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They should've moved to Android by 2011, when it was obvious that it was going to become dominant. If they'd built touchscreen phones with slide-out keyboards (like the Motorola Droid) and built an Android-based OS that also included their proprietary messaging and email solutions, I imagine they would be quite successful now.
I've only ever created HIT's. Normally paid waaaay over $10 an hour.
I think the parent's mistaken BB7 with BB10. With the modern BlackBerry software, they made a hugely significant effort, way more than Microsoft did.

They included an entire Android 4.x runtime in their operating system, just so developers could take their existing Android apps and deploy them to BB10 with roughly 'one-click' worth of effort.

Short of re-writing every app on the face of the planet, I'm not sure how BlackBerry could have made it easier for developers to port or submit BB10 apps.
A partner of mine has used http://mogotest.com/ on a production site to add some regression testing for visual changes. You'd have to look into it more specifically, but I believe it worked fairly well.
Why "Google Android" instead of just "Android" (or alternately you could, I suppose, go with "Apple iOS"), because the latter much more closely mirrors what has happened in the market. Unless personal assistant robots have taken off corresponding with Android, I don't think it's being polluted much.
Oh yeah, the memo was definitely an expensive mistake, as I said elsewhere on this thread. I was just saying the majority of the damage was done before he joined.
You're assuming that the CTO is technically competent. I've found over the years that even CTO's who once were technically competent either get lobotomy's, or suffer from hypoxia from the low oxygen at the summit of major corps.

Or, management exists cover up bad hiring practices. Take your pick. Either way, CTO's saying dumb things seems to be normal.
"I don't, however, sympathize with the company that made their decision to go it alone despite overwhelming evidence that there isn't room for another platform."

- I'm confused. They were THE leading mobile platform. So they didn't decide to enter a crowded market. The market got super crowded and they didn't respond well. But I don't understand the "go it alone" unless you mean innovating too late to roll out a new OS that was touch driven vs BB keyboard.
What difference is there between devising a mathematical method, a business method and a mechanical engineering method to accomplish something?

I am just trying to understand the rational behind what is and what isn't patentable.

Is it perhaps a question of applicability? Profitability? Enforceability? Is it a question of a difference in values held by mathematicians v. inventors?
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I'm talking about parallel programming, in general, as a competitor to high-speed serial programming.

In that case it is a matter of one kind of BS (wondering why you don't get the same answer with the GPU that you do with the CPU, waiting 1.5 hours for your C++ program to build, etc.) vs another kind of BS (figuring out problems in parallel systems.)

Not all problems scale out like that, but you can pick the problems you work on.
nit, but Ballmer did not dismiss the iPhone, he dismissed the $500 on contract iPhone. And he even said "it may sell very well". Here's the actual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U

I know it's become fun to pretend like Ballmer dismissed the iPhone but I have a hard time watching that video and seeing anything like that.
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Correct, ASP wouldn't make (it onto) those lists in the same way I don't see Rails / Django on those lists, just their parent languages, python and ruby. On the site referenced in this HN submission (bentobox) frameworks and not just their parent languages are represented.

To answer the question posed, I wouldn't know where to begin to provide a good metric for gauging it's (ASP / MVC.net) or any other frameworks / languages popularity.
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The thing is they dont't have to work as a receiver. It's enough to pinpoint you to given location using data sent by iBeacon. Everything else can happen between your smartphone and web-based services that would provide more context, data or feedback to your actions.
At NetApp, when I had visibility into the hardware building side of things we negotiated with Intel (our CPU supplier) on prices pretty much every year, and every time we added a new SKU to the mix. And when it became clear we were going to build systems with AMD parts those negotiations got a lot testier. And I don't doubt for a femptosecond that NetApp ended up having to pay more for their mid-range chips while they were shipping AMD chips in their high end filer.

I have no idea what goes on in the Samsung Microelectronics board room when Apple comes to call, but I would be astonished if the patent suits haven't changed Samsung's willingness to negotiate on price, and the base price they negotiate.
Looks cool. I've used something similar called vroom[1] once, and it worked quite well. But as soon as I realised I want to show a live webpage (or an image), I had to switch to a browser, and then it was easier to just switch to a markdown to html presentation tool instead (I picked remark[2] which I would recommend).

That said, I think it's important to focus on the core points of the presentation and not get distracted by graphics and layouts. It makes your presentations way better.

