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I recently bought a new Macbook Pro and I was tempted to get the SSD but I was skeptical on how well it would last in a heavy development work mode (lots of building large packages, large builds of customer's systems, etc.) If I just did Ruby and Ruby on Rails development (many fewer disk writes because of using an interpreted language) then I would not worry about it.

I guess that an extended warranty would take care of this concern.
QT Quick (Nokia), Clutter (Intel) and Core Animation (Apple). Would it be fair to say these are modern toolkits with similar goals? Does anyone in the know have an opinion on which one's doing it the most right?
It looks like they are following the author's lead. I imagine they are trying to highlight the wordplay in the application's name. Where the light (lux) levels that your monitor gives off changes over time or is "in flux". It also makes SEO easier for a common word like flux.
Learning to program (especially beyond just being a basic code monkey) requires a certain kind of mind, on top of years and years of hard work and continuous practice.

So, I wouldn't say that the odds of success are better going from business to programming -- unless you want to run the risk of writing code that may not meet your demands, or you already know how to code and want to start in business (in which case the situation is circular). I have seen business people fail miserably at programming. I would say that the odds are the same, going either way. It takes the right kind of person to program (not just code), and the right kind of person to operate a business. It takes both of these to get both.
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Your thing about sleep surprises me, as that's my favourite feature of the Mac.

Whereas I can't truly trust my Win7 HP to come back from sleep OK, my MBP is always perfect. It eats a lot of power while sleeping, which I've never really figured out - but it comes back like a champ every single time.
Sony makes the Playstation, Vaio Computers, Walkmen (well, not anymore), BluRay, Cybershot cameras, Bravia TVs…going to Amazon and just searching for Sony under electronics indicates that there are over 50,000 items for sale. Certainly some dups, but Sony has A LOT of SKUs…

…and they made $17.6B profit last year.

Apple makes the MacBook Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air, Mac Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, iPad, iPhone, iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, and iPod Touch along with some peripherals…

…and they made $17.2B profit last year. And some would claim that Apple has let the SKU list get out of hand over the past few years…there's probably some fat trimming in the company's future...

Two completely different corporate philosophies. Chance of merger: 0%.
Hmmm no. Nokia has definitely not won. One of the big problems with cross platform toolkits in general is that the platforms are ... different! They have different capabilities and completely different user interface paradigms. A good Android interface is not a good iPhone interface and these days people are coming to expect a polish that you will just not achieve with cross platform tools. The only cross platform technology that ever really succeeded is the web.

That they have abandoned MeeGo was probably a good idea, but in my opinion it just shows how desperately they need something new and good. They don't even have what Microsoft now has and I doubt they will be able to regain any significant market share after Google, Apple and Microsoft have split the mobile market between themselves by the time Nokia finally releases something that doesn't suck.

Nokia is in big trouble and I really don't understand how people can not see this.
People are upset because Digg cultivated an audience of rabidly anti commercial poor teenagers, and rabidly anti commercial poor teenagers do not like learning that they are advertising inventory for a company with tens of millions in revenue.

There is a lesson here regarding audience selection.
If i were a prospective employer, i would definitely find that a plus.
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Sadly, no.

And that was a claim that didn't resist 15 seconds of googling.

There were a couple portables that could be called laptops before the Toshibas. The TRS-80 model 100, its NEC cousin. Even if we are talking of MS-DOS, PC-compatible computers, the Data General One predates this one by quite a bit.
I think the main point is: you cannot do everything yourself.

It is necessary to concentrate on what you do best and get expert help for the rest. MBAs happen to be experts on something (what ever that may be). That is why they can be useful. That is why you may have jobs for them.

