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I don't know of any major import functions for all account data, but things like contacts can be interchanged, and emails can be archived outside of an email service. I think the real benefit to a cloud service backup is an interface to browse and search your data (specifically the data that can't really be restored).
There's actually not a huge benefit to Google in my site using Google Maps instead of Yahoo Maps. There is a branding benefit for sure, but there are no links to Google services, no ads, or anything like that.

I've been wondering for a long time when this would come- the processing (getting directions, geocoding, etc) and bandwidth (for map images) demands must be huge, with comparatively little payback.

It'll be interesting to see how many big operations pay up, and how many switch. To an extent switching might be futile- if Google can't afford to keep the maps offering free, do you really think Yahoo can?
Dave Winer certainly does not belong to the group you described.

If anything he is too disenchanted, knows a lttle bit too much, and is too sure of his own version of the lore.
Ah, I thought it was some weird stripping down thing the kids were doing to windows these days.
It is hardware and software, it is the Mac ecosystem; at least for me. My core business is the Web and we are getting into Android. I already spent several thousand dollars in Hardware. If I want to develop in Mac I need a Mac. It is not as easy as Linux. I could of course built my own Mac, but still it gets pretty expensive. Specially since iOS is not our core market.

Now, if iOS ends up being big for us, then yeah, we would stop using the service and buy our own machines. But then the service served its purpose.

I guess what I am trying to say is that this kind of service has a market and is not that small. But I do agree with you 100%. If you are serious about iOS development, you need to get your Mac.
How do they compare spec wise at different levels? I am not in the market for a tablet so I'm not even sure what the different iPad competitors are.
I find it difficult to consider Twitter even much of an acceleration of the trend, compared to older things like text messaging, news tickers, and USA Today.
I don't own a mac (never have probably never will) but I find this service to be awesome! I don't even need to sign up for a year - rent one for a couple of months is all I'd need.
The thing is, as long as you never intend to redeem your financial assets for real goods, it really doesn't matter. Let's say Germany as a nation holds financial claims on Greece denominated as X€. If, as a nation, they intend to continue running net exports, this means that those financial claims never need to be redeemed. If the assets are in the form of e.g. 10 year bonds, then Germany could just exchange them for new 10 year Greek bonds at maturity. So long as Germany and Greece both accept the game, their will never be any problem of insolvency.

This rollover game could continue indefinitely. That's my whole point. It would only have to stop if, at some point, Germany decides that it wants to become a net importer, which is equivalent to running down net financial claims against other countries. Then at some point they would want to reduce the amount of financial claims against Greece, and Greece would have to cancel their liabilities, ostensibly by sending real goods to Germany. The point is, however, that the German elite is totally hell-bent on staying a net exporting country forever.

Of course, this is not what happens, because micro economics is different from macro economics. The micro actors behave like you explain, and their behavior is perfectly reasonable from their individual point of view (well, except that it is totally unreasonable for non-capitalist Germans to be in favor of net exports, but they have no say in the matter at the moment). However, on the macro level, this creates behavior that is quite literally schizophrenic.
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I like your suggestions for a more tech savvy bio, but like the grandparent I think Isaacson has done a pretty good job. I totally agree that so much of the story has become rehearsed myth that it's kind of annoying to see it regurgitated here and there although, to give one example, I think Isaacson does a great job of dealing with the relationship between Woz and jobs when so many others simply accept Woz's evolving "standard version".
This is exactly the kind of in depth nerdery I love. Thanks for putting it together. It seems like it would be valuable as a standalone resource. You might even be able to get some help from the community in a wiki format for keeping it up to date.
If the guy isn't posing a physical threat, suck it up and ignore it

Judging by a lot of the comments on here, this seems to be what really makes people here upset. That she didn't just 'suck it up.' That she's complaining. A cardinal sin for men, since we get much more pressure to show that we can 'suck it up', are tough enough not to let things like this get to us, etc.

The thing is, women are probably going to feel more threatened by this sort of harassment, than a man in a similar situation. It's almost as if there's a history of violence towards women, initiated by men, that makes women react differently to threatening behavior from men.
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You have to love calling the office of Hazardous Materials Safety "ASH" !
An odd insight to "lifestyle startups" I had (and posted about) a while back...

For a while I was fascinated and amazed at projects pursuing absurd mega-goals, attempts to get something off the ground so big it was nigh unto stupid. A floating city configuring an independent libertarian utopia nation. A billion-dollar indoor ski resort just outside Atlanta. A bridge from Spain to Africa sporting a 5 mile suspended span. A world-class [fill in the blank, how much ya got?] facility annex to a super-mall in "why would anyone move there" Syracuse NY. A "fast ferry" across Lake Ontario connecting Toronto with "why would you go there" Rochester NY. And so on, one project after another with big flashing "ain't gonna happen" signs over them.

