skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clarification: Even if other companies can figure out how to make a decent tablet, still a pretty big if, who knows if tablets will be a "big thing" for the computer industry as a whole. The iPad is clearly already the next big thing for Apple. The ruling concern among Mac users -- a large enough concern that Apple made a point of addressing today -- is that Apple is focusing too much on iOS devices and "straying" from the Mac.
Lion is a year away. I think we can guess the next iteration of the Air will have touch screens :)

Also, there are probably a hundred other details to Lion they aren't sharing just yet. They are just giving us some glitter to drool over.
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Apple cannot stop Indie devs from releasing apps in the normal fashion.

Unlike with iPhones, where iTunes is the only installation point.

If I was an indie developer, I'd say 30% would be worth the extra exposure.
The problem is what is the correlation between intelligence and results in standardized tests?

I mean, why do you think having good results means that you are intelligent?
The "brand value" is a meaningless consideration. Ignore it.

The question I'd ask is: Do you like your job at Apple? You've already worked there. You should have some idea of whether it's a place you want to keep working.

If you're reading HN, studying CS, and willing to consider living among the world's sunniest collection of temporary buildings, don't be in a rush to leave Silicon Valley. If you decide in a year or four that you would like to leave Apple the alternatives are literally right around the corner. Seattle is not the worst tech city either, thanks to all those current and former Microsoft employees, but it will surely have fewer pickings.

On the other hand, if you can't stand Silicon Valley, head north. It's not as if it would be some kind of career-killing mistake. You can change your mind later if you want.
Do you have to pay "hoisting bills" to pull the replacement images into place? ;-)
I once asked a research scientist friend, how many studies confirming the same thing do laypeople have to hear about before we can start thinking maybe there's something to the finding?

She said for laypeople, a good rule of thumb is 5 studies of at least 250,000 sample size and all with different funding sources. Though in her field, with multiple large cohorts available, that sample size isn't unusual, so I'm not sure how it applies to other areas of research like this article.

But it's a good reminder not to bother reading these, especially 2nd hand press releases and news reports, unless you've already seen several others previously.
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Did you hear that Steve Jobs once say a desktop App Store was a bad idea?

Touch Screen would work fine on an Air, at least.
I never did understand why media companies weren't lining up to get their works into the LOC. Hey, free archiving by what are ostensibly experts in the field.

Lets face it, the "Disney Vault" is more moldy cardboard box and less giant bank safe with mouse ears.
Where I work, we rely on continuous deployment as a core part of our business. Our Mac client is updated really frequently, and I can only imagine how long we'll have to wait between releases.

While I think the App Store is an interesting prospect, the thing I worry about the most is a company's ability to be agile and deliver to customers quickly. It's already a problem on the App Store on iOS. I realize agile isn't really a part of Apple's culture, but it's a powerful approach.

Not everybody can afford to spend long product development cycles waiting to deliver value to customers like Apple does. In the real world, the money runs out at some point.
Building Webapps in No Time
There's no better brand in this case. Amazon and Apple are both juggernauts in their respective fields and both look as good as the other in paper. You should be thinking of three things: 1) Which one pays more and by how much? 2) Which one promises work you might enjoy more than the other? 3) Which one has a better culture in your eyes, which one is a better fit for your personality.

Apart if you're a fanboy for webdev and server infrastructure I'd go for Amazon no questions asked. If I was more into the OSX ecosystem then Apple of course. My personal opinion? I'd work at Amazon. I don't think I'd feel comfortable working for Apple (which is funny cause I'm typing this from my macbook...)
I wouldn't know since I'm a Vim zealot, but I've heard good things of Flux [http://www.theescapers.com/flux/] You should be giving the trials of the various apps a go instead of asking for opinions though, editors are a very personal and subjective subject.
YoruFukurou: Free native OS X Twitter client with features like regex filtering
I'm hoping a Facebook engineer designs something similar for Google's privacy issues...
> not many people who even think this feat is possible

That's a big untapped market for anyone who can produce verifiable results.
That's what Engadget is saying is necessary to hit the 30 days. It's still early and no one has had time to do a thorough review, but I don't get the impression that there's anything fundamentally different about the new Air's power management. They've just tightened up the response time and made the SSD standard, so hibernation is much faster.
You could also remember that they have published their guidelines now, so while they still block a lot of stuff, at least we now know exactly what that is. Actually, I've seen a lot less "horror stories" since then.

Not saying it's fixed, but I do think it's a lot better.
The Mac App Store is a sort of "minimum viable upgrade." It's the lowest hanging fruit for something worthy of a Mac event (i.e. compare this to Snow Leopard which just started shipping one day).

For me, it's sort of hard to see many iOS apps being particularly a big game changer on a desktop or laptop (so long as Macs continue to ship with Flash). There are simply a lot of existing alternatives for location based services, social networking, etc.

