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Man the moderation in this thread is biased.

Would whoever modded this down please explain how this is worth modding down instead of writing why you disagree with it?
But does it cover saying to your friend that if the show doesn't improve, you'll burn it down?

Remember that this was not a public announcement.
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Hm, iPod nano might actually be a viable idea.

I mean, now, when Apple (a) stopped sticking to the only resolution for all iPhone OS devices and (b) is putting much higher resolution screen into older package - maybe it might make sense for them to also put old resolution (320 x 480) into smaller package?

The problems I see in these approach are the following:

1. How can one meaningfully make iPhone smaller/more energy efficient/cheaper?

2. Do people need a smaller iPhone? Is physically smaller touch screen as usable?
This could pave the way to a (welcome) Lib-Lab coalition, and win over the support of those who voted Conservative just because they're not Gordon Brown.
You store all of your stuff on your server.

Friending someone gives them permission to pull from your most recent feed.

I suppose that if you really wanted privacy, you could give everyone a public key, and then only syndicate your information encrypted with the keys of people who you have friended.

Then I guess you would use a desktop client or something to read feeds... allowing them to be unencrypted someone else's server would kind of defeat the purpose.

Of course, the real problem with privacy on Facebook is that you can't really have it.

When you have 100+ facebook friends, there is a massive attack surface for your information to be leaked. (In our example, get their key stolen, or simply decrypt and repost to a different server). It is almost a ridiculous request...
One approach: send a url which accepts replies, with a RequestID field. Now you just have to wait for your friends' servers to accept your request. Pubsubhubbub works this way iirc.

To the extent your friends are on the same server, you speed things up more. If you got online by accepting an invitation from a friend, that will tend to happen.

It'd still be better to have asynch requests. I'm not so sure PHP is necessary these days. A nicely packaged virtual machine can work pretty well for a small group. I don't think many people would be setting up web apps just for themselves.
You seem to be on the receiving end of some of that.
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Suddenly it's Smalltalk 80 all over again...

Even if we were to credit Apple for such innovation, IIRC, the Newton did away with files a long time ago. If the Newton did not, then the original PalmOS did.
Indeed. Fragmentation is probably the biggest reason we'll never see Android Market-sales on a per-device basis top what each iPhone user spends in the App Store- there's a wife range of CPU power, RAM, graphics capability, peripherals, multitouch or not, etc on Android devices. Like being back in the world of Windows CE...
I think you nailed it. There's a dichotomy between "silly non-specific" and "silly specific".
All of those happened in the US. This incident was in the UK and unless I'm mistaken the UK had a crapload of IRA bombings in the 80s and early 90s. It seems the UK is much, much calmer now.
It's certainly a cool idea, and very novel and non-obvious (at least to me). Well done.

I'd be concerned about getting many users to install/use it, though, because it always takes up a space on the Home screen, when it'll only very rarely get used. I wonder if we'll see more uptake of apps like this when users get on OS 4 with its folders... I could see myself keeping a few folders of "rarely used utility" apps. As it is, I wouldn't keep this app on my device just because of the "clutter" aspect.

The App Store comment saying it should be cheaper made me laugh.
The absence of files suits a media consumption device. I don't think a media creation device would be able to do away with files in the user interface.
People seem to be talking across wires here. There seem to be three situations:

1) One persons pays for everyone (on the assumption everyone takes turns to pay)

2) The bill gets divided evenly and everyone pays their share (either in cash or by card)

3) Everyone gets their own bill

Maybe it's different in the US, but in the UK (1) seems to be the most common among close friends who see each other regularly and (2) more common among acquaintances, etc. who you see less often.

Number (3) which seems to be what most people are discussing here is pretty uncommon except among students. And places which cater more towards the students market (Nandos, GBK, wetherspoons, etc.) typically have a pay-up-front individually policy.

I don't see what problem people have with (2) - it seems a perfectly reasonable solution. Obviously it fails if someone buys something that's exorbitantly priced compared to everyone else, but in those cases I've found people are generally willing to put a little extra in (lest they no longer be invited out).
When a human first saw a photo did he say 'an etched memory of me' or did he say 'it's a new cool thing called a photo and it's of me'

In the same way I don't think there is anything wrong with the concept of file as long as the abstraction is fairly simple to understand.

I say don't assume humans are stupid. Let them choose if they like files or task based os's. Don't indoctrinate designers to belong to only one school.

I say why only two schools - there could be better abstractions out there.

