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Valid point, well put.

The danger is that changes to screen size aren't always reflected by the software, so you may have a small screen that scales down, or a large screen with wasted real estate. See the host of apps that haven't update for the iPhone 5 screen yet!!!
"I'm tired of waiting for them to enable basic features like phone number black/whitelists."

Keep in mind that's a basic feature for you, not necessarily for all. I wouldn't use it, so I'd prefer Apple to work on X/Y/Z feature instead. Feature priority is hard to work out at the best of times, because no matter what gets picked someone will be disappointed.
It works with this:

~/felix>python3
Python 3.2.3 (v3.2.3:3d0686d90f55, Apr 10 2012, 11:25:50)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin

and also on Linux with this:

skaller@felix:~$ python3
Python 3.2.3 (default, Oct 19 2012, 20:10:41)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2

I have been told that the script fails if you use a slightly different version of Python:

File "/usr/lib/python3.3/subprocess.py", line 906, in communicate

So it is an incompatibility in Python 3.3 subprocess module I think.
If the text is moving, it's harder to read stuff.
>When the French go for lunch, they order only the best: the best wine, the best bread, the best entree. They sit and enjoy every bite.

As a French man who had a rushed McDonald's for lunch yesterday, I find this amusing :)
"Focus on building a community first, and worry about monetization later." I don't entirely agree with this statement. This is precisely why a lot of startups fail because they slap on the business model as an afterthought. DHH said it pretty well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0...
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I know - I’ve been there. The obvious starting place is to hire people who know this isn’t 9-5 gig, (so nothing is sudden). But of course that drives up wages a bit :) Boy is this an expensive problem to solve.
Or maybe it's because you started from a clean slate ... (I'm using mine for more than 3 years now)
Interestingly it seems like Apple is doing something with remote view controllers with their 12 Days of Christmas app, which could imply they're trying to test it as much as possible in a live context.
Great piece and really solid points.
I don't see any problem with that. Happens a lot on HN and it's perfectly normal.
I like how to name implies (accidentally or not) that term "flash" is not anymore solely bound to doomed battery-eating technology from 00s but can be used as a generic word.
Not correct. AOSP source code has always included full source for android.view., android.widget., and so forth. Which are, by the way, Apache-licensed, not GPL. If you'd like to look for yourself, it's here:

https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base

in the "core/java" subdirectory.

In recent releases (4.x, a/k/a ICS and later), some of the low-level GPU drivers are included as binary blobs, but the GUI libraries built on top of them remain, at the very least, source-available.
Nothing directed at the writer of this one single blog post, but who are these bloggers to be talking about innovation? They all use the same blogging platforms and write the same articles. And why have blog posts of this topic started to appear? Arrington writes something and all other blogging websites feel like they have to get a piece of the story trend pie and write a similar post, as well? I'm sorry but these are the kind of posts that make me shake my head.
> All the arguments for why the iPhone 4 form factor was the best are now being used to claim that the iPhone 5 is the best by a lot of the same people.

Citation needed.
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"Culturally retarded" wasn't intended for offense. Retarded means "delayed" or "behind the times" and I couldn't think of a better word. I am no fan of the colloquial use of "retarded" (making a slight on people who, through no fault of their own, have congenital cognitive problems) but that's not what I was going for.

How do you convince them that a) cultural innovation is a winning move and b) you're the guy to get it done?

These VC darlings grow too fast and hire before they trust. That's their original sin. If you can't trust someone with his own time and effort (open allocation) then don't fucking hire that person.
Umm, the Nexus 10 is made by Samsung...
What does this mean for Cordova/PhoneGap?
I'm writing about what happens, not what I think should happen. I'm not going to try to defend the status quo. I'm for patent reform also. But I can see where some form of patents may be advantageous. But I'm trying to stay out of that discussion. There are people who know far more sides of the story than I do who are in a better position to suggest models of patent reform.
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Hmmmm... I think the post is a bit fast and loose. I recall reading one study of happiness that concluded small purchases/investments were best because one some gets used to new things. Can't find a link right now, unfortunately.

Power laws have become a kind of popular science meme, but I don't think they are as common or powerful an explanatory tool as some would like I to believe. Or perhaps I've just been reading too much of Cosima Shalizi's blog.
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CAPTCHAs aren't very good for keeping bots off websites.

reCAPTCHAs are very good at getting people to volunteer there time to digitize books.

I always purposely screw up on the OCR part of the reCAPTCHAs because I don't like being used for OCR.

