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The problem is that large, macroscopically psychopathic corporations (including universities) have complete control over access to most of the jobs out there, and so they can dangle "experience" (access) as a carrot that can be offered as a sole reward to the desperate masses.
Weird. Here's the article as I see it:

IT'S like remembering the future. Our brain generates predictions of likely visual inputs so it can focus on dealing with the unexpected.

Predictable sights trigger less brain activity than unfamiliar stimuli, bolstering the view that the brain is not merely reactive, but generates predictions based on the recent past. "The brain expects to see things and really just wants to confirm it now and again," says Lars Muckli at the University of Glasgow, UK.

He and Arjen Alink at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, asked 12 volunteers to focus on a cross on a screen, above and below which bars flashed on and off to create the illusion of movement. To test a predictable stimulus, a third bar would appear in a position timed to fit in with the illusion of smooth movement. For the unpredictable stimulus it would appear out of sync. fMRI scans showed that the unpredictable stimulus increased the activity in parts of the brain which deal with the earliest stages of visual processing (Journal of Neuroscience, vol 30, p 2960).

The finding supports the "Bayesian brain" theory, which sees the brain as making predictions about the world which it updates when new information comes in.
I think that this is a different type of effect.
Notes on my first iPad experiences in a blog post
> The comments are good too.

The only difference between generations is that my students write incoherent sentences on paper and the internet.

I have this sinking feeling that an average ninth-grade graduate of fifty years ago (basically what it took to be a secretary, if I've got my bearings right) was about as competent and educated as today's college sophomores (present company excepted, of course).

So, extrapolating from two dubious data points, we're extending childhood by 5 years every 50 ... 29-year old "minors" coming up by the end of the century ;-)
dropbox seems to be perfect for that kind of sharing
Most kids already have a Mac? You know, I thought I came from an average middle class family, but now I realize I must have been living in poverty. My 17-year-old budding programmer brother recently had to practically enter into a contract with my parents so that he could buy a crappy $350 Dell laptop (his first computer) with their financial help. There isn't a chance in hell that he'd ever get a Mac and a $99 developer license to go with it.

One of us, either you or I, is completely out of touch with the economic state of an average teenager.
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However a MacBook Pro with an iPad is a very sweet and flexible combination.

Look at what happened to the iPhone in 2 or 3 releases. For heaven's sake, Apple was able to establish a game changing ecosystem my then. Extrapolate that for the iPad. There's a good chance that the 3rd generation iPad will be able to subsume 90% of laptop use for almost 90% of the population.

If you want to evaluate the challenge and potential windfall facing Apple with the iPad, then don't compare it to the iPhone. Compare that to the establishment of the App Store.
But didn't you read his great counter point?!

Oh, and by the way, I consume a moderate amount of video, and I really like doing it on the 1080p LCD TV just the right distance in front of my comfy leather chair with the great footstool. Among other things, I can balance my computer on my lap and write seriously on it, just like I’m doing right now.
Goldman Sachs is pretty fucking scummy, but not substantially worse than the rest of Wall Street; anyway, the pace-setting for scumbaggery was set in the past by many firms that don't even exist anymore. The only thing I would call evil about GS is the way it is managed to convert its economic power into political power, thus preventing proper regulation of the banking industry, and that's the government's fault (and ours) as much as it is theirs.
I would never be able to replace my laptop with an iPad, simply because I'm a software developer. But I'd certainly buy it as a portable mail, web browsing, movie and ebook device, which just happens to fill all of my parents computing needs.

So while it's not going to be my main device, I certainly see it as being a competitor to the traditional laptop for a MOST people.

Most of all, I think Apple has managed to get the "magic" right once again. I never told my parents that they should buy iPhones, but they did after trying mine, and they are very happy (I'd never thought that my mother would start browsing the web and sending emails, but it's happened thanks to the iPhone).
Except the subsidy isn't going away -- it's just being limited to the feds' own Department of Education loan program, which will then mea less diversity in process/administration.

I doubt that will mean loan policies become more stingy; being stingy (even when required by a clear-eyed cost-benefit analysis) is not what the feds are good at.
I call this the Petty Depression. It's not nearly as bad as the depression of the 1930s, but it's worse than a recession. Recession is the predictable, brief, and necessary period of creative destruction and contraction in a functioning economy. It causes some people to get laid off, but they usually get better jobs within 1-3 years, and the economy as a whole improves. This is something else, and will have a long-term scarring effect on the nation.

