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I'm willing to bet that they went with what was ready to demo, rather than what they have planned. The stuff they've displayed seem fairly simple all things considered. However, I think they have a problem, what with twenty ways of doing things. Expose, Mission Control, the Launch Pad, the Doc, App folder, Spotlight, Spaces.

However...

Mac App Store will be huge. Their is every reason to think this.

Touch interfaces: it's not so much touch as reacting to touch inputs. This is already accomplished in an abstract way with a mouse. Left and right click, moving around, scrolling the mouse wheel. This is a continuation on what's been happening already. Personally, I think this will be really nice for apps. I already use touch features for navigation where I can, and it's frustrating when an app doesn't support it.
Good catch. I do love Bitly, and they've done very well.

That comment was a knee-jerk reaction to so much of the copycatting and lack of originality that's so prevalent in the startup community, hate it.
That it is. It works wonders.
Unfortunately, this is a common response from upper management.

In larger companies, one way to get around this, is to go to Human Resources instead of your chain of command. Let them anonymously handle this issue. If your company doesn't take action then you can continue discussing the matter with HR until it's resolved.

If the company isn't large enough to have an employee handbook and HR then could report to an officer of the company and note that you wish to remain anonymous and that you're genuinely concerned about company security.

You could also consider requesting a meeting with officer+manager or HR+manager and disclose to both at the same time.

I don't see any company in their right mind firing you if you do this -- and are genuinely concerned for the security of your employer and it's clientele.
They have an army of Grandmas testing this stuff. If they can't use it it gets rejected.
One would have to unsubscribe from almost every popular subreddit to avoid that kind of thing. IAmA is full of "I grew up in a Christian household where I was abused by being taught that religion is good, when I turned 24 I snapped out of it, AMA" or "I am a sex worker, AMA" or "I have sexual fantasies about gravy, AMA", and the comments are usually about what you'd expect; users congratulating each other for not being religious any more, etc., and if someone comes in and tries to defend it, just by virtue of defending a religious viewpoint, they are downvoted to oblivion.

The attitude prevails throughout almost every popular reddit.
It is silly to say "Has anyone checked the 20 year return on a master's of fine arts degree lately". The 20 return on a swimming class at the Y may not be that great either, but at least you learn how to swim.

But MBA programs advertise themselves as producing higher earners.

I'd like to propose a few hypotheses -- I think the truth is a mixture of these:

* There is no special skill at managing business, any more than there is a special skill at reading goat guts or tarot cards. Trends in outsourcing, in large companies shedding their disparate divisions into separate companies, are a tacit admission that the person who knows how to manage one way of making money has no special capability in another. This often goes under the motto "focus on core competency", and the very MBAs who once claimed a competency in managing business now admit that the best strategy is to pick the money maker that is somehow already working and just ride it.

* In contradiction to the above, there is such a skill as general business management; however, like debugging, certain kinds of highly end programming, medical diagnosis and bedside manner, it can be learned but not taught. The only hope for acquiring it is to do it as much as possible, there is some subtlety of the skill that is simply not communicable from one human to another.

* MBA programs are actually a kind of negative education, in that they make the participants stupider. That this is possible in humans is demonstrated by examples of cults and other fanatical movements. Like a cult compound, the MBA program provides constant uncritical validation of particular points of view, and isolation from the rest of the world, particularly the cold, hard realities of real work.

Much of the criticism of MBA programs applies to other higher education as well, of course.
Tell HN: do we need this?
I created a quick prototype at http://weneed.shapado.com/ of a service to collect ideas and discuss them at the moment. My question to you is if this is a good idea, if we need such an engine and if you will use it?
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Engadget does a full review of WP7. Spoiler: WP7 is very dissapointing.
Well my hypothesis is that regardless of one's opinion of the value of mathematics to programming or mathematical knowledge, one is likely to advocate that a strong mathematical background correlates with opining one's given assessment of the value of mathematics to programming ;)
I have no idea where you're getting this from, it sounds like prejudice. To wit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA
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There would be no 'Mad Men' - what would I watch on sunday night? :)

Mad Men is more about an idealized, distant and long forgotten world, than it is about advertising or ad agencies, or an accurate historic record. The details might be accurate, but the choice of this particular story-line, at this order, with these particular characters, is more a reflection about the mind of the show author(s) more than anything.

It's what all the authors of the series long for; a place where men looked good, got paid to do "creative" work, and had 99 "girl" problems. It's more about Today than yesteryear; the slightly more refined tastes of Porky's generation.

