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You can keep trumpeting RIM's death, or you can do your own research and see what they're working on. They're gaining a lot of points with developers, especially in the Qt and FOSS communities.

Will they beat Android/iOS? Maybe. Are they better to develop on? In my (and many others) opinion, yes.

But don't take my word for it, find out yourself.
> $500 is a fairly negligible difference

No, it really isn't negligible. $500 can be the difference between a laptop with absolute crap build quality and a laptop with great build quality. There is a reason that HP (and most other vendors) have different models with different starting prices, and it has very little to do with base specs.

The DV6t has such a low starting price because it isn't built well, simple as that. I don't care if you put a screaming fast CPU in it and the highest quality screen possible. It still has shit build quality. It is still built like a $800 dollar laptop.
I think your comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838971 is very relevant to this discussion.
One suggestion. You should put a link to your bookmarking tool. There is no shame on promoting yourself in the right context. Or at least put it in your profile.
The only difference between strcpy_s and strlcpy, other than taking arguments in a different order and being more annoying to type, is that if an overflow would occur, it sets destination[0] to 0 rather than truncating. This is probably an improvement, since truncation can cause security problems if you're building filenames and such (though, should you fail the test accidentally, I suspect it's much harder to track down why a string somewhere in your app became empty than why it was truncated)... but is it really worth switching to yet another string copy function?

(well, from a BSD perspective. Apparently strcpy_s has been around on Windows since Windows 95.)
Wow, in before API access is cut to prevent the mountain of lawsuits that would hit Dropbox if it's not. API cut in 3... 2... 1...
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The "massive" job cuts are in the legacy BBOS Java side. If people couldn't be re-purposed for BlackBerry 10, they were let go because BBOS is going into maintenance mode. It's the exact same situation Nokia is in with Qt. They're moving on to Windows Phone 8, and Qt developers are not a part of that plan.

RIM may be on the decline right now with BBOS, but you simply need to look into the great work they're doing to seed the developer community with the support they need to create great apps for BlackBerry 10. I know the typical thing to spout is that RIM is dead, long live Android/iOS, but if you actually looked into it yourself, you would see that RIM is doing some really great things with BlackBerry 10. They're reaching out to FOSS communities, seeding actual hardware, and making their tools easier to use than ever.

But I know that many, maybe yourself included, will call me a fanboi, downvote me, and won't bother looking into it themselves. They'll continue spouting this nonsense about RIM's death, never changing their opinion, and taking Apple/Google's word for it. That's fine, continue being uninformed.

The rest of us developers with an open mind will happily pick up the slack on the sinking ship that is RIM. We might be wrong, and you might be right. But what happens when we're right? Where will you be?
This is basically a torrent VPN service that goes through DropBox.
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What sort of identity thief cares about what products you buy, or what you search for? This is just a giant middle finger to Google, Facebook, and any other data-collection service.
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Google offers map maker (http://www.google.com/mapmaker) in many countries, so you can modify existing maps or add new data.
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Nope:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_biological_experiments

> Most researchers surmise that the results of the Viking biology experiments can be explained by purely chemical processes that do not require the presence of life, and the GC-MS results rule out life.

More:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars
You fail to see the human element in this. I guess that's not something they teach at your b-school.

There is nothing inherently wrong in filing patent applications and building portfolios.

But there is something wrong with how these companies are using those portfolios. They are not using their IP to protect an R&D investment, product development, manufacturing processes, etc. They are using IP (most of which is of dubious validity) to threaten each other with (most likely) baseless suits that are (thanks to patent attorney fees) very expensive to deal with.

Those are human decisions.

If you want to develop technologies and create products, and you are making substantial investment, you do need protection from competitors. IP can provide that.

But that's not how the IT industry views IP. To them, it's some sort of game. Other industries do not have such a severe problem with abuse of the patent system. What is it with IT? Where is the emotional maturity?

To drive home this point, consider that these two companies were once partners, before Apple chose to start using Intel processors. Yet they need to go to court at tremendous (wasteful) cost just to start negotiations?

Lawyers must love these guys. Because they can be coaxed into suing each other with the utmost of ease.
This is more about confounding certain advertising based companies than anything... I'm almost surprised Safari doesn't block ads by default already.
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"Ethernet and laser all those amazing tech was created by private companies and computer networks were created by enthusiast before DARPA."

