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clean code, yes, but some of the warnings are actually generated in situations where the code won't be cleaner (e.g. lazy initializing an instance variable not declared in the initialization method) and since quite a lot of the most common libraries have _a lot_ of warnings, it becomes unlikely that you will have them enabled in your app, and so the thing self propagates
Reminds me of the first iPod commercial.

Which reminds me of how sad I am that the Propellerheads never made another album.
Can't say I laughed. Figured I'd say why I wasn't a fan of the comment. May be worth noting that I didn't downvote it?
I agree it's not a Twitter killer.

My sisters are in their early 30s and don't really have any idea what Twitter is for or why they would want to use it, but they blog and subscribe to blogs with Google Reader. Their use of RSS is not changed at all by PuSH.

I don't like this notion that every piece of tech has to be a "killer", as if there is always exactly one winner. There's a lot of room for a lot of different solutions, for lots of different kinds of people that want different things from technology. Not everyone is a tech-obsessed geek like most of us. :)

(I mean that in the nicest way possible)
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ProTip: Don't make assumptions about people you don't know. It kills your credibility.

I've talked with Sean several times over the last couple of years. He just likes startups and entrepreneurs and his bootstrapper-focus is a counter-balance to the VC-focus that is pervasive in startups and especially the Valley. He has come right out and said that as a founder of a consumer web product, I'm not useful to his business, but he provides informal mentoring and advice to me because he's nice.

In fact, if I remember correctly, he said he primarily works with enterprise hardware companies that sell their products for $100K+ each, so I doubt anyone, anywhere on HN is a useful lead for his business.
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When I watched the iPad "promo" on the Apple website, I noticed that it seems like it might be uncomfortable to hold in the upright position.I'm seeing this now in this TV ad as well (when the iPad is vertical, notice how the thumb and hand rest on it. I'm not sure what, but something makes it seem like a slightly uncomfortable position)

Obviously going to need to try it first hand
You're right. It's not, and I came dangerously close to activating Godwin's Law. If anyone's truly offended, I'm sorry.

However, there's a basic human tendency to look the other way when abuse happens. That's really what I was referring to. Apple has been swinging the ban-hammer on 'undesirable' apps for a while now, and the definition of 'undesirable' keeps expanding. That's an issue of some concern.
Yeah, interesting how everything in the clip suggest speed. The music, the quick cut, starship Enterprise hitting warp.
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Don't know the exact details of Sugru's formulation. But per the data sheet this stuff sets up to be a relatively stiff non-tacky surface in three hours and comes in a variety of colors.

You can buy variants at your local home improvement store. It's usually sold as silicone caulk.
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To co-opt a now-famous phrase: Once you're lucky, twice you're good.

Does the kid have what it takes to replicate virality and social/gaming mechanisms across other platforms? Or will anything he creates hereafter simply be a cut-rate knockoff of Chatroulette?

Is he a good hacker/developer and a great social theorist? Or did he just get lucky with this one idea?

If the latter, would a stint in America - in the Valley specifically - hone his instincts and skills and lead to even greater success later? Or will he be a has-been by 2011?

So many questions, and I wish I could get the answers.
Indeed. And your point is good. Thanks.
I highly recommend the book "The Extended Phenotype," by Richard Dawkins. These are hardly new debates.
I resent being called robot.
So, how much do e-book writers have to worry about piracy? It would seem that the barrier for entry, so to speak, for piracy of a PDF is a lot lower than for software, especially as it seems that someone's more likely to email their friend "this cool article" rather than "this software" with its attendant installation hassles.
I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the iPad. Could anybody clarify?

Is it just a regular tablet? What OS does it run? Is it free? Can I change it to GNU?
This. Any DRM scheme that tries to take away users' control over their own open hardware is both despicable and doomed. How smart can you be before you decide you'd rather not have that on your résumé?
the video shows it used while propped against crossed legs or on your lap with both feet raised on an object (or sitting on the floor with knees up). I wonder how it feels otherwise?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9KTnsGsd_0

(For those without Quicktime)
Maybe it's because I use Safari on Mac, but it actually uses the <video> tag so it's somewhat more portable.
FWIW, the guy who criticized Zappos is the same person who put up Clients From Hell.
This isn't really something that you'll be able to answer in any easy way.

Once you're lucky, it is much easier to be "lucky" again. Certainly, it will require skill on his part; but he'll have a brand and a name, two things that are much more invaluable than any sum of money he may get (although money of course won't hurt either).

The brand and the name alone will earn him followers -- lovers, and haters -- who will promote (in their own ways), whatever it is that he's making.

