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I remember reading this great article about Woz back when I subscribed to Wired.

> One of the great Woz quotes of all time is his half-apologetic explanation for his failure to be more aggressive about staying rich: "I don't feel attached to my money in normal ways."

> Undaunted, Woz describes for this graduating class his original vision of a technological revolution. Although he no longer designs computers, he retains something of the distracted and childlike qualities of the übernerd, and his delivery is fast, disjointed, and extremely personal.

"All of a sudden," Woz says, remembering his days at Hewlett-Packard, "affordable computers were coming! Computers that people could own! We could have them in our homes. There would be a revolution, and they'd be in every home. And we spoke in clubs, and we had a big club, and it grew to 500 members and it was huge and we just hung on every word. And the big computer companies, the ones that already existed, said, 'It's a little passing fad like ham radio. It will go away. It just doesn't matter. Nobody is going to want a computer in their home.'

"Well, that's right. The computers were ugly and they were big monstrosities and they didn't look like anything you'd want in the home. They looked like some big commercial piece of equipment with switches and things that you'd have to have a technician working in your house to keep it maintained. Our idea was that these computers were going to free us and allow us to organize. They were going to empower us. We could sit down and write programs that did more than our company's programs on their big million-dollar computers did. And little fifth-graders would go into companies and write a better program than the top gurus being paid the top salary, and it was going to turn the tables over. We were excited by this revolutionary talk.

"The club was all about giving, because back then there were no dollars in this business. It was: Give some knowledge. Write down a program you've got. Write down how to build a certain device. Offer some help. Offer some information. Offer some parts at a good price. Offer your own time."

Revolutionary excitement is always sparked when powerful information is suddenly shared. But, he goes on, this is not the mood of the computer industry today...

Wired 6.09: "The World According to Woz"

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.09/woz_pr.html
If the norm is a 5% drop rate, that's a 20% increase.

If the norm is even higher, then the increase is less as a percentage, but no wonder ATT won't release the numbers.
Amazon launches faster offering for high-end computing
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That's such a clever code maccman. Very impressive way to get around Apple's decision to disable WebSockets...

I am already using the gmail widget and its proved to be so useful. I am very pleased that I can now sync it to a mobile platform.

Keep up the good work.
Not only does gates throw lots of money at problems, they follow up the results with effectiveness studies.
Except program don't express natural language, and in fact the required context awareness of natural language is exactly what kills many languages and frameworks. I shouldn't have to know all of these things to edit some stranger's code, it should be obvious how it works.
For what it's worth, I just started taking the Core 5 vitamin set from mercola.com and it seems to really work. I sort of ordered it in a moment of weakness, figuring that it was probably a scam but for 100 bucks it was worth trying for 30 days. I'm only a week in, but I really feel better than I've felt in a long, long time. Which is weird because I was already taking a multivitamin, Omega-3, and 800IU of vitamin D, but I wasn't getting nearly the same effect. Even if it's just a placebo, at $100 bucks a month I'm happy to pay for it if the improvement is sustained.

Anyway I have no idea if there is actually just meth in these and that's why they make me feel so good, or what the longterm safety/efficacy is, but I just wanted to recommend it as an option. It could turn out that you're just deficient in some random thing, and just paying a hundred bucks and taking a crapload of everything for 30 days is a lot cheaper than getting tested for every possible nutrition deficiency, and you'll know within a couple days whether it's working.
Counter troll: Those guys have guilty consciouses :-)
Ah, reverse psychology. Nice one.
> caused by something completely different

Um, from what I saw it was caused by the same thing. You hold a phone a certain way you lose signal strength.

> that seems like a fundamental engineering flaw, and I would've liked them to acknowledge that.

