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What about if what you were providing was great, unique content that wasn't all about making a sale but actually giving something of purpose in a non-corporate, more personal manner ?
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Unless he did

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The question is though, why will it be better than all the previous tablet PCs?

Technically, the iPad is still 'meh'. When it has a holographic display or you can wear it as a watch with a flip out screen, or control it by thought alone, then I could understand the hype.
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I can believe the iPad will do well in this market, but I don't believe apple gave it more than a tiny amount of thought when designing the thing.

Apple are all about mass consumer markets, it'd be totally out of character for them to design a system for home automation, or even doctor's offices.

Not that they won't be happy that it'll do well there, but it'll be a pleasant side effect rather than a goal.
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It's not for you to decide what down-voting is for.

Some people don't like lies, other people don't like off-topic posts, other people don't like fallacies, and other people just don't have time to write a disagreement post ... especially if the assertions made in the down-voted comment aren't worth bothering with.

And if down-voting should have a purpose ... then it should definitely be for filtering out people not in HN's demographic.
For further thoughts on limiting bugs and their consequences, see his paper "Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0" (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf).
"a new communications technology was developed that allowed people to communicate almost instantly across great distances, in effect shrinking the world faster and further than ever before. A world-wide communications network whose cables spanned continents and oceans, it revolutionised business practice, gave rise to new forms of crime, and inundated its users with a deluge of information. Romances blossomed over the wires. Secret codes were devised by some users, and cracked by others. The benefits of the network were relentlessly hyped by its advocates, and dismissed by the sceptics. Governments and regulators tried and failed to control the new medium. Attitudes to everything from newsgathering to diplomacy had to be completely rethought. Meanwhile, out on the wires, a technological subculture with its own customs and vocabulary was establishing itself.

Does all this sound familiar?

From a precis of a whole book full of info about how the telegraph parallels the internet:

http://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/the-victorian-interne...
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That reminds me of a sucky, sucky introduction book to C++ I once brought. The only thing worth remembering was the introduction dedication. It read:

"To all the children of the twenty-first century, if you can dream it, you can make it happen"

I intend to prove them right and all the nay sayers wrong. Fuck pessimism, it is no fun.
Sadly, these points also show why Opera's market share won't be growing fast. Just think to what proportion of the audience points #1, #2, #5 appeal…
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I stopped using FireFox recently as I was getting a bit fed up with it freezing and/or running at very high CPU utilisation and memory levels.

I will miss the "add in" support infrastructure but for the moment it is Google Chrome for general browsing.
If anything, accountability will go up. Future leaders will probably have their entire social graph up for looks on Facebook (or Facebook+n). It's not just about (millenials') intent, it's about a massive increase of access to information as well.

If BigCorp pays you to push through some rotten piece of legislation, it takes a comment of a single person to let your entire social graph know what you've done. At that point, the rest just has to click 'unlike' to let them know what's up. That is, in my opinion, far more powerful than the passiveness of our current medium television.

Alas, I wouldn't know about the hippies, I'm much too young for that ;)
Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo.

Actually the deal has been approved by the US DoJ too. 88% revenue share is only for the traffic that Y! generates through its properties - if people hit bing.com directly, Y! gets nothing. Needless to say MSFT is betting that in the long-term they can convince people to visit Bing.com directly. Y! is hoping they can innovate on top of the raw search results to still keep users coming to Y! search. I just fear none of this will have any impact on Google's search share - Y! and Bing will cannibalize on each other. But who knows how it will all pan out.
Anything's possible? I'd like a stable global economy, a drastic reduction in worldwide poverty, crime and inequality and increase in education. A permanent moonbase, a Mars mission, and a global program to massively prioritise the green technologies and other measures needed to halt anthropogenic climate change.

Those aren't even hard. And they are necessary. Except, they don't seem to be possible and you seem to be not paying attention.
http://hypem.com is probably my favourite simply because I've learned of so much music I've bought because of that site. I especially love the remixes and mashups.

https://old.thesixtyone.com is also a pretty good site for finding interesting music.
I've always enjoyed Joel's blog and will miss it. I wonder if the almost-immediate criticisms in places like Hacker News of anything he writes is an unstated part of the reason he's giving up blogging.

Over the years most of what Joel has written has been for me both illuminating and entertaining. I've only disagreed vehemently a couple of times with what he has written (his stance on exceptions, for example).

