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I was just thinking the same thing. Wishing this to suck, but knowing that this actually is too good to pass.

I've developed in the past for Samsung's Bada OS, Palm's WebOS, a lot of apps for Android and right now I'm working with Windows mobile. I have to say it is rather easy to develop for, and i love how you can take for granted quite a few specs (similar to the iPhone).

Although i'm sure WP7 won't have the success Android and the iPhone have, it's definitely something worth looking at.
That's another problem.

However, my experience with Twitter is that people don't even click the link in the first place. I used to go through people's twitter feeds, people with thousands of followers, and look at the bit.ly stats for their links. It was rare to see any link clicked more than maybe 5 times. More often than not, it was precisely zero.

Unfortunately, t.co has made that game less easy.
Why focus on just CS and engineering degrees? I was a Physics student, knew more about code than some CS undergrads and wasn't alone in that regard. You'll also find a lot of generally smart people who you can teach to code here.

I'll second the point many have made about money. It's hard to resist one of the big banks offering you £40k+ straight out of university.
If you are into this sort of thing, I highly recommend The Codebreakers by David Kahn. Fascinating history of cryptography with good coverage of the WWII era.
When I said that most games are not translated I kind of focused on my country (Sweden). If you are from Germany or France you probably have another view of it.

Point is that localization really isn't the only thing that delays a launch in, for instance, Sweden. I guess we have to wait for it to be localized to other parts of Europe before we get to play it in English (or German, but I'd guess that few Swedes prefer German over English). Which is just stupid.

And if it really is translated to Swedish you'd pick English anyway (exception: if you are a group of friends it can be quite fun to laugh at the poor translation).

In a country where you don't dub movies/TV you get quite good at understanding English at a young age and in such a country I don't really think gamers would prefer a localized version anyway.
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I found Google Wave really useful for keeping track of ideas, especially to share with other people.

Google Wave of course is being shut down at some point, but it will carry on in some form:
http://www.google.com/support/wave/bin/answer.py?answer=1083...
If things had not worked out as well as they did, what was the backup plan?
well you've caught us on that point! but a little frivolity is ok too, right? "A little madness now and then, is relished by the wisest men" - Mr Willy Wonka.
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Thanks, I hadn't seen that one before! "King Lear is just English words put in order!"
Just bought this app about a week ago and have been amazed ever since. It's surreal how you can travel back and forth through time and see the cosmos unfold.
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It's good to see hardcore academic institutions like the Royal Society move towards opening knowledge for the public.
I expect that yes, it would be useful to use RIO with Node.

What I'm hoping to find, once I've got RIO integrated into my IOCP framework, is that 'faster path' from user mode send/recv calls to/from the network stack will result in performance improvements for IOCP based servers that switch to using RIO. It likely wont be as much as if you used RIO in a tight loop polled situation, but you should still get some benefits from the pre-locked buffers and the reduced amount of work needed during send and recv calls. Going via the IOCP for completion notification will result in some kernel mode transitions but it's necessary to allow you to scale RIO to many thousands of connections.

I'll post some comparative perf tests once I've got a bit further.
Siri on Mac desktops would be great. Organize your work and surf the web while eating your lunch, hands off the keyboard.
It's interesting that a lot of people equate the modern world to slavery, but this is the first article I have come across which partially agrees with that assessment and still challenges it. I think it is correct in assessing that slavery is not quite right (we have moved on) and yet there is still more work to be done for freedom.
Generally the elitist UK doesn't like themselves being pushed in a corner with "the mainland" ;)
Benjamin Franklin's 1752 paper on experimenting with electricity from thunderstorms, collected in a Leyden jar, is not to be missed.

http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/47/565.full.p...

After edit:

To answer a question raised by another HN user, the Wikipedia article on the medial s character in older printed English-language books

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

is helpful about the history of printing that character.
I love this. It's fascinating to see what's stayed right from the early days. (Not in a "legacy on legacy on legacy on DOS" or "Ripped from Lisa" troll-fest either.)

