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Is this supposed to be satire?

Being a hobbyist and learning to program in the 80s meant my dad shelling out hundreds of dollars for THINK Lightspeed Pascal, and yet, somehow I and many others managed to learn to program and become hobbyists and finally professional programmers.

They'll sell you a full-featured, modern IDE with all the pro features uncrippled for a measly $5. That's not a death blow to hobbyists, that's maybe one of the cheapest hobbies on the planet.
Yes they are, see my other post. _delirium has a point though, but I'm sure it will be solved somehow. Hopefully from here.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/
Everyone under 18 can buy a iTunes gift card. (It’s a hassle but it’s not impossible.)
Speaking of purely US-only experience, of course.
http://venturehacks.com/articles/seed-valuation
It's doubtful that today's parents need to be convinced of such things. Not only is $99 cheaper than that piano of yesteryear, it also has a significantly higher rate of return.
So said accounting rule changed then? Honest question. And in any case, if that were really true, why not charge a penny? Or the download cost? I don't buy it.
It's true that Square's service is no less secure than paying with a Verifone device, sliding your card through the checkout system of your corner store, or handing you card over to the waiter and having them walk away with it in a restaurant. There is one thing that Square has done in a new way though: The service that they are providing, together with their corporate identity, has done a remarkable job at moving the idea of accepting credit card payments from big retail to small businesses and even private people.
While this is an admirable feat, it has has potentially dangerous impact on the users' perception of who is a trustworthy entity to hand their credit card to.
Before Square, I would have never handed over my credit card to a private person that I am doing a one-time transaction with and that I will likely never meet again in my life. With Square's efforts, that emotional barrier is slowly being torn down. Of course, they are not actively telling me to "trust everyone", but it is an inevitable development that they are continuously pushing forward.
Before square, a merchant (a person I would give my credit card to) was usually a person connected to a job in a business entity that was registered, had a (somewhat) fixed location and that was invested into building a long-lasting relationship with me and many other customers (= not interested at screwing me over by doing some credit card scam). None of this applies to an independent person with a square dongle in their iPhone but thanks to Square's efforts, customers feel more and more confident, handing a stranger over their cc for a quick transaction.
This is where there is a problem. It doesn't have to do with Square's technical implementation. It has to do with the inevitable customer's change in attitude, which ultimately, Square is "responsible" for.
Exactly, trying to leave a sort of a legacy and if not legacy, just making sure your life and experiences were not necessarily in vain.
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Not sure if featuring "retard" in an official screenshot is a great PR move.
I don't see how people can complain XCode 4 (with IntelliSense!!) for $4.99 is disrespectful. Sure it's not as generous as free, but it's still pretty damn good value. A lot of people will probably buy it now for the Intellisense (or 'Codesense') functionality, who otherwise wouldn't have much cared.
Yep, that's why I avoid commercial operating systems like the plague. It's why I initially became a gcc based C++ engineer. It's why I then became a Tomcat/Java engineer. And it's why I'm currently messing around with Android.

Friction is a good word for the problem. Who knows? Maybe in another life I would have actually used Microsoft's stack. I used their tools in college, and at work when they were provided...
I'm trying to understand how seed-money investors do this. I can understand valuations based on a real set of books, with assets and income. But how does a seed-money investor like Y Combinator calculate the worth of a company with just co-founders and an idea?
Anybody willing to give me a ride to this thing?

I'm in the Wells Branch area.

E-mail me at JesseAldridge@gmail.com.
Email peter directly to arrange something else (p.tattam@gmail.com).
I think this whole complaining about $5 thing really reeks of a sense of entitlement. Either use Xcode 3 (which is free and works perfectly well), or find some way to save up 5 bucks (or 10 bucks if you need to go get a Visa gift card).
If you look at Facetime on the Mac App Store, it costs $0.99. If you get a new Mac, though, it's free (included). Xcode has historically been included on the install media for OS X (e.g., with Snow Leopard). It's still a separate install, of course. I expect Xcode 4 will still be available on the OS X Lion install media. Buy OS X 10.7 and the media will most likely include Xcode 4. This is a normal Apple pattern.
Well sure, but why does that matter? I could have said "or if you're more into HTML 4.01, 5, and anything before those versions of HTML..."

Pedantic.
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I logged in with my free! account and it told me I had to join either the iOS ($99/year) or Mac ($99/year) developer program to get Xcode for free. Otherwise I should head to the Mac App Store. Am I missing something?
Wait...so it's only $5 in the app store? Are they just trying to cover the costs of 4+GB of bandwidth?

I don't know what's worse: Making Xcode cost $5, or offering an app for $5 in the app store and free for download.

