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I think these companies are looking at this from a long term perspective. This and the smartphones are the only growth markets post-PC. Almost everyone will own a smartphone and/or tablet sooner than you think, and just a small portion of that market justifies the current slaughtering they will incur to gain entrance to the market and establish a beachhead. At this point it's a battle to the death for the #2 spot.

Apple has a massive lead by both defining the market and being almost 100% vertically integrated. Where they weren't vertically integrated, they guessed right on the opportunity factor and cut deals for components while the rest of the market was asleep.

Production will eventually level out, and competitive software will get better, and other tablet will eventually be able to turn 90s era PC-like margins on their products. Depending on how smart Apple plays the game (and I am betting on very smart), this may take a few years to over a decade.
You might have said the same thing about the Altair or, ironically, the Apple II a few decades ago.

This is still early days in the market, nobody has a lock on it. How old was the mobile MP3 player industry when Apple introduced the iPod?

the iPad is a good device, for now. But it's not the end-all-be-all of tablets, it's just generation 1.5. In 5 years the iPad2 will look as limited and outdated as a flip-phone does today. Apple will need to continue innovating in order to maintain the advantage they have right now. They may very well do so, but it's silly to imagine that this horse race is won, it's only just started.
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Heh, well honestly I don't know all that much about elementary school staffing either! But I do know a few things about children, and you simply can't put a large number of them in a space together without adult supervision and expect much educating to go on. Now maybe kids would actually be better off with less learning and more playing, but again without adult supervision of the playing are going to see a lot of destructive behavior. So it's a tough nut to crack.

You might hope that if you managed to replace some of what teachers do with technology you could pay the childcare people less. But it's not like teachers get paid huge amounts of money today. So I'm not sure how much scope you really have for cost-cutting there.

My view is that education is expensive, and growing more expensive, primarily because the field hasn't seen the kind of productivity increases that the rest of the economy has. Some of that might be due to conservatism regarding technology among educators. But a lot of it is simply that kids require hands-on supervision, there is maximum "student-to-adult" ratio that you can't really go over, and so inevitably education costs are going to rise faster than other costs. It's part of the price we pay for a technologically sophisticated economy.
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Android may close iPad market share ... by 2015
I don't really agree -- I found that I could reason out where to go around 95% of the time, and for the other 5% I had the handy in-game guide.
very true..hover menus can also be incredibly annoying on touch devices
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Wall Street impressed by 'evolutionary' improvement in Apple's iPad 2
Rather short and lacking in details for a "review" isn't this? Anandtech and Engadget have already reviewed the Xoom in more detail and I have to say, this reads very much like someone wanting to validate their own opinion instead of offering a fair critique. I have observed the iPhone 3gs/3g (I have little experience with the 4) lagging significantly when many apps are installed (not just running, but merely installed) so UI lag is not something unique to Android.

The power button placement and heavy weight seem to be, admittedly, poor decisions. As far as battery life goes, this review is very inconsistent with Anandtech's review which states that the Xoom's battery life is comparable with the iPad[1]. Not sure what exactly he is complaining about wrt widgets; I have several widgets working well on my phone and I'm sure they're fully compatible with Honeycomb. It is a shame that neither Flash or the micro-sd card slot are functional at release. I can only hope Motorola is working to remedy both of those issues.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/4191/motorola-xoom-review-firs...
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hehe, that was just a sample :)
For all the criticism he gets, I think much of this can be laid at Steve Jobs' feet. He has a clear sense of what he wants, he doesn't tolerate not getting it, and while it pisses people off, it shows in the final product. At Sun it became an in house joke after the launch of the "portable" lunch box that Sun can make any type of computer as long as it starts with a workstation. There is weird sort of entrenched notional design and diverging from it is hit by internal anti-bodies. I saw it at Google with some of the strange (and silly) Android vs ChromeOS battles. You can see Dell 'streak' as a similar example.

Apple learned a lot from doing the iPod touch which made the iPad possible, Google never did an Android Touch, so take what you have, hack it to some new requirements and then try to make it work.
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Sorry if that sounds being paranoid. I normally use Paypal to handle client payments for mu UI design stuff and hence they are not normally in the range of $100 (thankfullly). :)
> I think they know that a lot of people will buy something based on specs alone.

Actually, I think the opposite is true in the mobile space, after many years of that being the case in the desktop/laptop space.

Consumers just don't care what the processor is or how much memory is in their phone. They _do_ care about whether it is fast, responsive, and has nice and/or flashy experience. Also unlike desktops, they care about how it looks.