Back in 2001 I even used his Joel test to dramatically improve the quality of the software produced by the team I was leading at the time.
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I second that. It was as if I read smoothly written SF novel (by Henry Kuttner). And yet it was about real people and events.
No. That's a pretty good payoff.
I just don't understand why it's supposed to better than anything else already on the market - tablet or not. Am I just getting old? What makes it Special besides the brand?
Two possibilities:

1) In the case of obvious trolling or idiocy, e.g. "lol your mom sucks" or "ur dumb", downvoting below zero is warranted because those comments are stuff that we don't want to see at all.

2) In the case of everything else, downvoting is warranted, imho, only when something has been upvoted beyond where it should be. For example, if Jason's posts were at 50 upvotes, I would downvote them, because that's totally unwarranted. In this case, I'd downvote them even at 10 points... they're relevant because of who he is and how he's connected to this, but not that insightful.

Basically, for all non-troll posts, you should upvote/downvote based on whether you feel the post has the points it deserves, and generally never downvote below zero.

In this case, Jason, although controversial, is not an obvious stupid troll - he's responding to points that people are making. I would like to see his posts somewhere between 1 and 5 points, rather than at -4.
Does the statistic include Google Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer?
Spotify allows you to make and share playlists. I think last.fm does too. Get playlists from friends (it's like a mix tape, only hi-tech), if you like a track, click through and listen to some more of the band's output.

Listen to the radio. (I mean on the internet). My favourite for this is radio paradise. http://www.radioparadise.com/
That article has some good points, but I'm really frustrated by this sort of thing:

Hartmann has worked with more than 100 world-class African athletes. “Most never wore shoes until their late teens,” he says. “They have few foot defects.”

World class athletes have few foot defects? Can you say selection effect?

My biggest criticism of the barefoot running crowd is that they usually treat it as a way of life. They always run barefoot, when that's not really necessary. Most of the benefits of barefoot running come from changes in running form. Shod runners have plenty of padding, so they can get away with letting their heel strike. An occasional barefoot run on grass will help you learn proper form while avoiding the disadvantages of constant barefoot running. At the end of the run, you can look at the grass stains on your feet to get an idea of how much your heel is striking the ground. Once you learn proper running form (no grass stains on your heels), you can practice that same form while wearing shoes.

There is one oft-forgotten side-effect of barefoot running: massive callouses. See http://www.shallowcogitations.com/2010/02/barefoot-running-l... for before and after pics.

Edit: I forgot to explain the non-obvious disadvantages of barefoot running. While humans ran barefoot before shoes were invented, the typical prehistoric human wasn't as heavyset as the typical westerner. Feet, legs, and backs aren't evolved to properly support overweight joggers. Proper shoes can help correct problems in running form/gait that an individual's muscles or connective tissues can't compensate for.
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Anybody with a brain saw what was coming (I mean except brain washed 6-pack sheep):
Peter Schiff for one,
Jim Rogers for two,
Marc Faber for three...

these 3 guys alone have been crying day and night since circa 2000-2005 about the bubble and ways to make money on its collaps (buy gold, silver, oil).

Myself, little schmuck, sold paid-off car in '07 to buy gold. It has been obvious all day long like 2+2=4. I mean, unless somebody got brainwashed by US "free media". Then they're lost.

So, what's next? Hiper-inflation of course. 6packs will be caught by surprise again just to read articles after all about 32-year old "doctors" who "beat Wall Street". :-)))

So far made 100% profit on my gold. What crisis?
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You've decided to develop a cool new iPad application that will make your fortune. What is it?
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Posted seeing as the other RFS discussion seems to be more about the meaning of the iPad and whether it's a good idea. Hoping we can get a more focused discussion on how to extract cash.
--I'm not a great marketer or salesman, but I can't get great marketers or salesmen as one of the masses posting vague promises about equity, especially not in "bad" job markets.

You said it right here, If you don't get them to the front door you will never invite them in for tea. If you are not good at you either need to find someone or you are going to have to get some books and get good at it.

I used to get so mad at the fact that the sales and marketing guys where treated like kings while the developers (the guys building the sell-able product) where treated like their contribution was marginal.

It took the hammer of experience on the anvil of time to beat in to me why this was. Getting the customer is more important than the product you sell them. See for a long time I was of the superior engineering mindset, but as the markets have show time and time again the superior product does not win unless it is complemented with a superior sales and marketing force.

(Brutal Honesty) Your problem is you do not value sales and marketing and feel that it is not worthy of you time until you do you will remain in your situation as you will have only half efforts and false starts.

If I where you I would write a simple eBook or make some simple product, I am talking about a weeks worth of your time to build no more. And then I would market the hell out of it. The point is not to make allot of money but to teach you the value of marketing and to appreciate it.

