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I don't know if they updated it since you read it, but, the following excerpt made it clear that this includes all windows phones. " it should be noted that comScore doesn’t break out figures for Windows Phone 7, which means that much of the activity may have been driven by Windows Mobile users dumping their old phones for Android-based phones and iPhones. "
Nice, some good little tips here!
I would like to see how this developed from [1] to this sale.
It seemed improbable back then.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4087116
Woah dude, that's gotta be damn exciting. Good job.

(It's me from freenode :b )
I disagree. Yes, MVC provides a pattern that allows views to be input to the user, but if it doesn't make sense for your app, it's perfectly fine to make the view "read-only" and still abide by the spirit of MVC.

If you're claiming that regular HTML views are compliant with MVC because they have HTML links, one can argue that some RSS readers convert the reference links from the RSS feed to actual HTML links that you can use to navigate to the individual RSS item. How is that different than a regular HTML view with links?
Yep, there's no need for language like that when dispassionate facts can get the point across just as well:

1. PHP contains a bug which makes class and function names containing certain letters, like I, fail when the code is run in certain locales.

2. This bug has been open for ten years and has not been fixed. It's not likely to ever be fixed.

3. Many similar bugs exist in the code base, due to the PHP team's approach to language design.
Why do it at all if there is nothing discernible in the results?
Using HN Search, I found one of the comments (there are others with contemporary who's suing who diagrams, but haven't found them yet):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1166321

Over two years ago, I argued that patent suits were how the licensing game was played among the existing players. It was considered an everyday cost of doing business by the incumbents, but Apple wasn't well prepared for this. (They've learned fast.)

This wasn't on consumers' radar because none of the fights were as interesting as the juggernauts of Apple v. Android which get framed in almost religious terms and taken personally by users who have chosen a camp.

The argument then was that Apple had not been actively litgating patents, but when Nokia (faced with dwindling profits, most of which appeared to be landing in Apple's pockets) started the fight, and Kodak piled on, Apple had to demonstrate that the patents it was using to counter these suits were patents that it was actively defending.

This pushed Apple to file against HTC, and eventually against others who, again, had all been actively (but boringly) suing one another before Apple got to the table.
No matter how you do it, a class name should always match when looked up with an identical string.
My understanding is that this would mean that ~30% of the computer models predict rain between 2:00-3:00. I doubt they would stake everything on a singular model, but I could be wrong.
The command key shortcuts don't work on Linux, and that's particularly critical as the reason I am interested in this app is that I can't run the Adobe suite.

(And will never work, because I use xmonad and my super key is reserved for that.)
Interesting. On the surface this seems like a colossal failure. It could also be an accounting trick too. Write the whole thing off now, and people view it as a non-recurring charge. Then when the unit does something/anything to be profitable, it looks like positive earnings rather than a less-bad loss.
You know... They fight for the users. Exchanging long-term freedom for short-term security (or the illusion of security) is rarely a good idea.
I'm pretty certain that sending emails based on analytics has been a part of setups like Omniture for a long time. I think it's their test and target product that allows for all of this sort of thing.
Few points:

- As the article states, WP7 has been getting excellent reviews and has very high customer satisfaction (much higher than Android to my knowledge). I'd say this shows potential? Personally I find it much cleaner and easier to use than Android (and iPhone in many cases).

- Many reports have been showing WP7 phones as best sellers on T-Mobile, AT&T, and Amazon, meaning it is gaining marketshare and apps are increasing steadily (now >100k). I believe this is a key point in the article, "It should be noted that comScore doesn’t break out figures for Windows Phone 7, which means that much of the activity may have been driven by Windows Mobile users dumping their old phones..."

- Concerning WP7 being the cheapest option -- there are phones in the entire range, just like Android (though to an even larger extent I believe)

- Just curious, most popular apps are available on WP7 now -- which ones wouldn't you be able to find?

- Concerning not being interested in MS ecosystem -- my understanding is that this is a brand new ecosystem, meaning you haven't been there (unless you've been part of the WP7 one)?

Edit: Added some details.
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I think I am going to take this approach. Thanks for the advice, all.
Yeah, you got us figured out. We had an offer, sat on it, invented this story to see if we could get more, and played the world for a fool. BUT YOU BUSTED US. OH NOOOOES!

