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Ask HN: How Do Texts (SMS) Work? And Who's Wrong: Me or T-Mobile?
I ask this because my girlfriend often gets texts from me that are merged with texts from up to a year ago. This, combined with her not receiving my texts often, frustrates me.

The old texts that are merged into the new ones have been deleted off our phones for a long time now. So either our phones are keeping copies despite us deleting them (I have a Nokia E5, she a T-Mobile Sidekick) or T-Mobile is keeping copies and is somehow screwing up.

I don't know how to figure out whose fault it is since I know little of SMS. And T-Mobile CSRs are usually too incompetent for me to put up with ("Have you tried turning off the phone?").

Does anyone have any ideas?
Reminds me when a bunch of Minnesota nurses walked-out on their patients in protest of conflict with their union negotiations claiming "We're doing this for our patients, because we are understaffed and the hospitals need to staff more but are unwilling." Complete BS. You care soooo much about your patients (customers) that you walk out on them... not cool [and highly hypocritical].
> On the web, Symbolsets are supported in all major browsers. ...They work in modern browsers..."

Does anybody know exactly what browsers and operating systems? IE6 on XP, for example? There's no chart, which makes me hesitant.
What a bad choice of title (on HN). It's totally not what the article is saying, it only focus on gaming, and specially on mobile.

That being said an interesting article on a interesting html5 game.
Woz is one of the original financial backers of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and is still involved with the EFF, his main-job right now is chief scientist of Fusion-io.

I would say the importance of the EFF far outranks the importance of Apple's over-priced toys.
$4k/mo post-tax ~ $6k/mo pre-tax == $72k/yr. There are a lot of programming jobs in the US that don't pay that.

And those jobs are going to want you to work, so a better comparison is to a pile of money that throws off $4k/mo post-tax. If that pile of money is invested in blue chip dividend-paying stocks with an expected return of 5%, you'll need around $1m to generate $4k/mo in passive income. (Obviously tweak your expected return and the corresponding principal required to fit your assumptions of market performance.)

$1m may not be FU money to you, but others will disagree.
I don't think it's inherently dishonest, but I do think that you have to have enough self-restraint to avoid pushing things that are questionable, but give good lead-gen kickbacks.

It's not 100% obvious where that line lies, admittedly. I run a small side-project site (started as just something for friends/family) that lists checking and savings accounts that are free of "gotchas": free checking w/ no minimum balances, online savings accounts without weird caveats, etc. (http://www.pfstuff.com/checking/ and http://www.pfstuff.com/savings/, fwiw).

But, I also show some AdSense ads alongside some of the pages... which have the bad habit of advertising precisely the accounts that don't fit my criteria, and which I'm trying to steer people away from. Not always, but Google's algorithms rotate in such "bad choice" accounts more often than I'd like. I can ban some of the more egregious "10% guaranteed interest!" type stuff via AdSense's settings, but not everything. Perhaps I should just pull the ads entirely? That'd be the idealist thing to do, but of course would remove the (modest) monetization potential.
When I want to dynamically re-flow text on iOS, I use HTML in a UIWebView. Otherwise, native is easier for presenting a navigable and interactive UI. Using the right tool for the job is always the way to go.
I'm curious what your parents taught you about personal responsibility. My theory is it's less about whether you grow up in poverty as it is about growing up being taught you're a victim, that everything bad in your life is the result of other people hating you or taking what should be yours, etc. If you feel everything that you have or don't have is the result of things other people are giving you or taking from you, you learn that you are not in control of your destiny.

Oh yeah... that. My parents absolutely hammered a sense of personal responsibility into me, and a "you control your own destiny" sentiment. My dad also instilled a sense of work ethic through demonstration (although, if you'd asked him when I was 14, he probably would have disagreed!). The thing is, we were poor, but my dad always worked and worked hard... and he was an entrepreneur, even a serial entrepreneur even though I doubt he knew that word. In between stints of working on dredge boats and doing auto-mechanic work, etc., my dad started business after business: building and selling crab traps, bought a dump trunk and did "hauling fill dirt," then "building docks and bulkheads" and then it was cutting down trees and hauling pulpwood to the mills, etc., etc. He finally "made it" so to speak, doing a business pouring and finishing cement (foundations, slabs, etc.)

So in that regard, I had a strong sense of personal responsibility (I think my parents essentially were libertarians, even though they had probably never heard that word either) and a demonstration of work ethic and the entrepreneurial drive.

However the reality is that almost nobody in the world or evn your town even knows you exist, much less is actively working to keep you down. If you grow up being told that life is (largely) what you make it, you will tend to do what it takes to achieve what you want, rather than remaining mired in self-pity and victimhood.