It seems to me that the word that isn't curved is the one from the scanned book and isn't validated to check the CAPTCHAs, but instead used to write the book which I hopefully screw up. https://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore
That's in the Android SDK right? So you don't need to agree to that, and you can still fork off the Android code and build your own toolchain?
Galt's speech is, from what I remember, a 20 pages long ultra-verbose pamphlet rather than a single page fast paced read like this.

But you are right that both read somewhat like "I am so much better than these other evil people who don't understand me".
But many manifesto-like writings sound like that. Also lots of stuff written by teen agers/early twenties.
Here's a link to an mp3 of Loyd reading it himself along with commentary.

http://download.2600.com/mediadownload/h2k2.hope.net/media/m...
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I'm concerned about what level of evidence an Objectivist society would need to pass such a law. According to Chapter 33 of "The Passion of Ayn Rand," Ayn Rand demanded a "rational" explanation of why to stop smoking and said the statistical evidence of the link between smoking and lung cancer wasn't proof. It took an X-ray of her own lung cancer to get her to stop. Since the lead/crime hypothesis bases its conclusion heavily on statistics, I don't think it would pass the Rand test.
Not really:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008111
The UNIX write and talk commands are both over a decade older than Zephyr.
A lot of people like emissions trading, but I think it's a bit oversold. Implementing an emissions trading scheme is phenomenally complex, and it doesn't really reduce the regulatory apparatus required. You still have to have people figuring out what the total cap should be on a harmful substance, you still have to have people who go out and enforce to make sure nobody is exceeding their emissions limits, etc. You open yourself up to all sorts of gaming the system--people trying to claim emissions credits for things that don't actually reduce emissions. It also, as the sibling comment mentions, doesn't work for pollutants like lead, sulfur, etc, whose effects are highly localized. It doesn't really do anyone any good if polluters in L.A. buy up all the sulfur credits that result from people in the middle of Montana reducing their emissions.

The EPA generally doesn't ban things. Leaded gasoline was an unusual case because it was so harmful and also, in the grand scheme of things, quite replaceable. Usually what they'll do is specify that polluters that emit particular kinds of air pollution (sulfur, etc) must use a certain level of control technology. This creates certain market incentives for polluters to make this control technology as cheap as possible. However, this approach doesn't really reduce pollution as much as it should, since the EPA is usually quite sensitive to cost issues. But as a practical matter, some polluters should go out of business if the cost of thoroughly cleaning up their emissions outweighs the revenue from the polluting activity.
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Actually, this is false entirely.

The SDK sources are still Apache2, and you can build your own SDK with them if you wanted.

You just can't take the Google-built SDK binaries (except as allowed by a third party license, such as Apache 2), or non-open source pieces, and use them to do it.
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You don't need to reverse engineer anything, the source is still available, it's still almost all apache2.
> no LTE

Fair enough.

> battery life

Benchmarks never demonstrate typical use cases, which is especially true for battery life. Unless all you do is load web pages for hours on end at fixed intervals. Personally, I have better things to do with my time. Based on what I've witnessed with my Nexus 4 and iPhone 5s in my family, battery life is very comparible.

> screen quality

When compared to the iPhone 5, the Nexus 4 has better blacks, better contrast ratio, but poorer whites. Color reproduction could be calibrated better, but hey, this is just a mid range phone, right?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review/6

> gets destroyed by the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S3 in every performance benchmark.

Geekbench measures CPU performance, and the quad core Krait bests both the Galaxy S3 (quad core Exynos) and the iPhone 5 (dual core "Swift").

Galaxy S3: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1488418

iPhone 5: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1488555

Nexus 4: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1488266

In fact, the quad core Krait is arguably the best CPU you can find in a smartphone, performance wise. The only existing (ARM-based) CPU that is better is the Exynos 5250 found in the Nexus 10 (dual core A15).

The GPU is the Adreno 320, which absolutely wrecks the Mali GPU in the Galaxy S3. It still isn't as good as the PowerVR SGX543MP3 found in the iPhone 5, but calling it a mid range GPU is laughable.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review/3

Seriously. You have no idea what you're talking about.
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I like python-like languages, but the deleting of code seems rather extreme (and unlike the personality I'd expect from a python-like language). Boo provided a super extensible compiler pipeline and metaprogramming (http://boo.codehaus.org/), while Cobra provided built in unit test support and contracts (with keywords of ensure and require) (http://cobra-language.com/) -- neither destroy your work (even if it is WIP).
I think the parent post is too strong, but numbers are by no means the only way of showing a bias.

