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There is an issue that many phone providers do not provide long term support for their smartphones lineup. But comparing different software projects by how they get updates makes little sense to me.

"6 month is the average lag time of Android phone manufactures after an update has been released."

While I'm sure this is technically correct, the implication that this process is slow, or that other operating systems are supported "faster" is far fetched.

Because Google released the Galaxy Nexus this month, HTC will probably be 6 month "behind" in this statistic. If Google had decided to delay the Galaxy Nexus by 6 month, HTC would be considered "on time". How can HTC's support be in one case be faster or the other slower, if they update the device at the same day in both cases?

So using the release date of the first Nexus Phone as the release date of a new Android version is completly arbitrary. If the same statistic contains data for iOS, I usually see the date that Apple rolls out its new version of iOS to it's devices as the day that the new version is released. But Apple is not only the first manufaturer to roll out iOS on phones, it is also the last one. So why are we using the first manufacturer that releases a phone with a new Android version to determine a release date, and not the last one? Or the 4th one?

Using the release of the sourcecode as a date makes sense. But then, there is nothing comparable to an open source release in iOS or Windows Phone, right?

Then, there is the issue about what comes with a software upgrade. On iOS, core apps like mail or the appstore are considered part of the operating system. They get updates when a new version of the OS is released. On Android however, most of these phones that are still on Android 2.2 get plenty of updates for their Email/Market/Navigation/Voice apps, all the time.

There are also software updates from manufactures which do not include Android version upgrades. Samsung does not need to wait for a new Android version to fix a security hole, or to update one of its own applications.

Finally, it simply makes no sense in comparing how often two different projects get an upgrade. Is Ubuntu so much more advanced than OSX? It gets an update almost every day, and there is a major upgrade every 6 months.

Did the Nexus One only get updated for a year, while the iPhone 3G got updated for 3 years? Or did the Nexus One got it's 3 years worth of updates all in it's first year, because Android development was much faster than iOS development? I think we can all agree that this is completely subjective and highly controversial.

Please note that I don't want to make the case that Android is very well supported by its various software providers. Long term support could be much better for many devices. My point is that these upgrade statistics are sensational and deeply flawed.
Ha well a camera probably also isn't child safe if you break a piece off and eat it so I'm not sure you've made it any worse.

As for the tubing? That possibly a more interesting question, but I suspect it's being used in an underfunded medical facility or they would have replacements aplenty, and if if comes down to sugru-ed IVs delivering life saving medicine possibly tainted (but no obvious reaction) vs no medicine and probably rapidly apparent and dire consequences, well you can guess what I would (and the doctors/patient) choose.
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If you don't suffer from chronic depression but are depressed, you may be burnt out. I feel a person starts the cycle of burnout by forgetting that excellence is a habit, not an act. It's easy to fixate on the magnitude of individual iterations of a habitual activity and forget the importance of consistency and sustainability. This common confusion in humans may stem from the fact that our brains evolved to optimize for short-term rewards and respond only to short-term danger. The magnitude of your individual actions is trivial compared to how often you act.

My simple productivity hack: be happy with doing less--but very frequently and very well.
I can't believe I'm posting something that might be taken as defending Facebook but...

If a site appears to contain malicious content at time X but not at time Y than I would PREFER to be notified that it is a dubious site until the site has earned back trust in some way. Continuing to warn users about a site that historically contained badness seems to me to be a FEATURE.
I hate to break it to you, but Ron Paul has way less influence on the Republican establishment than whoever the hell Issa, because he doesn't play ball. Also there's media bias, but mostly it's that he, and those like him, have next to no influence because they don't shift the median.
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"the fact that the Surface uses cameras instead of a capacitive touchscreen is not an "aside", its the smoking gun."

I think you're confusing 'multi-touch' with 'multi-touch on a small capacitive LCD touchscreen'.

The fact that other companies chose to use cameras or other screen technologies instead of capacitive LCD touchscreen doesn't mean they weren't employing multi-touch. 'Multi-touch' simply means that the system registers multiple touches simultaneously.

Multi-touch existed long before FingerWorks got into the game, but they were the first to actually use it in a mass market product and they invented a lot of the multi-touch gestures that we now use on a daily basis.

"Apple (aka Fingerworks) invented multi-touch, which is the method detailed in its patents and used in the iPhone."

If FingerWorks invented multi-touch, Apple buying the company would not mean that suddenly Apple becomes the inventor of multi-touch, just that it holds those patents.

And the FingerWorks patents cite earlier multi-touch patents (even calling it that), so it's clear they're not claiming to have invented the entire thing.

"Nobody, that I've seen, has provided an example of a product predating the iPhone that uses this multi-touch technology."