Then I realized. It wasn't success of the project that was the goal, it was keeping a small team of creatives employed in a perpetual state of promotion and study-funding: find someone with deep enough pockets, and they'll shell out a livable fee to be able to say "hey, look at this..." to other deep pockets. No way that Atlanta ski resort would happen, but the idea was exciting enough to elicit enough funding for studies to pay the bills (at least until the vital-to-snow-making nearby lake almost dried up) for a few people in modest offices. You can make a nice, if modest, living promoting stupid ideas.

And if the stupid idea actually pans out, takes off, and succeeds, well, the possibility of success is awesome enough to keep trying.
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I have my iPhone 3G running iOS 4.2.1 here. Home screen to camera shutter open takes 3 seconds. I don't use Maps, but nothing I do use crashes.
You should be able to get a B1/B2 for the interview and YC program but it could get incredibly difficult to stay in the US beyond YC. It's definitely best to talk to an immigration lawyer about your options. It can often depend on a number of factors including your company revenue, capital raised, personal extraordinary accomplishments, etc.
I've thought about this before. In reality, this doesn't require a crowd sourced solution if users are willing to pay in some way for the data. One person could keep track of a few channels at a time, and the most popular channels would be the first ones to track.

What would be really interesting is a device that can understand the difference between commercials and programming and make the alert automatically.
It's simple really: lifestyle businesses supply enough profit to fund the creator and his or her employees and suppliers. They do not typically create enough free cash to interest investors.

Investors/VCs/Angels define "success" as an investment that returns enough cash to not only make a positive return on its own, but also to offset losses from the other "misses" in the portfolio.

That investment return can come directly from profit, or it can be achieved by telling a compelling growth story that allows others to buy out the investor's position and provide an exit for the early investor.

So, the question is really one of audience: do you aspire to provide a good living for yourself, your employees, and your business partners? Or are you swinging for the fences and able to provide returns to the investment community as well?

Whether you consider Google, Groupon, or Joe's Garage to be a success really depends on who your constituents are.
Well there are ports of Squeak (Smalltalk) Cog VM on Android (CogDroid [1]), and to iOS (see e. g. [2]) which are capable of running recent Squeak and Pharo images and are development environments on their own. (Disclaimer: I am a co-developer of [1])

[1] http://code.google.com/p/squeakvm-tablet/

[2] http://news.squeak.org/2010/06/17/squeak-running-on-ipad/
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Huh?

The top of the box says "Monthly". To me, that means I can log in any time during the month I have paid for. Does the "minimum" really mean I can only use it 3 hours a day for each day of the month?
Another day, another HN thread about misogyny and sexism in STEM, and another sampling of "hackers" who can't seem to agree 100% that sexism, harassment, and stereotyping are categorically wrong.

It's not even the overt sexism that is the problem. It's the educated troglodytes making up bullshit like "civilization has always been like this" and "she invited harassment with such bold feminism" and "this just proves women can't handle pressure."

That half the community seems to have reached adult maturity is good; that half has not is so incredibly depressing and tiresome
But it will. Empathy is an effective antidote to harassment.
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if you're more than 2 months from the future, also not.
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Thanks for presenting an actual argument. However, I am not persuaded by your argument. First, there is the timing issue noted by the commenter below. Second, in general, speculative bubbles are not driven by retail savings, or the idea that they are some how extra easy money. Speculative bubbles tend to be driven by (a) sustained periods of market irrationality; and (b) low interest rates. Interest rates are driven primarily by the Federal Reserve, not by retail depositors. The housing bubble in particular was inflated in large part by overly liberal granting of unaffordable mortgages on the expectation that housing prices would continue to grow. Issuing mortgages is a classic commercial bank activity, not an investment activity. The contagion to the wider financial system was through repackaging of mortgages into derivatives, something that was largely done by entities with no commercial banking activity, such as Lehman Brothers, Goldman-Sachs, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac. Combining commercial and investment banking under one roof was not particularly involved as a driver of the crisis.

