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Apple does the same kind of thing, regarding promisee: "You don't need that function, trust us... until we build something that has that function. Then you need it and can't live without it." Just like google, Apple makes promises that later turn out to not be true.

I've never bought into the argument that an honest arsehole is better than someone trying to be nice and failing, 'because at least they're straight up about it'. It's nonsense, and Apple deal in duplicity just like Google do. But anyway, please don't paint them as honest, because they're not.
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ah, this is just icing on the cake:

https://twitter.com/#!/ckindel/status/156623373168943105

what a clown.
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I love thoroughly referenced blog posts like this. It's nice to discover some of the inspiration behind the ideas.

Though I do have a question. He mentions the following:

"You can cultivate habitual use by careful observation of the most important tasks your users need to accomplish. If you understand the situations your customers are in when they're accomplishing tasks in your software, then you're on the right track."

What would one to do to understand the "situations" customers are in? Is he referring to the state of mind a person would be in while completing a task?
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I think you may argue that some languages are in practice more or less pure by how much they encourage/enable avoiding mutability and side effects but of the 4/5 languages he discusses I'm pretty sure only haskell is purely functional. Scala Scheme and SML/ocaml are all impure functional that allow mutability/side effects. (Scala is considered an object functional hybrid by some and an object oriented language dressed as functional by others - try to avoid flamewar).

Some Examples:
I think Twitter uses Scala(see above) for a number of their back-end services (see http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2010/05/how_and_why_twitter_u...). Foursquare uses scala at least on the front end http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1139062 . This page has a few other big success http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1658.

Haskell has pandoc(http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) a cmdline tool to convert beetween markup formats(also a library with binding to several languages) I think it supports a wider range of formats/fidelity then alternatives.

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Actually it's reinforced my beliefs of the proper way to build these systems. We've actually continued using all the tools and technologies we were using at BackType (Cascalog, ElephantDB, Storm, our schema, etc.)
State schools pay maybe 7000 RMB per month for 20 hours of classroom teaching per week. Private schools double that for nearly double the workload.

I'd guess most teachers are probably pulling 15k USD per year between their main job and a couple of tutoring or corporate gigs on the side. It's better money than sitting in the basement, but it helps to keep things in perspective: a minimum wage job in California makes close to 24k these days and you can drink the milk.
MG Siegler (and many of us who travel) are well aware that in Europe, there is a lot more freedom regarding carriers and pay-as-you-go SIM cards. He explicitly added the "in the US" to make that clear.

I assure you that most of us realize that the $199 iPhone we are getting with a 2 Year $70/month contract locked to AT&T is really a $1879 contract value.
Thanks for the personal perspective, it's very interesting considering how inflammatory the article is written. I've seen a lot of the Ivy League "I deserve a cushy 200k+ job" mindset, I'm just disappointed this guy didn't get a reality check before leaving
I really don't get HOW and WHY people want government regulations, the same government that is pushing for SOPA.

Government regulations of the market are only useful in one case only: to prevent abuses from established monopolies. However, wireless Internet is not monopolized. And you should checkout the competition in Europe. It's absolutely crazy.

Google buddying up with Verizon to change
net neutrality in the mobile space ...

Actually they haven't "changed" anything. They just left things as they were before. The Internet is not were it is today because the government told ISPs how they should operate. Customers did.
Who's behind the terrorist attacks? People that are tired of the corruption in the Government, or some organized crime groups?
Well - the difference here, of course, is that Apple later delivers functionality that it hadn't committed to, whereas Google is failing to deliver on promises it made.

I can live with the first - I'm getting more than expected.
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I agree, this guy really hasn't seen the ugly side of China if he's writing like this. It's a scary goddamn place, and as much as everyone on Reddit/HN complains about the US, we're still lightyears ahead of China horror stories.
Just to mention, the WSJ link on your homepage is messed up (http://onespot.wsj.com/technology/2011/12/06/c5a58/reverse-r...)
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It's starting to work in the US as well. You can now buy a full price unlocked iPhone directly from Apple and prepaid plans are starting to get better.
Sometimes folks need to realize that there are parts of the World that aren't the US

http://shawndrape.tumblr.com/post/15606937775/why-i-hate-and...
I agree with markrickert on this. Apps that look prettier and work better (usually) have more sales. And improving those things (usually) improves sales, as far as I've been able to tell.

