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Three of my four points don't apply to the iPhone.

> Android giving them the freedom to do whatever they want? Huh? The source code of a new version is dropped over a wall after their competitor has already released a device with it(if the source is released at all). Android dev is nothing like the Linux kernel dev. Maybe you would know that?

The problem is that Google seems to be unwilling to develop Android in the open. With the fierce competitiveness in the mobile space, I think this stance is understandable (at the least).

Apart from that, Android 2.3 is completely open. Manufacturers can take it and do what they want with it. Look at Amazon.

Are you trying to suggest that Windows Phone offers Nokia better flexibility than Android would?

>Also, Nokia was in talks with Google over Android but Google wouldn't give them many concessions. Your anger should probably be directed at them.

Source for this? I'd be interested to read about it.

> And it's not even like you can complain about the lack of options on Linux. There's a ton of Android phones coming out every month, each better in specs than the month previous and they're pretty popular and have loads of apps. What next, you'd buy the iPhone 5 but the only thing stopping you is that it doesn't run Android?

This is a straw man argument. I never complained about this. My issue is with Nokia, specifically, choosing to go completely with WP7, which, for me, is completely unusable. I loved Nokia's phones (my current phone is an N900), so I see this as a real pity.

Please don't take offense at my criticisms of WP7.
Go to Mixergy.com. It's hands down the best resource for learning directly from company founders.

Also go check out the early episodes of This Week In Startups.
An simple improvement to our voting system would be to include a 'none of the above' option on all ballot papers. If 'none of the above' should win, another ballot must be held and the original candidates are excluded from running.
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Don't worry, Metro on Windows 8 is entirely rendered using the IE10 engine. IE isn't dead yet.
Just downloaded it, and it's fine with the software keyboard (even has a row of custom keys at the top for it's code editor, so in context it's a more featured keyboard for this specific app).
Go help someone. Someone who helps about of people is an Entrpreneur if he can figure out a way to make money for his help.
I had a summer internship with Microsoft in 2009, then worked on a startup, and recently joined Google NY. So I can't talk about Google changing over time, but I do have some baselines to which to compare it. IMO it's somewhere between the two, but feels more like a startup than like Microsoft (which I liked, fwiw). I have a lot of the freedom in my work that I'd have at a startup. I have a broadly defined problem and can decide how best to try and solve it. I do happen to be on a relatively new and small team, which could be a factor. I took a couple days this week to add a feature to a popular internal app, because I wanted the feature to exist...didn't ask anyone (other than the guy who owns the app), just did it.

I don't think I've been at Google long enough to evaluate how much politicking there is, but I don't seem to have many meetings and as far as I can tell people are happy with me just for being productive.

If I were you, I'd interview at Google and, if you get an offer, request to be on a team which is more academic in nature...e.g. ask to be on an AI/ML/NLP team rather than an infrastructure team.
With the fact that you can't distribute customised versions of Firefox and still call it Firefox, it means you really need Mozilla to support it. I don't know if just changing a search engine counts though.
1) How much do you make
2) How many stock options did you get
3) What was your bonus last year
4) Why the #&@#$ is <fill-in-the-blank> paid more than us???
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Understandable too. I don't want code that hasn't been curated breaking my ipad...
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Classic sign of disruption. Feels like a toy, looks like a toy. Just not good enough.
I bought the iPad 2 the day it came out and was thrilled to use it for about two months.

But over the last four, I've realized: the reason I keep coming back to computers is that I enjoy computers. Learning more about their internals, harnessing that for my own ends, creating solutions to real problems I have, without frameworks or IDEs or buzzwords. I don't so much care for anything about the iPad but iBooks.

I bought the Macbook Air when Apple upgraded it, and now I carry it with me everywhere. There's plenty I can do on it, even without a network connection (i.e., all my coding), and I really feel attached to my featherweight computer.

Mobile coding is really fulfilling, yes. But I will never want to code by touch typing. Since buying the MBA, I haven't once thought about touching the iPad. And I don't see that changing.
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I tried really hard to get used to it when AppCode was still in beta. But the lack of integration made it too hard. I miss my Vi plugin though.
The last time I used a Keil IDE and compiler (~2007), their linker died if a filename had spaces in it, among many other issues. I was vastly more productive munging the Keil headers with a Perl script to work with SDCC than using the Keil suite designed for the SiLabs 8051.
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Because the target audience of the display markup is not "front-end developers", it's our website viewers. And they could care less how we structure our display markup.

