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No, it doesn't remove Windows.
As things may be turning around... where are we now?
It's what Visual Basic was for Windows - it allowed hordes of developers to write GUI applications for the first time.

It's both. A gateway drug and a doomsday device.

It reminds me of Scratch and Borland's ObjectVision. The educational slant is probably a preemptive strike against Microsoft's attemps to capture the higher educational market through free tools and bundles. Seems a natural move.
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Think about people who don't have an Android phone and are deciding between that and the iPhone. If you are a casual tech person who keeps their machine in good shape, edits a bit of HTML/CSS from templates but hasn't taken the full leap into programming this could be the turning point.

Just like during elections the key isn't the hard core linux user or the unwashed masses who can't use their remote, it's the independents/people in the middle.
Thanks for this. This looks like it'll be extremely useful for me, and I'm going to take a cue from you and track unproductive time, as well.
Funny you should mention Morse code. At some point someone suggested adding a Morse code interface to cell phones in order to speed up text messaging. A decent "Morse coder" apparently can beat the best teen texter in speed and accuracy. I can't remember where I read this but I'll post a link if I find it.
I think he simply doesn't see any real benefits (for Apple) in open sourcing it. Surely the occasional geek will benefit, but there simply isn't that much market pressure for Apple to feel the need, neither other benefits, like it gets with the open source darwin.

The fundamental thing I think you're missing is that the assertion that open source benefits users, hacker and the company is not undisputed. Apple's stance on the matter, for example, are almost the opposite; for Apple it may benefit hackers, but it's bad for users (who may suffer unneeded complexity and confusion) and it's bad for Apple; at the least, it's a distraction and waste of resources to release an open-source version with the polish it ought to take, at the worst it may enable things Apple wouldn't want, like facilitating competitor's devices ability to fake as an iPod.

Not that I think Jobs is actively thinking about it, I'm pretty sure something like this doesn't crosses his mind. If asked maybe he would say 'go get another mp3 player then, or use Windows/Mac OS X'.

By the way I'm not saying I think Apple is right or wrong, just saying what I think are it's motives.
Well as pierrefar said it all comes to personal preferences.

I wanted a keyboard as well as my previous phone ( blackberry ) made my life a lot easier as i come from a virtual keyboard ... which i avoided typing on that one.

Virtuals keyboard come a long way since then.

It all comes down to you.

At this moment if i was you i would either get a Droid X ( wait a little longer, cause that is the best android phone on the market i believe , maybe a little price )
or a Nexus One mostly due to the fact that is the google phone so everything that they do will get firstly pushed to you and you can skip all those "improvements" that are crap from most companies.

But i hope that will be fixed with version 3 of android where they will try to eliminate that need.

So Droid X vs Nexus One !
I think the question is a bit confused-- it's not relevant to ask What blogs, if any, in the last year have joined the big leagues or made a dent in the domination of the established players? if your goal is "starting a blog, in any niche, that would make a good enough income to make it their full time job."

Trying to compete in an already-competitive niche is going to be, as you point out, near-impossible if you don't have "a fair bit of luck and friends in the right places."

However: there are plenty of niches out there waiting to be cultivated.

If I had your dream, I'd start from the other side. I'd be asking myself what knowledge do I already have, and am interested enough in to spend significant effort deepening, that would be of interest to some small-but-not-absurdly-tiny group of others?
I am a UI designer and developer.
One problem is that they all vibrate in the same way. If they had a bit different vibration patterns, you could simulate the type of feel you get with actual push buttons (e.g. you might feel that there's a right edge on the right button)
Mightn't that be a bit of a UX nightmare when you factor in a touchscreen? Yes, you could use orientation to decide to only take input from the 'topmost' screen, but you'll regret that when you're trying to set an alarm/check email while lying back in bed. Or, put another way: you know how annoying it is when auto-rotate doesn't get it right? Double that.
I think most people keep the same wallet/card case/key rings etc for 5-10 years at least. So I don't see why a mobile can't survive either.

I'd actually quite like a metal/leather one. And no, a case/protector just isn't the same.

Do people here remember the Nokias where you could buy different facias, backs, etc - They kinda separated the case in that way which I thought was a step forward. And if the facia gets scratched you just bought a new one and slotted it in.
You want to use a 20% margin for spaceflight/stratosphere access? I'd rather find the right equation.
Just remember: in some places in America, it’s still very early in the morning. Just sayin’.

But as a designer, I’ve always thought it was the reverse.
http://www.madebysofa.com/ maybe?
you only need the spotify-client-qt package for it to run.
matrixownsyou - What are you looking for? A roll call of people interested in UI design? People employed (or self-employed) as UI designers? People who dabble in the visual aspects of their site/app/software? Are there specific skills, methods, or types of output you're looking for?

