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Congratulations on being Adobe's worst nightmare. It's quite a trick for a technology company to become so disliked that it develops anti-customers; people who vow never to use their product and evangelize the benefits of not using it.

On the other hand this phenomena usually comes with near complete dominance of the market (vid. Microsoft), so psychotic MBA's might regard it as validation.
I believe it's actually pretty easy in e.g. Preview.app on the mac.
"... He _is_ taking 8 days to do it, so he's only got to walk ~30km (just under 20 miles) a day. ..."

Hmm 20 miles a day for 8 days in hilly terrain in April is not to be underestimated. Altitude is one problem. The inland 606m is cold, 2228 is Alpine. The upper Kosciouscko areas is well known for snow to fall, melt then re-melt. I remember going to Kosciouscko as a kid in shorts :) First time I'd been to the snow ~ http://climbing.about.com/od/mountainclimbing/a/KosciuszkoFa...

And one other thing... "... in a nutshell I will be running about 15km every morning, and walking about the same distance every afternoon starting at about 2pm ..." ~ http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2010/02/15/launching-www-...
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He likely meant "Go to school/college to learn, not to 'be taught' everything by your teachers."
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Absolutely. Every time I see the senior economist from the Westpac bank being interviewed on the television I think :

1 - Why do they keep interviewing him about the future but never talk about how accurate he was in the past.

2 - He is deliberately couching everything he says in 'weasel words' so as to never risk being wrong.

But he wears a suit, has a position of authority and looks like he should know what he is talking about, that seems to be all they want.

Much of the world is a confidence trick.
Good article and the principle is sound, but the postscript is that Buffett wound up losing Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders $1 billion by betting against the dollar. He forgot that the reason the dollar is holding its value is that China is backstopping it because, absent any other source of political legitimacy, it can't afford to allow its economic growth to stall.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/business/01leonhardt.html?...

Furthermore, he's now a net buyer of US assets:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17buffett.html (about him buying equities for his personal portfolio)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/business/04deal.html (about Berkshire Hathaway buying a railroad for $26 billion)
>> but at least with mortgage payments you're paying off your loan, not someone else's!

As an example, if you're looking in the Sydney CBD you could easily be borrowing ~$400K (or more). At interest rates of 6% a year initially you'd be paying $24K/year or approximately $460/week to the bank.

At least for the first few years you'll be paying almost the equivalent of rent to the bank just to service the loan, in addition to the repayments off the principal.
I thought it was submitted earlier, wanted to see discussions.
He uses the laptop to demo a live Connect Pro video meeting on his Andriod device.
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2010/01/12/how-expensive-...
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I thought house prices in Australia would fall... of course politicians would try to try to prop them up, because falling prices would be fatally unpopular for them. But you can't keep funding housing prices forever...

...unless you have a source of money. Australia aka 'the lucky country' has tremendous mining resources. Now these, being commodities (e.g. copper is the same wherever you buy it), are typically cyclical in price, over a decade or so. But a strange thing has happened: Australia is currently one of the few sources of many metals in the volumes needed (by China, predominately): Australia has a 'monopoly' on these 'commodities'.

Thus, the sustained metal prices are propping up the housing market.

I don't know how sustainable this 'monopoly' is - whether e.g. higher prices will justify other countries opening up mines, or accessible reserves will be discovered elsewhere etc. I doubt it can continue indefinitely.

disclaimer: this is based on information gathered over years, and might be out of date in some respects.
Mac OS X app installation is terrible. That's just a fact. It's been well known and discussed by Mac nerds for years:

"As someone who has answered tech support email for a Mac developer, I can confirm that the entire concept of a disk image is mighty confusing to many non-technical users, including many who have been using Macs for years, but don’t install new software very often.

I think the recent trend of including a background picture in the disk image window, which instructs the user to copy the application icon to /Applications (or wherever), goes a long way to removing the confusion. But I agree with Mr. Frank that compressed archives (like StuffIt) are easier for most users to understand."

http://daringfireball.net/2002/11/dmg

The only reason people put up with it because it mostly works for geeks and it's better than Windows (and even then it's not hard to find people who will argue that download from random website and double-click is a better user experience despite all the damage it's caused)

All the improvements of note in Mac OS X install seem to have happened because 3rd parties notice the confusion and adopt conventions to overcome the difficulties. Note also the amount of work put into 3rd party update via Sparkle which is part of package management too.
Human nature is to focus on the negative. Say whatever you want about draconian App Store policies but Apple does a reasonably good job in promoting third party apps. They get featured in TV ads, writeups etc. And third party review sites serve a niche in reviewing and recommending. So an entire industry forms up around it.
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The unofficial Google motto is "Don't be evil", not "Do no evil". It's a subtle, yet important, difference.
I'm not sure that the people still on the PPC architecture are worth targeting. It's been 4 years since Apple switched to Intel. If their hardware needs haven't evolved in that time then I'd assume their software needs haven't changed either; that or they're on the cusp of buying a new machine anyway.
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2 - He is deliberately couching everything he says in 'weasel words' so as to never risk being wrong.