By that line of reasoning, why should a semantically-structured database matter? The website viewers never see that, either.

Unless the reason you care about semantics in your database is for ease of development. In which case, all the front-end developers you might work with in the future would thank you for thinking of them when you output your markup.
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Is there a particular flavor of web socket or comet that popular with node?
Thanks, you where right.
Some of the think tanks on all sides are alright, but most legislators on both sides ignore the principled argument as soon as the established industry weighs in. That's the problem. I said it was a bipartisan failure in my last comment.
I guess I can't comment on your experience; I was using their ARM toolchain in 2010.
Why don't we invest more energy into preventing fires and less into fighting them?

I would upvote this 500 times if I could.

I was a homemaker and homeschooling mom for many years, so I had enormous power to say "Okay, I'm done with this stupidity. How do we fix it once and for all?" and then making it happen. Thus I have a rather low threshold of tolerance for the slow bureaucratic process at work. I am currently on a pilot team that handles complaint files and I have tried to actively advocate for more fire prevention, less fire fighting. I think we are getting some good things done but I still feel there is too little emphasis on fire-prevention activities.

Sorry for, oops, deleting my earlier version of this post a hair before your reply showed up.
Regarding 3, why do you want to raise the bid/ask spread to $0.10?

Regarding 4, specifically "to realize losses in the US and gains in a foreign country", how do you propose companies avoid this situation? Should they deliberately lose money overseas as well? What would this accomplish?
The thing that's fascinating about people with that much money is that they have a lot of freedom to express themselves within their lifestyle.

Cars are a very particular expression of that. So Larry Ellison has a custom all-aluminum roadster, Steve had his German sedans, and ESRI's Jack Dangermond is noted for driving a Taurus wagon.

But just having a Mercedes AMG isn't the same as leasing a new one every six months. But as has mentioned, he may have simply leased the same vehicle on successive six-month terms. That's a very good point and I'd suspect that was in fact the case. It's an even cleverer maneuver and simply sounds more like what Steve would do.
> 1. It's a phone, not a mass-storage device.

No, I'm sorry. I want to access my files in whatever way I choose. What follows from the lack of mass-storage connectivity is that I can't access my files on a public computer, or a computer that I don't have admin rights over (e.g. computers in my university's labs). To actually defend this restriction is deplorable. It hurts all of us.

> 2. Based on my experience, they work pretty well.

I'm not going to take your word for it.

> 3. Or gmail, twitter, facebook? (although bing kinda annoys me as a default search engine)

This sidesteps my point: that Microsoft's online services, which are mostly pretty crap, seem to be the only viable option on WP7. Is this impression correct? I used a WP7 phone for 15 minutes in a store a few months ago, and it seems pretty heavy on MS.

Other commenters in this thread have pointed out that Gmail on WP is buggy and lacking in features. Gee, ain't that a coincidence?

> 4. Just wait for WP7 userbase to grow.

Hah. I've tried this before.

In Christmas 2009, I bought a hot new phone on a hot new platform. It was the most innovative phone out at the time. It had the best multitasking (), video calling, great PDF reader, and a great, fast, browser. It had a physical keyboard - which provided all sorts of nice features, like quick access to contacts by typing their names, or shortcut keys in every app. The platform was based on Debian Linux, and allowed native terminal access (i.e., it came rooted), so things like overclocking was a sinch.

In fact, save for WebOS, it was the only multitasking phone at the time. But its multitasking is still better than that of Android and iOS today.

The phone was the Nokia N900, based on Maemo 5. What happened? Well, the phone sold well, but Maemo eventually died. My phone is now running on a dead platform, and it sucks (apps are suffering bitrot).

So, I'm not going down that road again of buying a phone based on future aspirations. Buy what works now, because it's a good indication of what will work later.
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We're launching a paid web app in beta very soon and I want to know 1) if we have to launch with terms and conditions and a privacy policy on the site 2) where I can find the authoritative templates for Australian T&Cs. Thanks Hackers.
I wonder if someone will make a Piet editor for iphone/ipad!

http://www.esolangs.org/wiki/Piet
I jumped into iOS development earlier this year but I feel like a cheat when I almost always go back to my MBA to do anything other than read in Kindle/iBooks. To be honest I'd much rather be writing native Mac OS X apps but the bulk of new development work seems to be on iOS these days.

As the other responder said, Apple has kind of disrupted its own market by making such polished and portable laptops.
Wow, this is exactly what I need for a project I'm working on right now.