Or, of course, the simpler explanation: We thought the site was worth at least 2x the previous year's take. And if we didn't get that, it wasn't worth our time to deal with the transaction.
Sorry about that. Given that the code which uses the instruction is not a "program" per se but rather is found in OS kernels, I hope you can understand my confusion. How many x86-64 kernels existed and had to be changed at the time?
now when is zynga going to writedown 180mm for OMGPOP.
Be careful. A non-yesman might still say "yes" in the room to shut the guy up, and then just not do it.
I agree though I particularly like using the Messaging app snapped to a side while using classic desktop. Know what I mean? Pretty legit.
Excellent, thanks. We hear so much the genesis of businesses but this phase of a business' life is fascinating too. Congratulations.
Maybe these guys will do better by underpaying couriers rather than paying the cost of automobiles.
I was specifically talking about the iPhone. Tablets definitely stand a better chance at "disrupting" the industry although this is also debatable.

I will call it a disruption when people start using iPhones/iPad instead of laptops/desktops. This doesn't seem to be the case for a large majority of people.
I just spoke with the guys there last week, and they are still looking very actively to sign kids up for the coming weeks.
Im having a time parsing what you mean. Are you saying a car should not turn left, and that a controller should turn the wheel left? Please clarify
That is very interesting!

What research went into discovering that there is a market for profitable businesses?

This really shatters the idea that the point of business is not to make money.
This is why.

http://ycharts.com/companies/MSFT/revenues#series=type:compa...
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Apparently "spelling" is not on the list.
As far as iOS goes, for the recommendation to look at Dribbble, I'd substitute pttrns to see iOS app designs. For the recommendation to have a style guide, you can use a theme protocol (in the 2012 WWDC videos, I THINK it's the UI Design video, the one about the rocket ship).
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Yup. It also has the nice effect of inflating the P/E ratio for Microsoft, at least temporarily.
I wonder how many shady deals were involved in convincing vendors of UEFI's superiority.
The point is that they were not good enough for the task. For example I had several "smartphones" before my iPhone and really browsing the web was so much of a pain that, if you were near a computer, you'd turn it on wait 5 minutes for it to boot and still get your task done quicker than trying with your phone.

In fact going home to check something on computer (or ringing someone up) was often preferable to using an early smartphone.

Windows mobile didn't solve the web problem before the iPhone, several vendors solved the email problem before the iPhone though, which was easier, but just a small part of the problem.
The data was collected with these methods

> MobiLens data is derived from an intelligent online survey of a nationally representative sample of mobile subscribers age 13 and older. Data on mobile phone usage refers to a respondent’s primary mobile phone and does not include data related to a respondent’s secondary device.

I don't think that the 0.4% figure is statistically significant considering the much larger margin of error likely to be in the results.
Interesting stuff. I know PipeWise has been innovating in this space as well which we're currently testing out.
I've been waiting for MS to wake up to cheaper (and more frequent) upgrades for a long time and I am happy to upgrade at that price.
My original implementation of Mvc was writing a game of connect 4 in java. There was a board model. There were two views. One graphical, and one command line. You could update both views by clicking your next move on the graphical board, or putting input on the command line. Once the model was updated, the controller would update any view that was listening on it.
How many software systems are even 1% as battle tested as a "CPU"? Even the most well designed software system doesn't have the kind of test coverage of a hardware.
@novalis, your points are a little unclear. I am unclear what "Differentiation is intrinsic to identity" means. A bot with my name and image would not render me non-existent, but it might seriously compromise my online identity. I view that as a problem. I check a radio box to some terms of service when creating an online profile, and so must a bot. But because I _understand_ the words does that mean I am more protected than the bot? They don't own his rights, but does the human? The terms of service are just words, which describe laws and agreements humans made. These are not unbreakable, infallible laws. Furthermore, the bot is certainly not subject to these laws, perhaps the creators are. But then again, is a mother responsible for the crimes of its child. I realize this metaphor does not hold up ( the trio designed the bot to be nefarious by nature ).

They did not fail miserably. They seriously perturbed the man whose identity the bot assumed because his identity weak in the first place. The mere fact that the man was perturbed I think means a victory for the trio. The online (crappy) bot gives the man a run for his a run for his money, and that's disconcerting. If the bot was so ineffective, or the project so pointless, why then is it such a problem that the bot impersonates another human. What's _really_ the problem here? What are we all upset about? Once again, If I pretend to be Steve Jobs, where is the problem. If I pretend to be no name author, where is the problem? If a bot dresses up and pretends to be a no name author, what infraction is it making?
I still am not an expert, but the way I understand this is that, at say 30 bar, this membrane would produce 1000 times the amount of desalinated water as a conventional system, not that it would produce 100 times more at 3 bar or 10 times more at 0.3 bar than conventional ones at 30 bar.
A fairly large number of them in my area (I'd say like 80%+) are associated with things like schools or hospitals, so I bet a lot of them are going to stick around.

