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By that argument, you could also just build one extremely powerful tower and cover a vast region. But that would support far less data, because everyone in the region would be waiting for a turn to broadcast at the same frequency.

This is why cellular phones are called cellular phones. The key enabling technology was the ability to divide a large geographic area into many smaller cells. Each cell needs to use different frequencies than its neighboring cells, but you can reuse the same frequencies many times across the wider region.

The smaller you make the cells, the more data you can pack into the same set of frequencies, because non-neighboring cells can be using the same frequency concurrently.
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Seems like they are having connectivity issues? Anyone else confirm?
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This article seems to be a bit of a moan. Is it really so bad that some people will have to download and install some software to update their Android phone? Won't someone think of the WP7 users?

I appreciate that the software may suck, but here's the thing: If you install it, update the droid and uninstall it cleanly you should be fine.

Protip: Do it from a VM if you can, then roll back/blat the VM.
To be fair, most people who do that go overboard and make it too difficult to cancel and that just means an extreemly angry customer who feels violated.

And you don't want that, because they lead to chargebacks.
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There is, however, a cost in searching for WiFi networks every time you want to make a connection.

I imagine it becomes most apparent if your device is polling for email. On every interval it needs to wake up, turn on WiFi, look for any available networks, discover there are none and then finally revert to the cellular network. With WiFi disabled, it can go straight to cell.

The iPhones were famously bad for this in the early days, though they seem to improve later on; either through a hardware or software update, I'm not sure which.
What I think I would personally do wouldn't be too different. However, I think making statements like "It's the only decent thing to do for yourself and the others around you." is awfully harsh and judging to people who are actually in the situation. It seems to imply that they are somehow selfish by not ending their lives. Its important to remember that they are in the situation and you are not and therefore they have an understanding of their choices that you do not.

Anyway, its also relevant that most life insurance has a suicide clause.
I've thought about making desktop apps with web-technologies, but then I stop and think, "Why?"

Why not just make it available to everyone via the web, instead of making an OS-specific version for a subset of your biggest possible audience?
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Yes. I was on a call with a couple of the twitter devs around this time. They were running on 30 odd instances at joyent. So while they were decent size, they were nothing like they are now.

Mongrel was always pretty solid actually. It was originally developed for verisign as I recall, and even in its early versions stuck much more closely to the http specs than other webservers.

It caught a lot of flack because of application code blasting out the ruby heap by touching too many objects. Mongrel isn't really to blame for that. With early versions of ActiveRecord it was easy to materialize large result sets without realizing it. A lot of people felt the pain of using associations everywhere without thinking about what would happen when the joins would go north of 10k objects. Not really mongrel's fault.
This is exactly correct. Information content in headlines is important, and clearly the moderator is incompetent at this role. You have to tell people why they should care, and the target page title probably is NOT good at that. In 99% of cases, the target page title will be a bad title on HN.

If the moderator disliked the direct appeal for aid in the original headline (I speculate, since he has not deigned to defend his editing), a proper title would be something along the lines of "Drupal developer has ALS, appeals for help". If Winborn is better known, you could go with "Drupal developer Winborn has ALS, appeals for help". If he's very widely known, you can assume most readers know who he is and go with "Aaron Winborn has ALS, appeals for help".

This conveys all the information needed for readers to evaluate the link, without being a direct emotional appeal.

I'd be happy to give the HN moderators a class in editing if they like. Editing is a learnable skill. Or, more likely, the HN moderators can continue fucking it up.
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Great idea, and well presented. For those new-year's resolution type of folk, being in the habit of keeping track of your daily accomplishments goes a long way towards helping you fulfill your personal goals.

If you have success with this, I'm sure people would be excited to see updates that let one track units other than time and 'ones', such as calories and distance travelled.
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Interesting, the article slams it for fit and finish (manufacturing issues) rather than functional issues. I suspect this will be the biggest thing people learn using kickstarter, manufacturing is not straightforward as one might hope.
Is there a good English wordlist with common words, for free download?
We are doing entity extraction for documents specific to a domain. Unfortunately our domain specific index contains many common English words, and we would like to take them out or weigh them much lower.