But would we ever have actually had the Internet before DARPA? It took over 30 years before the Internet actually became a mainstream and profitable thing. If the net had been developed by private companies then they would have done it in such a way that would have let them become profitable within a year or two, so it's unlikely that the net would be anything like what it is today. And for all it's flaws, it's hard to imagine it being better if it were developed by private industry.
I would add the lack of legal knowledge to the list. In my case I have an idea as well as the energy to implement it, but then questions arise: What about the legal part?

What do I have to take care of legally in order to implement this?

What about the responsibility in the case of an online service? (If you take for example the case of craiglist, you find something you want to buy and buy it, then you realize it doesn't work, how do you avoid the person who bought the object to not take legal action against you since you are not responsible for this?).

If someone else is already doing it in a different way, does this bring more legal problems?

If I have no fund at the beginning, can I implement my idea and give away the services I developed for free for a while in order to bring users and then make them pay?

Where to get the answers to those questions?

If I find some answers to those questions, are they the same in every States?
I hadn't seen it before. Reposts are not necessarily bad, if there are no comments, nobody saw the post, thus a repost is necessary. Perhaps the de-dup mechanism shouldn't incorporate comment-less posts as part of its data set.
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I don't think you understood any of my points.

1. No, the goal of most businesses is not generally to achieve a monopoly, the goal of most businesses is market share or just profit. A company can have 100% market share and not be a monopoly, if the barriers to entry for new market participants are comparable to the original barriers to entry for the current winner (so there aren't network effects, or prohibitive capital investment relative to divided market size).

2. I never talked about anti-trust laws or anti-competitive practives. I talked about natural monopolies [1], which have nothing whatsoever to do with those. You're thinking of artificial monopolies, something totally different.

3. I said "normal capitalistic competition" in the sense of competition outside of special cases (like monopolies). And "natural monopoly" is an economics term [1]. I used neither in a normative sense.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
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Why would Dropbox be hit by lawsuits now due to their API? Amazon's web services and every other cloud storage site has no less risk. I am betting on lawsuits for this Boxopus service since they're actually doing the downloading and distributing, even if it's on a user's behalf.
We don't owe them anything either, and yet computer crimes laws make it illegal to circumvent any technical measures they put in place to stop competitors from getting information they make public on the site.

I think less people would be concerned about the issue if it was just Craigslist putting up technical measures (e.g. blocking API access) to competitors, but competitors were free to rent VPSes or pay people for use of their IP address to access the data for scraping. If there was no law against scraping information from websites that is available to arbitrary members of the public (provided that you comply with copyright laws post-scraping), then there would be no issue.

So the real issue is not that Craigslist owes anyone anything, but rather, that the government is enforcing laws on their behalf to entrench the network effects of existing businesses against new entrants to the market.
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Could it be possible he was assassinated by the Russians (or I guess even by UK/US if they felt he might end up in the hands of the Russians)? I'm assuming by this time he was well known in intelligence circles for his work during WW2, this is someone that could possibly turn the tide in a war, he was a very valuable/dangerous man.
With a sufficient critical mass now in or transitioning to OSM, it's trivial that OSM will get better. If Apple are going to contribute to OSM(which is likely based on their shared project history) then it's expected to increase in quality quickly.

However, even without their contribution, OSM is already at a level of maturity to compete with the bulk of GM implementations. It seems that most people just need basic location services.
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Question: what "monopoly power" do you believe Craigslist has? What product or service can you _only_ buy from Craigslist? Are they the only way to find an apartment to rent? Are they the only way to advertise an apartment to rent? (Note, your answers there may be very_ different from my perceptions of the answers to those questions - for me locally here in Sydney Australia, Craigslist _exists_, but isn't even close to a bit-player in real-estate/aparement-rental, never mind a major player - and it'd be _laughable_ to accuse them of "monopoly")

"Fuck Craigslist. Seriously."

Because they "cost" you "several hours" everytime you choose to use them to look for an apartment? Which is what - twice a year maybe? And this cost to you is somehow greater then the newspaper classifieds market they disrupted? Without some more backstory - I can't help but think you're _seriously_ over-reacting…
"the general consensus among HN users is that the best product wins and that's all that matters"

That's human nature. Users in marketing communities conclude that it's the best marketing that wins. If you're an executive you think the best management team is all that matters. Designers think it's design. PR folks think it's press. Financiers think it's money.

