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Thanks for the reply!

#1) You're absolutely right! I guess I was confused between local file sync (which does need to come from your desktop) and "Available offline" (which doesn't). Help text like this doesn't help things at all: http://www.spotify.com/us/help/faq/mobile/#sync-your-device

#2) You're right again! Pandora doesn't show artist/name either. Apple's fault, I guess.

#3) I know what you're saying, (and I know this is the fault of the music labels), but this is a big strike against Spotify for now.

#4) Yup, that's what I've read as well.
Apple also does not bother to compete in the discount PC area. They just don't make a $250 desktop, or a $500 laptop, and Compaq and Dell do. So if that's what you are interested in, Apple definitely feels too expensive.
I'm almost with him on this: it looks like the amateur rocket folks are getting performance like von Braun and company were getting in 1939, but they have better electronics.

My thought is that any better performance will cause them to start to run afoul of various 3-letter agencies. Any better guidance systems will cause the US government to suppress them fairly quickly, as they'll be intruding on (1) the defence contractor's monopoly on flying fast, and (2) the government monopoly on shooting down flying things.
For Ruby, there's also Faraday https://github.com/technoweenie/faraday.
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I wouldn't call the 3GS slow. The 3G was slow, and represented a development pain in which we would do optimizations to suit the device. 3GS is plenty fast, and the iPhone4 and iPad2 are smoking hot rods.
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I've been a hardcore user for many years, and I didn't mind the price hike. I go through maybe ten discs per month, and use streaming frequently, all for much less than cable. If the raised rate had always been the normal price, I would have paid happily and not thought twice about it.

However, the split made me livid, especially with the implicit message that Netflix doesn't want its original customers anymore. While that motivation probably hasn't changed, I'm placated for now that they're at least keeping the service under one roof.
Just thinking about what you wrote; I think that it would be really nice if someone wrote a book for adult programmers about the opposite thing: how to get yourself out of the state of mind for debugging when you go home.
Were you also behind the Audiogalaxy P2P client, or did you just acquire the name? I loved Audiogalaxy back in the day - will definitely give your startup a shot.
I have nothing to do with this. I saw it and thought that some on HN might enjoy it.
I don't know the percentages, but when iPad2 and iPhone4 hit, we made a lot of money. Those days were like Christmas spikes.

Industry wonks will probably estimate the % who are new customers this week though.
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It depends how critical it is to you. Very few people I know use it more than face to face, or msn/gmail/other digital contact to keep up with people.

It's not really an invasion of privacy if your information is shared to your friends based on your privacy settings, and never seen by the advertisers.
Has anyone heard any rumors about when Square is going to release 1.0 of their android API.

I'm building a POS into some tablet based software my company sells, and I'd really like to do microtransactions without the $0.30 fee per transaction.
Thanks for the retraction, and you're right: we are not going head-on against "mobile-native-jshtml5" (new one on me, but I know what you mean). I'm talking about B2G at Web 2.0 Expo New York this week. We will work up our marketing as we get closer to first hardware product launch with our partners.

Edit: we are, however, trying not to make special sauce on top of the web standards. Instead we're working with W3C and WAC to standardize device APIs progressively as we go.
Everyone needs to get burned by one of these guys, so that you know how to recognize it.

There are some that are amazingly smooth and seem completely normal. You don't even notice until the tip of the knife is penetrating your back.
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While your comment is a great piece of rhetoric, I have to point out that nobody in their right mind would confuse a startup engineer with a financial quant. The quant has a much better understanding of statistics and probability, something you might not want in the startup engineer, who works in an industry where 99% of their work crashes and burns in obscurity. "Wealth creation" is a misnomer; wealth destruction would be more accurate for their efforts.

Fundamentally, the banks' role in the subprime crisis was to remove the incentive for lenders to do their due diligence before offering mortgages to people. There was a whole chain of "just take the money" - from the janitor buying a mansion, to the lender transferring the loan, to the banks packaging the loans into derivatives, to ratings agencies rubber-stamping AAAs.

At every level, money was offered, and money was taken. This is what this much-maligned 1% has done, in their own eyes. I believe this is no different from what happens to the 1% in the Valley. Witness the recent spate of startups cashing out. People on HN rose to defend (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3089634) this behavior. "The VCs offered money, founders have no reason not to take it", seems to be the general consensus. Pot, kettle, black?

I work at a startup myself. I believe things like Twitter and Reddit et al., while unprofitable, still contribute to human wealth in the sense of changing society and fostering communication. But I don't believe this sort of thing gives us the right to cast stones at the financial industry, whether or not they want to call themselves engineers.

