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If the managers that originally pushed the deal through are still with the acquiring company, spin off or selling the acquired company could be politically damaging for them.
You will not only be stuck with 1.9, but every other library you use that is based on jQuery - and most in my stack are - can't be upgraded as I assume those libraries will not play conservative but switch to 2.0 (and 2.1 next)
Sigh... This isn't somehow okay just because it is legal.
unless, of course, if you don't happen to live in the US? (for one, I can't even see it on the Web from here in Asia)
The market is pricing the company with the expectation that the cash will be gone in the future. It sounds like the cash position may start to decrease in the next quarter.
1.9 and 2.0 have the same api
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They drank their own kool-aid.

Maybe they have so brainwashed themselves that they actually believe BB10 is poised to take the world. It has some "killer" feature such "customizable download button" or something and it will just blow away the competition.

All the ones that have not drunk the kool-aid have either left or where pushed out for being negative or not being a team player.

To dissect the last part. They have probably been talking internally about how much iOS and Android suck and how they are just temporary fads. That shit becomes part of the corporate common set of beliefs. Anyone in power of making a change knows, if they all of the sudden admit that BB10 is a failure or Android is better, they are perceived as a traitor and not a team player.
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People dream up a product
Other people give them money
First people gives money to China and hope product materializes

Heck, even software, being done by yourself, is not that simple

Also, this is only a sob history. Nobody will learn anything from it. How did they find factories in China? How did they find one in the us?
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Their website has a giant "Learn More" button that links to a contact form? Really? The "What We Do" page has three bullet points about how it works, but they really need to add more details on the actual service. There's more content on the "Work Here" page then the rest of the site combined.
How can Yahoo afford to keep doing this? Volume?
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Thanks, you read my mind.
Yea, it makes total sense to focus there - I'm just pissed that no one else taking on harder math in the Khan-style. MIT/Stanford style lectures are brutal and the practice is nothing like the great Khan system.

What exercises are being added now? I'm not seeing them if so. Good luck to you guys!
Good,

But this works fine only as long as some guy makes the same pens and starts selling for prices way lesser than you do.

This is the reason why China exists. Because there is 'Some guy' who always sells things for prices lesser than somebody else. And not manufacturing in China isn't an option for companies like Apple, Dell etc. For their volume, the cost advantage is simply too huge.
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it took 4 days to build an animated html5 rocket? you guys document the most ridiculous things. I still do not understand what kicksssssnd is for

get over yourselves

thanks,
truth_dude
Hm, okay. Can Javascript do things like user accounts? Perhaps through a .js library? I have had the idea that Javascript is more for the client-side of sites rather than the backend, but maybe I'm wrong.
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Steven Sinofsky is head of Microsoft Windows, the best-selling and most profitable operating system with 80% marketshare among all devices, and that's before they launch a new desktop and mobile operating system.

Dan Riccio will be head of Apple Hardware Engineering, which make the best-selling and most profitable hardware for phones and tablets, along with best-selling, best-designed, and most-profitable laptops, whether you want to install Windows or run Mac OS X.

Interesting to know that in Apple vs Microsoft, Hardware vs Software, the heads of these franchises are both alumni of UMass Amherst.
The five day calendar I received to Gmail forced a horizontal scroll. That's too bad.
I started using a computer when I was about 14. It was 1979. It wan't easy to learn the ropes back then. This was before CompuServe or AOL. An Apple II with 16k of RAM cost over $1000 (in 1979 dollars!) A 1200 baud modem was a really fast network connection. And I had to walk to school in the snow. Uphill both ways of course :-)
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This is a clear example of a sampling bias. The voices of those angry with an experience of poor service will raise a cacophony compared to those who have a pleasant experience and simply carry on with their lives.
I'm Zack, an owner of Mission Bicycle.

As you point out, the bicycle industry has been around for some time. Bicycle design and engineering has been improving for 100+ years.

Mission Bicycles are designed for a specific purpose, commuting in American cities. We optimized for:

- Ride feel: A frame geometry that put riders in an up-right position for comfort and visibility and made the bicycle very stable and responsive even at low speeds.

- Strength: Components and materials that are strong enough to last a life time even with the daily abuse of a city commute.

