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This is not what happened in the music player market - in 2007 the iPod commanded over 70% of sales, helped by modest segmentation (flash vs HDD).
While the mobile phone market is much larger and a phone is less of a luxury item for many, I expect they could eventually have the majority of the smartphone market.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the free market. The free market means that people interact freely, if you choose not accept the terms apple and att are offering -- then you don't accept. I believe you can purchase the phone from apple or att directly but at the non-subsidized price which is quite high.
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Good question on the forum listings, I don't know. The DomainState Forum is free, however, so the cost is just a few minutes of time.

RE GoDaddy patent thing. Yes, interesting. Can they get a patent on that? I guess maybe if the process is new, unique, non-obvious, etc. They have a Premium Domain name feature on their site, which let's owners of domain names offer them for sale through GoDaddy, but the commission is real high. If you go that route, GoDaddy promotes the name when someone searches for it or a similar name.
It started as Lucene, but is quite different by now as Jim (http://friendfeed.com/jim) had to create all of the real-time indexing and standing query support (at any moment, it is simultaneously executing thousands of queries).
That's nothing. When you want extra processor resources on an IBM iSeries, you only need to enter some code (after paying IBM big €€), and vóilá, your server will use some extra cores that were always there. I have heard Sun does the same, and probably others too.

All in all, it isn't that bad. At least there's an easy upgrade path. Probably you can't do that with Windows Server.
The fact that you think close proximity to another culture involves spending all your time defending yourself proves the point to me...
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Filtering them means analyzing the SMS contents, right?
Is that legal?
I understand your point. For now, I compromise between 'why' and 'how'. Explaining 'the why' of semantic tags (and the Semantic web in general) is still a great challenge, but I feel that moment is very close. Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)
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I am practically there already but I have a few things to sort out at home first, so may have to go an extra mile.

My ultimate goal would be to buy a cheapish yacht (they're cheaper than most people think) and sail around the world, like this guy: www.bigoceans.com - once you've got the yacht its not that expensive, I think that would be the ultimate freedom for me, and you can visit places that the average tourist can't get to!

Saying that, any kind of travel is good. I see you live by your word!
The paper is a transcription of a talk. Email her, and I'm sure she'd be happy to send you numbers.
Then go for it. Life is about new experiences and loving every minute.
I think the only difference will come if the car-built-to-spec can change manufacturer but not name/model badge. The Saturn sedan build in, say, China in 2010 is the same card as the one build in, say, India in 2014. Same parts, same marketing. The end-users won't know the change and it won't make a difference.

If/when this occurs, it'll be a BIG change. It will give Saturn Mark II leverage over its suppliers, although it'll test the design tolerances a bit.
I first saw this suggested at http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/evolving-faster-hask... - he references prior work (see "best paper" in bold) by http://www.cis.udel.edu/~cavazos/index.php?page=publications

The ctuning site has a timeline that extends many years back, so I'm not suggesting it's "me too" material.

In (lossy) heuristic search, it's common to automatically tune a handful of parameters (with difficult to predict outcome that may depend on the specific data set) to find a good setting for a given valuation of time spent vs. search error.
Since I am not researching the subject, I really don't want to bother her. But since that thesis has been around for quite a while now, surely she has published some papers somewhere?

It is just that I remember the original "article", which was just a blog entry (was it mnths ago, or years already?). But the press loved it and eventually what just was some musings in a blog became "scientific research" in the media - that is what I mean by linkbaity, it is just the kind of think newspapers love to write about. That is not Boyd's fault of course - it's just that after all that time, I would have expected to really see the blog article be turned into something more solid.

If she can make a living that way, also I don't have anything against it. I just felt it lacked substance for Hacker News.

