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Apple had enough clout to leave the carriers silent for iMessage, but this could be the straw that breaks the innovation-fearing camel's back.

I'm almost certain they're planning it.
Yeah, it used to be a compliment. Too bad about Flickr. I don't know about Vimeo either, I haven't seen much movement from them lately.
Good points. Also since there will be loads of users stuck on Gingerbread / Froyo the N1 will probably be useful as a development test phone in my case.
And this is my real beef with stallman's brand of free. His freedom is a narrow-minded ideology, abstracted from what freedom means in the real world. In the real world the only freedom I care about is the freedom to spend my time the way I want. From that perspective, jobs did a lot to make me free, because the switch from linux to apple "freed" more of my time than it cost me.

You're overloading the word free, a common rhetorical confusion that invariably appears in discussions of this nature. You're not really saying that Apple gave you more freedom; you're saying it gave you more time. That's a legitimate point, but you shouldn't pretend that that's the same thing as "freedom" in any sense remotely resembling what Stallman or foob care about. As such, you clearly don't "strongly agree" with what Stallman is trying to do; he wants software to be something anyone can tinker with, modify and redistribute. Apple wants to give you the "best possible computing experience", which it can only do for you as long as you're in total agreement with Apple over what that means.

By the way, Apple machines are a huge timesink for me whenever I try to use them, precisely because I can't customize the things in the UI that drive me batty (namely, the global menu and the dock, two elements of the OSX UI that Apple holds sacrosanct). I'm orders of magnitude more productive on a machine I've set up to work the way I want than one that I haven't. So of what use to me is Apple's brand of "freedom"? Contrast it to Stallman's, which allows me to tear open a piece of software to see what it's doing or modify its behavior. I know which one I'd rather have.
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Let's post some honeypot suggestions. I'll start with two potential honeypot comments:

"Fuck Republicans."

"Fuck Democrats."
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I like it, but this space is getting crowded. I wonder how these sites will start to differentiate themselves?

codecademy.com, codeschool.com, teamtreehouse.com, lynda.com, et. al.
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This is a very nice app. It's worth downloading and trying just to see the job they've done with the interface. It has a super-polished, slick feel; the prompts and help messages are very casual and conversational; and it guides you through the process in a very nice way. Within moments I'd uploaded a pile of photos, tagged the people in them on FB, and had someone commenting on them.

The only thing I don't love is that the photos end up on batch.com. I guess they have to have a website somewhere, otherwise, what's the point? But I worry about storing my photos on yet another website. I remember when I created all kinds of albums on Sam Odio's startup, Divvyshot, including ones of the birth of my daughter, and garnered all kinds of memorable comments as a result.

Then one day, it was purchased by Facebook and poof, goodbye photo albums, goodbye comments from friends and family.

That said, the sheer convenience of this app might overcome my worries...
Subpar telephone audio quality is one of those things that is so pervasive that most people are probably only vaguely aware it's a problem.

I'm convinced that if you brought an engineer from the 1940s to today and showed him an iPhone, he'd be absolutely overwhelmed and ecstatic that technology has progressed so far. That is until you let him make a call. Then he'd ask you why the girl on the other end sounds the same as she did in 1940.
This article is about ALAC (a lossless codec developed by Apple), not AAC (a lossy codec developed by the ISO and used by Apple).
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...and DON'T invite him to breakfast!
I gotta say, Valve is just about genius in both their marketing and what they've done with this game in general.
Not in the sense of running out of machines, but at least from my past experiences if your VMs share physical hardware with someone who is using their maximum IO, yours will suffer as well.

It makes it more challenging to load test. When there is no contention you can usually 'burst' to use more of the machine's resources, but you can't necessarily trust that you will always have that capacity.
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This is a great idea, and the site is fun to try. Congrats, and good luck!
I have worked on a competing product called OneGratis ( http://www.onegratis.com ). It works in a similar fashion to Punchd, except I think we might have been out a little bit earlier and the end-user is not required to create an account.

Regarding the comments on cheating, I think one of the best ways to combat that, is to build in functionality to disable phones online. As users are forced to be online when they redeem their loyalty card, this also means they are forced to synchronize their app with the server.

This approach tolerates a little bit of cheating, but also makes sure we can lock out a user, if the stats indicate the person is cheating.
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It's not you; it's that pg has said many times (and I agree) that fragmenting the front page is a bad idea. We must all see the same front page to judge the same quality.
I was thinking about this the other day.