Em, how about FingerWorks' own products, before they were acquired by Apple?
Digression: Are Hulu et al still based on web browser streaming? How would you use something like that with a TV? Do you get 1080p HD quality or is it YouTube-style quality? (I currently use XBMC on a dedicated Mac Mini as a media player.)
Then, I would change Yahoo one and Github - http://i.imgur.com/HRN0f.png (I'm hovering over the github one). Google doesn't look so well either.
I don't know, but I also don't know if it's really worth worrying much about. If something gets posted too many times, people will either flag it, or just won't upvote it.
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It's not "finally real" until it's released. According to this article, it's at least a year away.
There is huge gap between "enough demand for a service" (few thousands) and "majority of China" (half a billion).
It doesn't exist in the example, which is only creating the INSERT statements, presumably to pipe into, e.g., the mysql command line client:

mysql -u user -p < inserts.sql

If the $dbh were in the example, then:

(a) you could avoid that (eek!) archaic escapeSingleQuote() sub, e.g., my $released = $dbh->quote($released), but much better:

(b) as mentioned, use the SQL placeholders to avoid quoting altogether, but

(c) if you really want to print the INSERT's, just do method (a). Start by declaring the $dbh, e.g. for MySQL:

my $dbh = DBI->new( 'DBI:mysql:my_db', 'db_user', 'db_pass');
I just wrote about this a few days ago:
http://colinsidoti.com/2011/11/dear-mark-zuckerberg-re-faceb...

Very excited to see the features they plan to build out. Specifically, giving developers direct access to handsets seems like it would open some cool possibilities.
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You linked to a TED tech demo. The actual product didn't come out [1] until after the iPhone was in stores, and it cost $100,000.

That's not to say there weren't any multi-touch products before the iPhone, just that this wasn't one of them.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/07/nieman-marcus-to-sell-per...
Is there a better way of explaining it? I thought Burke and Reagan were good examples.
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The walls are closing in on Facebook. It's only a matter of time for it's business model. People eventually wake up. Better squeeze that IPO for all it's worth.
A pretty basic point to make here is that many recipes --- perhaps most --- don't scale linearly with ingredients. There's usually a core ratio you can distill out that can scale arbitrarily, but then tweaks to other parts of the recipe.

The bigger problem I have with every service like this is that the recipes are untrustworthy. For instance, I'll generally avoid recipes from Epicurious. The curation problem here seems hard.
It's a cool idea, It's like the github for cooking :) "Fork this recipe".
My browser is not seeing that the content at that link is an html page, so it downloads it instead of displaying it. This is a symptom of a MIME-type misconfiguration on your webserver.
I feel small screen quite suffocating.

i currently have two 22". (Samsung PX2370). Thinking of switching to one 27" apple cinema. If any one have done same or other way around, please share your experience.
ultrasaurus: Awesome thank you. I found a discussion of the pricing model by Matt Trifiro, Assistly’s SVP of Marketing on their blog.

http://www.assistly.com/blog/ilincoln-murphy-matt-trifiro-di...

Matt discusses the factors for the lack of price tiers around 30 minutes in.
Looks good. Always wondered about all the sites that I have signed up for.

Signed up for it and added an email. The discovering part takes a lot of time and I couldn't do much during this time. How about doing the discovery in the background and let the user explore or do other stuff on the site?
wait, hangon. There are partial technical answers to a lot of these problems. First, is shit broken all the time? if that's true, that's the real problem. I've been in that situation before, and it's hellish because you know that if you had a week of 'full productivity' you'd be able to fix the root cause, and shit wouldn't be broken all the time, but you are always too wasted from firefighting to solve the root cause.

Hire some contractors or something to help you get things together to the point where you have emergencies once a week or less; This is a relatively low bar, but it will set things up such that you can sleep most of the time, which is key. Even if you have to pay full rates $150/hr or whatever, (and you should be able to get someone good enough to get you down to the 'failures once a week' bar fairly quickly at that rate.) do it. Have your hired gun bang on things for a week. Someone good and fresh should be able to get you down to 1 downtime-causing failure a week fairly quickly. (really. one failure every 7 days is an extremely low bar unless you have hundreds or thousands of physical servers. I probably get a bad disk a week, but those are 'fix as soon as you are awake' not 'wake up now' events. I get a downtime causing error maybe once every two months, and if you can only afford one sysadmin, chances are you are way smaller than I am.)

The important thing is to focus on bringing your failures down to reasonable rather than on making things perfect. Bring your failures down to humanly tolerable, recover, then start worrying about the failures that happen twice a year.

