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XDA developers. Honestly I'd be disappointed with my kindle fire if I hadn't installed the awesome roms that are available on that page. Now I have a cheap as dirt device, capable of playing new gen Android games (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.madfingerg...) with stunning graphics at 60+ fps. Don't even doubt they will be releasing a JB rom for it.

True that, the original Amazon coated Android sucks a lot. But I couldn't be happier with JB on my Kindle Fire, it is AMAZINGLY fast, and I have never experienced any kind of lagginess whatsoever.

I had mine as a hackathon prize and if I had to buy one I'd buy a Nexus 7, but heck, when I got mine there were no $199 tablets as good as the Kindle Fire.

hackNYer here. 4 days after hackNY is over, and I went back home to hang out with old folks, you realize how important and why living with other fellows is definitely the key, always doing something cool, learning, or teaching other people. That's why it's unbeatable. The fact that it's in NYC where the startup scene is still far ahead from what its like in SF also adds to it, because you are sort of bound to hang out with other fellows as you are (likely) coming from other city, and since it is NOT SV/SF you don't know many (if any) people working in tech there.

Why is this on HN? Are we reddit now or something like that? I don't know if it's only me or during the last year the amount of good technical articles on HN is decreasing month by month, whereas Techcrunch articles on startup investments, vim/sublime/whatever editor tutorials, hiring people, gadget reviews are getting upvoted to the heavens. Out of 30 articles on the frontpage 4 are technical and only 2 are really deep.

Sorry for the venting but I have the hope I'm not the only one missing old technical HN instead of what it's becoming now.

I have to disagree on this. 7 inches are so much better when you want to read on the crowded NYC subway. I already tried with an iPad and it's a whole lot more inconvenient.

I love the idea. I currently use do it tomorrow (tomorrow.do) and your problem is that unless I would already have full integration with my tablet and android phone I wouldn't even think about the switch, it's just too inconvenient.

Still I think it will be great for a bunch of people, so who knows maybe I'll be trying the mobile version soon!

I feel like if you cut off time programming and spend that time working on building hype you might be able to earn a bunch more of customers earlier, which might turn out to be the difference between not needing external funds and needing them. Or the difference between being able to getting them and not getting them, if that's what you want.

Anyway best of luck!

Honestly I was expecting this so badly... and got terribly disappointed. Will stick to Picplz.

I solved security problems and made a enormous test-harness for ThisCausesThat, a research project for UC Irvine. https://github.com/eLobato/wc_master

I was about to post this, pay attention to the fact he's using 2 android phones to control the engines and wii motion sensors... truly astounding.

True, I myself believe I chose the title wrong but I only realized after this comment. I met the main developer who created the Ruby wrapper for aws-sdk a few days ago and I was really surprised how it works so similar to ActiveRecord that I thought that this was new. The code is on github and I didn't find any similar overview of the aws-sdk for Ruby on Rails, so I thought this might be helpful.

Ludovico Einaudi and Max Richter put me in the mood quite nicely. Mozart, the three tenors, and similar stuff also work (but most of the time not as good as the former artists).

Nonetheless that's rara avis among my coworkers, anyone else listening to similar stuff while coding?

What are they then? Actually it's certainly the thing that bugs me most about that code.

It's so nice that we can vote two options here. I spend half of the year in LA and the other half in Madrid :P

ROFL. They're not quite there unfortunately. Try a google query like:

site:mit.edu viagra

And get surprised at how the MIT is selling viagra :p

Just wondering, what's your experience besides Classparrot? It's great but I'd like to see more before getting in a bigger commitment.

I'm working like 70ish hours on busy weeks (unavoidable since I'm in a start-up & college at the same time) and I concur after a certain threshold your mental abilities get dramatically diminished plus your health severely damaged.

In fact if you're putting that many hours, you're probably also mistreating your body, doing little to no exercise and incurring in sleep debt. And I repeat, I know because I'm being this stupid. After two months of this ridiculous schedule I find myself fairly drowsy during the day, unable to resolve challenging problems. My body is acquiring fat very easily and I suffer from the stomach + a lot of headaches. And I just have been two months through this.

To be honest, the period in my life in which I succeeded the most was the one in which I had my needs completely met and I enjoyed every bit of my work, working as hard as I could. If you're a coder mental clarity is one of your biggest assets, so either run out of that health destructive spiral (that's what I'm going to do as soon as this quarter ends) or just stick with physical and mental problems.

