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The reactions here are pretty interesting. A lot of people are vocalizing disagreement with the authors experience. That's like disagreeing with my distates for tomatoes. I don't like 'em. Sorry, I just don't. That's not something to be disagreed with. It's my experience.

Likewise, the author doesn't find enjoyment in engaging in many of the activities that make a smartphone useful for many people. You could argue that his views aren't particularly apropos from a market perspective, but his experience is his own.

The article doesn't really get around to making any assertions until the very end, when it points out:

1) You're generally unable to seamlessly transition between smartphone/laptop while working on... something(?)

2) Desktops are dead; the laptop's days are numbered

3) Laptops will become carrier shells for smartphones; à la Motorla Atrix

4) Android and iOS should be working harder at providing means to "create meaningful works" on the devices

Some of these are problems to be solved (1&4) and others are conjecture (conjecture because you have to factor in that his experience with smartphones isn't reflective of the general market [1]). In general, I don't think the author is wrong, but some of his insights aren't particularly relevant if you're trying to develop for the broader market.

1 - Users of Apple devices rated their satisfaction at 811 out of 1,000 points: http://gizmodo.com/5377572/the-jd-power-smartphone-…
16,000 is a large number, but it's not all that surprising. I find myself having multiple conversations at once via text often times, and will spurt out batches of around 100 texts at a time within the course of 5 minutes or so. Teenagers with a social life far more developed than my own will without a doubt hit those numbers multiple times a day.

I think a lot of this is because of the change in mindset of texting. Early on, it used to be a way to convey precise pieces of information. Now it's conversational. People send texts with "um" as the entire message.
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The reckoning is clearly coming on this industry (daily deals / group buying). Just look at Groupon cutting their IPO in half today.

But the way this happened is really terrible. They laid of tons of people with no warning and no severance.

They did not have to try and raise more money at a ridiculous valuation. They could have taken a flat to down round, stopped buying other little companies, and tried to make it work.
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It's not a phone.

It's a constantly-connected computer that happens to be billed through what used to be phone companies.

I'm surprised that someone in charge of Android has such a regressive perspective on things.
I'm an engineer with a pretty keen eye for design, but I've never understood these font wars. At a certain point, whether your serif is 3% longer, or the loop in the letter a is downwards or upwards, none of that helps or hurts readability. What companies really need to start working on is their rendering technology. The Segoe family was designed for clear type, one of the most readable and cross-screen technologies available today. Mac OSX suffers horribly from a blurriness on non-Apple displays, and as unfamiliar as I am with the tech that underlies Linux distros like Ubuntu, they haven't seem to hit any screen right yet. ClearType handles bleed, leakage, contrasts, all seamlessly. Apple has only designed for their devices, so yes, it tends to look very good on their tech. Android gets the worst of both worlds: no good algorithm, and no control of hardware.
I recently converted to Fastmail. $20/year for spam protection and a 1GB inbox. For my personal mail on my Android phone it's gold.

They have a lot of nice features for configurability too.
the thing wouldn't even load on my dell netbook (AMD fusion) but was totally fine on my iMac
disclaimer: techstars founder here...

while the finished product that Bloomberg aired is not the most amazing piece of journalism i've ever seen, i don't think TechStars is to blame for that.

the TechStars ethos is to be open and encourage entrepreneurship. to this end, TechStars asked us if we were ok with putting ourselves out there to the world and we all agreed to it before the program started.

at the end of the day, 10/11 companies got funded, a few are driving great revenues already and all are on track to build great companies... it's hard to argue with that.

and if anyone out there learns from what we went through on the show, or is excited by startups or encouraged to go start/join a startup... then the show is a success.
There is no "topic of debate", there's just you making inane remarks and my observing that you're full of shit.
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At this time BuyWithMe is laying off 75% of their workforce

Technically yes, that's more than half, but maybe they should have said 75%. That's quite a chop and it certainly tells us something about (a) the finances of the company, and (b) the state of the group-buying industry.
I like this technology, but it's really a rare occasion that I've taken an out-of-focus photo. In fact, I can hardly think of one out of nearly a thousand pictures I've taken the last year, except for a few where I've used manual focus.

