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Fair enough. I'm just concerned in that trying to downsize to save money, Nokia has missed the opportunity to take what was a profitable business (Trolltech's 2007 numbers (in NOK): 174m Rev, 46.5m Profit, 26.7% Net Profit Margin, 227 employees), and salvage it by spinning it back out into a separate business.

In dollar terms, Trolltech in 2007 was doing $30m Rev and making $8m profit. Obviously that's 5 years ago and I don't know what the current fundamentals are, but it would be interesting to know if that business within Nokia was doing more revenue or less, and what it's costs were.

If I were a former TrollTech employee, I would suggest taking a leaf out of Xamarin's book: http://gigaom.com/2011/12/12/xamarin-mono/
Thanks for the reply. I don't argue that it's not to spec, just that it seems not useful/a bit surprising.

Some other languages (e.g. perl and I think also java) choose to make the loop var an alias, rather than a copy, to allow mutation:

for my $item (@items) {
$item->frob; # Can happily mutate the item
}

will work as it reads.
Where were all these comments on the Craigslist/pad mapper situation? Is it any different?
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I must be missing something. When I think of connections, I think of synapses or gap junctions -- the coupling of one neuron to others through a signaling mechanism. Their tracers do the equivalent of segmentation of neurons, which doesn't give you the connections, just the morphology of neurons. You left out what seems to be a key part of their method -- use of retrograde tracers that are taken up by axon terminals. These retrograde tracers have to be injected into likely end points. Seems like its an interesting technique for mapping a limited number of connections but useless for producing a comprehensive connectome due to required injection density. Am I missing some aspect of this that allows generation of a connectome?

It's misleading to use the term "wiring diagram for entire mouse brain". An engineer wouldn't consider it a wiring diagram if you stripped out a majority of the contact descriptions and just said there's a wire here, here, and here.
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I only used the word "socialism" because the other commenter used it - in the original meaning of the word it doesn't exist anywhere in Europe.
What I meant is simply bad regulation. You are correct that some of the nordish countries have a more ,,left'' reputation and have things like high taxes, alot of redistribution etc... But if you look at the "Heritage Ranking of Economic Freedom" (http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking), you see:
- Denmark (Rank 11), Finland (17), Sweden (21)
- Spain(36), Portugal(68), Italy(92), Greece(119)
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Your fundamental premise is wrong (as an aside, fiat currency does pay dividend - it's called "interest").

Central Banks are meant to be independent of the government. Their mandates are:
(a) Acting as a lender of last resort to banks
(b) Controlling inflation/deflation through monetary policy
(c) (In some cases, like that of the Fed) ensure unemployment does not breach an "acceptable" level.

In almost no mandate, is it mentioned that the Central Bank has to monetize sovereign debt (T-Bills, Treasuries, Greek Debt, Spanish debt etc). The ECB isn't legally allowed to do so for very good reasons. Even the Fed doesn't do that - all its Treasury and MBS purchases are from the secondary market.

In fact, when the Spanish government directed $19B ECB funds to Bankia via injecting Spanish debt into the bank, it was a covert form of sovereign debt monetization - something the ECB objected to vehemently, but couldn't stop.

Even Germany could not pay its debt if investors demanded redemption at maturity

They always demand redemption at maturity - every single one - however, it occurs via a debt-rollover, ie issuing new debt to repay older debt.

What Europe needs is that the distortions in the balance-of-payments between countries should be fixed - the liabilities of the Eurozone aren't evenly distributed amongst countries with respect to their capability to service those liabilities (and that indeed is due to irresponsible fiscal behavior). Bu this can't be controlled by monetary policy alone - it requires closer fiscal integration (and agreeing upon things like retirement ages, pensions, insurance and a whole lot of other stuff).
Why do you need to retrain developers? I'm certain that I've never had any corporate training outside of what jokes not to make, places not to touch others, and things not to give to anonymous (yeah, seriously). I've never undergone technical training through a career that has gone through at least a few pretty big companies (Omron, Abbott, EADS).
>this great QT technology which they invested a lot

Sorry but only a few geeks care about QT, and other developers care about the ecosystem and go where the money is. I wrote some QT code about 10 years ago and it was good, but is it so great compared to iOS/ObjC, Android/Java and WinRT/C# that developers would just flock to it blindly? I seriously doubt it.
>Dismissing these issues and turning it around to ask why its excluding you (lets be honest here, this is exactly what you're doing)

No, it is excluding part of the problem.

But hey, if your approach is to teach women "don't get raped" rather than tell society "don't rape", be my guest.
What about a kid who was born in 1997 and who is now turning 15? They didn't get a chance to play by the same rules as you did.
> salvage it by spinning it back out into a separate business.

That's assuming a newly spun-out neo-Trolltech could be profitable again using the same business model as before, which isn't the case. Trolltech's business model was to sell Qt licenses to folks making closed-source software with it, who couldn't or wouldn't deal with the GPL-and-similar licensing of the open source version. This business model mostly died with the move to LGPL: There hardly any money left to be made selling Qt licenses now.

