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got one of those ion pcs, i recommend it, and your sentiments about how this all fits together. i think a machine really can only do one thing really well (especially something high performance) at a time, and often MPC software tries to do too much at once.
This sounds like an excellent candidate for Kickstarter - have you considered that option?
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I'm going to write a book with two pages in it. Page one will say "Eat Right!" in a big bold font. Page two will have "Exercise!" on it. A few years later I'll release revised versions with extra chapters, er, I mean, pages, with statements like "Sleep Well!" and "Relax, Don't Worry!", etc. I mean, all I have to do is just promote the hell out of it.
Wow, I'm seeing tons of false positives. Why on earth is the co-written blog of a nobel laureate and a 7th circuit appeals court judge making blekko's bayesian classifier freak out?

#88 - http://www.becker-posner-blog.com - bayes (spam 31.6 > 5.3)
If they put johnchow.com on the list, they must be doing something right.
because the prevailing style of personal photo is "Internet Disease" :P

"Internet Disease means displaying old, faded, blurred or otherwise non-descript photographs of oneself, taken with bad lighting and at awkward angles" - in order to hide obesity and acne. I'd give a link to the encyclopedia dramatica definition of it if it were not for the popups on that page.
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The 8 large squares along the top row are now $100 each, and I had originally started everything out at $10 and $50 until people told me it was way too cheap.

So, the math worked out something like this:

(15 * 10 + 2 * 50) + (26 * 15 + 3 * 100)
Facebook growth is about to end though. Most of the people who could've joined facebook, have done so.
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Totally agree, but apparently the Kickstarter people turned them down.

From the article: "I had originally hoped to do a Kickstarter project, but I have since been informed that we do not fit the profile of project they are trying to promote at this time."
I've scoffed at his claims of 5K to 50K in 12 weeks, in the past. I went from couch potato to runner. I've run several marathons and ultras and have done quite a bit of experimenting on my body over the years. I managed to borrow a copy of this book tonight and pounded through quite a bit of it.

From what I read, it's actually 4 weeks of bone/muscle/ligament conditioning, followed by 12 weeks of running training -- IF you can run a 5K at an 8:00 pace or faster. If you can't, then yep, you guessed it, more training time.

This is doable and pretty much falls in line with conventional training (though Tim reorganizes it a little bit, and throws in the all important and generally under-emphasized benefits of cross-training), but it isn't "in 12 weeks" at all.

I've done quite a bit of iterative experimenting with cross-training (especially cycling and swimming) and it unilaterally improved my running speeds and my long run recovery times.

His graphs and charts seem rather superfluous to me. Meant to intimidate rather than inform.

I'm not so concerned about permanent damage because of the initial 4 week conditioning process. If you're not already a seasoned runner, this program will take you as long or longer as Galloway or Joe Henderson's training plans.

His advice and data are solid, but don't meet his "in 12 weeks" mark. As far as I know, he still hasn't actually run 50K. The book links to http://www.fourhourbody.com/ultra for his results, but its still a dead page.
Just to let you know jhubert, I'm not clicking on your link because it's a juvenile headline and very spammy sounding.

The "Awesome. I love the Internet" line didn't help to change my mind either.
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The irony is we're now finally giving up x86 years after the point where moving to a risc architecture would have offered the biggest jump in price/performance (p5 era).
If this were another TransMeta, I'd agree, but the situation is quite different, because Intel is very early in their learning curve on graphics, and nVidia is quite far along in their learning curve on graphics and high-performance computing. They actually have a decent shot at competing with Intel in the low end of the desktop market by making up with the GPU what they end up lacking in the CPU.
> I posted this yesterday, but if this link is true, it'll be a whole lot easier to pirate apps than you suggest.

That's always easy on OSX: there is a regularly updated one-stop-shop app for serials, and the vast majority of apps only have a license/serial key.
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Maybe. But if the HIG is not that important anymore, I think that should also imply that Apple should allow for other UI toolkits in its stores, such as Qt.
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My bad. I did not catch that earlier. Makes sense
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Very cool. It'd maybe be nicer with a double pane layout, with the code and the preview side by side, using a key combination to reload the preview.

