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This doesn't make it right. I'm surprised people on this site support below cost selling so much. It is fundamentally a "big player" practice that newcomers can't usually compete in. Imagine you made a company selling one kind of tablet that was vastly better than anyone else's and didn't have an iTunes or App Store to supplement selling below cost? Then you just can't even enter the market because other people are giving their product away. How can anyone say that is the market working? The market has decided this product is worth less than it costs to make? Then it shouldn't exist.
this is why HN needs to show points. I upvoted you, and I imagine many others have too, but OP will never know if you're just a lone voice or if you have the approval of 20 other HNers.
Probably was necessary to keep the beautiful hardware intact to change the guts completely in less than a year. Look at iPhone 4S. Almost no visual changes in exterior in a year and a half and the OS didn't change that much either... why change the looks of something that is already so beautiful.
No, I don't think so - that's for a phone in the Asha (non-WP7) range. Cheapest WP is the Lumia 710 at 270 Euros.
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The Windows Phones start at 270 euros.
And if you like that sort of thing you might like this old blog post of mine about application of Bayes Theorem to code breaking: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/07/bayes-bletchley-jn-25-and-modern...
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Yah, but it will also take a while to reach the limit of the earth, by that point we will hopefully be able to expand off of the earth.
Not really.

Consider their scenario. 100,000 db operations and 50,000 updates per sec. In this case, simple cache costs more than without. Eviction is expensive.

Also, it's no surprise replication doesn't scale because Updates get propagated.

Not sure details, but they succeeded to relax the tight requirements of ACID transactions. So this is a good case when RDBMS(or traditional database) fails.

I guess their design is more like MMO, hope to hear from the guy.
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yes, but management and insiders make money as always
uh ok. I got confused as he mentioned the retail price between talking about marketing of WP7...
I hope this does well. As a customer in this market I think increased competition can only be a good thing. I'll need a new phone in a few weeks, and I'm now looking forward to comparing the 4S, Nexus and this.
Wait ... by applying the overdraft fee aren't you effectively overdrawing your account even more? There should be an overdraft fee for that! Kinda weird they haven't figured that out yet...
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Definitely not in this case. I decided to break it up into individual parts, so that I would have more time to think about the content between parts... and perhaps even change my view by the end of it. I am currently in the middle of season 3... and Walter has been displaying too much altruism for my taste of late.
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I was just doing the numbers on my 6 month old Kindle: 250 dollars spent on books since then, I wouldnt worry about device losses.
I just finished my first Mango app and it was a overall nicer experience than Android. Overall on par with iOS for me, if a bit easier.
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Also similar: I've been using Serve for this. http://getserve.com/
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I had 15 or so collections (misspent youth, what can I say), it took me a year of off-and-on effort to clear them out. I had a very boring high-paying job, so I could take the time to do it right, and could afford to send out registered letters all the time.
Most stores and restaurants acecpt VISA in Belgium, and our banking system works as described above.
That's like saying people who don't understand how rsync works are losing out on the full experience of Dropbox. For the 99% of people who aren't programmers, first time ease of use is orders of magnitude more important than learning how to be a power user.
Garmin has this policy also.
No. Memcached on a reasonable server will do millions of requests per second. 50,000 updates per second is nothing for any modern cache.

Also, replication has nothing to do with whether or not "without a cache" is a meaningful statement. The point is that by holding their entire data set in RAM, they've nullified the need for a cache. Effectively, their database is their cache.

And considering the data isn't even written to disk for about 15 minutes, it's really more cache than database anyway.
Anyone know what % royalties they are asking for?
Great info. Thanks for taking the time to post all this information in detail and to provide some background. It's very helpful to those of us trying to make a living in this market to see what works and what doesn't work.
Not all of Europe is quite so 'small scale'. It'd take me a couple of hours to drive to Slovenia, and 3 for Austria.
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You can preload/cache all or nearly all data on the client side, and batch updates.
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Speaking of UK banks. I had the unfortunate privilege of having to use one. My salary wasn't posted on time but all the scheduled drafts went through. A few were rejected and not only did they hit me with the overdraft fee, they also hit me with an additional fee of mailing me a letter saying they were rejected. 3 of them to the tune of 20£ each.

