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Younger generations seem to use various other forms of "inboxing" (messaging apps, FB, etc) already.
We can see some of the business documents now just being shared over the cloud, more communication over Skype and just meeting invites over email.
As for personal mail, form my experience, the only email I receive today are newsletters, notifications, and the occasional BCCed broadcast mail (wedding invites, etc).

I think email is still relevant only for a document trail for business. If its about leaving a document trail, maybe there should be something new and more suited for it - for approvals, discussions, etc.

Its not like people are looking for a solution for a "problem", but then someone is going to create that something - which will make email less relevant even for the business use.
This whole article reads like Google is announcing it's dominance, as if it's some Christian crusader claiming a conquered land in the name of the Pope and Christianity.

Here's my interpretation of some of what I read:

"If Google decides that HTML5 web apps are the way forward, making them a first-class citizen in future versions of Android, then other mobile OSes will have no other option than to follow suit."

(We claim absolute power)

"Conversely, Google could decide to cease development of the stock Android browser — much like Microsoft did with IE4 — and push alternative technologies like Native Client or Dart, forcing other mobile OSes to embrace Google’s tech."

(You must all submit to our new power)

"And what about the other platforms? It seems like Apple is destined to occupy a tiny corner of the market — no doubt making fat profits, but losing control of the market and all-important mind share in the process."

(Your former leader has been dethroned and never had your interests in mind anyways)

"You may point to the fact that Android is open source, thus making such a monopoly rather toothless. This might be theoretically true, but in practice Google still holds all the keys."

(Don't question Google's power)

"Over the next few years, Google will develop unprecedented control of the fastest growing tech market in the world. Will Google use this power to gently steer and cajole the web and mobile computing markets towards green pastures, or will it cave like Microsoft and squeeze as much money as it can from Android?"

(Will Google be a benevolent leader or a ruthless dictator? You will find out.)
What you refer to as market opportunity is also commonly considered to be an idea. For example, lets say you find a group of folks willing to pay $1,000 for widgets that cost pennies because you discovered that (a) they don't know about these widgets and (b) it solves a major painpoint. Both are considered ideas.
>> "Really, it sounds like you just know a lot of unpleasant people."

Feeling guilt, anger, and envy reading a social network sounds like a personal problem and not entirely the fault of the people posting updates.
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> iOS has no fragmentation

I think the correct statement would be iOS has "less" fragmentation. They still have fragmentation though. Not only through the devices but also the version of iOS running on the device. It can get pretty hairy trying to maintain support for multiple iOS devices with versions of even just 4.3 and up.
Can you expand more on the second point? I'm not sure I see a correlation between marketing techniques that were unpopular with one or another social group and being "flash in the pan".
I totally agree, but what flag will be planted? Humans love to raise a flag from the geographic location known as a country they are a resident of. It would be amazing if we didn't need a flag this time around, just human accomplishment. But competition drives humans to do great things, look at the olympic records over time. If SpaceX received funding fromt he US government would there be a clause in the contract stating they have to raise an American Flag?
> Because, if anything history has taught us, Open Source will eventually win the war.

How does that work? Where is the open source OS that "won" the desktop war? Where is the open source codec that "won" the codec wars?
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Agree with everything except e-mail. I see no reason to believe that's going away anytime in the next millennium.
When I travel I prefer using a private sharing system for my family too. It means they don't need a facebook account and we can comment on things knowing exactly who else is watching (I only gave the password to around 10 people and they all knew not to share it). I used a password protected Posterous site and that worked really well (Tumblr may be a better choice now Posterous is sold).
Are you talking about people not throwing the main breaker and energizing nearby lines, or is there something more subtle?
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Async looks nice, but this (http://www.jayway.com/2012/10/07/asyncawait-in-c-a-disaster-...) makes me wonder whether it is the right solution for this problem. Breaking what most programmers think are the 'laws' of refactoring is not a good thing.
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> and deleted (not deactivated)

Can you explain this further? I wish to delete my Facebook account permanently, but I'm under the impression you can (these days) only deactivate it. Do you know another way?

Thanks!
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Why is a comparison of 3G vs LTE even relevant? HSPA+ vs LTE is the relevant comparison to this conversation.
Callback hell is certainly a real thing, but that Javascript snippet is a poor example for a goto comparison, since it's pretty much as linear as you can get.

The problems with Javascript and callbacks are usually (in reverse importance): noisy verbosity (all those "function()"s), the deeper and deeper indentations, and then ensuring execution order on interdependent async steps while keeping it readable. In the blog post's example, you pretty much of a serial chain of dependent steps, and the only thing really wrong with it is that it's just ugly and approaching unreadable (syntax highlighting will help quite a bit, though).

