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QNX is a micro kernel, theoretically they could support multiple application programming environments at the same time on the same phone, and they should. Ie they could now chirn out a phone that can support webos, rim and android apps simultaneously
If ideas are so worthless why are companies spending billions of dollars on them, in the form of patent portfolios?
As others have pointed out, the money was used for relocation and support while not working:

> Lucas and his family have to relocate to be close to his doctors at Duke University for six months. His parents decided they would both quit their jobs to care for the boy and his baby brother. After meeting with financial planners, the family decided they would need to raise $50,000 to support themselves

Even in the UK, with an extensive and complex set of welfare benefits, people would not be supported fully by the state if they just left their jobs to care for an ill child. (I have no idea what benefits would be available, the system is pretty much incomprehensible.) So Redditors did something really good, that have made this child's recovery a lot nicer.

But, for people who want to talk about politics: How can the US government spend so much on healthcare and have such a lousy system?

(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-brutal-...)

(https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=phNtm3LmDZEOMqU-wJjq...)
In the patent wars, patent trolls will prove to be valuable allies.
You mean like Hadoop and Thrift and Solr and Cassandra?
> The best way to allocate resources is to have knowledgeable parties commence in free exchange. The role of government is to ensure that force and fraud are absent from the marketplace. If there is any further goal of the government it could possibly be encouraging the spread of information, although that is rife with conflicts of interest.

We have about 50 years of research showing that there are way more barriers to efficient allocations via the market than just information asymmetries. Start here: http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~camerer/ribe239.pdf
Comparing tax-paying US companies to oppressive Chinese regimes isn't helpful when you're trying to persuade politicians.

Having a really easy to understand simple clear example of existing powers being used illegally should be helpful, although I realise that this example probably won't do anything.
It's pretty simple:

When you procrastinate your day away, at the end of the day you feel like a shit.

When you work hard and deliver, at the end of the day you feel like a boss.

I'm going to keep feeling like a boss :)
Regulation is one solution to market failures. It's not the only solution, but in many cases it works well. The Clean Air Act, for example, has been extremely successful at addressing the negative externalities created by air pollution.

Beyond that--the lesson that we're learning from modern economics research is that there are no touchstones. Humans aren't rational actors, the efficient allocation theories are predicated on unrealistic assumptions about the behavior of economic actors and the lack of transaction costs, etc. "Laissez faire" isn't any more of a guiding principle than "big brother knows best." The only way to proceed is empirically--use measurements to determine when government solutions are needed and when market solutions suffice.

It's a fairly uncontroversial claim that the market naturally under invents in R&D. It's something you'll see in any basic economics 101 textbook. So why shout "laissez faire" to a government initiative addressing such a market failure?
WebOS isn't worth anything. Yet another platform with little adoption. Meebo has no adoption by hardware manufactures and it is free.

The Palm patent portfolio is worth a lot, but I doubt HP is interested in selling it.
I can't see any inset at all, though a better picture might be able to resolve that. I'm not sure what you mean by the casing being "extraneous" either. It seems to be quite plain, actually, at least on the one. That red one, though, is pretty ugly. Frankly, the stylus is the most obvious difference.

I guess, ultimately, I don't know what to say about all of this. Minimalism has been a trend for quite a while now, given how many products (including many of Apple's) that display it. Is Apple one of the trendsetters? Do they make beautiful products? Absolutely.

But all this patent silliness about getting each others' products banned has just got to stop. Every penny spent on it keeps them from hiring engineers to make something even better than what we have now. I don't like seeing Apple's products banned for using a Motorola standard any more than I like seeing the Galaxy Tab banned for being too minimalist. If they had any sense, they'd call off the lawyers and settle with each other before they waste any more money.
That product is going to make your Christmas ;) http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/
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> there's a difference between negligence and malice.

