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iPhone apps and consulting work.

From a boot-strappers perspective, I had hoped for more sustainability from iphone sales, but we make far more building apps for other people (for cold-hard cash) than we do from our product sales. Nevertheless, it's a nice global gumball machine that we're participating in. Hopefully AppStore makes some much-needed changes in the near future.

Animosity aside, I'm still very bull about the mobile market. You can build it and put it out there for nothing.

Lastly, MEANINGFUL income on the side == full time job. Sorry to break it to you but there are no shortcuts outside of luck (or perseverance).
iPhones are not sold here because they cost about $700. If they were as cheap as they are in the US, everyone would have an iPhone. In India, even the people who don't have the resources to feed themselves own mobile phones.

And people do buy Macs here (mostly computer enthusiasts or programmers). You can find many Macs at FOSS conventions (I know, ironic).
I am on the head of the team that developed this. Hope you guys enjoy checking it out.
I know a guy who works for Halliburton. He's a geologist in Wyoming. He catches a ton of flack for even being associated with them.
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I use it, it works fine. You can even subscribe to the same things ABP does.
I do Ruby On Rails and internet marketing/seo on the side.
Laughed my ass off at this one:
"Programmers love writing code. Give us an interesting problem, some food and a dark room - and we'll be happy as pigs in mud."
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I do both.

Except for the case mod.
Ideas are cheap, development easy, so why aren't we rich?
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In a competitive market like this, it is not really about companies 'getting into the business of selling...' Consumers are buying it.
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The 38mph result was from 11 years ago, the title of this (2007) article is "Light and matter united" and it's far more startling...

> She and her team made a light pulse disappear from one cold cloud then retrieved it from another cloud nearby. In the process, light was converted into matter then back into light.
I upgraded from a 2G to 3G this past weekend before all this nonsense started. Never owned the 2G, was property of my current job that I'm leaving tomorrow, so I _had_ to get a new phone ASAP.

I've been looking forward to the official Google Voice app since they release the Android/Blackberry so imagine my surprise and anger that less than 2 days after I sign my 2 year contract, GV apps gets completely banned.

[Yes I looked into switching to T-Mobile yesterday to get a G1 and not have to deal with this bullshit. It would be cheaper in the long run to make the switch (avg. savings of $20/month), but I don't have the money to buy another new phone right now. Shucks.]

I've grown more and more angry with the App Store since more and more horror stories have leaked out about the blackboxed approval process, so I jailbroke my 3G this morning and immediately installed GV Mobile on it and gave the largest middle finger ever to Apple and AT&T.

Fuck that noise.
I write articles about SQL Server. The pay is minimal but the practice writing and solidifying what I think I know is far more valuable to me than the income.
This strikes me as slightly funny/ironic. As a sysadmin/IT person I do small programing jobs for side cash. :) When possible I try not to contribute spaghetti into the wild.
There are severe (potential) problems with living on a platform that you don't control. People tend to focus on whether they are being mistreated today, not whether they can be mistreated at all.
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Don't get me wrong here. I love my Mac, and I'm probably going to buy another one later this year (waiting for SnoLeo).

I hate Finder with a passion. Finder and iTunes. It's clear that both these apps were built carefully so that your average PC user wouldn't get confused. Problem is, most Apple users are not what you'd call average.

The Finder team still hasn't figured out whether they are building a spatial file manager or a browser-based file manager. The tree view sucks (and that's putting it mildly). Moving files around is a pain because (1) there's no cut-paste and (2) no "Move to ..." or "Copy to ..." context entries. Do Apple seriously expect that I'll open multiple Finder windows and then drag and drop my files between those?

I'd never even dream of using Finder for complex file management tasks (like reorganizing a photo collection). I usually drop into a Terminal when I have to do something like that.

Of course, I might be prejudiced. I used Linux for almost all my life before switching to a Mac one year ago. Also, I use Haiku on my PC, where navigating by right-click is not just a feature, but the recommended way of navigating the filesystem (if you've used BeOS or Zeta, you probably call this feature the "Z-Snake").
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I'm exactly the same way as jonny_noog here. I grew up case modding, going to lan parties, winning fastest-pc-build competitions and all of that. Then I went to college and got a Mac mini a year into it after seeing some friends with Macs. then I got a Macbook, then an iMac, then a MBP, then the new MBP, then the MB Air, then the new MBP... now I'm a big Mac guy.
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I am pretty sure that Google Chrome is going to facilitate this. At least it will herald in a new age of browser minimization and the OS will have a renewed opportunity to serve.
Q1: Does anyone here at HN have connections to 1 Infinite Loop?