I think most people heavily involved with Javascript recognize those problems, though. Promises/deferreds have entered mainstream js usage. They can be somewhat confusing for newcomers, but several libraries can help, as others have pointed out. Language support is evolving: "let" as an option for more control over scoping, the arrow syntax for simpler function expressions, yield for shallow continuations, etc. These will in turn feed back into making libraries smaller and easier to use (I'm really looking forward to when I can use http://taskjs.org/ for all my async needs. Combined with the arrow syntax, I feel like I can pretty much always avoid a callback mess and retain clarity of (high-level) flow at a glance).

This isn't a knock on elm (this article is the extent of my knowledge of it), and it isn't a dismissal of the problem, but it isn't clear to me from this article what is broken in JS that is fixed in elm. In other words, this could be another tutorial on promises in Javascript and make the same points about excessive callbacks being poor coding style and bad news for readability and maintainability.

Syntax that makes clear code the lowest energy state is a feature, but (if we limit our discussion to callbacks) in JS it's partly solved, partly being worked on, and it's not clear to me yet what the energy differential is in typical elm usage between this code and the nasty spaghetti code you can always write if you try.
To be less inflamatory, using callbacks to specify those low level APIs certainly makes sense, since the main desire here is to make them simple and interoperable, not necessarily human friendly.

You can then layer your favourite libraries or tools on top of that to make things better to live with. (For example, a promise-based wrapper for the low level libs or a compiles-to-js dialect)

I do agree that all those posts with people writing callback-based code as though it were the future were kind of sad though.
Both are important; match is obvious, but what about the prospect of working at a place with a fair amount of deadwood? Even if they're on the way out, that's going to be ugly.

Failure to do the most basic of technical screening will result in the latter; as I've said in more detail before, in the '90s it was reverse a linked list in C/C++, look at this dozen or so lines of code and find some of the errors in them, and do some design (quiet, no one in the same room time allowed for that, with a discussion to follow). I didn't think it was too much to ask back then, but it sure weeded out a lot of people who couldn't program their way out of a paper bag.
You also have to see in USA, people will get the phone at subsidized amount. Like most phone on a two year plan cost between $99 to $199.

Macbook maybe luxury in the computer world, but iPhone, not really
> But Nexus 4 is on par with iPhone 5 (while being 2 times cheaper).

Assuming you consider no LTE and a plastic body to be "on par".
While I'm excited by the possibilities and future improvements of this sort of research and therapy, the price strikes me as egregiously exorbitant. I don't reject the notion that they should be duly compensated, but 250K/yr for 5 yrs is just insane. There is so much wrong with that.

Genetic improvement shouldn't be built from the ground up as the territory of the extremely wealthy alone.
are these built by the chromium team?
This. From an app developer's perspective, there's no contest currently.

And mobile web usage isn't looking much better for Android:
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-android-mobile-web-usag...

No doubt more and more phones in pockets will be running Android. But how many will really be used like smart phones?
Chrome has 150k reported bugs.

I'd be more interested in using Canaray (or the Linux equivalent) to help with Chrome development if Google actually fixed reported bugs. Most bug reports these days aren't even acknowledged by Google, let alone fixed. Surely Google has enough money to hire someone full time to at least read and label incoming bug reports. Even acknowledged bugs are just moved from milestone to milestone now, until someone puts the milestone-x label on it, which basically means: If you don't fix this, we won't.

The bug tracker has a vast amount of unrecognised duplicates. This is Google. They cannot detect likely duplicates?
The solution to all of this is incredibly simple but for some reason very few people seem to utilize it: State machines.
Religion co-opted meditation? Now that's an interesting take... How then did meditation originate if not in the context of the religions that originally incorporated it?
One nitpick is the tablet isn't "up market" but rather a new market. A device that sits between an PC and a mobile phone.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we found the Portal 3 game mechanic.
"we have to forget something we previously spent time to become familiar with."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dbDJzDV1CM
I'm not sure how human anatomy allows your scenario to happen. As I hold my phone in its normal grip, and lower my arm to the level of my jeans pocket, my wrist simply cannot bend enough to orient the phone correctly when the headphone is plugged into the top. I have to rotate my grip as I originally described.
This article represents a much-needed big-picture view of how social networks have affected how we live. It seems like those with smartphones in their pockets, and social networks with connections, have the always-on ability to make an impression on others—and they are expected to. That manifests itself as a nagging feeling to always share and make an impression.

