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Nokia already proved itself to be inept at making software. Customizing Android and then integrating the source code that Google throws over a wall is not a good move. B&N makes a e-reader which is pretty limited in rival competition and software features. Where's the iReader? Coming to Amazon, they know a few things about software and a laser like focus that Nokia lacks.

In fact, the Nokia board specifically recruited a CEO who had experience in managing software companies(Macromedia/MS) just because Nokia was spiraling down because of the software and it was almost too late to right the course without the risk of completely dying.

>rue 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.

I think it was more about Nokia's need rather than because WP7 sucked as a choice. Regardless of WP7 sucking and Android rocking, Nokia would need to survive 2011 intact, and if making the hardware and writing drivers for WP7 took more than 7 months, what makes you think they can reliably modify Android(a software task that Nokia is weak at) in such a short span of time?

Remember, every month that Nokia doesn't have a viable smartphone platform on the shelves, it's bleeding mindshare, marketshare and money to run operations. They were also able to win the right to modify WP7 and get the latest source code before it's throw over a wall by Google after Motorola/Samsung/HTC already have a device on store shelves running it.
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The Street View UI in the Google Earth app lets you walk around using first-person shooter WASD controls.

The surrounding textures are pasted onto simple 3D rectangles approximating buildings and houses. As you move, they transition into each other, giving you the least distorted view possible. With a fast connection, it feels pretty realistic, like you're walking around the neighborhood.

Almost like how mipmaps, if done well in 3D games, aren't really noticeable.
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>Perl is really powerful,

Compared to what? C? In what way is it more powerful than Ruby, Python, Ocaml, Haskell, etc.?

There are things perl has over e.g. python (lambdas) but there are at least as many things those languages have over perl (e.g. python generators built in) and all of those languages are easier to use. Look at the code you wrote there! I assume "use v5.10" is actually a forward compatibility declaration instead of a backward one, right? Really embarrassing if so.
Feisal: Our own prisoners, Mr. Bentley, are taken care of, 'til the British can
relieve us of them, according to the Code. I should like you to notice that.

Bentley: Yes, sir. Is that the influence of Major Lawrence?

Feisal: Why should you suppose so?

Bentley: Well, it's just that I heard in Cairo that Major Lawrence has a horror
of bloodshed.

Feisal: That is exactly so. With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it
is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable.

- Lawrence of Arabia

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Over time, the problem of maintenance overwhelms usability. Like the street view, but to a greater degree now, comes the problem of keeping those googlebytes of data updated ahead of looming obsolescence. Cool I can go in a store and look around...but what updates store change or - worse - closure?

ETA: puzzled by downvotes. Satellite views can be updated on a regular basis with relative ease by a largely passive system, and what's imaged is rather static; street view updates come with re-driving every road which ain't easy or cheap and may need more frequent updates; interiors change even more often and imagery/data cost much more per byte to maintain. Sure, interior views are cool - what's the cost of obtaining, and more important maintaining, them?
I respect what Apple's done with the iPhone a lot more than I respect Google's contributions, but I don't see what Apple gains (beyond a little bit of marginal profit from slowing down Android adoption with lawsuits) from this holy war. In my mind, they've profited in exact proportion to how much they innovated in the phone market - Android just means that they'll have to keep innovating if they want to keep profiting.

Ultimately, I think Job's emotional reaction is one common to forward thinking people. Andrew Masson has been similarly disgusted with Groupon clones. PG hasn't exactly been sanguine about the YCominator knockoffs. The copycat competitors contribute in many ways, but I think that great minds can only respect people who bring truly new ideas to the table, not those that find a niche or an edge in the marketplace after riding in their wake.
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Disclaimer: I do Java using Eclipse for my day job, and have used one of their Java IDEs in the past (IntelliJ IDEA). The code-editing side of XCode compared to these IDE is like a relic from the 90's.

Once you use a refactoring tool to rename a class and have it renamed everywhere in your project, you get a taste for what XCode is missing. There are several refactorings like this that shave a lot of time out of some of the more annoying tasks. Code generation allows you to define a method or property once and have it added to both .h and .m files, as well as have properties synthesized. If you want to add an argument to the method signature, that is done in one step, too. The SVN integration in IntelliJ IDEA was superb. I have had issues using SVN in XCode where the interface refuses to load history, and the interface for managing conflicts just isn't there (try having 2 devs change the project file). These are just a few things off the top of my head.
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Absolutely! Running the code under Strawberry (5.12.3) produces no warnings and "works" as one would expect. Can it be any easier to shoot yourself in the foot? Regardless, Perl has a special place in my heart.
I was thinking just the other day that something like this should exist. I'm happy to know that it does.
Here's a video:
http://www.horizonhobby.com/ProdInfo/Files/EFLU4780.wmv
We already had phones with desktops and icons. They ran Palm and WinCE.
Cool, I did not know that!

