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Kudos to Google for ditching the LTE buzztech in favor of better battery life and better global compatibility while offering ample bandwidth performance for a mobile device with these rendering latencies.

Jeers to the blogopress for piling on iPhone 4s for making the same right call a year earlier, and to Apple for putting out iPhone 5 that is less "world compatible" than the 4s in order to offer the LTE buzztech.

// disclaimer: own Google Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4s
I can't speak for the iOS app but the Android app will generate tokens.
I think for most of the world, you're lucky to have reliable 3G and HSPA+. I don't particularly care about LTE.
What's it like to watch Sandy hit your home from 2,000 miles away?
Nexus has been shipping obsolete cameras forever. LTE isn't as big a deal in comparison.
Under most circumstances, I would agree with this analysis. Pushing the customer into doing what I think it was Joel Spolsky called "the dreaded market survey" is a terrible idea, because, as the article says, once you disrupt their normal workflow they're as likely to go with someone else's new alternative as with yours.

The problem with applying this line of thinking to Windows 8 is that these days, for Windows, are not "most circumstances." Customers' routines have already been disrupted, they are already looking at other peoples' alternatives, and many are choosing them. So for Microsoft the issue isn't whether or not to let the gravy train roll on undisturbed, it's to do something to keep at least some of the gravy from spilling out.

The cause of this disruption is two-fold -- first, the beginnings of a massive platform shift from PCs to mobile devices, and second, the feeling among most Windows users ever since XP or so that the Windows they already have is "good enough." This puts Microsoft in the awkward position of competing against both competitors with superior offerings for those customers who want something radically different, and themselves for those customers who are change-averse.

All of which is why, in this particular case, just quietly sitting pat would have been a bad idea. It's debatable whether Windows 8 is the product that will square this circle -- that will make Microsoft relevant again to both those who want massive change, and those who want none at all -- but what I don't think is debatable is that they needed to at least try to create such a product if they wanted to defend their position in the marketplace.

(Whether that product should have been called "Windows" is another story, but that's a subject for a separate rant.)
It's _barely_ playable on my 2011 MBA. Seems like the limitation is on the CPU side though. Either it's fairly unoptimized, or this relativistic stuff is just really demanding.

It's quite awesome anyways. Funnily if you change direction, that alone triggers no relativistic effects.
You should check if your bank is in the Global ATM Alliance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_ATM_Alliance).

If I withdraw money from a Barclays ATM in London (or Deutsche Bank in Berlin, etc) using my BofA ATM card, I don't seem to have an extra charges.
I just wish/hope it's true... that we
ll finally get out of this dark age of byzantine languages that grow like cancer (just rembered the good ol
"C is to C++ as Lung is to Lung Cancer" :) )... congrats for saying it out loud anyway!
just tried that..so by automatic planner means you will be providing me exact times of arrival and departure at a place...but it looks like generic type so, how it is tailor-made for me (tailor-made is mentioned on demo site) ?
Apple will probably invent it nearly next year.
Random App Idea: Lots of "Free 5GB" sites + crypto/partitioning/replication
I don't have time to build it, but it might be a fun hack for someone that does.

:-)

Or okay, if it already exists, I'd love to learn about it!
Seattle is one of the "right" towns I was thinking of.
Online Learning, Only Better
Nice article. I like how you pulled in some examples of major brands that started small, like Virgin.

As an entrepreneur, you're unfortunately constantly confronted by the push-and-pull of needing to think big, and then to build small. Investors (seem to) want to hear about big markets and big ideas, and at the same time want to see real product and traction - things that are hard to achieve unless you start small. Thanks for sharing.
If the person you're talking to is really capable of executing your idea (chances of that are small to begin with), he/she is probably also smart enough that they have their own ideas they're more interested in than yours.
As an aside, the title is a little misleading. I was expecting this to be Andy Rubin. But that's a minor nitpick.