Think. Imagine. Make a new abstraction. Don't take one of the two existing sides.
IMO, the best free text editor for the mac is jEdit.
It's worse now, because it's affecting Americans. </sarcasm>
Everything on the iPhone is task-centric, not file-centric. The “file” part of completing tasks is completely insulated from the user.

This squares with what you said and with what I saw on the bus last week. A woman with two kids and a Nokia phone was trying to find the video from the school play. First, she went to the apps that were related in her mind, and found nothing. She started to become confused and desperate. (repeating "oh my god" several times) After a long time she said, "Was it File Browser?" She was able to find it shortly after that.

Users think in a task oriented way. Our interfaces tend to be implementation oriented, unless we discipline ourselves.
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If you're comparing the two individuals I think Bill Gates is winning the money game.
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The trouble with this argument is that it is a reductio ad absurdum after the fiasco of the last few years. It's hard to hear something like "they also push the price of assets towards their correct value" with a straight face.

Has it not become painfully clear that the financial system has come to dominate the economy to a greater extent than the value it provides? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NYUGDPFinancialShare.jpg And that this has been driven by the interests of those who profit personally from such a configuration, in opposition to the interests of society as a whole? http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/405/i.... I'd say those statements are hardly controversial to anyone without a vested interest in the status quo.

I grant that "hedging risk" and that other standby, "ensuring liquidity", do have value, just not to justify the existing system. The liquidity argument in particular comes off as ironic in light of the fact that trillions of public dollars provided to the financial sector in the name of opening liquidity to the general economy did no such thing.
Psst, here's how I think Facebook is going to unravel itself:
just like Microsoft not seeing the forrest for the trees, getting blind sided by the Internet and Google, Facebook sows the seeds of its own decline by pushing the social graph everywhere. Facebook has carved out a nice hub for itself, being the most visited site other than Google, but what all these startup visionaries may be failing at is vastly underestimating the usefulness of an open social graph.
If Facebook suddenly finds its social graph baby is appropriated by an ad hoc open network that dwarfs its users, then Facebook loses control of the graph.

How might this happen? Browsers sure have changed a lot in just the past 2 years. Local storage is here today already, but almost no sites are doing anything with it. Google Gears had so much potential, but was too ahead of its time to become a trend.
What if your browser stored your entire social graph locally, and you could configure your own privacy settings to only share what you want with sites you visit? That eliminates Facebook from
being the master hub of the social graph—they are just another federated end point. As Facebook becomes "spammy" more users will want to block Facebook, so they might be convinced to use a local social graph in the same way hundreds of thousands are using AdBlock and FlashBlock. We already know Facebook will kill links to GreaseMonkey scripts that do this.

Alot of mashups and wild Javascript ideas will have to be seen over the next 8 months or so, but I definitely think the Facebook "diaspora" movement will take off once it's dead easy for end-users to run their own social graph programs locally from their own browser. Just like a desktop app. Perhaps even that might be asking too much of end users, the average of whom cannot recognize the difference between their browser and the Internet. Hopefully Apple will start baking new identity features into the iPad, since you know they will nail it as far as being simple enough for everyone to use.

The Techrunch rumor mill does keep whispering about Apple putting Facebook Connect into iTunes, but it seems more likely that Apple would take them on. Facebook will wish they had their own browser to push back with.

It's probably going to be a great tragedy that Apple is so unstoppable now that they can just roll over any other tech company at-will.
I frankly think it's how it should be. He's really good in testing and analysis. Focusing in the solution is almost like an entirely different matter.
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Sounds like he did not make S3 snapshots of his EBS volumes. Ouch. I feel very confident about the robustness of data that I store on AWS because I can make an S3 snapshot, and recover from that snapshot on a fresh EC2 to test the backup. BTW, I changed the way I use AWS: now I always make bootable EBS images, increasing the size > the 10 GB limit so I snapshot my OS setup and data and apps all at the same time.
I didn't mod it down, but it seems intentionally shortsighted. I use both C# (for work) and Clojure (for fun) regularly; I'm a big Lisp weenie, and even I don't feel like I'm having a "far better" programming experience with Clojure than with C#. The language is somewhat better, but the tooling is somewhat worse, in my opinion.

Saying those things are "far better" is just flamebait. If you're going to write such criticism, it's up to you to justify your statements, not up to other people to defend against a non-existent argument.

EDIT: Stop modding me up, holy shit. This is off-topic and it's not important. Why do you want to highlight this self-evident comment so much that you're giving it a bunch of points? If I could have just messaged jacques instead of posting, I would have done that.
Android is the Windows of smartphone operating systems. iPhone OS is the OS X of smartphone operating systems.