Screenshots are part of it. Word of mouth is also a big factor. If people actually do like your app you'll have positive reviews -- it's commonly said that reviews/ratings don't matter, but for some apps they seem to matter quite a bit.
> you never asked if people would pay

That's off the point. Virtually no one who asked or cheered for the service ended up even trying it. I conversed with many designers privately beforehand and they were unanimously saying that - yes, this is something that I've been waiting for and something that I would personally use a lot.

The takeaway here is that the community validation of an idea may not meaning much, even when it is very explicit.

> What's your next project?

I'm leaning towards opening a restaurant :)
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I love it - does anyone know if there is an iOS app that has this functionality?

I read the title and instantly though how cool it would be to do exactly what the article described.
Thanks for your comments. I just wanted to clarify something:

win just by showing up, not by building a [great] app

This is explicitly NOT what I said. I don't think you can win in the long run without creating something great, but great and super premium aren't the same thing. I've bought apps for $1.99 that were great that I would never have paid $19.99 for because they just didn't provide that much value. So what I was trying to say was that if you're going to try and create something worth $19.99 in value, you can either pick a saturated area and try to be the super premium offering, OR you can pick a completely underserved but hungry niche and create something good that solves a need.
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Aw, that's a shame. I was one of the people that paid for the beta version, while Alexander was still actively engaging the growing community behind the editor. I remember when I first moved back to Linux the only thing I really missed about my Windows setup was E. Luckily that move to Linux forced me to re-learn Vim, finally making it over 'the bump' and making it my main editor, so I watched the slow, painful death of E as just a curious spectator.

Still, a shame. It was a great editor.
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You get that message fairly often because the implementation uses continuations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation). This is one functional style for making a stateless protocol (HTTP) into a stateful one. HN could use a different design (one with less state) and avoid these issues with a few different trade-offs. This is an implementation detail rather than something specific to FP vs. non-FP. Also, best I can tell, HN still stores all of its data in flat files rather than a traditional datastore.
Worst carrier? By what metric? Data started to degrade on AT&T mostly because the suddenly popularity of smart phones people actually wanted to use for music, video, web. I was on AT&T before the iPhone was announced after switching between T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon.

Also, I believe Apple talked to Verizon first about the iPhone but they wouldn't play ball.
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Absolutely. Mostly the extra clicks though with the slide up. If we already have to swipe a pattern to unlock, make that picture show up as soon as you wake the phone.
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My god, there are so many bugs, if this allows me to get off it I will sing praises to the heavens at the moment of my emancipation.
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Yeah, it doesn't quite account for the hard limits. Even by his equation, there should be a few 140 year olds strutting around.
Hilariously enough, I'm currently working in a satellite office of a company based out of Ann Arbor Michigan... I'm pretty happy with how things are run so far, but there's always the thought that maybe things are only great because of how mobile I am, and the worry that if I make myself immobile things will take a turn for the worse.

I've seen it happen to people more talented than I am...
After trying a non-adjustable standing desk that I built for a period of two weeks, I came to a similar conclusion. It initially felt pretty good, but after a few hours had passed I ended up taking a lot of breaks that I normally wouldn't have, simply because my legs couldn't keep up.

Also, my feet were in some serious pain for the first few days, even with a thick floor mat, and continued to lightly ache afterwards.

Anyone thinking about doing something similar may want to read this brief article about some of the potential risks in standing up all the time: http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/13/the-dangers-of-sitting...
I see what you're saying. You're saying that it's a moot point because you asked if they would use it and they said yes, but then they didn't actually use it.

But the thing you have to guard against most in customer development is a false positive (am I using that right?), where people say they will sign up, buy, whatever, but then they don't. So anything you can do to get closer to a fully validated yes is worth it.

Lots of ideas are neat and things I might say I'd use, but will I whip out my credit card and give you $20 / month or whatever? The ideal is to get a commitment to pay before you build (prepay, pay $1 for the beta, kickstarter, whatever).

However, I think if you had really asked that question and really hammered whether they'd PAY, you might have gotten a little more honesty about whether they would actually value it. You wouldn't have gotten perfect honesty, but I bet the enthusiasm would have waned significantly if you had asked "would you pay $20 / month for this" instead of "would you use this".

But sometimes it just sucks and it goes wrong in the end no matter what you do.