I'm a User Experience Designer by training, so UI design is a pretty big part of my work. I'm also interested in learning about others like me here on HN. But if you can, do you mind adding areas of focus?

A couple to start with (feel free to add others): User Research, Visual Design, Usability Testing, Information Architecture, UI Development
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The wording comes across as dogmatic; yet the article isn't actually dogmatic - it sincerely acknowledges cases where the functional approach isn't suitable (even including the really cool algorithm of quicksort - BTW you might mention games as another one where mutable state is convenient). Showing respect for alternatives (where due) makes an article seem objective, impartial, intellectual and truth-seeking (rather than pushing an agenda; or trying to sell something). It would probably be beneficial if the wording reflected your intent.

I did find it distracting, because (to be frank) people don't like to be told what they should be doing; laughter is a way to defuse the affront.
Another approach is to appeal to those (few) people who are keen to learn about techniques that will help them. And I really think that that's what you were going for. Changing the wording would help achieve that aim, in my opinion.

So... yes.

btw: I really liked your explanation of linked lists being cheap to modify; and the article in general is very well done and communicates very effectively - I'd say it's of textbook standard.
I'll start -

I work at a startup, so I sort of run the gamut:

* User Research

* Concept Generation

* Prototyping

* UI (Web) Dev

* Usability Testing
I mean, why Macs in general? I thought most people here were using some form of Linux, but I guess not?
Thanks Michael, agreed, it is a bit confused.

With the right niche, angle, and persistence, you could start a blog that you could make a living from, I'm pretty confident of that.

The main thing I'm interested in, and I'm sorry this isn't clearer, is that if there are any blogs that have broken into the big leagues recently.
Indian engineer 'builds' new glaciers to stop global warming [2009]
I wish I had enough karma to down-vote you for insinuating that the current browser implementations of the CSS3 draft aren't CSS.
I dont know the author and why its here on HN, but its easy to make obvious statements that most of TV shows are oversimplified BS. I'd be interested to read his vision of true WWII history though. I think the truth is that its was complex combination of various forces. None of them were evil/good or black/white, simply because it was a story about huge masses of ppl , who are hmmm.. more complex than good elves and bad orcs. Perhaps its hard to see from US but here in Europe its still a big deal that should be touched with respect as so many ppl died and so many lives changed during that period.. RIP
I'm surprised at how many people carry a phone with them everywhere.

I treat my phone like a phone, and generally leave it at home. It has voicemail, so if you leave a message I'll call you back in a day or so. Unless I'm out of the country in which case you should probably just email me.

I mean sure, if I'm going to be meeting up with people it's nice to have along in case plans change. But for the most part I just don't want people to be able to break my concentration whenever they choose to.
Don't force it - you will get an error every single time you do anything with packages if you do that.

You want this version: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/gconf/2.28.1-3...

No deb, but the source is there, and you can build it yourself.

BTW, the version requested is not on debian stable either, it's a testing only version. So I guess you should be on the ubuntu equivalent of testing.
Thanks for feedback - removed my fluff from the main post and focused on the main questions
How to trade stocks
We know most people with no idea and fails during Day Trading , because they don't have the right skills and right tools. With blank idea the whole day trading stocks and futures could be lucrative, it also involves risks most unprofessionals overlook
Yes, I'd agree, "social" gaming is about addiction. In fact, there is little or no real social interaction going on - its the biggest doublespeak since 1984.

Btw this site almost qualifies - I spend WAY too much time reading this stuff.

And why is a moral code offensive to so many? I won't work on getting people addicting to junk for money - and get downgraded for mentioning it. Question: how many HNers do this for a living?
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Apple wants to control everything that you install, read, or listen on your devices. Open up the source will only let people find a way to bypass their restriction rules.
It's all about monopolizing the market.
I live on the gulf coast and started covering the oil spill
You shouldn't need to rename a server when you move it, esp. since you might not know where its hostname is used (e.g. at least one major database vendor at software installation time embeds the hostname in various generated config files).

Machines should have sequential names, services should be VIPs (or CNAMEs if you must) and everything else should be in a configuration management database.
A chat with the cell phone inventor.
I share your concerns for the kick stand and the UV light. Maybe the UV light could be integrated into a docking station? While it's a strange thing to integrate into a phone, some people might value the perceived hygine.

Regarding your last point: How many people would change the inner workings of their device? I think a big selling point is the sleek look of the phone. You'd have to account for a lot of eventualities: What about a second camera, additional microphones etc.? How thick should it be, given that advances in technology could make it feasible to reduce the thickness significantly.