It's still sad though. Weather.com doesn't have anything that works as well as the WunderMap, and certainly nothing I can leave running 24/7 in a browser unless I want to restart it every few hours.
Is it possible to request the same voice actor that did the one you linked?
I am starting to wonder if Microsoft's problem is something quite other than the quality of the product they produce. From everything I have read, WP is a well made platform: smooth, stable, and a pleasure to look at. While I have not personally done anything other than casually play with a demo model, none of the reviews I have seen have said anything seriously negative about it. MS has put a lot of time and effort into this, and it seems that they are doing everything (or at least most things) right from a technical perspective.

And yet... Success is not following.

Personally, I wouldn't consider a Windows phone simply because I have been so badly burned by Microsoft in the past. It has nothing to do with the quality of WP per se, but rather lingering negativity I built up from using some of their less than stellar products over the course of 20+ years.

I'm starting to wonder if this isn't more widespread than is generally acknowledged.
I am an engineer-turned-recruiter and currently head up tech recruiting at TrialPay in Palo Alto.

There is definitely a dearth of recruiters out there who understand this industry, and if you're able to filter candidates, that is a huge asset. On the other hand, there is a lot more to recruiting than figuring out if a candidate can reverse a linked list etc -- you have to be able to consistently bring good people in, figure out how to promote your company's brand (if you're in-house), and keep working on ways to bridge the gap between recruiters and engineers, many of whom are jaded by several suboptimal recruiter interactions.

If you'd like to chat, drop me a line: aline@alinelerner.com
And users of ARM devices shouldn't have the freedom to choose which software they run unless it's one approved by the manufacturer and the companies it serves, right?
Reminds me a lot of this: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/preview/
You don't even need that, just a player2, 3, 4, or just use a session object.
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Yeah. Web browsing on Windows Mobile was terrible. Only slightly better than WAP.
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Prices had been pegged very high due to the Ukraine famine in the 1920s, and global trade further collapsed due to Smoot Hawley ( which was immediately countered worldwide ). Redistributing excess produce for free can work well in the face of collapsing prices. It doesn't signal increased production and buffers people getting out of producing without completely destroying prices. Direct food subsidies continued well into the 1960 ( we called them "commodities", and if you were poor, you could get them from ... USDA offices? something like that). This was the predecessor to food stamps ( although it may have run in parallel ).
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Does anyone know more about the virus written in Go that was mentioned in this talk?
I'd place less emphasis on "apps". Remember, the original iPhone was released with a total of zero third-party apps; all third-party content and functionality was delivered via the Web.

The disruptive event was the sudden confluence of always-available data, a decent web browser, and an interface friendly enough to make use of it. "Apps" had been around for years on the "smartphones" of yesteryear, be it J2ME, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, etc. They were a clunky mess, however, and you had to pull out a stylus or fuddle around with a tiny joystick to use them. Their browsers just plain sucked.

Webkit on a device that could render full-screen Web pages like candy is what Apple contributed to the cellular arena, and that is what changed the game. Coincidentally, the browser is the main point of what reviewers of the era missed; most of them were lamenting the lack of apps.
There were so many unanswered questions in the Flippa posting and the HN "peanut gallery" that it makes me feel like 37signals was never looking for new buyers.

Perhaps they already had a buyer in mind and just needed some negotiation leverage or wanted some free publicity.

I imagine people who were genuinely interested in bidding for Sortfolio feel a bit cheated with this announcement coming out of the blue.
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I'd like to see that too, just for curiosity. I expect that'll be up to the new owner though.

> It seemed improbable back then.

Naw. You have to keep in mind that the HN community has gathered around a very specific way of doing business. Where people start to make a mistake is in thinking that this is how the rest of the world works too, and that there isn't any other way to do business.

There is still a huge amount of activity in the business world that revolves around long-term, sustainable, profitable businesses, especially those coming from people with the kind of reputation that 37Signals has. It's just that all those people don't have their own little online community where they share notes.

(If 37Signals offered such a community, I'd sign up in a heartbeat and my HN activity would finally finish it's long descent to 0.)

I didn't think it was improbable. 37Signals knows what they're doing.
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> They're just horrible lobbyists.

