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This is really sad. Their dev tools were really horrible though and they weren't able to come out from their nice of mail and messaging which other smartphones started doing as well if not better leading to a BYOD(Bring your own device) culture at the workplace. Who wants to carry two phones and keep them charged?

On the bright side, they're still making money with a steady and increasing BIS revenue stream, BBM is getting popular in Europe and Asia and BB10 is on the horizon, I doubt it can save them unless BB10 is leaps and bounds better than the rivals. They have improved the user experience and the dev tools, but remember what happened to Palm with their excellent WebOS, it's really hard to sell phones because of network effects and few available apps(chicken and egg problem).
Fair point. I debated using that phrase to be more technically correct. I opted for brevity at the expense of accuracy.
I think you greatly misunderstand what a suppressor actually does on a firearm.
We use Accretive Solutions in Mountain View -- they have an outsourced HR/accounting/admin service. They can use TriNet if requested, but I've found a lot better deals (if your employees are in multiple states) going direct.

The zero value add admin/compliance parts of HR are what you should outsource -- absolutely not the value-add parts like recruiting, internal culture management, picking unique benefits, etc.
I doubt the smart ones are out of a job for long.
My employer also uses TriNet. We switched from ADP at the beginning of this year, and it's been a much better experience. They just seem to be more on top of things and can get us actual answers when we have questions. Their website for employees is a little funky, but is much easier to use than ADP.
This whole system deployed at scale appears to cost 0.5% of what patrol does. There's no reason cities can't do this and ramp up patrol.
I think there is room for three great smartphone platforms and I hope Windows Phone isn't one of them. So I'm rooting for RIM.
Because said backlash is a tempest in a teapot? Because the eye resolves (clear) icons more easily than text?
I don't think they lack in research, or at least spending on research. I think the main thing they lack is a culture of innovation. They sat on their laurels as the market leader and they avoided cannibalizing any of their revenue streams.
I wish they weren't failing. I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of Waterloo grads suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly looking for a job, somewhat cooling down the Canadian developer job market.
> there is a minor north pole floating around the South Atlantic at the moment, which could presumably have you sailing in circles if relying on compasses

That sounds very interesting. Any sources?

By the way, I can almost imagine the beginning of the next Roland Emmerich disaster movie. A ship sinks while traveling in circles. Some clever scientist investigates the accident and deduces that the poles are going to switch next week. Nobody listens, so he must single-handedly save the world as well as his family.
Were you doing that in a dense urban area?
In addition to being a major lurker here, I'm also a marketing assistant at an HR consulting and employer services company. There really is a TON of stuff that these companies can offer startups.

Most interesting though, in addition to dealing with compliance, taxes, etc. a lot of HR companies are looking to offer a wide range of services. I'm thinking of things like manager leadership training, employer handbook development, onboarding, compliance assessments, job descriptions and postings, employee satisfaction surveys, etc. etc.
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The $150/month seems very low. Every plan I've looked into in my area (AZ) is the >$500/month/employee range just to run it (no services), and has a minimum of 10 employees.

Someone could make a mint doing an good job of this online.
I looked at doing BB development when it was it's prime. It was too expensive to get into and the cost of a BB enterprise server was prohibitive for a amall shop.
I did put stolen in quotes every time I used it because I'm not sure that is the correct term.

Here's how I see it. AirPlay is something Apple sells a license to. Assume Rogue Amoeba didn't buy a license, but used someone else's, and then sold the functionality that buying the license would have entitled them to.

What's that? Piracy? DMCA violation? Within Rogue Amoeba's rights? I don't know. Is Apple allowed to lock things down by requiring keys? Maybe they're in the wrong.

To me, this is similar to trying to sell software that uses DeCSS to play DVDs rather than licensing CSS. Regardless of my opinion, it doesn't seem to be legal (in the US, anyway).

Is that legitimate? If so, how is it different than other forms of piracy?
>To love debugging is to not love to code.

Honestly, I want to sound rude, so I'm going to.

Who the hell are you to tell me what I love or don't love?
> There's 2 parts to AirTunes (the part of AirPlay that Airfoil and AirFloat use), Sending and Receiving. Up to now, AirFoil only used the AirTunes protocol to SEND streams to AirPlay devices. If you reverse engineer the protocol you can send to any AirPlay device. No problem.

How do you know there's no problem with AirPlay sending?

