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Hang on, iPhone 3G was released July 11, 2008 and iOS4 was released 710 days later (Jun 21, 2010).

Many people found the 3G to be completely unusable with iOS4 installed and had to rollback to a previous version. On top of this, the 3G didn't receive the FULL iOS4 update, apple left out Multitasking, homescreen backgrounds, etc.

You really need to update your diagram to show that iPhone 3G WAS NOT on the current major release after 2 years due to the fact that it didn't have many of the features of that release and that it couldn't handle what it WAS given properly anyway.
Your post is all very reasonable, but do you not realise that this quote ...

"And pretty much all Android phone manufacturers are operating on pretty thin margins because of the competition."

... simply isn't true, and the only reason you think that is because it has become an accepted truth in the Apple echo-chamber? (Mostly by intentionally fudging between mobile phone and smartphone numbers depending on whichever makes Apple sound better).
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> The point of making the billion dollars yourself is having a say in where it gets spent

I doubt people that are great at creating value would appreciate making these kind of decisions once they get to know what's involved.

Just to give an example: an 8 year-old requested $50'000 from Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to help him survive by contributing to his leukemia treatment, but Gates turned the request down because they don't contribute to individual cases (their policy is to fund programs designed to target large groups of people, i.e. population control in Asia).

I don't imagine great founders or great engineers getting up in the morning because they dream in having a "point" to say in this kind of decisions. They love to do what they do best: creating something people want.
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Academic conferences are by far the best behaved, which makes sense because everyone there is (generally) being paid to go there by their university.

In general people behave worse when there are less repercussions from work, so at conferences which are free / many people paid out of their own pocket, the behaviour is worse.
Both. However I'm not very concerned about the latter, because other users can down vote a spam post. What users can't do is upvote/downvote a vote itself.
200 GB per new user, at $125/year per user, works out to $0.052/GB/month. Amazon S3, which Dropbox uses, charges $0.037/GB/month at scale. And that assumes that people use 100% of the storage they pay for, while most people don't actually run anywhere near capacity all the time. That also ignores compression and de-duplication.
I guess the message that this sort of moderation (whether done by human or by algorithm) sends is "don't come here unless you already fully understand and appreciate the ethos and mission of this site, and don't post unless your contribution is going to be something of the highest quality possible, according to the standards of the site".

Which is fine as far as it goes, but basically when you boil that down it's "don't screw up, or else."

That isn't what attracted me here. What attracted me here was reading interesting links and thought-provoking discussion, and thinking "man, I need to up my game so I can participate meaningfully".

If the goal is to have a members-only kind of retreat from the mundane, then I suppose the notion of creating an underclass of posters who don't even know they are being ignored makes sense. But in that case, why not take it a step further and just require applications and screen out members in the first place?

If the goal is to grow the site and generate more traffic, then I would submit that encouraging people to emulate quality contributors is a better approach... why not flip this algorithm on its head. Instead of hell-banning those who score poorly, add in a karma boost for those who score optimally... and an indicator on articles that meet the site criteria for quality.

People don't like to do as they're told, but they sure like to do what got somebody else a gold star.
Saying we can't ever blame a company for doing something, because the express purpose of a company is increasing shareholder value, is such an absurd line of reasoning. Then blame the shareholders instead of the company!

At some point there's always people making decisions. The abstract soulless entity "Google" may not have any moral responsibilities, but Google's owners do.
While it is easy to focus on the messenger being annoying, his message does have a reputable citation(found on his blog):
http://web.archive.org/web/20030512215305/http://www.spamhau...

Mind you, innocent or well meaning persons can end up on Spamhaus list, but this does not seem to be the case here.

All it means is that Airbnb quite likely knew about the Craigslist spamming done by their affiliates. Legally they seem to be in the clear, but morally is another matter.
The system would be very similar if not entirely identical to sites like youtube (comment section), stackoverflow, reddit
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> But it would be really nice to have real evidence of something rather than wildly speculate.

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Issues
This would be made a lot better if you could buy VPS with a dedicated disk pair.
> Digital music is technically superior to bumps on a plastic disc

What you completely failed to realise, is that technical superiority is not the only factor as to how music sounds.

CD mastering these days is almost invariably awful. The real advantage to vinyl (which comes partly because it is a niche format, and partly because of how it is made) is that it has better mastering. This is not subtle on anything better than PC speakers.
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Yet another Google launch that is US only (Well at least not available in Australia).

Google - people outside the US exist and we want to use your stuff!
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> getting trolled on the internet

Online mysoginy is quite well beyong trolling. And the troll starts writing frequent death/rape threats and posts your real address to boot, it's not trolling.
See that it does happen: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Kathy_Sierra_incident
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> Perl, and Python have VMs that take advantage of ThumbEE now.

