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I've been in sales for years and the best way to describe this attitude is with a question. "If their good/service is really worth what they're asking, why are they trying so hard to make this sale?" When you can walk away, the client implies from that that you're successful, and therefore offering a quality product people want.
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Great feedback, thank you. I agree that portfolios are much more diverse than simply stocks. The tools supports ETF's and mutual funds, it just doesn't break them down into the individual securities -- which is coming. Right now they get analyzed as a whole security. Bonds are slated for the future, so thanks for emphasizing the importance of those.
Exactly. What they typically do is acquire someone who can. In Intel's case I'd doubt they would acquire ARM because they would probably have to continue to license the technology to everyone else (I don't really know what I'm talking about here). However, they could acquire someone who has the "low power CPU technology" they would need to compete. If you think about who that someone could be nobody really comes to mind. Maybe they could buy back Marvell. Qualcomm, Samsung, TI are clearly out of the question.
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I agree with the title, but am not interested at the OSX / XCode stuff because I'm a very happy, satisfied Linux & Lenovo user.

My old company tried to force me to use a Macbook Pro, saying "developer community uses it", and I refused, saying "I give no piece of .... to a software with stupid and pretty looking icons, windows etc." because that stuff requires us to use mouse/touchpad stuff, which are useless, time wasting, uncomfortable and much less programmable, compared to a good keyboard ( good means not the ones apple produces )

As a coder, I want to be able to program my desktop to save time. There are many better ways to start a program clicking a pretty icon like a smiling cow, because we have a keyboard and also a program called dmenu -a real life saver-.

Guys claiming that OSX provides a developer friendly desktop environment should give a try to an ideal linux desktop. I'm not talking about the crappy ones trying to compete against pixar, like gnome kde etc, I'm suggesting the tiling window managers such as xmonad, dwm, dmenu etc. Especially, I love dmenu. It makes possible to find a bookmark I saved to my delicious account, in just one second, pressing window+p buttons. This awesomeness counts for my browser history also. I type URLs calling dmenu that completes my input by searching my history, no need to open a browser window, no need to use a mouse or sth equivelent. Another awesomeness I love about Linux is the customizable browsers like UZBL, it's very easy to bind a key for a specific task. I'm saving 30-40 bookmarks each day, thanks to the B button. Only thing I need to do to save a bookmark to my delicious account is to press B button.

Linux provides much more richer desktop environment with thousands of options, for the developers not fan of hipster UIs.
How do you explain semantic web to a nine-year old child in one sentence?
It used to be a cliché in tech journalism that every Apple story described them as "beleaguered". They were regarded as circling the drain for years, and the stock returns here were a lot less enticing back when they were trying to survive in the computer industry.
For a while I've been wondering if the German Tank Problem could help make comparison sorts work better on large lists. Unfortunately, I lack the background to test whether this is true.

You wouldn't have to know the upper or lower bounds of the list, you could estimate them progressively from a smaller sample. Then you could insert each item to position N based on your distribution estimate. The further you get through the list, the better the distribution estimate would get, and inserting would get more accurate.

Is this plausible? Has this been done already?
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... That still leaves the question, why use an inferior tool?

This assumes that git has no significant practical drawbacks that might outweigh the constrained value of its merging support.

A bad car analogy: I never drive in the winter. I commute 1 hour each day to work. I have the choice between:

- A large SUV that gets 15 mpg but has traction control for handling icy winter roads and 16000 lbs of towing capacity

or

- A 30 mpg commuter car.

If we assume that subversion merging works fine (which, in large organizations, is my experience), then the next question is -- what feature(s), exactly warrants git's additional complexity? Why, in our organization, would we want to encourage people to create out-of-sight branches? What is the actual advantage to having individuals care about n-way merges?
Thanks for putting that in perspective. We're working on pricing based on your feedback.
Less than what companies have to pay US programmers could still be far above average for a programming job in those countries, depending on cost of living and labor market differences. Basically, he's saying it's a win for everyone involved.
Interesting post, does Davy read HN?

I know lots of developers over 40 who are great. I also know folks who were good once but now are not. There is a strong correlation between continuing education and continuing competence.

A lot of young developers re-create the wheel, they don't know they are because they haven't been around the block that many times but they are. Then along comes an older developer who has to use their code/api/design and recognizes it for what it is, another wheel designed by someone who didn't realize this was old hat. How someone responds to this situation (which occurs again and again) seems to be key.

You can note the particular vagaries of this particular implementation of the wheel concept and work with it to get done what you want to get done, you can throw it out and replace it with a more up to date implementation of a wheel, or you can get disgusted at how little this developer knew when they tried to do this particular implementation of wheelness. I got to meet the guy who invented the insertion sort this way, not. (well he thought he had invented it)

Seeing wheel re-implementations gets old fast, trust me.

