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I did notice that on my Mac (10.7) and Chrome (15.0.874).
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I don't think audio was omitted merely because this is an MVP and they didn't have the time or resources for it - it's pretty clearly part of the main concept of the product.

I can think of several reasons why this might be a good idea. For example, audio recording on mobiles can be really bad - maybe that makes regular video recording apps less popular. Audio makes the downloads heavier. Audio makes consuming the content require more focus from the user - it has to mute any music, phone conversation, etc. Audio makes 30s of video seem too short to say anything meaningful - omitting it makes 30s seem like a long time for a "moving photo". Etc.

I can't say if any of these things really make for a good product that people will want to use - it still seems fairly ridiculous to me - but I don't know why everyone's so dismissive of the idea that there's any benefit to omitting audio.
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I nearly got a guy on the MPW Shell team fired -- I was egging him on to add keyboard macros to MPW (the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop), and he eventually did. They were powerful enough to emulate at least a top-level mostly Emacs environment.

Oh, the fur flew. Post-facto, managers piled on and tried to make the feature more Mac-like. It was fine as it stood. It was amusing to watch.

Also, developers loved it.
The one thing I really liked about the last version was the logo which they killed in the latest version. Bill replied saying "Old logo was too complex to produce. Update that came out is a partial of our FB work. More will come w/ OG."
As a full-time developer with a family, it's not as easy as it seems to pick up the hot language/platform of the month, especially to learn it deeply enough to compete with people who have been working with it for years. (As everyone knows learning requires doing, and that takes time that is hard to come by.)
It always brings a smile to see my 2006 page linked. :)

As ever, feedback is welcome.
Yes. Download.com is the 173rd highest traffic site in the world. They're probably pushing over 100-200k downloads a month at least. Nothing compared to the Apple or Android app stores, but still a significant number.
The first quote is difficult to describe for me, but let's call it "poetic", as my brain is too fried to think of a better term for it. Basically, my interpretation of what he's saying is: if your bakery isn't tech-savvy, even at a basic level, they could be getting killed by reviewers (or some other bogeyman) online without knowing it.

The second quote is pretty easy to support with sources. Google has three _official_ languages that can be deployed into production, and Python is one of them. See [this post from a Googler](http://everythingsysadmin.com/2011/01/python-is-better-than-...), for instance. I have no idea how hard a rule this is, but many a Googler has mentioned it. I think it's worthy of being called a 'fact', and thus completely valid in the article in question.
I meant articles as parts of speech, like "the".
In political science, a fairly well-known basic idea is that the two ways to dissent are exit and voice. Exit means you leave and go somewhere else, and was common in early political eras when most civilizations were small and surrounded by plenty of nomadic/lawless regions to retreat to. As populations increased, voice (i.e. protest, class warfare etc.) became increasingly common. The classic reference on this is "Exit, Voice and Loyalty" by Albert O. Hirschman. It's been on my reading list for a while.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty

For developers, it is swinging back towards exit, since the Internet can be considered a kind of virtual equivalent of the nomad regions to retreat to.

"Center-periphery" dynamics is the common term in geopolitics for dissent dynamics driven by movement inside/outside a core. Class warfare is the better known kind of dissent involving unionization etc. and involves fighting up and down a class structure.

Guilds, historically, were a medieval kind of institution that had characteristics of both exit and voice. The classic guild professions (weaving, masonry and in more recent times, things like typesetting in pre-lithography days) used their portable skills to leave kingdoms/cities and move elsewhere if they didn't like their current situation. This option was not really available to laborers tied to the land, and was essentially an urban phenomenon. This is the origin of the term "journeyman" for instance... apprentices who would follow master craftsmen around until they became masters in their own right.
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> I think the fact that it was a blanket policy and not based on the content of the messages made it OK at least at that time.

Nope. If discovery has started, you have to retain even if you otherwise would have discarded.

That's in addition to any specific statutory requirements wrt the document's content.
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Yes, but you still have to know he's following this approach. A good practitioner will hide that.

If you remember the show Colombo, the main character made an art of playing dumb.
If you had your own iPhone app and knew how to market it properly, you wouldn't be at the mercy of Groupon's well-known strong-arm tactics in dealing with small businesses for instance. Or some other alternative tech-savvy way to market your business so you aren't killed by a few bad Yelp reviews or discounts from the social commerce/coupon startups that you don't know can hurt you till you try them. Many of the more prosperous small businesses are already starting to vie for control over their customer acquisition channels.
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I registered to just to add some evidence of this. I did poorly in all of my math courses throughout middle school and high school while doing superb in everything else. I hated math more than any other subject. Senior year of high school came, and I was tired of doing horrible. I was surrounded by incredibly intelligent friends who all did very well in their math courses, and I was tired of being the odd one out. So I skipped pre-calc and went straight into AP calculus. I studied my fucking ass off. It paid off (through self study mostly, using khan academy and good textbooks).

