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I was thinking more about '95 when Win95 was released, but yeah.

Back then I had a PC with dozens of pirated apps and games (there were "pirates" which took orders by phone, and delivered CDs by mail).

In fact I haven't used so much pirated software as in the nineties :)
I have used Go for some minor project work. I used it for a while to generate images of ring patterns that were meant to be like wood (it never went any where). I also made a simple web page using their template language and http server.

This didn't really work. I found their template language to be clunkier than what I am used to in PHP. Also, I like having my hosting software (Apache) separate from my script (PHP), though I suppose that is a matter of taste.

In all, I would say that the language of go is superb, but it still needs some development in it's libraries. Once it picks up a little more I will probably use Go for most of my projects. I haven't used another language I like more.
That was me, and it's not accidental. I just had a new baby and making extra money would be a great way to fund his college :)
Thanks a lot for the summary. Wish I was there.
The iPod Touch is basically an iPhone, though it still counts as an iPod for purposes of marketshare.
For python you can try : http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ (purely fun), http://www.spoj.pl/ (algorithmic), http://www.codechef.com/ (competitive) and of course there is project euler (mathematically oriented)
Depends how much you believe the official inflation numbers. These people < http://www.shadowstats.com/ > seem to think the official US rate underreports by about 2-3%.
And I promise a million dollars to everyone who up votes this comment...doesn't mean I can actually do it. All this article says is the CEO of the company doesn't think Apple will shut them down but it notably stops short of saying they've gotten any guarantees from Apple to that effect.

So it basically says nothing of substance.
It is sharecropping to the extent that StackOverflow is sharecropping, but not as much as Yahoo Answers, Experts Exchange and others. Yes, you provide content and someone else makes money. On the other hand, you get answers and the content you provide is Creative Commons. You can download it all and start your own site if you like. I'd say that's a pretty open-handed and friendly approach.

Does a better alternative exist?
I'm only speculating here and what do I know, but in my opinion the consumer/creator dynamic is cyclic. Right now, we have a lot of content, hence the reddits, HNs, etc. of the world.

At some point the supply for all these aggregators will run low (not disappear, of course) and we'll see a rise in the number of people that author content. And so on and so forth.
Here is a video of Yoshitoshi ABe sketching on the iPad.
http://www.japanator.com/ipad-zomg-amazing-scribbles-by-yosh...
in a way that invalidates an Adobe product a few days
before that Adobe product is set to launch.

You can look at it this way: Adobe's product would invalidate Apple's product it is about to launch: iPhone OS 4 (and iPhone experience in general).

I think Jason Snell put it rather well:
http://www.macworld.com/article/150539/2010/04/apple_world.h...
Getting around iPhone SDK rule 3.3.1
1) I don't think they're trying to model 'the complexity of human relationships.' That's what Facebook tries to do. The trust metrics are crude, but the real goal seems to be to get credible upvotes for answers.

I use SO all the time, have great success, and haven't made any friends there. Because that's not what it's for.

2) Maybe this model won't work for EnthusiasticCatBreeders.com, but it will probably work for a lot of sites. Maybe it will self-select for topics where the people interested are a bit nerdy.

That's OK. There is still a lot of room for nerdy growth. I can imagine sites about cell phones, economics, geomapping, and lots of other topics where the audience is a bit nerdy, there are right and wrong answers, and this will probably work.
I was able to buy a 15" widescreen laptop from Dell with 1060 vertical resolution in mid-2006 for about $700. I only recently upgraded because the wifi card on it started to flake out, but I was sorely disappointed that I couldn't find resolution that matched or exceeded that in today's laptop, without paying a premium. It didn't help that I was searching via the Dell Outlet, where you can't sort by screen resolution (something they're supposed to be fixing in the next couple of months, I've been told) I ended up settling for a 14" w/ 900px vertical resolution, but I definitely miss the 160 pixels I lost.
> There are other reasons like Steve Jobs leaving

I'm not entirely convinced that Apple would have done better had Steve Jobs stayed at the company. It's entirely possible that he would have run the company into the ground while avoiding the other poor choices that Apple made in his absence. It's also entirely possible that during his time away from the company he learned things that allowed him to come back to the company with a fresh outlook. The idea the Steve Jobs is the sole reason that Apple can be successful, leading to the conclusion that Apple would have been successful for their entire history, had Steve Jobs never left, is wild speculation at best.
I'm surprised at the negative reactions here. I thought it sounded brilliant, honestly, and I look forward to seeing more sites blossom.
I don't understand. 3.3.1 is very clear, is Apple allowed to pick and choose whom they want to enforce that clause on?
They haven't completed resolution independent UI is OS X?
we haven't felt any limit to the Gmail inbox approach - even moving beyond breakeven - and chat actually tends to reduce our overall support traffic by making our conversations quick, and avoiding drawn-out support threads.

