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It's too late. :-) There's actually a long history of this sort of thing in the tech world (consider Unix and its homonym).

Seriously, your alternatives aren't pronounceable words, and that's a major disadvantage.
Been an Android user for a year (Galaxy Tab 8.9) and was going to get an iPhone 5 last Christmas just to try out a different device. I changed my mind and am getting a Nexus 4 instead. I was able to use one of our test iPhones at work for a primary phone and here are just 3 things I don't like about iOS:

1. Toggling settings can be difficult. In Android, you have a pull-up/pull-down menu right from the home screen where you can just turn things on/off, like Bluetooth, sounds, WiFi, etc. In iOS, you go to the Settings app and scroll through the text labels and go through one or two more screens before achieving the same thing. And this, despite Apple's marketed UI simplicity.

2. The thing can't even send files over Bluetooth. How is that not possible in 2013?

3. Boring old homescreen from way back 2007, which displays an amalgamation of all the apps installed on my phone, not the apps I use the most.

Of course, whichever phone you end up buying is nothing more than a personal preference. However, I just think that saying Android is better than iOS has become more of a fact than an opinion these days.
I always wondered if it would be possible to create a fund or something that invested/bought up bankrupt but useful infrastructure projects. The two that spring to mind our Iridium Satellite Phone and the UK-France Channel Tunnel.

Both excellent ideas that were unlikely to earn back the cost to produce them, but if bought after bankruptcy and sunk costs have been written off they could be profitable.
Where I graduated, the brochures had a well balanced (and not a representation of our society) mix of genders and races, all beautiful, healthy people. Time has shown that real students were neither well distributed across gender and race, but also not pretty (and presented a much more diverse set of body shapes than the brochure would lead you to believe). As tests approached, they didn't look healthy either.
Yale, Harvard, and MIT don't need to worry (for now, anyway). The universities that need to worry are the Southeast Directional States, particularly the ones that try to do undergraduate education on the cheap. A MOOC isn't really that much different from a lecture class with 1,000 students. In both cases, your interaction with the professor is going to be minimal.
All writing by Microsoft is vacuous. It's weird. Vacuous is like double speak, but different.

I try to write beefily and even correct myself because I'm tempted to use sentence fragments.

Microsoft has been known to pay attention to me, maybe I should be careful what I wish for. It's possible a crazy big company would be a monster.

God says...

119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it
unto the end.

119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall
observe it with my whole heart.

119:35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I
delight.

119:36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

119:37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me
in thy way.

119:38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.

119:39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.

119:40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy
righteousness.

----

God is saying vanity might be the problem. A grammar NAZI might write poorly. Someone who is too afraid of being judged by the intelligent people might be too cautious and, ironically, fail for that reason.

I wonder what quicken means. I study the Bible a lot and not intelligencia books. It would be a nice ending if good guys finish first. When it comes to reading the Bible, the applicable word is "gleaning wisdom" -- rereading to get more out of it.

God says...
BREACH shared deriders that's_much_better aghast affect
forbadest dissolvest liberality Nor ungodlily failing
depth divinity struggle fancy Highness bless punished
home penetrating unacquainted mist talked bound fowl pursued
apprehension first I'll_ask_nicely gives nativity-casters
palaces counsel avoiding ascended joyful slew forests

----

If gleaning wisdom is so wonderful... why, I wonder. When you reread, you dig deeper and discover more. This trains you to be a deep person, perhaps, and the next time, you see the deep thing on the first pass. Gleaning training might only work on deep text.

God says...

8:16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

8:17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find
me.

8:18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and
righteousness.

8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue
than choice silver.

8:20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of
judgment: 8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit
substance; and I will fill their treasures.

8:22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his
works of old.
fiat (govt currency) risk is if you are keeping 100 million in a bank account and Bernanke keeps running the printer, then one day you will wake up and it will buy approx three eggs.
So best to ensure you have physical wealth assets on hand that can't be conjured out of thin air.
What about FDIC bank guarantees? Well sure the 100 million is guaranteed. It's purchasing power is not.
IRC dead? I use it everyday.

IRC and Email is the only sane ways to communicate online at the moment. (In my opinion)
Presumably one can correlate lead exposure with reduced intelligence independent of time.
I agree with what the article says about sharing data between applications, this really is one of the biggest pain points of iOS right now. Fortunately, it looks like Apple will finally address this in the future, iOS 6 already has infrastructure in place to allow for remote view controllers that (in theory) should allow any application to register itself to handle certain data and events. Right now seems to be only used privately, for example to launch the mail application from other applications, but my guess is that iOS 7 will add public API's for other applications to do the same. Whether this means you can change default applications like Maps etc. I don't know, but the way Apple handled the (lack of) public-transit directions in Apple Maps suggests they are starting to be more flexible about default application handlers.

