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The New Philips W635 is a Dual Sim Mobilephone Lunch in India. The Smartphone will run on the Android v2.3 OS & powered by Qualcomm MSM7227A Snapdragon Processor. It’s Support GSM and HSDPA Network. The Philips W635 has 4.0 inches TFT Capacitive Large Touchscreen with Sensitive Control. It has 5 Mega Pixel Camera with Geo-taggin & Sensor. This handset will be Feature of Bluetooth, 1 GB ROM, 512 MB RAM, microSD up Card, EDGE,32 GB for external memory & microUSB as well as Claiming HD video calling, Audio Player, Video Player and 1630 mAh Li-Ion battery Support.
I was responding to the claim that: "a single Qt app can run on all of those platforms with minimal modification".

And having ported a fairly successful iOS app to Symbian^3 (using mostly Qt Quick/QML), I would seriously contest the claim of 1) Qt working like a charm on Symbian and 2) how well Symbian works in general.
Think outside the valley.
> We're just in a sad period where these people have greater influence over our society's decisions.

Greater than when, exactly? Things could be a lot worse.
Two words: Redwood Shores.
I don't buy it. In the case of CL or the other companies mentioned (Netflix and LinkedIn), calling any of them communication tools is not really close to an apt description/characterization.

If we characterize them as communication tools, we are using a pretty loose definition. Moreover, inviting regulators (via their involvement in some sort of monopoly breakdown) into the proverbial henhouse is a nice mix of anti-free enterprise, anti-entrepreneurship and misguided/naive.
You're missing the 'x' that the gp implied. Every MacBook is the "Best MacBook Apple has ever built", every Air is the "Best Air Apple has ever built." In that line, the gp's comments make more sense.
Doesn't this make Boxopus a honey pot for MPAA subpoenas?
Additionally we know that there are some prion diseases that are not consumption-related. Fatal familial insomnia for example.....
East bay? Santa Cruz? Marin?
What nonsense. East Menlo Park near Facebook has vacancy, and it's just a ten minute drive away from Palo Alto. Or drive across the bridge an extra 10 minutes from there and there is infinite room in Fremont and Newark.

A minor inconvenience could lead to a lot less burn rate spent on rent.
Pretty much boilerplate, but don't think this is going to protect you if the torrents being downloaded are illegal:

"Boxopus may disclose Personally Identifiable Information if required to do so by law or in the belief that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with law or legal process, court order or a subpoena served on Boxopus or the Site to cooperate with law enforcement authorities; (b) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activity or fraud on the Site;"
I agree fully with the two other comments. Working for or even starting a startup can lead to great financial success, a good resume, great connections, and a fun experience. It however is a big risk due to lowered salary and sometimes infinite work hours. This risk however has a lower effect when you're young and don't have the expenses or time that someone who is married and has 2 kids has. Additionally as laservr said, do your homework. Since you're taking a risk with that startup you want the odds that you come out of your employment a rich man to be as high as possible. If you see that the idea/company is failing or don't believe in the idea then don't work with them.

Short advice: Go for it, but approach with caution.
But using personally identifiable data for targeting (which facebook seems to be doing) is entirely different from doing personally identifiable targetting (which no one is doind). If all the information that leaves facebook servers is which ads to show then it's really difficult to argue that privacy is being breached.
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More specifically, the 'nightmare' is likely less than 1 percent of their 'customers'.

Building a website allows for little in the way of excuses as to why you shouldn't be able to support almost every single user in every single browser.

Building a web application allows for a much greater variety of excuses. Writing modern code that allows for dynamic interaction and 'save as you type' type of functionality is extremely difficult to support for older browsers or browsers that don't do a very good job of conforming to web specifications.

You've mentioned previously that you aren't a 'developer', so I thought it merited mention. Simply put, it's a lot harder than you think.

If your app is in a competitive space, or one where 'cutting edge' is expected, it's an extremely easy decision to throw away less than 1% of your audience in favor of being able to iterate faster, release new features earlier than your competition, or dramatically increase the speed in which the other 99.7% of users interact with your application (and make them happier customers.)

I generally agree with the notion of 'supporting everybody you can', but having built 'new-school' applications, I understand that it is in fact very hard, and not always worth it.
Keep in mind that there are people with experience and education everywhere who through a variety of factors end up in retail. Apple simply skims off the top. There are other retailers who do the same, the problem is that most people never come into contact with those people, mainly due to the exclusivity of their products so Apple can easily draw the attention of any journalist due to their open door and relative geographic accessibility. It's like restaurant rating sites; anyone can eat out and review a meal, ergo a popular yet lazy approach.

