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"There would almost definitely be a Verizon Wireless logo somewhere on the iPhone’s case, probably on both the front and back. There may be separate Verizon music, video, and app store icons that you can’t delete. At least one major feature may be disabled at Verizon’s request — say, turn-by-turn navigation — because they want to sell you their own version for an additional monthly fee. Verizon may want a cut of any iTunes or App Store revenue from on-device purchases, the cost of which Apple would probably happily pass along to either users or developers. (My guess: Developers.)"

Apple wouldn't ever let Verizon pull that crap, which is exactly why the iPhone is on AT&T now. They went to Verizon and Verizon didn't want to play ball, there is no way in hell Steve would compromise on the user experience now just to be on Verizon.
Of course I was being facetious in describing them as wasted, just as the original article was. If you really thought of every moment spent at leisure as "wasted time" you'd go mad.

The vast majority of hours of anyone's life are "wasted" in one sense or another, so it's not my problem how anyone else chooses to waste theirs. I just hope that when I get to the end of my hours that the top few hundred of 'em will be enough to justify the hundreds of thousands I spent doing stuff rapidly forgotten.
No, if you lie, people will sometimes believe you because they think you are telling them something they already knew.

Big difference.
I really enjoy watching the progression of DDG and the traction it's gaining. I admire Gabriel Weinberg for working so hard towards it.
That sounds almost like the proposals to add a 1 cent cost to every e-mail sent in order to fix the spam problem.

The main objection was that you would need to get everyone to adopt the new system at the same time. But for IM, the system was already there and waiting.
Main memory doesn't persist across reboots; this does. Hence, potential increase in boot speed for the main OS, as well as a decrease in start-up time for an application the first time you run it after starting the OS.

And yep, no increase in that use case. Faster in the use case of opening programs (as mentioned in the article), faster in the use case of opening small files, and so forth.

Your last sentence is needless hyperbole, and is contradicted by the last sentence in your middle paragraph. Not that I disagree with your conclusion, though.
I agree. I have been working on some statistical NLP code in Clojure today for a client and I continue to be amazed at how concise code can be. One of the reasons I starting using Ruby about 5 years ago was that it is such a concise language, but Clojure seems even better. Smaller code is easier to read and maintain.
I was curious if F# is really that close to ocaml, and it seems they are related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179492/f-and-ocaml with some differences (eg. F# doesn't seem to have those crazy +. *. etc float operators for type inference).

Here's a ridicuously detailed table comparing F#, ocaml, haskell, scala, ML (ie. everything in the article but scheme), at the aptly named http://hyperpolyglot.wikidot.com/ml
Probably because common users aren't that interested in search privacy.
A lot of my buddies are applications and servers.
What they all have in common is a requirement for individualized service and a strong emotional quality-of-life component. If you have the skills to do well in any of these spheres then you probably enjoy a lot of repeat business. Successfully franchising that is difficult because it's not obvious where the economies of scale are, plus the typical franchisee is looking to leverage a brand rather than obsessing-to-excel.

One area where it does work, which you might find surprising, is bars - particularly Irish bars (or pubs, as we like to call them). Over in the UK and Ireland, the vast majority of pubs are owned by retail groups rather than being individual businesses. If you google 'Irish pub franchise' not only will you find an opportunity to open up your own 'authentic' Irish pub, you'll find a large number of companies offering similar franchises. In my San Francisco neighborhood, there are two actual Irish pubs (which have both good and bad aspects; more fun but much worse hangovers), and two fake ones.

They look superficially similar: lots of dark wood, lots of old Irish signs and historical photographs hanging on the walls, plenty of Irish booze and loud-ish music several nights a week (real pubs have a jukebox or karaoke; fake ones buy a piano and hire performers). I sometimes go to the nearest fake one because they have decent food. While waiting for the restroom one evening I was passing the time by looking at the many 'historical' photos on the wall, only to notice that on close inspection you can see jpeg artifacts on all of them! My folks in Ireland tell me there's a thriving light industry in making authentic-looking but completely fake old agricultural/domestic tools, like grass scythes and mangles (for washing clothes), all destined for export to the US where they are used to decorate 'traditional' Irish pubs.

Edit: on rereading, this sounds as if I spend all my free time at the other pubs, but in fact I'm getting too old for that :)
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Dude - chill down, they are dead already. This is what makes them ghosts!
I use emacs and vi at the same time, too. I usually have a two-pane emacs open that takes the whole screen and an 80x22 terminal in the back. When I need to navigate to some config file/log file etc. I use ls/pwd/pushd etc. and use vi from that terminal on whatever short edits I need. I use emacs for the code that I'm writing, the one that's under VCS and everything.
Hmm, I could have sworn that wasn't there when I opened it (I did check because I was surprised not to see any mention)
I read the article and immediately wanted to find out the actual holdings they allocate in their stock-based and bond-based portfolios. However, I couldn't find any information on the actual holdings, which is information that I consider to be pretty important. Do they just buy broad market index based ETFs? Would I be exposed to domestic, international, and emerging markets?

