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People get so caught up in existing paradigms and the resultant hegemonies which enforce them that they become blind to the obvious.

This journalist is not alone in this. Examples permeate both media history and just criticism in general. For anything that is "obvious" there is always a contrarian who seems unable to see movement which we see as obvious.

Anyhow, the iPhone announcement in 2007 was interesting from my viewpoint being in a major record label because of how it portended the complete and utter end of control. It brought domestically something that was already happening in South Korea, where "ownership" of content meant little to the average consumer.

Of course the label folks thought it would mean more money from ringtones, and were bitterly disappointed that it didn't support custom ones out the gate.

Basically people saw what they wanted with the iPhone announcement, not what was actually there.
I made a similar tool for remembering things. It's also called Pocket. I shared it on HN a year and a half ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112144
glad I chose a good name :)
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In my experience, the inventors often are working somewhere else by time a patent gets litigated. In particular, patent trolls usually acquire patents without also acquiring the labs, inventors, etc. that created them.
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There was a tribe in Chile that tried to sue Microsoft for supporting their language, not sure what came of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_language#Microsoft_laws...
So technology companies create new means of distribution, compelling enough that people will pay for music that can, and previously was, being obtained for free -- his complaint is that the tech companies don't take over the role of talent discovery too?

He makes a convincing argument that things are worse than they used to be, but not that Apple et al are to blame.
> What about iOS feels ahead of it's time?

-iOS doesn't crash as often as Android

-iOS doesn't have nearly as many security/privacy issues/virus/spyware

-iOS is not(as) fragmented like Android

-iOS is faster (no lags) and not as buggy as Android

-iOS developer and user support way better than Android

-iOS ecosystem/app market way better than Android

-iOS user interface is simpler/easier to use/more straightforward than Android/TouchWiz/HTCSense/etc.

-more well-designed, well-written iOS apps than Android

-better battery life, better hardware, better screen, better user interface, etc.
This is puny compared to...

In Bellevue, WA in 2008 a bridge across I-405 (at NE 8th) was constructed next to the old bridge, ANOTHER bridge constructed on the opposite side, the old bridge destroyed, and the first new bridge slid into place creating a new bridge twice as wide as the old original bridge.

Watch the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQNfp-Sifhc
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Not every message needs to be tailored. And not every message need be the same across every medium. Having a write API doesn't force anyone to do either of those things. It would not give or remove anyone's ability to tailor as needed or broadcast verbatim as desired. Having a write API would allow 3rd party apps to add G+ to your options but doesn't force you to act any way you would not already act without the write API. My point was that having a write API doesn't have to be bad... but some abusers will ruin it for the rest.
Why wait for Google Drive? ForgetBox adds infinite attachments to Gmail.
Down the road, I wonder what is the upper boundary of hardware complexity and scale that we'll see on Kickstarter. Exciting times ahead indeed.
Kickstarter strikes me as Etsy (for unbuilt products) crossed with all those "5K Run/Walk For XYZ" fundraising sites.

I'm skeptical it in a way that I can't put my finger on, still Kickstarter has a secret sauce that makes the people they need to host deals on it actually want to host deals on it (was eBay the same way, I can't remember). Did they ever think four years ago that they'd be running deals of this size?

edit: apparently amazon doesn't hold any of the cash, i stand corrected. and yes of course 100MM is not much compared to the probably 10B in cash equivalents AMZN has ..
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Interesting. Kind of touches close to a thought I had when I first heard about the deal... Board aside, what kind of signal did the acquisition send to Facebook's rank-and-file?

There's plenty of extremely talented people who joined the party too late to have any significant options. Now everywhere they go (including home, private, and social lives...) they can't escape hearing about the gold mine that was just dropped on Kevin and crew.