Fast forward to the present. I am now a sophomore at a university with an incredibly strong math department. I've finished the core mathematics curriculum, and I am currently taking two grad courses (Algebraic Topology and Grad Linear Algebra). I plan to take two more in the spring, and hopefully participate in a undergraduate research program in the summer.

This is coming from someone who got a 600 on the math section of the SAT (800 on the the other two).

But I wouldn't recommend going into math like I did. It has been an incredibly hard task. I am very, very, VERY jealous of those of you who had an inspired early math education. Oh, the work that could have been saved...
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This would not typically be appropriate for HN, but it is relevant:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6507690/hardly-working-sta...
thanks, looks nice. I need to compare some plans in a couple weeks so I'll try this.
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This is like http://qik.com but without the audio.
I'll cut through the piles of snark that I knew would inevitably show up on this thread and say I now understand why these guys got so much venture capital. This idea, and the previous one they had, while maybe not runaway successes, are damn clever. Yes, it's more social-such-and-such, but they are really taking some very unique approaches here, and with 40M in the bank it's clear they're going to keep iterating until they do find success.

There have been plenty of times where I've witnessed something that I wished I could've shared with a few friends. When I see something crazy happen, my first instinct is to tell someone about it. It's the equivalent of tapping a buddy on the shoulder and saying "woah, dude, over there. Look!"

If I get tapped on the shoulder by this color app you can bet I'll check it out. I've got 30 seconds.

At any rate, I find it disheartening to constantly see so many negative comments about everything color.com does. It smacks of so many sour grapes.
The discussion you are looking for is this one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080470
(Wolfram on Steve Jobs)
I hold that it's far easier to read and step through Danny Yoo's BrainF interpreter than to try and piece together your one-line pythonic monstrosity.

Of course, if you're arguing that your Python version is somehow better than the longer idiomatic Racket implementation, I think we both agree that leveling the playing field would create a more fair comparison. Heavens, wouldn't it make more sense to compare a one-line BF interpreter written in Racket to your one-line BF interpreter written in Python? ;)

Two can play this game:

#lang racket (require racket/match) (let* ([data "++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>."] [move-left (λ (left cur right) (let ([right (if (null? right) '(0) right)]) (list (cons cur left) (car right) (cdr right))))] [move-right (λ (left cur right) (let ([left (if (null? left) '(0) left)]) (list (cdr left) (car left) (cons cur right))))] [inc (λ (left cur right) (list left (add1 cur) right))] [dec (λ (left cur right) (list left (sub1 cur) right))] [consume-one-char (λ (char state) (match char [#\+ (apply inc state)] [#\- (apply dec state)] [#\< (apply move-left state)] [#\> (apply move-right state)] [#\. (begin (display (integer->char (cadr state))) state)] [#\, (list (car state) (char->integer (read-char)) (caddr state))] [else state]))]) (let loop ([counter 0] [prev-counters '()] [state (list '() 0 '())]) (if (= counter (string-length data)) state (let ([char (string-ref data counter)]) (match char [#\[ (loop (add1 counter) (cons counter prev-counters) state)] [#\] (if (zero? (cadr state)) (loop (add1 counter) (cdr prev-counters) state) (loop (car prev-counters) (cdr prev-counters) state))] [else (loop (add1 counter) prev-counters (consume-one-char char state))])))))

Both this example and your one-line python example are similarly incomprehensible. While we're on the topic of meaningless benchmarks, please allow me to point out that my racket version is 163 bytes shorter than your python version, without trying to abbreviate variable names and without smashing whitespace. That's even including the "Hello World" BF program near the beginning of the source.

Ok, yes, you have a point -- the article I cited earlier is long and focuses on Racket's awkward tooling. However, my point is that we're comparing apples to oranges here. It would be better to compare Danny's article to a Python article that implements a BF interpreter, covers some optimizations, and describes how to package it as an Egg and upload it to PyPi. None of these topics are trivial, especially to a beginner, hence Danny's thurough coverage.
> It was only during some education electives I took that I realized that a well known problem in STEM education is the group of students who are intelligent but have rather slow, idiosyncratic, and methodical ways of assimilating new information.

I'm intrigued. Do you have links to papers/articles about this phenomenon?
"Still, RIM only reported a total of 700,000 tablets “sold” for the Q1 and Q2, they can’t have all been returned and massive returns would have been disclosed previously, one hopes."