I am more than curios because all this talk these fast few days is doing damage to the brand and there has to be at least an unofficial statement, off the record talk... I suppose that I am looking for light at the end of the tunnel.

Q2: How can we go about convincing Google to put their app on Cydia?
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wasn't the whole point of the crunchpad to make it cheap as hell?

After all, the original techcrunch post was: "We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It."
Do smartphones with $40/month data plans appeal to anyone but nerds?
> Portland gets the same amount of rain as New York, but it hardly ever rains hard,

Yes, that's precisely the problem. Instead of a brief downpour, you get a week where it sprinkles on and off and it's cloudy the whole time.
When I signed up with AT&T a few years ago, they would refund everything within 30 days. Make sure you say, "I don't get service at home" rather than "I hate you guys", though.
I think we need to stop calling other phones a "iphone killer"

I was careful to not say that; I said "iphone competitor".
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Pros:
- This app has huge potential.

Cons:
- No iTunes version (still) for Linux/BSD/non-OSX-or-Windows clients.

- Thought about Wine but pretty sure it can get behind the curve quick.

- Went to Apple's 'contact us' page, and searched the page for 'itunes', 'appstore', 'app store', and just for the hell of it: 'linux' and 'bsd'. None of these things got a result.

- So this is not something you can even ask apple about in any kind of user-friendly way, nevermind that it would not fit into a clear category of the other ways you are presented to contact apple.
Thanks for pointing that out, it's definitely interesting and I have the bad habit of tending to skip videos.

What I meant by having to do it piecemeal was the scanning though, not the printing. I suppose in a world where you could simply download the whole CAD plan for whatever you want that doesn't matter much.
Q2: How can we go about convincing Google to put their app on Cydia?

I doubt they care this much. Jailbreaking your iPhone is questionably legal, and it's not worth the risk to Google just to let their competitor use their free service. Want Google stuff on your phone? Get a Google phone.
I write articles (about various tech) on my blog, albeit my startup has definitely decreased my rate. Used to post stuff everyday, now its more along the lines of every 3-6 days, but with much more substantial articles. Obviously, I have some ads on there. Pays the rent, utilities and most of my health insurance.

Supposed to be doing consulting for a local ISP for 5-10 hours per week sooner or later, just waiting on their CTO to get back to me.
Other than finding it generally inspirational, I particularly liked the artifact of Benjamin Franklin's daily schedule card/to-do
So tell us: are you a terrorist or a drug dealer?

(reference: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/jailbreak/)
I'm in Italy now, actually, but I'll look you up and buy you a beer if I'm ever back there.

To me, Eugene was always kind of frustratingly way too laid back. It never seemed like people were doing things.
I occasionally do FreeBSD / security / cryptography / algorithms consulting; it doesn't make much money, but I find that it's worthwhile just for the sake of helping keep me aware of what's going on in the world around me (if I'm interested in something and not too busy, I'll normally offer to spend an hour or two listening to people and throwing out ideas for free).

It's not really about easing the bank drain, though -- I take consulting work when it comes up, but I don't chase after it.
What a strange site. It is very close to blowing my mind, but I'm not really sure where to begin. It seems like a wonderful journey of mathematics from a different perspective than the traditional pure vs. applied, geometry vs. analysis, etc.
This is probably irrational. I sometimes feel the same way when finding bugs in my software. I should have gotten everything right the first time through. But now that you've found the bugs and fixed them, you can be even more confident that there aren't any other bugs lurking in the depths; you've already found them and killed them.

I am also sure this happens all the time. An engineering project late and over cost, and still buggy? Unprecedented!
My main concern is having the outgoing email archived by Gmail, preferably in Gmail's Sent Messages folder.