No they didnt. I have seen many Mitsubishi Pajero in Spain and its so funny haha

EDIT: It looks that some dictionaries on the internet use Lumia and Lumias as the equivalent in Spanish for prostituta. I can guarantee (being Spaniard born and raised and having spoken in Spanish with people from literally any spanish-speaking country) that people use Lumi or Lumis in very, very rare occasions. Lumia is even weirder (I just learnt it to be honest) and I dont really understand why the dictionary only includes Lumia. (rae.es). Honestly I think that that word will be removed from the dictionary sooner than later.

I am sorry to say this but the entry is wrong :( Lumi = hooker. Lumia doesn't mean anything in Spanish. Actually most of the spanish speakers I met don't even know that Lumi = hooker (I have one cousin called Lumi and no one noticed until she was in her early 20s...)

Anyway it probably means something funny in other languages :p

Jake, congratulations for the idea and the execution. Sometimes the simplest idea is the one that changes the world. By the way, is there any reason why I can't connect from Spain? It is stuck on the "connecting" screen :(

Just to give my 2 cents. Madrid is by far the Spanish city making the biggest effort to provide its inhabitants a nice entrepreneur-friendly environment.

To cite a few: http://www.startupbootcamp.org/european-cities/#madrid http://www.seedrocket.com/ http://betabeers.com/ http://blog.tetuanvalley.com/ http://madridemprende.esmadrid.com/ http://wayra.org

And I'm missing a lot of them. The entrepreneurial scene and the agile people over here are making an enormous effort to bring this city as a true startup hub in Europe, and they've accomplished this in 1 year. Like they say in reddit, IAMA guy sort of involved in this scene, ask me anything. Lol

Yes and no. Case law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_law) is one of the most powerful tools to defend yourself in court. Obviously you can't be reporting a judicial decision taken in Iran to sue a group of homosexuals and kill them, but the thing is that you can refer to previous judicial decisions if sued in a court within the European union. In fact in this judicial process the lawyer referred to similar binding precedents in the Netherlands. I'm not quite sure about how the legal system works there in the US but I guess that citing previous sentences of EU's courts can be of certain help when sued for something as ridiculous as this (i'm not 100% certain about this tho). Source: I'm Spanish and the SGAE (equivalent for the american RIAA in Spain) is always on the newspapers' frontpage for such idiotic things...

Veeeeeeeeeeeery class! I was about to send you an email to help you build an android app for this but you already done this. Wow.

To be fair, the markets of Dropbox and Github are dramatically different. In fact I'd say that the Github pricing model is quite better in terms of adjusting the price to the demand. As I've read in some other comment here in HN, if you don't use Github because $100 is a lot of money to spend in your project, then you probably shouldn't be using Github. Still, they offer great and FREE micro accounts for students (I have one) and the support is great.

Truly amazing. It never ceases to amaze me how people in orient Asia are eager to use technology in such an intelligent way. If this system were implemented here in my country (Spain) I'd bet (and I'd win) that the revenue would be insignificant and the vast majority of the ads would've been covered in graffiti in less than 1 month.

Anyway TESCO please pimp my underground!!!!! ;D

Truly awesome work. Does it find the introductory book by googling it or they're all introduced by hand?. The funny thing is that my gf ain't letting me going on with my holiday project instead of helping me like yours haha

Sorry but where has Sabu confirmed that this was an actual interview?

That's a bit misleading comment IMO. All the things that you mentioned, like JS, are OO, true. But I wouldn't say that they represent the state of the art of this paradigm at all, basically for two reasons. The first one is that pretty much everyone uses these languages in a more or less "procedural programming" manner. I cannot find many examples of people taking advantage of what objects, inheritance and polymorphism are. The second reason deals pretty much with this last statement. Even though people are not using properly the advantages of OOP in this kind of languages (myself included), most of the developers that I have contact with are using properly and taking advantage of the variety of characteristics of OOP in their Java, C#, programs. No matter if they are web projects or not. Nowadays I am trying to push myself harder to use OOP when programming in Ruby but it doesn't feel as natural as when I write code in Java.

Do you mean to be offensive with that post? I wrote "fucked up" as in "crazy, spontaneous, creative as hell", not as in any offensive way, homie.

Google hacking is truly awesome and powerful. In fact there is some pro material already on the web such as http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ghdb/

There is also a pretty good book from a spanish Microsoft MVP (yeah it sounds bad but still its an important award, :\)

http://www.informatica64.com/libros.aspx?id=hackingBuscadore...

It's a shame they decided not to translate it, anyone is up to it here? It contains everything that you'd ever wonder and much more.