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This analysis is pretty superficial.

Yes, ARM is ahead on low-power devices, and yes Intel can (and probably will) catch up, especially as ARM moves towards more powerful processors (dual core, etc). This article did acknowledge that at least, which most seem to miss.

It does go into a few of the advantages of the licencing model ("this model enables OEMs to customize integrated chips that conform to different form factors", etc), but it didn't discuss the disadvantages this model brings.

For example, Intel has a pretty significant lead in building chip foundries. AMD hasn't been able to compete successfully at the high end because of that, and the ARM licencing model doesn't generate the profits needed to go head-to-head with Intel in foundry and high end research.

This is a real problem for ARM. To quote Ars:

First, there's simply no way that any ARM CPU vendor, NVIDIA included, will even approach Intel's desktop and server x86 parts in terms of raw performance any time in the next five years, and probably not in this decade. Intel will retain its process leadership, and Xeon will retain the CPU performance crown. Per-thread performance is a very, very hard problem to solve, and Intel is the hands-down leader here. The ARM enthusiasm on this front among pundits and analysts is way overblown—you don't just sprinkle magic out-of-order pixie dust on a mobile phone CPU core and turn it into a Core i3, i5, or Xeon competitor. People who expect to see a classic processor performance shoot-out in which some multicore ARM chip spanks a Xeon are going to be disappointed for the foreseeable future.

It's also the case that as ARM moves up the performance ladder, it will necessarily start to drop in terms of power efficiency. Again, there is no magic pixie dust here, and the impact of the ISA alone on power consumption in processors that draw many tens of watts is negligible. A multicore ARM chip and a multicore Xeon chip that give similar performance on compute-intensive workloads will have similar power profiles; to believe otherwise is to believe in magical little ARM performance elves.

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/02/nvidia-30-and-t... (read this whole article - it's very good).

That leaves the low-to-midrange to ARM. As has already been noted, Intel is quickly becoming power-competitive there, and is very, very good at producing chips cheaply.

I'm not saying ARM isn't an important competitor, but I am saying the whole "ARM will eat Intel from below" narrative is naive. It's going to be a fierce competition, and it's not at all clear that ARM's business model really is an advantage at all.

Meanwhile, Intel can hedge it's bets and play at the licencing game, too. For example, they have experimented with licencing Atom manufacture to TSMC (the same ARM foundry mentioned in the article): http://www.pcworld.com/article/160496/intel_opens_up_the_ato...
> Yeah, I'm aiming to be the greatest strategist of this generation.

Who was was the greatest strategist of the previous generation?

Who decides?

Rommel was a great strategist. Is it better to be Rommel or to hurt fewer people and to be forgotten?
I forward job emails to my friends if I think its' a good job, regardless of the fee. That's a very low percentage of headhunting letters I get, but I'm far more interested in giving my friends relevant info than spamming them in the hopes of getting 5%---the fact that the (rare) offer of compensation is small actually helps me. As a result, I know that my friends will forward good jobs to me.

It would be nice if the world worked the way that this author wishes it would, but a headhunter would rather cruise LinkedIn than negotiate a fee separately with every person who might know somebody who knows somebody. If you don't like the terms of this recruiter's offer, don't forward it.
Pretty memorizing stuff right there. Makes me think of a more efficient way to compare all those lines and fit them into a more efficient order via a shorter algorithm. INtriguing.
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>Obviously I'd rather use an open platform and open protocol but it has to be [very nearly] as simple to set up as Skype and as stable in this particular case.

Gmail already meets that bar for me and my family, and the (Google) Linux client is much better than Skype's. The interoperability with open-source implementations was pretty bad last time I checked though.
That's a great technique for getting yourself off of the annoying recruiter mailing list.
Except that right now when someone wants to try your gem and doesn't have XCode installed... they can also still grab their install disc. Nothing precludes them from doing that instead of buying & downloading XCode 4.

Also... chances are really good that if they're trying out your gem, they've tried out other gems. They've probably already had to install XCode at some point in the past. If they're a developer used to using OS X, they probably installed XCode out of habit as soon as they got their new Mac booted up.

It is a little early to talk about the sky falling about this XCode thing until we see if a gcc toolchain is shipped as a free optional install on future hardware.

The day a Mac isn't shipped with gcc somewhere in the box (DVD, memory stick, HDD, SSD) is the day you might have a point.
Occasionally, the ability to say "I can't do that [given these constraints]" is an essential quality. Even at a startup.
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Go for it.

I like this quote a lot and think its very true.

