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If we look at things realistically you are in fact correct, some companies have good layered security but for most security stinks and most of the measures they take are inefficient or not even working at all, this makes for fun discussions when I work for one of these companies as a consultant :-)
> Our goal was that all the start-up booths would be staffed by developers at the start-ups, so you'd be able to find out what the culture and experience of their start-up was like, directly.

Yes, but not as much as I'd like to. I found it far too easy to get stuck in a slow-moving crowd or just wait in a queue to talk.

In the end I just stayed by the bar near the bar staff and talked to developers as they went to grab a beer. It seemed to work better and the devs were far more relaxed talking with a beer in hand. Same goes for outside when they went to grab a cigarette.
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The headline is "all patents are theft" but the atricle only appears to address software patents.
When you buy a kindle fire , you get prime free for 30 days. after that, you need to subscribe.

Yes, the 50% is high, but people who tried prime are really , really happy with it, so maybe 50% makes sense.

And yes, it's definitely cars vs horses.
Great feedback, thanks. I think some kind of on campus event is the next step and I love the idea of making it about product demos not standard booths.
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I wouldn't say that's completely unheard of when I went to college. If he's watching it because he doesn't trust you to manage your own money that's one thing, but there are other reasons for being able to manage an account.

For instance, if the father wasn't a custodial on the account he can't deposit money in the event he needs it. My parents would have to mail me a check or pay a $25 bank transfer fee because they bank elsewhere. With student privacy laws, the father can't directly see school bills. Those have to go to the student, even if the parents are paying. My school also had a student account where you could pay for food, vending, and laundry. This is a separate account that requires replenishing, so the guys I knew would sometimes call their folks asking them to deposit some money for expenditures (freshman/sophomore year, everyone pretty much had some side income by then).
"with no cache" means no cache in app server layer. I guessed that's how the guy uses the words "no cache".

Getting rid of cache out of app server layer has great benefit on a cloud.

Having cache in app server layer needs synchronizations to keep data consistent. Scale out design was made before cloud era, when we have our own dedicated system on our site. LAN can afford expensive sync communications, but on a cloud?

Still makes sense if a scenario is read intensive. But when update intensive?

That's why I see this interesting. Increasing memory is a cheap option on a cloud. So it's great if it scales by letting database utilize more memory.
I guess you don't interact much with kids. 3 year olds will give great conversation and sometimes very interesting insights.
A thing like Siri might benefit tremendously from being open source.

Everybody with an itch to scratch and time on their hand would help to incrementally improve Siri for 1000's of specialist applications.
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I've registered for the event this year but I graduated in '05 in CS/IS so I guess I match the pattern you have been seeing.

When I graduated I barely knew that startups existed and I certainly didn't know they needed grads.

I went to a Uni that had an associated business park and those companies advertised on the student job board.

I did a graduate scheme with one of those companies but I wish I'd had more exposure to startups and associated events.

Is there a central list of these 500+ roles? Not so people can apply but so students know before hand that they are suited to the positions.

Maybe it's the nature of CS students, it's a pretty daunting time - especially meeting recruiting companies face to face. It's hard to know what to say for yourself if all you've got is a degree in hand.

For the average grads it feels like the competition would be just way to high.

With a few years of work experience it's much easier to go and chat to recruiters as you've got confidence in the projects you've worked on.

I don't know if any of the roles at the event will be suited to me this Sunday but I'm going anyway because I'd love to talk to some of the companies that are there.

I don't think I would have done that as a grad.
^ This is what I mean with my sentence, thanks :)
What a bizarre story—Are they really trying to put a negative spin Steve Wozniak's disdain for patent trolls?

The smarmy sarcasm was practically palpable.
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> The main disadvantage I've seen is that smaller ones have less leverage and so you pay more ATM fees to other banks.

Many credit unions are now part of ATM networks where you can use any of the members' ATMs fee-free, and in some cases can use other members' branch offices for free as well (at least for routine stuff). Depends somewhat on your location and your ATM-using habits; if you need to use a random mall ATM that doesn't help, but there are usually several member ATMs nearby.
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Finish the plans, put them on Thingiverse.com or something. Someone will build it and you'll be most satisfied to see it out there, I'm sure.
A lot of the problem is that many people seem to treat Twitter like a game where the aim is to get the most followers. People agree to follow back if you'll follow them. Therefore you get the ridiculous situation where people have 5000 followers and are following 5000 and obviously nobody really gives a damn about what anyone is saying.

Now when I'm deciding if it's worth pushing the app to someone on Twitter, I check if they have a rational following to followers ratio.