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[Ask Reddit] Coder with a felony - am I hosed?
Sounds like GroupOn might be able to compete with Digital River for crappiest customer experiences.
To whom are you responding? I cannot find your quotation anywhere else in the discussion, but I used the word "meritocracy" and I'm worried you interpreted my comment elsewhere in the thread as hostile.
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You may want to mention the language that you are talking about in future titles.
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One does not need a drivers license to drive. One merely needs a vehicle.

The fact that not having a credit card damages your credit score should be enough to make even semi-intelligent people realize that credit score is not a fair and equitable measure of one's ability to pay on time.
In this case, how much of the 4k should be re-invested to counter the inflation?
Some of my Facebook friends actually went to Facebook to mention that Twitter was down. I wonder what would happen if both Twitter and Facebook were down simultaneously...
He charges $2.99 for his mint alternative. It was a very poorly worded post.
>or a teapot

Whoa, let's not go overboard here.
I could tell you.

But the you'd wish the Krell would kill you.
He made a point, right or wrong. No need for (even the slightest) personal attack * .

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* I used 'personal attack' for lack of a better term. I'm not English and couldn't think of anything better at 5:18am.
There's some occasional hand-wringing about it in nursing and teaching but it's very much in the minority.

None of the incessant navel-gazing that occurs here.
No more or less honest than running TV commercials to get you to buy products during a television show. I presume you have some sort of logarithmic honesty scale by which one can measure their dastardliness? If so, please share.
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Say you were already rich and someone offered you a boat-load of money to appear in a TV commercial and promote a product you don't believe in.

Would you accept the offer? It wouldn't take much effort and you could donate the money to charity, after all.
iOS has by far the best support for HTML5 of any mobile platform. If Apple felt threatened by HTML5 I'd expect to see a lot more evidence of sabotage.
You don't need a credit score if you can pay 50% down, which you may be able to do if you didn't pay all your money to the credit card companies.
Patent protection is important because it protects 'non-literal' duplication through the doctrine of equivalents and other established principles.

What is this doctrine of equivalents and other established principles? I'd like to know if it is reasonable for software or was developed for other fields and then misapplied to ours.

Also, can anyone point to an example of a small inventor who made a groundbreaking software contribution, patented it, and then profited from that patent as it was applied by big players on a large scale? Since that's the use case that's supposed to justify software patents, it would be interesting to see some examples. Given how many counterexamples there are (basically, all the ones we hear about), it seems likely that this argument is a straw man, or whatever one calls a straw man when somebody's arguing in favor of it rather than against.
Last time I experimented with this, it was not a viable option for my use case for several reasons.
Based on your story it seems you were lucky enough to have a stable family who gave you what support they could to pursue independent study/tinkering outside of school.

Semi-stable might be a better term. My parents divorced when I was 16, and through most of my childhood my dad wasn't around through big chunks of it, because a lot of the jobs he took (in between attempts at entrepreneurial initiatives) involved working "on the road" a lot (mainly dredge-boats). But yeah, we were poor, but mostly not so poor that we couldn't afford food (although we had stints on foodstamps and what not, to be honest), and we did have enough money at times, that yeah, I managed to accumulate a decent little home library through yard-sales, library book sales, etc., and I had a little toolset, a soldering iron, and the ocassional trip to Radio Shack to acquire components (along with whatever components I could scavenge from old discarded TVs acquired from around the neighborhood, etc).

However there are plenty of families over here who live in poverty where either both parents are unemployed , or dad is a drug dealer and mum is a prostitute.

Yeah, thankfully my own situation wasn't quite that bad.

In many of these cases the children are simply not encouraged to learn anything, never provided with books (the parents might not even be able to read themselves).

Luckily for me, my mom was (and is) an avid reader and she read to me a lot as a kid, so I could already read when I started kindergarten, and I was always reading books from a few grade levels ahead of my grade. I remember once, in elementary school, trying to check out a book that was reserved for a grade higher than my own grade, and they wouldn't let me, and I raised such a fuss that my mom eventually came down to the school, talked to the school officials and got me permission to check out higher grade books. So yeah, in that regard, I had some positive things on my side.
I think it's more likely the problem is in your phone(s), not T-Mobile's network, because if it was in the network chances are many people would experience this problem.

Easiest way to troubleshoot would be for one of you to move your SIM to a different phone for a few days and see if the problem persists.

It may not be an issue of "keeping copies" so much as reusing the same space in memory, which every device does.

It's pretty easy to imagine a bug that would result in an "end of message" flag being not written or not read/recognized, leading to old data being presented as new data. That's basically the same "buffer overrun" problem that plagues a lot of software developers worldwide. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow . The problem can be solved, but first someone must believe that it exists.
I think you make a good point, I don't know why you're being downvoted.