- Ease of use: Other than fixing an occasional flat, brake pad swap, or chain grease there is nothing on the bicycle to fidget with or break. We literally took everything off the bike that you don't need for a city commute which saves greatly on weight. A typical Mission Bicycle weighs in at 16lbs, which is important for when you need to cary it up a flight of stairs.

The bicycle features you mention (bottle cages, fenders, racks, etc.) were purposefully excluded from the bicycle's design to save on weight, maintenance, and cost.
But it does have those features, so, I don't get it. What are you trying to say?

As for bloated template code? I really don't know what you are talking about. Perhaps you just haven't seen well written mustache templates. My startup, Bagcheck, and Twitter (where I now work) have switched completely to Mustache. It really does work well if you use it properly.
jQuery was never good at this. When I first used it on a project they had already drooped support for Safari 1.x, despite that being available version of Safari available for Mac OS X 10.4.

I was, at the time, living with my girlfriend and a friend of hers, both of whom used 10.4 and Safari 1.x: it was honestly quite common among people who couldn't quite afford new computers.

Regardless, when we sent the demo of our product for the local school district I was getting reports that the entire browser was crashing, which I traced down to some sketchy code in jQuery that had been tested so poorly on this version of Safari that no one noticed this highly fatal error.

When I reported the issue to a major jQuery contributor (a friend of mine), all I got was flak that people shouldn't be using that browser and should upgrade to 10.5... obviously I have never used jQuery in a project again.
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I agree the wording is a bit awkward here. Hopefully my reply to Peter clarifies it some :)
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So i have to stick with jquery 1.9. People that ask me to create web page are IE user. Here, those who use firefox, opera, or safari can create their own web by themself.
Great points - thanks for your perspective! I think I got a little caught up in the cult of me....:)
After reading both the tau and pi manifestos I get the impression that it's quite an arbitrary choice: either the circumference is fundamental and angles are natural (tau), or the radius is fundamental and areas are natural (pi). It boils down to a trade-off and you can cherry-pick examples where either is "more natural", but in a mathematical sense it doesn't matter a single bit and that's why we should not waste time on this, it doesn't bring anything new to the table.
Yup, a lot of web apps are using ancient versions of JS libraries, aren't compatible cross browser, and updates are few and far between. The issue is with enterprise apps, you really need to have a solid release schedule/plan. If you update an app and say "You are now forced to use a new browser to get the functionality of this." you will piss off a lot of people.

It's much easier for the app developer to create poorly written hacks for the older js libraries, because they are less likely to force a browser requirement change.

For enterprise apps, 1.9 is going to be around for an extremely long time.
Care to speculate on a reasonable acquisition price? What is RIM worth?
I love that it opens tabs behind, unlike Safari. Only thing I don't like is the address bar using up too much room (not disappearing).
I understand the point but the product is in fact a screen in a different form factor just like a phone is a screen that differs in factor from a monitor.

I think what I was trying to elude to is that their skydiving demo could have been utilized differently to talk about what the product experience will be like as a user. Instead what we got was streaming video of people skydiving - not exactly anything eye opening... the actual information I got about the product was really nothing.
If you encrypt your stuff using your Google password, that might be why it is needed.
Microsoft font rendering is different, not worse.

If you want to make it more like OSX, there's a tuning app here:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartypeinfo.mspx
Interesting indeed. But BB java is dead and resurrecting it cannot be a good move.
Oh man, I almost choked on my water. I've got some feedback: don't absolute position annoying and generic elements that distract me from your product(s).

.. that being said, it is pretty cute when it's shrunk down for mobile.
Every boss talks like he's going to take care of you, and (I hope) it sounds like the bullshit it is to most people. (when I hear a boss saying he's going to take care of me, I hear "I want you to do more work for me for no additional compensation") But, if when you do fire someone you do get them a better job? that person will talk, and it won't be regarded as bullshit... and you can do a lot worse than hiring people recommended or evaluated by someone that you /know/ is good.
That is awesome that you made the jump from enterprise to working for yourself (or at least being able to set your own work pace). Are you independent or do you work with a firm? I think my consulting firm had some flexible work options. I know one person who worked only 4 days per week. But I don't think I ever saw anyone go half-time. That's a great option you have.
China is also notorious for "creative interpretations" of contracts that just happen to favor the Chinese company.
Of course they do. Login as a paid customer and go to http://support.google.com/a/bin/request.py.
> JQuery has just set a time limit on proper web access for an entire OS.

