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Exactly what I thought. If they are interested only in the talent, why not give the code to the community?

The publicity and goodwill alone should be worth it!
The author didn't create the problem, he just wrote about it :)
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Unfortunately, this is what you get when you pay $10 for an app.

There is a huge disparity when it comes to the cost of apps these days vs the salaries required to sustain the engineers who make those apps. Even at $10/pop, you need to sell a lot of apps just to sustain the salaries of very good engineers, and THIS is what makes great products vulnerable to acqui-hires.

The problem is that the $0.99 model of the App Store makes a $10 app look ridiculously expensive, especially when there are free alternatives out there, even though it's only 2 Starbucks coffees. And even though $10 is worth it.

It's the price of the apps that have drastically lowered the expectations of what people need to pay for software, and this goes in direct conflict to the rising costs of great engineers' salaries.

I'm not sure what the exact price point is, but my guess is that people need to start getting used to the idea of spending $30-50 PER YEAR in a subscription model for a great app in order to create enough monetary incentive for the developers to keep their products alive. Otherwise Google and Facebook will continue to drop the bills and pick off the best teams who eventually get tired of the smaller comparative payoffs that these apps bring in.
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Not sure what you're talking about (links usually help with that), but here is a definition:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/bot.html
What should have happened is to hand off development and/or ownership of the app to another dev team. Sofa, the team that made Versions and Kaleidoscope, did just that when they were acquired by Facebook. The apps still live on, thanks to Black Pixel, and everyone is happy.
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Neither your nor my interpretation of an online purchase is a correct one. An online purchase from a computer in one country at a web server in another can be treated as both an import (by a purchaser) and an export (by a seller). But since a sale is typically solicited by a purchaser (it's driven by those who purchase), I'd say it's an import rather than an export.

> liquor to be shipped to the US and the liquor store would be expected to comply with US import rules

It may want to comply with the rules, because the parcel will bounce at customs, but if there are no export restrictions, it has no other reason not to send a bottle into the US.
First. A company in whatever country is legally obliged only to that country's law. Export means that company is selling something in his jurisdiction to somebody who is not. That somebody is importer. Importer has to comply with the law of the country he/she is importing. One can not expect that exporter burden is to know all UN members laws.

Second. There cannot be and there is none agreements between Sweden and US which would prevent swedish companies producing something that infringes US-only patents. Also any swedish company can produce anything that is banned in US. I guess absynthe is.

Third. Pay attention to the HTC & Apple cases. Apple is trying to prevent import of HTC phones. That is the key! Apple can not sue taiwanese company of US patent infringement, not in US, not in Taiwan. What they can do is complain to ITC and ban import and that is exactly what they ar doing: http://www.fosspatents.com/2011/12/apple-wins-itc-ruling-of-...
After a long hiatus Quicksilver was taken over by a dedicated team of contributors who resumed active development[1]. Open-source worked after all, as this wouldn't be possible otherwise.

[1] http://blog.qsapp.com/
Isnt GPL banned on iOS AppStore?
Between stuff like google glass,facial recognition, GPS and advanced ML , NLP techniques pretty much means the end of privacy. Even for people who don't use social networks so much.

If the recognition is accurate enough , you only need 1 person to tag you once and all of your movements can be tracked by cameras (that will eventually be built into everyone's glasses).

You're out walking and you do something dumb like trip over a crack in the pavement. Some passer by taps the "that was funny, tag it" button that is mounted inconspicuously on their person and it's instantly fed into the streams of all your friends and family.

The question is, what does this actually mean to society?

If everyone's personal life is on permanent display does it mean that we become more robot like because nobody wants to have something they may regret recorded in perpetuity or does it make people more liberal because things that used to be considered funny/outrageous/taboo simply no longer are. In the sense that if every woman went around topless, men would soon cease becoming aroused by breasts.
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I'm beginning to believe that all governments and their security/intelligence forces tend toward a Stazi mean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stazi
> advertisements like this are much more common than advertisements with buff men that are supposed to make men feel more sexy.

Maybe women are just a larger market. I can't comment.

> I think many people would agree that, at least in American culture, there's more pressure on women to be sexy than there is on men.

Again, maybe the causation is the other way. I can't comment.

> I'm not aware of such a thing with men (certainly not with the same prevalence).

I'll give you that. This is, again, probably addressing the fact that the target market are men.

> stripping and prostitution are at least perceived (and portrayed in media) as predominantly female industries with male clientele. The concept of the woman as a sex object is practically everywhere.

