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I know it's not the best of 'business books' but "The 4 Hour Work Week" has a great section on doing just this - I found it really useful in thinking about the very start of a MVP.
Be fair and link to the review:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Kindle-Fire-Teardown/7099/2#s...

Main positives are for ability to remove the back side and use of Phillips screws: big pluses. However, primary iPad issues: glued on front glass, RAM, persistent storage: all true for Kindle as well.
Several models of seismic digitizer from a certain manufacturer can be configured by Palm OS devices through their RS-232 connectors. When we received several such digitizers and a Sony CLIÉ, I was surprised to find I still remembered almost all of the Graffiti characters/strokes, despite having not touched my Palm IIIxe in almost a decade.
Funny

I (usually) don't have a problem with Make, I think it's a good tool for what it does (basically, a DAG solver)

For all means use make with hand-made files.

Now, autotools/automake are a different (bad) story

The alternatives posted here are very interesting
This is a good example of why software patents are ridiculous. Graffiti is perfectly useful technology - it would be wonderful to have Graffiti on the iPad, in my opinion.

But alas, it cannot be done, because: patents and 'intellectual property'.
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It seems that one doesn't have much of a social network without the "friend discovery" and "stalking" aspects that this paper ignores. While e-mail based clients for private exchange of personal data among friends would certainly be welcome, it wouldn't quite serve the same role as facebook.
I didn't downvote you, but I'm skeptical of the claim. They're both hand-held devices. I don't generally hold my Galaxy Nexus closer to my face than my iPad.
There is a truckload of apps that are iOS only. iA writer, paper, penultimate, infinity blade, just off the top of my head. Great quality apps abound, and usually their iPad versions make great use of the screen real estate, instead of just rescaling the interface.

Lots of others have started on iOS and were only released for Android much later (Flipboard, Angry Birds, Instagram).
I dunno, soldering and "easy to unbrick" seem like opposites to me :)
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I have experience suggesting that to learn programming, you write programs. The hard way, how Zed Shaw calls it.

And when you have enough experience in writing programs with limited success, now you are ready for some theory. You know already to separate bullshit from useful things, for one.

When you never wrote any programs, you would not be able to do that separation, which is bad for you.
Is the source code available for download somewhere?

(20 years ago or so, the computer lab in the Swedish jr high school I was attending was filled with Microbees for some odd reason. The memories...)
I wonder what % of HN readers are totally confused by this? 50%? 75%?
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You beat me to thinking of the idea and not doing it first! I had only been thinking about this for the prior week.
I would argue that objects, methods, fields, modules, encapsulation, interfaces, garbage collection, databases are not the basics of programming either.

Good things to have, but are not basics of programming. So, teach/learn them later in the cycle.

Basics of programming are variables, branches, arrays, loops and simple I/O. You can go a long way with these. And you can explain those to 6 yr old child.
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"Modern gadgets are meant to be disposable machines, not eternal repositories of all your stuff. "

I think that would be a better subject to get worked up about than the feeling you're getting conned because the profit margins on one (optional!) part of your gadget are higher.
But doesn't familiarity supplant or outweigh almost every other facet of UI design?
You don't have to hold it any closer. I assume that there would just be less on the screen. Better to optimize for reading comfort than packing as much as possible on to the screen.
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Scammers are using the name of big companies to loot people over the internet or phone calls. You should be aware of them and confirm before sharing your details or sign up for any service / product.
If you're using an English language website, I think understanding the three words you mention (up, in and out) in context and as modifiers would be required before understanding any significant content. I don't believe the term 'sign in' is esoteric or difficult to grasp, as with its opposite 'sign out', and 'sign up' has a long, long, usage in English for subscribing to something, joining a group, etc.

Sign up is required to join the website, sign in is required to access the website later, and sign out is the opposite of sign in.

That said these questions are always difficult because differing cultures/usages/dialects, even within one language, can dramatically affect comprehension. So a site really has to be tailored to the particular audience it seeks - a site in the US, the UK or India might use very different terms depending on the particular content it covers. But if you're targeting native speakers of English in most idioms I'm familiar with I think the terms above are pretty clear, and made clearer by using the same verb; other choices make them sound like unrelated actions, which they are not.
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It's kinda funny this was downvoted since both Citizens united and HLP both drew this funny line at "who you talk to or with." It's a line I don't understand the justification for and it seems dangerous to me, but it is what we are stuck with.
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It's. A. Shelf.

