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Many things from the blog. So far, the best bits of the book are repetitions of the blog (reasonably enough...). Concepts like:

- If you can't fail, you can't learn

- Growth hypothesis & Value hypothesis as the two first root hypotheses to check

- "Innovation accounting" - keeping track of things so you can validate your learning as much as possible

I think Lean is a great framework to apply entrepreneurial skills, so long as it's not followed dogmatically, of course...
Should've mentioned I was referring too earlier models (not 4 and 4S). And maybe "crappy" was a bit too emotive. Just referring to Apple's wise choice of cost saving with 3mp when many used 5 and some overspeced to 8 or 13.
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Meant: In all probability, your projections will start......
I don't think anyone has mentioned the discount code yet; it might still be active (bd50 for 50% off; it worked for me about 6 hours ago):
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Here is a link from my favorite website. It's a little dense but Zerohedge is known for their deep financial analysis with a libertarian leaning.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-making-chinas-epic-...
I agree. First identify what you really want to be and go on that route. Being technically inclined, will definitely make you earn more money and respect than management. Me think :-)

You can't do both, trust me.
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Show HN: My first "full-stack" project, Cinematic
http://cinematicapp.com

Why build another movie showtimes app? Because other apps are cluttered with a lot of ads, irrelevant info (crew listings?), and take a lot of taps to actually get at the good stuff, the showtimes!

I made what I wanted: a fast, simple, no-frills movie showtimes app.

Additionally, this is my first completed, full-stack project.

The showtimes are scraped and fed using an API delivered through a Sinatra app hosted on Heroku. The app is 100% designed and programmed by me, and uses no images in-app, except the navigation bar.

Try it out and let me know what you think.
Goodbye, Apple... forever... mostly...
I have been developing web apps in PHP and Python on MacOSX for the past five years. IMHO, it really is a nice UI, and there's lots of apps.

Sadly, I have run into too many problems trying to run pretty standard Linux software, like RabbitMQ or PostgreSQL on my Macbook Pro, so I'm dumping it.

Forever.

The last straw was when I tried to install RabbitMQ using Macports, and it took 4 1/2 hours, and that's using a 24GB SSD I have installed on the ExpressCard/32 slot.

Even after it was done, it wouldn't allow connections, despite being properly configured (and yes, the firewall was turned off).

So, I dug out an old HP laptop (dv9000), circa 2007, popped in a 16GB SSD (yep, only 16GB), and installed LinuxMint 12. Within 20 minutes, I was in business.

On my "new" laptop, rabbitmq-server took 2 minutes to install, even though it's half the power of my Macbook Pro (granted, on OSX, macports wants to build everything, but still, 4.5 hours to build erlang? seriously???)

That, plus Apples ridiculous antics regarding developers have worn too thin on me. I'm leaving you for a better, leaner, less restrictive environment.

Don't leave the light on. I won't be back.

Well..

That is, until I want to write an iPhone app.. since you won't let me do it on any other platform.

Sheesh. Feels like Microsoft all over again.

- PyDev
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And are those levels in this one? It's easy for them to select web friendly levels or create a couple more or omit them.
The fact that he's saying that apple tried to put carriers afterwards and lookout for consumers first is total bull. ATT iPhone exclusivity. His whole essay is invalid.

Apple tried to control everything. That's the truth. Google interfered and shit hit the fan.

This guy just likes apple and hates android. Like a true apple fanboy.
Same here in Norway, although I believe carriers have control similar to the US in larger European countries such as UK and Germany, at least.
Actually, the numbers do add up nicely. The hedge fund industry (notoriously hard to define, alas) is close to $2 trillion in size and has been that way for several years, give or take a few hundred billion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund 3rd paragraph.
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Clickable: http://cinematicapp.com
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They are already. They dont care about that.
"Many Android devices have locked bootloaders. I think this is a despicable anti-consumer design choice, but nobody's taking action against it."

This struck a cord with me.

I own an iPhone, and an Acer Iconia tablet, both of which are locked down. I've jail-broken, or rooted the devices, but the fact that I can't legitimately install custom roms, etc, frustrates the hell out of me.

One advantage I see (but don't agree with) for the iPhone being locked down is users locked into the app store, but for the Iconia?
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Tried that, but not all the recipes I need are supported... I suspect there are just not enough users on OSX needing more vanilla Linux solutions.
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This argument is pointless, because it's about only the U.S, which is a small proportion of phones used in the world. The rest of the world does not have the insane carrier monopolies and unusual pricing structures that are prevalent in the U.S. For the rest of the world, phones sell on the merits of their software and hardware - and that's what android should be measured on.

And when it comes to that, android is winning.
Duplicate article. Lots of discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3441451
It probably means "Once we have 100m users we'll flip it, retire and raise tulips on the private island".
And yet.. He still hates "Android" instead of US carriers and non-existing regulation.
Related (possibly identical) story posted recently with 200+ points: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3441451
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>However, wireless Internet is not monopolized.

