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> The iPhone is sold as is, why should we expect to use it any differently?

Wow. It's almost sickening to see the inversion of the principles of software freedom that Apple is able to get away with and not get criticized in the fanboi community. Geeks have been lambasting Microsoft for merely having proprietary formats for 20 years. They even got fined for billions of dollars just for not documenting their protocols well enough. Now Apple plays god and controls every single application that can ever even run on a platform. They make developers sign NDAs that prevent them even talking about technical details of the platform publicly. They do these things that are the antithesis of everything the open software community have been trying to achieve for the last 15 years and not only do people like yourself give it a pass, you go out of your way to stand up and defend it. I find it breathtaking.
There was a similar app by HNer I remember: userfly.com
I agree 100%, but a well written cocoa app is much easier to achieve than a carbon app (one reason why the Finder has been screwed up all these years).

But I agree, a rewrite with performance and accessibility in mind is what makes it faster, not cocoa itself (should've reworded that).
The biggest problem with the 6% figure is that it ignores inflationary pressure. If you're stuck with extremely low risk investments (as you are once retired), you should really be looking at levels around 1 to 2% over inflation. At 2% over inflation (long term rate around 5%), withdrawing 6% annually (growing the withdrawal amount to keep up with inflation), you'll only last about 20 years, assuming no mishaps. Withdrawing 4%, the commonly recommended value, lasts more like 35 years; the average American retirement isn't that long, but it has a significant increase in expenses at the end.
Yeah, but it's all crap. :D We're only just discovering the contributions of plants like this, usually when they disappear, eg mangrove forests in Florida.
You really need to lay this out differently, many CPUs have 2 different instruction set and ABIs for 32 vs 64 bit code. They also often have an intermediate 32bit ABI with 64bit instructions inside functions (sparc/PA-RISC/IA-64).

For x86 you have 16, 32 and 64bit versions,

PowerPC has 32 and 64,

ARM has 32 and thumb,

MIPS 32, 64 and mips16,

Sparc has v8, v8+ and v9,

PA-RISC has 1.1, 2.0 and 2.0W,

IA-64, HP-UX has a 32bit pointer ABI as well as 64bit.

I could also add a few DSP's and RISC embedded systems, but I'll stick to the main CPUs
That sounds about like what I remember from the 20% project fair I attended. I think it was `git4` which called `g4` (Google's version of `p4`) in much the same manner as a `git-p4`. The goal was to help out distributed teams, who were often affected more directly by scheduled Perforce maintenance and network latency.
I too was (mostly) confused, but 50% of 4chan stuff goes over my head too.

It was oddly reminiscent of:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/eminem/stan_20049874.html

In a reverse kind of way...
I hardly use Facebook chat at all. Most of my actual friends use Gtalk/Jabber.
Standard of living isn't everything. One of the best times of my life was in China, lifting weights, hiking up mountains, spending nights in temples, drinking tea, and meeting local people some of whom had never seen a white person before.

If you've never spent 3+ weeks in a country that's very different economically/socially than your own, I'd recommend it. You might like it, might not. I've had mixed experiences with different countries. I quite enjoyed China and Malaysia, Eastern Europe not so much.

But we all have different tastes - there's a meme in the USA that it's the "greatest country in the world" - I reject the notion that there is a greatest country in the world. Just different places for different people at different times in their lives.
So why stay? Love?
Long treasuries will get you over 4 percent right now,

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=tlt

...that's as safe you'll get.

Insured munis at 5

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=pza

Emerging at 6

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=emb

Junk at 13

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=jnk

Mix and match.
I've heard of a couple of complaints about low signal strength. (compared to other phones on the same network). (this was in Oz - think it may have been optus)
Yes, it definitely seems unfair for the plugin developers to do all the work and receive very little compensation for all their time.
The point I am saying is that when I buy the book, I can do whatever I want with the content as long as it is for my own personal use and am not distributing it. I am not sure why you think its not true or nonsensical by any means. And the same is true for software.

All they should do is void warranty if someone tempers with the OS. Same for books.
I work for a company with a 30 million node social graph. That type of data is becoming more and more common. Including things like Twitter where the social graph is effectively open to anyone.
Joost de Valk seems to be pushing donations pretty hard yet his donation rate is 0.1%.

Do you know what kind of donate rate Rick Brewster is able to achieve?
With fair use, this service could become as interesting as 20 questions.