I, for one, am very pleased with this Nexus lineup (disclaimer: I work for Google).

The Nexus 4 for $299-349 seems to be outstanding value given the competition is typically ~$600 unsubsidized. I also consider the lack of LTE to be a feature. LTE chipsets are still immature, to the point I'm almost surprised Apple has adopted them. I don't know what they add in cost but they certainly, by all accounts, drain battery life.

The Nexus 7 for $199 seems to be outstanding value. Google Play isn't quite the iTunes ecosystem yet but it's getting much better. I also think it's better than an iPad Mini in that it's widescreen not 4:3. I've lined up a Nexus 7 against my iPad playing Netflix. Playing widescreen the Nexus 7 is only marginally smaller. 720p seems to be a good baseline to aim for on this size of device (IMHO).

I'm also pleased to see the Nexus 10 for $399. It looks like a very nice device.

I also think Android is starting to coming into its own. I've often been critical of it compared to the consistency, ease of use and general pleasure of iOS but that shortcoming is rapidly disappearing.

I compare it to the Motorola Droid, which I have. It's a terrible phone. Everything about it is just bad.

My only gripe with Android phones these days is that they continue to get bigger. I like the form factor of my iPhone 4S.

Plus the Nexus devices has the vastly superior Google Maps. :_ I for one like having public transit directions on my maps.
Datomic is intriguing and powerful but I'd be reluctant to use a proprietary database developed by such a small company. I think Riak has a better model for free/paid usage. There is nothing like Datomic but there are so many excellent open-source databases these days.
I usually go to

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=<user_id>;

where <user_id> is an admirable user who's opinion I respect. I generally start with patio11 to see what he's read/commented on. My theory is that if he commented on it, I probably want to read it because he's smart and wouldn't comment on garbage.

I have a few users bookmarked this way on my primary pc but I don't have access to the bookmarks right now and I can't remember their usernames.
John' Mussers slide deck on the same topic is here: http://www.slideshare.net/jmusser/what-makes-a-great-open-ap...
I don't know what you mean by "disingenuous" - in what regard do you think I'm attempting to mislead? I asked about the meme because I truly didn't understand what it meant, in spite of hearing it used many times here.

Now that I understand it I have formed an opinion on it (namely that it is misleading). Is there something wrong with this?

You make it sound as if each woman has individually and arbitrarily chosen to earn less.

Yes. For example, women choose web design over programming and HR over trading. Women choose to leave the workforce more than men. Analogously, women choose Paladin over Necromancer.

If you have evidence that women are pervasively paid less within the same profession for the same skill and experience levels, feel free to cite it. Better yet, arb it. But your $0.77/1.00 is a national figure and controls for nothing.
When does learning stop being hard pt 2: what should you learn?
shrug

Perhaps you're right. But "Facebook report a vulnerability" works just fine and that's what I would have tried if I were trying to report a vulnerability.
Not always true. We were working on a smartphone game with an original concept and kept blogging about it. Including telling about the idea and showing early gameplay video. It might have been a coincidence, but a virtually identical game appeared before we were finished and became quite successful on Android. So next time I'll be a little bit more careful.
Runtime size arrays (VLAs) are already supported as an extension in GCC. But I'm actually an opponent of VLAs in the current form. There simply is no way to detect the stack size and prevent an overflow. Worst of all AFAIR GCC does not add any checks either and simply changes the stack pointer. There simply is no reasonable way to recover from an overflow.

If they really want to include VLAs then they have to take care of those issues. And in C++ we have std::vector as a safer alternative to raw handling of variable length data.
Thanks for the correction. Sorry. Not native speaker. Spellchecker didn't kick in.

Maybe I'm desensitized to gender issues because I never disrespected a woman for being a woman, and never noticed any adult during my childhood who did that even jokingly but I can imagine conference room of techy women with female presenter showing this picture and all laughing partly exactly because it has nothing to do with MVC and absurd humor is always funny and also because the girl in the picture is obviously inferior to the women in the room even though she could be better off if she learned useful stuff properly like they did and led independent life like they do. I am aware that this probably won't happen anywhere in another 50 years or so.