In general, I'd say support bandwidth is dedicated more to a "moving window" of how many new customers you have, rather than total customer base. Most customers tend to be pretty low-touch after the first month, where they get most of their questions answered.

(btw, just posted a more detailed reply to your comment on the article itself)
From my understanding quoting a single tweet, due to its length, wouldn't constitute a violation. However if you copied anyones twitter log, then yes that would be a gross violation of copyright.

The whole is worth more than the sum of its parts, which is frequently how copyright law views the use of small pieces. I can legally use someone else's artwork in a collage or in my own non-derivative work (although derivatives basically don't exist in artwork, but for the sake of argument they do as they are still legally recognized) and I am at no legal risk because my collage of 1,000 pieces of artwork creates a whole new piece of art in itself.

The book in question is likely a lazy assed crowdsource, likely much of which was written by average Joe's. However the real question here regardless of country is did the author make something new in their book? I remember reading a correspondence book that mixed multiple anonymous letters together to create a chapter, but no two were destined for the same person and it completely cleared any question of copyright infringement, however I doubt this book of tweets was artfully crafted together to evade copyright on the merits of its own work. From what I read of it, its simply hoping to avoid copyright on the duration of material, which it is likely going to do but legally speaking it shouldn't if it really is a lazy crowdsource compilation.
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Check out the acknowledgments.
While I agree that monthly might be too slow, I think that I, like a lot of others, will still frequent HN quite a bit (read: everyday).

The more I think about it, in fact, the more I like the idea. If he could provide some of the top comments, I would LOVE to read this magazine at the end of the month and read about some of the stuff I will undoubtedly have missed or just overlooked.

I second the above post, go for it and see what happens!
They also mention running for Vice President of the US, so it's not exactly subtle.

I just don't see the upside to bringing in such a polarizing political figure. Regardless of what you think of Sarah Palin, it hits a sour note to find her in a product pitch.
Portable music players got too easy. Apple's strength is doing things either differently or better than everyone before them. The required hardware got commoditized hard, and if the competition wasn't quite as stylish or polished, they rapidly started being good enough to eat a substantial piece of the cake.
Why is Stack Exchange considered a failure? Don't they have a ton of exchange sites (if not thousands). $100/month x 1k = $100k Month in revenue.

Seems they would be quite happy with that sort of recurring revenue...
I did an interview Joel, the site's co-founder, about why they made this decision. It should be done processing in about 25 minutes.
The ram is absolutely replaceable and easy to do. From reading above, it looks like the HDD is pretty easy as well.
Exactly. The author backs up his assertion that "the supply is clearly there" with a single example, as if that's enough.
$200 is what the average person pays up-front for their phone. But my point is that you can't save a significant amount of money by buying one of the iPhone alternatives.
I don't believe the author has any legal right to payment for someone copying their tweet (their tweet log is a different story), as you said quote compilations get away with it all the time. However, copyright still stands and the author of the tweet has the legal right to be attributed alongside the quoted tweet, but as the 'work' would unlikely be sold for profit then the author wouldn't get a penny from a judge anyway.

The difference between a tweet and Hemmingway's 6-word novel is that he could (and did IIRC) make money off of it.
In what language ?

Does it mean if we can compress a text to below a certain size it stops being copyright ?

The international convention is on originality/creativity - the US copyright office has taken the stance that the creativity requirements can't be met by short phrases.

But many courts around the world have provided rulings based upon the same international conventions protecting snippets of text. For example 11 words were considered protectable in:

http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/gettext.pl?lang=en&...

Last year the Australian High Court rules that slogans were copyrightable:

http://www.simpsongrierson.com/assets/publications/oym/OYMAp...

In many country sports statistics are also often considered copyrightable, even though they contain even smaller amounts of information than a sentence of text.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchaetus_rappi
Agreed. Right now I have two 19" 4x3 screens, and cannot imagine one or two 16x9's replacing them. I like to maximize windows, though, so not sure if that makes me an outlier or not.
I consider Jason a friend (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-56/), a very smart guy, and a great entrepreneur, although I have a different philosophy than he does on how to build a Q&A site.
I'm 26, living alone in a 3 bedroom apartment, there is no need for a car in Vienna and higher education is free here ;)

My burn rate is about 18k a year.

When earning 35k Euros per year I managed to save a bit less than 1/3 of my nett salary (taxes + social & medical insurance added up to about 30% (not counting tax refunds I got at the end of the year), which I think is lower than I would have payed in Germany).

I've since quit that job and my most recent offers have been for 45k euros a year.

