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I think the article was good, and Jason tried to be unbiased (he "tried", since he has always historically been pro-Android). However I believe an honest comparison between iOS and Android cannot be done in less than 10 pages of indepth review.

For example, I believe he missed the following positive points for iOS and iPhone (just my casual thoughts):
1. iPhone 4s is 2 to 3 times faster than Galaxy Nexus in graphics: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5133/galaxy-nexus-ice-cream-sa...
2. Software update support: The new OS updates are not pushed fast enough to all android phones -- you may have to wait months to get the latest OS release like 4.0 on your phone -- and for most phones, it will actually never be released (apart from Nexus phones which have the best experience in this regard, but when comparing Android you have to look at all phones). Look at this: http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphan...
3. Android market apps cannot be fully trusted, since they may be of poor quality or may be malware -- since they have not been reviewed, and also they can access more things on the phone. (with permissions, but most users just say yes to all permissions)
4. Lots of accessories available for the iphone whereas there are so many android phones that accessories available for each phone are much much less.
5. Airplay on iOS can push the screen content and video/audio to speakers/TV via apple tv. This is a really amazing experience -- for example showing your photos and videos to friends on the TV via airplay while flicking back and forth on your iphone/ipad.
6. iCloud Photo stream where your photos are synced automatically, without you having to do anything. Same for documents in the iCloud. iTunes match can upconvert all your music to high quality music, without having to upload it in the first place!
7. Fragmentation issue: Some apps work on some phones, some dont. For example, netflix was not available for most android phones for a long time. Angry birds also started with only a few handsets.
8. Galaxy Nexus is toooo big. iPhone can be used well with one hand with the thumb being able to reach any part of the screen. iPhone's styling and design as well is better -- though that is subjective.
9. One of the best quality support and service available via apple retail store.
10. The amount of quality apps available on the App Store, for everything, like games, music, productivity, etc.
11. Siri may be underwhelming, but still it can handle a lot of tasks much more easily and in much more friendly way than Android.

There are many more....
For android also, there would be a list like this.. but I believe the main plus point in favor of android are: free navigation app from Google maps (on iOS, you have to buy one for atleast $20), app-to-app sharing and more customization.
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Huh. Not enough caffeine (grumble).

It's actually funny the way I made the mistake; things got flipped at a semantic level, above syntax. I guess a neuroscientist would see some significance in it, or something.
Opt-in/Opt-out, as it were. Considering the consequences, I agree with the reasoning.
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Completely agree. All companies should adopt etiquettes like these.
Oddly enough, most games that impose some sort of ethical behavior (either through law, social, or gameplay aspects) exist either before the Convention (Assassin's Creed doesn't allow you to get stab-happy on civilians), after most participating entities have ceased to exist (Fallout), or outside it's jurisdiction entirely (Elder Scrolls, many other fantasy RPGs)
If they were volunteers the study would have a very strong self selection bias and therefore not be scientific.
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You can reconstruct almost any system flow with good logging. While that's not always ideal (especially if you need to query the data), the more structured your data gets, the less it is a simple log. When you increase the specificity of your tools, they becomes less useful in the general case, turing tarpit notwithstanding.
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how does this compare to Titanium? [1] i'd research myself, but there's not much to look at.

[1] http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-desktop-applic...
Care to elaborate? I'm US based and I don't understand this comment whatsoever. Increase my global perspective. :)
for a pretty good python library:

pip install xlrd
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That's not an inherent flaw in the idea, though, just in RSA's implementation. There's no real need for the servers to hold on to private device-specific data.
If you're using SSH, you should check out Monkeysphere: http://web.monkeysphere.info/

It allows for the use of OpenGPG keys.

There's also a web component so your website can use it! However it only has a FIrefox/IceWeasel plugin for now. It's two parts; the server side validation stuff, and the browser plugin.
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Making a presentation to others (the context of TFA) is not about socialization, it is about exchanging ideas. If you aren't communicating well there, you are failing at the primary objective.

I do agree there are contexts where the information transfer is not important (the ritual gum smacking). Good communicators can identify which is which and act appropriately.
The algorithm doesn't seem to be the problem. The UI for displaying conversations however, has been done very poorly by some competitors.
Being overly active without taking proper precautions (good diet for joint lubrication, proper posture, etc) can lead to joint damage, back problems, foot problems, recurring pain, etc. Specifically, standing still all day causes problems. Moving tends not to.

In general, humans were not designed to do one motion/one task repeatedly all day every day.
OK - here goes....

