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> Personally, I think deleting data like this--especially when the storage requirements are so tiny--is unforgivable.

I think the problem is that people haven't adjusted to the new ways of keeping data. They assume their free Yahoo account is theirs, the way their closet is theirs. You know, if you leave a box of pictures in your closet, it'll stay in your closet barring a catastrophe.

Online services are available to serve a certain set of goals and objectives. If those objectives change, your stuff might get thrown out. It's more like asking a hotel to let you keep a box of stuff behind the desk for a while than it is like your own closet. They might keep it for a really long time, but if the hotel changes management or remodels, your stuff could get tossed. Especially if you're not regularly staying at the hotel.

It's not even "you get what you pay for," because paid services shut down too. In this era of cheap storage, there's no excuse to not make multiple backups of key data. Ideally at least one physical copy of important things. Actually print the emails out, put them in a binder, and put it in your closet. Keep one copy at Yahoo, one at another online backup service, one on your PC, and one on an external harddrive. That sounds like a lot, but it's not. Once you get a sensible backup policy and figure out what's important, it doesn't take very long to do backups.

It's a sad story you shared, but not unforgivable. Someone's keeping a box of your stuff behind the desk at a hotel. You can't count on that box to stay there. Now, the problem is people haven't realized that yet. But slowly, it'll become widely known and understood culturally. If it's important enough, keep multiple online and offline backups. Don't count on anyone to hold on to your stuff for you, because if management changes or the place gets remodeled, it might not be there any longer.
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Good article. I'm actually finishing up a small side project about data that we originally built for ourselves to do some market research, but we are planning to release to the public for a monthly fee.
I suppose it's the inexorable march of technology moving forward, but in computers that I've used that have been without optical drives, it seems a little too easy to paint yourself into a corner.

If booting off a USB stick becomes common-place, I would have less to worry about. I know it's possible, but in the machines I've had to do it on, it's definitely non-standard. In those instances I've felt like I was back in the days of DOS. The talk of DRM-ed USB sticks is also disconcerting; dealing with DRM while trying to revive a machine is not something I look forward to.
Hacker news is part of my daily diet and i have to admit that PG is Rock star. Though the amount of money he funds to YC startups is minuscule, the end result is unbelievable. I have been in the startup industry for more than a decade and to me it seems like the YC funding is more like paid mentoring.
I'm pretty sure they are not that stupid. And EA is mostly a distributor anyway, so it makes sense to take that role in the mobile market as well.
Can imagine how much you'd want to charge to do a portrait of that guy? You'd have to use an exponential representation just to write it efficiently.
Online services aren't your closet
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If they would retarget Go to a VM with advanced debugging, then it could subsume a lot of the advantages of languages like Python/Ruby/Smalltalk. Not only do those languages have fast turnaround times due to their dynamic nature, they also have "debugger on steroids" facilities like iPython, irb, and the Smalltalk image. If Go could replicate that facet as well, then dynamic environments wouldn't do anything significantly better than Go.
It's a very nice looking OS, but there's no compelling reason for me to use it as opposed to my G2, or if I so desired, an iPhone so far as I can tell. The defaulting to Bing search and maps would in fact be a deal breaker for me.

Non-existent tethering and linux support AFAIK too. Ugh.
Is that an App Store that I see? Will you be able to execute iPhone/iPad apps from a desktop/laptop?

That could be huge for the Apple app market.
I really don't see the point of an optical drive in a laptop, not to mention optical media. All the software and media I consume comes in a digital download format. If it is your only machine and you absolutely need to burn a cd, then a simple USB external will do the trick. Also, you can always setup a bootable partition on a USB flash drive. Honestly, I have been waiting for this day to come for years. I can't wait until blu Ray and video games via optical media die too. Thank you apple.
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Demographics,

http://www.quantcast.com/reddit.com#demographics

45% Female
Affluance level relative to US internet: 114/100
"There is a high index of Graduates and Post Graduates here."
31% household income > 100K

https://www.google.com/adplanner/site_profile?#siteDetails?i...

