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Well, let me upvoted you for a change ;-)

But what makes you think the Macintosh line will be abandoned by Apple? Mere aversion to product diversification? They discontinued the Xserve ("nobody buys the things"), but I have the impression that MacBooks and iMacs are selling quite well.
I think it's a valid prediction, but I don't think they'd accept programmers for Apple products using non-Apple products; I don't know what they'd do. But their servers are all (I hear) XServes, and they basically eat their own dog-food, so I'd expect a follow-up of some sort.

Without MacBook Pros, I don't know how they'd develop new versions of iOS. Systems coding on iPads? Would they actually use Linux? Neither seems likely, but I wouldn't put it past them to beef up iOS to the point that their devs are using it, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if their new server line were to be based on 16-core ARMs running some form of iOS.
> But, stand up and fight them, and they learn a lesson that bullying has some serious consequences.

"An armed society is a polite society." -- RAH

Where "armed" just means where people are willing and able to defend themselves.
I guess I made my comment as someone who doesn't currently carry a firearm. I suppose the situation changes when you're capable of disabling the attacker outright by shooting him.

I was speaking mainly to a situation where you'd be inciting some sort of a fight or a struggle with someone crazy enough to attempt a mugging. In this case, I still stand by my feeling that you're better off complying.

If you're able, by all means, protect yourself. You'll find no objections from me there.
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I think you'll find lots of technical founders are willing & able to pick up those skills along the way. Programming is perpetual self-education. This means that for a large subset of entrepreneurial programmers picking up business skills is easier than you'd think.
I have an essay in progress about this model. My central thesis is that the most correct pricing model (in terms of ethics and economics) is one which compensates the author's time to create a work.

If I can write two books in a year and a reasonable wage for my experience and expenses is $80,000 a year, each book needs to earn about $40,000 to justify me continuing to write. Divide that by the number of readers to figure out the amount of profit I need to make per unit.

I can justify giving away the electronic version and soliciting donations on theory that free redistribution from countless readers will reach a much larger potential audience for print sales and donations than I could possibly reach, especially with my marketing budget. Besides that, doing so appeals to my sense of ethics. Many, many people contributed to making Perl 5 and many, many people helped me write the book.
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First, it lowers my morale because it drains my confidence that very important secrets are safe. Some corporations do not leak at all - Apple comes to mind. They are notoriously mean at hunting down leaks, and it makes people paranoid. This is good. The ability to shock and amaze with new products has contributed substantially to Apple's brand. Other companies envy it.

Do you think it is mean for traffic officers to give speeding tickets? We know some people speed despite posted limits, but we are all safer because most people do obey the limits.
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They are also neglecting to point out that that 21.5% number includes people that are 'too old,' 'too young.' or just plain not interested in university.

Also, whats the difference between identifying as "ethnically X" verses "as a X visible minority?" Are they using some weird sort of weasel words?
GUADEC has always been great with name tags: not only are they two-sided, but actually the conference schedule is folded inside so you find it always easily. Oh, and IRC nicks / Twitter usernames, names of FOSS projects you work on instead of meaningless company names.
I was working in the industry at a sub model service when itunes was being built, and at an indie distributor when he made that speech - I remember it well.

Negotiating with the majors for content and pricing and access was worst hard-ball negotiations I've ever seen and schizophrenic at that. One of their big fears of course was enabling a market that would erode their competitive advantage in distribution and allow smaller players to sell music in ways indistinguishable from their own.

I have no direct inside knowledge, but I'd bet big you were just on the ass end of a power play that otherwise had little to do with CD Baby. Your catalog was a huge stick that could have been wielded in many ways in those fights. The contract that arrived the next day had an NDA, so suddenly you weren't able to disclose the terms of any deal you might have right?

As an aside, congratulations for sticking with your model and your principles and surviving that whole decade. It wasn't easy at all to make it in that market, my resume is just a bunch of smoldering craters from that period.
> I view capitalism as "valuing money above all things".

That's nice, but it means that no one can communicate with you because they agree that it means something else.
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I would recommend against getting abnormally-sized cards like this. After collecting cards from a group of people, it's annoying to have these stragglers swimming around in your pocket that don't really fit with the rest. I'd rather have a standard sized card that is designed well.
Does it matter now, with no way to confirm or deny the story?