These business guys are the first to reject funding for your startup, if you DO try to learn everything yourself and not get external knowledge into your company. Well, this makes the post a bit pointless, indeed.
That is one of the best actionable pieces of advice I have ever seen him give, because the vast majority of his work, and well thought blog posts on nontechnical topics, is evergreen: it continues to be worthwhile years after publication. The preference for the new because it is new is irrational, and the constant content treadmill aping newspapers (who need it because they have a new paper to put out every day to wrap ads around) is a terrible idea for most bloggers. Ditto for those of us who do publishing for our businesses.
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Thisis a follow-up to the item here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1817610
You also need to tell your workmates not to bother you when you have headphones on to maximize benefits from this.
Works quite well for me.
I'd love to use such a service, but for free.
Ex: you get karma by giving your A/B preference, that you can then spend later in getting feedback yourself.
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I am pretty sure this was pure satire and a simple role inversion of the exact same monologue that programmers make from time to time.

This:

As a nontechnical founder, I get approached to do a startup by code jocks every few days. "I have this great codebase for a project I've been working on, but I just need you to create a functional business model, marketing plan, and acquire 14,000 customers for me. I'll even offer you a generous 15% of the company, because that's the easy part". Punks.

Is a parody of this:

As a non-business oriented founder, I get approached to do a startup by MBA jocks every few days. "I have this great idea for a project I've been working on, but I just need you to create a functional design and prototype that can handle 14,000 customers per second. I'll even offer you a generous 15% of the company, because that's the easy part". Punks.

I think the message here is that both extremes are non constructive and that you need a balance between business skills and hacking skills.
Apple also makes really great hardware, and (most of the time) utterly wretched software- see itunes, iphoto, etc....

Not sure how this would help either company. Apple doesn't need any help getting really great hardware made. If anything, Sony would bring the quality down considerably.

(written from my macbookpro in chrome)
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<quote>simply because a row can't contain sub-arrays or hashes</quote>

This is not true at all. At least in PostgreSQL you can have arrays and hashes:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/arrays.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hstore.html
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Please don't post links through bit.ly and other URL indirection sites. It hurts the web by making it much more difficult to follow the link in the case that an intermediary goes out of business. Hacker News and your post will probably be around in a few years, but will bit.ly? (What's their business model, exactly...?)

For future reference, the unshortened version of his link is: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs221/handouts/cs221-ps2.pdf
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Yes. It is like violating their own freaking TOS
The explanation could be very simple. Obviously Digg's algorithm is extremely important to the company, and Digg had put together a long QA and approval process to ensure its integrity. A change to the algorithm may require 5 people to sign off, lots of analytics, gradual deployment, etc.

In the meantime, they run into some problems with the ranking, and knowing their own algorithms, they chose to game it (or tweak it) externally rather than internally because they can't afford to go through the official process. And the intention is that whatever they did would be eventually incorporated back into the main algorithm.

Unfortunately, some low-ranking QAs were assigned to execute the hack, and they are oblivious to the negative perception such maneuver would result.
This is a sarcastic retort to the common advise given to MBA/business people who look for technical co-founders, by technical people on HN:

"Just learn to code yourself, and don't ask precious me for my time."

I found it witty, humbling and quite to the point.
Google suggest is a really quite frightening window on the world. How many people have to type "How can I get my wife to cheat" into Google before it shows up here?
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I don't know exactly what is that but I read it with pleasure constantly switching from understanding it as irony on tech side and then on business side.

Author of this post is almost surely techie but probably bit tired of people totally downplaying business side.
The GPL doesn't offer any special protection against third party patents, and there's no way it could, given the way patents work.
It wouldn't be the first time Apple and Sony have cooperated; http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
By posting the chart here, I would assume you intended for others to see it, no?
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> "They also developed the Blu-Ray format; possibly they get licensing fees for that?"

The Blu-Ray format sums up what is wrong with Sony. It's a dead end format which probably won't even recoup the money it took to develop.
What makes you think that it came from mind of MBA?

Apart from the fact that unknown author of this piece said he is MBA?
So what's it like? Tell us more.
Guys, this is satire. It is painful to see people not recognize that.

The only thing that made me chuckle is the ironic response from HN, that even after reading this hyperbolic parody and not getting it, members still have to validate their ideas of technical > business founders. The motive is so strong it borders on insecurity, I really wonder for those who have replied; which have the real world experience and credibility to suggest so?