That said, I wasn't really impressed by any of the other points the article makes. It starts out by saying 'Android on the Nexus 4 is better in almost every aspect', but besides the sharing thing it doesn't make a case for anything else. Some half-hearted observation that 'sometimes it even appears like rendering is smoother on the Nexus 4' and 'not all Android applications look like crap anymore' and that's about it. Oh and of course you can 'customize everything' and here you have 4 examples of the most ugly homescreens I have ever seen on a mobile phone.

Hardly a clear-cut case of 'better in almost every aspect'. Looks like it's more a matter of preference than an objective evaluation on which of the 2 platforms is 'better'.
Simply put I have used Lumosity over the past year and I know it's helped me. They have updated the games to better over time.

I would say that it makes me feel more flexible mentally and I believe the choices I make under pressure/short time-frames are better.

Whilst its true as the article states a crossword helps I think this helps more.
The thing is: Greece is NEVER going to repay its debts. NEVER. The sooner this reality is acknowledged and dealt with, the sooner the Greek people will be able to get on with their lives.
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I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Most comments above your's point out that the linked design prototype looks attractive mostly due to the high quality images. If implemented as the actual Facebook design, much of the appeal would be lost. That is, the prototype did not take "shit user generated photos" into designs at all. Facebook on the other hand, does.
Yes, that's the current trending explanation.

The fact is, Free is notoriously bad for watching youtube videos (they threshold bandwidth) and got bad rep recently about that along with a probe from the ARCEP (the telecom watchdog agency) on the topic, so this is seen as a kind of retaliation measure to the bandwidth hungry youtube.
Still works better than iOS Maps did at least.
Try reading beyond the title?
IOS 6 'Do Not Disturb' Bug to Resolve Itself on Monday, January 7th
Tried so hard to get a Nexus 4.
However....
I am using iPhone 5 now.
LOL
I think a class's public API should always specify its types (including method return types). But for local variables inside a method, the type information is often just noise.
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I'm permanently logged in to over a dozen channels. They're all related to some open-source project or other.

In my experience, IRC today is a godsend if you want to talk to techie types, and largely pointless for anything else.

So it'd be no surprise to me if most of the people reading HN use IRC all the time, whilst the majority of the rest of the world considers it dead (if it's heard of it at all)
Was HSTS the problem? Or did it end up being something else?
This isn't even an argument in my opinion. HTML 5 is just fine for most common apps. I've published a couple over the years with Phonegap and was able to get completely native performance from them. Where you have to go native is for super high OpenGL performance things and access to hardware features not yet available in the browser. The problem is that most web developers making mobile web apps don't put in the time and care to really make their projects shine.
There are plenty on iOS Apps for that, like: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackernode/id473882597?mt=8
I was going to say the same things.

Hopefully, there has been some serious work done on iOS 7 and it'll probably address most of the OP's concerns.

However, I do hope they introduce none of these customization shenanigans. I don't care for widgets (nor do I want another icon or thing I cannot remove from my homescreen). If the base OS is sufficiently good UI-wise, there is no reason ever to need to customize its looks besides the wallpaper (e.g. OS X).
Agreed. I'm kind of surprised the linked prototype didn't pick up on this. "Two columns is hard to follow. Let's do 3!"
Interesting. I too am an iPhone lover who recently picked up a Nexus 4 to get into Android development. This is my first experience with Android, so I didn't realize that the Nexus 4 Android experience might be different than your typical Android smartphone.

I was very impressed with the overall experience. If I wasn't so used to iOS, I could easily see myself using Android on a Nexus 4. But in the end, I walked away with the opposite impression; I saw no compelling reason to switch to Android and have decided iOS is still the mobile OS for me. Unlike the author, I do not really consider myself a power user. The customizability of Android is really enticing, but at the end of the day I find myself preferring the design/philosophy of iOS. But it really just comes down to personal preference.

After using an iPhone for so long, I became annoyed at the small design/interface differences present in the Nexus 4 (e.g. no physical home button). At times I found it difficult to use the Nexus 4 because of it's greater width. The iPhone width is optimal for my hand size and pocket size. Also, in my opinion as an app developer, the iOS app ecosystem still seems a lot stronger than Android. Browsing the Play Store was a little boring to me. Yes, most popular apps have both iOS and Android versions, but many developers still target iOS first and Android second. Until there's a reason for that to change I think iOS still has the edge in "killer" apps.

That being said, I agree that there are a lot of nice things in Android that I would love to see implemented in iOS.
> The thing can't even send files over Bluetooth.
> How is that not possible in 2013?