I watched the whole thing and several times it was acknowledged as such. Maybe you wanted them to say it was only an iPhone4 issue and not a general smartphone problem?
Apple is really bad when it comes to bars.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/07/iphone...
Oh man if you're going to be in town in August, why don't you plan on crashing at my place for a weekend? I think you'd get along well with my new roommate, and if the timing is right a few other engineers will be in town hanging out as well.
This is irrelevant. First, the record companies don't have to justify what they do to anyone, as long as they aren't violating anyone else's rights. The RIAA initiated these lawsuits because the rights of the companies they represent are being violated by people who are stealing their music.

This Beta News recovery statistic is short-sighted. If the recording industry doesn't defend itself against piracy through these lawsuits, they will lose a lot more than $57 million. I view their actions as $57 million well-spent on self-defense. I also think it's a shame that people have such low respect for intellectual property that this is necessary.

If you don't believe in intellectual property, ask yourself: how would your startup would fare without IP? If you create something new, no one else has a right to it. They should only have it on terms that you choose, because without you, it wouldn't exist.

Certainly, there is a great deal of benefit to collaborating with others. But without rights as defined above, collaboration on mutually beneficial terms is impossible (e.g., both immoral because someone gets ripped off - and impractical because innovation ceases).
I wonder if it could be skewed by everyone testing it out and trying to get calls to drop.
Yeah, this is what I keep saying. The experience is excellent. A free case? Sweet!
I would bet:

Late 2010: FaceTime support on iPod Touch

Early 2011: Support on new iPad revision

WWDC 2011: 10.7 announced, support in iChat, API's available

Late 2011: Open specification released for 3rd parties.
I went in the opposite direction. I was an engineer, with a promising career path, but became very disillusioned in the corporate [automotive] atmosphere, and quit to work on my own projects as a developer. It was very daunting to up and walk out on my experience and 2 degrees, but I think it was one of the coolest things I've ever done with my life.

Now I have my own office with a huge window, my guitar and skateboard hanging on the wall (they both get a lot of use throughout the day), and I make more money on average (to my own surprise) than I did as a full-time engineer.

I wouldn't trade it for the world, and if I hadn't tried, I'd probably still be sitting at my same miserable little desk in that same miserable little cubicle, with the same slightly wacky boss.

DISCLAIMER: I had started down the entrepreneurial path a few years before I quit and had spent every waking moment on my own companies on the side. I wasn't making enough to quit when I did quit, but I had lined up a few months' worth of contracting work, and figured that would be long enough for me to get on my feet.
Ever so sorry, when someone says something insensitive, insulting and incorrect I guess a proper response could be characterized as a 'rant' as the amount of information you need to convey to give them half a clue is a lot.

The radiation example is related to the statement about oil being 'natural'. Again, radiation and cyanide are natural, but it's all a matter of concentration. Oil has overwhelmed this area and is killing massive amounts of sea life, regardless of it's fabulous property of 'naturalness'. So, while an x-ray might not hurt you, sticking your face into a bucket of plutonium might. A drop of oil may not kill you. YOUR ENTIRE BODY BEING COVERED IN OIL UNTIL YOU SUFFOCATE WHILE ALSO BEING POISONED BY HYDROCARBONS IS DIFFERENT. Do you agree?

By 'Never' I mean 'maybe sometime in the future, outside of a human time scale and definitely when none of us are alive'. The changes to the ecology of this area are irreversible.

It's not propaganda, the lying people on the other side of the issue who try to insist everything is OK because they have $$$$$ at stake are the ones feeding you propaganda. Thoughtful, intellectual honest men like Rush Limbaugh were the first to insist that this man-made disaster is a 'natural phenomenon'. It's absolutely ridiculous. To believe and repeat that ACTUAL propaganda, one must be uninformed and easily manipulated, or have something to gain from misleading people.