What the article fails to address is that a) I'm already sold on the new product prior to its announcement and release and b) as a backup, if I really need it, there's a retail store where I can purchase the good or service that I need to easily complement my previous purchase.

Apple store employees are gophers, regardless of background and pedigree. They're cashiers that fetch my cables, machine or add-ons instead of me having to surf through the isles of a warehouse cum store hoping to catch the eye of someone wiring their third shift. And that's why I readily pay a premium for their products: a combination of hardware excellence and premium customer service.

That Apple doesn't pay commissions and top dollar to their low-level retail employees doesn't surprise me. It's a manifestation of supply and demand and I accept that.
I'm surprised Palantir wouldn't consolidate somewhere. I know Peter has discussed how communication breaks down even just being on different floors.

I also find the article unconvincing that companies are moving to San Francisco because they can't find real estate elsewhere. There are a lot of desirable ares in the peninsula other than downtown palo alto. And the fact is, San francisco is a very good place to locate right now.
You can talk about what economics and money really are for years of your life on forums and never get anywhere.

It's only by actually doing something like bitcoin that you can actually make a difference.

It's a bit like Jon Blow writing Braid to make his point about the immorality of the game industry.
Props for LOGO.

I learned that my ten year old was only learning consumption patterns for computers at school.

Web searching and a tiny bit of Office basically.

Something had to change and I've found that several kids are keen enough on LOGO even in our day and age to come to a Saturday morning LOGO lesson in the computer lab.

...even some of the grown ups have started bragging about shapes they built or clever uses of the REPEAT command.

It's just a magically simple analogue for all things code.
Palo Alto != Silicon Valley. There's a TON of space out here. Millions of unleased square footage north of 101. Bah.

Also, Palo Alto sucks.
It's actually not especially rational, because:

- There's no way to know what the actual ramifications are.

- There's no way to measure those against the other things that I'm already doing.

I already do Google searches and watch YouTube videos on my own computer from my own WiFi network, and I also use a debit card, have an EZ Pass, use a cell phone, etc. As I'm sure do most people reading this.

There's zero way for anyone to really know how our actions will effect us in the future. For all we know, opting out may be worse than opting in when it comes time to get insurance, get a loan, apply for a job, etc.

It's certainly creepy when you're actually confronted with all the information that's floating around about you head on, but it's not at all clear what it all means or how it actually effects you. And believe me, I've read several books on privacy, Internet privacy specifically.
Please. It's just a shitty article. There's tons of space around.
Torrent Reactor has already added a Boxopus ("Download to Dropbox") option to their torrent pages.
Is Synapatics a hardware maker or a software maker? Every PC laptop touchpad I've ever used was crap compared to the MacBook, and I don't know if that's Synaptics' fault.
first of all, I am not sure they do have that right. Certainly if they tried, it would open up questions of the scope of user rights (do I, as a user have the right to run add-on software on a Microsoft platform independent of Microsoft's wishes), the scope of copyright (does 17 USC 102(b) provide a safe harbor for interoperability and prevent a software vendor from using copyrights to deny areas for competition), and the like. And that's before getting into anti-trust law.....

So I think in Microsoft's case I would argue that they have a) no legal or moral right to impose such and b) no effective mechanism to enforce such conditions. They make practical tools, and people may use those tools in whatever ways they see fit. To the extent Microsoft can limit this through a EULA, they are subject to all sorts of judicial scrutiny.

For example, I have a hard time imagining that a "you may not run a web server on this edition of Windows" would be enforcible. Client access license requirements might be in some cases but I don't know what the dimensions are that they would be.

The question with Craigslist only becomes harder because to interoperate you are interacting with Craigslist's infrastructure. This is of course covered arguably by a different set of laws which may give Craigslist a bit more freedom. But we have laws in many states that restrict what, say, shopping malls can require of people entering (a shopping mall in California, for example, cannot prohibit pamphletting).

I would like to see similar rules passed regarding the internet equivalent of shopping malls, to be honest.
A quick search through Google News says those hypothetical articles are rather hard to find.
They'd sue them to try and bleed them into the grave regardless of if they have any legal basis to do so.
And even if Boxopus claimed to protect you like some VPNs do, unless they also encrypt the files before uploading them to Dropbox, wouldn't you still be at legal risk with Dropbox? Or are Dropbox contents automatically encrypted upon upload so that employees have no way of knowing what they contain?
An idea can't "beat" Craigslist. It's the whole of a product and team mixed up with constantly shifting market dynamics and human preferences

Here's an idea that can beat Craigslist: put up billboards all over town, offering $500 per ad to property managers and individual landlords in return for giving your site a 4-week exclusive on those ads.

