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So I read Eric Lippert's blog post on Roslyn[1], where he says the motivation for the project was because other teams within Microsoft were re-implementing parts of the C# compiler piecemeal, so it made sense to expose those parts as an API. You know what that reminds me of? Steve Yegge's Platform rant. Specifically, the part where Bezos made Amazon convert all of their existing development infrastructure into services, that other units can make use of. That's what Roslyn is, on a much smaller scale: refactoring an application (the compiler) to be services-oriented platform.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/10/19/the-r...
The things you list as average things done with a smartphone are the average things people do with regular computers, the so-called content creation devices in this discussion.

The vast majority of people are not content creators, and just because a device is good at creating content doesn't automatically imply that it's good at consuming content.

I also am curious as to what your threshold for useful is. I'm being able to perform tech support on the go via the phone functions and various remote desktop apps, does that count as useful? I can solve problems with my home network on the bus on the way home instead of wasting that time staring out the window and then wasting more time solving the problems once I return. That's useful to me.

I feel like many of the people here complaining about the novelty of smartphones use them in a very superficial way and rarely harness any real potential. Surprising considering that it's HN, but it really does seem that way.
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you have to memorize the mapping from username to actual name for your entire social graph

Well, what can I say - in the cases where I know both wallet name and online identity for somebody, not only can I remember both, but if anything the pseudonym is easier. I mean, I can type Skud right off, but I have to go check how many Rs are in Kirrily (Kirilly? Kiriley?).

Also in my experience, if you slip and call someone by their nick in real life, they aren't offended. Unless you are writing them a job reference, it doesn't seem to be much of a problem.

And let's don't forget than in some cases an online persona's personality really is quite different from the meatspace one. In cases where this happens, a different name is almost a necessity. Who knows what the Macalope is like in real life? It doesn't matter, it has a name and a persona it the space that it operates in.
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Holy shit. I'm in a tech incubator now (http://www.piepdx.com) and this sounds nightmarish to me. To be frank, I hadn't been following the show all that closely, but I can't even imagine the added stress of having cameras around filming me with my co-founders.

Melanie, I'm really glad you called bullshit. Keep rocking.
If it is any consolation, I've enjoyed the series.

I can understand how her portrayal would upset Melanie, but I thought she came across as enthusiastic and polished.

Also, ToVieFor is a great name!
> The ability to treat code as data is an incredibly powerful concept.

It was innovative too, in the late 50's...
Well…I think Roslyn will be good, but I think it's reaching to say it must be because the MS team themselves will use it.

After all, these are the same people who invented (and used!) MFC, long known as the Microsoft Frustration Classes.
Andy Rubin: "We’ll see how pervasive it gets."

And then we'll shamelessly copy it.

This kind of thinking is the reason why you will never be an innovator Andy, always the follower.
And my answer to that question is, if you give information about yourself to any service you have to expect them to do something eventually with it. Even if it's yours, it becomes theirs as well as soon as you upload it to the 3rd party.
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Please do not let the show color your opinion of TechStars. I would do the program over in a heartbeat, and made lifelong friends and mentors along the way. Tisch / Cohen / Feld and the entire organization is fantastic.
I'm referring more to the marquee players whom are in position to control the outcome of a game. Presumably directives would come from the owner and the deals would be made between individual teams and/or the league.

For example, owners might trade wins/losses now to help a storyline in exchange for markers for future wins when they're on a championship track.
Not really, no. It's more like a compiler as a library with a nice API.
I'm not surprised at all. Back in 2006 when I was doing competitive strategy at MS and studying Google's culture, I came away very impressed with how much people throughout the organization cared about not being evil. But the dynamics you describe were already in play.

Also Google+ is being led by Vic Gundotra, who spent most of his career at Microsoft. Do relative newcomers to Google have the same passion about not being evil, and the same norms about what is/isn't evil?
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Not only that, but iirc the project Steve Yegge is actually working on at Google is something along the same lines - a code analysis platform (for the JVM I think?)
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It is very suspicious that they jumped on Windows Mobile. All of the other companies that were in their exact situation went Android and are doing very well thus far. Even if we take it for granted that Meego was a non-starter, the question remains "why windows mobile?". It has shown absolutely no success in the marketplace and it is as much of a crapshoot as Meego.
The build video is somewhat amusing to me. The crowd was WAY into the REPL demo, wherein they showed things that any dynamic language has been doing for decades, all the while trumpeting the "power of static typing". There IS power in static typing, but by the time you're in the REPL you don't need much of it.
I tried Clicktale, and it didn't work very well. I gave up half way through.