Next, you have a pager, right? sleep whenever you can. The caffeine makes this harder, but it's still possible. Sleep whenever you can. Set it up so that your pager wakes you, but also set up your alarms so that it only goes off if there is a /real/ problem.

Next, why are you staying at the office? I've bought one of those little verizon brand USB cellphone dongles for both my employee and myself. It's pretty great; you can be way out in the middle of nowhere, get a page, and you can do most of the things you could do in the office.

You need to set expectations. If you got woken up to fight a fire?
you put out the fire, but then you aren't showing up the next day.

So yeah, first priority? sleep. Depriving yourself of sleep is false productivity. Next? make your system more reliable.
Well, we're not talking of GB of data here, or are we? Let me, see: I think about 1K movies are produced every year, halve that and multiply by 100, you get about 50K movies total. Let's double that to account for shorts, independents, etc. and we get 100K movies in the db. How much info is for one movie? The crew of Titanic from IMDb as text is around 85K. Let's say less than 256K per movie. So we're looking at about 13GB of data. With lossless compression, e.g. LZW and some austerity, say ~5GB.

That's not tiny, but not huge. And the amount of download bandwidth will not be much, due to long-tail effects. A company like Google or Amazon, who stand to benefit a lot from such a db can easily accommodate this.
Reminds me of: http://test.com/contact/contact_spam.htm

I dread to think how many emails they get everyday.

As a side note, looks like they copied HN's favicon.
So Zuckerburg et al have reiterated again and again that they are a platform, that their strategy is horizontal, that they want to be tethered to no specific device or service.

At least we can sleep soundly knowing the company managing everyone's personal data is an honest one...?
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On your second point, how could Facebook make this happen? Every device maker would like for their device to have low cost data plans... the problem is the networks realize that is the road to being a dumb pipe, something they're desperate to avoid.
Yes...

The thing about "understanding" and "misunderstanding" is that since any censorship approach would break the web, any effort at censorship benefits from "playing dumb", not describing the complexity of the situation and instead reducing things to simple claims like "we need to stop the bad stuff on the net..."

The one thing that might help us in twenty years is that public might be sophisticated enough to not be as easily fooled by such claims. On the other hand, seventy years of an automobile-based society has not made everyone into auto mechanics...
Yes, it seems to be targeted. We don't see it from Russia
What she's arguing for, and this is no secret in Brussels and even -dare I say- common sense, is better enforcement of copyright.

I don't think this is what she is arguing for at all.

Better enforcement of copyright won't really help those artists making less than €1,000 a month from the copyright system - the unauthorised use of those unpopular, long-tail artists will just stop, or be driven further underground. It might provide an incremental lift to the incomes of very popular artists, but it won't magically fix the problem for others.

I think what she is arguing for is a radical restructuring of copyright, doing away with fair use rights for things like web spidering. I think she wants to force Google to pay licence fees to spider websites or, failing that, to tax them.

There is a fair bit of precedent for this argument coming from French sources.
I had to use this 'zap' bookmarklet[1] on it. It was way too distracting.

[1] https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
what's the business model

The first thought that came to my mind is agrarian revenue capture.
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We are reading on our iPads

ME
"Oh cool, robots that are swimming across the ocean ..."

WIFE
"Let me see ..."

[Shows article]

WIFE
"Umm ... that's not a robot. I was expecting to see the thing from iRobot swimming like a person."
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By what metric is Windows one of "the two best Phone Operating Systems"?
For future reference, the example.com domain is maintained for the purpose of documentation, etc.

Thus foo@example.com might be a better address to use, especially in examples.
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So, what you really want is _The Flavor Bible_ (you can get it on your Kindle), which is an intensely well curated, expert-driven dictionary of flavor pairings. For instance, Thai: Thai basil, bell peppers, CHILE PEPPERS, cilantro, coconut, coriander, cumin, curries, fish, fish sauce, garlic, ginger, herbs (fresh), lemongrass, lime, mint, noodles, peanuts, rice, shirmp paste, sugar, turmeric, vegetables.

The basic database you're looking for already exists (and, if you cook regularly, at a very reasonable price). You should just buy the book. Yes, it does beg to be a web app, but you need the expertise behind the book more than you need the convenient interface. I'm wary of convenient- but- bad- answers to important questions.
Thanks - we must have done something wrong with apache - number of concurrent users we are having right now isn't something we've tested before...
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THANK YOU!

That was incredibly be helpful. I will work my way through this stuff for sure and hopefully all works well. I'm sure I'll stumble and fall a bit... but that's part of the learning process. I'm in between a rock and a hard place. I want to focus on productivity (build a good website, quickly), but don't want to skimp on fundamentals and get lost in all either. I'll to try my best to find the balance, but knowing me I'll likely take the slower route and learn all I can... hopefully it ends up being the better choice.

