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If the NFL fixed a game then their would be issues in Las Vegas and DC because of the betting. beyond that, the damage done to their reputation would end the league.
My Mac mini doesn't have an optical media drive and I bought a super drive to go with it but I admit, I hardly use it (just for ripping my audio CDs into iTunes and some photo backups).

When the internet speeds are fast downloading becomes the easiest option.
Great companies focus on their products and understand that their employees are a key part of the team. Passionate employees will work their tails off for something they believe in. Too bad the CEO wasnt passionate about the employees or actual products.
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I agree with you on the keyboard. There are a few decent Android models out with slider hardware keyboards. The Samsung Epic is fairly good.
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> But requiring a real name, tells me that google doesn't just want to track me to advertise to me. They want to correlate my online activities with my offline identity.

Do you then conclude the same thing about Facebook, which has had a "real names" policy since basically forever?

"Facebook has always been based on a real-name culture. We think this leads to greater accountability and a safer and more trusted environment for our users." --Facebook spokesman Simon Axten, 2009

Is it possible that Google's social networking platform is following this principle for the same reason, and not because of some dastardly plan to build a dossier about you?

I still don't understand why Facebook gets a pass on this issue, when they have had a "real names" policy for much longer.
Groupon cut their IPO by more than half to $10-11b from $25-30b. If you think its bad that they laid off 75% of their employees wait until Groupon has to lay off a good portion of their 10k +- sales force. Through being in the business, understanding Groupons financials and the market I have a hard time believing they are worth more than a few billion. The market requires a large on the ground sales force (expensive) and huge marketing expenditures to keep and gain new customers who are not loyal. Groupon may be better off pivoting into some sort of social network as they do have >100mm subs. What about Living Social? Their recent valuation was in the billions but not hearing much about them.
Why are the only two choices Silverlight or Flash? In this day and age there is no reason to be putting up Internet video that mobile devices can't access, especially if the Silverlight/Flash player is just wrapping a H.264 stream.
True but then you have to sync data between the two devices. Although this might change in the future, there is currently probably not a hassle-free way to sync all of one's persistent data without an expensive mobile data plan for the netbook.
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I don't see an email in your profile ...
It's the Eric Lefkowsky model.. Grow as fast as possible at an unsustainable rate in an unproven market and take be money and run.
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A splash screen? Seriously? You're recommending a studio that employs a splash screen?
I never realized Chrome blocked some specific ports. Makes sense I guess - but I'll have to remember not to run a webserver on those ports.
Multiple reasons imho: They got a great deal from Microsoft that Google wasn't willing to match, the OS is beautiful, plenty of existing Xaml developers, great platform + language and better tooling than Android or iOS.
The consoles and iOS are great game targets because they are standard (consoles) or have a limited variation set (iOS). I see a lot more software every day in the Mac App store, and verticals are still more PC than any online version.
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I think they will receive your Amazon package, for example, unpack‡, and repackage and relabel to your JP address.

‡I think that's to ensure nothing banned by the destination country gets sent (and get the shipper in trouble). Anyhow, buyer beware.
At first you might think "why should Chrome protect people who forget to firewall their intranet?" but the real problem browsers are defending against is some page doing a million <img src='http://10.0.0.1:139>; against an internal service that doesn't handle it well. (Or worse, a POST.)

(PS: HN shows extra characters than what I typed in that HTML. Might be an XSS vulnerability in there.)
Many thanks for the kind words. We had a great time making the video, even though I had to personally suffer some great indignities during the filming:

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His comment reminds me of that old adage that when trucking took over, railways would not have gone bust if they had known they were in the shipping business rather than the railway business.

Feature phones are communication devices that just happen to have basic computing features. Smartphones are pocket computers that just happen to have phone functionality. At least based on my own anecdotal observations of my friends, who primarily use them for apps, games and messaging and only rarely to make a phone call.

IMHO, If I were to take the various form factors of todays computers and rename them according to observed, contemporary, use case it would be more like:

smartphone -> personal computer

tablet -> family computer

laptop -> work/study/office computer

desktop -> room/workstation computer
Actually, in your case it is precisely the arguer who can be dismissed, while leaving the argument alone, maybe to be picked up by someone else without the vested interest.