That's really cool!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Thumb_Executio...
any thoughts/reviews? Thanks.
Sounds intriguing. I am not sure where to start from, however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystemVerilog
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I swear thats exactly what the first posterous app did?!
Your point about having multiple VM's forming additional seeks is correct, but it misses the bigger picture.

Basically, on any reasonably sophisticated hosting infrastructure those arn't a problem.

If your problem is just seq->random conversion due to additional VMs then bcache/flashcache does a surprisingly good join at making that just plain go away with little additional cost.

On any reasonably sophisticated host you have a DSAN, which has a cool little stats trick, which basically means that as you add additonal vm's together the variance on the total IO load drops, and the load pattern itself becomes more and more normal, the larger and more uncorrelated you get.

That gives each vm more 'burst' capacity when required with many fewer failures (ie. the vm asks for more IO then the current capacity of the system).

This leads to a bunch of interesting stuff when you try to apply it in real world systems, either in HPC or in clouds.
They had the choice to say "No, fuck you. We're not giving it to you. In fact, one of our interns accidentally just the entire relevant harddrives."

No, they just ran out of choices that didn't actually demand anything of themselves.
It may be changing but these figures are from Q2 this year and are pretty supportive:

http://www.asymco.com/2011/07/29/apple-captured-two-thirds-o...

Morotola Mobility just posted another loss in the last few days, LG have been losing money for 2 years now with no sign of turning it round. HTC margins are "disappointing" and their share price has dropped considerably in the last few months in large part because of the competition in the market (source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/htc-profit-up-68-on-demand-...). HTC are making good profits but their margins aren't great.

Samsung are doing well but I'm not seeing anyone else wooping it up but I'd love to see anything that contradicts that (I own no Apple stock and I'm really not that vested one way or the other).
I still have quite a few other options to buy my music online or just buy music the old fashioned way; same goes for shows and movies. I do not see anything "scarce" here at all. And I can play music in pretty much all popular formats I got from elsewhere on iTunes and iPod just fine. And now the music from the iTunes store is not DRM locked-down anymore either.

And you are comparing apples and oranges with Google here. Apple is selling hardware and now all sorts of media and software along with it. Google has a completely different business model. And what benefit do I as a customer directly gain from google using Linux as a foundation? As long as their servers work, I am pretty much unaffected by the platform. Apple is using BSD as a foundation in OS X, so? And there are open source components available. Does google give me the source code for their web search or gmail or ads or all their other core products?

What makes google a "clearly superior business model"? Just because Linux is "cool"? Last time I checked, Apple is doing pretty well and has been consistently so over the last years so I doubt their business model needs to be replaced.

I am glad Apple is getting more popular because finally there is some real actual competition in the consumer sector. And for each of their products, there are just as excellent alternatives available so I am not being forced or locked down on anything. I can take my contacts, pictures, videos and music with me, it is pretty much all available or exportable in(to) standardized formats.
It's always about accounting and/or externalizing risk.
I haven't used Byline myself, but judging from its features, it is much more of a power user tool than Read.
Please reconsider. Being able to sync my feeds with other apps is very valuable to me.
We've seen a couple, and I've heard about a couple more. It always seems to be the UPSes, oddly enough.
A beautiful story. I myself was raised by two academics in safe middle class public sector jobs their whole life. Only at my 30th year did I consider starting my own business. Looking back on friends who started on their own, I do not doubt that either being an entrepreneur is 1) in the bloodline (nature) and in the upbringing (nurture).

I had a wonderful childhood - but I think I would have started my own business much earlier, had I had a father like yours. And it just goes to show, that valuable life lessons does not need to be boring chores and stern rants from the elderly.

Thanks for an inspiring read.
Remember that most loads are 1:10 inbound:outbound, so unless you have a strange sort of workload it really doesn't help you much.

If you do happen to have a lot of inbound traffic though, it's a nice little arrangement as the bandwidth may be almost free to the provider (Symetricity requirements) and still very useful to you.
And maybe a less antagonistic approach to equality, like "human equality" instead of "women's equality."

I am pulling this out of something else you said to say I am female and agree with some of your points. But I will also note that a) You need to stop yelling and stuff. It's hurting your cause. b) If you can't stay calm in the face of the relatively mild "attack" you are being subjected to, what makes you think women should just be able to take something far worse?

I agree with some of your points. But what you are advocating is very hard to do and you are not doing a good job of walking the walk. If you can't walk the walk, then it's best to shut up and quit while you are behind. Talking the talk is the easy part.