I believe the UK consumer watchdog organization took them to court over this and I had some of it refunded. Later, they emailed me that due to this ruling they were raising monthly account fees for everyone.
I guess "First world Heroes" means people who solve problems that are do not really matter for humanities progress. And I think there is a lot of truth in that: Mp3 players, Smartphones and such are nice things to have, but their impact is negligible in comparison to things like the telegraph, Phones, microprocessors, mobile phones, cars, railways, aviation, space flight, the internet and the theoretical works enabling them.
I would recommend going to a good professional, as this is something that obviously is affecting your life more than just being down for a couple of days. I would recommend going to the best of the best professional you can find though, I had a terrible experience with one psychotherapist that kept me from trying it again for more than 7 years. Even if you think your case is just "mild" (not that this applies to you) doesn't mean that seeking help is wrong, after all, you go to the doc if you have acne, or other things that are not life threatening.

I have been diagnosed with bipolar I at age 29, and while I was able to come back out an extreme manic + delusional phase without hurting anyone nor myself too much, I now know the terrible danger that lies there. I selfmedicated with various drugs since age 13, and after having found a substance that stabilized me in a reasonable amount, I decided to go see a psychiatrist. Lucky as I am, some pills and a round of psychoeducation fixed almost all of it.

At least I am not caught up in the cycle so much that I can't reflect on it and follow the "backup steps" when I need to (sports + friends + happy stuff when I spiral downward, more sleep, less socializing, less work when I am skyrocketing upwards). And I am able to see the value in leading a boring life, doing stuff you like and getting paid for it, and someday in the not too far away future having a house and a garden and kids and just riding a smooth ride at 50 km/h. Not missing the highs and not fearing the lows.

The key thing to all of this is though: the pills did it. After 29 years I am suddenly able to a) have a grasp what a normal life is / can be, b) recognize my own feelings without being completely overwhelmed by them, c) realizing that even just thinking about suicidal thoughts is a sign that something is wrong.

Of course this is all terribly subjective, but the closest you can come to objectivity (hah!) is getting professional help. Getting feel-good advice or whatever on the internet doesn't even work for normal well-understood illnesses, so think about what it is for mental illnesses.
Well, my impression was that in the US you need to establish some kind of credit history to get a good credit score. Whereas here it is normal for people with no credit history to get loans and mortgages.
Is this a new documentary? I swear I've seen a documentary with the exact same title.
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we're connected to WiFi so why shouldn't the app know this?

Actually, it doesn't need Internet connection. Hubble, like any other satellite, has a well known orbit, so you can calculate its position.
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I think much of the commentary misses the fact that Siri is not a feature, its a UI, and a very early-stage one at that. Criticizing Siri as less than useful in its current iteration is like criticizing WIMP as less than useful 20 years ago.

The fact that Siri is UI and not a feature is exactly why Microsoft and Google and many other service providers should worry about it - it commoditizes the back-end and creates a new interaction point around which Apple, and currently only Apple, is creating business value. Both Microsoft and Google have technology cards to play in this area, but neither has deployed a new user-interface in the way that Apple recently has. I would expect them to each go after a solid play in this area, in the same way that Microsoft responded to the Wii with Kinect - with a strong competitive urgency. Whether or not they are successful in their response is something we'll know in time.
Ask HN: Why don't more UK graduates want to join start-ups?
Last May we organised a recruitment fair in London for UK hackers to meet local start-ups. YC companies included Lanyrd, Songkick, Tuxebo and Webmyd. It got more traction than we expected with hundreds of attendees. More details at www.siliconmilkroundabout.com

We announced a follow up event this Sunday that has had a strange response pattern. We've had thousands of registrations, but they're mostly from experienced developers rather than current students and recent graduates. My personal goal for the event is to help graduates see that there are more options out there than just the obvious banking/consulting/Google routes so I'm trying to make sure we also reach current students.