The fact that "petty" means both small (which this one is, as far as depressions go) and mean-spirited (price-gouging on housing with young families at the barrel-end) means it fits surprisingly well.
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… or the UK.
So now I'm curious - is that the full article? That's what I see, too, but I wonder if there's more to the article that is behind a paywall?
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I just brought this up on the iPad. I realized that I'm in bed with my knees up. It's unconscious! Whatever you find yourself doing with a book or a magazine, you unconsciously do the same with an iPad. To me, this is a sign they got the form factor right.

Update: lie in bed and browse one handed, but roll to sit on the edge with crossed leg to post. Again unconscious and noticed after the fact.

First annoyance: Have to go back to my laptop to copy-paste and quote another HN post for a reply. Can't double-tap to copy!

Solved by one second of tinkering: doubletap-drag to use copy-paste!
Good article. My kids have grown up surrounded by Internet-enabled computers and, while they're skillful with them and I've always boggled at the notion of people for whom Google has always been available, they're not qualitatively different from anybody else I know.

Idiocy like the cited suggestion of having professors deliver their lectures on Facebook (because God knows lectures are just like idle chat) has always bothered me. It just makes me think the suggester has no fricking clue about the Internet, but wants to be seen as a visionary.
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Ill spend time trying it out again. Ill submit on feedback and problematic queries that prevent me from doing my job or makibg my life harder. I like the direct involvement from you about this.
Wow, this article is awful.
lol.... something amusing deep in my threads is always nice, especially given that we seem to nearly 100% agree on all the substantive points of this discussion. Yes, I was using the word "morning" loosely. I throw myself on the mercy of the grammar police. To me, the "morning" is the first half of the day, the 8 hours of work+chores+gym before I eat lunch.

There's two issues with caffeine for me : performance dip and sleep interference. If I drink a cup of coffee, I feel the boost but when it wears off, I feel a performance dip. Perhaps I am more sensitive to this than average, I don't care what the exact reason is. I can't comment on how this compares to speed or other drugs, I'm relatively straight edge. It's a relatively mild down, but enough to impact my performance. So, my inclination is to re-up caffeine to stave off the downswing, which cannot continue past lunch due to the impact on my sleep. So, that is why I comment on how it's only useful in the "morning". Different people have wildly different metabolisms, body compositions and reactions to drugs - I tend to be very sensitive to drugs... I got pulled over for suspected DUI once and blew a 0.03 :]
Very well put, except for the largely inexplicable penultimate paragraph, and except in that Deleuze and Guattari aren't really worth your while. Thanks much for posting this.
Does most people's version of "work" consist of setting something down on a table, and then never breathing on it?

Oh, come on! That's the current capability. If you can't see potential capabilities which can be introduced in software, especially if you saw the Brushes part of the keynote, then you lose designer acumen points right there!
I watched the keynote and can't say that I heard it repeatedly dwelled upon. Where was it mentioned?
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The title is Sivers' roundabout way of saying he's getting married today - while sharing a useful perspective for everyone else. :)
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What Silicon Valley startups can learn from West African kidnappers
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s/Intelligence/Civilization/

And yet: I've been surprised how many successful people barely (or crudely) read or write. One such recurring type is the dyslexic entrepreneur. They are very intelligent -- but also very verbal/kinesthetic and not at all text-oriented. (I also suspect, without ready examples, that other great artists/performers/craftsmen are awful readers/writers.)

These types of intelligence will be underrepresented in a forum like this -- where 98%+ of our projected presence is writing.

So even while our giant enterprises (sprawling corporations, large governments) and engineering projects (bridges, computers) are dependent on the written word and text-based intelligence for coordination, we shouldn't forget the widely-dispersed and valuable non-textual intelligence we also rely upon.
Any real data to support this? Would sure be interesting to know.
As with electricity, the average person is also taught how fixed wings provide lift incorrectly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#.22Popular.22_expl... - I've come across plenty of smart people (though with no formal physics knowledge) who blindly believed the transit time theory.
How can you tell if a person is a programmer?
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AIG FP made AIG blow up. GS maybe threw some firecrackers in.
The hate is because it doesn't make it right. You're just saying that it's not so bad.
And if the drug does improve performance, does the improvement remain after the drug leaves the system? (Did it help exercise pathways that remain stronger, later?) Or, does it make performance even worse in the absence of the attention-stimulant?
A lot of people who understood technology thought that the iPhone would flop. It was too expensive, wasn't a business oriented smartphone, and Apple was a newcomer in the cell phone industry so how could anyone think that they would displace the big players?

