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Thanks! The idea was to keep it stupidly simple, and not limit what people could ask for / search for. Had a couple of people ask if non web dev topics were allowed - to which my reply was "of course!"
I run it under Xen with a GPU passed through using VT-d. There are dozens of guides for running it in Xen and also many guides for passing GPUs through to Xen guests. No problems to report. The OSX guest has full access to the GPU. Yet to attempt an OS upgrade though.
Good Idea. Well executed.
Edit: Hide "Offer My Help" on my own swap(when logged in)
They already have a free version for creating WP apps.
Yes, that's a good point. I've certainly never examined the problem through the lens of a BFA conservatory-style program. If a necessary part of the skill-set a student wishes to learn is the ability to accept and process public criticism, it certainly makes sense to emulate that in the classroom.
The article says that relinquishing things is decided by the elders, and the community must follow. This is very different from an individualist society, where things my be encouraged or discouraged, but ultimately the individual decides whether to follow.
Yes, truly a great time to be an Android developer...
I couldn't wait for the new Mac Pro as well, so I bought an 27" iMac a few days ago.

Building a Hackintosh is something I considered as well, but based on my previous experiments in that area I absolutely have to concur with the others here who say it's not worth the hassle and at the end the machine never works quite right.

The biggest issue for me is multi-screen support, it was the main reason I bought my old Mac Pro. But it's a loud machine and it eats a lot of power, even when idle. And let's face it, most computers spend most of their time in idle. The new iMac supports two external displays, so that was my minimum requirement met right there (possibly by accident on Apple's part). I thought I'd miss the Pro's raw computing power but when rendering or gaming the iMac doesn't seem to be significantly slower to be honest. The entire setup consumes less than half the wattage of the Pro, it's relatively cheap (around € 2k), and most importantly it's very very quiet.
No, they couldn't have for the same reason no other android vendor can: they have no compelling way of differentiating an Android spin off, unlike Amazon who has tremendous media store resources. Its just shitty skins like Sense and Touchwiz.
> Seems like Elop stayed true to his nickname - of a trojan horse.

Wonder if it was intentional to run Nokia into the ground or just sheer incompetence?
Sad to see Nokia going the way of the dodo.
Sadly, it is not mere FUD for people based here in Ireland. (I agree that it was somewhat better in the US.) Here's what Liam Casey (CEO of PCH International[1]) said earlier: https://twitter.com/liamcasey/status/374690420556443650. He's speaking from personal experience. (I've talked to the engineers who were trying to set up that merchant account.)

And, yes; we charge VAT on our services in Europe; this goes straight to the government.

[1] http://enwp.org/PCH_International
Another opinion here. I've had to learn Russian and the pronunciation was presented easy only at the beginning. Russian has:

- Diacritics that do not usually appear in the broad case writing. One example that I happen to remember now is «ё», which most of the time is written only as a plain «е» (but is still pronounced differently).

- Broad range of similar pronounced letters, like the group «и, й, ь, ъ» (Ukrainian also adds «і» and «ї» to those), which becomes very complicated and even ambiguous when someone has to write on dictation. I still didn't get it to distinguish «ь» from «ъ» case other than just learning parrot-fashion how the words are written.

- Unregulated accents. There is no universal rule for which vowel receives the accent in a given word. You have to just remember the words. Learning to read the alphabet is not enough.

- Different pronunciation for the same letter. One example is «о» which is pronounced sometimes like "o̞" and other times like "ɐ", but there are lots of other cases. So try «Как пишется...» providing only phonetic transcription to a learning-Russian person and see what comes out.
Microsoft to buy Nokia's phone business for $7.2 billion
It was a test: http://www.euronews.com/2013/09/03/russia-says-ballistic-obj...
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Thinkpads have better build quality than most PC laptops, though I'm not sure whether on par with the unibody design in MacBooks. My own experience is that my T410 overheats when doing serious work like encoding video. The case is sturdy, but not airtight. It's supposed to be able to withstand spills, but I've never had to find out if it really can.
The Bulgarian one has something with Portugal :)
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I like the idea, but I hate the business model. I have a deep mistrust of services that make money from people who are in desperate situations. Charging unemployed people for a service that might help them get a job is an ethically grey area.

The fact is this sort of service would be awesome if unemployed people could access it at no cost to themselves. If it could be run with either government money (to improve national employment levels) or corporate sponsorship (so companies get better CVs) then it'd be very useful.
HN: Hire me for a token wage and help me validate my idea.
PROPOSAL

I will perform several short development tasks in exchange for a token wage. I am willing to spend 10 to 20 hours working on a task that you provide me with. This amount of time should be sufficient to develop a new product feature, fix several bugs, or develop a simple MVP. If all you require is some consultation, I would be willing to help as well.

