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Yes

The issues were: (from the gravepine)

Old Symbian team kept beating the Symbian drum and heading towards the cliff

At the same time, Linux team developing Maemo, viewed by the rest of the company as "the linux kids and their toys"

Linux team trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle of several Linux services (and since most of them are not focused on mobile, and some are just crap but it's the only solution) it takes a lot of time

Not to mention "ok, let's merge with Intel and rewrite a crapload of stuff" then "ok, let's buy Qt and rewrite a boatload of stuff with Qt" (not sure how those are ordered, still)

Meanwhile Android just built the bare minimum, discarding lots of Linux infrastructure and came ahead

So when Stephen Elop got there, sorry, boat had already sank
I wish they put more generic title instead of "in the Enterprise" :(
Ha' then I'm appreciating your honesty :-)
Agreed. I've been using App Engine for a while and bad customer service is my main issue with it. I can tolerate poor support for free products, but not for business products that I pay a lot for.
The man was a genius. He was largely responsible for creating the foundations of modern society in many ways, in his work with computation, cryptology, AI, and other fields.

"Of this type" means that he was an out of the box thinker and hard to predict. It in no ways should be understood as you are stating.
Sorry but that is just nonsense.

Nokia is not in trouble because of Elop. It is in trouble because of two trends. One is the rise of the middle class in emerging markets who don't want cheap, nasty feature phones. And two is the move from both Apple and Android into lower and lower price points.

And the fact is that Meego had nothing going for it. It had no apps and no related ecosystems like Google, Microsoft and Apple have. And as we are seeing with RIM developers simply aren't interested in building 4 versions of their apps. So this idea that Meego was going to save the day is pure delusion.
The full set of information needed to model the c elegans worm seems to still be incomplete (see apl's reply), but if you want to monitor the progress of one such attempt at in silico simulation, take a look at the Openworm project ( http://www.openworm.org/ ).
"The KDE Free Qt Foundation is an organization with the purpose of securing the availability of the Qt toolkit

for the development of Free Software and
in particular for the development of KDE software.

"

http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...

I think they will manage somehow...
It is a long way from independent as yet. By far the majority of the code still seems to be coming from Nokia. See here, for example (a few months out of date, not sure how much has changed): http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/12/22/qt-5-%E2%80%93-a-look-ba...
agreed. 20 mins from Waterloo is certainly not safe
At least Nokia now has a chance of survival (even if that means being bought by Microsoft), unlike RIM which going down and nothing can save it (With their current management approach).
Bloody hypocrites, poison humans with their fast food and 'save sparrows'? Pffft...
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Here's what works for me:

I usually have Itunes and Grooveshark open simultaneously, playing the following two things:

Itunes:

Pink noise/Brown noise, bring the volume up until it eliminates outside voices. Binaural Tones work well too. You'll have to do a bit of hunting to find the right sound, some will be too harsh on the ears. Try http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mindwave-pro-binaural-tones... or http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/white-noise-for-sleep-singl...

Grooveshark:

Some ambient music, volume set to around 30-40% of Itunes. Something like http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Music+For+Tundra+Part+1/2Wc6OO?s...

Searching up Tim Hecker on Grooveshark will do the trick, trust me, but any lyric-less music that creates a "soundscape" is ideal. You'll have to adjust the volumes to something that works for you, but I basically try to create effective background-reducing noise that isn't too repetitive.
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Today most US states deny the right of marrying the person you love.

Which makes me wondering why are we feeling so strongly, as a human race, to regulate what other people are able to do (even in cases where it doesn't affect us) and to inflict punishment on those that break the social norms.

It's probably a combination of evolutionary traits, fear of unknown, desire for protection of self at the expense of others, and the desire to be in groups with similar characteristics of our own. Only lately it appears that we embraced 'diversity', where we respect the right of others to be, behave and think differently than our own ways, without feeling threatened by them or feeling the need to prosecute them.

Why is this happening only now and how can we make sure that we don't revert to the old ways? Part of it is history, I think - we're more aware now of the mistakes of the past, the world-wide wars, and the poverty effects of oppressive regimes. We also improved agriculture and technology to the point where most of us can have a decent living without stealing from others, conducting wars with our neighbors or by practicing slavery / communism. It might very well be the case of the famous saying, "you cannot do democracy on an empty stomach".

I only hope the trend will accelerate and that we'll be able to reap up the benefits of mutual respect and decency for human rights sooner rather than later. And never return to the past.
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Of course the blame is Elop's. Putting all of Nokia's chips on Windows Phone was stupid no matter how it turned out. Lowering Nokia's risk by doing an Android phone or two was a no-brainer. The smarter play was doubling down on Qt. Not just Symbian, Meego and the desktop - we know they could have added Android (demonstrated), iOS (community projects existed and still do) and Windows Phone.

