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I switched from qwerty to dvorak about 10 years ago but I did it for RSI reasons rather than speed. I'm not sure if it was the dvorak that cured the RSI or the fact that the switch made me really slow for about 3 weeks.

Also I'm not sure if my speed was vastly increased or not - my dvorak is 75-80wpm on tests, but I didn't test my qwerty beforehand. For the first few months I think I was typing faster but I was also making more mistakes owing to the decreased movement required for each keypress causing letters to come out out-of-order. It took a while to get that under control.

One thing that does improve: you realise that remapping individual keys isn't a big deal, which is quite liberating. For example I've moved a bunch of punctuation keys about (e.g. parens) to make programming easier and more comfortable. It takes a couple of days to adapt per key.
Not everyone has (or wants) gmail.
I'm reminded of a tip I heard once. If you want to get phenomenal service in a restaurant, when your waiter's at the table loudly compliment him/her just as the manager walks by.

People respond really well to anything that will make them more popular. (I mean, they go after things that will make them money largely because money is a proxy for social capital.)
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Bear in mind that most of those are drug-related. Stuff that the people involved are well aware is illegal. This means that our prison populations are not really good examples to wield in the service of reducing the number of obscure laws that could be used to convict anyone at any time.
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Being slower on a third out of 15 benchmarks is not actually 'pretty close'. Pypy results are impressive given the task at hand and approach taken. But it's not anything like 5 times faster or close, by any measure.
Well good luck with it. I studied math also in college and have gravitated over the years towards foundations (logic, types, etc..) from my work in programming. I consider programming a form of applied math.

I think of mathematics as a natural science.

I"m looking forward to this series of articles in the Times, hopefully is will make what mathematicians do more accessible to non-mathematicians
Enjoy it while it lasts and before you have a family :-)
If Django's XHTML-style form tags bother you (they bother me) you can always use my django-html template library, which fixes the problem in a kind-of-but-not-too-hacky way.

http://github.com/simonw/django-html
its a personal choice though.... There are a lot of things in Django which Rails doesn't have.

Anyways it isn't hard to write such plugins.
The "system on a chip" Atom CPU is still under development and needs a lot of work (ie. time), whereas ARM is here today.
I had no idea this subset of eCommerce was so underdeveloped. Kind of depressing for some of projects I have on back burner that would like to include recurring-pmt option.

Looks like there's lots of room for new competition. YC candidates: hint, hint.
As far as I can tell Facebook use memcached so extensively that practically everything is served out of it, so their bottleneck could well be the PHP application code as opposed to the data fetching. In any case, when you're serving potentially millions of page views a second even a small optimisation can save you from buying a ton of extra hardware.
Given the pixel densities of cameras, I was wondering if it would make sense to capture a very wide field of view, and then extract head and shoulder shots (possibly multiple). The distortion could be untangled with the GPU.

Face tracking is getting pretty damn good now. For bonus points call out to web service for recognition and tag each stream appropriately.
I've always thought a combination of a touchscreen interface that can reconfigure itself, and a touchscreen display, so you don't break your neck bending over to look at it, would be best...and the most flexible. On something the size of this, I'd bet that typing on it wouldn't even be that bad after a while.
Actually, I don't think the 'studios' (or networks) mind jumping the shark. The slogan seems to be, "let's beat this thing till the revenue drops."
If I had to guess, I'd say in the early days of development the iPad had a camera, but later on they realised it didn't fit in with the ideology of the device, scrapped it, but didn't bother creating a new mould for something a user would never see.
sigh, now every touch screen device will be compared to the iPad's...I liked the world better last month when people could just make touch screen interface concepts and be left unmolested (or at least just be compared to Perceptive Pixel).
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An analogous point: It's very important to meet the price target. The iPad really would be a much less exciting device if it had debuted at $699 or $799 or even higher, as many pundits were predicting before the fact.