I am also not persuaded by your linked argument as an argument for Glass-Steagall. It argue for the Volcker rule, which is not the same thing as any former provision of Glass-Steagall. I am not sure why the author relates the two, other than perhaps the fact that Glass-Steagall is a popular talking point. To be more clear on the difference, the provision of Glass-Steagall that tends to capture the popular imagination, and which was repealed in 1999, was a rule against combining investment banking and commercial banking within the same entity. The Volcker Rule would instead forbid banks from trading for their own account, while still allowing them to combine commercial and investment activity. I don't have enough knowledge of the Volker rule to argue for or against it, but I the sketchy argument made in its favor and the attempt to conflate it with Glass-Steagall are not terribly persuasive.

Finally I don't think there is any onus on me to offer an argument against Glass-Steagall, until someone presents an argument in its favor. Surely the burden of proof should be on those favoring a new regulation. That being said, the major reason the rule was repealed is that it made US banks uncompetitive compared to foreign banks, with no clear sign that the US banking system was more stable than foreign banking systems as a result. There is no particular reason to think this has changed. So reinstating the rule would make US banks less competitive and perhaps drive more financial activities overseas, for no clear gains.
Enterprises don't care about device support life. They care, if the phone will survive for about two years. Then the employees will start bug you, that they want new gadget (I know, we have several hundred of them...).
Ah, I never thought it encrypted the drive because when I plug my iPhone into my computer it's still password protected but I can browse the photo's on my iPhone.
If you're new to FPGAs or digital design in general, it'd probably be worth your while to pick up a good digital design book. I always liked Wakerly's Digital Design Principles and Practices. I recall that my edition (either 2nd or 3rd) was VHDL-focused, but it looks like the 4th edition has examples in both VHDL and Verilog.

There's also the matter of working through the FPGA toolchains, which isn't exactly a walk in the park. Unfortunately I don't have a good tutorial to reference off the top of my head...
As long as you don't need new APIs or features in a particular version of Android, sure.
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The problem with your assumption is that (as any abuse counselor will tell you) abusive words are very often the precursor to violent physical action.

As someone whose wife repeatedly received abusive and threatening phone calls and emails from a former co-worker who eventually showed up at her workplace waving a gun (and luckily was restrained by a security guard in the lobby!), I can assure you that Ms Bayley should not take this lightly.
the daily life of most women is filled with navigating a hostile space that may break out into sexual violence at any time.

Who are you talking about?
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I am confused about this too. It seems like 99% of sites using maps would be doing it client side in which case the cost change wouldn't be a big deal, but maybe I am missing something.
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Sigh, I really want to and should respect you but I'm such an asshole I simply could not resist the fun.

It is entirely my fault.

And in death Jobs equals Hitler, ramen.
In the working world, most "letters of recommendation" are produced under duress - as in "I will resign without you having to fire me (with the bad morale this will produce) if you write me a glowing letter of recommendation". An A-player will always be happy to arrange references since they are able to and rarely leave on bad terms.

For acedemia, what is wrong with a standard glowing reference?
I understood it as meaning that you can use it for at least 3 hours, but if they have 'time over' you're allowed to use more. Not sure though.
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Yes, I feel shame:) In hind site, that's obvious to me now.
I saw this service before I purchased my Mac Mini for iOS development.

I opted out because tho it was more affordable and would probably fit my needs, I just didn't want my code on someone else's mac somewhere in the world.

So, tho this seems pretty suitable for development, there are probably a lot of developers like me who like to keep their code in their own hands.
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I have a pretty solid theory: Anything with "{X} Killer" attributions is going to fail.
There's already a word for a lifestyle startup: a business.
you paid the 30% 'out of dealer' devalorization, of a SL55 AMG, plus leasing profits which shouldn't have been easy for this kind of arrangement, times 9, to have 4 years of car without plates.

do that math for that, smart guy, and i dare you to disagree it was moronic.
Oh, sorry. Is there a way to edit the link or delete the submission ?
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I did attend Stallman's talk once, and it was interesting to say the least. However, there are some problems with the F/OSS type of development in practice. First thing is developers need to put food on the table. In practice, when someone asks "but is it Open Source?" about an application/web app, more of them are interested in the "free as in beer" aspect or in using it in commercial business for free rather than about customizing it and releasing it to the original devs/other users(regardless of the requirements of the license). This happens all the time on HN when new and cool projects are announced.

No one is still able to crack the make money while open sourcing something unless the tool is completely tangential to the way the company makes money(see Google/Apple for examples) or tease it as a way to sell the real ability to use it in closed app(see MySQL). Not to mention throwing code over the wall like Google likes to do with Chrome and Android source releases. Not everyone can be Red Hat.But Stallman expects them to be.
Last year at FooCamp I went to a panel about women in tech (I believe I was the only guy) for two reasons:

1) I have no qualms about offending people if I feel my point is valid, and in fact enjoy being in situations where I risk such things (I find it incredibly rewarding to have meaningful discussions about things that are considered taboo).

