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Digit separation might make long numbers more readable, but now they’re also more locale-dependent. Same goes for commas versus periods. Regardless, I think the grave accent is a poor choice here. Whitespace would be better, much like adjacent string literals in C. A compiler could warn by default about numeric literals crossing line boundaries in free-form languages, to catch missing punctuation. This also has the advantage of precedent in scientific literature.

Unfortunately it doesn’t work in languages without some redundancy, like many in the vector family. Is this a four-vector of one-digit numbers or a one-vector of a four-digit number?

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Just a note about your 'lack of LTE as a feature' argument: I think you would be hard pressed to find many objective observers that would agree with that opinion. I have an iPhone 5, and the network speed difference is extremely noticeable as compared to 3G speeds. To top it off, the battery life is roughly equivalent to my iPhone 4's. I certainly do not feel like a compromise has been made between the networking capabilities of the chipset and the battery life. I think you will find that most professional reviewers who have written about the iPhone 5 will agree on this point.

This sort of spin is inaccurate at best and disingenuous at worst. It subtly reminds me of the hackneyed "it's not a bug, it's a feature" spin. Attempting to transform what is almost universally considered a positive into a negative is not what is going to lead to Google selling many of these units; it's the very competitive price point. It seems like an extremely solid device, and I think that Google consciously made the trade off between price and networking capabilities. I doubt they would have been able to sell these handsets at such a low price if they had LTE capabilities.

It also explains why the Nexus 4 come only in 8 gb and 16 gb capacities. Google has decided that pushing the price is down their primary objective. It's a very smart strategy. I'm sure Apple is very afraid. Their business is built on making high margins on hardware. I wouldn't like being an Android handset maker right now though either. It seems like Google is on a mission to make low margins and low prices the norm for tablets and handsets. One only needs to ask Dell or HP how that sort of market turns out for the hardware manufacturers. Google has nothing to lose, because their ultimate goal is marketshare. They aren't worried about slim hardware profits, because that's not where their core business is.
I used to be an IC designer - ICs are an exception. There are some exceptions of course - medical drugs are another that come to mind.

Most business ideas are pretty simple though, even outside the internet world. Eg. Sam Walton -> just wanted to build a better retail store, turned into Walmart. Howard Schulz -> better coffee shop -> Starbucks. Warren Buffett -> stockpicking -> BRK. And so on. Execution on these was the hard part.
Boost bind and fast delegates do certainly suck. (I used to work in games in a past lifetime.) But this is most certainly a C/C++ problem.

In Objective-C, the @protocol keyword gives the language first class delegation and works really, really well. More details here:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa/...

With respect to the original article, he's talking about callbacks with respect to Node.js. That's not a callback issue. Async is unnatural for the mind to grasp. What did he expect?
These just allocate a fixed-sized stack buffer and overflow to the heap - no variable-length stack allocation happens.
It's obvious from day one that Android was at least partially a "commoditize your complement" play.

But I would argue that the emergence of a commodity alternative to Apple was inevitable and every OEM would need to choose at some point whether to play against Apple or to try and become the new Dell.
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The article lists a bunch of GSM standards, but not CDMA or LTE, which it would need to work on Verizon or Sprint.
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Well, to anyone who can comprehend that .pdf research in full, it will be crystal clear that this hacker CAN NOT be working for Russian government.. he must had his personal, likely scouting for classified info reasons, but it all can be hardly defined as a "government attack" based on his (below average) skill level, his surroundings and a physical location.
"When running a startup or business, the goal is to create a better user experience and help advance technology.".

This. I love Apple commercials because they describe the good parts of their products, infomercial-style.

Pretty consistently, shitty products have shitty ads that try to slam their competitors and try to associate their brand with some sort of cheesy emotional stock footage, 1970's-bullshit-advertising-firm-style.
I cannot agree.

Physically getting to Mars and setting up camp is a challenge. Physically getting to another solar system and setting up camp is a challenge to the power of challenge. The numbers and difficulties are profoundly greater between the two.

Self sufficiency is entirely possible given enough energy, material, and care. We've managed to do it for four billion years on this planet. There's no reason it can't be done on another planet, or a ship as you mention.

I maintain that creating a stable-enough social structure that can survive offworld long-term seems to be most difficult part of the quest to leave Earth.
XCode is a solution for app development only. Occasionally I dig around looking for quotes, but AFAICT Apple has never claimed they're using clang for all of iOS and OS X. I suspect most of the internals are still built with gcc. Does anyone have evidence either way?
Three points:

- Selling SaaS is very new, and almost still a "niche" especially for consumer software like Sparrow. Software without subscriptions is still 99% of what the consumers buy. It's definitely a viable market. You can't just take one example (Sparrow) and then claim the whole traditional ecosystem of software doesn't work. Of course it does.

