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> When Apple says that battery-life is important in mobile devices, they mean it

No, they don't. They mean battery life is important in mobile devices as long as it doesn't get in the way of making them thin (among other things). After all, the modern smartphone with the best battery life is the Droid RAZR MAXX (soon to be dethroned by its international sibling the Motorola RAZR MAXX, which doesn't have the battery-life handicap of an LTE radio).
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All you really need is an email.

Asking for first name and last name too, even if it's optional, will probably discourage some people when they see the form.
Since the mail-integration isn't enabled on the demo, I couldn't test it, but I wonder how well it deals with stuff like signatures, attachments etc.?
Awful article, brilliant advice but I value content over style. The density of specific advice and tips is impressive.

"I believe it will take a skilled person with a strong work ethic starting from scratch a minimum of two years to get any kind of significant financial return from making indie games, probably longer."

I know it's impossible but I'd love to see actual statistics for this. Especially on the average time and not the minimum time assuming all the planets align correctly.
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a living, breathing, thinking person--is behind the switch or lever that eliminates access.

A living, breathing, thinking person also did the research that this technology is based on, possibly risking their own capital (livelihood) to do so. Are they not entitled to earn anything? Should all researchers be starving artists in garrets?

Be careful what you ask for, because you might get it.
(parent killed comment probably due to downvotes)

> jesus christ, don't start to cry now..
Ok, so Siri cannot be used by app developers so it's "out of scope" for fragmentation, wow. Other manufacturers decide to open up their APIs, i guess that's the difference then? :)
I'm not an iOS developer, but you are absolutely certain that you can use _every_ iOS6 API call available for the iPhone4S and run the same app on the iPhone3GS? Makes me wonder, how that would work.

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No, you can't use those APIs specific to 4S on a 3GS (but they're usually hardware-related). That's fragmentation, and can't be helped. But the reason people don't consider it to be as severe as Android is:

1) Most iPhones sold today are 4S

2) all of them have the same exact screen size (much much more tricky to handle that lack of a certain API in CoreText)

3) these are user features, not developer features, as the parent said.

4) At most, you have to fine-tune your app for 3G S, 4 and 4S. And you usually want to test hardware-related issues (does this app work great on 3G S's 800MHz CPU? Or does it work despite iPod Touch's lack of Compass/GPS?)
> "I don’t even let Forstall out of the office."

Maybe a joke, but one only a very controlling person could make.
If you want to do good, rather than sell ads, why not apply some place like edX (jobs@mitx.mit.edu) or Khan Academy (http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?k=JobListin...)? Both are actively hiring, and let you do a lot of good for the world. Like a serious lot of good.
There might be a difference legally, but that doesn't mean Microsofts behavior still isn't far more disgusting.
Are you still sending out invites? I registered, said a few words even and am yet to receive one.
Don't blame a free service for the misconfiguration of your mail and/or domain setup.
What’s interesting is not just the current growth hacker trend,but how computer science is intersecting with other fields to create new professions.

Is this really new? It was my understanding that the appearance of the role of a dedicated developer was a fairly recent thing, after the commoditization of the computer, and that early programmers were all domain experts (e.g. scientists) that learned programming later in life.
Irony isn't a concept that lends itself to a trivial definition. That particular dictionary definition you cite isn't completely wrong, but it does suffer greatly from being overly terse.

The Merriam-Webster definition is much better:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony

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Furthermore, dictionary definitions aren't two way streets, not everything that fits a description therefore matches the word. Imitate, the verb, can mean to make a copy of.
"Please wait while I imitate the receipt for you."
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Apple would never release a laptop with a 1.5 hour battery (wifi web browsing). an unimaginable number of such laptops are brought out by every major brand other than Apple.

(likewise apple has its standards in a phone, which is not the standard you cite, but not 45 minutes either.).

Apple is opinionated on every part of the user interface and design, on usability and ease-of-use. They then go on to put their money where their mouth is, and practice what they preach. (For the most part.)

