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Apple is a religion. It's like when, 2000 years ago, some flood destroyed some town. They knew God caused floods, and they thought God liked everyone, so they came up with some bullshit like, "those people had impure thoughts". You have to "qualify it" or else everything you believe in is gone.

Now, the stakes are lower for tablet PCs versus The Meaning Of Life, and we all know... the lower the stakes, the more people care. Now you understand why so much hot air is devoted to Apple vs. The World.

The best reaction is to just laugh at the whole thing. They won't even tell you how much RAM the thing they want you to buy has. And you don't care, because you can't use it like a real computer.

Wait, now I'm depressed.
I've used it for a few iOS projects. It's strength is making multi-state things like buttons and automating different resolution images (i.e. Retina). The factories feature combined with "variables" makes it a powerful vector editor. I'm not affiliated with the developer, I just think it's a great app.
You can change cities by clicking on "切换城市". Of course it's still not the whole country but it's still more than one city.
We're largely in agreement, then. Repercussions should vary with the magnitude of the infringement. Various industry groups managing to get individuals fined for out-sized sums, jail time for parents of downloaders, etc., are out of bounds. I see no problem with things being ratcheted up for big seeders and such though.

I think the law is going to be behind the times for a long time on this topic; in part because of the tech, and in part because we are, broadly speaking, divided on what a better direction would be. In any case, I'd hate to see a day come when it's generally agreed that authors of content and software fundamentally don't have the right – if they so choose – to demand payment in exchange for their creations being used, consumed, and distributed.
I listened to these so much several years ago (in particular one with somebody shaking a matchbox) that my brain apparently realized, to some extent, that it was being tricked. Ever since then, recordings like this don't work properly. Anything that's supposed to sound like it's coming from in front of me gets flipped around so that it's behind me. It's very strange.
You wouldn't be able to hear someone walking from behind you, or to your side, or around a corner. This emulates a low refresh rate, very limited field of vision at the cost of reduced hearing. What he's interested in is absolute gains in hearing. I don't think trying to emulate a worse copy of vision fits with his philosophy.
If you already expect "smooth", it is in fact impossible to hear "small" in that recording. But that doesn't mean it's impossible in general.
> VirtualDub

http://www.advogato.org/article/101.html

A far cry, I think, from a patent troll takedown.
A place to anonymously libel those you don't like, named after a form of slavery.

Try again.
It's fascinating that a MS loyalist like Joel would end up using so much linux/oss software.

I wonder if Joel regrets not going 100% open source. I guess the cost of Microsoft licensing for all that is still very cheap if viewed as the price of being featured in Bing searches.
That was on purpose?

You're just a lousy person. Do us all a favor, give yourself one star, then shut down your shitty 30 minute website.
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Confusingly, there is also a project called "Common Music" which is a algorithmic composition tool that used to use Common Lisp, but now appears to use Scheme.

http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/

I actually took a course in college many years ago under the professor who created that application. It's nice to see that it is still under development.
It was enough to take out anyone else who shared the same facility (like us...) and seems to have hammered the Layered Tech border routers into oblivion for 5-10 minutes, so I am guessing it was pretty big.
So they both lied.
You have a strange definition of "respect".

Maybe behind closed doors and in board meetings, Jobs will admit that Android is a very fierce competitor that is taking market share away from Apple.

But on the public front, he shows nothing but disdain for competitors and he spends much more time on stage disparaging them than he used to.

Bashing competitors is not just poor form, it's usually the sign of a business losing steam.
I once slipped on ice and dropped my running T60p 4 feet onto a steel manhole cover.

3 years later, it's still running like a dream.
At the same time, Hong Kong served as a model for China to emulate when it gradually liberalized its economy, beginning with the SEZs in coastal southern China in the 1980s. I think charter cities could be a novel way of easing people who have lived in generally corrupt and economically distorted environments into better institutions. Westerners take for granted that the trust embedded in the social contract and the civic and economic habits that emerge from this trust are not a given in many places (i.e. trust that the government/criminal entities/rent extractors will not capriciously bend things to their advantage).
I have the parameters for it sorted out. So basically the concept for algo is in place but not implemented yet.

I am not sure about IP, that ways somebody might have concept of commenting IP'ed. =/
This sounds like a good idea. HN can be addictive. I often wish I could take a break myself.
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Isn't the whole keynote "petty, spiteful Google bashing" by an "Apple guy"? Jobs intentionally misquoted someone to make himself look better at a talk with his customers and investors. An article pointing that out is not "bashing".
I didn't make excuses. I said it was negative and that I didn't like it. I attempted to explain why I thought he was doing it.