Right now I have Emacs/Gnus configured to get mail via POP3 on Gmail, and upload a copy of outgoing messages to an IMAP folder on Gmail. I'd prefer a cleaner/quicker option.
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This reminds me of something that I think I first read about in Michio Kaku's book Physics of the Impossible where a Bose-Einstein condensate was used as a medium for "teleportation". I believe in his book he referred to the experiment referenced here. http://www.physorg.com/news102681027.html

They are careful to note that it is a transmission of information rather than photons. It sounds like this experiment is similar, but I am certainly not qualified to comment authoritatively on that.
Maybe I'm dense, but I don't see how this experiment shows that the original light beam was affected in any way. Seems to me that the original light beam etched information onto the "cold atomic cloud", and then later an entirely new beam of light (with identical properties) was emitted (or reflected) from the laser blast's impact on this "etching".

How can they reach the conclusion that the original light beam itself was altered from this experiment?
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Oh, I think they care for better and for worse.

Google has already proved it is very interested in controlling (or to put more politely, to be a part of) as much of our life's data as possible. When we are not at our computers and we want to connect to the world around us, we use our phones. Their mission statement is to organize the world's information. Google Voice bridges the gap between voice and text, search, sort, etc.

I'm not sure how much legal trouble will come from leaking the app (to the open source community[?]).
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What will never be commodities to people are their time and happiness. When my wife was looking for a new computer, she didn't even consider Windows; she looked at my Linux and her friend's Mac, eventually deciding on the latter for its physical looks and quality, as she didn't have any real experience with the software.
There's probably lots of reasons why the over $1000 PC gaming market is in decline.

There are the people that just grow out of it (I am one). But the big factor here is that consoles are taking over gaming. It used to be the fact that PCs were way better for gaming than any console, but now that consoles have caught up, PC gaming is becoming a niche. (BTW, I now have a PS3 which is gathering dust, as I just don't have the time to play it)

Microsoft does deserve some credit here, as they do have a big stake in the console market with the XBox.
Good work, one thought is extending this to all flash based videos.
An idealized case is described here: knowledgeable entrepreneur works with cooperative investor to pre-negotiate all the business terms, with the attorneys brought in essentially to do routine documentation based on the pre-agreed terms.

The points are good ones given the assumptions made.

Practical barriers, however, will often tend to divert you from the idealized case: (1) inexperienced entrepreneurs who will not be able to pre-negotiate any terms without a lot of lawyer help; (2) investors who engage in gamesmanship that precludes an easy negotiation; (3) green associates working for large firms in VC deals who push legal technicalities to the extreme, requiring a lot of back and forth to attempt to document even simple points; (4) complex situations that require lawyer input right from the start to help solve the problems.

Bottom line: aim for the idealized case but realize that attaining it is probably more the exception than the rule.

Quite apart from funding issues, though, the general principle here is important: it pays to do educate yourself, do your due diligence, and to manage your lawyer time carefully.
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they get 10,203 visits per day. This is an estimate, but it doesn't sound like a dead website to me.
Don't forget to pack your android when you go on a stargazing field trip to escape the city lights. I relearned all the constellations I knew as a kid after playing with SkyMap for a week.

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It would be time consuming especially if you have a lot of email, but it is possible. Set up your current account in an IMAP client like Thunderbird, download all the messages to local folders, set up the Apps account, move messages into that account.
It would make sense that teleportation (or perceived teleportation) would be possible from it, since all matter is is stored information. Now the question is if matter is the only way to store information aside from light. If this is so, then if you reduced an object or human to its light representation, you would be able to travel at the speed of light, but no faster, which would be perceived teleportation - I'm assuming teleportation is instantaneous whereas going the speed of light is not. Hopefully no one would slow you down in the meant time.
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They mislabeled the event when they said that the light was "converted" into matter. This is sad because I think many people will miss the greatness of what was really done because of it. A large (long) beam of light (everything about it) was stored in a very small amount of matter, then recreated exactly. It wasn't light like what was there before, diffracted from new light (like a hologram), it was the same light.

Once this becomes practical, we have practically infinite data storage, not to mention the underpinnings of computing with pure light, so perhaps practically infinite computational speed as well.
I think that what you've described is essentially the basis for the Australian "teleportation" idea. They distinguish it from quantum entanglement approaches which could theoretically (or not, depends on who you ask) transmit the information faster than light.
They want it to be cheaper insomuch as it causes people to buy more computers. However they don't want them to be so cheap that the OEM price becomes significant where people can buy a $100 Linux PC or a $300 Windows PC with the same specs.
Ah, good to know. I'm just now getting to the link.
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It's worth noting that this paper refers to polyethylene glycol, which is not the stuff plastic bags are made from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_glycol
I pretty much agree fully with this article. I briefly considered putting myself to work on a few iphone app ideas, and each time was put off by the terrible things I heard about the entire process.

