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Samsung has great marketing, picking a fight is a fantastic strategy. However, this comercial still sells features not benefits. Imagine how much more powerful the comercial would be if they could capture the benefit to the samsung user. How does having 4G improve my life?

When I see this Samsung commercial or the Droid commercial from my original post, I can just picture the company execs giving their ad agency a list of features that need to be included in the commercial, because the features are what's important to the company. The problem is, customers don't care about features at all, they care about what those features allow them to do.
Its not lighter.
The galaxy s3, is also bulkier.

http://mashable.com/2012/09/12/iphone-5-compared/
These tables hide a lot of information.

For example, the screen is compared simply by pixels and physical size but there is no mention of screen quality. I have a desk full of Android devices and for most of them, the screens are large but really, really poor when it comes to color reproduction, dithering, and/or brightness.

The same problem manifests with the CPU/GPU comparison. I will take an Apple A6 any day of the week over a Snapdragon S4 with an Adreno GPU. I've had nothing but problems with Adrenos -- their performance is poor in comparison to the newer PowerVR chips and their crappy drivers have required me to dumb down some of my shaders that work flawlessly on all other mobile GPUs (Tegra, Mali, and PowerVR).

That said, I'm happy Apple finally enlarged the screen so it's more in line with where the Android market is. After using some of the higher end Android phones, my plain-jane iPhone4 is showing its age.
i'm guessing the same number after iPhone 4S ?
If it were a default prohibition that could be overridden for a project that really needs it, I wouldn't complain. But as it is it's an unreasonable cost for the benefit for everyone but the platform owner. (Cost: obvious. Benefit: some hacks get harder, but with no essential change to what's possible in the way that memory protection or high-level programming languages change the game. E.g. instead of native code your hack uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming .)
First point from the link:

"If you want to apply, please submit your application online by 8 pm PT on October 30, 2012. Groups that submit early have a significant advantage because we have more time to read their applications."
I absolutely do however I want to find someone as enthusiastic as I am, not somebody who is just coming along for the ride because I convinced them it's a great idea. Where I am currently (location-wise), finding the former will be harder than the latter, I suspect, and if possible I would rather work with someone locally rather than remotely.
That makes no sense. My iPhone takes two seconds to get a solid GPS lock and it doesn't have a barometer. My stand-alone TomTom car GPS takes about 30 seconds to get a lock from a cold start, which is entirely attributable to the time required to download the satellite positions over the extremely slow 70s-era channel that they're broadcast over. Actually solving the equations takes no appreciable time on anything resembling modern hardware.

As far as I know, aGPS as found on modern devices is all about getting that almanac faster (which is why my iPhone only requires two seconds), not about using a rough fix to then get a better fix.

I realize that isn't your post, but it seemed appropriate to reply here since you posted the link.
Yardsale (YC S11) - Mobile Marketplace, Seeking iOS/Rails Engineers
We’re a small team of developers rethinking the way people buy and sell things locally. We're building a product in a multi-billion dollar market, and have a clear path to revenue.

We're a rails/iOS shop, looking for an iOS specialist or hardcore generalist. We're looking for individuals who:

- Above all, learn quickly

- Have a strong understanding of everything from optimized PostgreSQL to performance hacking UIWebViews

- Seek out the latest in tooling, iOS open source or clang features

This is a key technical hire, with significant equity and lots of room to influence the strategic direction of the company. The best fit will probably be someone hoping to be a technical founder in their next role.

Yardsale is well-funded, and based in San Francisco's mission district. If you'd like to hear more please send your github profile or something you've built to jobs@getyardsale.com, or visit us at https://www.getyardsale.com

--

Recent Press:

http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-yardsale-the-startup-that-wants-to-give-you-an-easy-way-to-make-money-selling-your-old-stuff-2012-8

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/craigslists-challenger-could-be-an-app-or-several/

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/yardsale-launches-nationwide/

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/yardsale-app/

http://gizmodo.com/5922187/yardsale-use-your-iphone-to-sell-stuff

http://lifehacker.com/5920320/yardsale-is-the-fastest-way-to-post-an-item-for-sale-on-craigslist

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-15-startups-everyone-is-talking-about-in-silicon-valley-right-now-2012-8#yardsale-is-making-local-selling-fun-again-9

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/story/2012-06-17/truong-earn-money-with-apps/55637134/1
A better comparison over at the Verge:

http://www.theverge.com/products/compare/6116/5807/6082/6024...
The bottom line is still that many lives are saved by organ donors. From a moral point of view it's also pretty clear cut. If you want to accept an organ when you fall ill then you should also be willing to donate your organs.