I'm not sure it's even possible to create a phone "for the ages". Even if you disregard the wear of the hardware: A phone design from even 5 years ago looks dated - maybe simply for the fact that it has been around for so long. And while you remain the same design, every company around you changes their designs.

At this point, the material cost of the outer shell of your phone is pretty insignificant compared to the rest of the hardware. You'd have to ramp up the value of the shell quite a bit to make it economical to keep the hull and change the innards.
I was unhappy with the media coverage and decided to put up or shut up. A group got together and took a trip to Louisiana and Alabama (we're in FL and no oil has washed up yet). In the places that have oil it's worse than we imagined, but in the places that don't no one is visiting and the local economies are being destroyed. It's a tough situation to say the least.
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In my household, we've found that place names can be useful for memorable and informative hostnames. Servers in the garage: Japanese cities. Upstairs northern places (being English we use Scottish cities), basement Australian, and the central computer is Rome. After all, all roads lead to Rome!
Agreed. 'courage' and 'vision' aren't all that are needed. However, I've talked to enough people over the years to realize when even those are missing. Absent those, you'll never even get close to the doing. Sometimes the 'doing' part hasn't happened enough simply because people are overwhelmed with too many things to do and not enough time. If that's really all that's missing, but the other parts are in place, I'm more inclined to get involved (although still, I rarely do).
These who downvote silently are the freaks afraid of expressing their opinion.

Isn't the whole purpose of a website like HN to have discussions?
Agreed. Spotify on WINE ran fine (on purpose even, so much kudos to Spotify) but a native version is very much appreciated. So far, it's running far more smoothly.
interesting view on the history. Of course, over here in Europe, we go into great detail when looking at WWII in history at school (at least the European part) and to be honest, I have to agree with the poster - all this feels kind of surreal and inaccurate.

I guess this is already some consequence of history-rewriting going on in some parts, combined with strange coincidences. But in general, yes, the whole story, especially when told in such few words as the original article, doesn't make a lot of sense.

On a different note: I totally agree on his opinion about Bablyon 5. There are few other series that managed to capture me as much as B5 did. Especially seasons 2 and 3 are brilliant and I would highly recommend everyone with even just a slight liking of Sci-Fi to give at least these two seasons a go.

If you want, you can start at S1, but it's quite slowly building up story, so you might get bored out, but in the context of the whole series, quite many episodes in S1 do make a lot of sense too.
I think that the author's point was something else. People expect fiction to be consistent, believable and predictable and yet they take their own history for granted.

You'll hear people complain that the show X jumped the shark because of the character A or plot device B. Yet a lot of those same people don't question much of what they "know" about World War II. And a lot of those who do question it, just give up and say "Oh, well, it's history. We'll never really know, will we?"
upvoted, I thought it was funny.
Oh cmon, it has definitely been long enough to poke fun at now. The last people who fought in it are dying as we speak.

The important thing is we should never forget the dead and forget Europe's folly of WW1 and WW2. Its our generation's responsibility to work together in Europe so it doesn't happen again.
Well.. was more thinking of answering any questions you may have :)
Twain's "Roughing It" is hilarious. His writing style was absolutely unlike any other 19th century writing I'd read.

It makes for great road trip or beach reading; or just download it and read a few chapters: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3177
>>(In case you don't recognize it php will automatically turns names that look like that into an array.)

PHP does not have access to IDs of HTML elements. Or did you mean something else?
This isn't augmented reality, this is a CG trick by a film student.
I believe you have misunderstood the article. What he was saying was that how incredible the story of the Second World War is (and while he didn't say that, I think it's safe to extrapolate and say that the whole history of the human race is generally incredibly interesting) and using that as a reference he has shown that perhaps there's nothing wrong with a bit of "unrealistic" plot in fictional stories.
I don't know about your definition of evil - but to me parts of the Nazi and Soviet leaderships were as close to pure evil as has ever existed.
Seriously, you can skip the whole tech part & just talk about your life. I'd buy the book. A good story can be written by just artfully stringing anecdotes together, just go ask Malcolm Gladwell ;-)
javascript as brainfuck

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1153383
Apple makes better hardware than most of the PC manufacturers. The only mon-Mac laptops I like as hardware are the Lenovo T, W, and X series. I have some IBM/lenovo laptops too. Some of the Panasonic business-rugged laptops (W, T, S series) are also nice, but driver support is often weak.

Linux itself on laptops sucks more than on any other platform -- driver support, ACPI/APM support, etc. all suffer vs. Mac. OSX is a pretty decent Unix OS (although since I use ubuntu for most of my servers, the slight syntax variation vs. linux gets annoying). I also really like having Keynote, Pages, and Numbers available -- OpenOffice just doesn't do it for me. And, I use Adobe CS4 (mainly Illustrator and Photoshop). And for a gui text editor, TextMate is nice. And OmniGraffle.