My tweet, "“Seems to me that #Freshdesk is an unethical troll trying to cash in on #Zendesk‘s good name.
But that could just be me….”" was an off the cuff remark. I still think Freshdesk is trying to leverage Zendesk's brand but hey, hat's just my opinion. I do note that other folks in here have commented on the similartiies between the two products, I've reached out to Freshdesk asking to ommuncate with them to review their product - am looking forward to comparing them with Zendesk.

The image on Freshdesk's site showing a Zendesk post with my name on it actually relates to a CloudCamp that Zendesk was helping to spread the message about earlier this year. I run CloudCamps in aus/nz (for free, as in gratis, voluntary, unpaid). So that image is kind of irrelevant - it's kind of like saying that a Red Cross volunteer is somehow in the pocket of a large corporate that sponsors the Red Cross.

That said I did do some writing for Zendesk for their blog - around a year or so ago and not since then. So saying I'm a paid blogger for zendesk is kind of like saying I'm an advocate for mcdonalds since I worked there when I was 15. And for anyone who really cares, I have possibly the most complete disclosure statement of current and past engagements - feel free to cross check any other comments I make... http://www.diversity.net.nz/diversity_analysis/ben_kepes_dis...

Finally, in relation to the comments from Christian Marth about he country of origin of the Freshdesk founders - that I obviously don't condone. Those who know me will see (from the size of my nose if nothing else) that I'm Jewish. My mother spent time in a concentration camp and my Grandfather was murdered by the Nazis because he was Jewish - with that background it's unlikely that I'd be a candidate for pulling the race card.

/out
The misinformation comes from the RSS propaganda machine. Irony, they are way too active on FB.

edit: missed a word
Well. They should adjust per employee, based on their history of interaction with the employee.

In-group variation (when everyone is split up into only two groups...) is pretty enormous.

I've never liked the "Men are from Mars" approach, though it could be a stepping-stone to "many people think quite differently from me". That's a rough way to go, though (thinking a lesson learned about interacting smoothly with a "woman" or, say, a "hispanic person" will apply to everyone else in that group).
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High horse? This might as well be in the consumerist. I'm not being arrogant, and I'm not being preachy. It was an observation.
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What are the best ways to make our preferences to our loved ones clear? Is it sufficient enough to have a living will, for example? Are there documents out there that I should be carrying in my wallet, and do paramedics seek these documents out in an emergency?
The "sandbox" increases the complexity of the system that the user deals with. The other notion of simplicity is one that should matter only to the Macports developers.

I do not like to criticise open-source projects, but the (reasonably polite) hostility that stating this simple fact has attracted does make me think that the supporters of Macports have stopped seeing things from the user's point of view.

If you want a packaging system whose job is to protect you from the risk of certain rare but possibly messy mishaps, then Macports might well be what you want. I recommend being less risk averse, and use a mixture of Homebrew and installing to /usr/local. It will cost some research and reinstall time now and then, but it will result in a system that is easier to get an overview on.

The talk I have seen of "destroying" one's system installing via Homebrew is pure FUD, and I do not know what lies behind it.
That's really interesting, I didn't know that.
Programming is instantly addictive because you create from the day two. Math isn't.

It isn't, because students aren't given problems to be solved. They're given the solutions first.

The profound feeling of figuring out a solution to a problem (a real one, unlike the ones given at school) is hard to explain to someone who did not experience it. That's why, having choice to do Masters degree in Math or CS, I choose Math.
When I click "Login with DSSID", the page says nothing except "Welcome to DSSID". No login box, button, or anything. Of course, it's not your fault, because when I do a View Source, I see all those things. They just don't appear to me visually.

This is happening on two different Firefox browsers on two different Linux machines. It must be a problem with settings or a plugin. I'll try it on a brand new Linux machine with a fresh install of FF and let you know.
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I am confident that the passwords that I generate can't be brute forced.
I feel this, like PhoneGap, this is a tremendous regression in web development. Just build web apps, stop with all this native/web hybrid nonsense.
No, they will never. Because its executive function to ask many things, but we have fairly independent judiciary that take of these non-sense things by executives.
They supported it before the backlash: http://www.bsa.org/country/News%20and%20Events/News%20Archiv...
Like all leaflets I just put them in the recycling. Never looked at them.
Yeah that's the author's point. Chronically ill or terminally ill patients receiving heroic care, not an otherwise healthy 30 year old who has an acute illness.