Even when following a normal amount of people on Twitter, the sheer amount of traffic means that your link will probably get lost in the feed.
For t-mobile america users/cheapskates: it's quad-band 3G unlike the N9's penta-band 3G, so I don't see this phone selling on t-mobile at all.

Too bad though, I've been wanting to replace my nexus one with a well-designed easily jailbreakable/sim-unlockable os.
We are, and have contacted a large number of list moderators for careers/CS/entrepreneurship etc. I'll double check if we have reached out to that one. Thanks
This is great, but any chance of having a UK pricing page that's in £ (you know, the local currency we use here)?

http://www.twilio.com/uk/pricing
"Chris Matyszczyk brings a fresh and irreverent perspective to the tech world in his CNET blog, Technically Incorrect."

I puked a little. This is about the same level of writing as that awfully-named 'NSFW' column on TechCrunch. Damn trolls.
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It is ok to put something funny on the 404 page and the pages for the other errors. But a proper and useful 404 error page will not only entertain lost visitors, but guide them back to existing pages of a website.

A sitemap and possibly a search input field are a good idea.
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We're working on it, for now we have to charge in dollars and we wouldn't want to have to give you something that changes every time the currency exchange rate changes.
I really don't get this notion of a lot of Apple supporters that just because they put something out and call it AI, Apple has now solidly invented AI. Weren't they usually praised for not announcing things before they are ready? According to your theory, with Siri they would have broken the rule. The current Siri would merely be an announcement that one day they would deliver real AI, and in the meantime they would deliver the current broken version.
Why tell someone who has just posted a self-reflective essay to the internet to... Self-reflect and share the problem with non-professionals? They're evidently trying that already.

In the general case it is a poor idea to refer people to their own families. This is sometimes hard for those of us with happy and supportive families to remember, but a lot of folks have problems that are caused by their families. And remember that seeing more of the people one is already seeing may not be a cure for depression. To fix depression you have to change something.

As for why pros are useful, in any field: They have likely seen thousands of people with your problem; they know a larger list of things to try; they know how to start out with the cheap and simple options but are also aware of how to escalate and have experience with escalation and know the consequences of non-escalation; they aren't involved in your life and can therefore act more freely and with fewer conflicts of interest; they have access to important tools that non-pros do not (in the case of mental health professionals this includes drugs, like the drugs that have improved the lives of so many people I know); they take the problem seriously; merely visiting one will help you confront your problem (the twelve-step programs aren't just being glib: admitting you have a problem really is the first step - once you take conscious, subconscious, and social ownership of a problem it's amazing how often you can fix it yourself).

And, most important of all, in the mental health field pros are not on the effing Internet. They are morally, professionally, and legally compelled to avoid publicly talking about you, or talking to your friends, or even being in the same room with you outside of therapy. The same cannot be said of your friends or family, let alone of random jerks like myself on Hacker News.

Now, having delivered the most epic disclaimer in HN history, I'll point out that the commenter above (unlike the person who wrote the submitted blog post) evidently knows the cause of his or her own distress; it is sitting there in the comment in black and white. Brainstorming what to do about it might be better done by a discreet, independent observer who is actually on the scene, however.
http://get-serve.com/ probably. What disappoints me about Serve and some of these other tools is that they make no attempt to be agnostic about what filetypes they process: it's ERB, HAML, SASS, period. (Well, usually a few other formats too, but you get my point.) These are infrastructure tools and it's too bad that every community has to reinvent the wheel.
Really?

Let's talk about compatibility with Linux, ergo, being able to use your phone as a mass-storage device.

Let's talk about compatibility with all major mobile web apps.

Let's talk about the ability, or lack thereof, to detach oneself from Microsoft's ecosystem, should you decide to get a Windows Phone. Who wants to use Bing, Hotmail, or the Windows Live stuff?

Let's talk about universal usage in modern society, resulting in apps for everything you could ever want. For instance, my university offers Android and iOS apps for navigation throughout the obscenely large campus.

Windows Phone 7 is a crippled system. It makes me sad, because Nokia makes great phones. It's a pity they didn't go with Android, which would give them the freedom to do whatever they want, not needing Google's permission. I would buy a Nokia Android phone in a heartbeat.
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I wish it would crawl images.google.com to automatically add pictures of the things in my list .. that would make it terrific.
The second half of your conversation should have been to close your account and change banks.

Credit unions are the only banking institutions I will deal with now.
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But isn't this article reading way too much into a 4 year old liking to touch things and not having patience?

