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The original blackberry was great. With today's technology it would fit on a wristwatch and the battery would last for a year.

Blackberry got caught up in an arms race that offered no benefit to its customers. Why waste 50% of CPU cycles to make the UI look more like Windows 3.1 ?

Blackberry also charged for the SDK and offered no quality control, so eventually mobile JRE apps (not designed at all to be usable on BB hardware) became the majority of apps.

I have used several over the years but about 3 years ago it became clear that IOS was worth a 50% price increase per month.
That project looks amazing. But it'd be nicer to have some sort of compressed raw dump to use different tools.
You are right. However, successfully selling products to people isn't fun. See Apple. If some Google homies got together in their spare or 20% time (does that still exist?) and utilized the Google tools to make this, then sweet. But, if some engineers getting paid $80k+ used their work time to build this, doesn't that suggest Google has too much talent?

I like fun (and Google), but investors like profits.
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Thats a huge F* Y to a large customer base.
I agree with you on testing.

One thing I have to decide on this project is whether I'm going to follow the convention (which I don't like) of putting "test/" in a separate directory from "main/". I dislike it because I think unit tests should be included inline if short and relevant to the purpose of the function.

Generally, my testing practice is to REPL-test and then include the tests in code for posterity. It makes the testing process more playful to start in REPL testing. I know it's the opposite of TDD but it works for me.
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If blackberry could fork/use Android and promise prompt upgrades. This will be good for both developers and users.
It looks like the video was made by Japanese, but they probably used the name "NES" because it's more familiar to English-speaking audiences who're likely to make up the majority of video views.
I think it's always good to be traumatized by an experience in a crappy company at the start of your career. It gets it ouf the way, it makes you understand how terrible management can ruin pretty much anything, and it's better to have those realizations at 22 than at 45 :)

Good luck, and keep us posted about your startup adventures!
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>more innovative social networks //

Such as? Or perhaps what would be better is if you can name-check some networks and say what you find so innovative about them.
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I would totally invest in/work on "girly" ideas. It's a big market of big spenders that hasn't yet been reached effectively. Pinterest shows us the latent demand is phenomenal. If I knew anything at all about women I would jump in this market as well.
See also http://bitbucket.org/spooning - ha I totally want shirt 3
SOME PEOPLE AFRAID OF TRUTH. NOT READY TO CONFRONT OWN FAIL.

OTHER PEOPLE HAVE NO SOUL. NOT READY FOR ANYTHING "SILLY."

SOME PEOPLE JUST DUMB. ABOUT 80% OR SO.
Anyone with the 3D skills to draw one? I'd print one out in a Makerbot :)
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The requested URL /Download/ was not found on this server.

adding better error message would be better.
http://www.dropsend.com/ carsonified has a competing product with the same name and purpose, might want to consider a new name
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I get the same using Chrome. It seems that there is no support for ATI/AMD cards on Linux:
https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...

Firefox (11) has no such issues and renders just fine for me.
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The reason why the Entertainment industry loses so much was never just piracy, the majority are the alternatives that are available on the internet. All this time people spend on Soundcloud and Facebook has to come somewhere. A YouTube catvideo replaces time people can spend on TV or hearing their favorite artist.

They all have a MBA who are in charge these entertainment companies, they should have heard of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_five_forces_analysis
Substitute goods everywhere and you gonna have a difficult time, but blaming someone else is probably just easier.
FreeFileSync is great if you just want to keep an up-to-date copy of everything and you don't need multiple incremental backups. It compares file size and timestamps and only copies files that have changed. You can save batch jobs as a file and click on it whenever you want to sync. You can even make the batch job autorun when you connect your external hard drive.

Throw TrueCrypt into the mix, and you've got a pretty good and secure backup.
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FIND CENTERS OF GRAVITY. THEY PULL TALENT, MONEY, SMASH TOGETHER UNTIL EXPLODE.

NEW YORK. BOSTON. VALLEY.

USUALLY HAVE THIS COMBO:

1. VCS/MENTORS FROM EARLIER BIG EXITS

2. LOCAL COLLEGES PRODUCE SUPPLY OF YOUNG TECHIES

3. LOCAL BIG TECH COMPANIES FEED YOUNG TECHIES UNTIL READY TO START UP

4. HAVE DENSE URBAN CENTER WHERE EASY TO MEET FUTURE COFOUNDERS, PEERS

DC AREA MATCH THIS, HAVE EMERGING TECH SCENE. THAT WHY GRIMLOCK THERE.

NOT SURE ABOUT ATLANTA.
You need to define this in your terms of service. The problem from a client's perspective could be that there is a weakness in the security of the site, which you the developer are responsible for creating, and therefore are responsible for securing. The technicalities of what happened or who is responsible (host or developer) may not be an argument you can win.