Whilst i believe he tries to be objective, Anand may hold a slight bias towards intel. Take the discussion of the future; he talks of the advancements of the core architecture, comparing a yet-unseen 8W TDP[1] haswell, then talking confidently of halving that at 14nm. This is in no means a certainty; i think it is fair to say this would be a best-case scenario where intel focused fully on reducing power, as well as having a very successful 14nm node.

On top of this, there is no mention of price in this equation; i can't see a 'core' CPU in a nexus tablet (too expensive for the cost) or an ipad (too expensive for apple's margins) if intel want to keep their margins.

I should reiterate that everyone has a bias, and if Anand's is slightly pro-intel, then it is surely propagated by the high level of access intel seem to give him (take for example the 'x86 power myth busted' article; where the atom was compared to the intel cherry-picked (outdated) tegra3), and the fact that we have a very capable intel today. As said i believe he attempts to be objective still, so i still think his journalism is some of if not the best in this area.

1. keep in mind TDP is not peak power (which is where the A15 would be close to 4W), but the sustained heat output that should be dissipated in whatever enclosure, for which there is no standard. This would put the A15 in the 1-2W range.
Very amusing. Didn't Google just fight, and win, a court case with Oracle about forking Java into the Android SDK?

So it's not OK for Oracle to prevent Java fragmentation, but it is OK for Google to prevent Android fragmentation.

Apparently "don't be evil" is more nuanced then I thought.
For one thing, because it's Jason Kottke. He finds interesting things online and posts them with minimal commentary. He's done this for many years, and is a good source for interesting things online. He is less of an aggregator and more of a curator.
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Emissions trading regimes can be effective for some pollutants, but not others. I'd support them for CO2 because CO2 disperses rapidly and widely, but I oppose them for mercury emissions from coal fired power plants because mercury is much heavier and much more localized; in practice, an emissions trading regime for Hg would mean that children who grew up near power plants (i.e., poor children) would have much higher Hg exposure than richer children.
I love how lawyers suddenly become libertarian heroes in this particular debate.
I don't think it's a matter of other apps not running after you suspend Instacast. All apps have a limited amount of time to complete something like a download task while backgrounded.

In Downcast, I have set my home as a geo fence, and tell it to fetch new podcasts whenever I leave or arrive.

Downcast is allowed to subscribe to this geofence and wake itself up to fetch new podcasts, all without me opening the app at all. The only catch is if the downloads take more than 15 minutes, they get paused until I open the app again.
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I've always known this old document as the Hacker Manifesto
Simply amazing. Good read!
Because Jason found the video (on Precipice) and Charlesmigli apparently reads Jason's site. This is precisely what YouTube allows embedding for, sharing interesting videos.

As for not adding any value, I think the link to Instagram was valuable. Almost everyone who watches the video wants to visit that page but it is not linked on the YouTube page.
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Funny.

I work at Google Dublin, and we consider IRC to be an invaluable business tool. There really isn't a replacement for it.
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It is perfectly possible to get a patent, but fail FDA approval.

I believe this happened to Eli Lilly yesterday.
EDIT: Not sure it was Lilly- I heard the news on the radio this morning and I can't find the source on the news sites. Annoying.
That's easy to say looking back but to a beginner, the beginning is the beginning no matter when you start. To you, things were more difficult 10 years ago compared to today but what about the 10 years before you started? In my (very short 26 year lifetime) experience, I've seen that as things become easier, new things come out that are just as hard. For example, with all the frameworks out there HTML/CSS development is as easy to get into as ever. But then the wrinkle is that they throw in LESS or SASS, webfonts, JavaScript frameworks, dependency managers etc. that just weren't a factor when I was learning to code in 1996/1997.
Is there some particular reason you aren't comfortable using one of the public networks? I've worked at several companies that had private channels on Freenode.
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Not true. I recently installed Android SDK on a new computer and the SDK manager had bunch of third-party repositories already added. Heck, the hardware acceleration of the emulator under Windows requires Intel's repository for the HAXM installation and x86 images.
>However, there are also many "serious" startups. Tesla, transforming the primary mode of transport for most Americans. SpaceX, reinvigorating space exploration. Palantir, integrating the world's data to save lives. There have, and always will be, these startups doing serious world-changing innovation.

Are any of those actually startups anymore? SpaceX has over 2000 employees. Palanir has over 400. Tesla had it's IPO in 2010.

They're just companies, they've all delivered products to market, and are(with the possible exception of Tesla, depending on their 2012 filings) making a profit.
A MOOC (a good one, anyway) puts you in contact with many others who are studying the same material and can provide valuable insights on it.