As a software engineer, I'm willing to say no, not beyond reasonable doubt.
Seriously? I have a bit of background on research, and Google always looked the more attractive choice, still does. I'd pick Facebook in anticipation of a massive IPO, honestly; I wouldn't expect to be equally appreciated in Google.
I don't know how you define "HN" quality, but at the time of writing, the submission has 35 points. The post provides a great overview of how the author consistently succeeds at freelancing jobs that I found insightful.
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if I have a problem.
> We just build more than anyone else.

We also get the misfits from other places.
Funny how by doing that you're reinforcing the other party's arrogance.
Yes, but his point was that the first screen of the app might look drastically different depending on certain settings (e.g. dark mode).
I missed the date initially and was thinking "Slackware? Whaaaa?"
It's more important to get vitamin d than to worry about loading up on omega-fatty acids so that you're baby will get into a good university. I forget if it was something submitted to HN or not, but I've seen suggestions that vitamin d deficiency might be a cause of Autism.

It certainly doesn't seem that far-fetched, but IIRC the study was only based in Oregon (or at least some of the data being quoted was).
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What is the best/easiest way to capture email if you have a site that's going to launch.

Woofoo? Google Docs? MailChimp? Roll your own?
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It seems even more useful to simply do away with the button (as many interfaces do). For instance, Apple's "rounded field" is synonymous with search from its shape alone, though it usually also includes a magnifying glass symbol on the left.
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You're having the opposite reaction to this than I am. From my point of view, he's not recommending a 'nuclear retaliation' at all. Instead, he's saying that you have to play the same bullying 'game' in reverse. He urges you wait for a provocation, and then to attack them with your fists, in public, and suffer the quasi-legal consequences in return for the social standing it provides.

I don't like this advice, because I don't want to ever be forced to play this game. If you threaten my physical safety, I'm either going to ignore you and move along, give in and go the police afterward, or I'm going to kill you. Not figuratively; there is no game. I hope to never get to that point, but there is no chance that I'd try to beat an aggressor with my fists fair-and-square. Instead, I will ensure that they never threaten me again.

That's the nuclear option.
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The best implementation of this I've ever seen was an email with a heartfelt apology and a link to a pick-your-credit system. Assume $20 is the cost of the service for one month.

- I was really inconvenienced. (We're sorry, and will give you a $20 credit.)

- I was somewhat inconvenienced. (We're sorry, and will give you a $10 credit.)

- I was a little inconvenienced. (We're sorry, and will give you a $5 credit.)

- I wasn't really inconvenienced but I appreciate that you sent me the email. I don't want a credit. (Thanks. We appreciate your business, and will try to always do our best by you.)

The last time I had a substantial outage, I figured out which sixty individuals were affected by it, and put an apology on their dashboards. The two who were paying customers got handwritten emails, and I did the work they had been trying to do and attached the result to the email. I offered them a full refund, too (I'll give one to anybody for any reason, so I might as well remind them of that, right?). (Neither took me up on the offer.)
The top 1% athlete? On average probably about $0. There are probably a few hundred thousand high school football players. There are only 32 NFL teams. Even among those few that make it (probably much smaller than 1% I'd wager), few are superstars. Taking into account chance of injury, short career, and brain damage (in this case), the ~ $700K NFL salary isn't so great.

And musicians? Their situation is probably worse! The truth is talent is pretty bountiful. Finding out that no matter what hot shit you were in high school, there's an army of kids out there ten times smarter is a veritable right of passage. Maybe this guy is the top .01%, but I think the value you can extract from the relative brilliance of one member is a case of diminishing returns. Is he doing, 100% of the time, work that an actual 1% guy or several of them couldn't do?
Can you hear the sigh behind every upvote?
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I'm developing a subs management system for iPhone apps (so Apple is processing payments). I do it for my own use, but ping me if you have interest.
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I have something like this running on http://www.voidy.com/ It is nowhere near complete, but the basic functionality is there. I can give you the source code if you want. Thinking about it, the best way will be to share the code in github. Will do it ASAP.

BTW there is this hidden functionality in the site where you can 'follow' your favorite users and their submissions and comments will be featured in your home page.
maybe not!

