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I use Linux because it's a flexible, elegant and simple architecture, battle-tested under the most demanding conditions and based on a standard that has almost 40 years of service. Also because it closes any impedance mismatch between my desktop, my phone and the servers that run the code I write.

About that, as far as the two markets I am most concerned, phones (we are talking about them, after all) and servers (where I work), Linux already took over the market.

WP7, OTOH, was written from scratch because it's predecessor (WinCE/WinMO) was so miserably broken Microsoft really had no choice but starting from scratch.
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I don't disagree. I'm GLAD Google stole from Apple. My only issue is with those who deny that's what happened. That's disrespectful to the innovation represented by the iPhone.
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Android still largely looks like that on a candybar design phones: http://cdn.precentral.net/resources/images/000/017/719/origi...
Hey Dan,

The other 50% has been used for advertising and stuff... for tax reasons you can only donate up to 50% of your income and have it be tax deductible. This means that the max I could donate is 85% without going negative... but I have spent waaaaay more than the other 50% on marketing so far.

The cancer research charity so far has been the american cancer society... you are right that it's really only 50% of the affiliate fees but I think that's clearly shown in the cartoon? It's still about 5% of your total purchase which I think is pretty good for getting the same stuff you normally would at the same price.

I'll try to get the colors to match more...

Thanks for the dropshadow info... I'll check that out too.

I've contacted 150 non profit orgs to feature on my site with the promise that the profits would go to them, however everyone that has gotten back to me in the past month have all said that I need to be an established company for at least a year, for fear of losing their "brand image" if something went wrong. This makes sense to me but it kinda sucks... who wouldn't want free money?
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Again, not to belabor a point but in a previous HN post, I noted that Microsoft Surface was likely an earlier prototype with multi-touch, as well as demos of a working "Pinch-to-zoom" back in 2006. I have no clue if and when iPhone already had this feature in a prototype, but Microsoft was definitely demoing this pre-iPhone.

http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/laurafoy/a-peek-inside-micros...

So the funny thing about the article is that it states as fact that Google copied Apple's pinch-to-zoom (but that it was a good thing), when in fact the case could be made that Apple copied Microsoft's pinch-to-zoom (I'm not sure if they did or not).
> What if you think they copied the Palm Pilot GUI?

Apple did copy it from the Treo-era PalmOS. A grid of fingertip-sized tappable app icons.

And I'm OK with that, because it fosters progress, competition, and iterative improvements of existing technologies. I don't see the big issue with copying user interfaces. You'll either take the idea and improve on it, or make a mockery of it and your product will fail.
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These numbers are relative to a standard where 5.0 is the average for a professional at one's level of experience, 4 is the minimum, and 6 is about the level where people get promoted. If you're consistently 7-9, you're overqualified for what you're doing and should either get a promotion or another job. In this light, I feel comfortable assuming that in normal situations people average no higher than 6.0, although some people vary more than others.

I was high-variance when younger but I learned to become middle-variance over time. It's a necessary aspect of career maturity. So I probably swing between 4 and 8. I can hit 9 but it's not sustainable (although today's 7 was the 9 of two years ago for me) and before I find myself anywhere near 3, I do everything I can to fix the situation (possibly getting another job).
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This is definitely a better analogy, but I actually agree that the second-hand games market is hurting the publishers, particularly the legitimised selling of pre-owned titles by bricks and mortar retailers.

There are always going to be x% of people who will get hold of the game for free (and x is going to rise as the means of obtaining them gets easier). So let's say 1,000,000 people are interested in playing 'Super Mega Hooper!' and 500,000 will find a way to obtain this for nothing. Before the dramatic rise in pre-owned sales, 500,000 would buy it from a retailer, and 500,000 lots of cut would go to the publisher. Now, only - say - 250,000 lots of cut go to the publisher with the other 250,000 people giving more of a cut to the retailer.

I'd say that over the last ten years of so the average price of a full-price game has remained reasonably constant given inflation, and the cost to produce (AAA) games has risen. Therefore: net loss to publishers using the traditional retail model.

(Of course, there has been plenty of opportunity for publishers to move away from the traditional model, but I'd argue that the culture of buying pre-owned is definitely having an affect on them.)
I was hoping more for a more refined follow on to the Danger, not a Blackberry clone. Guess you're right though, any replicant would have not expanded anything.

