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You're not breaking anything to me. You're agreeing with me - the current situation isn't open in any meaningful way.

Given they can install apps, non enthusiasts could certainly deal with a one-click install of an alternative OS if it had compelling benefits.

I didn't think the source for the built-in apps was actually available. In any case even if it is, what possible good does it do me to fork Google's apps to make minor modifications to them? Why do you even bring that up?
Those websites will give you my email address with one or two clicks. Email sent.
But why? It may not be ahead of the curve but it is cool, all right.
I do not know any solid answers from research for this questions. Half the things you read say that '.99' makes some people interpret the price as being lower than it really is while the other half of research says that people interpret as being an underhanded tactic.

Personally, I prefer flat dollar prices. I'm much happier with $25.00/mo as opposed to $24.95 or $24.99/mo. I read them all as "$25" anyway and I prefer nice round numbers.

ymmv.
Dieter Rams is still alive.
Fast history browsing is plenty useful when undoing a closed tab. Not sure if Safari does this, but on Firefox if you undo a closed tab, the tab comes back exactly as it was before, with history intact. I use that feature quite a bit.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2268214

I took it down because the others posting about potential problems are right, so in order to use the emulator go to http://www.grantgalitz.org/gameboy/ and load in your OWN ROM files. Before I was providing the for you, but due to legalities, I am forcing you to provide your own. I didn't get a takedown notice, but I definitely don't want to get one, sorry for the inconvenience. :P
Advanced 3D in Flash has been an attractive idea for some time. I'm surprised Adobe didn't release this earlier in advance of WebGL as a possible competitor.
Total assets: 259

amazing!
Why this sounds like coming from Custora employee?
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"Forced out of Apple" sounds a bit harsh as the article claims that Ive wants to move back to UK.
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Other people have have said as much as I'm going to say but I just couldn't help but add my two cents.

The problem here is your very definition of design. If you were a designer, you'd be the bad kind that equates good design with over the top graphics. The best design is subtle. It doesn't call attention to itself or say "look at me." It just is. To paraphrase from the movie Helvetica, good design shouldn't make you say oh look how nice this design is—it should make you say well of course it's this way, why would it be any other way?

Take this very comment page, it's not flashy but I wouldn't say it's bad design at all. It knows it's audience isn't looking for bells and whistles. Everything lines up in a pleasing—and more importantly, logical—way. The typography is decent and there's enough differentiation between the comment and it's meta data. I could go on.

Basically, just open your mind. Bashing someone's profession without hearing their side is never smart.
I think I may be the only person on HN (besides Dave himself) who actually enjoys his writing style. Then again, I grew up on the East coast playing poker and basketball everyday, so smack talk is second nature to me.

Most people in the Bay Area seem to be in a competition to see who can be the most modest, which has never been my style.
So you're saying that it's newsworthy because they run it like a cinema where if you pay more you get a better seat?
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Attractive site.

One point, though... the kind of people who place value on anonymity are probably also the kind of people who disallow Javascript, Google APIs, etc.

Just sayin'. :-)
I hope this isn't true, but at the risk of sounding like a massive cynic (which I'm not), It wouldn't be the end of the world. Ive is great because Apple allow him to be great. Design is important to Apple, and there's no shortage of very talented Product Designers who would thrive there. There's probably a ton who already work at Apple more than qualified to fill his shoes.
In recent years, it seems like even mainstream newspapers with decent editorial review have a tabloid-like mania with Apple. I don't know why, but it seems like Beetles or Lewis & Martin type hysteria affects the newsroom.
What jurisdiction does the company/service/servers fall under? Although I'm based in the UK (which is hardly a privacy haven), I'd be quite wary of storing account data or anything on US-based servers, even though I'm not remotely interesting to the US Govt.

Rsync.net offers storage in Switzerland for this sort of reason, although just to be on the safe side I encrypt backup files for storage before uploading anything.