Still, you'd have trouble convincing me to give up my favorite editor, browser, and alt+tab,F5. Might be good for ChromeOS users, though.
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Twitter is still pointless. Or am I missing something here?
Would you ever consider implementing subreddits? The reddit team has said that they were implemented in order to help the site scale without losing the small community feel, and that certainly holds true for some of the smaller, more focused subreddits.

Alternatively, would you take steps to limit new membership? HN these days is often mentioned in the same breath as Twitter, Reddit, and Digg by many bloggers. I don't see that trend stopping any time soon, so if you didn't plan on implementing subreddits, then something like this might be necessary.

The Eternal September phenomenon has always been fascinating to me, not least because it is one of the Internet's oldest problems, yet it remains unsolved. I'd be interested in reading your thoughts on how a community can protect itself from dilution in this manner. Beyond the ideas expressed in the following link, did you have any other thoughts? Has anything changed your mind in the past year?

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Thanks for the feedback Rubyred.

Personally, I think the idea is relatively juvenile but I never intended for the headline to sound spammy. I'm just excited.

As for the "Awesome. I love the internet" portion, I'm not sure I can change that one. I do love the internet. I can't think of any industries where something like this is possible... well, no other legal ones.

I ran a large (1+ million member) community website back in 1999 - 2000 and realize that every community has their style and voice. I'm sure given more time on HackerNews I'll learn to speak with the one that's appropriate for the audience.
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Guess version 2 of the game will be called Very Angry Birds with pirates as targets. Or pirates are really pigs?
the (problematic) apps in the Mac App Store are coming from iOS developers, who didn't grow up with the guidelines. A different UI has given them an edge in the iOS App Store, and the are gonna try the same on the mac.

So we can retire the meme that any random iOS app has a more consistent user interface than any random Android app?

Sometimes it takes seeing the apps all next to each other to realize it like http://wellplacedpixels.com/ does (which effectively documents the inconsistency in iOS apps, and this inconsistency being praised ("beautiful software")).
I like much of the advice, but the style and presentation of the message is, like so many things I've seen associated with Facebook, lacking any sense of humility. There's no "we did this because it worked for us and we're sharing in hopes that it may help others." Instead it's "Other people think this. They are wrong." Or "A commonly held belief is X. It is false."

This hubris has certainly been a powerful ally to Facebook's founder, but like so many other powerful people, companies, governments and organizations that came before them, I can't help but think it will ultimately lead to demise (unless tempered).
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I think maybe the OS X HIG is still in place, but it is migrating to the iOS HIG. We will increasingly see more and more apps falling over to the iOS "dark side" and culminating with the release of Lion.

Personally, while I loved my iPhone and think the iOS is a great thing on a small screen I'm not a big fan of the iPad. Let me re-phrase that, I'm not a big fan of the iPad's launcher. Anyway, Lion will be a big UI step, probably in the direction of iOS and away from OS X. That kind of makes me sad and worried about the future of Mac products. On the other hand, I'm very happily a Ubuntu and Android user and maybe they will pick up the torch and grow better and better.
The most striking thing for me between Tweetie and Twitter for Mac (Tweetie 2), other than the dark sidebar, was the use of Helvetica instead Lucida Grande. It's subtle, but I believe it's a big step toward making an app feel like it was made for OS X instead of iOS.

Reeder for Mac, another port of an iOS app, is another good example. It uses Helvetica and it uses slide animations that make me think that the Reeder window has moved a few hundred pixels to the left.
Good point, thanks for making that distinction.

I think I would still reword "this will only work for straight males" to "this will only work for those that are aroused by men doing women" (or whatever the subject matter is, in this case). The audience is probably bigger than originally presumed.
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Please correct me if I am wrong here, but isn't Groovy/Grails too similar to Ruby/Rails and Python/Django to make it much of a challenge to learn it? How different is it from Ruby or Python?
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Ask YC: what if you can't attend the 3 month program?
Is it possible to be funded by YC even if the founders can't be in SV for 3 months? I know the founders would miss a lot of the value of YC by not being able to attend the program but has it been done and is this even allowed?
What about games? They have inconsistent interfaces in their platforms (and across platforms) and still work well.