That leaves Qt-related consulting/development work, which companies like KDAB, basysKom, FrogLogic and others are doing.
Conversely a technology that is beneficial solely to the business presents the same situation. Your own productivity and motivation will be affected by the chosen technology, so working with something you hate with a passion isn't going to be that good for the business either.
I believe the data is deceptive. Growth is fine and dandy but if you look at this graph
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=clojure%2C+scala%2C+java&#...
Tells a wholly different story than this one:
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=clojure%2C+scala%2C+java&#...

Also didn't reddit switch from clojure/lisp-like language to python?
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I've noticed that socialism is definitely a pejorative term in the US - which dismays me as a socialist-leaning Canadian. It's like economic Godwin - call someone a socialist and effective discourse just kind of grinds to a halt.

It's the modern "communism", without invoking the spirit of McCarthy.
And for cryin' out loud, it's Qt. We few geeks care about that, too.
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I had discovered chart.io shortly after starting our venture, and found it extremely useful for building a dashboard for our apps usage (we didn't want to spend time and effort ourselves to build a beautiful internal dashboard, and we did not think the data we wanted to run it on was super-secret). We still use it.

When I discuss this with friends working with companies that have grown to worry about the competitive value of their data, they either struggle to build internal continuously changing dashboards, or invest in tools like Pentaho that require much investment.

But how and when do External Data Analytics or Dashboard tools win trust? Is their field of play mainly restricted to data that companies do not see as risky if leaked? Or do they gradually move up the ladder?
Then you don't understand the British ruling class of the time - everyone of them, judges, civil servants, politicians, army officers, would have had homosexual experiences at boarding school, not necessarily consentingly, but they were perfectly well used to homosexuals.

The problem as far as the establishment was concerned was that Turing had access to all the nation's secrets and he was inviting anyone home he fancied... That he was gay was just a pretext for what happened next.
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Fortunately we do celebrate his achievements. The Turing Award is handed out for contribution to the field, not for overcoming persecution.
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The balances are in BTC, so 100k BTC = $650k USD or so.

But I agree with your sentiment; a top 10 list on Forbes culminating in ~$2m isn't terribly impressive.
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Well, chemical castration is still used to "combat" paedophilia. I'm pretty sure the Ancient Greeks and Romans would find that repulsive.

Now, I'm a child of my time, so I think homosexuality is OK, and I think paedophilia is a crime. But were I a child of, say, the thirties or forties, where in my youth fascist regimes burned homosexuals by the thousands, what would I say? Would I have the empathy, or the courage to understand and express against the strong sentiment of society my understanding for the gay cause?

I also want to note that "chemical castration" is a harsh term, and I find the treatment to be an interesting, indeed even acceptable, alternative to just straight incarceration. In the face of a force society considers dangerous to itself, it is a good thing that we can use medication to combat it — and we still do when applicable, for example also with psychopaths and other severe mental illnesses. That homosexuality was viewed as dangerous to society back then is certainly sad, even terrible. But how will people fifty years hence look onto our debates about whether to allow people to marry? How will they look onto our treatment of socially not accepted sexual deviants. Social ousting, sex offenders list, incarceration, the eroding of free speech in the name of reducing just the chances of sexually "deviant" activity?

People back then did what they did because they thought it right. It is not what they did that we should find repulsive, because their methods are by and large the same we employ today when faced with similar value judgements. It is the why. Homosexuality is not a mental illness. We have finally learned this, and I hope it won't take more than the dying out of the current generation of politicians for society at large to accept this.

(I'm sorry to have drawn a parallel between homosexuality and paedophilia — I'm not meaning to suggest any similarity between the two on a biological or indeed conceptual level. I wanted to explain my view that the concept of homosexuality in the society of the 50s was indeed a similar one to the concept of paedophilia today.)
People use the word Socialism when they mean something like "perversion of incentives". We perceive that Socialism incentivizes bad choices, like having more children than you could afford without government benefits, or making investments that appear less risky because you assume a government bailout will protect you.

As you point out, the nordic countries show that perverse incentives don't necessarily follow from Socialism. And indeed, America has its own non-Socialist perverse incentives such as encouraging pollution by not enforcing payment of the environmental externalities.

But all things considered globally, more socialism does tend to imply more perverse incentives.
Okay, Qt it is!

I care about QNX too, it's such a cool RTOS.

But what can it do for RIM that can't be done by Darwin, Linux kernel or the NT kernel? As I said, us geeks by our very nature get excited by the things that the users don't, unless they can see a difference in usage.
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Anyone who takes that blog as anything except entertainment needs to take a good look at the realities of the mobile market.

Go back and read his blog in 2008-2009 where he conclusively proved every time he wrote that Nokia phones were much better than the iPhone and Android, and that no one really wanted a touchscreen device anyway.
Let me guess your young and your pathetic education taught you very little, and your sheltered life made you think everything would be handed you on a silver platter.