And don't say Microsoft wouldn't allow it. Windows Phone was irrelevant and Nokia was Microsoft's few chances to change that. And more than that, Microsoft needed access to Nokia's patents (to keep up the pressure on Android, among other things). Nokia was in the driver's seat and could have written their terms. Instead, they let Microsoft effectively acquire them for peanuts. If Nokia had only kept their options open and jumped on what worked, today's mess was entirely preventable.
It's generally understood that finding a talented Dev team is far harder than transitioning a team to a new technology. Many company's have transitioned code from platform A to platform B without building a new team from scratch.

Not because everyone will make the transition but because what separates a great QT/.net/java/c++ developer from an average one has vary little to do with experience. So, while such transitions are a great time to remove deadwood, and you want to find some experts in the new stack laying off the old team is expensive and rarely worth it.
Type safety would be the main plus point for me, even for tools and scripts.

Plus I guess some people just prefer functional programming when they can and Haskell offers that in abundance. I guess the downside is the less portable nature of the code (this is where Clojure et al. would probably win...although writing command line tools and scripts in a JVM language still has a long way to go IMO)
How can you be so sure geuis? It’s well possible the coroner wasn’t aware of Turing’s genius at all.
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It's more fun. There was a freedom of choice and since any language can do the task at hand we chose the one that was interesting and fun and offered us opportunities for learning new stuff.

We use Python for small tasks quite a lot too. Python's batteries included approach works pretty well for simple tasks.
Funny how HN seems all upset about this. I have never used Craigslist and have rarely visited it. I had never heard of padmaster till now and no one I just questioned in the office had heard of it either.
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Why_Haskell_matters
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The sparrow population in Mumbai has decreased mainly due to urbanization and electromagnetic waves from mobile phones.

Huh - if it's not wind turbines killing them it's RF from mobile phones - I'd say its stacked up against them and Ronald M is not going to be able to help all that much.

Causes of bird deaths: http://www.currykerlinger.com/birds.htm
Ideally, for informational-goods, we first find out (somewhat) what people want, take payment, make the product, then release it for free use and copying.

The economic problem here is fundamentally one of information and cooperation. As far as we know what we want we should share the cost of producing it (i.e. production should be of what is known to be wanted, and cooperation should be on shared goals). And where we do not know (e.g. the future) we should not prevent unpredicted gains from what has been produced (i.e. by charging for copies).

The practical problem is how to get information and how to promote cooperation -- this is where possible arrangements can vary. But the core theoretical structure is that our production should follow from information, and our consumption should not be hostage to lack of information -- this is what all arrangements should try to achieve.
This is pretty distasteful on his birthday.
Once read about how its a bad idea to base the core of your business around someone else's platform. Once they(and their lawyers) decide to re-evaluate your relationship with them it can nearly destroy what you've built. Testament to this are the number of apps based on twitter that died when twitter decided to up their offering and cover what they were doing. How to do it well is Zynga's relationship with Facebook

The people at PadMapper are doing a good thing looking for other sources but like the author said Craiglist was/is an important source of pad listings.

All the best to them
There is going to be consolidation in the newspaper industry, however I think certain newspapers like the NYT and the WSJ are best suited to navigate this. The NYT is a newspaper of record for all the reasons InclinedPlane stated makes good journalism; they are already incredible in that respect. Paywalls are the right strategy for them because they have a premium that people are willing to pay for, which has worked for the WSJ.

Claims that the newspaper industry is dead are likely from people who don't read any newspapers. The NYT is still the standard (WSJ and Financial Times among the financial press) for journalism and there will always be a market for that, despite the rise of blogs, citizen journalism, and cable news.

I'd also like to add that there is research that shows that the monopolies newspapers have/had is responsible for greater accuracy and less bias (and I would argue greater overall quality). Cable news is the best example of heavy competition being responsible for a decline in accuracy and quality. Fox and MSNBC cater to different ends of the political spectrum because it draws viewers in. CNN, who attempts to position themselves as straight news, has been caught holding the ratings bag because they have no niche (and they were at one point the top of their game during the 90s with their coverage of the Gulf War).

http://www.economics.harvard.edu/files/faculty/56_marketforn...
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/jesse.shapiro/research/jepme...
Steve Yegge's rant on Google's and Amazon's platforms comes to mind: https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesv...