Female: 24%
31% Household income > 75K
Bachelor's degree or more: 53%

Yeah this demographic is so unappealing.
Importing a csv list of contacts defines the contact mangers intial setup. You can then setup additional fields and group fields together into "sections" from an administrative interface. Each field can be further defined by purpose (email, text, phone number) so can group email's together by contact and soon you could do other things based upon type of field, you can also have sub-contacts and then the sub-contacts are further defined by contact types so you can group together emails of all contacts by a certain type.

It took me longer then expected to make (about a month) but now I have a totally customizable contact manger that is more like a database in itself, it is searchable and very flexible (no predefined fields).

On the contact list display where you see few fields from each contact you can define what fields are displayed on that list and each user can change that to there own preference. This way the data is out front and may save users an extra click to go see some piece of contact data they use the most.

I am working on building a billing system for the twillio api, keeping track of all of the sms messages sent, phone calls made, etc. Once I am done with that then I can add to the contact manager functionality, let's say you have a non-profit and you have 500 contacts that are going to be doing your charity "fun run" you can send them out a reminder via a phone call and sms to remember to show up, etc. Once you have your contact in the system, you can make "lists" and so your contacts here would be on the "fun run 2010" list for example. Then next year you can send them an email inviting them to do the 2011 fun run...

I feel this is more modern at least in what I am doing as this can be as big as or small as a person needs. If a company has 100 fields (like the cw tv network does they easily have 100 fields which is who I designed this for) then it will work for that and if a company only has a few fields they can grow out to the number of fields they need but without having that overhead right away.
Every MacBook now has an SD card slot and of course USB ports so removable media isn't going away when the optical drive disappears.
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Indeed, a great book. It's also mentioned in the article.
I watched the "ACL" talk the other day and it touches on work-only coding mentality a lot.
Danilo, If the App store was so good for you, why didn't you continue developing for the App store into 2010?
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I am hoping I am not the only one who is confused with his website - how to differentiate where the article ends and where comments begin. Also took a small while to figure out how to access his book list.
Was it just me or did the photographs frustratingly not correspond to the text of the article?

They're describing amazing visual features like swipe-previews and "tappable text", then showing photos of some phone in a random state in WP7.
arc doesn't even pass its own challenge. "link unknown or expired"... great.
At least they'd be saying something more interesting than I Like White Bread!
I'm exactly like what you described in your past. When I'm at work, I am as professional as it gets - deadlines, quality code, testing and all that. However, due to the work environment, I find that at the end of the day I've used up all my positive energy and mental resources to keep myself in line and motivated.

How did you find that extra boost to bust ass in both work and personal projects (if at all)? Right it seems like see-saw between the two.
Dead on. With the momentum Apple has in the mobile front, they're starting to work seriously on tying together collaboration between those devices as in-house as they possibly can.

FaceTime for Mac is a decent contender vs Skype for video chats (mostly in a personal setting, for remote work screen sharing is a huge win).

The Mac App Store is going to be a great success - free apps will list for exposure, paid apps will list because the free apps are getting exposure, and people will use them because managing all your apps in one place is generally easier than managing them individually. Sparkle is nice and wonderful, but for the layperson it's just going to be The Way Things Are Done and be more than happy with it. Especially if they're coming from Windows (Linux users already know how great a package manager is).

By tying the app stores to an account, "for all your macs," upgrades become easier, and people will slowly start to accumulate apple hardware until the loss of convenience from switching away is too great for the majority of users.

I would be shocked if we don't see a large expansion of MobileMe to take on DropBox. If the storage space saved from content-addressable data backing is sufficient, I can easily see MobileMe offering a higher tier package acting essentially as a Time Machine backend.

