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Good advice. I particularly liked "[W]hat you should ask is, 'Would you be comfortable writing me a strong letter of recommendation?'"

I picked up another trick when I applied for doctoral programs: as the requestor, prepare sample letter for the writer. You can highlight things she/he may have forgotten or only known cursorily. The writer is under no obligation to use the sample, but (as a writer of such letters for students) it makes the writing process go much faster. (Although, yes, undergraduate students are inclined to be a bit hyperbolic in their self-descriptions.)
It's no joke; Google has played with that.
Well, they couldn't spell "Luleå" correctly either.
It's so easy these days to be a raging sexist and play the 'troll' card.
Most startups are flights of fancy trying to dine out on the glory of the name "startup". Let's all get back to work trying to create real value for customers and enjoying our world, and not posture for social rank among friends and strangers.
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Actually I think he misunderstood what programmers and hardware engineers do. And he had no grasp of the creative process of tech, which is presumably what the book is about.
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Really? I need to submit a ticket after registering to give it a try? Ok, cool, thanks but, too much work to try it out. Would make more sense to queue me in and limit sessions to 5 minutes or something like that, but that much interaction is a deal breaker.
My email address is public and I don't get any of these. Maybe just because I'm male?
So let's see who your potential customer is:

- Someone who owns a computer, with a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse (of course)

- Someone with a decent internet access

- Someone who has either invested or going to invested 100's of hours to properly learn the iOS/Mac frameworks

- Someone who is hoping to either make a living off his Mac development or threats this as in important hobby

- Someone who will be able to afford to pay $20+/monthly = $240+/yearly

- And finally, someone who is either unable to afford an older mac mini ($200-300 as noted in other comments) OR someone who has no cheap way to deliver older mac hardware to his home country.

From all the above, the potential market size seems too small to me to be an interesting business. Am I missing something?
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To be fair, lawyers, accountants, and doctors all face strict professional requirements to be degree holders. As such, debating the necessity of a degree serves no practical purpose in those fields.

The decreased need for education in software engineering shouldn't be used as an indicator of its competitiveness. On the contrary, one could argue that is actually more competitive, because anyone can enter the field at any time.
Depends on how you look at it.

The traditional entertainment industry (movies, tv, and music) is very small. But put 'broadcasting', which is part of the 'information' industry, and it is comparable to the tech industry. Add in the fact that media companies are vital to politicians, and the result is an industry that punches orders of magnitude above its weight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States#Se...
http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2008/05%20May/0508_indy_acct.pdf
I am a developer, I can't afford a Mac (and thus have never learned iOS). Are you suggesting that I should be able to afford any sort of computer?
From personal experience... my grandparents had one in their house (I think it must be a decade old) that would wash and dry everything. You could control the temperature and water pressure. It also had temperature controls for the seat. I think there were more functions I didn't know how to use.
It's the artificial limitation that drives everyone crazy.

It's the difference between having to buy a van to start a courier service, and having to buy a BMW because someone says you have to. I understand the necessity of having to own a van to run my business, but why do I have to pay extra for one that has no extra capability?

I did mobile dev for a living. Cross compiling across architectures and OSes is part and parcel to the beast. The fact that Apple won't let you is an artificial restriction.
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Yeah, I do. My mistake.
Actually Darwin didn't know anything about random mutations, as in fact he didn't know about DNA or even genes. The Origin of Species is about observed results: "descent with modification" rather than about mechanism.

In any case, I'm not too sure about the scientific community being so easily accepting of Darwin. It's true that evolution (that is, the gradual changes in the characteristics of populations) was nearly universally accepted relatively quickly, but natural selection as a mechanism was not. In fact, for some decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries natural selection was widely regarded as a minor contributor to evolution.

This was not a matter of anyone believing that natural selection didn't occur, but simply an argument over the relative magnitudes of different forces. Alternative drivers of evolution included neo-Lamarckism. Notably, estimates of the age of the Earth at the time were very much lower than our current ones and many scientists believed (correctly) that natural selection was too slow a process to have produced the variety of life observed over a 10-100 million year timespan.
iOS app to count points on dominoes using the camera. Relatives like to play, especially over the holidays, but they use those double-twelve sets and keeping score can be a significant bit of work.
A large network of these surruptiously deployed throughout a city, town, country in or near free wifi points would make be an interesting ploy. I agree that roll your own is a better option, but for some, ahem, experts, ahem, this may be an easier option.
The study found that shining eye-safe levels of laser light into the eyes of pilots in a simulator affected their performance - it didn't show that it's possible to shine a mW laser pointer from the ground up into the cockpit of an aircraft and keep lock on a pilots eye for long enough to have any effect.

