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To be fair, the practical difference between 3G and 3GS is huge, at least more so than between 2G and 3G. 3G and 3GS look the same, but the former barely got (insultingly bad) support for iOS4 and the latter one is happily running iOS5.
I don't use that many apps - well, the usual I guess. in metro underground commutes I tend to rely on apps that only use minimal connectivity. The official twitter app for instance, works well.

To quickly preview t.co and bit.ly links without slowing down to a crawl I built and published a minimalist app called FairyPreview https://market.android.com/details?id=com.fairyteller.linkpr... that I can only recommend :-)

Otherwise, advanced task killer, ACV for comic book reading, AndroZip and Astro for file browsing. And Spotify.
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Well, I started with slackware (well, actually SuSE when it was still a rebranded slackware, around linux 1.0.8ish), and I don't really want to dive into deep ends for my work machines anymore, I just want them to work and be moderately up to date. Ubuntu looked so promising at 7.04...
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To elaborate, writing tests can very quickly make you aware of shortcomings or clumsy aspects of your APIs, since it should be the first time they're actually used.
Even more important: You need to know a lot before you can ask the interesting questions. You need knowledge in advance about algorithms and tools to have an idea about possible solutions and thus what you should Google or ask stackoverflow about.
>I wonder how the FBI will respond then.

Like they did after 9/11, by begging for more power.
How is this idea even on the table considering current deficit budgets. Regular people don't have the luxury of pulling a fast one on the IRS and pay their dues.
More accurately, nobody's forcing you to take a job where you disagree with the methodology.

I've had to deal with agile whining for nearly a decade now. The only thing to do is ask them to find work elsewhere: they won't be happy on an agile project, and the agile project won't be happy with them.
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I would suggest Mint as an option, too. They have a version based on Ubuntu, and one built straight on Debian.
I signed up weeks ago, rec'd a few emails, but nothing during the past 8 days. Is the service kaput?
> The point that Chamath made is that the money is ONLY going to the founders and maybe some initial investors. Employees are being locked out of this.

You seem to have missed an important detail: the dividend was to 'common stock', without a full list of stockholders you can not make the claim that employees are being locked out of this.
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3 apps that haven't been mentioned yet but I couldn't rate highly enough:

Pubtran - if you're in London, is fantastic for trains and tubes.

Vignette - Absolutely beautiful and beautifully made camera app (lots of filters and whatnot).

gStrings - Brilliant guitar tuner.

Also worth noting: Pure calendar, Tweetdeck, Google Goggles.
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When you rebase in a dirty tree, it won't let you. I think merge should be the same. I manage a manage a large number of products, and from time to time I rebase and find unexpectedly there are changes in my working tree. If I merged, I'd not have seen it.

I really wish merge, by default, was disallowed on a dirty tree. Yeah, it'd be fine if there was a command line argument to override this behavior.
Or maybe he is hoping for something more elegant than plain shared memory, at the hardware level.
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I lean on the side that these are related events. These events seem to be catalyzed/centered around youth that are disengaged from any sense of traditional growth norms in their society and when given an opportunity, lash out against that system. In the Arab uprisings, that system was represented by repressive governments, in the UK it was the upward-mobile consumerist culture.

I was also under the impression that the UK looting was opportunistic until I saw the press around OccupyWallSt. The way these things sound from inside versus how they are portrayed by the media are worlds apart.

"A riot is the language of the unheard." MLK
I usually try the Readability bookmarklet when that happens:

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That would definitely help the economy and the budget.

And hurt other countries' economies. You have a strange sense of ethics.
Here are some of the more interesting apps I use. They're all free. AdFree requires root access, but the rest don't.

AdFree - Blocks advertising domains in /etc/hosts
AutoGuard - Video/audio records my car journeys in case I get in an accident
BackTrack - Tells you the direction and distance to a location you previously
saved, without using Internet access.
K-9 Mail - Superb IMAP client. Much better than the stock app
APG - PGP app, which integrates with K-9 Mail
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Prey - Will allow me to track my phone if it gets nicked.
RedPhone - Encrypted phone calls
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Perhaps, but the article mentions that it is the FBI themselves who are doing the organizing, seeking out people who had not necessarily taken any initiative to do anything.
We have lots of issues with Paypal, I run a digital deals network for designers, coders, etc and our paypal account is constantly having issues. Being told it'll take 10 days before we can send payments because there was an influx in payments to us. When we run a deal there's an influx in payments because obviously they're daily deals.