Are there any other photographers that really would find this useful? The only thing that I could gain from it is the fact that it looks like it has a relatively shallow DOF, which is a nice effect. But in some ways, it makes the camera feel gimmicky to me -- the DOF on all their photos is extremely shallow (aperture size???)
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I think Gruber seems to be a smart guy but all of his posts seem to praise Apple and hate on non-Apple especially Google. I think he says some interesting things but I just can't take the guy seriously. He's like the RMS for Apple.
> I thought it was interesting that Apple, who is usually so finicky about things being just so, apparently didn't filter or edit this data set.

I think it would be more accurate to say that Apple know when to be finicky. This, it seems, is a case of when not.
That diet is godawful, but it's probably a staple to a lot of Americans. Ugh.
I develop a little for the Android platform and yet I guess I'm not following the "Android Chief". Is he really saying a network-enabled, geo-aware, 64-GB-of-memory, dual-core computer in your pocket should be designed primarily to make phone calls?
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The age requirement comes from a United States federal regulation promulgated under COPPA, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act,

http://www.coppa.org/

and one of the most common workarounds for that regulation for a child logging in from the child's home with the parents' permission is simply for the child to self-report an incorrect birthdate. (It's usually a good idea not to have your real actual birthday on too many websites anyway, especially if you are a minor, as one's date of birth is one key element for identity theft.) It's too bad that a federal regulation designed to protect children often turns children into liars to get access to wholesome websites that are good for children, but that's what happens when a regulation isn't carefully thought out. One of the few websites with a lot of under-thirteen-year-old users that actually makes it reasonably easy for parents to follow the COPPA regulation is the Art of Problem-Solving (AoPS) website

https://www.artofproblemsolving.com/

(which actually offers even better math-learning opportunities than the Khan Academy website, many of which are free and a few of which cost money). I have three children signed up on AoPS; one is under thirteen and one other started at age eleven but is now an adult.
hello Comrade lol. Yes I am indeed just old enough to remember the old ways. Although, perhaps ours wasn't so much a failed experiment as the Soviet one was.

Up until the 1980s when the western countries imposed strict trading restrictions with Yugoslavia (despite our friendly stance towards both the West and the East) my country was an economic power in the region. Wikipedia informs me that our annual GDP growth averaged 6.1 percent, health care was free, literacy was 91 percent, and life expectancy was 72 years.

We were simply broken as a casualty of the US effort to overthrow various communist governments in Eastern Europe. It was by no means an organic/natural effect of our socialism being dysfunctional.
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Google Apps users could have signed up with a normal Gmail account (or create a new one). I dont understand the frustration that it wasnt possible for Google Apps since you dont really own that mail account, the domain admin can delete it!
Lots of spammer on Reddit
I find the Roboto font looks great.

http://androidspin.com/2011/10/19/miui-theme-itching-for-the...

Does Gruber have an urge to pick on everything Android does to make himself feel better about iOS? I think Android 4.0 brought a lot more improvements than iOS 5 did, but I guess he just has to find something to pick on.
This confuses me, maybe because of lack of additional context.
“Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn’t be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone.”

He just doesn't like talking as a medium of communication with your phone? Tons of apps that require input do not have the end result of communicating to someone else. Maybe he wants a neat segregation of 'phone' and 'computer' tasks and voice is a line for him? But then, I can not explain the voice features currently on Android.
Yeah, I killed my Google+ account today.
Yes, this would be awesome, particularly the time plot.
Going through those entries, it looks like he read all the posts bashing Roboto and gradually convinced himself that it sucks.
yeah i am surprised too that someone like the "Android Chief" would make a baseless and opinionated statement like that....But I will give him the benefit of doubt...It is very likely that the reporter quoted him out of context!
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> Every company was required to participate: the choice was (1) do the show or (2) drop out of TechStars.

Required by whom?

Sounds like TechStars signed up for a 'documentary' PR push and prioritized the filming over the founders. If it didn't work out, sorry, but I don't think TS can play the victim card here.
I would be quite thrilled if it could actually make phone calls!
Actual article title: "Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Building Momentum [REPORT]".

Actual WSJ quote: "Microsoft is working with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm, to put together a bid...".

This doesn't mean "Microsoft bids", it means they might at some point make a bid.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What makes DF interesting (or at least relevant) is that John Gruber tends to think like Apple does (as a collective). Steve Jobs even went so far as to use Gruber's rationalization during the iOS vs Flash debacle as an example of a well reasoned argument.