There was really a shot at trying a lot of new ways to interact with mobile devices and very little made it to market in the quest to follow the other guy.
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Agreed... if you know of an org that will let me feature them directly or have a contact I could use, that would be pretty sweet. None of the orgs I contacted will let me put their name/image on my site. They all just say "give us the money, but don't use any of our info"
If it's better then I am all for it; why use macvim if text edit is free and directly from apple?
There are a few research projects to reconstruct historical views by automatically aligning and extracting building outlines from old photographs, e.g. this one from a few years ago: http://4d-cities.cc.gatech.edu/atlanta/

Google presumably has a ton of data to do it going forward somewhat more easily, though, if filling in pre-streetview periods isn't a priority.
Not quite the same thing and it doesn't include the British museum but you may find this interesting:
http://www.googleartproject.com/
I rarely watch, it's mostly my wife trying to zone out after a long day of changing diapers, but I like having options. I just wish cable companies 'got it.'
could also be the fact that most of his submissions are from his own site.
I couldn't find a link but it was later shown this prototype pre-dated the iPhone-like video. If I recall correctly this prototype was actually from the pre-Google acquisition days.

I just thought the point would be obvious since it makes no sense for Android to be more iPhone like, then go to this, then go back to being iPhone like.
So here's the thing, Larry Wall is not only a programmer, he is a linguist. That's reflected in the myriad of ways that one can write something in Perl, reflected in the common refrain at YAPCs the world over, "TMTOWTDI" (There's More Than One Way To Do It). But because of the flexibility Larry designed into the language, there's also "more than one way to do it" ...wrong (ok, not "wrong", but so complicated and whacky that Joe programmer 10 years from now wouldn't have a clue about). But this very flexibility gives Perl a unique beauty.

I don't think it's the language's fault that poor code exists to teach people the way to Perl zen. It's more that scripting languages themselves lend to one-offs and poor code writing, especially in the days of early Perl, when people were giddy to get their hands on something that wasn't as ugly as "sh". We need better programmers who are not "too busy to write good code" as well as better material.
It's a sad fact that Google became more of a follower than innovator recently.
I can't remember of a successful innovative product by Google in the past few years, but we all know Google deals after Groupon, Google plus after Facebook and Android after IOS.
Apple bought FingerWorks along with their associated multitouch patents in 2005:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
now thats the kind of information we want to know.
When do we get real-time?
The generated code is separated from code you write. In 99.9% of cases you should never even see the code that is generated. Your code should all be in files you explicitly create. And using patterns like MVVM will mean that you actually barely even touch code-behind files (although its OK if you do -- just it won't be necessary).
Agreed, that forces them to keep churning out designs products that the public perceive as premium and the competitors can't easily replicate.

They might then look at leveraging the right to modify the OS that no other OEM got, apart from a big bag of much needed cash from MS to survive this year without spiraling down in the face of marketshare losses, so I guess that evens it out a little.
Actually, you're right. I wish I could just pay for Sunday Ticket and nothing else. The same goes with some of the soccer channels I don't get but wish I did.
This device will allow people to lower the information differential between city dwellers and villagers, allowing them to negotiate better prices for their goods/services. This prototype is a great first step - let's see how users value the final version.
It's part of Google's recently launched program to do Places/Street View photos of businesses in select cities

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/businessphotos/
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Some years ago, Damien Conway spoke about changing sigils going away in Perl 6... whenever that comes out... perhaps 2030.
Not really. The metaphor is completely different. There are no desktop icons. You side scrolled through things (see the arrows on the left and right side). On that note navigation was done through the multidirectional button in the center where as the current candybar types are done through touch.
And the store owners will be able to put on digital price tags and ads, and viewers may click to buy online... next thing you know, you and your friend are "sitting" inside a restaurant on google "store" view and eating the food delivered from that place...
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I think innovation is a big stretch. Incremental improvement would be much more accurate.
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12-ish steps for every press of a small, non-fixed arrow—is something I hope I never have a reason to do.

I accidentally discovered some keyboard commands to navigate which feels slightly easier, though the constant pausing to re-render the image is wonky.
Lol, yeah, I'll look out for them next time.
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I suspect Microsoft/BizSpark/Nokia could solve the "nobody in a YC startup doing mobile even has a windows phone" for about the cost of one person's salary for a year.
Define "Apple like". A polished graphical interface to a centralized software repository that enables one click installation of software packages?

May I present to you Synaptic:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Synaptic_%28s...

