they ever were.

Microsoft has had dominance over personal computing for so long because people aren't by and large nerds, and computers weren't fashion statements until recently.

and Microsoft's still trying to catch up with "computer fashion."