If you're 80 and in poor health, recovery from broken ribs is likely to be extremely difficult and painful.
I agree with your thoughts ... but personally I happened to keep using Siri!!
I wish banks in the United States started offering two factor authentication. If I want to log into my bank (Swiss bank) I input my card number, I then get a one time code from my bank, I insert my pin card into my card reader (not connected to the computer), I type in my pin number, I then type in the code I got from my bank. What I get back is another number that I then type into the browser field.

I am now logged into my bank. Now each time I try to do anything with my money (move it from checking to savings, or from checking to my dad, or savings to checking, or to investing) I have to insert my card, enter my pin, enter the number and give my bank the number that is generated.

That is secure. WAY more secure than what I currently have with BoA, ING, WF, First bank, Chase, and Capital One.
Apple likes to take a revisionist history approach to their new products. They explicitly label them as innovative devices (which they may be) but implicitly attempt to create the perception that they've invented the device. See: iPod, iPhone, iPad. There's a huge number of people who didn't know MP3 players, smartphones, and tablets existed before the day Apple showcased them.
what if you want to be listed in the app store?
When the dust settles, you don't really think that the problem with RIM, or Nortel, are "accounting issues", do you?

I spent 30 years in Ontario. RIM and Nortel confirm my own thoughts on the matter: the talent pool in Ontario (possibly Canada) isn't even close to making local tech companies globally competitive.
> So my comment is now irrelevant.

Not at all. It's extremely nonobvious, and had been annoying the hell out of me for weeks. The default behavior is just terrible.

If even the computer nerds can't figure out how to configure your interface, you've done something wrong.
You are attempting to make the logical fallacy of arguing from authority. Hacker news is smart enough to see through this.

You field logical fallacies of your own on a regular basis. Indeed, your gratuitous rudeness and sexism borders on ad hominem and is inappropriate here.

From this data, how do you conclude that American schools underperform?

If American schools with heterogenous student bodies* are preparing only one ethnic group to be competitive in international math comparisons, then they are certainly coming up short in other areas. The 'melting pot' is not a new concept in American education and while disparities in language ability, cultural mores, and economic condition present an additional challenge for American educators, addressing these disparities has long been a part of their mission and resources are allocated appropriate.

* It's reasonable to say that American schools serve a more ethnically and culturally diverse student body than the other examples cited here, notwithstanding the relative diversity of Singapore and Hong Kong by regional standards.
Nice reformulation. It would be right in some contexts ... but, to me (and I am not a programmer by trade nor do I work in the field), the original quote is explicit enough that I would trust the person saying it to know what they are talking about, whereas your reformulation would, in many contexts, sounds like what someone would say when they really have no clue (think "pointed-haired" boss).
Indeed, there is a mistake in what I wrote. What I should have said is that Bill Joy wrote ex, and then he used this implementation to write vi. Vim is like vi in that it comes with an ex built in, which is an extension of Bill Joy's ex.
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btw, the title "Полная SOPA" alludes to a bad situation without a good possible way out (~"total fuck up").
Poll: If a recruiter pisses you off, do you hate their client too? 
It seems like spam from recruiters (unsolicited, poorly targeted inquiries) is a huge turnoff for developers, but would you still be interested in the company regardless? Or does the spam actually turn you off to the client also?
Spam from recruiters doesn't affect how I think of their client
Spam from recruiters makes me think the client is low quality
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One of the easiest ways to take a multiple choice math test is to work backward from the given answers. You hardly even have to know what you're doing; just plug the answers into the question.

I don't think any of my classmates or teachers ever figured that out. They just thought I was smart for finishing early with 100% correct. Which, in a way, I guess I was, but not the way they thought.
No, you can drag the cut divider past the label you want to expose, which then leaves all the other (unwanted) ones exposed as well.

You can drag the divider up and down to change the number of labels that are shown. You can also drag-and-drop individual labels across the divider to show or hide them. I just tested on FF, Chrome, and IE and it works.
Thanks, it's nice to know my contributions are appreciated.
Thanks jbhelms,

That article put a lot into prospective. Being the pig is something, but it isn't everything. The reputation my mentor brings is massive.

I'm just blinded by the amount of work that is ahead of us.
I'd say that's putting it nicely. His argument is so specious, I would hesitate to call it an argument. I've seldom read anything on employment where the errors in logic jump quite so far off the page.
Mr T is amazingly cool. He always strived to be a good role model, and tried very hard to show that you can be cool while living with morals, that it's a good idea to finish school and contribute to the society you live in. It sounds corny as hell when you say it, but he made it work. I'd buy him a beer any day.
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Excuse me, uninhabitable?