The experience is "dumbed down" to make it dead simple, but I feel that it's missing certain power-user features that would help convince people more in touch with their finances to make the switch to their solution. 0.9% is also a pretty high expense ratio. I'm guessing it's to offset redemption trades, fees, and what not. In comparison, passively managed Vanguard-style mutual funds/ETFs that also invest in broad indexes have expense ratios that are an order of magnitude lower.
A friend of mine did that in california for a few years. He was completely legit, rented a warehouse, payroll, taxes, etc. It's a bit too counter-cultural for me (although I don't have a problem with it) but he was good at it.
That bet would fail. (I, at least, use about:mozilla .)
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this. Gabriel has been awesome at feedback, really innovative from a product and marketing stand point, and has pursued this for over a year. Awesome.

And the karma widget remains one of my most favourite marketing products.
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I think that you are correct about two things: Clojure stack traces and error messages are pretty bad. And, Python is probably the best language for AppEngine because of the small loading request times; with Java I struggle to minimize loading request times (I use objectify-appengine instead of JDO, etc.)
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I heard somewhere that bakeries have one of the highest failure rates of all businesses. Unfortunately I can't find the source now. I suspect the industry attracts a lot of dabblers, folks who know how enough to bake a decent cookie but don't necessarily have enough of a background in retail to attract enough customers per day to keep afloat.

There's also the current cupcake-shop boom going on, but I don't see that as a good long-term opportunity.
The fact that "it" is not revealed by google means without doubt... that photoshoppers are running behind.
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Further, the "figures" don't take into account the possibility that someone who choses to spend time in this way might be impelled to not spend time in some equally "unproductive" fashion during some other part of the day.
You could have hired somebody else to handle the hassle dealing with them.
> The existence of a parser does not imply its availability. As you said "Some of them don't have the parsers available at all (e.g. C),"

No, but it guarantees that, at least in theory, such a parser could be made available. In practice many languages do make it available. Your argument was a general one, that is that all "traditional languages" have this property.

> Actually it does because there are very few "traditional languages" that even approach Python's in-language support for their own AST

It only takes one counterexample to break a general claim. "Very few" is enough. Nothing about traditional languages has any intrinsic property of being parser and AST-free-- it is merely laziness, minimalism, or coincidence that causes many to not. As examples like Python show, it is quite easy to find a mainstream "traditional language" with a full-blown (actually several full-blown) interfaces to the parser available. Other languages have this too, although examples are not incredibly widespread. Lua has implementations which provide an AST, and even the hyper-traditional language C# has the Expressions framework, which lets you parse/modify/etc. the AST of an expression (including, of course, the new lambdas).

It's just not true that Lisp is the only game in town for AST support, nor that "traditional languages" don't have it in general (although it may be true that most do not, this is not the same as claiming that as a group they do not).
It looks to me like they are only trying to prevent third parties from cluttering the official stream with third-party paid tweets. Not really anything for developers to get riled up about.
Plenty, but it's a lot easier for a company to bootstrap and hit $1MM in revenues and be profitable than it is to be the next Apple or Google or younameit.
Exactly, and while you're at it, don't ask your barber if you need a haircut.

I'm sure the low ink warning is justified somewhere on the grounds of ensuring consistent quality, but as long as the prints come out good enough, print away.
A savings account that charges a management fee, can't advertise a return rate, takes twice as long to move money through, has more complicated tax implications, and isn't insured against market movements.

But it has a slider. Sign me up.
So it's passive investing with a pretty interface and a 0.9% fee. No thanks.

Users would be better off just deciding how much they want to risk in stocks vs bonds, and moving it into Vanguard. The major difference is that Vanguard doesn't try to fool you into thinking that a mutual fund is really a savings account.

Anyway, good luck to 'em, but I hope consumers are smart enough not to be interested. Then again, I doubt anyone has ever gone broke betting against the intelligence of the average American consumer, particularly when it comes to finance and investing.
When you think of Google, Bing, Yahoo, Amazon, Zappos, Ebay, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, etc, what comes to mind? To me, nothing at all. They don't invoke any particular image in my head. They sound cool, often silly, and are recognizable, but that's as far as they go. That's not the case with DDG, in my opinion. I think about the duck, start making childish associations with it, and always arrive at the same conclusion - that I will not be using it to replace Google. There's got to be a marketing concept/theory/term that describes this component of brand recognition.
I was reminded of the Qeng Ho, both historic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He) and fictional (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky). Vernor Vinge describes a universe where civilizations rise and fall throughout the galaxy, and a race of space-faring traders ensure that technological advances aren't lost when civilizations die.
Regarding ink, I find that I get equally good results on my Epson Stylus Photo when using OEM ink vs. el cheapo -- in conjunction with the right paper. The el cheapo ink does not work well with all paper. Through experimentation I've found a combination that does work well. The conclusion to this may be that print quality is at least as dependent on paper as on ink.

