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My Nexus One, and several little cheapo tablets I have make free outoing calls over wifi and receive incoming calls using GrooveIp (which hooks into Google Voice).

The Nexus One can also make GrooveIp calls over 3G, and I have it also set up using sipgate to receive sip calls, but also receive "real world" phone number calls using a free phone number from ipkall.

It all works so well, that I've considered just buying a Xoom LTE tablet, and using that as my primary phone. The only reason I've decided against this, is that sometimes, I really want a phone I can stuff into a pocket.

What is intriguing about this article is the mention of a $40 unlimited data plan from T-Mobile.

Is that for real? Does that still exist?

I assume it's not LTE, but HSPA+.... but still, that has me thinking....
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Not the same , but can use GrooveIP https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gvoip&hl=en , for voip calls through google voice.
Perhaps. But once the end user notices the lag compared to their friends device, it very quickly becomes an end users (and very shortly, the platforms) problem. My android lags, and it pisses me off.

per your quote: "It's the same as getting an upgrade to your PC, a new video card, etc. You were perfectly happy before, but relative to your new reality the old one seems subpar, and you overestimate how much it interferes with your enjoyment of the device."
Doesn't quite make sense in this market though. It's all about having the fastest, shiniest, device. And if you can't keep up or deliver ever demanding performance increases, you die. If good was good enough, and we didn't care that the next best thing was only marginally better, we'd still be using punch cards.
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I'm totally confused. When you say "the events that are later described as blocking rendering are coming in on the main thread, not some special "dedicated" one" are you talking about iOS or Android? I can't make sense of your post either way.
>Yet single clicking the home button still instantly gives you the response you expect.

The task manager/switcher is a child of the home screen. This overloaded functionality makes sense that you go to the home screen immediately and if you happen to click again it goes to the secondary mode.

Vlingo on the GS II has nothing to do with the home screen. It is its own world.

Should they have made the very first click instantly go to the home screen anyways (which could involve a lot of busy work given how rich an Android homescreen can be)? Good question. I don't think the two are directly comparable however.
The iOS decision was more correct because it has proven itself in the marketplace. Consumers overwhelmingly demand touch interfaces on their smartphones and tablets, as opposed to stylus, trackball, or any other that has come before it.

Android started as a platform trying to out-Blackberry RIM. When the iPhone was released in 2007 they switched to a model of trying to out-do iOS.
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Try GrooveIp, it's not SIP access, it's Jabber/XMPP access and it's like $4. (I am not affiliated).

Also here: http://code.google.com/apis/talk/open_communications.html

1. What is "client choice" and how is Google Talk enabling it?

In addition to the Google Talk client, there are many other clients out there that provide a great communications experience. We believe users should have choice in which clients they use to connect to the Google Talk service and we want to encourage the developer community to create new and innovative applications that leverage our service. To enable this, Google Talk uses the standard XMPP protocol for authentication, presence, and messaging.
That wasn't at all the focus of the comment that I replied to. I get that you're on this "keyboard/trackball" thing (sidenote -- did you know that Android devices still come out with keyboards and trackballs?), however the difference between the two platforms is largely simple architectural differences having nothing to do with form factor.
There have been many security holes and crashes caused by undetected integer overflow. The rationale is that detecting this condition would be a useful step toward preventing that category of bug.
I tried Groove IP, but the echo makes it unusable on my Nexus S (I've tried all settings, etc).

Does anyone have it working flawlessly, and if so, what device?
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saurik is talking about iOS.
You'd better check on browsershots.org than this joke site :)
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I'm having fun teaching my 4-year-old math. After counting, addition was easy by holding up fingers or drawing dots. Then, subtraction came by counting backwards or crossing out dots.

A couple of weeks ago we started multiplying. To do 5 * 3, we make 5 circles, draw three X's in each circle, and then count them up.

Last week, we started dividing. To do 16 / 3, he'll draw 16 X's, then circle 3, then 3 more, etc. At the end there is one left over (poor little guy). Then, he counts up the circles and writes: 5 R 1.

We go up and down the stairs for positive and negative numbers. He really enjoys all this. Kids enjoy almost anything you do together. He'll even sit down and write his own problems, and problems for me to do.