The voice quality on the majority of networks suck. I don't know a better way to put it. We can have HD video streaming to a phone but I can't have crystal clear audio?

Don't even get me started on conference calls and volume. Am I the only one that wishes the volume on my damn phone could go about 10x higher than the preprogrammed setting?
I'm sure that's part of the evolution of FaceTime technology, but the article's author doesn't seem to really understand the technology he's touting. If cell phone antennas result in poor audio quality, they will also result in poor data quality, and thus poor audio-over-data quality. Either the antenna works well or it doesn't.

Similarly, ALAC would be a horrible way to send voice calls over wireless. Lossy codecs will require less bandwidth and thus be less susceptible to dropouts on poor-quality connections.

And while I know almost nothing about codecs, I'm pretty sure you have to design one specifically for streaming - you can't just take a write-to-disk format like ALAC or FLAC and decide to stream it wirelessly.
HN already does things like deadpooling people who are consistently offtopic, trolling or just nuts. I think that unless steps are taken to keep bad content under control, any forum is going to go under.
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What I don't get is why don't places like iTunes and Amazon offer Lossless options for downloading? I mean, here they are bragging about 720p, 1080p, high definition video which is gigantic in size, approaching or exceeding gigabytes for a typical 2 hour movie. Yet, we can't spare the extra space or bandwidth for a higher quality audio file which is still a fraction of the size? I don't get it.
Stallman has never said that people can call it just Linux if they choose. My understanding is that he refuses to interact with anyone unless they agree to call it GNU Linux. Seems like a control issue to me.
This was an important thing for me to read. For the past several years I have been trying hard to deprogram myself of the "richer is better" mindset. Part of my problem has been the assumption that richer people believe themselves to be better than those less rich, to the point that someone like Bill Gates would think less of someone who "only" had a couple million dollars.

I'm slowly weaning myself off of this damaging viewpoint. Something that has really helped have been TED Talks: it's awesome to see a room full of people - some of them hugely wealthy and successful - looking with absolute respect and awe at the presenter on stage talking about (say) the intelligence of crows.

This answer by Gates really helps further cement the idea in my mind that, yes, having more money is great to a point, but in the end, what have you DONE with your life? What have you MADE that brings value to the rest of the world? Those are the kind of things that bring true respect to you, from the rich and non-rich alike.
Chock full? This means it's full to capacity.

Allowing for just a small bit of hyperbole in your statement, which of the default apps are "crapware"? The ones that I'd consider weakly arguable are iTunes and Weather (and perhaps Newsstand), and the former is an essential part of the Apple ecosystem for mainstream consumers.

Compare this with the phone I had before, which had uninstallable NASCAR and NFL apps, just to name a couple. As well as one called Sprint TV, which you could use to access a for-pay streaming service which I think was discontinued, but sucked in either case.

On iOS you see no branded apps like this forced onto your home screen. The one exception is the icon for the Nike syncing feature, which is in Settings and not on the home screen.

I was overjoyed when I got my new iPhone and found that the only thing Sprint was allowed to place onto the phone was a removable bookmark for the Sprint Powerdeck, whatever that is.
Really? Stories abound about how single-minded he was about his creation, whether it be haranguing developers about design points to petitioning presidents to bust unions. Even tried to make 'jailbreaking' your own phone illegal. As in, the government will step in and punish you for doing so.

Jobs was very, very much about doing things 'my way or the highway'. He was very much against people using options he didn't sanction.

EDIT: To be clearer, Jobs' rhetoric is "we offer an alternative", but the actions of Apple under Jobs was very much about crushing ideological opponents, much like RMS would like to do.
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I'm not speaking from experience, but based on what I've read, this makes perfect sense.

Happiness/life satisfaction doesn't improve with more money. You need enough money to be comfortable (i.e., a roof over your head and food on the table), but after that it has no effect.

With $5M you buy an excellent house anywhere, send your kids to the best schools, drive a very nice car and have plenty of money left over for traveling the world. $5B will get you more houses, cars and a massive yacht, but why do you want those things? If you want it to beat your neigbours, then you'll always be unsatisfied since there'll always be people with more (except when you get to the level of Gates), but more importantly, people get used to good things. I have seriously impressive camera equipment. A few years ago I would have loved to own such high quality gear and would be using it all the time. But now, most of the time it sits on a shelf in my bedroom. And I imagine it would be exactly the same if I owned a Ferrari. Or a fleet of them.