Part of me suspects that it's a response to Phone 7. What I mean is that it extends the "Apple technology stack" from phone to desktop somewhat like Microsoft does - of course the "Apple technology stack" doesn't extend up into enterprise and down into embedded devices so the analogy may be a bit weak depending on the terms one uses.
Yours is clearly a case of being downvoted unfairly.
Things aren't better just because they're more configurable, even if customization is a goal. More often options are just varnish because the defaults aren't reasonable. Make the defaults good first and then add configuration and options.
I wrote this yesterday about similar, and Pete obsoleted it. http://bit.ly/fatsurfer Great stuff, Pete!
This brought a smile to my face! It is awesome that someone took the time to quickly whip something up!
Worse still, if you spend those long development cycles Apple may change the platform/APIs/terms out from under you making your long dev cycle moot. The longer your time-to-market, the greater your resource risk that Apple will make you obsolete or deny you entry.
It's Go on Android that I want...
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It's going to be a very slow death. Still, I look forward to the day I can buy a MBP with no optical drive and an Air-sized Flash stick in place of the SSD.
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Yes it is a quote from idiocracy : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_4jrMwvZ2A
solid advice. I'm actually working on side projects all the time, just have nothing to show for it yet. thanks.
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Perhaps, but nobody wants to carry around (and charge, and sync) two devices when they could carry around just one.

If I had a device that worked like a MacBook and an iPad, so I could use it like a laptop at a cafe and like a pad on the train, that would be a pretty damn neat device to have. And eventually, I probably will.
Said Business School runs a number of events:

http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/

They host the Idea Idol campaign as well; give that a look if you're interested.

Also try to get ahold of cperciva on here. He's another Oxonian who started his own company, albeit back in Canada. He might be able to give some perspective.
Take a look at Software Engineering for Internet Applications: http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/

From the preface: "We assume that [prospective students] know how to write a computer program and debug it. We do not assume knowledge of any particular programming languages, standards, or protocols. The most concise statement of the course goal is that `The student finishes knowing how to build amazon.com by him or herself.'"
How many students spend their own money for college expenses? How often are laptops for students gifts from parents, friends, relatives?
I've talked to a couple from @mailinator domains today, so that must still be legit.
I think it will do exactly what it is intended to do. Get people to write about Apple, and keep developers working on $3.00 iOS apps in hopes of striking it rich over the next several months instead of moving to Android or WP7.
I welcome it as long as external optical drives remain supported.

Fill the space with battery.
While that's true, he seems to reiterate over and over that his aim from the beginning was just to "make money"; which while I have nothing against (I'm certainly not a socialist), I think is detrimental to actually creating something worthwhile.

Reading the post reminds me of a lot of kids I grew up with who were basically hustlers; they just wanted to be rich and would try anything they could think of (usually some combination of managing musicians, selling drugs, or stealing cars) to attain it.

In retrospect, I don't think any of them ended up being rich.

This kid did though, so what do I know.
Well Facebook uses PHP and HipHop which is an implementation that converts the PHP to C and compiles it as machine code as opposed to interpreted code. It is how they scale on PHP as for flicker they use PHP as well you may want to look at this document, it outlines the flicker architecture and what they did.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&s...

PHP is with out a doubt the most popular web 1.0 server side language, and if you are looking to do this as a job, then it is well worth it. Personally, I would rather jab my eyes out than work with another line of PHP. It was originally designed by a group of people that had neither extensive language experience nor web experience. It is kludged together and you feel it ever step of the way. Over time, people that do know what they are doing have fixed some of it, but there is still some crap legacy in it. I swore off PHP and will not take a contract that mandates it.

Now for the good part, it is fast to develop in, it has a lot of support, there is enough stuff built in it that you can find almost anything you need. Wordpress and Drupal are two of the most popular CMS systems and are written with PHP. You can build a site in 4hrs with either one and a template from one of the template sites. It's like crack of the web development world, cheap, dirty, powerful and it gives you want you want, but no ones admits to using it.
It's very much not equal-opportunity. For instance:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/d6lll/whats_your_...
No, absolutely not.

I think MPAirs are the slowest selling laptop. They compete with other Apple products more directly than Ipads. On the the hand, Ipads, are outselling all macs (in units) already and it's still very early days. Even if sales stay put (seems unlikely), they have an incredible new product line. They are a big thing in that sense, at least.

These might be a replacement for macbooks. At the moment 13' macbook is just a cheap alternative to the superior 13' macbook pro, it isn't best for anything but your wallet. That seems to make it unique among Apple products. A 13' MBAir is more lighter, quicker and looks different. You can imagine people preferring it regardless of price.
"We are the world's first website builders where you only pay, when you get visitors."

