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Hyberbole retracted after a little research. I was speaking of property taxes specifically. It's possible to quadruple my property taxes by moving to the same state in which I work. That would put me about an hour from my office and is the most expensive area in the state. Being within 30 min of my office would be 1.5 - 2 times more expensive property tax wise.
Is Apple really unusually cultish? Sure, there's a small number of people who will line up for hours to be the first to get a new Apple product, and that behaviour seems pretty silly to me. But people will also line up for hours to see a new Star Trek film, or get tickets to a concert, or buy a new Harry Potter book, or a new Grand Theft Auto game, or to get a book signed by some minor celebrity, or... well, you get the idea. It's not even unique in the consumer electronics market; there's always people lining up for a new games console every time one is released.
Link is up now: http://primaryentrepreneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/No...

It's even worse than it first appeared.

$25k of the prize is composed of "in-kind development support from one of our software development partners".

The remaining $50k, the cash amount, is just a max upper limit amount ("Up to $50k in seed capital"), so who knows what the winners will actually get for the 5-10%.
The joy of having a Zune cable at all 5 of my computers is awesome - I got all of them at monoprice.com for under ten bucks - I LOVE that website!!
A single developer working remotely one day a week is easy to manage.

On a team of 13+, coordinating remote day per week plus late starts for kid-drop-offs / early leaves for kid-pick-ups, vacation days, etc. makes it very hard to figure out when you can actually get the team together. In practice, the members of the team also suffer because you can't plan when you're going to block on needing to talk at a whiteboard with someone. I've also found colocation to be the only way to handle complicated design tasks.

Team members who are around tend to exclude people who work remotely during key hours, relegating them to the easily separable work, which results in less impact and ultimately less pay and promotions.
It depends on your workload. It is noticeably slower compared to the in-kernel ZFS on FreeBSD. If you are just using it as a file server for media and documents, it will do fine. If you are using it for something high-performance, look elsewhere.
I have no idea, but it should work.

Do you have a need to use Linux? I am planning to go OpenSolaris on my next media box.
I'm looking forward to Windows NTFS snapshot service catching up to a 30year old VMS filesystem.
HTML5 Doctor
There's a fairly substantial difference, in that all Apple apps that used private APIs came installed with the device. They weren't competing for a share of the app store market.

Apple is now directly competing for the same dollars as everyone else on the app store, but they're doing so using tools that nobody else is allowed to use.
Maybe I missed something, but I got the sense that the article was addressing how humans should design for humans -- computers designing for humans is a whole different story and doesn't seem to fit into the scope of what that article was addressing.

As for evolutionary vs revolutionary, I think a main factor in how UI design has progressed over the years has been how capable computers have been at rendering and processing UIs. But I think we're at the point (and have been) where computers are capable of rendering whatever UI is best, but a huge portion of our collective UI design knowledge is based on the time when it wasn't capable of that. So we really need to rethink the core of the visual computer interaction experience. There's a whole lot of useless cruft in every major computer UI (win/max/*nix) that needs to go.
A 2.5 Year-Old Uses an iPad for the First Time
Give me an exhaustive list of precisely which nations you consider to make up the Middle East, and a rigorous definition of "civilization", and I'll see what I can do.
I wouldn't say I'm outraged over it, but it seemed like a nice system to have the built-in apps (which can't be competed with since Apple explicitly disallows apps that duplicate built-in functionality) have free reign to do whatever they wanted but have Apple's own App Store apps, which compete with 3rd party apps, do so on a level playing field.
I found this part interesting:
"Of the 44 films that topped the box office for at least one weekend in the US last year, Apple products were featured in 18 of them, making it the number one brand featured in US blockbuster movies in 2009."
Maybe it's like velocity - it all depends on the reference frame.

"Special Relativity of Money"?
religious civilisation != cult.

in other words, it's ironic, but only in the alanis morissette way.
i never realised that was the same guy steele! (to be fair, it's harbison and steele, so he's second author and it's not clear how much was his work).

i've mentioned preferring this book over k&r here before, but as someone pointed out they do slightly different things - k&r is more about teaching how to use c.

but apart from all that, how come you get to use fortress frequently? what are you doing? is it becoming more popular? has it survived oracle?
I don't know if you'd want to make it extremely clear that the employer is your first choice and you would like to negotiate your salary to a lower point. It seems like you'd want the exact opposite of that.
oldest trick in the world. raise the price and discount it :)
You made the statement and provided no basis for it, which I called you on, and you want me to explain why your statement is incorrect? Have you been to the Middle East? Do you have experience or evidence to back your claim that they are what you say?