In the future, your series of choice might be about a gang of environmental activists who are members of an ad-busting and "culture jamming" crew, with connections to the Cribs gang, the break-dance scene, and who just happen to be mad demo coders and phreakers. In other words, the popular art depicting today's world will be a caricature reflection of whatever surviving lore, confirmed by exhaustive records, since all of those things exist today, or existed until recently. Everyone born after 1980 might as well be referred to as "cyber-punk".
Has Microsoft fumbled its tablet vision?
Google Cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6D9e6fs...
I think this is a very narrow view of it all. At the risk of sounding like someone who has drunk too much of the Apple kool aid, here's the big picture potential of all of this together...

If apple makes this a cohesive environment. Download, Launch apps, and full screen modes, then we are looking at the next step past the window/mouse GUI -- at least for the masses.

iOS and the iPad has been successful in part because of how simple it is to use. Touch metaphors make a lot of sense to non computer people. Not sure if it necessary makes as much sense abstracted to a trackpad interface but certainly one window at a time is much easier for novices to understand.

Think of the mom test where I want to talk my mom through installing an app. It's crazy how hard it can be with freely floating windows and disk images and downloading off the internet. App store and launched interface? I think this could be very big.

Now that said this sort of interface simplification has been tried for years... So we will see if it sticks this time.
Somebody trusted to have good taste looks at them and tells you if they are complex or less than very good.

It's slightly subjective in that an experience is inherently subjective, but UX is Apple's bread and butter. People expect it to be important to them.
I don't think it's the same thing here at all. Look at the item you posted -- there's a lot of agreement and disagreement going on, and both affirmative and negative viewpoints have good scores. The discussion is relatively civil and sensible. It's not that someone occasionally posts that kind of article, it's that all those articulately and civilly offering opposing viewpoints are considered enemies instead of enrichers, as they should be and at least relatively often are here on HN.

Also, I think on HN a story called "Socialism saved the miners" could have been front-paged and had a similar discussion. On reddit, if you post something that doesn't fit with their preconceptions against religion, capitalism, etc., all you can hope for is < -100 karma.
This would kill a human if it hit them. Can't see it ever being used in a non war situation.
I believe that's what most people will do, unless Apple expressly forbids it.
Think of a new interface... like a mind map.
Awesome find, I'll have to keep that one handy for other similar analogies :D
Is Kleiner Perkins about to announce a Facebook fund?
I regret immensely having bought a macbook (the only Apple product i own), i didn't know they were this nazi, this only reinforces my regret, i'm never buying an Apple product again.
oo~ number 7 is interesting
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I missed you being in negative land, but it may have been a simple result of your remark being both silly and flip at the same time. Silly in that you don't address the substance of the point and flip in that you felt the need to invoke the T-Shirt cliche.

Obviously getting software onto desktop computers has happened before. You're ignoring the power of Apple's approach.

I mean, what, should we stick with distributing everything on 3.5" floppy disks because that, once upon a time, worked? Cardboard boxes? Advocating to maintain a 30 year status quo on anything is... questionable, but doubly so on something as crucially important and evolving as digital distribution.

Similarly, I think you'd be downvoted for saying something like "Already do styling in HTML, works fine, t-shirt, blurgh" in a thread about the power of CSS3. Sure one works. But the new method works better.

The amount of work you simply do not have to do with Apple as your App Store distribution partner is incredible. Instead of giving away a piece of software because it wouldn't bring in enough money to offset the trouble and cost of a licensing mechanism and merchant account, you can throw it onto the App Store for $5 and make a bit of cash in a few clicks.

That's new.
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At least they are open about it.
This has already been front paged. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1813445
It wasn't smart of you to run an exploit you didn't understand on a box you didn't control. In this case, there was virtually no risk that you could have destabilized the machine. But for many of the last several years's Linux privilege escalation bugs, that isn't the case; they involve corrupting kernel memory and while the odds of them going seriously awry are remote, they aren't nonexistent.

To put this in perspective: assessing the security of app servers is my day job, and I would typically ask before running a privilege escalation exploit on a box I had gained access to.

Your boss overreacted, but unlike the rest of this thread, I don't think there are tea leaves to read. Had you done this on a prod server, your boss might have even been right.
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How would you imagine that? (This is just set up in a few minutes on shapado.com, so it can get a lot better for sure!)

Can you sketch it?
thanks a lot. this will feed my mind for the night.
Speaking of PF, I am enjoying the new David Gilmour & The Orb album. There's a special headphone mix that I listen to when working.
3 is actually a quite valid point for embedded. Any swap actually will be expensive when it comes to keeping cache lines clean. The correct answer in that case is just to not swap the variables, and instead swap their uses later on:

int x, y;
...
SWAP(x, y);
foo(x, y);

becomes

int x, y;
...
foo(y, x);

(naturally, this is why I still eagerly await the arrival of a C compiler that has macros with LISP power)
all Android phones have three sets of restrictions:

1.) Restrictions imposed by Google, which you are free to ignore if you stick to just the released source code of Android (like the Market or their proprietary apps)
2.) Restrictions imposed by the Manufacturer (which you could ignore by making your own phone)
3.) Restrictions imposed by the Carrier (which you can presumably ignore if you make an unlocked GSM phone).