I have bad news for everyone. The world does not work in the way our echo-chambers would seem to model it. It's almost impossible for the human mind to process such a fact. Yet, it's true.
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I fail to see how this would work out. If you get enough good publicity -- the kind that'll keep you busy for the next couple of months with users/scaling/networking opportunities -- how will you be able to fulfill your promise to take on extra work? And if being introverts is preventing you from networking/marketing it yourselves, how do you think you'll handle success?
I agree. I've always felt they've had good intentions, and I think that they do in this case as well. They are looking out for the posters who are entrusting them with their data.
> This website has been designed with liquid layout to afford readers this control. Relinquishing such control makes some designers quake in their boots, but the beauty and advantage of the Web as medium is that readers are able to adjust their reading environment to suit their own needs.

I'd only suggest doing this if you're using a responsive multi-column [1] layout. Just because my window happens to be full-screen doesn't mean I want to read lines that are 120 or more characters long.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS3_Columns
why would they be suing boxopus? that would be like suing the creators of the bittorrent client. boxopus doesn't store any data, nor provide links to torrents for people, it's simply a service like your bt client. If anything, this seems like this would be an easier way to catch the actual users.
> Why on earth would another newspaper print an ad or a classified that they're not being paid for?

It's kind of funny, isn't it? On the one hand we have the newspapers, who are being slowly killed off by the internet, and on the other hand we have internet startups like Padmapper who are doing things that are absolutely and plainly stupid when you imagine them being done by newspapers rather than web startups.

Here we have one company that allows free classified ads for almost everything, everywhere (Craigslist) on the one hand, and another company that scrapes free classified ads for rental housing and accepts no payment from anyone (Padmapper). Very strange.

FWIW, to me, Padmapper drives traffic to Craigslist rather than competing with it. Whether that traffic is valuable to Craigslist or not I can't say.
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Yes, they have the right to do so. It might be a bad idea for them to do it, but being their APIs they most certainly have the right to do that. Microsoft has no obligation to provide services to their competition free of charge just because someone out there feels it is the right thing to do. Of course, various court systems may disagree with me considering it is Microsoft.

The line is clear, the source of the service has the right to do whatever they want with it. Unless you want to claim that a company's property belongs to the people.
Valid logical points; However the RIAA and MPAA don't operate on Logic or Validity.
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"UI isn't about round corners and fancy color schemes. It's about using computers to automate repetitive behaviors."

I think my point still stands - if there's a better way to do it that's so obvious, why hasn't somebody _done_ it and grabbed all the users? Google did it to Alta Vista. Facebook did it to MySpace (who did it to Friendster who did it to Tribe…)

It seems to me as though Newmark has balanced the often conflicting requirements of "people wanting to advertise stuff" and "people wanting search through advertisements" better than anyone else. Craigslist wouldn't have any data worth publishing in an API if they didn't address the needs of the advertisers. Padmapper doesn't have any data at all - why should Craigslist give them their apartment rental data just so Padmapper can compete with Craigslist without having the constraint of having to satisfy the advertiser well enough for them to provide the data in the first place?
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Excellent innovation. This is like waving a red flag in the face of the MPAA, RIAA, and all the other entrenched monopolies that are seeking to extend their outdated business models by using old-school Mafioso tactics.
I would be very surprised if Boxopus, Dropbox (or both) wasn't pressurized to discontinue this service in some way.
API changes by Dropbox (or TOS violation based suspension), Lawsuit for BoxOpus, etc to follow...
If the punters start getting paper B instead of paper A, there is most definitely a loss of revenue.
I call hypocrisy here. I've seen this guy on a news program and he was almost jumping out of his seat about "inanimate" gadgets.

"Why would someone take time out of his day to..." write an email about a product that hasn't even been released?

Why would someone spend his _career_ writing about gadgets that haven't even been released yet?

C'mon Pogue, get serious.

My guess is people are are worked up about lots of things that have nothing to do with gadgets. But then they read some guy whose sole job it is to write about gadgets, who actually gets paid to do that, and it's a little too much to bear. Remember that people are being coaxed into buying these gadgets year after year, continually upgrading devices that should continue to work for many years, with the manufacturers raking in enormous amounts of income... while the average user is probably not. And who is helping the companies do this coaxing: David Pogue.
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> Why on earth would another newspaper print an ad or a classified that they're not being paid for?