The iPhone turned out to be a game changer. A lot of people that get technology think that it might be the only computing device that most people will need.
Like... your knees?
Wow, this comment doesn't say why it's awful.
Microsoft's problem is that it can't answer the question "If I am switching to a totally new OS, why does it have to be from Microsoft? Why not [any current non-Windows OS]?"

I do not mean this as a quality slam, it's a business observation. Give up windows and they're suddenly just another entrant, and what business sense does that make? Other OSes already do virtualization with software, and it wouldn't take that much to put together a %buntu that natively supported VirtualBox and Windows, where you stick the XP/Vista/7 install CD in at a defined point in the installation.

Better to just start dumping their biggest bits of baggage over time and slowly migrate to better tech than have a big bang "everybody dies" big OS. They can get there just by lowering the priority on backwards compatibility a little, rather that slamming it to 0.

This bears a certain striking resemblance to what they are actually doing, oddly enough. Either way, it can't be a fast process; a brand new OS would take years for the ecosystem to spin up, and these changes will take years. There's no fast solution.
One thing that comes to mind is that people with autism tend to react negatively to changes of plans, or disruptions of routine. (That may be a longer time-frame effect than we're talking about here, though, and not related.)
i didn't find any insights that were unique to West African kidnappers; the same comparisons could be made to any risky enterprise with an intense and tightly-knit team.

did anyone else find that article a bit creepy to read? i'm afraid of the slippery slope where people continue to push more and more absurd yet uninsightful analogies. i'm sure someone could've written a similar article entitled "What Silicon Valley startups can learn from Nazi commanders" and made those same points.
You are right, the presence of good product in the marketplace tends to feed on itself.

However, I think a good argument could be made that the first generation or so of iPods were sold sight unseen to a public with a fairly large number of mp3 players in the same marketplace. Few people remember that the original iPod was supposed to be a driver of consumers to the Macintosh platform. For a pretty long time you couldn't use one on any other platform other than a Macintosh.

iPhones sold well because the competition in the marketplace wasn't really all that great. Palm hadn't really done anything interesting in the years prior and Windows mobile has always been a joke. But remember the long lines of people trying to buy up a dozen or so iPhones at the original price sight unseen? I remember one lady standing outside a store with a stack of cash trying to buy phones off of people who got one for 2x the original purchase price.

And exactly like those two items, the iPad has people lined up getting as many as possible because their iPhones are so awesome. Even though the logic of blowing up a phone app onto a tablet makes little sense, and the iPad actually demonstrates a reduction in capability over the iPhone (no camera, seriously?).

I'd wager that it'll be just enough that people will slurp up the next version that'll have a camera and USB even though they already own the original.

The problem that people have is not that the iPad is a good product or not, it's that people are buying it without having any idea what it's like beyond "it's a bigger iPhone". If some other vendor had come out with exactly the same product, they wouldn't have flocked to it, because it's sight unseen. But stick an Apple logo on it, and have Jobs sit in a chair fiddling with it for 5 minutes, and it's sold out before it even hits the stores.
I think 'digital native' is actually a pretty good way to classify a member of my generation - I've never not had a personal computer in my home. I would imagine this has greatly shaped the way I locate and consume information.

However, what the term 'digital native' tends to connote is an intricate and intuitive notion of the underlaying principals of modern technologies (how does a computer work, what is the internet) - and this is certainly not the case for nearly all members of the "Net Generation". For most, technology is a black box; just as mysterious as it is to our parents - it's just more familiar.

In my experience, most kids' technological proficiency extends to Microsoft Office. Most have very little interest in actually understanding the technology they use.
I agree. They can keep the centralization, distributedness isn't all that useful for in-house development and leads to problems when people forget to push after committing. The real power of git is super cheap, super easy branching and merging. If that existed in svn, we would never have switched.
I have only studied 4 years of latin in high school, but I imagine it would be particularly difficult to create an effective translator for latin. I'm no expert though (only substantive works I translated were book 2 of the Aeneid and some satire by Juvenile).
I always end up getting extra sauces from Arby's. I end up making egg sandwiches with the Horsey Sauce. Awesome + Super Cheap!
Never thought I'd see D&G name-dropped outside of a political theory seminar. Gave me a start actually.
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I dunno, in Atlanta, I've gotten a flyer put on my car for one more than once.
SF attracts the most helpless, inept homeless, and there are not convenient public restrooms in the parts of the city where there are lots of homeless.

Frankly, I'd rather walk by the occasional fence than risk going into a public restroom after a homeless person has used it.

