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I find this bit really interesting:

"You know how in disaster movies, people on the street gather around electronic shops that have TVs in the display windows so they can stay informed with what is going on? In this digital age, that's what the Tokyo Apple stores became."
There was a post here a little while ago from the 37signals blog "There's no room for just shitting on someone else's work" in response to the "read the fucking hig" website.

In that post, the author says "... they're creating something, and that's awesome".

I became a parent (nearly) 1 year ago and when I read this phrase it really put this whole "geek wars" thing into perspective. If my child grows up to be passionate enough to create anything I'll be so pleased. I wouldn't even care if it were good or bad. There are so many worse things that a person can do in the world than create things, we should all just be heaping praise on each other for even trying to do something great.

Being a parent does wonders for your perspective on life :)
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Why not compare it against firefox 4, rather than 3.6?
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The big deal is that many people see Yahoo as a company that time has passed by. There was a time when its properties were the tops. Everyone used Yahoo Mail or AOL, Flickr was the tops if you wanted to share photos, Yahoo.com was the home page of so many more and they used Yahoo search. Today, a lot of our community looks at Yahoo and sees a search engine they wouldn't want to use, a bloated homepage more about flash than utility, a Yahoo Mail that doesn't hold a candle to Gmail, etc. EXCEPT: Flickr. Flickr's still pretty good. Facebook has overtaken Flickr, but Flickr still offers more high-res options, decent topical search, a clean interface that's been spared a lot of the nonsense Yahoo is pushing, etc. But it hasn't progressed lately.

If Yahoo is to make a comeback, they need the types that have been in charge of Flickr (or so the community's reasoning goes). Flickr is the one thing we like that Yahoo's doing (well, maybe add Delicious in there too). And yet Yahoo is letting those properties languish and the talent that works on those properties leave. Sure, Google loses talent, but generally speaking I don't find certain Google properties to have an interface that is so markedly terrible compared to other Google properties. Our community looks at Google's ventures and while they might not understand social, we see that there's a decent consistency of engineering. However, we do look at Yahoo's different properties and many feel like they came from a different company - partly because Yahoo bought their way into Delicious, Flickr, and Upcoming (yea, I added another that I've almost never used).

Imagine that Google had bought YouTube and YouTube's interface and engineering was just so markedly better (to you) than the rest of Google's properties. Then the employees who created this, in your view, superior product started leaving constantly. You'd think: c'mon Google, you bought yourself into the good stuff and we want to those engineers bring that good stuff to the rest of your line, not leave with their products languishing!

People move around, but I think many of us feel that Yahoo has markedly varying quality depending on the division of the company. It might not have any actual significance and engineers might not be leaving those divisions more often than other divisions, but it does have an emotional significance for our community. Many thought that Flickr heralded a new Yahoo. It makes it feel like Yahoo doesn't get where it's gone wrong (in our ultra-hip, we know what's best not some CEO the investors have hired, why isn't the world listening to me as I type away at my keyboard on the internets way).

/Apologies for speaking for everyone; it's more just a theory.
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What part of the authors argument puts money in Bon Jovi's pocket exactly? Particularly when they make the bulk of their money (or at least "made") from album sales? I'm assuming Bon Jovi is making the argument that iTunes has reduced (maybe greatly) their profitably from those album sales. By both reducing the money spent and commoditizing music in a lot of ways.

I get where Bon Jovi is coming from. I'm not saying he's right, but the feel good bits and bobs about carrying their music around and sharing it with your wife doesn't make Bon Jovi more profitable. They're far past the point of deriving a lot of value from word of mouth, they're looking to milk the cash cow. iTunes is apparently spoiling that party a bit.

I'm not saying I feel sorry for them in the slightest, but the authors argument likely wouldn't hold much weight with the band either.
I'm using FF on Win. I think you need to key in a search term at the top, and press enter, to see what others are seeing.
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Didn't mean to imply that being able to charge your devices and watch what's happening on the news isn't important. I know from experience (several different multi-day power outages) how useful those are.