The comma should be removed.

I'd consider rewording the entire sentence. Perhaps you could relate your pricing model to the business owner's other fixed costs.

I write poor copy, but something like:

* "No fixed costs. We only charge when a customer views your site.", or

* "You only pay when someone visits your site. Too bad rent isn't the same."

Or, you could completely ignore your pricing model.

"We've done the nerd work so you can do your work."
Not going to miss it. OSes should be distributed on USB keys anyway (goodbye, scratches), and Apple sells a solid external USB DVD-RW for $80 - more than worth it for the better battery life and cheaper, smaller, lighter laptops.
Even if Apple ultimately intends to close the Mac to non-App Store applications -- I'm guessing not, but a valid concern anyway -- it's unlikely to happen in the next five years for two key reasons: Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite. Half the App Store fear is the Kafka-esque approval process (the other half being the 70/30 revenue split), and neither Adobe or Microsoft could do ground-up rewrites even if they wanted to.
My MacBook Pro (non-unibody) has taken a couple of tumbles, one of the corners is bent inwards, on the side the metal is all crumbled because it hit a corner while in my backpack.

It gives it character, and so far every time that I have been at the Apple Store they have looked at it, I've had to tell them that no that was there a long time before the issue I am there to fix appeared and they should replace the hardware that is failing (I've had bad luck with the Nvidia graphics card in it).

Still works perfectly and looks a hell of a lot better than the Dell laptops and HP laptops my friends have. It also has stood the test of time MUCH better than any other laptops I've owned, including various IBM ThinkPads, Toshiba's and whatnot. I love my MacBook Pro to death. People keep telling me to buy a new Windows based laptop but I refuse :P
My experience with "The Secret" involves attending a New Year's Party with my brother several years ago where we stayed up all night playing drums with a group of people. When the morning came, and we all got up to go home one guy said to us "I have this movie that you have to watch" and proceeded to lift up his shirt and remove from his pants a DVD.

We realized that he had to have been keeping this in his pants all night, and as my brother and I made our way to the car I told him "you realize that we have to see what that is the moment we get home".

Upon arrival back at my brother's apartment, we proceeded to watch the movie, and were mystified that someone had tried to compile an hour and half video around the idea of "positive thinking"; much less that someone had thought enough of it to carry it around in their pants to impart to strangers at a party.
The appeal is that it is small and light Mac. The described computer is heavier and has a slower CPU and is not Mac.
Thanks. Reading it again I agree with you completely.
I had a similar issue - the sensation that I had nothing to "show" for all the time invested. This will kill you. It's really important to do a few things at this point:

- Catalogue what you've actually accomplished in terms of stuff created / learned / produced

- Hack it all up into "stuff I will use", "stuff I will reference" and "stuff I will archive"

- Set some hard lines and hard times against deliverables with actual boundaries / units of work - what will you finish, by what date, where does it fit, what's the next stage?

Finally, and the biggest thing for me was: if you can hardline at work, be a professional and produce lots of good stuff on a dealine (assuming you do), you can do that for yourself as well.

Sometimes (as a non-startup type guy) I found it easy to go to work, push past pain barriers, bust serious ass and make some pretty incredible stuff happen, then come home and have a completely different - lazy and shabby - attitude.

As soon as I decided to carry that attitude towards my own goals / projects, it turned a lot of stuff around. I had two or three projects that were half parked for nearly 8 months that I set completion goals for and cleaned up in about 2 months.

Felt great, and made me realise how much you can actually produce when you have a clear idea of what you want to get done.
Lean Startup Economics -- it's about recurring business
Carry wants you to check out a photo on MySpace
Spending 1.75% of your income on entertainment is fine -- in fact, it's pretty miserly.

Spending 1.75% of your total net wealth on entertainment, in one go, though, is dumb. Maybe it was multiple trips, but still, Las Vegas is a very easy, and very unsatisfying, way to spend large sums of cash. The only worse item on the list is $20K in strip clubs.

All the expensive cars are much more of an issue. Fun is fun, "status" is a total waste.

Cars aren't fun? Maybe you don't enjoy driving, but I sure as hell do. If I had a $2.5 million windfall I'd be buying some fancy cars too.
Huh? If you want a phone without carrier restrictions, you just need to buy it somewhere else.

It's not cheap, but it's very easy. See, for example, http://www.htcphonestore.com/
The point is that you aren't forced to give anything up in return for another person's email address.

I can input "test@test.com" and get as many email addresses as I want.

I could also put in someone else's email address and they would potentially start getting random FaceTime calls.
Looking a little deeper one can only conclude that the launch of a desktop App store coinciding with the death of the optical media drive is no coincidence.

You don't need an optical drive because of the App store, and you must use the App store (and iTunes) because there is no optical drive.

