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The Xerox management thought all of those things were just toys and that computers would never be anything but what they were at that moment.

Reminds me of a lot of people who look at the iPad and say "meh."
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Considering you can't sue a device, they're suing HTC...
The comments seem to be gathering over on this submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1161467
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Same story for those who prefer it on TechCrunch: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1161526

ADDED IN EDIT:

tl;dr - I think cross referencing is a Good Thing(tm).

Clearly some people here think that this comment detracted from the value of HN. I can accept that, and I don't mind the loss of karma. Let me just explain that as a programmer I abhor unnecessary duplication. Equally, though, as an infophile I like to get different angles on each story, to try to see if there's any extras. So when I see the same story from different sources I like to read them all, but equally, I prefer that discussion and comments end up in one place.

So I try to add value to HN in part by making sure these things get cross-referenced. Mostly I think people find it harmless. Some people actively dislike it and vote me down, others actively like it and vote me up. Yet others find it both irritating and useful in equal measure, so no doubt they are confused and conflicted. That's their problem.

But I'm slowly stopping doing this anyway. I get the occasional comment saying it's really appreciated, but in general I'm reducing the time I spend here anyway.

And that's the rationale behind the comment.

ADDED FURTHER IN EDIT: Or perhaps you saw that I'd got the reference wrong and just down-voted me instead of bothering to tell me. Now I'm really disappointed in the HN crowd. I've fixed the reference.
As I write this comment I just know that in 5 years I will look at it and chuckle at myself but... it boggles my mind to consider a pure-RAM system that relies on at least one copy of the dataset being available forever in some system's "memory grid".

http://highscalability.com/are-cloud-based-memory-architectu...
Maybe it was because the winning one was better describing what the company does? I personally would not understand what the company does from the other headlines. Anyway it was a wise choice to leave out guesswork and use a/b testing.
I think a big part of this blog will also be about sharing our process with you, being open about how we do design, what we’re researching, and discussing the process of vetting and designing features. We’re committed to sharing as much as we can, and what I intend to do is put my thoughts and most of my research out here so that you can understand how we’re approaching problem solving.

Great move! I'm really looking forward to getting that sort of insight into the the Balsamiq UX process.
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@oscardelben -- exactly.
Hah, a chart with 1.0 = IE7. I like that basis.

On a side-note, I've noticed that Chrome has serious trouble opening a lot of tabs at once. While the UI stays responsive, it commonly takes almost twice as long to load ~40 pages as Safari, and I've yet to see Opera or Firefox get even close to that (though I haven't tried it for a while, the UI annoyed me too much).
I can't find the source but if you constrain the search space to, say, geographic area or social network (e.g. if one person in your group is recognized - are you linked) - it's scary how much smaller the search space is (hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands to hundreds).
The real problem more than anything else is that systems like this would be used by politicians in power to spy on their competition. It'd be much easier to stay in power when you know what your opponent is planning.
Cleanup on aisle 7, please.
Im really sorry - for some reason I read your comment as saying "so why shouldn't they be monitored"

Which clearly it doesnt. Umm :(

Totally agree with you.
Yeah, he totally stole that line from him.
I compared my chuck taylors to a pair of nike frees and thought the soles were equivalently flexible. Looking ridiculous is a matter of taste, but any plimsoll-inspired sneaker will probably work the same as a nike free. Vans, Chucks, Keds, etc. Even soccer trainers like adidas gazelles have hardly any sole to them. Haven't seen a "dress" shoe with these concepts that didn't look orthopedic, though.
When most 17-year-olds make mistakes - even big ones - the whole internet doesn't know about it. Kids make judgment mistakes because they aren't emotionally mature yet. One mistake made at 17 is not necessarily indicative of a lifelong personality trait.

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
And yet, here they are again - they start right back up immediately. The reason for the first "Erlanging" was because HN was getting linked to from a more mainstream news source and the intention was not to have people stay and change the community.
Man reading that reminded me of why I disliked Linux and all of the "hackers" in that space at that time. The adolescent smugness was so thick back then. That email really took me back. OS zealotry seems to have died down since then, that or I have just gotten too old to care or notice.
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Another anecdote for these. I started running regularly a year or so ago. I'm no natural athlete, and even with relatively short runs of just a few miles, I would struggle with knee pain. (I'm quite tall.)

After reading some of these articles, I decided to give the five fingers a try. At first, my hamstrings and feet were so tired I could hardly walk after running. (You don't realize how many muscles you have in your feet, because you don't use them unless you land on the balls of your feet.)

