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This makes me wonder what people have to say about fragmentation now ;)

To be clear, i don't think it's a problem, i only hate to see those "android (and symbian and windows and all others) are too fragmented!!!!1", when this is just the way it worked for many years. Of course you'll have fragmentation eventually. Only that the manufacturer with the smallest portfolio has it easier then many manufacturers with many more devices. Fragmentation was not seen as a major problem long before iOS or Android (on Symbian for example.. do you know how many different Symbian versions exist? Nobody cared and nobody complained).
Something like that happened, actually; I did make a submission [1] like the kind you suggested and received almost no response.

[1] http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4082564
Edit: I think some would probably view that as the appropriate response.
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Not sure why you emitted this block of text. Let's rewind to what Arne Mooers actually said:

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It's rare that it's said so explicitly. But if you can't bring yourself to believe that giving 22 guys the authority to remake the world economy is a bad idea, perhaps you can submit that rapidly killing off billions of people on the basis of a single review article might not be such a great concept.
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I listen to a lot of trance/techno music and other similarly repetitive genres (eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrAxmOvjSYw&feature=relat...). But I like it to have a few different elements to cycle between, and when there's a big musical build I expect it to climax with something other than the exact same thing that came immediately before the build. I have literally made more interesting things than this over morning coffee, and I don't consider myself any great shakes as a musician.

The only explanation I can come up with for the release of this tune is that the quite-talented Rihanna was either incapable or unwilling to go back to the studio to record anything and there was a looming contract deadline imposed by her record publishers, so her management team took some abandoned recording material from a previous session and farmed it out to a momentarily-popular DJ.
As an weekend indie game dev, I feel the same. The collector edition will have the 300+ hours of footage from a bunch of other devs and should be more satisfying in that respect.
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> The temperature of the air only comes into play if it is emiting radiation at the frequency of light produced by the led and at greater intensity.

Blackbody radiation. Air (everything) always emits light.

> I do not see why this would be required.

It's a fundamental law of thermodynamics that requires a heat source and a cold source in order to convert heat into some other form of energy.

The air around you is the cold source, and the LED lamp is the hot source. If the LED is colder than the air it will not work - the LED must be hotter (in this particular case they put it in an oven).
In my book, a fanatic is someone who unleashes diatribes on people with whom he/she is pretty much in the same camp, apart from minor differences that outsiders don't even understand. I am reminded of "The Life of Brian" and the People's Front of Judea vs. the Judean People's Front.
While learning ASL is a good way to communicate with her parents, sooner rather than later she will need to & want to communicate with the wider world, and most people can't sign. So she will likely need something like this going forwards, and as you note the bigger issue here (beyond her and her family) is the patent & Apple situation.
Yes, I noticed this as well. Strage, previous size was fine.
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Yes, the LED is cooling down, but it will not cool down any lower than the ambient air. i.e. you can not use this as an A/C - you must already have a cold source in order to use it.

The cosmic background radiation is not exactly common. You'd have to be in space.

BTW, I don't think we are actually arguing.
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Quoting from Wikipedia (they link to the lawsuit):

"In October 2010, Microsoft filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Motorola alleging several patents (including two of the FAT32 file system patents) were not licensed for use in the Android operating system."

If you think these patents are valid and that Microsoft should be permitted to demand licensing for them despite the direct connection to the monopoly they abused... well, I hope you don't use FAT32 on any of your Linux systems or that you're planning to call up someone in Redmond ASAP.
None of these are developer features.

I think the claim with iOS being "less fragmented" has to do with developers having a relatively solid set of APIs that they can call.

There are a couple of APIs that degrade on older hardware but the number is small enough that a senior developer could write you a list in a job interview.
But this is being handled in court. Apple was notified of this and did nothing for a while and then removed it.
I have an article on these issues but mostly focusing on the ones fixed in 3.2.4/3.2.5. Article is a bit weird because it was written before 3.2.4 and I thought some of the issues were user problems rather than framework problems.

http://benmmurphy.github.com/blog/2012/05/15/abusing-dynamic...
You have zero understanding about what fragmentation means do you. It has NOTHING to do with user features in the OS.

It is all about the ability of developers to target the latest APIs. Even thought iOS6 doesn't support turn by turn on all devices all of the APIs are available e.g. Passbook. Which combined with the high upgrade rate of iOS users means that I can safely target iOS6 for my next app.

Contract this with Android where I will for at least the next two years be forced to target Android 2.3 despite whatever new APIs are available in ICS/JB/KLP. Throw in the testing effort (so many device types) and app store piracy makes Android far less appealing for developers.
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As someone who has an iPhone 4, and is locked in contract until next May, I'm a little annoyed some of the features aren't coming.

As someone who has used Apple products for a while, I'm not overly surprised. Remember the MMS scandal when they decided that the original iPhone 'couldn't' handle it? Same thing, just more features.