Edit: these are her papers http://www.danah.org/papers/ - I tried one that sounded like it might contain numbers, but I didn't find many. Some words on methodology, though (for Friendster, but still). Anyway, her kind of research just is not my taste (too much talking).
GAE still had read-only access to data so it would be possible to backup and move elsewhere
Of course it would be a problem, due to the fact that they can't respond instantaneously. In order to block these messages, AT&T would have to first 1) realize that there is a problem, 2) figure out what to filter, 3) implement the filter. By the time they did all this, the worm would have already spread to most phones which are turned on. It could easily infect 500,000 phones before AT&T were able to respond.

If, for example, someone released a worm which sent an infected SMS to all contacts and proceeded to permanently destroy the device's baseband, ruining 500,000 iPhones before AT&T implemented a filter, how much money do you think Apple is going to have to spend in repair costs and lost future sales from the bad PR?
Why is the stock still even listed? I thought stocks that fell below a dollar were automatically de-listed, and that would be especially quick given that company is literally bankrupt.
"the history of the research behind it"

Could you point me to that history, because I can't see it (as I said in another comment). I think Boyd is mostly talking about her personal impressions.
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" Everyone thinks MySpace is cool until your browser crashes or slows down, or you strain your eyes reading yellow on orange, or you hear the first 3 seconds of some crappy hip hop song that clashes with what you already have playing on iTunes."

So you are saying that black MySpace users tend to have a bad taste in colors and music, and therefore the white users leave? Whereas surely white users only create tasteful profiles?

Or maybe MySpace in general sucks, and therefore people are leaving irrespective of race.

One thing though: MySpace seems to be the standard site for music and bands, so perhaps "races" who are more preoccupied with music would tend to hang out there more.
What's your longest-held programming assumption that turned out to be incorrect?
Although it has some overly verbose constructs, IMO most of the complained verbosity in java is due to what is considered idiomatic java.

You can indeed write much more concise and clear code in it, but for some reason the "proper" way to write java is to use a ton of factories, defining new class (and immediately extending them with more subclasses) for every little thing, wrappers, interfaces and so on.
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Actually, as django abstracts the GAE-api, there's still a way to escape.
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I think a better analogy for cloud computing is electricity. For mission critical applications investing the time and effort into a power / app backup is probably a good idea, but the onus is on us.
I used to think there is One Good Way To Program without realizing there is a lot of cargo cult in the best practices out there. Even the ones that used to do a good job are often invalid in a different context.
If the concern in the distortion is that people don't pay taxes, my comment is valid. If the concern is for the people themselves, I'm not sure what the problem is with low population density. It doesn't even need some government program to correct if we decide it is bad for society. People already have social and economic incentives to live near eachother.

Also, I'm surprised you would suggest that law makers give a shit about the distortion taxes cause, and hope to minimize it. A politician's actions can pretty much always be directly tied to motovations to increasing influence and getting elected. Altruistic politicians that actually care about society don't exist.
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This is how things are generally arranged in national health systems. In the UK for example, the NHS is actually made up of many local Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) which run the hospitals and whatnot in a local area; in larger cities a PCT can be one very large hospital, in more rural areas, maybe a whole county or two's worth of healthcare facilities. PCT's are funded centrally based on performance and patient load but managed and run locally. There is a reasonable attempt to learn from and spread best practice between PCT's but, obviously, no system created by humans is perfect.
What an idiotic post. I have never seen any positive correlation whatsoever between fidelity in marriage and someone's business trustworthiness. Unless this guy has some very convincing evidence, what he says is moralising nonsense.

In fact in my experience the very opposite is true! I have friends who have gotten married; I know all about their personal lives, of course. The ones who've cheated are the risk-takers who get what they want. I would trust them over the scared little lifer accountants anyday. And I have never doubted their loyalty as friends, nor have I ever been given any reason to. These things just do not cross over like that.