I'm not sure this follows. They're perceived as predominantly female because men are more overt about (or more open to) paying for sex. Women aren't as interested in that, for whatever reason. Male strippers/prostitutes do exist, after all.

This isssue is too complicated to discuss on HN, sadly. I did greatly enjoy the discussion, however!
http://www.businessinsider.com/dom-leca-interview-sparrow-20...

>In terms of numbers we've made more than half a million dollars in the past six months since Sparrow was introduced in February.

That quote is from August last year.
Althogh Sparrow supports non-GMail protocols, it really is primarily for GMail. I use a standard IMAP-mail provider (folders, not tags), and to me Sparrow added very little over what I had with Apple Mail.

(Conversly, when I used GMail, it didn’t work that well with Apple Mail.)
A conceptually similar paper by another MIT economist looked at how the IP protection afforded to different genes at the time of sequencing affected follow-on research. Genens that were immediately in the public domain stimulated about about 20-30% more research/product development than comparable Celera-sequence genes that had IP protection. The paper is here: http://economics.mit.edu/files/6803
You remind me of Needium http://needium.com/

Someone posts "aargh damn I'm locked out" on Facebook - Needium converts that into a lead for local businesses.

Think that's interesting because it seems to me to be the essence of the discussion - active vs passive. You can actively solve your own problem by going to Google and / or you can take the passive step of complaining about your situation on Facebook and have Needium convert that into a lead for you. This passive model of solving your own problems seems to me to be pretty weak but perhaps it works if your have have a large, docile audience ?
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I have to agree. While my current laptop is a Macbook (and inertial two-finger scrolling is awesome), I've been using Thinkpads for years (I actually have two for home use), and nothing beats the Trackpoint. It's fast and efficient, and you don't have to pull you hands away from the keyboard to perform mouse operations. For what it's worth, I even disable the trackpad on my Thinkpads and only use the Trackpoint.
For the most part, the most important thing is to get things done. Sitting down and writing code. Nothing else. When you add all the fancy modern "methodologies" and tools, practices and whatnot then most, if not all of them just steer you away from the actual task of "sitting down and writing code". Of course, this is domain specific in a sense that agile methodologies aren't that suited for a sole developer, than they are for a team of developers or a group of teams. But in the end, the actual task of getting things done is just sitting down and writing code. Everything else is "wasted" time.

No matter how good heart rate monitors you have, how good shoes you have, how well nourished you are, how prepared you are, ... - you won't run your marathon any better if you aren't serious about the actual act of running. You can devise complex meditation practices and analyze your running stance and efficiency, but in the end it's the act of running which gets you through the 42195 meters of pain. The better you are at it, the faster you finish. Equipment helps, but only to a small degree.

Focus on working, getting stuff done.
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Heh - I've seen that before, or something like it.

But that's more involved than 'space suit, retro-rocket, parachute'.

Be a heckuva ride.
Sparrow is never independent OK?

They depend on GMail.

They cannot even deliver push-notification for their iOS apps because they don't want to save your credentials on their servers.

The argument around Instapaper still stands as long as it's an independent, complete product.
Java... I think IDE + Java has the "four-wheel drive" problem of getting you stuck in a more inaccessible place. There are a lot of ad-hoc software lifecycle structures that are so unnecessarily complex they can only be used with IDEs, that exist because IDEs let people get to that level of complexity.

I don't like Java even with an IDE, and I especially dislike Maven, but Scala and Clojure are two of the most exciting languages out there, and because they're showing an ability to build communities that Haskell and Ocaml seem to lack (not a fault of the languages, but just because it's really hard to get people to learn "new everything") and so they're probably going to either be "the winners" when the divergence/convergence cycle of PL moves back into a convergent phase, or predecessors of whatever wins. Scala and Clojure are probably the "best bets" right now. The "language of 2020" won't be Java or Ocaml or SBCL, but Scala has a fighting chance.

On standups: if you're going to do a daily status meeting, then standup is the way to go.

That said, I dislike status meetings because I think they burn a lot of time, involve too much context switching, and don't solve problems that are better solved by direct communication. Also, audit-cycles don't have a one-size-fits-all pattern. You might want to ping an entry-level programmer daily in the first six months and 1-2x per week after that, while for a more senior person, a high-level might be appropriate.