Anyway, I guess it's time to dive into the front-end a bit more. In regards to photoshop, is splicing the accepted way to design html/css? Or do designers ever go straight to the code?

And I think going the jQuery route will be more effective. I'm sure you'd learn javascript by default when learning the jQuery framework anyhow.

And then there is the back-end. Which I will tackle after the above. Although, one question on that... as I only know limited PHP (and mySQL), I'm open to learning something different (Python/Django, Ruby/Rails), what are the reasons to choose one over another?

Anyway, I'll take this all one step at a time.

Thanks again!
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Ah, much better.

[It doesn't need saying but one could be even lazier and instead of generating a timestamp, one could use NOW() or an automatic timestamp field.]
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For each their own man, don't expect other people to adhere to your idea of fun.

But lets put this into some perspective. He's not burning down a one off Frank Lloyd Wright, he light two mass produced computer cases on fire. There are plenty more people out there who cherish the things. It's not like lighting these things on fire is some sort of genocidal fad. Fuck, I know a guy with a pallet of the things.
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This sounds about right. I would say that the investors probably own a bit more of the company than you guess because the cash didn't all go in at once but in 3 stages (I think? The crunchbase lists 2 different A rounds which doesn't make sense). Valuations for the earlier stages we almost certainly a good bit less.
The whole market got hit pretty badly today. This is nothing more than an unfortunate coincidence. Boo! Misleading! I call bullshit on this story. Let's see what happens on a day where things are fairly stable for the markets.
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I'd think you'd have to expect this when you set up that email account.

(Also, it wasn't enough to spam them, now we DDoS them)
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First we spammed them, and now we appear to be DDoSing them.
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I don't see how you can describe the statements "Facebook is gaslighting the web"† and "Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web" as anything but wild accusations. You might argue that, as wild as they are, they're nonetheless true — but they are accusations and extreme ones at that.

I certainly feel that Anil's post could have benefited from at least a cursory application of Hanlon's razor.

† For those who don't know, the term "gaslighting" refers to a form of mental abuse where you undermine a person's confidence in their own perceptions and competence in order to retain their belief or loyalty. The typical example is an abusive husband who keeps his wife from leaving by making her feel like it's all her fault.
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Whilst I can see why a Facebook Phone looks really promising from FB's perspective, to me, buying a Facebook phone because I like using FB is akin to buying a Coca Cola branded and manufactured car because I like drinking soda/soft drink.
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Your answer only tackles one part of the problem, and a very narrow part of it, too. If you want to return an Apple product that you bought at Best Buy, for example, it's true that you have to go back to Best Buy. But it's a process that's just as painless (or painful depending on your perspective) as doing the same at an Apple Store.

However, the case isn't true if you need to have a repair made. If you purchased a Dell computer at Best Buy, the retailer would obviously redirect you to the manufacturer. But if you purchased an Apple computer at Best Buy, you can definitely take it into an Apple Store to have it diagnosed and repaired.

You said, "I bought this thing and I just want it to work. I want to talk to someone familiar with the product. I want to talk to someone who actually cares about my feelings about the product."

You can buy an Apple product at Best Buy, Target or Wal-Mart and take it right into an Apple Store to have it serviced, so the argument that you're better off buying something at an Apple Store because they'll take care of you isn't a very good one. I bought my MacBook Air from Best Buy, and when I had a problem with the display, I took it to the Genius Bar at an Apple Store and it was fixed in a matter of minutes.
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I don't think Apple's core business has ever been creating operating systems for computers. Apple has always been a hardware business. This refutes a core part of your thesis, that Apple is foolish to create its own processors and should leave hardware to others.
WP7 is constantly and consistently reviewed as the most user-friendly and best looking mobile OS. Android is frequently said to be slow and unstable on all but the flagship, high end phones (on which it does run nicely, though). Android is also plagued with vendor customization for the worse, whereas WP7 and iOS (I assume that was the other best OS he thought of) keep control of the OS core features away from the carriers and vendors.

There's really only one complaint constantly leveled against WP7 when compared to Android, and that's the app control from MS. This has been changed now to allow you to install your own apps through a Microsoft-sanctioned jailbreak procedure. The best OS is not always the most popular (WP7 and WebOS both fall in that category). In comparison, Android is a modern Windows Mobile.
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Why do I feel like he's worthless and he gets money solely because he managed to initiate some simple jobs? Shouldn't actual computer scientists be paid tons more than this guy?
Add to the list the story where a large sperm whale managed to sink a whaleship that was attacking multiple of its kin [1] (story which later inspired Moby-Dick).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)#Whale_attack
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