However, I know that the first thing I'm going to do when I get home is come back here and click that link before they revoke that link.
It's probably a part of a longer term pricing strategy. It's hard to start charging "real" money (even $40/$50) for an application you were formerly giving away for free. People feel like you've taken something away. By charging a micro-payment disposable price of $5 (Happy Meal, Latte, etc.) they deflect a lot of that criticism and avoid some of the negative publicity. Over the next 10 years they can slowly raise the price, each time keeping is reasonable.

Apple's leveraging the work they put into building the App Store infrastructure (and business deals with credit card companies) to do something a lot of other companies couldn't (make something that was free cost something again without too much fallout).
What got me into programming in the first place was that XCode was free. I just don't get why you'd charge this small an amount for something that you have to buy a thousand dollar computer from them to run it on.
It's hard to see this as anything but a tiny little insult.
Does this have potential?
Open source that Apple had contributed very heavily to. Do you feel the same way about Canonical etc.?
It would offer a bit of an incentive for anyone thinking of upgrading to Lion. Why not throw in the IDE? I'm just not sure that they will.
PG talks about it briefly in this clip (currently on the front page): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMBTRf1kgm8
1)Wake up EVERY day at the same time. 2) Goto bed when your body tells you.
Summary (he really should have said this part upfront):

He is (ab)using subdomains, by giving every user a different subdomain on his site. So a typical page can have links to hundreds of different subdomains on the page.

For a normal site disabling prefetching is not necessary or a good idea.

This article should be renamed: "Why using hundreds of unique subdomains is not a good idea." Besides all the DNS queries, you are also messing with caches.

I don't know anything about his site, but I don't see any reason that every user needs a unique subdomain.
The last paragraph on the blog post seems to hint that it is not the case.
I have paid a lot more than $5 for things I don’t need and I consider myself frugal.

The $5 certainly raise the barrier but that doesn’t mean that it’s not worth it for those who are merely curious.
Mostly to learn how to make apps, but also for easy saving of favorites and nice UI for while you're sitting on the toilet.

All of which could be done in HTML5, but might require account creation, and people seem to love "apps" still...
It's probably an incentive to get people to become paid developer members. You already need to be enrolled to submit apps to the Mac and iOS app stores.

If you just need a compiler, install the development tools on the OS X install DVD that came with your computer. If you want to be doing software development for Mac or iOS, the developer fee is worth it for the documentation and prerelease software.
Here's the Web 1.0 URL: http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP7526
Thanks! I designed it so that the site can be used even if you don't have a Netflix account, but maybe that's a very small use case I can drop.

Ideally the page would be full of your friend's ratings, but yeah, I should fill that empty space with something if that's not the case.
Especially when a sense of entitlement is free!

You can get Visa gift cards at the convenience store for $10. If a teenager can't find the motivation to scrounge up 10 bucks, they're going to have a hell of a time learning how to program.
You are incorrect.. If you are a member of their Developer Program you can download it for free. I am not and this is the message I get:

You must be an iOS or Mac Developer Program member to download Xcode 4 or you can purchase Xcode 4 from the Mac App Store.
Sorry that's not what I meant. I meant Apple should buy TextMate and offer it for $4.99 as I find it better (for Ruby on Rail in my case).
What credit card info? You're telling me someone would want to develop for Apple after owning a Mac but having never bought something from iTunes before?
See my reply here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2306788

He is creating thousands of unique subdomains, so nobody can cache anything.
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Is that a trick question? Yes, I am in favor of a development ecosystem that doesn't aim for $0.

Apple probably should have made XCode free regardless, but his point struck me as the most likely reasoning behind Apple's decision to charge for it.
haha.

I was interviewing for a network project manager position with google some time ago. When I went in on the first day I was very candid with them by saying "I am very qualified for this position, but I don't have a PMP certification so I hope that isnt an issue." They said "Oh, no problem. In fact we want to bring people in who are very experienced, but are flexible to adapt to the google way of doing things - so not having a PMP cert is a plus because we dont want people to try to impose some outside process on our way."

Cool I thought!

I interviewed over a 3 month period. I was told I did very well then got a call from the recruiter in google I had been working with "Hey! Good news - it looks like we will be extending you an offer - so let me write that up and send it over to you"

I was ecstatic.

I told friends about it - but did not tell my employer - though they knew I was interviewing anyway.

I got a call the next day from the recruiter:

"I'm sorry - it looks like we will not be extending you an offer. Apparently, you don't have a PMP cert, and that is needed for this position - but you did very well on the interview, maybe you can find another position we have listed that you qualify for!"

I was LIVID.

