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To be fair, I think consumers are pretty well aware that this is a stunt. No one I can see is looking at the results and claiming any kind of objective superiority. What MS wants is just to get you into the store and show you their cool phones -- "Can your phone do this?" stuff. So they dangle a carrot (the prize) to get you in the door.

Where it went off the rails is that somehow the store staff didn't feel comfortable actually awarding the prizes. That is shady, and it implies that the incentives are screwed up internally: if the stores get punished for prize awards, do they likewise get hurt for providing other stuff with dollar values attached (what would normally be called "good customer service")?
It is what it is. Hacker News is a no-frills site. I like it that way :) If it really does bother you, perhaps some greasemonkey might work for you to save you from having to retype the address or hit the favorite again?
Could you make it so the sidebar doesn't cover 40% of the screen and thus most of the content?
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I've seen plenty. Mainly around gaming stuff like mods, or even smaller games where the developer released versions on MegaUpload or similar sites. The only specific examples I can think of off the top of my head are NSFW and I'd rather not link them here, but they definitely exist, and MegaUpload was always the easiest to use of the bunch.
It was built around color palettes... but is much more than that now. We have... professional desktop color & vector image editing software. Themeleon is a twitter profile tool linked right from Twitter.com. A creative community with 2M visitors per month and ad revenue on those pageviews.

It's enough to keep the doors open and the company growing... but CreativeMarket.com will be where the meat of our revenue will come from.
Did you try:

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How about "rezound"? That's not easy to spell, it's not sexy and it's neither distinctive or appropriate.
What's this? Python? Apache? MySQL? But I thought you had to be running beta-release key value stores, esoteric web servers, and experimental programming languages if you wanted to scale!

/s
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This is how autojump does it:

export PROMPT_COMMAND="$AUTOJUMP ; ${PROMPT_COMMAND:-:}"
Isn't this what Ting is doing in the USA? They use the Sprint network.
As others have mentioned, the universe won't let us see what happens when a photon travels through the slits as a wave. It's as if God puts down a curtain, and instead shows it to us as a particle instead. We are not allowed to see what really happens. It is this phenomenon that makes me believe our Universe is in fact artificial, a digital simulation.
Since More's Law stalled there is no incentive to buy a new PC / Laptop these days. So the industry had to invent new form factors to sell new devices.
It is not a Post PC age it is a Post PC growth age.
That does not mean nobody is using real computers, only nobody is buying them because the old one is good enough.
Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Or I could just kick off the HTTP endpoint with a browser favorite (even on mobile)
Here's what I think: I'll make up my own mind.

I don't get distracted like you and PG do. It seems to me you're blaming the device for a lack of discipline on your part. It's not designed to instill discipline. It's designed for convenience.

There's nothing wrong with "consuming". I read books, good articles, and so on. I read more than ever.

I don't understand the apparent war against this. It's not like everyone is hanging out, wasting time playing Angry Birds all day. Or maybe they are. But it doesn't matter to me, because I'm not.
It does that by taking away light from the panel behind them.

So this only works if you are the only person in the area who uses solar cells, and if you only have a single row of them.

In certain applications it makes sense - remote isolated installations. But if you are trying to cover your entire roof it makes no sense (you can only use these in a single row, not an entire roof), and if your neighbor wants some light for his garden he won't let you add so much shade.
Well, a lot of people seem to want them, so I guess the strategy is working!

Joking aside, I also dislike HTC's naming strategy from last year. They've created a lot of random names/brands for their new phones, with no sense of continuation. It got confusing really fast, and I'm sure it has something to do with why their revenue took a dip in Q4 last year.

The One strategy seems to be working so far, but I'm worried they'll mess it up once again by launching 20 "One" phones throughout the year, at which point the One branding becomes as good as worthless.

Unfortunately, Samsung seems to be doing the same with the Galaxy name lately. They put it on everything from the crappy low-end phones and tablets, to the very best devices. What are consumers supposed to think about the brand?
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Hey guys! This is the developer here. I've been trying to figure out how to write Android games lately and this is the result - I've tried to make this as professional as more experienced developers and hope you guys like the result. I'm submitting this to HN because I'd love some feedback and because honestly, much of what I've learned about programming and software development over the past few years has been from this community.

