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I would assert that this is no longer true.

Thanks to the jailbreak, it is possible in principle to get Android running on the iPhone hardware. In practice, this may not be possible yet, but it has been accomplished before on earlier hardware.

Therefore, buying an iPhone is not that different from buying a Mac: You get a computer with a proprietary operating system, which (thanks to DevTeam) can be bypassed and replaced with anything that will run, which will eventually include Android assuming people care enough to make it work (they will).

The parent comment, that this is a win consumers shouldn't need to fight for, is one I support wholeheartedly.
So, you cancelled spotify to replace it with 3 other competing or related products with their own unique interfaces and quirks. I think that somewhat complicates matters.

Most, I think, will stick to spotify in that scenario.
I'm using Spotify right now. I just pick the album, click the first song and it plays the album. Am I doing something wrong? Why do I need a playlist?
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Is there a way to disable all "sharing" of what I'm listening to? I really don't want to share that info. It appears that one has to choose "private listening" whenever starting the app.
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After the redesign, is there any learning on if the buy button should be upfront on home? or it doesn't matter?

Maybe this is a a really stupid question.
Rhapsody has the advantage of not trying to leak your listening habits to Facebook, as well.
Graphically speaking it's actualy a pretty huge jump from the DS. But yes, you're right, there's nothing added. Most people play it with 3D turned off. Augmented reality isn't used at all. And yep, we'll have to wait until their core titles come out to really see what's up.

For me though, I told myself "I'm playing Zelda 3D. That's what's happening next". But, I still haven't bought the damn system and game yet. It just doesn't feel right to early adopt it.
The situation seems to improve as populations approach parity.

This can appear to be true even if men don't, on average, change their behavior at all.

Think about it: if 10% of the people in a field are female, that means that 90% of a woman's interactions in the field are with men. If the field becomes more balanced, that will come down towards 50%.

Even if men in the field individually keep acting the same, that's almost a 50% reduction in the amount of sexism a woman will experience, because she's interacting with fewer men and more women. We tend to notice offensive things by counting them, not by figuring out expected values based on sample sizes, so things would appear to improve, even though the men will not have changed their behavior at all.

The real WTF odd fact is that as the field tips towards 50/50 women, the amount of sexism that (non-sexist) men will observe will actually go up, because a higher proportion of the interactions they observe will be male/female (whereas with a highly tilted sex ratio, they usually mainly see male/male conversations taking place).

IMO the real problem with the lopsided male/female ratio in tech is that women experience almost double the harassment they would if it was 50/50, so they think things are much worse than "average", and meanwhile men witness a much smaller amount (almost 3:1), so they think things are better.

Then both sides clash, and argue about whether there's a problem or not, relative to other industries. Based on their observations, both men an women could probably be forgiven for jumping to the conclusions that they do; unfortunately, I haven't seen any sort of actual numbers that might help pin down whether men in tech are actually worse, better, or the same as men in other fields. That women experience more harassment does not necessarily mean individual men are more likely to harass.
key word was 'just'. I played soccer and it was great, my point was to diversify opportunities so kids can learn on their own what motivates them
My problem is that all of these articles are missing a key piece of information: the number of devices each manufacturer has out on the market. Jumping over to Samsung's website, I count 14 Galaxy Smartphone devices currently on sale. What about Apple? They have on sale the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. How about instead of comparing absolute values of shipments, we talk about number of shipments per device?

But is it really a numbers game? Is it quantity over quality? It's no secret that Apple has one of the most loyal fanbases out of any other tech company. Who is clamoring over wanting every new Galaxy smartphone? Who's lining up every time they release a new product?

For those who want to play the numbers game, make sure to play it properly. The iPhone 4s sold 4M shipments during its first weekend. Meanwhile, it took Samsung 55 days to sell 3 million Galaxy S IIs, arguably, their most successful Smartphone yet. Now if Samsung continuously releases new versions of these Galaxy smartphones, which they are, then obviously they will be shipping more.
I'm also wondering what laws their citing. There was a case in Canada that had to do with public transit laws but I'm curious to know what rules the US has about this.
Ok, you choose what software you run, then along comes the other guy and claims that you don't own your phone unless you control what hardware is running your software.

Some just cannot tell owning and controlling apart.
Great post. I've used LaunchRock (widget, not the whole page setup), would definitely recommend it.
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This article does not take into account that what happens after that weeek. A week of spent with family, outdoors, video game spree, hacking spree with no distractions all sound great, but when did the author come back to doing the same thing again, over and over again? For instance, when did he/she feel like spending another full, uninterrupted week with family/on the beach? Also, how long can you keep repeating the @ 90 hr week?