Some feedback: Perhaps hunch could handle the browser history more elegantly. After completing this questionnaire, my browser history becomes usable. (I had to click the back button about 10 times to get back to this page.)
not really surprising, stuff like this is pretty much the only way Twitter can appeal to mainstream.

I even see people calling it the twitter revolution.
Yeah I'm still wrestling with many aspects of the startup I'm putting together. I answered the questions and got a 99%, but I'm not entirely sure of its accuracy.

I decided to click "No" for the Do you agree with this result? as a 99% score seemed a little too certain for me (I'm always questioning things that look too good to be true).

To be honest, I did it for a laugh. The results didn't validate my idea for me, really it's just a matter of working hard at it.
I disagree. It was great about 5 years ago but the times have kind of passed it by. Perhaps the situation is better on the Storm or Bold but on my 8330:

1) No native IMAP support
2) No native Exchange support without a BES
3) Horrific attachment viewer.
4) No real-time spellcheck
5) No auto-correction
6) No easy way to sync contacts/calendars over the air
7) No (minimal?) HTML e-mail support (unfortunately sometimes it does help make long e-mail chains more readable)
8) Gotta rely on your carrier for push e-mail -- or in the case of Sprint "Oh yeah we'll send it if we get a chance. Give us like 20 minutes K?" e-mail service.
9) No intuitive way of deleting lots of e-mail messages that don't happen to all be sequential to each other in the list.
10) No folders -- just one big flat mailbox. Hard to save messages on your phone this way. Again, fixed if you have a BES but I don't want my $200 SmartPhone to require $2k-$5k in hardware/software to be functional.

It certainly gets the job done for the basics but once you get used to having more options and flexibility it's hard to go back.
Consider the context. He's not talking about an invulnerable plan for when you can no longer work. He's just sort of playing with numbers to see if you can live without a job by being somewhere heap & what that would look like.

Some of the applications sound a lot more like a careers break, vacation, or a few years off to volunteer.

Naturally, you'd need to consider how much you need, what are acceptable risk & such depending on your application.

His high low estimates for how much you need also vary almost 7/1.
Of course I'm aware that lawns are mowed by low-paid immigrants in many parts of the country! The key is that the government didn't create a special visa for lawn mowers based on a perceived (perhaps fabricated) shortage.

the government has created a visa for migratory crop picking, though.
what made you switch from looking for an employee to looking for a cofounder?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652061
I wonder if a tech-nomad version of couchsurfing would work out or not as a new kind of community.
What, you think they thought they would make a business out of it? Open-source software is notoriously hard for third-party developers to monetize.
Why would anyone expect them not to mean anything? And what's with the Amazon link?
I think technology is getting too much credit for this uprising
This whole autism-geek connection is a useless myth. I have a son with autism, and we know a lot of parents with autism. Parents come from every income range, social class, profession and "geek orientation".

And contrary to another myth, most autistic kids (the vast majority) have no savant skills. It is a disease. The ones who recover do tell how they felt trapped inside.

For those of you who have young children or planning to have children, here is a suggestion: investigate just how many vaccines we are giving kids these days, and compare that to how many were given 25-30 years ago. Educate yourself - I wish I had. I trusted the "system" implicitly, without realizing that the average doctor and certainly the average pediatrician is an unthinking protocol pusher. The average pediatricians typical workload could be automated. Enough said.
I still use Gchat and either talk to people directly through it or on AIM. I only know of one other person like you where Facebook chat is the main way to talk online.
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I think it's really meant to be more of a joke than it is anything actually related to Joel.

It might make more sense in the context of the full "Dear Oprah" short story/joke/letter: http://gawker.com/299521/steve-almond-to-oprah-i-dont-give-a...
I have a lot of experience with motion-recording web apps like this (built one and launched it a couple years back, and it worked exactly as this one does). Rendering issues can become a major problem with some pages, as well as things like Javascript executing "on page load" (while the recording has already started playing), or an element changing size/position, that can throw off an entire recording.

This is not to mention the fact that if you change the page (unless Clixpy has some provision for this), your old recordings are entirely useless.

With regards to accuracy, ignoring the aforementioned problems: a script like this can be fairly accurate, and the actual "recording technology" behind this is fairly simple (albeit still interesting). The data can be useful, provided you enjoy wading through many, many very unhelpful recordings.

The real challenge, and what I believe is more useful, is extracting and distilling the data into heatmaps, graphs, and the like. This would provide someone with more of an overview based on the recoded data (think CrazyEgg, but even more in depth). This is something which I am working to solve, as is -- as someone else mentioned -- ClickTale.