And then you have the super-rich people problems, foremost is worrying about their children. A well-meaning relation telling them that they'll never have to work a day in their life isn't going to do much for their drive to do something with their life. And finally, most rich people, whether they're worth tens or hundreds of millions, don't consider themselves financially secure, but they think they would be if they increased their wealth by 25%...
Awesome! Now embedded devices like my car will be able to play more than just MP3's!
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Further, many of the more blatant sexist actions are intentionally undertaken without the presence of witnesses. Assuming 1/3 of sexist actions are of this type, the non-sexist guy might only see 2 minor "sexist actions", while the woman might see 18 "sexist actions", including 6 of the more blatant type. This is going to skew the different perspectives even further.

Another factor that contributes to male skepticism is that many of us have experience in companies that are extremely intolerant of sexism. Like Thomas said, most of what we're talking about would be firing offenses at most companies. I know if my wife ever witnessed this sort of thing at BigCo, the guy would've been fired on the spot.
A million dollars isn't cool, you know what's cool?

Not a billion dollars.

But yeah I always wondered what the threshold of wealth is when you literally can do anything you want without any thought to how much.
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Completely fair. I saw some generalizations below which were leaning towards the broader "women can't math" sentiment, but you're right: I was myself too hasty. I think my point stands though and I agree with everything you said.
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The 1GB was explicitly referred to as your ROM. Sussman does not talk about the streaming data that hits you at run time.
Android market has had at least one FLAC player for at least 2 years now
Agreed. You should discuss this with Reddit and other social news sites.
I had never heard of the guy until today, and within about five minutes of browsing his site and Google, I found the same thing.

He's just a child.
Check out www.murfie.com

They do downloads and offer ALAC and FLAC
Anyone know if there's a recorded version of the talk I could watch? It sounded like an interesting event.
"I don't know if you realize what this actually means, or maybe you are to young..."

You clearly don't understand what the GPL means. Nothing in the GPL lets you demand whatever the fuck you want. It is the complete opposite. The GPL only requires me to redistribute source code for any changes I make to your software.

Anyone who truly believes in the freedom of software would not try to bully the name of another project.
The app looks incredible, but you can't get past the splash screen without one of those bookfaces. This is the first time I've been completely locked out of an iOS app I wanted to use for not being on FB.

One wonders why they feature a twitter button in their screenshots and not offer twitter login?
That video isn't lossless either. The mostly-indistinguishable-from-lossless point has already been reached for downloadable audio, whereas video is still creeping up on it.
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Interesting. Where do the items come from? Donated?

Absolutely love the charity or good cause aspect.
It takes money, and it takes time that I'd rather spend building my company, but it's super fucking important.

And I am positive that I am making a difference and that my actions will directly lead to this being dragged out longer, being amended to make it more palatable (less bad), or in the best but least likely case, being killed.

Being killed isn't really the goal by the way, the entertainment industry has been doing this long since before the Internet (they thought the VCRs would destroy the movie industry). The goal is to help alleviate some of their specific concerns with specific legislation, rather than broad strokes that impact all of us widely.

The DMCA wasn't great, but it hasn't been that big a deal for us to work with and still build great companies.
Audio and video codecs are generally stream/packet based. You'd really have to screw up the container format to make a codec completely incapable of streaming. (Like putting the last frame of video at the start and the first frame at the end of the file)

If you use a player like VLC you can generally watch videos while they are downloading.
Ben Elton explained the diminishing marginal utility of wealth in his book Stark in this fashion:

"A man only has one stomach and one dick".
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While it doesn't help you save your albums or comments, all of your photos are still stored on your camera roll, so you won't lose those if Batch wound up taking a path like Divvyshot (not to imply that that is the path we plan on taking, etc., etc.).

Disclaimer: I work for Batch/Dailybooth.
Agreed. Rose isn't a bad interviewer, and he gets great guests, but he often interrupts far too frequently. He was better here than he often is.
oh wow, after skimming the page and getting to the bottom, totally noticed that pic! craziness. drama indeed. haha. Good on them.
Interesting. However, many people already filter the first page, let it be by points, or by the twitter accounts:

http://twitter.com/#!/newsyc20

http://twitter.com/#!/newsyc50

http://twitter.com/#!/newsyc100

http://twitter.com/#!/newsyc150

And from each filter, people auto-select things that interest them. Sometimes I only see a story when it is retweeted to me.