And no, this isn't fragmentation. What this is, annoyingly, is device boundaries. We've got to a point where Apple needs something to encourage users to move up to the next price point. Want turn by turn but thought you'd just get an iPhone 4? Come aboard the 4S train. We can all go 'well that's shitty of Apple', but businesses do actually need something to use as a demarcation between two phones that ostensibly the same thing.

Still, where's my turn-by-turn and 3D mapping? I was looking forward to them.
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It's a terrible environment, but I bet being a supreme court Justice is also a terrible environment. It also brings out profound conclusions and vision.

When Apple says that battery-life is important in mobile devices, they mean it. If Samsung says it, maybe a year later they will turn around and bring out an eight-core phone that you can play a game on for forty-five minutes before having to plug it in again.

Apple isn't just opinionated: it's opinionated on hugely difficult technical issues that don't even exist in the wild yet. (As when they release a new category.) You only get that through violent discourse with egos on the line.

edit: a similar thing happens at Google, but not when it comes to ergonomics or user interfaces and usability with the same hardware devices Apple makes, but instead when it comes to solving certain problems on a massive scale. The result is that Google can't really release a laptop that's as usable as a Macbook in the same domain, and for everyone, and Apple can't really solve the ops issues that it would take to bring out a Google Search competitor. There is huge amount of discourse (of a radically different nature) at both companies.
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What's controlling about that ?

Expecting a board member at a critical time in Apple's turnaround to dedicate 100% of the time to Apple is hardly controlling. In fact I would deem it common sense.
My general response to those kinds of performance questions is to measure rather than predict - let me go off, cook up some data sets of appropriate sizes and try it out.
It's might also be worth checking out allocPSA.com, also open source, and has a similar ticketing email gateway thingo... and a little tiny bit more functionality.
(I'm very biased though :-)
I fail to see how turning around a company from nearly bankruptcy to the largest in the industry isn't progress.
Now I'm wondering if the submitter wrote a good title and some mod came along and bawdlerised it??

It's a terrible title. Fine for a media site trying to sell stories based on sensationalism but I thought we were building a brave new online community here.
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I am sure there have been many objections against separation of executive, legislative and judiciary powers, also in the name of efficiency.

> a law like that

I don't see it as a law. I think it should be to the constitutional level. Laws, if necessary, would get into details on how to enforce the constitution, and these details may vary with place and time.

> would likely cripple a large part of the industry and stifle innovation

On the opposite, I think it would in long term be better enforced by such a separation of (information) powers. One of the reason could be that it would require open formats for any communication between hardware and software. Then any other company could compete in the field, and innovate in directions either not allowed or not deemed interesting by the bigger companies.

> not sufficient to prevent [Apple] from only running things they approve

I do not think Apple or any other hardware provider is the least entitled to prevent me, the owner of the device I bought, from using any software I like. In my mind, current users of these devices when not unlocked do not own them, they rent them really, and should be aware of this.
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> the original patent doesn't expire. It's EXTENDED.

Really? I can find no indication that US patent law allows for extension of patents at all except as a result of delays caused by the USPTO or regulatory delays (e.g. reviews by the FDA).

Everything I've seen about evergreening has been tied to filing new patents covering things like delivery systems to make it harder to produce a generic that doesn't infringe, and frustrating competitors by threats of lawsuits over trademarks, marketing, packaging etc.. None of that would be necessary if they were able to just obtain an extension on the original patent.
Considering the problems that Sun ran into with Rock, and the opinion that Cliff Click has for Azul's own HTM implementation, I wouldn't get excited yet.
Fast enough on (what feels like) a hellishly old computer running Linux and Chrome 19.
Or simpler, create a new account and test the password mailing function with it.
Yup, noticed about a week ago, looks rubish
It does exist, http://getsatisfaction.com
The MidiShare folks had something interesting to say about lock-free coding in the late 90's, early 2000's. Unfortunately their papers are not available in grame.fr's re-design but they are available through archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060427171449/http://www.grame.f...

EDIT: I found the new home:

http://www.grame.fr/Recherche/rsrc/pub/index.php?lang=fr&...

Specifically, this report titled "Lock-Free Techniques for
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This is something I believe you should have done in the first place. You write that your e-mail setup must not be wrong as you are using Google Apps for your domain- but in the end exactly that might be the problem (wherever it stems from).
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Agreed. I think the support guy/girl did alright.
But what are they to do...?!?
I did do this, in fact. My second last email describes how I created a new account and made sure that the associated email address was entered correctly, but still no email was received.
> There was a Cambrian explosion of music in that period

This is a bit of a simplistic explanation. Underlying this its really just that recording, playing and distributing music at reasonable quality became much cheaper and easier, so we rapidly went from a world where music was incredibly localised and diverse but not an attractive career (because nobody made much money) to one where music was heavily internationalised and less diverse, but more attractive as a career (if you could 'make it').