So if you let it get to you, you lose your sense of wonder. That thing where every new technique you saw was thought provoking and, well, new. It gets replaced with "gee IBM did it that way in the 60's and it didn't work for them either." If you let it get under your skin you will burn out and become one of those developers that just stops looking at new stuff because you know you will have seen it all before and it will be wrong for the same reasons the other six versions were wrong. And you will miss out on the stuff that really is new, and your currency in the art will degrade.

How many developers under 30 do you know who can tell you the second order effects of their new network protocol? How many even care? How many have found themselves intersecting the same bad design decisions that were bad back in the last century and are still bad today?

And finally, technologists are often like classmates from college, at first nobody you know is married then it seems like everyone you know is, or no one has kids and then suddenly everyone is busy with their kids. Your social circle ages like you do, if you know a lot of really great developers when you are 25 I can guarantee you that you will know several when you are 45.
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Absolutely love Instapaper. Glad to see these native sharing features.
In a similar vein, I introduce myself as "I'm in charge of the product" when returning calls.
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Ask HN: why is there no competition for LinkedIn?
They have the valuable business graph, but their execution (and vision perhaps) often seems to stumble. Why aren't there competitors trying to eat their lunch? Surely this must be a valuable space worth getting into?

Trying to understand, I don't feel LinkedIn has this space locked up the way Facebook has social locked up (plus Facebook's vision and execution seem much stronger). So why no competition?
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Ask HN: why is the user page so cryptic?
* email (is not shown to other users)

* notifo (???)

* showdead (???)

* minaway (?, what is unit of value?)

* delay (???)

I just don't understand why the authors of HN can't put some simple descriptions or a link to a help doc on the user page to demystify/clarify these items. Is it really that much effort? There are other aspects of HN that operate in similar fashion. Is this some right of passage to keep non-serious users from enjoying the site?

Do you accept patches for making some of this stuff happen?

[edit: formatting]
Load Testing: JMeter, Grinder.

Functional Testing: Selenium, Watir, Sahi.
ARM holdings licenses. I think Nvidia may do what you're talking about.
I was just checking this out and, yes, what is going on here? I'm all for LinkedIn to innovate - it makes them cool(er) and more interesting - but as one of the biggest social/biz connectivity applications, I wonder how they do a launch so half-assed. Empty windows? Cut off text? Have a little QC people. Still a fan, just sayin.
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Dieline's featured work could be great website designs too.
Google News' Settings allows you to configure "more news from" and "less news from" by publisher.

More news from:

NPR
The Economist
Wired News

Less news from:

FOXNews
FOXSports.com
Wall Street Journal

http://news.google.com/news/settings
Where did he get the laser for it?
Nice article. To add, I think the problem is with intel's strategy and their technology than the cost.

Intel expected notebooks to be more dominant and their roadmap showed. As soon as Kindle started taking off with ebooks, Apple realized they could do better than Kindle with iPad.

By selling xscale unit to Marvell, Intel did a mistake.

Total OEM cost for netbook was in the range of 10-20 vs just the processor in ipad is claimed to be $30 (after everyone taking their cut. Everyone includes ARM-Samsung-Packaging compnies)
can you really imagine Steve Jobs agreeing to charge for something he didn't want to charge for because of accounting practices?

They might have been lying, but Apple has publicly claimed this before:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/07/01/16/2127204/Apple-Ch...
everyone claims to be an entrepreneur these days.
What's this rubbish about Xcode 3 being hard to install?
It's on your OS X CD. From there on, it's just a one-click install process. Even if you downloaded it, the process is the same.
If a developer can't be bothered to do that, then they probably dont give a damn in the first place.

Casual users =/= developers
It's the theory for xcode based on Apple claiming it was the reason to charge iPod Touch users for iOS 2 or 3 (I forget which). IIRC.
I absolutely LOOVE instapaper, one of my absolute favorite iPad apps (the rest are here http://bit.ly/hb8l5H)!

..agree with everyone that its a true "killer" app for the device. Imagine once Marco and the team starts adding true collaborative filtering based on your past history (and your friends and the broader community of IP users) and suggesting you stuff to read!
The reason they're successful today is simply because they have superior technology in an area (power consumption) that is important for a quickly growing mobile markets.

But lets not forget ARM has been successful for a long time in this space. It's not like when the iPhone came out then ARM started selling. From Wikipedia,

"ARM licensed about 1.6 billion cores in 2005. In 2005, about 1 billion ARM cores went into mobile phones.As of January 2008, over 10 billion ARM cores have been built, and in 2008 iSuppli predicted that by 2011, 5 billion ARM cores will be shipping per year.[8] As of January 2011, ARM states that over 15 billion ARM processors have shipped."