Very much so. Young children are still learning the basics of physical interaction with the world and how the world works. Its is incredibly short sited to give a child lots of exposure to touch-controlled devices and then delude yourself into thinking you've found some sort of insight when they assume that other things might have touch interfaces. They don't have enough knowledge about what things are to reason and infer about them like we can.
look forward to hopefully meeting you on sunday and would love any feedback you have on how it goes for you.

I think the idea of a central list is a good one, and others have suggested that too.
While calling them 'reliable' may be stretching it a bit, we do use PayPal for our outgoing payments. The fees are reasonable (for smaller numbers, not sure how things are for power users) and setup is easy.
CPU seems to be MSM8255T (they didn't mention the T) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_(system_on_chip)
1.4GHz is fast, but the OS might be slow, and certainly they have less experience in integrating it with the hardware, to make it fast.

BTW the images look like CGI mockups to me. EDIT I was wrong
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I also turned off overdraft on my account, but I did this when I got my Wachovia debit card in the mail. It has as a $5000 per DAY limit of transactions. I called to get it lowered, to say $500 but they couldn't do it on my blue debit card. Since $5k was more than my checking account at the time I turned off overdraft so someone couldn't drain my savings account along with it.
I wish the article had gone further. I'm sure Woz had a little more to say on the subject.
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Are you complaining that they're required to service the more expensive (to you) debts first? Why?

UK banks used to have a god racket (don't know if they still do, don't read the relevant blogs) where they'd offer 0% balance transfer cards but with expensive purchase interest. Then, any payments you made went to paying off the oldest debt first (on which you were paying 0% interest) leaving the purchases quickly gaining high interest payments.
With respect to personnel, would you venture to say that perhaps nothing other than the Board is different between these two companies?
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Nokia is correct. The first wave of WP7 phones were awful, boring, cheap looking, giant bricks, etc. No standout desirable devices, which hurt the platform. That is the risk of the MS model: your partners will take your OS and put it on cheap crappy hardware and lose to Apple. The Lumia 800 is the first desirable WP7 device.
Why don't you get the N9 then? You can get it from Expansys if you're in USA. This form factor was designed together with the Harmattan software and Swipe UX. I'm waiting for mine to arrive.
Would you happen to know which bank is doing that at the moment? In the last year, I've had a debit or credit card from NatWest, Halifax, Lloyds, Santander, MBNA and Barclays; never had an "incorrect PIN" charge though.

If it's a new policy at one of those, I guess I'm closing my account...
I just lost twenty points of IQ reading that wretched tripe. And Lord knows, I don't have that much to spare. I don't mind people with opposing views, but if you strip the article of its charact assasination and sarcastic tone, there's nothing really there, no insight. You don't learn anything from it or from refuting it.

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>When someone can't keep an extremely small amount of cash on hand at all times. //

Your "extremely small amount of cash" is my families disposable income for the entire month. That is, all we have to live on after tax and direct housing costs.

A simple accident/incident (last year a small section of our roof caved in, the insurance company says it wasn't covered as there wasn't a 'storm') can wipe that amount out easily. It took us several months to afford the repair.

Of course if we'd be living off the state it would have been fixed immediately assisted by our tax payments ...
Yeah, and a bunch of stuff is missing as well: resolution is not there (even though screen size is), neither is autonomy (claimed or actual, who cares about 3% more/less battery capacity when the hardware and OS are widely different?), performances (CPU and/or GPU).

And some of the claims are downright weird ("1.9 newer Bluetooth version"? Really?).

It's everything that's wrong about checklist comparisons, made even worse.
The main advantage as mentioned above is that they don't tend to screw you. I'm a member of the a state credit union and have been for years. The people are more friendly, more helpful and overall provide a better experience. My cu offers all the things you listed and the only entry requirement for it is living in the state.

The downside, at least with my credit union, is that there are zero branches outside the state. When I lived in a different state for 2 years it wasn't a big deal since I could mail them checks for deposit and every store now offers cash back with even the smallest purchase (avoiding ATM fees).

BTW, BofA was the last bank I was ever at and I will tell everyone to avoid them like the plague. Simplifying numbers here, but someone gave me a $500 check that bounced. When the check bounced they took out the $500 (what they should have done), but then put a lock on the other $500 in the account. I went to branch and asked for an explanation. After a few explanations that didn't make any sense I told the manager I wanted to close my account right then and there. He said he couldn't, so I said I wasn't leaving until he did and threatened to call the police and claim theft (I was an idiot college kid at the time). Long story short, he closed the account, gave me a check and I have been a happy CU member ever since.
All property is theft!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft!
Just pick a UK price that gives you some margin, and re-evaluate once every quarter. The exchange rate doesn't change that much.
This isn't new to ICS. "pm disable «packagename»" works on Gingerbread, at least.
Biggest issue with more RAM is not money so much as battery capacity: it's very hard to gate RAM, so more ram means more transistors which are very hard to shut down, meaning lower battery capacity. And a higher surface area and more heat (assuming the manufacturing process is constant).

