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A warm tablet is nice in the winter. Also in the UK there was an official judgement about the iPad being cool. So I'll not argue with a Judge - XXXX tablet compared to a iPad is always hotter :), its the law; Least in the UK!

[EDIT ADD]`Judge Birss ruled that Samsung's designs did not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design: "They are not as cool."`

So in the UK iPad's are cool. Also electrical devices have 2 years warranty in the UK, so I'm not too worried about it getting warm as long as the battery life is not adversly shortened. I'm not put off getting one, when I can afford to do so.
It's much harder to circumvent the $80, otherwise they would.
This seems to be false:

eggs :: [Int] -> Int -> Int
eggs drops floor =
if floor >= last drops
then (length drops) - 1
else let numless = length $ filter (<= floor) drops
below = last $ filter (<= floor) drops
above = head $ filter (> floor) drops
in numless + (floor - below) + (if floor + 1 == above then 0 else 1)

sum $ map (eggs [0,10 .. 100]) [0..100] -- returns 1100
sum $ map (eggs [0,14,27,39,50,60,69,77,84,90,95,99,100]) [0..100] -- returns 1047

(Not 100% confident that I haven't made a mistake. You pass "eggs" a list of floors to drop the first egg on, and the lowest floor that the egg will survive being dropped from. It returns the number of drops it takes to discover that value. The list needs to start with 0 because that requirement simplifies the function slightly.

But if I haven't made a mistake, "10, 20, 30..." takes an average of 10.9 drops and "14, 27, 39..." takes an average of 10.4. That's assuming the floor is uniformly distributed between 0 and 100 inclusive.)
Actually, the original intention was to protect the market share of sheet-music publishers.
I haven't seen a single person being entitled or saying that they deserved more from Sparrow. People are upset because Sparrow is being abandoned, and "rights" or what you "deserve" has nothing to do with it. Creating a blog post attacking fake "my rights!" arguments is just silly.
How many months of FTE salary are you hoping to bank before you hire?

That's not really something I'm looking at.

What multiple of an FTE salary are you hoping to get to in monthly rev before you hire?

I want to have enough revenue that I can hire someone without reducing my "take-home profits" to an uncomfortably low level. So 2 FTE salaries, for some definition of "FTE salary", I guess. (And yes, I do realize that the idea of "wait until you can afford to pay someone before hiring them" is horribly out of style.)

It's more likely that I'll follow yegg's example of expanding initially via contract and part-time work, though.
I'm assuming the two are one in the same, with 147 colors being just an easy way to remember it. Either way, it's a clever display.

I really wish it was easy to permalink something though. Took me a few seconds to at least figure out I could manually grab a url like this http://www.147colors.com/darkslategrey/ - but when you click from the grid it doesn't permalink.
A more useful feature would be for the device to automatically stream video to an off-site location whenever it recognizes a policeman, badge, or vehicle.
It's like the word "indefinitely". It may mean "we can start it back up anytime!" from a dictionary sense, but it's actual use is that "it's probably not coming back".

"Maintenance" means that they will fix major issues that the paying customers are legally entitled to (such as bugs that make the app unusable). They will do nothing beyond that.
> I have never ever come across a person who was hesitant to buy an app just for the fear that it would be shelved by aqui-hire some day.

Give it time. The number of consumers burned by an acquihire is still relatively low, but it's growing. I've certainly heard people say things like, "sure that TV series sounds great but I don't want to get into it until I know they're not going to cancel it," having been burned by such in the past; if the current model of acquisition continues I think it's only a matter of time before it becomes a matter of common wisdom to avoid getting too hooked on a app, because if it's any good its developers will just get bought out and the app shelved.

As for "never ever", I will say that this issue is currently fuelling my own reluctance to even bother getting a smartphone at all, because I'm working from the assumption that any app I find particularly useful (other than the browser itself) will just go away. So, that's one.
Yes. When I saw this, it summons this to mind: http://xkcd.com/743/

I'm not sure if sparrow could have ever existed if it was open source. Maybe it could have. Maybe it could be released that way. However, if one is into the longevity of their choice of tools and wants to have a sense of ownership over the tool's future, this is a suitable reminder.

Sparrow customers now have no economical route to iterate on their tool of choice because of some plaintext forbidden to dissemination, and that is really Too Bad, but it is not mere misfortune: it is entirely predictable.
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I'm not sure I agree. I've watched large numbers of people crash and burn running 'agile' processes.

Agile doesn't work at all with large numbers of people on code that is constantly changing. Regardless of how you package it, the only way to achieve coherency and scalability of product development is through extensive planning, solid architecture and loose coupling of components.