So two years before the iPhone they were licensing more than a billion cores per year. That's more cores than Intel sold this year, five years later.

ARM is more high profile now though because smartphones are more high profile, but ARM has been doing this for a while now.
> So you have to install and manage your own local ad server to earn ad revenue from your site?

No, you just have to use a system that doesn't try to track users everywhere they go.

> Many publishers large and small use ad servers e.g. doubleclick, adtech to avoid this overhead.

That's fine. Those ad servers are free to continue offering their facilities to webmasters who would like to use them rather than setting things up themselves. The only difference is that now the centralised services won't be allowed to track everyone everywhere.

> Yes, publishers loose out once again.

You keep saying things like that, but I don't think you've ever explained why you think this is inevitable. I and several other posters in this discussion have now presented you with numerous alternative ideas that still allow sites to carry advertising that is fairly well-targeted without violating the new rules that are going to apply after May. Those methods funded numerous sites for several years before the current generation of spyware-based ad networks took off, and given that hosting is far more competitively priced now, I don't see why today's enthusiast sites shouldn't be able to cover their costs if yesterday's could.
Well, I agree Tropo is pretty cool but sometimes clients want to use a different SIP trunking provider. Thanks for the response.
So I guess Gruber is just giving up on even trying to be a bit objective anymore? This read more like a hurt comic book fan forum post about a bad review of his favorite superhero's movie than anything else. Worse battery life, a non improved screen, weak cameras and lack of 4G/flash are drawbacks, no matter how you slice it.

The funny thing is Mossberg's review is overwhelmingly positive.
How would I use it? I wouldn't. I have my editor in the cloud. I log into my remote server via a terminal and I fire up Vim. ;) There are plenty of people who have tried the editor in the cloud thing, nobody seems to have been able to build anything which has stuck. Meanwhile, Vim and Emacs are still going strong and perhaps the best editors available. It would be tough to create something which could provide an alternative to something so versatile and has had years of community add-ons and improvements being made.
Good question. My guess is it depends on what components Apple officially accounts for as being parts of OSX. Keep in mind Apple was under investigation by the SEC for many years so they are probably following the rules extra carefully. After the SOX rules were changed last year (IIRC) Apple immediately changed some of their accounting practices to provide free iOS updates for the iPod Touch so I tend to believe them.
Ask HN: I'm going to learn Scheme; any suggestions?
I don't know much about it yet, but I ordered a book and am motivated to get through it. Although I have to learn it for a class, my main priority is to learn the basic concepts of programmings, and Scheme seems to perfect for that.

So does anyone have any comments about Scheme as a language and about how easy it is to learn it?
Reputation is the primary means whereby creators of nearly all the content I consume on a daily basis are remunerated. Blog posts? Tech books? I doubt very much that there are many people who do either for the money directly earned through ad or book sales.

Now, I agree that this model doesn't work for, say, big-budget action movies and for many (maybe, as you say, most[1]) other media types.

But, these people working for "free" have always been a big part of the press; I don't think that writing has ever paid particularly well, except for a few at the very top.

Edit:
There is a corporate equivalent to this that dominates the trade magazine industry. Corporations write something very much like a press release advertising their new product, and send it off to a writer for the magazine, who publishes it, perhaps with a few changes, as if it were a story. Hell, speaking of high-budget action flicks, BMW did something similar a while back; they released a series of short action films[2] that featured their vehicles. Being something of a fan of action films myself, I rather enjoyed them, even though they were obviously commercials.

[1] Thinking more on what "more media" is, I'm starting to come around to your position. Now, I certainly spend /more time/ consuming media like blog posts or technical books where the author was primarily remunerated in terms of an increased reputation compared to media produced for the money.

However, even if you say I spend 100 hours reading tech books or blog posts for every 1 hour I spend watching big-budget action flicks, that one hour of action movie probably took more human hours to produce than the 100 hours of tech book or blog post. Of course, if you measure the the cost of production divided by the number of people watching it, then it's possible that the flashy action movie was actually cheaper to produce than the tech book, I mean, per human hour spent watching the thing.

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hire
it is absolutely not clear that separation of "general architecture designer", "specific chip design customizer" and "foundry" is a winning business model. In my view Intel has been successful because they've owned all three pieces and thus have ripped the benefits from, sorry for the profanity, the synergy.