Side note: there aren't separate civilizations anymore -- it's human civilization, and maybe you can separate out 'Middle Eastern' culture, but that's a very broad term and your statement still doesn't hold up.
Lunchtime? As in, people are eating? The sleep risk is real with those. War stories, whether they had a happy ending ("I fixed it") or not ("I learned from it"). If you don't have your own, you can walk though someone else's provided enough technical information is available - for example the lost NASA Mars Rover is a good way to explain race conditions, depending on your audience.
You're right. My point only applies when we're talking about making offers in a vacuum. This thread was discussing making offers or demands such as for salary, where there aren't different numbers floating around. In fact, if you were the first person to interview for a job and demanded a high price, the next guy might look like a bargain in comparison. It is when the other side believes there is room for negotiation that you can make a high/low offer and take advantage of anchoring. If they don't believe they can negotiate then you'll just drive them away.
It’s not about location, it’s about identity and reputation
Nothing, yet they don't do that. I think you proved my point.
> And what do the middle class do with their wealth? Move into the faux community of a suburb.

What's "faux" about it?

They clearly prefer it. How do you know that they're wrong? (Hint: they're not you.)
Ya Montreal has a great night life. It's really easy to have fun and talk to new people.
Another plausible explanation is that they can issue updates via the App Store rather than having to release an OS-level update.
True, but if the search engine is lousy there won't be much traffic. Google has gone to great lengths to build a service that lots of us wouldn't want to live without. So why worry?
I can prove, to a reasonable level of satisfaction, the existence of Jesus, Moses, and Muhammad.

The question is whether we believe what they say (or have said).

Also, they've never told me to kill anybody.
Every public API starts its life as a private API written for some specific application, and goes through many iterations before its finally carved in stone and added to the public API.

If Cocoa Touch doesn't do something you need it to, Apple's framework engineers want to know about it. File a bug.

Nobody, not even Apple, can develop a perfectly designed API by simply waving a magic wand. It takes a lot of time and careful consideration, and involves feedback from developers because they're the ones who have to work with it. Otherwise you end up with an inconsistent mess that's a pain to use.
Again, what makes that kind of community "faux"? What is a "real" community to you?

It almost sounds as if you despise the wealthy for the sake of it.
That's a guilt-by-association argument that doesn't really hold water.

In its early days Aljazeera was known for broadcasting dissenting views and was perceived as more objective than state run Middle Eastern media entities. Many of its staff were former BBC. Aljazeer was shut down by the Saudi government because it failed to stick with the party line. It had to relocate to Qatar as a result, where it seems to enjoy more independence.

Sources: Control Room (documentary about Aljazeera); Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aljazeera]
Or Kevin took this opportunity to frame the DiggBar as Jay's bad idea, whether it was or not.
If you read the article, it cites studies done in the US that show some of the behaviors particular to cults. There's a difference between fandom and cultish-ness.
It's amusing that a group that touts themselves as valuing individuality and creativity all use the same restrictive devices with very little choice.

Mac fanboys are like the Goth kids of the adult world - they profess individual expression, but all act and dress the same.
It's not surprising -- Apple products are stylishly designed -- I mean do you want a MacBook in your movie, or some gross Compaq whale-thing?
Trust and reputation systems: redistributing power and influence
> Really? That's 460 hours per year, spent sitting on your ass in traffic. If you worked hourly at $20/hr, that's over $9000/year.

Why are you assuming that he'd have been paid for that time if he hadn't been commuting?

And, if he had, he'd have been taxed on it. Assuming that it's additional work time, he'd be paying at his marginal rate.

> The equivalent of thirty days of your life not spent with family, training for marathons, writing code, building furniture. What would you give for an extra month of your own time each year?

That's probably closer to the truth.
Most recent: Chatroulette Is 89% Male, 47% American, And 13% Perverts
Made popular 19 days ago

Just the way I remember Digg from years ago.
Very well written and pleasantly neutral. He focuses on a few key issues, which makes the article a very good starting point.
The problem to me is the mismatch between Pullum's actual criticisms (which are mostly entirely fair nitpicks about passive voice etc) and his "burn Strunk & White" rhetoric.

But if he's got a better recommendation, or wants to write his own book, then I'm all for it.
In my opinion a $499 iPad doesn't cost enough. $499 does not reflect the true cost of the device in terms of materials, labor, and shipping. Your cheap iPad is subsidized by ripping off underpaid miners and workers in third world countries. Even if Apple makes sure their device is not assembled using slave labor they can't be sure that all the parts and materials were produced using fair labor practices, and the reality is that they probably weren't.

Price anchoring may make it seem inexpensive, but in truth it is inexpensive when you consider what it is and how much work went into creating it for you.
No! They be taking Bebo's moeny!

(sorry, couldn't resist. That typo just reads like lolcat to me)
Wait, are you saying that for less than $500 I can get another device I have absolutely no use for? Oh man better than $999. I'm in!

