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Once again, I don't dispute that; we're in full agreement. My key point is that the effects of liberalism that lead to growth in Hong Kong did not lead directly to growth in rural China; as nice as that would be, there were other forces at play that caused that. Another way of putting this is to say that the effect of the communist government was to constrain growth around Hong Kong, and infrastructure development occurred in rural areas despite that.

The motivation behind "charter cities" is exactly that such a direct effect from liberalization would occur, whereas that doesn't necessarily follow and certainly not well-illustrated by the article's example. It is just one point in a broader criticism of the whole concept: such cities may provide an example, but they don't solve the (IMHO, harder) problem of affecting change in the non-charter city areas, which will still face broader structural obstacles. The existence of a Hong Kong is not a sufficient condition for broad societal change, though it is certainly a helpful one, if not exactly necessary.

I'm happy to continue this discussion via email, no need to take up more of this thread.
Fair point. By "long-form," for the purposes of my post, I was referring really to anything longer than a handful of paragraphs. The definition of "long-form" itself is changing and is arguably becoming meaningless. But I'd consider HuffPo to be an example of what I was attempting to refer to.
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Amazon has pulled books, and for not good reasons IIRC.
What's the difference between that and a big long list of features you've deemed important with ticks next to them, juxtaposed against random competitors without those ticks?

See also: http://www.marco.org/380868888
as a side note that woman in the movie 'catfish' had 16 accounts.
Singapore was run from London until 1959, when it was granted independence (it declared complete independence from the commonwealth in 1963). At that time it already had the highest GDP per capita in Asia; the first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew essentially ruled the country until 1990. Known as Harry to his friends, he attended an elite prep school in Singapore and later studied at the London School of Economics. He developed the institutions that were already present in Singapore rather than having to build them from scratch, and I think most people would agree that his governance was pretty paternalistic.

I personally think the British are pretty good at this sort of thing, and I say that as a native of a former British colonial possession myself.
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The HN title somewhat implies that Jefferson showed up to all the meetings this way; overly prepared. But the title of the original article states "Thomas Jefferson and preparing for meetings" which clearly does not convey that Jefferson was always like this. Furthermore in the article it is narrated one instance when Thomas Jefferson showed up prepared, which does not constitute enough evidence to support that Jefferson was this guy that wanted to be the most prepared in the room.Hence the HN title is very misleading.

Anyway, my point is not about Jefferson; my point is this: Why do people change the wording in the HN tittles (vs original ones) so that people would click on them? Can't we all be accurate when we transmit information to others?
I somewhat doubt it's really Michael Moore but the video is interesting regardless.
> Integrate it with Xcode and treat your vector artwork as source -- when you build the project it will spit out all the little PNG files you need at all the different sizes

Whoa, really? Badass. How do you set this up? Have a link?
I used hg-git to convert Mozilla's mozilla-central mercurial repository to git. It did the job and the resulting working tree checked out from git was the same as the mercurial one. With another tool I tried this wasn't the case.

It did use a lot of memory however when doing an 'hg push' into a git repository. It peaked at around 14 gigabytes of memory. Doing incremental updates it occasionally peaks at around that too.

I found that if instead I did a 'hg gexport' and then used the actual git command to push from hg-git's internal git directory to a git repository then memory usage was a lot less.
That certainly is a possibility, although facebook seems to have a better hold of the market then myspace did.
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I realize now why Github is so awesome. For a site named Sourceforge, it sure takes a lot of searching to find the source code of whatever project you're looking at.

With Github, the source is the most important part of the site as a whole, and it shows.
The communication of what our service does is an issue we're aware of and the feedback we received today has helped us pinpoint the key things that we can fix quickly so that it makes much more sense to everyone. We'll have it fixed up in the next few days.

The forums truly are great. They're great because of relevance and quantity/quality of content. We'll probably add a few more parts over the next little while to seed the database so that you're more likely to find some content.

Here's an example of a part page: http://www.styckyd.com/forensics/products/23-hoosier-a6

The usefulness of the database will become more apparent as it grows towards some sort of critical mass. If you were to try and sell the Hoosier A6 listed above your listing would be pre-populated with the description that exists within the database which makes it easier for you to sell (Because you won't have to think as much about describing the benefits of the tire). The real benefit is when buyers are specifically looking for a set of Hoosiers. They'll easily be able to find your listing. We also have a built in "Want to Buy" system. So if you click the "Want to Buy" link on the Hoosier page listed above and someone were to sell a set of Hoosiers at any point in the future our system will e-mail you - so you don't have to constantly browse the forums, just wait for the deal you're looking for.