Regardless, I commend Clixpy for diving into this space.
I completely agree with the points in both the first and second letters. I have enormous respect for Joel -- he is my role model for being a hugely successful, happily coupled, and incidentally gay software developer -- and his writing about how to hire people and software design in general has really shaped how I think about these things.

At the same time, his output recently has been of much lower quality and he's perhaps a little over-awed with his own achievements (quotes such as "I think it's only a matter of time before most serious programmers consider Stack Overflow to be an important tool in their work" spring to mind).

Joel, you're great, just take yourself a little less seriously.
Looks great...another site like this that I've been using lately is Clicktale. You get 100 free captures per week on one domain, or 20,000 per month for $99. One of the nice features that Clicktale has is scrolling heatmaps, so you can see what percentage of users scroll to different parts of your page, where they spend the most time, etc. Useful for landing pages.
It may just be AT&T in some regions too. I have never experienced the level of frustration that seems to emanate from iphone users in the Bay Area (I'm in Oregon).
It's not a pass-or-fail question. But if you have a working prototype, then it makes it more likely your idea is practical. If you don't, then what you're trying to do might not even be possible.
Yes.

> (/ (codetree "docs.arc") (codetree "news.arc"))
1399/6586

I learned it's hard to write document management systems.
I will believe the result this question gave me if Hunch is itself successful, thus proving Caterina knows what the heck she's talking about :-) (Flickr could have been a fluke)
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If you are using Sphinx on a rails project, I strong recommend Thinking Sphinx(http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/). We used to use Ultra sphinx plugin, but thinking sphinx is more flexible.
i've wanted to play with D for a while but didn't want to learn a new compiler... fortunately I just discovered gdc...

here's a D intro for anyone too lazy to google:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/
No, it's not. They haven't yet gone after people who jailbreak their phones. That doesn't mean they won't.

And btw, they have gone after sites that talk about how to jailbreak the iPhone. Copyright was just an excuse.
That was a lot of fun!

I didn't follow the start-up idea thread, I went to home and started from scratch. From the second screen, where it asked me if alien abductions were real, I was hooked. Even if I had no idea where the whole thing was going.

That's the best web user interface I've seen in a long, long time. Congratulations to the designers, and sorry if this post is judged to be off-topic.
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At several million copies sold, that comes out to quite a bit.
plenty. I think you should count embedded chips because those are the only ones where it's still justified. (As in 2 K of code space or something) I wrote a IA32e operating system. http://www.losethos.com but I used as little assembly as possible. I wrote a compiler and assembler. Those are one of the few justifications to learn assembly.
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git p4 is okay, but uh... how far along is git4? Is it open? Couldn't find a project page with a quick google.
But practically it's impossible to write a bootloader with equivalent functionnality.
Very cool and extremely well implemented.

But somehow my paranoia bubbles to the surface on viewing that demo. This is in a way scary, getting even more information on the users.

It's probably just me but I'm getting increasingly paranoid of the amount of information that is being collected on the Internet (and a LOT of it without disclosure)
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I would be more convinced by someone writing about how they'd done this than how they planned to.
Lack of interest?
While I'd love to make more money from the Wordpress plugins I've worked on, so far I've been content w/ the $10 I've received over the last two years because I did it to gain experience and have fun doing something I enjoy. Fortunately, I've been able to take that knowledge and apply it to my day job and it's paid off far more than any donations ever could have.
I hope to god Google does not (though I would not be surprised if they _already_ do this internally)

Google already has a LOT of information about it's users. No more please
just forgot to clarify. one of the people who responded to the first post asked about longer term opportunities and i realized i hadn't clarified that in the JD. to be clear - we are seeking a long term partner who will be responsible for building a highly technical organization.
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You can always email me, my email is in the profile.

But as for your question. No, mine is fine although it is somewhat harder than on other keyboards. You just get used to it over time. 4000s are odd, i have 2 and each have different quirks(but nothing too serious), so try replacing it.
A similar thing happens on my Sony Ericsson S500 phone on Vodafone.