I'm not expecting too much from the schools on math when he starts in a couple years, so I'm hoping to cultivate that interest at home, and maybe he can share it with his classmates.
That is until the US Government uses the Red Cross's idea as an excuse to push for censoring video games.
It's a digression (and an apples-to-oranges one at that) but your experience is definitely not typical. I have a Samsung Epic (Sprint's Galaxy S variant) running their new EI22 Gingerbread stack (very likely the same userspace base you have). And I don't see this at all. I don't use the built-in mail app, preferring K9. And I don't use the default home screen (Launcher Pro is just plain better). But the transition to the home screen is always instantaneously animated. Certainly nothing like 2 seconds.

So I'd put that up to a plain old bug (albeit a really frustrating one, and knowing the Android ecosystem one unlikely to be fixed), not a platform misfeature.
I do not consider a username to be a secret information. But even if it was secret, having complex username just make thing complicated. And when it is too complicated, your users tend not to use your service at all.
I call it "biz dev jargon". The corporate hierarchy trains you to speak this way. The people at the top of the org chart have no clue what "we need a REST API for our Hadoop cluster " means or why they should even care, and if you do speak that way to them then they'll nod kindly at you then ask you to surrender your red stapler. You instead have to say "We're providing the customer with automated control over their own data processing." If you don't speak biz dev then the business owners don't understand you.
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I said 'posts like this' for a reason. I think people here are (probably 'were' by this point) responding to a general idea rather than the specific post (unfortunately).
Some CNN, I believe, news report comparing American politicians to Indian, Asian, and European politicians. Basically, Asian leadership were engineers and scientists so have a GTD attitude to policy. Which is contrasted to American politicians who come from all types of backgrounds, but the most powerful person in the room might not be the brightest.

And if you've been following the GOP debates lately you can see our leadership act like complete buffoons.
"Almost four million children in the UK do not own a book"
Isn't Google's staff working under NDA?

I love the open discussion about Android's weakest point and I appreciate opinions from all side, in particular those from inside Google -- but this uncoordinated communication on G+ addressing problems w/o delivering a solution damages Android's image to some extent.
I don't think checking "Asian" or "not Asian" makes a huge difference

My guess is that this is true in a narrow sense; it's just that if you check "Black/African American" or "Latino/Hispanic" you dramatically increase your chances of admission. At that point, the admissions officer does have an argument for what you add to the campus: your race. Asian is neutral in their book, but many more Asians are qualified for admission than can possibly be accepted. The result is de facto discrimination against Asians.

The effects are vicious even when the intent is good. But the road to hell, etc., and it helps to consider a case where we can all agree that the intent was evil: the numerus clausus law, which required that university admissions reflect the ethnic composition of the broader community, passed in Hungary under the "White Terror" regime of Admiral Horthy. Its intent was to keep Jews out of academia. Whether the professed goal is to keep out the Jews or to ensure diversity by letting the "right" groups in, the effect is the same.
> If simple math isn't valuable to your profession, it might at least be worth a think about how valuable your "profession" might be in the first place.

I regularly end up doing simple math for people who cannot, including those in management. And that's not even counting the programs I have written.

Apparently, a lot of people have forgotten how to deal with simple fractions, to say nothing of simple 2D geometry. Most of you probably have no idea how many windows have ended up screwed up or back ordered because of this...
I don't disagree with what you've written, and the relative thing is a problem -- if people feel a bit shameful that their new device isn't as slick as the last generation iPhone, it does hurt love of one's device a bit. That's why Android 4.0 takes big steps in the "be proud to show it off" realm.

However to the relative thing, to most smartphone users the things that matter are can I use Facebook, how is the picture quality, can I share videos, etc. Others want a keyboard, big and bright screen, etc. To normal users -- the ones buying the overwhelming bulk of devices -- this just isn't the big issue that it is on tech boards. It just isn't.
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"Proven itself" how, exactly? Last I checked Android devices were outselling iOS. Now, there's room for argument here about what the proper design is for a mobile OS. But if you're going to support your platform flamage with statements like "Consumers overwhelmingly demand" you need to synchronize the argument with the facts.
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But then you can't run a decent Window Manager like Windows 7.
A friend of mine is a 4th grade teacher. That means she teaches all subjects to her students, including Math.

She was an English major in college. She didn't take a math class her senior year of college. She took a CS Elective to fulfil her math requirement in college (that's where we met. The class met once a week and a different Grad student or Professor would give a talk about whatever project they were working on. Over the course of the semester we would have to write a page "report" about 3 of the talks we heard)

So, she graduated, then got a Masters in Education and then started teaching (among other subjects) Math to 9 year olds but she hadn't taken a math class in 6 years.

She not only didn't like math, but she actively avoided it for over half a decade and then she was tasked with teaching the basics to kids...