Basically, Mac commercial software is a big plus, but fundamentally it's about having a great working Unix laptop which requires minimal tweaking out of the box.
Apparently we're supposed to believe that in the middle of the war the Germans attacked their allies the Russians, starting an unwinnable conflict on two fronts, just to show how sneaky and untrustworthy they could be? And that they diverted all their resources to use in making ever bigger and scarier death camps, even in the middle of a huge war?

Sheer ignorance. Simply read Mein Kampf. The Nazis had an urgent program to conquer the whole world ASAP because of they thought there was too much cross-breeding with "inferior" races. They had to get started right then! The death camps? To rid the world of so-called genetic contamination. It's all spelled out in Hitler's books. (There was a sequel book.)

EDIT: Okay, I get to the end, and the article is all tongue in cheek.
Love your work - it must be nice to stare at random desktop screenshots and notice your Transmission icon in the dock.
He meant the name attributes on form elements.

When a form containing <input type="text" name="foo" value="bar"> is submitted, $_POST['foo'] === 'bar' in PHP. (And it works similarly for other server-side programming languages.)
Caffeine pills? Please educate me on that.
my god. I can hear the air quotes.
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I feel a bit silly posting a me too, so, umm, Melbourne, Australia!
It’s a boring concept. Get on with it, Canon, don’t waste our time with concepts. Don’t tell, just do. You are the biggest maker of cameras in the world. Leave publishing concepts to those who can’t actually make the future happen.

Aside: I don’t think photography will ever die. Video is not just improved photography, it’s something different. Stopping the action and making it possible to look at details are unique to photography. Photography is not just a wax cylinder [+] that will be cast aside as progress marches on. (Shooting halfway decent videos is also much harder than shooting halfway decent photos. But, arguably, people might not care about that and shoot their pathetic videos anyway.)

[+] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_cylinder
The reverse is also true for people who are passionate about programming and want to turn that into a startup, assuming the marketing/business side of things is just a small part, a stepping stone to get to that goal.
It is our all generations' responsibility to work together in the whole world to prevent such atrocities happening again.
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"An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences." -- Rafael Sabatini

This article was probably meant as humour, but I can't help but notice that fiction and life are two very different things. Fiction makes sense; life very often does not.
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I do freelance interface/product design. I hand code everything in Vim (yes, a designer who uses Vim). I love Sass and use it on every project I can. Some of my work:

http://riotactguild.com/guides

http://nylira.com/p/2009 (currently http://nylira.com)

http://nylira.com/p/corianderx/

If you're good, get in touch and maybe we can do something together.

BTW- Designers are easy to find. They just don't frequent Hacker News. =)
Because it's a fairly sturdy machine that makes a great portable workstation? For me it's because I'm invested in the platform: whenever I start a new big project I get myself a new one. (Bonus if I can convince someone else to get me one.) I like how there is absolutely zero friction in the purchase decision: I already know what I'll get & I don't have to go through the agonizing process of configuring the machine. (both hardware & software) It's an expendable high-quality tool that gets the job done.
If you're interested in this there have been several submissions of pretty much exactly the same thing:

http://searchyc.com/change+blindness

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060762

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1020494

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1020405

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=995513

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152842

I'm pretty sure I also first saw this gorilla follow-up here on HN, but I don't have time to track it down.
Gist (interesting social media realm start-up)
Hack email, facebook etc.
Purrr kitty apps. The new fart app?
At first I thought the author might be poking fun at the war -- then I realized that he was actually poking fun at himself. People have high standards for fiction, yet some of the strangest things are real-life stories from history.

A couple of my favorites from the Pacific Theater: 1) Radar detected the Japanese strike force approaching Pearl Harbor, but the guy in charge said it was a glitch. 2) The Japanese planned to declare war before attacking, but mix-ups in the way coded messages were processed kept the Japanese delegation from delivering the declaration of war until after the attack, and 3) On several occasions Yamamoto made battle plans that stood some chance of success -- only to have Army guys muck around with the details. That had to get pretty frustrating.

You really can't make some of this shit up.
How is it that HTML5 never ceases to make me furious with it for changes like this?
WWII fits the stereotypes so well because it originated (a lot of) them.

No intellectual curiosity was satisfied by the article.
That's what I got out of it too. "Believable" or "realistic" often translates to "conventional" or "predictable." Fiction authors tend to toe the line between them very carefully; yet some of the most respected literature around tends to be based on a ridiculous or fantastic premise. Examples: Moby Dick, the Odyssey, Don Quixote, the Metamorphosis.