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there is if you're only using your vps for git over ssh which was my point that started this whole thing.
Wow - talk about conflict of interest. So - Samsung knows the exact cpu specs for Apple's next gen iOS devices WHILE they're trying to compete with Apple on the Android platform with the Galaxy series.

I wonder how the Apple execs feel about this - it should make them a little uncomfortable knowing that their production line depends on a distributor who has a vested interest in a competing platform.

On the other hand, my impression is that Samsung is in the business of selling hardware for a profit. To them, it doesn't matter if they sell more hardware in the form of Galaxies or iPhones - as long as they're pushing out cpus/memory/lcds they don't care where it goes.
It depends on the fruit. Mangoes a) only grow in the tropics and b) have acidic sap. Most people who pick mangoes only do it once.
But it is typical Siegler. He had a post comparing MS revenue against Apple revenue talking about how Apple had surpassed MS revenue -- completely ignoring the fact that you generally don't compare revenue across industries, for example, Ford makes nearly double the revenue of Apple.

But I do think Apple does stand a good chance to surpass MS. But I do think the consumer space is also a fickle one, especially the phone market. If they do one release of a "meh" phone or tablet, and Android progresses, they could see their profits literally cut in half in a year (see Sony for how you go from +$2B to -$2B in one year).
I agree, just as there are many definitions of "success" there are many definitions of failure.

Here, I have an optimistic view of failure, as in the startup has to close doors with a profitable exit. Even if the startup had a positive impact on customers and the world, I'd classify this as a failure (because of failure to sustain).
Sure, as I said there are cases on the margin, and those cases where you just happen to be working against a competitor who just happened to start working on the same problem at roughly the same time are most of 'em. I'm not convinced these sorts of scenarios are all that common, though. Most big success stories involve doing something that nobody else was doing.

According to my numbers derived ex anum I'd say that working twice as hard increases your chance of getting a big payout by... approximately ten percent.
It was raised during the recession, possibly to boost confidence (but honestly, to maintain coverage with inflation it was overdue). There were talks for it to be a temporary raise, but I don't see anything about lowering it now. I guess it's permanent.
Hardly surprising. But aside from Apple paying bucket loads (I dont have a reasonable guess at this number but I am assuming a fair amount will go towards the 3.6Bn to build the new plant?) to Samsung for getting access to their production facilities, doesnt this offer by samsung effectively go against its own mobile plans? Or would samsung's reason be that Apple will get its production scale somehow/somewhere so it might as well be them?
That seems unlikely to be a good plan for the mass market. Phones are judged by the standards of consumer electronics, and people expect it to just work. They don't want to fuss with it like a PC. Integration seems to be the more effective strategy for delivering a smooth experience.
Just feeding off of drama. Over what, exactly? This is equivalent to posting about a Wikipedia edit war.
I think it still applies. You could rephrase it to say, would you work 80+ hours each week, no pay, for 2 years, just to have a powerful experience and greater knowledge (and the company fails)? It's not a failure from every perspective, but I don't think such a thing exists. Failure to make an exit, or failure to sustain the startup is mostly what I mean.
People compare Microsoft and Apple. They just do. (See: Chart I linked to.) That’s not in any way typical of Siegler. And his prediction is also nothing special at all. It’s just wrong to attack this particular author about this particular question.

It’s not typical Siegler. It’s typical many people. Siegler holds a common position on this particular issue.

The popular trope that Siegler is defending Apple despite obvious evidence to the contrary which the first commenter seems to be alluding to is certainly not true when it comes to this particular issue. (It is true on other occasions but not this time.)
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You shouldn't bother with an MBA.... as long as you're spending the equivalent amount of time learning and growing as a person.

The key here is what you do with your time. A structured education is hardly ever going to be a waste of time. It may not bring instant promotion and salary increases commensurate with the cost, but to call it a waste of time would be quite incorrect.

Like the Rent vs Buy argument for property, the 'Rent' case is only better if you invest the amount saved. The MBA vs No-MBA argument is better for the No-MBA side if you invest time and effort into learning and growing as an individual. MBA vs Watching TV is a no-brainer, as they say, you should always opt for studying.

For some people, the structured learning environment and connections made during the course are invaluable. People tend to discount or forget this when evaluating the worth of MBA courses.
I don't hand-code XIB files: I don't use XIB files. I do use Interface Builder for laying out a basic UI design, it's much better than sketching it by hand.