You need to blog about your product, used adWords, affiliates do it all everything you can think of you need to honestly sell your item for 1 month.
Where do you live?

Maybe someone here knows of a startup accelerator program in your area. YC is just one such program, and there are many others that don't require you to quit your day job and move to the bay area.
I don't think so. My money is on it remaining a niche product. I think there's a fair amount of 'valley hype' around it TBH.
It's an interesting idea but I don't see how that would work. Apple is not an OEM -- you can't call them up and easily order 50,000 iPads to integrate into your own offerings. You would have no idea when a new iPad is coming out and what features it may have. The iPhone/iPad platform aren't super manageable. This is something I'm sure Apple will be working on but right now the idea of a hospital using the iPad in any large deployment would be really difficult. You can't even do something as simple as centralized LDAP authentication from an iPad. As far as I know there's no way to push applications to an iPad or remotely upgrade it's firmware or all these other small things you would have to consider. A dumber tablet makes more sense for something like home automation or control panels for other integrated systems. They might be more expensive right now but the iPad will definitely drive prices of large touchscreen tablets down. So if you were building something like a home automation system would you build an iPad app for it? Sure. Would you design your entire platform around relying on the iPad? Absolutely not.
Off the top of my head:

Something for writers along http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom lines.

Portable blogging.

Trip planning - going on a family holiday? Store your tickets, where you're going, what's good to see there, the photos you've taken (once apple add a camera), get recommendations on things to do, alerts about like minded holidaymakers to spend time with, reminders to get appropriate jabs...
I have a total of four DD-WRT routers in my house. One is the "main" router, and the others exist to provide wireless distribution to devices lacking WiFi (DishTV box, etc.). It works well enough, but it's way too hard to configure. Just finding the right distro on the dd-wrt site is enough to prevent 99% of the US population from using it. Would you like the version with Kaid? std, min? Who knows?
I'm a bit skeptical on the source for those numbers.

"according to a new set of data crunched by NetApplications" - At least he mentions the source, even though he doesn't link it.

He also doesn't mention what those statistics are based on. The number of users, on which websites they were measured, etc.
That makes a very noticeable difference! Why isn't it the default?
I use FireFox for work and Chrome for surfing function/speed respectively.

FireFox keeps all my tabs nicely open, I can have all the helpful plugins installed on it. Chrome is completely fresh install, with only xMarks plugin to remain fast.
$5? $10? I'm not asking for hands-on support. All I want is a nice web interface with a bunch of wizard-like, goal-oriented config tools.
Yes, good point - perhaps, because of Daniel's age and inexperience, he didn't know about this social cue and kept on pushing it when he should have read between the lines.

I'm sure we've all done dumb stuff in our youth we'd like to forget.
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It's odd that nobody has mentioned Pandora yet:
http://www.pandora.com/

Put one song in, and it will give a set of songs that are similar to your song, with explanation why it thinks they are similar.

Too bad it is available only if you are browsing from US IP address.
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Me personally? I signed up for Divvyshot a few weeks ago and forgot about it. I'm about to go check it out again now. I like Sam's attitude and honesty.
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listen to good radio stations. i recommend local, college ones.
Mozilla should get their act together before its too late.
Once they loose their mind share it will be over.
Firefox on Linux is freezing and sluggish.
I like http://www.cdbaby.com and sister site http://www.payplay.fm.
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I don't doubt that there are many solutions that are great feature-wise. What I want is something easy that works. It's now mindless to connect a Windows 7/OSX/whatever computer to a WiFi network, but setting up such a network in one's own home in a secure way is too much to ask of my relatives.

The innovation isn't in features, it's that you don't have to work in IT to have enough knowledge to configure it. Home networking is not a problem most people want to think about. They just want it to work.

We have a "dual fuel" HVAC system. It switches between electric and gas for heat depending on the outside temperature (electrical heat is very efficient in fall/winter given our relative fuel costs). The HVAC guys had all sorts of suggestions on how to tweak out additional savings by adjusting various parameters (temp for fuel cross-over, +/- range allowed in home, etc.) and were very excited about the possibilities. I just wanted the control unit to figure out what some reasonable settings were and to monitor performance.
Upvoted for Fonera. These guys have added value to the router. I haven't looked at their site enough to know if they have made security/configuration easy.
I have recently wrote an article about barefoot running http://www.freestylemind.com/barefoot-running

I don't have years of experience, but when I run with minimalist shoes (now always) I never feel arch or knee pain. It's worth at least a try.
I noticed the other day how I was using Chrome basically all the time at home even though I have Firefox setup with some very useful plugins that work well. I think it all comes down to speed. Anyone know of any good metrics on performance of chrome vs. firefox?
The main issue with firefox currently is that its not webkit. Webkit is faster and thats what people care about mostly. That and the fact that firefox itself(the application) is slow or at least I find it to be in comparison to chrome and safari.
I recommend reading some good review blogs over anything algorithmic.

