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How long are Microsoft, and those who write about it, going to continue with the delusion that Windows Phone's competition is Apple and iOS, instead of Google and Android?

I had spoken to Horace Dediu of Asymco in December for a story on what options Microsoft and Nokia had before them, and here are some of the relevant parts he told me (the article itself doesn't seem to have been put online at Forbes India, who I used to write for but no longer do):

>> Coming to the present, the biggest problem that Microsoft and Nokia will face is that of timing. Specifically, at what stage are we when it comes to global penetration of smartphones?

>> Today now that the market is over 1 billion users and going to very rapidly saturate, the challenge for Microsoft is their assumption of wanting to keep on trying hoping to succeed one day. It's hard to believe that after so many tries and so much saturation, they can succeed. Worse, their strategies are symmetric, meaning they compete against an Apple or an Android by claiming their Lumia devices are better.

>> If Microsoft and Nokia can pivot and become a low-end competitor then there may be an opportunity still available in emerging markets. But instead they’re pouring tremendous resources into the US and Europe saying Lumia is better. That will fail. The door for Windows Phone is closing not because of Apple and iOS but because of Google and Android. Nokia, the bulk of whose phome portfolio was in the mid-market, was defeated by Android. I could argue, with difficulty, that they can still get into the late stage market but I haven’t seen a message from them indicating that. They simply aren't humble enough to see that market as their core, but still see their platform as superior to all others.
> Many on welfare claim that it isn't enough to live off properly (probably true) and many not on welfare claim that the system is being abused by people who shouldn't be on it, which is also probably true.

I think one of the primary differences between the (US) liberal and conservative mentality with respect to welfare is that, while everyone acknowledges that the system isn't going to be perfect, the liberals are incensed by false negatives (the criteria are erroneously set such that someone who truly needs assistance won't get it) whereas the conservatives are incensed by false positives (the criteria are erroneously set such that someone who doesn't deserve assistance and is gaming the system will get it).

In other words, both sides acknowledge that the criteria for "deserving" assistance are going to be flawed, they just differ on whose side they'd like to err on.

I really think that once you realize this, you can better clarify your own priorities on this issue and come up with a more nuanced position than the usual "you're a monster" / "you're a bleeding heart" blather.
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http://peg.gd/ is basically that :)
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Could you use a bitcoin notary service (like http://www.proofofexistence.com/about) and use this evidence to dispute a charge? It seems like this would be more efficient then sending a letter. Seems like this could be more reliable than an easily forged email.
why not the link to the github post and rather to the article on venturebeat? That is were the problem is.
As one of those people who doesn't want my tax dollars spent on war, I have no idea what more I can do to stop it from happening. As far as I can tell, the government will spend my money on whatever it wants to, and I have no control over it.
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It's not incompatible, if that is the only issue your parent is facing. Personally, I just Mail.app clunky as hell.
The game has two currencies. Hard currency (Trophies) that are mainly bought with real money and soft currency (Gold) which are found in game. It is a fairly standard practice for those familiar with Free-2-Play (F2P) games. It was difficult to balance things so paying players and free players could compete on level footing but after three years I feel I've found a nice balance and if judging from player feedback the majority also feels the same.

The game's forum uses advertising but the income is negligible, maybe around $10 per month. This is likely due to the fact that it is the same eyeballs looking at the ads and it is not a high traffic forum.
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I'm training for a job prospect that is mainly focused on theme development.
I've been using Postbox[1]. It's the power of Thunderbird with the clean GUI look of a native Mac app. It has emails in a conversation-y view and includes gmail.com shortcuts. It also has powerful smart folders.

Plus, I can use Markdown-Here[2] to compose my emails in Markdown.

[1]:http://postbox-inc.com

[2]:http://markdown-here.com
Who's going to take pesos when someone else is offering bitcoin?
I know they say this on their site, but can someone very clearly confirm that this is purely a client and uses IMAP/SMTP and doesn't send anything to Mail Pilot (the company).
I applaud his effort, but that is not a very good % of second dates. I say his problem wasn't his process, it was his ability to get/want a second date.

I am glad it worked out for him, but I would recommend people to just focus on connecting with people when they are on a first date rather than worry about if they are a "match".
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To teach myself Python "properly", I've been slowly writing a script that posts to Github's Gists - I'm finding it more and more useful as a note taking utility so I wrote something that lets me pipe input into it and get a URL out.

https://github.com/voltagex/python-gist

Python is just nice to code in, and I find it a lot easier to start a project in than C#, which is my day job.

