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I'm wondering what kind of institutional respect for IP and spirit of innovation would lead Samsung to whip up this UI?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxYZXjXozc

Sure, one can argue that Samsung and Apple both look to a common ancestor for their ideas, but I think Samsung is more insidious than people are willing to admit here.
I'm not sure if that was true. Either way, there was money to be made on the Microsoft platform and even though I didn't like Microsoft and their practices myself, I did develop .NET software for a year of 3. At home I just used my preferred OS (Mac OS X) but a man has to make a living.
You're right, it's going to tarnish their reputation. But I still find it hard to believe that you'd put aside product quality and preferences because of this. In a couple month's time you'll forget most of the case (and eventually the Galaxy Nexus will come to market anyway). In a year's time you'll be comparing products on technical merits alone. I can't say what your next purchase will be, but I'll bet it will be less affected by this emotional response than you expect.
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How did you develop it? Looks fairly simple, but the idea is clever.

Did you use native language or any tool like Phonegap?
To be honest, this looks a lot like an iPhone button which would look ugly in Android. Especially in combination with default textboxes, switches, etc.

Android apps should a) use the default style b) use default style mixed with moderately customized default elements (different color etc.) c) use custom elements for everything using a style that doesn't look ugly on Android (ie no iPhone-like shiny buttons).
Very very true.

However, if the optimization for apps is based on usage, reviews, downloads, etc, then having a good experience is consistent with having good rankings.

Not so much with SEO where things like engagement and usage data don't factor much into rankings since it's not reliable
If you are accusing her of bribery, that is a very serious allegation.

Imagine if such a thing happens and is eventually exposed. What a scandal would it be. I don't think any large company, let alone Apple, would want to be involved in any such mess.
I'm all in favor of taxing everything similarly.

If a person makes $1000 pre-tax on a $100 investment, we should tax the $900 in a single chunk. The tax rate should probably be the same as the individual income tax rate, and it should be the same regardless of whether it is long or short term capital gains, dividends, interest or royalties.

My objection is to breaking the tax up into pieces X+Y, and then acting as if the investor only paid Y. That's just a way of complicating the tax system and pretending investors pay less than they really do.
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I don't know if Panic had any patents regarding this.

The patent system doesn't really benefit the small developer. I was listening to Build & Analyze and Marco Arment was asked if he would patent features of Instapaper and he essentially said that it is more pain than it's worth. They don't have time time and money required to enforce it.
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The Galaxy Nexus doesn't use / have that.
It's cool to know how this works, I've been trying to repair a couple of senhaisher plug headPhones+mic for the Iphone (they broke at the jack) and I couldn't make them work. I am courrently able to use them to listenimg only. The mic and the controls are not working. And I tried all the combinations at the jack...(well maybe not all or it would be working perfectly).

I tried to find some diagrams but was unable. Maybe this will help me.
I'm not saying it does. I'm saying Samsung has no shame in copying this closely.
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It is completely reasonable to investigate bribery where there is a perceived unreasonable decision and a heavy financial motive.

Individuals working at large companies do bribe people in a variety of situations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/business/wal-mart-bribery-...
Almost nothing, except in-memory processing, requires 64-bit for dealing with files over 2GB. Piping with utilities is the Unix way, and it works well with files of any size in Cygwin.

Cygwin commands that run slower than Windows counterparts are typically those that are syscall heavy, where those syscalls are significantly different on Windows and need lots of work for emulation. The biggie is fork(); it's better by far to write scripts etc. in such a way that they stream results rather than iterate and create new processes.

So, for example, rather than write a script that converts Unix paths to Windows paths with iterated calls to cygpath -w, instead pipe the paths to cygpath -w -f -. Rather than use pipe-to-sed (like "$(echo $foo | sed 's|bar|baz|')") for ad-hoc edits, try to use shell substitutions instead (like "${foo/bar/baz}").

Another thing that can be slower in Cygwin is find, when run over very large directory trees. I wrote a wrapper script (I call it rdir) that runs "cmd.exe /c dir /b" and massages the output into a Cygwin-style format. I also have the same script written in terms of find, so that my scripts that use it work on Windows, Solaris, Linux and OS X.

But I have to say, the biggest limiting factor in me solving ad-hoc problems is composing the tools available, rather than the actual runtime speed of the tools themselves. Having all the Unix tools available makes my life far easier in this respect. They could be even slower, and I wouldn't mind, because I would still be saving lots of time compared to what Windows provides; and my scripts usually also work on all my other systems running different OSes.