I don't know if it's the phone or the network - I haven't done much testing. It's quite irritating pressing the answer button repeatedly and the phone not answering the call, or when I call someone and I end up unable to hear them while they can hear me.
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Google will end up where Microsoft is today if everyone keeps hoping that they become the boss of the internet; my guess is they will.
The floggings will continue until morale improves...
I rarely if ever talk through FB chat, even after setting up the facebook plugin. It's much less reliable than GTalk (even AIM beats it out), so I try to default to other means.
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Hunch seems pretty similar to action mazes. But action mazes is predominantly used in educational and instructional purpose. So it doesn't suggest more answers for you at the end. Instead it tells you what would happen if you follow a certain path.

An example: http://www.actionmazes.com/anotherexample.htm
This is completely terrifying.

You don't know who Clixpy is. You put this on your site, a user types in their password and so far we just have their word that they are not recording it - has anyone looked closely at the JS?
How much did it cost you for how many weeks in China?
I use Pidgin or Digsby and split my conversations between MSN, Jabber, and Facebook.
Me too. And almost none of my friends use Facebook chat either. Is MSN/Yahoo something that caught on among younger people in the US?
Decent overview. Skips over middleware.
minus inflation...
Yes, but that's true of any widget/Javascript you include. Why is this particularly scary?
Didn't work for me - perhaps it needs Flash or Java?

In any case I thought stuff like that has been done for years? There are apps that draw you a heatmap of your site based on mouse movements, too?
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Meebo. I'm religious about the cloud, and I love having my chat transcripts available for searching regardless of what network my friends use.
I disagree- it just reflects what the market value of a wordpress plugin is. Anyone who feels they're not fairly rewarded can just stop doing it. Nobody is forcing them to do the work.

Besides, they most likely have motivations other than money- there's no way anyone starts making wordpress plugins thinking they're going to get rich (at least I hope not!)
That doesn't mean they won't.

On what grounds would they aside from copyright?

Copyright was just an excuse.

I don't understand. Are you saying they have not had legitimate copyright claims, or that they have but that they are somehow irrelevant?
Lessee... first trip to Asia was... 2005? 2006? 4 weeks in China. Spending money like it was going out of style.

I had a gym membership for a month with infinite personal training before 6PM ($12.50/month, high end gym), got a Thai-style massage probably 3 times a week ($7.50/hour, came with silver needle tea and large plate of fresh fruit), traveled a bit in Sichuan (short bus ride - 22 cents, longer one - under $10), saw pandas ($20 for a daytrip, everything included), shot a repeating crossbow ($1 or so), and bought an entire year's worth of clothing and a beautiful red leather suitcase (suitcase was most expensive thing I bought, $100 USD). I bought tons of gifts for family and friends, a set kangxi knives (swords), some crafts, and such. Total cost for all of that was under $100.

Total cost? Maybe $700? That includes all the shopping and luxuries, doesn't include air and lodging. I leave out air because I had a multi-stop ticket, but I think airfare was $1300 or so from Boston. Lodging in China is as cheap or expensive as you want. $40/night provides spectacular, though I had free lodging in a few places.

I ran the math a bunch, and told everyone who'll listen: If you're going to spend $2000 or more on clothing in the next 2 years (common for people who buy suits, for instance), it'd be cheaper to take a two week vacation to China or South America and get top quality and sometimes beautifully hand-made things than it would be to buy them in the USA. I only had one guy ever try my idea and report back, and he told me of getting shirts that'd retail at $100+ in the USA for $15 max, perfectly tailored jeans from scratch for $20, and top top notch suits for under $100. I think he overpaid - I got 3-4 pairs of shoes in China, nice leather shoes, $5 was the most I paid. USD has taken a bit of a hit since then, but I reckon it's still dirt cheap. I was in Chengdu mostly, great place with great people. Take antacids if you're going to eat the food though!
* They haven't yet gone after people who jailbreak their phones*

I like how you can predict the future... How else do you know what a company is going to do, before the company does it?
I have to admit that I am a little surprised and, quite honestly, a bit frightened that some of you are using facebook chat.

Do you no longer have to go to facebook.com to use it or something?
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I think I have used facebook chat exactly once. It was something along the lines of

"wtf is this thing popping up on the bottom of my screen!?" followed by me closing it.
Check out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction_tree_algorithm not a great article, but the referenced literature is ok

Don't have much time to elaborate at the moment, but look up the "junction tree algorithm"- it's a way of performing inference in graph-structured statistical models. You think of edges as relationships between random variable (which are the nodes), and have the nodes communicate with each other until all the signals have propogated. Makes inference straightforward, though still exponential
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Why can't the whole house clean itself? Nature manages it, somehow. There could be ants from the pharmacy to replace hovering and so on ;-)
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