The other thing I've been doing is getting into reverse engineering of embedded devices - http://blog.voltagex.org/bdplayer.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6997623

I also buy far, far too many tiny devices like Raspberry Pis and Cubieboards.

I think between experimenting with and reversing tiny linux-running devices (I'm looking at you, consumer router manufacturers) I'll find a new career direction, but at the moment it's a good challenge and a glorious time and money sink.
Trivia really. Apple and WP both sell smartphones but they don't really compete against each other. Sure Nokia trots out a high end phone every 6 months or what have you but the sales on those models aren't moving the dial on market share. The people who are in Apple's market ($400+ smartphones) either buy an iPhone or a high end Android phone. The people buying 95% of these WP's (510 is $150 unlocked, 520 is $200) are choosing between WP and low end Android phones.

The author tries to anticipate this with:

"As such, it is possible for cynics to argue Windows Phone is gaining in markets where the iPhone doesn’t compete and making little headway where it does. Except this isn’t true either.

Windows Phone Is Fast Becoming A Hit In Europe"

But this is also bollocks. There are people everywhere that buy $200 phones, it might be only 20% in the US and 30% in Europe (where many countries don't use subsidies) instead of the 80%+ you might see in Mexico or Thailand but that doesn't mean these people are choosing WP's over iPhones.
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Hey srean,

This is Amey from Rescale here. I definitely agree with your larger point about R not being the most efficient tool to use in this case. But if you read the post closely, that isn't the point we are trying to make.

R its other array-based cousins provide a much more natural and expressive framework for linear algebra/matrix operations. I'd say it is still worthwhile to try and scale your existing R code to moderately large datasets. Come to think of it, most "big data" isn't really that big.
Gray market imports are probably distorting numbers in the other countries as well.
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This is likely to be contentious, but doesn't this effectively say that these phones are basically substitutable products?

Are there not dimensions beyond price and volume still left to tap into the smartphone market?
The novel Earth by David Brin uses this energy source. It also has a lot of other tech in it that has come about since its publication in 1990.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(Brin_novel)
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The FBI is doing what it always does - it's auctioning them off. They might sell for a $1, they might sell for $1000. But they're not being given any special status beyond "appears to be a product people buy".

If they'd seized a bunch of legal movies or video game licenses they'd also do that.
I have hidden my LinkedIn account and removed all subscriptions. They still spam me. I am considering cancelling it altogether. Haven't quite brought myself to that action yet, but not sure why. I haven't used it regularly ever and haven't logged in in two or three years.

I consider LinkedIn less than worthless.
Thanks for the heads up etrain!
well I don't have anything to say regarding the marketing group, but Ben and Bert are legit. the contributions to node-inspector are great and the scaling work is much appreciated.
best line in the letter: "As public knowledge goes up, corruption goes down, and more money goes where it’s supposed to."

This means you NSA and US black budget. Computers and robots have no need for money. Our black budget goes to paying PEOPLE off and keeping secrets.
As I said, we're considering our options going forward, but for all intents and purposes, the venture-backed startup that was Canvas Networks has failed.
Windows Phone in Vietnam are more of a cheaper phone (comparable to Android devices) rather than compete directly with the expensive iPhones. For those customers who can afford the iPhone, they will buy the iPhone instead of a high end Nokia Windows Phone.
Class action lawsuits are the only way to deal with this! I have no experience in this area, but I know this is a good, reproducible lawsuit. I am willing to be a class rap, just contact me if interested. I think lostcolony, above, has a great class action case as well. It's all small stuff, but you can hit them hard with a class action.
You have dollars and Argentinians love dollars. You can buy and sell dolars in the [not so] black market.
Join a dance program. Your issue seems to be lack of confidence around women in general, not specifically in a dating environment. Get comfortable with your body in an environment where a lot of women are. And don't try to date the women you dance with, at least not initially.

Dance is just an easy thing to join: you could also go to underground music venues, join a co-ed softball/volleyball/tae kwon do team, take arts classes at a community college or join a book club at your library.
This is the same situation a close family member is in. He realized after he got there that the reason the pay was so good is to compensate for the inherent stress in the job. It's just part of the package deal. So he focuses on trying to figure out which fires are worth fighting, and taking it one day at a time.
There's a pull request open here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/26075

If you absolutely can't wait, you can run this to install it:

$ brew install https://github.com/adnissen/homebrew/raw/110c278d3a6ce6edae6208f4033bd3508530f29d/Library/Formula/rig.rb

Voilà.