A "collapsible standing desk"? Please.
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How do you propose to translate channelpedia into a complete functional description of an observed brain?

Or is the idea to somehow make a working model of the "average" brain inferred from a patchwork of bits of high-level aggregate data mined from various papers and originally gathered in many different contexts?
I think it really boils down to whom you are addressing: people who ignore things are happy to do as others (even if they are wrong -- they don't know!), whereas people who know things care about correctness (and are annoyed by incorrectness or sloppiness).
I was under the impression these screens are made in giant sheets and cut to size.
I use skritter.com for practising Chinese. They recently released an iOS app after several months work. There is currently no plan to produce an Android app, partly because there is a partial web / flash solution available on Android, but I assume also that the numbers didn't add up for putting the work in to porting the iPhone app.

This is a must-have application for learning to write Chinese in my opinion, to the extent that people would buy an iOS device just to use it. There is no equivalent for Android. I carry around an iPhone as a work phone, and pretty much only use it for this.

So learning Chinese is a little niche, but I'm sure there are other niches where people rely on a particular app, this app is not available on Android, and so they wouldn't switch for this reason.
Agreed.

After make based builds caused too much problems for us, we first moved to WAF (http://code.google.com/p/waf/), but it was too complex for our needs and extending builds with our own steps became a chore.

Then we moved to redo, which was a breeze of fresh air with it's simplicity. We build a few convenience scripts on top of it to allow easier management of build targets (OS X, iOS, iOS Simulator, Linux) and been happy since.
Isn't that supposed to be chrome ? did they fail the port to android somehow ?
Ask HN: Why do you care so much that you're being down voted?
A pet peeve and growing trend on Hacker News is someone getting down voted for a comment, then writing another comment asking why they were down voted and then an ensuing discussion as to why they were down voted. Discussions of being down voted are largely off topic and are just plain annoying. Please stop caring so much about how much "karma" points you have. "Karma" is just a virtual reputation system. Please just stick to writing well thought out comments. Why do you care so much that you're being down voted?
Hey, sorry for taking so long to reply, that's an awesome link, thanks! :)
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on android you can get graffiti as a keyboard, I wish this was possible on ios
From https://github.com/tpurtell/socialbar/blob/master/chrome/con... :

//fallback for running in chrome
function md5(str) {
return "e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0";
}

Huh?
One interesting thing about brains is that they are rarely found by themselves foraging in the wild. Usually they are attached to things. In fact, they are involved in many feedback loops involving sensory input and various effectors. As well as being directly attached to peripheral nervous systems and encased in massive bodies with various physical constraints, circulating hormones, social contexts...

It is hard to imagine raising a baby brain to chess-playing maturity without tons of informational input acquired by interaction with the world. (Even just keeping normal children in the basement is a profound intervention, and they still actually experience quite a bit). So I suppose you will have to speed up your realistic world simulation as well.

The brain is not a personal computer and its development is not a matter of factory production because it is not a piece of technology designed by people.
I am not sure.... I wasn't sure if the SA article was saying that the worm only could exist in humans or that it had been eradicated everywhere else (perhaps because humans might be a preferred host).

So I did some research. I started with Wikipedia which said the worm was known to infect some other animals, and then jumped off from there. Then I came across this site: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Guinea+worm+...

It turns out the worm's lifecycle is fascinating. The embryos apparently are parasites of water fleas, and are consumed by humans when they drink water containing infected water fleas. The embryos then burrow into the intestines and from there into other tissues.

also according to http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Dracunculus at least some species of domestic animals can carry the worm. It doesn't say whether the worms can effectively reproduce in horses, cattle, or dogs though.
Graffiti was very much a good hack for the time; when you consider how badly Apple screwed up with the handwriting recognition in the first Newton PDAs, it was a neat innovation to sidestep the problem.

I wouldn't like to return to it though; these days, I run Swype (http://www.swype.com/) on my Android phone, which I find to be incredibly quick and easy to enter text with.
That's an extremely simplistic look at the problem. The issue isn't looking at the keyboard, it's the extra mental effort of doing the keymapping every time you run into a new application which has stupid defaults that don't take alternative layouts into account.
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For me it's not the karma, it's the implication that my well-intentioned comment that was intended to add value has been considered by someone in "the community" to be the opposite, and to be of negative value.