I don't think our planet is going to become uninhabitable, not by a long shot.
The difference between time and money is that you have time by default. I assume most entrepreneurs started to work on their business in their spare time before having the money to quit and work on it full time.
But that's exactly what the OP was complaining about in his charity example! and that's three acryonyms right there that you passed over without issue, and the other names are equally recondite (like 'Django' or 'varnish' tells you anything whatsoever about the projects?).
Having worked extensively on a project that used something similar (we switched from Titanium Desktop to Mozilla's Chromeless project over the course of the dev cycle) as an underlying technology, I see a few things this needs to address. There IS a valuable niche here - Chromeless and Titanium are the only real competitors - and neither are solving it particularly well (though both slightly nicer than Appify as it currently stands).

First: Lower-level APIs. That means I need Javascript hooks into file access, menu bar content, cross-domain requests, camera and microphone, etc etc etc. Without this, no meaningful apps can be created.

Second: Config. Let me specify the startup window parameters (perhaps using a config JSON file included with the app source). Height, width, and position at least. Maybe support for multiple windows?

Third: Support. This one is where Titanium and Chromeless both fall flat on their face. Titanium Desktop is dead; the company has shifted 100% of efforts into an equivalent platform for mobile devices. Things are broken and aren't getting fixed, which makes it unfeasible to use for long-term development. The same applies to Chromeless; I've submitted dealbreaking bugs to the github - things simply Don't Work - and receieved no developer response whatsoever. Again, it seems as if the dev team has lost interest.

I really hope that you're planning on pursuing this as more than a one-off github project, because you have the opportunity to dominate an area of the "app development for web developers" market that NOBODY is currently solving. Best of luck.

*

EDIT: And for all of those who (largely correctly) will claim "desktop is dead, stop pretending it's the web" - you're right. The thing is, the project I was working on found ourselves in an interesting position, and we certainly weren't the only ones. We wanted to build a web app, and knew that the web was the future of our product. However, there was functionality we needed (filesystem access, non-flash microphone access, etc etc) that simply doesn't exist (yet!) on the web. Specifications and standards have been proposed and are being implemented, but we unfortunately can't assume that every potential user has a Chrome nightly build. Distributing an app running in an invisible web environment allowed us to develop the code we would be able to use long-term, while giving us a predictable, highly up-to-date, and extensible (via native hooks thru javascript) access to the local machine.

Also: cocui looks awesome, and worth checking out. My team has since decided to accept our limitations and move to strictly web, but if I was considering a similar project again I would definitely consider it.
A lot of the more grandiose doom-and-gloom scenarios put forth regarding global warming are a bit overwrought. The Earth will continue to harbor life even if we pumped all of the carbon from every fossil fuel on the planet into the atmosphere. The main issue is that such a world will be different, it may have different species (more of some, less or none of some we've come to know) and it may be more difficult for human civilization to exist. But there's absolutely no risk of human activity re: CO2 emissions in making the Earth uninhabitable.
This can be done in phonegap and objective-c

The map is one of the hairier object models in the CocoaTouch SDK.

http://docs.phonegap.com/en/1.2.0/phonegap_geolocation_geolo...
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I agree it’s guesswork. Are they writing 2.4 million tablets down to zero? 4.8 million tablets down to $99? Is either number ridiculous?

The other possibility he questions is whether they reported as sales shipments that were not really sales. As he points out, there are upcoming opportunities to clarify these numbers, and I think that part of the purpose of the article is to goad analysts into throwing some hardball questions at RIM.
I think that's the point of the reformulation: there's jargon and then there's substance-removing abstraction.
I keep firefox 3.6 around for this exact reason. I've been burned too many times by losing plugins.
I mention briefly about my girlfriends support and care during my trials here:

http://lookingbackaretrospective.posterous.com

Only mentioned in a few of the later chapters, but she was always supportive and always urged me to do what I felt was right. She was constantly by my side for the bad, as well as the occasional good.

For any "Startup Significant Others" out there, your support means more than you realize!
Orbit size and speed have no relation to planetary density by themselves. If we knew the total kinetic energy of the planet, then they would, but we don't.
I don't want to compare RIM employees to Nortel employees, but...I was in Ottawa through most of Nortel's disaster, and "glut of highly-competent engineers" it was not.

Surely employees play a significant role in how insanely horrible RIM products are compared to the competition.
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No.... Firefox may be good for you, but it is bad for him. Both experiences coexist, and yours does not negate his.