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A lawyer would write it, but something like "Investor represents that he is investing his own personal money and not on behalf of another party". If the investor turns out to be a scout, he has to negotiate that term out and you get the chance to understand what's happening.

Representations are great. Anytime you are negotiating a deal, and the other side makes some crucial claim that persuades you to accept the offer (for example, "all of our other partners agreed to this term!"), just insert that claim as a representation of theirs and watch if they squirm.
Well, it is a bit of technicality I guess, but you're not getting two degrees with a double major. You're getting one degree with two majors (at least as far as I understand it). Getting a dual degree is actually getting two separate degrees. And there's a bunch of bureaucratic stuff you need to push through to get approved for a dual degree here (more than there would be for double majoring with two majors within one college).

As far as I know the requirements would count towards both degrees, though.
I admit I didn't make it through reading the article, but I disagree with how he sees the CEO talking about wanting retail reps to sell the phone as a bad sign. Every single phone OEM that sells in the US wants that very badly. In fact, I'd be scared for any company that didn't constantly try to improve it even if they were currently first or second at it. You constantly see OEM's run contests, hardware giveaways, bonuses for selling one or x amount of a device, training sessions, etc. - all sorts of goodies - for the retail reps. That's just how most phones are sold in the US. Google selling the Nexus One from www.google.com/phone didn't work out because they didn't get this, so Nokia is already at least off to a running start if they realize where the battle to get sales is at.
This is resolved in one of the examples given in the introduction where the interviewer agrees that "buzz buzz" is an invalid sequence.
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> If you're storing references to larger objects, your larger objects are what's taking up the space, which I think was the point (66% more pointers are useless if you can't also store 66% more of the objects they point to).

Right, of course...

> I really don't know all that much about architecture (yet), so that's totally possible, and I might be wrong about the 66% thing I guess.

edit: Actually, about the whole more objects thing, there might be some strange use case where you only have a few objects but are storing multiple references to them in a list. But yeah, in general, the benefit goes down with larger objects.
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Satire, right?
A description of the selection process (by someone who was in the courtroom when the jury was selected) can be found here:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120416085550303#U...

The judge specifically asked if anyone had software design experience; the two people who raised their hands were excused.

He later asked, "there are geeky types of people and people who are not into technology. If you are on a geeky end, could you raise your hand?" Noone raised their hand.
Yeah, I've inquired a number of times, it's ridiculous.
Google Voice isn't available outside of the US. A huge difference.
You are imagining sophisticated criminals from movies. Yes, genuinely sophisticated criminal rings with ample resources do exist, but they are in the tiny minority. I think you would be amazed at how low-tech, careless, and quite frankly, stupid most criminals are. This is the common denominator they are aiming at, as it offers the broadest and most dense prosecution yield.
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I often hear investors advise each other to have a contrarian point of view, not for the sake of being different, but for the sake of seeing the hidden gem that others think is a piece of coal. The same advice has been given to entrepreneurs too.

Some advisors are harsh. Judges at a contest, even harsher. It sucks when they deflate one's balloon, but there's nothing harsher than the market. Good investors know this, and this is why they rely on traction more than anything else - even their own judgment.

In other words: If this was an idea you were truly passionate about, screw the judges and validate the idea with customers. They're you're most important data point.

Thanks for sharing the story though. I've been in your shoes many times. It's been a hard lesson to learn.
According to Groklaw the jury has not indicated an issue with question 4, but rather with one of the 3 first

Their (groklaw) quote is:

"Judge Alsup tells them they don't have to reach agreement on question 4. That's just advice for him, because he has to decide that in the end. No, they tell him they are at an impasse on one of the first three questions on the form."
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Ha, I actually use a similar question in phone screens. Its surprising how many people can tell you how to do fibonacci and can't invert it.
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Sounds like your thinking of /purely/ functional programming. Although none of these terms have precise definitions so there’s not really any point arguing over them.
the really big international flights sometimes board 1st (and higher, if we're talking about lines like singapore or virgin that have luxury classes) through separate doors from us proles.

of course, that only helps them....
I know Bill, too (and I've been together with NSPs former managing editor for the last decade)...his taste in Scotch I'm not sold on, but his books are great :)
But take a look at the Finagle example from Heroku and compare it to the example from vert.x. There's a lot of boilerplate in the Finagle version because Finagle is a general purpose async service framework, which was my entire point.
And do they still 'infringe' if it's classed as fair use?
I don't think I bothered to stand up, but yes, I did contradict my history teacher in 11th grade American history, and lived to tell the tale. He didn't say I was correct, but I'm willing to extend the right to disagree even to teachers.