That's the only way people will stop putting ads on Craigslist first, which in turn will be the only reason people will stop looking there first.

Network effects as powerful as Craigslist's can't be fought with a better product alone, as you point out. (See eBay for another example.) You either have to spend some money to take their market from them, or you have to be there when they fuck up.

And whatever else you can say about Craigslist, they are very, very good at not fucking up.
when Windows Phone 8 gets released, Facebook will be available for it from day 1, just as it is available on any phone that has a web browser.

Not really. Some amount of development effort will be required to ensure compatibility with any given platform browser. Certainly cross-browser compatibility has gotten better in the nearly 20 years of WWW existence, but it is not perfect. And additionally, you'll have to consider various platform issues such as the upload field on <iOS6 you mention. Alternatively, if Facebook were to work on a native Windows Phone 8 app, they'd potentially have it available from day 1. They have the resources and they'd likely have abundant support from Microsoft.

wrap that HTML in an app container that would let them bypass the browser restrictions (like uploading of files). But this was a bad idea, at least because the web view on iOS has much worse performance characteristics than the browser.

And at most because every other top-tier app which went native instead of HTML provided a vastly improved user experience. Facebook and Google web view apps look and behave antiquated in comparison. Not exactly putting your best foot forward. Google has moved faster, where the G+ app is now native on iOS, providing (perhaps) an improved user experience (at least a valiant effort at one, anyway).

I can't speak for everyone, but exactly how long are we supposed to wait for HTML to become a write-once environment that enables as-good-as native apps? We've had nearly 20 years to address those two issues on the desktop and still both issues exist. I just don't see that ever happening. And users will notice.
Has anyone been able to download through this? I tried about 30 minutes ago and the torrent still says it's waiting in their queue. This seems like a very slow way to download a torrent.
The Solaris kernel isn't great. The only reason anyone's using Illumos based stuff is ZFS and possibly dtrace.
What about Facebook's former office in Palo Alto (near Page Mill)? That should still be open.
because safari requires work arounds from most sites to work 100%.

remove ads, and the efort to suport that browser just die.
You completely misread his question. He wasn't referring to embryonic stem cells at all. I think hardly anyone has a problem with using something like mesenchymal stem cells for cartilage regeneration (well, the FDA maybe, but that's a different story).
My company (not a startup but a software company) is moving from Sunnyvale near Moffett field to Palo Alto on Page Mill road. We are doing this because google is eating up all the real-estate in mountain view and sunnyvale.

We used to be located near google right on Crittenden near LinkedIn but had to move because google came into the market and theres no way we could match their bids. Now we have to move again because again google is coming into the market.

But still, we're looking at probably leasing the old facebook office space (speculation as my company hasnt formally disclosed anything other than that we're moving to palo alto)
> Indeed, some of the newest sensors combine three-axis accelerometers, gyros, and magnetometers (nine sensors in all), plus a temperature gauge and a processor, into one little package that costs about $17.

which model is he talking about? i got curious and went looking, and the best i could find was $50
Mapreduce as a concept goes beyond lisp implementations. On the surface it might seem like the point of mapreduce is expressing computations in terms of map and reduce functions. It isn't.

The point of mapreduce is reducing the problem of high-throughput fault-tolerant distributed systems to a very efficient and reliable distributed sorting algorithm (the shuffle phase, which is implemented by the implementations of mapreduce and not by the user code). If you can express all synchronization in your algorithm in terms of sorting, then whatever you do before sorting (map) or after it (reduce) is kind of trivial, as the hard part is taken care of by the framework.

This abstraction is novel, and profoundly useful, and that's the point of mapreduce, not so much the actual map() and reduce() functions.
If only they would measure amount of spam in their for rent listing that currently nearly useless.
Every startup I know of that moved to SF did it because they thought it would be easier to recruit hackers there.
Suppose Symantec started a program where companies were allowed to pay for their apps to be white listed would and precluded from this check. Could this be considered a protection racket under anti-trust rules?
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As long as you're not sharing your Dropbox, it doesn't matter at point. Copyright Infringement is a crime of distribution (or more strictly speaking, reproduction), NOT possession.
"I'm looking forward to a second Nuremberg trial. Where all the people involved in the policing of information exchange will have to answer for their crimes against humanity. All their partners, copyright enforcement crusaders, should be judged as accomplices."

I think comparing the actions of genocide out-carriers and the actions of media execs is a little much.
> 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.