But when it comes to code, it's much easier to have everything in once place. Override -loadView on your UIViewController subclass, and create the views right there. Sure, grab the frame dimensions from IB, but when you create it in code you have full control of how it works. There's no magical linking of the right nib to the right view controller. There's no "outlets" that work most of the time -- except, and I've had issues with this, in a few methods where they don't. There's no almost-but-not-fully-correct parsing of your source code looking for the "IBOutlet" markers, and there's no custom UIView subclasses that you have to make in code anyway, because IB doesn't support configuring them.

Basically, similar to this line from the Zen of Python: "Explicit is better than implicit."
I think their ads are considered part of search, it’s “just” monetization of product/trick #1
Well, if he's the only one then that's still "hardly any".

Is he the only one? I don't know.
$200K isn't enough for you to bother doing all the research to maximize your yield. Just keep making money and improving your business. Then when you hit a scale where you have a CFO/VP Finance, let them worry about how to make a couple extra percentage points on all the billions of spare capital you have floating around. For the time being you have way more important things to do like doubling your revenues and maintaining the same margin. Good luck!
Samsung knows better then to breach a contract with someone like Apple. Especially when they are building $3 billion factory to support it. Also I am sure the division that designs phones is separate, contractually, from the division that designs/manufactures chips.
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Does the concept of official "opinions" really make sense in this day and age?
The "NodeSeq -> NodeSeq" implicit construction method that DPP uses for his designer-friendly templates works so well because of the type system, yeah.

Which is not to say Enlive doesn't tackle the problem head on with a lot of solid syntax. It's just the forms like clone-for aren't everywhere, and so the second you leave the comfort zone of the syntax you lose a lot of the elegance.

This is the tradeoff between the two language approaches. The static type can carry it's DSL on its back implicitly, whereas the macro approach requires an explicit lexical tag.
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If you want my advice, don't fucking do it.

If you never asked for advice you will anyway.

Startup life is hell, but some of us have to do it.
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I'll provide another data point (as someone who isn't as heavy a user as acangiano.

I'm with Teksavvy as well and currently pay $31.95 + tax for a 200GB cap. I'm using less than half of that, or about ~80GB/month. Under the new rules I will have to pay $40.45 + tax for 105GB cap. In the rare (for me) case that might exceed this cap I'll pay $2/GB for additional traffic.

If I cancelled Netflix I'd probably come in just under the 25GB cap. Bell has effectively doubled the price of Netflix for me.
Why are university politics so vicious? Because the stakes are so low.
I didn't see any hard evidence. "Rumoured that", "leaks from sources" and "hinted" do not add up to the emphatic headline. But I guess we're talking about Apple rumours here: anything goes.

Anyhow, no such discussion can go without the obligatory posting of a link to the Apple Product Cycle:
http://www.misterbg.org/AppleProductCycle/
An MBA is garlic to my entrepreneurial vampire.

That being said, there are two different responses I would give to someone considering getting an MBA. If you're looking to climb the ladder in an old school company an MBA is par for the course. If you're using the MBA as an excuse to put off being an entrepreneur you're shooting yourself in the foot with a silver bullet.
no. picture and flash ads are separate HTTP requests. AdBlock/FlashBlock work by not making those requests. You will save bandwidth, but as you have pointed out, it's a drop in the ocean compared to watching a HD movie or even a 10min youtube clip.
Try the movie - The Startup or it may be just "Startup".. you may find some good stuff to watch on - www.biznus.tv - which is a Startup and Business related video aggregator..
I know it's been 10 hours, but can I just say thank you? I left a random musing as a comment and signed off, and someone took the time and liberty to personally address it. One of the many reasons why I love this community.
Hashing has one major advantage over random assignment: reproducibility. If you have some way of IDing Mary Smith, you can consistently serve her the same tests on all machines, and expose the tests she is participating in to bug investigators, without having to actually store a users => chosen test alternatives map anywhere. Those can get fairly sizable and the access patterns suck.

A/Bingo does it by hashing taking MD5(user_id . test_name). You have to store user_I'd, but you're doing that anyhow.
In case not everyone is aware, this is a campaign for Diesel. I first saw this as a storefront display in Santa Monica saying "BE STUPID" in big bold letters, which led me to a quick search and to: http://www.diesel.com/be-stupid/

Clever campaign. I don't know of many clothing companies that have marketing slogans that get discussed on HN.
But it is a potential house of cards. If search goes then everything falls with it. Even Android is absolutely, hands-down, the best in market, without super strong search revenue it becomes s loss center.

The same with Gmail as they probably can't fund it simply by the ads on gmail -- it's their search network that makes ads on gmail a value ad.

It's almost the inverse of the MS strategy. MS is using their cash from Windows/Office/Servers to try to find another billion dollar business. While Google is using these other products to expand their existing billion dollar business.