I'm backpacking through Europe right now as well, and not having cellular service and being more disconnected allows me to live with the intention to live. Whereas before, living in NYC and constantly being connected always allowed me to ask questions like: Should I check in here? Should I Instagram this? Am I expected to be active on social networks, lest I be forgotten?
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Heh, I'd go father than that, I'd set them in front of a console and let them look through the code base. Of course, this test works both ways ^_^.

Never had anyone ask for that, though. They would have gotten major bonus points for asking....
Are there any guides on how to do this?
Why are you being so defensive and dismissive to the point of making a number of really inaccurate generalizations?
Gamasutra looks like a great place to start looking. I'm currently filtering by "network programming". Thanks!
Another example: long form sales pages. They've been discussed here on Hacker News before, and many people here hate them, but they do (apparently) convert very well.
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How, specifically, is it unfair?

The brick phones were revolutionary, but they were far from capable of displacing landlines. There were special cases where the early mobile phones were superior, just like the Teslas are superior in some ways to IC engine cars (insane acceleration, for example).

That said, the current crop of electric cars is not suitable for replacing the average daily driver. They are more expensive. No one but the manufacturer can service them. Charging stations are few and far between. The power grid is far from capable of supporting any more than a tiny population of electric vehicles.

I do hope that electric cars will become a practical replacement for petroleum cars at some time in the future. That time is not today.
If you think iOS is hairy supporting 4.3 and up, you probably have no experience supporting Android apps. The fragmentation extends beyond the Android version. The differences between handsets are so big that one pretty much has to ignore the users who own phones that are impossible to test with. You'll get some random complaint from a user running your app on a device from a manufacturer you've never even heard of.

Look at Google's own wallet app -- it only runs on only 6 android devices. If you want to run google wallet on your Nexus S, you'll have to run a 3rd party "hacked" version of Google Wallet.
People don't expect a male plug to be live, but that's exactly what you can get with a double-male setup.

Someone picks it up and ZAAAAP.

I agree, don't do it.
If you are in backpacking through Europe, you may want to reconsider checking Hacker News and commenting on an article about getting a little disconnected :)
Why should they be high end devices? Do you define what devices people should use, what qualifies as high end and how people should use them?

Sorry, but I just don't get the argument - if people want a smart phone, any Android phone is a smart phone. If they didn't they would be still buying Nokia true dumb phones. If people want a lower cost smartphone - like those in 3rd world - why would you have a problem with that? Also why aren't people buying cheap RIM phones or cheap Windows Phones if cheap is all they are into?

Older versions? Why would that have anything to do with SmartPhone sales numbers? It is just asinine to look at this from a negative or Apple Salesman attitude.

Fact is simple - people are continuing to buy Androids for many reasons - choice, preference, cost whatever. If Android is enabling the poorer sect of the world to get connected/enabled/smart at a cost they can afford - that's a good thing.
They say it is open source but I can't seem to find the repository. Anyone else see it?
I feel like many of these posts present a false dichotomy. I hiked over 600 miles of the appalachian trail this summer, and I did use social media - a little. I posted about one photo to instagram a day - a faun a few days old, a chimney in the middle of the trail, a view of two side by side mountains, one drenched in sun and the other in a thunderstorm. This helped my notice the most beautiful moments of my day each day, and now I can look back at a gloriously curated story - ~35 pictures from 30 days.
I put those photos up for my friends and family, and now I am so happy to have them. And they were happy to take a moment while flipping through their instagram feeds to see them. I guess I don't understand the fear, hatred, and jealousy people feel when confronted with moments from other people's lives.
"Why Twilio is like like your worst girlfriend" or something along those lines.
This is true. I was trying to think of a commercial that highlights product design and features and this popped into my head. I had forgotten about their Mac vs. PC ads.
Disclosure: long-time Apple fanboi here.

But they are destroying the brand with their take-no-prisoners IP battle with Samsung.

From the posting:

I hate to watch it, and the paralegal side loves watching it at the same time, in that I've never seen anything quite like this, and it's professionally fascinating. But I wish Apple would see reason, and pull back on the extremism. I've always liked Apple, and I can't admire this, and it makes me sad to know that Apple's brand is being ruined. The US got drunk on the idea of IP maximalism, thinking it would solve some economic problems. They think that, though, because Hollywood told them so, and how does the world view Hollywood's IP legal work? If you want people to buy what you are selling, they have to like you enough to want to buy from you. And now it's Apple imitating Hollywood's extremism. Does it make you want to reward the company with your hard-earned money? Are their products as "cool" in your eyes, now that you are watching its legal behavior toward Samsung, a partner of Apple's? 26 devices Apple wants to block. 26. I mean. It's trying to put Samsung out of business in the US. For what? Rounded corners on a tablet? Are they listening to the wrong lawyers?