I'm probably a little too paranoid for cloud-based password management, but it might be an interesting consideration for people who are less paranoid but still keen on privacy.
I view this development very positively. Flash is being positioned as being the cutting edge in browser gaming. With Linux support too!

It will take years for browsers to catch up and in the meanwhile we have the capability of hosting games as complex as MMOs like World of Warcraft within a browser all with one fairly universal browser plugin.

It's time for browser games to move past sprites and tiles.
Reading him is like reading James Joyce Finnegans Wake. For those who haven't read the book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake
In stark contrast to B2B where if you get the right niche you can be charging a few thousand per client per month. Even one client == ramen profitable. Then again I guess it's not as cool as having the millons of users required for B2C!
I think AOSP forks are open in a meaningful way. Yes, you can't one click install an alternate Android build. But you can choose to buy handsets that have no hardware lock, or others that have trivial (intentionally?) roadblocks to installing a new ROM. CyanogenMod doesn't run on many handsets, but it does run on many others.

Linux had similar difficulties much later in its life than Android is, and *BSD still has them in terms of driver support. None of the open solutions are anywhere close to a one click install. But I wouldn't say Linux/BSD aren't open in a meaningful way.

I think you're expecting a bit too much in terms of your standard for "meaningful" openness. Granted, open Android builds still are getting their legs and have a lot of work still to do.
I think this is cool. I'm still not sure what my use case is though...
Ives is finished when jobs leaves anyway.

Anybody who was important under the old guard is always a threat to the new boss and is quickly sidelined/outed.
Worse, the new boss will be a corporate CEO brought in by the banks so any new product designs will be forced to go through dozens of VPs and be tested by focus groups.

I'm sorry but I think we have seen the future of Apple - and it's Nokia!
> When gmail rolls out an update, do you want to pre-approve it also?

Well. Gmail doesn't actually install anything on your machine.
Maybe Loic meant: "Insane high level of _potential_ bound tension coupled with a Cl detonator." (My emphasis.)

It seems to me that the Cl atom is easily removed from the N-C bond, by something as simple as water vapor. My chemistry isn't great, but I would hazard a guess that even the slight polarity of the water molecule is enough to remove the Cl from the N-C bond, thereby the potential for explosive behavior.

Info from the Wikipedia indicates as much: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_azide
I read this too, but I don't understand how anyone could mistake a $6,000 invitation-only event for anything other than incredibly exclusive. To me, the letter just reads like sour grapes.
Couldn't disagree more. They are so far above Maxim, FHM, Men's Fitness and other trashy magazines that it's not even funny. A lot of times their writing is absolutely spectacular. In particular, works by Tom Junod, A.J. Jacobs, David Granger, Chris Jones are always worth checking out.

Here's a link to some of their best stuff: http://www.esquire.com/features/page-75/greatest-stories

And the best thing is, they haven't lost any of their greatness over the last 75+ years - this was one of the best magazine stories I've ever read: http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310
I didn't pay for access, but the linked article points to a URL for The Sunday Times. Last I checked this is a sister publication to The Times. Not sure how the editorial standards compare.
"Unfortunately he is just too valuable to Apple and they told him in no uncertain terms that if he headed back to England he would not be able to sustain his position with them ... It's a shame. We hardly ever see anyone at the house."

That's absurd on its face. If he's too valuable to Apple (which he is), then why would he not be able to sustain his position with them?
>Strangely, I wasn't suggesting the Montgolfier brothers were going to take Gibraltar single-handedly.

Lol, nor I, I was assuming that creation of one balloon would allow creation of multiple balloons for use in any given battle.

I'd imagine the access a balloon gives, with the addition of surprise and maybe a steering fan, to be pretty good. You could send up some test balloons and then send up some huge ones with bombs on the bottom and shoot them down over the target for yourself. Or perhaps a pile of diseased food to a hunger-stricken garrison, or ...