Obviously, we're doing a terrible job of communicating these, and the other benefits that we provide. We'll fix it up very soon.

May I ask which forums you frequent?
You can also have it generate huge text with semicolons.

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Thanks again. We'll have the content and service more concisely defined in the next few days.
You'd be hard-pressed to call the Kindle a general-purpose computing device; its hardware limitations make it more or less useless for anything but reading. Apple's limitations on what you can do with your devices are artificial and arbitrary.
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Yeah, this is what I was sort of going for, read somewhere (or heard) that people where leaving Facebook and moving to Tumblr cause it was 'fresher'.
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Logical fallacy: straw man.
Yes, I've seen Cobol, APL too... but pascal was not so much a language for business applications, except in delphi I guess.
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First, I don't think this is really a reality distortion field. Yes, he does do it, but I think this is simply marketing.

Let's clarify a little what might be going on, and I don't think that many of the commentators here are thinking this way.

Have you noticed that a lot of the Apple advertising and marketing is directed towards those that already have apple products? Obviously people who favor android devices are going to be put off by this talk.

But if one is already invested in Apple products, then he might be addressing that little doubt such owners might have.

All of this hoopla reminds me of how for the better part of 30 years commentators were standing in line to underestimate Bill Gates.

And seriously, if this kind of talk, or john gruber's columns annoy you to the extent indicated in the threads, I suggest the following alternatives:

1) Look the other way, perhaps at something pleasant.
2) Figure out why it is working for Apple: can it work for you? (And that is what you are here for, right?)
You're acting as if Conan is in explicit control of his lawyers. He's a major celebrity worth millions of dollars. If the lawyer didn't try to shut down sites with his name in them (that are about him), he/she isn't a very good lawyer.

Besides, the grandfather post said they asked for the domain - not the site (?). That could be very relevant.
yeah, just trying to use pseudo-Facebook lingo for humor.
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Actually, piracy is theft. Specifically, it's a form of robbery that takes place at sea. The attempt to equate the crime of copyright infringement with piracy is a gross misuse of the English language. When a ship of Somali bandits with AK47s boards your yacht, murders everyone on board (or leaves them stranded somewhere), and takes everything of value -- that's piracy. When a college student downloads warez, bittorrents "Pirates of the Carribean", or downloads the new Lady Gaga album through a P2P app -- that's copyright infringement. When the MPAA, RIAA, or BSA use the word "piracy" to describe the latter activity -- that's propaganda.
Wow, check out the Linux vs OSX graphs. Anyone care to enlighten me as to why they are that different? The worst OSX fork + exec call is more than 2x faster than the fastest fork + exec on Linux, and over 10x faster when the memory increases past ~300MB.

Given that OSX's isn't dependent on page table size, I'm guessing it just always does copy-on-write... but that's a pretty un-knowledgeable guess.
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He disclosed this in prior posts. There's no need for him to continue disclosing it.
This is awesome, Aman's one of my favorite rubyists, I can't say I'm surprised to find out he's behind this.

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So... he has altered the deal. I guess all we can do is pray that he doesn't alter it further?

I agree with the GP: what bothers me most is the inconsistent, capricious nature of the judgments being handed down.

I guess we'll see if any of that actually has an effect on the number of developers/quality of apps in the app store.
They have deleted books, but I only remember for good reasons. The famous 1984 deletion was because the publisher didn't actually have copyright, which seems like as good as of a reason as a company can have.
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I'd expect Jobs to be selling iPads. I guess I didn't expect a hack journalist to be working so hard to sell Xooms...? I just can't believe how much bile and false naïveté he packed into this column. Did his AppleCare just run out? Did some turtleneck-wearing Mac fan steal his girlfriend?
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Seems as though they lacked the courage of their convictions and held onto a business strategy that was diametrically opposite to their vision.
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The most prominent thing about this article (the top answer actually) is "I'm a hustler baby" Not actually assuming a gangster persona is a huge step forwards in terms of dealing with VCs.