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Nice. A gray evocative of either look was my first thought as well.

It could also be half-and-half -- for example a diagonal cut. (Then the transition to the actual could wipe the wrong color off to one side.)

Or, a shaded gradient, top to bottom, between the light and dark -- so either way the flicker-to-actual is half as harsh. (This could also work well with a fade/wipe to actual.)
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The Wikipedia page on the Universal Nut Sheller makes up for NPR's lack of technical detail:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Nut_Sheller

The thought that this machine is sometimes custom made to accommodate different environments and plants intrigues me.
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Among PHP developers, the idea that "PHP is already a templating language" became pretty much memetic. I use an older version of this engine in my work and never really bought into actively hating Smarty, although I stopped using it for my own projects.

One of the core arguments against it, I think, was PHP developers suddenly remembering short tags and alternative syntaxes for control structures (if, foreach) that made working with templates in straight PHP just as easy, much more flexible, and shaving a few milliseconds off load times -- it's a sizeable library to load.
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I just tried turning off the shadow there and the text is much more readable. It's actually plain white text but the 1px black drop shadow makes it more difficult to read against the blue background.
I have a few friends who are in business school and the sole reason they went back (undergrad business in Stern) was to network a little bit and make connections. In terms of class and learning, they knew going in that there was not much to offer.
Feynman was just making the point that there is a point where no matter how hard your work your little tail off, you will simply be at a disadvantage compared with someone who has genetic gifts or the like.

This thread is curious because it's treating the nurture vs. nature debate as if it were some novel concept.

In America, we're taught to believe that if we work hard, we can be anything we want. This thread largely stinks of people clinging on to this belief, if only for their own sanity. It's no secret that the HN crowd holds itself in high regard intellectually and it would be damning to believe otherwise, as all of a sudden you wouldn't have a shot at being the next Bill Gates or the next Linus Torvalds or whoever it is you worship, on the basis of your hard work alone.

This ideal is highly romanticized and is part of our education problem. We strongly belief EVERYONE should go to college, and EVERYONE is equal, when in reality, some people would be better suited to work with their hands as a mechanic than some paper pusher at an insurance company.

In Europe, they are more slanted towards the nature point of view, and this is reflected in their vocational training in education - ie, everyone isn't born equal, everyone doesn't have to follow the exact same path for the sake of appeasing some romantic ideal that we can't prove true either way.

While the truth is probably somewhere in the middle, it's plain foolish to ignore that some people are just born with an innate talent. If you played sports, it would be easier for people to wrap their head around this - a 5'5 basketball player will never play starting center in the NBA. It's just the way it is.

It is part of your responsibility as a human being to find out what those things are that you are most gifted at and exploit them to their maximum potential.
I think it'll eventually make sense for them to focus on non-computer products because those are the ones that are selling insanely well. The local Apple stores are so full of customers and browsers that I'm surprised they haven't had problems with the fire marshal, and it isn't because people are mobbing the Mac displays. Computers, even Macs, are heavy on support costs and light on profit margins.

A common argument is "Well, what do you think people are using to develop for all those iPhones, iPods, and iPads?" The answer to that one is, "What do you think people are using to develop for XBox 360s and PS3s?" It's true that you need a Mac to write iOS apps, but that's an arbitrary corporate policy, and not an inherent requirement.
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Being a Waterloo alum working in Vancouver I'm just used to this ratio and I guess I've just adapted to the fact that its being 'normal' for 30-40% of my colleagues to be asian. But whenever I wonder if I should worry about the fate of my entitled WASPish brothers being locked out of certain programs, I just remember a great line from a recent 30 Rock:

"The first generation works their fingers to the bone making things, the next generation goes to college, innovates things, the third generation...snowboards and takes improv classes".

Soon enough, there will be asian students who take improv classes who's parent's will bitch about their school spots being taken by super-students from Elbonia
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I think it's a valid prediction, but I don't think they'd accept programmers for Apple products using non-Apple products; I don't know what they'd do.

Sony doesn't mind people using PCs to develop for the PS3, and game development is murderously complex compared to anything developed for iOS either inside or outside Apple.