This causes a list of problems but we're going to eventually switch to Stripe or another option.
Color scheme looks to be basd on Solarized:

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Some of my favorites:

* twicca, a twitter client
* Tasker, program your phone
* AnkiDroid, flashcards
* Aix Weather Widget
* FlickFolio, sync your flickr photos while you charge
I'd like to believe this article. That there is some kind of movement occuring. But more likely people just get upset when they run out of money, and everyone is running out of money...
I agreed with the general ideas in its original rant, but IMHO the problem is not the POSIX API nor the C language (including "volatile"), those are both well designed and simple stuff, for the most part (the C standard library is horrid unfortunately).

IMHO most of the problems are about the other layers: tricks you need to know about the operating system implementation of POSIX, or dynamic library loading, all the subtle things with different binaries formats, and so forth.

A few of this things are easy to solve, for me it is impossible to understand how the libC can be in this sad state, and how the replacements and improvements to it like glib are also a mess. If one day I'll not hack on Redis anymore my mission will be, assuming I'll have another way to pay my bills, to create a replacement for the C standard library.

While we are at it, not C++ nor Objective C are the final words on making C better and more comfortable to use (but I think the latter is much better than the former at it). This is surely an area where there is a lot to do. Unfortunately "D" is diverging so much form C that it should completely replacing it to get mainstream: very unlikely given the role C is playing today and the code base. A backward compatible improvement is still what we need I think.
Also, note that the value of money is not linear: I'll take $500k over a 50% chance of $1M. In fact, I'll happily take $400k over a 50% chance of $1M.

(Interestingly, I seem to recall some research that showed that, essentially, owners of big companies tend to refuse $600k over a 50% chance of $1M.)
> one day they mess up the 'caught you at the last moment' bid and one of these succeeds

I doubt the FBI would provide any of them with real weapons and ammunition. I hope, at least.

> Pointless, ultimately wasteful and distracting the attention from real issues.

As much as I agree this is hardly the most effective way to deal with the AFAIK non-existent problem, it provides one deterring factor: any would-be terrorist has to think twice whether the helpful recruiter is really what he/she claims to be or an undercover FBI agent.

The poor misguided soul who would fall for such a trap should, instead, be given professional counseling on more constructive ways to deal with frustration and extremist feelings.
I've found those times people can't figure out why code doesn't work at all is almost always related to over reliance and trust of what the debugger is claiming to be truth.

It can be faster, but output (printf or more complicated state outputs) seems to always be more reliable.
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This is certainly true of mainstream politics. When it suits, the men on the hill champion causes such as 'family values', climate change, employment. If only they would deliver...
indeed it fails the "no politics" rule. Still, it's an important discussion the US should have with itself: whether such threats would be real without law enforcement encouraging extremists. Unaccountable law enforcement is bad for business, and, thus, it becomes a topic of interest for the small businesses.
I can't recommend Aldiko enough. I've found so many books in ePub format. (Although some seem to be OCR, as there are obvious typos.)
I think you misread what I said because your comment doesn't make sense in response to it. I just said that the FBI is publicly acting like terrorist organizers, making an actual terrorist organizer indistinguishable from an FBI agent.
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* PlayerPro for music listening

* Bankdroid for widgets to show my bank/credit balance

* mNote for SimpleNote syncing

* Aedict for japanese dictionary

* Google Listen for podcasts, but I'm looking for something better

* Raziko for japanese radio streaming

* BatteryView to keep track of how fast I'm draining
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My observation of this movement(in the OWS iteration) is that it is more about discussion than about action. Although there is a form of rebellion against broken systems, spurred by economic conditions, acts of protest come secondary to the debate of "what next."

In the same way that we embark upon exploratory or research projects, this movement casts a broad net to educate people and find consensus, rather than seeking hotbutton issues and partisan politics. In that light, the idealistic, open-ended messages are actually extremely powerful, as they are invitations to join and learn means of accomplishing the goals.

I see it as Endless September, version 2.0.
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The 2G was actually the first generation, and referred to the mobile internet it used.

I don't think Apple worries too much about what the numbers mean, and are just keeping it paired up with the OS version number
I am legally obligated here to post the Famigo Sandbox. Our app finds the kid-friendly stuff on your phone and builds a sandbox around it, so your kids can play the games thy like without them accidentally sending a text, getting on the Internet, etc. Then we send you an email with what they've been playing, and games we think we'd like.