Initially, maybe. But when it keeps going on because it's profitable, it's malice.
We will be filing suit tonight.
As I wrote, front-end software is a different matter. But if you want to create a desktop app, you probably just shouldn't use Redis - for sure this isn't what Redis was created for.
Odd, I can't remember seeing any ads on megavideo. I haven't been there in a while but at that point it had a solid ux until it cut you off at 70 minutes to make you wait or pay.
Also I found what I believe to be the unfinished reference manual.

This is all really fresh and exciting. At least to me.

http://caterwauljs.org/doc/caterwaul-reference-manual.pdf
Ironically, MegaUpload is headquartered in Hong Kong...
What can you possibly accomplish on Facebook for 7 hours a week? I can understand the needed distraction here and there or the defined communication with friends but really?*

I'll stop my inflammatory rant because I'm going to assume you're a reasonably smart cookie because you're here. But really?

*for a 6 month personal experiment I deactivated my FB account and defriended, 2% of current friends per reactivation (17 times each under an hour) and could argue that I still have a top 5% social life.
This is great, and exactly what we need. Through the patent war, massive losses must be incurred on the richest corporations, until one (or more) of them say "enough", and use their money to lobby the patent system into oblivion.
While we're at it, OnStar can also be used to record the conversations of people inside the vehicle.
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If in doubt, over communicate. Communicate until the person tells you to quit talking so much. This is especially true for working with a project manager. Obviously this assumes that you haven't been given any other guidance.

For a client, it's best to set expectations up front. You tell the client how updates will be given and if the client is cool with that then keep to that scheme.

At this time, all the other comments are mentioning what they do, but they seem to be situations where there is already a well organized system in place. In your case, it seems there is no such system.
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http://www.startupamericapartnership.org/get-registered

afaik it basically gives you access to this: http://www.startupamericapartnership.org/search/content?f[0]...
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This happened to me, too. However, it seems that this only happens if the two iDevices were actually logged into the same account at some point--so no total strangers.

Logging out of iMessage and back in solves the issue. I've seen it happen with calendars, too.

This is the primary reason I can not recommend Apples online services to anyone.
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No, not if they are inspired by existing patents of forthcoming products. http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/01/apples-i...

And like I said, the prototypes of Crunch Pad don't look like the iPad. The Crunch Pad looks like an iPad after it was announced.
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And he patented it, and SRI licensed it to Apple.

During an interview, he says "SRI patented the mouse, but they really had no idea of its value. Some years later it was learned that they had licensed it to Apple for something like $40,000."

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

(I agree with the princple of what the GP post is saying though)
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Agree - this pattern is really underestimated.

I find it especially powerful at the end of a long day when you've been deep in the details. When you come in the next morning and see that red test, you "download" the context you were in much more quickly. I've also noticed that you tend to remember little details and nuances more clearly.
"When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites."

And then they decided it was such a bad idea that they were going to leave the country. Carrying this to the logical extension, if implemented, Google would pack up and leave us for Canada.

Canada is already on the MPAA's naughty list, so....
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How can it be like web spam? Web spam is in hypertext and app store spam is compiled code.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItMFWpKofSg
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This is a good writeup, though I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the holy grail of caching with HTTP. That of course is good old RFC 2616: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt

There's an entire section in there devoted just to caching in HTTP. Very well worth reading in its entirety.
Essentially because it's easy and pleasant (as opposed to java). Modern javascript VMs are very efficient, too.
Then current phones aren't that constrained and are used a lot for web browsing anyway. And WebOS devices already proved that JS is suitable tool for the job.
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Concur - I think that, once you have a certain amount of experience built up working in frameworks like Rails, you can only go so far before you hit a wall. At that point, it's necessary to start learning the protocols and the lower level stuff to advance your understanding and your craft.
Webos is actually pretty cool. I hope this helps breathe some life into it
Wow....reading you type, is like seeing a mirror of me type. It's insane how much we agree on. I feel like I have been trying to dispell these myths here on HN for the last 2.5 years and here you come along spouting the EXACT same stuff I been saying. It's soo refreshing :)

As for Ron Paul's abolition of the Fed, I couldn't agree more. It's a bunch of crock. All you have to do is look at the history of recessions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unite...