Agile throws those three concepts out of the window for time to market. Sure your first few iterations will survive this, but as your product grows, so will coupling logarithmically. This eventually cripples you.
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Missing some for sure, would be great to include incubators outside of America (Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia, etc)

Growlab is one of the bigger ones from Canada

http://www.growlab.ca/
You have never worked in a call center for cheap product ... my gf worked in a call center for telephony card. Granted, they are shady with very weird pricing model, but still, people would just call to get refunded for their "lost" credit all the time all the time. (the connection didn't work ... but sir, you spent 2 hours ... yes but it was not my brother it was his wife) They would call if they found a empty card on the street to try to get some credit back.

You quickly lose your faith in humanity when you sell large volume of cheap stuff.
I think definitely your second example, possibly your first, could be accomplished with "Soft" AR. Remote personal interaction would still be reliant on the latency of the network/medium, and without touch, I'm not sure how much more use superimposing someone believably into my field of vision would be as opposed to having a display or a holographic avatar of some sort that doesn't require full Hard AR.
I agree with the argument that if online edu. requires more conscientiousness, we should expect a lower success rate.

I understand that gwern doesn't advocate against online education, but it's worth noting: even if the conversion rate through online edu is lower than expensive, sit-in-a-classroom edu, we can expect more people to become more educated, provided the economic or status rewards from online edu aren't much less than the expensive variety - because more people will want to try.

To increase the online edu success rate, look for mechanisms that make online learning more rewarding - perhaps some of the Zynga playbook - e.g. providing immediate public status gratification, or involving friends.

To specifically address akrasia (of course, having lower cost means more people will begin what they never really intended to do), allow more flexibility in deadlines (if the course has a fixed schedule, allow skipping assignments until the next run), offer a type of completion with cheap physical "classrooms" for proctored tests/assignments (would increase the value of the signal - you really performed the task yourself), and optionally including time for watching lectures with others.
They use scp now rather than ftp. They don't use git because it's too complicated for contractors to handle.
Before doing anything, I think that you should talk to a lawyer because there are a lot of questions to be answered.

Who owns the code? Are you free to open-source it or rebrand it? Did you have any kind of contract?What about your employment situation? Did your meetings with Sparrow's staff, and them sharing artwork, constituted some kind of licensing, agreement or anything? Did Google know about your project?

I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know any of the answers. Does anyone know what would happen if they claim that they own the code? Maybe they would have to recognize him as an employee, or a contractor and then pay him for his work. If they allow him to use the code as he pleases, the fact of the company encouraging him to develop the port, and even meeting and sharing some artwork, would it mean that they granted him an implicit licence?

Either way, probably Google's legal team has some work to do.
Selling the N7 at $200 could be a bulwark against Apple and Amazon's domination of the tablet market. At $250 it looks unfavorable vs the Kindle Fire. At $300 you start to think you should buy an iPad. But at $200 it's the same price as the Fire, but clearly nicer.

Hardware production prices will eventually fall and there could be a profit margin there for manufacturers if they stick to the $200 mark and don't lower it.
I used the nexus 7 for a few hours and I found the transitions and ease of use difficult. Not as intuitive as the iPad. Playing around and sending content to the TV and it's not as smooth as airplay. I found the actual screen size awkward. I didn't know how to navigate or read pages. Do I place both hands behind the device and use my thumbs to navigate? Or do I place one hand behind the device and use the other hand to drive? Guessing I would quickly get over that with more use, but it was refreshing to try something different...
Exactly. It's a success story for those acquired. Whether or not wider society benefits depends on what they create while at Google.
If anyone is truly pining for everything to be the same forever then they're in luck, because Sparrow won't be changing anymore...
That doesn't always work. You may find that even when your inside contact says you are a "must hire," company policy inserts HR into the process anyway and rejects you based on the same trivial criteria.

I'm not saying don't try it, just don't bet your career on it.
If you want somebody to talk to your computers you employ somebody who can do that. If you need somebody who can deal with customers, then you employ somebody to do that. You can find a happy medium for many roles. But for a lot your better of seperating them. This is why you have sales people and marketing people and HR and line managers. Your tech people dealing with your computers need to be able to do that, anything else upto and including personal hygiene is a bonus. Computer room cooling units aint just to cool the computers down, for many there air showers.