And this you can't prevent. It lies on the fact that different people have different definitions of what "quality" means.

Which is the core problem highlighted by linked blog post.
That sounds nice, and I can't speak from a 40 year old perspective, but around 15 (I was 16) I started using my minimal programming knowledge to earn money and learned a lot about business. It happened because I moved to asia and couldn't play video games online and didn't know what to do with all this free time, I had internet but not fast enough to play games. I ended up stumbling on the world of domain buying/selling and have made a living off it for years because of the work and knowledge I acquired mostly early on back in high school.

I am not saying don't have fun, but sometimes an early advantage like that opens more doors for the rest of your life and teaches you skills well beyond your age. In fact, I might argue I got to have more fun (living abroad, traveling, buying almost anything my consumerist heart desires) because I actually put in some work really young and it paid off handsomely.
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Nobody wants to carry around another gaming device in addition to phones that are completely capable of doing the same things. 3DS' 3D abilities seem more gimmicky than useful. Putting classic titles on the App Store and Android Marketplace (that are no longer being sold or generating revenue) seems like a no brainer to me.
I too am bothered by the photos "ending up" somewhere. What I'd prefer is that batch.com just cached my photos for a time, and after they fell out of the cache they'd have to get them again from me. In the future, serving data off your phone might not seem like such a crazy idea.
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Without trying to be fatuous, this depends on what "anything you want" means....

If you want to go to the bar and have a beer, you might already be rich.

If you want to go to Mars, you might never be wealthy.
meh... He referred to the 1GB a couple of times and I didn't hear he talk about how humans are much more complicated. Also [as an atheist], my point is not to argue against Sussman, but is to point out that calculating the storage requirements of a human is complicated. Putting aside all the guts, walking, eating, etc, we store an immense amount of information. What is incredible is that 1GB is what is required to specify the creation and evolution of the data structure necessary to become adult (and to die).
I doubt phone antennas are the bottleneck, they're a pretty minor part of a huge, lumbering voice-transmission infrastructure. Much of that infrastructure is presumably expensively, archaic, and built assuming that audio traveling through it is compressed all to heck.

You can stream tunes in real time over data with quality far in excess of what a high-def voice call would need. There's bandwidth to spare on the data side of things.

This is a meandering article. Marco Arment's response at http://www.marco.org/2011/10/27/high-definition-audio conveys the point much more clearly and succinctly.
Won't that mean it'll lose the only advantage it has?
Low-latency is required for realtime applications, which many codecs are incapable of.
“You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact; and that is that everything around that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you,” Jobs says in the 1994 interview. “Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”
I'm digging this focused, simple and elegant approach from Google. This product isn't overreaching, it doesn't try to do 1,000 things, it looks like it could've been a startup that just launched. It even has its own domain!

I really like the direction Google is heading under Page. Focus and simplicity with real solutions.
Perhaps they realize that game content poses a legal threat, so they ban all game content rather than individually try to verify the ownership of each video.
Hopefully the next iteration of the Raspberry Pi will have this!
The quality is relative. As HA has gotten more popular the level of experience of the average user has gone down, and they now dicate more what "quality" is. In the past you had a higher percentage of core "hackers", and they were posting things that they find of quality, but now you have much more varied submitters and voters.
More people equals lower lowest common denominator.

To fix you need segregation. A ultra code/tech area, a business/start up area, and a fanboy/fluff area.
You basically want to give high signal to noise ratio for the different groups of people. For example for me, I would just visit the code/tech area and not have to deal with all the noise of the other sections.
It's not irrelevant to them -- it's a concern that they are unable to articulate.

Anecdotal support: for the Android users I know who fall into this group, it manifests as a vague set of complaints -- certain apps don't run, had to take it into the store a lot, app claiming to be available for Android not available for their phone -- which are all symptoms of having what is called here an orphaned phone.

So yeah, they don't know or care whether they are running version 1.x or 2.y. But they do know that they are generally dissatisfied with their phone.
It seems this method works on the same sorts of psychology as when the Russian KGB would test people to see if they are loyal to the state by having agents make anti-government statements, and then see which citizens report them.
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I think you mean computer programming here, which I completely agree with. Computer science is an entirely different beast.

It's one thing to learn how to lay bricks, but another to learn how to architect a skyscraper.