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Couple of points (I'm a cofounder of happyfuncorp)

The box is for happy thoughts. Most people find sex a pretty pleasant topic, even if occasionally juvenile.

We filter out hateful or racist things. (I.e. those aren't happy things.) We also filter out the random letters, though I like to leave in the JavaScript injection attempts.

Jon writes on behalf of himself for techcrunch. As I'm sure you realize, we aren't interested in "locking things down".

We are always looking for good people, as is everyone else. The level of skills and capabilities out there is much lower than the demand, and given how much money is involved it is pretty surprising that we aren't, as a society, as the globalized interconnected species we are, training more people to develop the skills. Especially when the tools are so in reach and you don't need formalized training or get licensed or whatever.

We hire between 2-4 people a month, whenever we find a good fit. We are especially looking for team leads and technical project managers, but if you are good then we find a way to make it work. Engineers who can communicate and lead are the limiting resource.

And if you don't think that "jiggly breasts" qualifies as a "happy thought" on a corporate homepage then it's probably not a good match...
Yea, but still gross. map() isn't even an endomorphism.
I was traveling in China and picked up a charger that looks exactly the same from some street vendor. When it comes to cheap, no-name accessories, no one is going to spend money designing custom casing.
You're right, it's either an iPad Mini or iPod Touch Ultra with iOS 6 Home Edition, but not an iPod Mini. Thanks!
Reminds me of a book I just read, Ready Player One:
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-ebook/dp/B004J4WKUQ/r...

The entire thing is like references to stuff like this, heh.
A lot of these are mitigated if you're a "self-employed consultant" who just happens to have one particular client which indefinitely defers invoices. (I use this very frequently in Japan, which makes Tulsa look like Silicon Valley in terms of tolerating novel employment options.)
Other than the fact that it's butt ugly and comes with an unwieldy loose cable.
Parent assumes however that everyone walking into the store looking for a phone wants or deserves the iPhone but is sold an (implicitly) inferior one because iPhone is not in stock and / or the salesman gets more commission to sell the S3. The S3 is actually a great phone and I find it hard to believe people don't know the iPhone and accept something they don't like. At the least they consider both and go with the S3 because they like it and partially because they can't buy the iPhone anyways. Remember Microsoft / Nokia paying more commission to sales people hasn't taken WP anywhere.

Tangentially is Apple losing their acclaimed grip on the supply chain if they can't make enough iPhones but Samsung can make and sell double that after paying sales people more and still making 7.4B in profit?
Oh not at all. Traditional market economics going on here. Sweden needs trash. Norway has too much. It's beneficial to both parties to trade.

There is an American show called Dirty Jobs. In an episode sometime in the last couple of years, the host visits a medical waste recycling plant. It's a family business, and the owner describes how he got started.

Years back, there were no state laws governing the disposal of medical waste. The owner had been working as a forensic cleaner (cleaning up bodies after murders and such). His mother was a nurse. Around that time, the state passed new laws regulating med waste disposal. His mother, who knew about this because of her job, made an offhand comment that her son should start a business disposing of the waste. So he ran with it.

Over the years, the owner and his sons have built a thriving business based on the disposal of medical waste. It's a dirty, hard job, but apparently profitable.

Don't forget, there's lots of ways to build a business if there are market opportunities.
That was my thinking. I was underwhelmed with the iphone5, and I am now considering the Samsung Galaxy Note 2. But I am in my early 40's and I find the iPhone display too small. I also do a lot of napkin sketching, so the stylus feature is a plus for me - not a negative.

But then I am old enough that I learned how to use the original palm. Had a color Handspring for a while with a folding keyboard that I used for notes in business meeting. The more things change, the more things stay the same.

I also loved the promise of Siri but find the execution wothless at least 50% or the time. The android dictation seems to work better. Last but not least, I hated the old version of iPhone maps and he new version seems to be worse.

YMMV
Both Chrome and the native browser balk at it on Android.
Or we could question whether attempting to come up with problems to solve in order to create a business is a good idea at all. Perhaps we should build businesses because that's the best context in which to execute a solution to an actual problem?
Oh that is unfortunate. At my school you could take a test and start at whatever course level matched your knowledge. And there were often accelerated versions of courses, where B1 covered the same material as A1 and A2
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One thing most people haven't picked up on is how the 'terms' of the first sale typically include that the textbook can't be imported into the US without prior consent.