One thing I will say is that a formalized status-reporting infrastructure (even one that costs a half hour per day) is much better than ad-hoc micromanagement. I worked at a company where 2-4 daily status pings (that would evolve into half-hour detailed conversations about minutiae) was the norm and that was a massive failure.
This feels to me very much like the argument that "it's not worth voting unless my vote is specifically the one that changes the outcome". You are but one little person. You can do all the right things in the world and the universe can still stomp on your face. The right things are not "the right things" because they guarantee success, but because they maximize the odds of it. There are no actions that guarantee success.

This isn't a disproof of the "don't be a free user" philosophy; it's a disproof of the idea that it's a guarantee of success, which it never was, and never could be. The argument still holds.
I blogged a solution in German in 2008: http://bjoernguenzel.de/2008/03/18/weiteres-matheratsel-die-...
Same here, the first thing I did when I got my ThinkPad was to go into the BIOS settings and disable the trackpad. There's absolutely no need for it once you've gotten used to the TrackPoint.
I find this hypothesis truly bizarre. Since almost the late 80's I have been in one of these (clever acronym du-jour) STEM fields, and have yet to NOT have worked with women in my group, as peers. (My background is primarily writing banking software, if that matters.) I've never NOT worked with a female geek programmer either at my level or above.

My anecdote is not data, but neither are vast and wild generalizations like you are making.
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"Sparrow doesn’t owe you anything. You paid, you got software. They can sell and/or kill it if they want. No right to complain. Sad, true."

The callousness of this argument annoys me. Hey there, smug twitterer! The universe doesn't owe you anything! If your mother dies of a sudden brain aneurysm tomorrow, you also have no right to complain! Would you welcome me telling you so?

Yes dear, I know. Dead mothers sounds a lot like Godwinism. Whatever. The point remains that the original comment lacks empathy, reason and relevance. It's just a dick being a dick, dickishly.
"This is a math puzzle, plain and simple" is the give away.
I'm doing the same thing. I don't like how Google is forcing Google Plus on me through more and more of their services. And I don't like having so much personal information with one company who is using it to target advertising. I actually wrote a blog post about it yesterday[0].

I don't mind using Google Apps because I use it exclusively for business purposes. My Apps accounts don't really contain any personal information.

[0] http://www.kieranmcgrady.com/2012/7/20/moving-away-from-goog...
Another source of imbalance here is countries being stingy with their government-created works. You end up with a larger percentage of Wikipedia articles, and therefore also anything that draws from Wikipedia as a source, being illustrated by US-government-sourced photos than should otherwise be the case, since U.S. federal govt works are public domain. It's slowly changing in a few cases, though, with initiatives like: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv
You don't have to be so defensive, it's fine. No point in getting into a tizzy over this, I'm sure you meant the comment in the good spirit of the community. I am not new to this kind of technology, maybe you should have looked at my profile before making inaccurate statements. But the truth is, siodine, that you didn't think any such thing, you were just being passive aggressive (again).
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Phoronix' benchmarking test suite has been able to detect underlying hardware: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amazo...
Why would Sweden honor damages from a patent from the US which does not exist in the EU?
Scott Westerfeld's novels The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds mention something like what you mention - several characters have implants that allow them to have multiple "levels" of sight and hearing to interface with technology.
I think that's why you need to put your money into open source software, not closed source software. Mozilla thunderbird could be the next Sparrow. If the people with the vision and with the proper backing are willing to put the effort into it.
"People already lie to themselves"

The most compelling illustration I've seen of this is the McGurk Affect[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...
Were they using stock android or crappyfied android?

Dont wait 24 months to suggest a windows phone. Suggest they flash a non broken version of android onto their phone.
Fair one mate.
What isn't explained, is why the solution that 'make(s) solutions to all possible answers the same depth' is also the solution that minimizes the average number of attempts needed for many (sets of) eggs. The motivation given is to reduce the worst case. That doesn't explain why there isn't perhaps a solution with a worse worst case, but a lower average number of drops.
You know, all of these are just glorified shells on top of the command-line tool, dd.

You could just learn dd and save yourself some money.
In some ways but jQuery is intentionally disorganized. PHP isn't.
Carmack develops technology, not games. He invented the modern FPS and is still advancing the state of the art 20 years later -- I wish I were that creative.
I wonder how the "employee bonuses tied to usage numbers" thing has worked out.
I've worked in a couple of companies that did this. We had the following flow and it worked great:

Task assigned to developer via email, developer takes current release tar from ftp and untars, does work, creates patch, forwards patch to colleague to review, forwards to release manager who integrates all incoming patches, drops into a new tar, releases to ftp.

