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As I recall, Nokia started the war by demanding either an exorbitant price for their FRAND patents from Apple or the right to cross-license Apple's UI patents.

I don't see Apple in any way morally superior here. It is as if a country came to a summit and said "I see you have a nice arms control treaty. I want to join - except I won't be including this weapon, with which I'm going to immediately attack you".

Because FRAND was a way to avoid mutually assured destruction. With Apple finding away to start an attack separately, one can hardly say "hey, they were taking the high ground here".
You really find it odd that the government can force company X to turn over your ip address, name, email and other such information?

People keep on pointing out to you that the judge applied a standard meant for public information to a request for non-public information.
I hope this is true.

I've always had a very healthy mistrust of facebook, based on their past actions, and I never let facebook sync up with anything else I use (and I don't use services that only authenticate via facebook). They simply can't be trusted with anything important; not because they are incompetent, but because they have no moral compass that prevents them from screwing users over.

This is just one more reason for me to continue to silo facebook off into its own world, where it knows nothing about the rest of my life, particularly the really important stuff.
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So I am trying to understand the difference.

Suppose I have an MVC web app. Suppose I add some database triggers so that when some data is entered other things happen. Maybe I flag an invoice to be printed and the trigger notifies a waiting program which processes the invoice data and sends it to the printer.

Now, from the perspective of any single request, the application is MVC-centric. However, from the perspective of the application structure as a whole it's not, because model operations trigger other operations which can have other effects beyond the immediate knowledge of the model.

Is that kind of what you are talking about? MVC with a sort of events backplane?
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And we all know what happened with Rambus. They've spent the last decade in litigation with the FTC/EU.

I hope history repeats itself with the Android OEMs and a hard lesson gets sent to everyone that the standards process is sacrosanct.
Easy to get around in this case. Just Google for the first line, "It turns out that financial engineering really is no match for actual engineering", and that gets you a link to some kind of story directory page. Search for "engineering" on that page and you'll get a link that gives you the full story.

Not that it is really worth it in this case. It's just a short blog entry observing that in 2007, when the iPhone and the financial crisis were both just getting started, BofA has a market cap of $220 billion, about twice Apple's. Now, 5 years later, BofA is $86 million, and Apple is $540 million (about as much as the top six US banks combined...or the top 11 banks of Europe).
April 2011 is one year, but my "public opinion data" is based on the results of the various referenda on this topic (North Carolina, in May this year, being the most recent). Not a single one of these has had favorable results for same-sex marriage supporters.
Google puts the tracking into the results now too, I used to use the 'Undirect' extension but it's currently losing the constant fight to properly detect and remove the tracking from the results. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dohbiijnjeiejifbgf...

This is a cool concept for many reasons... for example, I should use this to add the pws=0 'temporarily disable personalized search' parameter.
They did: "...influx of quality talent into the Australia ecosystem. These talents comes from the successful Australian engineers and designers who have left or will soon leave their careers at huge tech companies such as Facebook or Google to join or start new ventures back at home."

I think he is vastly overestimating the number of Australians over here.
Given FB is already having a hard time generating revenue from mobile clients, doing things that make mobile users afraid to use their service seems like a really bad idea.
I very much appreciate this post, and the understanding the poster shows of people outside the digital and social ideals. I'm not what anyone would call autistic, but I struggle to make more than superficial friendships. The idea that a social app could help people like me bridge the divide I feel with other humans is compelling. I was hoping for a solution and was disappointed when the post ended without one, but I can't help but feel pleased that someone recognizes that social apps don't fit everyone. It's not the fault of the apps, they're probably appropriately focused on the majority of socially adept users, I just don't belong in that crowd, so I'm not demographically right for their app.

Anybody know of a social app for the socially inept?
1) My point was not that Apple used FRAND patents against Android OEMs but that not all patents used by Android OEMs against Apple are FRAND patents.

2) Not sure how this is related but they probably should be

Samsung is asking for a few more percentage points on royalties, Apple has sought (and succeeded) to outright ban the import and sale of Samsung products in multiple countries. Which one of those sounds more disgraceful and anti-competitive to you?
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Your answer explained why it is helpful to google. It does not explain why individuals post "me too," or why people are posting "me too" here on the HN page...