############################################## 100.0%
==> Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/rig/rig/1.11/rig-1.11.tar.gz
############################################## 100.0%
==> make
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/rig/1.11: 10 files, 96K, built in 5 seconds
$ rig
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If the structure of the report was out of character for Forrester in particular or the industry in general, I'd be with you. But in the end, it comes down to trusting the pollster, be it Forrester or the New York Times/CBS or Harris or Nielson's overnights.

Polling - even rigorously constructed and conducted polling - isn't presented in the press with an abundance of meaningful detail. Probably because it's all in the sampling, and sampling and statistics are so counter intuitive [e.g. The Thursday Child] that explaining why something is meaningful won't convince a typical audience member.

Ignoring statistics, it seems to me that Microsoft has been rapidly improving their image in the consumer space. It has also been my experience that Amazon has really good customer service. My gut tells me that Apple has not revamped its customer relations model recently.
I agree with these points. I read Gründerszene and I find the companies described are mostly pretty dull -- selling shoes, or hotel bookings, or something like that. Not terribly technical, and not really moving the needle.

There's still a lot of conservatism. You can make a physical product in the US and people (early adopters) will try it out. In Europe they will want it to be certified and proven and above all know that the founders are properly credentialed. This is probably one reason why all these companies have been formed in domains where credentials don't matter and people are willing to take a chance
I loved Mail.app after switching to SSD a few years ago. Near-instant local search and a large set of smart mailboxes made for a fast and highly personalized workflow in a native retina desktop app. Email bliss.

Unfortunately, Apple began syncing Smart Mailboxes via iCloud in Mavericks, and the Smart Mailboxes saved on iCloud became corrupt. This corruption causes Mail.app to crash on launch when it tries to fetch and apply remote settings, and affects every computer that uses iCloud.

Senior support at Apple confirmed it's an iCloud issue and passed it to support engineering to resolve, which have been MIA. Issue remains open after 2 months, during which I've tried every alternative desktop email client and found them severely lacking - some are highly functional, some have pretty graphics and typography, none both. (to tie this back to the original article, I ran the Mail Pilot preview a couple months ago)

Heed my warning - iCloud will wreck the things you hold dear.

/rant.
Geo-dependent, as in across the otherside of the globe maybe...
I've had pretty good luck with Airmail, which happily supports Gmail keyboard shortcuts. Might be worth a look.
> Are there not dimensions beyond price and volume still left to tap into the smartphone market?

Possibly. But I've personally seen no evidence Windows Phone has that figured.
IBM sold their drive business to Hitachi -- which lead in these published reliablity statistics by a large margin.
A better presentation of this data would show a failure rate for each brand and month/year of purchase.

For extremely simple devices like resistors or incandescent light bulbs, failure rate is relatively constant over the lifetime of device -- the chance of a functioning resistor with 10 hours of use failing during the next hour is the same as the chance of a functioning resistor with 1000 hours of use.

For complex devices with lots of interdependent parts, some of which are mechanical, the failure rate changes over time. There's an "infant mortality" or "lemon" phenomenon, where relatively new devices have higher defect rates (because fabrication and shipping sometimes result in imperfections which quickly cause failures), followed by a steep dropoff in failure rates (because observing a device operate correctly for dozens of hours is strong evidence that it doesn't suffer from a failure mode which often results in infant mortality).

Then there may be an increase in failure rates later, especially with devices that are partially or wholly mechanical (wear or damage type problems which do not cause immediate failure, but make it easier for a failure to occur).

You need empirical data to be quantitative about this curve, and it sounds like Backblaze has it, but their presentation in this article doesn't show it.
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we could all really use a better email client, but as discussed to death in the sparrow threads, the app store has reset software pricing perceptions. People will now bitch endlessly about having to pay the princely price of $10, which theoretically comes with free perpetual upgrades. This is down from the $50-$100 people used to pay for each major version of an email client in the 90s. While this may be good for pocketbooks, it has also probably destroyed desktop mail clients for non-enterprise as a market for a software company that wants to pay landlords or mortgages in something besides appreciation.
Isn't this why filters in gmail exist?
One way to answer to my earlier comment is to say something along the following:

"sounds good. i'll come up with a list and write to 5 of them this week. i'm excited to see how this works. also - is it okay to share with you the results? (I saw that your email is in your hn profile)."

Another way to answer is is to say something along the following:

"I would like to hear if you have tried this yourself or seen it done before. What was the result?"