- This is professional stuff used to build businesses on. Already it's quite risky to use this new tech made by a third party startup and invest hundres of hours of developer time to build an app. If something goes wrong in the future, for example Apple forbids RubyMotion apps, your investment (not in cost of RubyMotion but in the cost of developers which is obviously orders of magnitude higher) goes up in thin air. If you add the limitation that you need to pay a monthly fee to keep using it to that, it increases the risk that something might go wrong, decreasing the attractiveness of RubyMotion.

- They already have recurring revenue, based on the fact that after one year you need to pay half of the license fee again to get support and updates.
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Yet another terrible assassination piece by Johnny Diggz, the CEO of Tropo, a quickly failing Twilio competitor. He has been a real dick since the early days and spreads lies and rumors about Twilio.
Many branches of meditation are based on the idea that there is no way to suck at meditating. Simply observe the thoughts arise and fade away.

If you are trying to succeed at meditating you are working against your self.
Interesting approach, and nice work. I did something similar a few years ago to generate dashboard screens for a digital signage product. I used svg templates I'd initially create in Inkscape, and erubis to handle XML valid embedded ruby. Inkscape has an amazing command line that handled converting the resulting SVG document into PNG or PDF.

I liked the idea of using regular HTML and CSS, but pre-phantomjs the closest I could come was princeXML, and even then it lacked js support and the licensing costs were pretty high.
Here's a google cache link:
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I'm not sure Apple's a great example. They keep their ideas secret for marketing reasons: they get immense amounts of free advertising by being dramatic about new product launches. And because they burnish their brand by maximizing their number of public hit products. (They also keep some details of incremental improvements secret because it's a highly competitive market, but that's different than stealing ideas for new products.)

In fact, I'm having trouble thinking of a "big new idea" product they did recently. They were years late to the MP3 player and smartphone markets, for example.

Since the idea's out, would you mind saying more about the idea that was stolen?
Can someone give write a summary on the exact issue ? Was it that people's FB accounts were accessible through an auto-login link ? Also, I only see one result returned, and not 1 million.
The funny thing is, I designed it at about 30px x 30px, and then scaled it up and recreated it in illustrator.

The proportions need a tiny bit of tweaking, but it doesn't really look too bad as a favicon. Here's the favicon version: http://cl.ly/Kd16
This is all on the topic of gradual improvement vs doing a leap forward. Most of the things can be gradually improved from something small. Take as an example an issue tracker. You can start as small as you like (a file with a list of issues to deal with) and go towards a reasonable solution.

The problem is not every single problem in the world can be broken down into such pieces. Take for example a fashionable electric car from Tesla. There is no reasonable way how you can start an electric car from a gasoline car (put an extra electrict motor? you end up with hybrid. take away the gasoline motor? you end up with a horse cart) and tesla did not even have a gasoline car to start with.

There are both kinds of problem and I agree most startups, especially in the social world can be implemented in gradual steps that make sense. The problem with other problems is that first you have to understand the problem area really well. A very good start is to try the gradual way and fail at it, later to start a leapfrog approach, knowing the problem area.

My 2 cents.
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But they had no problems shipping GPLv2 software.
I agree that it's a niche market. I remember not getting an iPhone forever ago because I didn't want to switch to AT&T. Because I am on T-Mobile, this phone looks amazing.
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Sadly one of the latest versions of Canary broke Batarang and I had to switch back to stable.

That said, since I got used to Chrome and Canary for development and switched from Firefox and the memory-hungry / leaky Firebug I never looked back.
Given that pharma is a massive industry and that drug discovery often costs around 1 billion dollars, the top prize of $22,000 seems awfully low. Will we start to see larger prizes, or will startups take this technology and monetize better than academia currently does?
Performance vs. ease of deployment
I think we can put it another way: An idea is worthless until someone is willing to pay for it.

Worth is in the eye of the beholder. To me, both of your ideas really are worthless (no offence). I wouldn't be inclined to pay for either of them, and do not really have an interest in working on either. That said, the market is vast. If you can find someone to pay you for the idea then I will agree that the idea may have value.

The problem at this stage is that without any execution on those ideas, both are equally likely to fail. For all we know the market for pachyderm telephones is large and nobody wants SMS downtime messages. There has been no market research done at the point of idea conception. Doing so leads into execution, where the value is generally thought to be created.