For example it could be that a simple form was the entry point because you did not put in place any SQL injection prevention steps.

Any developer worth their salt would point to this being a developer's error. Any host with experience might also point to the developer, and they'd be right.

My question to you is "can you figure out what was hacked, and how?" and if you can, then plug the leak quick and pray they don't take you to court over it.
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I've been saying this for a while, but the "inmates have taken over the asylum". Not only that, but "Agile" is subject to really loose interpretations and it suffers as a result, both in implementation and practice.
The BB10 devices should run Android apps, but I doubt there will be better Google Apps integration. My guess is that they will feature better MS apps (in part because of the Bing app on PlayBooks) before they do Google ones.
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That's foolish. If the only point of laws was to cut crime, you could trivially reduce crime to zero by legalizing everything. Clearly that is not the point.
Remote is slow to restore, but it's even slower to back up in the first place. With the current state of not-so-high-speed internet in North America, it could take several weeks to upload 100GB of pictures and videos.
A fullscreen with a split-to-open keyboard. A high density screen. A store with a better ranking and categorization system that allowed me to more easily find the software I wanted.
Fair enough, and I've considered it, but deleting my account still doesn't prevent others from tagging and posting pictures of me for the benefit of those who can identify me through name or face alone. At least with an active Facebook account, I receive notifications whenever my likeness is invoked.

Additionally, Facebook has become the defacto communication platform of the day and not having one is sometimes viewed as a social red flag (or as a lie). My cellphone # has changed three times since 2004, but the respective Facebook query has only become better at finding me. My point being, "delete your account?" is something akin to "cancel your cell service?" except nobody calls and everyone uses Facebook.
Brooklyn Heights is literally the most expensive neighborhood in Brooklyn, which probably means it's the most expensive neighborhood in NYC outside Manhattan. If you cared about money you should not have moved there.
Totally agree. While there are obviously some differences, I think blaming technology (i.e. Facebook) for horrible things that humans do is just silly. The problem is not that Facebook is making it easier for people to do bad things, the problem is that people do bad things.

The technology is here to stay. Information will be shared more easily in the coming years and it will only get easier to categorize people in the future based on their behaviors. So maybe instead of complaining about "bad companies" taking advantage of this, we should be encouraging people to be more accepting of differences. The problem isn't that a girl checked into a local bar. The problem is that someone wants to stalk/rape her. Scaring people into not checking in to somewhere (or not doing so publicly) is getting dangerously close to saying "well, she shouldn't have worn that short skirt if she didn't want to get hassled", which is a terribly flawed argument and ignores the actual problem.

There's an entire side of this that is overlooked whenever this debate pops up: All the freaks and geeks who thought they were alone because they were into different things can now find like minded people and know that don't have to feel alone. Look at the "it gets better" campaign. It's beautiful and has likely helped thousands of people. We should focus on the good stuff a little more often rather than focus on the potential bad stuff.
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I switched about 8 months ago because my employer bought me a BlackBerry (edit to add: Torch 9810). I was quite surprised with how good it is, though my needs for it are pretty lightweight: Email, occasionally Twitter, and casual browsing. It does all of those extremely well.
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There are only three reasons to backup: Media failure, inadvertent modification or deletion, and loss in the event of theft or fire.

Onsite backup only covers you against the first two.

I have found that people tend to overvalue the value of their data to others and undervalue the value of their data to themselves. Having lost all my data in the third category, I can say I'm never going to bother with an onsite backup again; it's simply a false sense of security.
"I think of all the CD's I bought in the past which turned out to be garbage apart from the two singles released which are the reason for buying the CD."

I always wonder why do people buy that stuff.

I mean, you can figure out whether a band or artist is serious at what they do. It's your duty as a music fan.

So it is you who buys the suboptimal product, it is you who sponsors one trick ponies and rip offs, who gives them competitive advantage against the deep, real musicians.
RE: cross-platform client: I'd bet Qt.
Here's the most interesting link I found after a few minutes of clicking (obligatory: I am not a doctor): http://saveourbones.com/calcium-heart-attack/
Yes, but if this is an admit of defeat by Adobe's engineering (like how to some extent you can say it was on Tablet/phone platform), it just is a bad sign for them.