Reading the reviews about the lack of basic functionality, like email, it's possible they could almost all be returned.

The bigger question is, and it's been posed here for more than a year, is why is the same leadership there? That this is now just being discussed in analyst assessments in mind boggling.

It's also possible that the 2.4-4.8 million figure makes sense in MBA land. 2.4 million could have been the minimum order number to get the per-unit build cost down to ~$200 which would have provided enough head room for whatever the going rate is for one of these things. I've seen crazier justifications for ridiculous business strategies put forth.
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Is it not a pain when someone starts spamming as you on Reddit and Engadget? You have either go back through a third of the sites you've ever signed up for and change them, or just write them off. I think the latter is somewhat irresponsible.

To be clear, the worst-case scenario I'm thinking of isn't when a single person has your email/password, but when someone has posted it to pastebin and everyone has it.
For 1. I'm being generous and reading it as shorthand for; "If your bakery doesn't manage it's presence on the network and patrol it's reviews and it's image online; it's business will be eaten by those of your competitors who 'get it'." I'm not sure why an iPhone is required equipment, but the point he's reaching for isn't entirely lost.

For 2. I'd say he's right in that python has played a fairly large role in Google's developer outreach and seems to be the lingua franca for expressing ideas in code within Google.

The first point is just sloppy, and suggests that Forbes doesn't engage in the outdated and unfashionable practice of editing it's writers. The second is a fairly pedestrian observation about the software industry, that languages and technologies are identified with some entities more than others. That the languages a person who is a developer knows may affect his view of companies that use them is not in question, whether it's a benefit to the companies in question is unknowable.
I just went through a similar evaluation last week. Asked a a few friends who do online marketing, ads, affilate traffic, etc.

1) Only do an affiliate program. commission junction, etc can do it.

2) Don't private label.

3) Don't waste your time working on partnership deals. Date (Affiliate) before you get married (revenue cut or super custom features)

4) Only take someone seriously as much as they bring in sales.
Because OS will give you a better feel for how threading works, for how file systems work. Just because you (probably) wont be working on OS source code, doesn't mean the behind the scenes knowledge wont be beneficial because you will be getting a better grasp of Computer Science as a whole. I have friends who work on Android apps, and often times they have to dig into the Android source code to see what the hell is going on. The more sense you can make out of the code, the easier it will be to find what you are looking for.

Also, it is considered a weeding out course in many schools. It separates those who are willing to dig deeper into the world of CS and those who will either quit the major or become a desk drone.

Signed,
Your CS112 TA
Interesting. Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3312324
> releasing or publishing my emails

Has the copyright issue on emails been decided yet (and I missed it)? I thought you retain copyright on your emails and the recipient can't just release or publish them willy-nilly.
The best part is that they'll own consumers on two screens (iPad and TV) instead of just one.
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What an egregiousness abuse of user trust. I hope this destroys their brand forever.
And the fall of journalism.

Forbes RIP.

I learned UNIX.

It still hasn't died off.

Systems development is in my opinion the worthwhile development. How much attention does it get?

The rest, whether for one user or many, is just "administration".

The only things I see being "developed" are ways to try to bring the full utility of UNIX to the end-user who will never spend the time to learn it.

Basic administration that is. Leave systems development to the people who read WR Stevens.
Nice, but most visualizations don't take in account the scaling effects present in the data. Most social science systems are wildly non-linear.

IMHO, the best way is to try to model the data, then calculate the ratio between the predicted and the observed (real) data point. From there, you would have an index that account for the scaling in the system. The problem is that the model needs a good number of points and the data should not be too heteroscedastic. It's the hot new thing in scientometrics...
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I also thought maybe he meant to write "iPhone app" and accidentally left out that word.
You can already do this -- better -- with whatsapp or probably a bunch of other platforms that are more useful.
Yes a good reflection. Looks like Lulu has never been played.
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Will do, I am working on getting funding for my next project right now, so I will sit down and start working on it, as soon as I am through that push.
Have you tried guerilla marketing? Perhaps a post to a popular discussion site, emphasizing the edgy, rebellious angle. Who doesn't want to spend money buying a product to demonstrate their contempt for our consumption/money-oriented culture?
>I hope unnoticeable updates become the norm for all desktop software.