Marriage is a complex institution. A man's sex drive is also complex. Drawing these simplistic conclusions is arrogant, insulting and holier-than-thou. I bet he doesn't invest in atheists, either, for some similar BS rationale.
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I am having the problem of not leaving into now. While working i always thinking about other fun stuff and while fun activity i always thinking about my tasks.
Does others also having the same issue, and any technique to improve this.
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yeah but he does have a valid point. Java's IDEs are just so much better than what ObjectiveC has to offer and having a GarbageCollector makes you're code much less error prone and increases productivity. So it kind of does seem like a stoneage enviroment coming from Java.
Exactly. Being a hardcore Android fan, I was really looking forward to some high-quality developer-perspective anti-iPhone rant but the whole post can be really summed up by "I know Java programming better than OS X programming so I had an easier time developing for Android than for the iPhone".
This has largely changed now - and is still changing. There are more options for people who wish to pay for extra treatment, even to the extent of the NHS funding medical tourism where it's cheaper to do so - and the option to go private for most treatments if you wish, without penalty - except having to pay for it yourself, of course.

As far as I know, I am not a member of any shadowy elites and I've never felt the need for any form of private healthcare. The NHS has always sorted me out - and on several occasions cheerfully saved my life - with no bills and minimum of fuss.
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Ohh, another idea: if there is a single dial to adjust, correcting for distortion is easier. If the effects of the distortion are more costly on society than diminishing government expenditures, then the government should shrink and collect less tax.
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this is going to be a long long list...

- being able to out-optimize a compiler
(that one hurt, I attribute this to the fact that modern processors are so complex it takes a machine to correctly figure out the best way to schedule code, on a simpler processor a programmer has a much better chance of beating the compiler by being able to spot global optimizations)

- thinking that any program can be written in almost every language
(theoretically yes, but in practice this really does not hold water, especially not with all the domain specific languages that are now popping up everywhere)

- thinking that I could do a piece of code 'right' in one go
(over the years, reviewing old code I see room for improvement everywhere)

- that I am a pretty hot shot coder
(I'm sure I'm alone on that one)

and so on...
I would have agreed with you a couple months ago, but a $99 iPhone 3G KILLS other $99 offerings of every other manufacturer. Now if Apple sticks with AT&T in the U.S. that's a serious handicap, but if they begin working with other networks, the iPhones should take a lot of market share and be the dominant player eventually.
10 years ago Solaris' niche was being the standard OS at financial services companies. These days, that standard is Linux, generally Red Hat - nobody's buying SPARC anymore and Solaris on Intel runs very few apps. The largest hedge fund, the top tier investment banks, and the top retail banks have all abandoned Solaris. The only new purchases from Sun are support contracts on ancient kit that's still waiting to be replaced.
Consider the basecamp $99 plan vs the basecamp $49 plan:

100 projects / 35 projects vs. 20 GB storage / 10 GB storage

Do you really believe those extra 10 GB and 65 projects cost 37signals $50 a month to deliver to you?

No, I don't. What I said was "they offer different plans whose prices probably don't scale linearly with the costs behind them (in other words, they don't get the same profit across plans)". I acknowledged that the price is not a linear function of the costs and that they get more profit from more expensive plans. My question was "why is that evil?"

Similarly, do you really believe that the cost of supporting 48 GB of memory versus 32 GB cost Microsoft $1000 per customer to build?

I'm sorry if I sound hostile, Jeff, but I read your post before commenting on it -- did you read my comment before replying? I said that the artificial memory limitation is completely ridiculous (unless there's a valid technical reason for it). As I explicitly state in my other comments, I believe that's unethical.

Here's the summary of what I believe, a Cliffs Notes edition of my comments: Having rich customers pay more is not unethical, crippling the features of your product to extort money is.
a way to distinguish seen and new comments - HN is awesome especially because of the informative discussions that are going on so I often end up returning to a particular discussion over and over again.
I often use Stumbleupon to quickly send links to a friend (but thats not sharing like you describe it).
I think such a plugin would be usefull, but I'm not shure if it could support a business (if that's what you have in mind).
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I'm not sure that's entirely fair - I read it more like "I'm used to A, which means I find A much easier to use."

And in this context, I think that's fair enough. There are far more developers out there with more than a passing familiarity with Java & the Java toolchain, than there are for Objective-C/XCode.