On a mobile device, more RAM is often a balancing act.
> It's For Your Benefit, citizen.

I take exception to using “citizen”, here, since it implies the gov't is somehow at fault…

In reality, the banks had indeed devised such a scheme, and for the obvious reasons, but it's since been disallowed by government intervention, along with a few other things sucha as actually being able to opt out of overdraft “protection” (this was just a few years ago but fortunately I don't have to care about what US banks do anymore).
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They are an 8-hour drive from their bank
I hope they rename it for the spanish market: http://www.wordmagicsoft.com/dictionary/es-en/lumia.php
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It used to be really bad, but Mango improved it a lot. For example, pre-Mango IE didn't properly zoom into form text fields like the iPhone does, which made entering text unnecessarily frustrating.
How is it an UI? I mean it is voice input. OK, that's an UI, but it is an UI that has been around for thousands of years. Non-Apple phones also had voice input for years. Now Siri adds some things it recognizes, like calendar dates. What is so revolutionary about it? Other vendors will also add more tasks to their voice recognition. Google is arguably in a better position to do so, because they have worked on the problem for years (not voice recognition, but what do users mean when they search for "x").
> The voice recognition is ok. The natural language processing is passable. But all those are things that can be improved...

These AI fields have been notoriously slow to improve. Apple is great at applying new technology, e.g. the integration mentioned. They may be able to adapt somewhat with all the data gathered (pronunciation, word-usage patterns, typical requests), but I wouldn't expect significant improvements.
Imperial College academic here. I haven't seen any fliers or posters around college today so this might have something to do with your lack of uptake. This is in contrast to the event you had earlier in the year which was prominently advertised around the place.

Also I noticed there is a careers fair happening today, predominantly big engineering firms/consultancies/banking, and I didn't see if you had any representation there (apologies if you do and I missed it).
>Therein lies the value of innovation - several failed multi-million dollar marketing campaigns VS a lean startup reaching the same conclusion and offering the same solution.

Hindsight is awesome, isn't it? They had now way to know that your startup wasn't destine to fail, but now that your idea has been successfully executed by someone else you feel vindicated. Great, but that doesn't retroactively make you less of a risk back then nor does it prove that you would have executed on your idea as well as the people they went with.
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> Writing truly standards compliant html is too much hassle
> for most people out there

This may be true (the "too much hassle" part), but writing standards compliant html is very easy. Or just easy, depending how semantically clean you want it to be.

> and brings next to nothing in value.

This is wrong. Unless savings on network traffic, time spent on maintenance and page load times are of now value to developer.
1. It's a phone, not a mass-storage device.

2. Based on my experience, they work pretty well.

3. Or gmail, twitter, facebook? (although bing kinda annoys
me as a default search engine)

4. Just wait for WP7 userbase to grow.
I don't, and I don't think I've ever met anyone, who has an issue with SMS spam.

Maybe I'm wrong but this seems like another solution to a problem that doesn't exist
I would be more impressed to interview someone who knows the basics of latex than an "expert" in Word. While latex is obviously not a determiner of intelligence, the average person who considers themselves to be a savy Word user would cringe at the thought of "coding" their resume, let alone take the extra effort.
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I really like this device, but the prospect of using Internet Explorer again really turns me off. The black Lumia 800 with Android 4.0 would be perfect for me.
Sorry, I was unclear. You provided a tl;dr which I thought (combined with my comment mentioning taxes) could encourage people to skip the video and just comment based on their longstanding political preconceptions. I was talking to those hypothetical commenters.

I realise now that it's got a completely different tone if you read it as a response to you. I will edit if it lets me.
If Siri is really the equivalent of a CLI for phones, then it's destined to be a niche technology.

The main reason why most users don't use a command line isn't, as the article says, because "most people have been satisfied enough with that [the GUI], so they haven't ever bothered learning to use a command line". It's because command lines are only better for very advanced users and/or people with an exceptional memory.

Fact is, with a command line you don't "talk" to a computer. You actually program it, with a kind of interpreted language and a plethora of libraries (executables). This means that you actually need to be VERY exact in what you write, you have to remember the "magic incantation" in every detail, or it will not work - or, likely enough, disaster will follow.

Vocal commands can be useful for the mass for very simple tasks, if the incantation is very easy to remember. To be able to actually talk to computers, on the other hand, we need actual AI, of the Turing test kind. We aren't anywhere near that for now.