Dave McClure being the exception, of course (on both sides of the deal).
The problem with a SEZ is that most people don't want to be industrialists, so an industrial park doesn't seem all that exciting unless you own a slice of it. At best, for ordinary folk all it does is jobs. That's a good thing, but there's more to life than just working.

A city, on the other hand, is somewhere to live. Poorer residents might work the exact same hours for the same pay, but living in the same place that they work means they're getting indirect benefits like physical and legal infrastructure. They're not just bussed into the SEZ to work in the morning and bussed out again in the evening, back to their 3rd world existence where they may have few economic or political rights. A SEZ on its own only produces goods, but a city produces people and lifestyle and cultural wealth, and thus fills an aspirational function. People go to big cities to pursue their dreams and make money, even though they know it may be expensive and difficult. A SEZ with nobody living inside it is just a place to work, and reduces the people who work there to commodity labor with no stake in the longer-term future of the place.
One of the most important resources for me has been http://rails.rubyonrails.org/. Note the difference from http://api.rubyonrails.org/. The former seems to be the 2.x documentation whereas the latter is the 3.x documentation.

Not everyone is quite ready to switch to 3.x and having the 2.x documentation around is a lifesaver.

It's sad that http://rails.rubyonrails.org/ doesn't seem to rank very high for "rails 2" prefixed queries on Google.
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Apparently we'll just have to have a civilised discussion in light grey. ;-)

I would certainly agree that mobile devices with networking capabilities are a big step forward in general. What I think remains to be seen is whether tablet-style devices like the iPad and Galaxy Tab can carve out a sustainable niche fast enough to survive in a notoriously fickle market.

For leisure use, they seem to have fundamental weaknesses like very short battery lives and being difficult to read in sunlight. No doubt with time these will improve, but for now they reduce the applicability of tablet-style devices, and notably leave them vulnerable to competition from Kindle-style e-book readers in a major segment of the market.

For serious work, I think the lack of a real keyboard is a major disadvantage compared to netbook-style devices. It's going to be a long time before some sort of physical feedback screen is anything like as comfortable and efficient for sustained typing as even a cheap-and-nasty keyboard already is today.

Speaking of controls, while touch-based UIs could become the norm and stylus-type pointing devices might take over from mice for precision work, I don't think I'll hold my breath. Portable mice are widely used with laptops, simply because even the best built-in trackpads are relatively clumsy controls. Also, many a useful UI feature over the past couple of decades has been driven by awareness of what the user is passively observing, typically deduced by where a pointer is positioned. Again, this might change, but it's going to take a long time for conventions that have become as intuitive as handwriting to die, and I don't think the alternative UIs being developed for smartphones today are even close to refined enough for that job yet once you scale them up to tablet-size devices and applications.

I can certainly see tablet-style devices with custom UIs quickly becoming widely used in many niche areas where the flexibility has value, such as shop floor or industrial applications. And I'm sure there will always be an enthusiast segment of the market that values the flexibility they offer, though perhaps tempered in this case by the current closed/tightly-controlled software ecosystems that have been associated with these devices by the big players so far.

However, I think there is a long way to go before a general purpose device that is expensive enough to include components for everything but still only does one thing at once will beat out dedicated and cost-effective GPS satnavs, e-book readers, digital photo frames, wrist watches, and so on. I'm not saying it can't or won't happen, just that I don't think we're there yet, and until we are, companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and RIM are highly vulnerable not so much to competition from each other but to competition from specialist firms whose specialist devices do one thing, but better and at a lower price.
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Asus has superior build quality to Apple (measured in failures within 3 years; Apple is around 17% and Asus is 15%, as I recall)

Where did you get these numbers? It certainly doesn't square with my own, pure anecdotal, experience with Asus and Apple. Is anyone actually publishing these numbers? Are laptop makers required to?
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Some iPhone/Mac devs are obsessive about their UI. This does not look like their kind of app.
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o.cn doesn't seem to have very good coverage of Beijing. It looks like everything outside of the 3rd ring is missing.
It seems like a whole UI refresh. I haven't seen an image yet, but the top bar is different and the there's more padding on the messages. Kinda un-google-like; they're normally minimal padding and 1px rounds.
Thanks for the mention. If anyone on HN wants an invite, just email us at hello [at] launchrock [dot] com and mention that you heard about it from Hacker News.