To me, killing one frog by accident with my lawnmower is upsetting. These people are killing millions of animals, then dumping more chemicals in the ocean for PR purposes. They WILL be killing people through their actions, if you're concerned at all about that. Of course, this is on top of a scene of fishing industry whose main plan is to go around dredging with heavy chains ont he ocean floor, or dragging 500 meter nets, keeping what they want, killing the rest and throwing it back. It's not even 'collateral damage', to these people, ocean life is as worthless as shit. Sorry, some of us disagree.
Body language from Q&A is telling:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/07/iphone...
I'll get a case and see if I like it. Like most people I haven't really had a problem with reception though.
Awesome! I was curious how gordon ramsay search would turn up because he has plenty of videos from his tv shows yelling at people, but I love his recipes. Your results only contained his recipes, very nice.
Yes, that is the depressing truth about the app store: it works like a magnifying glass for society & the only conclusion I can draw is ... junk sells.
Morbid curiosity.. what do the numbers look like for the reverse state-change?
>Um, from what I saw it was caused by the same thing. You hold a phone a certain way you lose signal strength.

Apple is playing some extraordinary deception with that. They're comparing a death grip on phones (which is entirely unnatural and I certainly don't hold a phone like that), and saying "See, it's all the same".

That isn't the issue. The issue is ruining the profile of the exposed 3G antenna by electrically distorting it (whether with your body or against the GPS antenna).

It was pretty clear when he talked about the 3GS and cases -- a death grip with or without a case will yield exactly the same outcome. But they're trying to conflate the downsides of an external, unavoidable antenna with holding the phone in a ridiculous fashion.
Also Rotterdam
Google used to do that - if you remember their "Great people needed" campaign from 2002-2005, they did fun stuff like putting coding problems on billboards that solved to the phone number you had to call to submit to apply, or the "Google Labs Aptitude Test" that was basically a parody of standardized testing.

I think the reason they don't anymore is that they're a household name. They get tons of applications without any clever tricks. In some ways, I think this is too bad, because it attracts applicants who (in JWZ's words) "want to work for a successful company instead of working to make a company successful." But there's really no way to turn back the clock and make Google hip & unknown anymore.
The people who don't have iPhones are really upset about it, though. Perhaps Apple should send them some free stuff.
In reference to the "x marks the spot" they claimed that it "showed you where to cover the antenna", trying to draw a parallel with covering the internal antenna on any other phone.

That is ridiculous. You aren't "covering the antenna" when you cover that spot. The antenna is the big strip of metal above that spot. Instead you're upsetting the profile of the antenna, which is entirely different.

The presentation was incredibly deceptive and flawed.
Remember the movie Startup.com? WSJ interviews the co-stars a decade later
This doesn't compute to me. What Woz is doing sounds similar to what the Gates' are doing. They are both working to improve the world in their own way. You haven't given any real reasons why one approach (teaching 5th graders) is better than the other (running a multi-billion dollar foundation). I'm not arguing that one is better than the other-just that they are different. Also, as you pointed out, they are both "throwing their money at it"-the only difference is the destination.

As a side note, you speak as if it's obvious that a smaller student body (and class size) doesn't equate to higher achievement. This knowledge may be more commonplace now, but the premise that smaller student bodies do equate to higher achievement has been one of the basics of school reform and school funding for some time now. Finding out the fact that this is actually a flawed assumption has a huge effect on public policy and spending on schools in the future. Maybe it's just me, but I'm glad the Gates foundation "wasted" their money finding this out because it's better than the US state and local governments continually spending (in aggregate) billions of dollars in taxpayer money on an improvement based on a flawed theory. Ideally the government would have realized this on its own much earlier, but you know how that goes....
Apple: White iPhone 4 Will Ship At The End Of July
Yes, as I suggested in another post in this thread, there is absolutely no risk in doing the no-gluten diet (except maybe higher cost of food), so there is basically no downside. Your expected benefit is greater than or equal to zero, so keep it up!
Perhaps then this phone, with it's innovative antenna design, is simply not for you. I'm not sure why Apple owes you a differently designed phone. It is what it is.
I sympathize with you. I'm in a similar situation. I've been maintaining CRUD PowerBuilder apps for almost a decade now and I can't stand it anymore. (I'm using "CRUD" as both an acronym and a word.) My current job is soul-killing and makes me want to gouge my eyes out. I'd like to stay in programming, but do something cutting-edge--the complete opposite of the unchallenging legacy programming I'm doing now. I'm in a more difficult situation in that I have a family and lots of expenses, and I imagine switching from being a senior legacy programmer to being a junior programmer in something more cutting-edge would involve a decrease in pay.

