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If you put the right team together in the right environment, you can launch something valuable (MVP, prototype) in a weekend.

My main experience with this was a corporate hackathon where a bunch of developers just decided they wanted to build a new product that was different than the one we worked on everyday. That was 7 developers for 24 hours and I'd say we launched a pretty cool product. (http://www.metrodenverapartments.com/ , and about 9 other domains. Looks like the images have broken since.) Also, I was able to demo the product I'm currently working on to potential customers after less than 20 hours of development. At that point the demo was enough that people were willing to commit to paying for it.

It's experiences like this (and seeing others doing the same thing) that make me think these events have value. Here's a quote from http://startnorfolk.com/ (an event my employer and other local businesses are putting on.) Emphasis is mine.

"an intense 48 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business"

Where is the snake oil in that? My experience is that you really can do something awesome in one weekend if you get together with the right people. It could also form the basis of a credible business. The registration fee is well justified, as it covers food and drinks throughout the weekend. The $10,000 prize is paid for by sponsors.
This is not a "project". Rdio is one of the biggest music subscription services out there. They're similar to Spotify but they're web-based (no software), have a slightly smaller catalog, and have been in the US for longer. Up until recently you had to have a subscription to access it at all. Now they have this free version.
> That first iPod had a hard disk. Hard disks have disk heads that float on air.

Hard disk drives are sealed, you're not going to get much air out of dropping an HDD (especially a 1.8" one) in water.
It trickles down, particularly when it comes to someone as influential as Steve Jobs. You may not have used any of his products directly, but as shown by this snapshot, he has influenced an entire generation of great number of people, going beyond technology.

Some of these people take bits and pieces of the design principles and apply it to their work. Some of them take lessons shared by Mr. Jobs in his speeches or interviews because they look up to him, and apply those in their work. Mr. Page and Mr. Brin says they looked up to Jobs as model. Windows improved by paying attention to what Mac comes up with. Steve Jobs helped propel the industry forward, so even if you never used any of his products directly, it's a good bet you still benefited from his innovations.
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> When Pixar bought Disney for -7 billion it completely changed the atmosphere at the Disney Animation studio.

This sounds strangely reminiscent of Apple's acquisition by NeXT.
In a way it is a failure of the system, in that it is much easier to simply post the vulnerability on your blog or a full-disclosure mailing list than 'officially' report it. This could potentially cost them large amounts of money.

Why would finding a vulnerability give you the moral imperative to waste so much time reporting it? Especially if you're not a customer or otherwise affected by it? I know I wouldn't.

This is why companies like Google have a security issue submit form. Sure, some lower-wage people will be filtering it, but at least they will have had training to separate the important from the unimportant problems. And for a bank, security is even more paramount.
Design is really well done. Over what period of time did it take you to develop the site? I know you said 400-500 hours but was that over 3 months, 6 months, a year?
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It has to do with dilution and something called liquidity preference. If an investor puts in $5 million and has a 2x liquidity preference they get out $10 million before anyone else. That happens to every investor on down, whatever is left is then split among the common stock/options holders. There was likely nothing left or what was left was less than your option strike price.
I agree on the marketing being important, but I remember thinking at the time it first came out that the iPod was by far the smallest hard disk mp3 player I'd seen - the first that might be practical for the non-geek market. Were there others around that time that I'm not aware of?
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Exactly my thoughts.

TL;DR: "me, me, me, me, Steve Jobs, Mathematica, me, me, me, me, I can't believe how awesome I am, Wolfram|Alpha".
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What is with the SJ worship on reddit/HN? Apple continues to make overpriced hardware (compare to T and W series thinkpads xD) which almost always sacrifices form for function. Want to put an esata/fibre/ port on your laptop? - only one MBP allows it. OS X is a toy os for people who don't want to run windows (excell/MSVS) or linux. Sure, put the iWhatever in the museum of modern art, but just about any business-clas laptop will run linux.
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There are somebody compose that the future tablet PC will develop into a wrist watch shape and similar appearance. Design like this will more convenient for carry. We often catch the segment like this in the film with science fiction colour, which they obtain resource, build data bank and conduct other action similar with today we do in computer on a transparent glass wall, in peacetime it just a common glass wall but when in the run time it will become a powerful system and stronger than today’s computer.
I would suspect it has a lot to do with being early in the market segment.
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I don't think you read the article fully. The author has a SGS2 and while using it he realised that it was not as comfortable to reach the edges and corners as it was on an iPhone.
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I must have freakishly large hands, because my thumb has no problem covering any part of the screen on my Galaxy S II. My vote is with @ansy about keeping aspect ratios the same.
Hes not giving away any of his money, and people still worship him?!?
Having a black stripe and a few hot topics is ok, but what we had yesterday was a bit beyond rationality, imo. Keeping one's mind when someone we love dies is very hard and very important.
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After a day of reflection of the tragic news, I think we should all have a sense of optimism.

http://www.jimqin.com/?p=102
A good article was submitted a while ago, discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2059173 and article at http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html
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Here let me aid your statistics:

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I have always thought that quote was ridiculous. What is unreasonable about noticing an improvement can be made in your surroundings, and endeavouring to make it?