Some of this was automated with a few hundred lines of perl. The rest was on a whiteboard.
I don't think that's true. YC start-ups have a built in fan base, but the site isn't hostile to anyone.
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No, please don't. Unless you're just going to object to me using the word matter to talk about a photon. It was a joke, I don't think it requires that kind of precision. I think it loosely appropriate to refer to all anti-particles collectively as anti-matter.
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Mindcraft doesn't exist, so I'm guessing that this is a mistake by the legal team.

If it were significantly wrong (e.g. "Photoshop" rather than "Minecraft") then they'd have to file again. In this instance it's similar enough that most courts will allow it, although it looks bad for the lawyers involved.
Swedish courts would not honor such a ruling if it were to be, since it would be against European law (there are no software patents in Europe). Generally court decisions almost never have international validity (especially business related ones).
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> "it's not worth voting unless my vote is specifically the one that changes the outcome"

I think that's a bad comparison - it implies the outcome would have been different if everyone voted with their wallets. Yet a saturated market would increase the odds of an acquihire.
If that's what you need to tell yourself. You seem like the typical OO hater, uninterested in grokking it, just interested in justifying your dislike with a bunch of hand waving about how you think it's complicated without presenting an alternative that has the same flexibility. As you've not added anything interesting to the conversation, I don't care to continue it; good day.
Getting started in a new area is what tutorials are for, not a Q&A site. I generally don't like deletionism, but in this case I understand the decision.
From the text:

We now have all the information to compute the optimal two egg solution.

While I prefer to read about algorithms and strategies in the fashion the author writes, I'm a bit sad that there's is no proof (or informal reasoning) why this is the optimal solution. Does anyone have a paper or some reasoning which will make me believe that this is the optimal solution?
"System of a down is cool, but people that listen to the spice girls are pathetic"

The correct phrase is not "human" as you put it, but "immature". Replace apple/google with band names and hear 14 years olds being as pathetic, and manipulated, as they could be.

Considering the audience, you would think they would be just a tad bit more mature. I sure wouldnt invest in any person that needs specific products to establish their idenity. I would have, like this rule, where i would expect people to be an adult.
No. Soft AR, maybe useful. Hard AR, very scary.
I read the article with some interest remembering what it used to take to work with SVG (the Adobe plug in---free, but still). Just for grins I copied one of the examples to my editor, EditPlus which uses whatever version of IE that you have installed on your system. To my very pleasant surprise, the example worked. This should open up a very large box of goodies of interest to me. I spend a lot of time working with chess and HTML. If this could simplify my code in any significant fashion then I'm all for. It will be interesting to explore.
"Here’s how it works: MRP helps raise the capital a town or a county would need to essentially “buy” seized home loans from the banks and the bondholders (remember, to use eminent domain to seize property, governments must give the owners “reasonable compensation,” often interpreted as fair current market value)."

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This is spot on. Thanks to the App Store, the days of paying $30+ for boxed software and paying again every year or so for version n+1 (assuming it comes out at all) are pretty far back in the rear view mirror now.

I paid $10 for Sparrow and got far more than $10 in value from it. So while I am disappointed that the best email app I have seen is EOL'd now I did get a decent value and I can't complain a whole lot. I am no worse off than had I bought a boxed copy of software with no promise for updates ever.

I would have paid $30 up front for Sparrow and purchased a large feature release for that price later down the line. Happily. That is a price far more in line with the value delivered.

How do we recalibrate people's expectations about the value of software back to pre-2008 levels? Not everything can or should cost a buck.
Care to share how you did it? Never tried asking for a refund on the App Store before. I bought it last week during the sale and feel a bit cheated.

Thanks.
I question how much privacy really did exist before the modern era of large cities and impersonal lives.

When we all lived within spitting distance of our families in a single common room, and everyone in town knew you from birth to death, how much different was life then from now?

Will the 'erosion' of privacy really just return us to a state that we (humanity) have previously been in?
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Why would I?

I'll just go to push my local changes to it one day, and it'll be gone, and I'll still have the entire history of my project.
That page says that the $388 million verdict was overturned on appeal, and that "an undisclosed amount in compensation to Richardson."
Even I would like an expert to answer this. Assuming my domain is a .com domain, does the USA have jurisdiction over the company even if say, it's registered in Sweden?