Now, at about the 1 month point, my hamstrings have strengthened, I still feel a lot of soreness in my feet, but the issues with my knees are completely gone.

Maybe placebo, I know, but I don't mind placebo if it works...
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these and other "barefoot" shoes have been around for quite a while

so have the articles about barefoot running.
If you understand such gems as:

[For 3NF ensuring that] Every non-prime attribute is non-transitively dependent on every key of the table

Then that's the perfect reminder article. I did an undergrad course in db design covering db normalisation (years ago) and still found that page to be a bit dense. I'd look elsewhere for a primer.

http://www.databaseprimer.com/normalization.html is a bit too simplified but makes it easy to understand what's happening. This http://www.databasejournal.com/sqletc/article.php/1428511/Da... appears to be a good overview using a realistic worked example db.
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The big problem for Apple is that for most common tasks such as surfing, reading eBooks or playing audio and video the Archos tablet will will perform as well as the iPad for less than half the price. The only usage scenarios where Apple dominate is mobile gaming, will that be enough to justify the price? For some people most certainly, and you can expect a lot of Apple fans to be ready to pony up the cash too, but I am afraid that the average user won't see it that way and that the iPad will stay an high end device with limited market share.

Apple can position the iPad as the "cool" device where the Archos can get the low-cost segment. It can become the "cool" thing to have on campus, just like Apple laptops were. It will be a flash in the pan unless it's actually useful to college students, however.
From what I have heard, he is in the middle of a lawsuit right now with some of his investors.
>>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?

A lot of world class athletes in the west do have foot defects.
I've read JOS since...well, I think the beginning, or dang close. Joel's articles are some of my most-forwarded. The earliest were phenomenal.

Now, though...most of the time I figure he's going to try sell me something. Each post is about a new feature. The Inc articles give me the idea that coders just aren't where he's at anymore. Bigger fish to fry.
Joel is a sharp cookie. Perhaps he has come to realize that there is a point of diminishing returns in excessive software punditry.

"Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt".
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Definitely a valid point, most websites render fine in IE7 and up (though IE6 is losing ground quickly). However, though most people won't examine it beyond their use, easier development generally means better web experiences, so it is in their best interest to use a (more) compliant browser. If nothing else, it's good to encourage more to use FF over IE for that reason.

And personally, I love CSS3 tricks that JavaScript isn't really ideally suited for, and Canvas is a very welcome addition.
HDI measures literacy rate. If people can read, they can be more informed consumers of porn and video games.

Some people will read smut, given the ability to read. That's fine. Some will read logic textbooks and become mathematicians. Also fine. However, it's clearly better for both people to be literate.
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Why doesn't Apple get Intel's best chips anymore?
> but the marketing is pretty tough

Especially when you don't mention the name of you app!
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I once had a very unconventional job interview. I was asked if there was one thing in my life I would spare no expense on what would it be? I thought about it for quite sometime before I responded. I started to think about this. Most people would say fancy cars, or shoes, maybe even a nice meal.
Interestingly the gallery includes images in which the rider is breaking UK law, eg http://yikebike.cachefly.net/yikebike/images/europe/europe-p.... Riding a bike on the pavement is not allowed here.

Plus that JW flash video player crashes my FF.
"We understand that the reason Adobe is such a big target for the bad guys is that it's so ubiquitous. Something like Reader or Flash player is installed on just about every single machine out there that's connected to the Internet. That means the bad guys don't have to work so hard because if they can find a problem to exploit it can be directed at every machine. As a result, every bad guy on Earth is looking for something to exploit in our software."
This is not the first time that Boing Boing has talked about ACTA.
I disagree.

I use opera myself and one day a friends mom asked me what it was and why I was not using Firefox. I told her and she asked if I would install it on her laptop. She had been using firefox for close to a year and after she tried opera for a couple weeks she loved it. She said that it was much faster and she loved how much less it would crash when compared to firefox. She also commented on the speed dial. Pretty good for a non-technical person.
Why would I want to create an App specifically for their App Store when I could make a Web App?

Besides the App Store visibility, isn't the UI experience usually one of the bigger reasons you make an App over a Web App for Android of iPhone devices?

A netbook doesn't have the limitations that mobile devicse have. You have a mouse and even Flash.
Till now, they would need the information that connects your face to your name. This app also needs that information to be publicly available.