This is often because he has to grossly simplify what his actual research has said in order for it to be consumable by a mass audience.

The papers may spell out certain prerequisites and gotchas quite explicitly, but in a TV interview, that turns into a vague-sounding "it depends".

1 - Why do they keep interviewing him about the future but never talk about how accurate he was in the past.

I've often wished that people who made predictions for a living were forced to assign probabilities to their statements, and give some clear definition, so we could keep score.
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I have read the book. I read the out of print edition at my local library and I have read at least 10 other ones on the subject of evolutionary psychology so don't tell me what my attitude toward the field is. If you want to learn what the subject is about and have your mind blown then I recommend "Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction", then we can talk about my attitude. It is actually a book on the subject and not a collection of erotic vignettes interspersed with "insights" from evolutionary psychology.
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The other subtle, yet important, difference is that its an unofficial motto. Everyone assumes its Googles official stance on everything, yet they never said that[1], so really, they can be as evil as they want without going against anything they've ever stated. Quite clever of them, really, to make everyone assume that this is their official motto, when they can later turn around and say,w ith a straight face, no, we never claimed that.

[1] Please correct me if I'm wrong. I searched but found no evidence saying otherwise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil doesn't really say that its their motto either, but does certainly suggest that Google has been riding the Don't be Evil publicity.
Good for Charlie. I love my Sony PRS500. Ok no wifi or fancy (it does play mp3s!), but it was $150 for ebay, so when I driopped it and a bit of the case broke I just stuck some duct tape on it and didn't care.

I've filled it with stuff from Gutenburg, stuff you can't even buy if you wanted to. It'll be a long time before I've read my way through the free stuff. And by then I'll be able to bay a fancy one.
In my case, it's because hardware seems to have stayed mostly flat over the past 5 years or so. If I bought a new portable machine to replace my 12" PowerBook, it would probably be a netbook. But today's netbooks aren't any faster than my PB, so why sideways-upgrade? I do still buy and upgrade software routinely (in some cases software upgrades have actually made my machine faster than it was years ago, e.g. with the Firefox speed improvements).
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This is one of the greatest insights that I have had lately - throwing stuff out is liberating and makes you feel physically lighter. Sorry to repeat you verbatim but that is exactly how I feel.

I fight with my wife over this. She wants to put something in the basement (which is already packed to the ceiling) and I am like: If you don't need it, for God's sake get rid of it. If I had my way I would thorw out everything in that basement today.

Ditto on the gifts stuff. We get a gift, typically crockery or plastic shit for the kids, and all I am thinking is how long do I have to keep this before I throw it out.

Here's a hack for children's birthday parties: If people want to bring gifts (which we discourage), we take the gift at the door and throw it in a closet, to be opened when everyone has left. This way people do not bring gifts out of social pressure, don't feel they have to top each other, and there is no disgusting gift feeding frenzy in front of the other children.
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This is a great marketing campaign. $1.3 million a month isn't a lot of money for a company like Pepsi, but they get a lot in return. The brand engagement will be huge, it is likely to go viral on some level. It gives their brand a good name. It gives them an excuse to advertise their brand at the execution of the ideas too, without looking like an evil corporation exploiting a good cause.

Pretty smart, if you ask me.
> "Well here is a graph that shows B is hovering around 0 from 1628 to 1945 and has risen dramatically since then"

Ah. That also answers my other questions. Talking about data from the 1600's doesn't really inspire confidence that it has any relevance to today, but talking about a trend that held from the 1600's through to just recently (for varying levels of 'just recently') has more weight behind it.
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Frequent Past E-mails do not relate to "Most Likely to Follow". It seems like this was more of a purely technology centric solution to a human interaction identification problem without taking the "human" part into consideration.
Truly scary stuff...
In relation to the physicist analogy, isn't there in this case a lot of other physicists saying that they saw similar things?
I think the interesting part of the essay is not so much whether the predictions for the dollar have yet come true. As you say, the principle is sound, and the problem remains today as it was back then.

The interesting part, I think, are the proposed Import Certificates. Some searching throws up proposed legislation in the form of the Balanced Trade Restoration Act: http://feingold.senate.gov/opinion/06/20060925oped.htm

If anyone knows of a good economist's analysis of the proposal, I'd love to see that, too.
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The import certificates are indeed a very cool idea.
Oh i agree - its not a bad problem to have , just a problem which requires you to be particularly vigilant.
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I think he was invited.