TL;DR doom and gloom in the future for free-software advocates, as Apple integrates all our devices _far_ too well.
Yeah, I really hate those non-digital optical media that all my software is on.
In poking around for this Visor program, I stumbled across TotalFinder made by the same folks, and holy crap is it awesome. Chrome style tabs for my finder? Hotkey for sliding it in and out of focus? Who hasn't struggled to rearrange two or three Finder windows for some d&d? Yes please!

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Providing independent sandboxed evaluation for every visitor to the site costs a lot of memory. On my Linode 512, it only takes about 90 users before all the memory is consumed and I have to start garbage collecting. If you saw that message when you tried to evaluate something, you probably got GC'd.

I'd like to find a more graceful way of handling this. Any suggestions?
Thanks. I hadn't watched the keynote.
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What are you talking about? Finder isn't even shown on those images. Wanna be specific where?
Redmine's got a ton of core functionality. Wiki, forum, repository browser, sub-projects, gantt charts-- a lot. Simple, straightforward interface with occasional quirks.

I've found the plugins to be mostly non-functional. Figured I could quickly mash together a CRM and real-time chat, but, alas this was not the case.
I'm wondering if the publicity of personal fortunes being made inspired a ransomed attack?
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Came across arc some months back. Could you give a link to Why Arc ?
What do people find interesting about Go? It's barely faster than the best dynamic languages - http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all..., and it offers few conceptual innovations (in comparison to say Racket, Scala, Haskell, hell, even JavaScript).

So it seems too slow for systems programming and too "blind-folders on" about where CS is going. I'm honestly curious, what are people actually excited about?

The only scenario I could see people using it is in the situation where speed is not of the essence but memory consumption is. Perhaps I'm naive and this is a bigger category of software than I'm aware of.
It's just hokey nonsense. All you have to do is nod your head and pretend you don't think they're totally bonkers.
Before my MBP I had a black MacBook. It was nice but much closer in durability to a PC. The matte surface got shined up in the corners a lot worse than the Thinkpad T before it.

At this point, I doubt I'd buy another laptop without the all metal unibody construction.
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Possible in a CSV format?

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> Did you hear that Steve Jobs once say a desktop App Store was a bad idea?

In general, the idea that Jobs constantly says something sucks and then does it himself mostly seems to come from people over-interpreting what he says. In this particular case, I can't think of what you're referring to. Do you have a link?

This sounds like a real problem to me - my desk at school is too high up, so I've even ditched my laptop stand as otherwise I'd have to lift my arms up to reach the keyboard half the time. I would definitely be uncomfortable constantly touching a screen. And what do you think those enormous trackpads are for?
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xpose2000, happy to help without getting uncomfortably specific. ;)
JS Arc interpreter? Hey, if they can do it for Haskell…

http://github.com/johang88/haskellinjavascript

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Ideally I’d weigh a glass 15” on my scale to compare more fairly, but I don’t have one, and I don’t yet have the balls to walk into an Apple store with my kitchen scale.

I've walked into the Houston Galleria Apple Store with a hand truck. Sure, some smarmy guy made some comment like, "What is, this, Walmart?" but who cares? I have a bad back, FFS. Anyone who'd make a comment like that is most assuredly lamer than an empiricist who does whatever it takes.
I'd settle for a single plug for power (MagSafe) and a single plug for data (Lightpeak). If you want a data cable to provide significant amounts of power or power at significant distances, it will end up having to be thick and expensive, and so will the device providing the power.

LightPeak has the potential to replace USB, Firewire, Ethernet, and all kinds of digital A/V cables, but it can only economically replace all of them if it doesn't have to provide DC power. I really don't want Intel to screw up this opportunity by trying to make LightPeak provide power under some circumstances but not others (like USB and eSATA), or by charging silly licensing fees (like Apple did for Firewire), or by crippling the controller performance to save cost (like USB's lack of DMA or low-latency transfers).
Indeed. I actually think that paying 3 times as much for something not so different (a nice netbook vs a mba) is hard to justify purely by the differences in quality (in software and hardware).

In other words, it's because of the apple fanboys that are willing to write blank checks just to get their newest white gizmo =) And those fanboys are the same that downvoted both you and elblanco.