You don't get that with a book.
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Thank you for submitting this. I enjoy articles which challenge popular "wisdom" very much, especially those related to health. I hope one day we'll have a computer system to validate all of science's assumptions and when one of those assumptions turns out to be false by later research, to automatically correct conclusions drawn based on those assumptions.
You can do this kind-of on the iPhone. Some apps support the geo fence wake-up thing that lets them update subscriptions.

For example, you can set your home address in Downcast or Instapaper so that when you leave or arrive, those apps will fetch new content without you having to open the app. Downcast will even download the podcasts in the background.

Now, this requires you to move outside the fence, so it's not time based. But I had a decent system where I had my work and home address in Downcast and I set it to fetch whenever I leave or arrive. My regular commute meant that I was always triggering the geo fence.
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Really cool to see some tech startups in miami, I find it a really nice environment to work/live!
You can argue it both ways, one the one hand windows benefits from the last 15 years of x86 optimization.
On the other hand arm is benefiting from a lifetime of embedded optimization.
Intel has only relatively recently shifted their focus to low wattage parts, and this demonstration on atom is not on their latest process.

What this benchmark shows is that the speculation about x86 being inherently inferior to ARM for low wattage is just that, speculation. x86 and Arm are very much in the same ballpark and we can expect the competition to really heat up in the coming years.
Wrong or right, the width of the iPhone has not changed with the 5.
Cost savings, most likely. Supporting saving in the SNES era required a physical battery in the cartridge. Passwords were rarer in the SNES days than in the NES days, but there were still several developers who figured they'd save a few bucks by omitting the battery-backed memory.
Yeah, I never keep equipment for that long without wiping. At most every 12 months I do a proper wipe and upgrade.
You can fork the open source parts of the code, even the open source parts of the SDK code. The SDK code is not the same as the SDK download.
The two guys in the middle of that photo look like total brogrammers.
All the documentation and layout needs a lot more work.

Yes, clicking links to get a small page of content to only find another link to click .. gets old really fast. (Old as in it feels like the Java documentation circa 2001)
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I'm critical of Ashton, not the movie. He is a terrible actor. Terrible acting ruins movies. His tech savvy has no bearing on the movie. He isn't running apple, he is just playing Steve Jobs.
I would argue that no one actually figures that out. The obvious implication of the fact that VC returns follow a power law is that VCs have no real expertise in picking winners, but are merely riding along on the underlying structure of the market. They invest in X number of companies and one of them hits so big for reasons no one can consistently explain that it covers the losses on the remainder. The rest is just ritual and hand waving.
right, that's the study that says you should buy new clothes one at a time because you get diminishing marginal happiness from each successive item.

it's possible that the prevalence of power laws in normal life have been overstated by people trying to drive home a point ("normal life" curves are definitely less slack than something like VC returns) but I still suspect that the majority of people underestimate them.
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Ha ha. Get back to having long lunches! ;)
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TheNextWeb is basically a Microsoft PR Front. When it came to reviewing browser stats the solely quoted Netapplications.

And this "story" (aka as Microsoft press release) fails to point how Microsoft spent $50 million lobbying to get Google in front of an FTC probe.

But yeah, I guess a headline like "Google spent less on lobbying during the FTC probe than Microsoft spent to get them there" isn't Microshilly enough.
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Intel is producing Atoms on an ancient process, while they are one generation ahead of every body else in cutting edge process. So this is Intel getting its feet wet, not Intel trying to compete. And atop of this, I am pretty sure there is a market for really high powered smart phones above the current price range.

[Edit: reformulated last sentence]
What did you move from and what have you moved to in terms of job?
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The SDK sources are still Apache2, and you can build your own SDK with them if you wanted.

Actually, the Apache 2 license does not disallow you to impose further restrictions. So, if you agree to a EULA, that is valid.
Google didn't use Oracle's code, and I guess you can fragment Android as much as you want as long as you don't use any of Google's code.
The author has a naive view of Google and their relationship to censorship, because he is unfamiliar with the relevant history. Therefore he paints the appeasement of China as some kind of departure, when in fact it is in line with Google's ready acquiescence to demands for censorship, from, for example, the Pakistani government and random Muslim groups[1]. Google's self-censorship in these and other cases affect their results delivered world-wide, including in the U.S., not merely in the totalitarian countries that complain.

[1]http://lee-phillips.org/youtube/
The article says no studies show that flossing has any effect on tooth decay. But what about gingivitis? I know it's anecdotal, but since I started flossing regularly, I've noticed a drastic reduction in the amount of times I get inflamed gums.
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