You literally can't escape this news in the connected world. Can't help but wonder if that's weighing on morale at all in there.
First they came for manufacturing, then they came for construction...
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"Mr. Systrom was just hours from signing a deal for a $50 million venture-capital investment that would put a $500 million value on his company"

So this started before the deal was closed. Did the funding round close?
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Every day brings new challenges. I don't want to be stuck in yesterday's world because my engineers don't know what today's world really looks like.
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In a somewhat related note, I noticed that A16Z invested in Instagram in the seed round, but is nowhere to be seen in the later rounds (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/instagram). Wonder what happened there?
On the flip side you have generally good, thoughtful, regularly accurate analysis/projections from Horace Dediu over at http://asymo.com.

And the 'Street vs. Amateurs' predictions are always interesting to watch: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/16/how-many-iphones-did-...
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I know a good iPhone programmer and he credits a lot to learning smalltalk before Objective C to make it a breeze, good to hear from Ruby folks as well! I'm definitely learning it soon!
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This blog post would be more compelling if it made a case for how Quantivo avoids these BigQuery "limitations." Or if it were possible to find any technical detail about Quantivo's architecture without having to give out personal information first (http://www.quantivo.com/resources/wp-behavior-analytics-tech...).

BigQuery is based on Dremel, which is an open book: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html
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There's also this incredible miniature airport someone built: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8bZbC-xfMg
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Yes, on the other hand calling Smalltalk, one of the finest ever programming languages, "shit", is a little over the line...
None of those are facts and in my experience the anecdote goes the opposite way. My Galaxy Nexus has locked up ONCE on me ever, my iPhone breathern crash often enough that it happens weekly just from being at the bars.

Fragmentation is a joke. My phone has never, ever, ever had a privacy issue and that's also hilarious given the weeks of iPhone privacy issues (GPS, iOS5, Contacts)

>-iOS is faster (no lags) and not as buggy as Android

hahahahaha

>-iOS ecosystem/app market way better than Android

hahahaha

Do people really believe this stuff still? Yes. Faux wood and fake plastic looks great in apps. So futuristic.

Better hardware? Verifiably false. Better screen? Pft, mine's AMOLED 720p.
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I don't really get Kickstarter. Backers essentially are paying the startup company for a product (or early prototype). Sure the company gets some money upfront, but they eventually have to deliver on the product?
And what else does the backer get, apart from the product? Equity? No.
How much money will Pebble be left with after this process?
This is conflating so many unrelated things. Leaving work at 5:01 is great - leaving work whenever you need to is great. But spending your life working at "just a job" is a waste. If you're only doing your job to make money you're doing yourself a disservice.
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The video was a letdown - all that talking and not one detail about how it was put together (other than the part about it being a boeing nose cone, but that was obvious).
Is Kickstarter a platform for funding cool projects or a store?
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And they didn't give up any equity in the process. Oh, and they validated their idea and their product. With this they can now raise an A-round at a very healthy valuation, but, why would they?
Um. Read the WHOLE story. I point out that their comparisons are flawed.
This is a a great article however confirms the sad fact that you need to pay Google (a lot of money) to drive customers to your website.
What happens if you don't need to pay for traffic? Do you still sell your book for $102?
> It's awful nice of Amazon Payments to hold onto all that cash as well...$100MM collected in 2011.

Not sure if this is what you're saying, but Az doesn't actually hold any money for Kickstarter-- they hold credit card pre-approvals, which probably costs them some nominal amount.
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> let's not forget that it brought about a "touch-revolution."

And let's not forget that when the iPhone was released it was not the first app enabled touch screen phone. I would say that Palm did just as much (if not more) for the touch revolution. It just did it in a bit more clunky way. The iPhone brought the sexy into the mix.
That cell phone you use for receiving the verification codes? It better not be a smartphone you also use to access GMail, or your 2-factor just became 1-factor, at least to any malware on that phone...
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you'd think a program consisting of "only semicolons" would be easier to type. (no pun intended). reverse semicolon? Not only does my keyboard not have one, but Google doesn't even know what it is (other than a unicode character). apparently it was invented by the unicode group.

next time go back to the definition of semicolon, and you will see why it is made of the glyphs , and .