I actually do unsubscribe, but I would imagine that many just hit the "spam" button to "make it go away".
They blurred the face of the guy in the store, but not the faces on the comic-book covers. Interesting.
This will probably be a great project for people who are used to JetBrains products. If you are developing iOS applications on the side you won't have to learn a whole new environment.

For 100% iOS development I doubt many people will switch. The integration between Xcode, Interface Builder and the various Apple frameworks is something that will be hard if not impossible to implement in another IDE.
This sucks. I can't even open the pages of the comics!
I thought of this one instead: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...
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what?! its not april 1st yet...
> Another option would be to reach out to the maintainers of those sites and convince them to take down their sites or at the very least add links that prominently point to more modern content.

Not only should advocating link rot as the preferred solution alarm any web user, but there are people out there who specifically need to learn Perl 4 to maintain or port crappy old systems (they might even outnumber people selecting Perl 6 or 5 for new projects), and we shouldn't throw their tutorials down the memory hole to make the language look more sane. Stick with a notice that better dialects are available, please.
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Icon layout was clearly based on existing examples (palm for one), I dont think making it 4 instead of 3 is revolutionary. http://www.mumoh.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/us_robo...

Edit: Blackberry from 04/05 http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/blackberry/7100t/
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"they" = Nokia, not Microsoft
So your startup got selected for an incubator…
Palm was making touchscreen smartphones for years before iOS came on the scene. My Windows Mobile smartphone in 2006 had the same resolution as the iPhone. Windows Mobile 6 was released before the first iPhone and had a very similar look and feel. Devices running it had a big, bright display that covered nearly the entire front of the phone, with large icons that launched apps.

Microsoft was showing off their Surface product (with 1:1 user interactions, pinch to zoom, and swiping around) before iPhone's release. The concept behind it was pretty prevalent in science fiction, most prominently the movie Minority Report.

Laying out apps in rows of icons has existed since some of the first UIs have been created. You don't have to look further than any Blackberry to see exactly where Apple got the idea from for doing it on a mobile device.

The Danger Hiptop (commonly known as the T-Mobile Sidekick) had a complete app store that they called the Download Catalog. You wrote apps using their Java ME SDK, and the only way to get them onto the device was by distributing through this central repository. Apps would have to be curated and tested. Sound familiar? And this was back as early as 2002. Not to mention the plethora of Linux package repos. The concept of a centralized distribution store existed long before iOS.

iOS was completely built on the work and ideas that already existed in the industry. Android was no different, only it happened to come out after iOS. So it incorporated those ideas as well. That's practically the definition of innovation. Trying to white-knight and make out Apple to be some saint of a company that didn't do the exact same (and completely justified) thing as Google is just naive. Google didn't "steal" from Apple any more than they did from Palm or HTC or Microsoft. Or any more than Apple "stole" from Palm or HTC or Microsoft.
When did google start using flash for street view?
I think in this case it's a case of not being able to easily determine if "mov ebx, 0" is copying a value into a subregister, making the result dependent on previous operations, or if it's clearing a register. With xor (and sub too, I believe) the processor assumes that no such dependencies exist and can execute the instruction in parallel with others.
>It's a sad fact that Google became more of a follower than innovator recently.

Haven't they always been a do x good company? Web search and email were around for years before google showed up.
Wrong. See my comment above about the Danger Hiptop.
XCode is based on the same framework as the other IDEs, so you can expect excellent refactoring, static analysis, and "code rewriting" features. Also, the version control integration of the platform is top-notch, especially for git. I use IDEA to manage all of my local git repositories, and I only use the command line now for pushing remotes and git-log (I use IDEA for the rest because it is faster for me).

Disclaimer: I'm on the JetBrains "Academy" which means they sponsor some of my speaking and stuff.
In the end it's a matter of convention. If you think about Newton's "model" of gravity, for example, you'll notice that the formula that describes the gravitational force can be plausibly explained based on intuition. However, the gravitational constant (i.e. the parameter) has no explanation. It just is.