If it did then somebody is wasting an awful lot of money on air superiority fighters when the country could be defended by a grid of laser pointers from Staples.
If the idea seems viable I'll put it in my personal Kanban board (in a "Waiting" swim-lane). This Kanban board is a project level queue - one card per project.

If my "Active Projects" kanban swim lane has some space, I'll pull from the "Waiting" swim-lane.

This way I can schedule those ideas, if I have some time (shown by the swim-lanes on the Kanban Board)
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> I wonder if this is going to, at some point, work in Apples favour .. ?

Many people have speculated about the changes in 10.7 that made it much more like iOS, with the exact idea that one day iOS and OSX will be essentially the same thing (at least from the user perspective anyway). I certainly see them heading in this direction...
Having been stalked, I can assure you there are plenty of borderline mentally ill out there.

I would never put even my first name or my city online anymore, anywhere.

Never underestimate the stupidity of people out there with nothing better to do.

I'm sorry to see the brave ones out there are still going through this these days.
As CJefferson sain in another comment on this post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163613):

The harassment women get is much, much worse than men.

Me and my wife are both computer scientists, and have both given talks at many conferences. My wife and our female friends consistently get much more, and much worse, harassment than me and our male friends. There is no comparison, and over time I've seen it grind several women down to the point where they just give up (fortunately not my wife yet).

I think everyone should help to reduce the often hostile attitude in IT and FOSS in particular, and a fairly obvious part of that is to stop treating women so badly. Just treating them like everyone else would be a fine start.
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So, is this an example of the US Federal Govt making a reasonable, non-hysterical response to a new-ish emerging threat?
If you want to change the statu quo, you have to speak up. Saying the solution to sexism is to shut up is not helping to solve the problem (and there is a problem, I witnessed it several times in real life, it is not just a "troll problem".)
Lulea is the correct English alphabet spelling.
MikeeUSA is a troll. He has no means to actually harm anyone, and he does it purely for the lulz.

Thus, MikeeUSA trolled a woman, and she took the bait. I just don't get why this is news, I've been trolled before, I don't get a news story.

This isn't blaming the victim, this is blaming someone who allowed a troll to win and just made it that much harder for every other woman on the Internet to be taken seriously.

And yes, I have a problem with that. I would love to see more women involved in FOSS, and Skud's actions have only served to scare more women away and make them think and guys in FOSS are are trolls and/or potential rapists.

People need to grow a backbone and stand up for themselves. This advice is equally as valid for both men and women.
Oh, I agree on that. My point is that it's my own decision to choose what works best for me. I was more reacting on your "find another line of work".
So why do you support his right to make threats to undeserving people? Isn't the threat of violence injurious?
....I don't know how to fix the problem. Will empathizing more fix it? If so, i'll empathize like crazy. But I seriously doubt it will create change. Instead I try to point out what I see as some of the contributing factors to the problem in this particular case. I'm sorry I can't fix sexism, and i'm sorry i'm not being humbling and emotive enough to express that I find sexism wrong. But I don't agree that I am illustrative of the problem.
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Yahoo maps isn't bad, and as far as I can tell they aren't enforcing their limits.
Also note that the graph goes out only three years, conveniently skipping the fact that the original and 3G will never get iOS 5. You'd think Apple had a perfect record, when in fact there's a bunch of yellow on their graph too.

That chart is terribly cooked. It leaves out important devices like the Nexus S which had good support, and includes a ton of clunkers in lieu of the most popular phones (e.g. no Galaxy S variants) which tended to fare a little better.

That said, the point the post is making is valid and important. But the graphic is sensationalized junk. It's a platform flame masquerading as product research.
I have tons of ideas, that I'm probably never going to work on. I was planning on writing some idea giveaway series in my blog, and post the links here. Anyway I'll just list my ideas.

1. A Backup Service for all Cloud Data. Eg: Imagine if you google account stops working, then all your gmail, gdocs, blog posts all gone, But, services like google give access to your data, but its not easy to figure out for users, so, a service with monthly or yearly subscription, that backups all users data from multiple sites, automatically and periodically.

2. A Market Place for T-Shirts, I love the customink, Just stumbled upon it today. But, I was looking for a market place to sell T-Shirts, Like, I create a T-shirt with some wording, which is inexpensive. Then, the site prints and sells/ships it to costumers, who want one. Money is shared in profit shared basis.