The initial production ramp is full of stress and unpredictability. So in hardware, as in software, you release the minimum possible feature set at first, iterate on that, then add features as you learn how to deliver the basic features reliably and at ever-lower cost.
Parts, They ordered replacement parts.
Or, perhaps, they will have a "one more thing" moment at launch and announce it now has a camera.
I think few people work with the classic dvorak layout (the one with awkward punctuation characters).
True, but I always hear lots of talk about the group you are with. "My team eats together all the time." That kind of thing. From food on up the pyramid, Google consciously tries to provide something to provide something for each level.
Without arguing with anything you've said, how does any of that favour Qwerty?
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It's highly impressive, but the question has to be asked: is a web browser really the best interface for a system like this?

The fact is that audio latency, hardware support and plugin support (amongst many other factors) are always likely to be severely limited when running in a browser environment of any kind, let alone on top of the Flash run-time.

This is a great toy, and huge respects to the creator, but if you're even remotely serious about making music, you'll be ditching this within minutes and picking up a custom-built music environment which goes nowhere near a web browser at all.

Sorry, but anybody implying that this is a good reason to retain Flash is going to have to come up with a much more convincing argument.
Suggested correction:
"Now all they need is better substitutes for flash."
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Spot on.

Also when you design something, it is much cheaper to include future extensions on it so all the molds, CNC programs...are the same and you don't have to redesign your product and your production process. This redesign is not only a cost in money, it is a cost of time too.

Is not a good idea to focus in too much things at one time too, making a custom processor is too much change for Apple engineers with hardware rotation and multitouch acceleration. As far as I know, nobody has integrated them in hardware before.
Quick, slightly off-topic question. There's a belief in the industry (I think wrongly) that pretty much the only way to build big complex systems, you need a central "Enterprise Architect" to model all the business processes and use those to drive down to the technology.

As somebody external to Google, it seems to me that this approach largely does not exist at Google (or if it does, it exists only for particular isolated pieces). Is this true? Or rather? What's Google's method for containing, directing and handling this complexity if it's not a traditional EA thinking process?
If the theory is correct, on a cursory glance I'm not convinced, then could you not do a quick analysis to give a numeric likelihood of the image having been tampered with?
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Designer driven applications and websites seem to too often fall into the "pretty but unusable" bucket, I agree.
Yes, but linode is relatively expensive for storage. What I do now is asynchronously move larger files to s3, while continuing to serve thumbnails and medium-size photos from linode.
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I'm not quite so sure that's an apt analogy. For instance, Chuck does not believe in evolution and subscribes to intelligent design.

More about him at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris
It may also be dangerous to correlate IQ with intelligence as well.
Ask HN: What killer feature(s) are social bookmarking sites missing?
What features would you like to see included in Delcious, Stumble etc? Is there a big gap in social bookmarking that has not been plugged?
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That blog post makes we want to punch the author in the face. Repeatedly.
"It's not the people who are evil, but the regime ..."

I'm not sure about the North Korean case, but an author argued a few years back in the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners" that most WWII-era Germans were happy and willing to go along with the despot's genocide and total war.

"1984" ends with Smith Winston seemingly coerced into the attitude "[I] loved Big Brother". I'm not so sure he had no choice ... I think people usually are complicit in that which they tolerate and support.

People can be evil. In the U.S. we are too, in ways we usually don't acknowledge.

And sure, I broke the rule "if you have to bring up Hitler in an argument, you've already lost". So be it.
I'm surprised that Apple is distributing replacement parts before there is anything on the market to have broken parts.
> picking up a custom-built music environment which goes nowhere near a web browser at all.

Flash didn't meant to compete with desktop/native apps, but HTML5 meant to compete with Flash, or even desktop/native apps.

And HTML5 community had already claimed death of Flash several times.

I am not a big fan of Flash, but if HTML5 was designed to be something that the industry's choice for the next 20 years, it'd better catch up fast.
It's more likely Steve had $278M in his expense account.
And if anyone happens along and wants something similar for Rails: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/rails/cargo-culting-xhtml-conside...

(Mislav Marohnić's discussion of his standardista plugin and a link to it on Github.)
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I can't believe harvesting spiders don't execute javascript.
Surprise! Another "hot" field where accusations of gaming the peer review system are being made.
I think one thing that people definitely forget is that many of those were startups at one time. Lots of the peripheral technology offerings Google has were not developed originally in-house -- they were acquired with ad-revenue from their flagship.