Just pointing out that there are probably many stores in Japan doing the same for people in need and that this isn't really news except that it took place in an Apple store.
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There is something about hiding behind machines that makes people treat each other much worse. I've noticed this in traffic jam situations, when everybody is hiding behind a couple tons of steel people are much more rude than, for example waiting in a human line, with everybody cutting each other off, flipping the finger, honking horns, etc. There's been a couple times where someone who has been rude on the road pulls up next to me at a stop and I wave, smile, say hello, and they act completely awkward and apparently ashamed.
I feel C has more boiler-plate code than any other language I've used, including Java--especially when you consider header files, malloc/free, function call error code inspection, etc.
As long as they're going out of their way, they would certainly waive the connection fee for internet access if there was one, of all things.
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> Civil disorder is not uncommon after a natural disaster

Is that really the historical case anywhere in the industrialized world? Seems less a matter of "individualism" in your culture than not having many of the sort of people who loot and riot.
Nice to see a timely response, and that it's closed the privacy leakage at least for now.

The statement linked there doesn't reassure me that Etsy might not "do a Facebook" and back down on privacy complaints for now, only to re-introduce them later on.

Would anybody from Etsy like to state for the record that they understand that they made a serious mistake, and assure current and future users of their site that they _do_ respect our privacy and guarantee not to "leak" information like this, at least not without a very well explained opt-in mechanism in place first?
"'When something is commoditized, an adjacent thing becomes valuable' is an old truism that O'Reilly seems to be repeating in the video."

Agreed. Clayton Christensen said this exact thing at an O'Reilly conference back in 2004:

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/Clayton%2...

Christensen's presentation is worth listening to. He was remarkably prescient--he basically predicted the development and success of Android phones six years before their introduction.
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"Found an XXL glass dildo..."

Next para: "Critics of Etsy's new policy seem to have a thing for searching for artisan dildos, but the point is pretty clear."

That is one spectacular double pun at the end...
> No other operating system manufacturer (outside of the embedded realm) does anything near what Microsoft does for XP.

Who are you including in that category apart from Apple? Compatibility with 30-year-old OS features is often considered a worthwhile goal among current UNIX descendants.

> I see very few people complaining that Apple killed the PowerPC line, and XP far predates that.

Is WinXP compatible with x86 and x86-64? Is Win7 not compatible with those? I don't see what point you're making by mentioning CPU architectures. And the 'universal binary' made this switch largely transparent to owners of either CPU.

> many people hold the misapprehension that XP is 'good enough' in some sense

Leaving aside the accuracy of this, surely if it is a misapprehension then it should cause problems only for those people. Instead Microsoft have made it clear that it's a problem for their own profit growth and that those users need to be coerced into upgrading.

But even that's being done in a half-assed way that makes it more of a problem for web developers. Which other Microsoft titles are being developed to be XP-incompatible? Certainly not Office 2010. Aside: backwards compatibility was largely maintained under Mac OS Classic from 1984 to 2001. The break, coming with OS X, was necessary, not contrived.
The best manager I ever had was amazing at this and the reason was simple: he understood downtime and he negotiated.

So when we were trying to ship something and everyone was working late nights and weekends, he'd give us several days off afterwards. Additionally we had flexibility such that I could offer to work a few weekends in a row in exchange for a long weekend a few weeks later.

It was a great system and his employees always respected him for it.
I think you misunderstood me, I never rationalized copyright violation I meant to imply that there isn't as much copyright violation going on as people assume. I also meant both should be copyrighted, and I agree that those who argue music doesn't deserve copyright while software does are hypocritical.

But the fact that the music industry is failing (changing, whatever) right now can't only be the fault of piracy and copying. Along with those came a HUGE increase in the volume of media. Old institutions that confused themselves with being quality barriers were actually just distribution barriers operating in a drought. I support people's right to copyright their music and sell it, and sue those who copy it as well (edit: support as fairness within our system, overall I do think it sucks for both, but we don't live in a perfect world). But if people just aren't buying, maybe it's because there is a wealth of mainstream, free, legal stuff out there everywhere.
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Because it's the stable release, not beta.
After finding the documentation and guides for writing nginx modules woefully inadequate, I did a lot of poking around in the nginx internals to better understand how things worked.

The code is very readable, follows good style guidelines, and has its fair share of brilliant workings. I found that the source code served as much better documentation than a lot of _actual_ documentation that I've read.
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Let's say YC's most prominent success so far is Reddit (or choose Heroku, or whatever you prefer). How many jobs did it create?
Ben Franklin was actually fairly athletic. One of his many occupations was being a printer, which required carrying around heavy equipment. He was known to carry 2 trays where many Printers only managed 1.