Observer (http://observer.no.de) seems like a good new solution.
They still could be caching them. The first time they encounter a factorial, they calculate it, throw it in a DB, and it's a quick DB access from then on.
These guys have a very simple and elegant insight:

" The sender side of the equation however is a rich and untouched! This is where Buster Benson and Shortmail are working and its the side we’re passionate about as well. "
TechStars forced its startups to do a faux reality TV series that amounted to a kind of smear campaign?

This is going to have serious blowback.

Yet another example of suicide being a startup's or related program's worst enemy, not competition!

So while TS is busy shooting itself in the foot, YC has continued at their own place and gradually fixed most of their shortcomings.

One of the problems was doing half the year in Boston; a nice favor for Boston, but a disadvantage to the startups. "Fetch isn't going to happen." Or Boston, in this case.

That one was fixed by accident, but it got fixed.

The biggest problem was probably the miniscule amount of funding, which meant you ran out of money right when you were hitting your stride. You were faced with having to sweat out trying to get follow-on investment during the time period when you were supposed to NOT be distracted, working on your demo.

But now the $150k convertible loan has taken care of that part. (Also due to external conditions.)

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I don't know if this is true. I would never want to talk to my phone and have it do a bad job of reading me my schedule. I would want to run more than one application at once, however, which Android did years before iOS.
And people who really want to "win" will be as evil as they need to be in order to "win" (however they define winning, hence the quotes).
So for that reason they decided to go into the rich Windows Mobile ecosystem? What kind of installed base is there for Windows Mobile nowadays? 5.7% and falling steadily.

Sorry but if the richness of the ecosystem is the main reason for change, then the obvious answer is Android.
Intel is still going to be selling semiconductors whether people buy PCs or smartphones, but the reality is the price of the average processor someone is buying for use in their primary "computer" has been declining fast - Intel and anyone else in the game is going to need to make up the money in volume instead
I upvoted because I completely agree.

But then I thought about it, and isn't this also an example of a hack in it's purest sense?
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Google was in a hurry trying to catch up to Apple by implementing half-baked, poorly-planned, poorly-implemented features. Most of them copied from the iPhone, BB, and with ICS, Windows phone 7. Btw, how many times did your Android phone crash/freeze today? got any virus/malware/spyware today? how's your battery life? you like that shitty app you got from the android market? don't try to answer these questions (they're rhetorical).
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His chief criticism is that its not his general purpose computer with a full sized keyboard and he doesn't like the popular, social uses for mobile technology. I don't think anyone can help him with that.
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How long does a contract to supply silicon usually last?
Obviously. P&G is still in phase 2 of their plan, too. They're playing a long game.
This is a real danger. There are several ways to counter it. One is to make as much production technology as we can open source and ensure it is well spread. This is what the RepRap and Open Source Ecology projects are doing, and the progress has been tremendous over the past years. Publishing everything counters patent threats, GPL-like licenses prevent exploitation without contribution, self-replicating machines make the technologies both cheap and available. This is my favorite way of countering the threat.

Other methods include government intervention, revolution of the (ex-)workers, consumer boycotts (off the grid communities) and benevolent corporates. None of them are as effective, and very few of them can be worked on in the short term.
It would be interesting to know what the politics inside Samsung are vis-a-vis the dispute with Apple. It's hard to believe that the silicon people were thrilled with the mobile division kicking sand in their biggest customer's face. If Samsung's mobile division gets a little bit bigger and their components business gets a little bit smaller, is this a net-win for them?
He didn't say "ask the question out loud", he said "ask the question". When you ask Google what 2 + 2 is, it returns 4. Schmidt is talking about that for harder problems.
Yes, they support multiple phones. Check the Amazon link that portman provided. It appears that all the major cordless manufacturers have sets that support this now. It's been pleasant to use since it (I'm using a Uniden set) has "just worked" for me since day one.

