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I wouldn't be surprised if they licensed the name out to some up and coming Chinese corporation with a difficult for English speakers to pronounce name.
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For me, it's because Windows Phone is more task-oriented than app-oriented. There's a "flow" to the interface that just jives with my way of working on mobile.

To be sure, Android is more powerful in many ways, but with my Windows phone I can do all the same things I did on Android: SSH into my servers, VNC to support clients, etc. I'm missing a few games and novelty apps, but I don't use my phone as a gaming platform or toy, I use it to get work done.

And even on a fairly modern Android phone running JB, I've more than once had the same old issue I've always had on Android: If a call comes in when it's low on free RAM, there is simply no way to answer as the screen doesn't respond to taps. This has been the case on every Android phone I've used since 1.5 on a Motorola Cliq. Android is great when you need a mobile computer, but not so much when you need a mission critical device.
I am not sure about that. I have seen several examples where the WP is way cheaper than the X alternative
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Well done for having a go at this. Given the global rate of car deaths at over 1m/yr you can definitely make an argument for developing cheap, slightly hackish systems now in rather than just the Google approach of developing very good but unavailable $100k systems. If this kind of approach can bring development forward a year or two that's a lot of lives saved.
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Simpsons in CSS
I've been out of the webdev game for perhaps a decade. The most recent things I've done are @Media queries.

Finding this inspires me to learn about what else I could create in css - also it has really funky behavior in IE8~ and if you zoom in:)

Note - this isn't mine, it was found on r/programming.
If you're looking for a book on strategy, you can't go wrong with Peter Drucker.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Essential-Drucker-Management-Essen...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker
We can agree or disagree about whether anything announced recently is significant (I'd suggest if you're a user then application interoperability is major and as an iPhone 5S user I find entering a PIN after using the fingerprint scanner feels positively stone age), but I'd struggle with the idea that smartphones are essentially feature complete and nothing significant will be coming down the line in the next few years.
Is anyone familiar with the classical music tune in the first 30 seconds of the video? I recall hearing it somewhere before, but am not certain with the name of the piece.
Oh, Jesus, this looks like the unfortunate result of a Windows Phone and an Android phone in a teleporter accident.

Many here are cheering as if this is good somehow, because Microsoft is open and what not. But look at it. It looks like Windows Phone, but is an Android phone. It exists to confuse customers.

What is the supposed end game here? "Hey, buy this and if you like it, we'll make you abandon all your Android apps, and switch to real Windows phone - because the home screen tiles look similar"?

I don't think so.

This project is more the result of a slow-moving corporate behemoth that started this project way before Microsoft announced it's buying Nokia. It was too late to turn that giant ship in time, I guess, so enjoy your mutant monster.

By the way, the startup sound is Ripley whispering "Kill me" in your ear.
I sincerely don't get what is the point of releasing an android phone with Nokia Store rather than Google Play...
If you like paying through the nose for hyperbole, this is for you.
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Just business tactic, not 'opening up'.
>>Also, why are UK citizens against adopting the euro?

Do you not watch the news?
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Chartered accountants are also much respected in the UK. It is a very common route to senior management, similar to legal qualifications or an MBA in the US.
It's weird how rapidly money ratchets down the priorities hierarchy... once it's in the bank.
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I very much hope submarines' software use more Ada and less C++.
Moto E has roughly the same specs (some better, some worse):

http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_e_dual_sim-6323.php

Just because you're not looking, doesn't mean they don't exist.
Don't feel stupid. This is difficult to reason about, hence the existence of the bug and the inadvisability of PHP's `extract` function.
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Which makes Microsoft's strategy all the more confusing. At least if they decided to use a fork of Android for sub-$100 devices, then it would be one thing. But they're mixing it up with no clear vision.

The only reason they are continuing to make them is because they got a lot of press for it, because a lot of people wanted "Lumia with real Android" - and most tech sites thought: "Not Lumia...and with a bad clone of Android, must be good enough, so let's write about it anyway".

Without that press and misleading hype about "Nokia with Android", Nokia X would've never launched.
Disclaimer: my day job is helping companies continue to operate at scale the same as they did when there were only 5 of them. Turns out this is not a trivial thing to do.

Agile/XP practices are a good starting place in-between cowboy programming and micro-management hell -- as long as you don't take them as a recipe book. They're simply best practices that you can and should learn. Then prune/modify as necessary. There are really too many books to list separately. I'd advise joining a local Agile User's Group and noticing who has their shit in one sock. Then find out what they're doing. You can also bring in external coaches.