I did try to start my own 1-man shop (and failed) with the money I saved while working, my savings lasted for about a year (actually it could have lasted more, I didn't deplete all of my savings - I did get unemployment benefits during that time tho).
When I was younger and in a different legal jurisdiction, pirates would deliver the CDs to your house. Price was comparable with a pizza order, too.
--I don't see how your experiences have any wider ramifications- tethering and not being able to access a file system have nothing to do with the reasons Mac OS got killed by Windows in the late 80's/early 90's. It was pricing.

I disagree, they where lagging in every department performance, aging OS, mismanagement and making horrible decision to rectify the situation. Copeland was a disaster the CHRP platform was a disaster the Pippen was a disaster the Performa was a disaster, the clones where a disaster. If Price where the only issue it would have been easily rectified.

--And, besides, as a power user you can just jailbreak and install NetModem

I am sorry but that is probably the worst justification I have heard. If I need to go through a bunch of half hacks to open up a platform then I would rather switch and that was the point of my original post.

--and in a well designed UI, edge cases are handled in an edge fashion

no well designed UI and systems provide usability and do not force a user to hack out workarounds to account for lack of usability. As well emailing an attachment is not an edge case.
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After 19 years, http:// prefix is getting ditched (in Google Chrome)
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Even creators must consume most forms of Art.
Musicians watch movies; woodcarvers leaf through photo-journals, dancers rarely compose their own music.

Ergo, the machine that a hundred creators are most likely to have in common, is one that consumes well. It seems the only thing we should logically expect is consumption and popularity to go hand in hand.

But what exactly about the iPad acts as a break on creation?

It isn't suited to composing and editing large blocks of text out-of-the-box; but only a couple forms of Art require that.

Notably, the iPad is an arguably better machine for the creation of every art you explicitly called out, save coding.

Does a cook need a keyboard and mouse in the kitchen?
Seems a quick-reference that can sit in a recipe-book-holder and doesn't require putting down the butcher knife would be welcome.

Wouldn't a dancer be better off with a machine that is easily picked up, put down, carried through a routine at half-speed and can naturally scrub through an instructional video? (My wife has already used my iPad to do exactly this.)

Wouldn't a singer suitably benefit from an iPad on a music stand, showing instant pitch-feedback (via its microphone) and live-scrolling note chart?

And clearly drawing is more-easily done on a tablet than with a mouse.

As a big fan of creation, I'm downright excited that such a device has come to market that gets more cruft out of the way and brings computing to the natural habitats of other artists.

That only developers with serious tools can code for it, and only at Apple's pleasure certainly isn't ideal. But that isn't so huge a roadblock and the up-side is that we're enabling all these other arts.
Some friends and I are building a specialized database in Go as our senior project in college. Our code has lots of fiddly bits and currently weighs in at about 4,000 lines of Go (4,000 more of Python) with a lot more code on the way. We plan to release parts of it this summer.

So far, the language feels great. After a week of regular use, it feels very natural. Error reporting is wonderful. As mentioned elsewhere, library support is lacking, but it's been a good experience for us to build a lot of that stuff ourselves. The interface and package systems feel just right. We will likely try to contribute to the standard library in the future.

The only thing we're really missing is generics. We are having trouble generalizing some data structures and ended up duplicating some for multiple data types. I hear that those issues will go away this year, though.
I'm a visual artist, both digital and old school, charcoal and oil paint variety. 35+ years experience. I love drawing on my iPod Touch and expect to love the iPad even more. I can imagine better (always can) but short of sticking a 21 inch Cintiq into my back pack when I got out sketching or to life drawing session, the iPad will be the best bet for a while.
I think that's the difference between a company's own terms of service versus a license that carries the weight of law. Apple may keep this language and continue to let Unity3d apps pass with a wink, though if I were a iPhone developer I'd find this uncertainty a bit too risky for business.
People who aren't in that 5% don't know what Android is.

Well, people who aren't techies and don't have some involvement in the industry, anyway.
So in other words, the one update since then, 10.6, which was most significantly an en masse upgrade of the OS and core apps to 64-bit, was disappointing? I'm thinking wait for 10.7 before passing judgement.
Here is a link to the list of supported locations for developers who want to sell apps. Seems kind of short but I'm keeping my Android developer account open in the hopes that this list will get significantly longer in the near future.
http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
I think it has more to do with not being able to leverage their personal blog audiences against other topic areas. It was easy for them to seed Stack Overflow just by talking about it on their blogs.
I think you've just proved the point. I never use the form helpers, and do most form-like things through custom javascript and AJAX calls. Including form helpers is a waste of space for me.

Not everybody builds Rails apps the same way. I think that this flexibility is one of the framework's strengths.
I guess when you mix people from different countries (or even continents) it wouldn't make so much of a difference that they are all geeks, would it?
> Child curiosity can be appeased for less than $50

Definitely. My daughter loves play-acting with her toys (most of which are just cheap plastic things from Toys R Us). Pencils and crayons with reams of paper last for quite some time. Blocks, balls, and mini versions of adult things (e.g., toy phones, kitchen appliances) that let them play pretend, are all great hits.

