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I am glad I found this post and will be checking it out. Thanks.

Sprint promised LTE service a while back and had a slew of phone with this technology as an option that could be enabled. On the East Coast, Sandy came and destroyed much of the infrastructure we were told, so the LTE technology hasn't really been working as we wish and we told it would. With recent mergers, it may be true that these "small" big companies don't "have the financial resources to compete against...larger players [(Verizon, AT&T)], nor the suite of offerings to attract customers who can get a whole host of services from other rivals. As a result, both sides believe that the only way to remain relevant is to combine."

I have had Sprint for over 10 years and I like Sprint, my service is fine, and the price that I pay is great. I hope this does not change if this deal gets past the antitrust regulators.

According to some articles while "there are many tools available to port Objective-C to Java i.e port an app from iOS to Android...porting Swift apps to Android will now become a tough task for developers."

http://thehackernews.com/2014/06/apples-new-swift-programmin...

Right, well, let's see what happens. I kindda agree with Gordon Haff (http://www.cnet.com/news/apples-new-swift-coding-language-ho...) on being disappointed that Apple did choose a more open platform, but I suppose this can change in time, like with Microsoft recent changes.

How is this being snide? Anyways, thanks for your input. I actually think we come to read articles that sound interesting, and if these are not accessible, our attention is lost, so we move on; not all of us have all day. Anyways, someone was just on a power trip; they think that because they can down vote, they can do so for anything, even when it points out actual problems with a blog/site.

The author is completely right. When Apple announced that it will allow families to share music, books, etc., the first thing that came to my mind was: "Apple is trying to lock us in." I can already share my music, perhaps because I know how to do it, even if it is a tedious process, but I can see how this would keep users with Apple, if they don't know any better. Then they talked about swift and did not confirm it will be Open Source, so this also was a red flag for me that they are trying to further lock-down. When I think about it, this is how Apple became profitable and big, so it makes sense that it is looking for ways to stay in control, even if it alienates some.

Swift "greatly benefited from the experiences hard-won by many other languages in the field, drawing ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, C#, CLU, and far too many others to list." I have been wondering if in fact this language will be Open Source, since it is said to have taken from other programming languages, some of which are Open Source, yet the decision to make it Open Source has not been made? Lock down.

Could be a regional issue? North East seems fine. Loading quickly and access does seem okay as well. Gl.

I did the total opposite of what this article discussed; I spent a few minutes reading this blog post instead of being productive and paying attention to my work. While there is true value to concentrating/focusing, so we can be creative and get important stuff done, the author's lack of tolerance for distractions (good or bad) may be going below a healthy level. Seriously, the "I’m also letting go of second chances. One strike and you’re out" would make us a terrible persons.

Not my fault this was broken. What is this? HS?

Hummm...ok, thanks, I will look into this and see if I understand it better.

Attention lost. Woops!

"Error establishing a database connection"

Metric measurements just make sense. I never understood why the US does not adapt and use this system. I was glad my engineering education used it, so that once again, I felt back at home using the metric system. Ask any US born engineer and they will likely tell you that if they had been using the metric system all their lives, they wouldn't have had to waste all that time trying to learn it in college for physics, etc..

Not sure if anyone else picked this up, but for those who don't know everything about startups, this article does not really help. All points are missing more details and some are written assuming you know what is being meant without explaining clearly. For #1, I see that the cofounder did not contribute to the project, but what happened? why? was there a work contract or expectations that were not met? etc. For #2, what does the author mean by "It turns out that not every company in the US is incorporated in Delaware"; the author assumes everyone knows what is means and then adds that they "are incorporated in New York State"?. Then for #3, the author writes:

"I asked what was the matter, and my attorneys said that “regulations” prevented them from sending it. A full two weeks after they received the check, they wired the money back to our investor and they asked him to wire the money to us directly. How embarrassing."

While I think I figured out what was meant, somewhat, aside from the "regulations" part, it was not clearly describe who was asking who what and why exactly. I still don't understand what was not done correctly by the friend attorney.

I really respect the humanity with which this story is told; kudos to the dad, and Jamie, of course. This heartfelt story makes you realize how little we know about people with mental handicaps and the struggles they face, even is the best of circumstances. It only saddens me to think that similar children/young adults/adults out there, do not have the access to some of these programs because of they do not have such resourceful parents.

To support my view, here you go https://stripe.com/blog/network-neutrality

I've been seeing a lot of back and forth about this issue and it seems to me the one thing we should be concerned about is not so much the user experience, but the experience of those with new ideas, which rely on access to an open internet. Today we have these massive companies making enough money to buy the access they need/want to run their businesses, but small shops don't have that capital, and from what I have read/seen, this law does not help to level the playing field. Furthermore, as commentators have stated, as users, we already get changed more by the internet ISPs, for faster speeds, so exactly what else do they want, other than the users' $$? We are still discussing what this law does in a tech blog, so what makes anyone think the FCC actually knows that it is doing, long term?

I tried sharing the site's link with someone who opened it on a mobile device and was unable to see it - "doesn't work on my phone". Does this mean that a site built this way would not work on mobile devices or just not on Android devices?