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And it should go without saying that all of that now-unnecessary NAT hardware tends to provide firewalls and other security measures that will no longer be a protective gateway.

It shouldn't go without saying, because it's not true. When using IPv6, you will still have some kind of box that sits between your home network and your ISP, it's just that rather than a Router/Firewall/NAT device, it will just be a Router/Firewall. Users will not notice any difference, and will not face any increased risk.
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The article is about the source release. Those are the links for image downloads. Here's the info the article is actually talking about:

http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html

Though the page hasn't been updated to the JB release. You'll need to grab the android_4.1.1_r1 branch.
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Emacs user here, Lisper, and Android developer.

Don't fight it: learn Eclipse+ADT and Java, and yeah Emacs M-. is F4 in Eclipse ;-)
I'm pretty sure they switched their stance on "too much" termination.

Also, I believe while on a call you can transfer off of wifi, but not on to it.
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> Just to be clear, any password-related data or personal information you've sent in Droplr has been over HTTPS.

Unless there was personal information in a file I shared using Droplr.

I'm not the person who raised this issue on your support site. I'd never even heard of Droplr until somebody shared this link with me for a laugh. While the title of my submission might not reflect it, I find the lack of comprehension and dismissive attitude of your customer service representative more off-putting than the original security flaw. He closed the ticket multiple times claiming that "the whole Droplr platform runs on HTTPS," when that clearly wasn't the case. Glyph was remarkably patient in re-opening and re-explaining the issue until the rep finally seemed to realize why he was wrong, whereupon the answer changed from "this isn't an issue, we already support the feature you're requesting" to "we're already aware of this issue but it's not a big deal," without even an acknowledgment that he'd so fundamentally misunderstood the request, let alone an apology for blowing him off repeatedly.
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>Well he said a picocell which is around an order of magnitude greater range [than a WiFi access point].

Ahh, yea, this is the key point. For those who aren't in the know: "A picocell is a small cellular basestation typically covering a small area, such as in-building (offices, shopping malls, train stations, stock exchanges, etc.), or more recently in-aircraft. In cellular networks, picocells are typically used to extend coverage to indoor areas where outdoor signals do not reach well, or to add network capacity in areas with very dense phone usage, such as train stations. Picocells provide coverage and capacity in areas difficult or expensive to reach using the more traditional Macrocell approach." [wikipedia]

> I am not sure that range is the most important thing as towers become more and more congested I am pretty sure we are moving to smaller and smaller ranges.

Not where I live in New Mexico :)
<Braces for the piling on by Europeans about how inferior our vacations are>

That's partially because us Europeans can't really understand how you can get by with little to no holidays. It'd be like an American talking to a Soviet person (back in the day) and being suprised that they were OK with no voting and secret police.
Yes, you're right. The article also mentions ROMs and such near the bottom, which is why I posted the links to the images.
Businesses can't use the word "olympic" because of congress
I see. So this argument is really only directed at urban areas where there is already total coverage but the bandwidth per user is limited because of congestion.
As the article mentions, the carriers are focused on cellular because that's what they control and can get people to pay $30-80 / month to use their cellular data plans. The carriers' worst nightmare would be if more cities provided quality wifi everywhere. Few would pay for data plans anymore, and maybe not even voice plans either.
In my humble (user) opinion, cancelation flow is extremely crucial for your image. I cannot begin to tell you how infuriating the Facebook cancellation process was.

If you've never been through it, here's what it boils down to:

- "Cancel my account" link was hidden and relatively hard to find. (I guess this one's normal)

- You have to give a reason why you're quitting, out of a major radio-button list that felt more like a survey.

- No matter which choice you pick, you get some bogus argumentation on why you shouldn't close your account. I bet some manager in the company is so happy about how much this would reduce the number of possible cancelations. I'm sure she even has some bogus data to back her claims up. To me, it felt like an uber annoying phone sales representative who won't let you hang up the phone even though you're clearly not interested in the product.

- If you pick the field 'Other', you have to fill the text field explaining why.

- After all this, you have to enter your password and/or read a captcha (I don't remember exactly)

- It ends with Facebook telling you that your data is still there, ready and waiting for when you'll be back. I don't remember the exact wording, but to me, it came off as extremely smug.