What as a consumer of flash platform I need form Adobe is clarity and commitment. Today I see it has gone another step backward. Just reinforces the public opinion of wanting to move away from Flash even more.
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Virtually none of them? SpiderOak, Wuala, JungleDisk.
a possible word of warning: I disabled MapsGL to see it. In the past there has always been a button to get back into GL mode, but I can't find it anymore so I am now stuck in Flash.
FYI: Flash for 64bit linux has existed for a while now. The first release was sometime around the financial crisi, I think october of 2008.
there's no customer that sees them as being purely utilitarian and will ignore physical aesthetics

Don't project yourself and your circle of friends onto everyone who carries a cell phone.
Well, this study seems like a great way to test the connection.
"At about that time I decided to keep my mouth shut, after all that is what they wanted, someone who would keep quiet."

This is when you KNOW you're in the wrong place. Definitely not the bitterness of someone whose been laid off. Any founders or managers who don't want their team mates to be self driven, are hiring B-players.

Good luck in your YC app!!
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Can someone explain the downvoting of FAKEGRIMLOCK's comments? I find them insightful, substantive, and hilarious, but is some HN norm being stepped on?
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That seems kind of silly. I don't understand why people who normally act cold, uncaring, and distant in-person (basically: most Americans) suddenly want to be as up-close and in-your-face as possible online.
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The first sign of trouble is:

" A previously (very) successful game on iOS, it was brought over to Android in order to take advantage of the huge number of devices that run the OS."

Right. A game with graphical assets designed for a couple of fixed screen sizes and resolutions is going to have problems on a system that forces developers to handle multiple screen dimensions and resolutions.

Shocked. I'm shocked.

The one thing Android "fragmentation" (meaning whatever it means in which ever context) hasn't caused for applications that were developed for Android is compatibility problems. Android apps are remarkably compatible on hardware that they were never tested on.

There is plenty to hate about OEMs' craplets and "enhancements" - which comprise the more commonly held definition of "fragmentation" - but they have had very little effect on application compatibility.
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If only wishing made it so. I would love it if that was the case but sadly linux users running firefox, epiphany, etc are not a large base of anything and certainly not a large paying customer base....
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"It started out intense, they had so many things they wanted me to do, I showed up at 8:30 and didn’t leave till 6, they’d captured my heart and mind… or at least convinced me it was worth my time."

Here's some advice, if you think that schedule is intense, you're not ready for a startup...
I was very tempted, but since the idea is still so fresh (1 week old) we decided to hold it until next round :)
If its that important you could just use Coffescript while you wait.
I think it's something most people haven't learned yet, or at least the advertising hasn't caught up with. After getting screwed by Geico on a claim, I'm certainly more aware of this.
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> I would pay good money for an app/Mechanical Turk/whatever that reprocesses text with a modern font.

How much?

I will re-write the paper for you using the font of your choice for one millon dollars.
you bet right ;) python + qt4 (one of the team member)
copy-on-select is great as long as the other clipboard still exists too (this is typically the case in linux). What is the downside, if you can still ctrl-c/ctrl-v to a separate clipboard?
That's GPU "fragmentation." You have multiple hardware/firmware/driver implementations of OpenGL. Unless you prescribe a GPU and software stack, you will always find things that slip past compatibility tests.
Thanks but I am really interested in reading more about NP hardness in real world situations. Operations research may be a place to start but then my question becomes "Where does NP hardness arise in operations research?"

Here's an example of a creative way to interpret my original question: as xkcd implies, you might say eBay "solves" an NP hard problem http://xkcd.com/399/. Ebay doesn't solve the traveling salesman problem as it is normally posed in computer science, but it rephrased the problem statement in a useful way.
Thanks for the repost.

I think RIM should have a look at these results and realize that perhaps it should consider putting it's OS (at least partially) in the hands of Google.

They're spending more time working on BB10 in making their own OS awesome, when, at least from this sample, looks like people don't care. It would be easier to hop on the Android bandwagon, and get some new customers that way.

They'll never capture top spot again, but perhaps they can salvage a halfway decent share of the huge smartphone market.
I think its absolutely because of languages like coffee script that JavaScript is changing, but don't take my word for it. You can find statments from standards makers to the same effect.
http://projectgoats.com enough said.
http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce...
This is very puzzling. Also - why isn't this front page yet?
Excellent! I will send you a PDF of the money as well.
I think the difference is, right or wrong, that when people ignore statistics and pursue startups, they have the feeling that they can affect the outcome.

A lottery is just a random number generator. A startup is blood, sweat and tears...and if I sweat just a little more we can beat the odds.
I remember reading about something like this in a few science fiction novels by Jack McDevitt (the "Alex Benedict" series) -- basically people had left behind AI versions of themselves that some of the protagonists interviewed to try to piece together interstellar archaeological mysteries.
On high end cars there are even better deals if you pre-buy the 2/3 year 100K maintenance package.
You get the services at a bit less than list price, or a free hire car.