I can do web app development. Bonus points for Scala tasks. I feel comfortable with Ruby and Python as well. I can handle frontend tasks well (CSS, JS/jQuery).

WHY

I have an idea for an on-demand programming service that I would like to verify in a lean startup way, through a series of short experiments. Each experiment would involve me doing some small development jobs, so everyone should benefit from it. I also wish to check how effectively I can switch between tasks.

COST

I will charge $1 USD per hour for my work. I want to make sure that I get serious offers only. You will own the IP rights to all the work I would have done, and it is okay if you decide not to use any of my code. I will not charge you if you are unhappy with the outcome, although I will ask you for feedback.

CONTACT

Please feel free to contact me even if you are not convinced, or just want to say hello. :)
E-mail: marcin.mieszek@gmail.com
Skype: mmieszek
I'm getting fed up with these nonsense notions and governments feigning victimhood to route citizen to their honeypot schemes.

Brazil is a country that wants sovereignty over its citizens' digital lives, mainly to spy on them: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/08/11/act...

Being spied upon by (wait for it) a spy agency does not change the fact that a government run email service is the last place you want to host your email to keep it away from the government.

It’s something that Iran would do (and did).
Same here, and I've always tried to educate family/friends on the difference between the 'computer' and the parts inside it (when they ask).
Why did Microsoft buy Nokia's devices business?
We are getting to a point where the power of the device is less of a distinguishing factor. Lots of people are satisfied with the hardware of the previous generation Iphone or lower spec'd Android Phones. If hardware prices continue to drop the feature phone market (which Nokia dominates) could easily turn into a low end smart phone market. The Windows Phone OS could actually be a good choice for this. This is also useful for Microsoft in the business market where there are a surprising number of feature phones (and aging Blackberry's).
Another thing to understand is how NULLs are handled in different contexts, using either the familiar two-valued logic or the more exotic three-valued logic. It's kind of messy but really worth knowing if you're working with SQL. The wikipedia page actually gives a pretty good account of the issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_%28SQL%29
Oh yes, and within EU you can transfer money bank-to-bank at the same cost as domestic transfers (Which is to say near nothing). How about that?
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No way they weren't forced. This was planned all along.

(Disclaimer: I didn't read the article. I just disagree with the headline).
> ...wait, no, that would mean Microsoft would have some special insider knowledge of Nokia's finances that no one else was party to. Surely not.

Not really an issue if the board approved going to Microsoft with the financial information first. Moreover, when negotiating the strategic partnership, Microsoft may have gotten a right of first negotiation, that would legally entitle it to first dibs on the acquisition and certain "insider knowledge" anyway. Ultimately, shareholders might still have to approve the transaction, but there's no insider trading issue with reaching out to potential acquirers on the downlow.
> It is apparent in hindsight that people don't care about the downsides of being inside a walled garden

There's a danger in repeating such things as if they are facts, as the people that matter (e.g. developers, investors) start actually believing them. It's bullshit of course, but I don't blame you for being intoxicated by such propaganda.

When the iPhone was released, its success had much to do with it feeling like a portable computer that's polished instead of feeling like an expensive and failed experiment that was pushed on the market for the punishment and torturing of early adopters (like all the other phones before it, with the possible exception of Blackberries that I never tried). The iPhone for example was the first phone I used with a usable browser and a usable email client, two extremely critical pieces of functionality that every other phone maker was failing to deliver.

But living in a technological bubble, such as it happens when living in a place such as San Francisco where you see MacBooks and iPads everywhere, does tend to distort reality.

Fact of the matter is, customers don't care about walled gardens as long as they don't feel the walls. Take away some freedom they care about or show them what openness can do and they'll instantly reconsider their choices.

Example:

I went from an iPhone 3GS to an Android because of 3 things - I couldn't block calls and SMS messages coming from some annoying numbers (Apple was banning such apps from iOS) + I couldn't do Wifi tethering with my iPhone because the capability was disabled by my career + uploading music on it wasn't as easy as simply connecting the phone through USB and copy/pasting files. Nowadays I have other reasons too, including the fact that iOS does not allow Firefox. And I also remember fondly when Google Voice was rejected back in 2009, because it "duplicated existing functionality".