Scoble: "The TED conference has given me a huge responsibility. They’ve handed me one of a small handful of press badges."

http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/08/a-ted-responsibility/
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Regarding point a): something to bear in mind is that rent payments are more or less guaranteed to keep going up, all things being equal. Mortgage payments are not.

You also get some equity out of mortgage payments, whereas you don't out of rent. OTOH, getting money out of a house is more expensive and time-consuming that most kinds of investment I'm aware of.

I don't entirely disagree with the reasoning, mind you, but I think that direct comparisons between renting and buying are problematic.
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Most sysadmins don't know low level languages such as C/C++. I know a few kernel developers myself, and they are all C hackers. If you write Linux kernel patches, then you are a programmer that a) works for a company that builds hardware b) needs a driver that doesn't exist.

Lets get this straight. Adding data to an Excel spreadsheet using VBScript doesn't make you an Office developer, if you know what I mean :)
"In an ideal world, this is true. In reality, one must distinguish signal from noise and usually it's easier to just throw out most of the noise and lose a little signal too."

Yes, quite so, this is a key reason why the human brain works the way it does (relying heavily on archetypes and models, for example).

This is called prejudice, it's a method of cognitive efficiency which we have discovered through harsh trials to be a human predilection worthy of significant scrutiny. In modern times we have recognized the risks and costs of unexamined prejudice and have come to the conclusion that in a great many cases it's best to re-evaluate prejudices with extreme criticality and rationality as often and as deeply as human cognitive limits allow. Precisely because, like any shortcut, they have many modes of failure, some of which have dramatically greater downsides than others (up to and including centuries of unimaginably widespread human tragedy).

Given the risks in this realm (climate science, the theory of immediate catastrophic climate change due to human activities that generally form the very foundations of modern industrial economies, and nothing less than the very future of human civilization on Earth) a straining up to the limits of everyone's cognitive abilities rather than a casual reliance on prejudicial and tribal tendencies of the R-complex lizard brain is, was, and continues to be warranted.

Or, to sum up: when the future of humanity is on the line you better get your goddamn science right, no matter how much work it takes.
Sounds fantastic, it's great that you have some early customers. I'm sure they'll give you some good feedback.

I hope you post again in a year or two to report where you business is at!
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Some time later:

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Amazing how 9 out of 10 comments on that article are about how ebook readers are a silly fad. I don't even own one and even I can see paper books are soon going to be second choice, behind digital versions.
My girlfriend was over my shoulder as I watched the recap of pg on Mixergy. She continued to crack jokes every other sentence... so this was a small recap of her remarks.
(yes, her idea of determined is marketing to girl scouts)
You hate everything. Maybe you should just not read this type of article.
the post has some merit, but you imho you can't really compare the work of 3-5 developers , to 30 java programmers without looking at the skill sets and basic coding habits of each party. Both langs have their positives and negatives, I can agree that java has been the enterprise king for a while, I can absolutely see more perl working its way up the ranks.
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I love so much when people "believe" something, test it, doesn't work,the market fails, and repeat it because they are right.

Apple let's devs to code in low level(Objective C).IMO is the single factor that makes it so powerful(if you want high level, use web tech). Even Apple didn't wanted to do it at first, letting other people control the device as fast as they do.

Now I can't see any real competitors in sight, as an Iphone app store developer, I would love some competition that "get it".
He was invited. He is reflecting on the elitist claims about TED
strengthening brand via the nice guy approach. very smart idea.
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This particular argument is stupid and pointless.

To an intelligent person who understands the basic principles of the greenhouse effect, the real questions are "How much?" and "How fast?"

My understanding of climate science is that we don't yet have accurate enough models to make anything more than wild estimates of the economic costs of climate change.

Once we do have such data, nobody will care about what David Brin said.
Yes, it was (how else do you use Flash, anyway?).

It worked in IE mobile and I believe there were tricks to get it to work in other browsers (Opera). There was Flash Lite and a normal Flash plugin -- the whole thing was pretty confusing, I admit.

There are also apps like Skyfire ( http://www.skyfire.com/ ) hanging around which claim various degrees of Flash support built-in. In any case, as far as I'm aware all Flash support was and is via web browser.
"... Windows Mobile ... has been available ... for years and nobody has noticed."

Fixed? It's questionable at this point whether WinMo can maintain relevancy in the mobile devices market even over the next 1-2 years, let alone over the next 5-10.
Most of the book is a recompilation of his essays so if you introduce the link of an essay in HN probably there is already is a thread for it.
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