The other problem is that everyone with skills to build such ideas already have a million of their own. Most wouldn't even consider buying an idea from someone else. If the chances of failure is high, at least you are working on your own failure and not someone else's. That is why ideas are generally considered worthless.
That's the essence of GTD. For everything you have to do, you write down the precise "next action" that needs to be accomplished to move towards that goal. If you stick to it, it's very effective.
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From the article quoted above ...

"...
Apple was already one of the hottest tech firms in the country. Everyone in the Valley wanted a piece of it. So Jobs proposed a deal: he would allow Xerox to buy a hundred thousand shares of his company for a million dollars—its highly anticipated I.P.O. was just a year away—if parc would “open its kimono.”
...
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I don't think either party had any delusion about the purpose of the "meeting".
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People who are hung up on this and that missing feature, I understand why, but that's missing the point imo. There has never been a phone this good, this high profile, sold directly to consumers from day one, for this price.

This is simply the biggest shot so far in a strategic war Google is waging against US cell carriers and in the mobile device space against Apple.
I read this article awhile ago and it really fits what you're saying pretty well:

http://sivers.org/multiply

The idea is that an idea does has a worth, but it's small, and it behaves as a multiplier to the execution, which is orders of magnitude larger. For example a good idea is a "3" but a good execution is worth $1,000,000.

A good idea with a mediocre execution is worth a whole lot less than a mediocre idea with a good execution.
It has DC-HSDPA which is more widely supported and fast: 42 Mbit/s max, although latencies wouldn't be on LTE levels.
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Have you considered using docopt[1] for your CLI? I find it to be incredibly difficult to make sense of what commands are available, even with 0.9.

[1]: https://github.com/docopt/docopt
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These straw-man arguments are the reason why I don't post on Hacker News more often. Where did I say ignore China's rise as a power?

I'm basically just saying: don't panic. The US lead in aerospace isn't going away any time soon, we are farther ahead of the rest of the world than most people give us credit for. We first tested the F-22 in 1990. You know when the F-22 first saw combat? It hasn't yet. For 22 years no one has anything that we would even use it against.

If you want something to be concerned about, China's IP transfer requirements for companies doing business there and the cyber-attacks on our defense contractors should be more than enough to keep you busy.
There's a way without exceptions. Use an ErrorT[Promise[A]] monad. I've done this in Scala before and it is so much simpler than the JavaScript convention you pointed out.

It allows you to write code like this:

val query = "Brian"
val result = for {
db <- connectToDatabase
user <- userFromDatabase(db, query)
friends <- friendsFromDatabase(db, user.friends)
} yield friends

Whenever one of the functions above returns an error, the whole expression is that error. The outcome is either an error (if there was any) or the end value of Set[User]. No need to manually handle an error until you get to the end result.
I really want to like twilio but it's MADNESS that you can't terminate calls over the internet. So you're saying EVERYONE in the company has to have skype numbers just so we can terminate calls?! I would love it if twilio client actually worked but the sound quality makes it worthless. Hopefully WebRTC will fix that but who knows how many more years that will be. Please please, just bite the bullet and build a desktop app that has decent sound quality, supports multiple accounts and can punch through firewalls. It's stunning to me that Google Voice, Skype, and Twilio are so poor at serving business customers.
Not sure I buy the paper's analysis. They don't seem to know much about load testing -- they speak as though throughput is 'load' (rather than the multiprogramming level) and don't computer Bandwidth - Delay products.

Also, rather than using M/M/1 or some reasonable analytic model, they deliberately trottled their request rates to hold throughput constant (thereby guaranteeing different loadings for different 'benchmarks')

Just reading the first graph, for example, and applying Little's Law, it's pretty evident that Cassandra was loaded more heavily than than the two MySQL systems, with HBASE and Riak trailing.

Looks like HBASE and Cassandra lead the pack to me, with different characterists for different purposes.

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One way to escape callback hell is to use a async.js (https://github.com/eligrey/async.js), which uses yield to abstract away callbacks. It's Firefox-only (JS 1.7+) though, but that can probably be resolved by using a JS parser and replacing every yield with JS 1.5 callbacks.

Full disclosure: I wrote async.js.
Twilio just added SIP support in beta. Also, they do have Twilio Client which would let you accept calls and make them via browser
Yes, you must be a U.S. citizen. It's an ITAR restriction (google it) because essentially you'd be working on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
A few extra screenshots on the blog post, for traffic analytics, metrics, RAM consumption for instance, would really make a good job at showing the value to potential users :-)

I'm hosting my SaaS app on DotCloud and I really like the charts with http status over time, overall latency, RAM consumption etc!