The concept of organ donation is a little freaky, and the idea admittedly makes me a bit uncomfortable. Especially as I visualize it. But surely selfishly hanging on to something I don't need anymore (being dead and all) isn't the right solution.

I think this article is essentially some elaborate rationalization. The author can't reconcile being against organ donation knowing it saves lives. Hence the absurd stuff about doctors cackling evilly as they chop up their live patients to harvest the organs for fun and profit. Right.
Name a feature the iPhone has, that say a Samsung S3 doesn't have.

There are several the S3 has that aren't there on an iPhone.
Contrast with (for example) the UK:

http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...
GPS gives you altitude already, no need for a barometer. It's not hugely accurate, but it's more accurate than an uncalibrated altimeter.
Do you go to "Doctors" much? You have an extremely idealistic image of them.
If you are brain dead you cannot feel pain because your brain is not there to receive the signals.
In computer speak, imagine you had a sensor that had external power and continued transmitting input to the CPU- the signals keep coming in, but the CPU is switched off. No processing of pain, no sensation of pain.
End of story
really !! NFC..who care about that. No body uses it even with existing phones. future of payment is going to be without plastic cards , NFC etc. Check square's new feature of paying it wifi
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pope vs obama :D
how did you guess my best friends btw?
I'm deeply underwhelmed. I was half-expecting something revolutionary, maybe haptics. Something that would make the iPhone stand out from Android. But I don't see anything new that would make me give up my existing Galaxy Nexus. It's just a big load of meh.
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I agree, it's hardly representative of the whole country, which is why I referred to the photo essay as a viewpoint rather than claiming that (the whole of) Afghanistan was a modern progressive country in the 1960s.

I have no knowledge of what life in Afghanistan was like in the 1960s, I just remembered reading this essay and looking at the photos some time ago.

If I recall history lessons from school correctly, customs and habits formed by a country's elite (most often in the country's capital) tend to spread and be mimicked around said country. I wonder what life in rural Afghanistan would have been like today had not the USSR and the USA got involved.

EDIT: Sigh, this should have been an edit in my previous comment of course.
Hidden <iframe> elements would probably work just as well.

It might even work with JacaScript turned. Have a page with nested iframes. Serve each one from a different IP address and have the server not answer right away. The server answers with the first iframe having a chosen URL while Eve snoops the wire. Eve tells the server which URL to use for the next iframe body that it sends. Repeat until the cookie is deduced. The server can use a nested tree of iframes to avoid having a bazillion iframes in the top level document.
I don't think HVAC systems will do much damage there. I have a gadget on my airplane that gives altitude accurate to the foot, and that's while moving 60MPH or more through potentially turbulent air.
can anyone confirm the Start fund's $150K convertible debt note is still on the table for every YC startup?
No, this is what is disturbing about this article, you can be alive and not able to breath, this is not the test used anywhere in the world, there are tones of tests that they do including EEG that needs to be flat (I think it is repeated a few times with intervals and they make sure the patient is not on any drugs that suppresses the brain and flattens the EEG and ...
Am I underwhelmed, Apple? or Do I miss Mr. Jobs?
great idea guys.
catchy webdesign, especially the hipster guy on profile button!
I used round numbers for illustration. A microUSB-USB cable costs $2 (delivered!) from dx.com. A cable to do the same thing from Apple will cost $19:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/05/apple_adapters_for...

plus taxes, plus shipping if you want it shipped. This part is costing Apple less than $1 to produce and distribute. I see an estimate of 23 million iPhone 5's will be sold in the first quarter of availability. I couldn't say how many extra cables will be sold but if we go with your one-per-phone estimate, we're talking about an extra $400 million, in profit, in the first quarter of sales alone. Just from cables, not counting docks and speakers and whatever else people plug into their iPhones. Counting those other things, maybe a wild-ass guess would be on the order of an extra $5 billion in profit over the next year?

I have zero doubt in my mind that Apple's decision to forego both the old dock connector and microUSB was primarily profit-driven. Let's summarize the situation:

-- changing connectors has an extremely clear negative impact on users (all your cables and accessories are obsolete)

-- changing connectors has an extremely clear and truly enormous profit benefit for Apple (also a negative impact on users)

-- Apple has stated that the new connector connects in two orientations, providing a tremendous benefit to users

Is that a fair summation of the arguments on both sides?
>Every previous iPhone had a new feature that was a pretty BFD. This is the first without.

Larger screen. It's a BFD for some people, for they have been tearing their hearts out at forums for ages how Android has that and the iPhone doesn't.

And 3G -> 3GS didn't bring anything to the table. Or 4 to 4S for that matter, considering that Siri was already available as an app.
How do you get buy-in on the highest levels to really make change?
There is a significant difference in network coverage and bandwidth speeds. Also, until recently Sprint device selection severely lagged both AT&T and Verizon as the iPhone and many top Android models were missing.