Surely you can recognize how your financial relation to Flurry colours your comments about them?
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I don't know about that.

Most people I've worked with over the years have understood their limitations and would never consider themselves great, with the possible exception of half a dozen or so folks, who truly are great.

There have, of course, been exceptions, too.
Must be a Manhattan thing. Life moves fast there huh?
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Varies pretty heavily and could be many years. Check all the wrangling when Apple bought P.A. Semi. The DoD contracts can go on for more than a decade.
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Yes.

Typically there are 3 tiers of graduate program by coursework (certificate, diploma, masters) and 2 tiers of graduate program by research (masters, Ph.D). Universities may offer none or all of these programs under different names.

There is sometimes another tier by coursework called a "diploma for graduates" which differs from a graduate diploma in that it is usually at the undergraduate level, and very occasionally you see a Ph.D by coursework.

Stanford also offers professional certificates through SCPD which are entirely distinct from their graduate program being targeted towards the continuing education market.
But still, forcing companies to do something or drop out? That is not how an accelerator should treat its companies, like they were your bosses. The only boss a startup should have is its customers, and now TS, due to its poor judgement has done the opposite of what it was meant to do. Not only do they make poor calls, but they also bulley founders?
The word "ballistics" is not a synonym for "weapons".

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My 4 years old computer still runs very well. I can also run newest pc games without problems. My video card relative power with the newest generation of console hasn't changed. I don't see why I would buy a new PC.

While PC sales might trend downward, I'm pretty sure that pc use is not.
I agree. I think charity is the wrong word. There is something between blind greed and charity, and that something is applicable here.
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You can place bets on professional wrestling (http://www.covers.com/articles/articles.aspx?theArt=228164), and I doubt Vegas would mind.

Moreover there have been several politically-beneficial wins in the last 10 years -- the Patriots winning the Super Bowl after 911, the Saints winning it after Katrina, the Jets winning this year's Sunday night opener on the 10th anniversary of 911, in a metaphorical come-from-behind victory -- did you see how that game went down?

In the Jets game, Romo literally had to throw the game away in the 4th to lose it, and then his reputation was restored the next two weeks after two dramatic, media-hyped come-from-behind victories while playing with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
It's amazing to think that given enough time, a small light sensitive splotch on a cell wall can turn into that.
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As a legitimate technical matter, the title of this article is downright misleading, and it was made that way intentionally. This is clearly not a case of a bunch of random app picks that all just happened to be iOS apps. The title drew a conclusion that is wholly unsupported by the article, there is no "secret iOS business". The title is also the most important line in the article, it doesnt matter if the author admitted his guilt later.

My like or dislike of iOS has nothing to do with this, I simply want to find links to higher quality, more honest content on HN. Next time consider keeping your unsolicited advice to yourself.
>He could have even blown some of it on US festivals with Wozniak and still lived well.

Woz had a near-death plane crash and lost his memory for several weeks prior to the festival stuff. Kind of hard to judge him comparatively like this, maybe he wasn't capable of the type of work he did at Apple prior to the crash anymore.
That could also be a sign that you work in an industry that doesn't change very much.
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Precisely. While I'm sure Steve communicated with Cook the day before he died (he knew he was dying - the PA police had been notified), and I don't doubt he expressed his last ideas for the future of Apple, I'm sure he was far more concerned with more transcendent things than the pixel density of the iPhone 5. Steve was not a shallow man.

Given that Cook no doubt knew Steve was about to die, I don't think it's reasonable to think he would tell the truth. Just imagine what he might have said if he had.
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That's a misleading summary! Under the OP's proposal, you will be able to boot any OS from removable media. Furthermore, if the vendor of the OS follows some simple instructions (involving placing a key in a certain file), the BIOS will ask you if you want to permit future boots -- from removable and non-removable media -- of that OS. So for example once you have booted Ubuntu from removal media and answered yes to the question, from then on you will be able boot any version of Ubuntu from any (removable or non-removable) volume without being peppered with any more secure-boot-related questions.

Although some PC vendors might not implement the proposal, you can say that of any proposal.