The short version is: Gruber is a good read if you want to know what Apple is thinking.
I see no inconsistencies.
I agree with all of your points, though the only one I can address is the LINQ for source code quip and amend it somewhat to an already possible "LINQ for codebases." It should, in theory, be just a few weekends worth of work to use Mono.Cecil (https://github.com/jbevain/cecil) to provide a nice queryable API to inspect an (already compiled) codebase. I'm sure some nice static evaluation tools could be written based on this that nobody's thought of yet.

That said, being able to inspect the source-code pre-compilation is a whole other level above and beyond—as a fan of the compile-time safety that statically-typed languages provide, any opportunity to eliminate bugs and complexity before the code makes it to a customer is a welcome one, and if Roslyn is good, it could be huge.
But what one employee says it 75% another "estimates to be about 55 percent of the staff"

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/10/19/canned-buywithme-employee...
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At least you can remain anonymous to advertisers in as many contexts as possible, and make the others work for it a bit. No reason to make it easy on anyone.
Many people, me included, use Google Apps for personal use. You get a much more personalised/professional email address.
I don't know whether they're lying or not.

I do know that Google has shown they can't be trusted to follow through on their promises of "openness" in the past. I know that the most recent public release of Android (Honeycomb, since ICS isn't out yet) was a closed-source product. I know that they did that for a reason -- controlling which devices end-users can run the software on -- that spits in the face of Freedom Zero. I know that Google's development process is the same one Apple has been flamed to a crisp for in the past (adopt an open-source codebase, do all your development in secret, and maybe chuck a tarball over the fence every so often).

I know that my attitude on Google and "open" nowadays is "I'll believe it when I see it". I know that there's an awful lot of rationalization going on in the minds of people who trusted Google and are now learning that may not have been such a smart idea...
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It seemed as if you were typecast as the villain/arrogant/guy-you-love-to-hate reality show archetype. Did you expect this during filming? Did the producers try to steer you into behaving in a certain way?
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They do paint her as a clueless girl when in fact reading her posts suggest the very opposite.
Before you got the dumbphone were you a heavy user of email and calendar information? I wonder if I'd miss things like that if I went back to one. I cut the cord with cable so I don't see why I couldn't go back to a dumbphone.
The chances of me typing my Gmail password into a page with that many typos are extremely low.
Great points. Resharper already does some of this.

1. ReSharper has a plugin to analyze cyclomatic complexity.
http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/ReSharper/Cyclomatic...

2. ReSharper has Call Tracking and Value Tracking.

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_analysis.ht...

3. Once again, if you are not shipping code to outside customers, you can use Solution Wide Analsys to find out unused code.

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_analysis.ht...

4. PostSharp helps you with your Aspect oriented programming.

http://www.sharpcrafters.com/postsharp/features

ReSharper is already very powerful, imagine if they don't have to write their own lexer and parser and can use the lexer/parser used by the C# compiler. I think they can build more useful features and users are isolated from bugs in their lexing/parsing.

I think this is an amazing development and I can't wait for this to go live so that there will be many products like Resharper helping us analyze and improve our code.

Relevant SO thread: What would you do with Compiler as a Service.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4222524/what-would-you-do...
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Right, but a majority of those non-English speakers in Canada are in Quebec speaking French. I can't imagine there's that much of an IQ difference between French- and Anglo-Canadians...
> E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Roslyn will be good. It has to be because from what I understand, the MS team themselves will use Roslyn in Visual Studio and other products. Roslyn isn't just a public API for others to analyze code. It will be the foundation on which .NET framework languages will depend upon.

See Eric Lippert (Member of the Roslyn team, C# Principal) notes here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/10/19/the-r...
Exactly what I thought. Horrible, but probably a good reflection of the average American.
FWIW I have an XZ-1 and it's the single greatest (compact) camera I've ever owned. I can't talk highly enough of it. I sold my 50D w/ 24-105mm f4/L to trade down to something I can daily-carry and while it obviously doesn't completely compete with the SLR, it hasn't left me "wanting" at all.
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Tangential to the point, but does anyone know what happened to the Wildfire virtual assistant? I was fascinated with it back in the late nineties, early two-thousands when it was circulating, but I can't seem to find it, which would indicate that it died somewhere along the way. Did someone purchase the company? Is there a spin-off product?
I think a phone could make a good assistant... but I am perturbed at these attempts to give a robot personality. Every screencap I've seen of Siri is people asking it "What is the meaning of life" or "I love you". Perhaps it's just a novelty and people will actually start using it for its intended purpose but at this stage I really don't give a shit what a bunch of algorithms thinks about some philosophical question.
Regarding Siri:
I talked to my Nokia phone years ago already. I spoke the name to call and it dialed the number. It worked quite good but:
1. People around me thought I am stupid talking to my phone
2. Dialing with the keys was easier and faster
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You think Google might be using government-supplied information to figure out real identities on Google+?