Congratulations on the CLI improvement overall, all nice stuff!
They're not all lies per se. Tropo/Voxeo also isn't failing :/, they just won Deutsche Telekom's Euro business.

Voxeo doesn't always have the best marketing team, but they do have a lot of technical expertise. Their CTO Jose is one of the funniest people I've ever seen on a panel and he's a delight to converse with.

I don't think any of the metaphors at play here hit the nail on the head.

Voxeo is a large, lumbering enterprise fighting its way into the Carrier world by virtue of erosion. Twilio is the nimble web-focused startup burning the candle at both ends trying to fight the night away.

It's not yet clear which strategy will prevail, but I don't think the mudslinging is the right course either.

Disclaimer: I'm the community manager at 2600hz, which is innovating on the application switching layer of voice communications. We're also full open-source.
Or try Chrome multiple users.
Yes, lawyers are salaried, but having this ridiculous court battles just increases the number of lawyers needed, thus increasing their average salary.

Look, I would like the judge ordered them to do some custom phone application development instead of citing legal documents. That way, they will need to hire more developers to do that, or allocate some developers from other departments, thus creating more developer jobs. Instead, the lawyers got to fight that battle and get paid for that, thus, they won.
As a creator of an "altJS" language, I've been thinking about this for a long time. I wanted a VM in the browser for years and was a huge fan of Silverlight/Moonlight but I recently changed my mind.

Higher level languages are easier to optimise for. Creating a bytecode would also mean another backwards compatibility hell and another format is not as general as people would like.
... but somebody can out-execute you on your own idea.
I would sprint through a minefield to be on that first boat out. My wallpaper at one point in life was panoramic prints from the Opportunity rover. I wrote Kim Stanley Robinson a fan letter, signed with a chewed up gelly pen. I am utterly delighted.

But the hard part is extremely, extremely, extremely hard. It's not getting there, it's staying there. And scant few people are focusing on what it would actually look like and how it would actually work if we actually sent people offworld, which I very much want to happen. Mars500 needs to be Mars5000000 before this dream is real.

Honestly, if we could airlift people into the Sahel with a real-world replica of what would be going to Mars and they could make it a few years, I could die happy.

Elon Musk has the easy job in all this.
> "Already it's quite risky to use this new tech ..."

Which a price tag of $169 does not help. $9 a month is easy to sign up to.

> "They already have recurring revenue..."

Good, I missed that. There's a difference in how it's presented. The renewal after a year isn't as good paying every month.

> "Software without subscriptions is still 99%"

I would love to hear where this figure came from - it seems intuitively wrong. Reference?
I say "Tropo is failing" and I mean that their adoption rate is much lower then Twilio is. I'm sure Voxeo has tons of money to throw at Tropo until they run out.

I haven't heard of 2600hz before, great name. I'll check it out!
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Get on the track for citizenship. We in the aerospace industry have a long and glorious tradition of Americanizing engineers for space program.
You pull the trigger, maybe you miss (Apple not winning the lawsuit), then they pull their gun...
These are not free, but very good quality for a low price.

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No! Meditation is not about thinking about nothing! It's about focusing on your breath. Think only about breathing.

That sounds boring but manageable. 'Thinking about nothing' seems impossible and stupid at the same time; people who do the disservice of saying that should be slapped.

The point of meditation is to learn how to control your thoughts, specifically in being able to realize that your are choosing your current train of thought, and that you can switch it at any time. If you are stuck worrying, or being sad, or unable to see the richness in something, it's most likely because you can't properly focus on the only thing you'll ever have in life: this moment.
This is what I personally call 'Bandwagon Threshold Theory'.

People resist the new ideas until a critical mass of people start admiring it.

Only then they'll 'jump on the bandwagon' and tell everyone all about how cool this new idea is.
Android now powers 75% of all smartphones sold
They can't resolve issues that they don't know about, and the only way to discover issues early is to run Canary or beta.
Aren't "iPhone" and "iOS" technically trademarks of Cisco, not Apple?
Well, if you don't care as much about portability, I think an iPad is far superior at both of those tasks than any smartphone I've encountered.
I've heard of someone doing this as their thesis. I'm not sure how to find it again, though.

A big issue is where/how you keep your index.
Thank you! Great minds think alike.

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