Yea binging works, only when it is a once in a while thing. But if you have a business, and customers, and a code base, and a team - shit is ongoing, you just can't get things over with.

Think of it like food. Can you eat a week's worth of food and not come back? If you have a child (a company is like a baby always keen to hurt itself), can you dress them up once for the rest of the year?
This is the way I use it as well.

What I would like is some way to tag or bookmark an album. I find I stumble upon a new artist or album I like, but then forget what it was later in the week.
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Very cool stuff, Ivan! Looks like we're fighting the same fight. :) Keep it up!
Certain car mods being illegal is a safety (or perhaps environmental) issue, not an intellectual property issue. It's completely unanalogous.
Where will the next billion Facebook users come from?
After seven years, Apple open sources its Apple Lossless Audio Codec
+50 to Rhapsody, it's frustrating that people keep acting like Rdio and Spotify are this fancy new concept when Rhapsody has been doing all of this for years. The catalog also can't be beat compared to the other two it's so much larger. The interface was really lacking for years, but all this competition has made them finally start adding features like social.
So he's going to use iTunes, Grooveshark and Pandora. Now that seems, well, cumbersome to me.

Too bad Spotify bothers him -- even though it may lack some songs and features, I don't see why you can't enjoy Spotify for most use cases.
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I got my Google TV for free at Google Zeitgeist. I'm really, really, glad I didn't pay for it.

I was pretty excited when I got it, since I've never subscribed to cable, and watch most of my shows online.

Unfortunately, there's a huge issue with Google TV: almost every streaming content provider has summarily blocked Google TV's access.

So, if you buy a Google TV, what you're essentially getting is a fancy YouTube/Netflix player. Google has this pipe dream of YouTube replacing traditional and nontraditional premium content channels (cable, Hulu, Netflix)... but honestly, YouTube is a terrible user experience on the TV, since most videos only last minutes.

The thought of having to use that tiny controller-keyboard (the Google TV boasts an absurdly complicated controlled that kind of feels like using a PlayStation3 Controller, a smartphone from the early 2000's, and a TV remote, all at the same time) to navigate through the complex menus of GoogleTV every time my 3 minute YouTube clip ends is pretty unappealing.

Today, my GoogleTV sits collecting dust. I hooked up a cheap laptop to my TV through HDMI, and control it through VNC. It's a cheaper, easier to use, and simpler solution for watching Netflix and YouTube, and I even get to watch other things that I want to watch or download movies too.

The UI and platform improvements to GoogleTV are nice, but until they get some content providers on board, I don't see much point.

Right now, it seems like they're catching up with the AppleTV in terms of UI/UX... which is good, except when you realize that AppleTV is and was a failure as well.
Why not create a playlist called "bookmarked"?
For me, it seems ridiculous to pay for a subscription music service that has a paltry catalog with less than half of the albums I want to listen to. That, and I can't be guaranteed of the quality of the file, if it's transcoded, etc. I have decent headphones and prefer to use them to their full potential.

For people who just want to listen to albums, buying albums still seems like the way to go (whether you use iTunes or Amazon, buy CDs or records).
This is not good. How am I supposed to tell the fluffy bits from the classes and id's that are supposed to be filled in with data. It's too much mental overhead to distinguish the two quickly.
Either's good experience, just different experience. I know a number of people who did both at once.
I just wish Spotify could serve up a stream of recommended tracks, based on your listening history, like Last.fm can.

Spotify's "Radio" feature compounds my dislike of "genres" as a means of navigating and discovering music.

Radio, play me a stream of "Rock / Alternative / Pop / 70s"

What the ---- does that even mean? Guaranteed you'll be skipping 9 out of 10 tracks it serves up.

I hate genres. Every file in my local music collection has that tag blanked.
I'm not sure of the details of the bluwiki fiasco, but I can certainly say that this worked for me through my battles with Apple -- we had our share of issues, but never once did one of my blog posts (detailing everything that you'd need to know to reimplement any of the code) get a DMCA takedown notice or the like.
> I don’t want to live in a society where unnecessary perilous violence is the norm.

I don't think that's going to change any time soon. Unless they legalize it, that is.
Been hunting around, but does anyone know the first ipod to support it?
I can not stress how important it is to have
queryable web logs.