It's very hard to find design decisions at Apple that seem to have 0 thought or discussion behind them. This is the norm at other companies.
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I do not see how the fact that a service is free makes it immune to criticism.
You will notice that I never actually said that he was wrong or that I was right which is what your "fallacy fallacy" is all about (I have you you there).

I merely returned his critical favour towards his critique and outlined the rationale for my arguments. No more, no less.

Take from it what you may. Critical thinking is hard!

Thanks for the link! :D.
Most of these features already exist in Android and have done for quite some time.
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Did you read the article? The part that expressly points out they've tried a number of other options, including PRC's, and it didn't work well for her? They part about how using this app has significantly increased her communications abilities where other solutions failed?

PRC might have a rightful claim and a right to protect it, but that's not what the issue is about here.

The issue is that the way they are going about it is having a substantial negative effect on innocent third parties, and that Apple is complicit in that by unilaterally deciding to remove the app without waiting for an injunction or for the case to be decided.

Never mind the broken patent system. It's possible to be in the right and still act like total assholes.
If Megaupload users want their data, they're going to have to pay
Not sure I agree with "the site is free so don't expect any service" attitude. The site may be free but if you can't support it then don't provide it. Granted this site doesn't host ads like Gmail, but I expect a level of service from Google. As such, HN is part of a bigger game plan and so I don't think it should be regarded as totally free...
First, 2009 (or later I suppose) was a critical time in Apple's turnaround?

Second, the anecdote in question is about an Apple executive wanting to be a board member somewhere else. Plenty of executives (at companies other than Apple) are board members elsewhere, so Jobs' refusal is at least noteworthy. And since the refusal seems at least partly motivated by limiting an employee's outside interests, that does sound controlling (try replacing the subject of the conversation another professional activity that had a similarly modest time commitment).

It's also worth noting that the executive in question left Apple last summer.
Each person gets $100k; $50k per year for two years.
btw: You can choose whichever chords you like in Garageband. Click the setup button (looks like a gear). Then flip from Track to Song. Scroll down and add some diminished 9ths or whatever.
FYI this is something that Travis (http://travis-ci.org/) can now do; for example, see the travisbot comments on https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/521. It's not finished yet, but they've got more information at http://about.travis-ci.org/blog/announcing-pull-request-supp....
Totally agree on your last point. Free or not, that's defo not customer support! Sounds like it was sent by a developer or something, cos it's probably how I would respond, lol.
The NY Times article was written in TROLLHATTAN. I thought that's a joke too. It seems it's a real city.
I'm surprised that turn-by-turn navigation won't work on the iPhone 4, I don't see how hardware requirements are the reason there. Same counts for the absence of Siri on the iPhone 4 and iPad 2.
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Only the American govt can argue for something so stupid. I mean don't they realise that seizing and shutting down the website is practically the same thing as seizing those servers?
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As pointed out above, most of the jobs advertised by Thiel's startup require a college education: http://palantir.com/careers/positions

Edit: their about page says "We were founded in 2004 by a handful of PayPal alumni and Stanford computer scientists."

Sounds like Thiel doesn't like the taste of dogfood.
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?

Yup - you misunderstand, and yes you could just report something for a company that's not joined getsatisfaction. A chunk of people see this as a bad thing - see http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else and http://sachin.posterous.com/get-satisfactioncom-is-blackmail... for example.
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There are tons of cases where iPad could be better off with a keyboard, especially for productivity apps. Come on, android has full keyboard support from day one.
The "dropout of college mania" will hurt America in the long run. The most talented young people are pursuing gold rush ideas instead of investing in deep learning. College leads to grad schools and grad schools created phd's. If something is broke along the chain, the result will be catastrophic in the long run.
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It doesn't, but you are verifying that a) a bug actually doesn't exist b) showing the "customer" you have actually done something/investigated and not just replied with a standard email template.
> rapidly killing off billions of people

Show us the quote where he said that. You can't because he didn't. This is classic denialist logic.

