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Perhaps that's just it. First world problems - phones are a tool, and the fact that people are fetishising the iPhone 4 to this degree is the actual problem here.
The only people I see with cracked screens are iPhone owners. No Android-phone owners I have ever seen has been using a broken phone.

The plural of anecdote is not data.
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They actually changed the coating of the phone for the US launch- mine is a much lighter grey, and has a smoother texture. Also has no scratches, but that's just anecdotal evidence.
> so far, neither the front nor the back broke

careful there, coworker told me exactly the same thing and the next day his glass cracked :)
Office also has save to PDF, at least the 2010 version.
Instahero looks cool. I was using geckoboard & I though pg's suggestion of focussing on a single metric made a lot of sense, given the amount of time I see startups spend on custom metrics of all colors & stripes.
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Sure.

http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/05/17/tiobe-index-is-being-gam...
The casing of the Nexus One has none of those problems AFAIK.

The macbook pros are quite durable to scratches and scuffs, so perhaps they could have used the same material/processes. Not sure about the iPhone 5 since I haven't handled one in person yet.
Skype is actually an idea, wonder if I can install it without messing up the whole experience :-/

Öffi also does Dublin, btw (in beta, though).

You said yourself that the lanyrd app is useless (haven't tried it).

I get your point, but I still wonder how many of those apps are really necessary.
Apple stinks of greed nowadays.

I'm sure their shareholders appreciate that.
The marketing material pushes the black version, but I suspect the white to black ratio will be higher than Apple had initially expected because of this issue.
Use cases and phone deals vary and it is worth doing the calculations in a quick spreadsheet looking at expected cost over the contract period. It isn't always the case that upfront purchase is best although I always consider it.

If you do go for the contract don't forget to call the day after it expires and switch to SIM only level prices otherwise any savings will disappear the the next month or so.

My current iPhone 4S contract is only 12 months which was available only to existing customers and worked out substantially cheaper than other purchasing options comes with an insane number of minutes 900 per month but was actually cheaper over the period than the 200 minute ones which would have been plenty.
Would you be willing to send me the .apk (I'm from Slovenia, and would like to try your service, and I'm a developer, so I'd understand if it rejected/got confused with some queries)?
That's probably because Facebook is really just a way to satisfy narcissistic needs. I've seen to many people writing their diaries on FB, open for everyone to read, trying to grab attention. In a way, a lot of publication platforms are like that but FB has become the worst kind.

Also, the technical nature of HN attracts a different kind of users, who are more open to deep discussion on interesting topics. That's just a part of hacker personality I guess.

For socializing with an audience, a platform like HN is a lot better than FB. For personal communication, Email is still the very best thing we came up with, even though we can video chat, make VoIP calls or instant message. To me, Emails are an entirely different form of communicating, just as letters were back in the old days. Almost every other form of telecommunication tries to mimic real life conversations in one way or another, Email doesn't. I like that.

Bottom line: There's nothing except for advertising and handling sensitive information carelessly that Facebook is truly good at these days. But that's - as always - probably just an opinion.
It's incompatible (for reasons that didn't used to be gratuitous) but you don't need Microsoft's permission to do anything with it.
In the comparison photos, is the poor quality one from something like a MakerBot? Maybe I've never seen a close-up photo before, but I always thought they created higher quality than that.
There is a major difference. The number of traffic accidents did not change significantly from 1990 to 2009, but the number of deaths from traffic accidents dropped 23%[1]. This is most likely due to cars being built in a way so that their passengers are more likely to survive accidents.

[1]: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1103.p...
I suppose what was missing for Macs was games (still kind of the case).

I know a lot of people who don't play games on their phones.
> I won't use PHP or MySQL on grounds of taste and decency.

Good for you.

http://roundcube.net/about

http://www.zimbra.com/

http://www.squirrelmail.org/
I will add, however, that the domain is neat and could be used in other creative ways than just a "bad shortcut" (as I explained above). Unless, again, I'm missing something with it's current functionality.
> everyone agrees

So let's see some examples then.

Why is LibreOffice "absolutely dreadful"?
>To be fair, scratches and scuffs on the outside of brand new iPhones have little to do with build quality, just shoddy quality control at Foxconn.