I think it has something to do with the input methods. When all you do is to click buttons and fill in forms, it makes sense to have a consistent interface. On the other hand, some iPad apps produce a great experience based on their inconsistent interfaces (as in http://www.algoriddim.com/djay-ipad and http://www.korg.com/ielectribe)
There's a difference between "ugly attempt at matching the standard controls" and "extending nicely into a different style of UI".
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My past attempts at understanding Clojure have failed badly. (I must say I didn't try that hard, though.) Would a foundation in Lisp make it easier to learn Clojure?
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"Those platforms got abandoned not out of some strategic affinity to x86 (much less to Intel), but simply because they didn't offer the advantage to be worth the bother."

I disagree. MIPS and Alpha offered significant performance advantages during the 90's.

Even though Windows NT was available on these platforms, very little 3rd party software was provided in Alpha, MIPS or PA RISC compatible binaries. In industries where key applications were available, such as 3d animation, Alpha was quite popular, and the others somewhat so.

Running these applications Alpha offered 2x-3x the performance of anything available from intel, and so compared well on a price/performance basis despite higher cost. If they were ever shipped in volume comparable to the P5 the advantage would have been staggering.

If you read the archives of comp.arch you'll see a general sentiment of how highly regarded the architecture was, including postings by intel's own designers at the time. In fact I'd say the only thing more highly praised there would be the transputer (which was probably 3 decades ahead of its time).
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I believe the name "dissident" comes from a desire for anonymity (probably a good idea, with what he does). He used to go by "TDDebug", fwiw.

(Insert argument how none of the kids who use Hackulous would ever buy an app anyway, due to lack of funds (or lakc of funds in credit card or iTunes format), or because they are just pirates.)
Just a passing mention : the scene is much rougher in the book, because he actually convinces her to fist-fuck him IIRC, so that they are both "raped".
I must admit I'm not really surprised to see Gruber suddenly claim non-uniform application design is a good thing when everyone starts critizing Apple for 1. inconsistent UIs and 2. bad design. Also note how he completely focuses on the inconsistent UI-issue and completely ignores the part about bad design in the OSX App Store, probably hoping it will go by unnoticed.

Really though. Isn't it always this way with Gruber? If Apple or OSX does something better or different than the other platforms it's not only good, it's the standard. It's the only way(tm). End of story. Whoever disagrees be uneducated and unsophistitcated.

The second Apple strays away from that, his response is always "but this isn't important any more" or "this is a good thing, really". Really, Gruber?

I must admit I'm getting fed up with his appologyism. If there is still insight and actual content to be found in his blog-posts, he is making it very, very hard to find.
A big difference between iOS and OS X is that desktop applications have more than 20 years of UI research and convention behind them, while touch interfaces have less than half (maybe even less than a quarter) that. There's thus a lot more room for experimentation in touch interfaces since there isn't as large a body of best practices. Apps that try to go their own way UI-wise on OS X are more than likely going to end up subtly violating the norms of OS X application behavior that standard Cocoa apps all follow implicitly, much like Qt apps on OS X do. Indeed, Gruber's example of Twitter 2 already misbehaves in a number of head-scratching ways: among the ones I've noticed, hitting cmd-W from the tweet list hides the entire app rather than closing the tweet window, and the "compose tweet" box floats over everything even when the app is in the background. I think the tolerance for UI annoyances like these is a lot lower, and apps that try to go their own way are going to expose them a lot more than apps that stick to the tried and tested standard widgets.
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If Strobe is the book sponsor than they only need 100 people, 25 companies or some combination of the two, to raise the money.
You might like to short-circuit a lot of this learning.
There was a fighter pilot who studied this for 40 years named John Boyd. He architected the f15, 16, 18, A-10 and the first iraq invasion. His academic work short circuits what all the dotcoms (including facebook) are slowly learning through trial and error.

If you want a starting place Robert corams book on boyd is excellent, while Frans Osinga's thesis Science, strategy and war is essential reading for the hard subject matter.

Here's destruction and creation.
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For what I've seen of countless couples (including some past relationships of mine) this is the way it works for many people.
I'm sorry you felt that way Aaron. For context for the rest of the HN: when giving a talk on our HTML5 heatmap generation I was using a heatmap of an NBC homepage for an example. That homepage featured a promotion for their coverage of the Miss USA 2010 contest.

The heatmap showed a disproportionate gaze length on the woman's body (as did most of the heatmaps for that study), which I pointed out as a fairly common observation in the world of ET studies. I've been told by several experts that this is a quick way to check if your ET device is working properly.

