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I grew up at a time when people felt very strongly about Windows versus Linux. People would fight amongst themselves on Slashdot and elsewhere about whether it was OK to use Windows, or whether it was possible to do [whatever] on Linux.

I guess what I'm wondering is: is OSX/iOS versus Linux/Android the operating system flame war of our time? In this thread, I see almost entirely ad hominem attacks on Stallman. (Not unlike a Daring Fireball thread in reverse.) Is he Glenn Beck or is he Rush Limbaugh? Is he just slightly impractical or is he extremely impractical?

What I don't see is any substantial discussion of the OP. At the moment, there are 2/72 comments that mention the iOS App Store at all, which is a major point that Stallman seems to be making here.

More generally, is no one worried about what Stallman is worried about? Jobs' explicit stated goal was to destroy the only Linux mobile platform (through patents), and his policies on the App Store and elsewhere were explicitly hostile to Free Software. Had Jobs been successful and perhaps lived another ten years, we might be living in a world with no Free Software on our personal devices at all. Apple laptops with software installed from the Mac App Store to develop iOS apps for the iOS App Store (with both App Stores of course rejecting GPL code).

Given that almost all startups rely heavily on Free Software, from emacs to gcc to Xen to Ruby to every poorly constructed library on Github, that would be tremendously negative for the startup ecosystem, no?
i wonder what minimum change of circumstances would have derailed jobs' success. what would he have become had wozniak not tolerated him?
I can tell you why. Cause there are a lot of people who are just talking BS to harm the other "group". I will repeat it till my dead I never had any issues with Macs, iPhones, iPads and iPods. I can't reconstruct issues people have and until I see a iPhone which crashes 5 times a day I won't believe it.

Plus if you have so much trouble with you phone, what about calling Apple and telling them your issue. When I called last time because a failure they send me immediately a brand new device. Sorry mate but something seems odd.

I don't want to attack you personal, it just seems that a lot of people are trying to talk BS about Apple products.
The page sends the filename to desktop browsers base64 encoded. Cute :).
Increasing the bid/ask spread will increase volatility, rather than decrease it. With a low spread, if you think the prices are going to rise tomorrow, a lot of people will buy today, thus smoothing out tomorrows peak.
I think you should touch on frequency of updates: how often does Apple release, how often does Google?

Also it's not really fair to expect that every phone is going to run the very latest Android code, especially ice cream sandwich, which expects a forward facing camera, doesn't use the navigation buttons and so forth.

I do agree with the general premise that Android carriers/manufactures tend to release and abandon. They have no interest in updating the OS after the sale, which explains the popularity of Cyanogen.
All sound advice but surely everyone knows this already?? I guess I'm missing the insightful part of this lead bullets mantra.
Kottke was a close friend to Jobs and an early Apple employee; when the time of the Apple IPO came around, Jobs denied him any stock options. Wozniak, on the other hand, gave shares to employees he felt had been left out, including Kottke...
more to the point, investors don't care.

If the average person could work 20 hours a week and make $15,000 a month, they'd feel pretty rich. (even at 60 hours a week)

If you want to make somebody else rich, you've got to make a lot more money, particularly if the person is an investor who's already rich.
My prediction: once this architecture is in the release channels, Intel is out of them.
In a matter of years, Intel will be the dinosaur of microprocessors. Unless Intel also (re-)embraces ARM. Its simply a matter of price and configurability. ARM is simply unbeatable when it comes to price. Let alone energy efficiency. Its time to short Intel shares..
Suppose I'm on a team with Alice, and I share a folder with her. Bob is not on our team. Alice can share one of my folders with Bob without my consent. This is a problem (consider dealing with temporary employees, contractors, and so on).

In addition, some teams really need separation of knowledge. Perhaps I have some financial or contract files which most of my employees should not read, but I want to share them with my accountant and my lawyer. This feature reeks of "enterpriseyness", so I understand that Dropbox probably doesn't want to deal with it, but it is valuable to small businesses as well.
Ummm downvoter I wasn't being snarky, I genuinely think this is part of what makes humans awesome.
It's available in system settings:

http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/20/bloatware-kill-switch-ice...
How do you know that Limbaugh is not also in it to "build a better future", in the best way that he knows how?
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Could you clearly state "the problem"?

Based on what has been posted, it's hard for me to clearly see a problem beyond "in a society with free speech, some people will speak in ways that others dislike." That is a legitimate (unsolvable) problem, but I don't think it's the problem you are referring to.
So in the coexistence model, how would things work? I'm genuinely curious how you see things functioning.
I don't think that this is the same. I can not think of a reason why one should have two Facebook accounts, except for maintaining two complete separate sets of relations, for example for anonymity.