I'd love feedback and comments. This is the second time I'm working on this game, and the first time I've released this to the Android store. People seem to like it so far, but suggestions would be great! Use the promo code 'HackerNews' if you'd like to upgrade to the full version for free - I'm really more interested in feedback than money from you guys.

Thanks!
Maybe Microsoft could try a challenge of uploading a review to Yelp from your Windows Phone. The lack of apps and full functionality as compared to their iOS and Android equivalents is crippling.
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Yes. Anyone who says otherwise is using some strong cognitive dissonance.
I also think that your comment about people having
written top-down recursive descent parsers for a long
time without concrete historical reference is
suprising

I do not have concrete knowledge or evidence about it, it was a statement based on intuition alone, sorry about that.

The reason why I said it is because the first parser I ever wrote (something like 10 years ago), was a top-down LL(k) parser and I had absolutely no idea about what I was doing, but in the end it worked. Many programmers are choosing LL(k) implementations for their manually-built parsers because they are so easy to reason about and build manually.

I was under the impression that C can be described as LL(k). C++ definitely can't be.

About a compiler's implementation, I realize that it can get really messy, especially for statically typed languages and especially if you want to add type inference to it. Also agree on optimization. But the thing is, most people don't need to build turing-complete languages or need efficient translations to the target representation, they just need to parse DSLs or network protocols (hence my original comment).
> if you are comfortable with returning tuples, perhaps the inputs should be a tuple as well...

why should they?
Sorry, but while I'm a great supporter of consumer rights - even of things that many US citizens consider appalling, like our 2 year minimum warranty - I think there's a point at which the responsibility lies on the person; it's a gray area, but I believe MU had more than surpassed that. Otherwise, we should start suing knife makers for not including a label that says "Not to stab people", newspapers for link-baiting titles that scare readers, or even simple bad designs.

Besides, and even if they did maliciously cause people to overlook the free option, that still isn't tricking people into paying. They didn't exactly charge your CC when you clicked on the Premium button; people were willingly paying for access to the content by inserting their CC information and getting what they were looking for. Offering a service for a price that you can get otherwise for free is not tricking people.
I've played your game. It's quite good, I'm glad to see a port for Tilt to Live.
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How about this one:

I want to search "why do blue whales migrate"

Part-way through my search I stop to think. Here's what is in the search box so far: "why do bl"

Try it out yourself. I bet some people get pretty angry about that.
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I always thought it was a bug that view counts on YouTube varied depending on what page you saw them on. It can be different on the video view page, the channel page, and in your dashboard.

Turns out they're just making that shit up.
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Indeed. Bitcoin has always seemed like a neat proof of concept rather than a functional, production-ready-to-go idea. It needs a lot of little fixes, like the name issues you mentioned, fixed.
"Specially customized their phones"?

If you mean specially designed the phones to be efficient at every day tasks, then you are correct. Don't get all bent out of shape because of your loathing of Microsoft.
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I fully agree with Youtube faking data. However, I reckon they are faking a bit too much. Many times I would see 2000 likes and the video having 1700 views (Viral videos that is).

I knew the view counter wasn't propagated but the likes were and I was like: "Damn this is Youtube, kinda disappointing..."

I guess if both were propagated at the same time I wouldn't mind.
I'm honestly not sure if this is good news or bad news. However, congrats to Kyle, being acquired is no easy feat.

Now for some speculation:

My guess is that Forrst wasn't growing as much as it used to or stopped growing all-together. Looking at the alexa numbers, its popularity peaked in the middle of 2011. Pageviews took a huge dive, which is extremely alarming.

Maybe this is Kyle's attempt for a turnaround, or he simply realized a site can only go so far with limited resources. Obviously Alexa isn't 100% accurate, but it gives a decent estimation on where the site is trending.
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I agree, and I think Ben and Microsoft is doing it right. Its all in good spirit and they never directly put anyone down.
Couldn't carefully crafted C pretty much fix every potential case where another language could beat it?