Personally I hate inappropriate jokes in public appearances because they make presenter look silly and in some twisted form of empathy I feel the shame that presenter should feel.

This joke made me laugh probably because I'm in front of the computer following anonymous link not in the room full of people seeing some boring poor chap desperately trying to lighten the mood. I was mostly amused by the View part, then the Model, not at all at the Controller. I'm so indoorsy (and living in non english speaking country) that when I'm thinking of View the thing that you can see on holidays is one of the last things that come to my mind. I don't own a TV and don't follow celebrity gossip and/or fashion so the connection between what I know as Model and being a model as occupation was also hard for me to make. Controller was I think the easiest (so already least funny) because money is a mean to control a lot (your life for example) also controlling people of opposite gender with money brings "eww.." factor that spoils the joke. 2 out of 3 ... so somewhat funny.

Sorry for trolling you with insensitive question.
I would a though iPod made more sense but waiting until 2009 is odd.
Perhaps our definitions of institutional racism differ but I'm going by the dictionary definition:

>Accepted social arrangements that exclude on the basis of race.

Source: http://dictionary.babylon.com/institutional_racism/

As such, affirmative action fits the bill.

Martin Luther King Jr preached that since whites had actively harmed blacks through the practice of slavery, they should do something special to fix it. I agree with that. However, the whites who are coming of age at this point in time have done nothing of the sort - why should they have to apologise for the actions of their predecessors? Why should a young white woman be punished for things that happened before she was even born? Is she responsible for the actions of all the whites who have ever lived just because she is also white? Do you really think that MLK was talking about future generations who are disconnected from those actions or the people who were right in front of him and still actively encouraging prejudice and racism back in those days? My personal opinion is that if someone participated in those practices, they should make good on them, say sorry, and help the person up, which includes paying what's owed and making room for them.
puny human
Shouldn't the platform owner (e.g. Facebook) make sure that no intrusive apps can connect in the first place?
Yeah that is my idea.I would like some source on freelancing.
Since i can't really leave my place cause of studies.
GCC 4.8 already adds support for return type deduction in normal functions.

> G++ now supports a -std=c++1y option for experimentation with features proposed for the next revision of the standard, expected around 2017. Currently the only difference from -std=c++11 is support for return type deduction in normal functions, as proposed in N3386.

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html
Apple Files Anti-Theft Device Patent Based on Movement and Accelerometer Data
If they don't invent it, they'll pull the "it was immature right until we did it in the iphone" play and then call it "AirPower" or something.
I've seen it happen (female myself), though not to my advantage, that I know of.

I've had bugs sent to me for another woman's code, time and again, without formal bug reports for them.

Double edged sword: they know I can fix it, and generally quickly, but it looks like performance is being swept under the rug.

And I do put in bug reports for them once they get to me. Damned if I'm going to have the work unaccounted for.

edit: should probably mention that when she was hired, I was told she would look good at conferences.
Edward Tufte was already mentioned and his books contains some really good examples

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Informat...

I'd say, yes numerical is often just as good, but not always. Also, in my opinion, whether information is displayed numerically or visually, the key is to be as minimalistic as possible.
Apple Finally Awarded 'Lion' Trademark
Agreed! I've worked at mostly start-ups, and I have yet to work at a start-up that didn't require us all to be DevOps.
Exposing tensions between execs through Frostall's departure, slap by UK court, less enthusiasm surrounding iPad mini lunch and now this. It has been a bad week for Apple.
That's a real shame, but understandable. It's too bad they have to artificially restrict their talent pool like that.
When (not if) we set foot on Mars, the achievement will be one of humanity. Private company, government, US, China, it doesn't matter. We'll be on Mars, a multi-planetary race. How the accomplishment was funded and by who will not matter (to me, anyway).
Photons always travel at the speed of light in every frame of reference. Only the medium matters, not the observer's speed.