That could mean a way out without actually solving anything - ruling it an illegal importation or something similar. That would mean the problem would be when he imported the book, not when he resold it.
Agreed but there's a difference between being on video and someone writing about your talk. Some people just don't like the pressure of a talk being recorded and prefer people to write about the general talk if they want to write about it.
I assume the reason it's bland is because it was designed to be translated into a bunch of different languages, most likely to be used across the whole of Europe, if not the Middle East and Asia as well.

I would guess the copy wasn't written in English, and whatever message it was intended to convey was lost in translation.

It's not quite as bad as the bland multinational ads we get where they have the audacity to dub English over foreign vocals, but it's not far off...

Edit: A sample of the latter for the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IqMa7LOtgo
It is a marketing scam for a self-help eBook.
Sure, but what's "truly compelling" about the S3?
That's not always true. For instance, the US Code refers to the US Copyright Office for judgements about fair use.
Cooper Union or somewhere does that, several short courses one or two at a time.
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Gallery of all the Infocom games - http://gallery.guetech.org/

I thought the maps were in there as well, but I can't find them ATM. I still have my parchment maps from Zork II and III. I loaned the Zork I map to a girl in HS and never saw it again :/
Yes. That information is in the article.

The set decorator was George DeTitta Jr.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0221890/
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Cool -- does it have any sort of sensor array to guide its mobility?
You can drag an app out of the app switcher and run it on the edge of the screen alongside your current app.
At some level I think you have to do both. Either by explicit drilling or frequent use, you end up memorizing a lot of formulas anyway. And for the longer ones, it takes too long to derive from first principles every time, so whichever way it happens, it's good to have them in mental RAM. You can always look them up, but just knowing is faster.
This sounds like a job for Reddit.
Again: there's a difference between
- blocking an [avenue] to information where other avenues exist, and
- blocking information
I think there is a reason why consumer electronics conversations get so heated that is even more important than what you've mentioned: the nature of the products forces us to choose between them. And we spend a decent chunk of money on them.

The multiplicity of products that we have to choose between and the lockin we experience once we've made the purchase (we have a contract for the phone and have made significant monetary commitment to the devices in general) mean we have to make a hard decision and then try to feel good about it.

Once we've picked, if we admit that another device is better, then we're saying that we made the wrong choice and that we have to live with a subpar device for another few years. Most of us tend to get defensive about our purchases instead, even when we are trying to be objective.

The truth is that there are trade offs between all of the devices that are related to our priorities, our personalities, and our social circumstances all of which make us feel personally invested in a gadget decision. This makes it hard for us to come from an objective place to talk about some of our favorite topics. Many of us are looking for validation more than information (I've definitely been guilty of this).

The trick, then, might not be to try and be more objective, but to take criticism of the products less personally. Headlines are meant to get clicks, not express thoughtful opinions. The intricacies of the tradeoffs are worth considering, but you won't find them in most tech coverage. Save your hate and try to understand why the competition is valuable to others and what your product could learn from.
How do you do databases? Just keep everything in instance storage and backup to S3 frequently and accept that there's possible dataloss in between backup times?
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Why should I install this when I sill still have to boot into windows to play all the games that are worth playing (of the games I am not already tired of)?

This should not even be news IMO. So mamy people say WebOS and Windows 8/RT will never gain prominence because they don't have the games of IOS/Android - Yet Linux gets a steam client and all I hear is excitement. do yo think that game devs want to create games for a 2% desktop market?

Nice double standard there - I understand it, but it is still an agenda/bias that I wish to call out.
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I'm not sure if many of these self-analyses are more true than an athletes commentary after a big game. "We worked hard, are a good team, looked somewhat bad at halftime, but we made it". Sometimes I wish someone would just skip the lessons and do a Fiona Apple speech instead[0]. I guess the closest one was by Morten Lund after he went bankrupt[1].

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G...
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcfiSlaSLnc
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We used ormlite on Android for at least one project. It worked extremely well and the developer was very receptive/reactive to bug reports.
Press Freedom Index scores:
- United States: 14
- China: 136

Let's not lose focus of this very drastic difference. Sure 14 is too high, but it's not appropriate to bring it up in the context of China, in my opinion. But then, I shouldn't censor you, should i?
Speaking more generally, there's a case to be made that the author's intent of what a work "really means" is not necessarily any more sound than that of any other reader. What the author was thinking when he wrote it is not the point, the meaning of the thing itself is. I tend to agree.

On the other hand, the bit that Philip Roth was upset about was not really about the meaning of the text. It was about someone's opinion of what he was thinking when he wrote the text. I can understand why he feels that he knows more about what he was thinking when he wrote the text than anyone else does.

