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Reminds me of a guy I once knew. He was unemployed and as far as I could work out - a sponge on everyone he knew, including his parents and girlfriend. He kept telling me that he hated 'real' jobs and wanted to be a writer.

I asked him what he had written. He couldn't answer me. This struck me as very odd (I was young). Of all the things in the world to do, writing has to have the lowest cost of entry. Just pick up a piece of paper and start writing. Of course, getting published is another matter altogether, but you would think writing something - anything- and submitting it for publishing would be the first step to being a writer.

Back to the article - I think they gloss over the utility of a concept a little too much. Certainly for car manufacturers, the example cited, launching concept cars is a very good way of gauging reaction to a certain style or type of vehicle. It's also a very long bow to string to say that GM is bankrupt because it spent time designing concepts while the Japanese spent time improving their cars. The Japanese love wacky concepts as much as the next place, and have created many concept cars with no thought as to production. It's an important way of introducing (and de-sensitising) the public to a new design language before it reaches a production model. And there are many cars which have been built as concepts and unveiled to the public, only for the public to demand it be built by placing down real money. There's plenty of examples where frustrated designers have used a secret concept car to ambush their management by conducting a very public focus group.

And onto software - launching simple prototypes and concepts is a very good way of testing the market for an idea.

So yes, real artists ship, but they also dabble as well. Smart dabbling is the right way to go. Perhaps if Apple had launched a concept Newton it mightn't have been such a monumental flop.
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“They’re $99; they will go to $69. Once everyone is getting them, they will cost $29.”

They're $99 now? Where?
I guess I might be wrong. However, consider:

Regarding XBMC / Plex and Emacs / xemacs, instead of a fork it looks like it's more of adding feature X that the original devs didn't want (not being derogatory here, it's substantial work). I'm sure that they merge in new code continuously and the codebases haven't diverged so much as to be independent. It doesn't look much like a fork in that sense.

I'd argue that KHTML is fairly dead. No one really uses Konqueror (I worked for a shop that developed a KDE based distro and even there everyone used Firefox / Chrome), which is probably KHTML's largest user apart from some internal KDE stuff. Hell, even Konqueror has had webkit mode since about a year ago. Qt supports webkit. Tons of other browsers, mobile and otherwise, use webkit.

I see the same downward trend for Debian, from being all over the place to being reduced to mostly a server distro. Meanwhile, Ubuntu is coming up with its own server version with pre-made virtualization images and stuff.

So, maybe the "weaker" forks just didn't die fast? Of course, this whole idea isn't a law or anything and I can't expect it to apply to everything, but that's the general trend I see anyway.

Also, I guess another thing I could claim is selection bias: You've probably never even heard of most of the forks that died. Of course, I don't have the data to prove it either.
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A Tonidoplug, which is a Sheeva plug with the Tonido software on it, is $99:

http://tonidoplug.com
By the way the case study on the site about how redit fixed their search is very well written and interesting. Good sample for a case study: http://indextank.com/_static/papers/IndexTank%20Reddit%20Cas...
There is nothing wrong with losing your job; Steve Jobs lost his job once. Many other successful billionaires, we all share a piece of the failure cake.

My advice is:

1- Get your hands dirty in some sort of business, but don't waste all your savings.

2- Get into the market, talk to people and do some market studies, look for a niche in the market, try to start in a small jurisdiction and keep notes of everything.

3- Learn about all aspects of business, as I said before, law, finance and management. Some marketing skills, and work on your social skills.

4- Get some entrepreneurs friends, online and better in real life.
IBM will have it up in a couple days: http://twitter.com/#!/IBMWatson/status/37223337453158400
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Snopes thinks New Coke was beneficial to Coke, though purely accidentally:

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Unlike Chrome that is automatically "always upgrading" itself. End users here seem to love that :p
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I'm not sure this will turn out to be the case. Amazon has always had a most favored nation clause with regards to ebooks, and that policy didn't cause ebook prices to climb, even though Amazon is the largest seller.

It's also worth mentioning that Newspapers and Magazines make the majority of their revenue through advertisers. This is why they choose to heavily discount subscriptions in the first place. If it turns out being on iOS gets them noticeably more subscriptions, then yes they may lose money on those subscriptions, but it may be a net gain if it enables them to raise their advertising rates accordingly.