I'll post more ideas, soon.
Can you imagine Fox News building something like this? I'll always be proud of the BBC.
From a developer standpoint, the Major version releases are far more important. All I have to choose is "am I going to support 3.1.x devices, or am I going to limit myself to 4.x devices". Even better, now that iOS5 has arrived with (very pleasantly smooth) support for the 3GS, the choice is "do I support 3.x or 5.x" since the last years of devices ALL support the APIs in the most recent OS. That is huge.

Just yesterday I realized that a long-standing bug is fixed by iOS5, and that since nearly all of our customers will be running 3GS or newer hardware, I can depend on that fix with confidence when we release our next version soon.
That is indeed right. But we just read this and in my office 6 people are already looking into it.

We are all Linux/Windows Devs. But we are interested in the iOS ecosystem. This service would allows to enter without many barriers. Also it would allows to interact and be part of team developing iOS.

I think idea rocks. We could at last port some of our apps to MonoTouch.(We are using MonoDroid already).
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Yes, but why would that stop this person from targeting her? If anything, her geek feministing makes her a much bigger target. I guess I don't follow the logic unless she believes this person is someone she worked with and even then, I don't see someone who is truly obsessed from stopping.
It would be fairly ironic if Yelp has to pay, seeing as how Google uses Yelp ratings in their maps freely and wants to charge Yelp to use maps on their site.
I wouldn't call it a stigma. I'd call it a general disinterest. It's the same kind of disinterest that follows bootstrapped businesses or any business that chooses to make money instead of burning it.

As the cofounder of a bootstrapped business myself, I'm no fan of the shadow we operate in, but I understand it. The story of a company that doesn't have the luxury of positive cash flow to fall back on when things get tough is fundamentally more risky, and therefore exciting. You get larger magnitude successes and a larger number of failures, which is far more dramatic. And narratives with more risk, more reward, and higher drama, are the kind of narratives human beings love.
This research is not stating that memory is stored in DNA. The headline uses the word 'memory' as in 'influence'. The living conditions of a particular in childhood influences their DNA post-childhood.
"Awesome. We'll have that Perl-> Rails port with MySQL -> Cassandra conversion and 1 million paid accounts migrated in at most 12 weeks, ready to handle 5 million new accounts the day of our grand re-launch? Great! Then I don't have to worry about finding a SDET or QAE or Datacenter admin to help parallelize the work and hit our release date. Marketing has the press conferencne all planned, we just needed the word from you before we filled in the Octo..Nove..Decem..January 24 launch date! Thanks!"
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I don't have numbers, but I've definitely met folks who have said, "Samsung has a better interface than HTC", or the like.

The bundled software I'll grant is not really about differentiation - it's still a way to increase margins, though, by selling the right to bundle software on the phone or promoting your own services.
I'm curious, how far back does 'First Ever Annual Loss' run? I remember hearing Nintendo used to make toys and playing cards, long before the NES, does this refer to pre video game Nintendo?
It wasn't accepted so easily at all. Multiple evolutionary studies concluded mutation is sufficient to explain the majority (if not all) of variation seen in a species.

This is further supported by historical studies showing consistent mutation rates overtime. There are different mechanisms that result in population wide changes, but that doesn't exclude random mutations (in the general sense, be it point mutations or transpositions) from being the progenitor of all new genetic information.

In what way does it not seem credible?
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I've worked in IP Law and for the Senate and I've never really experienced overt sexism so I kind of thought it was on the decline in the work place. Imagine my surprise when I started joining tech/start-up communities (like this one) and witnessed unparalleled sexism and ignorance. I mean attitudes that make you think you're in the 1800s (once had somebody on HN tell me that women are genetically less likely to want to do tech![!!!!!!!]).

I'm still pretty shocked by it and also curious as to why this industry is so antiquated with regard to its' attitudes about women. There are a lot of women who want to distance themselves from the argument. At a SXSW session there were women extremely opposed to even acknowledging the discrimination for fear they'd be labeled a complainer and be seen differently than their male counter-parts (which unless you're an idiot you can see the difference between a man and a woman). I didn't consider myself a feminist before but the tech industry has made me up my feminism...
Based on market cap Google is about four times the size of News Corp.
Ahhhhhhhh. So excited for this!
Let me google that for you:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=64-bit+operating+system

I have done better than all these:

http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects

Linux is free. I can't charge, but might down the road, except I promised I wouldn't.

It's a good thing I'nm disabled because there doesn't seem like any way to make money.