The observable change is the separation between photons (wavelength) caused by a moving source.
I was at the University of Washington science and engineering career fair last month, recruiting for Mozilla. Our booth was reasonably busy, but the SpaceX booth had a gigantic mob surrounding it at all times. People are seriously excited about space.
If only there were alternatives which give similar control.
How will big data impact Medicine?
Seems like the legal department of Apple is busy lately.
Daylight-Saving Time Is Past Its Prime
If they keep it secret, it's usually not considered prior art (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art).
Show HN: Knitt - What I Want Out of Facebook
Chrome Canary for Developers
Andreessen: ‘The Dot-Com Bust Was Basically A Mistake’
What does this do for me that https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=applications does not? Other than ironically nag me to share on social media and sign up for their newsletter for every app I drop?
You haven't been to reddit lately :)
Well, they're defining "intrusive" to include things that Facebook supports on purpose, so they have different opinions about what should be permitted on the platform. For example, this scanner considers apps that have permission to post in your name as intrusive, while Facebook not only allows that, but even spent time implementing that functionality.
I have an account with this card. I called them before travelling internationally one time and made the customer service rep repeat the "no fees" part at least three times before I was satisfied I wasn't hearing her wrong. Great card and wonderful customer service. I highly recommend it.
How much can be added to a programming language until it collapses?
So if you run from the mugger it goes off? I guess that might be useful too.
Wonderful article!

Could you tell us a little more about domshot.

I just the other day looked at phantomjs and ended up using casperjs on top as it allowed to use standard selectors to pick the elements I wanted to capture.
They don't need most people to perceive a value difference in proportion to a price difference. Just enough members of their customer base to increase their profits overall.

If you don't like it, you're perfectly free to stomp away and go buy an Android tablet with an SD card slot. Don't worry, Apple won't mind. They'll be too busy counting their enormous stacks of cash to take notice.
We would be taking some inputs from the user eg. city , number of days, interest ( art ,culture , night life ), budget.
We then consider these inputs and use some of our such as ranking of places of interest, opening closing time, distance between two places. Keeping all these in mind we prepare the optimal itinerary for the user.
We are also working on integrating the social aspect i.e. sharing trips with friends, saving you trip history etc.
This is excellent advice. One of the challenges is that really big things can become overwhelming and intimidating, but small things are quite doable. When I was writing a column for JavaWorld I remember how 'hard' it was to write a 1500 - 2000 word column, but 'easy' to write a 2000 word email. Michael O'Connell, my editor there, suggested that I just write an email and let the editors make it into the column. I decided that was stepping too far back, but I could effectively break my writer's block by emailing myself the question I wanted to answer and then approaching the first draft as an email.

I would expect that much the same happens between 'startups' and 'weekend projects.' If you build a small project for the weekend you don't really care that you will be done on Sunday (or Monday perhaps :-) and that will be that. A 'startup' on the other hand that is the first step and then you have to drive traffic, and get buzz, raise funding etc etc. So it stops being a 'weekend project' and becomes the start of huge pile of work. Yuck!
the banks using C# are most probably windows users, right? (Mono is not for enterprise.....)
I attended a confrence by a company named Micro Focus, and believe me, they were talking about renewing COBOL and teaching it to the undergraduates, making the mainframe relevant to the next generation.
Web Magazine For Tablet is the futur, isn'it?
The car prices are high ($35k or so, at which point I'd prefer to just spend the $50k on the low-end Tesla), but the leases are really cheap. I think it's a combination of tax incentives (federal and state, plus some CARB things) and corporate average fuel economy (selling some EVs makes your average better...). Also, I'm pretty sure Nissan (which has one of the best CEOs in the car industry, Carlos Ghosn) thinks EVs are the future, and wants to be an early strong competitor, just like Toyota did really well with the Prius.
Stocks don't average 9-10% per year, not anymore. Since the Dow was at 10K in 1999, the Dow has averaged 2.1% per year, with great volatility (ups/downs). Including dividends, maybe 4%. The gov't has fueled that relatively anemic growth with massive unsustainable borrowing and raping of the environment, so the past is definitely not an indicator of future performance.
I can relate to this perspective. My parents encouraged me to try a number of things when I was young. They encouraged me to read a lot, to get outside, to challenge myself. But every time I started to get really good at something, they encouraged me to back off, often in very subtle ways. I think they were afraid of real success, or afraid of a big failure on my part. It took a long time to recognize this, and a long time to fully break away from this.