What a waste of my time - and it was really enraging. So, yeah - Fuck your interview process google.
Yeah, which I think invalidates your accounting hypothesis. If accounting is the reason for the cost then they would have already been charging for it.
I don't like the idea. But the price makes sense: (try to figure out how they decide this price)

1. Xcode is 4.2GB in size.
2. Bandwidth costs about $0.10/GB, so that's $0.42 per download.
3. Every update requires re-downloading.
4. We'll update more than 10 times before Xcode 5 comes out.
5. So let's charge $4.99!

(Of course they pay less than $0.10/GB for bandwidth at their scale. Don't panic about the exact number.)
When someone says "There is a Bubble". Which means they are feared, got mass hysteria, jealous of early investors in future hot companies & may actually have some valid point."

Valid point is always about 20% of all over hype.
It's disingenuous to say that XCode now costs $4.99. It still comes with the OS, and I see no problem with them charging a very nominal fee for an early upgrade (for the rest of people who aren't already registered iOS or Mac devs).

This is the first time Apple has offered a major XCode upgrade midstream between OS releases, so there isn't really any precedence for how they should handle it.

As for me, I'm sticking with XCode 3 for the time being. XCode 4 just isn't ready for prime time, in my experience. It is, however, a great leap in usability, so I'm sure anyone who found XCode difficult to learn will appreciate XCode 4. Those of us who are comfortable in XCode 3 are less enthusiastic.
Ask HN: What about this landing page? Does it rock as it should?
Hi everyone.

This is my first submit on Hacker News, but I've been reading and loving it for months now.
Some friends of mine and I are developing a web app called Dayri that lets you keep your diary online. And as every startup, we had to design and ship a landing page. We would love to hear your feedback about it. :)

http://dayri.me/

I think that there are too many similar landing pages, if not alike, and therefore I came up with this. We wanted to give a unique look to Dayri and, at the same time, we tried to find a way to get more subscribers.

In your opinion how does it look? Is it comfortable or you get tired after the second scroll?
We originally conceived five slides but we suddenly realized that it would have just bored the user and got him not to sign up for an invite.

Will
> If you haven’t been reading about backbone.js, you might want to start (heh, see what I did there?).

Er, no, actually. Quick, someone sharper than I help me out!
Kind of ridiculous they require the VP of engineering to have a PhD. I haven't heard great things about Google's culture, and if this is the kind of requirements they had to put the technical leadership in place, a lot of what I heard is starting to make sense.
Yeah this definitely seems like a great feature to add. Initially we were just enjoying the words / not thinking of it as too domain-centric, but at the very least being able to quickly whois would be nice.
I think non-iOS/OSX developers probably still make up a large number of their MacBook(Pro) customers. And perhaps moreso now with their new version.
Exactly! How is this supposed to jump-start the market for TouchPad apps when a desktop and a tablet involve completely different interaction models?

I remember Tog or another early Mac team member reminiscing about the lack of arrow keys on the original Mac keyboard. They were intentionally left off (so the story goes) to prevent companies from creating shovel-ware ports of their existing applications.

There is value in getting developers to write for a desktop variant of webOS if it gets them downloading the SDK and familiar with the development model, just as the iPad obviously benefitted tremendously from the existing iPhone development infrastructure, but I hope no one thinks that you can simultaneously optimize for both desktop and tablet experiences. (Unless you're the sort of person who says "very unique" or makes multiple things your "top priority.")
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there are multiple meanings of the word... but point taken
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And at the time - I was working as the IT manager fora company on the peninsula -- I switched out standard image to make the default homepage for all machines point to google.

this was ~1998?
They're in pretty much every major supermarket in the UK and Ireland.
Right, because you don't expect to get anything out of it.
Maybe iOS 4 doesn't offer new functionality? Where functionality is defined as "whatever the law says we have to charge people for"?

The law is not particularly concerned with whether the major version number or the minor version number changed. It's all about what features changed.
Could you share some more info on the hackintoah. The amount of info I have read about hardware compatibility fickleness and dsmos security code has terrified me.
I just name my labels with prefixes or with just single letter so they are in the right order. "a" is the most important to read, "u" is staff I rarely read at all.
The design looks nice, but the scrolling feels excessive.
If you're looking for a car that will just keep going, get a Jeep Wrangler.

I have one, it's got 140,000 miles on it, but it still runs like a top and I have absolutely no desire to sell it (and selling it would be easy. I work in the automotive industry).

(Here's my jeep: http://thingist.com/t/item/4204/ - bone stock and I love it).

To stay on topic, I think there is something to be said about the "cheap" brands. My Jeep, is a "cheap" car (it's worth about $5000), but it's a workhorse. I don't think twice about hauling the dog around in it after she's been swimming in the mud, I don't bat an eye when I need to literally pressure-wash the interior, I patched a hole in one of the seats with duct tape, I once made a top for it out of a tarp and some rope (I had my little sister with me and it started raining), there are scratches along the back tailgate from loading it full of mountain bikes and shuttling them up the side of a mountain, I've slept in the back of it many times, etc. etc.