Time will tell.
The IE9 Release Candidate has shipped. They are done adding features.
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Example code should be exemplary.

That's harder, of course when the library has unreasonable defaults.
The WHOIS info is a good reason why I've always used anonymous registrations for my domains. Especially as it not only shows your name (which is ok sometimes), but also your address which makes it just too easy to stalk you.
If they don't know the difference between a designer and a developer, it's much better to start small. Chances are, the other person was only asking to be polite and doesn't really want to know about all the nuances in designers' (or developers') jobs. If they do want to know, I'm happy to go into more detail.
"Mass transit is a failure if it's neither faster nor cheaper."

I might argue that depends upon your enjoyment of driving versus riding. I for one dislike driving, and used to enjoy the 2 hours of caltrain time (I live a block from the SF stop) time to and from palo alto. I often got two uninterrupted hours of reading and listening to music in every day.
I think that you are -- incorrectly, unfairly and without data -- assuming that the companies being discussed in this article are not focused on delivering long-term value to customers.

Personally, I just recently went through this process after 10 years of helping to build a company. A decent portion of my payout was held for over a year in escrow, while I had to pay income taxes on it, as of the deal closing date, as earned income. I would hardly characterize my decade of work as an attempt to "flip a quick buck".
The flash is because the styles are defined at the bottom of the document (not really sure why...)

Canvas is only used for the charts.
One of the most important factors in popularity of a foreign work in Russia is a good translation which does not try to be too literal. Muraviev and Kistyakovsky did a great job with LOTR.

Another reason is that this translation was published in late 80s, when the Russian public was particularly receptive to anything spiritual and/or capable of carrying them away from the grim reality of a collapsing country.
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Quora seems to be taking this approach. Except, after the initial request, mutations make the server send rendered HTML fragments instead of raw JSON back to the client. I believe this is due to the fact that their view templates are coded in Python so they can't be easily reused on the client side.
I think it's a perfectly valid criticism.

One of Rails' biggest influences on the Ruby community (aside from making you feel like a jerk if you don't write tests) is that there is one "best" way to do common things and you should only deviate from the convention when necessary.

This is great most of the time, because it allows people to jump right into code they've never seen before (or haven't looked at in a while) and know exactly what's going on without having to follow a bunch of code paths and random classes. Having trouble with a poorly documented gem? Just jump into the code because all gems are laid out the exact same way.

However, often when you know something is pretty standard functionality (like doing an SSL request with net/http), you know it's been solved many times before and just find the first article on Google about it and do it that way. And you're about 100 times more likely to just blindly copy and paste the code when it comes from the guy who wrote the most popular Ruby HTML parser.

I see the same thing all the time in iOS development. Everyone just uses the same patterns that Apple puts in their documentation, which is why Joe Hewitt's Three20 framework was such a big deal.
I'd love to hear more about those bugs you're getting. Feel free to bug (hah!) me on twitter @paul_irish or report straight to http://new.crbug.com
And is that a good thing or bad? For me, its scary. It means I won't know when and how things will break. What if some eople have turned off automatic updates and never receive the new update? It just creates thousands of configurations for a web developer to worry about. And what if its a legacy application that is no longer maintained? Who is going to fix that just because Google just decided to automatically update their browser?

I absolutely hate the auto-update feature of chrome.
While that is a good definition for the word design, the people who make software pretty usually have an art background where at best they specialize in layout (as a subset of spacing, etc), not user interaction design or industrial design degree. That degree is a thing all to it's own, and what much of the Apple aesthetic comes from. An industrial design degree is actually closer to architecture than art in many programs.

There is actual training required to be good at real design for most people. I'm saying most "designers" actually have art training. They might do the job you talk about, and want to do, but they're not the ones trained in it, and not necessarily any more apt at it than the programmer or janitor.

Some are quite talented at it. Some aren't. But that doesn't mean their wonderful art isn't incredibly awesome, even though they don't know program flow very well at all.

All this isn't saying there can't be tremendous variation in what a person can learn on their own, mind you, but many people do considerably better in something they have a formal background in.
3 years to do a sale is far too long. By the time things are ready to go there's no point, the market has long moved on.

What could really be causing this? It's not the stated reasons because if it was the problem would have been solved.