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because I knew that the perfect State would be eyed with jealousy
and was difficult of attainment; but that piece of cleverness was
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The women and children are now disposed of, but the other question
of the rulers must be investigated from the very beginning.
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My reality is not right. My download numbers seem like fiction and all I get are emails from the FBI. Therefore, I probably shouldn't rejoice too much in top Google ranking.

Oh well. My reality is unusually good in many ways, too, so I guess I shouldn't complain.

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I think everyone understands that companies are creating wealth. The question is: who is capturing that created wealth? Right now the scales are heavily skewed toward the 1% capturing a lot more than they traditionally did.
I don't think he was advocating /actual/ violence.
At #1: I really like that idea, but then how would you restore it?
Which version/edition of OSX are you using? I tried this with a couple of original DVDs and pirated copies, but none of them would boot properly under VirtualBox.
"3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple's built-in WebKit framework, provided that such scripts and code do not change the primary purpose of the Application by providing features or functionality that are inconsistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application as submitted to the App Store."

There NO EXCEPTIONS for scripts typed in by users period.

Both iLuaBox and Codify are breaking this rule. Of course Apple has a history of ambiguously enforcing their rules.

For those thinking that Apple relaxed the rules the rule above is the current license dated 10/4/2011. Apple had a more strict rule at one point that said that apps themselves could only be written in C/C++/ObjC/JavaScript. That rule was relaxed.
Which then earns you an accusation of "sandbagging".
So many HN'ers side projects die because they have no customers, and developers are rubbish at getting the first ten customers, so...

...a site where people who are wanting some particular SAAS app but can't find the right one- (or can't afford one the right one) can conglomerate and become the first customers for startups.
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It seems more organizations have begun realizing the potential that lies within their own data, and more importantly, that the perceived barriers to entry - large/complex/expensive infrastructure necessary to house and build around these mountains of granular data - no longer exist.

The new challenges revolve around the people, methods, and software that can separate, aggregate, disseminate, and present this information in the most efficient way possible.

The opportunities that lie within and around Big Data are tremendous.
> Am I missing something?

I think you are. I work fulltime at a bank for my paycheck. I have an internet connection in my apartment, and an office assigned wintel laptop. When I get home at 6ish, I can maybe put it 2-3 hours of coding. Right now I code 8 hours of Scala for my dayjob. Have always been wanting to check out what objective-C is all about. Perhaps I could learn how to write an app. Don't have an iphone ipad imac etc. So paying $40 a month to check this out is not such a bad idea. I'll sign up, see if I can hack objective-C on the iOS, and take it from there.
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- the "JavaScript API or the static maps API will be capped at 25,000 map loads per day.

- They will be expected to pay a fee of $4 per thousand loads in excess of the limit.

- The cap is set to 2,500 loads for styled maps that customize the presentation.

- After 25,000 loads, the overage fee for styled maps will bump up to $8 per thousand.
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That is no joke, a $4 - $8 CPM on map loads means your app has to be doing substantially better than that, which is NOT an easy enterprise.
Yes it is possible to have OS X running on VMWARE, quite easy actually, A quick google/youtube search will point to you a number of guides to do so.

Edit: While it is possible, I wouldn't by any means call it 'Supported'.
i think http://leaflet.cloudmade.com just got a lot more interesting; like polymaps but supports older versions of ie.
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This may be a bit of quiet topic now but I still thought I'd throw in my comments.

I interned at a start up in my penultimate year and it was both a great experience, and I got paid (not a lot, but enough). I got to learn about business practices quickly, I did some meaningful work and contributed towards several products, we practised agile methods and it was all round a good experience. There was, however, more legacy code here than I've had to deal with before.

In my final year I started applying to more start ups (in London this time), and got offers from a number of them, I didn't take any of them. Why? They all wanted me to work for free. Working for free in central London? I don't need the experience of an unknown company that bad (harsh CV reality).

So I instead did the usual and got a (well paying) internship at a big bank. I had a great time, didn't run into very much legacy code, worked with lots of very cool, and very new, technologies, and learnt a lot about technology and business. It didn't take much consideration when deciding to take their job offer afterwards, turning down my MSc offers.

The kind of work I was going to be doing from day one mattered a lot to me, and it didn't seem to be much of a comparison. There just really wasn't much to entice me into a startup again.
I'm confused. I think you're wrong on the substance and also contradicting yourself.

Reporters do have a harder time than devs. There are a lot of solo devs, they're even exalted for their indie developer-dom.

But there aren't exalted indie investigative reporters (if there even is such a thing as indie investigative reporters). Being a reporter does mean that there's a longer ladder to climb than creating a startup and getting funding.
I'm pretty sure he was talking about software development there, not blogging.