The event is free to attend, showcases 500+ roles at over 100 UK based start-ups from Mind Candy to Shazam but hasn't yet gotten real traction at universities across the UK despite hitting mailing lists, flyering etc.

Does anyone on hacker news have any ideas on how we could increase awareness of the event amongst current UK CS students? Do we have to take the event to campuses like the banks do with their milkrounds?

If you're a UK CS or engineering student have you heard about the event? If not what would have been the best way to reach you? What career options are more visible on campus (banks, Google etc)?

Thanks!
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I love the look of WP7 and this phone looks decent!

I don't generally use apps, preferring webapps on the mobile browser. How does WP7's browser compare to Android or iOS? I've heard some say its good, others saying its terrible. Its hard to get an unbiased answer after years of thrashing desktop IE.
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>I'm imagining the U.S. military will be developing something similar if it hasn't already

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_RQ-16_T-Hawk
Thanks Guys ! As I've said in the post, it's a pleasure for me to share after all I read on hackers news and others places. if you have questions don't hesitate to ask.
The design of the phone reminds me of the old iPod mini (maybe it's just the color). It looks good, and I like the head phones made in the same style.
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Apple, if you're listening, I've got an idea!

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Switching the name of the eponymous hero mid paragraph doesn't exactly help. From the previous links to book excerpts here I've got to say I find this writing style is pretty opaque.

I think I'd render it like this (not the prose, the situation):

Jane is not too bright. She picks a password by pulling a page out of her one-word-on-a-page dictionary. Lauren writes her guess at the password on a pad. Then Jane compares the guess and the password one letter at a time. Jane rejects the password as soon as she meets a letter that doesn't match. It takes her about 2s to compare each letter. Lauren is allowed as many guesses as she likes.

I think that works as suitably unrealistic but understandable example of a timing attack? For bonus marks (advanced readers) you could calculate the expected time before Lauren cracks the password.
Don't forget the British banks, they seem as rotten as the Americans.

(I never thought I'd miss the German banks.)
Thanks Pierre!

Although it looks like you experienced very early success, I'm sure there was a period of time where you questioned your decision to become an indie developer (or you were at least unsure what to expect). When was the moment when you realized that you really could make a sustainable living from developing these apps?

Also, what do you find most challenging in being an indie developer? Is it difficult to stay focused or motivated at times?
thats the Symbian ones
You should learn both. Presuming that you already know how to program, neither platform is insanely difficult to learn, although I find Android to be friendlier to develop for. Then you should learn HTML5 + Javascript.

If you're just wondering which one will get you hired the fastest, personally I would go with iOS. It still has cachet and a lot of corporations are developing iOS apps for internal use.
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How about starting a timer before doing the calculation and return the result always after XXX milliseconds? Sounds easier to implement than ensuring that calculations always need the same amount of time.
Great post, thanks for sharing and congrats on the success!
I liked a lot this sentence:

"Do you have 20 years experience or do you have the same 1 year of experience twenty times"

If you have been doing the same thing 10 years without ever learning something new, in my view that is not a very big advantage over someone with less exp.
Is anyone doing high quality non-smart phones anymore? I'm looking for something that's small, sturdy with long battery life. Preferably with good music playing.

I suppose Sony Ericssons's non-android phones are pretty good in that space, are there any others?
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just spent 2 weeks developing an MVP app for a photo sharing startup. passed to the store last night. :) Dev tools are smooth but the biggest issue is the lack of mature open source libraries (Oauth was buggy and i cant find a Tumblr, Blogger cross posting lib)
> It's true that this is predatory. It's also notable that if banks don't reach out to poor people with free checking and the like, the federal government gets on their case for being "discriminatory".