If this app can connect your face to a body of data, then a person could have done the same without it.
Thanks for the explanation of how you decide.

I guess since there are no explicit references in the HN guidelines it's up to each user to make his or her mind up themselves.
I think the benefit of the passive chip is that you can use it for ID. I can definitely see a scenario where a chip with a medical ID is used by emergency teams to do things like give blood and medicine by referencing a database for your bio-medical information. This would be a lot easier to do in the military and would make a lot of sense with more and more automation in that process.
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Not available yet I guess?
I'd be willing to bet that barefoot running articles have been around since significantly before the internet. Including research, not just the drug-induced-belief associated with hippies.

The "big" hype over this is relatively recent from what I've seen, though, and far trailing what would be needed for a shoe company to develop and start selling a specialized shoe if they were hoping to jump on the hype.
But it's not like Apple aren't standing on the shoulders of giants as well.
With a rating of 3/5 stars from 70 Amz reviewers?

[ http://www.amazon.com/Archos-32-Internet-Tablet-Android/dp/B... ]

Maybe not.

Or... maybe tech-no-media just didn't tell me about all the publisher relationships that 'droid manufacturers have been developing (à la Steve Jobs since January).

It's not just the "cool" of the hardware that Apple plans to leverage - it's the store and retail relationships.
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Do you need your system to be transaction-oriented (think ATMs and banking) or analytic (for doing slice and dice reporting of data)? You'll do well to check out normalization for the first and understand star schemas for the second.

It's awesome you are thinking about db design upfront, just think about what your data will be, how it will be used, and how you will want to move it around for your app. Don't discount not using a db at all (and I'm a db guy for work) - for one of my current projects, I'm simply dumping small data objects into individual JSON files. Easy to fetch with Ruby/Sinatra and easy for the GUI part of the app to play with (Javascript eats up JSON on that side). Not to discount Rails at all, but going with a minimal toolset like Ruby/Sinatra/Sequel might be just the ticket for you roll simple web apps really quickly.

Heck, this forum uses flat files for storing submissions, comments, and user data.
The article has a list of ways it is inferior, but says that's OK because it's cheaper. That's not Apple's market.
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"If that's the case, why can't they drop OS X and iPhone and simply make clones, just clones with polish and attention to detail?"

I don't think you understand what it takes to reach apple's level of polish and attention to detail. They simply can't achieve it without innovating.

"I can't figure out why Apple would bother if everyone else could "adopt" their innovation wholesale."

That's like asking why Intel would bother developing a new faster processor. Someone else will just "copy" their innovation and develop a processor just as fast, no?

You ask where I draw the line, and there is a line that I would draw. But I want to ask you where you would draw the line. Do you honestly believe that for the next (slightly less than) 20 years, no one except for apple should be able to develop a product with multi-touch capability? They don't seem much interested in licensing the technology. Do you really believe that when a bunch of companies are developing the same technology, the one that gets lucky and files it first should be able to lock everyone else out of using it for 20 years?

Yes, there has to be an incentive for innovation, but creating monopolies on whole classes of technology should not be that incentive.
I, for one, do not welcome our new world-government overlord. And I don't think it's treason to say we should overthrow it.
The iPad isn't even launched and it's already doomed? Yeah right... it will sell like crazy.
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My favorite quote, given the recent debates over Flash vs Canvas:

We’re at the intersection of demand (mass use of online photos) and capability (Flash 8 supports the first level of functionality we need). Flash 8.5/9 will take us to the next level. If Canvas becomes widespread and is hardware accelerated we can move to that. If WPF becomes widespread we can move to that and boost our functionality/performance even further.

That was 5 years ago. Not trying to start a flamewar, but I just want to point out the enabling capability that Flash brought (and still provides 5 years later).
"The big problem for Apple is that for most common tasks such as surfing, reading eBooks or playing audio and video the Archos tablet will will perform as well as the iPad for less than half the price."

Will it perform as well? Maybe on paper but CPU doesn't mean anything if the user experience isn't tuned and Apple has a good track record there.
I don't see how useful this is, unless you are just really bad with faces.
Does anyone have any sense of what the market is for these obviously ridiculous knock offs? They are clearly expensive to make, they are endlessly made, and so economics suggests they are profitable. Industrial spam.

It can't just be fools on eBay?
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What's the value of not ever taking him seriously again? I understand that his actions were unethical, but do we really believe that people are incapable of processing feedback and learning from experience? Should someone be ostracized forever based on this? Obviously, he will need to work harder than the average person to prove his value in the future, but we shouldn't discount everything he says or does in perpetuity, that's just cruel.
>If that's the case, why can't they drop OS X and iPhone and simply make clones, just clones with polish and attention to detail?