PowerShell doesn't even support simple fork-join like bash does trivially:

for x in {1..10}; do (sleep $x; echo $x) & done; wait

I use this idiom a lot when dealing with lots of multi-gigabyte files. PowerShell is mostly useful to me when I need to access Windows-specific stuff that Cygwin doesn't do well, like WMI.
I'm not sure what that has to do with the most recent injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The judge issued the injunction on the strength of U.S. Patent 8,086,604, which "provides convenient access to items of information that are related to various descriptors input by a user, by means of a unitary interface which is capable of accessing information in a variety of locations, through a number of different techniques". The infringing technology is specifically called out as Android's Quick Search Box, which has been present for years.

The Apple patent in question is obvious on its face. Off the top of my head, Google Desktop Search, which was released a month or so before Apple filed for the patent, is prior art. Nat Friedman's Dashboard project (http://nat.org/dashboard/) represents significantly more advanced prior art and predates Apple's patent filing by over a year.

Samsung may be insidious, but that's not the issue at play here. The judge ruled that Google's Quick Search Box violates an Apple patent that should never have been issued, and represents a toe hold to go after Android as a whole. This is a farce.
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That is clearly untrue. When Apple wanted to make a phone they made their ecosystem a jail cell.

When Google was in the same position and wanted to make a phone, they started the Open Handset Alliance, and developed free software for manufactures and consumers to use and modify as they see fit.

How exactly is that doing the same thing?
I'm curious if Google's new thing has the capability to carry on a conversation. With Siri I can ask her something, see it, then say "email that to ___" and she can do it.
Cygwin doesn't rot. It doesn't automatically update, and nor does it self-configure, so there's nothing to cause the rot. I've never had problems like you describe.

The biggest problem - and what I suspect is happening to you - is when you have third-party programs and utilities that interfere with Cygwin, most often by putting an older or newer version of cygwin1.dll on the $PATH (i.e. you may be using Cygwin as part of some other program and not be aware of it). Cygwin uses shared memory; multiple versions of cygwin1.dll disagree on the format of this shared memory, and things go pear-shaped pretty quickly from there.

Also some antivirus programs can trip up Cygwin; in its emulation, it sometimes has cause to open, close then open files in quick succession, but AV programs sometimes analyse files when they are opened by programs, and cause bogus timing-dependent sharing errors.
as a .NET developer who sits in both Linux and Microsoft worlds, but primarily in Microsoft technologies, I must say that PowerShell is a very useful and amazing addition to Windows. I did have to learn it, but once I did, I love it.
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So a VM on G's Compute Engine could in turn run an NTP server that exported G's Production Time? Do I also see GPT on App Engine?

Any chance Google could just make a GPT NTP server available as a public service anyway, just as 8.8.8.8 is their public ping responder. ;-)
The following quote burns me everytime I see it or it's ilk on blogs:

"What matters is the data and keeping it safe, but the cloud is already handling that chore for many of us, making the hardware more or less disposable."

No the cloud is not handling that chore for most or many people. What it's handling is the data we always wanted to have, but are willing to lose. IOW, that snapshot that I probably wouldn't have taken the time to DL from my phone, but am more than willing to post with Instagram.

When the cloud allows me to store my 4TB of photos and videos and other creative work for a price that is competitive with a HD, and at an upload and download speed where I can use the data where it is (rather than spend a week uploading and pre-downloading a large file), THEN I will agree the cloud is at a point where I could use it instead of a PC with storage.
Manipulation isn't a zero sum game, you can both win. Spouces manipulate each other concurrently all the time.
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Doubtful a net benefit. Those come at tremendous cost to the public, like years of extra work per person. We haven't even paid for the Vietnam War yet, and the interest is compounding on that. We're quickly approaching half of every tax dollar spent on interest. Add space exploration, it could reach 90%.
I am genuinely confused by this. Definitely, the original Galaxy S could be mistaken for an iPhone 3GS. And the SGSII was black and rectangular with a similar speaker grill so I suppose there are some similarities (though I don't think anyone who can recognise that not all touch screen phones are iPhones will confuse the two), but seriously, the Galaxy Nexus looks nothing at all like any iPhone. It runs stock Android, not Touchwiz, which, again, could not be confused with iOS by anyone with any knowledge about smartphones.
> Almost nothing, except in-memory processing, requires 64-bit for dealing with files over 2GB. Piping with utilities is the Unix way, and it works well with files of any size in Cygwin.

Even ls, or wc -c report bogus results with >2GB files. less does not work even if I want to look at just the first few hundreds of lines (and "head -n 1000 | less" is a horrible workaround).