[1]http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Vroom-0.23/lib/Vroom.pm
[2]https://github.com/gnab/remark
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He's been trying to downplay the importance of the leaks since it first started, so what did you expect.
They decided to compete on operating systems well after it was obvious that a 3rd operating system wasn't going to make it. Numerous companies had failed or were failing on that strategy already.
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So let me get this straight... a whole new function syntax is being introduced, just to replace:

var that = this;
var f = function() {
return that.x;
}

with:

var f = () => {
return this.x;
}

I mean, that's it? That's the whole benefit? Am I missing something else here? Please tell me I am.

JavaScript is already tricky enough to keep track of everything having to do with "this", now they're adding extra complexity to that too by having multiple types of functions that treat "this" even more differently? (Since it's not like they're removing the original behavior...)
All four of those technologies have been created within the past four years. With that in mind, using 'hipster' as a denigration seems... ill-advised.

(I agree that they should be added.)
You're assuming that the government has a net positive effect for consumers (versus corporations), which I doubt.
Electrical switches become somewhat less reliable when subjected to violent physical stresses in an airplane crash like this one was. The bomber broke up in mid-air. It's not too hard to imagine how the switch could have been smashed in such a way as to close its contacts during this event.

Also, do people really switch off their electric lawnmowers and root around inside with the thing still plugged in? Sounds like a great way to get an unnecessary amputation to me. When I work with electricity which must not be turned on, I always either cut it off with something that can't possibly be undone by accident e.g. unplugging the device entirely, or I'm at least using a much more robust circuit breaker.
Wow, so it definitely knocks you out of a full season. Glad to hear that it worked out for you.
That is a fair point. Microsoft's behavior however, with regard to "supporting" the iPhone as a new way to do business, was tepid at best.
I tried to keep it to the most general term that still associated it with a company. It seems to be smart enough to pick up on the relation between android and the other terms, but the two graphs are still wildly different. I would expect them to be similar.

I'm not sure which way to go with it. Fortunately, you're free to tinker with the inputs. This is probably a more interesting graph: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=droid%2C%20lumia%2C%...
Android 4.3 has that fine-grained permission control built in now, but it's hidden. It may not be 100% production ready, but it can be exposed and used by apps that launch it, such as: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.schurich.a...

Of course, the chances are that no small number of apps you might be tempted to restrict will promptly crash since they'll assume that having asked for the permission up front means they'll get whatever data they want when they ask for it.
Detailed definitions of the chips they are making and the strategy/prioritizations they use while upgrading them?
The short version: 300 teenagers trashed a guy's house while he was out of town and then, when he posted pictures online that he found on their twitter feeds (etc.) and only asked that the 300 kids come back and help restore the home to pre-party status, only one parent showed up to help.

Even more astounding: Allegedly, some of the parents are threatening to sue him for publishing online the same pictures that their children took of themselves partying at his house.

Your thoughts?
By now we've seen this movie enough to know that if enough people care about the software, its DRM will be broken eventually. There is also a breakover point at which the more onerous the DRM is to paying users, the more users will choose not to pay and simply use the cracked version. This point will vary based on the nature of the software.
How do you figure? The scandal around the NSA PRNG is indeed a backdoor, is it not?
I feel like i have to read period-ridden marketing in a really dramatic way. In my head.

And if i'm not doing that, then i just have ideas. Separated.
It will all be over, soon.
For me the web is the only place I bother to use JavaScript.
I have a hard time believing the magnet story, but that is tangential to the story.

I've used SugarSync for a couple years, and Mozy before that. I literally never think about my backups, except when I get a new computer and download from the cloud. Total cost: under $80/year.

I'm not sure what's so hard about that, but apparently backups need to be "easier".
>> Unless you work at Apple in silicon design, you don't know that, and to be fair neither do I. But history has shown that every A# release gets greeted with incredible fanfare about the completely-custom CPU work at Apple, to later quietly get corrected when it turns out that it is at most a marginally derived ARM core.

His hasn't been true since the A6, which (amongst others) chipworks confirmed is a full custom design, manually laid out even, which proves it is not a modified reference ARM design. I don't think Apple would invest hundreds of millions acquiring chip design shops, gradually move from increasingly customized reference designs to full custom designs, to throw their brand new Swift core out after one generation and start over with a reference design. So I think it's pretty safe to assume the A7 is a pimped up A6 that implements armv8.