Which way do you think would work better and would get you more help?
I make $0.70 cents (1 sale) every month from my iOS puzzle game: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simpl/id672601351?ls=1&mt=8

In a few months I'll be able to buy myself a coffee! =)
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So far, all pricing is "to be announced". Also, the only compute location in the US currently available is Virginia.
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olsen, 1977

I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.
- Editor of Prentice Hall business books, 1957

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.
- Steve Ballmer, USA Today, April 30, 2007

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
The Deathstar drives were shipped during the Clinton administration. That's a long time ago to hold a grudge against a hard disk company, particularly since they all ship lemon models every few years.
Seriously, men's t-shirts are pretty terrible.

They're designed it seems for a man who's 5'10 and 170lbs or something and then just scaled linearly in both X and Y. That's not how human beings scale, though.

As a guy who's 6'3 and a bit more torso than legs I feel like I would need to be at least 250-275lbs for an XL shirt (which I need to wear so it's long enough) to not look like a sail.

This isn't a problem unique to women, it's unique to anyone who's not a 5'10 170lbs man; the mannequin they designed the shirt for.
They make good wines in Argentina. Someone could start selling those for bitcoins. There's also a fair amount of tourism.
I was assuming that Woz actually had over a billion dollars in the literal sense. I was clearly mistaken and I did appreciate the correction.

Not sure why a simple correction turned out to be controversial. I was wrong and you corrected me. I'm not offended so no one else should be either.
None of the appellate court decisions in the issue have ever held that the protections applied based on who was speaking, whether they were in the institutional media or not. They've always been based on the status of the subject on the content of the material. The institutional media interpretation is an invention of the institutional media itself that has been rejected by every circuit court where it has been raised.
It's certainly true that it helps to be attractive

I think specifically in this context what is meant is 1) have good pictures 2) don't have bad pictures

Even OKc harps on pictures, because they know from their data that pictures are important.
I could not agree with you more, but I do have a simple explanation for the currency exchange regulations.

The government is taxing exports by underpaying exporters for their goods, while collecting market prices from the foreign customers. The government achieves this by overstating the value of the Argentinian peso, which the exporters are forced to accept as payment (at government dictated exchange rates). This would be a problem if the government allowed citizens to purchase USD at the artificial (low cost per USD in pesos) price, so the government restricts USD purchases in Argentina.

The Chinese government implemented this policy before Argentina, which is why they are always accused of manipulating their exchange rates.
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Has CarWoo done used cars? I wasn't aware, yeah, that would be a nice differentiation, but difficult market to corner - so many more variables thrown in the mix (# of owners, clean title, mileage, etc.)
>You might not realize it, but women face a similar issue all the time at conferences/events where "unisex" (really men's) cut t-shirts are given out. These t-shirts are generally quite flattering on men and not-so-flattering on women, so I'd argue they're the woman's equivalent of your purse.

Erm. This kind of makes a lot of assumptions about what 'flattering on women' means. Which of course begs the question about a lot of possible latent sexism at play in your response.

The sorts of t-shirts given out at conferences don't fit anyone. They're generic pieces of cloth that wear like drapes. Hanes Beefy-Ts. That you think they're appropriate for men but not women kinda speaks volumes. Drapes over pecs are fine, but not breasts? Why? What would make a women's t-shirt fit in a more 'flattering' manner? Tighter? More forming to curves on the waist and breasts? Looser, more baggy? Why would that particular fit be flattering?

Also why is the goal to have a 'flattering' t-shirt -- which implies impressing other people, being an object for everyone else's gaze -- rather than a t-shirt that you like? It's sexism against women if we don't provide t-shirts that are 'flattering' to the people looking at her?
Perhaps the solution is to Kickstart the development of a desktop client?
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It's nearly impossible if you think about it in depth.

Argentina does not allow money (in significant amounts) to leave their borders.

Bitcoin is a world-currency.

In order for an argentinian to acquire a Bitcoin, he must pay taxes in excess of 50%, be limited to a few hundred USD in purchases per month, and find somebody who owns bitcoin to take argentine pesos which are in an inflationary spiral at the moment: http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=ARS&view=10Y

The value of Bitcoin is doing the exact opposite of argentine pesos.

Anybody holding Bitcoin would have to be insane to exchange them for argentine pesos.
Doing doughnuts and other unproductive driving for the hell of it.
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>I've just been applying to developer positions that don't require senior and prefacing my cover letters with the fact that I am in fact very new to professional coding.

Maybe I should write a cover letter like that. I've worked in an unrelated tech field for almost a decade and I have never gotten a response for a jr position in the year or so I've been applying for them. I have, however, in spite of the fact that my resume indicates I'm new to programming, gotten a bunch of calls/emails for Sr. positions that am not nearly qualified for.