In the USA? You're kidding, right?
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From http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/12/19/optimizing-pic...

As several comments suggested, we also considered shrinking the size of the image and displaying it at random positions and slight rotations on the screen to minimize any risk from smudges. We knew from usability feedback that decreasing the size of the image both increased the difficulty of properly entering the gesture and made the login experience feel less immersive; however, if there were a significant improvement to security, we wanted to consider the costs and benefits. What we discovered was that while shifting the image could reduce the buildup of smudges in specific spots, there were even more prominent “clouds” of taps, lines and circles that were identical relative to each other. With this information, an attacker could easily figure out the gestures relative to each other. With that information, it was a simple exercise to move them around the picture until they appeared to coincide with significant elements of the picture. There wasn’t a noticeable improvement in security and we were able to measure significant degradations to the fast and fluid user experience. In reality, using smudges is very difficult.
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Microsoft surprised me that they didn't block out other browsers. Google didn't surprise me at all and the game is blocked in Opera. It works when user-agent is changed.

It's sad when company acting as someone for open and standard web is doing this. And Google is doing this user-agent sniffing across all their products.
Look at a v4 device. They've come a long way from Android 1.0.
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I'm wondering what it would take to run your project on an old, jailbroken iPhone with a static IP on my LAN. Have you tried this?
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Sounds like a great way to remember your gesture. But it also sounds like a great way to pick an extremely obvious gesture (e.g. outline of the house) that someone else can guess. If your gesture is based on prominent features in the picture, that greatly limits the search space for an attacker.
I would start the message by stressing that the SOPA WONT stop piracy. A 13 y old kid can bypass the name-to-IP problem in just about two minutes.
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Quick suggestion. Show the movie times screen as well on the web site. This is what it says after all
"It's simple.
Cinematic only shows the information you need when deciding to see a movie: the title, the length, the rating, and the showtimes. Nothing more"

I actually looked over the screen on the website twice to see if I missed the showtimes.
Infinetly Beta would disagree.
Branded Sony on the front but has a Sony Ericsson logo on the back. Is that purposeful transition marketing or just an old back image?
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The Indian security establishment with 'overbearing powers' is only obsessed with Pakistan and China.

Internal security is not the task of military. Period.

All terrorist attacks in India (except Kashmir and 26/11) are carried out by homegrown terrorists with indirect external help.
as a new us immigrant who is originally from mainland china and lives in the us for 1.5 years, I have a totally different opinion with this article. the advice I always give my friends who still live in china is 'leave china as soon as possible, for yourself and your family'.
Saying cctv gave fair news just make me laugh. and food was great? he didn't know the extracted oil from drain or dead animal? the freedom you have in china is to download pirated softwares/videos and make your free speech when facing the wall. well, those were just my complaints, but what I didn't agree with this guy was he didn't see the big picture. china is now facing a dead end, and I don't see a way to turn around. the big conflict between gov and citizens, the huge gap between rich and poor, the aging population....
> What I hate is what Android has become.

What I hate is what Apple has become, and this is the reason I will never own another iPhone. It's a fantastic phone and changed everything in the mobile landscape, but Apple has become an extremely evil company with their ridiculous success and I won't support that.

MG can dislike Google for similar reasons. That's fine. The difference is he transfers that hate to Android. I don't hate the iPhone, I just hate Apple.

And I don't really buy his reasoning anyways. He has written hundreds of articles about how bad Android is. If the real reason for him hating Android was because of Google's net neutrality cave-in, he would have mentioned it by now. Like a hundred times (he likes to repeat himself).

I feel like now that Android has finally grown into a mature and robust OS (it was definitely a bit janky prior to 2.3), he doesn't have any justifiable reason to hate it anymore, so he's grasping at straws. It just seems silly.
The usual way for calculating those numbers has faulty assumptions. It assumes that price of software pirated equals amount of revenue lost. It also assumes that if piracy were absolutely not possible, the customer would be willing and able to pay full price for the software. Both assumptions rest on shaky foundations.
Show HN: New Online Price Comparison Service for India - Smartprix.com
Use Smartprix to quickly obtain free and unbiased information about mobile phones before making a purchase decision. The website also offers shoppers the ability to view and compare mobile phones and their respective pricing information on different online stores in India, thereby enabling users to ultimately find the right product from the right store at the best price.
Currently the site has mobile phones as the only product, but we plan to add other products in the near future.

Please take a look: http://www.smartprix.com

Any feedback or suggestion is appreciated.

PS: The site is intended to cater Indian audience.
Done, great idea, hope it raises awareness.
I'm French, and moved to the US a couple years ago. The high price and awkwardness of internet and mobile phone offers here compared to France is one of the biggest tech differences that struck me, as I always had imagined that the US would be far ahead.