I'm working on a project that's very similar in terms of stage, needing to be validated, uniqueness, etc. So my plan is to reach out to a ton of people, see if they have the problem, see if they'd pay for the solution, and then build a landing page with a giant price on it and see if I can get people to click on the sign up button. Before I write a line of code. I'm tired of building things no one wants or will pay for.
Good question. I think its a couple of diffrent things.

1. Java is not really evolving, people are frustrated

2. Multicore is difficulte and FP claim they are better at it.

3. Complexety of ever bigger codebases

4. Java Script not longer the worst language in the world, people start to understand whats powerful about it and want to know what more is possible.
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i've also been using a jerker for over 10 years now, with the last few in stand-up mode:

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they really are great desks and are very configurable.
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What you did to help seems very friendly and supportive, but it's apparent to me that you're taking out some unmentioned frustrations in this post. Truly, it sucks to give someone a shot and not get the thanks you deserve for that. This guy sounds like a flake.

I still think that it's possible that you did a nice, commendable thing to help him, AND it was a dead-end job to him. It sounds like changing things up was exactly what he needed. Also, moving to a (very) foreign country to make a living doesn't sound easy- I think it's easier for me to "hack it" here in Silicon Valley than to move overseas in search of happiness.

Different strokes for different folks.
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Thanks for the tip. I kinda adapted to this routine and it working for me effectively.
> What no one knew at the time, and I only heard months later, was Google’s original vision for the Nexus One. Google intended to sell it for $99 without a contract and unlocked. Yes, a $99 unlocked phone, subsidized by Google ads.

haha... that's a good one.
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Not to mention he is experiencing China in the most boring way possible. Going to a country to teach English is great if you are looking to offset the cost of a vacation, but is hardly a long-term career path. Not only are you not learning anything new, but your job is to distance yourself from the culture you are living in. You're certainly not going to learn much Chinese, and the only culture you learn is the kind that needs to be 'corrected' to interact with your home country.
Could the smudge hack be fixed by using more than one picture/passwordswipe?
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I don't think that is generally true. Historically the growth of human populations has been exponential.
Actually.. Apple paired with Cingular. Because, as it turns out, Apple too had problems convincing carriers to take on the idea.

AT&T bought cingular, realised it was a good thing and got exclusivity in exchange for better plans for consumers.
I find it annoying that we're innovating different ways of doing the exact same thing: switching from completely locked to completely unlocked.

I want near-instant access to a notepad for jotting down thoughts. I want more locking for reading existing notes. Still more for accessing email. I want a strong lock protecting apps related to finances.

The simple lock (just to prevent pocket-dialing) should be like a slider. The intermediate lock could be this drag pattern thing (which is just a friendly version of the Android drag lock). The strong lock could be a coded sequence with buttons that change location.
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Why strive for quality, eh?

Maybe we should just pat Twitter, Facebook, etc. on the back for what they provide and say "hey guys, appreciate the almost-accurate info."
Actually there's some solid research behind this. If I recall correctly, people naturally find it much easier to remember which parts of a picture to hit rather than remembering a password.

Unfortunately, I can't find the research and sample that I remember reading about a while back--Google is spammed with Windows 8 stuff when I search for it and I'm terminally lazy. However, I definitely recall reading about research in this vein.
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I think one way to mitigate the smudge factor is just to rotate the picture each time. I am willing to bet (despite being totally uninformed :)) that a person will remember where to touch on the picture rather than the screen, so rotating the picture will not make it much more difficult to enter the password.
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About as sensationalist a title as the recent 'Woman in distress, nipple falls off' I've seen by a local paper.
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Regarding the Olympic ticket thing, from what I can tell the tickets weren't fake, it's just a contrived law that you can't resell Olympic tickets.
I'd be appreciative to read a more informative and well-formed counter-argument instead of pages of thinly veiled attacks on the author.

I for one recognise that they're all the 'devil'. It's about time we stopped pretending that these companies are trying to do us a favour. They don't report favours and hugs in their quarterly earnings results.
I believe they want to feel the power, they believe they're "serving" the public, making a financial sacrifice exactly because they could earn a lot more outside of politics. I think this combination could lead some of them to believe that they deserve to earn more money for their hard work.

Also, it's not unheard of that some politicians are opportunists without very strong convictions one way or the other. At least that's what I sometimes feel when I hear them talk about stuff in a way that betrays utter incompetence.
I think it's time to choose a more modern language. Having to hack this is such a prehistoric notion.