They use it to get you to come back into the dealer every few months AND they hope you will buy another new car from them when the warranty runs out.

The dealer makes a huge profit on you taking back a full service history high end car as a trade-in
It's not at all a problem with party-driven politics. The problem is that the government and the parliaments in the US don't accurately represent the people.

That's a problem with a broken democracy. In Europe you don't have that problem, at least not to such an extreme extend.
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Plain text is ok for the README file, but markdown is more readable, specially if you are going to include code examples.
I don't think agile is necessarily anti-introverts. Pair programming isn't the beginning and end of agile. You can have agile while giving each programmer a private office and encouraging them to interact as needed in a common space. You can just as easily have waterfall where everyone is crammed into an open-plan office.

But of course, in practice, buzzwords tend to get abused by extraverts to describe whatever they want.
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It was frontpage and trending up. It must be getting flagged quite a bit. Very curious.
Since when it is so?

I'm benefiting from the existence of the alphabet, Linux operating system or declaration of human rights without compensating their creators.

The best things, ones you really need, come for free.

The best things could not exist if they weren't, and we'd still be in the stone age with your mindset.
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C++/Qt for me :) But if my app have some success, I'll write a Cocoa app for Mac.
3 years ago?
this mirrors my experience with scala, except we had about 100+ maven dependencies and build times were closer to 10 minutes.
I don't think you can blame Agile for this.

Lone wolves don't belong in packs.
Am I the only one who thinks the saddest part of all this is the fact that people immediately jump to the conclusion of "OMG STALKERS AND RAPISTS!"? We're addicted to worst-case thinking. We see men as aggressors and dangerous, and we reinforce notions of "weak" members of society (i.e. women and children) needing to be hidden away in what we perceive as safety.
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Poor syntax and poor semantics. What is the missing part that makes it beautiful?
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And now that you pointed it out, the trend has reversed... what in the world is going on here?

EDIT - I'd also like to point out that the headline changed. Is that a typical practice on HN? I don't think my original headline was anything inflammatory or off-point.
BB could get my business if they doubled down on security, privacy and encryption. I'd love to see them end up with a product that was sort of like what Whisper Systems was trying to do with Android. In particular I'd love enterprise messaging that didn't need any 3rd parties to hold keys, and an ability to use some kind of removable smart card with a cryptographic processor that when removed rendered the phone data inaccessible. These kind of features are becoming more and more needed everyday as mobile attacks (both physical and remote) become more common as well as more and more situations become off limits to mobiles. I have a number of clients that have no good solutions for high risk employees, especially when they're travelling. It's a natural fit for BB and a market they're still the most plugged into - and one no other smartphone vendor is particularly interested in (save motorola, sort of)
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Linux wouldn't exist without a lot of compensated work that came before it.

But seriously, these are different categories of things we're discussing here, and that has to be be abundantly clear to everyone.
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Facebook has privacy controls for preventing people from tagging you without permission, both in photos and geotagging.

Also, I finally think it's working. Previously when I tried to approve a tag of myself in a photo, FB wanted to change the privacy setting back to "anyone can tag you", but last week it seems to have worked without changing my privacy settings.
You just have to name your file README.md :)
Fantastic. But I'm guessing the problem with this will be that that Google is Google and they won't give artists the extra support that they need like the labels do. Sure, the technology gets you the distribution, but you first need to have something to distribute.

Music artists need all kinds of support: Marketing help, design help, someone technical to upload and produce their stuff. If they can provide some of that support then maybe this will have a better chance.
Check out Marakana Tech, they have quite a lot of lectures on developing Android apps.

http://marakana.com/

I'm Android developer from Croatia, so feel free to contact me if you need some pointers or help.
"Is it time to go back to the cubicles?"

Personally, I think cubicles are just about as bad as open-plan offices. I want an office and a door I can close to keep people out when I need quiet.
The keyboard on BB devices is really better than anything else running Android, barring maybe a couple of Android devices with extremely under powered hardware.
That may well be true right now but of course we are in a time of transition right now and Adobe seems to be burning rather too many bridges.

If adobe wanted their runtime to survive (I'm not sure they do) they would be showing commitment to supporting their runtime in as many places as possible.

Right now the only place it really runs well is on Windows which means they are quite firmly shackled to Microsoft and it's not even clear that MS see flash as part of their vision for their products.
So? You're missing the point entirely. The article sums it up well: "This kind of casual copyright infringement, with no malicious intent, is exactly the kind of thing that SOPA was after."
20yrs of working to get it right. im old enough to remember all the fragmentation and end user pain in the early years after IBM PC/XT

androidVmobile is still immature market. itll sort out in a handfull of years.