What time limit? The blog post says jQuery 1.9 will be supported even after 2.0 is released, and that the two APIs will be the same.
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This was worth watching again so I'm glad it was reposted and brought back to my attention. I was as struck by it this time as when I was sitting in the room listening to him last year.

What I would like to see, or create if I have to, is a condensed version of this argument that is meant for the non-programmers, the managers, and the c-level employees of a business. The underlying premise of believing in and executing with simplicity is one that nearly requires air support, and buy-in.

I think in his summary at the end there are a few key statements he makes:

"The bottom line is that simplicity is a choice. It's your fault if you don't have a simple system.... it requires constant vigilance... You have to start developing sensibilities about entanglement... You have to have entanglement radar... You have to start seeing the interconnections between things that could be independent."
How was Minitel different from BBSes in the 80s?
10.4 shipped with Safari 2.x and could be upgraded up to 4.x. You mean 10.3?
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For some definition of "always" (that is, not really always), sure. It's also "always" true that the tablet is on a working wifi network.
The biggest problem now is they are trying to play catch up, and are skating to where the puck is at. Jelly Bean just came out, iOS 6 is shipping in the fall. By next year they'll be even further behind.

I think there's a very real possibility that they won't manage to ship BB10 at all.
I've known exactly one RIM employee. He was fairly high up the food chain. I met him at a party and for some reason I ended up talking to him for an extended period (end of the evening, too much booze). He was racist, sexist, pretentious and convinced of his own ability to understand the world.

This was when iPhones had firmly taken hold of the market and BBs were already yesterday's handset. I talked about that with him and he threw a lot of jargon at me and listed the reasons why RIM would continue to dominate into the future.

That conversation was unpleasant enough that I still think of it whenever I see RIM news pop up. If he was characteristic at all of upper-level execs there then it's absolutely no surprise to me that RIM is circling the toilet bowl.
I've been reading your blog for months, so this makes me really happy :)
I'm just so surprised that they didn't release some super advanced crap that was impractical

Well.. there was the PlayBook...

(Maybe it wasn't super advanced, but it was impractical. No email on a Blackberry product?)
Could this be "shared online" instead of emailed?
A grammatical error does not change the fact that the OP hadn't registered that the product's name is “Chocolat” and not “Chocolate”.
Do it! Let me know if you want to chat. I had a lot more to write but had to cut the thing down so that other humans could read it.
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How can I get involved with contributing to this project? I believe in the cause, I just can't do much programming yet.

Edit: Never mind, I found it under contribute on their site...
I did this for years, albeit in the US with domestic and foreign clients, and it can work great.
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Hey HN. I'm wanting to get into open source software, but nothing I can find really feels important. For instance, sure I use Firefox or Chrome (Chromium being the OSS) everyday, as do hundreds of millions of others, but speeding them up or adding features feels like solving a first world problem. With as many real problems as there are in our world it seems like I can do better than that. I do know about Random Hacks of Kindness, and that's definitely an option, but is there anything else you guys know of?

Edit: Also, specifically is there any such software being written in C/C++. Though it is not a requirement, I've been wanting to try those out.
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It was similar to compuserv (CIS) back then.
Great response, thanks for all of that context.

Sounds like the playing field was evened once the interconnect fees were standardized. It's a shame that we are so far behind in the U.S., at a very fundamental level. Most networks here (particularly the two largest -- AT&T + Verizon) are totally incompatible.

Anyway, thanks again for all that detail, very interesting stuff.
It was a much larger, integrated, nationwide network. It's more comparable to compu-serv than any BBS.

It also had an integrated terminal that was way cheaper than the microcomputer + modem setup you needed to connect to any of the American services or BBSes, and as a result it had better market penetration in France.

Technically, of course, it wasn't anything special. But it was a great example of an early online service that was useable for non-technical people.

EDIT: PS: The Computer Chronicles did an episode on Minitel: http://archive.org/details/frenchtech1
YAFTDL (yet another effing to-do list).
How does it compare with Opera Mini browser?
It's not for enterprise apps.

If your startup is C2C, everything is fine, if your B2C or B2B your in trouble. If your B2X then you even do not have the leverage of a contract etc.
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We're talking about supporting IE8, not every version of every browser that's ever been made.