And as I posted in another comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1093455), outside of Apps for business, really don't make any money for anybody. A quick analysis shows that subtract search/ad revenue and Google Apps for business, and all other offerings have to fit within about $100mil/yr revenue stream. This makes me think that most of the acquisitions have failed to grow much since being purchased.

Again, Google may be full of smart people, and I love using Google products, but money makers they are not.
I'd personally never work at google (prefer smaller companies) but that kind of work environment is definitely something I respect and hope, someday, to emulate in my own company.
I would be surprised if they distributed any before the announcement, but now that the cat is out of the bag, I am not surprised. It's useful to have fully stocked repair centers by the time you launch.
> turning that into revenue at some point seems inevitable.

A true statement, they at least have the foundational technologies for doing better, but so far all of the profitable business ideas seem to center around advertising (youtube anyone?). I'm just not sure how much further that idea can stretch...do I really want to see advertisements while building my house in Sketchup?
I'll stick with my netbook, thanks. Just make them more powerful and lighter, and give me a better pointing device (built in eye tracking perhaps?) and that's the type of innovation I'll be buying into. Then again, Google isn't competing for my money, they're competing for my mom's money.
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So Google is hiring?

I only ever hear about the intense scrutiny engineers have to go through (and various quasi-discriminatory practices regarding school pedigree), but say I'm past the "I want to be an engineer" phase of my life and now work squarely in management.

What's the process for that?
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Much better is to find the hiring manager and start a conversation with them.
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Why Apple?

This seems like a great startup idea for anyone on HN, executing it as a web app.
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The title makes it sound like there is a problem with Y Combinator when in fact, he is just not ready to apply. Not much of a post really.
>It seems sensible to assume it helps them for something otherwise why bother developing and releasing it?

Well surely the proof is in the eating - that is, if they've implemented it then it clearly works, they wouldn't be stupid enough to implement it if it's going to cost them money.

To answer your [rhetorical] question: The cost for this has been one developer for a year. That's not much for a speculative shot at increased server efficiencies that could save them big money in the server farm. Once they've developed it, even if it didn't produce the gains they needed then releasing it is sensible as it gains them some PR amongst the OS community and may get more fixes from that same community improving the result (lower costs) for FB.
TL;DR:

Prediction #1: XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011.

Prediction #2: Someone will make a lot of money by hosting open-source web applications.

Prediction #3: Multi-threaded programming will fall out of favor by 2012.

Prediction #4: Java's "market share" on the JVM will drop below 50% by 2010.

Prediction #5: Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010.

Prediction #6: A new internet community-hangout will appear. One that you and I will frequent.

Prediction #7: The mobile/wireless/handheld market is still at least 5 years out.

Prediction #8: Someday I will voluntarily pay Google for one of their services.

Prediction #9: Apple's laptop sales will exceed those of HP/Compaq, IBM, Dell and Gateway combined by 2010.

Prediction #10: In five years' time, most programmers will still be average.
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Ok, I am searching the net looking for more information about this. Figured a few others may also be doing the same.

If you find out anything new, drop this thread a comment, I will do the same.
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That would (to some degree) open them up to DoS attacks.

E.g. place a bunch of hidden links on your site that spiders will follow and have them do long JavaScript computation — perhaps these computations could actually do useful stuff :)
Nice summary. His "example 6", about false cache sharing, bit me once when I was allocating data structures for my threads and they ended up close enough in memory that threads shared cache lines. It took a while before I figured it out and probably the only reason I did was that it didn't happen all the time, so I was wondering why the code sometimes ran slower. If it had been consistent I would just have thought the code was slow. While there are profilers that spit out cache hit rates, it's usually on the scale of whole threads which makes it very difficult to find which code is bad. You also have to have enough experience to know what a "normal" hit rate is, which I'm not sure I am.
I'd really like to hear joshu's (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=joshu) take on this.
Of course there is no purely free market anywhere in the world. Just as there is no pure socialism. My point is that free market reforms (i.e. deregulation and privatization) have lead to inefficiencies (and so have social programs).

If you're hoping for a completely free market, that's like wishing for the second coming of Christ. I think a pragmatic mix of free and social markets makes more sense.