I suspect that like with divorce attorneys, it has to be because lawyers are winding up their clients to create contention and increase their own profits.
Changing passwords is a lot easier than changing keys.
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One: the root password to the machine running Greg's rootkit.com site was either "88j4bb3rw0cky88" or "88Scr3am3r88".

There must be more to it than this. If you know it's one of two passwords, why bother asking - couldn't you just try both? (In retrospect, maybe it was to give Jussi confidence that he was communicating with the real Greg? [Who else, after all, would know the root passwords?])
I received a few complaints when I posted the results of round #1 and it hit the homepage. You might want to change the title to something ambiguous about who won.
Perumov also was one of the first who tried to depict orcs in a more human way, and elves were mostly arrogant high-class snobs.

really like during perestroika when the "free Western nations" suddenly learned that Russians love their children too
Um, because the original work is still being sold and is making money for its owners--specifically, the direct relatives of the original author, including one who continued his father's work and released The Silmarillion.
Instead, the game has been crippled. Watson has to press the button, naturally, but they're not going to require Watson to write out the answer with a pen, of course. And forget about audio clues, much less a picture-based Final Jeopardy clue.

I mean, if they had changed the ring-in system to work in a manner befitting a man-versus-machine match, you're telling me that wouldn't be entertaining? I would be fascinated by that match. This one was a letdown.
Uh, I'm no Apple fan, but I doubt Steve Jobs is so out of creativity that he has to resort to such tricks to stay in business. It's not like he's still working for the money.
You've missed the point. It's not the automatic updates by themselves, it's the manner in which they're built (fast, simple, unobtrusive) combined with the 6 week release cycle. With that pace of development, and a deployment system that works, you have an extremely modern browser with little fragmentation among versions.
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Apple is "Customer Centric" in many ways, but this isn't one of them. I don't think the motivation for this decision was on creating a great customer experience.
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If Google reconsidered their position on this, a vast archive of subscription-only NYTimes, Financial Times, WSJ, etc. content would suddenly become inaccessible.

I can't count the number of times I've seen an interesting article on Reddit or HN, clicked through, found myself butting up against a paywall, and then just Googled the title and been able to read the whole thing for free. You think that these companies would suddenly put their whole archives online for free if they didn't get a bunch of search traffic for it?
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Not really. I'm just interested in seeing how long people typically take to build their prototype in general. Let's be honest here. Two people working on the same type of startup could spend totally different amounts of time coding out a prototype depending on what they want in it and features even if both were coded by equivalent coders. There's no real way to measure it even if I did ask people specifically what they're building out.

Rather, it just makes it easier to see the average time people spend building something and getting it to market instead. The data may not be very useful to others but it gives me a good understanding of what I'm looking for.
I'm not so sure that it's they figured it all out at the start. It's probably more to do with mantra of "Experts Exchange with out the evil" Just figure out what EE did, and then do the exact opposite.
One of my less technically inclined friends received a similar treatment one day. Unfortunately for him, all the pictures that showed up were New Year, Christmas, Diwali (a Hindu Festival) greeting cards with his friends tagged. It's been two months and he still hasn't been able to sign in.
Give me a break. You're complaining that better technology is a bad thing. The reason we have search algorithms is so we don't have to filter through tons of bad results. The better results an algorithm gives us, the less filtering we have to perform manually. Let the computer filtering get better so us humans can filter less.

If half seconds weren't important in search, Google would not have developed instant search.
Computer security is obscenely asymmetric - an attacker only has to find one flaw, once, somewhere. A defender needs to constantly monitor, test, review isolate and basically never make any mistakes.

That is something the IRA used to say, they only needed to get lucky once, whereas the police needed to get lucky all the time. Of course humiliating someone on the Internet is a world away from blowing up a shopping centre. If the consequences were more serious than embarrassment, then a lot more resource would go into guarding against it. Schneier talks about attack trees (http://www.schneier.com/paper-attacktrees-ddj-ft.html) - always look for the cheapest vulnerability.

Incidentally there is one online group who could eat Anonymous for breakfast - Mumsnet. If Anonymous ever took them on, they'd be grounded before you knew it.
The point is that Microsoft has been terrible at this since 1999.

They consistently do their own thing instead of going with standards, and they are always behind the curve. They seem to be trying to catch up with standards but have been unable to make any sort of impressive progress. To be honest, if they've put five years into it and are still so far behind, they need to fire some people.

