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I really wished Google or (more appropriately) Blackberry would have gone the opposite direction from Apple. Good keyboard support something more in the Raskin's Cat vein. It's nice to see Microsoft go with their Metro interface or the card metaphor of WebOS. Heck, just starting with a browser ala Chrome would have been better. The talk shouldn't be about patent violations, it should be about lack of vision.

I too believe much of this has to do with Schmidt on the board and the radical change of Android from pre to post iPhone. It just seems we really lost something when they made their switch.
This is very true.

The production of big-budget, AAA games and the production of most Hollywood movies share more in common than not. Especially these days, with AAA studios spending more money on writers, directors, and in-game voice talent.

There are maybe 3 directors in Hollywood who can command anything remotely approaching total creative control over a big studio picture. And even they don't exercise the sort of control people think they do.
This reminds me a lot of Erin Hoffman's infamous rant (http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html) about EA's abusive working conditions which resulted in three class-action lawsuits.
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I don't think we are quite there yet...
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I cannot tell if you're being facetious or not. App stores were not unheard of in the slightest.
@ahmetalpbalkan

Good point, I cannot find this anywhere else at the moment.

btw, you've been hellbanned for about 52 days now, so no one can see your comments unless they have showdead=on.
I wonder if someone actually tried it.
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There is so much wrong here that I appreciate you numbering them.

-1. Yes, people read patents all the time. For one example many might be familiar with here, see any of the Mac or Canon or Nikon rumors sites, which comb through filings to learn what their favorite companies are up to. Second, the benefit comes not just from reading the actual patents. Since the info is already out there and protected, there's no real harm for those who developed the innovation in discussing it openly in journals/conferences/trade shows/popular magazines/newspapers/etc. We see this all the time, probably much more than if patents didn't exist.

1. Patents are generally written in pretty simple language. When they're hard to read, it's because the language used is technical, not legal.

2. This is just factually wrong. If you don't describe something, it's very difficult to try to prevent or collect from someone using the idea you haven't described.

3. Sure, for a limited time. This doesn't mean there aren't periphery benefits from seeing how someone did something novel. In the medical field, advances that utilize some novel technique often provoke other people to look at similar though unrelated techniques.

4. This is just factually and legal incorrect.
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The major difference from the prototype is that Android now is touch oriented. Swiping is a gesture - the Opera browser had one for ages. Its logical. App stores aren't unheard of before. Linux distributions had their equivalents for ages (that included proprietary application next to open-source ones)

Why should Google screw up their platform so that they wouldn't look like Apple?
Only because they scrap ones that don't work. There's a difference between consistently producing incredible work and consistently releasing incredible work. Curation is a big part of industry success.

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is this a real ban or just because of inactivity. I don't think I deserved anything that deserves ban. What do you think?
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> It just seems we really lost something when they made their switch.

I don't know about that. If they changed their "vision" from "replicate blackberry" to "replicate iPhone", we (where "we" = "society"/"everybody") didn't stand to gain anything in the first place, apart from cheaper phones maybe (and even that...)
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No, you're right. The first chapter is allegory. Lauren is literally attacked by the Jargon. You're not supposed to understand all those words. They are Jargon. :) Not much learning happens in chapter 0 but it sets up the rest of the story.

There's a (very early) draft of a later chapter available:
http://carlos.bueno.org/2011/01/tortoise.html

I do not actually explain red-black trees in the book, nor most of the things the Jargon say. There is a lot of ground to cover and I stuck to the stuff I understand best.
Zero people on HN are going to speak up for "National Security Letter" gag orders on ISPs.

Well, if they did, they'd just get down voted, regardless of whether the logic is coherent.
Completely agree. Right now I am in US and earn in dollars and support my family back home, even then my dad would never spend 1700 rupees on a night out. Also, if someone can afford to spend that kind of money for a night out, I am very sure they can afford a higher quality tablet.