Are they really? I suspect a lot of representatives are successful largely due to their ability to get federal funds directed toward their districts. The point I would want to make isn't that representatives should be better at shuffling money around, but rather that the whole game shouldn't be about shuffling money around.
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I'm a lawyer, not IT, so my answer may not be all that useful. That said, there are two major hurdles at law firms. First, the management structure is ridiculously flat, and the people running the show are usually the most senior attorneys. Just so happens, those are the people least likely to be using the technology.

Second, most of our software is custom/old-as-dirt. Upgrades require direct participation of vendors who have us over a barrel, and for that reason, no incentive to move quickly. It's an extremely painful/slow/expensive process.

IMHO - Big Law is due for disruption in this area. NetDocuments appears to be making some headway. Unfortunately, lawyers and, thus, law firms, are extraordinarily risk averse. Startups will have difficulty capturing this market.
I was really, really skeptical that they'd be able to get full price. But sure enough, DHH responded to my comment and confirmed that they did. That's pretty amazing.

Now we'll see how the site does once it is no longer associated with 37s. Maybe we'll be surprised again. it would be great to see Sortfolio thrive in the long-term.
> reports have been showing WP7 phones as best sellers

You can do that by limiting the number of models offered. If you sell 1M WP7 phones of 3 models, all three are best sellers and your share is still low.

> brand new ecosystem

It doesn't have the new car smell - you use Visual Studio, on Windows, to develop for it. I've been there (Win+VS) and I feel no urge to go back.
The Sun kicks out gobs of x-rays, you're already being exposed to x-rays. One week in the sun is about the same as a chest x-ray.
Usually, you can do following:

- Install Windows retail SKU, but do not activate it. You can borrow disk or download ISO for this.
- Start installing upgrade version, then reformat partition, supplying upgrade key in the process.

At the end, you will have Windows upgrade installed and activated, fully functional.
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Entrapment is only illegal when performed by cops. Besides, it isn't entrapment. Carreon did not induce Inman to perform the activity which Carreon claims is wrong.
I'm often surprised when people ask "what's the point in knowing these metrics". The point is simply that anything gives a better insight into use behaviour and user needs is immensely valuable.

If we were physically interacting with our users (i.e. we ran a shop or a community centre) we'd be using thousands of signals to determine who needed help, who was afraid, who was ready to purchase more and who was making trouble.

As developers we try to cultivate online social environments, socially-engaged shops, games which envelop the user and collaborative business tools but with absolutely none of these emotional cues. That's hard.

Imagine trying to design an amusement park if all you had was an anonymous ping each time someone went on a ride. The value to all of us (and to the users) in these new wave of analytics is to take us closer to the user and let us feel what they feel and service them where they need to be serviced.

Asking why one should do that is about the same as asking why you'd need to watch people queuing for the rides in an amusement park in order to improve the queues. Because if you don't you won't know what the user feels, wants or needs.

(Side note: what mixpanel is doing is incredible and they really are a pleasure to use. There is a Zen quality to their product and the way it gives you great power from great simplicity (although a custom dash would be great, ty! ))
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> The number one thing is to make sure that all of the software is compatible without having to jump through a bunch of hoops.

This is the killer. I'm part of a large (6,000+; 1000+ in my state alone) engineering firm; our IS team are currently about to roll out Win7 at the end of the month. We have a lot of software—particularly drafting and modelling software—that we rely on (with few alternatives), and all of their related plugins.

It's not that we don't want to move forward, but the cost of buying new tools (that may not be compatible with our clients'), re-training staff, etc - is possibly greater in terms of lost productivity than just dealing with XP.

Hardware isn't a problem though, as any PC from the last 5-6 years can run Win7 in an "office" environment; a bit less if you need to run modelling software. We usually upgrade on a 2-3 year cycle and a lot of staff are now moving from C2D/4GB/HDD machines to i5/8GB/SSD machines. Everyone loves the SSD's.
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Not affiliate with this company, but found it interesting.
uh, you are aware the majority of negativity and questioning about the asking price was because you did not at any point answer whether or not billing information (and subscriptions) would be kept, even when people on the Flippa auction requested this information?

If you'd said from the start this was the case you'd have got many more bids, on HN alone I saw many comments from people stating they would bid if this was the case.

Maybe I missed something big or I'm not aware of something, but this was what the negativity was about, not the fact that the site is worthless and can't sell.
PayPal's _home page_ redesigned. The interior is still as outdated as ever.
Without the ability to use the Facebook data you wouldn't be able to have much of an experience.

Isn't basically all that you gather from facebook interests and location? That is hardly a huge barrier for a non-facebook login.

Not having your own login is lazy and shady, and having an own login is appreciated even by those that ultimately choose to use facebook.