Sorry if you think thats a nitpick, but I really don't see any evidence that the music of the 1960s was an 'explosion' (in diversity? i assume is what you mean) from what had gone before, just more recorded (probably some good stuff, but also a lot of trash - because suddely you could dream of making money from it).
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yes - but they are passive and short range. this is now known as "near-field communication'
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Arh... but with that, the service provider has to opt-in.. they have to choose to add get satisfaction. I am talking about a place you can go and register issues you are having with a service, even if they have not added any formal issue tracking (either because they are too lazy, too busy or simply dont want to know).

Of course, the trick is to get the service providers to take a look, but with enough user engagement, maybe it would work.
Check if you have an automated filter/rule in your gmail account that could be deleting the mail as it arrives.
iOS does this with Location reminders. Not editing system settings, but you can geofence like this.
Of course I'd love to have the other guys app taken down if it copied mine. But I'd also want to know that I'm safe against spurious claims of copying from someone else.

If I have to choose one of the two, I'd choose the latter.

I'd not want Apple to be judge, jury and executioner, because they have no legal obligation to ensure a fair, transparent and equitable process, and so the more willing they are to take unilateral action, the greater the risk for me of relying on them for income is.

In fact, given stuff like this, I'm very happy not to be dependent on any income from the app store that can be just yanked away at a moments notice without any real recourse.
Yes, my point just was, that this is one manufacturer with one operating system and a small set of devices. It's always compared with lots of manufacturers and lots of completely different devices.
I don't see the problem. Of course, different hardware, different software, but it's so much more devices, it's not fair to compare.

A fair comparison would be fragmentation on symbian devices vs fragmentation on android devices (for example).
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mind dropping a note here how it went? really keen on having this for svn as well (i know, i know, so last century - but at my work place we have only limited resources and migrating to another scm is a pretty resource intensive task).

how about forking the module on github?
Thanks Barry, interesting vs importance highly personal and it's a hard topic.
Not only duplicating itself but putting data from inside the airgapped network on to pen drives so it can escape. I guess the one is useless without the other but this somehow seems far more impressive.
Yes thats interesting. In fact stackoverflow is an example of what I mean. Even if the service provider does not choose to use stackoverflow for issue tracking, people will still ask questions (and indirectly report bugs) because of the community. Any technical service provider who cares about users would be stupid not to monitor stackoverflow for discussions about their product and jump in.

However, you are right, stackoverflow is not for the type of issues we are talking about, like "I cant login", "This form gives me an internal server error with this input" etc...
Oh, is it linking to fallacies time?

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Actually, they have to opt out, which is why GS is such an awful concept.
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How do you mean?

Maybe I misunderstand what getsatisfaction is.... could I go there are report a bug on hacker news for example even if hacker news have not joined getsatisfaction?
> The scientific method is not "right wing".

I did not say that. Quote me where I said that.

> You can pretend that politically motivated pseudoscience is science, it does not make it so (...)

Indeed. And calling something pseudoscience does NOT MAKE it pseudoscience. And if you are not a scientist, especially not one in the relevant field, then my position is that your opinion and conclusions on the matter are of much lower weight than of those who are and who do have these qualities.

> If you want to argue a point, argue from the evidence. Not with politics. Not with vitriol.

Indeed. Let's let the folks with relevant experience, training and credentials work on this issue, and let them make their recommendations to their fellow citizens who are laymen. And then let's follow their advice on these matters. I see way too much politics and game-playing on the part of the anti-climate-change folks, so a large percentage of that community is at best, noise, and at worst, suspect, in my judgement.

You are good at coming up with terms for patterns in debate. That does not make your position on the climate change issue correct. Nor does it make my position wrong. Nor does it make the judgments of climate scientists wrong. In fact, it's irrelevant. What does matter is whether we listen to people with the relevant expertise or not.
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The number of developers giving a damn about Symbian, compared to those who do Android and iOS is probably less by 4 or 5 orders of magnitude, that's why no one is talking about Symbian.

We're not living in a dream world, many are trying to be realistic and compare the two most vibrant and important platforms because they have to make a call in their startups: Do I want to develop for iOS, or Android, or both, or first iOS and then Android. Most people on HN are developers and try not to be as stupid as average commenter on Engadget, falling into pointless, grad-scholl-link arguments about whose platform is cooler.
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It seems that you created a new account with the same email delan@azabani.com. I have tested and I can link my HN account with that email as well. So it means that the email field is not unique.

Also, I'm not sure about Name.com's configurations, but the Pingdom DNS Health test is failing with fatal errors.

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Yep, the filter list in Gmail's settings is empty.