Because OS X and the iPhone are part of that polish and attention to detail.
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I have some instructions that work equally for Carbon Emacs or Aquamacs here, http://www.formconstant.net/diagrams/?p=54.

Setting up Clojure on OS X is really easy now.
How is the user experience going to be different? Step one: click picture of globe. Step two: browse Intarwebs.
If my parents TV set took 5 minutes to boot up

I hear this a lot, and am always perplexed. Why is anybody actually shutting down their computers these days? I know Windows didn't sleep reliably many years ago, but don't they have that working now?
Brand is everything.
With picking a winner I think it is just important to review what didn't work. In this case the other headlines were more generic and found on many web sites that do online advertising. However, not all allow you to develop your own web page. There probably are many other variables but regardless. Very nice test. Glad it was conclusive.
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>these obviously ridiculous knock offs

Infringements of intellectual property aside, in what way are such devices ridiculous. So the battery life is poor, it's a bit heavy and Win7 isn't a great tablet OS. Does that make this ridiculous?
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Indeed, improving a single criteria holding all others constant is always an improvement to well being. This i true, but irrelevant.

If people choose a good not measured by your index at the expense of a good in the index, it lowers their index value but raises well being.

Another example: a food lover might choose to eat delicious pudding rather than playing soccer. If the index includes health but excludes hedonic pleasure from food (which I believe the HDI does), the food lover's choice might reduce HDI in spite of improving his well being.

It's much the same problem as with a man marrying his maid; utility and well being increases but the index (GDP in that case) decreases.
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Come on now. Please explain to me what is revolutionary about the iPad. It is 'meh'. It's just a big iPod touch. It's like a netbook or laptop but less useful. There's nothing revolutionary about it at all. It's a slightly slicker version of all the tablet PCs that have failed to capture significant market share for the last 10-20 years.

It'd be easy to say "sure but you're a geek, you just don't see how easy to use and useful the iPad is for normal people". But I don't think it is. The form factor is just bad. Watch the video on the Apple store, and you'll see actor after actor carefully pretending that it's comfortable to sit/stand/hold this device without getting an aching hand/sore neck etc.

Yes, there are applications, just like there have been for previous tablet PCs, but they're niche.

Is it really that much more than the Apple Newton was 20 odd years ago? Did the Apple Newton seem revolutionary at the time? If so, why did it fail?

I'd love to hear a concrete reason why the iPad is 'revolutionary'. Like a genuine reason, not just people pointing to the lone person on slashdot who called the iPod 'meh'. That doesn't count.

So, please explain to me clearly, why having a laptop without a keyboard/trackpad is revolutionary.
I'd say the same reason many make apps for the apple app store: Visibility.
Yeah. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about except for consumers who have a few devices in their homes.
Regardless of whose story is correct (http://www.1938media.com/crunchgate-what-makes-sammy-run vs. http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2010/03/confession-i-was-one-who...), a real lesson for young people in this community emerged: Your character and personality can be more powerful than your fame.

People here have commented on how thoughtful and helpful Sam is. Yet Loren's tone of voice alone has made it probably impossible for his words to be taken seriously. Imagine his above response written calmly - or even just respectfully: He would stand a much better chance of being listened to.

And Jason's approach to the matter appears equally immature. I've never met any of these players, but Sam sounds like he's much older than Jason or Loren. This doesn't mean you have to sound like a "boring old guy" - but it does mean that you give yourself an uphill battle when you speak like a child.
at the first sign of mental difficulty, I tab to a different window and begin typing the URL of a favorite blog.

Heh. As I read that I realize I have being doing it pretty much all day today.
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tl;dr: Stop visiting hacker news, reddit and other blogs; stop interacting with people; get books from the library for free.

My opinion: seriously, blogs should count as minibooks and everytime I read a particularly good and in depth blog or something that elicits the "I'm smarter for reading that" moment, I'm going to keep a tally. That tally I'll consider a chapter of a book. At 300 chapters, I'll count that as a book. Let's see how many books I have after a year. I think it'll be around 100.
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I was wondering how long it would take Apple to start doing this. A good amount of phones have similar tech to their baby.
I'm suspicious of this vague terminology. Instead of saying something is "better", why not just say "it's more conducive toward the survival of a given society"?
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