But having several Google accounts can happen much easier, for a variety of reasons. For example, I have used a GMail address for since my teen years. Turns out I don't actually like the format stupidnickname@gmail.com anymore and would rather have something like myname@mydomain.com, but I'd still like to keep the GMail interface. Google Apps is wonderful for this, so I made an account there.

But I can not just ignore my old account, as I still get email sent to the address (I forward it) and I used the Google Talk functionality for my Jabber needs. Also, I bought my first Android apps with my old account, so they are linked to it. That means that I have to use my old account as the first one on any Android device, or I can't download my apps again.

What I would wish for is this: Have services that can be linked to any identifier/email, and shared between any number of them, so I could, for example, have two sets of email (one private, one business), but just one of GTalk, G+, Feedburner and Analytics.

I know that implementing this on top of the current system might be hard. I still think that this is the kind of functionality one can expect from a company like Google, and I would gladly pay for it.
People have historically used "scientific" evidence to prop up spurious claims that women and blacks were inferior to white men. [1] OP is probably reacting to that whenever people try to bring in biological explanations for gender gaps. If you want her to be more understanding to your hopefully pure motivations in seeking truth, you should also be more understanding of her recognition that people often hide bigotry behind science.

[1] See "The Mismeasure of Man," by Stephen J. Gould. Broca, a pioneering scientist into brain research, devoted a lot of effort to measuring brain capacity in skulls and thereby "proving" that women and blacks would never achieve as much as white men could.
From the article:

For those of you who’ve already started using Google+ with a personal Google Account and would prefer to use your Google Apps account, we’re building a migration tool to help you move over. With this tool, you won’t have to rebuild your circles, and people who’ve already added you to their circles will automatically be connected to your new profile. We expect this migration option to be ready in a few weeks, so if you’d like, you can go ahead and get started with your Apps account today and merge your connections once the tool is available.
Raising money does not necessarily mean taking VC or giving up equity.

Have you ever thought that VCs have a vested interest in perpetuating the idea that to be a "real" business you need to give up equity in order to raise money?
I encountered the same issue just this week when I released a new app and noticed that the Recently Released list no longer exists. It used to be you would get an initial spike in sales from that list, then gradually drop off. If the app was good it could maintain some of that momentum and grow from there.

Without an easy way to browse or search deeper within the store new apps are lost without much of a chance.

Outside marketing is crucial. I am waiting for someone to create a really good App recommendation service that is widely adopted so that it can be an alternative to the App Store listings.
"Most innovations within the last 20 years came from OSS developers creating incredible techniques used by Apple/MS/etc..."

Name one.

To take some examples I happen to have first-hand intimacy with: Linux is both original and good, but the original parts are frequently not good, and the good parts are clones of Solaris. Touchscreen happened in iOS first. Modern virtualization happened in VMware's closed-source base first. Modern information retrieval is still a proprietary Google secret.

The most important counter-examples I can think of are languages. The "everything is a hash table" descendants of Perl and javascript (in which I include Python, Ruby, and PHP) would not have been viable as commercial products. That said, even javascript began life as a Netscape proprietary implementation, and Perl is mostly a synthesis of ideas present in ksh.
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Nice! Only with the help of a track of magnets. Still, this is pretty slick.
germans already solved this to recover shredded stasi documents. take german solution, profit.

http://www.iiconservation.org/news/?p=55

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/unshredding_1....
Not that I know of. I've hosted a few HN meetups, but in a completely informal fashion, by just posting the date/time/location on HN. Last time was a couple of years ago, though, and the community was a lot smaller then so things didn't fall off the New page as quickly.
Absolutely agreed. If you can't do the output, you can't charge for it. But the limiting factor here is you.

If you've got exceedingly happy customers and solid output, charging $25/hr is just silly.
If you buy a used mac and end up not liking iOS/Mac development you can most likely sell it for the same amount that you bought it for.

If you're renting time on a mac like it's AOL back in the '90s you're almost certainly losing out in both the short and long terms.
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My vote goes for, "The Best Production Stack for your Startup" which would include red flags on tools to avoid/that you must use, comments on redundancy, hosting services, web servers, language comparisons, and some code to get you started.
Hmm, says I'm the 77 billionth (and change) human who ever lived. More than I would have guessed.
Well that question on kids sure is illegal to ask (I imagine an Anthony Weiner shot is also illegal come to think of it :-P).

I understand the touchiness on the subjet, which is why I enjoy frank discussions about it. However, I think it's harmful to the cause to make this difficult to talk about. The most powerful opponents to abuse are victims who can speak openly and frankly about their experiences. Touchiness, while entirely justified and understandable, is less effective than enabling intelligent discussions about sexism without the risk of being labeled "intolerant".