If that happens then there is a mis-match between my understanding and reality, and as a mathematician, engineer, hacker, and general learner for life, I want to know why. When people disagree with me it's an opportunity to learn, and I want to take that opportunity, especially from people who have chosen to self-identify with this "community."
Sure, but you'll have to define it a bit better: why NGO, why not charity? How does the tax part work?
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> There's also whole disk encryption (unfortunately not particularly robust -- I don't understand the reason but something about how the login password is stored seems to make this somewhat weak to eg the government)

As far as I understand it, with FileVault 2:

- encryption is full disk AES128 (with optional AES256) with XTS.

- the AES key is apparently [1] stored in the keychain on the recovery partiton, which is itself encrypted with 3DES, and unlocked with the login passwords. The login passwords are not stored anywhere, they are used as the encryption passphrase: decryption failure means that the provided password is wrong.

People have been able to retrieve the AES key with DMA attacks via special Firewire devices on a running system in less than a hour (I guess they could have used the PCIe slot, and maybe Thunderbolt) by dumping and scanning the memory, and this impacts just about any system out there, not just Macs and FileVault, but TrueCrypt also [0].

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5077

[0] http://www.lostpassword.com/hdd-decryption.htm
Why not? It shows people are very aware of privacy and encryption in their day to day routine.
The Nexus 7 has the same resolution that most 10" tablets have now, so why would you need reflow?
Shouldn't everything look the same as on the current 10" tablets, just sharper?

It might be because my eyes are still young, but I prefer smaller screens with a high pixel density to larger screens with a lower pixel density.
It's not democracy, it's just how non-formal language evolves.

People agree on the meaning of symbols/conventions, and then dictionaries draw targets around the arrows.
No, it's particularly that kind of rah-rah I'm pointing out the hole in. Our well-resourced science and our well-resourced NGOs have allowed us to construct and communicate a solution to a disease of poverty that works without lifting them out of poverty.

It's certainly a small improvement, but lionizing it uncritically amounts to justifying the status quo.
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Read more: http://trifter.com/asia-pacific/japan/worlds-most-expensive-one-bedroom-property/#ixzz20m4rDicS
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I clicked the link thinking I was going to be reading a page about developing apps for Blackberry.

Dave
Is it just me or is everything he says very abstract? Sure he's good at his craft, but all the things about everything being subjective, and design having many meanings, and that anything can be artistic... it just seems like he has very generic sort of explanations for everything.

I guess to be a good designer you have to have this attitude, but in today's business, the sort of attitude where you're like "I'll show you a single logo, and you won't have other options" won't cut it.

Design is subjective and it will always be, so not giving your client many options is just plain stupid and will make you poor before you know it.
Why is it not okay for people to try and find out why they're being downvoted, but it's okay for you to post a whole topic talking about how annoying you find it?

In both cases the person, be it the downvotee or you, is trying to discover the reason for a behaviour.

Edit: it's also considered poor form to order people to modify their behaviour to match your particular preferences.
Many kinds of adequate sanitation would not have resulted in filtering the water as appropriate to exclude the parasites.

Even the wealthiest still drank water that ultimately came from the watering hole, thousands of years ago. Without much scientific understanding there is little reason to believe effective intervention would have been hoarded by the rich.
If it's not clear, I will ask why I was down voted in order to improve the quality of my future comments.

> Discussions of being down voted are largely off topic and are just plain annoying.

They are pretty easy to ignore: just don't read the child comments of greyed out comments.
This seems logical to me, and if Dragon didn't like that answer they could have gone and found another investment banking firm to advise them.

Weren't they already in the hole for $5M at this point, though?
malaria is particularly widespread, so some pretty strong evidence would be required to establish that DDT killed more people than malaria.
Not at the moment, I want to finish off/clean up a few things first. Yes, there was a Swedish version of the Microbee and they were popular with schools here in Australia so I'm not surprised to hear you had them in Swedish schools too.
I misunderstood. In that case, yes, I totally agree. I'd suggest whole disk encryption but users will hate it, since if they forget their password the data is really gone. For reals.
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Shake [1] is a Haskell library for writing build systems. I've been trying it out on a small side project lately. It isn't mature so it doesn't do everything you want, but the approach of supplying a library of build system construction tools instead of forcing you into a more rigid framework and/or DSL gives one a lot of flexibility. It seemed interesting and novel to me, but I don't know if it has been done before or not.