Hell, my 10th grade religion teacher, Brother something-or-t'other FSC, let a couple of my classmates spend most of an hour saying that they thought the church was all wrong on premarital sex; if I recall correctly, he set aside the class for that purpose. He referred to it as Mr. A and Mr. B shaking the diocese to its foundations, and left it at that. I don't know what grades they got, but the grades didn't keep them out of college.

But: if your history teacher does not have information to convey that you are not aware of, then the school is failing you. You may certainly differ from the teacher or the school board in evaluating the effects of Columbus's arrival or Shay's Rebellion or the Mexican War, but you need to know something about them before you start disagreeing. It is my impression that the American public suffers rather more from lack of information than from enforcement of interpretations.

(Edit: my stories are from the days of the beginning of the 1970s, for what that's worth.)
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Well, while I do think the idea of giving priority to legacies is pretty stupid and give MIT credit for that, I have other problems with their admissions process (I'm admittedly a bit biased as an MIT reject -- though to be fair it would sound like you are too). I know a decent amount of people at MIT, and while some of them definitely deserve to be there, there are a lot of others that I think don't, and got in for what I think are pretty superficial reasons.
I don't think I bothered to stand up, but yes, I did contradict my history teacher in 11th grade American history, and lived to tell the tale. He didn't say I was correct, but I'm willing to extend the right to disagree even to teachers.

Hell, my 10th grade religion teacher, Brother something-or-t'other FSC, let a couple of my classmates spend most of an hour saying that they thought the church was all wrong on premarital sex; if I recall correctly, he set aside the class for that purpose. He referred to it as Mr. A and Mr. B shaking the diocese to its foundations, and left it at that. I don't know what grades they got, but the grades didn't keep them out of college.

But: if your history teacher does not have information to convey that you are not aware of, then the school is failing you. You may certainly differ from the teacher or the school board in evaluating the effects of Columbus's arrival or Shay's Rebellion or the Mexican War, but you need to know something about them before you start disagreeing. It is my impression that the American public suffers rather more from lack of information than from enforcement of interpretations.
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The difference I see is priceonmics give me a real answer $200 for a iphone 3gs

see here: http://priceonomics.com/phones/apple/iphone-3gs/

While decide.com give me a .99 cent option and no other real value ideas of that phone

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When things like this happens it makes it seem sensible that China doesn't allow US companies (facebook et al) into their market. When it comes down to an argument of who gets to spy on users - theyd rather do it themselves than allow another country to do it behind the back door. (note: I'm not saying its right that anyone should)

So whats the net result? Bad for business - bad for innovation, because you are further dividing the internet (and hence the market for internet services) up on nationalistic lines.
Why on earth would he want non-geeks..

I understand there could be a bias, but on the other hand these people are making interpretations of the law that could have very large consequences for a long time. Self described non-geeks are going to have very little knowledge and potentially little care of those consequences

The judge should have filtered for bias in other ways
I don't think either side disputes that Google implemented a portion of the Java API, which they copied from Apache Harmony. But they certainly seem to disagree on what qualifies as a meaningful definition of SSO, with Oracle arguing that both the entirety of Java and individual packages qualify as SSO.
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curious question: Which projects within Microsoft are using Git? The company is listed as a user on the front page.
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I agree, tree-munch was cute and fun. I wish he were back in some capacity
I had the same reaction when I saw the issue with the title, "How to Beat the CIA - Keep Everybody Out with our Ultimate Privacy Guide."
That's awesome, I have a lot of respect for your conviction.
Having developed in MT and ObjC (but not yet bit the bullet on RubyMotion), I can concur that this statement is valid. MonoTouch was an emulation, making it at best slow to catch up and at worst a version behind iOS. It also had a fairly funky debug scheme, having to use IP and not the wire. Granted, you get the REPL in lieu of a debugger with RubyMotion, but given how incredible the REPL is, I imagine a debugger will follow. As for cross-compilation, that wasn't so much MonoTouch as MonoCross, something that falls in to "jack of all trades, but master of none." MonoDevelop may have autocompletion, but it was buggy as all hell for me, and RM is positioning itself as using any IDE, where MonoDevelop locks you in as Xcode does.
Probably worth calculating how many lifetimes of computer science students have been wasted on this inanity.
Yikes, 300k? How much would it cost to buy a new TLD?
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Cool -- I can totally see how this was put together, though I've never actually used the video player API.
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So 40% do break even. I'd guess that is better than web or other platforms.
The community design is an "and", not an "or". The Galaxy Tab model which had issues with this in Germany, if you look at it, has all, not just one, of those characteristics. The "Apple thinks it owns the rectangle" meme is nice, but untrue.