I haven't seen anything that would indicate that he fails to recognize that everyone is entitled to their own interpretation of the meaning of the text.
So, my theory isn't that someone is accepting an inferior device. Rather, that if you think the GS3 is awesome and are thinking of buying it a week before Apple is set to introduce a new iPhone, it's prudent to wait to make sure Apple doesn't have something amazing up its sleeve.

Similarly, if Samsung had a press event a week after Apple introduced the iPhone, it would be prudent to wait and see if Samsung had something amazing that they were introducing.
Thank you for saying this. The comments I saw on yesterday's post by Marco Arment really upset and concerned me.

Hacker News is usually a pretty nice place to hang out, but that comment thread reminded me of the ten minutes hate from 1984.
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If you've used an iPad 3; it feels close to that weight but it's a wider aspect ratio. Can hold it in one hand but not for long; just fine for two-hand use. You can use the cover just fine in your lap, but will probably have better luck with the Type Cover in that scenario.
The other thing this article doesn't mention, but related to the article the other day about going to the moon: when we work only in small teams, and dislike the massive ordered military-like hierarchical companies, we make it harder to do things as big as going to the moon.
It's about differing visions of the software industry as well:

* Apple's centrally-planned vision of how software should be managed versus Android's more anarchic vision

* Apple's leveraging of the software/design patent status quo as a business weapon versus the Android ecosystem's more laissez faire attitude towards the exchange of ideas

Whoever eventually wins in the market will set the tone of the software industry.
Any way you could release those kids' apps?
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I don't have a horse in the iPad vs. Surface race. I don't care for closed ecosystems or walled gardens and have little desire for either device. I'm either a neutral party, or hostile to both camps.

The use-case of an attached keyboard and the fully fledged Office app suite is not what this device is primarly for.

That may be true, but it's a poor excuse. The basic function of a word processor is to easily generate formatted text, historically primarily for printing on letter-type paper, but that's maybe a bit less important today than it once was. Minimal functionality for a word processor is being able to render that text as fast as a human user can type it.

WYSIWYG word processors had this capability well over 20 years ago on CPUs far inferior to a quad-core Cortex A9 with a thousand times[0] less RAM. For a major software company to fail at this in 2012 is inexcusable. If Tesla's new sedan had a top speed of 50 MPH, prospective buyers would say it's not ready no matter how cool its other characteristics are.

Of course, it is a preview edition of Word. Maybe the finished version will have acceptable performance. Until then, "it isn't done" is the only reasonable conclusion. Regardless of any other features, Microsoft has not provided the minimum viable product for a word processor.

[0] Note: not hyperbole. Two megabytes versus two gigabytes.
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Some UIX advice: Only Sandy is listed as a current storm, so that should be loaded by default instead of showing an empty map.
I`m planning to sell my startup - Mu6.me.
Mu6.me (http://mu6.me) is a social sharing service. It`s fast, easy-to-use and cross-platform. You can easily share your music file to your friends with only 3 step without register. It also has an intelligent music detection to read the detailed information from uploaded music. Mu6.me is massive with Facebook social traffic and the top 8,000 website of Taiwan. Everything sounds good, and I love my startup. Well, as the founder of Mu6, I have a lot of personal reason that I have no enough funds and resource to continue keep Mu6 servicing now, so I want to sell this startup to one of company that can keep Mu6 servicing for the world.
If any companies interested please contact me directly.

Or if you are the kind of person who can help me to sell this to other companies, you will 5%-10% of the price.

My email is angel.lai.cat@gmail.com

Looking for you, thank you!
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humble indie bundle - there are plenty of good native games/ports for linux.
of course, the qualifier 'posted here' pretty much makes it so that it's a negative review. Are you seriously claiming that the two or three reviews up modded by HN make a consensus? And Marco's article doesn't count as a review. He was playing with one for barely a few mins while trying to psychoanalyse the salesman and find things to pick on.
Yeah, sorry I kind of misraead your post and mixed it up with the reply below. Your theory is credible though - as in it has a supporting data point in its favor - Amazon announced that Kindle Fire sales after iPad mini announcement went up 3 times normal.
Neither theory assumes the S3 is inferior.

The first theory assumes that some consumers will wait until both phone are available to make a choice. Obviously, some will choose iPhone and some S3.

The second theory says that some people will go to buy an iPhone, and instead get an S3 when no iPhones are in stock. Again, plausible. This comment has nothing to do with which phone is better.
Works - yes. Works forever - probably not by which time you're in a world of pain. Your accessors are part of the class's immutable contract with the outside world. When you couple the class internals to the contract, hacks will ensue en masse and your little party will fall flat on its face.