It's rare incredibly rare for Windows ports of *nix open source projects to be so well integrated. It runs native code using IOCP and there exists IIS and IIS Manager support.

This is awesome!
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Honestly "most people" don't have to care. Only a few people need to care enough to affect prices for something with such a limited supply. It's not hard to find pre-owned by celebrity car sales fetching a premium.

For all we know though there's some loophole that lets the dealer resell the exact same car to Jobs every 6 months which somehow keeps it under the no-plate period.
That's Scratch users speculating on the reason, not an Apple statement. At the time Apple policies were very restrictive about non-approved languages (Flash, etc), but they have since been relaxed.

Ironically I just posted asking if Apple would allow it now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3161245
Ok perfect, bought a copy. Initial feedback:

Works well. I expect to use it day-to-day.

I'm a designer so here is my nitpicking

- Can there be an option for a black background with white text like notational?

- most important: the red background looks out of place. Red is the most eye catching color. I feel like the search bar should be a more understated color (see Reedr) and the notes most prominent

- on the list of notes, the titles should be a bit larger and centered. Maybe it looks odd because none of my notes are long enough to be double lined

- "Search title or create new" text is too small and hard to read
Strange, I have heard the opposite. My team at Amazon wrote services on AWS. It must vary a bit across the company.
Exactly, I've worked with the Lua C API before, it was fairly easy to use. I've looked at the V8 API before. Compared to Lua, it is far more complicated.
Is there a particular reason why you think this won't happen at some point in the future, too?
You could compile Android with Clang and be GNU free.
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It's all part of progress. Your MBA wasn't around too long ago.

I have big hopes for touch-enabled development on tablets. I see a world where we can use conventional dev tools with tablets that augment the experience.

I would love to just have the ability to navigate my project files with the codify-like nav and have my desktop IDE take notice.
(You know you don't have to use tar for a single file, and can just gzip it outright, right? :P)
What would you do with that 5%? Would you reinvest it if you don't have any consumption needs now? Amazon is reinvesting their earnings. P/E isn't a good metric for a growth stock.
It depends on how you draw the boundaries for an 'entity'. A sufficiently large company may have many departments trading in different ways fairly independently. If you are going to tell people, "You can't sell/buy sooner than X seconds after you buy/sell.", then large organizations will have a problem being nimble being hindered by regulations about how soon you can flatten a position. Even brokers like Ameritrade and e*trade will have problems acting on behalf of their clients because different individual client will want to trade differently, if you treat them as single organizations. What about dark pools? Are you going to regulate those as well? The trading venues are about people trading stuff. It's people acting independently out of free will.
I assure you, the telephone network back then was still a computer system.
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I'm glad an excellent communicator with a solid reputation like you is going to bat on this issue. If you find yourself in doubt, just think "what would fakegrimlock do?"
Woah. Did you happen to look out into the street from the location in that first link you posted? Trippy stuff.
> Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do breakfast.

Is this a dialect or a typo. I would have thought he'd have said "... about what I will do FOR breakfast"
In Australia, it got passed. It was effectively illegal to use VCR to record programs.

How did I know this? Due to the new Copyright Act amendments which made breaking DRM illegal, extended copyright length among other things. One of their arguments for the copyright amendments update is that VCR recording should be legal.

IIRC: $93,500 and 5 years jail for copyright infringement. You better not copy a single file without permission. Importing material that infringes copyright, $71,500 and 5 years jail. You better not download a single file without permission.

It seems there's no apparent distinction between non-commercial and commercial sharing so your grandmother accidentally forwarding a picture is liable for penalties.
to answer 3. I don't want to raise the bid/ask spread. Only that there is a tally of the number of instruments you traded and the number of times. and you pay $.10 for trades*times.

to answer 4. The point of this is to stop companies from making subsidiaries in another country to realize gains, and then wait for a tax holiday for repatriation.
Disobeying vehicle registration laws does not equal being an asshole. I doubt anyone actually makes it through a day without breaking at least one law. Quit being an asshole yourself and at least provide a legitimate reason why he was an asshole.
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How is something that seems so obvious and trivial patentable? In the physical world this seems like patenting doorknobs that rotate to the left versus the ones that rotate to the right that everyone was already using.
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>all this is just a change in people minds

In this case, it is the content industry that think they can "control" content. Not sure if it is possible, but I wonder if retraining legacy MBAs would help.
The number missing from all these articles is how much taxable income is generated from the activities of the top 1% (including business tax, employment tax, sales tax from purchases, etc).
Good for your adult self. If I was an upper-middle-class 10 year old kid who couldn't afford a nice computer, but could coax my parents into buying an iPad over a game console, I'd be so thrilled to have something that guided me into developing fun little games.

