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I'm hoping service succeeds also - its an awesome value proposition for consumers. However, I've built a few real-time delivery businesses, and I'm pessimistic.

Real-time operations are costly to manage even though the software has become easier to build. Not being Amazon and not being able to control inventory, and access to that inventory, hurts. However, probably a bigger issue is establishing consumer habit - triggering that need to order at the moment the user wants it. This comes down to establishing a brand (expensive) and also evolving consumer behavior (more expensive). And, these consumers will have to be in the < 200 geographical regions of the US that are dense enough to facilitate < 4hr delivery profitably (its probably less than 50 regions where you could fulfill on 1-hr delivery profitably at any substantial volume).

You could say Uber is a counter example of succeeding in this space. I would argue that they replaced an existing consumer habit with a better one. I don't see that in the same-day delivery space - thus the need for education.

There have been a few generations of these services (Webvan / Kozmo; Licketyship; Ecourier / Shutl; Postmates). Eventually, the cost of tapping into consumer habit vs the small margins of brokering a delivery will create an amazing opportunity. In the meantime, the cost of educating and acquiring users is a big deterrent and if you can build the kind of company innovative enough to solve this problem, its likely you have a prohibitively high opportunity cost.
Unless there's some compelling reason to prefer Qt Creator over Eclipse, I'm guessing not.

On the other hand, the current Eclipse SDK does have a pretty compelling advantage over Qt Creator: it's already written and working. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Well, you could buy HBO through a cable provider, unless it's just completely not available in your country. In that case, it's extremely unlikely they'll offer Web access in your country either. So, really, you have another way, it's just not the way you want. Likewise, they release all their shows on DVD, Blu-Ray, etc. But, I suppose those aren't released when you want them to be. If you're interested in financially supporting your programming, I guess those would be the ways to legitimately do it.
It's not that uncommon for for-profit businesses to have someone in an ombudsman role, responsible for advocating on behalf of the (official) customer. It's most widespread in news companies, where most newspapers, news magazines, and TV stations have a role specifically designated to be the readers'/viewers' advocate. Of course, it's ultimately self-interested, but it's the kind of self-interest that involves convincing your customers that your organizational structure is taking them seriously.

As an example from tech, I believe HN's 'jf' used to be a startup-relations person for Microsoft, whose job really did involve trying to advocate for their needs within Microsoft, reporting out of the product groups' normal management hierarchy to make sure he was giving them third-party input.
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Netflix has 26 million streaming subscribers (via Mashable in April http://mashable.com/2012/04/23/netflix-26m-subscribers/), HBO has 29 million cable subscribers (via wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO)

The streaming space may not be as profitable for HBO, but I don't think it is a problem that there aren't many of us that would want it standalone.
From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor):

"A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object. Metaphor is a type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance including allegory, hyperbole, and simile."
Hey... Samsung owned the documents. The court didn't want them. (They claim) The court didn't order Samsung to bury them. IANAL, but I'd say this is one awesome, legal "Eff You, Apple"!
My AT&T HTC One X has perfectly working NFC, which I use. It does not have a secure element. Google Wallet does not work, even after being side-loaded. So no, for me at least, the real impediment is the secure element.
The cost to conduct a survey like this would be really interesting to know. I would love to see a kickstarter for surveys. Maybe survey's are too expensive though ...
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I'm also a Brit and have had such interviews both times I left a job (though admittedly these were owned by American or Americanized companies). Of course you wouldn't want to make personal attacks or anything like that, but it's a chance to give a clear statement of your reasons for leaving (which can help you as much as your now-ex employer). The last job I left seemed to be just a bad fit between me and the role, and even now I'm frustratingly unsure exactly what I didn't like about it, but I'm glad that we at least took half an hour and tried to talk it through and figure out where it went wrong.
Pretty awesome that YC will fund businesses which both have a commercial goal and a social agenda. IMO that's more useful than pg et al donating a percentage of their carry to charity (although that's great too). Of course, the businesses have to make sense commercially as well, but MobileWorks doesn't seem to have a problem with that.
I don't know how you expect me to respond to this.

> Before even talking about Turing computability and infinite set atheism (which rule out a continuous, infinite configuration space), configuration space is folded on itself around the identity axis.

Infinite set atheism is basically Yudkowsky's reason for denying Hilbert space, so I don't know why we should talk before it.