I couldn't find the original, so this is a copy on Google+. It discusses the difference in how Google and Amazon approach platforms.
The biggest fallacy in the article is that people with large bitcoin balances are "comfortable" leaving their "wealth" there.

The market is very thin, any large selloffs would make the price drop significantly.
Same here in France. It looks like the only ads on fr.craigslist.com are either posted by americans living in France (they're allin english) or spam.
I have never heard of anyone buying/selling stuff on craigslist among my friends/relatives.

The (pretty recent) equivalent would be http://leboncoin.fr, I guess.
Money is debt, but on a more fundamental level it's a combination of trust and confidence. Those things are necessary for doing business, and they can be destroyed.
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Wow, that's some very crazy shit right there. Too bad it takes time to check exactly what level of lunacy is involved. (Time is very expensive these days, that's why I throw away so much of it, filtering bullshit from crazy bullshit on the internets)
Actually, Haskell libraries were perhaps more important than any individual language feature. The language allows such good abstractions that libraries like Parsec or Haskell XML toolkit are very nice to use.
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In all fairness with enough hardware you could serve ~1 billion users using virtually any language which supports development of web applications. Just because you can develop a hugely successful system using a language doesn't prove (or disprove) that said language is necessarily the best tool for the job. It just happens to be what FB picked.
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"In order to be a perfect and beautiful computing machine, it is not requisite to know what arithmetic is."

I was just thinking yesterday that a similar thing might be true for human beings. We constantly strive for self-knowledge, what we really want, what we really need, but what if a smoothly functioning "self" is dependent on NOT knowing exactly how our minds work?

I'm just going to give up trying to understand myself as a complete waste of time. So far, it feels liberating. YMMV.
I am personally amazed at how much the author of bitcoin got right, he is clearly a genius.

However, bitcoin is not perfect, interestingly, it seems as though bitcoin's creator did not predict the rise of mining pools. They could eventually exert the same amount of influence over the bitcoin economy as banks do today with government backed money.

There are other technical issues which could relatively easily be fixed in the code but would require a "hardfork", a change in the protocol meaning that either all nodes upgrade to the new protocol, or a new blockchain is started.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardfork_Wishlist
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It's not impossible but retraining 100+ developers in a new platform takes a lot longer than hiring a new team. And it is not just about knowledge but also culture and enthusiasm.

Can you not see how the clean slate approach where you leave behind all of the Linux/Qt/Symbian baggage could be appealing ?

It's not dissimilar from what happen with Apple's failed Copland project where a new team came in (NeXT), took control of a new OS/apps strategy and ultimately saved the company.
> Each of those changes will have to be coded, tested, written-off, released, tested by the clients since this is tax data and has to be precise for tax planning and retirement planning.

Considering the filer of the report goes on to say this, at what point did they fail to realise that moving from an "old PHP 5.1.6 Solaris 8 box" to an "RHEL5 with 5.3.1" should have required the same level of testing and signing off?

No sympathy for a developer who completely changes their environment (OS, PHP version, at the very least) and then bitches about stuff they failed to anticipate not working. This is not a reflection on PHP, for once.
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The problem isn't socialism, it's a divergence of productivity between the northern and southern regions of the euro area. When you combine this with a shared currency you're asking for trouble.

Note that the socialist nordic countries have stellar economies.

I've noticed a lot of Americans blame the euro crisis on socialism which,is interesting since it doesn't seem to hold up to scrutiny. I'd be interested in hearing why this is. Is it the media, an American distrust of socialism or something else?
Fermat's last theorem was proven in 1995 though, uber hard, yes, but not intractable :)
of course the root cause is not Elop. But Elop grossly mishandled the situation and now company is near bankruptcy. If only Elop had been more cautious, nokia would be still profitable and maybe in a position to utilize this great QT technology which they invested a lot. There was no need to declare the death of Symbian and MeeGo so early. There was no reason to jump to Windows Phone bandwagon as their sole hope a year before WP8. And Elop was aware that WP7 devices would not receive update to WP8.

What a shame...

Aside from timing and suicidal memos, given the obvious incompetency of Elop, I doubt WP was the right decision at all. Of course I do not have all the information that Elop had back then, but I wonder did they consider other options, such as forking android (maybe in cooperation with amazon), seriously. I wonder what role his previous employment played here.
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and nothing to do with coke, sounds, happiness and not seeing any studio involbed at all in the aid of what is. Here is my CV!
The mt gox volume is about $300k a day. Any one of these people could sell $10k a day without making that much of a dent in the price (they used to have a $1k a day limit but I'm sure that's not foolproof).