It is of course possible that he'll squander it all with some foolish mistakes and show that he was "just lucky", but I'd rather speculate about his success rather than his failure :D

Besides, he hasn't even finished this product yet, and you already want him to start working on something new? ;)
News is a lousy business for Google too
I've done that. I backed into the door frame of my parent's garage. My dad still doesn't believe I hit the wrong petal.
It's a little bit more complicated. I mean, suppose it's true that the only things you own are your mind, body, and the things you make using them. Then, the only things you can legitimately own are your mind, body, and bodily waste. Oh, and spit. So, there must be something else that you can own. For Locke, you can own land and other natural resources by mixing your labor with it. (But what this really means is a matter of serious debate, involving very old people wearing argyle socks, pipe tobacco, and tenure)
Interesting. It bricked for me on not having Quicktime installed, so I hunted it down on YouTube. (Firefox 3.6 / Windows 7 PC).
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None of those questions really matter, its not like he's an athletic sports prospect that needs to be sized up for draft day.

Ultimately, I think being in the valley will be beneficial for him. Kid should finish high school first though.
Well, I guess I am not buying an ipad then.
Generic and unmemorable, yet somehow catchy, like a bad pop song. I think this is going to be a flash in the pan. Bright hot for a fraction of a historical second, and then gone. The ergonomics of the physical thing (not the UI) just seem so terrible.

Courier seems like the way to go. It's like a DS without any of the buttons, just screen.
it's really worthwhile to read the IRC logs on the day he's active: cells are "single thread guaranteed , multi-thread capable mutable datatypes " (quote fr feb 17
I don't get it. The plumbers and electricians and other such people don't behave any different. Go to your nearest "working mans bar" or union hall or whatnot. You'll hear those guys joking about the same crap, the "diy"ers, and so on. It doesn't happen on a web page, but you can bet when they aren't face-to-face with the customer, they are mocking him.
You can't judge how responsive it is based on the ad — Apple sometimes speeds up the performance of their apps/devices for commercials. This was especially obvious on the iPhone ads before the 3GS (and I believe they even added a small disclaimer on those ads). That said, everyone I've talked to who was at the launch event and actually tried it said it was very speedy.
In the "real" world, you're also welcome to buy from a different store when you have different values from the vendor. Nobody can force you to buy from Target when you're happy with what's carried by WalMart. You can't do this with the App Store, and Apple goes out of its way to prevent you from loading software from elsewhere.

On top of that, the inconsistency of the enforcement of App Store guidelines and the moving target set by Apple makes it seem like they are suffering from some growing pains. It doesn't look like they've really made up their mind about what impression they want people to get, other than some "slick" user experience.

Bottom line is that on top of dealing with the unpredictable market out there, developers also have to put up with a very fickle supply chain with no alternative channels. I'll pass.
Maybe its just an old C (C90 I think?) habit where declarations and code could not be mixed.
Wow, downmoded to negative 3 for merely asking for compatible player. You apple fan boys sure have thin skins.

Oh, and please down mod this comment as well. This will definitely prove your point.
I think design in general is overrated. Sure it adds value, but it's rarely pivotal to the success of a project. Take Google for example. Its logo is mediocre. It's the software that adds most of the value.
I hacked together a quick script to generate new HN story titles from your list of existing ones. It is a pretty shoddy job -- no syntax-level modeling -- but some of the ones it generated are still pretty amusing:

mark cuban: how to say facebook

how ravelry scales to remove ipad stories from wind

google patents its way to copenhagen

bert and rails ecosystem white paper

how phusion built a blog posting

2010 conference makes the last days of android phones

is like sex. it's better when harvard teaches networking

thunderbird and one hell of the illusion of music

customer development and lying with nginx

toddlers develop individualized rules for scalewell startup fund

bill gates sums up massive data failure leads to control robots

the fuel for running our financial system

i have become a programming language

the future of instant approval

scheme that 'cancer-proofs' rodent's cells

the design and getting your business

h.264 to reach 1 billion rows into the expression problem

the bible that runs on your vc "closing" fees

ask pg: quick tips on different sql implementations

the insanely great in the free version of iphone

scalable apps on vetting opportunities

mona lisa's smile a frozen sculpture of programming

coelacanth: lessons from moleskine to rule your code

results with people: do what would never launch
It is a bit anal retentive, but there is sound reasoning behind declaring your variables in the narrowest scope possible. Google's C++ style guide ( http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x... ) captures some of them. Another is cache locality of your stack, if you are in a language or project where that matters; by creating space on the stack as late in the game as possible, your stack access pattern tends more to the end of the stack than if you declare everything up top in no particular order. This is a really small micro-optimization though; the main point is that you want to know what type something is and what might have been passed to its constructor, on the screen at the same time as the code that uses it.