Is it surprising the apple is cleaning up, for a change?
Fantastically misleading title... ;)
in order to better offer better targeting and messaging

How about "making something people want" as a strategy for retaining customers?
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Poor guy got confused with Disagreement Hierarchy (DH) and DHH!!
Just to clarify, when I said 'technical reason' I meant from the perspective of a user being able to setup/configure their social network settings. Not from the perspective of the internal implementation of the server components
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Is there an official story from Peter about how all this happened?
You aren't very familiar with the lifestyles of the modern rich. Their social circles are other rich people, not tied to a single location. This is the kind of wealth that can check in to any hotel at a moment's notice, and maintain any number of apartments internationally.
So our choice is give the rich what they want, or they'll leave? Lacking a more compelling argument, I'll be the first at the airport to wave them off...
How about making of the things a swiss-knife?
Uncommonly good post about venture capital.
Check out this comment too, by Ed Borasky (applied mathematician and media inactivist):
http://bit.ly/f7nTYp

Many other good comments, Mark S. responded to most.
Donated. From one Peter to another.
Is it fully 3D rendered? or just an isometric view like the old simcity? You can't rotate the viewpoint, as far as I've seen (but as I don't know Chinese I might be wrong).
Is this app available outside the states? I can't open the link from Italy and the App Store doesn't redirect me to the right one.
Ouch. Oh, I feel so bad for you ... that would really be maddening to happen just when your app is rising on the app store. Hope you can get it fixed quickly and it doesn't damage too much!
> Open ID failed because you couldn't explain it to your grandmother.

Counter example: XMPP/Jabber. People who use Jabber can talk to each other with no problems. Including Google Talk, which is a huge use base. I regularly talk to friends on Google Talk with my account on my local server.

Another large counter example: SMTP. Put someone's address in your email program and it just works. Plenty of people run their own email server, despite them being notoriously complicated to set up.
Wait.

Netscape was at 650 Castro?

Mozilla is at 650 Castro now.

Freaky.
Truly one of the unsung heroes of the Internet. Actually met him at a BoardWatch conference where he received a well deserved award.

Fondly remember Trumpet as the key that unlocked the door to using Mosaic. Jumping from text only to a browser was like going from black and white to technicolor.
Me was not that much of an upgrade. It got rid of the MS-DOS mode. While it did change a few stuff and added a few features (new shell derived from Win2000, better ACPI/WDM/USB support, System Restore, etc...), it was still based on the 9x codebase which was unreliable and had many limitations.
Yea, Me was the last release in the 9x series. Me was supposed to be for consumers, 2000 was supposed to be for businesses.
Hope you can fix it soon. Here are some ideas:

Did you verify receipts in your app? If so, could this be the problem?

http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=37309

"I had mistakenly used the app name instead of the app bundle id in the verifytools receipt check code. "

Also, does anything show up in the system Console?

Did you do anything special to compile/package the app beyond regular Xcode + "Build and archive"?
Maybe the executable name doesn't match the plist's entry or the app store receipt doesn't match?
I'm not saying Facebook employees or executives would literally take pleasure in enabling government surveillance, if that's what you're asking for evidence about.

Recently Twitter was the only large internet company of several to challenge a government request for data. We rarely hear about Facebook, Google, Yahoo or really anyone refusing requests for data, while at the same time there have been reports about the vast amount of requests the FBI and other agencies have made under the Patriot Act. The depth and type of information that Facebook has about so many individuals must be highly desirable to many agencies.
From the square website I can't understand if square can be used by international users. There's nothing about that in the faq so I created my account but now I'm not able to create a new identity as it asks for a us address.

Edit: apparently they're working on it, great.
Literally don't have any extra money right now (and I used a Mac back in the day), but I tweeted this to help get the word out, and want to at least my thanks to you, Peter, for your important early role in the internet (I heard about this, even if I didn't use it as a Mac user), even if I can't give money, let me say: well done.

Pat yourself on the back and know your efforts were useful for a great many people. Well done, good sir!
Ipad 2 Launched ; Price Details Revealed, Steve Job Addressed The Event
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I applaud this!

Django has this built in, Rails too.
PHP went a step further and put this in the core language and that makes sense because PHP in itself is meant for the web, and is not a framework over some other language.
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The argument about 16 available apps is shoddy at best. The release SDK for Honeycomb has only been out for about a week; It's being compared to a platform that has been around for over a year now. The only iPad apps that were available when it launched were by the few lucky companies that got pre-release access to its SDK. In 3 months the number of available honeycomb apps will be a different story and in 6 months it will be a non-issue.
I feel like Dr. Sam Beckett, travelling back in time to put right what once went wrong.
> Many who implement SSL don't do so correctly anyway.