I think this is for someone like the maid who works at our home and makes around 3000 rupees a month. She can save money and buy this for her kid so that they are better educated.
I think there is a subtle difference for rushing and coding bad in the process as opposed to be excruciatingly focused on a deadline and thinking of clever ways to do things faster. I will be sure to check out that blog though. Thx
No, it wouldn't, exactly because that wouldn't be OS agnostic.

And who said anything about it being manual? Mass storage devices can be synced. Mine certainly are.
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Google has a long history of thievery and/or patent infringement starting with Adwords (originally from ideaLab/Bill Gross).
The major carriers in the US are all set up for 2 year contracts, which come with subsidized phones. You can - technically - go month to month, but it's not a publicized or promoted feature, and doesn't come with substantial discounts.

There are alternatives - T-Mobile just came out with a $50/unlimited month-to-month plan - and there are some smaller carriers with month-to-month options, but they're the exception.
A good rule of thumb is, if the story has more to do with politics than technology, and it's hard to imagine anyone managing to take a countervailing position, the story doesn't belong here. That's not a value judgement about the impact of the story; HN simply isn't a noticeboard or organizing tool for stuff like this.
There are plenty of professors out there without PhDs, even nowadays.

Not at Cambridge, and not in Physics, but they exist.
I hope this device provides access to internet for all students.

The big thing in education is "access to information".
Looks like they're taking your advice, since, in the UK on Orange anyway, it'll come with a free Xbox 360. http://studio.orange.co.uk/shop/nokia800/
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Successful for Microsoft, indeed. How much money does Dell make on an average Laptop?

Nokia should have taken the meego-road.
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Thanks for the feedback - you make some good points.

I started from the point of slavery mostly in response to other authors who describe the modern system of employee/employer as slavery, which I think is the wrong word, but it seems I didn't do quite a good enough job of making that clear.

It isn't that consumerism & 50 hour work weeks are inescapable, only that they are difficult to escape and remain in mainstream society at the same time. Looking at people who have chosen alternate lifestyles (Like ERE or being a bum as someone else pointed out) are often marginalized ans ostracized - the system does not seem to like that they challenge the basic assumptions of what is good about our society.

I personally have been trying to bootstrap a startup as a way to escape some of the control a 9-5 brings with it, but I don't see entrepreneurship as a catch-all solution. As another article I am working on will point out, Startups are better off in some areas but are also often forced to trade off in others. Depending on the structure, leading a startup may often be worse from a lifestyle design perspective than working for a corporation.

I don't have a general purpose "solution" to the problem of dis-satisfaction in modern society, but I do know that what we have going for us is sub-optimal, and I would like to find alternate ways of living and structuring society to address some of the issues I tried to bring to light.

Thanks for the feedback - I think perhaps I will expand on the areas you mention in the future to help make it more clear. I would appreciate your input :)
Selenium IDE is good, but it honestly isn't a huge step up to use Selenium proper (the WebDriver variant)- it's certainly something the HN crowd would be capable of doing. That way you can use more than just Firefox- we have tests running in IE, Chrome and Firefox regularly.
You're proving your own point about the subtlety of reference handling and the important of coding standards in Perl. Was that intentional?

say @{$ref}->[0];

This raises a deprecation warning for me.

say @{$ref}[0];

This is technically correct, as the leading sigil "@" indicates you are returning an array, but since you're only returning one element in that array, this should probably be "${$ref}[0]" which returns a scalar only.

say $ref->[0];

This the only form which I would consider correct or "clean".

This example proves nothing about Perl's power, though. The fact that difficult and fiddly reference handling shenanigans are necessary to handle something as trivial as nested arrays and hashes shows quite the opposite.
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This is an awesome idea.

I’m not a landlord and have no use at all for this, but I really like it so I’ve decided I’m qualified to weigh in.
Instead of being specifically designed for landlords, you should be more agnostic about who uses it. There are many reasons to screen people. You probably have horizontal expansion built into your future plans already, but I wouldn’t sit that idea long as it is basically usable to other markets already, it’s just not easy for them to find because they won’t be typing anything about rental property into google.