Another thought; if there is a mammoth difference between top-of-function and narrowest-scope-possible, that suggests that you may have very large functions, and might consider refactoring so that the difference between your method and his is small?
Uncompelling. It fails to answer the question, "What can I do with this thing that I can't do right now with my phone or laptop?"

Compare it to the original TV ads for the iPhone, which were both beautiful and informative:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lfmlKYZ-vU
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News is only lousy for Google because Google insists on relevant, targeted, advertising.

Compare in the pre-internet world with CNN.com. They had no product except news. Yet lots of companies are very happy to advertise with them. Yes, they know that the ads aren't well targeted. But branding ads aren't supposed to be.

If Google was willing to accept a lower tier of branding ads, they could make more money from news.
about 22 secs in, they show the iPad being used to type something.

from what i can tell the iPad is being held by one thumb.

I cant see how you could type on a device resting on your legs at a 45degree angle, and hold it with just the end of your thumb. its not a recipe for a stable surface
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Are there not other phones available?
Firefox only does Theora/OGG for HTML5 <video>. Safari only does H.264/mp4, and Chrome does both.
If you're going that route, might as well use epoxy putty. And why is Sugru better than epoxy putty?
Does somebody have a link to the forward-thinking newspaperman whose thesis was that the newspaper business model was fundamentally that they had a regional monopoly on social permission to mail a bunch of ads direct to your doorstop in such a manner that you would actually read them? I saw it on HN first, I think, and it dovetails with this post very well.

Google is now the business with social permission to beam advertising directly into your brain.
I love the Gang of Four influenced Post-punk revival music, which I think was a great choice. It appeals to older guys like myself who are fans of the late 70s genre as well as teenagers like my nephews who are into the revival acts. I was pleased they didn't talk over it. I usually hate advertising, and go out of my way to block it, but I watched this a number of times.
This demonstration just shows once again that taste is far more important than which tool is used.
In both cases, it's possible that it will advance your career to the next level, which can make up for the loss in the long run. Work hard, save money, take calculated risks, don't be doctrinaire.
If you're only willing to spend $1000 on a startup, and you count your own time (which you should), then you're going to have a rough time as an entrepreneur. Startups require risk and sacrifice. Maybe not bankrupt-your-family sacrifice, but sacrifice nonetheless.
It doesn't work without Quicktime on Chrome as well.
No, I'd like to see him perfect and monetize what he has created already.
"quirky musicians who made stuff for the App Store (my town has multiple App Store millionaires)"

Examples?
Does Lyx have an odt import feature?

I'm not seeing it....
I stopped paying attention after the part he bashed left alignment and (in another blog post) Helvetica.
Are you kidding? Of course he's a prospect.

Young, fresh talent - geniuses, really - drive so much innovation in the Valley. They constitute a new form of capital.

If you think it's not a draft, then what do you make of "talent acquisitions" of otherwise worthless startups?
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I disagree. The ones that make the front page are often interesting and I use the front page as a filter to keep me from spending too much time on HN while at work (as I would bet a lot of other people do something similar as well).

I know you can treat the front page of the ask section the same way, but now its a filter of a much smaller set which means that "top 30" is not as good a filter (in addition to doubling the number of pages that are on a "front page").

I would think that its best to create disjoint sections only if people usually want to target one section or the other, which I don't think people do here (though if I'm wrong, I would agree with your idea).
I couldn't make myself read the whole thing, but I think it's far from accurate.

For instance, he seems to be able to communicate in Japanese but he still doesn't grasp that "otsukaresama" and "irasshaimase" are really only greetings. I wonder what would be his reaction if he heard that in some places it's usual to say "ohayou gozaimasu" (usually meaning "good morning") when you get to the office in the evening.

Mandatory parties aren't really mandatory, you see. Many Japanese do "escape" the parties. You just have to do it tactfully. And so on.

That said, I agree with you about avoiding working in a Japanese office. The usual English teaching path seems to work for a lot of people, though.
I'd be happy to chip in $1k to help the legal fees of creating such a standard clause. In CA, there's the protection of http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab... , but the burden of proof is on the employee.

I'd love to see a way to make this more employee-favoring.
Thanks for the comment. Although I think there's good reason for declaring variables in the narrowest possible scope, I'm not sure it's enough of a reason to bring it up - especially if it's more about coding style, rather than best practice.

The size of the functions isn't really an issue, but I see your point.

If they're as small as the examples above, it doesn't make much difference.
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The problem with forums about anime or manga is that they self-select for people who have been rejected from every other community. A solid science-fiction or horror story can find discussion in the appropriate forums, but nobody normal is interested in some high-school student's harem of magical girls.