That being said, I of course did not intend to offend anyone, it was meant more as a humorous jab at where our attention is drawn (both male and female btw). I'll definitely be more sensitive to things like this in future talks.
The question in the title remembered me of this quote:

"Good design is design that surprises, something that is unexpected but immediately comprehensible and pleasing."

Source: http://info.psu.edu.sa/psu/cis/phalloran/Teaching_Learning/g...
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This sounds great. The weakest part of sproutcore right now is the documentation, which has actually gotten worse since I first learned 14 months ago due to bit rot. Fixing that will go a long way towards increasing adoption.
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That's strange, though, because it should be clear to them that the long term effect of this is pretty dangerous for them - if their search results were always the best, then they would be largely unassailable in the search market, but as it is, they're decreasing satisfaction with their product. It's hard to improve everyone's perception of your product once that's happened, and it opens them up to usurpers.
Thanks for the recommendations. A lot of people are suggesting different functional programming languages here -- Erlang, Clojure, Haskell, Scala and Lisp. I'm becoming more and more interested in learning Lisp before trying the other languages. What do you think of such an approach? Would it help me understand Erlang/Haskell/Clojure/Scala better in the future?
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Suddenly?!

This has been a long and gradual transition (not even all that much of a transition), what he wote shouldn’t be surprising to any longtime reader of Gruber.

This piece is also mostly about Twitter for Mac, an app that was not developed by Apple.

– edit: I found one relevant article from 2004: http://daringfireball.net/2004/10/does_brushed_metal_matter

“I’ve been thinking about brushed metal windows and Apple’s inconsistent use thereof at least since Panther shipped a year ago. So, why wait until now to write about it? Well, because I just wasn’t sure it actually mattered. And I’m still unsure.”

“This is precisely at the heart of my uncertainty as to whether these brushed metal issues really matter. Maybe it is just aesthetics — merely the color of pixels, rather than how the interface truly works — and I’m looking for serious implications that aren’t there, simply because I happen to think brushed metal windows look stupid.”

(Just as a side note, all the articles on Daring Fireball from around that time – about brushed metal, clickthrough and poofing – are in my opinion some of Gruber’s best. I would very much like him to write more about stuff like that.)
Wait, you can't claim that Gruber is never critical of Apple. For example, he was one of the first and most persistent critics of the iPhone App Store's submission guidelines until they were amended by Apple.

It's true that he rarely criticises Apple's design choices. But I don't think it's because of any sycophantic defence of Apple, but rather because his design aesthetic is very similar to that of the lead designers at Apple. Still, I wouldn't be surprised to see him do a piece soon on the sub-par design of the Mac App Store, because it is sub-par (at least in some aspects).
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In that order are what you should focus. Near 100% of managements time should be spent on people and ideas. Get that right and the people will take care of the technology.

One tool to implement that is a mission order (No civilian counterpart), which is where you define an intent to be achieved and operating parameters to be met but not how that intent is to be carried out. parameters are mutually agreed on - and the subordinate has the right to refuse. Usually you leave most of the definition of the intent up to the subordinate. Like "build a database useful for storing graph data" or "Find a way to improve ads customer acquisition".

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The average user would not be able to tell the difference between a well-adapting Qt application and a Cocoa application. We have a Qt application for searching treebanks, and when showing it to another Mac user, he replied "nice, you wrote it with Cocoa?".

Twitter's (or the App Store's) deviation from the Mac look and feel, on the other hand is very noticeable. And I am not sure it is proven that we are talking about "extending nicely into a different style of UI". The Twitter UI is plainly confusing (where do you drag this window?) and having the backward/forward buttons next to the window controls is questionable at the very least.
I think the writing is quite bad--pretentious and essentially sensationalistic. She manages to pack in pseudo-science, pseudo-psychology, AND pseudo-sociology. This is an example of a uniquely pathetic style of rhetoric that only an intelligent person is capable of.

It's basically intellectual pornography for people who are predisposed to her prejudices.

Ugh, wish I could unread.
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How is it an awesome review? Because it goes hating on Tim without any logical back up? Or debunking of Tim's claims? He doesn't even say he tried any of it. Sounds to me like he just doesn't like him.