Part of the problem could be that there are lots of teachers like her, that don't even know how to do the math themselves.
"Lawsuits" are an easy scapegoat, but it's probably not a significant driving factor. For example, Texas has very strict tort reform laws which basically make it impossible to sue a doctor for malpractice. But defensive medicine hasn't faded at all in the four years since those laws took effect.

Structurally, our system is designed to over-treat. With co-pays, insurance, subsidized care, and contractual discounts, patients seldom are aware of the exact cost of treatment. How often do Doctors explain to patients up front both the tests to be performed and the line-item cost (both to you and to the payor) of each?

Most doctors don't, and realistically can't, know the cost for each patient under each plan. Usually, it's a binary decision for the doctor (covered or not covered).

Try it sometime. When your physician suggests a procedure, ask what the real cost is, and whether he/she thinks that the value of the results will be worth the expenditure compared to alternatives. It's simply not something that's "baked in" to the thought process of the medical profession either in medical school, residency, or thereafter.
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walking around helps you thinking too. Remember Aristotle and the peripateticians ("those who wander around").
That jumped out at me as well. I think there would definitely be a way to have most if not all of the underlying API calls set up to do this, without even needing to recompile the application.
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> In recent weeks, Mr. T, reportedly suffering from
> allergies, has already cut down more than a hundred
> of the oak trees on his English Tudor estate here,
> violating an unwritten code of esthetics in this
> picturesque town along the shore of Lake Michigan.

So it's immoral to cut down a bunch of trees on your property that are causing you allergies? Sorry, but I don't equate home owner's association-type rules (an 'unwritten' ones at that) with morality.

This is just a bunch of rich people complaining about the height of 'first world problems.'
1. While Christianity hasn't changed, science & medical capability is increasing.

2. This concern is legitimate. There are going to be people that do not have good quality of life, or even a good brain, after being brought back from cryonics. It's a price.

3. You're arguing for the status Q, not because it's the best, but because it's all we've ever known.
I think everyone who is cryonically frozen is ready to be shocked by the future. They understand moral relativity and how it varies with cultures, and they're ready to see what cool stuff our descendants will come up! After centuries of being frozen, I think that it will be legitimately interesting to meet someone from our age, and we may still be able to find a place in that world. I also think that we should be looking at what's best for the individual being frozen, not what's best for a hypothetical culture in the future. If I am reawakened in the far-flung future, I don't have any grand plans of reverting their culture.

4. I met a former employee of Alcor at a conference. She was also signed up with Alcor, and was currently working on cryonically freezing other tissues. She knew her shit, wasn't just locked into cultish thinking, and believed that there is a decent chance of some cryonically frozen people coming back.
An 'Indian Jasmine Revolution' is highly unlikely in India because there are at least the relatively free-and-fair elections that are/were completely absent in Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Yemen....

There might be massive corruption in the main parties, nationally, regionally and locally, but there is at least something of a choice and a possible release for the pressure-valve of public opinion.
I couldn't get the link to the Python version to work, but I wrote my own a while back.

https://github.com/sholiday/pyBKTree
Two words he says in this interview have likely had a greater impact on me than anything else I've read this year.

"Pick yourself."

He had a great blog post about it earlier this year:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/03/reject-the-t...
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That writing reminds me of a friend of mine who is dyslexic. I always have to sound out his writing to make sense of it.
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Personally I'm not worried about free calls via VOIP anymore. I have a plan on 3 UK with unlimited wifi and ~2000 minutes of calls a month for £25. I certainly couldn't use any more than that, and for any overseas calls, I can use Rebtel at next-to-nothing rates via a local number (ie included in the 2000 minutes).
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P.S. I remember hitting calculus in college and drawing the "hard" professor. ("Oooh", people exclaimed sympathetically.) I pulled an A+ and enjoyed the course, because the professor knew and cared about what he was teaching. He just insisted that you did, too.

That's usually what it means to be the 'hard' prof. I had a couple of those in CS and I took every class they offered. Most students would drop their classes so that always left me and just a couple others to have nearly a private class with a great professor.
Italy is doing the same but as usual, too late and too slow: http://www.dati.gov.it/
The $40 unlimited plan would seem to either not exist, or be this 2Gb plan with reduced speeds after 2Gb: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/mobile-broadband-plans.as...

Last night, I determined an hour of netflix on my at&t nexus is the better half of a gig, and twice that on a xoom lte I am testing. 2Gb of data is nothing -- but that does seem to be the $40 "unlimited" plan, in which unlimited means throttled speeds after 2Gb.
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Health insurance is not taxed when a company pays for it, but individuals need to pay for it with after tax dollars.