Advice wise, we've found that the pages work really well, and not just for us, but it does require for you to spend some time thinking about the design, your messaging, and more importantly, how you'll get people there in the first place. It's kind of an amplifier of sorts.

Anyway, we'll have some great data to share, but we're just trying to get to/through SXSW right now.
Anytime a journalist, reporter or blogger has a possible conflict of interest regarding the topic they are covering, it should absolutely be disclosed each and every time as a matter of transparency.

Expecting every reader of this post to know who Marco is, who he consults for and which of his previous posts references his employment situation is a bit much.

Also, your self-aggrandizing condescension is not appreciated here.
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It's not free:

http://redfoundry.com/pricing

They're charging out of store for subscriptions. Apple said no, so they're charging in the store.

The end.
It seems to me that the difference is what you purchased the device for. Based on advertisements, I'd say the usual goal of an iOS purchase is to run apps and the usual goal of a Kindle purchase is to read books. You can read books on the kindle that amazon doesn't approve of, but you can't (reasonably) run apps on an iOS device that Apple doesn't approve of.
Excellent point -- no simple solutions. It's why this is a hard problem.
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Allow me to appropriate a quotation from a person who's legacy Apple has had no shame appropriating for marketing: "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."

While I agree with you that Apple's use of Gandhi in their ads is just about the most shamelessly incongruent marketing ever, Gandhi never said "First they ignore you etc." It comes from a speech made by someone called Nicholas Klein to a garment workers' union circa 1915. Oddly enough, the original Google Books citation I found for this no longer yields the phrase in search. But it appears in this (garbled but recognizable) digitization of the primary source:

http://www.archive.org/stream/generalexecuti1919amaluoft/gen...

(I'm experimenting with bringing this up every time I run across the misquote, because I'm curious if the real information will ever catch on.)
It's not the devices. The iPod didn't succeed because of the iPod. The iPhone was woefully inadequate when it was launched. The iPad succeeded because of everything that had come before it.

* iTunes
* The Apple Retail Store
* iOS App Store
* Now the Mac App Store
* Apple TV

Don't get me wrong, the devices are great. They look nice, the work well. I love my iPhone, my iMac, MBP, iPad, Apple TV. The Airport Extreme is a wonderful wireless router.

But alone, any of these products are okay (except the AE, it's worth it). It's everything around them that matters.

That's why I agree with you on the Kindle, though it won't disrupt the iPad. I love my Kindle, but it's used for a different reason than the iPad. But the Kindle does what it does well, and everything it connects to is top notch.

I'm not really disagreeing with you. However, it's not the product, it's everything beyond the product that really made Apple successful.

As for what's next: Removing the computer from the screen. I've been saying it for a LONG time here. I really think Apple is moving toward a server -> client model. You'll buy a computer for the house, a really powerful beast, something you put in the corner. Everyone connects to it using their iPads, monitors, Airs, iPhones. Your session remains the same regardless of the device.

Everything is pointing to this.
fitbit released their developer api the other week (http://dev.fitbit.com/) and i saw a request for this feature in their user forums, so i spent a couple hours this evening writing this.
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Didn't Steve Jobs personally say the rules weren't going to affect software-as-a-service? To be honest I can't quite figure out what VIZ is, but it seems more SAAS like.

*Edit: Thanks to rome's comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2286805 and reading Red Foundry's page a bit I understand the app a bit more. It seems to be for testing your (Red Foundry) apps, not downloading other peoples apps. Seems to me that these test apps are intentionally unpublished.
I have to say I side with marco on this one. I really think that apple needs to focus on the ecosystem and let the content creators create their own markets.
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This is confusing because R-Studio (with a hyphen) is also a file recovery utility...
A blog is an ongoing narrative, an online journal. There's no need to keep disclosing things to those too lazy to read prior posts.
Glad you are having a go at it. I had some thoughts around that space a while ago: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2007/01/calling-for-support-ca...

Point 6 there is similar to what you are trying to do.

Never did it, never will, but I do have a much longer document with additional idea directions and monetization strategies.

If you like and agree with the article, feel free to ping me and we can chat about the rest of the unreleased ideas. Like I said, I would be just happy for somebody to incorporate them.

Regards,
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