Working outside of all three of those restrictions would basically put you in the same category as OpenMoko (which while an enterprising idea was pretty much guaranteed to not go anywhere).

So I'd agree, "you" can go create a phone without any of the carrier restrictions, provided you are a handset manufacturer. I'm not a handset manufacturer, so I can't.
No doubt... keep it up.

http://www.mindjet.com/
As PG might say, the primary killer of start-ups is the start-ups themselves, not any other competing force.
I built http://www.thehiringsquad.net/ last weekend with some friends to solve this same problem.

There's some confirmation you're on to a common problem.
"Remember when I said that netbooks aren't good at anything and they're just cheap laptops?"

http://i.imgur.com/51f9p.jpg
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None whatsoever if I can possibly help it. When music is on I listen to music, pretty much inevitably, and to the detriment of my focus on anything else.

In noisy situations I listen to ambient music. This is, frankly, not music I listen to at any other time, but it serves its design purpose of filling the sonic space without overly engaging my attention.
I agree the backlit keyboard is so nice on the MBP - I'm guessing next year's Airs will get it...
The weakness up until recently with Mac screens has been the res. I actually didn't buy a 15" Macbook Pro because it didn't have 1680x1050 when I was in the market. I figured if I was going to be annoyed by 1440x900 at 15", I may as well be annoyed and save a bundle by going with a lowly Macbook.

1440x900 on a 13", however, makes things interesting. My next purchase was going to be a 15" Macbook with the 1680 screen. Now, I'm not so sure. I think my shoulder prefers that I carry a lighter load in my bag.
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It has a few huge improvements:

* Much higher resolution: 1440x900, up from 1280x800. This brings it from the 13” class to the 15” class. I’ve always wanted a light 13” notebook with a 15”-class screen resolution, and Apple just released one.

* SSDs only. The old Air base-model’s 1.8” hard drives were unbearably slow. SSDs have always been the only sensible option for the Air, and it’s nice that they’re now the only option.

* Two USB ports instead of one. This matters more than you’d think.

* An SD-card reader (13” only). Useful if you often needed that USB port for a card reader, although this isn’t a great photo-management computer.

* Ports that are perpendicular to the desk and aren’t behind a flip-down door. So you can probably use any square-ended MagSafe adapter you already own to charge it without hanging the corner off the desk like with the old MacBook Air.

"""

My Lenovo x200s from like two years ago has a 12.1" 1440x900 screen, an SSD (option when I bought it, I did not, but the option was there), three USB ports (though I tried to plug in a bus-powered external drive today and the two plugs it had did not reach the spread of the ports on the laptop, thankfully it worked fine without the second plugged in), and an SD card reader. Just sayin'.
I imagine at some point Google will make Go their fourth official language, when they perceive it is mature enough. I do hope they'll add a Go version of App Engine, as well.
Or just use mine. http://www.squarechat.com
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I was expecting resolution independence to be part of today's announcement. No dice.
And much like Launcher was a clunky version of a pinned folder, I'm not sure I see the utility of the Launchpad over keeping a folder of all your apps in the Dock.
Nice writeup. Did you consider using Google's Prediction API before rolling your own recommendation system?

http://code.google.com/apis/predict/
Finding security vulnerabilities can be helpful for an important system.

It sounds like this is just a test/staging box inside the network. What's the threat to a system like that, that it's worth your boss or your time?

I agree with other commenters that running privilege escalation exploits on a system that DOES matter would be even worse, due to the potential for side-effects and damage.

Good curiosity and energy, but you can find a lot of better ways to channel it.
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YC Winter 2011 Applicants Live Web Chat Tonight @ 8:30pm [Pacific]
So I setup a simple, yet functional node.js chat room, for YC Winter 2011 applicants to meet other applicants, and chat about their ideas and businesses. Nothing official,
I'm not associated with YC at all.

We had some great discussions last night, but I'm am setting up a more definite time for tonight at 8:30pm [Pacific].

The url is: http://www.nodejscloud.com:8001/

I am a Winter 2011 YC applicant, and my username in chat is Justin.

I will keep the chat room up 24/7, probably through the November 1st announcement for others to pop their head into and chat.

See you there.
Scarier idea: Apple charging $400,000 for special developer-only hardware.

I mean, if we are going to be making up unlikely scenarios out of whole cloth, why stop at half-measures?
#3: I am a brothel keeper, AMA
#13: Waitress at high-end strip club
#15: "Evangelical pastor's kid". Inside: "I'm 27 now and agnostic bordering on atheist."
and so on, that's just on the first page just right now.