Here's the truth: it doesn't matter as much as you think. Its like asking, "which martial arts style is better, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu or Muay Thai?". Its an amateur question, childish almost, because you need to know both and should seek to learn every martial art to be a well rounded martial artist. Being open to new ideas means letting go of your ego, a tough thing for anyone, let alone MEN in BUSINESS and ENGINEERING.

So as a business person whose learning to be technical, all I can say is that it is not black and white, we are not either team business or team technical. We are all artists, who simply paint the canvas differently.
> That they have abandoned MeeGo was probably a good idea

Nokia didn't abandon MeeGo, they just unified their developer offering because the feedback was that the current 'developer story' was far too complicated. As a Nokia employee, I think it was a step in the right direction but we have not 'won' anything yet.
Hmm, I have the opposit feeling, that is compared to me many seem to be more intelligent. I stumble into many different fields and know some basics, but whereever I go people can tell me stuff I have never heard of and seem to comprehend stuff quickly when I explain it, which took me weeks to figure out...

So I usually go with the opposit approach and believe most people can explain something to me rather than believing I could figure everything out what they know by myself ...
I've always found error detecting/correcting codes to be lovely. A great example, that's easy to understand, is the Hamming(7,4) code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming(7,4)

I got interested in these codes because of the problems involved with deep space communication.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_detection_and_correction#...
It kind of depends on the Member State and the exact law of the EU. I do know however that it does not need to be husband and wife in many cases.
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Stranger things have happened in the social media world.

Well, maybe not.
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Seems like there are lot of "if's" and requirements that things go according to plan.

Also... C++? I'm not that enthusiastic, really. I'm not a Java fan, but all in all, I think I'd prefer it at this point, if for nothing else than being a bit simpler and getting GC built in.
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I am in the very early stages of a project at http://exceptionalasp.net/ and I am using Mongo DB for reporting data and SQL for user accounts etc.

In this case the flexible schema of Mongo DB is a great fit for my data. My records have varying numbers of fields which I don't know in advance, usually include simple hierachies of data and I often need to query all this data together. Many queries that would be difficult in SQL become trivial in Mongo DB.

I use SQL for data relating to user accounts, transactions etc because the SQL model fits better for critical, well defined reliable data IMHO.
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If only you had applications to read more often. HN would get cool stuff like this all year round :)
We're currently evaluating a Nokia N8 for a contract. I know that the article is about the next step for Nokia, but the fact that they are releasing this phone tells me that Nokia is not winning.

The phone is barely usable.
I work as a product designer in the UK. Recently for our smaller clients we are finding the the most cost effective way to have plastic parts made (financial, time and environmental impact) is to have the injection moulding tools made and tested in china but then ship the tools to the UK and mould over here. That way we save on shipping costs for the final product and by working with a manufacturing partner who have a tool shop in the UK you can maintain tools and ensure quality moulding without having to fly out to china.

This works well if you are making a product in the thousands but would probably not be the right solution for tens or hundreds of thousands.

China is very cost effective for people time, like making a mould tool, but power and raw materials does not vary as much. A building full of machines making plastic parts has a similar cost wherever it is in the world. I think that as people become more concious of the environmental impact of the products they are buying companies will begin to move to a model where they manufacture the product much closer to the consumer and save on shipping it around the world.
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Not quite sure what you mean, but Atomic Modifications might be what you want: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Atomic+Operations

You can update any field in a document. Obviously you'll need the ID of the document.
I'm guessing that the speed, convenience and ease of abstraction that a higher-level language like C++ or Java offers is a pull-factor for CS instructors. Apart from systems-level programming classes, of course.

Someone mentioned "Why C when higher-level languages will suffice?" and I thought that's pretty much spot on. In a data structures class, it seems easier not to have to debug cryptic core dumps and segmentation faults too often, especially since the focus is on algorithms. At least, that's the impression I got when speaking with TAs and professors.

Or perhaps there are less systems-level programming enthusiasts nowadays?