The thing will also not accept your 1.44MB floppy. Shocking, I know.
Ok, ok, I get what you say, but frankly, this is some pretty obscure use case for most. Not for you, obviously.
I work at google campus in london, an office for startups. Many weeks ago, somebody suggested on our yammer (business social network) that we should set up an irc channel for the people who work here.

The general response was along the lines of 'that still exists?', 'hey, I heard windows 3.0 is being released', etc.

Shame, because I find irc to still be the best chat I've ever used. Their response was also weird, since, you know, these are tech startups...
there are countries in the world where there are few or no weapons in private peoples hands. These are also the countries where there are few shootings and a lot less people die by gunfire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-re...
People with guns are scary, they are also scared, so better shoot him before he shoots you out of fear of being shot :/
"it still works fine" is rather subjective. I much prefer Facebook's current and last design, from both a usability and aesthetic view.
It's the underlings you have to watch out for.
And issue #222 still open :-(
As a developer it is best to enable yourself to collect some relevant facts about technical questions and come to a decision based on that data.

Basing an argument about technical things on "what people say" will not succeed, no matter what your goals are.
Generally, some kind of economic incentive solution works much better than outright bans. It allows the market itself to decide what instances of pollution provide enough value to justify their harm and which ones don't. The problem is, however, that while such solutions work out great for global (or at least highly distributed) externalities, as you can simply set a rate of some given number of cents per ton of CO2 released and be done with it, they don't work quite so well for problems like these because the problem is semi-localized. One gram of lead released in a suburb is not the same as one gram of lead released in the middle of the city, and one gram of lead in paint is not the same as one gram of lead in gasoline. Sure, you can tax it too, but the tax would be so ridiculously high that the effect would be the same as an outright ban.
It's such a terrible protocol and a pain in the ass all the time.

Sadly, there is no other wide-spread protocol with good multi-user chat clients. XMPP might be the best replacement, but there are almost no dedicated multi-user chat clients and irc networks (like freenode) would have to join the two protocols during the transition.
He, for me it's the other way: I like IRC because it's very simplistic. But when I have to do something with XMPP on the protocol level I just want to stab my eyes out because it's a bloated pile of XML.

Maybe it depends on tooling. If you have a language that is married with XML - like Java - you probably will have no problems with XMPP. But if you're doing stuff with C you will love the simple structure of IRC.
Private litigation ALSO has a nation-wide bureaucracy with an immense army of "conflict resolvers", and is often so inefficient that the litigation itself if often used by powerful corporations as a means of harassing their enemies. We need massive legal simplification, I agree, but that doesn't necessarily mean just moving to private litigation and being done with it.
Tried to add a box within a box and I can only move the box when my mouse is inside the bounds of the rectangle. I wish I could add boxes within boxes.
Today's new tech startups are run by people who missed the time window when IRC was popular. They grew up with web based chats and instant messengers.
My company is much smaller than Google but still rather large and almost 100% IT focused. We jokingly setup an internal VPN accessible IRC server a couple years ago to share links and just have a development/sysadmin chat room. As we started using it more we started setting up specific channels for departments like #dev, #ops, #random, #dba. Now we use it for quick communications between departments, trading links, sharing articles from online, discussing technologies in an open forum, discussing infrastructure changes or proposing changes. etc. We recently have actually configured various systems like IDS, syslog, etc. to also dump to dedicated channels and use it as a throw away log dumping medium. Want to keep an eye on the db logs? #dblogs want to see how the live web cluster is doing #weblogs want to see IDS reports in real time #idslogs.

What started as a joke has actually become a staple of company wide team communication and systems monitoring... plus I get to slap coworkers with trouts.
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The Hunger Games were instituted by the central controlling authority (the Capitol) as punishment to the worker castes (Districts 1-12) for their failed rebellion. Some of the Districts celebrated the games, but mostly because the winning District was given perks over the other Districts (extra food, etc), so rooting for your 'team' was also rooting for your community to get extra supplies rather than going without. This also pits the Districts against each other, making it more difficult for them to band together to stand against the controlling authority again.

On the other hand, football in small-town America contains none of this. They don't get anything other than bragging rights when Smalltown 1 beats Smalltown 2 for some sort of football championship. The individual players might get scholarship money for university to play college ball, but that's about it.
I disagree - widgets are enormously important to me, and were the deciding factor in my choosing an android phone. I'm quite forgetful, and I have a tendency to focus on one thing to the exclusion of others. Widgets allow me to display important information on my home screen that will be shown to me every time I look at the phone.