You can't readily break down a whole castle with a single trebuchet either.
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Thanks for the feedback - it's helpful to hear reactions about what's most important to add next the site.

We're learning that there are large aspects of the customer retention challenge that are consistent across many types of businesses (e.g. for a retailer, how can I tell if my customer is gone for good or just idle?). Of course, some aspects are unique for each vertical. In those cases, we're exploring how we can supplement existing efforts - some of our beta clients have piped results from our analysis into other tools.
So... it's just like thrsti? (www.thrsti.com)

Full disclosure - I am helping with thrsti, we are deploying a ton of new features over the coming weeks, but lettur seems very similar to our initial release. It's very interesting what people will post just to get it off their chest.
yes, and especially with rumors that iPhone 5 having NFC technology. Imagine being able to walk up to any mac and just swipe your iPhone and all your settings, bookmarks, etc. will just transfer over and you will be able to use it, just like you were infront of you mac at home.
J Ive manages and coaches a team of industrial designers and their collaboration with engineers. You cant be very effective, no matter how good you are, when you are on the other side of the world - someone would surely step up and take his place.

Also, Jobs has shaped Apple culture to put crucial importance on industrial design and is very hands on with the decisions. This influence coming from the top, serves Apple well no matter who is the VP of iD is... as long as Steve is around.
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On the other hand, when you can do the equivalent of rebuilding a wing of the castle by putting a band-aid in exactly the right spot, it can feel pretty crafty.

A good reliable bugfix can require a lot of creativity, sometimes more than for writing new code.
I did go back to university recently and among other things I did do one term of basic chemistry. Initially it is like applied maths with weird rules, and then a lot of lab work, which is completely different. I had to work quite hard at it.

The physical chemistry part, which really was more physics than chemistry, was a lot easier for me, as it was actually logical and I could puzzle out an answer if I needed to. Whereas IMHO in a lot of chemistry, when you are new, you need to know all the exceptions by hearth.
Incidentally, if he was a programmer, it would probably be no trouble allowing him to relocate to another office in another country.

I guess programmers are even harder to hire than genius industrial designers?
I took down the violating pages.

I put up a freeware ROM test page - http://www.grantgalitz.org/gbc_demo/
I'm sorry if it's contrived (I felt it somewhat related to the anecdote above); what I was trying to get at is whether designers have a point where they can't further deviate from their vision without compromising it, even if requested to by a co-designer or the client.
I wouldn't take the "in an hour" thing too seriously. We all say that, but what it really means is that the basic idea is not that difficult to implement a prototype for and see if our assumptions are correct. They rarely are.

But to answer your question, I would always share my ideas with people who are interested. The details are probably too much for a casual conversation, so that's what I won't get into unless I know that there's a purpose for the conversation such as co-founder seeking, investor, idea feedback...
Show HN: Afternoon project, a job board in your inbox -- jobmailr
http://www.jobmailr.com/

Most of the valuable hires out there already have jobs and aren't actively looking for another. But would they be interested in getting relevant jobs emailed to them once a week or so, so that they were sure to hear about that dream position opening up? And would companies pay to access their inboxes?

Asking myself, I found it valuable. Seeing if others do too is what jobmailr.com is trying to find out.

If several hundred people sign up, there's an instant audience that employers can pay to access. If it doesn't gain traction amongst the would-be hires, then I'm just out a few hours of development time. :)

Anyone have any insight or critiques on this side venture?
An enormous failing if these 3 are islands unto themselves with no cultivation of successors. In all this time have they really been the visionaries with no bright stars beneath them? I find it hard to fathom that they haven't imbued the same leadership and attitudes within their support structure.
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> Obviously no one will abandon Microsoft products wholesale anytime soon

Um… not that hard, if you aren’t so cheap as to only run Windows.
Read the comments in the linked article. You'll enjoy it.
1/10 is actually a pretty low standard for wrongful convictions so I don't see why we would interpret what Blackstone said, or even Ben Franklin's 1/100, as hyperbole. They clearly meant that exhonerating the innocent is much more important than convicting the guilty and there is no good reason we can't adhere to that principle in practice.
> Well, the change that prevents this from happening again is DNA evidence.