Nilay Patel, in the Verge article linked by Android Community:

Now, some of these are a little ridiculous when taken individually — is Apple going to sue every digital photo frame maker that puts equal size black borders around the screen as well? — but in the end, the main question for the court will be whether or not Samsung has used all of these elements in a way that's likely to confuse consumers about what they're buying.

(Edit: is this wrong? If not, why downvote?)
In a sense, all VCs are scouts, as very few are investing exclusively their own money. LPs give VCs money, VCs make investments and keep part of the proceeds. Do we really know where Sequoia's money comes from? Does it matter? Is the entrepreneur misled by not knowing? If not, what's the difference?

That we've assigned brand value to particular VC investors is, on balance, generally irrelevant to startup success. A brand-name firm is a nice feather in one's cap (and, as a former VC, occasionally an actual value-add), but it is by no means a guarantee of success or protection against failure. Who one's angels or VCs are is nice for the press, but it changes the likelihood of success/failure of the company only marginally. Google would have been Google no matter what firms were listed as owners in the S1.

Disclosure: I've known Nick Mehta for 15 years. He is without question one of the smartest, most ethical people I know. Sequoia chose wisely in making him a "scout," and I would accept his investment (of his own or anyone's money) without reservation.
Microsoft codeplex now supports git I believe so the general Microsoft community supports it and that specific MS product uses it now. Presumably some internal projects also use it
I can't access the article: "Error establishing a database connection"

I imagine that involves some sort of cosmic humour since as of this week I have been celibate for seven years.

Failure to connect indeed.
What libaries are you currently using where you would like to have things like this?
On a personal level I've always found lying and dishonest behavior repugnant.

But looking at it more objectively, it's an opportunistic strategy. Usually it is associated with short term wins and long term losses.

I tend to focus on long term strategies in life. Been working well for me and I'm happier, healthier and wealthier, and increasing as time progresses. It's a good place to be!
I'd have to disagree about it being an ugly design. What was ugly was the hack of putting squares around every icon, when those icons were designed to live on their own, not in a square. That's what was ugly. I'm happy to see the squares gone and the design conform to the standard Android design guidelines. The dock of icons going away is also good. If I'm looking in the applications list it's because I'm looking for something that wasn't on the home screens, so why show me part of the home screen? Makes no sense.

I'm neutral on the lack of four-way symmetry and I'd have to agree that the avoidance of black is sad, though light-colored phones look great too (as Apple itself shows).
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As a counter-point to the grandparent, this discount convinced me to purchase. I hadn't heard about the previous discounts.

I bought the bundle. I didn't buy it before because I'm not yet certain when/if I'm going to learn Ruby on Rails. Currently learning Python and web programming with Udacity, and finishing up some other projects.

But I'd heard such good things about your book that I had already planned to buy if I ever committed to learning Rails.

This discount tipped me over the edge. Having the book + screencasts on hand is a strong inducement to work through them, and 40% is too good an offer to pass up.

In my mind it hasn't reduced the value of the book at all. A discount for a special occasion seems distinct from a discount for other reasons. I saw all the other discounts on the HN front page and mentally lumped them together with yours.
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"52% set aside $0 for marketing despite 91% believing that marketing is necessary for success."

pardon if I'm grumpy, but doesn't this imply that 50% of the devs contacted in the survey were not serious about being in business in the first place? if the main lesson here is "hobbyists are mostly not making money with their hobbies," it's not really such big news.
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Insisting on four way symmetry is like insisting the status bar and a tab bar are the same height.
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One of the cool things in Go (golang) is that you can "install" (checkout) packages from all the major repository types, e.g., svn, git, hg, etc. They are put into your Go src tree.