On my Brother color laser, output quality has been highly dependent on toner quality. The one time I tried to use el cheapo toner, the results weren't simply "less good" but so bad as to be unusable.

Statistically, of course, my two anecdotes do not constitute data. But it may be so some interest.

(And as another poster said, Brother can be outsmarted with the "tape on the toner cartridge" trick)
so again, survival for survivals sake, perpetuation for perpetuation's sake, in spite of everything we suffer?

i suppose being the product of an evolutionary process it's not surprising we have this mentality.
Skype's IM is vital for our business, it lets a team around the world collaborate without interupting each other with phone calls and yet be quicker than email
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People would of course spend their usual "recreational minutes" away from work on whatever else, regardless of that Pac-Man version.
There needs to be a tradition in this world. One hour out of the day, everyone stops everything and does something productive. Read a book for an hour. Code for an hour. Do something, or it's a faux pas.
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Not sure how seriously you can take that critique when he/she thinks the magnifying glass is a magnet. :P
So writing something for 20 minutes every 3 days (which some might even enjoy) counts as a part-time job? It's like saying browsing on HN is a part-time job. Or were you talking about the $5 a day? In that case, yes, you might have to put a little more effort into it.

However, building a blog that earns $5 a day without doing anything(or let's just say, doing a lot less than you're supposed to) is possible, but it's just not ethical.
I'm probably being dense, but what does this actually do? I get that it's cross-platform and that it's a plugin architecture, but what does the plugin architecture actually enable?

As far as I can tell, it lets you create new browser functionality in C++ and expose it (to arbitrary websites?) via Javascript APIs - am I close?
Time well wasted.
That's right, as far as I know; it's sales commission as opposed to the warehouse model. I meant $50 more than you might pay by shopping among competitors: Amazon might not have the best price but you've derived value from the person's detailed insight into why it's a good purchase, plus you'll get Amazon recommendations for other purchases from people whose reasons for purchasing are similar to your own, which is also useful.

My point was that while the revenue is intermittent rather than a steady trickle, the intermittent rewards are individually decent - which dovetails nicely with occasional but high-quality content updates rather than drip content + SEO.
Not sure if I want to upvote this and draw attention considering "a friend" of mine might want to use it in the future, but what the hell. Cool hack.
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I think you're getting carried away with the part of the article where it says that they verified they'd never met by checking google.

The historical fact is that these two have never publicly met. They already were pretty certain they knew this, but checked google just to be absolutely sure. Doing an image search is a lot easier than doing a text search since there's an awful lot of articles which mention them both and it would be too hard to sort through the guff.

That doesn't mean you can fool people into thinking that something never happened just by removing all pictures of it from google image search. (Removing pictures would of course be a necessary but not sufficient step for anyone wanting to remove something from history.)
1. My HTC Incredible has 1 Verizon logo on the front, under the earpiece and it's tiny.
2. There are no Verizon icons I can't delete. There is a separate Verizon app store in the Android market, though.
3. Google Maps offers great turn-by-turn on my phone. Free.
4. MP3 stores are available on Android.

yawn
Several people asked below what viable alternatives there are for small sites.

I know that project wonderful (http://www.projectwonderful.com/) is one that has a reasonably large following.
Surely having something come to mind is a good thing. It doesn't matter if you personally dislike it, what matters is that you remembered it. For every person who finds it crude and unprofessional there's another who likes it. This second group is the market to capture.
What a fascinating hypothesis. The rise of video games seems to parallel the decrease in violent crime from the late 70s to present day and I'd never made that connection.

It's weird to think about how much more violent the 80s and early 90s were in comparison to today, especially out here in New York.
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and your comment reminds me that I'm not alone ;)
U.S. fails to describe wireless industry as competitive
We have a Canon IP4600 - now fitted with a continuous ink system - 500ml of ink for GBP 30. Opposable thumbs and a bit of patience will save you a fortune.

Caveat - We don't archive the output (it may be fine, but ..).
> Most interestingly, it is convincingly argued that Neanderthal genetic contributions explain a sudden and profound explosion in technological sophistication of European and Asian cultures

Convincingly argued? Not really. The Neanderthal's genetic imprint on "modern" Europeans and Asians is very limited, and is stated as such in the NYT article you cite. From what we've mapped so far, the DNA man retained from the Neanderthal is superfluous. There is also no anthropological evidence it gave Europeans or Asians any advantage.