Assume you can sign up for plan A at your company that costs 200$ a month and covers everything you want. Or you can buy Plan B which costs 180$ a month for the same coverage.

Assuming your marginal tax rate is over 10% then plan A costs you less money. Now, most company's bundle healthcare so it's harder to get that money out of the equation, but for small company's it easy to negotiate if you can get heath care cheaper though your spouse etc.
Really, Apple is the only example you need. If even Apple permits easter eggs, you can take them for granted in the general case.
Agreed. The writer here doesn't seem to know what he's talking about. The reason things like WebKit tiles and images in tables don't populate while you're actively scrolling is because of an intentional choice on the part of the programmer. When you're touching the screen the run loop is put into a different mode than the default, and authors tend to write code such that expensive operations (like populating thumbnails in a table) simply don't occur unless the run loop is in the default mode. In fact, a naïve implementation of a tableview with thumbnails will populate those thumbnails as you scroll, and this has a noticeable effect on frame rates.
On the second point, you're correct for 5.0 at the very least - I just tried it. Touching and even actively panning back and forth (never releasing) doesn't even pause the loading-bar updating, and I even discovered badges update during this as well.

For 4.x, if I remember correctly, it would pause the rendering. But I experimented a little then too, and it didn't pause the install at all - it'd just jump when you released.
> If you are a developer or a reviewer and you regularly use an iOS device and an Android device, the difference is evident and jarring. If you're an end-use it quickly disappears and is a non-issue. It just isn't a real problem for end users.

Except when they're trying out different devices looking to buy one.

Also, to a certain extent people put up with stuff like this because they don't know it can be better. E.g. Windows's shitty move/resize for all those years. But do you think, in the face of OS X, Windows could've continued to do without compositing up to now?
IE6 is at 1% in the US. Time to stop supporting it.

http://www.ie6countdown.com/

Just give users a warning that they need to upgrade.
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This is an extremely useful service coded by a friend of mine:
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I'm getting a bit tempted to start coding :)

Do you think there is any room in this field (ie web mail), though?
Well, get writing your own post and then submit it to HN. </cheeky>
I heard theory that there will be no other sentient creatures on Earth because humans will destroy them. I read this theory from article about Birutė Galdikas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birut%C4%97_Galdikas) who is studying orangutans. Let's not forget neanderthals as well in this context.
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Interesting information. I am curious if they can tell whether this will be the same over time or if things such as Node.js and other languages will take over.

I figure being a team player will probably never change.
Maybe they actually think it's realistic to hire a couple of million people to screen online content. After all, they have more than a billion people, and they also have extensive experience with their outsourced call centers.
but who will watch the watchers?
off-topic : was kinda cool that in the video there was a guy with a Punta del Este T-shirt, that's where I'm from.
This varies by carrier, I don't think it has anything to do with the software.
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For most people, dealing with any math is parroting, which is the problem. Creating proofs of simple things is well within the grasp of bright high school students, and is a wonderful experience -- I feel sorry for anyone who misses out on it. Really, very little traditional mathematics is required to enjoy proving that there is no solution to the bridges of Konigsberg problem, no way to cover a chess board with dominoes leaving only opposite corners exposed, or no largest prime.
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Nice job blaming socialized healthcare for the greek situation. Has there been a single serious or unserious comment blaming their problems on socialized healthcare? Glenn Beck wouldn't even do that.

Germany has socialized healthcare too, FWIW. Cheaper cost per capita than our system, with better results.
> Mr. Sibal

> fucking ridiculous.

"Sibal" actually means "fucking" in Korean. Coincidence?
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I'd rather an organization learn from their supporters and change their vote based on the wants of their customers than hold steadfast to an unjust/unpopular idea. It'd be nice if they got it right in the first place, but you can't fault them for changing their stance once they realized who it would be hurting.
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I would never give one online service write permissions to all of my other online services.

I would consider using something like this if it were entirely self-hosted, and open-source. I already avoid single-sign-on; I would also avoid single-sign-off.
Exactly what I would have liked to write if I could have found the wording...

I have been using twitters bootstrap on everything I write since I came across it. This seems very similar
It's a known issue and people have been complaining about it for years now: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434
"Last I checked Android devices were outselling iOS."

Source? There have been many reports of Android phones outselling the iPhone, but I am not familiar with the ones about Android devices outselling iOS devices (iPod touch, iPad, etc.)