When I was 10-12, I had a freaking AIX PowerPC machine because my dad could get one easily. Did I learn programming with such a fancy machine? absolutely not, I ended up just installing windows NT on it so I could record and play with sounds.
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Those guys are awesome. Anyone who's anyone in CS/EE has an amazing beard.
Any particular reason? I'm not working on this particular project, I have no idea what the dev has planned. I like imagination, but I don't like speculation. So I'm just not in the mood to speculate on it.
I disagree with your second point. I think that making banks which do more than lending money to businesses/individuals into partnerships will do a lot of good. They won't stiff the US tax-payer with the bill by saying that they are too big to fail and that they risked US tax-payer deposits, as is the case of BofA. If a partnership wants to take big risks that's their decision. I'm suggesting to remove the moral hazard, by using the threat of financial system collapse as a stick to get the US gov't to foot the risk bill. 3. I do not say kill derivatives, you read that wrong. I'm more concerned with HFT. That is trades that are decided on by computers and executed in the single digit milliseconds, contribute to the hollowing out of buildings downtown for data-centers, etc. 4. removing the corporate tax is probably too much of a shock to the system, I think aligning it with the personal tax, eliminating loopholes in both, and lowering both is a much better idea. 5. I think that about 20 years is a long enough time to build relationships and get things that you want done. I think that there is cultural and idea turnover each generation that needs to be reflected in the bodies that represent it. Cleaning out the old gives way to the new and the like. I also think that since we limit terms for Presidents that we should do the same in other places. I think that long-standing senators can be every bit as much a tyrant as a permanent president, albeit on a lesser scale.
But November 2007 is still 11 months after the original iPhone was introduced.
Great, now I need to do a bunch of screen touching along with my typing. What a waste of time.
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I detest Richard Stallman, probably not justifiably because I respect the work that he did 20 years ago, but cannot stand the man's absolutism today.

However "I can speak in English, French, and Spanish." surprised me, and I see him in a different light, strangely.
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No worries. My reply was basically to say that I know what to say to make my case, but I don't know how to make the CTO listen. This is his first CTO position, and up until August he was the only developer, so a lot of bad practices we have (e.g. no process whatsoever) are holdovers from the way he worked for a year and change. The obvious problem is that working alone dodges an awful lot of problems that arise when you have to work together. Now, we're running into these problems but the CTO isn't dealing with them - he just disengages whenever they get brought up and says something like "You're right, that's important, but first let's work on ...". Quite frustrating.

And again, no worries on the delete.
HBO is also coming to Roku as a separate pay channel.
Googling for "things I hate about Perl" turns up a number of articles -- often written by folks who like Perl 5 but who also are happy to admit to its issues.
By now there's a pretty good collection of talks from Startup Bootcamp at MIT: http://www.youtube.com/startupbootcamp

Some notable speakers:

- Drew Houston (Dropbox) both in '09 and '11
- Patrick Collison (Stripe)
- Alex Polvi (Cloudkick)
- Leah Culver (Convore)
- Chris Wanstrath (Github)
- Bill Clerico (WePay)
- James Lindenbaum (Heroku)
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- Adam Smith (Xobni)
- Angus Davis (TellMe)
- Paul English (Kayak)
- Alexis Ohanian (Reddit/YC)
- Dan Bricklin (VisiCalc)
- Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research/Alpha)
- Bob Metcalfe (PARC, 3M)
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Interesting idea and possibly worth tossing out to the World of Warcraft addons/scripting community (single largest Lua end-user install base in the world, I believe) as well?

BTW, the name seems a bit tacky for a language developed in Brazil given the colonial history. Was there another reason for naming it that I've missed?
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FWIW: If you have a solution rather than a complaint, that tends to go over better and has more hope of being acted upon. Also, I have found that opportunistically grabbing people in the break room (by themselves, with no one around) and talking for a minute is sometimes way more effective than the formal process I am supposed to go through (proviso: I am not in IT).

Take care.
No released language is making use of it, largely because there are no released versions of the JDK that have a usable implementation of it.

However, Oracle is working on a JavaScript implementation that leverages it: http://www.wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/c/ce/Nashorn.pdf. See also https://github.com/dynjs/dyn.js, another incipient JavaScript implementation.