I blame the recession on a more-free market, not a purely free market. The banking industry needs more regulation.

Finally, there are many reasons for our healthcare mess and government is but a small part. For example, A big reason healthcare in America is employer-based is, back in the 50's, auto, steel, and other huge companies were afraid of union power and government meddling, so they said "we'll take care of the health of our employees." They opted for a more-free market (not purely obviously) approach.
If he'd tried the "poach" approach, he'd probably not have gotten intact teams and there would have been a lot of unhappy people.

Buying the entire company almost certainly worked better, another sign that Jobs "gets it" even without being a hardcore techie. A one of a kind, I think.
I think that one of Django's nicest benefits is that even though it isn't all singing/all dancing, you can make it do just about any song or any dance with some extra code. I'm not saying that don't have valid reasons to do otherwise, but I think it would be more inline with the "django philosophy" if you could make the HTML generation extensible.
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No.

(Personally, I wouldn't try making yet another social bookmarking site. The only way I can see of competing with the existing players is to market it better so that you get users who've never heard of Digg/Reddit/SU/Delicious/etc. Hint: Facebook app, viral features. But I'm not sure how succesful at making money these sites are.)
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The Facebook Connect button at the bottom of this post was the best part.
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Hm. I use all my fingers, but the pinkies only hit Enter, Shift, and other modifier keys. But I learned to play piano before I learned to type, so it has been remarked that I type like someone would play the piano. I employ a lot of hand movement, and employ a lot of "hand rolls".

Not only can I maintain about 90 wpm normally, but I also don't suffer any RSI type symptoms. I think the downfall of touch typing is actually that it reduces the motion of your hands, so you find yourself making a lot more painful reaches. In piano playing, unless you are playing a big chord you don't stretch your fingers, you just move your hands so that you don't have to.
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Remarkable clarity, and excellent diagrams.
Yeh im not a fan how Jobs is always thinking Version 2 first.
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Wow, this is pretty neat. I was surprised to see that you need to pay for the code, but the prices seem pretty reasonable considering what you're getting. This really seems like it could be a way to bridge the gap between little "toy" Arduino projects and more advanced projects.
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Quite ironic, especially since 'Login via Twitter' seems to be disabled while Facebook aint.
We don't really know anything about it. One developer, five developers, 10, 20, 9923123% better. Let's just see what they release, if anything.
This is how I'm going to get vi onto an iPad, jailbreak or no.

Happy now (in a sick kind of way :)

(Give me awk and sed and I'd be in hog heaven.)
OK, I'll take a stab at them. (Yes, I did read his Important Note, but why not?) Status:

1: No

2: No (I think). I don't know if Google App Engine is making money for them, and Github doesn't host apps, and Amazon Web Services doesn't (only) host open-source web apps.

3: Hopefully.

4: Doubtful, but one can dream =)

5: No.

6: HN? Is Steve Yegge here?

7: Yes. I think it's valid to put the iphone's success in 2009 (rather than earlier) due to the large number of apps and growing number of competitors in that year.

8: Well, considering he's working there, I think he's being paid instead =)

9: Probably.

10: Yes, although it's not a tautology. (You could have asymmetric heavy tails which would make most programmers below or above the mean.)
The only issue I find is that the popularity of such sites seems to be inversely proportional to the amount of interesting content in there. IMHO, Pinboard (pinboard.in) solves this problem quite nicely.
Option 4: Be Electronic Arts.

As seen in the Engadget photo leak, some developers already have devices that are bolted to tables. So there will be some apps but from the big names only.
Keep in mind that 99% of the time, choice of algorithm determines your code's performance way more than worrying about cache lines.
If you take prediction 1 as key-value stores (which I think is more-or-less where stevey was going) - he's spot on.
The leaked photo from Engadget (the one with a prototype iPad bolted to a table) also has space on the security bezel for a camera.

http://www.cultofmac.com/engadgets-clearest-tablet-picture-s...
I first thought it was an automatic contextual ad but yesterday, after years of using Gmail, figured out that they were intentionally there, since the text links don`t seem to have a click-through URL typically used to track Google`s ads.