If I were Google, I'd be thinking that I'd like to have one product that could pay for itself (that is, if I lost all search revenue, could it still make money). Because if Apple runs the tables, they could very well choke off Google's air supply to search, and see the whole house of cards fall. And frankly, I think Apple would be all too pleased to do so.
Uh, can you give any references to "hidden" Facebook APIs?

Being in the process of currently developing a Facebook app, it seems to me the entire graph is exposed. The only question is permissions and Facebook's willingness to change APIs on a very regular basis (that is a dicey question but rather different).

But "hidden" APIs??

You can find an open source Facebook library here: http://gitorious.org/qfacebook as well as many other places for different languages.
Well said. We will always need to find things in a vast sea of information.
Not at all, not right now.
Pass the popcorn!

It's a challenge for any site that focuses on the Scobles of the world as their early users. What happens when it they want to change the vibe to make it more broadly appealing?

It's certainly not fatal. Twitter navigated through it a couple of years ago, when a lot of the old-timers (including Scoble) talked about how it had lost its appeal and FriendFeed was the wave of the future. It'll be interesting to see what Quora does.

EDIT: although I do think Robert's right: Quora isn't a very good platform for blogging.
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That makes sense.

It all roses for Samsung - they have their hands in both pots.
Well, that's going into the company to provide you with that in-ground wire. It's in the base cost, not affected by how much data you use, which was the main point. Marginal data is cheap.
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Six of the 25 people listed here have MBAs, and several don't mention college at all, so it's probably more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Apple_Inc._executives

It actually saddens me that this article is being voted up. It's more evidence of the phenomena of people upvoting articles whose thesis they agree with rather than those which enlighten an issue. The article adds virtually nothing to an already tired discourse.
This and many of such psychological effects are described brilliantly in Dan Ariely's book Predictably Irrational.
Amazon link : http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expande...

He also talks about all the experiments he did to support such claims.
Here's one I saw recently that is worth a mention:

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

(Disclaimer: Nothing to do with hacking whatsoever.)
Anything by Louis Theroux is generally fantastic. Watch the one on "Medicated Children" if you can't choose where to start.

"Exit Through The Gift Shop" - Banksy fucks with everyone, and makes you appreciate just how brilliant he is.

"King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters" - If you think start up nerds think they are all that, you won't believe it when you see just how cocky former arcade game world champions can be.

"I Think We're Alone Now" - I wouldn't call it "great," but its definitely weird. It follows two unusual people who believe they are connected to Tiffany, the 80s singer.
Interesting they are building the chip fab in Austin - maybe they will be moving more manufacturing to the US. Must be more convenient too since Apple is designing the silicon.

Edit: Silicon, not livestrong bracelet material.
The MS site (http://exp-platform.com/) has more of Kohavi's papers on how MS uses experimentation across their systems. Worth a perusal if you want more depth than this overview document.
Another, admittedly more combative strategy is to try and disprove every new idea you're confronted with (albeit as honestly and charitably as possible). If an idea is too difficult to disprove, see if proving it is any easier.
Where I live in the States, I pay $65 USD for 7MBit DSL with a 250GB softcap. I've only gone over the cap about 3 times in the 4 years I've been with my ISP, and it is never more than 300GB total that month, with the exception of this winter. I've also never had to pay for additional usage beyond my standard monthly bill. My average per month is about 80GB for last year, which is mostly consumed by a full level 0 dump once per month and weekly level 1 dumps of 3 remote BSD VPSes to a home server once a month, yet I still only consume about 1/3rd of my allotted bandwidth.

My fiancé was between semesters at school this winter, and decided to finish watching Battlestar Galactica, among a couple dozen other movies to occupy her time through Netflix. My router's bandwidth logs show that she consumed about 35GB a day for 12 of her 15 days off. We hit somewhere under 500GB of data that month. Using TekSavvy's upcoming rates listed in this thread at $32.00 per month for 25GB with $2.00 per additional GB, we would have had a bill approaching $1,000.00. How the fuck is that justifiable?

Our current model takes in account that occasionally, users will blow through their caps with no regard for the sky, but most other months are way below the cap. My current plan, of which was negotiated over 4 years ago and has not changed since, still serves my needs perfectly. I could cut out Netflix and my VPS backups and use 4GB a month, but why should I move to a service plan that is lesser than my 4 year old contract? Did I mention my current ISP service plan was negotiated 4 years ago? ISPs have had 4 years, in my case, to upgrade their equipment to accommodate an increase in users, of which they have been pushing, because as a company, they like having an increase in subscribers. Realizing now that they are at the peak and want more money for the increased traffic is entirely out of line since they have had years of growth in their subscriber base and years of blind profit, but none of that was spent ensuring that they would have additional room to grow.