Yea, be careful in particular with mixed content. Depending on the origin of the insecure content and depending on whether the cookie was marked as "secure", these may or may not leak plaintext cookies.
Vivek may have his flaws, but Scott's critique misses one of the most important points about Silicon Valley culture.

Those SV events and hackathons here are not output-oriented. The communities that come out of such events are what is really powerful. Of course Startup Weekend companies won't be overfly successful, but the connections made at Startup Weekend's might.
This Steve quote is great:

"No way, there's no way we're slipping!" ... "You guys have been working on this stuff for months now, another couple weeks isn't going to make that much of a difference. You may as well get it over with. Just make it as good as you can.

Especially after I started working on apps in my spare time, I realized how hard it is to actually finish and how easy it is for days to drag on while I add just one more little tweak. Here's to shipping quicker.
This is one of my favorite Joel articles. The conclusion is relevant to us both as business owners and job seekers: any publicly available job will get spammed to death with offal, accordingly, the best jobs and the best candidates for jobs will both be placed privately.

I literally have not had a resume since I read this, with the exception of a pro-forma one to give my ex-job so that they could pretend I was hired on the basis of what was written on my resume as opposed to, say, hired as a favor to a vendor who owed me a favor. We brought the resume to the job interview that happened after the decision had been made to employ me.
Yeah, I've used Rinda for load balancing across small numbers of machines before. It's a couple of screens of ruby in total to get that working, which I was astonished by.
i'm unsure how the cabs are in san fransisco, but this is a valid concern in nyc where cabs are abundant. i wouldn't pay twice as much when waits are usually nothing to complain about.
I'd be curious to hear how many boostrappers are taking advantage of MA's healthcare system (everyone's in a group.)
http://blog.uber.com/2011/03/01/uber-tech-smackdown/
But I know that the "source I trust" hasn't watched the video yet, because they can't have, because they are forced to tweet about it before they have seen it.
I assume they're doing this because of some government restriction on photographing the city? Otherwise, I can't imagine that this kind of effort could be profitable...
According to this, it sounds like it's Apple's fault:

http://getsatisfaction.com/firemint/topics/it_wont_start_on_...

The "receipt" file generated by Mac App Store should have been called Receipt. On case sensitive file systems, the users will get the nasty error.

What I don't understand is, what fixes have the developers made in the update they submitted to apple, so that it works?

Here is another one:
http://pariahware.com/blog/?p=359

Any ideas?
Google yanks over 50 infected apps from Android Market
Just to be clear, the guy on Reddit also said that Google responded to the DMCA notice, which counters the claim the GP was responding to, specifically the the claim that Google ignores copyright complaints.

That said, it's true that they won't respond to anything except a valid DMCA notice. Anyone who sends anything else is provided with instructions on how to file a valid DMCA notice last I knew.
Thanks. The issue is that I signed the prior IP form months ago. They didn't, HR sent it off to be reviewed or whatever, and they're just now getting back to me. Months after I started working there.

Thus, I don't know what happens when they now say "we can't approve that." Is it still a 'condition of employment' that I sign it? Even if they gave me the job without themselves signing it? Can they just "not hire me" or would they have to fire me or would I quit or....
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I thought that ScummVM was GPL. Doesn't that run against Apple's rules? Wasn't there a case of a 3rd-party dev team in Europe embedding ScummVM into a Wii game for EA (or some large name) and it had to get pulled due to Nintendo's licensing rules (which conflicted with the GPL).
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I agree this is great insight. The majority of the "top 1%" are not applying to jobs; they are already working and producing. Hiring from the top 1% means shaking them loose from another good opportunity, not posting a job and waiting for them to come to you.
@catshirt, what would you pay? how price sensitive do you believe new yorkers are?
Well, it's sort of a hard question to answer. But Google has been hacked in the past. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/operation-aurora/

I think the creepier (and more likely) problem is an Evil Googler. http://gawker.com/#!5637234

Not that that is a problem that just Google has, but given that Gabriel really has no way at all to link two searches together, let alone build a profile, makes it attractive to me.