Quality control would seem to be a subset of build quality to me. How do you mean to separate it?
Agreed, public facing demo, with register to download CSS/html could work.

That said, it was really low pain to get started just now. It makes me so happy to not have to go click a link in my email!
Not sure if reviewer was having a bad day or just lacks the understanding to comprehend ideas beyond what is the norm.
Also quite often professors delegate the review work to their students who may lack the understanding in broader perspective.
Not to mention WebGL! :)
Interestingly, rstat.us already does this one way. You can post a status update there and have it automatically crosspost that update to Twitter for you. I've switched to posting most of my text-only updates this way, so my rstat.us stream shows life even though all my followers are still on Twitter (for now).
It will be interesting to watch 3D Systems share price today. JP Morgan issued a statement yesterday that they thought Formlabs might pose a significant risk to them.

https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:DDD

Down 2% already in just 5 min!
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There's definitely a tendency for people to focus on vanity metrics, so pg's way makes a lot of sense. My post here is a bit orthogonal, I guess, since pg's essay and your tool are about what to measure, whereas my post is about how.

That said, I do like the tool, it's very easy and straightforward, good job!
I got my MacBook Air replaced for free, literally because it shipped with a scratch on the cover one dot in size. Reading this response makes me put that experience into question.

Then again, they seemed unapologetic when the original iPod Nano got dinged like crazy. But still, that some people receive phones that ship with scratches is ridiculous.
"What material would you suggest they could use?"

There are plenty of plastics out there that don't break or scratch easily. And when they do scratch, it's a solid color so the scratch isn't readily visible. Most other phone companies use one of those.
"In 2009, Google obtained 3,500 miles of Street View images from driverless cars with minor human intervention.[citation needed]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car
It's very easy to embed and sandbox, easy to learn and write, and sufficiently fast. Why do you ask?
"Slams" is a word that appears in headlines more than it deserves, because it's short. It helps that it's dramatic, but mostly just because it's short. "Woes" is another extremely common one, and you see "Woos" a lot during election season.
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Metro is WPF based.
It might be a good idea, but Kickstarter have recently made it very clear that per-orders aren't why they exist. By accepting these per-order style Kickstarters they risk having people think of it as a store, which is bound to cause frustration when projects are delayed or cancelled and money is lost.
You know thats right. Whats such a shame is that the rest of the world embraces Steve Jobs and what he stood for and what he made Apple stand for. I feel a little crazy to say this, but doesn't it seem like Apple is falling farther and farther from their initial tree?
i'd say that’s pretty damn extreme. while i agree that technology (broadly) has been evolving at a far slower pace than what i’d have expected (we got people walking around the moon how many decades ago?) but that’s not to say there has been no progress at all, and definitely not so for computing in particular..

’progression’ involves a lot more than increased capability. i’d say a greater measure of technological progress is in looking at the diffusion and mass adoption of a transformative technology.. even if you could (maybe) do all of what you do on a computer today 25 years ago, my parent sure as hell couldn’t (i wasn’t born yet) and neither could 99%+ of the world’s population. the fact that we’re nearing a point where everyone has access to some sort of computing and connectivity is real progress. as too is the fact that you can get something today that’s thousands of times more powerful, and at a fraction of the cost.

also (and relating more-so to my original comment), there has clearly been a lot of progression towards making (the now far more powerful) components smaller and more mobile, which has clearly has a significant effect on how people interact with that same underlying technology. i mean forget smartphones, there are watches now that are more powerful (and capable) than early pc’s, and i wouldn’t write that off in saving we've ‘failed’ just because we aren’t driving-around in flying cars (operated, of course, by our humanoid robot chauffeur’s, and in-route to pluto for some good skiing)..
My HTC One S is scuffed all over
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Why are people shitting so much over LibreOffice?

Possibly from past experience; I can't be the only one who's had a red face after emailing a document, only to find out that in Word, the formatting's off just slightly enough to make the entire thing look unprofessional.

This was a good many years ago, and I accept that things may have changed, but Word and Excel work for me right now, and have the added bonus that I can trust what I'm sending to clients.