What I'd be really interested in now is a timeline of ideas that got dropped, and why, and what modern Windows would be like if they had stayed.
I think it's an allusion to the quote at the start of the article: "All art is theft". Maybe it would have been more correct as "all inventions are theft".
Is it my impression or it's basically a Nokia N9 with different software and an extra button?
Definitely talk to a tax laywer.
It's a source of shame to me that Alan Turing was treated so appallingly during his lifetime; and that Bletchley Park has had to struggle for years to preserve important history.
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Perl tutorials suck (and cause serious damage)
In the end, they are pretty much the same phone with different OS.
I don't believe that book covers Lorenz.
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Should be ridiculously easy. It's more or less the same hardware and the Meego side is open-source.
I did my best on that: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/09/hello-john-its-gordon-brown.html
We can really see it taking over the market any time now...
"When is the next bus 19 coming?"

This might be where the problems will start to surface. I suspect at the moment Siri nows that some keywords likely refer to the calendar, and acts accordingly. If you add bus schedules, you create a big problem - "when" will make Siri search your calendar, which will not be the right database for bus schedules.

Then again this might be easily fixed by simply searching all connected services for "bus 19", but this too might reach a limit of feasibility with a growing number of databases.

Maybe Siri can learn that "bus" most likely refers to the public transport database. It's probably not completely stupid, but it still seems unclear how much it can really do.

Of course having such interfaces in the future would be cool, it is just not clear that Siri is the first step in that direction.
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Talking with your mouth full?
The issue of sustainable food production which this post touches on is obviously very relevant and serious. I personally hope for a not-too-distant future where innovative p2p technologies will empower individual producers/growers and reduce our dependance on the huge food companies. You are starting to see this more and more.. for instance, I think what the guys at http://growtheplanet are doing is great!
Many retailers still sync up daily via batch processes creating a race condition where copies of a real receipt could be used at multiple locations on the same day.

There are also issues with exception handling processes that dictate what clerks are to do if there's a problem with a receipt that are likely exploitable if photo receipts are accepted.

As it stands these holes exist but the harm is reduced by the fact that if you want a fake receipt, you need the right receipt paper and printing equipment which basically means that only professional criminals have a shot at exploiting the problem.
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I wonder how third party apps would interact with Siri.

"What is the music that is playing now?"
Shazam and SoundHound would want to be the service provider for this kind of query. How Siri would select which app to use?
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Is voice recognition technology really on a plateau? I have highly accurate speaker independent speech recognition in my pocket now. I'm using it to dictate this response. It didn't require any training, and it's nearly perfect. I may be mistaken, but I believe this capability is relatively new. Even if it's not, it's so close to being perfect that there's little room for improvement, or so it seems.

And yes, I know that all of the smart are not in my pocket, but rather in the cloud.
Lumia seems to have a different CPU. Edit: Apparently it also has less ram.
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what is so special about this that it has so many upvotes? do i miss something?
Would be nice if we could power down unused memory regions... Sounds easy to implement - a "this block is unused" line on the memory chip that would power down the block pointed to by the address bus. Any write to that region would automatically power it back on. Latency on the first write could be a problem unless we could cache writes (L4-cache within the memory module, perhaps? don't we already do something like it?)
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You obviously don't have a Kindle. I would never try and read an ebook on an iPad after having a Kindle. It is chalk and cheese.

Once you setup your account on your Kindle, it is 1-click purchasing to get yourself a new book.

Sure, you might shop around for an ebook, but most people aren't going to. They'll just search on the Kindle, click the 'yes I want it' button, and you're finished. Total platform lock-in. Tech people might get sniffy but to the average person it's like going from vinyl to iPod.

There are two Kindles in this household. Since their arrival, the yearly book spend has probably tripled. Previously most reading was re-reading older books and taking trips to book exchanges.

All this is possible with other platforms, yes, but the Kindle is just the physical part of an entire delivery system. The margins on ebooks has to be better than print by an order of magnitude, even though the price is lower.
Thanks. I thought it would process the data on screen just like this augmented reality translation app (forgot the name). But this approach is really interesting. I need to check the app out :)
About the charges, you're correct. I originally thought that this practice was a violation of the merchant's agreement... but I was wrong: http://www.pin.nl/en-US/Zakelijk/Pages/Veelgesteldevragen.as...

Still, it occurs infrequently.

About the credit card acceptance: Good! Most Dutch people have a healthy and rational fear of credit card debt, and the fact that you can't use your Visa to buy groceries encourages good consumer behavior.