My father was a software engineer from the 70's-90's, and he passed away last year. It was really sad to go through his computer, and see the project which he'd been working on in his retirement, knowing it would never see the light of day. He never learned the "release early, release often" concept.

The positive side of this is the new motivation I have to make sure I finish projects. I do not want to watch my technical skills go to waste. This is especially important to me, because my day job is teaching, not programming. So all of my programming consists of side projects, the easiest things to leave unfinished. It also inspires me to not fear my son's failures, in fact I want to teach him that you have to fail in order to succeed significantly.

Some of my heroes in life are the programmers who have remained relevant throughout their entire lives. It's interesting growing older. I am just as impressed by technology as I was when I was a kid, but I am much more focused on what we do with that technology.
Yipe! I hope this is hypothetical, and we're not getting a glimpse into how you (would?) act as a manager.

But even in my most pragmatic, cynical mindset, remove the gender from this entirely. Beautiful people get ahead, regardless of gender. For instance:

Here is another hypothetical anecdote to counter yours: a handsome, sharp 23-yo man walks in to his manager's office asking for more, and the manager sees a potential go-getter. A beautiful 23-yo woman walks into her manager's office asking for more, and the manager is influenced by his subconscious belief that all attractive women are stupid.

Or how about a 23-yo person (say, Chris), at a start-up that gets a raise because that person creates a positive work atmosphere by being friendly and fostering coworker interaction -- even if that person is not the strongest coder, they may be bringing more value to the team. Maybe everyone else agrees with this raise!, because at one time or another, Chris made them feel "included" in some way. The only person who disagrees is Chris' cubicle mate: a cynical lone-wolf type who spurns others' efforts to be inclusive, and watches from a distance as the rest of the office builds inter-office relationships. Months later, if given a pulpit, that lone dissenter may make some statement like "Chris was given a raise due to petty office politics despite being a mediocre coder," and maybe people hearing this who weren't there won't know how truly valuable Chris was.

But enough hypotheticals. I'm worried that they aren't productive and may be needlessly inflammatory.
Really poor article. Here's what I think is probably its lowest point:

> "This forced Netflix’ customers to re-evaluate their subscription plans. And when they chose, many of them chose to cancel their subscriptions altogether."

Not sure how you can attribute the cancellations to "forcing customers to re-evaluate" and completely brush over the fact that the price went up 60%.
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Where do you draw the line at intrusive? A lot of the apps in my list fell into the category "used once, forgot it was installed." I don't think it's necessarily intrusive, but I removed a bunch of them none-the-less; I just don't want them to have permission _anymore_.

A great feature from Facebook would be time-limited access; i.e. Quora can access my Facebook info for 24 hours and then all permissions are revoked. Although, unless the app is using long-lived access tokens, they can only access your FB info for a few hours after an active session -- so if you haven't logged in recently, the app can't grab your data.
Yes,UK i think is ideal for work IT jobs.What about London?
However cause of studies i can't really leave cause of studies.
I would be more interested in knowing how many companies plan to adopt Server 2012.
Metric is rational and a standard ... except that a good chunk of our global computer industry is dominated by American corporations, and they still run on the width of the King's Finger :)