I'd love to read some (actionable) articles on how to set up some of the benchmarking / logging stuff that you guys have. For sure I'll check out .NET Memory Profiler and mini profiler linked in the article, but I'd be grateful if anyone wants to post more comprehensive info on where to start.
Am I the only one who first read the title of the post as "stretch breaks" instead of "sketch breaks"?
The cynic in me finds that hard to swallow, but I guess it's possible. Something about this just feels "off" somehow.
Oh, interesting. They've quietly removed that bit from the title. I guess I'm not alone in finding it awful, then.

[Edit: For anyone confused, the title of the article (RWW, and HN) was originally "Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality (This time)". It's been updated sometime since yesterday evening without explanation.]
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I built this site with jquery/css/php over the course of a few days inspired by the new Facebook timeline profile view.
I am seeking a jr. product management or product marketing position as a tech company here in Silicon Valley.

Any input you have I would really appreciate!
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Thanks for all the comments and votes folks! I agree that Codecademy has a ways to go until they are a really effective way to learn coding, but it's a start. :)
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Just star a song from the album. When you view your starred songs you can just click the album name in the Album column and you'll be taken to the full album that the song is from.

I really like the fact that it's easy to go from a single song to an album. I have a lot of songs I bought in my library, and with Spotify its easy to now play these songs in the context of their full album.
"What do you mean by "science fiction story"??"

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities.

--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction
Excellent. I just finished rolling out two sites using jQuery Mobile and theme customization was a bit of pain. This should come in handy.
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"You give the same answer you always give. Another 5 minutes of your (and your customer’s) life wasted."

For certain types of businesses having the customer send you an email that you have to respond to (and we use auto complete emails so they are knocked out in < 30 seconds) is a great opportunity to try to sell them something else or even answer a survey question etc.

After all companies do all sorts of things to get customer interaction. There is nothing better than building customer loyalty (once again depending on the particular situation) by using this as a way to send a seemingly personal response which someone will definitely be reading and not ignoring like a sales email. Even if you are not selling anything there is a value to that.
This is so true. I was given an iPad 2 earlier this year and I love it. Reading, surfing, planning, wireframing, does it all.

But doodling? Brainstorming? There is no app in the world (yet?) that can match a pad of paper and a good, comfortable pen.
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A bcrypt work factor of 10 or 11 on a recent CPU will take about a tenth of a second to hash. Assuming little other workload, you can get about 10 valid logins/second before you'll hit a backlog. If your app is busy and the logins/second increases you'll eventually reach half a second per hash time. If you always return failure when the timer expires and bcrypt hasn't finished, you're doing a denial of service on your own users.

You seem to only be considering the case where the only logins you need to deal with are invalid logins. A busy and successful service will see the vast majority of logins being for legitimate, known users where the bcrypt check must consume CPU time. You have to design the system to be able to handle the workload from both good and bad logins without revealing information about a bad login to an attacker. Anything other than going through the same motions every time will leak information in ways you don't expect.
Spotify, Rdio and all these other sites need to open up their catalog to local and independent artists. That's one of the reasons iTunes was so popular -- they allowed Youtube singers and other aspiring artists to post their songs and allow people to purchase them. They tapped into this long tail and both Apple and these indie artists made money from it.

These companies can't compete with the big players by offering less. No one cares about the piracy thing, they just want their music, and they want the music they are looking for. 'Social discovery' can be great and all but if I'm looking for a very specific, hard-to-find song, chances are I'm going to find it on Youtube instead and forget about Spotify/Rdio, etc. I think Grooveshark let users upload their own content, but failed in that aspect because their catalog ended up being way too messy.

Difficult problem to solve, wonder who will prevail.

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Can anyone find Samsung's actual sales numbers? Not analysts estimates or vague percentages more. I would think if Samsung is selling as much as is claimed, they would have at least a concrete number.
This is $15 for an entire board, but it will probably take a bit of time to get volume pricing lower. For $15 it seems like a good deal for a development board and chip.
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I cut way back on FB recently and about to challenge myself to a social media fast. However, Twitter is essential for connecting with other in business. I gain a TON of value from it. From FB? Not so much. Thanks for sharing this. Being off FB for a few days resulted in higher productivity.
I do the same with my bass when I am working at home. My only problem is that sometimes I get so excited playing it that is hard to stop.
You make excellent points. Here's my problem:

"The exact design has changed repeatedly; originally the one-megawatt generator was to be composed of three hundred small E-Cats, then it was 52 larger "fat cats", now the number seems to be 43."