There is a grain of truth I suppose, vis-a-vis humanity's general restlessness, fixing what ain't broke, etc, but I think that this generalisation that anyone who isn't perfectly happy and satisfied with the exact present state of things is "unreasonable" is not true at all.
It seems like one of the prerequisites for a workable micropayment system is an overhaul of interbank payment processing system or establishment of a new one. I have absolutely no knowledge of the current system but I'd be shocked if the same system that manages $100k+ transactions and the risks associated with that can cost effectively process transactions in the <10c range.

There was a comment on the same level as this one referring to flattr.com which seems to be one attempt at a micropayment system. Does anyone have experience with this service or failing that an idea why that comment got absolutely buried under downvotes?
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As I read it, the judge found the defendant's remark to be a sign of wilfulness and systematic disregard for patent rules. The article suggests that the judge isn't authorized to tack on damages for this, but I question whether this is entirely correct. Kind of like flipping off the judge at sentencing is a good way to test the limits of judicial discretion.
That's only an issue if you have a real atlas.

AFAIK, the tz data just maps timezones and date ranges to offsets. Your different areas don't matter at all here, because the tz data doesn't care about the mapping of geographical regions to time zones.
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I found one today among Diana Walker's favorite photos.

Here's the link: http://timethemoment.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/11101713001...
Yeah, like everyone on the planet has the exact same hand size and thumb length of the author.
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Also, I am baffled by the strong anti-patent bias in the comments--as if folks assume every suit is a troll at work.
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"Without a computer that was an absolute joy to use, I would have never spent so many hours learning how to code and consequently now have the career opportunities that I do."

That's what Commodore 64 did for me (I grew up with it), and that might be the reason that I'm not the least impressed by any of Apple's products. Furthermore, Apple's conduct -- patent litigations, DRM, "simple" user interfaces -- it all goes against the spirit of opennes and sharing in the "old days" when people shared their code and hacks as printouts in computer magazines.

Steve Jobs may rest in peace, he did a lot. I got enormous respect for him when I learned that he basically saved Pixar, and that's what I will remember him for.

Apple, the company, could disappear tomorrow and I wouldn't miss it the slightest.

(I know I'll get downvoted by Apple fanboys, but so be it.)
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The cover of Chicago Tribune's Thursday edition of the Red Eye was strikingly similar to your design: http://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/redeye.gif

I can't imagine that they independently arrived at that cover without having seen this here first.
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Possibly more interesting is where you've put the centre of the arc, half way up the left hand side. As I hold mine, the centre would be over the bottom right corner of the screen, and at "maximum extension" my thumb is just over the top left corner. (I've got "Nash equilibrium" in the back of my head writing this... if I couldn't reach the whole screen, I'd probably change the way I hold my phone.)
The main problem is that they want to appear "low cost to join" platforms (compared to other app store).

But then, if you make something wrong (simply because they are not reviewing it...) there is no appeal.
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I have yet to se a UI system that is resolution independent (not even mentioning aspect ratio independent), that doesnt look like crap.

Notice for example how the buttons in Android seem to have the wrong dimensions all the time, they sort of look chunky or stretched.

I think Apple made the right choice with solving this with resolution doubling.
Siri will likely have a much larger impact on the future of technology than any other thing if it is indeed as efficient as it has been portrayed to be... but I'm not sure if the credit really belongs to Steve. The core tech was built else where, integrated with iOS by others, bought by Steve and added deeper into iOS by others. I'm a big Steve Jobs fan but this article might be "reaching" in it's premise. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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Title is misleading; only 16 dispensaries are thus far targeted, and many of them were operating illegally to begin with. Also, according to one lawyer, this sort of thing happened before, and mostly is the government trying to solve problems for the cost of a stamp.
I doubt you'd manage to get even 0.01% to pay for social networking. It would likely be more trouble than it's worth, compared to being advertising supported.
Weird. After reading this, I'm not sure you come from the same planet I do.

I literally had the exact opposite experience you did. I couldn't afford an iPod when it was released, so I bought the Chinese knock-off. Several, actually -- I worked at Circuit City at the time and got an incredible employee discounts on them. And all had horrendous software, as well as plenty of hardware glitches. The software rarely worked as advertised and I usually had to resort to some sort of hack or third party program to get MP3's loaded in any sort of format I wanted them to work in.

It wasn't until years later when I could finally afford an iPod Mini that I finally found an MP3 player that worked on even a basic serviceable level. I still have that iPod mini, and it works perfect. If I didn't have an iPhone already, that would be my MP3 player for when I work out.

If you're speaking to computer know-how and aptitude, I am a programmer today, so I do not feel it is my ability that held me back.
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Ok, nothing with EMP in TF2 except for some anti-sticky bomb weapon the Engineer use. Looking for TF EMP grenade in Youtube gave me videos of jumpers. You know the demo man can do all that and probably more?