Here are some manga / anime recommendations. Some have not been licensed for distribution in the US, or have been only partially released here, so you will need to hunt a bit for fansubs. I watch only the animated adaptations, as they're easier to hide, but feel free to order the original manga versions if you don't feel ashamed about reading comic books. Not all are adaptations -- the movies, and a few television series, are original animations.

- Monster < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_%28manga%29 >

- Planetes < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes >

- Mushishi < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushishi >

- Mononoke < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononoke_%28TV_series%29 >

- Tokyo Godfathers < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Godfathers >

If you're willing to relax your standards a bit, there are many outstanding series aimed at younger viewers.

- Denno Coil < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil >

- Yokohama Shopping Trip < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokohama_Kaidashi_Kik%C5%8D >

- Kino's Journey < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kino%27s_Journey >

- Cromartie High School < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromartie_High_School >

- My Neighbor Totoro < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro > , or almost anything else by Studio Ghibli < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli >

- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Leapt_Through_Time >

- Yotsuba&! < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotsuba&! >
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Very neat.

I'm guessing you have a function for each letter and you add a shift depending on where it is in the phrase? Or are you creating the formulas on the fly?

If its being created dynamically, you could probably find a cool way to do this for arbitrarily drawn pictures.
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Or if they are willing to use identity and behavioral targeting to direct interesting and targeted ads that needn't be relevant to the particular page a user is browsing.
With such a distinct yellow-brown look, I'd just tell all my friends I had a special Legend of Zelda edition.
Thank you so much. This is all I needed to make my HN points predictor for newly submitted stories.

Now if I only find a nice chunk of time on a lazy weekend..
A VC would have a hard time answering those questions, and they are meant to be experts.
PuSH is for Server to Server and does not address NAT issues. Until this problem is solved I dont see how it can replace something like Twitter which is becoming a protocol of its own. If you also consider the ability to search and filter twitter (even by location) it is a ways ahead of RSS and ATOM
I don't want to sound like a whiney sissy, but here it is: I've seriously tried. Chamber meetings are packed with super professional looking, suit and tie, type folks. I'm no suit and tie guy. I have a couple shirts with buttons, but...

I just looked into the meetings earlier tonight, before reading your reply (sorry, I'm 6 days late) - the partnership fell apart and the meetings have stopped. Guess nobody went.

I've put ads on Craigslist, posted flyers in coffee shops, hung out in said coffee shops. Hung around Wake Forest, pestered business professors, went to several meetup.com events (completely irrelevant events, but events nonetheless)...

Thank you for the motivation, I'm going out there! :D
He's 17, hasn't finished high school, and you want to know if he can build the next Facebook? Why isn't it enough to just let him grow and be whatever is he was meant to be.

Why does it matter if he was lucky, if he has hacker skills, can be a "social theorist"? You write as if you believe he's this millenia's greatest young thinker.

Or will he be a has-been by 2011?
What does that even mean? Are you buying into media hype that badly?
Tell that to the B2B software industry.
I wasn't offended. It just seems like a bit of an overreaction, to compare some people being unable to sell software in a store to state-sponsored genocide on a massive scale.

I like having my app on the App Store as much as the next iPhone dev. I disagree with the boob apps being pulled; better parental restrictions are the answer for that situation.

I don't disagree with the wifi apps being pulled; private API's are private API's. If you want an API to be made public, file a radar ticket. You will get a response from Apple - either the API being made public, or the reason why they won't make it public.
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The sad thing is that this is supposed to be Hacker news, not Apple fan-boy news.
Well it's not the first time I've heard that. A few people posting video reviews (earlier when they got to handle it) also commented on the speed.
EVERY JAPANESE POP SONG IS ABOUT THE SAME THING

There seems to be a non-romance/love existential philosophy/angst genre of pop songs. The Japanese version seems to use a different set of pastoral imagery than the American one, and much more of it. Not sure what that means.
No, it's just impossible in some cases, and you don't know which cases. If the validator fails to work, the target software is too vague and has to be re-written.

But you can write software that can be proven to be correct. You can also write software that can be proven to stay within certain limits (i.e. the computer will fiddle with the acceleration a bit, but not more than a reasonable pre-defined limit, and not when the brake is on).
And you think that's what this is for?

The iPhone was a phone game-changer. Smart-phones had been around quite a while, but few did them very well at all, much less super-user-friendly. The tablet market, for comparison, has been languishing in cheap crap that barely works, or large, very expensive, poorly programmed (for tablet experience) laptop computers that swivel. Battery life has also typically been very short.

Now, what's the exact opposite of all those?

It's not meant to compete with a laptop or a phone, it's meant to open a new market, or at the least change the tablet market.