Of course, it's not necessarily bad to have these come up sometimes. It's just the amazing frequency with which they do, the universally supportive attitude of reddit, and their extreme desire to lynch and denigrate anyone who violates their universal support.
Video chat it not the next big thing. It’s not telephony only better. It’s not instant messaging only better. It’s not telegraphy only better.

Video chat is merely a different way of communicating that might be useful in certain, even rare, cases. I actually think that Apple’s ads do a great job of capturing what those use cases might be. They are somewhat kitschy but they at least don’t suggest that video chat might be useful for, say, restaurant reservations.

Telephones are awesome. They get most any job you throw at them done with ease. Why would anyone go through all the trouble of buying expensive stuff and setting all that technology up and then paying much more just to get a grainy stuttering picture?

That was the situation until only a few years ago. If you want people to actually use video chat in those rare instances when it’s appropriate you have to make it really frictionless. Skype does a great job at that and I think Apple is also doing quite well, at least if they can increase interoperability in the future.
That doesn't sound quite right. Dividends, capital gains, and interest are forms of income not requiring FICA right?

It seems like FICA should only be for selling your labor.

I think the 120k figure is wrong too but I'm on an olden first gen iPhone so I can look it up.
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By "language" does 2.22 mean programming language or i18n?
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No, some people on a website called reddit.com raised money for people in need. 'Reddit' isn't a person, it is a thing.
I liked this like of my troll of your troll
Ouch. I disagree with Semil Shah, even though I'm all for going off on your own.

I know of many successful writers that freelance for various publications. There is a huge difference between doing that and running a publishing business.

Having to compete in this day and age with a myriad of news sources, when many formerly strong publications are getting beaten and watered down having to compete with the free online world of publications, is not going to be easy.

I think you'd need a print mag, personally. I like many others still value real physical publications enough to pay for them. Even if I mostly read news and info online, I don't pay for anything I read online. And having a publication that enough people will buy requires a good bit of money to do the design, marketing, printing, distribution, etc.

In short, what he is doing is nuts.

Again though- more power to him. I wish him well.
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I'm totally zen, or Neutral Neutral if you will, and not attached to anything. Not even Common Lisp, Emacs and Linux... nope.

Seriously, there's a disproportionate amount of irrational pro-Apple and -Microsoft posts here on HN that get upvotes.
So it was not an attack, but now it is one? ( see: http://twitter.com/notch/status/27984231275 That was posted 30 minutes ago)
Doing a chat session tonight at 8:30pm [Pacific]. Join us.

http://www.nodejscloud.com:8001/
You are stuck on the semantics of the word "by" in "Seminar by Amy Hoy". A salesperson would absolutely sell "A Magical Evening of Amy Hoy Brought To You By One Of Our Talented Trainers". They in fact do it all the time.

Of course, Mrs. Hoy can do a lot of things to make it even easier to disintermediate herself from the course. But she doesn't really even need to.

I really don't know much about Amy Hoy. Nice hat. But I've watched a fair bit of training get sold (software security training is a fairly hot item, and we've built courseware and delivered training to some pretty large companies), and I think you're off base here.
Non-Disclosure Agreements are well-tested legal territory, and not uncommon for proprietary SDKs (you should see some of the terms you have to agree to for some company's hardware dev kits).

What about this particular NDA strikes you as being exceptional or impermissible?
I don't understand why users shouldn't support someone of an unusual profession. Are they supposed to get all riled up because someone owns a brothel, or is a waiter in a strip club?

Hell, I remember a pedophile who recognised that his tendencies were harmful to children and had vowed never to act on them. Given that he can't change his condition, I think that was a brave and mature thing to do. While I obviously don't support pedophilia, I think that realizing that your desires can cause harm and restraining yourself from them is not something to condemn.

Apart from that, I find that it's really valuable to try and see things from someone's viewpoint, no matter who that person is. There have been many people doing IAmAs, and I find that critically deciding whether this person is someone to support or to condemn was eye-opening. Can you elaborate on why you find the community's support a bad thing?
That's funny, I was having a conversation with a friend last week about how neither of us ever use the keyboard backlight. Cool to see that someone actually does!
Seconded. Using distributed RCS, you commit often and therefore have a pretty good log of your daily activities.
I think people should definitely invest a few extra bucks on Applecare with this model.
Whether ZFS was announced at this event has no bearing on whether it's in Lion or not. As you might deduce from the set of features they did cover, this was for the media and public. ZFS is completely uninteresting to them. I guarantee you there will be a ton of back-end changes, but they will never be announced at something like this. We'll see more of that kind of thing at WWDC next year.

But despite all that, dollars to doughnuts ZFS won't be in there. But because of ownership issues, not because it wasn't announced today.
i18n. They don't want "MyCoolApp (English)", "MyCoolApp (Spanish)", etc. pollution.