Then you can make a true semicolon language, by mixing ; and ., (horizontal, if you will).

the first line given as an example program would go from
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to
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When you get past the author's ridiculous pooh-poohing of Apple's products, the actual analysis of the cell phone industry that he quotes is pretty well right on the mark and sadly still applies to the industry in 2012.

While the iPhone 1.0 lagged well behind established smart phones like the BlackBerry in a lot of areas, the iPhone was revolutionary in its overall quality, its user interface, and its web browser. It's often hard to predict how important those things will be. And all people had seen at that point was a demo from Steve Jobs.

But what the market research really failed to predict was that average consumers would start dumping their carriers and switch to AT&T just to get their hands on this new iPhone. That led virtually all other major carriers to jump through whatever hoops necessary to get the iPhone on their networks to avoid being left out in the cold. And the rest is history.

In an industry where it's the manufacturers who have to jump through all the hoops to get support from the carriers, this role reversal between Apple and carriers turned the industry on its head. Nobody would have predicted that in January 2007.
This move strikes me as a truce agreement proposed by someone with no sword.
How many technology patents does Twitter even HAVE, not counting Loren Brichter's "pull-to-refresh" UI innovation?
Why can't it be both? It acts a bridge between an unmet demand and an unmet supply: there are consumers thinking, "I wonder if X has been invented? I would pay money for that." And there are designers thinking, "I wonder if anyone would buy X if I made it?"

It's conceptually a great match. The hard part was making it credible enough to gain trust. That's Kickstarter's biggest strength.
Or a iPad v2 or 3.
>And what else does the backer get, apart from the product?

The whole point is to see the product come to market. A good project is expected to try and sweeten the deal somehow for backers who pledge more money. (Signed pieces, interviews with founder, etc etc.)
Doesn't work for me; WSJ must have shut it down.

Though Google cache pulled through, at least for now:

http://bit.ly/IIBabu
hi, youtube is the same era and was heavily influenced in gearing up, by input from google management. I'm talking about now.
Yes, the round closed the day before the acquisition, iirc.
He is a financial journalist, not tech. He has a MarketWatch column now: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-bundesbank-will-stamp-o...
Right, and as of right now (past midnight MT) that trick isn't working any more.
Cash-wise, they get the profit margin off each sale (of course we don't know what that number is, but on pure volume alone based on this launch, it might be fairly substantial). But they also gain reputation, brand recognition, and may attract other VCs now that they are famous, and they also have the upper hand because they have a better bargaining position.
I agree. I looked for other articles, hopefully there will be some better ones in the future.
This is awesome. "Don't negotiate with terrorists", or "Millions for defense, sir, but not one cent for tribute!"
also, pretty much all the low-hanging fruit has been done in science. Even if we allow for science to be infinite, each new brick in the wall of science requires an ever-increasing amount of resources to gain, and usually those bricks are also much smaller.

My old company made what was essentially datalog viewing software. Version 1 of the software was basically just squiggly lines going across the screen. People loved it, because previously they only had squiggly lines going across paper, and a 20-minute recording was the size of a phone book. But version 2 of the software required far more developer work, and had much more polish and detailed algorithms underlying the analyses... but people bridled at 'having to pay again' when 'we don't really get that much for it'. More work, smaller bricks, less appreciation of what it takes to get there...
I lived right next to one of the bridges they replaced on I-80 in Utah. They were replacing a big stretch of the freeway so they set up a "bridge farm" where they built seven bridges on stacked cargo containers and got them ready to go. Then they load a bridge on a massive machine with hundreds of wheels and basically drive it down the one side of the existing freeway to the site of the new bridge, drop it into place, secure it, and load up another bridge. They'd drive each bridge over the bridge they had just put in place basically building their way as they went. It was amazing how quickly they did it (just 41 days which included driving the bridges into place at 0.5 mph). They did a different section with four bridges in just 48 hours. I felt they made up for the terrible I-15 reconstruction for the olympics with how smoothly this I-80 project went (and the I-15 expansion in Davis county which also used this offsite bridge construction techinque).
I drove down route 9 twice a day for about a year (in and out of Boston), this is NOT the norm. The one bridge they were working on then was about this size and at about twice the height. It had apparently been going on for 5+ years, Mass DOT is anything BUT efficient(See Big Dig) so I wouldn't really expect this as the new norm. Also then how would they manage to pay so many people to stand around all day not working??
I am graduating this spring with a materials science degree from Stanford. Materials science has the absolute most boring set of classes (seriously, it's really bad). However, Material science also has what I think is some of the most ground-breaking, fascinating, and magical scientific research topics out there, from nanotech, biotech, and energy, to novel electronic form-factors, batteries & fuel cell, and much more.