You need a couple of good books on the people part of things. I can guarantee you that the people part of things is where you'll screw up. "Drive" is really good. http://amzn.to/1qtZdEd So is PeopleWare http://amzn.to/1iBnasO

For strategic stuff, especially in a growing company, you're going to have to master large work queues without having them eat you alive. If you'll allow me to self-promote, my Backlogs series is geared exactly towards this problem. http://tiny-giant-books.com/backlogs.htm

One observation: as you grow, it's not enough that you pay extremely careful attention to whom you hire. You also need to create an on-boarding system where new hires can learn and adopt the culture -- things like pair programming, how the build works, good coding etiquette, and so on. Setting the table for strategy to work is actually more important than whatever the strategy is.

Second observation: I imagine you're going to be swimming in business book recommendations. Business books are like dieting books: everybody has a few favorites. (I imagine this is because the material inside matches how they already feel). Better to identify specific areas, like Agile Requirements Modeling, and find books targeting those areas. Then look for practical advice. Otherwise you'll just have a ton of books that you'll spend hundreds of hours reading and not really have much to show for it at the end of the process.
Y Not: Adventures in Functional Programming in Ruby
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Ye now off you go to your next thing writing books about how much you struggled in life and how much you worked eh?

Reading this article made me spit on the floor, on how you describe your work as being soooo hard... When I first moved in new york I was working 3 jobs 18 hours a day minimum everyday to make a living. From Construction to Serving tables and rude people like you. And at least I had a degree and CS experience. I feel so sorry for you little princess but you deserved it. Take it up and live with it.
And failure is not a bad thing.
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I know a lot of CAs (as well as people who failed at Honours and/or board exams), and they are very bright, and for the most part fairly interesting personally (and always sure to split the bill accurately). But for a bad matric accounting teacher, who put me off the field, I would probably have opted to study financial accounting as well, with a view to becoming a CA. Also there is no denying that South African corporate governance is very good, in large part due to CAs.

However, you may be confusing correlation with causation.[^] South African CAs are good at business because they are intelligent -as you point out they need to complete 7 years of grueling accounting theory and practice-not necessarily because they have the CA(SA) credential. They'd probably do just as well academically if they studied mathematics, computer science, biology, statistics or engineering. It's no coincidence that kids who are good at school mathematics are told to become chartered accountants in SA, since maths ability is a marker for intelligence. My main worry about accountants having a strong lobby, and accounting becoming the main route to megabucks in SA is that it devalues other professions and draws the brightest minds away from other fields - as you yourself point out ,a person with an undergraduate degree and an MBA is likely to make less money than a CA. Incidentally, I Googled this article that makes a similar argument: http://johanfourie.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/why-and-what-to-...

[^] Anecdotally, BCom statistics is viewed as one of the tougher courses at university by those who take it, but easy compared to the statistics done by science and engineering students (just yanking your chain here).
Most people who buy a phone don't really care about hackability, open source and custom roms. I own both a WP and a Nexus 5 and frankly, usability and consistency is better on the WP. I prefer Android for the reasons you stated, but you need to understand most people don't think about it that way.
Sounds very similar to the things I've done with web.py in Python-land. Very small, lightweight services that had no need for the power of Django. One such example was a GET/POST/DELETE service to vote on submitted items (ideas, in this case).
... and to think that my contempt for PHP couldn't be increased.

Wow. This is the anti-Scheme. It's like they took everything good in language design and decided to do the exact opposite. "Let's make a function that has the side effect of introducing variables into scope. That's a great idea."

Oh, Bog....
The problem is when unexpected variables are overwritten. It would be better to have a mandatory list of allowed variables that can be extracted.

$login = '1234';
extract(array('login'=>true, 'messsage'=>'hacker'), 'message');
var_dump($login_, $message);
// => $login='1234', $message='hacker'

(pardon my rusty PHP)
>the accountant is most likely to actually understand the business

This is where conflicts arise... the accountant is most likely to know which parts of the business are currently generating profit but, depending on the business, may not be very adept at understanding why certain parts are more profitable or the longer-term position of the company within its markets.

You wouldn't want an accountant to be CEO of the typical software start-up, for example.

(I actually partly qualified as an ACA many moons ago before abandoning it...)
I doubt that will ever happen, and I hope it doesn't. I'd much prefer to see proper ports of Android and iOS apps, rather than some Frankenstein style compatibility layer.
This is a contrived example. Not only is vector<bool> the real problem, but this is a standout terrible way to swap elements, especially in generic code.
If the robot building and fighting part of this appeals to you, you might like Robot Arena 2. It's an oldish game now but there are mods to make it look good. You need to do some Googling to get it downloaded, figured out, and installed, but it's great fun once you do. This Let's Play is a good place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-sHZC3cejo (he does spend about 40 minutes building his robot though so skip about a bit to get the feel)
Forensic accounting is to accounting what debugging Cobol is to coding, maybe?
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"Flight Of The Bumblebee", Rimsky-Korsakov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QV1RGMLUKE&feature=kp
That was me, with the throttling system. It's called modulation, and is very common in Europe.