There are many factors for choosing your carrier outside of price.
I wanted something that would be qualitatively better than current Android phones. It didn't deliver. At all.

It's trivial for the phone to be better than 5+ year old tech. But that's a completely irrelevant comparison.
"You're saying that Agile is good because it's isomorphic to any successful, minimal ad hoc process that fits the project."

Well, that's kind of true: http://agilemanifesto.org/

You are mixing scrum and agile.
I'd say it's an excellent idea for every language.
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If you're talking about the Mobile Share plans, its because they are (1) for entire families and (2) include unlimited voice and text along with them. Essentially you'd pick out a plan and that would be your monthly bill each month. Everyone would draw from the same data cap though. Given that, those prices don't seem particularly outrageous compared to what a typical family of 4-5 might pay now.
I spoke to someone in Amazon's NYC event earlier this year, and they said the reservations are used to help guide their hardware purchases. Since the hardware will be around for quite a while, they require longer terms (for now, anyway)
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I wrote this because print_r() and var_dump() collectively suck and after trying countless alternatives couldn't find exactly what I envisioned.

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Is this officially part pf PHP 5.5 or just an RFC that might be included in PHP 5.5?
To decrypt each byte.
To sum it all up, were you really expecting Time travel? If so, move on; It's an amazing phone. At time times you need to take little small steps and a little moderate steps, to archive something big ;).
Thanks for the reply. Based on your response and the responses of others, I think that I will in all likelihood apply with the intention of searching for someone to work with (perhaps local to SF) if my application progresses. If it does not, it will allow me to focus my search on my local area. Thanks again :-)
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>their performance is poor in comparison

Benchmarks or it didn't happen.
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RasPi is ~ 175 MFLOPS per unit (CPU only, discounting the GPU). So, this cluster works out to 11 GFLOPS, with 16GB of RAM for > $2500 USD.

For comparison, you could buy a motherboard, 32 GB of RAM, and an Intel i5 processor for $500 that will do over 20 GFLOPS.

So, it doesn't really stack up well from a price/performance standpoint. The value of these systems is more teaching students how to work with parallel code.
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Yes, but there's a greater chance that basic tutorials that for example use unsalted sha1 will use this method instead. It's just as simple for a beginner to grok, but secure by default.
Who’s buying the Nano? Why is Apple is still selling them?
This phone http://img.pics.livedoor.com/012/d/3/d3c8a2642464e6c8bfd0-LL... is 6.65mm thick
"No messy onboarding required" - it means that your testers don't have to signup or login to send feedback. Their interface is purely email. You pose questions from our dashboard, they get sent an email secretly on the backend. When they reply to that email, it comes back into their feed (which is the third benefit).

Think of it as if you wanted each user to use Posterous to send feedback, except their blog is already private, and they just reply to an email prompt from you to post to it.

Does that make more sense and seem valuable? How might you rephrase the last 2 benefits to make it more clear?
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blame the carriers. they know iphone's target market has money. buy an unlocked phone and use it with a prepaid data plan.
well good question, while importing the fb data from the user we count all the comments,likes, and tagged-photos and aggregate them to a score.. this score is then used to measure how good you know each other.
it took us a time until we figured out how to weight the different parameters but i think the outcome is quite accurate!
Well, to be fair, NFC is capable of two way communication where scanning a barcode is one way communication. You are comparing galaxies to apples ;)

As an android (GS3) user I would have liked the iPhone to get NFC (and NFC based mobile payments) for the simple reason that the more phones capable of NFC payments the more merchants are likely to support it which benefits all of us (or at least all of us interested in paying for things with our phones).

The same argument would hold true for wireless charging, but it would probably be unlikely for Apple to adopt the emerging "Qi" wireless charging standard and instead roll it's own.
Third party apps exist and it's in no way a new feature. Next thing you know you'll call Angry Birds a new feature if they ship it with the phone.
/tmp. If it's tmpfs, it can expand into swap space.
I don't know if you're defending the actions of these people (I can hardly imagine), but I don't understand why people still defend Islamic protests at ALL. Back when that Dutch cartoonist drew an offensive picture of Mohammed, Christians throughout the Middle East and Africa were being killed, churches burned.

The entire region is laced with (or at least completely tolerant of) hateful, backwards savages. These "you made fun of me" protests are a way to stir up hatred and Anti-Western sentiment, and maybe get to kill a few non-believers.
If only Nokia released the Lumia with Android, then they could already be shipping.
Sprint roams on VZ's network.
I think this is one of the cases where GDP misses what we're trying to measure. If, before the Web, I would have bought a product just barely useful enough to pay for, then post-Web, buy something different instead that is much, much better for me (has a higher consumer surplus), GDP will be the same, even though human welfare has significantly increased.