Of course, a great deal of physics is ultimately about trying to make the parameters go away by explaining them using more fundamental models. But at any given level of abstraction, you'll have parts of the model that are reasoned intuitively, and parts of the model that just are the way they are, for no good particular reason other than that's what you happen to get by measuring.
How so? To me, All invention is theft would have been a very compelling headline. Rather than conjure up images of a politically-minded linux geek, it makes me wonder what kind of article is behind such an apparently indefensible headline.
It's not so much useless, it's just far more general than the author probably intends.

All his arguments apply equally well to any scientific models which require fitting, in geophysics (as he acknowledges), atmosphere/ocean science, climate modelling, most of biology, ecology, etc.

Why he singled out economics is beyond me.
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Thanks, good feedback.

Actually, after seeking a lot of advice I'm starting to think of the deal differently - I'll update the story so everyone can benefit.
Interesting approach, but is it accurate to say they broke RSA by figuring out which CPU operations were being performed during encryption?
Interesting to see this on HN since I blogged about this a few weeks ago. http://geek.michaelgrace.org/2011/10/google-street-view-in-y... Not sure exactly when Google first started doing this but I like it.
A "scientist" finds by cross-validation that his model is over fitting the data. Luckily it wasn't published by a reputable source of science journalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-validation_(statistics)

Also who the heck is Wilmott? He just pops up in the last paragraph with no introduction.
You got to love some of these papers.

Account of an Elephant's Tusk, in which the Iron Head of a Spear was found imbedded. By Mr. Charles Combe, of Exeter College, Oxford, 1801.

Coming up with research topics was always an art!
Definitely makes sense for milkroundabout to sponsor events and build awareness of startups in general. Individual startups don't have the resources and longevity to continuously be building awareness over the long term.
Off-topic: How would you compare Eclipse to IntelliJ IDEA and why did you choose Eclipse?
I think the full quote is more revealing:

And Microsoft knows the problems which might be caused by software patents very well. Here is a quote from Microsoft founder Bill Gates in 1991: "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today." Most interesting is Mr. Gates conclusion: "The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors."

http://fsfe.org/projects/ms-vs-eu/article-20060421.en.html

So he acknowledges that patents are harmful, but given that they exist the correct strategy is to patent as much as you can.
If you look straight down in the linked shot you can see that they are using a camera on a tripod in lieu of the previous backpack or cart mounted multi-camera rigs
The difference between passion and professionalism is doing those parts of a project which nobody wants to but which must be done. There are some necessary tasks which just plain nobody is passionate about.
I'm not saying it's good or bad, all I'm saying is that it was Larry's choice when developing the language.

Here's a great example of C++ meaning different things in different contexts. How about this:

int *& p;
*&p;
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Google-funded US geothermal survey: vast clean-energy source found.
You can select 2 categories anyway.
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Adi Shamir (the S in RSA) told us they actually did.
Although I agree that most comic faces are left unblurred--when I look at some (perhaps 15%) of the faces visible, they are without a doubt blurred. They tend to be the ones that are forward-facing, without facial hair, and natural skin colors.

Example: Take a look at the GI Joe comic on your right all the way at the end.
I was in general agreeance with this article until the end:

>But Van Gogh was no naïve artist operating on raw talent and passion alone. If you read his letters, you discover that he was a well-educated scholar of art, much influenced by the ideas of others.

His passion kept him going when nobody would buy his works, but it was his professionalism -- his endless desire to learn more and do better, that exploited his talent to its fullest. Van Gogh's early works didn't amount to much. It was his growth as a serious, thoughtful, professional artist that turned him into what he became.
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Hold on, how can the author draw a line between passion and being learned? Isn't it possible to be learned because you are passionate, and yet still be unprofessional? I define unprofessionalism as acting like Steve of Apple...and by that I mean either of the Steves.

I think it's obvipus to a cliche how Jobs fits in to this debate. IMO, Woz falls into the "passion" category. If, in a company, he was hired to build boards so that the company could profit and grow, and instead, he gave away his intellectual property and energy towards furthering what he saw as the home brew culture, that is an act of passion over professionalism. But it has little to do with whether he was learned in his area of expertise.
I do think the interior is the next big push, but its not grabbing historical photos - its interior location so you can target ads in real-time and real-location. Manga, produce, housewares, TVs?
I think SW patents are largely broken, but not for the reason you cite. In the past few years, I've interviewed a number of SW candidates who own their own patents and expressed interest in selling them to whichever company ended up hiring them. This struck me as a smart way for candidates to increase their value to potential employers, many of which have been trying to beef up their patent portfolio in recent years...
Actually, even correctly parametrized, any predictive model will suffer from the paradox of the oracle : if you have a "oracle" capable of anticipating the decision of an actor, and that this actor knows about the prediction, this actor can make the prediction false.