Other than Apple's past behavior (which, as shown here and many other places, is no guarantee of future results) I'd have thought the correct assumption is that Apple wouldn't want anything to do with unlicensed implementations of either side of the AirPlay protocol.
The amount of energy extracted is minuscule. Digging coal an uranium out of the ground aren't side effect free either.
If you're at the stage where you need employee satisfaction surveys and an employer handbook, you're no longer a startup, you're a bona-fide company.

A lot of that stuff sounds not only unnecessary for a startup, but downright wasteful. If you have 8 guys working for you, is that really the most productive place to put money?
What's actually wrong with Windows Phone other than it came from MS? From what I've seen of it, its a well designed well executed mobile OS. You can't really say the same of the recent blackberry os releases.
Why is it a problem?

I personally get a Macbook because it's a good balance -- I can run all the unix/dev tools I want, and my wife can plug in the digital camera or printer and I can plug in my iPod and have it do something sensible.

She's much happier on OSX than on FreeBSD. I'm much happier on OSX than windows.
He was talking about a government run Shuttle replacement program, which has morphed into the Orion Multi-purpose crew vehicle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft).

SpaceX so far has spent roughly a billion dollars developing the Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and the unmanned Dragon capsule. They will spend a bit more developing the manned Dragon (a few hundred million) and are continuing to develop other hardware such as revisions of the Falcon 9 launcher (Block 2, and an upgraded version 1.1 with considerably greater payload), the Falcon Heavy launcher (with over 50 tonnes of payload, based on the Falcon 9 1.1 core), and a fully reusable Falcon 9 launcher as well as Dragon capsule.
That's what happens when your research is no longer in motion.
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Well, people are too quick to jump on any stories blasting RIM nowadays. We should rename HN to "Questionable Hacker Rumors".

For one, it is a rumor. Apple Insider isn't exactly known for well placed sources inside RIM.

Second, even if we were to take this at face value, read the text: "The layoffs will affect the company's legal, marketing, sales, operations, and human resources divisions, a source said." Not that engineering isn't mentioned. That is a good cutting of cruft.
If you love debugging, I don't think you're a seasoned or valuable programmer.
Cubie messenger's 1 million app downloads in just 35 days of launch.
Seems very feasible if they are positioning themselves to be acquired. With 40% of your workforce gone you no longer have a business, you just have a bunch of assets. I would be surprised if they are still and independent, publicly traded company by the end of 2012.

Unfortunate, they had a lot of smart people working for them, but the dual-ceo structure ensured they would never be decisive enough to take big risks on innovation.
I've learned that one must ensure one doesn't confuse love of the results given by a thing or action with the love of the thing or action which gets you those results. You're a seasoned debugger if you can successfully debug a complex system, but you're a wise developer if you can do the things which ensure you don't have to do so.
But the protocol does keep track of it. Just because some end implementation is violating the protocol doesn't make the system broken. It makes their implementation broken.
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You do realize that vandalism will be a serious problem for this system.

I sure hope so. My dream is to start a DIY / Open-Source Hardware project to create a drone that can shoot down the government drones and UAVs.
The company that I work for is a reasonably sized startup, around 60 employees. We have a small HR department and one person in charge of hiring. They are absolutely incompetent; they are completely incapable of doing their job and have been looking for any opportunity to leave for another department, I have no idea how they still have their job.

This really hurts the company, it blows my mind how such a seriously important part of the company can be treated so casually. If the person(s) in charge of hiring at a company aren't putting 100% into it then the ENTIRE company is affected.

Any opportunity to put HR in the hands of people who know what they're doing should be taken.
I can't help but wonder if some of the difference in performance can be attributed to the culture of each country, especially regarding its attitude toward education. In particular, the attitude towards test taking in Korea just blows me away: http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/21/zakaria-w...

Apparently planes are grounded, late children are driven to school by police officers and people actually gather at the schools to cheer on their relatives/peers on their way into school. What these events convey to me is a deep, cultural understanding of the importance of education.

In my high school, it seemed as though respect was garnered among students for (Excuse my language) "Not giving a fuck". The ability not to care seemed to be something to aspire to. Of course, this is entirely anecdotal, but a point of interest for me after seeing the incredible dedication students in other countries have.