Sad if you're a tourist, but easily solved by taking out some cash from the ATM which, on this side at least, is free! :)
There's an app that has you take a photo of the front and back of the check, and they accept that for deposit.
That page was the first (of many) listed by price, highest first. They have over 3,000 games in stock. People buy them; people sell them.

The people selling them know that they can risk cash on a new game; if it's bad they can sell it secondhand and buy something else. Stopping sales of secondhand games (which is something that some people want to do; and is something that is clearly happening) stiffs the customer. You buy the right to use the content, but you may never ever transfer that right.

This desire to restrict what people can do with content is baffling to most customers yet rife within industry.

When Disney were shown domestic video players they were worried that you could not tell how many people were in the room watching the video; how could you charge people to watch a movie if you didn't know how many people were watching it? See also their attempts to create a "watch once" video.

And all this inconvenience to real customers - people who want to buy games (and who need to sell them second hand to afford it) has zero impact on pirates. I suspect (but have no evidence) that it doesn't send any money to the people creating the games either.
True that. Genuinely wondering whether it's investor bait.
No, not complaining. (It doesn't affect me anyway; I never pay any interest.) Just observing that in Canada the rules work to the advantage of consumers and the sky hasn't fallen yet.
Anyone knows why most of the "s" characters have become "f"? eg: beft, fucceeded etc.

Interestingly, nothing else seems to be wrong (at least I didn't spot anything else). And it's not even consistent, eg: crofs (instead of cross, so only one 's' became 'f' here).
I suppose, but they are only opening articles that are 70 years old. Which means curiosities like Darwin's geology papers are now available, but you still need to pay for anything remotely current. So it's a nice start, but unlikely to effect their bottom line, or make doing science any easier for anyone outside the first world academy.
I watched this last night and it was very good. Should have guessed that jgrahamc would post the link.
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It's still pretty true for the App Store. Apple hit the $2B paid out to developers mark early this year, IIRC, which means about $1B of revenue for Apple for the entirety of the App Store's existence. Their latest quarter saw nearly $30B revenue, so it's still a pretty tiny part of their business.
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At $754 unlocked it won't be very popular.
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This is another funny thing that's different in the US compared to EU, your credit ratings are done backwards.

Here, if you have never had a loan or credit card, never missed a bill payment, have a steady income, then your credit history is perfect. If you want a loan or a credit card, you'll get one instantly.

I have a home mortgage, a student loan, and a credit card I rarely use, and my credit rating is slightly worse than someone who has the same income as me, but no loans or mortgages. But in the US, it would be the exact opposite, I would be the one with a great credit rating, and the other guy would have problems getting a credit card.

So weird. :-)

I might be working in the US in the future, and I'm really dreading having to deal with US banks. I will definitely look into getting an account with a credit union instead.
An odd idea.

I have "some" feeds and getting those emailed to me would suck, unless I went back to using a real email client. And even then, it'd be pretty lousy.
I work for a US bank, "ING Direct". On our "checking" account (electronic payments preferred), our policy for overdrafts works like this: if you overdraw your account, we do NOT charge you an overdraft fee. Instead, we automatically turn it into a loan at typical unsecured lending rates (11.25% today: prime plus 8%). As soon as you deposit enough money to go back to a positive balance, we go back to paying interest on your balance.

I hate feeling like an advertisement for my employer, but I just don't understand why ALL banks can't work this way!
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PIrates are saddled with legal limitations too. One of the "features" that has allowed torrent sites to be a bit more difficult to challenge is that they're hosting trackers, not actual files. Legal issues affect both sides.
Have you considered letting people sign up to hear news about when Twilio launches in their country? E.g., I'd love to hear when Twilio launches in Israel.
Apple's cash-on-hand is nearly as much as Amazon's total market cap. If they wanted to take out Amazon, there are much easier ways.
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I found a glitch while creating my store.

I couldn't add more than one item, even when I copied and pasted your code from the front page (sample) directly.

http://listofthingsforsale.com/pleasereturnme
Yes in word wizard the UK voice is not great as the US one. I rely on an expensive library for voice synthesis (acapela) and I can't do a lot things to fix it. However there are others UK voices available I have to check- so thanks for the feedback.
I Mainly target US market and thats why the QA is better for the US but I will take care of UK in next versions
Those are 'long s' characters, not f. They were used for lower case s at the start or middle of a word. I don't recall why.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
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I can't find the specs for the N9 CPU, but the Lumia is 7 grams heavier and 0.5 mm longer. It could house 7 more grams of battery and the shorter battery life could indicate a beefier CPU.