Peace.
For example, Android 2.2 added huge performance gains ... It also added very useful new features like wifi hotspot that make the device much more useful. ... Is that just minor?

Yes, I think so.

Compare to this snippet:
March 9, 2011 – iOS 4.3 arrived, delivering hotspot functionality, faster browsing, lock switch settings and improvements to AirPlay and Home Sharing. [1]

iOS gets to call hotspot and faster browsing a minor version, why not the same for Android? It's comparing apples and oranges. Similarly, the cycle for Android 2.0 to 2.3 was around a year (well... 14 months) which is equivalent to the cycles for iOS major revs, which are about a year each [2]

I'm currently trying to upgrade a bit of software at the moment at work that's a few minor points out... but those minor points contain some delicious features. Doesn't mean it's not a minor revision upgrade.

[1]http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/06/03/ios-and-iphone-timel...
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#Versions

edit: clarifications
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South Dakota provides a microcosmic look at the growth and opportunities of blended learning and online learning.public universities in the unpopulated state - including my alma mater The University of South Dakota - are benefitting greatly from out-of-state students (many from Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming) taking coursework online from South Dakota universities.
This shows that online learning can be a great business for established institutions in rural states, an export industry of sorts.<p>95.6: Percent increase in the number of out-of-state students enrolled in online classes from five years ago, up from 2,399 students to 4,603 students.
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Just wanted to echo the thoughts of mtkd. I have my own personal domain mostly because I want to maintain control of my own email address. I connected it to Google Apps (and am willing to pay for this feature), because Gmail is great.

But when Google rolls out a new service which doesn't have Apps support (which they do all the time), it's pretty frustrating. The irony is that if I didn't use Apps, and instead hosted my domain myself, I'd have better compatibility with Google products than when I do. Frustrating as hell, especially if you're paying for it.

I understand that they're stuck between vanity users (like me) and enterprise users, but these problems should be thought about more structurally and addressed beforehand.
Maybe it's because I didn't read the transcript of the talk, but it sounded like someone tried to ask him his opinion of money in politics and about money being able to buy influence and power, and unfortunately it looked like he failed to address that. If that's the case, that was a very disappointing missed opportunity by him I think.
Do you have figures to share? You seem confident, yet I'm equally confident that their profits from smartphones are large and growing quickly.

It's seems unlikely that they would be doing so differently from HTC and ZTE, much smaller players who are doing very well.

I don't know of any comprehensive numbers on the market that I'd trust, but as a snapshot Apple reported $7.3 Billion profit in July (for phones, ipods, ipads + compters etc.) up 80% from last year, while Samsung just announced $2.3 Billion just from smartphones, a yearly increase of over 100%. (This doesn't seem to include money from selling components to other smartphone makers, such as Apple).
Em, parent was talking about printing, not scanning...

I have yet to use a printer that OS X Lion can't find a driver for.
> Somebody who attacks a honeypot is making an attack -- they're guilty. <

I think the underlying assumption of the article is that people who are upvoting offtopic stuff are in fact attacking the site. But is offtopic content really the biggest issue? Clustering (or lack thereof) seems to me the predominant problem, as you said. For example, right now, we have the Bill Gates thing on the front page twice. And come to think of it, the Android SDK update shouldn't be there at all.

Maybe there should just be an option to merge discussions. Just a simple function where users can vote to merge an article with an older one on the same subject.
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I had a site I used that feature for, but google took it away like a year ago
I'm not sure if this statistic is global, but for actual abuse, one in four women has been a victim. If the rate is so high for close-up abuse, you can imagine how it will be when you add online anonimity to the problem.
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So, provide your numbers.

> Mostly by intentionally fudging between mobile phone and
> smartphone numbers depending on whichever makes Apple
> sound better)

I am especially interested in examples to illustrate this your point. Some dumb phone manufacturer has higher margins than Apple with iPhone and Apple chooses to ignore that?
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What attracted me here was reading interesting links and thought-provoking discussion, and thinking "man, I need to up my game so I can participate meaningfully".

I participate to up my game. This approach tends to kill that possibility (or at least contribute to slowly killing it).

If the goal is to grow the site and generate more traffic,

As I understand it, the actual business goal of the site is to help YC screen applicants: Your user-name is a required part of your application to YC and (if no one else) PG will go check your comments. Since start-up founders tend to be young and therefore probably a bit socially wet behind the ears, it seems to me that being too controlling about the site in that regard is potentially a bad business decision.
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3 years ago, I started a one-man company building electronic hardware for artists. I did everything myself: electronics, software, manufacturing, accounting, marketing, music. The only thing lacking was any business sense whatsoever: I quickly burnt out after 2 years, realizing that I just worked 90 hour weeks making 10$ an hour.