Can you tell me a little about the culture surrounding education in Singapore? Is it at all similar to that of South Korea?
I'm not saying it's a problem. I'm just wondering why some many developers choose to use them rather than Windows or a Linux distro.
Don't worry, you're not alone. I, for one, congenitally lack a sense of humor myself.
At least I personally am much more driven by the fun of solving problems - usually low-level of the kind - and for me having a product that works isn't particularly very rewarding. It's much more rewarding to actually come up with a clever solution to a seemingly abnormal problem. Not to say that TDD would take this away though, but I've noticed that the emphasis of problem-solving moves one step upwards to the design/architectue scale, which definitely isn't my cup of tea. TDD is meh for the most part of the really memorable challenges.

Guess what? We're all different.
Silicon Valley is a scene and Macs are part of that scene. If you want to fit in, use a MacBook Pro. If you don't care about fitting in, use whatever you like the best.
I had neighbors. I was taught (as most gun users are) to be aware of both what I was shooting and, and, importantly, what was _behind_ what I was shooting at.

The Rural/Urban/Suburban thing is irrelevant - what's important is the safety of the discharge.

Regardless - the point I was trying (and clearly failing) to make is that there is nothing illegal regarding the discharge of a firearm. The crime is doing so irresponsibly and in an inappropriate location.
I'm preparing my first book for publication with them later this year, I doubt I will make much but I have a day job

I've been working with an author-run e-publishing group for the past few months, and this is an attitude I see a lot. I understand where it comes from, but it's not really good for readers or the literary ecosystem. Amazon has no real stake in any of the books they publish. They own the platform that sells all of the content, so as long as they're selling something, they're fine. There are no publishers giving books the criticism and support they need, and no passionate booksellers to promote them to readers. If even the authors don't care if a book sells, where does that leave us? I don't know. But I'm going to keep buying traditionally published books until someone figures it out.
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It may be a good idea to make it clearer in your post that what you're stating is a reasoned hypothesis, and that testing it would be useful. It seems a reasonable claim, but absent validation the tone of the post seems too definite to me.
Who the hell are you to feel like you have the right to not be offended?

Nobody is telling you what to do, get over yourself.
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I can't imagine a scenario, throughout history or today, in which debugging would be unnecessary. It's wisdom to realize that, and more wisdom to realize that "debugging" is a nebulous term here that people are nailing down in different ways.

Test-driven development will never replace debugging, and saying otherwise implies a misunderstanding of one of them.
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Who's thinking about deploying gunshot detection systems in rural areas? If nobody, then what does it matter? Gunshot detection systems in cities are almost by definition targeting inappropriate discharges.
I expect that self-driving will become a safety mechanism before it becomes a full driver replacement. It will probably keep track of cars around you as you're driving manually, and if you get close to a collision, it will take over and move you away.

As the data improves, the road information becomes better curated, and so on, I expect that it will become a driving aid, as you describe.

And I expect that within a couple of decades, fully driverless cars (with nobody behind the wheel) will become commonplace.
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> - No proof that people are who they say they are, we have PGP/GPG but no one uses it.

Do you have that proof with any other communication medium? You have some level of authentication provided by the service provider, sure (e.g. with the phone), but it's far from perfect and unspoofable.

- Related to the above, I can't control who can send me email, people use different email addresses and any address can be faked anyway.

> Same problem with phone calls, letters, faxes. Doesn't mean those systems are broken.

- No accepted way to post short messages, people still post long email with big disclaimers and/or adverts at the bottom

There are other protocols for this. I think it's fine that email doesn't solve everything.

> - Poor email client support for sending/receiving large numbers of pictures, with thumbnails and full versions

Sounds like a client problem.

> - Lack of any real semantic support tags, share a single link, geo information etc.

This is a problem with open protocols. Not everyone wants to share the same things you do.
If ebooks are currently priced to cheaply at some point you would expect the content produced to slow down, at which point prices would rise because books that people want aren't being made.

I assume this author is trying to have it both ways, letting amazon sell their stuff cheap and get some volume while trying to make a far better margin off the Australian market.
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> tests are glanular, units are small

Yes. Take care what you probe!

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/glanular
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If you like to code, you are not a seasoned programmer.