Don't look at me. That flawed analogy wasn't mine.
That is a good question, seeing how I don't know how Pealk made any money at all.
You know PadMapper is a one-man operation? I don't think Eric (the guy behind it) even has investors. It seems like something he just hacked up in his spare time.
I wonder if my proxy server that replaces cookies and referrers for Facebook Google & domains with "ads" in them - with random-but-plausible junk infringes this patent (or provides prior art against it)?
> Oh, and she refuses to take her medication because she’s convinced that they will ruin her liver.

Until fairly recently doctors had no idea how to measure minimum effective doses of lithium, so many older people with bipolar disorder are suffering damage to their liver, kidneys, and thyroid. Mental health practitioners also used haldol and thorazine with a pretty loose hand - without worrying about side effects or toxicity.

So realize that she has a reason to believe that her meds are bad for her - because they are, they are just better for her than going un-medicated. Her doctor or social worker should probably be the one to explain to her the kind of testing and monitoring they do to make sure that they do as little damage as possible.
So they'd sue boxopus to get their user data (IP addresses)? Or is this an RIAA/MPAA honeypot?
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. I read your comment to mean "it seems that the loss of privacy due to divulging/verifying the information was worth less than $1,000 to you."

This is a completely rational interpretation of this specific situation and the freemium/"your information is our product" business model.
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This one caused a _lot_ of controversy in the FPV (first person view/video) RC community a while back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cSxEqKQ78

if you don't have the time/patience to watch the whole 3-ish minutes, try this but:

http://youtu.be/M9cSxEqKQ78?t=2m2s
Part of this goes back to Apple Store employees being trained to be helpful and knowledgeable, while Best Buy's employees are trained to upsell and prevent shrink.
I hate it greatly when people won't say "I don't know", but instead hem and haw and avoid the question or give obtuse answers. Once someone admits they don't know, it's fine, you can work to solve the problem another way. But for that to work with most people, I think you have to be pretty nice and make it clear you are not the sort of person that is going to cause problems if they are honest about ignorance.
I would argue that fact makes there user data more marketable and valuable to third parties. Which would provide the opposite motivation to most companies.
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You're quite right. But we're still left with many problems stemmed from not having control on the sequence length and file names. I've tried it with a background task and the results are super flimsy. The time that the camera takes to be ready varies which then makes the number of files generated vary, sometimes the process is killed before imagesnap finished saving current file resulting in a corrupted image. And the file names outputted are really begging for some post-processing renaming.

Here's what I have for what it's worth:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'systemu'
Dir.chdir(File.expand_path('~/.gitshots'))
cam_warm_up_time = 2
num_snaps = 6
interval = 0.2
systemu "imagesnap -w #{cam_warm_up_time} -t #{interval}" do |cid|
sleep cam_warm_up_time + interval * num_snaps
Process.kill 9, cid
exit 0
end
The thing is that "MapReduce" is a concept that was in practice, e.g. by LISP programmers, long, long before Google rediscovered it.

Much like Google's many acquisitions that the public perceives as resulting from "Google R&D", things like map-reduce are also viewed as coming from "unparalleled Google capabilities".

Let's get real. Google is a big company that employs thousands upon thousands of overqualified Java and C++ programmers. They are a fat cat. Not necessarily a cunning and agile one.

With the amount of cash they have on hand, indeed they should be producing some interesting research.

But I have a hard time seeing things like map-reduce as state-of-the-art R&D.

That many programmers, who have standards that consistently hover around varying levels of mediocrity, are satisfied with Google's design choices does not necessarily make what they do "state of the art". It just makes it the most popular. (Popularity is of course very important, perhaps all-important, in this business, but has little to do with research and pushing the envelope.)
This brings to mind lots of questions like, Does this take advantage of Dropbox's single instance file storage? As in, are they uploading completed files and saving themselves the bandwidth of having to actually do the upload because dropbox likely already has a copy of that file hosted? Also, if multiple users are requesting the same file is Boxopus downloading this more than once?
I think it is both. The problem is that hackers and entrepreneurs have different ethics (or is the correct word here philosophies?) and goals.
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