If you can afford to be unemployed for a year, that's fantastic! Maybe use that time to learn something cool or work on a fun programming project, to rejuvenate your passion for software development.
Sexism makes it harder for women to do certain things that they might want to do. Creating a reliable women-only space could address some of that difficulty. I'm very skeptical of your claim that naysayers would eliminate the utility of such a space; after all, the whole point of it would be to shut out social obstacles.
This is absolutely brilliant marketing by Apple. First, they increase the perceived value of the case by selling it for $30(even though it costs them about $1), and then decide to give it away for free.

The result is that if you don't have reception problems, you are happy to get a free gift. If you do have reception problems, you get a passable fix or an option to return the phone. Looks like a win win.
Could you please clarify what exactly is making you unhappy in your current career? True, software engineering ain't for everyone, but you say that you like coding and you're getting paid well. I'm not sure why you "really can't take it anymore."
After two years of development, Wine 1.2 is released
I have only read the gdgt transcript, so if you watched it somehow I'm going to defer to you about anything not in the transcript.

But as far as the 'completely different' thing goes, as far as I know the lower signal can be caused by signal being absorbed by your hand. But what seems to happen with the iPhone 4 is that there is also this shorting issue because of an exposed antenna. But when directly asked about the shorting issue they say it's about your body being a "pretty effective signal absorber".
The language name is spelled as `Clojure' and not `Closure' (note the J).
Awesome results. Sometimes quite lucid (better than some conversations I've had...), sometimes pure randomness.

Personal favorite so far: http://pastebin.com/4Q81v7yp

edit: oh wow.

perl: Think sideways!
ruby:
perl: Where have all the berries gone?

I could swear I've had that exact same conversation before...
And working at 50%, for a competent developer, is also likely to chafe quite a bit. Though hopefully, if someone's really able to tell, you'll be able to tell in much less than 4 months.
It's a great story, inspiring even, why don't you do an HN post ?
I think this is the correct attitude when you're an entertainment company, or a company that does have a direct relationship with costumers, but might not work for other types, such as services for enterprises.
Google acquires Metaweb (Freebase)
Making revenue projections is useful when you have something concrete to work with, but otherwise it gets in the way of actually making money.

The most important part is collecting your first few bucks. Something clicks the first time you get someone to take out their wallet. Like Jason Fried has been known to say "learning to make money is like learning to play the piano: the more you practice, the better you get at it."

Your product needs to be less perfect than you think. The hard part is getting your product under the noses of the right customers - and enough of them to actually make your first sale. After that, you can learn through trial and error - and start making reliable projections.
Ask HN: Any recommended books about Entrepreneurship for young children?
I just read Sasha's Matrioshka Dolls by Jana Dillion. The story is about a boxmaker's granddaughter who keeps losing her dolls to various animals. The grandfather replaces them with wooden ones during his downtime. Soon his collection catches on with the locals and an industry is born. Innovation at its finest.

I am wondering what other stories I should read to my children about innovation and entrepreneurs.
I figured they would do this. Everyone claiming they'd do a full-blown recall was nuts.

Semi-related: Nintendo is great at this stuff. When Mario Party hit for the N64, a lot of its mini-games required rotating the control stick fast. A lot of players would switch from using their thumbs to using their palms to rotate it faster.

The result? Blisters and redness on the palms of kids across the nation.

What did Nintendo do? They sent out free gloves to anyone that wanted one.
I almost replied to your terse OC to disagree [1], but I think this explanation is extremely insightful and worthy of attention and upvotes[2].