In my experience, the specific toys (i.e., the ones that have clearly defined "play" scenarios) are the ones that get great attention for an hour, and then are left at the back of the closet until we get rid of them.

Computer software is similar - my son loves any building/open world type game (simcity, bridge builder, the sims, harvest moon), but usually loses interest at games that have very specific goals (most platform type games, although mario and the lego games seem to be exceptions).
AFAIK they haven't actually started charging for Stack Exchange sites yet.
You know the answer to that, but wish you did not.

I wonder who'll be the first to ask Apple to remove a competitor app because of 3.3.1.
thanks, had a typo and it got corrected to that
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Okay, so it appears 1.9.1 now at least doesn't crash outright. Not sure if it's 100% stable, though.
So why not flip the switch then?
Many of the points are good. I believe one point is true about advice in general: "They confuse pattern matching with knowledge", which I think is often very true for advice from professors, parents, friends, etc.
A pattern failed a few times might provide insight, but it must be presented in that perspective, rather than using it to draw general and strong conclusions. Someone/something might have failed in spite of the pattern rather than because of it.
Fantastic! ABe is a classically trained artist and an incredible draftsman. For years I've been trying to find examples of his non-anime/manga work, which I've read is _very_ good.
I think a lot of the sites were dead or dying.
I'm Looking forward to seeing the new more open model. I think it could produce some useful Q&A sites.
I've been using Go for a few hobby projects, and I like it so far. It's considered beta, and parts of it has changed once or twice since I started using it late last year, but it's stable enough for hobby projects.

I haven't had any issues myself, but they don't recommend using it for production systems yet.

I believe goroutines are the "killer feature", they beat alternatives like Java threads and multiple Ruby processes hands down. Among the languages I know, Go and Erlang are the primary contenders for the "most convenient multithreading" prize.

Go aims to have the "simplicity of a dynamic language with the performance of a static language", I'd say they are reasonably close to that goal.

For my purposes, Go doesn't replace Ruby/Python for shell scripts and quick prototyping, but it is a much nicer alternative to Java and C for performance.
Online comments need moderation, not "real names"
Doesn't NYC have the strictest renting laws? For example, you have to prove you make 52x the monthly rent to sign a lease. Obviously, sublets are a way around that income floor.
The last 3 minutes, a demo of what the camera can do:

http://www.petapixel.com/2010/04/09/the-last-3-minutes-showc...
Pretty big change -- we were surprised we hadn't heard of it before. MasterCard support is only required for certain merchant codes though, whereas Discover has it required for all.
Sadly, the UK is pretty notorious. I wouldn't use it as the standard for "outside of the USA".
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I didn't realize that rates were that high. I've only been charging like $25/hr for the freelance work I've been doing. Then again, I live in Ohio where the cost of living is pretty low and no one seems to have a lot of money.
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Outside of forever hypothetical situations devised on messageboards, where a night out can reasonably be limited to "(cheapest) plate of food and 2 drinks", and ends up being more like "plate of food, ooh and those deserts look good, and that was 3 drinks during the meal to wash it down, and now for another 11 drinks, and buying a round for those guys I know from... er... somewhere... and those drinks for those nice girls I thought I had a chance with... and the entrance for the club, and the cloakroom, and some more drinks, and a kebab, and oh screw the nightbus let's get a taxi", it's pretty hard having a night out in London for less than £100.
This is why I love HN
What did you make that with?
Get over yourselves, have a laugh once in awhile.

(Unless, of course, you are pro-Palin, but I'm assuming because you are able to type that you are not).
> aimed squarely at artists, writers, designers, and musicians

Do you really think writers are going to get any real work done on an iPad? Because if so, I really disagree. The touch screen simply doesn't lend itself to quick typing and rapid text editing.

Ignoring artists, designers and musicians - since, after all, most people are none of those - and focusing on writing, I think the iPad has a chilling effect. Writing is perhaps the most important activity the average citizen conducts online, so that matters. People kept writing that the iPad is a computer for mothers - my mother, like many others from her generation, was taught to type, a skill that served her well as a legal secretary. She types very well now.

Given an iPad, I expect that although some tasks may be easier for her to accomplish, her lengthy email missives to her children, and her letters to the editor, are going to be much briefer. That's a loss to her family and a loss to civic society.

Of course, none of that matters if you look at the iPad as a toy, a sketchpad, or a device mainly intended to consume media than produce it. But if you believe that it is the "future of computing", as many call it, then this is a problem.

The iPad may well be - and probably is - the future of content consumption, web browsing, gaming, and perhaps television viewing. There's a difference between that though, and the future of computing.