In economy, some actors have an interest in faking the prediction, even if it is costly for them : it is often valuable to be unpredictable.
let's see if this can beat Apple at its own backyard
Did you read the article? To me, the first half of the article basically said, "the term slavery is not applicable". And then the second half introduced the term entanglement instead.

In other words, the author agrees with you.
Assume a spherical cow...
Love the simplicity of their setup (camera on tripod on wheels) https://skitch.com/mikegrace/gds67/screen-shot-2011-10-26-at...
So the solution for really hard technology problems is government laws? Ridiculous.
Thanks Pierre for sharing your story. It proves that solo entrepreneurs can indeed succeed, as can bootstrapping! The insights on how you broke down your time were very valuable! You definitely serve as an inspiration to anyone look to that same.
Have you tried Xcode 4? I'm not its biggest fan, but, it is a step up from Xcode 3 when it comes to refactoring. It can rename a class everywhere in your project, for example.
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>perl is very flexible which is a good thing.

So are nearly all modern languages. No advantage.

>perl lets people do crazy things

So do nearly all modern languages. No advantage.

When ever I hear people sing the praises of perl it just always make me think most haven't really sat down and learn many other languages. It's like hearing an English speaker say something like "man, English is so great because you can... like, express yourself in it! And there are even lots of ways to express yourself in it! And you can express all kinds of stuff!". Great, so it's like all the other languages then?
Here's the HN submission for that article.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2780248
Ask HN: Software that reminds you to get up to take break
I tend to hack non-stop for hours and ended up with stiff neck and lower-back aches, I have been told that I should be getting up every X hours to stretch but I find it's easy to just forget to do that when are you in the zone.

Is there a software you guys use that reminds you to get up every X hours or so with some popups or something? I am using Mac OS btw.
I spent ten years in a corporate research lab, and my experience was quite different from yours. Specifically,

1. Our process went like this: first the researcher wrote up a description of the invention for review by a panel of his peers. If the panel decided that a patent should be filed, then the file was handed off to a patent attorney, who transformed the clearly-written technical description into an incomprehensible mess of legal jargon. The inventor was supposed to review it and confirm that it accurately reflected his invention, but if asked in confidence, I suspect most of the inventors would admit that they didn't understand a word of it and just signed the application to get it off their desks. To reiterate: these things were so bad that the inventor himself didn't understand them.

4. There were conflicting opinions withing the company, but it is true that some people advise against doing a search of existing patents. I'm not an expert in the law, but as I understand it, if it can be shown that you had knowledge of the patent you were infringing, treble damages can be imposed. And in software, if you search hard enough you're sure to find something you're infringing.

I agree with your point -1. Once we had filed a patent, we were free to publish our work in journals and conferences, and these papers were written by the inventor with the intent of communicating, in contrast to the patents, which were written by a lawyer whose intent seemed, as far as I could tell, to be to obfuscate and confuse.
My current employer (and myself, too) had a history of Eclipse already when I started. Another dev got hired that was an IntelliJ nut. He was able to set up a working environment without "contaminating" our projects. Occasionally we would pair with him driving, and I was always impressed by the speed and quality of the IDE. Once he left I never bothered to look further.
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This suggests a different alternative exists: re-branding Perl (or PHP) as Perl6 (or PHP5), and consistently using those terms within the community to distinguish the two. Make a point that it is a different language, enforce the usage (via style guide) in all public facing commentary.

It will take time, but the community will start to change, and thus actually change what users are searching for.

Think of HTML/CSS. One gets a more relevant set of results by searching HTML5, because there was a great deal of effort put into explaining how the language had changed. When looking for bleeding-edge features, a search for CSS3 is more helpful than a search on CSS (which like the perl situation, sometimes returns legacy garbage). The same applies when trying to troubleshoot a problem on OS X: adding 'lion' to the query often improves relevance of results.

I short, make a conscious effort to create a new label and inject it into the public consciousness.
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What do recurly use to generate their docs?