This means that I can have a list of (for example) upcoming birthdays on my phone that I see over and over again, enough that I will eventually see the reminder at a point when I am in a position to do something about it. Alarms are useless by comparison, because I will inevitably be busy with something else when they go off. Calendars/todo apps are equally useless to me, because they require me to remember to open up an app all the time.

I realise my use case is relatively niche, but I imagine there's a lot of different niche users out there that benefit from customisability.
> While Android still doesn’t give you bouncing lists and scroll views

Is that something people like so much? Whenever I've used an iOS device, it annoyed me. I much prefer the highlight in Android.
yep. for some context:

One of the first times Zuckerberg and I (Mark Andreessen) got together, in 2005 or 2006, he stopped me in the middle of conversation and asked: “What did Netscape do?”

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/ff_andreessen/all/1
You've obviously never been involved in private litigation before.
Here it is: https://gist.github.com/4451731
This has been discussed to death, but I'd like to add an approach that I haven't seen brought up before.

An HTML5 app/site can be a great MVP. You can build and iterate quickly and even launch it first as a mobile web site. Once you're happy with everything, you can use PhoneGap to turn it into apps. And later you can always build platform-specific native apps. It won't be the perfect experience at all stages, but it can be a more appropriate process for smaller teams. Plus, you can reach a large audience very quickly.
I think the only worthwhile argument is the native look and feel which is extremely hard to emulate using HTML5 (although not unfeasible, see http://pattern.dk/sun or sencha's fb client)

But on the other side it is also very costly to build multiple versions of an app on different native technologies and there HTML5 has an obvious advantage.

Speed is not much of an issue for most of the apps, hardware accelerated CSS can give extremely interesting results (again see http://pattern.dk/sun or FB client)

But overall I agree that doing well with HTML5 requires a good level of expertise.
It will be more interesting if the years' data on HN can be made available to public.
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I thought the issue discovered yesterday is a totally unrelated issue than the one I described in this article. Am I mistaken?
The Galaxy Nexus is garbage. I went from 4S to Galaxy Nexus too and it infuriated me. The screen was unusable in sunlight, microphone and speaker quality were laughable, battery life is half the 4S, not-very-sensitive touchscreen, etc.

Now on an HTC One X, which I like more than the iPhone. It doesn't have any of the quality issues of the GNexus.
Professional sports are the modern circuses (as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses ). The powers that be are constantly pushing sports through mainstream media to keep ppl away from the important things in life - power, politics, finance, economy, etc.
Operating at the Sharp End: The Complexity of Human Error
Has absolutely nothing to do with HN.
Obscure? This is one of the stupidest misfeatures of iOS. The hardware is there and there are workaround apps that can help you do it from iDevice to iDevice.

Many times I wanted to send a picture, contact or a document to someone standing right next to me and couldn't do it because they had an iPhone (or Windows Phone). This is especially pleasant when you're roaming and it's a bigger file.
FB success was based on tricking their users into giving FB access to their email accounts and spamming all their contacts. I assume this is no good way for an alternative network to find users.

It is great when Diaspora becomes a network of more conscious people that use their brain before giving access to their private data + contacts to some company - one of the best "selling points" is quality, in the long run, not quantity.

FB will be a "dumb-teeny-place" in a few years, decentralized and privacy-protecting networks will win, but grow much slower. No problem with that.
> some guy said you needed the right HMAC key on a cookie to exploit the bug

That is definitely not the intention of the article. There are other exploitable scenario and the reader is encouraged to check his code base for those instances. The article merely spends many words on what I believe would be the most scenario. The severity depends on the codebase.
Exactly! The Nexus4 is still sold out as we speak and even if you manage to order one, you will get a 8 weeks window for delivery but Google will make you pay £10 for "express" delivery. What a joke.
This is quite interesting. Citing the reasons of the decline of IRC makes it a more attractive prospect if you ask me now. Time to dig out irssi again :)

I was a user of IRC around 1998-2002 (I was a quakenet op) but I got lazy and bored of the politics and switched to MSN messenger which was vastly more popular as well.

The fundamental simplicity of IRC always rocked.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, HN is already open source in that sense. See http://arclanguage.org/ - it's the example app (news.arc). A git mirror is here: https://github.com/wting/hackernews
I've been using my Nexus 4 for one week now and I obviously love it. I think the feature that impressed me the most is the 'gesture typing', which compensates for my apparent inability to type correctly on a virtual keyboard. And it works surprisingly well in French too.
Having owned an iPhone 3, 3GS, 4 and a Galaxy S2, the Nexus 4 is by far the best smartphone I've owned.
I do the same thing. I have a birthday calendar and todo list on my home screen, it's immensely helpful. Even more so now that I can also have it on my lock screen.