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Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?
162 points by eb 17y ago|201 comments
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by eb 17y ago
People have been installing their own software for decades. I don't see why it should be any different on a smartphone.
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by eb 17y ago
I don't think you understand how college admissions work. Students are generally accepted based on their overall academic record. Grades, SAT score, extracurriculars, etc. Students are not accepted to CS programs because they've written a l
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by eb 17y ago
I don't think the licensing problem can be solved with money. TomTom owns the mapping data and obviously wouldn't let Google provide a navigation app since it would put them in direct competition with TomTom. That's why Google had to create
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by eb 17y ago
Droid is CDMA-only but at some point, AT&T will have their own Android 2.0 device.
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by eb 17y ago
I think it'll be a while before Google is able to provide mapping data internationally. That's why Google Maps Navigation is only available in the US, where it's a perfectly suitable replacement for traditional GPS devices, especially with
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by eb 17y ago
Google Maps Navigation is only available in the US. I don't think it's really reasonable, at this point, to expect a GPS device to work worldwide. Are they supposed to store the world's mapping data locally? Google is still licensing their
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by eb 17y ago
The navigation app is only available for the US, where data plans allow unlimited data so price shouldn't be an issue.
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by eb 17y ago
They could also get a lot of third-party revenue by wiping out all of the native apps and letting other people sell them. At some point you have to worry about the value of your platform and now they have Android to compete with. I think Ap
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by eb 17y ago
I think always having a network connection is sort of the point of developing this application for Android. Their address lookups are sent to Google's servers and the guy in that demo video is constantly mentioning "the cloud." I don't imag
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by eb 17y ago
Google didn't previously own the map data (Tele Atlas did and they're owned by GPS device company, TomTom) so it wasn't theirs to license. They only recently started using their own maps earlier this month for the US. Also, Apple recently a
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by eb 17y ago
Speaking of hiring... any startups looking to hire? The HN jobs section has been empty for a while and the previous "Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)" thread is a bit stale. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759452
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by eb 17y ago
No, that's incorrect. It's related to the format of the video rather than browser sniffing. Firefox only supports Ogg Theora for HTML5 video, but the video on the page is MP4/H.264. Dive Into HTML5 has more detail: http://diveintohtml5.org
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by eb 17y ago
There's a video link on the front page to: http://www.apple.com/imac/the-new-imac/ The video provided is MP4/H264 so it'll only work under Safari (maybe Chrome?) with the <video> tag. Firefox will use the Quicktime plugin.
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by eb 17y ago
When was the last time you used Midomi? I think it's pretty well established that Midomi is faster and has better music recognition than Shazam. There's a few video comparisons out there that show this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-EK5
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by eb 17y ago
Wolfram is not the sort of company the engages in marketing ploys. They've always charged a hefty amount for their products, from Mathematica to their crazy prices for API calls. They get away with it because they create niche products that
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by eb 17y ago
The iPhone application still requires Internet access. If you seriously needed to reference Wolfram Alpha for your work, then you would most likely be within reach of an actual computer. This app is nothing more than a novelty and is ridicu
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by eb 17y ago
Actually, only blatant violations are rejected. There are a lot of apps out there that make use of a few private API calls so I wouldn't say that Google has "special access."
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by eb 17y ago
Special characters are substituted in double quotes. They're treated as literals in single quotes. Seems pretty consistent to me.
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by eb 17y ago
That's ridiculous. Why should I let Palm decide what I can install on my phone? Android, Windows Mobile and PalmOS users have been doing fine with having the option of installing their own software.
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by eb 17y ago
Will it be possible for me to host the app so users can download directly from my server?
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by eb 17y ago
Google doesn't have special access to the iPhone, they use the same SDK as everyone else with the exception of a couple of private APIs though that's fairly common. http://daringfireball.net/2008/12/private
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by eb 17y ago
You're still tied to an AT&T voice plan unless you don't intend on receiving calls. Applications still aren't allowed to run in the background so you'd need to have your iPhone on with the Skype app running to receive calls.
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by eb 17y ago
screenshots: http://www.iphonefreak.com/2009/03/gv-mobile-google-voice-ip...
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by eb 17y ago
That's not true. AT&T has always limited iPhone VoIP applications to WiFi to cripple their usefulness. They just announced today that they were extending VoIP apps to 3G, most likely due to pressure from the FCC. Also, you can't replace
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by eb 17y ago
You're exaggerating. I've had an iPhone on AT&T for 2 years without any issues. No dropped calls or billing mistakes and no issues with customer service. The rates that they charge are nearly identical to the other wireless providers fo
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by eb 17y ago
This isn't twitter. You don't need to shorten URLs.
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by eb 18y ago
Can we please stop submitting rumors? This article has no information. We can speculate endlessly about what Apple is going to release, but it's not very useful. Let's wait and see.
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by eb 18y ago
It's 8Mbps from Comcast, not Verizon.
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by eb 18y ago
I was referring to his other positions (abolishing most federal agencies, withdrawing from NATO/UN, negating Roe v. Wade/gun regulation, etc.) in addition to the IRS.

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