I later explained my reasoning to two other non-technical folks, showing them what my Android could do that their device couldn't. They are now Android users. And I can probably convince more people of how dumb and locked down their expensive gadget is, if I cared enough, but I don't because Android is number 1 without my help and openness had everything to do with it (being a doubly edged sword no doubt, since open also means open for careers and phone makers).
Missile test by Israel and the US?

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...
I'm not taking any side here, but both this link and the top story provide little evidence, and neither side is quoting particularly credible sources.
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Lenovo doesn't make any money. $500m on $30bn revenue. No point in being in that game.

For the downvoters: Nokia is losing money right now, but managed to post a profit for Q4 2012, which at $585m was more than Lenovo made in all of 2012, and about 5-6 times more than ZTE made in 2012.

Beyond a certain point, market share is much less important than profits, much more so in the phone space because it's not like the desktop operating system space where people are building up large systems that will be hard to port in the future.
I think that Czech and Slovak languages are incredibly similar to each other. often times, when reading the instructions on some product in both languages, they differ by one word here and there. I would be willing to guess that no speaker of these languages would be able to differentiate one from the other.

A cool variant on this game could be "guess where this English accent is from."
Even if users don't care about Open Source, Linux being available for people to run cheap, secure, reliable servers have been a huge win for users as it has been a catalyst for the web.

Similarly, having the Android source code available has increased the amount of handset manufacturers who choose to use it and increasing competition, putting on downward price pressure.
Great comment, thanks.

You know, your comment gives me an idea; I happen to know a good number of volunteer programmers who might want to help bootstrap a site like this, at least to the point where it could attract government funding or corporate sponsorship.
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Oh, the N95. The worst phone I have ever used, ever. The specs were amazing, but it could barely make a phone call! Total rubbish.
On the first point, the game's randomness is biased towards easier languages earlier, and harder languages later. But I didn't want to bring with me a preconceived notion of what languages people would find hard. If you were to track your maximum score, you'd probably find it trend upwards as you trained. So scores are still useful in that regard.

On the second point -- I completely agree. Validating the samples takes time, but I promise I'll add more as soon as I can.

Thanks for playing :)
... and this is the part I say "I told you so".

Elop never really left Microsoft. All he did at Nokia's helm was to trim down the company to facilitate this acquisition.
Thank you for sharing this enormously important insight. I'd bet you had to think hard to come up with that one.

Btw: I am an Android developer having a truly great time with this and other platforms.
Fantastic idea! Just out of curiosity, what hosting service are you using?
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Azure is in fact a bright spot for MS; no it's not as big as EC2 but people are using it. Where their cloud is not doing so well is on the private side, I don't hear a lot about people running Azure private clouds in their own data centers; contrast VMware, Eucalyptus and OpenStack.
Are there any YouTubers/Googlers here who could offer their insight given YouTube API [1] moved there just under a year ago?

[1] http://apiblog.youtube.com/2012/09/the-youtube-api-on-stack-...
So, since the begin the Board was aiming to an acquisition by microsoft after nokia would be so in debt that the total cost would drop?

It seems like the board, since now, has made the interest of microsoft and not nokia.
Why web application security testing should be automated
Because web applications have become really complex and large, it has become almost impossible to detect vulnerabilities in web applications unless you use automated tools.
Euronews is a reputable agency, though.
I don’t understand that reasoning. Why would a phone maker choose Windows Phone over Android?

– Android is cheaper than Windows Phone (many phone makers pay Microsoft to be able to use patents used in Android, but even then, Android is cheaper than Windows Phone)

– Android has lower system requirements than Windows Phone

– Android has a thriving app market, Windows Phone doesn’t

Windows Phone low-end phones will only be hit if Microsoft convinces network operators to push them. That could happen if network operators were to regain power over the consumer by doing so. For instance, it could mean that on those phones, the app market is managed by the network operator, customers would pay different rates for different kinds of data, and customers could only use a pre-installed web browser that serves the network operator’s ads.
Sure there will always be angry people ready to be offended at the drop of a hat, but the author doesn't seem to be offended at all so I'm not sure what your point was.