Agreed on the solution: intolerance for intolerance is the only long-term solution.
You can in fact mix and match - you can use Google Apps on top of a corporate system such as Exchange for only specific users. It's unlikely to save you any money since you'll then need someone to run it, but it's possible.

As things stand at the moment the company I'm working for is in exactly that boat of some staff depending on email, and others only needing to retrieve a single email on each day they're working. We're working around it right now by just getting them to give us their personal email address.

That probably won't scale long term, but for now it does the job, and if we get to the point of needing more then I may just throw together a quick and dirty mail server for the people who don't need the convenience of Google Apps syncing between devices for them.
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> I've been wondering for a long time when this would come- the processing (getting directions, geocoding, etc) and bandwidth (for map images) demands must be huge, with comparatively little payback.

I'm more thinking about the costs of developing the software and gathering the data. And also the perceived _value_ of the data, independent from its costs. Ever tried to buy the kind of data Google uses on their backend, with terms of use that would support the kind of services Google offers? Good luck--both with terms and then with pricing. Other companies have been charging a fortune for this data.

> It'll be interesting to see how many big operations pay up, and how many switch. To an extent switching might be futile- if Google can't afford to keep the maps offering free, do you really think Yahoo can?

Regardless of whether they can, with Google pulling back, don't you think Yahoo et al. will want to raise their prices?
My personal view is that this stigma stems largely from two sources:

1) VCs who have a vested interest in getting people to give up equity in order to raise money.

2) People who have sold equity in exchange for VC money need to make themselves feel good about their decision so they look down on others who have a business plan solid enough not to need to tap the capital source of last resort.
if you understand what RMS wrote (cmon it was 5 lines) you can't say they both "profess an anti-dogmatic , against 1984 approach".

jobs used that approach in marketing, for sheeples to buy apple instead of IBM. If you think (not even hard) about it, you will realise iOS is nothing more then a portable IBM mainframe. you pay a hefty price, that no one in reality pays, or you pay a subscription for service, and only run approved software.
to advance the state of technology in the document shredding industry, of course.
You sound like the photo version of a wine snob.
> There's a reverse of that use case: a school or org may want to provide social networking to its users, specifically for that context, e.g. exchange of information within the institution.

Wow, that's actually really interesting. I hadn't thought of that angle before but I could see that happening.
From "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson: they think they're too smart to be sexist.
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"Actually happened: an interviewer displayed a picture of himself not wearing pants."

How many people even have a picture of themselves without pants on at their fingertips, ready to display at a moment's notice?
I could say "I can't reconstruct issues people have and until I see an Android device with laggy UI I won't believe it," but I won't.
I think their reasoning is they want people to commit to a full year rather than one month. I agree it's not a good way, really.
They should start with $15/month and suggest $795 yearly for discount.
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My intuition suggests that all of these documents being on lined paper would make the problem quite a bit easier, by providing clear features that have to line up between fragments.

At any rate, it makes you wonder if most documents are on lined paper, or if it's more common to see things on, for example, white printer paper.
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Yes, this is a solved problem. That isn't the point of the competition. From the site:

"Today’s troops often confiscate the remnants of destroyed documents in war zones, but reconstructing them is a daunting task. DARPA’s Shredder Challenge calls upon computer scientists, puzzle enthusiasts and anyone else who likes solving complex problems to compete for up to $50,000 by piecing together a series of shredded documents. The goal is to identify and assess potential capabilities that could be used by our warfighters operating in war zones, but might also create vulnerabilities to sensitive information that is protected through our own shredding practices throughout the U.S. national security community.

Presently, a variety of techniques exist for reconstructing shredded documents including manual assembly, fully automated (computerized) algorithms and hybrid operator-assisted approaches. DARPA hopes to gain new insight into which of these or other innovative techniques are quicker and more efficient, and, whether the wide availability of high resolution photography, communication and crowd-sourcing strategies offer unexpected advances.

“The ability to reconstruct shredded documents will potentially yield information that may save lives or offer critical information about an adversary’s plans,” said Mr. Dan Kaufman, Director of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office. “Currently, this process is much too slow and too labor-intensive, particularly if the documents are handwritten. We are looking to the Shredder Challenge to generate some leap-ahead thinking in this area.”

The Shredder Challenge is composed of five separate problems in which the number of documents, subject matter and the method of shredding is varied to present challenges of increasing difficulty. To complete each problem, participants are called upon to provide answers to puzzles embedded in the content of reconstructed documents. The overall prize awarded depends on the number and difficulty of problems solved.