I would gladly pay a flat fee per GB of data, since theoretically it is more fair. I will not pay a flat fee that is approaching a 15 times increase profit for my ISP from what they paid for that GB. They gave me and every single other subscriber 250GB to use per month, and for the past 4 years, my habits have evolved to be aware and use 250GB of data per month. Cutting it back to 25GB and additional at $2/GB is entirely ridiculous. Moving backwards is not a solution.
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I think the 3GS and 4G encrypt in hardware. Also, you can set your phone to drop the key to wipe the phone if someone inputs the wrong PIN/password 10 times in a row. You don't have to worry about someone brute forcing it.
Yea, the myth that MBAs can manage everything have always been a myth, but it was very common during the shareholder value age when horrible stuff such as cutting costs were common. Now it seems like it is already dying.

"The next big tech startup will never have a corporate non-tech type at the lead until it reaches it's current-day Microsoft-esque peak and slow decline. "

And hopefully not even then.
Why in the world would you expect it to look differently? They're not writing a new UI framework, they're just using it outside of IB. The same controls will look the same whether you wire them up in IB or in Obj-C.
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Not really. More than half their ad revenue comes from other properties besides search. And they made significant breakthroughs on advertising in its own right that were independent from search.
I'm not saying Siegler is unique. There is a whole cottage industry of people who compare Apple to MS about things that have no merit. Like I said before, comparing revenue across industries is just stupid. It makes no sense. But there are some, like Siegler, who will do it. Of those, it is typical of them, and Siegler is in that class.

There's an old saying that if you don't know the history of the author, you don't know what you're reading.

Lets look at the title of the story for when Apple released their earnings, "Apple’s Insane Q1 ’11: $26.7 Billion Revenue, $6 Billion Profit; 7.33 Million iPads, 16.24"

He's just an obvious hack. But it gets page views. I think he probably makes a decent living doing it. No complaints about that. But I do think that if you are actually getting news from him, you're getting it from the Fox News of the tech sector. John Gruber is even a little embarrassed at how obvious his bias is.
The ten largest companies in the world are, as of last quarter, Exxon-Mobil, PetroChina, Apple, BHP Billiton, Microsoft, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Petrobras, China Construction Bank, Royal Dutch Shell and Nestle.

Of these, Exxon, BHP, Shell and Petrobras have one trick between 'em: dig shit out of the ground and sell it. The banks pretty much have one trick too. Only Nestle, Microsoft and Apple have much diversity in their products.
Arguing against "ridiculously overpriced internet access" is not bolstered by, pardon the expression, bullshit. 99% of what has been written here, and in the mirror ravings on Reddit, is just pure, unadulterated crap. It's factless nonsense that immediately makes the speaker just look like a selfish twit, desperately trying to spin a reality where only their needs are served.

This is not the standards for HN. It is, if anything, the antithesis of HN.
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Preach it.

"Not everyone is man enough to do startups. Don't worry, you won't be the first to wuss out." is a string in the Gordion knot of cultural pathologies we have in our industry. (Gendered language not accidental.)
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Access to dialer and address book (google voice type apps)

Access to camera (Picassa, google goggles, etc)

...to name two.

Caching, as it happens is available on html5... Gmail for iPad is cached locally.
This article is really devoid of substance. I expect more from the Economist magazine normally. They provide anecdotes about companies and countries that got by without a large number of MBAs. They don't even provide any evidence of correlation, let alone causation.

I have generally been skeptic of increases in higher education- but this doesn't really explain the pros and cons of an MBA.
Any clue where they're getting their info on the Austin, Tx plant? (I live in ATX)
I don't think this is as much about tone as it is the manners and recklessness. You are using Paul's essay, How to Disagree, to take an in-depth look at comments, but you're forgetting the basic rules that are set forth in the HN guidelines.

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

...

Please don't use uppercase for emphasis.

angryindian's comment disregards both of these rules. And while it is not mentioned in the guidelines, most HN users would agree that poor grammar, punctuation, and writing overall signify that a comment has been made without proper time and/or thought.

The manners and the quality of the comment are the reasons why I disliked it. The tone is something different all together (don't confuse it with manners). As Paul said, a tone is hard to judge and varies from person to person. However, manners and quality of writing are something that get in way of the substance and bring down the overall quality of the site. Comments that lack these traits should be frowned upon.

Before you cut back on HN, think about what tone really is.
I agree that Quora is not a good platform for blogging. It's a feature, not a bug -- Quora is an excellent QA site, nothing more and nothing less.
If I could flag, I would. This article isn't even a complete thought.
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