There is a similar behavior here on HN with nice- page / I-agree / congrats posts. I'm wary of a general guideline that I should only post to HN if I think the karma reward will be greater than X, but more often than not I think it helps make sure any of my posts actually increase the numerator in the SNRatio.
It took me 12 months from start of my residency application, 4 years total to get permanent residency in Australia. I was working for an Australian company for those 4 years.

I have a MSc in Software Engineering (on the critical skill list), experience on 4 continents and it was nothing short of a nightmare.

The immigration process over here is in a state of change at the moment for residency, hopefully this means it will be a much better process than what I experienced.
Thanks-- worked for me.
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I've been using a great work around to the numerous Facebook issues, including the lack of meaningful interaction with Friends and Family; I use a combination of email, telephone and physical interaction to maintain and form social connections.
Direct link to full article: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2012/07/133_114203...
Accounting question: Is this write off writing off the goodwill that was created by the merger?
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Why don't people use firefox instead?
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For EVERY session?
I don't understand why you can't undo the damages ?

Just restore from your last iCloud or Device backup.
Indeed, I do the same.

And I'll also add:
d) Never associate your real name with your FB account.

I use my first name plus a family name that matches my middle initial. It's generally recognizable and accepted by friends.

When I first set up my account this way (items A through D) it did seem a little "tinfoilly", and this last measure still does to some extent. But since Facebook doesn't actually let you delete your account, I'd rather err on the side of prudence. It will be nice to at least approximate a hole in their databases if their policies ever get too onerous.
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You are quite right. I was looking at numbers from a few years ago. I shall adjust my post. Thank you
I'd still be interested to know the motivation for their process. If someone made a firm offer of $450K, it doesn't make any sense to shut down the service just because they didn't meet the $480K requirement. That would flush $450K down the toilet. The obvious solution is an auction, not an ultimatum.

I'm generally a defender of 37signals' methods, but it seems they didn't think this one through. They're lucky they found a buyer—it saved them a lot of embarrassment.
Hopefully the author of the Undirect extension will update it to work (remove redirects from search results), but it seems like a constant battle that he doesn't have much incentive to keep fighting.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dohbiijnjeiejifbgf...
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>First, every negative thing you mention there happens all the time, and it's done by straight people in heterosexual marriages. Where's the gay connection?

There isn't one. You asked what the downside was to deleting legal marriage entirely.

>Edit: Also, your Wikipedia link actually backs up my argument that marriage has historically been a religious institution, so I'm not sure what you're going for there, or how it explains why the government needed to get involved.

You said that "only recently" had governments started supplying benefits to married persons. This is false. As Wikipedia shows, there was legal recognition in various jurisdictions from ancient times. If you mean to say that there are few instances of purely secular marital law until recently, then sure, but also note that until the American Revolution there were few states without an officially-sanctioned state religion, so the religious tradition and the enforceable legal body may not be separate. Israel, for instance, enforced law related to marriage; adulterers were prosecuted, etc. etc. Likewise throughout history. Here's a whole page on "Ancient Greek Marriage Law", indicating non-recent legal recognition of marriage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_marriage_law
The Business of Manipulation
I'm somewhat of a hobbyist mathematician (and high school student). In my experience, the problem the article is describing is one of the joys of math. You start with the basic concept of repeated addition. Then you ask what happens if I add this number to itself 5 + 1/2 times, and does that even make sense. And sure enough it does make sense, if the number is 10, you add it to itself 4 times, then you add it another half time, which is the same as adding half of 10, or 5. This definition remains consistent with (or is) the original conceptually, and, more excitingly, most of your favorite thearoms on multiplication are still true. Then you discover irrational numbers, and conceptually you can expand your definition of multiplication with ease.
> Business failure is perceived by many as personal failure rather than a learning experience.

I'd content that Australians' bias isn't against failure, but against making other people wear the cost of your failure.

The reason some failed businesses are held against owners, is because the owners didn't make sure there was enough in company to pay the workers their entitlements (salary, leave and superannuation) when the doors shut. While the typically still wealthy owners hide behind the limited liability of their company, the workers pay a cost they can ill afford. A failed company that meets its obligations to its employees will be admired for "giving it a go".
If you're going to go to that much trouble anyway, may I suggest using:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s

A little bit more privacy, a little bit less trackable (And, for this crowd, I should point out it'll strip the search query from the referrer when you click the search links in the ssl version of Google's SERPs - so the Google Analytics (or any other analytics tools) won't have those inbound search query strings. The website marketer in me hates it when people do that, the privacy-loving-libertarian in me loves it…)
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It's not fucking working.
This is the first software bug ever in the history of computing! Up until now, all software performed perfectly 100% of the time! The world, it is ending!
All I find is marketing.