Well, as the owner of a 3G, I was planning on upgrading to the 3GS and selling the 3G to a friend to offset the cost of an out-of-cycle upgrade. As things stand now, I have put that on hold and will be waiting for both the next generation of Android phones and my own "hardware upgrade eligibility."

So, thank you Rogers' stores, for failing to call me back when you did get 3GS stock in. Without this failing I would have given you and Apple preposterous amounts of money just a short time before this debacle broke the camel's back.

As to other comments, that nerdrage is just that and that Apple can afford to ignore it because so many non-nerds are buying their phone: I disagree. You can only shun developers for so long, and the amount of irate posts by iphone devs all over the place would seem to indicate that these devs have begun to reach their limit.
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I think the main problem for MS is that while Apple makes a premium product, and is oriented around consistently turning out products that deserve their reputation, MS is not. Lose the perception that running Windows is Inevitable, and they don't have to turn out good products just once in a while, but almost every time.

When you add Linux snapping at their heels with a free desktop, I think they've got real problems. Especially when Shuttleworth is calling on Linux developers to make something prettier than OSX. They won't necessarily succeed, (although I hope we do), but simply playing in the space greatly complicates Microsoft's issues.
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No. Actually, it varies by state. I have worked as a pizza delivery "expert" in three different states and as a restaurant slave in five; basically, employers get away with paying people as little as possible, regardless of their "tips". Most servers don't claim their tips (for tax purposes) thinking that doing so will "help" them. But in actuality it actually harms them.

No matter how "noble" a diner might feel in tipping his or her server, it basically amounts to nothing, especially when she splits her tip with the rest of her co-workers.

The unfortunate fact of this circumstance is that most "tipped" workers earn sub-minimum wages. There would not be an illegal immigration problem regarding restaurant workers if it were any other case. But most Americans are fat, lazy, oblivious and don't care.

So. The next time you go out to eat, especially if it's a large nationalized chain (like Denny's or McD's) take a look around at how many of your fellow diners speak Spanish. Look at your hostess/cashier who is making federal minimum wage without tips . . . then look at the restaurant and kitchen workers who are serving you, and decide just how "valuable" it is to go out to eat. Don't pat yourself too much on the back for being a fan of capitalism.
Seems telling that the most influential people in programming are listed as the developer of the web, then the developer of wordpress, then the developers of Google. Also a list that includes Jeff Atwood but not Alan Turing or Alonzo Church?

On a "who is missing" list, I know everyone will always say "x is missing" but if we include bloggers Steve Yegge is more influential (and his rants will have longer lasting effect) than some of these while as the comments mention where is Anders Hejlsberg, Donald Knuth, Steve McConnell, Allan Kay etc.

Also, for the list of "why are they on there, is there some sort of deal going on": Dion Almaer (just some writer on an Ajax tute site?) and Craig Newmark (craigslist???).

Douglas Crockford, Jeff Atwood, Kathy Sierra and
Scott Hanselman are all "maybe candidates" along with Steven Frank (who the author of this article says started a company who "make many amazing Mac applications. I would recommend buying more a(sic) less every one.") and Ben Goodger (worked on FF and Chrome).
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If nerds aren't going to be leading indicators for computers, what are they going to be indicators for?
"That’s the business Wal-Mart wants to be in — selling a zillion cheap low-margin items and turning a profit on volume. That’s not the business Microsoft is in."

It should be noted that one of Wal-Mart's greatest advantages is that it manages it's resources more efficiently than it's competitors. Being always willing to risk that you can do a satisfactory job cheaper than anyone else is a great attitude for a company that can out innovate its opponents. I can't think of MS in those terms with a straight face.
"As if that wasn't enough, The Unofficial Apple Weblog is reporting that the developer is now being flooded with refund requests from customers. The problem is Apple keeps its 30 percent commission, but the developer has to refund the entire amount to the customer."

How on earth is this type of behavior legal?? It sounds like a class-action lawsuit just itching to happen.

A refund is a refund.
When two big companies have lucrative contracts between them like this, it's not generally easy for one to throw the other under a bus.