Normally, you can glaze over such a case, but the internet is basically filled with this kind of thing. Moreover, a lot of the stuff that you would normally have to pay for, you get effectively for free, and I'm not talking about pirated movies. I mean the collaboration, fact-checking, knowing of more options, info you'd normally need to buy a book for, etc. Again, cash payments for that stuff might have dropped, but it made people that much better off.

So if people that were doing things obviated by the Web, then go start doing something different, then, well "GDP is GDP" -- but that is a massive efficiency improvement.

I don't know about human lifespans or manufacturing output (though the widening collaboration opportunity increases the number of people that can solve foundational manufacturing problems), but that's only one of many human values, and I think it's an artificial requirement to compare to electricity on that basis -- almost like penalizing it because it didn't enable better hunting of large animals.

So stepping back to the level of human welfare and modes of life it enables, I think the Web is comparable to electricity.

Here's an informal measure: what does the technology do to the "quaintness" of (non-sci-fi) stories composed before it? After electricity, you might look at a book with a plot element "character can't work at night", and scoff at how backward it is.

Does the Web do something similar? I'd say it does a lot more. Per Steven Landsburg, there was a novel written in '91 (right at the Web's infancy) with plot elements like "someone is endlessly searching bookstores to find an obscure book" and "someone sells expensive encyclopedias to people with a tremendous demand for easy access to knowledge" -- very, very quaint from today's perspective.

(Novel was called, IIRC, "Hunters and Gatherers")
>Sorry, false dilemma and totally disingenuous. Just because no one promised it doesn't mean that one couldn't hope for it or be disappointed at its absence. Similarly, having big deal features like those are reasonable expectations for comparison to the original Iphone for "bigness" which I interpret as "important new features that will change how most people use phones in a radical way".

And I'm disappointed that Apple isn't giving everyone a pony. They never promised it, but I'm disappointed that it's not there. I was going to call mine Bob.

I fail to see how being disappointed when features that were never promised aren't delivered is valid disappointment. Apple never promised it because they aren't doing it for this device. It could be coming in the future, or it might not. If, for example, Apple had made official statements about including NFC or wireless charging(not the "rumors" that seem to be the replacement for actual journalism in tech), then disappointment would be warranted. But Apple hasn't done that at all. Would it be nice if they included it? Sure. But they didn't.

This happens just about every time a new piece of tech is announced by everyone, and, quite frankly, it's getting annoying. People complaining about how Samsung isn't doing retina-style displays on their midrange tablets. Or complaining that Nokia is making Windows phones. Or that Apple hasn't included everything that everyone has ever wanted in a phone. With a cherry on top.

There are valid complaints about the new phone and news today: I'm skeptical of the reported battery life, considering all the new tech in the device, and that they made it that much smaller. Or that the majority of the iOS6 features won't be available to the pre-4S iPhones. Or that iTunes is still going to be a resource hog. Or that there's a new connector.
I would argue the biggest thing to happen to the iPhone since the iPhone was the retina display, no?
Are you looking for a co-founder?

I've created this Google survey so that you can put in a little information about yourself, and what you're looking for:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDAtOWh...

When you fill it out, you can see the other responses.

Perhaps you won't find a co-founder, but at least you might meet other people to talk to.

[edit: This is my first survey on google docs, so if I need to change any of the sharing permissions let me know.]

[edit 2: Here is the spreadsheet of results.
Please respect the contributors, and don't use the spreadsheet unless you actually filled out the survey yourself.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnaOC0UphlFtdDA...
]
Oh no a bigger screen. I for one am happy with the current screen size. Sure make it faster, slimmer but not wider and longer!
"Deeper still one finds the profit motive behind the organ donation scam."

The author suggests that misinformation and a philosophical problem is to blame. This is the premise of the article. Then he writes a statement like this. For his assertion he needs to find proof that there's a deliberate campaign to mislead the public.

The author offers nothing of the sort in his citations. His inference is lazy and sensationalist, even before getting into whether his premise is actually true.
I spent some time with Java this summer after several years of Perl, Python, and Common Lisp. I found Java - like Common Lisp - designed with obvious care. It had a clean design which was even, in a strange and minimalist way, beautiful. What it wasn't was powerful.

I thought it took a lot of shoveling code to get anything done, and that was fairly unpleasant to deal with.

I think that if I was starting a greenfield project for a 5+ year codebase which would have to be fairly reliable, cross-platform, and not a Lisp, I would have to choose Java and build my own frameworks for abstractions.
Did you see the live keynote? At the end and thoughout it, they kept saying how revolutionary it is.