Another lesson learned the hard way is that I will not touch any analytics SDK code unless it is open source. It needs to have an actual clear license attached.

We got bitten with Google Analytics, because it can only report against one ID. That means if a library in the app also uses GA, then you can't have the different parts using different ids. This turned out to be a showstopper and they had no code to examine.
This.

The problem is not limited to engineering. I have often had to push back with product guys responding to feature requests from users to address edge cases.

The trouble with doing so in social networks is that the potential for the law of untended consequences to strike is much greater in it as it is nearly impossible to test for every permutation and combination available.
Do you really study?
The solution is not to change UTC, but just to rotate the time zones of each country every now and then. DST has proven that a country is able to change time zones twice a year. This would happen far less often.
So this is the so called "Plan B" that Nokia has been talking about. Not strange, because their patents are the most important asset they have, and is the only real reason for anyone to acquire the company.
I wonder how long it will be before they kill off http://classic.wunderground.com. What's the next best source for weather?
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Kudos to the Jotly guys. They made a video lampooning the modern tech startup community. And then they made an app lampooning the modern tech startup community.

And now they're listed as one of the top "startup videos".

Oh brother.
Whipupitude Versus Very Serious Perl
Demographic info may not be the only thing they know about. Given a lot of sites embed some sort of Facebook widget on their pages, they have a tracking mechanism.

If I had not explicitly signed-out of Facebook before visiting all these other sites, Facebook knows about it. And maybe also the browsing habits of people in my network. That gives a really deep profile about me - a lot more than just my demographics.

Recently there was an excellent article on ReadWriteWeb, about why Facebook terrifies Google: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_facebook_terrifies_...

Check out screen shots of their respective ad platforms in that article: the level of targeting that is possible with Facebook (which is only going to become deeper, given all the additional details they are gathering about me) is simply not possible with Google. This is one major reason why Google is pushing hard with Google+
3-4 years for permanent residency is pretty common when you're moving into a country on a work visa. It's the same for the 3 commonwealth countries I've lived in and I believe the US as well.
You are describing (1) a cellphone network and (2) a cellphone number.

The rest is overthink.
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This is about Smart Phone mobile OS's that matter, i.e. iOS vs Android.

Nokia doesn't do either.
Yeah but an undergrad class in algorithms is supposed to in most cases just give you a deeper view of traditional C.S algorithms. There are quite a few topics which are barely skimmed ( approximation algorithms, randomized algorithms). I believe that is OK because as long as most of the students are trained to think algorithmically, that should be fine. After all, most advanced stuff becomes much easier once you have the basics fundamentals clear.
This happened before with World of Warcraft and the users were unbanned: http://www.linuxlookup.com/2006/nov/22/blizzard_unbans_linux...

Still, you would think they learned after the first time.
Self-promo for sure but I put a lot into this thing! http://addroid.com
When the maintainers are uninterested in their website, it makes more sense to sell something when it's making revenues of 200k+ than wait till it's in shambles and worthless.

Also, you never know if they needed the sale proceeds to pay for something. Maybe some ambitious project that requires a high upfront capital cost.

Too many things that are unknown to us to just call them liars.
Blizzard is not a customer oriented company Period. Just look at the Amazon ratings for Diablo III they 2 Stars, all bashing the company not the games. I refuse to buy any Blizzard games even though I like them because of how they treat their customers.
Sorry Shifty, but this is the nature of business. All business, not just app development. It's why sales people exist. Customers often need to be educated. You had no idea how much a plane ticket cost until you took a flight. You had no idea how much a Truffle cost until you were educated on it's use and went out looking for it.