Read the comments on "The Quantum Arena" -- Yudkowsky didn't even know whether the thing he was railing against as an uncountably infinite set was indeed infinite! (Presumably he has updated by now.)

> Unless you think (a,b) is not the same configuration as (b,a)

Well, it depends on the situation. I assume you're talking about the configuration space of the position of two indistinguishable particles, in which case of course I think they're the same configuration (that's what 'indistinguishable' means) and you're just beating down a straw man. If wavefunctions in general are members of a Hilbert space, then so are symmetric wavefunctions.

> Overall, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Can you be more explicit, or provide some links?

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/symmetry/Symmet...

All of the wavefunctions for two particles described within are elements of L^2(R^2); the subset of physically realizable wavefunctions forms a subspace which is also a Hilbert space (answering your question about "permutable" spaces).

TL;DR: Don't try to learn QM from EY.
You can get stuff across country in the US in 3-4 days too. And I didn't say there weren't economic/geographic reasons why Canada's mail service isn't as good, just that it isn't as good.
This is great!

My one feature request: It'd be nice to record a time along with either yes/no, or open ended answers. For example, I'd like to track whether or not I did something, and add a timestamp along with it, maybe rounded to the nearest 15 minutes.
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I'd bet on RIM if they still have enough cash. They also integrate QT for their next platform (if it ever gets to see the light of day)
> You really wouldn't be annoyed.....

You're absolutely right, I would. The OP has a point.

But let's be honest here, we're talking about a multi billion dollar company with thousands of employees, now traded on the stock market, so presumably aggressively trying to spin a profit.

Expecting said company to be "nice" is naive at best.
Hi Daniel,

We got a lot of feedback about that and reduced the number of emails we send now. Really sorry about that.

Wade
It's a great idea, in theory. But who's the target market? Wealthy professionals have a wife to bring them stuff or have personal assistants (hard to believe in the world of dual income households, but I have friends that do just this). Young, less wealthy professionals just go pick up the items themselves or have friends pick them up for them. College kids aren't going to pay for such a service, they enjoy taking a break from studying to go pick up something. And yes, I know, I'm sure there are stay at home husbands that do errands for their wealthy professional wives, I just don't know of any.
That's not what this letter is about. Writing an open letter because someone wasted your time would seem a bit silly to me. This is about Facebook threatening to revoke API access, which the letter didn't mention, but his comments here have.
Sounds nice. I know some people have been using Exec (YC W12) to do this, but instacart is much cheaper. The only thing that takes all the excitement for me is that it does not have a android version OR a web one....
Does swizzling really have a place in well-designed software today?

(edit: changed everything. ;-)
It is bullying tactics. We are big and will crush you unless you give us what we want. It's legal (probably) but isn't a classy move and there are long term costs.

It makes FB less attractive to developers (unless they are trying to get acqui-hired). Also get a reputation as a bully rather than a good fun company may make it harder to attract good staff (or they may charge more if they are not being paid in cool).

It's also the tactic of the mafia and of Microsoft (1990s when people were still scared of them). It would be a shame if anything happened to your company...

Basically it is the big bully move not the cool kid everybody wants to be on his team move.
First Apple, then Twitter, and now Facebook ... the landscape right now seems positively littered with people who have bet the farm on a sharecropping strategy, gotten burnt and are now complaining about the landlord rather than learning the underlying lesson.
The comments are a perfect case study on this. Your data must be wrong, since me and one other guy BOTH don't match it! Hah!
Somehow I think the DHS is competent enough to be aware of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect If this was a plot to stifle speech, it was very poorly executed.
> The problem is that it's a bad faith negotiation.

so "multi-billon dollar company uses hard-line negotiation tactics to increase own profit" is a headline now?

Wow.
If you don't care about the error (because you're just going to let the task die anyway). Then in Go, wouldn't you just write...

_ := http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)

?
Once cable subscriptions start declining HBO will be in the position of power. The cable operators seem to feel that having the option of an HBO subscription on their network helps them to get/retain customers. If they are having issues with customers jumping ship, I would imagine that it would happen even faster if they dropped the HBO option from their line-up as retribution for HBO pushing their own streaming video offering (or teaming up with Netflix/Hulu/etc). From the customer's point-of-view, the lack of HBO would be another negative against the cable operator, and positive in favor of 'cutting the cord.'

That said, I definitely think that HBO should not rest on its laurels. They should be exploring these options, even if they aren't ready to execute on them yet.