Very good proposal IMHO.
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It's the correct meaning, as indicated by the solution on p. 430. You're thinking not of -B but of the inverse of B, which is denoted B^-1 ("B to the power of -1") and when multiplied by B gives I.
It had a lot of momentum building, but then Motorola bought 280 North and killed off Atlas and it seemed to lose steam pretty fast. (I mean, not to say it's out for the count. Just that its growth has tapered off and other technologies have sort of taken its place in the zeitgeist.)
This is seriously silly.

I agree with the other poster that I normally see sane things written by you, so I don't totally understand where this is coming from. Moreover, why is this being held to the top of this comment section? (I guess the subject brings in people that agree) To respond:

First, it doesn't follow at all that the only reason to include a real name is to correlate online activity with your real life person. For instance, the reasoning could be exactly what they are saying it is.

Now, there's no reason to trust corporations (large or small, startups certainly aren't white knights in this area), but that does not preclude that as a possible answer.

Second, do you honestly think, after keeping your email account with google for (presumably) 7 years and doing every single web search through them for 11 years that they need some "authoritative method" to figure out your identity?? I could see if you're starting an account today, but your conclusion here just makes no sense at all. You trusted a freaking privacy policy for all these years, but now that they offer pseudonyms for google+ accounts, the only possible conclusion is that they are now partners with the NSA to do....some unspecified evil?

I'm trying to stay civil here, but I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
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I call bullshit.

Sure, they have found a couple of Android screens that have squares on them, and it is true that both Microsoft and Google are rejecting the "analogy" approach for UI that Apple has embraced. But that is as far as it goes.

Look at the Android lock screen or the start screen and you'll see they are totally different. Android simply doesn't use the card-based metaphor that Windows uses.

(Also, note that Duarte came from Palm - surely it would be more interesting to see how WebOS influenced Android than Windows did?)
Yes, it seems that although hardware acceleration was possible prior to Android 3, it wasn't as easy as it is now. It also requires a degree of care to be taken by the dev to do well.

Given that it hasn't been available in phones until now (that is, in ICS), it’s understandable why we've seen laggy UI.

Source: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/android-30-ha...
Port 79 doesn't work. What port is that?
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I think the bigger issue, which I don't see raised in the article (apologies if I missed it) is that PCs are cheap. That's a lot of what I wrote about in http://jseliger.com/2011/10/09/desktop-pcs-arent-going-anywh... . In addition, if you're someone who mostly uses a computer for reading e-mail, looking at FB, and watching YouTube videos, practically any computer made in the last five to maybe ten years will be just fine for what you're doing. So why would you buy a new one?
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The way you define altruism, would be the correct way to describe what Jobs did. Even though he was ousted from Apple he continued to work on his passion. His actions were at its core self-serving. The side-effects were the good things he added to humanity.
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Port 79: Finger
What a condescending piece of junk. It serves absolutely no other purpose than to make programmers who do grok everything mentioned feel good about themselves.

Worse yet, programmers who could actually benefit from an article like this (i.e. programmers who shouldn't be programmers) won't understand it. E.g. "(Functional) Creating multiple versions of the same algorithm to handle different types or operators, rather than passing high-level functions to a generic implementation" - a bad programmer won't understand what is meant here, so he will simply skip over it and not get the hint.

Finally, I find the notion that you can't be a good programmer if you've never really used Lisp laughable.
If you weren't already intrigued about learning to program prior to this startup (and already doing something about it), the answer is 'no'.

You need a technical co-founder, or a technical partner/adviser you trust that can help guide development. What you miss with a development agency/contractor-only approach is the critical technical feedback loop and iterations that strengthen and develop your idea that you'd typically do with that co-founder. Agencies/contractors will say 'yes' to what you want (and are happy to take your money), absent the really rich and valuable feedback and collaboration you get from a technical partner who has a vested interest in a shared vision.

You are only 2 hours away from Raleigh which I understand is pretty good for for tech talent. (http://www.fastcompany.com/1699323/why-you-should-start-a-co...). Maybe set up shop there?
I agree with you nirvana. I have been using Google search for 12 years and Gmail for 7 years. But recently Google has been trying to do each and everything.