Registration is open to all eligible parties at www.shredderchallenge.com, which provides detailed rules and images of the shredded documents for the five problems. The twitter hashtag for this event is #shredderchallenge. Participants are encouraged to build teams using the event forum and to monitor www.twitter.com/darpa_news for the latest news updates."
Congrats on Google getting it out this week. There was quite a bit of cynicism after the announcement last week.

I've been holding off joining until my personal Apps domain was enabled as I've still not finished migrating all my docs from Gmail yet - I didn't want any more loose ends.
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I'd say I'm satisfied with the 3D. But there've been a few times that I've been playing for 20 minutes and only then noticed that the 3D switch was set to "off" the whole time and then thought "oh yeah". That kind of puts it into perspective for me [err, no pun intended].

That and it's awfully tough to spend $35 on games that I end up playing way less than $1.99 games. Still happy to pay $35 for a Mario or a Zelda, but that's about it.
You can't legally get a BSD-licensed app from the App Store and then modify and redistribute it, last I checked. So it has nothing to do with the license and everything to do with the App Store EULA.
A very good point. I also use the same method as you do, but you probably know how flaky this can be sometimes, too (At least if you use all this: Gmail, G+, Analytics, Google Music).

You are right that there are cases where you would absolutely would want to have completely separate accounts. That's why I would like to have this as an option: Linking two "services" from different users, or attaching two users/emails to the same service.

As it is right now, Google+ for Apps is mostly useless for anyone who already has a G+ account. And I don't think that Google really wants to release mostly useless products.
I would say that if that comment was made without citing any scientific sources, its sexist.
Looks like NYC is soon becoming a tech hot spot with Google setting up an office and Stanford (maybe setting up)... lol. I can almost hear the West Coast VCs rejoicing across the country.
So, I just saw several nice talks about A/B testing, one of which was by our very own patio11.

And the way A/B testing works is that you have to take the data. Hypotheses are just hypotheses. They can be wrong! They can be really wrong! The data will surprise you sooner or later.

Here's a hypothesis: If you put up this chart instead of the one that is there:

2GB: $9.95 per month
100GB: $19.95 per month
200GB plus Teams: $13.25 per month per user, min 5 users

Here is what might happen:

A. On the margin, people with very small companies will tend to buy more Teams subscriptions.

B. However, that effect may be partially canceled out by the large companies that are subliminally turned off by a page that mentions only monthly pricing, not other kinds of pricing. Monthly pricing is great for individuals with credit cards, but company purchasing departments can work... differently. It might in fact be much easier to buy a year at a time than a month at a time just because of the administrative overhead and the culture of purchasing departments, and you'll absolutely have to use purchase orders and invoicing and get approvals, and if the vendor isn't set up for such a thing the whole process will be a huge ball of red tape, and gosh look at the time let's go out for lunch and talk about Dropbox tomorrow, or maybe next month...

C. Meanwhile, some of your potential 100GB customers will be furious that they are being charged so much money! They will stomp their feet and emit furious tweets and threaten to hold their breaths until they turn blue unless they get the $13.25 price.

D. And other potential 100GB customers will look at this and say "hey, bulk discount!". And they'll figure out how to band together with four trusted friends, and pull together a year's worth of cash at once, and buy a Teams account instead, and whoops now Dropbox is making less money on one Teams account than five 100GB accounts.

...and thus I wouldn't be too surprised if the results of A/B testing say: Leave the pricing page as it is.

...or, maybe Dropbox didn't actually test this page, and the more-straightforward hypothesis is actually the one that is right, and they could make even more money by switching to all-monthly pricing. ;)
> BLAMING THE HARASSED

This is a mantra that I see a lot, but let's stop for a second. If I put a sign above my head that says "Murder Me," can I really be surprised if someone takes me up on the offer? Does stating that mean that I am attempting to absolve the person that murdered me of murder? No, it doesn't.

Put more simply, if you're going to crusade for a cause where the opposite side is likely to get nasty, you should probably be prepared for war. Did Martin Luther King Jr give up because the police brought out fire hoses?

That said, while I can't really empathize, I do sympathize, and find some of the examples of bad behavior that people are highlighting as having happened to women as atrocious. If I found out that someone at my company had shown a naked picture of himself to any interviewee, you can bet that I could make sure that it his/her career was ground into the pavement through word of mouth.
I wonder if someone could get around this distribution problem by making a Codify-like app that uses HTML5 tech instead of Lua. There are a bunch of rapidly-maturing JS game frameworks that seem like they'd be up to the task, especially given the ever-improving Nitro performance in iOS.
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