[Note: all of this assumes that HBO continues to produce excellent/desirable content]
I can't say I share your experience. For my Xcode has been pretty stable, though I will admit it's not a perfect product.
Absolutely. I'm not saying you should have a single gigantic render method that gets called for every single change. We use a very similar pattern to what @tristan_juricek mentions with small render helpers that get bound as change callbacks. (I'll probably write about that one next.) But since I was talking about subviews I didn't want to go into the non-subview render bits which would be where you'd want render helpers.

Regardless, I'd still have the single `render` as a parent method that renders the initial template via `$.html()` so that my render helpers aren't appending their bits into the DOM. And that parent method still shouldn't break everything if it's called twice.

And then if you wanted to be safe, you could have the render helpers check to see if the view is `rendered` before attempting to do their bit. (And `return this.render();` instead if it isn't yet rendered.)
Nice!

Sure wish this had an RSS feed. Who's going to visit every week to see what's changed?

Oh, wait, it does--just have to use the source. Can you make a feed icon somewhere? Chrome and Safari no longer show the feed availability visually; I guess RSS has dropped out of the mainstream, sadly.
"But, if they want to be relevant in ten years, the changes need to be happening now."

Who's to say HBO doesn't have a plan they are slowing putting into play now? Obviously it's probably not a good ideal to publicly signal to your cable company partners that you have any sort of plan that doesn't involve relying on them in the future.

You know Apple saw the future of tablets because they were working on them for 5-8 years but until the day the iPad launched all you ever heard from Apple/Jobs was he couldn't figure out why anyone would ever want one and they were only good when you're on the toilet.

This may be wildly misguided but I have some faith that the people running HBO aren't idiots. HBO Go itself was way ahead of other channels in bringing their content on demand to customers with digital lifestyles. Yes there's a few major bridges they haven't crossed but that seems to currently be working in their favor. I think they're aware of where those bridges are and as producer of great content they are well positioned to cross them when the time comes.

I also have some confidence that people like Eddie Cue are making the case for the end run around the cable companies to HBO and other content producers behind closed doors. And if/when the big Apple TV This Time It's Really a TV launches maybe HBO will be a featured launch partner. Maybe that will be a good litmus test for whether HBO is going to thrive after the often heralded streaming revolution.
Should have played hardball back and demanded only being acquired for cash. Gotten as much as possible then left as quickly as possible.
HBO is in an industry with extraordinary start up costs. How many series do they have going now? The Newsroom, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones? And three of those four are _excellent_ shows. Not many companies are going to be able to produce 4 quality series and just wait for paying customers to show up while they bleed millions. While HBO continues to produce content a whole level above everyone else (with the exception of AMC), they get a pass from me and my $10 a month. Quality art is more important to me than some geek fantasy of internet delivery.

EDIT: Okay, it's a lot more than four. But my point still stands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_H...
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It seems like by having a delivery fee is a non-starter.

"I can get it in 2 days free with amazon, or $4 today... is that worth it?" People will spend huge amounts of time and effort to not pay delivery charges, even when the total price ends up being the same!
I think something like this in combination with Kinect/Leap would be an incredibly immersive experience.
He recently said on Twitter that correcting that is on his to-do list.
Why all the negativity?

I personally think the ability to open and save "cloud" spreadsheets was nicely done.
Qt could provide a GUI toolkit for C++ on Android.

Last I checked, native apps on Android were limited to raw OpenGL.
I love that the website doesn't shoehorn me into a crappy mobile version when I load it, but what happens now is that I get a picture of an iPhone and apparently nothing else—it's not at all intuitive for me to think to scroll horizontally to find the content of the web page, especially with the hidden-by-default scroll bars on the iPhone. To clarify, the horizontal scroll bar that appeared when scrolling vertically while "looking for the rest of the page" was hidden by a thumb for me. I only barely thought to check horizontal scrolling before giving up on the page as somehow broken on my iPhone.

Deatil of what I see (on the left) vs what I probably should see (on the right, after zooming manually):

http://i.imgur.com/1Yjfi.jpg
They are still gaining subscribers.

Internet subscribers yes; TV, no:

"Comcast's video subscriber base continued to shrink, though at a slower rate than in recent quarters. It lost 176,000 subscribers during the period."

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/comcast-earnings-beat-street-intern...