Simply brilliant.

Edit: Downvotes? Perhaps the tone makes it sound too much like a conspiracy which is not what I meant to convey. It's a logical move for Apple and their customers (even if they might not know it yet).
It's not just about the money, it's about capability. The $999 MacBook has a 2.4GHz CPU and a 250GB hard drive, and the same GPU.

I work in a medical school neuroscience lab with a bunch of grad students and postdocs. Everyone has a Mac laptop, paid for by the lab. Two postdocs have MacBooks. Everyone else has a MacBook Pro. Except the PI who runs the lab, who has an MBA. The only one in the lab. He values small size and weight more than anyone else. He also travels more than anyone else.

I don't see many MBAs around campus.
Try Arc
Beacuse Steve Jobs want's you to learn to touch type so you can be more prouctive. It's all in his master plan!
Well myspace profile tools whilst not exactly a long lasting boons to society were pretty useful to people. It's not content scraping or otherwise just gaming the system. I won't post what the article makes this guy sound like to me, seems unfair after I've said I found it informative :)
...if they want to use the Google trademark and have the non-open Google apps like Maps and GMail.
I've used both, and plenty of other tools. I really think these types of tools need to be aligned with the type of team you have and the workflow you plan to use. There are a dozen tools that will fit the bill on a feature breakdown. With real-world use, with your team, with your project, with your environment, you'll discover a clear winner.

Some notes on products I've used, for reference:

FogBugz: A few years ago it was reasonably lightweight and decent. It's gotten more complicated over the years and I couldn't stand it the last time I checked it out.

JIRA: The "enterprise" solution. Infinitely flexible, with all the positive and negative aspects that go along with that. Best API of all of them, though, IMHO.

Pivotal Tracker: I've used Pivotal several times over the years, and to be honest the UI is very cumbersome to use IMHO, and the density of features make it fairly heavyweight to use.

AgileZen: My personal all-time favorite for managing development projects. Fits a kanban-inspired mould, which I tend to like quite a bit. JIRA offers a kanban-board view as well, BTW.

If I were you, I'd sign up for free accounts for all of these and use them for a week or so. It's the best way to find out if you like how the tool operates and if your team will actually use it, which is more important than any specific feature.

I'd also take a second look at your requirements. I wouldn't discount a SaaS tool for no reason. SCM integration (svn, git) can sound nice, but to be honest I've found that it adds too much friction to the commit workflow (to add a story ID or whatever) and is usually of little value).
The author met the prerequisite for getting lucky, which is several tens of thousands of hours of failure and iteration. Sure, if he were more mature, or wrote more coherently than a fifth grader, or had any kind of formal training whatsoever, MAYBE he could've done better, kept his site going, created DuckDuckGo, etc.

But those things are all secondary. He, unlike 99% of anyone who attempts anything, put in those 10K, 20K, 30K hours, and through those countless iterations made his own luck.
Are you currently unemployed?

If not, what would you do with the extra hours every day?

To me, $2.5 million sounds like a pretty good start towards a comfortable retirement, but I'd want to supplement it with another couple of million before I really declared myself ready to never work again.
Yes, and as a user of 1password, this is what has prevented me from upgrading. I'm one user, with a number of machines, but I'm expected to pay for each machine. The latest version of safari also doesn't work with the version of 1password I have (n-1), and to reobtain functionality I once had, I'm expected to fork over $50 (or whatever the upgrade price is for a family pack) to be able to keep using it. Much as I like 1password, and I do, this really irks me
You seem to have overlooked that CDs and DVDs aren't the main way to get programs now. You can download them from the internet.
Hiring executives: if you’ve never done the job how do you hire somebody good
I believe Spolsky covered this topic in depth a while back... and here it is: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html
Well, even without the app store the majority of software I've bought in the last few years has been delivered electronically, which just strengthens the argument for getting rid of optical drives. I don't even mind replacing the HD with non-upgradable flash storage provided that there's decent external connectivity (for which neither USB2 nor FW800 qualify).
It depends on what you expect from a WYSIWYG editor. If you want to be able to resize and tweek elements graphically, then there are tools available for just about any platform.

On the other hand, if you're expecting the tool to replace learning some HTML and CSS then you may be disappointed. It's just difficult to debug code (which is what HTML and CSS are) graphically. At least I found it next to impossible, so I gave up and bought Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML. I found using a text editor and refreshing the browser much more efficient than dragging stuff around the screen. YMMV.

On the other hand, if you're flexible about the end results, you can get a lot out of a framework like Wordpress with nothing more than picking a theme.
Even though vmware fusion came on CD for the mac, it was already outdated by the time I bought it. I downloaded a 200mb full install from vmware. In the age of internet, software CDs are always out of date.