Guess which will have the majority of sales and smaller profit-per-phone and which will have minority of sales and higher profit-per-phone, eventually.
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Given that ~26% of the British population will definitionally have IQs of 85 or less

Your percentage is incorrect. I think you were confusing what percentage would be in either extreme range (low or high) with what percentage would be more than one standard deviation below the mean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Normal_distribution_and_sc...
The tools and their quality don't enter in to it, it's the corporate conduct that I have a problem with.

I certainly can't argue with that point and would agree to an extent. Though when working/programming I am less idealistic on this topic I suppose.
http://lmddgtfy.com/?q=%D0%B0%D0%B6+%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0+%D1%8...
and
http://lmddgtfy.com/?q=%E4%BD%A0%E5%A5%BD+&v=i

throw an unhandled exception.

Seems like non-Latin character sets give it bad vibe.
That's an excellent parallel.
It goes without saying that just because Human Photos increased the Conversion Rate in the two cases discussed, it might not help (and could hurt) depending on the specific context of the site. As always, A/B test this stuff yourself.
Please stop doing that. It's bad for the world.
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I don't agree, but that doesn't matter. What's most curious is why a halfway measure is supported at all.
You are right that users think they are better off without files. And I completely agree with you that web applications provide a nice avenue to a life with no files (No access to the local filesystem from within the browser? Great! We'll just store everything in a database on the server).

But then we start to have these situations with data lock in that are definitely bad for users. Take Facebook since it's oh-so-popular to bash them these days. If my Facebook data were stored in an encapsulated and portable format I'd just go to a new social network that respected my privacy and say, here's my data, ready to go. Import it.

Now it may be the case that most users are willing to turn over their data to the application that created it in exchange for simplicity and ease of use. But I don't think that's a debate that many users are having with themselves right now.
Which is great, because you actually provide some arguments. Downmodding like that to me is like trying to muzzle someone, as though by downvoting you can somehow prove they're wrong, whereas you can only really show someone is wrong by bringing a counter argument, preferably a solid one.
"What does can't have MobileMe on my domain" mean?

A number of folks I know use MobileMe to host websites for their domain and handle email for their domain. You do have to "bring your own" DNS.
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iPhone OS 3.2 (ships on iPad) and 4.0 (presumably will run on iPhone and iPad, not out yet) have support for apps discovering other installed apps' declared support for filetypes and for apps to hand documents off to other apps.
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Yes. It is. I meant worldwide terrorism is the issue.
"Because most computer operating systems don’t organize things this way, accomplishing simple tasks can be extremely confusing for casual computer users;"

You can't compare an operating system with an application. I can use iTunes on any OS to play my music (the iPhone is nothing special in this regard). iTunes only knows about music, so all the files are "songs". I can consume any song this way on my PC. And as long as all you do is consume, this interface works beautifully.

But try creating a song, and suddenly you need to know how things work in a little more detail.

Files are not going away, but if all you want to do is consume content, then there are some pretty good apps out there that present your data in intuitive and meaningful ways.
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Here's one where PG was actually downvoted into oblivion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=190451
Everyone knows that the Lib Dems want proportional representation, but the two leading parties don't want to give it to them because it will greatly reduce the power of the leading two parties.

I predict that they will be willing to compromise a lot for that, the resulting alliance will be unstable, the government will have to make a lot of very unpopular decisions, then shortly after it is passed there will be a re-election where everybody will blame everybody else for the things that nobody likes.
I also went to NYU. But I did a series of startups from 1.0 to 2.0. I just have weird feeling once in a while when I in NYTechMeetup, not so much techies but full of business people.
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Bare metal servers showed a 15% increase using production traffic, over KVM.

KVM?
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To encourage counter-arguments, one ought to make the original argument concrete and objective. Making a post to argue against a paragraph of snubs and the unsupported statement that X is just a "far better programming experience" than Y feels to me like getting trolled, not like having an argument.
You're probably right, but in all honesty, if you didn't know Jakob Nielsen before, you probably have never worked with usability testing.
I disagree -- I think they've acquired that 'nebulous quality' over time. In fact, I still think Yahoo! is a ridiculous name, and every time I hear them yodel it in a commercial it makes me cringe.