We wouldn't exist without them.

(99%s and 1%s intentionally hyperbolic, just like the protest.)
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My biggest gripe is the lack of music discovery functions. MOG is a competing service and I find their artist radio functionality helps me find new bands I would have never heard of before. Spotify lacks anything resembling discovery functions and that's why I cancelled my subscription. Additionally, how is there no web UI for music playing?
He's not saying it's immoral of Google or anything, just that it doesn't help the rest of the programming world.
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No, you're probably not incorrect, factually, but if you're expecting a bunch of upvotes for a rehash of the kind of mumbled apologetics we've been subjected to since at least the 80's (eg. the world is better now that it ever has been) when we're staring down the barrel of a massive deficit that wasn't here 10 years ago and you've got home foreclosures and unemployment rates sitting at or near historic highs, well...
Has any of you read the title or the blog post?....the blog post or link is not about hall.com, it is about why he quit his cushy well paying cushy job to venture out on his own and put his email address out maybe he can give back? Again the post is not about hall.com
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The problem is in the definitions of "a little" and "the next guy". When "a little" turns out to be several thousands of dollars per person (when divided evenly, which it's not in a progressive tax system) and "the next guy" is every flunkie who took out a mortgage he couldn't afford, Solyndra and, indeed Wall Street firms -- then it's, if not extreme or class warfare, then intellectually dishonest to talk about raising taxes as if it's for roads, education and police.
I think it's 3 cents per a stream. 33 songs for a dollar. 330 for 10 dollars. Let's say 11 hours of music for $10 a month?

I think they're losing money on how many songs people listen to vs subscription cost. The advertisement isn't offsetting it.
Essentially for each web app they've crated buttons. Look at twitter for mac or Sparrow, they have buttons relating to each account.

When you add the twitter web app it lets you click replies and dm's in the fashion that fits with the trend those apps brought. It's the same for Facebook, techcrunch (tv, other elements) and hackernews.

It's a nice idea although is slightly annoying unless you're on superfast internet as unlike those other apps you have to wait for your internet to catchup.

I think this browser needs speed increases as unless it's the fastest browser or on par it has little point. Interesting idea but not intuitive enough for me.

People still use Rockmelt so there must be a market for this.
I am suggesting that one cannot at the same time be "100% sane", and be willing to kill lots of people. So no, soldiers are not completely sane.
Spotify is a really bad deal from an investment point of view. For each dollar they stand to make profit, the record companies will up their license fees a dollar. Thus, there's no room for profit in companies like Spotify.
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> But the author's examples and 'calculations' are just this side of garbage.

You spend one third to one fourth of your life sleeping. Just idling away time. Wait - a 10 minute shower everyday as well? And 10 minutes for breakfast? And a 30 minute lunch? You're wasting a lot of time. Better get your productivity a notch up.
I second that. Please share your secret. 28k people lined up for your product, and they have no idea what it is. Spill the beans bro.
This was advertised as a replacement for JavaScript. It turned out to be a replacement for GWT. False advertising. I'm wasting time reading specs and code samples and comments just to figure that out. I don't like being misled or wasting time.
A can attest that at my first employer (Britain's semiconductor flagship - well respected inside and outside open source communities), getting approval for open source libraries was a true pain. It took many months, with lawyers having to go over every file, and approval was never certain.
The side pane for history, bookmarks, downloads, etc is so awesome! I really wish I could do this in Chrome...

Basically, I love the left side of Raven. I don't like the tabs and address bar...
It would be nice with something similar for Twisted.
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I think the issue here is not that Wall St. should be closed down but rather that it should be better regulated, and when in doubt, regulations should air on the cautious side. No one has a problem with success, even if they don't make a dime from it. The issue here is when people who never shared in the profit, not even in the form of taxes, pick up the bill for all the losses ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatizing_profits_and_sociali... ).
What happened to HP-UX?
"Blaming society is the same as blaming yourself (who else makes up society but the 99%-ers?)"