Also, wouldn't the distinct lack of Neanderthal-like qualities in modern Europeans and Asians be a strong indication that Neanderthal genetic traits were not very advantageous? If they were the "secret sauce" of the West and the East, one would assume their traits would manifest themselves in locations other than the "junk" portion of our genome.
I think by "worse" it means sheer performance.

Think electric cars being generally underpowered and containing heavy batteries compared to their internal combustion engine counterparts which are powered by millions of years of natural geological processes distilled into a convenient liquid. Naturally, electrics are getting better over time. Ford and GM must have laughed for years at those silly beatniks and their wacko electric vehicles, but now GM is betting it's future on electrics.

37Signals' products deliberately do less than their competitors (less performance? the analogy doesn't really fit here) but are highly successful.
"Ultra-safe" bonds? "Ultra-safe"? Seriously? They have their own rating system now? Treasuries are "AAA", but they're holding "AAAA", aka "Ultra-safe" bonds.

And I love the .9 percent they charge for allocating your money in unmentionable ETFs. Let's see...SPY charges .1 percent, so if you manually have 50/50 savings/stocks, your expense ratio is a whopping .05 percent. Definitely preying on the ignorant--
looking forward to hit the $1M mark and be featured by you guys :)
I haven't bought OEM ink in like a decade.

Started off by buying one of those refill kits....but then after one of those exploded...I just get prefilled ones.

If you go on ebay you can get a pack of 10 for like 10-15 bucks. Is the quality worse? I don't know, looks the same to me, doesn't run...maybe it dries out faster. I mean it's just ink, who cares really?

And if the crappy ink ends up clogging up the printer faster, so what, printers are the cheap part...it's the ink that's expensive.
Once jython gets to use the new bytecode invoke virtual i'd like to see how they compare.
The last two points are fair, the first two (re: data) simply are not. If you have significant problems with dropped calls in Manhattan you should have your specific device checked out.
Reminds me of this article on Aphex Twin (and others) embedding images in spectrograms: http://www.bastwood.com/aphex.php
Explain Google and Apple then?

Google's main selling points were that (1) it was bloody fast, (2) the search results were better than everyone else's back then and (3) there were no banner ads, which helps (1) a lot.

Apple's main selling point, in its revival form, was that people are willing to pay more for a product that is a work of art.
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Over two years now :)
I spent more time reading this article than playing Google Pac-Man.
You got lucky. Every sane ticket-taking venue, especially in New York, scans the barcodes. I am rather surprised that that particular venue accepts a printed sheet of paper at its word.
Google keeps private Wi-Fi data
Your printer became self-aware?
"Twelve of 17 people [in the focus group] didn't think Kodak lowered cost,"

The opinion of a focus group on what something costs is meaningless. It's not hard to measure the cost-per-page and determine whether Kodak printers cost less to operate than HP.
with tools like Amazon Web services, Basecamp, Github, Chargify, and loads of other building blocks, do you realize how easy it is for a single individual to take an idea to concept to large service quickly?

This 37Signals post, and subsequent ones, should inspire you, not discourage you.
Meh, making people hire (or not fire) those they don't like is evil. If I don't want to spend my money on this guy, I shouldn't have to. If the reason I don't want to is that I'm ageist -- well, so what? Yeah that sucks for both of us, but making ageists spend tons of money to hire old people they don't want to be around, or making racists spend tons of money to hire black people, or whatever, is no solution.
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Video games and more people in prison have a similar result. Ironic, considering being addicted to a video game seems very similar to being in prison. Or so I surmise.
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All the vehicles can be used as mobile marketing platforms. This is a unique quality in these vehicles. It gives them the freedom to provide special services to their owners. They can be used to offer a variety of services. These services include the advertisement and marketing services. And for this purpose, the bumper stickers can be used effectively.
Someone should forward this to the management of Regal Union, and get them to change their policy. They definitely don't scan, and I've been there 5 or 6 times, so I've observed this across high-traffic as well as low-traffic.
Hitting $1MM in revenues strikes me as "about as difficult" as raising a series A if not harder. However, having to bootstrap places constraints on the type of product/company one can build. There is also the time factor. Some products have a right time and place and bootstrapping may lead to missing a window of opportunity.

Trying to be the next google or younameit is playing the lottery, no argument there. Bootstrapping to $10-100MM strikes me about as unlikely as being the next google.
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Does anyone know where I can buy a nice desktop computer with an SSD drive? I feel like I looked on Dell recently and didn't see any. (But then again I'm an online shopping moran)