After all, the author of the article specifically mentions: "They don’t want the grief of getting downvoted (because they are a woman)"

But the constructive question this leads to is: suppose the upvote/downvote/karma/etc. model is fundamentally "competitive" and men find themselves more comfortable with it than women do. (I'm not saying this is the case, I'm just saying "suppose".)

Then, is there an alternate model that could be used which women would find more rewarding, and participate more in? That would still promote good content and behavior, and be able to counteract negative influences like vandalsim, garbage answers, etc.?

I don't have the answer, but would love to hear insights.
It was an unspoken truth, as for any other platform or protocol used primarily for the unauthorised distribution of copyrighted works (P2P networks, torrents, usenet, etc.)

When called into question, users will argue these platforms/protocols can be used for legitimate purposes, and point to examples of people using them as such. In this case it was Megaupload attempting to do this to defend itself.

It doesn't, however, change the reality of the situation.
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Until you want to rent an apartment in a place where there is a lot of competition for apartments, like the Bay Area.
If you don't read the details that's not always true. Some people get suckered into cards with annual fees. Also there is always a credit checked performed. If you sign up for a bunch of credit cards for the free incentive money, all those credit checks and 0 balance / high credit limit can have a (temporary) effect on your credit score.
I think you missed the real question, so let me rephrase.

It's not hard to grasp as an abstract concept, and in general it's a concept I mostly agree with. What i'm trying to grasp why you think this "blow up the world" will work as an effective strategy to get there, instead of "incrementally destroy the system".

You are trying to fight a political fight here, and "radical stances" rarely work well there. If you are going to "Demand we get rid of this impediment to mankind", expect to never get rid of it. Change doesn't happen by screaming about how bad things are, and taking radical stances, change happens by doing something about it, be it legislative lobbying or otherwise.
Big things have small beginnings.

I know these guys and they're doing a very good job of tackling a tough problem - creating a market in an area where CL has critical mass.

They are doing it by both expanding the market by making it super simple to snap a few photos on your phone (something you can't do on CL) and by creating such an awesome experience that eventually people will switch over.

As we've learned with Yahoo, Microsoft and MySpace a market leader that doesn't innovate is eventually going to get toppled.
Good question. I'm not sure I've kept in touch with enough of them to truly answer that (and keep in mind, I'm almost 39, so it's been quite a few years since I've seen or talked to the majority of these people). But, I know at least one or two of my classmates did go on to become medical doctors, while more than a few are working various blue collar, manual labor jobs back home in rural NC. To quantify what the "average" outcome for those folks is, would be pretty tough to do.
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You can also map it to something like 'jj'. I don't use vim that much now but I found that more ergonomic than any of the special keys.
Seems to work where font-feature works (late versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari, IE10).

http://caniuse.com/font-feature

It includes a shim for older versions of IE. The shim seems to be able to work for Opera, but it's not loaded. It shouldn't be too difficult to add a Modernizr test for font-feature to fix support for Opera and older versions of modern browsers.
> So the question then, as I see it, is "how do we make it more likely?"

We'd have to change the structure of society. Its a class structure, and there's only so much room at the top. The wealth of the upper class comes from extracting rents from the lower class. This happens on a global scale (core countries exploiting the periphery) as well as a local scale (landlords with good credit collect more in rent than they pay on the mortgage).
How much does Google care about $18 million?

(That's assuming they sell millions of domains at a decent price per. They currently make that revenue in a few hours.)
Freedom of speech has many facets. I don't see this as being disingenuous at all as it literally did impinge on his choice of speech if he wanted to remain in the business relationship.
This situation would be similar in nature to Microsoft forcing businesses to disavow Linux to remain in partnership with them.
Censorship can be legal and doesn't have to come from a government for it to still be censorship.

The charity argument is unfair -- most people and businesses could give more money to charity if they live "comfortably". The manner in which he gives back to the community is purely for him to decide. In this situation it's not a free trade either as he needs to give up something quite important to him (censorship) to receive the money. He'd be endorsing a product or service that he doesn't believe in and changing the content of his product or site to fit with it.
Thanks for the explanation! It makes a lot of sense and sounds pretty probable to me. If it's a buffer overflow problem, I'd imagine it would affect more than just one Android handset.

It took a few searches, but I found a bug report opened last year detailing just this and it seems to be an Android problem:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17769

It's a little disheartening to see the problem might still persist on ICS and also that no dev has replied to this in a year.