I also really like Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist (http://blalocksirp.com/) - a hand-curated torrent with over a hundred songs a month. I go through it while working or exercising, flag anything that I like, and then check those bands out later. But that only works for the indie genre.
While I agree with your every word, I down voted you for using vile language.
Upvoted for untangle. This seems like a business version of what I envisioned.

The distros are nice, but my relatives aren't going to get past the homepage. The product I want isn't for me so much as for the people whose routers I've set-up/managed over the years.
Add an RFID scanning peripheral, and this baby is ready for warehouse inventory management.
Another site I didn't see suggested is http://wearehunted.com/
Simple is good. If you make tires more complicated there will be drawbacks. Expensive and more things to break and go wrong. There are already run-flat tires and tires with pressure sensors.

The cars are the way they are because it works and it's a proven model. The basic engine designs live for decades because they work and it's not cheap to design a new one.

I don't think cars suck. Some brands/models do, but in general I think they work well. A modern car is very reliable. Much better than the ones from the beginning of the 1980s.

You can buy a 12V adapter to charge your car battery from a home outlet.

I didn't write I thought tire chains were the best thing for driving in cold weather. I think winter tires are. Yes, you have to change the tires, but it's the best solution there is right now.

Those spike spiders seem to add an additional permanent steel hub to your wheels. This adds unsprung weight to the car which is bad. The bottom line is that designs are compromises. A feature is not always worth the drawbacks.
He pretty much uses the same argument here as those who breathlessly claim web filtering is important so we can stop child porn.

It's still the same bullshit.
I wonder if he'd get a feature story on Techcrunch after all of this? Would Arrington, if the startup was admirable and honest, forgive him and allow a story to be run?
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While on this subject, http://sharemyplaylists.com/ is a great spotify playlist sharing site.
I am afraid it already is too late. Google just plainly out-innovated them, and there isn't any quick fix to revert that.
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Interesting. I had hoped (perhaps erroneously) that a lot of fixed-cost effort in building a great configuration system could significantly reduce the need for hands-on customer service.

I have a Harmony remote. The software doesn't ask me about remote control protocols, or any other technical stuff. It just asks me what the model numbers are of the boxes in my family room. Then, it configures activities (Watch TV, DVD, etc.) based on that and configures the remote so that it works. The magic is the large database of A/V equipment so the user doesn't have to specify the details.

I'd like the configuration software to observe my traffic and notice that a particular computer is talking to backblaze. It should ask me if I'd like to make sure backblaze can run really fast without affecting other activities and then just make it happen. I shouldn't have to configure QOS settings using an iptables script I found one a guy's blog (to that guy, thanks a million!).
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Vegas.

What goes there, stays there.

It's the only type of vacation that would need porn-mode to plan ;)
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Yeah. This is pretty much what I'm thinking about. The core feature is, "I get to solve this 'want stuff to work in my house' problem and live my life without learning how to configure QOS, etc"

>the end user wants to feel like they're completely uninhibited on the internet.

People I know are more concerned that they're unsafe because of their set-ups.

"problem with two sales domains"

I hadn't thought much about the indirect sales model, and this might be where the money is long-term. I'd also argue that hard-to-use routers are likely the root cause of many telco consumer tech support calls. Perhaps the value in the telco reselling such a solution would be to reduce its own costs.
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In the 'Creating Passionate Users' sense, you made something that helps your audience be awesome - which is the best possible thing to create. Communicating that properly helps, but the product is king.

PS. I'm interested in buying your book now too, because I believe it will personally make me awesome.
I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but I'm going to keep using Firefox. If nothing else, my paranoia senses are tingling with regard to Google. These days I'm heavily invested in Google - their software runs my phone, handles my email, and is my main way of searching. If nothing else, I'd rather not put all my eggs in one basket, and would rather diversify a little.
It really is about speed - both load time and rendering. Sadly, I can start Firefox and while it's loading I can start Chrome, IE and Opera and they all finish before Firefox (not an accurate metric, I realise). I love Firefox but speed rules sometimes.
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