That's great, but the health of a company and it's products depends on a bit more than their developer relations team. The engineers at HP/Palm were also doing great things with webOS before it got axed entirely.

> 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.

I have no personal stake in the matter nor do I particularly care whether RIM survives or dies. I was only making the observation that if I was a Qt developer that just got laid off from Nokia, I would not want to take up a job at RIM for fear of the same situation repeating itself in 12-18 months. I mean, in the best case scenario it's a gamble that BB10 succeeds in the marketplace at all. If I had a family to support I would be looking to find a less risky proposition.

> 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?

The same place I always was? RIM's success or failure is entirely irrelevant to me.
Interesting, this was the first type of question I was asked at an interview, something like, "From our website, how do you think we plan to do x?". Obviously, there was nothing related to x on their site.

It's a great way to separate people who'll make up something vs people who are good at admitting what they don't know and are willing to look for the answer.
Please don't tell anyone about Redwood Shores until I get my office space!
As other comments allude to, you need to grow yourselves in order to grow your product. I know it's not easy and feels unnatural, but the benefits will stick with you the rest of your life. I'm a bit introverted myself and I've been working on fixing it.
1. Um, all that map data is actually worth something. It costs money to run cars up and down every street in the country with cameras. It costs money to store those pictures and serve them to billions of people. It costs money to maintain a cutting edge interface. In fact, it basically costs a lot of money everywhere.
2. Open Street Map will be a QA disaster for Apple unless the quality improves rapidly. Google Maps has failed me literally once after almost daily use over the past several years. The quality you get in this sort of problem domain is remarkable.

I know this comes from a consumer standpoint. We had an app based on Google Maps and struggled with the uptick in price. However, we're just spoiled; we really are. There's serious quality present in the Google Maps service.
In the US copyright includes the right to make copies. As an individual you do not have the right to freely make copies for yourself. That's reproduction, and is expected to get you in trouble. The idea that "it's legal to download, just not upload", is a defense that's been long been claimed, but to my knowledge, has never been tested in court.

To be fair, though, I believe they (the RIAA, MPAA) haven't tested that case either. Maybe they're not 100% sure either.

Now, in Canada? I believe private-use MUSIC downloading is legal. (Due to shenanigans involving the fine levied on blank media made for the purpose of burning music. Basically, Canadians already pay the fine for music piracy, so, they get to do it. That's my understanding.)
According to my experience that's an understatement of the benefits of not supporting old OS versions (and the negatives of having to support them).
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There's also the lack of soul-crushing suburban sprawl of the south bay, and the fact that you can legitimately live without a car.

Still no late-night coffee (with wifi!) but that has a higher chance of springing up in the city than in Santa Clara.
There could be because they got punished or saw someone get punished for saying "I don't know". Or, they either got rewarded or saw someone get rewarded for fudging and lying their way through when the real answer was "I don't know".

It is also about trust. When there is trust between the employees, one is not afraid of being honest and saying "I don't know" followed by "but I will find out" or "ask Jack, he knows more about this".

If there is a feeling that punishment or implied accusations of incompetence or experience will be made, they will start making shit up on the spot.

I see this everyday. It is really sad, hours of productivity is lost because people can't be honest. Usually it goes like this. A new employee, call him N, doesn't know how something works. They don't even know who is responsible for that product area. They go to a random employee X to ask for help, so they ask "how does this work?". Employee X knows they themselves don't know, but they won't admit it and won't send employee N to the employee Y, who really knows about the stuff.

Instead employee X starts to make stuff up on the spot, or which is slightly better, they both spend hours learning about the answer by reading code (not too bad again), but all they could have done is asked employee Y about it and they would have gotten an answer in under a minute.
Native code is supported on WP8 (it wasn't supported on WP7 because they were afraid it would make it harder to port to the NT kernel).
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Yes, just do it, but not for too long. Aim to start your own within a couple of years.
This article is based on Economist's www.economist.com/node/21556263, reading that would show that the 'data mining exec' pays in cash because data mining software found a correlation between paying in cash and living longer.
You can add the missing items or fix those that are incorrect. Best to start in your own neighborhood. Give it a try, i did.
Boxopus downloads torrent file directly to your Dropbox
Housing sucks in the valley too. Too expensive and car driven to appeal to the young hackers.

Singles enjoy the city life and those with families get more value in the East Bay with SF just being a BART ride away.
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Of course you can, but as with every venture, nothing's guaranteed. Just look at the Android app store to get some idea of this. The download volume and price is shown. Multiply them together, take out Googl's cut, and what you get is the revenue that the app has made over it's lifetime.

Will every niche make substantial money? Doubtful.