Rethinking my priorities, I figured out that I actually had already reached my “4 goals in life” (to use new-agey self-help blog-terms): make art, make technology, having friends and family, enjoying life. I also realized what I don’t know how to do: managing people, understanding people, being business-savvy enough to make money. I have done the crazy stuff I wanted to do, and at age 29 feel like I’m actually retiring, doing stuff that is just like watering my plants.

Since me slowly shutting my electronics venture down, I’ve been quite happily freelancing halftime without trying very hard (doing electronics and software), making about 60k-80k EUR per year (living in a very low-income part of east germany, which makes me pretty much cresus), and pursuing my other projects on the side. I don’t miss the excitement of having a company, and am usually happy doing one-man projects.

I know I’m completely underselling myself as a freelancer (I work for 50$/h at the moment, although I had gigs for 100 EUR / hour this year as well), which I understand as me not actually caring. However, I think I miss the possibility of being able to pay a smart developer to develop a compiler backend for me, of having a design agency design some custom cases, of having a company in china produce a few thousand devices. Business-like endeavors that are more driven by a love for art and technology than market, which I learnt is a recipe bound for failure.

I know that I’m quite sharp and pick up things easily. I also have a laser-like intensity, as well as enough self-discipline to reach my goals, even if they take a few years of hard work. That is, as long as I don’t get bored, which is as soon as I feel that I’m not learning anything anymore. Would you recommend me to:

* Chill out, relax, and enjoy what I have

* Look for someone to manage me, keeping 80% off my 20% but allowing me to have a bit of a bigger scope

* Manning up, study business, finance and marketing, play the game and make some serious $$$ for a few years

* Slowly ramp up my revenue, getting more consulting gigs rather than codemonkey gigs, getting a suit and upselling myself

* Slowly building up a few “moneyprinting” endeavours (a few iphone apps, a few webapps), either slowly building up a revenue stream or actually turning into something that someone would like to take over or nurture to $$$.
I'm disappointed in you, Google.
There are other factors that did give Samsung an advantage such as no new iPhone launched by Apple this quarter. It remains to be seen what the impact is of new iPhone, Sprint availability and a 3GS that is free with a contract. Apple is predicting that they will generate $40 billion during the next quarter.

With a 'free' 3GS Apple is pretty much competing with Samsung and Android now at every price point.
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Just a question.

Who in the US provides cloud with disks comparable to dedicated servers? (or otherwise 'good')?

I say this because I run a cloud company called orion in Australia, we produce cloud VMs with faster then dedicated disk performance. When we were last in SV pitching, nobody knew of anybody in a similar sort of space.

I'm just asking because you seemed to emphasise 'normally' and 'good'.
According to the narration (sounds like Brendan Eich?) it uses emscripten; googling "emscripten h264 decoder" gives as the top result this github project (with commits in the last hour or so):

https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway

Sounds like the <whatever>monkey type inference engine is giving some pretty good results.
Their problem is more likely going to be great content not technology, don't you think?
>up until now you have to admit it's a dud

The genie is out of the bottle, so that doesn't matter anymore.

>You do know that Time Machine works perfectly fine [...]

Yes, do go on. Lecture me about my environment and my needs.

>And yes MSE is third-aprty in the sense that it's not there right from the start

Not only do you not know what first-party means, if it was bundled in by default Microsoft would be right back in antitrust court.

>As for general maintenance, manageability and user assistance, my experience has been such as it is one or two orders of magnitude down from Windows.

Thats awesome, but I'm really not interested in your pissing contest.
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Is YC a startup?

(My searches didn't reveal this question asked previously - though it must have been. IIRC, YC was more broadly as a company that makes companies, rather than a startup that makes startups.)
How much money does Apple and Samsung make from smartphones?
Looking for Electronics ie Hd Tv's, Kindle, Computers
Asymco smartphone profit league table updated for Q3:

http://pic.twitter.com/rIO0siLf

Edit: See also: http://www.asymco.com/hire-me/vendor-bubbles/
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The answer I guess probably was with the speed of development of the cell phone hardware and cell phone software i.e. the mobile phone applications.
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Killed it last time? sooo it had nothing to do with Microsoft , Windows 95, and the arrival of the internet?

The 90s house hold computing boom left Apple completely out of the equation, the couldn't compete on any level. Jobs turned that around by competiting where MS couldn't, with hardware and usability (through lock in).
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