I find it interesting to try to understand people's motivations rather than condemn them even if I dislike what they are doing.
Does it matter? Are you disputing the claim? Do you think that people care more about the ability to bounce their laptop off of concrete than aesthetics?
Wow, the Spanish Inquisition works quickly! Already down to -4!
Do you know if you have any DDoS mitigation devices in front of the border routers? Something from like Arbor Networks or Intruguard? In a few attack scenarios, it really helps.

We're also facing a multi-gigabit attack this week and have dealt with some in the past. Happy to compare notes if you'd like: david@weebly.com.
Even though you've got Java and web development experience, nobody's saying that you have to list them on your resume. These skills are in demand, so of course employers are going to focus on those sections of your resume instead of the fun parts.

Are you able to perform well on an interview where you'll get tested on C++ and nothing else? If so, list your C++ experience prominently on your resume, demote Java and web development to tiny bullet points, and start applying to jobs.

If you don't think you could do yourself justice in a technical interview, get involved in spare time projects and publicise your work on the web. The good employers will value your involvement in the development community as much as they do actual paid work. (This is how I was able to get a functional programming job: I carried on writing C# at work while teaching myself F# at weekends. I got to know my fellow F# developers through the web, and I'm now working with them.)
Yes, you're correct by the definition. I was thinking in terms similar to those articulated more clearly in this comment by RyanHolliday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2284071

A car loses 30% of its value as you roll it off the lot, and it continues losing value steadily until the cost of keeping it on the road surpasses the cost of buying a replacement.
This level of micro-management is something that can go a good ways to killing a developer's energy and motivation. Micro-measuring productivity by writing down the time that is diverted from productive tasks would be a nightmare.
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I just booked a trip to Key West, FL recently. I used KAYAK and throughout the entire process, I was thinking, there must be a better way. What took me nearly two hours a few weeks ago, would have taken me mere minutes on this site. I will not forget this site.
I believe criticsquid runs the Minecraft wiki...
I second this. My MBP has been dropped more times than I can ever admit to the Genius Bar and it has kept on ticking. Every computer I've ever owned has been a mac and they all still work. Compare that to my fiance's 4 PCs that have all broken beyond use. He's currently using my Power Book that's almost 8 years old. It's slow but it works! It also still looks nice.
"Plenty of successful doctors and lawyers have the same problem."

Taking random jobs to put yourself through medical school is much different than taking random jobs with seemingly no direction. If he does have some ambitious life goals, he doesn't make it very apparent in this article.

"I have known numerous people who loved what they where doing without being very happy about the things that came along with that."

If you are doing what you claim to love, yet you hate everything that comes along with it..I don't think you are doing what you really love.

I suppose from the article, we can surmise that the author loves being a hospital orderly or the guy that runs the drive-thru at jack-in-the-box and is just unhappy about the things that come with it. Right?
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By that measure, all of the major players are losing steam.
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This claims to be coming to us from the future (April). Time is apparently not this publication's strength.
Here's ./dev bash script for node.js projects

#!/bin/bash

coffee -wcl public/ && coffee -wcbl ./

Uses the local function scope wrapper for js files served to client side in the public folder and removes function scope wrapper for server side files in the entire directory tree.

Type ./dev and I'm up and running.
There's nothing wrong with comparing them, but it is extremely misleading to use it as a measure of market share, when it is likely that sell-through rates are significantly different. The only relevant measure of market share or market size is devices in the hands of users,

It is even worse to claim that shipment to retailers is the one true measure of market share, and someone else "lied" by estimating customer sales instead.
I guess you weren't expecting that.
Again, you should run this by an attorney, but here's my reaction.

You have put your IP at risk by starting work without receiving a signed copy of the prior IP form. Yes, you were going on the assumption that everything would be okay, but in a situation where you know you have IP that overlaps theirs, that was naive.

I still think you should quit. For one thing, if you continue to work knowing that they're not accepting your prior IP declaration, you are tacitly accepting their non-acceptance, a point that could work against you if this went to court. But beyond that, the only leverage you have in this situation is the value of the work you're doing for them. If you continue to work, you're giving them what they want without appropriate compensation. If you want to negotiate a licensing arrangement for your IP, you'll never do it while you're an employee; the only hope is to make it a condition of your return.

Don't take this advice without running it by an attorney, but that's what I think. (It's possible, for example, that instead of quitting outright you should simply refuse to sign any other prior IP form, and let them fire you. But I would always rather be able to tell my next employer that I quit, rather than try to explain why I was fired.)

Here's another consideration. They've as much as told you that they're trying to get acquired. You don't know who the acquirer will be or what kind of management they will have. Whatever difficulty you are having getting your IP rights recognized now will be squared in that situation.