Not the slightest bit true. Economic and political power are concentrated. That's one of the main gripes of this movement. The college grads who played by the rules and got nothing for it did not set the system up that way. Their plight is due in large part to the economic crisis, which is in turn the fault of the tiny sliver of the population that gets to gamble with other people's money.
From what I've read, New Coke also had more salt, in an effort to make people more thirsty, and thus drink more Coke.
Hard to evaluate this fully without knowing the requirements. Granted there are some terrible things happening, but it's really only part of the story.
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my biz partner (bobbybigtime aka brother from another mother) and I just recently submitted our app to ycom. a brainchild of ours that we have been cultivating for years and recently creating for months. this is the first time we are inviting someone in to our project and it is a weird but exciting feeling! Most importantly the application process and research has exposed me to a whole new network of people and information - very expansive and mind opening. Rock stars envy startups.
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Good job man, congrats!
Not unless my friends and family were also on the service, since that's the whole point of a social network - and since they're not willing to pay for a Facebook-like service, I'm not likely to either.
I believe they are calculating the 10% based off of registered users this time around vs card readers in the past.
Very nice to see this come out of Startupbootcamp in Madrid.

Congratulations to the team. And a shout out to Luis, Alex and Jose for making Madrid an entrepreneur friendly city.

Keep it up guys!
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That doesn't answer either question -- first you need to define what they're calling "4G" in those countries. Is it HSPA+? WiMax? LTE?
Staying with the norm worked out quite well for both Java and C#.
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Yes, that is a 3D transform.
Participating in art by consuming or by producing?

The latter has a pretty poor performance when done by kids. In the best case they go to music school/painting lessons and earn no skills and no satisfaction and no results; in worse case they show some promise and try to study art only to figure out that they can't live off art and they aren't that good anyway.

I was in the first bucket.
The apprehension people feel about killing others is a fairly universal thing that I don't believe to a purely social construct like "morals" (whatever that is).

I am fairly comfortable labeling "doesn't mind killing people" as sufficiently abnormal to be called "ill".
Yes, but under many common circumstances a lot of libraries load the DTD. Really should have used a different name space to make the idea more clear.
Dart: Not too different, still exciting, though.
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> These editorials carry zero information in the Shannon sense.

Hyperbole much?
I would guess that is an artifact of either the slideshow or of the pdf program.
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Looks like I should jump in here:

1. The topic makes a clear reference to his new project.

2. Promoting a new project in the headline and not willing to give any indicators on what it is all about smells very "buzz" marketing'ish.

3. Nobody asked for his email. From my understanding HN is not about penpals or mailing lists but about open discussion
I don't mean to badmouth Requests or Python in general, it certainly looks like an improvement, but can anyone enlighten me as to why an API that wraps an HTTP request with concise methods is #1 on HN, twice? This looks more like a good answer to SO question than "news".

This looks like all the other wrapper methods you spend 5 minutes doing, once, when you start a new codebase?
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"That's like saying C can't be faster than hand-coded assembly"

Don't change the subject. The topic is not productivity as you seem to imply here. Also, JS engines are not hard to track super-scalar CPUs. A compiler can target one JS VM (e.g., V8) but then you're locked in. All the current JS VMs have peculiar optimization faults, some worse than others, many completely disjoint across VMs. No one has a compiler targeting each to best effect.

Hand-coders can do well in general against current JS trans-compilers, but that wasn't my point.

The point is that if you actually need bignums, a JS emulation will be slower than a native Dart VM built-in bignum implementation.

"Most of this worry over runtime performance I think is a red herring."

The "worry" (such as it is, or was) was over Google's politics, not its Dart-to-JS compiler's generated code performance in isolation. Pushing a native Dart VM into Chrome, rewriting major Google apps to use Dart, then seeing if that creates market pressure for native Dart support in other browsers, was all suggested or even explicitly called out in the leaked memo. That was the "worry".

But it sounds like a native Dart VM in Chrome won't be immediately released, and the Google web apps written in JS or Closure won't be rewritten quickly. I don't know. Maybe you do -- do you work for Google?
Yep, the same. http://www.audiogalaxy.com/blog/2010/10/audiogalaxy-is-back/ and the About page explain the story a bit.
A friend (and coworker) of mine is working on an app that allows you to calculate your true drive costs... consequently being http://drivecosts.com/

If you're at all interested in this and would like to have a better idea what your commute is costing you (other than time) check it out :)
I use lsof a lot in combination with strace. E.g. lsof -p some_process tells you that fd 9 is the socket you're interested in. Then you can run something like strace -e read=9 to see all the reads on that socket.
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DVDFab has a free version built in called HD Decoder that relies on ImgBurn to build the ISO file. That's how I rip DVD on my Win 7 box. If you're looking for an encoded rip, then I'm not sure what your options are.
If there were essentially no alternatives, as with apple, sales would undoubtedly be much higher, wouldn't you agree?
As far as I understand it, each music subscription service negotiates it's own rates with the labels. There isn't an industry standard fee. So unless the fees have been publicly disclosed, it's a guess.
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> I understand why wordpress bloggers install plugins like wptouch. Small screens and all that but why the iPad?