I'm actually going to set this up for my elderly mother for Christmas who has a regular landline but also a "dumb" cellphone. Her hearing is not that great so if the cellphone is not in her immediate proximity, she'll miss the call. In this case, I'm just interested in the redundancy for phone service in case of emergencies. It doesn't change how she will use the cordless phone at all but does provide us(her children) with more piece-of-mind. It really is this good.
Maybe you should program Siri to remind you to take your meds...
Great idea for posting up a wishlist for services, until I remembered the old saying of how people are terrible at predicting future behavior. Hence, never to ask potential customers the question, "would you buy/use this". I realize that this is in reverse (the writer is asking for it), and that they are not being lead by an interviewer, but shouldnt the same theory (that people cannot predict future behavior) still apply?
Yes, but who will help us analyze and improve our use of compiler as a service?
This. I am continually amazed at how few people use Audible. It is an amazing and rich source for books recorded in very high quality (read by voice talents, no stops during audio). I finish a book every 2-3 weeks just by listening on my way to and from class.

Grooveshark is another service I use my phone almost daily for. Play virtually any song on your phone.

Myfitnesspal is yet another. Record daily caloric intake and exercise easily (since you always have a phone around and since you don't know all the calories in the food you eat, but a search-enabled website does).

I also play backgammon while waiting for the bus.

I never take maps to unknown destinations any more. I still remember the times we printed maps before going to tourist destinations in nyc.

I check my email.

I check my calendar.

I talk on skype (via skype mobile). I do international calls without being charged international rates.

I check the weather (mostly the temperature) to know how heavy to wear.

I occasionally take photos when I need to record something (on a blackboard, for example) but don't want to write it down.
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Alternate interpretation: Cook made up a cover story because Jobs' health wasn't public knowledge.
So, you believe the ends justify the means, and I couldn't disagree more. TS is respectable, but this show is a bastardization and misrepresentation of startups and more importantly, those behind them. However, this comes at no surprise... 'Reality shows' tend to screw everyone's perception of true 'reality.' Ironic.
Do you remember in 2009 when the White House issued an RFQ for companies to bid on the contract of taking Social Network feeds and analyzing them looking for "terrorists"?

The national security state that has built up over the past decade is not unaware of social networks, and sees them as an excellent opportunity to look for "terrorists".

I'm sure they really are looking for terrorists, but a key purpose of that process is correlating online and offline identities. It isn't very implausible that they would provide google with this information, because it would allow google to help provide them with the information they're seeking.

There isn't really much of a legal privacy protection anymore for anything plausibly having to do with "national security", and social networks seem to qualify.

I don't really know, I'm just deducing this from the fact that google says it will take a couple months to implement. It could be something completely else, but this is my guess.
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Garmins can't use Google to look up obscure locations or fix all your typos.
I started out looking for dedicated email services. But in the end I found that regular old shared hosting accounts provide email.

Also, be advised that Iceland has implemented strong privacy policies, and that might be a good jurisdiction to host your email.
Why is identity tied to a name? Identity is such a fluid construct, and the arbitrary forcing of it into First/Surname seems on one hand anglocentric, and on another hand, trying to impose on online identity the vestiges of real-world identity that we don't need on here.

I would think given the discourse around online identity (i.e. http://www.juliandibbell.com/ and http://www.mit.edu/~sturkle/), including feminist discourse, socio-political, etc that we would beyond this.
Hypothesis: Google data indicates that pseudonymous users make a net-negative contribution to the quality of an online community (c.f. The WELL). They want a real name not for any commercial reason, but to hold users accountable for their behaviour. Google's real names policy for G+ isn't part of some complex conspiracy, but in fact standard Google practice - following the data, even when the data contradicts what users say they want.

Is it evil to put the interests of the entire network above the interests of a small minority? If you can say for sure, you're either an ideologue or you've solved the most fundamental problem of politics.