You've added nothing to the discussion here, rather than try to make those who may be your future customers feel stupid.
a) Australia has one of the strongest economies on the planet right now. The IMF predicted that Australia would be the best performing major advanced economy in the world over the next two years.

b) Australia is on track to deliver a budget surplus which many countries would be envious of. It has one of the lowest GDP to debt ratios out of all major economies and there is no way Australia is at risk of defaulting.

c) Australia has by far the most stable, capitalised and sensibly regulated banking systems in the world. The banks are probably doing TOO well.

d) Australia has been planning for population ageing for decades and we could easily ramp up immigration. The problem is community attitudes and state infrastructure.

e) The problem with startups in Australia isn't the government or banks. It is the VCs and incubators who have this ridiculous notion that the "team is 100x more important than the idea". So we have lots of startups with great teams working on truly pointless products.
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Gethipster.com?
Seeing as BB10 shipping date keeps slipping, does anybody believe that RIM could get Windows working on their devices earlier than they could get BB10 working?
Non sequitur's take on oatmeal affair?
China, U.S. lead innovation, Europe nowhere, says survey
The site layout looks really great. It looks much better than the classical style for articles in the web.
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Ballmer, Gates give $100,000 each to defend gay marriage law
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Different people, different wiggles I guess.

I'm running the Release Preview as my main OS now, and I'm just amazed at how much faster and smoother everything is.

When this preview expires and I'm forced to go get Windows 8 proper if I want to keep using it, I'm pretty sure going back to Windows 7 wont be an option for me.

Just like going back to Ice Cream Sandwich isn't an option once you've tried Jelly Bean. There are just so many small (and some major) incremental improvement all over the line.

For me, I'm getting Windows 8 for sure, and I like the news about it not going to cost me a fortune.
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Logical only if you follow the analogy of screaming out of a window. It's a smart analogy because superficially it seems identical.

The tweeters in Tahrir square however would have got killed had they screamed out of a window. Twitter gave them a public forum and anonimity. A completely novel concept, and one that deserves a more careful ruling than this brash analogy.

It's the same simpleton internet to real world translation the MPA/RIAA use to equate "file sharing" to physical theft. It's an easy analogy to pull the wool over the eyes of less technically inclined individuals.
It would be nice if the website contained more information about the providers, service area, fees, you know... anything that might actually help me decide whether I want to use the app or not.

Currently it's just a very slick ad for "download the app! trust us, it will fulfill all your wildest fantasies!"

I don't want to download the app just to find out "Sorry, the world stops existing outside of Market Street/The Embarcadero/Church Street".
Blizzard is pretty strict with the anti-cheating checks, which may be part of this. It's also very annoying that you can't run Diablo 3 on OS X if you have Filevault enabled, for example.
An ORite won't really make a difference if the approach is already chosen (e.g. "write a tabu search for the VRP"). She does make a difference when the problem is new, when looking for problem features (e.g. symmetry, decomposability, extreme points of the set of solutions), when deciding what approach to use (size matters).

Given an unsolved OR problem, a top 10% ORite will likely beat a top 1% hacker (or even CS person) in solving that problem.
Reading all these comments I feel sorry for 37S. I guess this is the downside of having a successful blog - people get to have an opinion about you.

37S gets to sell Sortfolio in whatever fashion and to whomever they want. Oh man... you guys should try to rent an apt in NYC.
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>People complaining about factual inaccuracies on Wikipedia annoy me. It's Wikipedia. The entire point and purpose of it is to fix what you know is wrong.

This presupposes

1) I care about fixing it.
2) I have the knowledge to fix it (spotting and removing an inaccuracy is easy, knowing the correct and full set of facts to substitute it with not so much)
3) I can write well enough
4) The Wikipedia process is not convoluted and broken for casual contributors.
> Visual design is temporary and won't hinder adoption as long as the product itself works as advertised and is fun to use.

This is so wrong on so many levels. Of course it will hinder the adoption. In fact a poor design is likely to kill it altogether.

For one, and print this out in bold Comic Sans and hang it at the eye level, - "First impression lasts." If something looks like poop, no one will bother checking out if it works as advertised.

For two, and this follows from #1, a good product with a poor design is not likely to outperform a poor product with a good design simply because there will be fewer people trying former.

For three, it's not "fun to use", it's "a pleasure to use," again meaning that the visual component is the product is vital. Show me a poorly designed product that is fun to use. Seriously.

Just to be clear, visual design is not about drop shadows, background textures and glass effects. It is about forming an appropriate product impression. You just can't expect an average user to look past an ungodly frontend and appreciate the beauty of the guts. This just doesn't happen. You need... strike that... you must consider the design at the same level of importance as any other feature of the product. The same goes for "oh, just pick a theme" - sure, but it's a goddamn theme that's used in hundreds other places, so guess what - it comes with a "generic shit" tag. You want to have your blog/site/service have this vibe - fine, but is it sensible thing to do - hardly.