First of all, that statement wasn't in the paper, but in a brief summary. And if you look at the context of it, and the other things said in the paper, the actual details, a more honest interpretation of that summary is that, regarding the climate issue, there would be beneficial effects if we could, say, emigrate out of and therefore de-populate more of the Earth's surface, to let it go back to it's natural state, and/or optimize the density in areas where it would be better for the climate due to system recovery/equilibrium effects, and economic effiencies in the systems that support civilization. And especially reduce the related resource consumption & related emissions due to that, which are the primary impacts, at a system level, of the large human population on the climate and ecosystems. Here's the following sentences in his summary, which you conveniently left out:

"More of us need to move to optimal areas at higher density and let parts of the planet recover. Folks like us have to be forced to be materially poorer, at least in the short term. We also need to invest a lot more in creating technologies to produce and distribute food without eating up more land and wild species. "

He did NOT say we need to KILL people. Or let them die. Indeed, the whole point of taking action is so that less people will die, and more people can lead better lives than otherwise. There are many ways of literally reducing the population that are relatively benign, such as pushing down on the global birth rate (through birth control or abstinance, for example, to take your pick between liberal-vs-conservative ponies), or in a more high-tech scenario, off-planet colonization (the whole SpaceX, Planetary Resources Inc. model). It's clear that these are scientists looking at systems and the big picture, and being a bit geeky. If you dig into the population numbers and years in their model, many of those "very bad, past sustainable" points are 40 years out and projections based on trends -- that's not overnight so not "quickly" in the layman's sense.

Here's a link directly to the actual paper in question. If you can cite or quote something in it explicitly that you think is bullshit, wrong, insane, reckless, etc. (and I'll temporarily overlook the fact that neither you or myself are climate scientists), please reply in a comment with it and I'll consider it:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/hadlylab/pdfs/Barnoskyetal2012...
the technology that SfY 'copied' actually the direct results of decades of effort, or could it have been created by a few designers and developers looking at the problem of assisting disabled children over a few months?

You are making the classical developer mistake of thinking that programming is the hard part. Generally programming is the easy part. Domain knowledge is the hard part.

Let me give you an example, anyone could write an app to calculate e=mc^2. It took Einstein years to come up with that formula in the first place. Do you think because you could write that app in 5 minutes, you're as smart as Einstein?
This is exactly the same issue I had with Bing Maps. Bing Maps is very superior in many ways to Google Maps except when it comes to what a Londoner actually care about: getting around town, and quickly finding things with a certain degree of fuzziness.

Unless Apple's offering is a direct superset of G maps I will never use it. 3d buildings? Pfft. Cute, but useless.
1. E-mail info@ycombinator.com with your request.

2. State what your domain is.
It's very rare for the specs to distinguish between user errors and client errors.

It's also rare for it to distinguish between origin server errors, and gateway server errors.
Thanks for comment, I am e-mail 2 times for info@ycombinator.com, but no any response.
It seems that the meaning of "fair" depends on the location.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-10869722

"Fair" is one of those concepts that doesn't quite mean the same thing on either side of the Atlantic.
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Doesn't a gravity train actually seem more appropriate here? It doesn't need to go through the center of the earth in this case, and is shorter distance than a tunnel. The only problem is it probably takes a lot longer to build.
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Why not leave ebooks? I can't see anything Apple has gained that makes up for all of the problems that move has created.
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I would presume that they are not willing to unblock your domain.
I meant progress as in 'the idea that the world can become increasingly better in terms of science, technology, modernization, liberty, democracy, quality of life, etc.'
My reset attempt went unanswered too, and this occurred when setting up an account on an iPad after having login automatic for months (?years). In the end, after several reset attempts I made a new account.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4105082
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LOL

If companies actually paid "$150-200K" there'd be an applicant line visible from space.
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Last.fm was sold to CBS in 2007. It also has lots of legacy client apps on many different platforms to support - I doubt that's something Apple would want to do.
This is what I don't get about the patent system. It should not be about denying others access, but ensuring that those who use the patent pay their dues to the originator. Then nobody but the greedy loses.
I think you've latched onto the wrong part of that quote. He's not saying "open source" isn't making the world a better place, he's saying that it does. However the primary mechanism by which it does so, is based on rational self-interest (driven in part by the very clever reciprocal nature of the GPL), not feel-good gestures without actual impact.