I mean...really, the longest time period between recessions in that approx 90 years (1836 - 1926) was 5 years. Imagine that, literally...over other year (almost) America had a recession. That's batshit crazy.

Is THAT what we want to go back to? Fractional reserve banking and central banking is the damn cure to all of that.

Ron Paul is off his knockers when he talks about this stuff, and the most painful part is that so many people listen to him. They don't know any better.

As for your questions, as far as I understand it, the housing bubble CDOs were just the tip of the iceberg. When I lived in FL, there were many small community banks, that went bust because they held tons of CDOs backed up by subprime car loans and credit cards - YES!!! These guys were insane.

As for Canada, the truth is, I don't quite get that one either...because as far as I know, the 'standard' mortgage up there is actually a variable rate. I haven't done much research into it, but I have a few friends that live up there and are goin through the house-buying phase now. It's so bad that we had a debate about whether 30-year fixed mortgages even exist anywhere in the world. I kindly linked him to the relevant US regulators that explicitly show rates on up to 40-year fixed. He was flabbergasted. So, I honestly don't know what's happening over there.

I agree that we should know, I am sure the data is there...I have just been busy trying to keep my startup dreams alive (no time to do all that research - as much as I would love to).
Sad thing is that now the iPad is banned in Germany now. I don't care who did what first. I really wish they could just call off all the lawyers and settle this nonsense once and for all.

Every dollar they spend on lawyers is one less they can use to make wonderful products. Every lawsuit takes us one step further from being able to make great things.
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That seems low. According to http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics, it's 800m active users, more than 50% of which log in on any given day.
Actually canada only spends about %66 the amount of money that the USA does as percentage of GDP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:International_Comparison_-...
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tl; dr: Recompile everything with FP set to hard instead of soft.

softfp was a compromise for a number of years but since we are mostly in the age of Cortex now for mobile/tablet markets, it should be possible to recompile the entire toolchain, kernel and apps for a significant speedup anywhere FP is used: 3D, OpenGL, OpenSSL etc.. However, binary only blobs such as 3D drivers need to be recompiled.
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Agreed, this works like a charm. Interesting that this topic comes up today since the Wall Street Journal addressed the Hemingway trick (among other great tips) just yesterday:
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I wonder if we'll reach the point where some SmartPhone/tablet makers start flirting with officially supporting multiple operating systems on the same device either to end users or carriers. I can think of a couple reasons why the carriers might like this approach. I'm sure enterprise IT departments would prefer to have more control to lock down and customize devices. Even if they don't want to switch platforms at the moment it's not very practical to root and install custom ROMs on everyone's device.
I'm almost at the end of Vanity Fair. It is long, surprisingly light, and psychologically astute. There's one passage where Thackeray nails the concept of cognitive dissonance so strikingly (100 years before Festinger) that it ought to be in textbooks. Many of his observations have made me laugh with their classic English wit. He also has one hell of an anti-heroine. This book reminded me why I used to love literature.

Also, Strangers to Ourselves by Timothy Wilson - a good book on research into unconscious thought processes.
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Based on your comments, I'm going to guess that you've never run any sort of technically demanding business. I absolutely guarantee you that you wouldn't get something comparable back from ODesk, because you don't know how to spec out what he's got going on under the hood there. It takes a smart nerd to do that effectively.
Great advice, Alf.

I find this quite interesting because it deviates from what I thought Hemingway's Trick would have been: be a ruthless bastard.

The real Hemingway Trick definitely has its benefits because it lets your algorithm/design/idea develop in your head over time. Brute force coding, even if it works, can lead to sloppy and less efficient code. This leads to an important question: at what point does one trade "beast mode" for rest?

I read an article on HN about how the difference between great and mediocre musicians is the amount of time spent on focused practicing. Total hours mean nothing, only the amount of time spent on meaningful practice matters.