But it's worse than that. The number of households in the US has increased by about 1.1% per year for the past 20 years. If Comcast and HBO aren't growing their raw US subscriber numbers by at least 1.1% per year - probably more given that they mainly serve urban markets that typically outpace rural growth - then they're falling behind household growth.

http://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1129.pdf
It's a facet of marketing, sure - but you're marketing your platform/API/library/company to developers, not the general public. It doesn't really matter whether they're currently using your system, since they might be in the near future.

The implication is that by having a large ecosystem with lots of developers, the company will benefit, but in this case, FB appears to have shot themselves in the foot.
Facebook is still attractive to developers?
There were a couple Destroy All Software screencasts on that topic [1].

In a nutshell, you start by writing a lot of high level integration tests, which will serve you as some guarantee you don't screw up. Then you start refactoring, writing fine-grained unit tests along the way. Once you settle with code structure, you might want to start removing/rewriting test cases you wrote initially in case they seem redundant.

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/untes... and further parts 2-4. This screencast is done mostly in ruby.
Just a note: NSCache is dangerously busted (as of Mountain Lion GM, 10.8 (12A269), including 10.7), and tends to deadlock rather easily. Particularly, when the system sends a "memory pressure" notification, such that the cache is supposed to evict things. Stay away, for now.

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Right now most of the people that are packing legally concealed weapons are generally people that are obsessive about their guns and practice a lot (and generally take them seriously).

If everyone started carrying concealed weapons, that would be another story.
Here's a lot of other people's version of this:
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A communications problem though is still a problem for the business. You don't get a free pass just because you are big.
If something is located within an hour of me I could just drive and get it, or use a local delivery service. I use the internet to buy extra weird stuff that I can't get locally.
I'd argue the solution to trust is appropriately matching work to reliable workers for whom the work is fairly paid, not simply raw repetition.

At $3 an hour, someone in (say) Lithuania would be highly motivated to do the work right, even if someone in the US wouldn't particularly care.

This is the approach we took at MobileWorks, and it works fairly well.
And HBO announces adds separately from drops, so your brother makes them grow once a year and shrink once a year.
Coming from Wicket, the thing I'm really looking for to make reusable components more possible is a very weak templating system. I want inert, textual templates where literally the only thing they can do is define an anchor point at which the code inserts text, or another component. Maybe I have to write it myself.
There are so many ways to describe how wrongheaded this is that I don't even know where to start.
The idea that less efficient transportation is beneficial because it would require people to be more active is absolutely insane. By that logic, we'd be better off with no transportation other than walking; I find it hard to believe that everyone would be better off if they were constrained to working somewhere within a few miles of them (or alternatively, required to spend half their day just getting to work). Rooting for a higher level of car accidents, pollution (the number of cars needed could easily be cut by as much as half), and congestion in order to force people to walk is ridiculous. Throw in the fact that sedentary lifestyles/obesity are pretty strongly correlated with lower income and education level (ignorance of health/nutrition issues, lack of time due to heavy work schedules, there are different reason for different people in this situation), and the economic benefits alone of a significantly more efficient transportation system would likely cancel out whatever possible increase in sedentary living it may cause.

Driverless vehicles have the potential to transform transportation, full stop. This obviously includes public transit (I highly doubt that a driverless bus is much of a technological leap from driverless cars). Whatever benefits public transit provides are included in the changes that driverless vehicles will bring (unless, as it seems, your only in support of inefficient public transit?).
I completely agree with the small render helpers, we've been using that too and it works amazingly. I'll probably write about that next. But I still want `render` to be able to be called multiple times without breaking because it's a public method.

I'd love to read an article about how you guys handle transitions though. We've implemented a few of them, but I have yet to work on them enough to have found really nice patterns.
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I agree. Ideally, that would be nice, but it isn't going to happen. IMO, the most professional approach when you are leaving is to give individuals specific feedback that you think will help them succeed. However, you should already be giving that kind of feedback to individuals, waiting till you are leaving doesn't come off as very helpful or genuine.
No its not obvious because I don't have a problem with their UI. Most CL users don't. They have a clean UI that doesn't overwhelm you. Posting is dead simple.

Anyway, at this point, neither of us will convince the other. So... good day to you.
It is a common coping mechanism to find arbitrary things to blame in tragedies where there isn't one. It's part of our rational mind to find meaning and patterns in the natural world. We do this to understand. It's often wrong -- our eyes turn clouds into animals and mere static into design. This is not endemic to America.