My one quibble with DuckDuckGo is that it's 3 syllables, none of which roll together. Saying the word google is fast. Saying DuckDuckGo is way less fast.
I was just having fun... hope nobody took it seriously. It is a goofy site and a goofy comment.
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I don't find Clojure all that ugly. I think it's tiny bit of extra "syntax" help make it much more readable. When I see [] I know I'm in a vector and when I see {} I know I'm in a map.
Anagram of Tara Ploughman: "Not Paul Graham".

Before the advent of Twitter, pg would attribute quotes to Tara Ploughman when he wanted to write one-sentence essays. (Since the advent of Twitter, he curiously has stopped writing one-sentence essays.)
Files are an abstraction that allows multiple applications to operate on the same objects (photos, videos, etc).

The argument here seems to be that the cost of the abstraction (user confusion) isn't worth the benefit, and that we should go back to only allowing one application to access each kind of object.

I have to disagree. The abstraction might not be perfect, but it does enable something pretty damn useful.
I'm positive that there is nothing naive in how Gmail uses storage. However I suspect that they are using standard best practices that are common throughout Google.
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page , not keyboard-video-mouse :)
I think if Duck Duck Go went with "double D" as their verb, they'd have to commit to a GoDaddy-style marketing campaign....
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page

Basically the in-kernel virtual machine setup. It's starting to gain more acceptance.
I used DDG for an hour, and although I like the zero-click, I'm going to change back to Google: I've had a few searches like this:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=gwt+log+javadoc&v=

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=gwt+lo...

Which Google performs better at.
Still others dared to argue that the value of what Carr calls "literary reading" has been inflated.

I find it amusing how dismissive he is of this idea. I personally highly value deep, literary reading.

But is it necessarily an inherent good for everyone. Many people prefer to take their entertainment in small chunks and may need the shallow knowledge of a wide variety of topics more than a deep understanding of any one area.

I am certainly not saying that it is overvalued, but I would not be dismissive of the idea and I could at least see arguments for it being inessential for certain types of people whose needs and desires lie in other areas.
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An inferior phone for a dozen reasons

Could you elaborate on that? Everybody I know who has an N1 loves it...
Depends on what you're doing. I read that article a couple years ago and thought "Take that you libevent C zealots." And while I still firmly believe that the JVM is optimized and mature enough to hold its own against platforms that have traditionally been considered faster, I still think there are cases where event-based I/O will out-perform thread-per-request. For instance, if most of what you're doing is shuttling bytes back and forth (like in a proxy). I also wouldn't be surprised if a thread-per-request app took a bigger hit when virtualized (like EC2) than an event-based app.
While people will want to dismiss this because it's based in several devices, prior to the release of the new iPhone, and because it's still restricted to AT&T - all valid facts - the important thing to notice here is trend. Android devices have been gaining market pretty solidly lately; first the AdMob ad pushing statistics, now unit sales... this seems to be one from many more that will come.

Apple has no reason to be afraid, I'm pretty sure, as they are probably happy in having just a slice of the market and still being super lucrative (same position they play in the desktop business). But for app developers, this is a pretty strong hit of future market changes.
I tried it between my main account and a disused one and tweets from the attacking account showed up both through the web interface and through the API.
I just installed it and I installed the Mac 23.2 build a few days ago. Aquamacs is nice because just about everything (e.g., latext support) is bundled in. The plain 23.2 build starts faster and seems lighter. I alias 'Emacs' to start the new 23.2 plain app, 'aquamacs' to start Aquamacs, and can run the default emacs install with 'emacs'. Nice to have all three depending on what I am working on.
Keyword and default arguments are the most compelling, but also unfortunately backwards incompatible. I'm also digging the delimited-continuations, despite the fact that I haven't had a real need for them yet--still fun to play with.

The enhanced REPL is also very nice.
Please stop caring. Its bad for your blood pressure.

Seriously, it's only Twitter. Conflict, famine, and poverty are bad for the world, but Twitter doesn't matter.
Not quite. Populist and pavlovian attacks are baseless. But intelligent ones are not. Personally, I not only distrust the SEC, but I also believe that "should" is a word to be left out of the discussion. What matters is what can be implemented, not what is morally right. It's like realpolitik applied to the context of Wall Street.
FWIW I automatically read it as definition 2 at http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pansies and the potential of it being a homophobic slur would have never occurred to me.
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What do you do when files contain other files in a different 'standard'?
I don't understand why this is "Very surprising news". Why would Zynga want to be locked to someone else's system instead of their own?
The main reason is that it makes it much, much easier to interface C# with languages like IronPython or IronRuby. This allows you to take advantage of those languages' dynamic typing, but not have to drop into C when you need to squeeze a bit more performance out of your code.