With this being said, it's important to develop a plan of action, and then stay incredibly focused on that for a few short hours. Once that roadblock is hit hit, take a break, let your brain do some processing, and then go back to a focused hack a little later and walk away with substantial progress.
Cialdini is classic. It's the only science book I've stayed up all night to finish, it's such a page turner. Plus I remember astonishingly more of it than I do of most books. His anecdotes really help with that.

(It was a different edition though.)
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Why is this "not the time to debate the healthcare issues?" I could see that being a fair point if someone had died, out of respect. But in this case I seriously do not see why it's just assumed that talking about healthcare in the U.S. is not fair game for this thread?
It's interesting because the commercial support of WebOS has built a pretty solid SmartPhone and tablet OS which puts it on somewhat equal ground as iOS or Android for now. I can't think of any other parallel where a somewhat competitive platform is open sourced and hits the ground running.

The lack of hardware is an issue in the short-term but we'll probably see WebOS ports for a lot of popular Android devices to start with. From there the not-Samsung, non-Motorola, Android device makers might want to give it a closer look.
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Large employer insurance plans are often self-funded, meaning that the insurance company charges administration fees but does not truly insure the plan financially.

Certainly small employers are worse at negotiating health care plans, but I'm not sure how much leverage they could possibly have in negotiations given economies of scale and switching costs.

(in a past life, I worked for a benefits consulting firm which specialized in union plans - one positive of how these plans operated was that they disclosed their benefits costs as $/hr rate per member.)
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The treatment is harsh, and the cancer is slow growing. I understand that many men die with, but not of, prostate cancer. But then maybe I'm totally wrong?
This is the paper that was the basis of Scrum: The New New Product Development Game, Harvard Business Review, 1986. [1].

The crux of the paper is that you should be "grouping teams by product, not role, and figuring out an interdisciplinary way to work together, rather than running the entire team by the methodology of one specialty".

If the word "Agile" freaks you out, then by all means don't call it that. And certainly there are a lot of bullshit artists plying their trade out there. Indeed, if someone tells me they are "Agile", by default I don't believe them. But as this 1986 paper shows, there is a lot of good data and good theory out there if you but look.

[1] http://www.sao.corvallis.or.us/drupal/files/The%20New%20New%...
Actually, UMG could be charged; if it is convicted it would likely be fined.

(Proving that any given corporate officer had the requisite intent to commit a crime (the 'mens rea') is difficult to impossible, which is one reason why corporations can be tried in criminal court.)
Surely it's the rules of the game that are at fault here. You can't blame companies for using the rules of the game to their best advantage.

The answer is to tell everyone how much of a ridiculous unfair idiotic idea most patents are.

You shouldn't be able to patent software - it's trivial. You shouldn't be able to patent things like "Touchscreen used on mobile device" - It's obvious.

Patents should be reserved for things that aren't obvious, take a lot of research, and can be done many ways. For example drugs research. They should be denied and ruled null and void for most things related to software/consumer technology.
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Product Manager here. Are most PM's really that non-technical?

I have a B.S. in Computer Engineering and worked as a dev for 3 years before becoming a PM. I thought that my path into product management was a common one. Is this not the case?
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It's hard to say in an individual case. Even with smokers, how can you really say with any certainty, that it was the smoking and not an independently malignant cell that was the seed for lung cancer?

We have group statistics that say healthy diet, getting your vitamin D, etc. are associated with lower incidences of cancer. But on a human level, cancer is not like getting an e. coli infection, where we can point to contaminated food or something as a direct cause.

So personally, I encourage my loved ones to eat well and live healthy and all that jazz. But if heaven forbid they come down with a major illness like cancer, I'd leave their life decisions out of it; as much as we can say with statistics, I don't want them to feel like that last unlucky coin flip was in any way their fault.

TL;DR: I don't know, and people are probably going to downvote you for being insensitive.