walexander

I wonder if Android has a chance, long term, in the tablet market. I personally love Honeycomb and my Galaxy 10.1, but I have yet to meet a non-techie who knows what one is, let alone wants one (nook doesn't count).

People know what an iPad is. They want iPads. They see my Galaxy and ask why I didn't get an iPad, or say "ohhh, so it's like an iPad...". My mom doesn't know what android is, but she knows what an iPad is, and to her the word tablet doesn't exist, just iPads.

Android on smartphones has largely succeeded to fill in the hole where iPhone can't fit, which was until recently anyone off of AT&T. But phones are a necessity, a tablet is a more deliberate purchase. So until people start to identify Android tablets as something themselves and not just a generic, poorman's iPad, they'll continue to stay obscure.

There was a Google I/O session which detailed a lot of the same tips in this blog post. However, thankfully, this post was a lot more succinct.

If anyone's interested though, here's a link to the session: http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions/designing-and-...

How is that not honest? He followed the rules of trade even though he knew he could easily exploit them.

I think the criticism here on GoF is misdirected.

As far as I'm concerned, GoF is (or at least should be treated as) a taxonomy, not a cookbook.

The fact that people use it as a cookbook is not necessarily the fault of the authors.

Why does everyone's ecommerce site need a "daily deals" email sign up form now? What works for a coupon site is not likely to work for a T-Shirt site.

Show me some products and there's a slim chance I might buy something.

Show me nothing but a form to REQUEST spam every single day for a product i'm not even sure if I want? Ctrl+W.

I think the headline does lead you to that conclusion, even if not explicitly stated or even the author's intention:

"Two 11-year-old entrepreneurs learned the hard way what it’s like to be a minority in tech during Startup Weekend"

Being on blackweb20.com, I would assume "minority" is referring to race here. Wayne, you may want to update the title here if you want to avoid some confusion.

(Wayne: By the way, I'm in RTP and just noticed your trioutnc site from your profile - looks like a nice tool so far, i'll be trying it).

There are .coms that sell for millions, so $185k for a .whatever domain seems reasonable (well, not really, but it's reasonable to expect people will pay for it). I wonder who can legitimately claim .food, or .cars, though.

Great idea by ICANN, though. They've successfully just turned domains into beanie babies and magic TG cards.

Sometimes people tend to throw around logical fallacies a bit too much.

In the legal system it's perfectly acceptable to bring up such an ad hominem argument: motive.

No one should be convicted on motive alone, however it does frame the interpretation of facts in a certain way.

In this particular case we have a seemingly sensationalist article, along with some suspect data collection, and then a large jump from correlation -> causation about nuclear fallout. Once it is seen that the authors have a vested interest in damning nuclear power, it's much easier to draw conclusions about what's going on or to increase scrutiny considering the impartial nature of the researchers.

"'Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,' Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera"

OK, after reading the first sentence, I was already suspicious of this article. Quick tab back to HN comments seems to confirm it. Thanks for saving my time, HN.

Makes sense. CSCO found out as much recently. Chambers set up boards and councils to have collaborative leadership of technology groups rather than top down management. Reports are it led to less accountability and, I imagine, a "loafing" effect.

Two years later and the stock has lost half its value, market share is slipping away. So now the boards and councils are being vaporized... along with a few thousand employees.

I think they were going for "funny". It worked, imo.

From the FAQ: Builds on the strength of the web browser: WebRTC abstracts signaling by offering a signaling state machine that maps directly to PeerConnection. Web developers can therefore choose the protocol of choice for their usage scenario (for example, but not limited to: SIP, XMPP/Jingle, etc...).

I agree with most of this article, however this line is a bit questionable to me:

> Every time my girlfriend pulls out her Android phone, I ask her about apps I love for the iPhone and she has none of them.

I'd like to know what apps on iPhone do not already have ports or at least a worthy analog on Android (really, tell me so I can start coding a clone). At least in the phone space (maybe not tablet), Android seems every bit as crowded as iPhone.

I made an acount just to vote on this. The arguing you referred to is exactly the reason why i prefer hn to reddit. I would hate to see rhe same insular 'hivemind' effect here.