The real question should be, are companies asking the right types of tech questions in there interview process. The tech skill should be relevant to what you have experienced and asking question about how they would deal with a situation you recently had and seeing how there mind responds knowing how you eventualy solved it will give you an insight. It also tells you, if we had this chap then would we of solved that problem quicker and if it's yes then that person nomatter what is sombody of value to your company, thats the easiest way in an interview on how to measure there tech skills. You can ask more detailed questions during the thought process as you already have the answears as you experienced it. Remember there is a probabtion period as well so you have a safty net nomatter what and remember that works both ways. So don't overpromise either, be honest and open. Works both ways. Somebody who knows there limitations is also important. Some people have no limitations, but they can take a while, as long as they know that again that can be fine. You as the manager should also have somebody who you can communicate with, even if you have to interpret geek to managment, anything else is a bonus if they can do the job in a way that add's value, everybody is happy.
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awesome! thanks for your comment. pls share with others that are also looking to apply for incubators. we are definitely trying to expand the offering, but one step at a time. focused on these 30+ incubators, but easily found over 200! when are you looking to apply?
Oh sorry I should clarify myself. But yes, you are correct.

Update is basically like bug fixes, or resolving incompatibilities and stuff like that. [For eg. Windows XP -> SP1 -> SP2 -> SP3]

Upgrade would mean adding new features. Moving along with the times. New technologies etc.
There are certainly issues - wouldn't society benefit if the device could also recognize people on the FBI's Most Wanted list?

And then the train of government/media abuse starts rolling: Persons-of-interest sought by local law enforcement? Registered sex offenders? People on the No-Fly list? Shouldn't these devices support wiretapping such that they can recognize people as directed by LEO on a rubberstamp warrant?
There was this interdisciplinary course during my PhD studies where computer science students were meeting (traditional) architecture students to talk about their professions and exchange ideas. It was so much fun to describe software development to them as a process of designing and bulding a structure when the investors can change their mind on the building's proportions, windows location and general application at any stage of the process, there are only some vague general rules on what a solid construction should look like and there is no external supervision involved at all to sign off the building as safe and complete. It may look surprising from an external view.
As someone who bought Sparrow during their sale last week, I feel ripped off. I don't think they owe me free updates forever, but I would have liked to have known that it was a fire sale.
"Here are some of my thoughts .... And don't forget that I invented blogging!!"
$1.49 might be a play to attract developers whose revenue is tied to the lowest app store price point.
Google is ultimately in the advertising business. They want people surfing to the Gmail homepage so they can show ads.
> It seems like it does need a "why this helps me be productive" hook to convince people it has an upside. [...] Although, oddly, steroids for athletes don't get the same cultural free pass there.

Although athletes produce entertainment, they don't become dramatically more "productive" by taking steroids -- they're basically in a zero-sum status competition.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if an impending Windows client was part of the timing for this deal. A resurgence of people using stand alone clients on PCs that don't display ads could have been a big problem for Google's business model. If users really demand stand-alone clients I think Google could reverse course and re-release Sparrow with ad support in the near future. I like Sparrow but it's nothing so special that it cannot be easily cloned. Google won't be able to just take that option off the table unless they want to find ways to lock-out third party clients from utilizing extended GMail functionality.
The question is, what does this actually
mean to society?

It can go both ways, depending on other factors like ... are people going to get punished for doing weird things, for not being normal? Also, once the detection of tax-evasion becomes easier, are taxes going to get lowered once everybody will pay their taxes? It might happen.

In our country during communism, phones were constantly wiretapped. The secret service also had countless informants that were sending reports on their neighbors on anything they deemed "suspicious". Basically anyone of your neighbors could be an informant and so everybody was watching their backs constantly.

Personally I'm not that worried about technology, because a police state can spy on its citizens just fine without any of this modern technology: they just need informants and a big militia force to read and act on those reports. And believe me when I say that this method is extremely effective ;)

Quite the contrary, with modern technology regular people can use secure communication channels that can't be wiretapped, something which wasn't possible in my country during communism.

These problems (privacy, other freedoms) are always social problems, not technological problems. Technology always provides a balance ... if face recognition will be able to identify you with high accuracy, you will also be able to detect all the photos of you that have ever been uploaded and send take-down notices or other such requests. If Facebook still identifies you, you can sue them into oblivion. If your Facebook communication is not secure, you can always have a conversation over an encrypted channel. Etc...
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I had a quick go at it using memoized minimax search. I assumed that picking up any dropped eggs is automatic when you're on the ground floor, but it would also be easy to model it as an action.

https://gist.github.com/3157191

Let me know if this is what you had in mind.
I don't know what are the requirements really, but I think that in blogs' case, where people just want to read you, positioning your text in the middle so that safari or Android browsers can easily focus the text is enough.