BTW, if money is tight for you, you should immediately start looking for another job -- one that won't have this kind of problem. This advice you should take in any case, because looking is free and has no downside. If you can find something else quickly, you'll be in a much better position to negotiate with your current employer.
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This might possibly be the most ridiculous comment I've ever seen on the internet, let alone Hacker News.

* I am not a Microsoft Loyalist

* I don't make the technical decisions. Why would I? I'm the person who knows the least

* It is not necessary to use Microsoft licensing to be featured in Bing searches... that is possibly the most preposterous thing I have ever heard in my life

* Microsoft licensing is a rounding error, with the possible exception of SQL Server licenses

* Your bizarre personification of Stack Overflow as "Joel" is charming and quaint and completely obnoxious to the 20-odd people at Stack Overflow that actually do the work instead of sitting around browsing hacker news like I do
Apple want to keep their developers trim. This is a feature :)
You just reiterated my point that you quoted.
If you are a member of a minority or have notable merit achievements.
I think your comments are a bit too strong for being based on this one review. For example, his battery complaints are not inline with what the rest of the world is seeing.

While Apple certainly has a big lead, I wouldn't conclude from this review that Motorola can't "play in this game". Many of his concerns are things that will be addressed with time (lack of Apps, lack of flash, micro-sd support).

The price is definitely too high, but Motorola needed to start somewhere and a tablet isn't a loss-leader type device.
well, your impression is wrong. High earners get federal, state, and locally taxed.
It's not even related, I feel bad now because it's irrelevant to the post, it just happens that the first time Stackoverflow announced their traffic I mentioned ours and Joel (I think?) said something about it, so now I always use them as a benchmark. Anyway, minecraftforum.net and minecraftwiki.net, I don't own them any more (reason for the * -- curse.com acquired them). http://www.quantcast.com/minecraftwiki.net & http://www.quantcast.com/minecraftforum.net combined 145m for feb
There's an inherent information asymmetry in the job market too. Think of great coders who grow up in the middle of nowhere and get a job in the nearest city. They don't know what the vets at their company in Birmingham, AL are making. All they know is that the coders on HN all say "at least $100k for a dev in the bay area".

You need to do a lot of footwork and networking to build an accurate picture of the employment market in a region.
Sigh.

I love design. I have for a long time. I went to school for it, read countless books, attended confrences, interned, learned the theory and execution and paid my dues. I just want to help small businesses and startups have great design while being able to put food on the table for my wife and kids. I'm not asking for fame or fortune and I'm willing to work my ass off for everything I get.

Shit like this is killing me. Don't get me wrong, there is still an industry around. Corporations are still paying. What it's killing is my soul. It really bothers me to see this called 'design' because I don't believe it is. You can't tell me what you're providing is anything like what I'm providing. But it doesn't matter. The word 'design' has been diluted so much that small business can't tell the different between us. And that bothers me because I really care about the success of innovative small companies and I believe good design is an important factor. It's more than a logo — it's communication, it's the difference between you and the other guy and it's the face of your company.
I don't think Romer was advocating foreigners set up these zones. I think it's just that Romer is a foreigner in most the places he tries to implement his ideas.

The idea is good laws and low taxes make very wealthy cities. See also the free state project (http://freestateproject.org/) which is trying to make New Hampshire more economically free.
Right. It's worked out soooo well for Native Americans here in the US. Except for the whole smallpox thing. And the reservations. And the massacres. And the Interior Department.
Aside from the Samsung misquote, what did Jobs say that could be called a lie?
"In the kind of charter city he imagines, the governor would be appointed by Canada or some other rich nation, but the people who work there would come from poor countries."
I'm going to guess it's just a result of just using the best tools for the job. His developers know the MS stack, so it makes sense to build the application on top of that. Things like Redis and HAProxy are traditionally better left to run on a *nix server. I use MongoDB on Server 2008 for testing and whatnot, but once that goes to production it's going into a Linux box.

That the opposite isn't generally true (a mostly FOSS project using Microsoft bits) is a testament to what's available on the FOSS side, of course.

Your use of the word "loyalist" implies some kind of blind joined-at-the-hip fanboysm is at play on Spolsky's brain. I think that's probably very far from the truth. Those of us who use and take advantage of Microsoft technologies are also quite capable of recognizing that some things are better done on other platforms. I.e., best tool for the job.
It seems to me that, somewhat like adultery, most people treat infringement against their property as threat to some stone age survival instinct. We can hear it when a small child shouts "MINE!" and see it in the cumbersome hoards of garbage some homeless people drag around. I doubt a post-scarcity society will be able to coolly regard all stuff as ephemeral and fungible; we'll still defend our stuff vigorously only there will be more of it.