Sad, and there will be blowback.
The first NYT article on Glass reported that Apple was also doing a lot of research on wearables. Predictably when they come out with whatever they do everyone will say they are "reacting to Google" but I'm sure many companies have been hard at work on this for years. If I had to bet I would bet on a startup that just takes bluetooth accessories to the next level and leverages the phone in your pocket for the connection/cpu/gpu. Bluetooth headset with a camera and custom voice control app. It's not near what Project Glass promises but you could build it today and sell millions for $99/$149.
The first comment is actually from the CEO of VSee. It's worth reading.
or fake it ;)
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I agree. If social networks invoke those negative feelings within a person, it definitely indicates something that person has to deal with. I'm sure there are people driven by these emotions, but have hopes that friends and family are sharing to share and liking because they like things, not merely to keep score.
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I tend to agree that such feelings are rooted in personal issues. However I think it's also true that Facebook status updates can act as a catalyst for making those feelings bubble up in someone, when that person is trying to live their own lives without being reminded of "what could have been" etc.
The better you get at being a beginner, the less you judge things as being sucky or not. It's the "sucks" that constitutes jumping to a conclusion.
I really don't understand why this is a thing.. Lockitron seems like yet another product that builds on the current fad of "do everything with your phone" without regard to actually being innovative and useful. Aside from narrow use-cases, this seems like it'd be more of a hassle than using a regular key.

Want to remotely unlock your property for somebody staying the weekend? That's what a property manager is for. Why would you want to deal with that? Want the convenience of "keyless entry" coming home from the grocery store, or whatever? "Just.. let me.. okay, I unlocked my phone. Now let me load the app. Oops, my WiFi isn't turned on, so let me just do that. Ah, alright.. and now it's finally unlocked." Or what if your wifi/internet goes down?

Unless I'm missing something, this is genuinely a lame product. Can anyone explain why this is actually something more than a clumsy me-too gizmo?
I still like keeping up once in a while. It gives me fodder to think about while being disconnected :)
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Yes, and validating the assumption of a market opportunity is called finding product-market fit. Failing to do so is a leading cause of death among startups. An actual market opportunity, not an assumed one, is certainly valuable - which is why a VC will invest in it where they wouldn't invest in just an idea.
A (dry) sponge is much lighter than water, but it might not float; when you put it in water, the holes fill up with water, and the question becomes whether the rest of the sponge is light enough to float.

It's the same thing here. When they say it's lighter than air, they're counting the whole structure's volume, with all its holes in it. When you put it in air, and the holes fill up with air, the question then becomes whether the rest of it is lighter than air on its own. (Probably not)
I've always wished this worked w/out page reload :

window.location.pathname = new_path;

maybe it would be a total spec hack and kills everything the internet stands for but still it'd make things a lot easier.
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completely agree with this argument. I really like the authors argument that when the time is right many people will have the same idea at the same time. copying an idea is trivial, copying the execution, the stamina, the bravado to get shit done, and the balls to get other people to follow - significantly more difficult
Here are the slides from Evan's talk at Strange Loop:

https://github.com/strangeloop/strangeloop2012/blob/master/s...
I think there is no chance in hell that an Apple monopoly would ever happened. Apple has never shown interest in that. Even with their tablets they do not.
I should have thought of that example.

Yes, long-form sales pages are an excellent example, which I can personally attest do indeed work.
my galaxy nexus is perfectly portable.
Good review. Straight to the point. No fanboyism. This is actually a solid device. It might be the first android phone I'll buy.
It's also worth pointing out, that Apple has kept huge market share and profits in the iPod market. Sales have only gone down recently because everyone already has 1(or 2 or 3).

I'd like to think Apple has learned a few things since 90, and I also think these markets are a bit different. The compatibility problem isn't as bad this time, as most devs are making apps for both platforms, Apple still has a (slight) advantage here in terms of quality, and a fairly big advantage in terms of profitability. As long as they stay on par for profitability for devs they will keep a decent market share (20-40).
This is my experience – sometimes I fix/work around bugs before users get them, sometimes you have to accept a site is broken in Canary, but you know it won't be in the stable builds.
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