I'm not sure why you're so skeptical about Apple designing their own ARM cores, they've been going further down this path since after acquiring Intrinsity and PA-Semi, and they are not the only ones doing this, Qualcomm, nvidia and previously TI also design full custom ARM cores.
It's not about patches. FreeBSD drivers generally shouldn't be patches; they should be loadable modules so you can use them without recompiling the kernel.

Now if you changed your hypothetical so that it's not a patch but a separate module that compiles to its own distinct binary, and your hypothetical license were expanded to include a second clause, "Anything that links to binaries built from this code must inherit this license," then we'd be talking about a situation that replicates the issues with making use of GPL code in projects that use more permissive licenses.
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It's infuriating how passive Canadians can be.
The answer I hate the most when I get worked up over privacy issues is "Well we all knew this was happening".
I just wanna tell them "enjoy your Nazi Canada then", but somehow I feel that might not exactly win them over to my argument either.

Sorry for venting, I haven't been able to discuss politics or anything of consequence in a critical way with a real-live person for quite some time.
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That doesn't sound like an unregulated system. [...]

Those who could have stopped it had their ability to do so regulated away:

It's the doctors & hospitals who are the regulated parties. The Medical Board are the regulators. Stripping them of their authority effectively leaves the medical practitioners unregulated.

You're arguing that one group of meddling bureaucrats were hobbled by another group of meddling bureaucrats. Think through it again.
> Will the prosecution pay the defense's attorney fees if the doctor wins?

Sometimes, but winning isn't enough.

> Because otherwise you incentivize frivolous suits meant to force the defense to settle because winning is more expensive than settling.

This assumes that "unsuccessful" is equivalent to "frivolous". The fact that this is not true (whether it comes to either initiating a suit or defending it) is why those who lose, on either side, don't automatically pay the other sides attorney's fees, while it is possible for them to be awarded such fees.

Note that a strict loser-pays system disincentivizes meritorious suits that are difficult to prove, or any cases near the boundaries of whatever the formal rules are, since there it drives up the expected cost of such suits.

And, if its not an obviously-biased-to-favor-the-defense system that only has strict loser-pays for the plaintiff, it also disincentives certain meritorious defenses in favor of settling, for the same reason that it disincentives certain meritorious are tough-to-categorize suits.

Again, the system we have is already the middle ground (or, at least, one of the available middle grounds) between undesirable extremes.
Just in case his site goes down from traffic here's more coverage of the incident:

http://t.foxsports.msn.com/holloway-in-hot-water-over-websit...

And a crowd-funding campaign:

http://www.gofundme.com/helpmesave300

p.s. I have no vested interest in the outcome of this horrific behavior from the teenagers involved. I'm just pretty irritate that neither they, nor their parents, are accepting responsibility and doing the right thing: whatever they can to make amends.
There is also cisco ios, which would also feature heavily on the web I would imagine.
Serious question: what's the difference? I would have followed the definition for backdoor since it relies on particular secret information relating P and Q that the NSA might have—but where should one draw the line between backdoors and vulnerabilities? Intent?
I don't understand his constant line in the sand on this issue (amongst other things). You basically illustrated exactly how he structures his arguments on this topic.
I recommend to avoid that website. That's why: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bentobox....
I doubt enough people are searching for information on an enterprise networking operating system to overwhelm the volume of people searching for information on a major consumer mobile operating system.
> This assumes that "unsuccessful" is equivalent to "frivolous".

You're going to have to explain this more, because I do not believe I was assuming that.
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Jeez man, Breaking Bad was just last week. Show a little originality in your postings.
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I think you are overestimating how much Samsung needs Apple as a customer. Gigantic companies as Samsung are simultaneously active in any number of large markets. They do not need single customers, they do not even need whole markets. They are essentially investment holdings that will move out and into markets as they mature or are commoditized.
Not sure if you are tolling, but to move to Android by 2011 they would have had to start in 2010 or 2009. The first Android release was September 23, 2008 and you remember how ummm "good" it was right? And on so many devices too and "obvious" that it was going to become dominant. So they could either keep printing money with their existing OS they own and know or migrate to an unknown and new operating system made by some other company with unknown problems...
Nortel? Or Novell? I guess both apply, but Novell seems to fit much better.
This is basically saying, why is all the attention on supermodels, there are so many pretty people out there who are not modelling?!

Yes, but so what?
It is great to see a YC fashion/e-commerce company getting traction. High fashion authentication makes a ton of sense, and is definitely a valuable service. The sealed auction model is interesting. It is a good model, but misses on all the engagement that real bidding offers. I think it is a good fit for them. Standard auctions are full of tasteless bullshit such as sniping.