2) To find out what the problem was

Let me clarify #2: I didn't see a problem within my circles other than the fact that there were few women in startups. I didn't see blatant sexism, I didn't see harassment, I didn't see something that I was comfortable changing to encourage women in my industry. I still occasionally quote South Park or make a dirty joke, but nothing targets women specifically: I just can have a crude sense of humor. Was that what women were concerned about? Were they offended by my jokes, expecting me to be stiff as a board to avoid offending them? In my opinion that's expecting special treatment and is sexism in and of itself.

In my YC class the 4 women were respected and treated like peers. Yes, I'm sure there was some flirting, but I didn't see anything that I wouldn't consider more offensive than I've seen guys do to each other on a regular basis.

What I learned was actually very interesting: from their perspective I was not the problem. Somehow in the middle of the media hype about sexism, I had assumed I must be doing something wrong and was trying to figure out what was inappropriate about my behavior. It turns out there's a whole group of men in tech who are blatantly offensive, harassing, and generally sexist towards women just because they were women. I genuinely think most men are in the better bucket: we aren't offensive, and provide mostly non-hostile work environments. We are not part of the problem. On the other hand, I bet a lot of us aren't part of the solution.

This needs to not be a "men vs women" battle: this needs to be a "people vs jerks" battle. There are a few sour apples poisoning the environment for everyone, and it needs to stop. I do think the only way to fix this is for there to be a social change, but most men just need to change the way they act towards other men. Don't allow it to be ok when one guy crosses the line, and don't just assume HR will take care of it. Call him out on it. I'm confident that that's all 99% of guys need to (and can) do to help with this problem.
Title is a bit link-bait-y: the writer asserts that the lowest producing 10% of its sales staff will be replaced.
According to Wikipedia, the WiFi-only Xoom wasn't available at launch, and only showed up a month later. Presumably that's why.
Mac Mini off of Craigslist is a good bet.
> We weren't that special.

It's silly that you would write as if you were a peer to Jobs. Only a handful of people were, people like Gates, Ellison, Grove. Even those guys aren't special in the big way Jobs was. It's not required that you like him to acknowledge his special place in the tech world.
If you hold up two fingers in the UK and someone tells you it is offensive, you stop doing it.

Despite the numerous people who try to educate the guys who "don't get it", they continue their immature ways. I'm not going to give them a free pass.
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My main complaint about Google Maps is how it always assumes I'm in America. I live in Tokyo. My default location is Tokyo. I search for "Ginza". I get a sushi restaurant in Alabama.
Interestingly enough, the reports make it sounds like both Jobs and his wife want everything to be told as is.
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Am I the only one that thinks the price point is astronomical?

From 100 to 800. That is quite a commitment to what is a premium share folder.
Maybe it's not just because you're male?
You are trying to count your chickens before they hatch.Before Netflix came along, the thinking was - if you like a movie you will just buy the DVD so you can watch it any number of times. Its just $10, why not just buy it ? Guess what, I watch tons of movies, don't buy a single DVD. If I like the movie I put it on my netflix queue & then watch it right there. If its not available, no skin off my back - there's plenty of other movies that are available on my queue, some 300+ are unwatched, last I checked. My wife averages 3 books a month. We don't own a single "book". She's on her 2nd kindle and all our books are essentially on the AWS. When she moves to her 3rd kindle & so on...the books will continue to be on the cloud. She downloads one book, reads it & then deletes it & downloads the next.
So yes, owning a Mac, or even a PC is not on my to-do list. The bank gives me a laptop, why should I go buy my own PC ? And for what ? 8 hours of Scala per day at my desk is quite enough. I don't bring my work home. Objective-C will start out as a hobby. I don't know if I'm going to be able to complete my app, put it on the app-store, get customers etc. Seems like a daunting task. So no, I won't buy a Mac. And yes, the world has plenty of people who work for big-corp and pull in 150k coding business apps, with no desire to own Macs & PC, while still doing some hobby coding in some fringe language on the side just to retain their sanity. Office work gets boring after a while, and I plan to write silly time-waster apps in objective C, not your standard issue portfolio optimization code which I do at work anyways.
Read the whole article. It matters for developers and for the platform. Even if users don't (know they) care.

Users are missing security fixes, developers can't use new features in new versions.
Didn't want to change the headline from the Tribune but you're right. Should I change it to "Groupon replacing 10% of sales staff"?