PS: Maybe it's just me, but this fanboyism seems more proper over reddit than here.
Don't read too much into it?
First, reddit’s own admins have called out these statistics as inaccurate (even the numbers you’ve cited wildly contradict each other). Secondly, and more importantly, have you seen the kind of content that always floats to the front page? Advertisers willing to associate themselves with content like this discussion (http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/du2sa/wow_she_is_hot_w...) and this submission (http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/d6y0n/once_you_go_bla...) are not typically the kind that pay premium rates. I know reddit likes to think of itself as a community of intellectuals and sophisticates, but this self-image has little basis in reality, and every would-be advertiser looking at the site knows it.
Personally I hate fake smiles.

Also, try contributing to the Linux kernel.
Many many people do not use their optical drives. I used to use my optical DVD drive all the time, but in past 4 years I've barely touched it. It's use has dropped considerably. The keyboard no so much so.
The thing is, if it's trivial it should take a moment to answer (even if they look puzzled). I find when they can't answer the simple question it's because you knew this was a potential hole (which is why you asked it) and they're (even subconsciously) unsure about the implications of what you're asking.
The network effects can't be underestimated. When I consider a new phone just having the best operating system isn't going to cut it. If I can't interact with others because of a different set of apps or be a second class citizen, getting apps for popular services well after there release on the iphone (as nokia basically is, if they ever get the app at all) no amount of new innovation is going to get me to use it.

I think there needs to be an easy way to port apps, then later sure try and differentiate yourself. The same way the Xbox works where the majority of games I can get on the PS3 also.
Anecdotal evidence. Irrelevant.

Edit: Truly confused about the downvotes (and upvotes for parent). Since when is anecdotal evidence a good supporting argument in a discussion on HN?
I agree those things would be nice. But that's not the issue. The issue is if Android is open or not.

I personally think it would be nice if nothing shipped with the GPL as it restricts my freedom, but I won't claim gcc is not open.

The issue isn't if Android can improve along a given vector. Rather it is is Android a closed platform because there exists a branch that doesn't take public contributions or have a public tree. I don't think so.
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Cheers,
Yep, that was me.
I know it's possible, but in the machines I've had to do it on, it's definitely non-standard.

USB booting is pretty common in most modern bios's, however don't forget we're talking about Apple here, where they control the entire stack.

Booting off external drive on Mac (power on + option key) has been in place for many generations of their hardware. It's definitely patchy in Windows land, esp with net books.
On the other hand, the explanation of convertible notes and valuation caps was clear and helpful.

Great article overall.
I'm fairly certain that since they are the 'retailer' they collect and remit the hst. What the store pays you isn't subject to hst.
Yet another company moving away from optical media. Thank You. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1814233
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Indeed. He has had a massive influence on the profession and on me personally. Secrets of Consulting is a great book that every software person should read. It's not just about consulting. It's much more useful than that, and so entertaining that it's surprising how profound it is.

However, most likely indrora's grandfather was someone else. First, Jerry Weinberg has a Ph.D.; that's a little beyond 8th grade. I also remember hearing him talk about majoring in physics as an undergrad because computer science didn't exist yet. And I've never heard of him working on Unix. He was an IBM guy after all.

I doubt that Weinberg ever objected to using advanced math to solve technical problems, including programming problems, when appropriate. What he has objected to is complex models and metrics that purport to quantify human behavior when in reality they're not measuring anything significant. Weinberg regards this as a form of escapism (my word not his), a way of hiding behind technicality to avoid facing human situations. He wrote a whole book, in fact, called First Order Measurement arguing that simple measurements -- including just plain personal observation -- are the best way to monitor complex systems, such as a software project.

Weinberg was a great humanizer of the software industry. You can see his influence on Agile (the good parts, not the slick parts, which I heard him denounce as early as 2004). I think it took courage for him to talk about Virginia Satir in software circles - or would have, if software people had any idea what Satir did.