With this said, why not try Jekyll with bootstrap if you really want your site to render differently on the desktop and mobile?
Do you think there is a way for (potential) customers to identify any information about the intentions of the developer or company?

The recent Internet Defense League makes me wonder if something similar couldn't be launched for small software companies who make it CLEARLY part of their ethos about the direction of the company. This would not necessarily be a membership kind of animal but more of a "we agree with the ideas of Small Software Developers' Principles."
Putting aside UI patents, if a patent is "non-obvious" is should not be the case that people routinely run afoul of the patent without the details of it being disclosed.

However, this is precisely what is happening in the software industry. In fact, typical legal advice for engineers is to not read patents at all. And still, it is impossible to write any sort of complicated program without running a foul of numerous software patents.

A truly innovative patent would be one which would be fairly unlikely to be rediscovered independently. How likely is it that a typical person skilled in the art would have come up with PageRank if the algorithm was not published? Another academic might have, but it would not be likely that an average programmer would.

On the other hand, that linked list patent? That is not innovation. The idea of searching multiple databases from a single search box? Not innovative. Searching for and identifying entities like phone numbers in text? Not innovative.
> I know many companies that are hiring, and all of them are saying they can’t find the people they want.

Here's why (real job posting, name and location withheld):

Responsibilities:
Analyze, design, and develop scalable, reliable Java EE applications, using several Java technologies: Servlets, JSPs, EJB, JMS, and JDBC
Lead the solution architectural design and/or analysis tasks
Design and develop the Java programs required to achieve the desired functionality
Prepare technical documentation
Work with the SQA team to ensure high-quality products

Qualifications
Must have:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
7 years + of experience in large-scale application design and development
Experience in Data security Domain
Sound knowledge in Cryptography

Nice to Have:
Proven expertise in OO design and development using Java EE
Good experience in Servlets, Hibernate, Spring etc.
Experience developing in JUnit and Ant
Experience with Java technologies and frameworks: JMS, JDBC, JAXB, JAXP, JAX WS, etc.
Expertise in Web development, XML Web standards, and Web Services
Experience developing Web Portals (using AJAX, Ext.js++) is an asset.
Proficiency in English (oral and written)

I bet you $8 that the job posting above could be done by someone with 1/4 of the necessary "years" of experience.

Most places seem to find some <insert tech job> and just blindly copypasta all of the acronyms they can find into a big wall of useless information.

If you want to hire someone then put as much effort into the job posting as you would expect from the candidate applying, don't just put a wall of text up and expect to get a "rockstar" (good god, I hate that term so much). Have the team where the person will be working in write the job posting.
"You made a buying decision based on a promise. Really, really stupid."

Really?
Are you saying Amazon actually enforces that patent? I doubt the Flower Delivery sites are purposely adding clicks to the process because of the Amazon patent.
Apple says you should validate your purchases with your own server, which should communicate directly with Apple's.

Seems to me like that's still secure.
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most of the actual hiring

Most hiring happens in the formal way. Now, if you actually have a network of highly skilled associates, then maybe that's not true. But such networks exist in tiny pockets as in SV.
I highly recommend reading thru the user reviews, a good selection also, as rating is not everything. But it's half the fun finding that gem of an application that has the same mindset as yourself and you like. Just be mindful what permisions some applicaiton require, but enjoy.
Agreed. Companies that were previously making Android tablets could probably make more money now building high margin accessories like cases and docks for the N7. To have done so much damage to the potential third party Android tablet market Google must have realized this was the make/break moment for Android tablets and really didn't have any other choice. It's still going to be a massive uphill battle against the 8" iPad over the holiday season.
I don't really like the tone of this article.

I think the sparrow team did what was best for them, and congratulations to them for a successful exit. Goodness knows I'd do the same if I were in there position.

I think what's most disheartening about these types of situations is that as a consumer they make me less and less likely to support startups. Sure, a team like this doesn't "owe" you anything -- you purchase their software and that's the end of the transaction... but if you're going to invest your time and energy into learning, adopting, and loving their product/ecosystem you want to believe that it's got a future. It's a shame that the frequency of these acquisitions (and subsequent shutdowns) erodes consumer confidence in small companies that make great products. Why bother getting yourself hooked on a new product if there's a decent chance it won't be around in another year?

To be fair, Google's current culling of its products shows that this isn't just a small company problem. But I have confidence that GMail will still be around for the foreseeable future. Same for Apple Mail. Same for Outlook. They might not be as good, but at least you can be confident that if you learn their ins and outs it they'll probably still be around in two years.
In fact, it was given only to junior-level employees, not to the biggest executives and top developers.