I read "..she opened up Instagram on her phone (she’s not a regular on the service anymore)", and wondered, does he mean that @kathleen has not been using it for a while (months)? There is no justification for stealing a handle, but I was just wondering. I recall once I wanted to have a specific handle on twitter for an idea I had, so I contacted the owner via a private message. He/she has no tweets and to this day, I have not heard from him/her yet. Would anyone be open to perhaps having an "expiration" date on our accounts? Sometimes I feel like there are robots out there claiming every possible handle, so that, idk, they can sell it later?

Ignorance is definitely bliss because unless we know the facts about how we dispose of waste and what the limits of our natural resources are, we tend believe they are infinite. However, the sad part is also that even when people do KNOW, some don't seem interested in what will happen 100+ yrs from now and instead live the moment. I was shocked to read that we "allow a uranium mine to inject more than 200,000 gallons of toxic and radioactive waste every day into the underground reservoirs", it's troubling.

What we do to this Earth needs to be evaluated on a regular basis by our Gov. officials and in this case, hopefully we can all agree that "deep, unknown potential sources of drinking water [DO] matter" and matter right now.

All I got to say is that I am hoping Google didn't just kill an American company. I am not looking forward to another Palm company story where you had a great product that is NOTHING now, thanks to these companies buying each other out to simply kill the products/ideas.

I am very interested in what comes out of this. When I read Hiroshima's blog post, I was getting chills thinking how angry I would be if I could not get into my own accounts thanks to someone taking over them simply by exercising human engineering tactics. Big and small companies need to implement 2-step verification, or better, and never give out information.

The title of this article does not reflect what the article is actually talking about. Also, while a nice gesture of the family member to write, as I read the article I was building up excitement and really wanted to know if she had written some interesting/secret information for the kids, but then found she was just praying. Nothing wrong or against that, just that my curiosity was sparked but ultimately my interest went unfulfilled.

Whether you program or not, sometimes you just need to sit back, maybe close your eyes and think. It's weird to do it in a open office plan where your desk is across someone else! Let's not mention the coughing person a couple desk away or the open-mouth-eater next to you! A cubicle may not be cool and in some offices, it may seem too dull, but in the right conditions, it not only gives privacy, but also a little protection from those little annoyances. The only way I know an open floor plan works is when it is help by a SINGLE and SMALL company, where all desks are against nice tall windows and everyone respects each other enough to not be loud across the room in "their own space".

So, now I read about the "phablets" and the first thing that came to my mind was the then sleep Palm Pre, which already allowed me to call, take pictures, and use it a tablet, where I could use my stylus to do many tasks I can hardly do on the iPhone. "Phablet" is definitely a bad name, I say we call it like the "Walkie-talkie", a "Walkie-talkie-browsie-typie" device.

Ok, just started to read the article, and already I am not agreeing with "Samsung’s update to history’s best-selling Android phone, the Galaxy S series, delivered on the technical specifications but continued the line’s “unpleasant, cheap design.”" The Galaxy S series is to me by far better than the ongoing iPhone look. The only thing keeping me to getting the Galaxy now is a contract.

I find it interesting that there aren't more comments on this post; wondering is some Hacker News SO contributes disagree with Richter. I usually find myself kindda needing to comb through lots of SO answers to find something that actually explains a solution to a problem. I think that SO is a site you go to to when you don't have much time to actually learn what need to know. However, I should add that I have gotten good link by contributors that have helped me learn more about the topic of my question. Perhaps this is that we should be doing - sharing validated material that explains the topic one is trying to understand.

This is a great article full of truth. My respects to the author because it takes courage to accept one's mistakes, but it's critical for getting up and moving forward in a better direction. How many ideas are sitting in my brain, but all I can think of is how to exactly am I supposed to validate that any of them are worth my life?! I mean, really, a startup will mean I will have no life. With my loved one in a startup already, I don't know if I could really start something without the support. Looking back, were any of the big companies that started as a small STARTUP founded by poor people? I think not. I haven't heard a single story of an actually poor person, who founded a startup and is now rich.

Humm. First, this blog post was not a quick read while taking a quick break to read a hackernews post, so read if you have time. Second, while being able to see what a developer's programming style and their interests are like via a code repository, not having a code repository does not mean someone is not a good programmer worth hiring. It seems like those who will ONLY hire someone if they have an amazing github are asking for people who do NOTHING but breath, eat, and sleep code; someone without a life, someone who does not cook, have pets, loves someone, or has other interests than being in front of a computer uploading code to github. When you leave home at 7AM to be be at work at 8AM, and work until 5:30PM, and then you get home to cook dinner, feed your pets, clean a little, MAYBE get to the gym, it's already 11PM or midnight. When exactly do these employers think someone has time to do stuff other than work and take care of real-life responsibilities? I mean, yes, programmers could use the weekend and some if not most do, but if moving to another job means having an amazing code repository, this would not be built over one weekend, maybe not even several. There are brilliant programmers out there who simply do NOT have TIME to spend it creating code for employers to see on a code repository site, so requiring one is in fact discriminatory to those programmers who just cannot spend the time adding to the code repository.

I have personally seen how employers think they are so awesome that they will not even consider a programmer for hiring because of lack of a github. All I can see say is that in the case I have seen, all those employers missed out on hiring a great programmer, one who is truly dedicated to work and programming, one who really does live programming while still having and enjoying life.

Ok, so while I wish I had the time to create a cool web app to analyze political data, I def think it would required not to overload the user's CPU. I launched the site and immediately my MAC slowed down to crawl. I checked top and it at at 100%+

I do not recommend you clicking on any of the dots.