He was also a very avid swimmer (unusual as at the time, many people couldn't swim at all) and promoted physical fitness and moderation.

(I come from Philadelphia: a town where BF is a revered local hero, to the point we have an "official" BF impersonator.)
You don't have to be actively campaigning against Apple and praying fervently for their downfall to make the point that what their store employees in Japan are doing now is no different from what many other store employees in Japan are also probably doing.
Of course I meant Brazil's Ronaldo...what kind of sports fan do you think I am? :)
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That's true, but I suspect there's at least a large part of "I can do 'the right thing' and know my boss (and his boss) will back me up for doing it."

I've seen this personally on a small scale at the Genius Bar - Apple have _clearly_ explicitly given even quite junior staff the authority to "fix things", with a _big_ emphasis on "make the customer happy" outcomes. I have no doubt that there are checks and measures in place to ensure staff don't abuse that authority, but my gut feel is that the response would be "better training" first, rather than reprimanding.

And I suspect _that_ is the important bit of "Apple culture" at work here.

It's not remarkable that normal people want to help others out. It is remarkable, and admirable, when those people can quickly assume responsibility on behalf of their employer without thinking they need to get time consuming sign-off on their plans from high enough up the org chart that it's too late to help b the time it's approved.

Big congrats to Apple Store Tokyo, their staff, management, and corporate overseers. I'm sure they're not the _only_ company to have responded this way, but they _did_ repond this way, and I'm impressed.
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Whether or not Apple intentionally prevents home screen web apps from using Nitro, they're now aware of the problem and should fix it.

Apple has been exhibiting a lot of anti-trust behavior lately. Here are three more examples that come to mind...

1: iOS magazine subscriptions must be done through Apple:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870440900457614...

2: Google restricts non-independent ad networks in iOS apps: http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100608/apple-makes-good-on...

3: As everybody knows, Flash is banned from iOS devices: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/an_antitrust_app_buvCW...

I'm surprised that Apple isn't more worried about antitrust actions being taken against it.
Name a large corporation with large retail presence in Japan which was not/is not helping.
He's saying the market is better than allocating money than government.

If the politicians and bureaucrats are so good at investing, why don't they do it privately instead of working for the government?

You are assuming that government is better at allocating resources than the market. If the government is better at investing than private capital, why even have a market economy? Why not have a command economy like in the Soviet Union?
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I guess I'm kind of implying the same thing but you said it better than I did.
I think you're exactly right and I'd add the enterprise cloud is about giving large customers faster provisioning and more control over their costs. Enterprises will have a mix of cloud apps and apps on fixed assets. HP will just offer both options, so as to not make their customers have to choose between HP and "going cloud".
All it means is that he understands C better than other languages. Even Java (yes, Java) has these rhythms that he speaks of. You look at code and you feel the logic, even the necessity of it. That's just the feeling of being in tune with code and with the person who created it, thanks to a shared understanding of the language. Master any language and you'll get the same feeling when you read well-written code. Actually, though, the less boilerplate a language forces you to write, the less you'll feel that "inevitability," since much of the "inevitable" structure of the code -- the predictable patterns in the design of code, or, one might say, "design patterns" -- is code you shouldn't have to write in the first place.
Those strings are fairly large compared to modern transistors. In September 2010, Hynix began mass producing 20 nm Class Technology 64 Gb NAND Flash - Hynix Press Release. This works out to ~20nm before the same pattern repeats compared to the 50 micron width of those strings.
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I had phone interview with them. If you are married its probably a stretch. My worry was housing, where, how...

I have been there before. Its very very calm. Looks dry and dusty like LA, but cheap seafood that the locals are sick of....

Buddy there says, whenever the govt needs money for a social program, they dig in the mountains. Every mineral on earth is located there with the exception of Uranium.
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Radiation has been measured at a rate of 400 mili sieverts near reactor 3. 100 mili sieverts is enough to make a male infertile.

Previous measurements were in micro sieverts.

Source: https://twitter.com/#!/timeouttokyo/status/47480888463859712
It looks a bit wrong but it's an effective use of space (creating emphasis and a comfortable click zone while also conserving real estate).
Check out this little nugget at the bottom of Timeout Tokyo:

Suntory vending machines have emergency levers beneath a sticker on the upper-right corners. Pull the sticker off, pull the lever firmly and you'll get free drinks.