Not having a configuration system is a big drawback, enough to make me consider using autoconf in conjunction with Shake. Also you have to know Haskell, which will turn a lot of people away.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/shake
> I've wanted a standing desk ever since I first read about the idea three or four years ago.

Three years of thinking to save a couple of hundred bucks?!

This guy has a macbook air sitting on his desk, jesus christ.
There's an Android app that perfectly recreates a Graffiti keyboard as an Android keyboard. Works quite well, you just need a capacitive stylus with most phones now.

I actually loved Graffiti - much faster with it than Swype which is bundled with my Samsung Galaxy SII. Partly that's because I hate the predictive nature - being quite bilingual it's a pain to keep switching languages.
Before defunkt's hub there was App::GitHub so it might have been good if everyone had contributed to this :)

ref: https://metacpan.org/module/App::GitHub
I use this one http://dribbble.com/shots/357612-Sublime-Text-2-Replacement-...
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If someone downvotes me, I would indeed like to know why.

If someone downvotes me because they disagree with me, I would prefer they state their disagreement rather than downvote.

If someone downvotes me because they think I'm being rude, I would like to know what it is about my comment that they consider rude.

If someone downvotes me for being an Apple/Google/Microsoft fanboy, I would like the opportunity to disabuse them of that notion.

If someone downvotes me because my comment is incorrect, I would like to know what the truth is.

Downvoting is sometimes used as a lazy way of saying "This is a poor comment" (I know, I do it myself sometimes when I am tired). But without saying why a comment is poor, it is itself a poor form of feedback.

I might come back to a comment I wrote the day before, and in a different frame of mind be able to see why it has been downvoted. But when I can't see why, it is frustrating.

I don't really care about my HN karma. It's just a number that tends to go up sporadically.
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Sort of off-topic but only partly because the original article asked for origins of terms, exit has a fascinating etymology. Unlike most words, "exit" is a loan word in a conjugated form. It comes from the third person singular indicative of a Latin verb, exire ("to go out"). In other words, it means, in Latin "He or she leaves." Most loan words come from some sort of base form, which tells you there is an interesting backstory here.

From what I understand it entered into English as a stage direction, but by the 16th century it had become a noun referring to a doorway for leaving.
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Renault Duster will have a perfect off-roader appearance and will be based on Logan platform. Renault will be placing it under the D segment of cars. It is expected to be designed to move smoothly through all road types as well as tracks....
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I agree with most of your points, and especially point 5 could be where Tumblr will improve on what we've had before: the way they go about things may well encourage the design of beautiful brand experiences.

As for point 3 though, if you read eg. 33bits.org you might be convinced otherwise, because it's in fact very difficult to really anonymise data.
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Oh, and there's no way to find out failed projects of KS. Smart move there, isn't it?
This requires Make to parse the files in some way. What I find nice about Make is that there's no magic. I can use Make to drive builds of C, D, fortran objects and link them together, throw in some Java, transform markdown into html, generate graphs with graphviz and build pdfs with latex.

In those cases I'm positively hopeful that Make won't try to do any magic except building its dependency graph, see which files are older than their deps, and do the actions as described.

Make is no silver bullet, but it does a hell of a job at building and binding together non-ideal stuff.
That's a extremely vague question which can't simply be answered on a Q&A site.

There are lots of other places where such questions can be discussed.

Stackoverflow is not the place to discuss all kinds of philosophical questions.

If you have a specific question, best with source code, then go ahead. But please don't make stackoverflow a copy of Hackernews, Reddit, comp.db.advocacy or similar.

I like Stackoverflow most when it can give real direct support for a practical problem.
Slightly off-topic: Does anyone know of tree(?) graphs of markov chains for certain bodies of words? Eg the probability of following characters for a certain book, showing only the more probable choices. That might look pretty cool.
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Yes. However, all I have to say to this is "The New iPad".

Edit: Wait, I had something else to say: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

(Microsoft is exceptionally bad at this, even if other companies are pretty bad about it too.)
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It's tiring to see that WASD is always used to control movement, regardless of keyboard layout. On a French keyboard, this is how WASD is laid out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_France.svg

Needless to say that it is highly impractical… Why not bind the arrow keys?
This may be the time to point to a paper[0], which, sadly is rarely implemented, and turns on its head one of the common misconceptions of make, which is "make is slow".

I've been using that way of writing makefiles, and significantly improved dependency analysis and speed by an order of magnitude.

[0] http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/