This is why "infringement is theft" arguments are so manipulative and dishonest. They try to tap into this indignation rather than win the debate on the merits.
I'm not sure why an article to rant about a common marketing practice? Earnings call bashing Android, Google IO attacks Apple, so on and on. Is Steve reaching the status of a saint and not allow to bash?
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Does anyone own a profitable niche blog that they enjoy running? (/r/web_design)
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If you looked at the top 5 Google results across all key words and men wrote more of the posts than women, would you accuse Google of bias? Or would you consider that maybe its evidence there are more men writing on the web than women. I don't see a difference here. Gabe's said that his system adds new sources programmatically as they get linked to. Why on earth would he block out female voices?
In regards to intellectual stuff, that's with rare exceptions only in the academic world, which pays in the bottom quartile easily. The side note is, I've known PhD candidates to get paid low for full-time work but mucho dinero for hourly contract work.

In regards to top 1% compensation, the true top 1% aren't hireable because they have their own startup companies. The top 1% compensation as has been discussed on HN before goes to domain experts. Lesson learned: become a domain expert.
Colonialism doesn't work well for the colonized because historically, colonialism is imposed by force. Anything imposed by one entity upon another naturally favors the imposer.

But what about consensual colonialism? Is it possible for the structure of colonialism to be used for mutual benefit? That's the question this article asks, and I think it's a pretty incisive and relevant question.
For anyone who wants a good tablet for $500 or $600, the comparison is completely valid. All he said was that the competition wasn't offering anything at the lower price points. Nothing even slightly misleading about that.
I have a VB3 (or VB4) application which uploads samples to my hardware sampler over MIDI. But it doesn't work on XP, only 95/98. So there's a counter example to it being totally backward compatible.
The Nook Color has drastically blurred the line between eReaders and tablets since it is, well, basically really just a tablet.

FWIW, the Optimus line of phones from LG is doing the same in the featurephone/smartphone market (priced like a feature phone, but with all the power and features of a 1 year old top of the line smartphone).
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"Even our iPad developers are 1/3 slimmer in the new version."
From a UX perspective, I’m really pleased with how
the pinchable, stretchable, draggable time bars came
out in the application. They feel really good to use.
But from a development perspective, this is some of
the stupidest, craziest code I’ve ever written in my
life. Don’t ask me how I did it because it did it
entirely the wrong way. Maybe I'll share once I figure
out the non-stupid approach.

But this is perhaps the most interesting part of the app that you should talk about. I'm okay with seeing the stupid implementation :)
we were done with syphilis, then HIV came. Once we're done with HIV, what is the next thing to come?
Obviously the bang is stopping the flow of equality from reaching its destination. ;)
I really think that RIM is actively trying to commit suicide.
They keep iterating internally on the Playbook without putting something out on the market.
They make developing for the Playbook natively a world of pain with a lousy SDK and tools.
They're working on supporting Android apps on the Playbook, thus taking a doubleshot against native development.
And now they're releasing BBM on Android and iOS, thus negating any real reason to get a Blackberry or a Playbook.
I don't buy Apple products in general (with only one exception) and I think this presentation was of really poor taste, being in total agreement with the article.

That said ... I have an iPhone 3GS and I couldn't care less that it has lower resolution, a 600 MHz processor and only 256 MB of RAM. I totally prefer it over any Android high-end device available right now, because it runs smoothly, it has all the apps that I need including a couple of cool games, upgrades have been smooth and I haven't had any problems with it.

I don't like the iPad, I don't like their closed iTunes repository.

But I really think more hardware / software companies should be focusing more on functionality, polish, user experience rather than technical specifications.

And here I was hoping that at least one hardware company gets it. And yet I see them entering that same shitty game.
I'm not saying doing everything wireless is ideal, and updating your firmware is one of those things I believe are OK wired, I generally want my machine to be plugged in when I update the OS or firmware.

But syncing your contacts, your browser favorites or some music should not require that the phone be plugged into the computer. That's just annoying.
Bank transfers basically aren't supported by anyone you'd like to give a large sum of money to, so you have to write them a check.
I stand corrected. It's hard to tell from the video.
The name made me think of cattle.
Their hybrid.
Stay truthful.
Preliminary results, so caution is obviously warranted. The story of genetic therapy for conditions like cystic fibrosis included initial wide enthusiasm, followed soon after by an apparent therapy-related death during the first clinical trials. Recently, however, there have been good refinements for successfully treating CF genetically.
Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?
Practical due diligence
Yes but now they have a better "average quality of government service."