He was quoting this line from pg: "anyone with half a brain would realize you’re going to be more successful if you speak idiomatic English, so [the entrepreneurs] must just be clueless if they haven’t gotten rid of their strong accent"

Now first of all, that line while technically innocuous could have been spoken 100 other ways to convey the same meaning in a less offensive manner. But more importantly, it also belies an ignorance about how language works and makes me suspect pg has never learned a second language. Conflating "idiomatic English" with "strong accent" is not something that someone with knowledge of language learning would do. pg is a strong essayist and thinker, but that's not a substitute for actual domain knowledge, and his off-the-cuff theorizing works best when its about things which he has deep experience. Listening to the accents of a bunch of founders and then judging their prospects based on how they performed and how their accent came across to him is just not going to provide any level of insight approaching that of his other essays. It's sort of like Alchemy vs Chemistry. You can make all sorts of prognostications from surface observations, but if you don't understand the inner workings at all then you're just pissing in the wind.
Exactly. Plus it's a prize Microsoft probably feels it can't afford to lose.

If Android magically evaporated tomorrow Google would be just fine -- the core of their business (ad sales) doesn't fundamentally require that they control the mobile platform, although it certainly makes things easier.

Microsoft, on the other hand, had for decades been the platform company. They've historically tried to grow by pushing out from their desktop beachhead into other territory they think they can control the platform for (i.e. servers, game consoles)

Now suddenly they've found themselves behind in the highest-growth segments of the industry. In fact, just "behind" doesn't do their situation justice: they've had to spend billions just to claw themselves into a distant third place.

I expect that those billions will keep flowing. Microsoft is desperate to win this thing.
This article reminds me of the hassle it took to dualboot my new laptop with Win8/Linux. Although this self-signed-do-it-yourself approach sounds very interesting - and by all means I will try it as well - it's complex enough to stop loads of people from even trying.

As some have put it in this comment section, regular people only want to install from a CD. This will be too much for them, unfortunately.
The way I see SQL in my mind is programming Venn Diagrams ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram ) followed by creating a projection that uses one or more of the areas within that diagram (contrasting strongly with imperative languages, i.e. logic programming). Unfortunately it's not straight-forward to do that because SQL is a superset of Venn Diagrams, but that line of thinking is where you need to be.
>Because I've cured the common cold, and because I've met all the requirements that psychology recognizes for science, I deserve a Nobel Prize. Yes or no?

I take a different tack on this. The primary failing in the "science" of your thought experiment is that you had no control group to measure the effect of your cure against. If, on the other hand, your cure was statistically-significantly better than control in double-blinded randomized tests, then I think you would deserve the Nobel Prize, even if you couldn't proffer a theory for why it worked. Every theory humans have ever invented had at the bottom level something akin to "Well, those are just the rules and this is the way they work.". Lacking an elaborate, fleshed out framework to understand underlying mechanisms for your cure shouldn't even really be a serious problem, so long as your cure hypothesis is falsifiable.
It costs like $19 to register an account on the WP dev centre (or free if you are a student), that's less than Apple and Google charge. For that you get Visual Studio and Blend all set up to develop with and can publish apps to the store.
Does it shuffle/move stuff around, or does the cursor just jump around as you type?

If the latter, sounds like a faulty touch screen.
drivebyacct2, if you read this, you have been hellbanned for at least the last month.

I don't know why you were banned, and I can take downvotes for irrelevance to the article, but I feel I should let a 3+ yr user with over 10,000 karma that they're posting to the aether. (I wish there was a better way to do this).
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You'll find very similar disclaimers in nearly all licensed, closed-source software as well.
US Navy did not fire it. From Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/us-syria-crisis-us...
Eh, they've been selling brick phones to literally billions of people in the developing world for years.
> Without a built-in, well-audited, static browser mechanism no web service can ever be trusted with confidential data

That's why mega has a separate app: https://mega.co.nz/#chrome
I stopped at this sentence when I read it, I'm sure he means; "Nokia" Windows Phones... As in, out of all the Windows phones available, Nokia is the fastest growing.

Hmmm. How about patting yourself on the back...
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Yes, exactly. To use SQL well you need to think in terms of sets and set operations. Venn Diagrams are a good idea to help visualize this. If you find yourself writing a lot loops over cursors there's a good chance you're doing it wrong.
Six years ago, most smartphone users were heavily invested in their Windows Mobile or Symbian app ecosystems, or in Blackberry's messaging ecosystem.

That said, to pull off an iPhone- and Android-style upset though, Microsoft would need a correspondingly huge difference in user experience though. The UI on Windows Phone is nifty, but it's not enough of a game changer for most people. It'd really have to be something like successful execution of wearable computing or the convergence described here: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/want-t...
Currently it's on Heroku, using the free instance and the MongoHQ addon. Find it perfect for little side projects like this, especially when launching at first to see if the idea is any good or not.
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