Fits the bill, minus the polish. And that's really where Apple's genius is, polishing the hell out of a concept in order to make it desirable. Just don't pretend it's an original concept.
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This only covers radio and television. The CRTC has been very clear it can't/won't regulate online services. See it's decision a few months back about Netflix.
> Larry Wall (being a linguist originally)

Having taken a class on linguistics, I have to say basing a computer language on it is a horrible idea.

Human languages are far more complex and verbose than is required for talking to computers. Consider that it takes years to master a spoken language. A computer language should be much easier to pick up once you already know how to use an existing language. Computer languages should attempt to reduce complexity and verbosity where possible.

Example: I picked up lua in a week. (javascript and ruby experience helped a lot) I'm not an expert by any means but I'm capable of writing usable applications. I doubt a person could pick up a new human language in a week.
Wow, that's what I wanted! Google is one step ahead of me.

And I don't mind the fact that it's missing the British Museum, which I've already seen a couple of times anyway, cuz it has the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, and the Palais de Versailles.
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Ahhhh, appreciated. I made an assumption as to why, but yeah, that makes more sense. That sentence just threw me off.

But your core point is probably right; they probably did see the iphone and say "well shit. Call up the team." I don't think it should be illegal, but you're likely correct on what actually happened. And yeah, it's funny people are so averse to saying that.

(And I recently realized I'm a big Google fan. ... Is there a name for us? I need to get to know my people!)
Good info. Thanks!
You can and a simple Google search will link you to a number of homebrew projects.

Hint: include terms like "avr", "Arduino", or "arm" in your searches.

The problem with home brew cellular systems is, unless you have access to some pretty advanced chip/board fab equipment, they're usually way too bulky to be practical, and they use too many mAh's (battery life).

The stuff on Sparkfun and Adafruit are great for hobbyist projects, but aren't going to be better than a cheap series 40 Nokia that's hackable via a serial interface.
Great point. It'd be interesting to be transparent about rings of people who frequently upvote on the same post. I'm sure they have that info. It might actually be interesting and open up some level of transparency -- whether among the YC companies (and the ability of their job posts to somehow make it to the top) or among other subsets of the coding community like node.js I have nothing against YC companies; I'm friends with lots. I have nothing against promoting a link you post on HN.

Just would be interesting to be more transparent.
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You can double click on the ground to move to that spot, or on the side of a building to move there and look at that spot. I see that indoors you cannot do this, but hopefully they will add it.
This line of reasoning is old and tired. Natural language is a bad enough way to communicate with people, it's a ridiculous way to communicate with machines which take everything literally and treat everything implied to mean "crash in amusing and unforeseeable ways".

One of perl's big "natural language" claims is that things mean something different in different context. I think there are several movies based on what can happen when two people have a conversation but have a context mismatch.
2 years back i spent 2K on a group of 4, movies and dinner. It is getting expensive. Growing up, i never spent more than 100 rupees on dinner for one.
Two excellent books I can recommend for someone working with legacy Perl:

Perl Medic (Peter J. Scott) - http://amzn.com/0201795264
Effective Perl Programming (Joseph N. Hall, Joshua A. McAdams, brian d foy) - http://amzn.com/0321496949

Besides those, having a good reference to the language is also essential. For example, I keep Perl In a Nutshell close by, even though I almost always just search http://perldoc.perl.org/ when I need that info.
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Part of the problem might be that it's not always clear what people mean by "stole".
Sweet! I'll add that to the resources page.
I tried it out for a bit a couple of weeks ago. I didn't stay with it because it didn't seem to be playing nice with the beta Xcode, but I'm still interested in switching. My two major reasons are refactoring support and the vi plugin. Having used Resharper for a long time in C#, I feel slow in environments without it; App Code begins to bring the Resharper convenience to Objective C.
Go out to the street (use back arrow on the floor of the UI) then at the WSW point there is a ghost/cloaked car.

Perhaps someone was riding the bike and they're using content-aware filling to delete them!!
Yes and no. I obviously don't know that many details about Google's ranking algorithms, but content age and incoming links play a big role. This plays against content freshness and rate at which new incoming links are added.

I suspect Google uses more or less the same algorithm for general content and for tech documentation. The difference is, general content - news, discussions, fiction, etc. - rarely loses relevancy, it can only be supplanted by newer, more relevant content over time.

This happens for documentation, but it takes time - and at any given time you end up with a hodgepodge of content for various versions.

There's also no foolproof way to search for content for a specific version - this would go a long way towards fixing the problem. The closest solution is restricting the search results by date, I often have to do that.
Anyone have any ideas on what caused the phantom cars?
That software patents don't work can be shown from the simple fact that no software "inventor" tries to sell his patented idea to a big company.