A friend of mine has a Porsche Cayenne. It's really nice, and has a matching +$100,000 price tag. He doesn't let the dogs in it, he covers the leather seats with a blanket when he sets anything on top of them, it's never left the pavement, spilling anything on the interior would be a catastrophe, etc.

From my perspective, he's getting less value for his $100,000 than I am for my $5,000 because he's constantly afraid of breaking it or spoiling it (well, losing on his investment, more accurately).

I think the Porsche vs Jeep debate could be the same as the Nook vs iPad debate. Yeah, an iPad can "do more", it's more valuable, costs more money, it's shinier, it has a faster processor, it's a "better".

But I think I'd be in constant fear of breaking it. It would probably stay in my house most of the time. The nook, on the other hand, costs 1/4 of an iPad, it would go with me everywhere.

Somebody like me would probably get more value out of a nook than an iPad, despite the iPad being technically better.
Visual Studio Professional (if you turn up at any Microsoft meeting where they launch a new version of VS): £0
If you are a member of one of Apple's dev programs, Xcode is still free: "Xcode 4 is a free download for all members of the iOS and Mac Developer Programs. Log in to your account to begin the download."

http://developer.apple.com/xcode/index.php
No, because they were distributing it as part of the operating system, which they sold.
"... I remember seeing a comment by pg that if he really thought there was a bubble and was cynically exploiting that fact, he just wouldn't say anything at all. ..."

That was probably straight out of "How to Win Friends and Influence People". If there is a bubble, what you see is large transfers of money flow from people who want to risk capital to make profit. Does Milner, DST really understand "social media"? Probably not. There was a dig by Annie Lowrey a writing an article on Warren Buffet buying into railways in Slate that hints at this [0]. Is this a wise move by YCombinator? In the short term yes. In the longer term I'm not so sure. Why? If you want to understand the nature of an investor, follow the source and providence of the cash.

Yuri Milner > DST > Alisher Usmanov

The Milner investment trail leads straight back to Uzbeck Russia and old-school Oligarchy, something the Economist has noted. [1] Randomness didn't play a part in the success of DST as a company. [2] I can't believe pg isn't aware of this [3] and if you look carefully, the Milner deal is at arms-length of ycombinator. A deal good for all parties at the expense of appearing "murky".

[0] Annie Lowrey, Slate, "Working on the Railroad: All the big returns were in Singapore or Hong Kong or Silicon Valley, they said, so they put their money into hot social-media start-ups and emerging economies." ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2277702

[1] "A bigger problem for DST may be that some see it as Russian—and thus “murky”." ~ http://www.economist.com/node/16539424?story_id=16539424

[2] "According to the 2010 edition of Forbes magazine, the oligarch is one of Russia's richest men, with a fortune estimated at US$19.9 billion, and the world's 100th richest person." ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov

[3] "There are a lot of ways to get rich... There are plenty of other ways to get money, including chance, speculation, marriage, inheritance, theft, extortion, fraud, monopoly, graft, lobbying, counterfeiting, and prospecting. Most of the greatest fortunes have probably involved several of these." ~ http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
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Anyone care to suggest the reason behind the four notes that are repeated over and over (occasionally with slightly different filters)?
A cyclist working hard will put out 300ish watts, so, during daily activities, unless you are talking extremely short bursts like lifting/jumping, we put out much less. Store a good amount of power in some capacitor system and that would be enough to power an exoskeleton I bet.
Agreed, more seamlessly dealing with plurals / comparatives / adverbs et cetera would be cool. Thanks for the suggestion.
People aren't complaining about XCode costing money. The problem is more that up until now, XCode has been the only way of getting a C and C++ compiler.
No. The free membership does not allow you to download Xcode 4 for free - for that you need the US$99/year membership. You can download Xcode 4 through the Mac App Store, if you live in one of the countries served by the store, have a valid credit card issued in a country served by the store or have gift cards.

I have an account in the Brazilian store since the day it opened. In order to download (free, mind you) podcasts directly from the iPod, I needed an account in the US store paid for with gift cards.

I also don't see the spin as it represents accurately the cost of Xcode 4 - US$ 5 if you download it (assuming you can) and US$ 99 if bundled with other services.
Either buy the gift card in your country, or alternatively get a US gift card on eBay.
That's actually a very interesting thought, and quite plausible. Though I'd expect them to charge more for XCode if they wanted to spur thoughts of "I need to recoup these costs" properly.
What do you mean exactly? Should I increase its speed?
Thanks @JoachimSchipper for pointing that out -- It looks like the link has already been updated.
That's one hell of an understatement...

I just want to relate the experience, not start a flame war. Java tools are pretty darn cool nowadays.