My point is, canceling has to be easy. It has to be so seamless I could do it in a few seconds. It's a matter of respect. I felt that Facebook didn't care about making me hop through their hoops. Their final message, that I'll be back, added to the insult.

It's a great thing to survey cancelling customers, and yes, you could probably learn a lot and mayve save a few of them. But for the love of God, let your surveys be as non-intrusive as can be.
It criticizes both aspects, although it spends less time on the functional issues, presumably because it really doesn't do that much. Here's the paragraph dedicated to the problem with the functionality:

'One benefit touted by the Touchfire creators is that you can rest your fingers on the keyboard without accidentally producing a string of nonsense. The problem with that statement is that it’s not true. Especially when typing on an angle, my resting fingers easily made it through the thin plastic layer to create fun words like “eoran” and “nadskj”.'

It also says that it's "pretty gratifying" to type with, so it seems to be a mixed bag, functionality-wise.
Well, if you are self-employed, you can't unplug. That much is true.

But if you are in a business with others who can cover for you it's good practice in case tragedy strikes.

If the business can't survive without each member, that's a heck of a lot of risk. It's better to have someone else in the business able to resolve those emergencies than have no idea what to do when you fall off a building or get hit by a bus.

And if you are the CEO, think of that as training time for the the next guy.
I am not saying whats wrong or right, but I know my friends back in Europe think its crazy to work such a long time.

I'm willing to say it. That's wrong.
Shouldn't books have github/bitbucket/etc repositories? With readme documents, etc? Hook ups to PivotalTracker with commits published to the github page or marketing site, or pushed to Twitter via IFTTT?
Well, it kind of nailed on the resting fingers angle which would be a big draw for touch typists who are used to resting on the 'home' keys.
Agreed, and some great points. We kept that in mind when building the new flow. You can still cancel in a few clicks and without having to type anything.
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It counts for more than doing nothing.
Thanks. I will be adding optional reminders which will require an email address, but it will always be optional :) and not on by default.
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1) You implied "unfair" by opining on what they would have to do to be "fair"; and you said something less vague than "unfair", you said "unfairly" targeted at low-level languages. If you don't mean to say they are "unfair" then your words are going to confuse ;-)

3) GP? Your opining about "selecting the problems" doesn't support the claim "targeted at low-level languages" anymore than it supports the claim targeted at high-level languages :-)

As you noted the important thing to remember is that timing measurements are not promises, and they aren't general answers to the question - Will my program be faster if I write it in language X?
And yet for all the supposed strength of the Japanese work-ethic, they've been in their two Lost Decades for basically as long as I've been alive.
Hm...don't know if I was the only one, but I thought this topic was going to be about the broader consumption of 'entertainingly educational' information (think Vi Hart vs. StumbleUpon or Khan Academy vs. TED Talks). While some are just information there is a growing glut of edifying and consumable information. I guess I'll have to write something on this topic to satisfy my own reading interest.
That was a really enjoyable story about the process danielna. I don't have to know the first thing about your app to have learned something. Much better than barfing out "Here is my project vote for me."

So now I will check out your project and vote for it if it is the best ;)
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I think you went through Facebook's deactivation process, which is meant to be a temporary break from using facebook. To actually permanently delete your account so you can never log in again you have to go to https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
The model is simple and easy to replicate, so it makes sense that it's being cloned.

I personally know of 2 TaskRabbit clones that are in development here in Toronto..
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It's also interesting to note that Elena Mizulina, one of the people behind the bill, called Wikipedia "pedophile lobbyists" after they went blank to attract attention to this bill.

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I always find it a bit insulting when a company tries to offer me a discount to stay; like I wasn't good enough to qualify for a discount when I was a loyal customer.

This seems a lot like the situation where an employee threatens to leave and the company offers more money to keep them for which I almost always give the advice: "just say no".

I guess if price is really the only thing making someone leave, then lowering the price might make a difference but price and value are intrinsically linked: if they thought the price was too high, then they considered the value to be too low and it's probably just a matter of time before they decide to leave anyway.
I imagine that once you were famous, you would be paid a lot more to sign up.