I think your FAQ comes off as a bit greedy. It should focus on answering questions about the service not recommending policy to individual landlords. See the following:

Q: "Whom should I screen?"
A: "EVERYONE"

At worst this reads as, "Send people here to give me money." At best it’s unsolicited advice on how to run my business. There's nothing wrong with wanting money for your service, but don’t punish the readers by slipping things like this into FAQ’s. If I’m there to read about RentMethod, it’s likely that I already have an idea of who I should screen.
Imagine what this would do to the PC sales in India? PC Sales were at 4.68 million in 2010 and it was expected to go up 22% in 2011. A significant chunk of those potential customers will opt for a far cheaper and mobile Aakash now. Ofcourse, there will still be some who will opt for a PC (as Aakash does not put a significant dent in their wallets), but the Tablet does it for a lot of people, with out having to worry about support, viruses etc.
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Definitely worth checking out. Having refactoring support and non-broken SVN integration might be worth switching alone.
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Meh. Just because some geeky stuff is missing doesn’t make WP7 not a great OS. As if anyone cares about Linux.
Can you name an Apple like app store before the iPhone? The closest you can come is Nokia and Symbian and that was a download an executable type thing.

An app store as we understand it today where you click a buy button and the app installs on your computer was an Apple innovation
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I did not say I did not like the fact that one could change the background (in fact I like it because it doesn't go in the way), I just noted that the use of "minimalist" repeated twice in parent (now GGP) was not proper.
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> If you're a Linux type(or MS hater)

Careful. Those are not synonymous.

> Nokia was in talks with Google over Android but Google wouldn't give them many concessions.

Nokia wouldn't need concessions. Barnes & Noble didn't need the, nor did Amazon. They grabbed the code and used it. Android would be a good choice because a) Nokia could tailor the experience to whatever they wanted b) they already have extensive experience with Linux (and Android is Linux) and c) there is actually a market for Android phones

True Microsoft gave them a ton of cash to tip the balance towards WP7. That should also indicate what is actually needed to tip the balance towards making WP7 phones - that, unless US$ 1+ billion is involved, WP7 is not worth it.
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Indeed. One of my daughter's first words was "iPad".
Indeed. So what?

He's able to do this while running his own business and working for himself.

I think most developers would rather take $200k running their own business over $150k working for a corporation.

This is HN after all - we know many people here are taking much less than $200k in order to build their own businesses.

Not to mention with a corporate salary, that $150k stops once you stop working. With recurring revenue from selling products, it doesn't.
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true, depreciation is an expense but one that accountants can fiddle with. I am only a trainee accountant and UK accounts are different from US accounts in ways I am not familiar, so don't take this as legal advice or anything.

For start though, the deprecation policy itself can be changed. So as long as there is a note in the accounts giving some justification, I can say "I am not depreciating these assets". This is a crude way to manipulate depreciation and generally any competent auditor would flag it.

Buying a new warehouse for example you generally wouldn't depreciate at all (usually holding it at cost and revaluing it every so often). So apportion all costs relating to buying the warehouse (including cost of machinery in the warehouse, connecting it to your IT network, legal and admin work) as a one line item Fixed Asset: Warehouse, and you just avoided all depreciation. (It will still be shown on the accounts, but doesn't touch the income statement.)

Or you can decide to put it as a 5-year rolling investment as you put it and you're charging 20% depreciation.

Or you can decide that this investment is not a one-off thing and is part of the core business (perhaps you're buying warehouses all the time). So then you can charge the whole lost as an expense.

I suppose my point (back to the topic) is that Amazon's profits have gone down largely because of how Amazon's accountants have decided the best way of presenting their investment costs in their accounts. It makes sense to reduce book profits as that reduces your taxes. (Generally true, though I know in UK corporation tax calculations we don't take into account depreciation for the very reason that its manipulatable). A profit dive is especially fine if you have continued impressive revenue growth to point to and can claim that these investments are clearly worth it. Nobody is going to claim that Amazon is in serious trouble.
You make a factually-correct point but I think it's worth taking a step back and asking ourselves what do we want to happen and why?