therefore:

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I propose that the fiscal superiority of finance employees over the rest of the company induces an arrogance that makes many of them incredibly unpleasant to work with.

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Why was the bridge placed to the right in the first place? Could they not have placed it in its final position when construction started? (My apologies if this is a stupid question: non civil engineer here)
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I added a special glyph for the reversed semicolon and used it in @font-face for the website. Can you reload the page and try again?
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You clearly lack the experience necessary to understand the dynamics at play here. The phenomenon you bizarrely, insultingly refer to as "I cooked a ROM doodz!" is not arrested by copyleft. Small-scale non-commercial GPL violations by individuals are absolutely rampant in a number of communities. Android would not be any different -- nor is it, in fact, since the kernel is still under the GPL.
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I think the same.
And I think getters and setters are useless! Just wasted lines of code. One more reason to switch to a dynamic language like Ruby or Python.
The applications I saw in the last 14 months in the Ruby community are much more object oriented than the stuff I saw the last 10 years in the Java World. And because they are more object oriented their are much more easy to test.
It is so easy to write test cases for a Ruby on Rails App, but it is a nightmare to do the same for JSF & EJB.
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Perhaps a suggested approach might be to only log in from a USB linux boot drive?

Again, these aren't for the most extremely cautious/savvy users out there, just the 99.9%.
>It brought domestically something that was already happening in South Korea, where "ownership" of content meant little to the average consumer.

Can you expand on this?
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For a hardware product like this, They also get a tested production system which has gone through all the initial snagging and is capable of churning out 100k products in x days, which is invaluable for a hardware startup and very hard to get in place without serious funding. Best of all, they didn't have to give away part of their company to do it by going straight to the customer.

It would be fascinating to see a breakdown from pebble afterwards though to see what they felt the advantages and disadvantages are, and what they would have done differently.
I struggle to think of a single time Android has crashed on me. The iOS browser, on the other hand, crashed 3 times in my first day with an Apple device.

But the primary reason I use Android is that it has features iOS doesn't; proper cross-app integration with intents, a replaceable launcher, a user accessible file system and best of all, I never have to deal with iTunes. I absolutely loathe iTunes.

I've never had problems with fragmentation (probably helps that I run Nexus devices - I've had more issues running older iOS on iPod Touches that hadn't been upgraded owing to upgrade fees); and I find UI more consistent - or at least did, before the menu button was deprecated (I happen to like menus for their discoverability). The back button is awesome. It's been some time since I was in the Apple app ecosystem, but I still don't think they let you have things like AIDE, Tasker or Locale.

I do think iOS devices have higher frame rates, fewer dropped frames and lower touch latency. ICS recent apps button latency is a joke - nearly a second on my galaxy nexus at times. The iOS text selection mechanism is better. And having switched from HTC to Samsung, I'm not impressed with the hardware (though the margin between iPhone 4 screen and Galaxy Nexus screen is quite small). But I also think iPhone 4 glass back is a triumph of style over usefulness.
It is important to remember that Kickstarter primarily for creative (read artistic) projects. Think of it as a modern and distributed system of art patronage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage). In return for your patronage, the artists promise something (like a copy of the finished project). It is not unreasonable to liken it to a pre-order, but I would maintain that there is a subtle difference.

Edit: The point is that you are funding a project for its own sake, because you want to see it brought to fruition, not necessarily because you stand to gain anything by it.