I still don't own a smartphone (I use Google Voice most of the time at home/work, and a pay-as-you-go phone the rest of time), because the offers and price just don't make sense to me.

It's clearly a market that's ripe for disruption, and there are a couple interesting and promising startups in that space, although I'm not sure how likely it is to change given the huge monopoly and control the carriers have consistently had.
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I very much agree with you. Although this week all the Google+ stuff first unavailable in Opera is now visible.

Maybe Google is just playing safe and only launches when they are 100% sure the browser supports the app.
Can anyone really think that a phone that sells for more than 500 without subsidy can be sold for 99 with ads making up for the difference?
> I'm from India and if I start to find a good Haskell or Scala programmer

In general, if you need to find a good programmer for any language (Python, JavaScript, Java, ...), you will be searching for a long time. The only difference is that with Haskell, OCaml and other advanced languages, usually the first programmer you will find is already very good.
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Blogspam version of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3444690.
M.G. Siegler wants to get rid of the different mafia syndicates that make his life miserable. His solution is to give all the power to a single syndicate that will rule us all.

Who has the absolute control in the Android ecosystem? My cell carrier has certainly not. Google cannot even stop me from installing the Amazon market app. The device manufactuers may seem very powerful: They make and service both the hardware and the (Android-based) operating system. But even the manufactuer does not control the system more than any of the other parties. They need Google's services, they need the carriers, and they need us.

The user. We can decide if we want to buy our devices from Verizon or from Samsung or from Google. But most important, we can choose what software we install on the device.

Never before had so many users that much power over their mobile experience. The user rules the desktop PC, and now, thanks to Android, he get's to rule the mobile PC as well. We're not there, but we're getting there.

M.G. Siegler wants to replace the control of many software providers with the control of a single one. This is short sighted.

Android gave us a democracy instead: It's sometimes slow to get something done, because every decision has to be fought over with the different partie's interest. But we, the users, can vote. And we have rights.
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MG Siegler vastly overestimates the importance of the Droid deal with Verizon. There are hundreds of Android devices running on dozens of carriers around the world. The Verizon deal is completely inconsequential.
> I seriously doubt any single copy deprives movie producers of $100M.

No, but creating the first copy costs that much.

Creating the second copy costs a few cents.
> But I cannot respect their decision to continue to work on this platform that perpetuates our imprisonment.

This sentence about Android coming from an iPhone enthusiast is priceless.
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I'm curious why Mozilla's Prism (XUL Runner) wouldn't be a candidate for forking in a project like this since it would allow for cross-platform (Windows/ Linux support)?
I like that idea especially building it into the operating system. I also want to point out that you should be able to choose the level of unlocking based on your input to the first lock screen. Androids gesture unlock system would actually work pretty well for that
It's been hard in China. The realestate prices are heavily inflated and nobody wants to buy at the moment. Prices are already dropping. Selling is really hard.

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Exactly. This seems even less secure than the Android "lock pattern" mechanism, which at least provides a grid of nine features and no obvious reason to choose any particular set. (Despite that, I suspect many people use the same patterns.) The examples given in the article provide little to no security, while giving a novice user the illusion of security. Ideally, this ought to have gone through extensive practical security testing: what pictures and patterns do users pick, and how easily can others guess those patterns?

I could understand the aversion to passwords if people had to remember a pile of them, but they don't. You only need to memorize one: the password to unlock your personal system. Can people really not remember one secure password?
I've asked my Chinese friends that same question. I've been told that rental prices aren't what we're used to. It's not lucrative business now.
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> Google’s original vision for the Nexus One. Google intended to sell it for $99 without a contract and unlocked.

Right... Nobody in their right mind should be able to believe that Google planned to sell hardware at a loss of hundreds of dollars, in order to gain a user worth a couple of dollars a year, for a couple of years. But not only does Siegler appear to believe this, but he considers the non-appearance of that phone as a betrayal.
I disagree (again). If you are a technology focused startup, chances are you are looking for highly talented people for your core team. You usually don't want the average PHP or Java Joe; you want more! And those you are looking for are usually not afraid to learn learn yet another language, if they don't already know.
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I'm not saying you can't get the job done in a mainstream language; but I postulate that the mindset and attitude towards code of a good Haskell or Scala programmer is vastly different from your less expensive PHP or Java programmers. Some want to push the limits of what's technologically possible and others just want their paycheck by the end of the month; they are in both camps; are they evenly distributed?
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> It seems like MG expected a lot of Google, and Google let him down.

I don't buy it. He will always find ways to fault Google, if his writing style over the years is any indication.
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I know a prison when I see it. Paying carriers a little more than if they had been turned into dumb pipes is not prison. Having my content restricted to Apple's disneyfied subset of the world is as close as any prison metaphor gets to the real thing.
>Can people really not remember one secure password?

Answer: No - and then you're asking to get fully compromised when the (good and secure!) password gets revealed from some service somewhere not following best practices.
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