As long as you can turn that off, sure. I don't like software bypassing my package managers. Firefox is so far the sole exception I'm okay with since I'm using the Nightly builds and don't update as often. But for everything else, that would be a nightmare. I like to be in control of my updates, thank you.
That's great to hear. Update-fatigue drove me away from Firefox. Chrome raised the bar with their seamless update system, I'm glad to hear that FF is up to meeting the challenge!
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I'm really hoping you can get the remaining 3.6.x users to force-upgrade. We still have a couple people using 3.6 on our web app (where some pages won't render properly--we've labeled this 'wontfix' in our system since Firefox 7.0+ renders these pages properly.)

Any word on whether there is any way to get them to upgrade? Last I saw, it upgraded them to a newer 3.x version, but then opened a page on your site with a tiny-font-sized line of text that said "This isn't the latest version"--not exactly obvious that 3.6.x is pretty much ancient at this point.
Just be careful not to project your own humanity onto your pets, if you want to see them more objectively. Radiolab had a great episode on "animal minds" that went into some of the biases dog owners have about their pets. In a sense, we're actually disrespecting other animals by judging them on a scale of "how humanlike is their behavior" and too easily discounting the things that make them unique and unlike us.
Of course I understand that call centers make up only a tiny part of the Indian economy. But I can certainly imagine these politicians thinking, "Wouldn't it be really easy for Google and Facebook to hire a few thousand people here in India (who know the language, culture, etc.) to monitor the web in real time?" Hiring human censors would be completely unrealistic in countries like the United States, but maybe it doesn't sound so far-fetched in countries with low wages and a large population.
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About 10 years ago, the gecko engine was being prepped so that it could be a layout engine for smaller form factors. In the end, webkit won probably on the basis of its license, and simplicity.
What a dumb move. I'm really interested to know who the recipient was. This isn't about watching what you write more so than just being judicious about what information you choose to share and with whom you share it.

That segment of email made the email's author sound condescending and made the business itself look shady. I personally don't see any problem with that business model at all but there will be people who read it in a condescending tone.

One last thing, the spelling. How in the world does anyone who wants to be taken seriously get away with that sort of spelling? Especially if you're running a business. Slang and shorthand are for teenage texts, not emails from high level execs. I'm a high level executive myself. I'm the CEO/Founder/President of my $20k/yr business that has its office based in my living room and even I wouldn't let that happen in an email from me or anyone representing the work I do. The way you speak and write reflects on you in more ways than people realize. It can make a Nobel Prize winner look like a hillbilly.
Thanks for trying it out. I'd love to receive your feedback once you use it. Since the open enrollment is coming up, I am hoping it will get some traction.
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Ask HN: What sort of split do you offer a co-founder?
Specifically, I'm wondering how much you'd offer a technical or non-technical co-founder for an idea that you're already working on? I'm technical and have been working on a startup for a couple months and still have a couple to go before a beta launch but have been thinking about trying to find a designer/ux co-founder to help out on the front-end.

I was originally thinking 60/40 but then started wondering what other people have done in this situation. So what have others done in this scenario?
I'll often use File Hippo, but they've always seemed "cleaner" to me somehow. I even use their updater on some computers, which I wouldn't even consider doing with those other sites.
The short of it:

Split up the IP (everyone can use it for their own thing) and go your separate ways. If he's not putting in his time he won't do anything with it. Whatever you build from this point onwards to make it a product would be your IP anyways.

The long of it:

A startup is a baby. Don't feed it time and resources, it doesn't grow.

Ideas are worthless. Execution is the only thing that has value.

What you have is a broken marriage. Unfortunately, partnerships are harder than marriage. Getting on the same page and staying on the same page is very hard.

Based on that, one option you might want to consider:

Every project needs a driver. To make decisions one way or the other. Design and development by committee is lethal to productivity, clarity and progress. Usually with good co-founders they defer to each other where they aren't strong.

There's no sense in belabouring negotiations or trying to convince each other of who or what is right or how it's best to move forward.

Good luck, and share what you end up doing here!
It's not about it being far behind. Audio isn't a feature; it's something you have to intentionally take away. It seems like an odd choice.
Minor correction: he has a bachelor of science degree, which does not necessarily require learning any science. Or, more to the point, any math.
But you've just had the exact opposite knee-jerk reaction to the one you were commenting on -- by assuming that we're all "sour grapes". Instead, you could consider that our criticism of Color is legitimate. I think a reason a lot of us are skeptical is that if you took Color's business plan and general idea and applied to YC/TechStars/any VC, you would probably get polite looks of boredom and stifled yawns. We've also been hearing of a somewhat cynical underlying purpose to an otherwise fluffy mobile app, i.e., that it was meant to be a "data mining platform", which doesn't exactly breed goodwill from people who are trying to create consumer-centered products.

So why again does Color deserve any slack from (what I feel is rightly deserved) criticism?