For example I doubt R.R Martin has any problems getting a great deal, if he ever wants another publisher for a new series after he is done with game of thrones.
Because:

1) Native apps are more responsive than generic web apps(?)

2) Distribution is easier/monetizable

3) You get OS-specific interface elements for free

4) In this specific case, there is no other way to run HTML5 apps in the Metro UI on Windows RT (Win8 for ARM)
Kay and Ingalls et al. had a very specific vision for personal computing as liberating, and the keys to that vision were full access, full comprehensibility and making no distinction between users and programmers. The market has clearly shown that people would rather not have full access, don't care about comprehending the system and desperately want a firmly regimented distinction between users and programmers.

For me personally, the thought of giving up entirely on this vision is repugnant and it's important, even if such systems aren't going to make a grand reappearance anytime soon, to at least make sure that people who care about computing know that they once were. I see that reminding as Kay's primary role. I'm not switching to Pharo for my day-to-day work (in my defense I did try) but I find the philosophy appealing and don't see a compelling philosophical disproof. So it seems to me it could re-emerge someday, and a world built on these ideas will have different tradeoffs, and may be preferable.
I posted another sad story about a felow developer earlier today. This guy was going in for a double amputation today.

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It's easy to say but I'm going to really try and keep a sense of perspective the next time I'm complaining about something.
But people might be able to create a wifi alternative without them. E.g. projects that blanket a city with wifi or that share people's routers with others in a secure manner. Then the carriers will be cut out of the picture.
But I think it's pretty lazy writing when they just seem to have to mention "Apple groupies". I think there are a lot more than just cult members, fanboys and groupies when you're talking about Apple mobile devices.

Sad to see a Kickstarter fail so much. Though people have to take it with a grain of salt with a concept product made by first timers. It seems like no matter the quality you're going to pay a markup on retail (assuming that the products reach retail after the Kickstarter).
You're missing the point. I would like it if they just paid me an extra $7500 a year as well. Then I would end up taking a 7-day working vacation. I know it's not good for me, but I do it anyways. I sure as hell wouldn't spend $7500 on vacation (that's over double what I've ever spent for my wife and I).

By forcing me to only get the money if I use it for vacation, I will have a better time, and I will relax more, both of which will improve my stress levels, etc. Also, the fact that they are pushing this into their culture shows that they truly value some sense of work/life balance, which is a big turn on for a company. So many companies say they want work/life balance, then you see that working <60hr weeks is seen as not pulling your weight.
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Wikipedia has all of this information, with more definite articles.
Cultural pressure is certainly a plausible explanation, but so is the fact that the offering of unlimited time off simply correlates with employees who like their jobs.
If you need someone in that part of the world, it seems like you're best off going to Singapore. Better English, more educated, more business friendly...the list goes on and on. The good Filipinos will have gone there, as you said.
"all but X" is an English expression meaning "almost X" or "pretty much X". "The work is all but done" = "The work is almost done". I know, it confused me too when I was younger.

"anything but X" is the opposite. It means "absolutely not X".
Yeah. I don't see any reason why somebody would ever want to get a tweet sent out to 90k+ dedicated gamers. I just can't seem to come up with a case where that would be a really great use of $500...
Ask HN: Is it a bad thing to go around a recruiter?
A few months ago I recieved a connection request on LinkedIn from the CEO of a small startup in CA. I thought nothing of it other than checking out their product (which I found to be a good idea and well executed).

Fast forward to yesterday and I recieved an e-mail from a recruiter working with the startup, saying the CEO is interested in talking to me.

The company is well funded and after reviewing the employees on LinkedIn they seem like the talented bunch of people I'd like to surround myself with.

My question is whether I should reply to the recruiter or reach out to the CEO directly?

This is a job I'm definitely interested in pursueing and I want to make sure I'm going about this the right way.
You missed this part at the end of my post:

Sure, it's definitely not slavery, but it sure seems
highly exploitative

Also:

The salaryman can quit. A slave couldn't.

If the problem is endemic to the culture, then quitting one job just to take another offers no real change in situation.

To run with the slave analogy, it would be like a slave being able to choose their master, but all masters beat/rape their slaves.