But their servers are all (I hear) XServes, and they basically eat their own dog-food, so I'd expect a follow-up of some sort.

You could be right but if there's a case for Apple to be in the server business, I sure don't see it.
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It doesn't have to be a strong cultural thing; even tiny individual preferences will tend to get amplified:

http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Segregation

(Schelling also covers a slightly different neighborhood model, closer version to an aggregate group like a school, in his Micromotives and Macrobehaviors)
This piece gave me a couple of red flags even before I started into the article - primarily the adversarial premise in the title and implied put down of "business people". Remember the time when your VP or manager walks into the room and begin with "you people need to ..."?

As a tech founder, I realize how many aspects of technologies and competencies I need to get right to move the startup to somewhere near a profitable business. There are very few super techs who "know it all". There are legal techies, business techies, hardware techies, etc and probably will look down with similar disdain that a "coding techie" who just don't get it. That attitude is not going to be conducive to building relationship all around.

I would suggest looking at any proposition that comes your way as what a good angel or VC would - ask the right questions, be helpful, do your due diligence, say no politely and walk away if it does not interest you. We techies must educate ourselves how to evaluate a startup proposition and be helpful where possible to build our network because the network may yield answers in our "next" startup.
Trying the demos on both a Galaxy S and an iPad, I'm struck by how slow everything feels. Buttons don't react when you press them, but a second later, which isn't acceptable when you're competing with native applications. However, it looks good and they have time to fix the speed issues. I might look into using this instead of something heavier, like sproutcore.
But I am still surprised at how few companies do this

Because it flags you as a mill, uninterested in the applicant and likely a firm that treats development as a commodity. I'd be willing to bet that the 30% who didn't bother to respond to the challenges included some of your best applicants.

You'd never hire an accountant by insisting they prepare a quarterly for you before you ever met them and you wouldn't make prospective truck drivers arbitrarily drive hundreds of miles to an interview.

If you want to screen for the absolute basics of rote capability that's what those various certified professional type credentials are for. But just like your little tests, you'll be pre-screening out the best as well as the worst.
Here's a more sensible test - http://oi56.tinypic.com/14yc0u1.jpg - a lighter text-shadow with zero offset and 5px blur is used to increase the contrast around the text. Top is #fff, center is #eee, bottom - no shadow.

IMO it's a close between the center and bottom options, but bottom still looks better and more uniform across different monitors.
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diskutil erasevolume HFS+ "ramdisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://1165430`

ex:

Initialized /dev/rdisk4 as a 569 MB HFS Plus volume

works for me in firefox. but doesn't really seem faster, probably because my main disk is an ssd raid array.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/186198/Screenshots/7k4b.png
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You and I have different standards for egalitarian society. Depiction has an effect on permission.
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I got goose bumps of this comment. I especially liked that 1% difference between the best-sentence.
Macs accounted for 27% of Apple's net sales in FY '10. Mac sales were up 26% over the previous year. In comparison, iPods accounted for 13% of net sales and, and grew only 2% over the previous year.

Why, precisely, do you expect Apple to just throw away 25% of their business?
This is similar in a sense to how Adobe mishandled their "Flash on iOS" play, right from the start. They took it for granted that Apple would allow Flash-developed apps on the App Store.
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Ask HN: Do you hate comparing tools/apps/choosing stuff?
Hate might be a bit of a strong word, but do you wish that there was an easier way/less time consuming?

I do - but for me if I was to trust a tool/service it would have to be comprehensive enough that I knew it would have as much info as I would have gained by researching it myself (searching: what is the best iPhone app for x,y,z).

What would you want it to offer?

In the context of this post, I suppose I'm focusing on things like iPhone apps, startup/business web apps (project management apps, accounting apps), and other software (note taking apps), etc - but this issue is broader than that.

What would you think about this being offered as a service - someone (maybe through a web app interface) asks you enough questions about you and your situation so that they can do the research for you, then they tell you which one to use/download?
There's a major issue with your method. The best developers know they can get jobs wherever they want. What incentive do they have to bother with the extra work?
I've tried to do this with my own app before. I ran into difficulties doing it, if I remember right, because the orientation data is not fully initialized at the point in the launch sequence that you need it. It always reports the default orientation.
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