I find that a cool hack by Google. Is there any way we could separate out that functionality -- translation of each of the various respository protocols -- as a standalone? Imagine not having to have the cvs, svn, git, hg, and other applications all installed on your machine, just to do checkouts. Instead you just have one application to handle all those types.
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This feels like a problem for people who are only just recently discovering the wonders of tech. I was obsessed with programming and PC games as far back as I can remember, and the social cost of spending hours staring at screen became obvious to me long before I reached high-school. These days, the ubiquity of internet gadgets does not phase me at all. I can put down an iPad just as easily as I can shut off my playstation. I developed the discipline to manage my electronic addictions as a teen because I quickly discovered it was impossible to spend 14 hours a day glued to a screen while also maintaining relationships with those who wanted to go to the movies or hang out and listen to music.

As an adult, the pathway for breaking away from electronics is so well worn that the idea of choosing e-mail over human intimacy seems comically absurd. This is not to say I no longer obsess over new toys, but my brain has learned to supplement the happiness I derive from positive social interaction with the knowledge that all the cool gadgets I relish are patiently suspended and awaiting my return, following a fulfilling day (or night) of time spent with those I care about.
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Yes - for those not following the trial, the judge has told the jury that SSO are copyrightable, and if the jury finds against Google, then the judge will decide whether or not SSO actually is copyrightable. So he may render their decision moot.

Basically he's giving the jury a chance to render a narrower verdict rather than answer the broader SSO question outright.
I love the site update. It's very classy there's not even a direct GitHub homepage link, let alone a logo. Is this considered the official Git website? If so, would it not make sense for the domain to be owned by e.g. the SFC on behalf of the Git project?
Maybe it was designed by lawyers, but looking at the pictures, I actually like the shape and general look of the hardware. The software doesn't look as nice, especially the app menu with garish blue background, but the beauty of Android is that I can make it look however I like.

So it may have been designed by lawyers, but it isn't the worse off for it.
In the "freemium" app world, which relies on in-app purchase, the big players pay for installs of millions in users in hopes that a few percent of them will become payers.

In order for that to pay off you need to know what your conversion rate and ARPU are, and optimize your new-user funnel with tracking and A/B tests.
Why is it even possible to patent design which gives zero functionality in the first place...
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I suppose this a positive, but I'm skeptical when companies use marketing events and cheeky blog posts to trumpet funding events. Especially when they don't disclose the reason why they needed to source funding the first place. Or they never mention how the capital will help the idea move forward.

The other reason why I am skeptical is that feels like startups these days are more focused on raising money than shipping product. Is the referenced blog post an example?

This is what I hear from this post: "hey, everyone! (waving hands) - we raised a round!"

I'd rather see: "hey, everyone! check out what we rolled out today!"

And If what you rolled out today is successful, innovative, generates net income, and is backed by 500 trillion in venture capital. Fantastic!

Otherwise, why should I be concerned that you got some people to invest in your idea?
There's no webserver built into C2.
The visual REPL is a separate (toy) project.

To use within Clojure, just add c2 to your deps as usual and then

(ns your-ns
(:use [c2.core :only [unify!]]))

Use from within ClojureScript is pretty much the same.
Checkout

https://github.com/lynaghk/cassowary-cljs-demo

for a rough demo.
Legislation HAS already followed. And to the contrary - rather than crippling the crowdfunding economy, it has expanded its scope by allowing the fundraiser to offer monetary returns on investments. Look up the crowdfunding exemption in the Jobs Act which was recently signed into law.
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Agreed. Heck a lot of the design decisions are just regular Android (no square outline, dock disappears when drawer opens, etc)
I would be fine with a data transfer cap, if it scaled with technology or time. However looking at my internet provider, I have not seen an increase in the data cap since it was implemented. Meanwhile both services and technological capability have increased.
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When I started reading the article, I was expecting to scroll down and see photos of some kind of rhombus-shaped, barbed, Frankenstein monstrosity. I was sorely disappointed. It seems like the author is defining non-ugliness as "looks like an iPhone." There's nothing so offensive about this phone's appearance that deserves the animosity expressed in the article.
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Honestly. The hardware is fine. The problem with android is still the software and only the software.

I'll take my handset in pink polka dots if it can finally scroll smoothly everywhere and not constantly annoy me with bugs in almost every single basic feature.

Instead they keep on shoving out bigger screens, faster CPU's every year - and the only UX issue ever being addressed is the camera finally snapping pics in reasonable time.