Personally, I think there's room on the spectrum for a variety of standards of identity. At one end there's 4chan, at the other carefully-vetted private communities. In the middle you've got sites that require a "real" e-mail address, or Something Awful charging $10 to join. Google's real names policy is distinctly flawed in execution, I think largely as a result of scale, but I don't think it's a fundamentally bad idea and certainly not categorically evil.
This! We started baby sign and could communicate these basics with our daughter before she was a year old. It might not sound like much to start communicating 6 months earlier, but I can only describe it thusly: awesome.
All of those methods are very easily avoidable by somebody who wants to remain anonymous. And Google complying with a subpeona or National Security Letter is certainly not odd, and should be expected since Google is law-abiding.

If you have not heard of National Security Letters,

>between 2003 and 2005 the FBI issued more than 140,000 specific demands under this provision -- demands issued without a showing of probable cause or prior judicial approval -- to obtain potentially sensitive information about U.S. citizens and residents.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03...
I think I'd take you more seriously, but then I would also think "these guys have some issue that is not immediately apparent". Unless you have a really good and clear reason why you weren't selected, you'd run the risk of looking proud to be a loser.

Sorry if the above sounds harsh, just trying to give productive advice. What program was this anyway?
6 purchases in 6 months, then asking for more money... Sounds like a VC/PE firm, not a deal site. If you're out of cash, I understand letting people go in a hurry but that management team will struggle to get employees in their next venture.
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I'm talking about something like Twitter, in which the product and the company share the same brand.

That's a really good question, I think I'm talking about the whole brand, including the name and marketing.

Thanks for the link :)
You always want to get a MVP set up and if your idea is too amazing to wait, then go for it. I'm reminded of James Altucher who outsourced the designing and creation of Stockpickr.com for the MVP to show to investors. He hadn't even paid for the outsourced material when he got the money (he was already established, but still..)

So I would say it really depends on your idea. In my opinion, if you cannot convince or find a technical person to help you with the product you do you have an inspiring enough product or you do not have the skills as a founder/organizer. Both are killers...
Finding this a much better way to share stuff on my dropbox...
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How was he "working" for the company after he had resigned?
But Intel's having trouble selling into the smartphone market, too, it's not just a decrease in ASP that should be worrying them...
No need to hypothesize, Google has spoken on this. Chairman Eric Schmidt:

"If we knew that it was a real person, then we could sort of hold them accountable, we could check them, we could give them things, we could you know bill them, you know we could have credit cards and so forth."

http://gigaom.com/2011/08/29/its-official-google-wants-to-ow...
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So many amazing things could be done. The ideal situation is one in which users can quickly and efficiently mark all tools they use and also get them to update that list every ~6 months. It would integrate nicely with Stack Exchange network I think.
You are right, we are staring a new webapp and we need a name, logo, maybe a little brand manual, and some makering insights.
Steve Jobs could have retired when forced out of Apple in 1985. He had $140million (or so, that's the figure I remember) in Apple stock. More than enough to live very well for the rest of his life. He could have even blown some of it on US festivals with Wozniak and still lived well.

Instead, he built NeXT, Pixar and then later, rebuilt Apple.

I think that his continuing to work is the most charitable act I've observed in my lifetime. He touched billions of people and made their lives better.

Sure, he got richer doing it, but it seems he never did it for the money. (I think he did it for the pleasure, personally, but the end result was massive human good.)

This is why I honor Steve Job's life.
Any day now right? Like every year?
He was still an Apple employee and Chairman of the board. He resigned the CEO position, but hadn't left Apple.
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I think the biggest problem for me is the assumption that there needs to exist a mapping between First/Last name and identity. Its the abutment of two constructs made arbitrary by the media (names and physical self), with the assumption that what emerges is more "real" and thus more consequential to the agent driving it.

It's complete bullshit and flies in the face of history, not just what is "right."
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What does "size of your inbox" mean? I have over 22K messages in my inbox, does that mean I am too busy? I don't use my inbox as a "to do list," so I really don't care how many messages are in it. But, apparently, there are a lot of people who do. Regardless, I think it is totally cool you guys wrote an app that you think is useful and that you shared it with HN!
'"unnatural", whatever that is supposed to mean'

It is supposed to mean huge changes from the relatively stable environment present during human evolution. The environment we are adapted to operating in. Unless you are a creationist, that should be pretty obvious.
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