You seem like a pretty reasonable guy. I'm surprised you'd write something like this.
I have written a 10,000 word short story on my smartphone with a bluetooth keyboard. Sure, phones are not perfect but I don't see the point of owning a laptop after that experience. I think we are only at the beginning of seeing what is possible from a small, handheld device.
as someone who's tried to use Mono.Cecil, it kind of sucks if you're not already developing on the Mono toolchain (among other things, there's no interoperability between System.Reflection types and Mono.Cecil types, and even if you're on Mono, I don't think you can "vivisect" running Assemblies.) Microsoft has a product called FxCop (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb429476(VS.80).aspx) which does style analysis and linting -- however, the code analysis is all embedded in the FxCop binary and undocumented.

suffice to say, I'm psyched about Roslyn -- more about code transformations than correctness aids.
I think the form factor was by far the best design decision they made. Bringing one to a party will be a guaranteed conversation starter, vastly more so than if it took a traditional digicam format.

These things will stand out like an iPod in 2003.
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But aren't these just domain-specific languages? It doesn't make sense to compare them to Ruby/Python or C/Java, because they don't solve the same problem. It's like saying that sed is more expressive than C.

Can you write a web server or a source control system in APL/J/K? I don't think so. You can compare Python and C because you can write a source control system in both (e.g. Mercurial and git).
Lets say that in a system where you go to this huge effort to develop and then advertise a self-selection system (circles) that there is no wrong way to do pseudonyms.

Larry Page thinks without Google+, Google is doomed in 10 years

I'm a google fan boy. I use apps, gmail, gae. Today I deleted my google+ account. So if Page thinks that without Google+, Google is doomed, why (to paraphrase Vilos Cohaagen) is he fucking making it happen?
Quick $0.02: I checked it out at 8:45pm today and everyone was offline. While I understand that eventually you will have enough lawyers participating that this won't happen, this is a major hurdle for someone checking out your site. Think of it this way, I now have to remember to check again at a later time, and if no one is online again at that time I'm not very likely to come back a third time.

So here's my advice: Do one of two things. A) Create the ability to leave the lawyers a message so they can hit me up when they are available. B) Set up a notification system that will send me a text/email when a lawyer becomes available.

Otherwise, it looks like a cool idea. Good job.
I am trying to figure out how it went from decent looking typeface...

He never said he thought it was decent looking.
Google is amazing bad at communicating strategy — for starters even though Eric Schmidt has left the CEO role he still seems to throw a curve ball every other week. And when I hear something like this which flies in the face of the fact that Google is ahead of the curve with voice recognition I just shake my head.

Larry Page doesn't just need to clean up the product line: He really needs to focus on cleaning up the messaging about the brand. This is even more critical than ever given that they're in the anti-monopoly zone and that there is an eco-system of companies that depend on Android.
True, though I think this thread has done a great job of bringing some of the unmentioned-but-existent apps to light, more so than a few hours of research by the authors. Something of a side-effect, and one of the reasons I click on "comments" for many HN stories.
It's almost like people who aren't you can have different opinions than you.
That is still called shipping.
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Very curious what the final output resolution will be. Sure it is fun to be able to not have to deal with focusing until you are back home "developing" the images, but if the final output is 3mp, after you develop you are still left with an image too low-resolution for anything but screen display. In the words of Brian Peterson (Understanding Exposure) for any particular scene there may be many "correct" exposures, but only one creatively interesting exposure. Likewise, in their image gallery there is generally a single focus point that makes the most creatively interesting image, so after you've chosen that point at home, you are still looking at a very low-res image.

Of course, for shooting in the wild, some of their shots would just never ever get taken correctly by an autofocus system and would disappear before even a pro managed to manually focus. And many of us never print a single photo today, so being stuck with a beautiful 3mp image may be enough. They have a stunning image in the gallery of a woman standing outside of a shop, taken through the shop glass. https://www.lytro.com/living-pictures/152 Imagine if she was walking by, not just posing. You would never have time to capture it if you were using a traditional camera.
Good news, hopefully we'll get some cheap chinese tablets with 4.0 on them soon.