Evidently in the past there was a move to provide lots of public restroom facilities in the city, but they were soon condemned and removed. It would take significant resources to offer such facilities and keep them clean and safe.
> It's hard to even recommend desktops to users unless they're heavy gamers or dealing with hardcore media editing.

Even for gaming, my current laptop can handle everything I've thrown at it at the highest settings and I can take it to lan parties on the tube. The only reason I would ever recommend a desktop is the lower price.
Screenshot of slide:

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Ugh. What possible good could it do to outlaw unpaid internships? Do people actually think the result will be companies deciding to pay interns rather than just not offering internships?

Just put yourself in the position of a manager making the hiring decision - suddenly you get word that you may be sued for offering unpaid positions, is your reaction going to be "wow, we'd better pay them" or "ok, no more interns."

Who does this kind of crap benefit, other than self-serving politicians masquerading as defenders of the public good?

Something about laws explicitly framed to protect people from themselves (i.e. students from accepting unpaid positions) drive me insane.
How much of a business trip is tax deductible?
I have a book called The Best 1001 Short, Easy Recipes. I brought this with me when we started Y Combinator. Each recipe has at most usually 4-5 ingredients that are often very easy and cheap to get. I don't think anything in that book would take over 30 minutes to prepare and cook.

http://www.amazon.com/Best-1001-Short-Easy-Recipes/dp/193129...

I'm sure there's some other books of this same ilk that are filled with good ideas that just take a few things to put together.

Also my wife just got a groupon to this http://thescramble.com/

We've made about 5 meals so far, and they've all been awesome and pretty healthy and easy to make. Even has a handy grocery store list aggregator thing for the recipes you decide to make that week.
70% market share was the iPod.

The iPhone is not the iPod, and the iPad is not the iPhone. So you may not get 70% by playing catch-up, but you don't always get it by doing whatever Apple does, even in the case of their big successes like the iPhone.
Looks a lot like an iPad, except less battery life, much less storage and heavier.

It does have a bigger, higher resolution screen and a camera though.

I think they got the balance on this product wrong and Apple got it right.
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The built-in camera on this thing is a great feature, and could be a phenomenal marketing tool for them to differentiate this from the iPad for the next year or so. Surely, the second-gen iPad will have a camera.
This is vaporware. They've been accepting pre-orders for months. They've missed their release date multiple times. I wouldn't be surprised if they never release their product or refund anyone's money.

(especially with the lawsuit from TechCrunch against them)

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It really irks me when people misrepresent the discovery of quantum effects as some kind of science-shattering event that overturned everything we knew, setting scientists kicking stones for the next 80 years. But it's a whole new level of wtf to say, “at least opening the door for a new kind of formulation (other than mathematics) for describing the truth about reality.”

What?

Otherwise, good article.
They seem to be reasonably well known in Europe, thanks mostly to Negri. A number of my biologist/geneticist friends have read them, but that may be coincidence. I, personally, find them irritating.
The correct solution for Android would be for Google to release UI guidelines (perhaps these exist, I don't know) - but don't stop developers from innovating and then letting the users decide what is best.
That, or the fact that it only runs a web browser.
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I found the bit about West African kidnappers interesting without the assortment of generic startup advice.
Curiously, Apple's is the product with lots of features.
Windows (and most apps) in OS X are generally intended to do one thing. Even monolithic applications used full screen like Final Cut Pro are often made up of windowed components. Even so, there are also single-window apps that are intended to be used maximised and work perfectly well that way, such as Logic Studio. The problem would only be if you tried to use an app differently than it's intended to be used.

For many applications it doesn't make any sense to maximise them on a large screen. Very, very few web sites are wider than 1000px, so maximizing a browser on a large screen is pretty silly. Even if the site has a fluid layout, wide columns of text are horrible for reading.

Other applications don't even make any sense maximized, like a chat client like adium or a password manager. Apps like a terminal that could be used either maximized of windowed work perfectly fine either way.

And with software development the options are usually using emacs or vim full screen, which works perfectly well; using an IDE full screen, which works perfectly weel; or using a combination of smaller apps (eg, terminal, editor, SCM GUI, broswer, etc), which, despite being a different paradigm, also works perfectly well.

So, really, what are these scenarios when maximizing every window a) makes sense and b) is problematic on OS X?
You disagree?
I can see why he didn't bother to enumerate the reasons--for me it didn't need describing, if you look at the article. It has very little content especially regarding how this will get you leads, and most of the tips are obvious. The tips are things like "provide correct contact info" and "proofread" and "don't use jargon."
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