Other great apps, gaming focused: the Marbians, Alchemy.
I don't understand why corporations don't have to pay taxes on overseas earnings when US citizens living abroad do.
Is anyone surprised here? Denmark has the highest taxes in the world. It's just one more thing the government wants to control.
I have found it 100x better in stands and the like, and really like the grip compared to the rounded edged phones (I have huge palms and short fingers, so that may be related to it).
Sibling I'll give you, but there's a lot of evidence to suggest that people choose spouses who are more similar to themselves, so I'm not sure how much of a role contagion (if its real) can play in this effect.
You mean like the tea party? (Not meaning to flame, but it looks that way to me from the outside.) Though I think masses of people in general are easy to manipulate; disappointed people just provide a certain attack vector instead of others that are just as effective.

On the article: I thought the article was annoying to read in the pop-out slideshow style usually reserved for picture galleries. It's also an interesting idea to suppose that all the protests are inter-related however loosely. To me that just sounds a lot like people fearing the end of the world "because we have more natural disasters now than ever" when in fact they're just being informed about them more.
I would argue that Google and Apple are the most socially responsible

Can you present that argument? I understand that Google does what it can design and build environmentally responsible data centers, but what else does it contribute to the public good?
Even worse, it ssays for Mac OS X Lion only (apparently according to the comments it should run in Snow Leopard). I'm quite sure an overwhelming majority of Mac OS users don't run Lion (in fact I know nobody running it ATM), and a significant part would rather wait for 10.8 because of all of 10.7 idiosyncrasies.
Dvorak is basically a guy who gets press because his name is similar to a keyboard layout, but actually unrelated to him in all ways.

He's basically a nonsense generator, and always has been. I feel he'll someday retire and write a autobiography about how he was trolling us all for his entire career then start a second act as a comedy writer.
Its doable though. You recruit over a number of years at a college, get them to indicate who their friends are and ask them to fill out some personality questionnaires and demographics. Follow them for their college career, repeating the measures and asking them for their closest friends at each time point (say every month or semester). It would be expensive, but its very achievable.

Unfortunately, anecdotal evidence is not particularly useful when dealing with people, given that we tend to reinterpret our pasts based on our presents among other memory biases.
Suppose your company is valued at $1M, and you own all of it. Your holding is worth $1M. Obviously.

Suppose now someone comes along to invest, and they put in $3M to the company. What percentage equity should you each now hold?

Simplistically, your holding should still be worth $1M, and their holding should be worth $3M. The company is now worth $4M, comprised of the $1M it was worth to begin with, plus another $3M in cash (or promises or whatever). You should have $1M of that, so now you own 25% of the company. The investor should have $3M of value, so they own 75% of that $4M total.

So on the surface, neither of you have gained. Except now the company has a shed-load of money, and so it can invest and trade more aggressively, thereby increasing its value. As a result, the company increases in value, and your 25% holding goes up in value.

Pretty much all trades and investments can be assessed like this, but with some refinements, in particular, factoring in the expectation of success.

Consider pitching for an investment. You value the company at $1M, you want $500K, so after the investment the company will be worth $1.5M and you will own 67% of that. Based on that assessment, you should be offering 33% equity for that $500K. But the investor will disagree with your assessment, saying that the company is now, currently, before investment, as not worth $1M. Perhaps they will say that without investment your company is only worth $500K. As a result, post-investment your company is worth $1M and you should each get half the equity. The gain for you both is that now, with the cash (and possibly expertise) of the investor, perhaps the company really is now worth $1.5M, so your 50% is now worth $750K, and the investor has immediately gained $250K (on paper).

The mis-match in the assessments of an owner and a potential investor is an area of considerable research and discussion, sometimes heated, but the above (very simplistic) analysis is a useful starting point. It largely matches the analysis he gives about selling to a competitor at $500K versus taking investment at $500K hoping to grow the company to $5M (giving him 50% of that, with a 20% chance of succeeding, making it worth an expected $500K)
He doesn't really give any reasons for switching, apart from the memory use and privacy concerns. I don't care about privacy but the memory use is a problem. I have 2 GB RAM which should be plenty, but Chrome way too often locks up my machine.
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Corporations do have to pay taxes on overseas earnings if they want to bring those earnings back to the US. As far as I'm aware, it's the same for US human citizens. (It's certainly the case for Australian citizens.)
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$120 million fund. 2% management fee = $2.4 Million a year.

$2.4 Million a year sounds like a lot initially, but when you consider local salaries and costs associated with this. You might think that VC's make tons of money, but when you consider that the $2.4 Million has to fund their entire business, and when you look at how the costs break down, it starts to look a bit more reasonable.