I also seem to be one of the few people who actually finds that DDG returns much better results. All the people I've talked to irl seem to think the opposite. Wonder if that is a placebo effect of sorts on my part ("DDG is one, pretty cool guy so of course it's better than giant corperation!") or what.
One great take-down of this kind of thing.

Another point to consider is that there's more to people than just good or bad. Sure, some people just don't have the skills they need. But there are a lot of situations where someone can be great at one job and terrible at another depending on the fit.

The posturing about "the 1%", "A-players" and so-forth misses the idea that you want an optimal team, not magic people guaranteed to give you results.

Of course, to build an optimal team, you need a skilled organizer. So, for example, you can take someone who's otherwise low-skill, low-motivation and give them what they need to improve.
Props for the reference, but aside from matching /Chin/ the Chinese room has absolutely nothing to do with this approach. It is staffed by a single guy and it is critically important to the thought experiment that he does not understand Chinese.

(Brief sketch of the Chinese room: there is a locked room with a slit which permits paper to come in and paper to go out. Inside the room is a man who does not speak Chinese. He receives paper with Chinese symbols on it, consults a vast library of books with rules on what to do in response to particular symbols, laboriously copies his response onto paper, and pushes it out through the slit. The response is intelligible as Chinese responsive to the input Chinese. Searle argues that the man can't understand Chinese. Personal opinion: it's navelgazing that only matters to philosophy, but I think the man and books together constitute a system which speaks Chinese, in the same way that people bidding in an auction together constitute an efficient price discovery mechanism even if none has expert knowledge of the "true value" of all items at auction.)
This article might of sounded a bit less of a "WHAM" if the real quote was put it:

Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% of developers currently on the market.

But still, valid point
It is ".../SampleApp.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt" (lowercased r) according to http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/mac/documents/validatin...

My guess is your (as well as those links above) development and testing platform is case-insensitive and thus missed this.
The only attack is to disrupt it. i.e.:

1. A crappier product (in terms of what iPad customers value); which targets non-iPad consumers; and that is better in other ways (that iPad customers don't value). e.g. kindle; or can run any apps; or any language is allowed; or is open; or is completely customizable; etc etc etc.

2. Over time, it gets better (read: slightly less crappy).

3. If it becomes good enough for iPad customers and also retains those other features which the iPad lacks, they will switch.

The big questions are: "Is there a limit to how good this crappy product can become?"; "Will it ever become good enough for the iPad customers?"; and "Is it somehow difficult/impossible for the iPad to suddenly acquire those other features?"

NB: it doesn't need to become better than, or even as good as the future iPad - just good enough. Microprocessors, screens, memory etc usually become faster, cheaper, use less energy. So, competitors will get better in these respects. In terms of user experience, they will also get better (even Windows improved). It might take a while.

People think of the iPad itself as a disruptor (which it is); but it can be disrupted in turn. Unfortunately, the competitors are presently confronting it head-on... and they will lose, because the iPad is an incredibly great product in every respect that matters to its customers.
The article doesn't mention what network bandwidth these require - anyone care to hazard a guess? It'd be great to see the mobile telcos prompted to invest in pervasive high-bandwidth wired networks to get this off the ground, but is it necessary?
This no longer exist, now you just have a checkbox "make your profile visible in search". For me that is a huge improvement.
What Joel doesn't mention is that the top talent when considering a job opening is always looking at the following :

1) prestige employer (think Google, Facebook)
2) money
3) is the job interesting?

To paraphrase Joel, don't fixate on your acceptance rate, instead worry whether your job opening is attracting top-tier job applicants.
Well buzz still miss a retweet equivalent (reshare + close comments is the closest thing).
I properly would be offended, but thats mostly because I prefer keeping facebook with just a few friends and strictly for my private life.

However if the job offer was a good one, thats another matter.

In the future, you might want to see if you can get the bosses to agree to use a really obscure language such as Clojure (runs on the JVM, works with Java) or Chicken Scheme (works wonderfully with C/C++ based systems) then you can just send the job notices to the mailing lists for these languages. Needless to say there aren't many jobs for the people who hang out on these lists and the quality you get is of the charts.
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Old habits die hard.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when setting up an online business that accepts credit cards, you need a merchant account. Do you need something similar with Square? Or do they get around this somehow by keeping your funds in a paypal like account?
There is a big difference between thinking of doing something good and actually making it happen. Kudos to the guys who arranged this. It's great to see everyone donating. Just goes to show how many lives Peter impacted with his work.
I think you'll have to wait for the rollout to propagate to get it in both places.
You mean, 50% thicker than it needed to be....