The bloggers typically don't install OnSwipe, or even know that it is there. That's Wordpress.com's doing. By default on all Wordpress.com blogs, if your visitor is on an iPad then the OnSwipe theme replaces the theme you chose for your blog. As far as I can see, there's nothing that makes it obvious to the blog owner when they pick their theme that it is being overridden on iPad.

If the blog owner somehow becomes aware of it, there is a setting in their blog control panel that lets them turn it off.
Yeah same guys... They just spent the last few years pivoting if I remember correctly. I checked it out and it's a good alternative to something like Google music.
Essentially, you are correct. Lvalues can have their address taken while rvalues cannot. However, the Go spec doesn't speak in terms of lvalue vs rvalue, it speaks in terms of the addressability of different kinds of expressions.
Who in their right mind would trust HP as a cloud provider? Three CEO's in the past year. Each one completely different from the last. Can any customer have confidence that the HP cloud strategy will A) last beyond the current CEO and B) be better implemented than other recent product strategies?
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It's #1 because people vote it up; people vote it up because it interests them or they'd like to see more of it. That's the pattern for every link here.

We may agree or disagree with the consensus of the masses, but the masses make the front page.
Too much student debt is a reoccurring theme in these stories. Part of me thinks how can someone be so foolish to incur $100,000 in student debt without getting in marketable skills? But, the other part of me blames the schools/government that provide the loans and promote the idea that education, at any cost, is worth it.
Yes, that's clearly how what's going to happen. Revolutions historically share the single property that they're totally predictable.

And, by the way, your disgusting cheering for violent robbery is exactly why, even though I sympathise with some of the fundamental grievances of the movement, you will never find me expressing support for it.
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I would guess it was (a) because the store doesn't have that line anymore. Now it says: "Rabois says that Square’s merchants are now 10% of the reach of the Visa/MasterCard world."
I abhor commutes. Walking to work is the greatest thing in the world. That said, I think he's stretching when he says: "But this misconception about what is a reasonable commute is probably the biggest thing that is keeping most people in the US and Canada poor."

There are a lot of things keeping people poor. Bad education. Inequality of opportunity. Poor parenting. Commuting is only one of many. There article is definitely missing substitution effects. The commute may be reducing your working hours, but it's also reducing your TV hours. (And family hours!)

I shake my head at colleagues with 3-4 hour daily commutes. I think both their careers and their personal lives suffer. That said, the article has gone a litte too extreme.
In what way does a list of jargon teach programming?

Would you "teach cookery without a cooker" by listing ingredients? Seems very strange.

Also, few of questions on the language:

1) "and there was no one [to] tell her different."

Shouldn't this, typo aside, be "differently"? It's modifying how she was told. I see this usage a lot but it seems wrong to me.

2) "“Gether!” it said."

The others are repetitions of the sounds she makes but not this. Is this some sort of joke that I don't get? 'Gever' or 'get her' doesn't parrot "get there".

3) Along the same lines, some of the words spoken by Argot the dog-mouse are given as if they are onomatapaiea, but not all. He doesn't hamilton the word 'Hamilton' he only says it. This seems quite inconsistent and frankly as if the author is trying just a bit too hard to be like Edward Lear.

4) Does all the jargon also have a programming meaning, I know several of the terms as computing terms but also several more as non-computing terms.

Can you tell I don't like it. I love nonsense poetry and Alice in Wonderland (the original I think has too much prattling on for kids generally however), am a fan of books like Sophie's World, but this doesn't do anything for me. I'm not the target audience though for sure.
> Still, a forum for political debate that's both open and inhabited mostly by the reasonable and well-informed... I don't know if it's possible, but I'd like to see it.

Probably not: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
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I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. I thought the same thing.
I dunno. Unlike the Qwikster split, the iPad is pretty popular with customers.
Holy crap that hurt my eyes. Seriously, I'm going to start asking about client-side CSS soon.
Didn't you seen Sean Parker's email? Desktop clients are like, totally the way to go :-P http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3077425

Spotify's desktop client has a somewhat decent radio function, but it's missing from the iPhone app. I agree with you 100% that they're dropping the ball on discovery (What are the top tracks my friends are listening to? Where's the last.fm style recommendations, based on what I like?)
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