Here's how those costs break down:

Office space on Sand Hill Road:
5000 sq ft @ $60sq ft / year = $300,000
3 exec admins @ $ $80k / year = $240,000
2 Associates @ $150k / year = $300,000
2 Analysts @ $100k / year = $200k
4 partners @ $300k / year = $1.2M
Marketing / sponsoring events @ $100k / year
Legal fees @ $300k / year

Now, when you exclaim that a $300k salary is exorbitant, consider that most engineering managers in Silicon Valley make about that much. $300k will allow you to purchase a house in San Jose ($500k for an average house in the burbs), but it won't let you purchase anything in Palo Alto (over $1M, easy. Monthly payments are around $7k).

Nurses working the night shift in Silicon Valley make around $150k a year without working tons of overtime. Firemen and policemen make about the same. An ER tech at a hospital makes about $70k.

Add to that, that most partners and associates at VC firms will end up working 80 to 100 hours a week. So, partners will end up having an hourly wage of about $75 an hour, which is what PHP contractor will make in the area. A decent Rails contractor will bill about $150.

So, when you break it down, the greedy blood sucking vampire VC's... really don't make as much as it's made out to be. A number of them are actually pretty nice, and great people to have a beer with. And, it's actually a pretty hard job.

Full Disclosure: I haven't made a penny from VC's. I've had a couple sponsor events for Hackers & Founders, and a number of them have been really helpful in teaching me the ropes of Silicon Valley.
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Apps that haven't been mentioned yet that I use:

- Hacker News Droid - HN Reader
- Hooopla - to find out fun activities going on nearby
- Todo.txt Touch - can be synced and edited on all my computers, and used the cl
- Opera Mobile
I've done quite a bit of work with Hyperion - mostly by building a replacement reporting engine (which, I have to say, is wildly better than Hyperion's own report generator).

I've done a fair amount of thinking about building a "better Hyperion" - but as I don't have an accounting background I've never progressed it very far.
That looks very nice, especially the TOC. I'd love to see it have a file-browser too similar to TextMate's, which is very nice if you like to organize MMD notes/docs in different files and folders.
This article is a little too light on details.

In particular Kod seems to have stagnated completely, there has been no updates to the source tree since June 20th, and even before that the updates were very light. Kod is an interesting idea, but in it's current state I didn't find it very usable.
There's exactly zero discussion about the relevance of the story to HN community here (small business or otherwise), there are plenty of websites to discuss politics for those who want to. Let's not make this one of them.
on a nexus one running cyanogen:

stuff i use:

* dropbox (for accessing keepass)

* keepass

* beyondpod (for podcasts, it's meets my stream/download needs but there's probably better written apps out there. for those looking, just pay for a good one instead of wasting your time getting frustrated with the free ones)

* rhapsody (music)

* gcalwidget (might have mispelled this)

* yelp

* google voice

* renderFX widgets at night. I'm a f.lux fan.

stuff i formerly used:

* gtasks (I've moved to trello, which has a mobile webapp, hope they make an offline mobile app)

One big thing to note is that I use far less apps than i used to, but this maybe because I can easily tether my phone and quickly open up my macbook to do things. I even preferred checking yelp via my laptop in the car during my last roadtrip. That said, I'm burning to get either an ipad or a thinkpad tablet soon as a book-reader/travel-laptop-second-screen/drawing tablet.

I've also never liked typing on a small keyboard.
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100% agree with his conclusion. For textmate fans who havent been able to make the jump to vim or emacs, try sublime text 2. It blows away textmate in every dept, and is incredibly extendable. Theres nothing out there thats more powerful (aside from vim/emacs)
Links need to fade in down-voted comments. As is, the contrast makes them more prominent.
Awesome, Firefox can run a demo from 2009!

I have to say, as a web developer who is permitted to make stuff that only works in Safari, I really really love WebKit.
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I would think that issues of entrapment and the idea of attacking buildings using explosive filled remote controlled planes would be of suitable interest to the hacker community.
> I doubt the FBI would provide any of them with real weapons and ammunition. I hope, at least.

If that's true then 'Your honour, the weapons were non-functional, I already knew that' would be a pretty good defense.

> The poor misguided soul who would fall for such a trap should, instead, be given professional counseling on more constructive ways to deal with frustration and extremist feelings.

Exactly. If the FBI has such a foolproof method of detecting radicals they should use that knowledge in a constructive way, rather than to push those individuals into a position where they will hate the country even more.
Eclipse.org Aptana has a plugin for editing markdown, but i don't remember coming across a live preview feature. Usually use Dingus for preview http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus so i'm gonna give this app a go in about 15m