He is right. I remember when I learned to bargan, at first I was like "They are asking for $10, how dare I ask for $1?" Now I know that by asking for $1 I am more likely to get $3 which is probably the real value of the product.

Before saying noone is immune, you must first talk to people who haggle EVERYTHING. Talk to them, hang out with them, look at how they look at the world because it is different. These techniques work quite differently on them.

It is not being told about these techniques, it is living them, just like while doing a test for a research, the researcher can't just tell you that they are actually grading you on your sense of balance, and expect you to never stumble, because that is not what your brain normally processes.

Anchoring works today because we are trained for it. Literally. In Russia I remember we never bought a peanut without reducing the price by 50%+. Here everything is labeled and final. Online everything is labeled and final, its not like you can open a chat with amazon's reps and get a book from $10 to $2 due to good haggling.
Los Angeles parking enforcement has it. There is a car with cameras mounted all around it, and it takes pictures of every license plate. They identify people with past-due tickets, expired registration, and stolen vehicles.
It's amazing how fast she grasps the concept of the UI. Either she has some experience with an iPhone, or we have gotten to a point where interface design has become so intuitive that 3-year olds grasp software immediately. I think the first is the case, but impressive nonetheless ;-)
We have net neutrality today in fact, just not in law.

This battle is about big firms duking it out in the court of public opinion by using FUD about a non-free internet.

Business is important too, and if someone can start a business delivering 100MB fiber to my door for $20 per month but Bing handles all search traffic... so be it. I might very possibly want to buy that service.

Without the freedom to have firms make such deals and offer such services, we're giving up a lot of potential innovation (in services and in pricing bundles).

I don't think there is anything inherently bad about the sorts of contractual restrictions that may arise on the internet vs the rest of the universe.
Mastering the CSS Float Property
The video's description says she has iPhone experience, but still very interesting to watch her just start poking around and exploring right away.
In the video description he mentions that his daughter likes playing on his iPhone
I think the description mentioned she had used an iPhone before. But still, it's amazingly intuitive.
It wasn't just housing, or housing plus the war. It was pretty much everything.

Newspapers have always gotten a lot of content from press releases. Now that we can those from the source, and we can easily get things from other sources, few people are willing to pay for press releases on newsprint.
Yelp to change some features in wake of lawsuit
Shareware Amateurs vs. Shareware Professionals
>These are the people who authorized, and continue to authorize, having troops there?

I didn't say that.

>Do you not hold the government ultimately culpable for this?

Of course the government is ultimately culpable.

> Claiming Bill Kristol et al started the war is just asinine.

Bill Kristol et al created the meme for invading Iraq.
She has used an iPhone before and played with many of these apps on the iPhone.
My daughter learned to do all of the basic iPhone interaction --scroll between home screens, launching, and quitting apps-- at around 19 months. Launching apps was the most difficult part, as it took her awhile to learn to touch only one part of the screen. It seems to me a brilliant testament to great UX design.

While on the subject of judging things by the reactions of small children, the first brand she recognized consistently is Google's - that includes the Google logo, GMail, and a GTUG t-shirt [1] (although she calls them all "Googool"). It's probably because the sound is easy to pronounce, and because of the distinct coloring, but it's still a little freaky, for a year and a half old toddler.

1. http://roman.nurik.net/images/designs/gtug.png
"a simple book that describes a simple language" -- this, and this alone is worth all the praise it gets. It's one of the best books I've read as far as getting out of your way and letting you learn the language. No silliness, no wasted space. It is a super efficient book that gives you everything you need to get started.

I'm glad the other book worked for you though!
Shades of Neal Stephenson's A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.

But also, from a friend who's had problems reclaiming his iPad from his 3-year-old son: shades of Ray Bradbury's The Veldt.
to answer my own question, it's described here - http://about.digg.com/diggbar - and seems to be something that's completely optional (you can enter a url like http://digg.com/http://google.com that displays, in this case, google in a frame with a "bar" at the top).

given all that i still don't understand a comment on this page about disabling it - it seems to be something you have to enable not disable...
Here's the link to the father's blog post with some brief commentary: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1245661
I'm not sure you can qualify this as a strictly non-western perspective, given that the article is based mainly on the opinions of an Apple employee, a Utahan consumer psychology professor, and a guy who wrote the books "Cult of Mac" and "Cult of iPod". Those last two people would probably have written the article themselves, given half a chance.
I can't tell you that yet. You give me one million dollars and I'll earn another one and tell you.
Comments on video by its author:
http://laughingsquid.com/a-2-5-year-old-uses-an-ipad-for-the...
There's something disturbing about this. This is going to be her standard for normal computing power now, I don't think she's impressed by it.
Yes and no @ciniglio.