Standard auctions offer the best available price. It would be interesting to see if they A/B test vickrey auctions where the price paid is the second highest bid. That prevents buyer's remorse, and could generate higher prices as people would bid higher without worrying about doing something "stupid".
It's the default port for running a local rack app (sort of a ruby-web-stuff middleware). For specific values of "developer" :)
I appreciate the response. The system is still fairly new, and in development. My options are still pretty much open. Just waiting on more paying customers (but aren't we all?).
What sets Ghost apart from other blogging platforms or even from just pushing markdown files to github?
If you want to use it now and get full browser support, you can use the TypeScript compiler, which will compile into ES3 or ES5 targets. It also supports ECMAScript 6's classes syntax.

It's pretty neat to use this tech now on production sites and not having to worry about browser support.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript#ECMAScript_6_support
that's easy, they just didn't come out with a new model. I waited and waited and then iphone 5 came out so I gave up on RIM and switched. I dislike the iPhone, but it's better than my old curve, mostly. Now I'm locked and can't go back to Blackberry without a financial penalty. I suspect there are a lot of people in the similar position. Even if we wanted to support RIM we can't.
Queue "bye bye Blackberry". They milked their corporate entrenched position for an admirable duration of time.
Might run into some trouble with the name. There is an travel magazine already called Outpost:
http://www.outpostmagazine.com/
Wait, Ruby is actually slower than PHP? So whenever some webdev laughs at me for using PHP and points me to that "A fractal of bad design" article, I can just laugh back and say "Well, at least my language is faster!"? Amazing.
Why would Microsoft have to "support" the iPhone way back then? I'm pretty sure they would have supported it if they had ready iPhone competitor back in the days, but given that they didn't have it, the only logical thing to do about it is to ignore it and silently working on catch up, which is exactly what they did.
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We are not talking inconvenience here. We are talking the process of getting into the country or through security.
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I've read a lot of his papers and I own Causality, but unfortunately it ended up at my parents and I always forget to grab it when I'm there. I really would like to get further into the book.

But this is a great, fast example of why his work is important.
I think that's pretty rare, even among big co's that do a lot of government work.
That doesn't conflict with anything I said; I never said patents don't motivate inventors; I said motivating inventors was not the purpose of patents, it's merely the side effect of the method used to get inventors to give up their trade secrets.
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They lost me for two reasons. The first was updates and bug fixes. For example on my BB pausing the music player resulted in the battery being drained flat in less than an hour. They fixed that but of course the update never made it my phone and carrier. Add in 5 minute boot times, and randomly finding it locked up and needing a physical reset. Or the survey on a website about what your favourite app was to daily reboot your phone!

The second reason was them not standing behind their hardware. The warranty was a year. The bluetooth module failed after one year and 3 months, and it turns out this happened to a large number of people with that model. Tough luck.

There is so much choice these days, that narrowing down is done by using any reason. That is why I wouldn't touch another BB and as a recommender to my friends they don't either. This kind of thing can be fixed, but it requires a long track record of redemption. (HTC is also on the do not touch list due to a lack of sustained redemption.)
The /doctor/ is ruined? The insurance company would have to pay. Would a doctor become uninsurable because of insurance company lawyer ineptitude (if indeed they are forced into an expensive settlement for a small mistake)?

Have there been huge settlements? Sure. But those settlements are usually punitive and serve as a deterrent to bad behavior for hospitals that can make hundreds of millions in profit a year. A $500K slap on the wrist would carry the same weight as a $150 traffic ticket to a member of the middle class...annoying but forgettable. Now $10m? $20m? Suddenly everyone from the Chairman on down takes an interest in preventing whatever went wrong.
I'm not sure how wearing a Niqab while doing your desk job somehow constitutes a security risk.
IMHO Samsung and Apple compete on marketing and not in technology. That's why you can find Samsung chips in Apple devices.

So, the vertical integration Samsung has in the manufacturing process is not great competitive advantage. However, Apple is strongly vertical integrated in the retail side. This makes a difference.
Both he and other big wig top-posters here on HN, though they've crept back into the shadows more than tptacek.
And Pearl's point is that the "real world" logic you just applied is both important and not statistical—you need to augment your analysis with these causal assumptions in order to translate probability into meaningful causal statements.