While there is no momentum in heat transfer, the walls of your house store heat. If you're away long enough to allow your house to cool down it will take more fuel than it would to keep it at a reasonable temperature. Also, this is much, much more comfortable than to arrive in a stone cold house, only to open a window 30 minutes later because of the blazing heat.

I'm not saying it's always better to keep a certain temperature, though. It depends on the time that you're away, the insulation of your house, the outside temperature, the efficiency of your boiler, etcetera. But, having lived in houses with ordinary thermostats and non-modulating boilers and houses with programmable thermostats and modulating boilers I can tell you this: I'm not going back to the old stuff. The indoor climate is so much better now!
Links to the books Drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004P1JDJO

and Peopleware: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321934113/

for those who are worried about clicking url shortners
The Heart of Change - best book I read in the MBA

Six Thinking Hats - best way to think like an analyst (and to lead meetings that are effective)

Both of these are killer and quick and easy books.
Why do you want to be able to hack your phone? I would think you'd want your communications device to not be flakey.
Do you have an OpenTherm, modulating boiler (or kettle, as we call them here)? That would be awesome!
http://www.amazon.com/The-Gervais-Principle-Complete-Ribbonf...
"Strategic Management" Fred David, http://amzn.com/0132664232

Some people find it too academic but it covers pretty much all of the essentials of strategy and business policy practices.
The number one thing I'd suggest it learning to communicate effectively. Since you have been promoted already I assume you have some skills in this area - that's good! But it can be worth deliberately focusing on improving both your written and oral communication skills.
> Why won't they let me self-host?

Self host and maybe I'd care about it. I could put it on it's own segregated wifi connection with no access to the rest of the world and the data would be mine.

I am not interested in feeding Google.
The origin of the words "audit" and "auditor" is also interesting. The auditor would receive (listen to) the state of affairs/finances as described to him and then report that to his master.
seems like a fairly good bargain, life is far more precious than money. Spending on it will be worthwhile if it ensures safety
Is this perhaps the first ever copypasta? It even predates the Internet!
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Something like the Basis Band may be a better choice for you. It has issues with tracking your heart rate during intense activities, but I think with what you're doing it should still work. The points of data it captures blows away anything else on the market is doing. Unfortunately their future is a bit in limbo since Intel bought them.
JSON is annoying with the commas. One forgotten comma or comma too much and the whole file doesn't parse.
too much going on in merely one article
Do you have friends who graduated 6 months to a year ago? Where did they find jobs and are those places any good? Or even people who you kind of knew. Many companies offer referral bonuses so even somebody you knew casually will usually be willing to help.

I'm not sure what you mean by "applied experience." Do you mean a job? Or do you mean you hacked together some open source projects?

Unless you have experience outside of what you wrote here, you are entry level. You may be a good coder. You may be a better coder than people who have been doing the job for 10 years. But you are still entry level because you haven't yet proved that you can do the coding in a work environment, day in and day out, when somebody else tells you too and not when you feel like it. That is the difference between a job and a hobby.

All that said, if you feel you are better than entry level you will want to look for smaller companies where you will have the ability to quickly get a visible project. It is easier to contact these companies because they usually have a direct email to HR instead of through a 3rd party website and can ask any questions you want free form. Be professional and have somebody double check for grammar.

Good luck.
Noticing that reality is under no particular obligation to be sortable is not the same as advocating a particular strategy to deal with it. It's just admitting that yeah sometimes subjective decisions (gasp?) will be made and yeah sometimes inconsistent decisions (gasp?) will be made.

And as long as you aren't an evil computer in Star Trek:TOS that's not actually a problem.
Here is what I did when I moved from development to product & Marketing

1. Follow people in the same field
2. Ready up on blogs and posts : I use Zite, Flipboard and medium
3. A book that helped me to a large extent is Good to great by Jim Collins (http://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Companies-Leap-Others/dp/00...)

Also The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman http://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-World-Class-Business-Educ...

4. Video from people in the same field.
5. This article https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/50-articles-and-books-that-wi...

Some great tools:

1. Trello - Project/product and pretty much manage any thing
2. Qlikview - Data Analysis : Excel on Steroids

It's a very short list, but I am learning on the job :)
Or a spreadsheet and call it "123"...

Or even worse - a webmail app called "cc:Mail".
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Without defending the NSA excesses, the difference is in the repression, not the monitoring. There is little evidence that the NSA monitoring was used for repression of citizens, and even less evidence of the sort of repression that was rampant in the Soviet bloc.
There is no brew formula?
I've ben using beta.fastmail.fm since I signed up. The calendar has been in Beta for months. Big bugs would most likely already have been fixed.
What browser does this use? Is there now an IE for Android?