I call it the myth of the commodity server, and it's particularly prevalent among software engineers, since the natural inclination is to approach every problem as though it can be solved in software. Perhaps ironically, this often excludes the kind of software sysadmins write, which is deployment and configuration.

Far more importantly (from my POV), such an approach ignores the importance to cheap, reliable scaling of being able to customize the arrangement of the hardware [3].

Pretend that all servers are the lowest common denominator, and scaling gets expensive fast. Often the end result is more/earlier customization of software (e.g. writing a distributed DBMS from scratch, which takes on a life of its own, not getting any cheaper), and I can't imagine that's cheaper than hiring a sysadmin to customize configuration and deployment cheap hardware (which does get cheaper) to get mind-blowing I/O.

[1] I still do, in the sense that I feel it implies that the server hardware or its operation is anywhere near as expensive as employees. I'd be quite surprised if any startup spends more than one tenth on servers as it does on people. However, your point that some people are required when one has enough serious traffic is one with which I do agree and one that is often missed.

[2] Bias disclosure: I'm a sysadmin

[3] Which effective customization requires knowledge of and experience with
So, nothing happens and, therefore, it's part of a chilling strategy? I am not sure if I can follow.
That means they knew something, but not necessarily about the "bridging the gap" problem.
Java web technologies are a mess. I finally gave up using JSP / Tiles / Sruts / JSF and started using HTML / CSS / JavaScript communicating to JSON services that I write using JAX-RS. After doing that my productivity went through the roof and would say it is comparable to ROR or PHP. I can rapidly prototype interfaces and then build the services to back them. The Java web technologies are a huge over-engineered time sink, the good part is there is really no need for them anymore.
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PG's 2004 iPhone prediction
In the Wall Street Journals live blog of the event, Jobs indicates they have a Verizon testing site:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/16/live-blogging-apples-...

"We have both an AT&T and Verizon cell site set up on our campus" for testing, says Jobs.

Did Jobs go out of his way to say Verizon there?
Maybe 1.0.1 is already in the pipeline. They didn't say all the codes would go out today.
I'm really upset that my own "pundit prediction" of a left-handed iPhone 4 was patently false.
Being a hacker doesn't have anything to do with coding, or computers.

My Grandfather was a hacker; he built everything himself and I doubt there was anything in his house that he hadn't taken apart and put back together. He worked in construction, and most of the heavy equipment he used was things he built himself (as in: a bulldozer, a backhoe; earth moving equipment).

In early 2000 he started getting into computers (he died shortly thereafter), he is every bit as much a hacker (if not more so) than anybody I've ever met.
No, because other issues were raised and discussed in the press conference. This is just about issuing free cases.

Let 1000 flowers bloom and all that...
Yes but I think a lot of opinions were formed before the actual facts were known.
I think they are just listening to a question, there.
People tend to overestimate short-term revenue, and underestimate long-term revenue.

It will probably take you much longer than you think to get 200 users, but if you stick with it and your idea is good, you'll end up with more than you ever expected.
"Left handed death-grip"? Ah those damn left-handed idiots, always screwing stuff up for everybody else. ;)
He's also writing (I think it's almost done?) "The D Programming Language", which is pretty highly anticipated.
Somebody probably dropped a quarter on the floor - Cook just hasn't seen it yet.
The people who have iPhones that didn't work were upset about it. Based on Steve's numbers, they got reports from over 16,000 people about it. The flack they got online was completely disproportionate, but Apple didn't help things by telling those who had real problems that they were holding it wrong, or that they should spend another $30 to get their phone to work better.

Edit: I have an iPhone and I live in Philadelphia, where the signal is awesome. We're renaming one of our subway stops AT&T station here, even. AT&T has wired our subways so that I can use my bloody iPhone underground, and it's awesome. I'm not sure why I'm getting downvoted for pointing out that the flack was disproportionate but that 16,000 people reportedly had problems with their phone. What do you disagree with, if you're going to downvote that?
Only if you're female.