They built a backdoor into their own vending machines for emergencies and have followed up and gotten the information out there. Free juice for the weary! It was sleeping there the whole time, very japanese.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12163087@N04/4202645718/

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That's the definition of cool.
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~40 people work at Airbnb. And a ton of others make money renting their place, or save money when traveling. Massive, massive value creation there in addition to the jobs.
I suspect the reason why hackers are harsh compared to skateboarders probably has something to do with the fact that when skateboarders fuck up, it tends to hurt. Bad hacking rarely carries such a strong disincentive, so we have to create one.
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It's on page 74 (in the PDF).
I'd say that analysis is missing one important group-- the truly arrogant.

These are the people with an unshakable belief in their own superiority, at least in some field. It's not that they feel a need to demonstrate superiority over others through condescending feedback. It's that their superiority is implicit in their world-view. They don't necessarily even realize they're being condescending. It's just the natural order of things.

I can say this with full confidence because I've been that person. As a teenager, I was insufferable. Not only was I a freakishly good at bowling at 15 (making hundreds of dollars per weekend from "pot games" and with multiple 300 games in a single league), but two years earlier, I had also become the youngest person in my state to enroll in college classes. I tried to be nice to people and everything, but I just assumed I had more intelligence, dexterity, constitution and possibly other D&D stats than they did. If people didn't like my attitude, sometimes I actually felt sorry for them, assuming that jealousy was the reason.

Now in my 30's after not having done anything amazing since growing up, I've become less confident and also less condescending. Rapidly picking up coordination based sports isn't really that important in daily life as it was as a teenager. And I certainly don't assume or even believe that I'm any smarter than other people. On the contrary, I'd say I've become tangibly dumber. I might still be condescending from time to time in my weaker moments, but nothing even remotely like what I did unconsciously half a life time ago.
Writing "a + condition * (b - a)" is just a math cheat to make a ternary operator. So isn't this a conditional itself?
Agreed, I bought two Zunes, a 120gb one and the Zune HD. The devices were fantastic but more than that I love the Zune software.

iTunes drives me crazy, but the Zune software looks like nothing else Microsoft ever created. It's cool, intuitive and works great.

If they had gotten in to that ecosystem a bit sooner it could have been different, but the timing was all wrong.
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It's funny, they are so proud of it. Groff is so ancient, you can't seriously claim it's written in C++. It's written in C++ circa 1988. Pre-template collections, no Standard library, no namespaces, no exceptions, practically plain C code. Well, not plain exactly, C with classes and virtual functions. I guess, OpenBSD folks didn't like virtual functions...
I just can't stand the cut-off back button and the odd WPF-inspired font anti-aliasing. It sticks out like a sore thumb. Otherwise, a decent release.
I have no doubt there are others doing similar things, but this is the first story of it's kind I've seen. Personally, I could care less if it was Apple, or Dell, or Hello Kitty, it's interesting (and heartwarming) to see this kind of story about people using the resources they have at hand helping others in need.

I would rather see this story with the Apple headline than not see it just because of the Apple headline.
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There are no reports of nuclear rain, but the news has been advising us to watch out for it. (Even as far as Gifu!)

It was on TV though, so I have no links.
I dont understand. If the FDA wants to incentivize private companies to update the research on old drugs, why dont they just pay them to do it (AND not make the payment contingent on finding the drug marketable as this appears to do)? Obviously nobody knows the true value of new research on old drugs, but giving private companies blank checks to insurer's bank accounts doesnt seem like the best method to go about it.
I once cooked up an implementation targeted at the "Local Events" vertical. It implemented 100% of Zvents feature set and took 15 hours to put together. That tells me everything I need to know about effectiveness.

Basically my point boils down to this: there are freely available, insanely flexible, totally customizable CMS's that have been under active development for a decade or more. Given how long it takes to create truly polished software of any kind, starting a CMS project from thin air doesn't make sense, you're hundreds of thousands of developer hours behind existing projects on day one.
Hey, sorry I didn't get back to you on this. Really, a response to this question needs to be a blog post that I don't have time to write at the moment, but I've put it on "the list".

Short answer: because I'm a socialist.
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