EDIT: It's Opera Mini: http://gigaom.com/2014/06/24/microsofts-android-line-evolves...
One requires you "buy entry" with a $700 smartphone. The other requires that you "buy entry" by giving access to your personal data to a company that has demonstrated that it doesn't care about your privacy. Neither option is objectively "less evil", it depends on the priorities of the user. I for one will only willingly hand Google the keys to my data when hell freezes over or Apple and Microsoft go bust.
Looks a lot like Gear Up (Doctor Entertainment AB, Sweden) which has modular vehicles (custom wheels, chassis, weapons, etc), but not in TerraTech's ultra-modular way and is a pure multiplayer vehicular combat arena. Are the two in any way related?

http://play-gearup.com/
Most important startup rule:

If you ask for money, you get advice. If you ask for advice, you get money twice. - Pitbull
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>Moscow

There's your problem (or lack thereof).

The provincial cities had it worse.
Usability. I strongly disagree that Android has much of that, and I suspect that a great many Android users simply don't know any better. Windows Phone really is that much better.

Rant: My first smartphone was a Lumia, and then when it broke i went to a Sony Xperia (with a rather clean Android 4.3 on it).

I never even realized how well-designed WP was until I went to Android. Examples:

- Operation. Nearly all of WP is easy to operate with just a thumb, single-handed. All important controls are either near the bottom or reachable by swiping. On Android, I have to reach to the top for all kinds of stuff. It's simply, apparently, an Android design pattern to put a bar with buttons on the top, as far away from my hand as possible. This is plainly ridiculous. On WP, there's a clear relationship between "how important is this action" and "how close is it to the bottom". As it should be.

- Consistency. All well-designed WP apps work the same. Swipe left/right for different screens/tabs, touch the left-side of an item for select-boxes, operations on the bottom and more operations by selecting "...". This is the same nearly everywhere, both for built-in apps and for most well-designed apps from the store.

- Cleanliness and clarity. The Xperia forced me to choose a home screen background picture, making it very difficult to read text and icons. I google-image-searched a "black.png" to work around this, but still, it's cluttered by default, and you need to do work to clean it up. Similarly, most good apps are really clean and uncluttered. I get the info I want to see or manipulate, no bullshit bells and whistles.

- Quick. WP's live tiles are a perfect middle ground for me between bloated Android widgets and app-icons-only like in iPhone. My homescreen only contains the stuff i do often, with bigger buttons for stuff i do more. All this, without cluttering the UI like doing something similar on Android would do (by hand-dragging around a combination of widgets and icons).

Needless to say, I went back to Windows Phone (anyone want to buy a Sony Xperia SP, btw?). Upgraded to WP 8.1, which added:

- The best mobile calendar app I've ever seen. The week view is simply amazing [1].

- Fix for every single thing I want that Android had and WP hadn't: better volume controls, action center for notifications and quick access to settings, stuff like that.

I'm well aware that none of the above includes the things you mention: customizability, open source, etc. WP indeed doesn't have that - it's much more like iOS in that respect. I thought I'd miss this, but with 8.1 fixing all the issues I had with WP, I realize that actually I don't want customizability, I want the thing to work great out of the box.

You only need customization if what you start with sucks.

On the hackability aspect though, WP app development is a very smooth experience compared to Android app dev (assuming you have a Windows computer ready somewhere). The API is very well designed and documented, and the tools are great (assuming you can stand Visual Studio).

[1] http://conversations.nokia.com/2014/04/17/windows-phone-8-1-...
The best book bar none that I've read about strategy is "Good Strategy, Bad Strategy" by Richard Rumelt: http://goodbadstrategy.com/

I highly recommend it. It's clear, intelligent, properly defines what strategy is (which most other books fail to do) and isn't, and how to go about designing and implementing it. It's very low on bullshit and very high on examples and insights from both history and business.
This is very welcome news, indeed. I will have to give it a try as soon as I can make the time.

I hope it will be more stable and work better than the Haskell package manager, Cabal. I literally never got that to work on any machine. It would typically destroy itself while attempting to update itself...
Sad to see her fail she's a very driven person and admire her for that, most likely if she had a little more funding she would have made it.

I think the most important lesson here is that the team makes all the difference and getting a awesome team is the most important especially for a non technical founder.

She spent a large amount of time and money just getting to the point where she had a reliable team.

Keep one eye on your team and the other on the product and be brutally honest with your team all the time if they can't handle it or can't decide to stay or leave this will make them leave sooner giving you more time to find someone else.

Don't shield the team from bad news this is a group effort and they need to feel a part of it.