This is the very optimistic interpretation - another tool and a permanent reduction in the wrongful conviction rate. The pessimistic interpretation is that DNA tests served as a short-term oracle where the system nigh-magically was stripped naked and its true past error rate laid bare, but to which the system will slowly adapt and figure out how to circumvent.

We can probably expect in a few decades to start seeing articles about how DNA evidence gets lost, misinterpreted, planted (remember OJ and the issues with the blood evidence? more than a few police have no issues with framing a guilty man, it seems), and other such strategies that are not obvious to people outside the system.

In other words, if there were suddenly another nigh-magical breakthrough which gave us a second look at true error rates, we would see, superimposed on whatever other trends are going on, a dip in the '80s-'90s and then a slow increase to whenever the second breakthrough's innocence projects got going.

Unfortunately, this is a very long-term prediction and there may never again be a breakthrough as dramatic as DNA testing which would give us the second oracle, so who knows if time will let us distinguish between the optimistic and pessimistic interpretations.

(Related ideas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_homeostasis & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law)
I love the work of the Innocence Project. I've been a big financial supporter of them. Please donate if you can.
Zombie Tycoon: http://molehill.zombietycoon.com/
sigh Really? Good thing you threw that comment in. Now I know better.
Access has been restored.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12586462
how about meetups with the children in focus, like, encourage the kids to get interested in technology. I guess they need to be 5+ years or something, but I think a kind of meetup where kids gets to hack on fun stuff with their and other parents as teachers could be something truly great.
Having someone to direct the efforts of other designers would definitely help. Style guides would also help.
Yes, the collective behavior of very complex game theoretic systems, where individuals act to maximize their own benefit, can sometimes seem to be controlled by a central decision structure, even where none exists.

Or-- people have a bias towards seeing massive, planned conspiracies.
I also recommend Algebra by Michael Artin--but it isn't free, unfortunately.
Thanks, interesting, it looks like that started as a dual enrollment program but now they've passed Washington State House Bill 1758 last year which says that if you're in the program and get an AA you also get a State High School Diploma and can skip the regular one. That is smart as it acknowledges that some kids were getting held back by trying to complete high school requirements when it would be better for them to move forward and simply complete a degree.
These guys are great! They built my website, n it came out great! All HTML5 www.geektea.tv - might have to upgrade to their cloud service - ask for peter.
Written by a desi (ABCD even) who has seen her motherland only through the lenses of western/english media.

No Indian, especially those outside the English media, thinks that India is better than the US in material quality of life.
The possibility of not having sufficient proof is the underlying bedrock of 'innocent until proven guilty'.
Interesting to see how 50% are using Chrome. I guess firefox is no longer the geek's browser it used to be.
Just last week, I had some root-owned hidden directories in my home directory. So I did:

sudo chown -R me:mygroup .*

Fortunately, I caught it before it made it out of /home, so only some user directories were affected, and the cleanup was relatively straightforward.
Use google reader.
I see proof these problems every day. There are definitely a lot of non-tech guys out there who have great ideas but no way to execute. When friends and family learn that I'm running my own business the conversation almost always turns into "I had an idea once for X..." Its really amazing to learn about the "problems" they see and their idea to solve them. Most of the time its for something I haven't been exposed to at all.

Perhaps its a result of the "scratch your own itch" advice many give to developers looking for a great idea. There are a lot of problems out there but it takes a lot of time and knowledge to find something worthwhile that is outside your normal realm of experiences.