Google+ tied with enormous Google adsense+display ads reach is scary. Google has recently started putting +1 button on their display ads. And may be soon they will put +1 button on text ads. And then any site you visit with Google ads, Google will know who you are.

More and more I am feeling Google's focus is ads not social, mobile, etc. Google+ and Android is just there to reach out and target ads better, which makes me sick :(
You're trying too hard. People usually do that when they're defending someone they know is guilty. People usually just let the facts speak for themselves.
The carrier takes the latest version of Android, and they put all of their proprietary code on it. For example, Sprint makes sure their NASCAR, NFL, Sprint Zone, and Sprint TV works on it, as well as disabling tethering without the plan addition. This is in addition to whatever modifications the handset maker needs to make (e.g. HTC Sense UI, Facebook for HTC Sense, HTC Friendstream, HTC Footprints, etc.). Given all that is required to upgrade to the latest version of Android, sometimes it makes more sense to work on a new phone.
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"bringing computing to the masses."

The masses in the West. You don't see to many Mac's running around Africa, India, China, or Russia.

I'm not trying to belittle Steve Jobs at all. He was a visionary who had a stunning ability to spot and develop good products. It made him, and others VERY wealthy. And powerful.

But don't think for a minute Mr Jobs did it out of the goodness of his heart. Profit and his vision motivated him. He wanted to push the industry he loved in a certain direction. And he succeded brilliantly.

Oh and I admire him for doing what he loved to the bitter end. I can tell you, from personal experience (I lived though AIDS/Cancer) that was not easy for him. At all. I admire him a great deal for never giving in.

//edited. changed the 1st line and added the last paragraph.
You describe what I was trying to say. It's easy to be non-evil in a startup environment for a variety of reasons.

However, once sold and listed, quarterly performance numbers start to permeate the entire organisation. As you say, the needs of making these numbers start to outweigh the don't be evil mantra. And, because the original services were set up with a 'trust us, we're not evil', the gains to be made from tweaking the 'evil' dial up, even just a tiny bit, are quite large.

I'm not surprised the rank and file are committed to the lofty ideals and goals, and they probably will continue to attract new recruits for the foreseeable future. But in order to keep committed to those types of goals, necessarily some profit is going to have to be foregone. That's mighty hard to do.

My guess is that the big event that makes people trust Google less is close, or maybe has even already been but hasn't been disclosed yet. To me, they're in the same kind of space that Microsoft was post-Windows 95 and pre-Windows 98. Everyone still likes them but questions are being asked. Legal intervention is around the corner.

I see privacy kind of like any economic externality. There's no (immediate) price on loss of privacy, so people are happy to trade it away for benefits like free email and social networking. Can you price privacy? Well, objectively we already are when we forgo private services for free ones. You could say we price our privacy at the cost difference between a free service and a paid one.
I find it strange that people don't count devices with touch screens as personal computers, even if they are personal. I always understood the 'personal' so that I'm in control of that device. So any general purpose computer where developers can distribute directly to consumers is a PC.

If a device allows accessible app sideloading, you can install software on it at will and use your device in any way you want. And that's my definition of a personal computer.

Devices running desktop windows or OS X are PCs to me. As are most Android based tablets and smartphones.

Am I right that most of you define the term differently? Because by my definition, the PC is doing very well. It's certainly under attack (windows phone 7, metro, iOS etc). But it's doing very well.
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What's wrong with Account Settings -> Overview -> Multiple Sign-in -> On?

Then you can just switch account from the dropdown on the bar at the top, most apps remember which account you use with it, and you can even use gmail with different accounts in different tabs.
Yeah a slider is the next best thing - but the form factor of the Nokia E series was just perfect. I've tried quite a few "wide slider" keyboards and the amount of thumb movement required is really quite large compared with the slimmer E series qwerties so I could never really feel as comfortable (although I suppose I'd build up accuracy far quicker on that than the touch screen).

Things like blackberry's bold with the hybrid touch/qwerty setup look pretty good, but Nokia E series has a control key :) Really it was the perfect geeks phone, Nokia just didn't want to be for geeks any more I guess.