> Cygwin commands that run slower than Windows counterparts are typically those that are syscall heavy

Most unix commands are syscall/filesystem/IO heavy, after all they are file utilities. What you say with find is exactly what I'm talking about. I find that the unix tools ported to Win32 and compiled with mingw are significantly faster.
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Is there any way to disable this?
Not if you make a comment like "iSuck, but I think I am better that everyone" on r/technology. I wish your description were true everywhere.
Well, that's not space exploration. For example we knew about the benefit of satellites before we spent a dime to achieve orbit; there was no exploration required.
its definitely point two where I am completely blank,
but I feel this is a bit too much of a (prerequisite) barrier, for an introductory course!
Since you're already using puppet, which is great at keeping existing instances up to date with config changes (it's almost the whole point), wouldn't it be better for your CI to create those AMIs asynchronously when you deploy, but not actually use them unless you (or autoscale) are launching new instances? Just use puppet to deploy config changes as usual, then have the AMIs at the ready, rather than immediately recycling your instances with the new AMIs. This should be much faster (and more loosely decoupled from AWS).
No. Machine transcription requires strong AI to be really good. As you saw in my example with the Kelis song, it isn't enough to just transcribe the input syllable by syllable. You need the software to be able to "understand" that I'm requesting a song, and that "play a capella" makes no sense, and adjust the transcription to tale into account that the artist Kelis has a song with the name "Acapella".

There are thousands of cases like this, where natural language is amibigous, but a human has no trouble understanding the intention.

Siri has tons of databases avsilable and knows my taste in music. It should do a better job than a human understanding what song i want.
Why? I'm not doing space exploration as it is.
I don't feel that this lawsuit is specifically over the four patents in question and only the four patents in question. It's punishment (in the game theoretical sense) for Samsung's institutional attitude. Obviously the discourse here has taken on import beyond the purely legal realities and into a more moral conversation about right and wrong. Morally speaking, I feel that many of Samsung's design decisions are wrong. This isn't to say that Apple is totally clean either, but it bears mentioning that the "victim" here has no problem with seeing how much copying it can get away with, and I see no problem with its getting punished for it once in a while.
Okay. Let me qualify my point. I find it hard to believe such a high profile bribery can happen in the US (the article you have posted is a case of bribery by an American company in Mexico). And given Apple's profile and a lot of entities already pursuing their case (ex: NYT's iEconomy series), they would never do such a big blunder.
What is the phone/design/patent in question? Is it just the Galaxy Nexus? It doesn't look like an iPhone, is it some internal component?
Can you elaborate on how you use EC2 tags? The only thin we use them for is to mark a new instance as bootstrapped once puppet finishes.

It also sounds like you could pretty easily make your AMI creation step a job in your CI software.
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I'd say there should be no harm done to the environment that isn't a net benefit to the public to compensate. If private companies want to recompense the public in full for each 25000 gallons of kerosene burned in the atmosphere (perhaps times thousands of rockets), I'm fine with that. But that's unlikely to happen. It'll just become another public cost instead, to make rich people richer, so I'm against it.
If you used puppet (or chef etc) instead of fabric for config, you could have the best of both worlds - it should be much faster to run puppet on existing instances to keep them up to date, rather than failover all your instances to new AMIs every time. But by still creating those AMIs, you'll have them ready when you need to launch additional instances.
> People simply understand what Siri is after seeing someone else use it for a few seconds.

Well, they understan what it should be, but it is so far from reaching that goal it's ridiculous.

Remember the introduction of Siri? It was presented as your personal assistant, understanding your commands and making sense of everyday speech.

So far from the truth.
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You and I both. If you haven't already seen it there's a book, (Predictably Irrational, IIRC) that gives some scientific studies on why certain manipulations work. You might enjoy that, I did :)
I love PowerShell dearly, and I miss it on Unix systems, but what this is trying to fix, and what still stinks at the moment, is the command-line editing situation in Console, which has nothing to do with PowerShell v. Bash v. cmd.exe.
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Nice post. :)

I tend to find writing (or explaining) for other people and doing it for yourself blend. A lot.

The old adage that you don't truly understand something unless you can explain it to someone else holds particularly true with tech writing. When I'm writing to communicate something to someone else, I'm also helping myself understand the topic better. It's win-win.
Apple has one (1) datacenter in the entire world, and it's in the USA. How good do you think the latency from Holland will be? Google has datacenters in Groningen and Eemshaven, and all over Europe.
Comments like that usually come after a long, dumb tree that started out with good intentions. It happens on HN too. The difference is that I can collapse those threads on Reddit, or hide the story completely.