And if it is a buffer overflow, does that explain why sometimes (actually, a lot of times) she doesn't receive my texts?
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This seems similar to another site that's pretty great, though it's focus is a little different.

http://www.steminist.com/
eBay and Craigslist are being legitimately disrupted every day by many different startups http://www.quora.com/Craigslist/Why-hasnt-another-product-di...

Their first mover advantage is by no means insurmountable. And if you think all Yardsale has is a "flashy UI", you're glossing over a lot of important features that make them a serious alternative to CL.
I got my 8 year old an arduino, so I'm secretly taking him through Kernighan and Ritchie. Each night I teach him a new little snippet and the next day he'll run with it. Its fascinating to watch as he takes the concept and pushes it as far as it will possibly go, ending in a massive barely working kludge... and then the next night we learn a few new lines that make it all simple and easy and its sheer joy. Its like watching Peter Parker get spider powers.

Just learning that programs could be broken into callable functions was a moment of stand up, open mouthed wonder.

Don't wait. Do this with your kids now.
It only works for me in IE10 when Compatibility Mode is enabled.
Hal (Harold) Abelson is a man :)

If you haven't already, shame on you; You should check him & Jerald Jay Sussman's EPIC 1986 SICP course for (I think) HP employees (SICP: Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs). videos are available here: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...

[EDIT]: I notices that you've apparently listed male computer scientists (it's 5:23am here). But I won't remove my comment as the SICP link might be useful for others.
Sorry to be unclear: it's IHasAMoney.com that charges you $2.99 a month. Mint charges advertisers who-knows-what for your financial data.
You are right in general, but for succinct Internet discussion it is necessary to simplify as much as possible. Unfortunately this can sidetrack the discussion as flaws in the simplification are addressed.

In the case of humans, evolution did encourage diversity, if only because it created sexual reproduction in humans, which increases the diversity of offspring. And of course, humans are not all identical today, implying an evolutionary response to different environmental conditions.
Zynga, Plants vs Zombies, and Minomonsters is what came to mind for me.
Actually, it's valuable to have both (the radical as an anchor, the moderate to define a path), as long as they don't spend so much time fighting each other that the real goal never occurs.
thank-you for removing the dissonance there (and i am so glad i added that disclaimer ;o)
Thank you for the link.
I just don't know how RemoteInspector negates the existance of a FlashPlayerDebugger, so the "thank you" part of the slides is exagerated in my modest view.
I use Haxe and compile mostly to the c++, Android and HTML5 targets (and soon to Haxe/Flambe through Wafl, I hope) but the .swf target is and has been serviced by a localhost debugger for a long time. The debugger is available for Active X, NSPAPI for the other browsers and through a standalone version.
Also, your caching experiences will vary from other people using other caching solutions, add to that non blocking node.js backend or a neko vm threaded server and the "loading js will freeze the UI" slide turns to something diminute.

But I believe that can only be achieved by not depending only on pure javascript solutions for all parts of the mobile app. Contrary to your inference in the slides.

I think your advice is perfect for offline webview implementations but that is only part of the problem when online service connections come into the picture, don't you think ?
Without intending to pass judgement on the author of the article, the word you're looking for here is 'sleazy'.
That is understandable, but are there issues with Stack Overflow which can be changed which are not tied to the purpose of the site?

For example, one problem reported by the women that were asked about Stack Overflow was that one-upsmanship was an unpleasant theme. In what way could it be made less competitive without lowering the quality of the submissions?
melloman said "cannot find an intelligent female in real

Hmmmmmmmmm - 4 pts of karma as I wrote this. Is he trolling? For real? Why would anyone reply to "melloman" in this forum?

Strange.
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I'm curious what your parents taught you about personal responsibility. My theory is it's less about whether you grow up in poverty as it is about growing up being taught you're a victim, that everything bad in your life is the result of other people hating you or taking what should be yours, etc. If you feel everything that you have or don't have is the result of things other people are giving you or taking from you, you learn that you are not in control of your destiny.

My story is similar to mindcrimes. I don't remember my parents ever blaming anyone else or being victims. My moms lessons were fairly simple. Work hard, don't get a girl pregnant, and go to college.

My dad was a quiet guy who just worked hard. If I complained about something not being fair he didn't care. "Life isn't fair. Now what are you going to do?" I can still clearly remember him and my mom fighting over food stamps. We qualified, and my mom wanted to get them but he refused. Instead he got another side job.

The other thing he always did was put outcomes squarely on me. It didn't matter if it really was another persons fault, he always asked what could I have done differently to change the situation.

I'll quit rambling now, but let me say y level of perfectionism and work ethic clearly came from my dad. It's probably not always healthy, but it has worked out pretty well so far :)