Yes, but one runs into the same problems as for carefully crafted assembly:

- People who have the skills necessary to produce "carefully crafted" code don't come cheap.

- All careful crafting often ties the code to a specific target platform. For example, the gyrations one might through to make the code more SIMD-friendly might be detrimental to performance on a platform that lacks SIMD.
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The first 10 minutes are about monetization from one of the Youtube dev advocates. Skip to 9:45 to get to the "good stuff".

As an aside, this fellow is probably one of the best presenters I've seen from the pycon videos for this year. Confident, smooth, not reading from a computer screen or sheet of paper, clearly smart and in firm command of the subject matter.

I'd love to see more talks from him.
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Pointless... Because at the time you want to suck out performance of any of those, you would have to stick your guns to the provided macros or inline functions from Intel, ARM, IBM (PowerPC/AltiVec), etc. - and reimplement this using them - SSE2, AVX, whatever.

This is not even funny....

And packing three doubles in structures - good programming technique? Okay.. That's enough (it might be good sometimes, but not always)
Nope, you just need lots of cash.
I used to work for a web developer who worked on a well known campground company's site. We had a process that built static html pages out of an old Filemaker database and then synced them to a cluster of Windows web servers. That process has been in place since 2000 and there's no rush to change it because, frankly, it works pretty well.

I believe it started that way because our original developer didn't know anything else.
I'm from Saarland (the state where the vote was last night), and i voted for the pirate party last night.

They are not an anti copyright group. It's true that they want to see modifications made to overly strict copyright laws and oppose treaties like ACTA, data retention laws, web censorship laws (all of which have been proposed in germany in the last years).

Their core demands are:
* Improve overly strict copyright laws
* Improve transparency of government (open data, foia , etc)
* Improve the educational system to take advantage of the internet and other "new media" in class.
* Improve citizen participation in government by having public votes on more issues

They are also about the only party that has some competence when it comes to computers, the internet, etc

So, as a web-centric citizen, it was easy for me to vote for them.
>"not in output per square unit of area under the array"

It can be measured that way, and for many practical applications it is. Solar tracking a small surface area is easier than tracking a larger one, water management of six solar panel mounting penetrations through a roof is more efficient than for sixty penetrations.

Engineering efficiency shouldn't just be measured in a lab.

However, based on the article one standard measure of efficiency does seem to be addressed, kw-hrs/panel/day because of the claims of better performance at low incident angles.
This point would be valid, save for the fact that there a Yelp app on WindowsPhone.
As a note, I just followed along with Peter, using his posts to get a handle on scheme. Mine was https://github.com/arlaneenalra/Bootstrap-Scheme
I'm sorry but you need to explain that statement a little more for me. You say the iPhone is superior as a smartphone but you chose Android because it can do things the iPhone doesn't? Isn't it true then, at least in your case, the Android phone is the superior product? Do you use your Android device as something other than a smartphone? Could you specify what that might be?
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I think the problem with Clojure is that it does not translate to Lisp 1 for 1 or rather the other way, Clojure relies on many of the Java libs and therefore requires some mastery of the Java API's this does not translate over to other lisps. That being said, the Clojure market is small but healthy, I have received several job offers for Clojure development in the past few months which would have been unheard of a year ago. Clojure is growing rapidly from my perspective and will continue to do so. Among it practitioners it is well regarded which means that it will be adopted by others given the relatively positive opinion that is held about it.
You can also just fork one of the many that are out there. Makes it easier than starting from scratch (although I realize for some people that eliminates the fun part). I'm liking Sibilant a lot: http://sibilantjs.info
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Given how much of the app is tied into the UI, a full rewrite would seem to be exactly when you'd want to make any major UI changes. I've been in that spot a few times myself and the last thing you want to do is re-create the old UX on a new codebase before implementing the UX you'd "like to have".

In a perfect world you might even want to do the UX change first then rewrite the back end, but in reality if you did that you'd probably worry about losing support for the rewrite of the underlying plumbing once the new look has been deployed, since management often thinks of front-end refreshes as "delivery" of a new system.
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I'm not certain how one would gain sufficient attention/interest to cause an effective response, but IIRC (and IANAL) such contests typically have rather strict laws to follow; the foremost but not sole reason being, to avoid being categorized as gambling. Another being to avoid being used or misused as a mechanism to distribute payments to favored parties (one reason for the ubiquitous disclaimers that employees of company XYZ are ineligible to participate).