Why do we have to build 43 of something, to find out if it produces more electricity than it consumes? Either it does, or it doesn't. The third possibility is that there's some cross-talk or multiplicative effect of having more than 1, but I doubt it.
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Aah Figurine Panini. Those were the days. I was doing the exact same thing.
Instead of ranting about it here, I thought it might be more appropriate to enumerate my primary concerns in a post to my blog - http://www.byte.org/2011/10/28/the-visa-shakedown/
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Skype is claiming copyright on the source files that this guy created while reverse engineering the protocol? It's times like this when I really wish that everyone involved in that decision could be held personally responsible for the blatant lie that that is.

Even if it was against the law for him to reverse engineer the protocol, they don't own copyright to the source files he created.
I made a ridesharing application(http://www.ridezap.com) this summer! Sadly it hasn't really caught on among my friends.

I really hope this takes off, I feel like there is a true hole for ridesharing in the US. I feel like this is a good application and I feel that they are making rapid progress(I saw large improvements in just a week!). It needs a little more polish and they should be able to catch up with ZimRide(http://www.zimride.com).
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Like all products, spotify is a constantly improving product. The desktop app is not that great, but the fact that i can access a lot of music within a few clicks without doing anything illegal makes me happy . If you have an exotic special taste you'll have difficulties with every service i guess. I used to listen a lot to last.fm ... but i prefer "on demand" music like spotify offers. The service still needs to improve a lot, but they will get there in the end ... its the new way of listening to music. It doesn't make sence to me to "buy" a song on itunes, since everything is moving to the cloud, "owning" a song really doesnt make sence.
That's the same for your alarm clock, your video game console, your TV, and maybe even your fridge. All these things run only the software that the vendor allows you to run. Why don't people complain that they can't install Linux on their camera?

However - I think it's different for cars, which are often brought up as a comparison but can in fact be customized in many ways.
Don't toasters have computers in them now? If they don't, they soon will.
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I would recommend that you ask this question on the nodejs Google group to get a better response (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nodejs) or Stack Overflow.

Update: Also, the good folks at nodejitsu have compiled a great resource at http://docs.nodejitsu.com/

And more links:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/04/6-free-e-books-on-n...

http://howtonode.org/

http://nodebeginner.org/index.html

http://www.manning.com/cantelon/ (node.js in action meap)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2353818/how-do-i-get-star...
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You seem to be against them doing any work though. That is part of learning how to survive in this world. Look at OWS. They must have all had "great" parents who let them be kids. They still are.
I love it too. After years of harassing wife with different tv add on boxes, plain Linux, apple tv, boxee, I came home to find her just using the thig with no input from my self. She just got it. That is why Google TV is so awesome.
Fair enough. It's a low-security solution replacing a different low-security solution.

I guess the difference with the technical security problem is that it scales. If I write an an app that does provides counterfeit punches, I can distribute it easily and nearly for free. Few people would go through the hassle of counterfeiting the cards, but they might install an app.

I guess that if this gains traction and security proves to be a meaningful issue, plugging the hole should be easy enough.
From the standpoint of operations and supply chain, Apple's work is absolute genius. People who keep up with successful businesses and study business strategies should marvel at this. HN is full of people who care about the running of business, so this is a natural topic.

But the drift amongst consumers in general from discussing things like "Apple makes great phones!" and "Android phones really empower me to do things I find useful!" to arguing your phone is superior to someone else's because of the supply chain management involved or the profit margin is utterly baffling. These things have no bearing on the consumer experience.

Even the sales stats are ultimately a pretty silly thing to argue about. If you have a device with the limited ecosystem of a WebOS phone, then market share matters, because at that level, not many people will write apps for your phone. But both iOS and Android phones are tremendously successful, and both have pretty much all the third party apps anyone needs (plus or minus something new enough that it hasn't been ported or knocked off on the other platform).
The first word of your post needs another vowel :)
Saw a leaf for the fist time up close yesterday. Damn it's ugly. They could really murder sales with a Deiter Rams/Johnny Ive aesthetic design instead of this fake space age plastic crap they cover the car with.
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I just have one large play list where I add albums that I find and currently listens to. If you sort it by "Added" you can always go back (scroll) and see a time line of albums that you've enjoyed.
I was speaking to a nuclear physicist about Fusion, and he stated that really was being used to verify nuclear models for making bombs and such, and that it would never be practical for power generation.
What happens when you are 3 pages down? Won't using the back button will take you back to a previous expired page? What I tend to do when I see the expired message is go back to home page.
I am not sure I buy this argument. While some complaining is obviously not warranted, much of it does point of specific pain points (especially something like, "why do I have to follow this procedure, it is stupid", "I hate this program") and "my manager doesn't understand me".

If you simply turn it down as complaining you won't get to fix the issues in your company. Big stupid companies are created that way. Do you want to be disrupted by the next YC batch?