That would be enough to liquidate even the largest portfolio in 8 months. Certainly if you were uneasy about the market, that's exactly what you'd be doing (and maybe they are).
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I would hope the readership around here could elevate the discussion beyond trite little quips such as this. Again I come away disappointed.

For future reference: these "reverse the roles" arguments are about as shallow and ignorant as one can get. The context is completely different for the "reversed" roles, rendering the comparison not even meaningless, but downright hostile.
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>It's common sense that Nokia was not going to have a use for Qt or anyone involved with it once they moved to a MS strategy.

The radical perspective is that they have a "MS strategy" and that that "MS strategy" will do them any good.

You seem to believe something which, judging by Nokia's results and MS recent (10 year) history, it seems ludicrous if not suicidal.

Plus, if that "Surface" thing goes well, what's to stop MS trying to build their own phones? From a mobile leader that it was in the past, Nokia will become --at best-- a insignificant MS home making division, and at worst an ex-partner with no recourse.

Of course the more probable outcome is that Windows Phone 8,9,10,x will continue it's Zune-like irrelevance, and Nokia with enter a RIM like free fall...
Copyright hampers rapid repackaging of ideas, which is a major vector for innovation. Wagner's Ring Cycle plot was a refactor - a repackaging of existing stories and ideas. Much of Handel's _Israel in Egypt_ (and many other works) is a repackaging of earlier tunes. Bach's Goldberg variations remixes then-popular tunes.

Consider cross-pollination. Nintendo wanted incidental background music for tetris. They found some tunes in the public domain, and wrote some themselves. Only possible when there's a public domain. The game isn't about the music, but the fact that they could mix good music in made it better.
>> Putting all of Nokia's chips on Windows Phone was stupid no matter how it turned out.

I agree, but hopefully/probably Nokia got something in the deal making, for shutting down a Linux based competing system.
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I'm using bento, which keeps backward compatibility with setuptools/distribute, but aims at fixing the traditional Python packaging tools:

http://cournape.github.com/Bento/

It is stable and usable.
Elop's strategic move was to get Nokia out of the Operating Systems business where they were clearly losing - and likely to continue to lose over the short, medium and long terms - and to focus on their core competencies which are those of manufacturing and logistics.

The switch to Windows Phone was tactical in that sense. The strategic aspect of the switch was that Microsoft offered a long term partnership, allowed them to liquidate maps, and could provide a clear technology roadmap for their product line.

Nokia's software was good and competent, but they simply don't have access to the mountains of UX data needed to develop the next generation of OS's to compete on the touch screen.
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>what is morally wrong and ironic is the fact that an outreach effort excludes 50% of the population.

Pure nonsense. In the (apparently) hostile to women environment that is tech, it makes perfect sense to have women-centric meetups so that women can feel comfortable exploring technology and develop bonds with other women that can help them counteract bias.

What you should be questioning is why there is a need for a women centric event. Dismissing these issues and turning it around to ask why its excluding you (lets be honest here, this is exactly what you're doing) is the only thing morally wrong here.
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Ask HN: Host multiple flask and django apps on single server
What would be the best way to host multiple flask and django apps on a single server? From reading around it seems to better to use nginx and/or gunicorn, but I can't decide between nginx alone OR nginx + gunicorn. Should I consider Tornado? I don't really plan to have real-time stuff in my apps.

I'm using an EC2 micro instance (Ubuntu Precise)
>Lowering Nokia's risk by doing an Android phone or two was a no-brainer

Have you looked at Android OEM's financials lately? Samsung is the only one making any profit, HTC is barely ekeing out one, LG, Sony, Motorola etc. are running in losses.

And bringing out an Android phone would cut off the $1B/yr lifeline platform support from Microsoft, which Nokia knew it would need in the painful transition. Nokia did approach Google for a similar deal, but Google told them to take a hike. Also, they're licensing maps etc. to Microsoft for a huge amount too.

Also, people seem to be ignoring that Nokia's signature cash cow feature phone business is collapsing because of ultracheap Chinese clones and white label phones being dumped into the market. Nokia trying to start their own ecosystem with QT would've been foolish in the face of entrenched competition.

I don't understand the notion that QT is some magical technology that's so much leaps and bounds ahead of other GUI APIs like iOS, Android, WinRT etc that developer would automatically flock to it. QT is definitely nice though.

In short, Nokia knew that they were going to go through extremely tough times for a couple of years regardless of what they pick, and they chose a partner with deep pockets($60B cash in the bank) rather than going solo.
That and there is only one balance over 100k USD. But there are a lot of people that would consider 100k an almost meaninglessly small amount of money.
What do you mean? How does this relate to multithreading?