It's fine for trivial stuff, but if you work with others, this will cause uber amounts of pain.
The root cause is not incivility, it's inanity. Why do we have threads about these not-exactly-revolutionary things sitting all over the front page? Who votes for this stuff?

The Surface one up there is just some guy's blog review. It's not poorly written, but why are we reading randomly selected Surface reviews? There's an entire post right now that is basically a Samsung press release via CNET, describing some (totally unquantified, of course) minor uptick in sales for the latest Android phone. There is literally nothing to talk about there except to proffer essentially baseless flames, praise, or speculation.

I would have no qualms asking the moderators to fix this. I can't understand any metric by which these are useful posts to have on the front page. There is lots of much better stuff sitting on the New page which is being crowded out by noise that I could go read in two hundred other places. "Intellectual curiousity" is not referring to what you have every time a phone comes out which is 20% lighter and 10% longer.
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Protected is fine if you understand it and use it where appropriate. My only real use for it is to allow NHibernate proxies to read backing fields for our entities.
It's not a new idea, I think George Carlin said something similar.

It boils down to more philosophical questions quickly. What is the meaning of life? Does saving species have some intrinsic worth or is it only a means to an end?
Oddly enough I've got a 3rd level link to him (a set decorator sharing his name, what are the odds its not him?) on Linkedin, but apparently you can't send such a person an email without paying Linkedin for the privilege. Is it worth $20 (/month) to send Mr DeTitta a message he might not even read? I'm going to say no, sorry HN.
One of the smartest things why the lucky stiff ever said (in my opinion): "When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. so create."

Notionally, this is a forum for creators, but it seems increasingly pre-occupied with utterly unproductive posturing over whose tastes are 'better'. It's a troubling trend.
For some human activities there are problems simply too complicated to be handled by science, mostly because it is very hard to build a rigorous and viable methodology to investigate the problem. If these areas are important and profitable you end up with an industry of pundits giving opinions "supported" by rhetoric rather than an evidence impossible to gather. Politics is the most obvious example, with its nauseating abundance of Glen Becks, Rush Limbaughs and Michael Moores. Stock market "analysts", self help gurus, psychic card readers, soothsayers are the more common varieties.

"Uncle Bob" (Clean Code's author) is the equivalent to those in the Software Engineering field, a snake oil seller that will give you the placebo that promises to fix problems that sometimes don't even exist or are of small relevance.
But a lot of people don't care about that. It's fine to say "I don't buy Apple products because their policies are X, Y, Z". It's not fine to tack on "And you're [insert insult] for not realizing/caring and buying anyway".
The approach described in the first paragraph led to the invention of the snooze button.
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I completely agree, you see this a lot with other similar type purchases where a person has to put in research work and it costs them a decent amount of money. Things like purchasing a house or purchasing a car.

I think the psyche does a bit of self justification for the purchase which is hard to hold back when someone challenges it. That's just my personal observation anyway...
> > On the other hand, there are plenty of things you can do in Java that are simply impossible to do in Go.

> Depending on what you mean by "do" ...

Oh, I don't know, maybe dynamic code loading or secure sandboxing of code? For instance you can compile a custom Google Go without disk IO, but you can't have an app that loads plugins much less one where the app can do IO but the plugin can't.

These may not be the wisest or most useful of features for "systems" programming, but you have to admit that there are real things Java can do that Google Go cannot.

I think Google Go advocates put blinders on like agentS because if they actually objectively looked at the situation they would have the same thing to say as others do about Google Go: "meh".
I've always wondered if the down-vote should actually just be an arrow pointing sideways. People use the down-vote like it's a thumbs down. If they don't agree with an opinion, then it's a thumbs down. But really the cancerous comments are ones that, in an offline conversation, a group would quickly and politely move past and ignore. The sideways arrow would represent brushing these comments aside.

Besides, you're supposed to up-vote comments you don't necessarily agree with so long as they are well argued. That is what a good debate is about.
The balance between user voting and mod/admin curation is a tricky one.
Here in Singapore, you don't see any iPhone 5 ads. But Samsung ads together with the three local telcos are everywhere. iPhone 5 sells itself as it is hot seller here. No doubt Samsung might sell more due to the ads and more models at lower costs.
"Best" is as defined by the selector i.e the schools. Whether the method chosen to rank the applicants truly measures what the selector wants to be measured is the real question. In other words whether the school end up with the best test takers who may or may not be the students they were really looking for.
Fresh installations of each? Because my boot tends to slow down over time, and by considerably more than 4 seconds.
It is implied though - if we speculate that most people go to buy an iPhone it sort of implies that iPhone is what people want (people generally want the best) and if they end up with something else it is the second best. No?