I'm not sure I have an answer for your question at the end. I definitely think those startups are out there. But, I imagine they're focusing on the actual business, product and customers rather than trying to grab the attention of bloggers and online communities such as HN.
Right. The Apple developers have been working very hard on 10.7, and it's kind of sad to see a story focusing on some vague subject (which, as you say, can be applied as a patch anytime later when it becomes more relevant) that is lacking. In my opinion, it's better to offer constructive criticism on the new stuff that they've been working on for this release.
Actually, this git thing does sound cool. You mean to tell me there's an easy way of tracing different versions of a design?
I think perhaps I explained my view badly.

Spectacular writing, completely agree, that was the point I tried to make with "but for stories like this, few publications tell them better", and that's why I do subscribe to Esquire (both print, UK edition, and iPad, US edition).

However, there is a lot to Esquire magazine that I really don't like, and that is really very comparable to Maxim, FHM and so on. A few examples:

- 'Women We Love' (an excuse to show semi-naked pictures)

- The 'How To...' guides in the middle of the magazine. A couple of examples currently on their website are "How to Get Some on February 14th" and "How to Have Sex in the Car" (and even the boring topics like "How to smile" are generally badly written and fairly pointless).

- The 'Tough love with Tanya Gold' that appears each month..

And I dislike how much it tends to be aimed at middle/upper class people, from the adverts to the content. I'm not sure how much of that is because this is their actual audience, and how much is because their actual audience wants to feel like they are higher in society than they are. For example, I question that the people spending £10,000s on a watch are also going to buy a bottle of £25 whisky, yet you don't see cheap watches advertised, or expensive whisky. Note that, while it may be cheap whisky, it's still whisky - you won't see beer advertised by them, that's for poor people!

Ultimately, Esquire mixes trashy with attempted high brow with some superbe content - and I hope that, like me (and I assume you), there are more readers who subscribe for the great content than there are who subscribe because they want FHM-style content while feeling good about themselves. Somehow, I doubt that's true.
I wouldn't expect them to pay for you to learn Hindi either. However, Marathi might get you further in Pune, especially with the locals, as it's the official language of the region.
After effects of Buffets Enthusiasm.
Some parts can, some not, some are better in HTML5 / WebGL, some are better in Flash / Molehill.

GPU bottlenecked things should be more or less similar, CPU bottlenecked things are currently faster in Flash.

Flash has more troubles integrating with the rest of the browser stack (DOM layers compositing).

According to sparse info so far, Molehill will be limited by DirectX 9 capabilities, which is also the case for WebGL with ANGLE rendering backend on Windows but not for WebGL with OpenGL rendering backend on Windows / Linux / OSX (these should have capabilities of OpenGL ES 2.0).

Which means if you have a high-end graphics card, you should be able to squeeze out more from it with WebGL. Also work-in-progress are WebGL extensions, which will expose even more GPU capabilities.
I disagree with your assertion that you can't be very effective if you're not co-located. 37 Signals (for one) proves this wrong daily. I agree that co-location is preferable, but if you divide the work in a sane fashion, and you work with excellent people, geographically distributed teams aren't a showstopper. This would be true x20 for Ives.
I have to admit that working on a real-world software project (2 million line code base) did force me to unlearn a number of "bad habits" they taught me at university.

For example, I had to unlearn to use clever algorithms and optimized data structures. Stupidly simple code is more maintainable, because the sad but true reality is that for a dozen different reasons the next guy who will be working on it doesn't have their head in the game.

Another thing I found hard to accept was that you don't touch code that is fully functional, not even if it's horribly ugly, not even to fix that one little line of awkwardness. Ugly code that works is always better than clean code with a bug.
Until about 2006 I could run programs written for the 68000 under System 7 on my Mac OS X machine. That's fairly heroic.
B2B isn't as sexy, but in many cases it's a surer way to profitability, albeit without all of the magazine cover hoopla. You may not have 100 million users and burn through millions of dollars before reaching profitability.
How does that make a meaningful difference? You rely on their code, and they have access to your data.