If I invent intermittent windscreen wipers for cars then it's worthless to me unless I also intend to make cars and without a patent I can't try and sell my invention to a car company because they can simply copy it.
When have you heard of an inventor with a software patent selling that idea to a large software company?
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I love JetBrains products. These guys are awesome. I don't write Apple Code (iOS or Mac OS), but I'm sure it is really cool.

They built my favorite Java IDE, IntelliJ.
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Is it not possible that someone, deciding to make a touch phone at about the same time would look at:

What is a good physical size for the screen.

What is the kind of resolution we can get on a LCD of that size?

How many icons can we fit on that screen, which can be easily manipulated by users (there aren't that many options, as you can't fit that many icons on the screen).

It seems to me many of these kinds of things fit into into a set of "only one real option", once you've decided (and this might be the 'big copied thing') to have a phone which is just a touch screen + a single button (or 3 on android)).
It's not "hello world" if it doesn't print "hello world"; the runtime doesn't even need to know about "hello world" in this "version".

It's not even that much harder to actually print something without libc; just include your own stub for write(2).
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Read all about it and it seems to just be reference counting :-( Not as exciting as it seemed.
Great, I'm happy to hear. I hope everyting works out!
And suddenly, I want to re-read Snow Crash.

And also have a digital assistant whose ethnicity changes based on who wanders into my virtual business.
Linspire's click 'n run from 2002: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNR_(software)

edit: which of course, is just apt-get/synaptic + the ability to pay money. All of the real innovation came from Debian.
agree that its about doing it unquestioningly. I take the dogs for a walk everyday. Its hardly the best exercise in the world, but 30-45 minute walk is enough to help. The moment I question whether I can be bothered to take the dogs out though, I don't, and then it gets harder to do so next time. This morning it was cold and dreary and I didn't notice so I didn't bring my coat when I came downstairs. I knew if I went upstairs for my coat (therefore diverging even slightly from the habit) and I would find some excuse not to go. Maybe quickly checking my email or something. So I came back from my walk cold and wet rather than not go at all.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch

Excerpts:

A breakthrough occurred in 1991, when Pierre Wellner published a paper on his multi-touch “Digital Desk”, which supported multi-finger and pinching motions.

... however both the function and the term predate the announcement or patent requests, except for such area of application as capacitive mobile screens, which did not exist before Fingerworks/Apple's technology
"No Silver Bullet", Fred Brooks, http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~cah/G51ISS/Documents/NoSilverBulle...

He did hold out hope that a bunch of silver bullets might do the trick. Read the article. Most of them seem quite quaint. Nonetheless, Brooks's writings saved me from a lot of self-inflicted grief.
well, it would make sense to integrate some niceties such as http://ace.ajax.org/ to make this even more awesome
Awesome, even better than the kerning one!
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Here's the thing: you're both right. It's both radically underspecified and overfitted. The information-theoretic argument demonstrate that a model cannot exactly match the reality unless it's as complex as the reality.

This article speaks of the separate problem that economic models are not evaluated in any sort of experiments, and thus are prone to overfitting. This makes them unlikely to even approximate well.

Consider a basic multilayer perceptron-style neural network. Overfitting is a well-understood problem in training an MLP. We work around it by training on a part of the data, and then measuring its accuracy on another part -- much as Carter did in his analysis. If the accuracy is poor, something is adjusted: the size of the hidden layer can be increased, the training set expanded, the duration of the training increased or decreased, or the MLP model discarded entirely.

If increase of the training set or reduction of the duration improves accuracy against the test set, this means we had an overfitting problem.
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They found that the people gone from the house 9-5 will save an average of $227/yr, and people who need to keep their homes comfortable during the day will save an average of $116/yr.

Relative to what, though? Using an ugly WiFi thermostat? Praying over chicken bones and running the AC at 65F all day?
You're absolutely right--they need to sell this thermostat on energy savings.

FWIW, I'd install a beautiful thermostat if it also (a) saved the world a bit and (b) saved me some money.
The problem is the term "stole", IMO. No one says "Apple stole the smartphone idea from Palm" or "Apple stole the idea of the MP3 player from Creative". It's just taken as a given that the current technology landscape influences what comes after it.

If you develop a useful UI paradigm or technology, I may make use of it if it is fitting.

The time when "stole" seems appropriate is if Google stole the design from a non-public version of the iPhone. Which maybe did happen (via Schmidt), but that's generally not what people are referring to when they use the term.