It's analogous to Dawkin's selfish gene or Adam Smith's invisible hand, individual self-interest at one level drives communal benefit at a higher level.
If a tree falls in the woods, and there's nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound?
"I must say I find this to be a quite misantropic attitude in general."

That's circular reasoning, even if disguised. You are (implicitly) saying that selfishness is morally wrong, and therefore people who propose that every act is out of selfishness have a negative worldview (a world view in which everybody is morally wrong), and therefore they are misanthropic (because of your own assumption that selfishness is morally wrong and that considering everybody morally wrong is about only seeing the bad in people). If you remove the moral presupposition on 'selfishness' from your argument, your conclusion to misanthropy (which has an inherent moral judgement) doesn't hold any more.
Some kind of gel between the layers perhaps?
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Get this fucking garbage out of here.
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Ok, I try one time also mailing for info@ycombinator.com
"This technology helps handicapped people so you shouldn't allow it to be patented."

To me you would just need to remove a few words : "technology shouldn't be patented".

At the very worst, patents should be allowed to last for 6 to 12 months, not 10 years.
Also, note that the (US) DEA was founded in 1973, while _451_ was published in 1953.

Ahh, so the DEA named themselves after the book then, that sounds about right.. ;)
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Exactly, this is the way to go.
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Yep, all from the same code base.
That's because only the Good Guys(tm) have Hellfires, Apaches and Tomahawks to fire at will. The Good Guys also have restraint - the US won't send a cruise missile into an apartment complex in Islamabad, for instance - and only attack people who are both in a war zone and lack public support. The scary thing about covert assassinations is that they could happen anywhere and be committed by anyone (IMO the "anyone" part is the key bit for differentiating "war" and "murder"), whereas large-scale strikes are carried out by political figures who are (presumably) accountable for their actions.
I don't collect these stats, although probably should. From web visitors it's 70% win, 20% mac, 10% linux.
"The issue is that the process of identifying, copying, and returning Mr. Goodwin's data will be inordinately expensive"

Pretty sure MegaUpload had a nice little interface where, after a 20-second wait, users were granted access to their files. Maybe they could use that.
I'd note that I find Hipmunk weird and non-intuitive. Here's an example: http://cl.ly/3o2Y0z0w0a1l3c3d1X3G

There's a few things in that shot that confuse me, but the top timeline bar is not something I glance at and understand.
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There is a second justification for patents that often gets overlooked: in order to patent an innovation, you have to exactly describe that innovation, and this discription is made public, and after the patent expires everyone is free to use it.

Without this, there would be a strong incentive to keep innovations secret as much as possible, which may have them end up being lost.
> Are they not entitled to earn anything? Should all researchers be starving artists in garrets?

Do you mean the creators of SfY, who seem to claim to have done at least some of the research that went into it themselves, or do you discount their effort and risk merely because another company accused them of infringing a software patent?
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Are you aware that there are lots of Indians willing to do work at $5/hour? There are $10 watches in the market, but that doesn't mean that $2,000 watches don't get sold.
Even without the "app store" model, the company in question could still prevent the access to the said application by court injunction. It is not to the stage yet now, and while you can say that Apple acted prematurely, it is a matter of time that such injunction happen.

And with the App Store model, the application is took down from the store. You still have the local copy. There is no updates from the App Store anymore, but do you think there will be updates from the developer when the court injunction finally happens?

Bad laws need to be fixed.
Apple has done it because they are getting 30% of the sale fee from software that is potentially infringing someone's patent. They could be sued for that quite easily if the makers of SfY went bankrupt.
It's a no brainer for a corporate heirarchy to choose to pull it from the store.
Doesn't make it ethically squeaky clean.
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