If they are not adhering to the rules that define their contest, they may be at risk of some significant criminal infractions.
I wouldn't call it loathing a company when pointing out the obvious flaws in a rigged contest.
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What else would they offer? his money back?
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> I'm genuinely interested if there are any reasons for writing a 100k+ LOC application, rather than dividing the functionality up between smaller applications and libraries.

IIRC, Google has such 'large' settings (for whatever reason). All companies I've seen use the latter approach.
That's pretty much the precise reason that I don't tend to use these so-called "collaborative consumption" services more: it takes a lot of effort to ensure you get a quality experience. It's great that Exec is doing all that work up front so I won't have to.

It seems to me that a lot of startups go the two-sided marketplace route because they're unable (for fear of becoming a party to the transaction, as well as often lacking the resources) to take control and directly manage the supply side. Airbnb is a great example of this: while they provide a platform to connect hosts and guests, that's pretty much where it ends. They don't even require their hosts to keep their availability calendar accurate, which kind of defeats the point. At least when I go to hotels.com I know that I'll have a room waiting for me when I arrive.
I guess I don't get it either. "Fixed price" is always a floor, never a ceiling. How is that good for you?

My power bill isn't the same every month. My water bill isn't either. I know my patterns and roughly the monthly cost, and I can use less if money is tight.

You know how much cellular data I use per month? 0KB. Why? Because I don't want a giant fixed price add-on to my bill. If I could buy a smart phone, use WiFi 95% of the time, and spend $5 on data once in a while when I need it, I would use some. But I'm not jumping on a fixed price. I'm not paying for more than what I use.
Basically, your argument is known to philosophers by name "Lucas'/Penrose argument", and has been discussed to death. Most of the philosophers and mathematicians consider it to be invalid. There are lots of references in Wikipedia article[1].

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I use TruConnect for mobile broadband. They use a per MB pricing model with no monthly contracts. It's a little pricey for power users, at 3.9 cents/MB, but great for my once or twice a week usage. My monthly bill is around $10.

One thing the article mentions is a lightweight API to check how much data you used in the last ten minutes. Truconnect has an app, http://www.truconnect.com/manage-my-mifi/ , that let's you track that.

It works with any MiFi, but prices are tuned to Truconnect.

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There are a lot of missing variables here, 10s of thousands of files a day sure does sound like a lot to a lot of people though, for all we know that's just a drop in the bucket.

How many DMCA take down requests does a company like google/youtube get a day? Anyone know? Just out of curiosity.

It all sort of proves the point though, Megaupload had a ton of piracy and all parties involved knew it. I think that might matter more than a lot of people think, they may have complied with the literal letter of the law but can't courts deem it not enough? Napster was ordered by a court to monitor it's use and restrict illegal use and they were ultimately unable to. There are already cases on the books for that, the fact that MU gave out access to tools like direct delete just shows that they knew the extent of the problem. Still, no reason to skip due process, but I don't know what all the evidence is either.
You can't objectively prove that one smartphone is the best. You can only point out some of the things one smartphone platform does better than other ones, and those are exactly the things that Microsoft has chosen for their challenge. That's what I meant with "skewer", but it's really just highlighting your own, unique strengths.
I hope in future versions they rig WindowsPhones to do more things correctly.
To be fair, I think consumers are pretty well aware that this is a stunt

I'm a pretty in touch, technically focused person and I didn't think it was the farce that it actually was. I thought they were legitimately demoing average things that people were doing, from scratch, highlighting the benefits of the platform.

That they pre-configure their device for ridiculous scenarios is simply incredible. That the now much more apologetic Microsoft rep originally offered a rematch on the incredibly long odds seemed extraordinary.
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That's great to hear! Let me know if you need someone to test with android. My wife was excited when I told her about the app...her current solution is a big Google doc with all of her important passwords!