In a sense, yes. But you should rather compare it to the good examples mentioned in Europe, which also have free accounts for poor people. I wonder what those banks do different.
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Well… Nokia kinda is. Check out the S40 Asha phones Nokia released today. (Though maybe they class as smartphones too?)
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I think a lot of students just aren't aware it's possible... All through uni, literally zero people told me startups even existed as an option. No professor, no career counsellor, no guest speaker... nobody.

I accidentally signed up for a course called "project proposal" thinking it was about submitting research to conferences, but it was actually about pitching ideas to VCs. Rocked my world.

Although it wasn't quite what I imagine they were hoping for, I dropped out after that semester and have spent the last 5 years happily entrenched in startups.

My best guess would be that they do not know the option exists and/or they do not believe they can do it. It does and they can.

So spread the word!
Wow, very cool to see a post from you top-ranking here :-) Hope to see you at the next Open Coffee Sophia :-).
> As to closing the account, they teller said "it's closed" what are the magic words to say after that?

"Could you write that down for me, sign and stamp it, please?"
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It's a great form factor, I like it very much -- it feels slimmer than the iPhone: http://versusio.com/en/nokia-lumia-800-vs-apple-iphone-4s-64...
(click at the top right to view the phones in original size)

I'd love it with a different OS
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In the UK (and some other countries) your new bank often offers to take on all that hassle with your old bank, as an incentive to switching.
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Where I come from in Canada, people make day trips of over two hours and a half each way to go to the shopping mall... heck, my commuting was two hours each way in Montreal, every day.

But I do admit that if I were living in eg. Napoli, I wouldn't want to go to the Netherlands or wherever just to open a bank account.
Just use one of the many vpn services - I like ukivpn.com but there's plenty more.
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Brilliant info! I'm gradually getting to where you're at, I really hope i can do as well as you :)

Thanks especially for the marketing/promotions information. That's my biggest struggle to be honest, so any information in that area is gold for me.

My current strategy is to have an app-promotion website, with a big green link to the app store, and using adwords to bring people to that site. Below you can see a site for one of my 'coming soon' apps, do you think i'm on the right track?

http://www.impromptuapp.com/
I love the fact that you worked with your wife and kids when developing and perfecting the apps. Congratulations on your success! :)
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He should probably switch banks.
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Yeah, I guess... I really don't regard Symbian as a viable platform, though
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Plus there is also the legacy fear that start-ups are a risk. Students aim for big companies and recognised brands as it's entrenched in their psyche that they must build a decent CV from the minute they step out into the big bad world.
That's, historically, a pretty interesting reversal - I'm pretty sure I went for RSS (back in the dawn of time around 2000) to avoid the flood of e-mail news/newsletters, and for faster notifications (back then). Ah, the Wheel of Life indeed: http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.html
Your bank should have public documentation about those procedures. So it's not exactly undefined.
I'd imagine 100's of sales / day, and all that money keeps your motivation levels sufficiently high.
That was my experience too. I studied machine learning at Cambridge and didn't know a single person from my class or years above me doing anything other than a phd, joining microsoft research (who were aggressively for computer vision grads then) or joining a completely different field like management consultancy or banking. Looking back I would have loved to join Skype or Last.fm then, but had no idea that they were hiring for people like me.
Exactly, in my final year we'd be inundated by almost daily visits from the likes of KPMG, Logica, Accenture, Microsoft, HP, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank etc telling us why we should work for them.

I only realised that startups were an option after being embedded in the London tech community for a while.

Things like Silicon Milkroundabout http://siliconmilkroundabout.com/ and http://www.workinstartups.com/ are great, but I think they only work for people who are already interested in working in startups.

As a community we might need to start doing outreach to Universities and attending their careers fairs to really get the message out there.
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It remains to be seen whether Origin can gain any traction as a (currently) single publisher platform, but it is required by their new releases, just like Steam back at Half-Life 2's release.
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Thank you for sharing your success... It is an insparation for a lot of us.
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As far as I know pre-Mango IE was ~ 7,
while the Mango one is branded as 9, so a huge leap, which might account for some of the difference in opinions.