How about Jarate? http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=19...

It's a jar of spit and piss that makes the lives miserable for the enemies.

http://videogamesrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/jar...
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I did this snapshot (we see more clearly):
http://i.imgur.com/pkT8z.png
Slightly off-topic but here's a question about patents that I just can't wrap my head around. Could you patent the contents of an RFC? If so, is it possible for a company to patent the contents of all RFC's pertaining to TCP/IP and then essentially own the internet?
Yup, Siri is a military brat.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/siri-darpa-iphone/
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There is also a compiler project here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/fstar/

And you can try out F* (by validating code) on the web here: http://rise4fun.com/FStar

And for anyone who has noticed my submissions in the last couple of days, I'm basically reading my way through the SIGPLAN papers for ICFP 2011 and picking out interesting things that others might like too: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2011/accepted.html
Every suit filed by companies from outside Eastern Texas in that court (or by companies who set up shop there for the sole purpose of being in that district) is definitely a troll at work.
Here's some unanswered Steve Jobs questions of mine I haven't be able to stop thinking about.

Did S.J pick the right successor? S.J built Apple as a machine he controls, optimised for himself, to build many wonderful products. The co-pilot is now in charge. Apple will be able to milk the iPhone, just as it was able to milk the Apple II, but will Apple be able to move on to the next great thing? How long will Apple's success continues for? Assuming it will continue for the next half decade, will we keep getting advances in consumer technology in the 10 years after that?
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It's completely off-topic (this is about copyright law) but here's an answer anyway: Patents are ideally about new inventions, which means that if someone can find 'prior art' (evidence someone was doing it before you) they can get your patent thrown out. (Ideally, extant prior art prevents the patent from being issued in the first place.) An RFC, pretty much by definition, is very good evidence of prior art, especially if it's a very well-known one, as all of the ones relating to TCP/IP are.

In the real world, things get not so much more complex as a whole lot stupider. Still, I think the courts could muddle through that one with minimal problems.
It's not just the HN crowd - I walked by the SF Apple Store today and the front windows were covered in post-it notes full of thoughts from passers by. I know we in the tech world followed his every little move, but it surprised me how much, well, regular people cared.

I've never seen this kind of reaction for the death of any famous person who isn't a politician/community leader.
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Hi. Author here. I am aware that Siri is not started at Apple. However, the point is that it will be finished by Apple. Steve Jobs did not invent cell phones, tablets or PC's for that matter, either. But he made them better. The same will happen to Siri.
Interestingly, google's book indexing project shows that the word 'fuck' used to be a much more popular word back in the day than it is now -
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I read some place it's because google's character recognition automation interprets the long S as an 'f' instead of an 's'
Hacker News: no other news on that day.

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With regard to your suggestion that Apple is the offensive party in patent disputes, it's important to remember that the roles of offense and defense are reversed when you enter a court. This is because of the presumption of innocence.

When a murderer enters a courtroom, he's the defendant because he is presumed innocent. If the jury returns a guilty verdict, he becomes an offender, and the roles switch back. Following the verdict, it would be justified to view the prosecution as having defended society against the murderer who committed the offense. Prior to the verdict, the jury agrees to see things the other way around.

Likewise, Apple brings suit because, in its view, its patents should defend their innovations against copying. Again, because of the presumption of innocence, Samsung (or whoever) plays the role of defendant until a verdict is returned. Should Apple win their suit, then (under law) Samsung will be viewed as the offender, and Apple will have successfully defended itself against unlawful copying.

Which is a long way of saying that, if you believe that Samsung has unlawfully copied Apple's innovations, then it's entirely correct to view Apple as the defensive party in this patent mess.
It's almost a perfect logistic curve:

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Here's to hoping that they learned their lesson the second time around: Disrupt yourself before someone else does.
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I took his point to be that the hand-size explanation is something made up after the fact to justify the iPhone's 3.5 inch screen. I don't think that's a sensible critique. Apple undoubtedly considered the hand-size issue when choosing the iPhone's screen size.

Clearly Apple's only goal wasn't to release a phone that everyone could comfortably operate. But consideration of hand sizes was undoubtedly a spec, to be balanced against other specs. The engineers probably got some ultimatum along the lines of: "we're only going to have one basic model, to maximize our margin, so figure out the screen size that hits the greatest number of target customers."

The iPhone is a reasonable size for people ranging from teenage girls to guys with pretty large hands. Probably too big for people with child-like hands, and too small for the big guys with massive paws, but very likely hits 90% of the potential market. I don't think the 4.3" Android phones hit the same sweet spot. My girlfriend probably couldn't operate one comfortably with one hand. That's okay for Samsung, which has a segmented product line, but not for Apple.
+1 for Pixar, -1 for NeXT. You come out even.
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Does this mean that you haven't seen a desktop OS UI that doesn't look like crap? All desktop operating systems have to deal with different resolutions as they have to support different monitors. Even laptops generally have a video output for a second, unknown-sized monitor.