I took the class you TA'd, way back when the textbook was still a draft and absolutely loved it! As an EE guy, it was great to be able to get at the bits and bytes and really understand what it meant to be fetching, executing, branching to, jumping to instructions, allocating memory etc. The transition from assembly language to C was natural and I loved/hated every single core dump / segmentation fault that came with it. That class helped tremendously in getting me my first job, but I guess there are plenty of jobs that don't require working knowledge of C.
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QT Quick is actually javascript not C++. Nokia QT is C++ however.
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I haven't, but I know quite a few people who have checked references and gotten a negative response - in one case derisive laughter followed by an incredulous "Really? They put me as a reference?". Obviously it depends on whether it's a big shop where you'll get HR stonewalled, or a smaller place where you'll have the owner or a coworker.
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Depending on what she wants to watch, there is also Netflix Internet video streaming ("Watch Instantly").
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That sounds far too good to be true. I guess if you don't care about the fine details then its a decent technique, but to take the MRI example, what if the thing that was wrong was only visible in those small details?
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You'd probably need some really good and hard metrics on that to make a case...say my lawyer normally charges $400/hr, now she wants to charge me $700/hr but claims, "I can do it twice as fast". I'm not sure I'm totally sold on that claim.

I found that the time saving messaging fell absolutely flat (we can cover the same number of documents x-times faster). The only message that resonated was the coverage messaging (we can cover more documents during the limited discovery period)...and then only with firms that were working cases that involved hundreds of thousands of documents -- too much for them to staff up on.

The case/document management aspect of it seems to be where the real interest level lies and if you can offer lots of capability for drawing connections between disparate groups of documents it could have some true value. A digital organizer capable of aiding connection building.

At least that's what I remember. We did a bit of research into the market before deciding not to chase it due to the level of funding we would need to get a product to market.
OS X apps would need virtualization or recompilation in order to run on an ARM. Unless you're saying the next Air will run iOS..
I'd like to know who are starting these rumours. I saw them on a videogame blog (along with rumours about Netflix, Adobe, EA, Facebook, and Disney - basically all of which are ridiculous speculations).

Now I'm seeing Reuters keeping the story alive. Again, ridiculous.
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So, you would rather have them spend the money on prime-time ad spots?
The most amazing thing in these rumors is how dumb they appear to me.
Not sure if it says more about rumors or me.
Either way I see no point for Apple in buying Sony, or Facebook. What for???
Does someone just pick a random name from the list of companies that are affordable to Apple and starts to speculate on that?
The other thing I cannot wrap my head around is stock markets. The silliest thing influence them, that sure does not leave a good impression on me. Maybe it's just me.
?? You talk like the 731 million people in Europe are homogenous.

In my social group there are more Android phones than iPhones. Perhaps you are talking bollocks.
Totally counter-intuitive to me, as many other aspects of the iPhone interface: perhaps this is why I never send text messages from an iPhone, and why I keep making calls when I just want to see the details of a contact.

The iPhone was just made for somebody younger than me I guess.
I've always had the impression that pg works on Arc as a hobby, a service to himself. If it's useful to other people, that's fantastic, but that's not why he's doing it.

It's like writing music for yourself. Of course you want to share it, it people like it and it's meaningful to them, you've done a good deed for the day, but otherwise it's done just to help stoke the fires within.

(pg correct me if I'm wrong)
Not to mention the real URL shows that the link is going to Stanford whereas I have no clue whether the shortened link is going to Stanford, an XXX site, or rick rolling me.
What do books, music and movies have in common:

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The thing that bugs me is the "As Written About By.." bit. This is more for any site that does it and not yours in particular. But it just has a bunch of logos there, I can't read what they said about it either. You could put any logo there you want and I wouldn't be able to verify it. I checked for a testimonials sorta page but there didn't seem to be one either.

Just a personal annoyance since I've seen a lot of sites do it, just show a bunch of logos, or link to the homepage (say of the Guardian) without letting me read the review.
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Some of the sorting algorithms, as somebody learning them, it's almost entirely opaque how somebody could come up with those.

It seems like they must have sprung forth wholecloth to the inventor in the shower...it's almost impossible to have iteratively developed some of them because even small changes in the algorithms produce terrible results. I remember thinking over and over again, "how the hell could somebody come up with this?"

Searching in comparison looks very engineered, very studied, something that most people could come up with given need, motivation and time.
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