Its all about the delivery. I can say that I want $300k salary on an interview for $80k salary. However it is how I say it, to indicate that my self-worth is $300k but I can settle for 80. They might actually bump it up to 85 because they feel that I am a worthwhile person. But I won't say

"How much were you looking to get paid?"

"$300,000"

It would have to be as a joke, in some context where they know I am placing high self worth and the number is just a manifestation of it.

The anchoring is all about worth. Your brain questions "what is the value of the following item/service" to which your memory tells you "no records found". Now the brain has no context, it must make one up. The anchoring is all about creating the context. If the context already exists, anchoring won't work, or will work marginally well (needs to be proven, need some salesmen comments plz).
They made the #27 app by having an iPad-tuned app ready on launch day (which by definition will be the day with the fewest competing apps in any category) that probably came back at or near the top of the search results (I think we can safely assume there were a lot of searches for "free books") and whose App Store marketing text and screencaps probably looked slightly better than the other apps in its category (since on launch day there aren't enough ratings to to help distinguish the wheat from the chaff -- appearance is all a buyer has to go by).

There isn't really any lesson to be drawn from this aside from the short-term benefit of being first to market in a category. And even if you find that lesson valuable, it's already too late to apply it.
Heh, "The Benefit of Pooping." I thought that was just me :).
Reading that at the moment to improve my C style. It's excellent.
A quick Google didn't turn this article up at HN before. I got to it through patio11's interview but I think it is so good it really deserves its own submission.

It is scary to see in how many categories I'm still in the amateur column. I guess the good part is it were even more categories in the past, so at least there's some personal growth :-)
No. That's not the same.

The difference being you can get a consistent copy of the whole disk with a very small window where the applications must be quiesced, where the cloning process you've suggested rolls through the whole volume and (with an active volume) the volume state tends to change as the copy process traverses the volume.

As for an alternative and I/O-heavy approach that's possible with the RAID1 implementation, it's also feasible to roll out a member volume and roll in a scratch disk; to replace the volumes using a more traditional scheme. Rolling the member volume back into the RAID1 set after the cloning operation can use the delta of the differences, rather than necessitating a whole-volume copy. Replacing a disk necessitates a whole-disk copy.

If you're working with a fairly quiescent disk, then the difference between these two approaches probably isn't significant. If the volumes are busy, then having a complete and consistent copy of the whole volume with a very short window when the applications have to flush and hold can be advantageous.
The physical home button for bailing out when problems or boredom strike certainly works well for her.
Tiger Woods and the Superstar Effect
I grew up in a suburb, and as a community it seemed pretty faux; it made an effort to keep up trappings of a community, but was pretty clearly just a bunch of houses.

I do agree people may well prefer it. It had no community, but the houses were quite nice.
You are already in space.
Yelp Makes Changes in Response to Small-Business Owners - NYTimes
Qatar is one of the most liberal Muslim countries in the middle east, and Al Jazeera operates with great autonomy. What exactly do you mean by "exists within the structure of...", and why would that in any way be relevant?
It's amusing that a group that touts themselves as valuing
individuality and creativity all use the same restrictive
devices with very little choice.

It's a common stereotype of a Mac users, but to be frank, I never saw a mac user making such claims. On the other hand,
restriction is what drives creativity and innovation. It's easy when you
have all the resources and freedom, but restricted environment is where
creativity shines. Look no further than a history of Apple itself—just read Woz's story in "Founders at work".

Mac fanboys are like the Goth kids of the adult world - they profess
individual expression, but all act and dress the same.

I wonder, what OS you use ;)
Now try giving that 2.5 year old a Netbook with Windows on it and see how well that works.
Sorry to be a broken record, but I always plug David Gelernter's 'tracks and clusters' concept when similar ideas come up:

http://edge.org/q2009/q09_9.html#gelernter

Roger Schank's ideas about just-in-time, story-centric curricula may also be interesting:

http://www.edge.org/q2009/q09_print.html#schank

http://www.rogerschank.com/
C's type syntax for functions, pointers and arrays is terrible; it was an experiment that failed. C++ made it worse when introducing references and cv-qualifiers.
I'm not interested in whether the historical Jesus, Moses or Muhammad existed, I'm interested in the much more dubious existence of their boss.

And if Muhammad never told you to kill anybody, he sure wrote a lot of things (or alternatively, transcribed a lot of things dictated by Allah) which are awfully easy to interpret that way: http://www.yoel.info/koranwarpassages.htm . Apple, on the other hand, tends to steer well clear of telling anybody to kill anybody, as far as I know.
nice article! another blog post that push me to leave svn
I'm getting one for my 3 year old daughter. She's never used a touch UI. She has played some with my old laptop. I'll record the first interactions.