I don't like coding. I like telling programmers what to do, thus I'm the boss 0:-)

Ooh, and I also like to spout out long-winded war stories. Who's your daddy?
As a sidenote, all the cheering and celebration that goes on in the techpress when a company dies is somewhat disgusting. I don't understand why a large section of tech industry wants RIM or Nokia etc to fail. I would rather them see them succeed, see them build something cool and have more and fun things to play with.

edit: I think we can safely conclude that hackers are about as human and as fallible as any other group. We have our own fashions and our own tabloids.
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You were still perfectly correct. The name of the sport is "football." If you call it an apple and they say, "no, it's a green apple," then you're not wrong; they're just pedantic.
SAP seems to be doing pretty well with Co-CEO's
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My take on this was actually that many high end customers

1. Trial / buy at the lowest possible price point

2. Ask lots of annoying questions

3. Master the system

4. (finally) move to a higher price bracket

5. Understand the system and stop hassling support.

Perhaps it would be worth correlating support requests with the age of the account and seeing if that was a better predictor of support burden than the price plan.
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They did in the Senate, but that got screwed up by the 17th amendment.
It's been a while since I've looked into it, but last I looked, all the required tools were free/open-source, and the only requirement to be a BlackBerry developer is/was a $20 signing key.
Cool, but I'd hesitate to start calling it a "printed circuit" just yet. The print is acting as more of an automatic sottering iron.
BB10 has the WebWorks platform for HTML5/CSS/JS ninjas and Cascades which makes writing with the Native SDK a breeze (coming from a current Android dev who is really considering the switch).

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How did this role get identified and created? Recruiting is easily identified as a need, no matter what size the organization is, but morale is something that I've never seen get the attention it deserves. Was this something you sold this company on, nirvana?
I don't get the point of your comment. Are you saying you doubt it's 20MB? Or that it doesn't include a lot of libraries?

What point are you trying to make exactly?
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Write a pitch and send it to techcrunch or mashable or any other site like that. Look for key editors on twitter and tell them about your site in less than 140 characters.

Give a reason on why people should follow you on twitter and facebook. For instance "Vote for your favorite video on our facebook page" or something like that.

Try facebook ads for a while if you have good organic numbers on your google analytics for instance a bounce rate less than 40%

Get it SEO friendly and try the basics with google webmaster tools

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The license was a nice touch.
I find it ironic that a company called Research In Motion is going backwards as a company rather than forwards. People seem to be championing the fall of RIM and although it is their fault for being an arrogant player in the enterprise sector, it's sad to see them fail like this. While they're not dead yet, it is probably bound to happen eventually unless RIM is taken in a new direction by a CEO with balls to be a leader and not a follower trying to mimic the success of Apple's iPhone like everyone seems to be doing.

I also find it disturbing that tech outlets like Apple Insider, TechCrunch and a few other majors are basically cheering that RIM is the way it is, it's sort of disgusting to see so many supposed experts in the technology journalist field so happy to see a company like RIM fail. Arrogance aside, RIM still make great products, they just need to adapt to the changing market a bit better, ask people what they want.
Reminds me of what Edsger Dijkstra wrote, "Let me start with a well-established fact: by and large the programming community displays a very ambivalent attitude towards the problem of program correctness. A major part of the average programmer's activity is devoted to debugging, and from this observation we may conclude that the correctness of his programs —or should we say: their patent incorrectness?— is for him a matter of considerable concern. I claim that a programmer has only done a decent job when his program is flawless and not when his program is functioning properly only most of the time. But I have had plenty of opportunity to observe that this suggestion is repulsive to many professional programmers: they object to it violently! Apparently, many programmers derive the major part of their intellectual satisfaction and professional excitement from not quite understanding what they are doing. In this streamlined age, one of our most under-nourished psychological needs is the craving for Black Magic, and apparently the automatic computer can satisfy this need for the professional software engineers, who are secretly enthralled by the gigantic risks they take in their daring irresponsibility. They revel in the puzzles posed by the task of debugging. They defend —by appealing to all sorts of supposed Laws of Nature— the right of existence of their program bugs, because they are so attached to them: without the bugs, they feel, programming would no longer be what is used to be! (In the latter feeling I think —if I may say so— that they are quite correct.)" -- From EWD288
As always, logical reasoning arrives just a tad too late to the party. The original story has already circulated the web and stirred anger and mistrust in a sufficient amount of people who will never read this common sense follow-up. Chalk up one more win for sensationalism and fear-mongering.
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This (short) article quotes the NNSA that they pay competitive salaries. If they have determined that the lack of social media may be one of the contributing factors to the extreme shortage of skilled and qualified U.S. citizens, perhaps they could increase the compensation until they figure out the limit.

I can't see how they would want to compromise on security given the sensitive nature of their work.
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