Or a less power efficient OS. I'll go for the second.
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OCR software tends to have problem with the ligatures used for "s" in old fonts so often transcribes them as "f".

More expensive OCR software tends to get around this by using probability models to guess the correct word (i.e. "best" is much more likely than "beft"), but I'm guessing they're using some mid-range OCR package.
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I love how the "very fast" page shows some games icons and "lots of fun" is MS Office
Or maybe he just wasn't comfortable talking about these things with his biographer. Reflection on one's life can be an internal process; it doesn't have to look like an episode of Oprah.
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I think it is worth noting here that PHP 5.4 is still in at version beta1.

I'm looking forward to this new feature, as it is cumbersome to pass anonymous functions to object instances in 5.3.
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I honestly have to wonder if that was inspired by a certain Japanese video game series in which the protagonist does exactly the same thing.
(disclaimer: Nokia employee)

On the one hand, maintaining two OS teams for the same hardware would be a waste of resources. On the other hand, I have heard stories of how Microsoft would often commit several teams to build a product to the same spec: the team that got something market-ready first was handsomely rewarded, and the teams that didn’t got reassigned to wash Bill Gates’s car. On the other other hand, Microsoft (alas) has more cash to burn on this kind of adventure than Nokia does.

Nokia’s pre-Elop strategy was to encourage app developers to use Qt, which could be compiled to run on either Symbian or Meego, and then the company could gracefully phase out Symbian in favor of Meego. I work on back-end stuff rather than on apps, so I don’t know how well this could have worked in practice, but I did observe that when my company phone was a (Maemo) N900, the Ovi Maps client for Maemo was several revisions behind the client for Symbian.
Hi Ian

Firstly kudos on your patience and determination with Silicon Milk Roundabout. I've been a remote admirer of the project and I hope at some point I'll be able to engage more directly with the project, not least when it comes to our (www.kayako.com) own hiring. Silicon Roundabout and everything else associated with it is something I feel strongly about.

As far as reaching out to CS and engineering (etc) soon-to-be-graduates, have you been in touch with computer science and engineering faculties in universities, making an introduction and asking for them to send an email out to students?

Even easier would be to contact the social/ents society for the CS department/engineering faculties. Those societies will be more willing to send an email blast about careers events like these.

For example: http://cssbristol.co.uk/ http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/societies/COGS/ http://www.cs-society.co.uk/site/

Another idea might be the British Computer Society. They have a Young Professionals Group (I've posted about SMR to the LinkedIn group), and the main body of BCS would probably be more than happy to help with promotion.

Hope this helps and apologies if it was all already obvious and tried.

Edit: Seems I am late with a couple of those suggestions. Oh well, I'll keep thinking.
Great quote from Steve Case: "We attract the world's most talented young people here, give them a world class education and then send them home to compete against us," he told Inc.com. "It makes no sense."
I like the concept behind the article, that modern first-world society can be a very subtle but powerful trap. But that is not slavery. Slavery still exists today. There are more slaves today then ever. This type of article, and the thinking behind it is helpful; it could help free your time and money up to help people who cannot help themselves.

One organization working to educate people about modern slavery and fighting to stop it is the Not For Sale Campaign (http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/)
>I also added a small aluminum heatsink I had to the south bridge – the chip is under the speaker box, and there was enough space, so why not.

Because you're blocking airflow in an already confined space, thus helping kill the machine?

> and I haven’t seen anyone do anything like this,

hmmm, people with an EEE PC 701 4G sometimes would add shims to the single massive aluminum heatsink under the keyboard, to help with heat and prevent (as you mention) flexing keyboards.

I'd be interested to see what you could do with copper mesh and copper sheet - that'd avoid the need for drilling. (I mean this politely, but your drilling was AWFUL!!)
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He must be from the same tribe as my girlfriend, who also doesn't seem to capitalize her grammatical person 'i'. Perhaps they read the same grammar tutorial.
I'm from germany AND lazy. :)