Instead of whining, you either need to offer large sums of cash to CL, or some deal. CL does not owe you a living.
Your crappy little app is just skimming the cream off the top of CL's infrastructure and you expect CL to give you a free ride? Not going to happen. You are simply lucky you got away with it as long as you did.
I would wager that Qt's chances of survival are greater than Nokia's. With Nokia's current Microsoftian strategy, the earlier they part ways, the better for Qt.
It is not supported at the moment. However it could be added down the line.
This also amazes me too. The US has neither a working, efficient health care nor education system, but blames others for "socialism"?
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Why defend Elop? He is a big reason Nokia is failing.
They could have had something great with Meego. The N9 was selling well even though Elop was trying to destroy it. Why else would he fail to disclose sales of the N9?
The N9 may have outsold the Lumias in Q4 last year even with this lack of support.
I can't understand how anyone can defend a CEO who takes a company with a few mature operating systems and goes to his old employers company and uses their juvenile product instead? What the fuck, people?
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>>> 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.

This statement doesn't seem correct to me. Nokia has a vast amount of research on mobile UX, even from before Apple joined the play, probably as no one other company. As a (stellar) example, check out Jan Chipchase's work (http://janchipchase.com/) with a ton of in-loco research on mobile phone usage, and many research papers presented - with a particular focus on the non-developed world.

In my opinion Nokia suffered from big-company chronic slowness: the current cash-cow was still providing the income, hence all future investment was unfocused, under-funded.

PS: A nice question is still how much/if any of the investment of Nokia in the undeveloped world will still be able to bring some returns. Windows Phone completely eschews that...
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Just read the entire thread, got to be one of the most sock-puppet, straw-manned, astro-turfed, meat-puppeted mess of self serving wanna be entreprenuer whining ever.

CL is successful, get over it.
You missed my point: I'm not saying that from today we have 100+ years to solve the problem, but that once the problem is solved, a given human being biological body will only be a transition.
Haters gon' hate. I personally would love to see Microsoft bring out a standard branded tablet to serve as a baseline. Their partners should be able to step their game up with their own tablets that may have support for things like 4G radios and the like.
While all this raises some interesting questions, the assertion that he had born a hormonal treatment robbing him of his sexual desires, and playing havoc with his body’s hormone balance “with good humour” seems ludicrous. In fact, the treatment was more likely a serious burden, both physically and emotionally. And if Turing acted cheerful in spite of that this suggests he was hiding his real emotions under a mask.
The doodle was surprisingly enjoyable. I would love for an iphone or ipad version. Sudoku for programmers.
What's unchecked about this? Have appellate courts suddenly disappeared?
Play the argument, not the man.
And, this case is singular in that not only do they depend on the API, they are also in direct competition with the provider of the API. It's risk^2.
Thanks!

Does the support of devices (e.g. different chips) affect the choice of which one to use?
I agree with much of what you said though I do think there are a small handful of sites and channels (such as PBS) which is interested in original journalism. Sites that concentrate on news regurgitation won't last in the long run because the quality is inferior.

The main issue for the NYT for me is the pricing model and a lack of creativity when it comes to their mobile applications.

The price for subscriptions (for Internet, phone and tablet) is three times higher than it should be. The goal of the NYT should be to get the paper in as many hands as possible and start from there. People will always pay for quality when it's reasonable.

Secondly, the mobile applications are seriously lacking in design and functionality. I'm willing to place good money that many of their paying customers in the future will be access their content from here instead of the site. If it was up to me, I would be looking for the next Mike McCue (Flipboard) or Mike Matas (Push Pop Press/Facebook) and put them completely in control of design.
Why is europes situation different than individual states in the us? They all issue debt in a currency they can't create and they generally do fine.

Why can't we think of eu members like states of a larger country?
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These whiners think if they whine loud enough and spam the interwebs with it, they will get their way.

Note to whiners, please hold your breath.
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PaaS hasn't lost - it's just a smaller market than IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), and it will take longer to become mature.

IaaS is immediately useful to anyone who needs a Linux box. PaaS needs longer lead times for people to adapt to a new platform.

Amazon's approach to the PaaS market is probably a lot better than Google's.

Google went: here's a new set of APIs, write custom apps to use them.

Amazon let you host standard LAMP apps, and then slowly started offering parts of the stack as a service (oh, you need a database? Here, use our managed one. You need search? We have that. Load balancing? Just use ours, it's easier than doing it yourself.)
I think elastic load balancing is widely adopted.
Your analysis of UX data is a bit of a "true scotsman," i.e what matters is the exact sort of data Nokia has. Given that this data is based on "five button" interaction with a small screen, it's hard to see that as critical in a world of "large" touchscreen devices.
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"unrepentantly boyish" is OK in certain places. Like, a boys' school, or a strip club or something. Our society has decided that work should not be one of those places, and we've enshrined that in law.
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Not every malware, but does, for instance, the NSA run Microsoft signed binaries or are they able to sign their own? If they have valid signing keys, how much can you trust they (and other agencies) will always use those keys for your own good (and that you'll agree it's for your own good) when they use them.
Or it was only $200 when the put it in.
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Lots of companies missing there. I hope this stuff gets updated when the new site is up.
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That only works inside a country. If everyone else refused to accept some country's currency they'd be screwed anyway, "legal tender" or not.