Just for the avoidance of doubt, I realise that this entire situation could be avoided by using tools meant for the job. Sadly, that wouldn't go down as well with a lot of clients who aren't as technically-savvy as the average HN user.
but what about this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M5q5TRuAsY
I think you both hit the nail on the head with this one.
Did you read the article? Extremetech seems to believe that it's a flaw in the adonizing process:

"Schiller must be referring to the fact that anodization simply isn’t strong enough to withstand everyday use. We know this isn’t the case, though, as anodized aluminium is very well understood and used in a massive gamut of applications — including military, where the anodized coating certainly doesn’t just scratch off."

Also, from another extremetech article it links to: "Usually another protective layer of sealant or lacquer is added to make the it more wear-resistant — but sadly it seems like the iPhone 5 lacks that extra protection."

The iPhone 5's adonization seems to be more fragile than other adonized devices. <strikethrough>They've been coloring the iPods for years and nobody has complained this much.</strikethrough>
I haven't trusted Facebook since Beacon. And I never will again. I never put anything on my page I'm not comfortable with the entire internet seeing.
Great simple idea, but I don't really understand what the json is supposed to look like. You say:

"GET http://yoursite.com/secret returns {"data": [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]}"

But is that an array of data for the last seven days, or the current week, or is it 7 separate analytics that I want to get tracked?
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As written in the article, the technology is meant to understand short queries, in other words short commands.

I guess everybody agrees, nowadays entering commands to any kind of machine is still much more accurate and quicker if you use your hands for doing so.

This said, i think the technologies is in particular useful in situations in which you are not able to use your hands. This could be for example because you are busy working or you are handicapped. So one idea which comes to my mind would be an assistant for handicapped people, e.g. a device which can be used to control an electric wheelchair.
Maybe you can take the idea & turn it into something for instahero? Think "landing pages" for certain types of metrics pre-configured. instahero/weekly-visits | instahero/weekly-subscribers | instahero/weekly-visits | instahero/weekly-revenue etc ...

I like the idea of having a single page per metric
Most game engines support multiple graphics APIs.

Contrary to popular belief by many geeks, game consoles do not support OpenGL as well. When they do, like the PS3, is a kind of subset that most studios avoid using anyway, and prefer to make use of the lower level APIs.
Four people I know specifically have broken android screens. Only one person I know has a broken iPhone screen. Android phones are 4x more likely to have broken screens...
There's one thing you forgot here: They want to do that in one place. We're already doing all that here, today. We work on code using GitHub or similar services. We present our work on HN. We've got endless means of communication. And bottome line, we are a community. But, it's spread out all over the internet. I see where your question's going, which is why I wanted to clarify it a bit.
Funny, I have exactly the opposite opinion: because Metro supports html + javascript it's very easy to get data-driven apps out with very little effort.

Of course if you're doing anything interesting then it's probably a nightmare.. but the vast majority of applications aren't doing anything interesting, so Win RT is great for them.
I made up the Munich Design Conference, so their app is doubly useless :)

I'm sure there is a large percentage of apps that are completely useless or interchangeable for most users. But, at 2000 there are probably plenty of useful (to some people) apps missing where the appstore has dozens.

The app the made me get apps was a chess clock.
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Originally I hoped to somehow hack the instant preview into it (then it would be nice for those who prefer a Huge Search Area instead of a tiny search bar), but then I found google used some methods to prevent you from doing this. For example, no chance of iframe.

The future plan could be to get rid of useless stuffs in google and google search results as much as one could, though this must be against their terms.
I hit enter and I still get Google.
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Hey OP, Diaspora is not a closed-invite system, there are plenty of free pods out there. A great listing is http://podupti.me/

If you'd like to know more about how we "publicly disseminate status updates", check out the documentation on federation protocol: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Federation-Protoco...

We're also working on compatibility and interoperability with the OStatus protocol using Federation.
Disclaimer: I have no clue about Win specific game development, but I thought this would be interesting for others.

I read in a lot of places recently (this year) that XNA is 'dead' (search Google for instance). Is this true? What replaces it?
I think in order to have the time to say that we are all living in the 15th century, you would have to be doing your chores with electricity and buying your food in a store (that stocks preserved, prepared and rapidly transported goods).