Does anyone actually consider IE to be a valid contender for browsers? Personally, I gave up years ago.
Blame other interesting things you might want to wirelessly communicate with for standardizing on power-hungry Bluetooth rather than using a lower-power wireless tech (zigbee, ANT, etc) instead/additionally.
damn.

i'm happy i have no questions! :)
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I feel 10 years younger reading this.
I talk about my startup ideas all the time... in person. I haven't posted them online. The reason is that the former benefits me, and the latter doesn't. The feedback I might get from, say, a hacker news comment just isn't as good as what I hear from people I talk to.

So there really is a pretty big difference in what is meant by "stealth mode". Putting up a landing page to gather emails to hear more when you're ready, and only talking in depth about the product in person to help make it better, isn't so much as stealth mode as heads-down-mode.

Not telling your friends because of fear of your idea being stolen is really quite dumb. Not just because they wont steal your idea, but more importantly they might make your product better!
I doubt that's the case. When Microsoft needs something to be done, they would do it. If you discard all the technical mind and just think with a typical business mind, calculating the resources and cost to develop the new IE9 on XP, which is 10 years old, you wouldn't really invest your resource, time, and money to develop IE9 on XP. Plus, if IE9 is supported on XP, it will give "hope" and "hint" that Microsoft still cares about Windows XP.

Chrome, unlike IE, jumped into browser war really late. What this means is that they need to support as many platform as possible to gain every possible percent of the usage metrics. In the end, the percentage number of the usage metrics is the key indicator of success.
I cant tell if the designer is a male or female, but one question; is it a female and is there potential that your partner is sexually involved with the designer? You never said "him"... only "person".

How much is the designer making?

Take some fraction of that salary and go out, without the knowledge of your partner and get better work done. Then come back and say "look at this collateral and web marketing design I had done - it cost 10% of [designers] annual salary and the quality is [n] X better"
Mervyn Peake writes very nice English prose that I think you might enjoy. See his Gormenghast series (Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone). It's sort-of-fantasy but not really (no magic, no non-humans).
It's hard to say whether Apple could even negotiate a deal to offer song sharing. The media companies are so frightened of extending iTunes near-monopoly to other areas that I tend to assume that they'd rather not cut any deals with Apple than let them become dominant in new services.
I agreed up till your last statement. They would have developed it if it meant more ad dollars as well.
Watson's advantage is clear, significant, and game-deciding. If you were familiar with the two human contestants you would know this. Barring an unlikely malfunction, Watson can't possibly incur the delay penalty from buzzing in early. Watson has no real-time audio or visual input, so it is certainly not anticipating the "clue finished" signal.

The instant before the "clue finished" signal is sent, Watson already knows whether or not it will attempt to buzz in. When the signal is sent, you've got a few dozen nanoseconds of wire propagation delay, plus the propagation delay Watson's "clue finished" signal-to-solenoid logic incurs, plus the delay of the solenoid itself. The final two steps almost certainly take less than 10 ms each.

Even with a very forgiving estimate of a 50 ms "clue finished" signal-to-buzz latency, it would be extremely unlikely for even the most anticipatory human to beat that. Granted, it does happen. In day 2 of the IBM challenge I counted 3 times when a confident and correct Watson was beaten to the buzzer by a human contestant.
What exactly is keeping you there? Sounds a bit Stockholm syndrome to me.
Google actually does do open-domain fact-based question answering for queries like:

"what is the capital of china"

which are probably closest to Jeopardy questions (technically speaking.)

The team that does this is a lot more than seven Google engineers. Yet, it is not the top selling features of Google, because -- it's not that easy.

There is a fine line between "seems easy" and "nearly impossible". A Google engineer does not equate to infinite skills.
I placed far too much trust in the title of the story, alas.
Thanks for the nitpick. It never sounded quite right the way I say it. ;)
Is "the guy who wrote the most popular Ruby HTML parser" actively promoting this, though? I know that everything thinks Twitter is an advertising platform, but it could be he just thought it was a cool hack and wanted to show his friends. It's invigorating to get positive feedback about something you think is cool even if the actual feat accomplished is relatively small, like flipping a flag on Ruby's SSL module.

He didn't write a tutorial based on this methodology and I definitely don't see it pimped around anyway. gist is a pastebin, after all.