By the sounds of it, it will be easier for those developers to develop for Android phones than the iPhone. Regardless of the relative technical merits of the platforms viewed in isolation, the ability to re-use your existing Java chops is going to be valuable.

(I speak as someone who has done equally small amounts of development in both environments - personally, I prefer Objective-C development)
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I'm not sure I agree.

Consider a metaphor.

Transfer your weight onto one foot while leaning forward, in order that your center of gravity is temporarily over-extended, while simultaneously putting your free foot out to 'catch' yourself from falling. Now rinse and repeat. Thus: walking.

If you want to walk faster, lean further forward. It's like watching a Segway, but with articulation.

All willful locomotion -- whether bipedal or otherwise -- depends on initiating a controlled disequilibrium which ultimately results in a prefered new equlibrium.

So it is with looking forward to things in life. Planning for the future. Saving for a rainy day. Working hard today for a better tomorrow.

The ability to conceptualize the _consequences_ of a temporarily destabilizing disequilibrium is what makes man master of the world.

So 'living in the future', far from being a modern malaise, is precisely what enables progress, advancement and civilisation. That doesn't mean that the disequilibrium is always comfortable while it's happening. Indeed, our atavistic selves usually counsel rest in the absence of an urgent limbic call to action -- when we're not starving or physically threatened, say.

But meanwhile, the higher brain recognises that the competion for scarce resources in a hostile world is relentless. And that means running to keep up -- however uncomfortable that might sometimes feel.

Indeed, deferred gratification (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_gratification) is analysed as an indicator for intelligence and emotional maturity.

And as for the dishes, whatever he may claim, Thich Nhat Hanh's superordinate goal when he washes the dishes is to have clean dishes. If he can enter a state of flow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)) while doing so -- whether because he has phenomenal mental self-control, or an unusually quiet life -- then so be it. But most people can't, and would find their "cognitive surplus" (the brain parts left unused while dishes are being done) better invested in preparatory mental activity, or contructively anticipating the future.

And if he got the dishes done quickly rather than dawdling and daydreaming, he'd be back at the table to enjoy more time with his dinner guests, in whose gratitude he will find favour, and through whose company he will obtain the familiar state of flow which most humans achieve through routine social interaction.
Am I the only one to think that such a tax would, on the opposite, increase population density around attractive centers ?

As acquiring expensive, more attractive, inner city land would be a recurring burden for land owners, they would try to make enough profit out of it to offset the tax. The best way to do that would be to build tall buildings that have high population density.

Am I wrong ?
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Mindfulness isn't really flow, as it basically means paying attention to what's going on in the current moment - a more general awareness of what's going on with your thinking, body, and surroundings.

To concentrate on an abstract object is basically the opposite of mindfulness, as you're ignoring your current experience.
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More like: "W3C dumps XHTML2 to concentrate on 'XHTML5' (HTML5 with XML serialization of HTML)"
XHTML2 had a nice, clean design, but it never had any chance of superseding HTML since it wasn't backwards compatible.
Which is not so bad, because it's based on a vocabulary people actually use.
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Wow, quite the load of BS ego there. The average page in the wide-wide world is seldom visited and its performance doesn't matter. There are any number of GUI programs I use that are just utilities whose performance matters very little. And, yes, there is plenty of business software that needs to do its job correctly but where the performance is unimportant, or nearly so.

Kind of disappointed in HN for rating you up. Just goes to show...
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I came up with a scheme that is un-dodgeable (kinda). Print money to pay expenditures, and limit expenditures to keep inflation in check. The tax is implicit, so you can't avoid it. Those holding the currency can't help but give a percentage of the value to the government. It's perfectly flat too.

The only way to get around it is to operate in another currency. But if there are any expenditures at all, they are going to pay someone in the currency, and need to be spent somewhere. This would work best with minimal government expenditures to minimize the motivation to avoid using the currency.

It would be pretty easy to make the implicit tax small enough to not only discourage avoiding the currency, but actually make the currency more stable than others tied to governments that don't know how to control spending.