Never mind torturing the impact of air travel (you can get there tomorrow! is a lot more interesting than the forces experienced during a flight) and genetic engineering (A substantial portion of worldwide calories come from GMOs).
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working for the man in this cubicle for 5 years has crushed my spirit. i learned to program and today i put in my 2 weeks. time to discover how to make a living off the internet and leave my mark on history.
I like this idea a lot! I'm curious if anyone else finds major flaws in this idea but it seems to make a lot of sense to me. Yes, it may change slightly how you do your calls, but if the logic works and that's the "worse thing" that could come from this then I think it's worth implementing.
Disagree. First, the hypothesis that the quality distribution within the 2000 is substantially better than within the half-million-or-so is unlikely to be true, at least there's no evidence why it should be so.

Second, the 2000 is absolutely certain not to cover the long tail. The 2 dozen applications you use are not the half a dozen applications I use. Those car engine bluetooth+OBD monitors and bike repair apps are definitely not in the 2000 pool. Not to mention the variety of games out there.

2000 is a really crappy number of apps to have.
Also "Right place and right time to suit the right situation. this is some more fille" :) looks like you have some filler text to rip out.
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> To be honest, do we really need so many apps?

Absolutely not, and I don't get the fascination with app number counts. I often hear people say "I got a new phone, what apps should I get?" Well, what problem do you need to solve? "Oh I just want more apps" is what they usually say. Then everyone wonders why their battery only lasts 7 hours.

I haven't looked in the Windows 8 store, but as long as it's not 2000 complete garbage apps like the pages and pages of ones you sift through on Play, I don't see the issue.
Yes I've trialled Windows 8 heavily for our environment and installed about 50 "popular highly rated apps". They are all simply put: shit. Flakey, broken, hard to use, slow, huge, not useful and poorly integrated and nothing inbetween. Even the microsoft provided apps with Windows 8 are really shoddy.

Seriously I'm a fan of Windows Phone 7.5 and own a handset with lots of apps installed but it doesn't scale up to the desktop at all.

Not a single existing Windows user is going to bother with this crap - it'll end up going to way desktop gadgets went except you can't turn it off any more.
Not sure if you'd consider it a general purpose language, but you can certainly use JavaScript in a functional style. It's not a "pure" functional language, but among commonly-cited languages, what is a pure functional language besides Haskell?

If I'm not mistaken, proper tail calls are even slated for addition to the next version of the ECMAScript standard.
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I've got no beef against the people using Kickstarter as a store to handle their initial production sizing. I think the branding and curation are valuable to me for locating these sorts of projects.

There is always a risk of unforeseen delays or even failure of the project, but that isn't unique to Kickstarter. Any tiny company that funds purchasing with pre-orders is offering the same dynamic, except they will go bankrupt instead of just sort of dissolve.

Eventually someone may have a large fraudulent project and flee with the money, but again, that isn't special. It happens in traditional companies too.

Perhaps eventually Kickstarter will need to have graduated oversight. If your project goes over six figures you must convince someone at Kickstarter that you aren't blowing smoke. If it goes over seven figures you have to pay for a Kickstarter supplied auditor to whom you must show progress for incremental payment releases.
This looks very good and easy to get it working. Will try next time, thanks!
This could be a killer domain if there is ever a strike at Google. /s
Technically. In reality WinRT is missing A LOT of stuff from WPF (heck WinRT doesn't even reach parity with Silverlight). Simple stuff la x:Static, x:Array are not available.

WinRT 1.0 is basically a subset of Silverlight with a few specific controls thrown in.
Anecdotal counterargument ho.

I've owned a unibody MBP for only a year or so and it has several visible scratches, especially on the underside. It doesn't bother me, at least not as much as a case would, but based on my own experience I definitely wouldn't say "quite durable." I also wouldn't prefer any other material.
"So what's left? What material would you suggest they could use?"

Type III Hard Anodized Aluminum, not the thinner, weaker Type II they apparently used. Also, a little more texture on the back would have disguised scratches better.

I carried this HA III flashlight on my keychain for years with surprising little wear, given that it's constantly scraping against keys, key rings, and other metal tools. http://www.arcflashlight.com/arc-aaa.shtml
Can an expert in 3D printing compare this with, say, the MakerBot Replicator 2? How does the extruder technology compare with SL on resolution, hardness, speed of printing, etc?
it's an issue of the size. makerbots can print nice looking things but not that small. the objects being compared are the size of a quarter.
If you don't want to wait for the DOMReady event, you can always write it like so:

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