Intel don't have competitive product in that specific market that ARM is so successful. Once/if it gets it, will see then. I'm not saying that it will win - it can go in any direction, but we'll be really able to compare Apples to Apples then.
The point is, the iPad's real competitors don't beat it in any of those categories except for camera. (Also, Gruber said in his own review that he got identical battery life to the previous model.) The Xoom is the only tablet that promises 4G and Flash and got mediocre reviews even without those components, which will probably make it run worse.
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I think you're right about the versatility aspects. If a cloud editor is going to grow I think it's going to come out of somewhere like Heroku. Where it exists in one "opinionated" niche and can be customized specifically to work with that environment.
It's the casual users that want to use ImageMagick in their PHP site?!

No offence intended, but I think we have different definitions of "casual user"...
Might you consider picking your battles a little better? His sole purpose is motivating others to achieve excellence. I'm not sure what you stand to gain by continuing to pick on a guy whose biggest crime is corniness.
Well this is just trolling.
They had 3 horses, which were trying to turn and eat each other.
Let's no overreact until we either A) see Xcode 3 disappear B) no longer receive the OS X Dev Tools on the OS X install discs.
Can you quantify that? Like, on a reasonable computer, how long does it take to process the Huffington Post example article? And (though this may be a little trickier to benchmark) how many such articles can you process per second?

Is this something you can do fast enough that the delays wouldn't be user-perceptible? Or maybe something that would be feasible to do in batch mode for a bunch of articles?

(In any case, it's amazing. Congratulations on making this.)
Shameless plug here, but if you're interested in installing the platform but don't want it clogging up your dev environment I've created a snap project skeleton that will do it for you with Vagrant and Chef.

http://johnbender.us/2011/03/05/snap-setup-from-scratch-the-...

Snap is the only extra install and you can quite easily alter the haskell platform version in the Vagrantfile. I'll be updating this tonight when I get home if you don't mind waiting.
Dude. Calm down, you can download them for free, FREE! A developer.apple.com with a FREE account
I like it. My first instinct was to click on the radar to expand it (maybe because I'm trying to determine if I'll need a kayak to get to work tomorrow in PHL). I like that the timestamps for the radar frames were converted from GMT/Zulu for me.

Your hourly forecast is nice and clean. Have you considered adding greater detail to the precipitation icons? Percent probability or estimated total QPF? Either way, I think this is an easier presentation than the hourly weather graphs on NWS.

Bottom line, I'll keep checking back to see how things develop.

EDIT: Forgot to add - good job making the map responsive to zooming and panning. That is one thing that drives me nuts with many radar/map implementations.
Love it or hate it, English is the language of technology.

I appreciate the need to cater for different audiences but I think it would be more beneficial for all concerned to encourage people interested in technology to learn to communicate about it in English.
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^^^ Here comes the HN anti-Gruber mob. Grab the pitchforks!
I'm definitely going to give it a look. For some reason I thought the single window layout wasn't coming till this version.

The multiwindow layout wouldn't be so awful if OSX were better at windows management && I had more than one monitor to work with on my iMac. As it is, it's a struggle for me.

Oh, and who knows about the downvotes. I thought for sure I'd get nuked for defending VS. Have an upvote.
I love the idea behind Instapaper and bought the $5 version, but I have found it has a surprising number of bugs for a paid app. The application has crashed several times on me. Sometimes articles don't download properly. Also, often large swatches of text are repeated in the articles I add to my Instapaper. Finally, when I archive items out of the Editor's Picks, they often re-download again later (maybe I am not understanding how archiving works).

Has anyone else run into sorts of issues using Instapaper on the iPhone 4? I hope that 3.0 fixes these issues! Off to download it now. :-)
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My little rant is definitely meant to be more persuasive than quantifiably accurate; take it with a grain of salt.

Regardless, I don't think the existence of can't-be-motivated learners compromises the ideals of a Khan-like system. Sure there are kids that aren't going to get it no matter what, but their productivity in any system is going to be nill, Khan, tradtional, or otherwise.
In C++0x it is

std::vector<std::string>> frobs = {"foo","bar","baz"};
I'd like to think that "New York, New York" and "New York, NY" are pretty much synonymous for "New York City".
I have N900, it's pretty awesome. The main downside still (as always) was lack of apps/apps market. But still, nice video chat, ssh / VNC into servers, Flash 10, FM transmitter, video/sound out, nice camera, a freakin stand. I currently use it as my sole inet connection (tethered to router PC) at home. Watch Hulu with it.

Don't plan/feel need to replace it for several more months. Not many phones have kept me satisfied for 3 years.
I have a Xoom and I don't know why people are giving it such a bad rap. It does everything I want it to do and it does it really fast.
Got it...thanks. I didn't get that he was talking about the bootstrapping issue.
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