Where I work, we support browsers with over 2% of traffic, which means IE7,8,9, Chrome (latest), FF (latest and possibly 3.6 or something like that) and Safari (latest, IIRC, possibly latest + 1 older version.) The last 4 are largely the same, except for small bugs, and minor visual degradation is fine for the IEs. If your work requires you to support every browser, maybe you should start trying to build a case against that by making clear that requiring you to support every browser is a poor business decision.
In some set of states, a "software engineer" isn't anything. To use the term "engineer" there, you must meet a rigid set of requirements; I don't think software has ever become an acknowledged field, such as "civil engineering".
Looots of people shopping at work using the corporate-standard browser.
Parse.com :)
Because we live in the real world, where complaining to Microsoft doesn't make up for lost revenue.
it was run by the French government. And the hardware needed to access it was given away -- no general-purpose computer needed. And it achieved much higher penetration into the non-technical demographic than bbses ever did.
Hmm... I tried emailing a test calendar 3 times, but no luck.
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I more than "lean" towards introversion, and this doesn't really frighten me; it makes me a bit sad, that's all. But I doubt it's a new observation. I suspect most people have always found most other people boring much of the time, even if they are friends. It's just more evident now because people have more alternatives for spending their time that fill a need for "socializing" without requiring direct in-person interaction.
I'm puzzled by this statement. The adaptation happens in reality, right? So how could their trajectories be out of sync with reality?
Wonder if they're planning to make ALL their web content responsive. A lot of work for their web devs!
I pretty much agree with the article; that's why I'm so depressed when I see a piecework software site advertise a job to replicate something like Facebook (only better) for $1500.
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I agree with this. Mobile first doesn't necessarily mean native first. From both design and engineering perspectives, it is much easier to build a website that looks good on both mobile and desktop and then add components to the desktop site than it is to start with a desktop site and pare it down to work well on mobile.
The need for a "startup hustler" is a myth. Of all the startups I know of out here in SF and SV, I can't think of any good ones that have needed this kind of person around.

The part about impatience is especially dangerous. Being impatient with your business is a good way to produce something of low quality because you just didn't take the time to get it right.
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I'm indie right now. I spent the last year trying to make a living selling my own iOS apps and not making much money. But it looks like the freelance iOS market is pretty good so I'm shifting my focus to contracting.
So why didn't their Surface launch site look like that?? And will they be fixing search (other than including Google GSE which would be a vast improvement).

Edited to add: the answer to my last question is 'no':
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/search#q=surface
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True that you don't have to hire a "hustler" in specific, but a hustler needs to emerge in a startup. It definitely moves things forward, especially in B2B.
Not to detract from your point though, I do agree (and I'm fairly certain there are numbers somewhere to back this up) that the super-custom small batch manufacturing industry is alive and kicking in the US and other non-fareast countries because of exactly what you describe.
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Another commenter mentioned learning to set up Linux servers, and while app hosting frameworks like Heroku and dotCloud are great, doing it the "hard way" first (it's not that hard anymore, really) will help you to understand and appreciate these types of services.
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It's that they're speculating with money from private savings accounts backed by the FDIC. If the company fails the government is on the hook in several ways. Privatization of profit and socialization of risk, etc.
"...waiting an hour..."

Uhm... Ke?

I work in Business Intelligence and anything over 5 seconds to return a typical (eg: year to date/daily sales) report is unacceptable by my standards.

Could you perhaps go I to more detail as to the definition of 'job' in your post? Are we talking about giant year end actuarial runs here or something like that?
Oh come on - this is voted down?

Firefox and Chrome do automatic updates, and almost never has issues. That's because they stick to standards in an open and transparent manner. Why wouldn't Windows Update be able to do the same thing? Are the Microsoft software developers really that bad that they can't do what the Chrome and Firefox developers can do already?
Can I launch an instance of Ubuntu from ubuntu.com without creating an account anywhere? Assume I just wanted to test out Desktop, or a Juju for something. (something like workspot.net was, but with stickiness through the cloud.)
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> > Facebook is not communication.
>
> What would you call it then!? It's a platform where
> you share and talk with friends. How is that not
> communication?

Facebook has the same relationship to communication that Doritos has to food.