Do we want to say that if a company A does something that's similar to company B's work, we shouldn't allow that to happen. Ever. I think breaks down pretty badly if you consider the case of, say, generic AIDS drugs. These "copied" drugs are saving lives and that to me is way more important than any IP-infringement issues.

In the Apple vs Google case, it seems like this copying has been a good thing - we now have a lot of really great smartphones trying to out-compete each other. So it's not clear to me that if this copying was banned, this would've been good for human society as a whole.

OTOH, if you consider something like Intel copying the RISC microarchitectures of the 90s and essentially driving the likes of Compaq, DEC and MIPS out of business, allowing those ideas to copied was almost definitely bad for consumers.

The point is that there isn't a clear-cut right-or-wrong answer on this one. It seems like whether copying is a good thing depends more on who is copying who, and how much money each of the participants have, than on exactly what is copied.
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I like them plotting more of the Y axis points of place. But I really look forward to the day when we can move on X, seeing the changes in these over time.
So is there anything other than this one comic book store an Legoland San Diego available? How can we find 'em? I'd love to go for a stroll through, say, the British Museum.
I might be missing something, but was are the advantages of this over using Xcode?

I'm all for options, and $50 to $150 usd is not prohibitive for an IDE, but since Xcode is free and directly from Apple, there must be some really good features for me to switch IDEs.
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Stop crying wolf, it's unhelpful. There are a lot of things wrong with the way police powers are exercised in the US, but it is a far cry from the STASI or the Gestapo. America is not even remotely a police state yet and the more that hyperbolic statements like yours get bandied about the more the debate degrades into meaningless. And thus ineffectualness.

We should be able to discuss these problems maturely without regressing to useless hyperbole. Once you've cast the political playing field into manichean terms of absolute good vs absolute evil all productive debate ceases.

I don't want this issue to become the 21st century's abortion debate. I want people to talk about it rationally, discuss the serious issues of openness in government and the critical value of individual liberty and to convince people of the right course of action, not bludgeon them over the head and try to bully them into agreement.
It wasn't just touch. The icons were placed differently. The resolution was different. The screen size was different. The touch interface was different (you can't just say touch because Windows Phones had touch way before the iPhone but it wasn't anywhere near the same thing).

As for screwing up their platform I'm not saying they should of. The patent system is screwed up and I'm glad Android stole from the iPhone because it means there's actual competition.

But there's a difference between saying "Yeah, Google stole from the iPhone but its the fault of a bad patent system" and denying Google stole from Apple at all.
I'm not sure I understand the underlying problem, but apparently you want $delegate->doSomethinWithClosure() to invoke the closure from the context of the current MyClass instance?

So here's how you could solve this "problem" before bindTo(), it's explicit and simple and it doesn't even need use:

class SomeDelegateClass {

function doSomethingWithClosure($callerObj, $closure) {
$closure($callerObj);
}

}

class MyClass {

function hello() { print('hello from MyClass!'); }

function doSomething() {

$delegate = new SomeDelegateClass();
$delegate->doSomethingWithClosure($this, function($myClassObj) {
$myClassObj->hello();
});

}

}
Wait.. you're saying by working in US, you can support yourself here AND support your family back home including hiring a maid!? I wish I could work there with a global pay salary...
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Was Dragon's software speaker-independent ten years ago, and did you have to train it? I looked into this recently and couldn't find any speaker-independent PC software now, and I think it all required training. Being able to just pick up and talk without any preliminaries is still a pretty big deal.

I'm sure you're right about the other deficiencies. "Almost perfect" is very strong, after all. Still, it's really excellent, and in my experience is much better than it was just a few years ago.
OK, great point.
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You call that the original prototype, but even that article says "The original demo video showed a handset that was closer to an iPhone (although with keyboard) than a Blackberry,complete with touch screen interface,".

That seems kind of at odds with what you're saying. It makes this seem more like a proof of concept, released after videos of touch-based phones, that Android could work under multiple forms.
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