"Game recognize game"

If you're truly good, they will recognize your potential.
I'm an interested party as well. As a student of machine learning I would love to learn the techniques you've applied. I'm doing a data mining startup and this would be very helpful.
maybe in NYC or SF it's easier, but where I am (Ottawa), I'm finding big-business/gov sucks up all the non-technical people. So I end up being a technical guy either on my own, or pitching other technical guys.
It's a complex truth. Irrelevant or not, you know that whatever figure you give is likely to be what they offer. So you'd just answer if it was the figure you want. Refusing to answer signals that you're asking for more than you used to make. And it's a pretty clear signal. It's not like they'll just go, "Hey, I guess you're right, wonder why I asked in the first place?"

They've already got it in their minds that you're supposed to get the same old salary. It's not so much bullying as just a different perspective on the world. A mindset. You can try to be that guy who finally shows them the light, or you can look at your options in a pragmatic sense. And creating conflict with the guy interviewing you is not super pragmatic.

Edit: One other point. Something is worth what people will pay, by definition. If someone offers you less than you're worth, then by definition you have a better option. So go take the better option. If everyone is offering you the same figure, then by definition that's what you're worth.
HN is extremely US centric and, believe it or not, some great content is just not available in English. Those two are good enough reasons for a non-English HN, even if everyone or nearly everyone visiting the non-English HN can also read and write English.
Last I checked, Visual Studio was WAY more expensive than $5.
Well, if you're forwarding it to a friend, presumably you can talk to them about it.
I do this. I have a huge list of things I want to buy, but when the cash appears I always say "no lets wait" or "lets get something more practical".

I've been dreaming over getting a new PC, but I actually got a dishwasher instead, because it actually meant I could spend more time on my own projects.
There's a saying:

Ask for money, get advice. Ask for advice and get money

You should go to him, tell him your idea and ask him if he can see any problems with it.

In the best case, he'll get really excited about the idea and ask if he can be involved. In the worst case he won't show any interest (which means he probably wouldn't have invested anyway).

(This assumes that he's not going to try and steal your idea and do it himself. You'll also need to make sure he understands it's your idea - not something you've been working on at work.)
My comment and link shows Linux is not shared heritage UNIX, it's its own line, not a branch on the tree. I wasn't talking about BSD 4.3 versus OS X.

But if your comment is sincere:

http://www.bsdatwork.com/2004/08/11/differentiating_among_bs...

As for the OP, this is a nice "BSD for Linux Users" piece:

"BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC."

http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/02
Current discussion on this can be found at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2311296
In an earlier comment, you said that much of the time was spent in constructing the features (e.g. you had to implement CSS). Did you mean implementation time, or training/classification time? This latest comment makes it sound like most of the time is in downloading the page, while the feature extraction is relatively fast.

In any case, if the feature extraction is taking too much time, what is sometimes done is to dynamically select which features to extract for a test example based both on the expected predictive value (e.g. via mutual information or some other feature selection method) as well as the time it takes to actually compute the feature. This can be measured by, say, average computation time per feature on the training set. This can speed things up a fair bit if the feature extraction takes too long, since you only bother computing the features you really need, and are biased towards the ones that are quick to compute. This may not translate to your particular application, though, if I remember correctly, I've seen it used a while back for image spam classification.
If we all would've bought Apple stock instead of their products the stock would've gone nowhere!
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You look at what the people who actually have a billion dollars are doing. Gates, Soros, and Buffet are heavily involved in philanthropy. Zuck, Jobs, Larry, and Sergey are mostly sitting tight. Ellison is living the high life, and Trump is being Trump. Branson's doing the closest to what you're talking about, but mostly in money-making ways.

The point is, none of them are being stupid, and all of them are doing, for the most part, what they'd be doing if they weren't billionaires.

Don't operate under the delusion that fabulous wealth will change who you are as a person. If you aren't happy as a thousandaire, you won't be happy as a billionaire. The one gift that money like that gives you is the time and opportunity to pursue what's important to you, but you've done something wrong if you're not doing that already.
Don't worry, the Flying Spaghetti Monster loves startups.
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Not exactly a counterpoint, but I immediately thought of this: http://earbits.com/play/#/about_us
Talk about missing the point.

For Apple, 'Think Different' is not about marketing or PR speak. It's their way of life. They actually believe in it. Their products, iPod/iPhone/iPad, is a living proof of their philosophy. Apple with their products have literally reinvented the category. iPhone and iPad both have completed redefined smartphone and table category respectively.

The beauty is that their 'Think Different' Ad is also very different from the usual ads you see.
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Extra languages are still there though. But I think this is good, mom uses her Mac Mini in Hebrew, my account uses English, dad uses our native Portuguese (I live in Brazil).
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This seems awesome!
Is there a way to connect this to a server via SSH or something? So that you can work on your development server from everywhere.
This will never be seen by anyone, but I have the sudden urge to play minecraft on it.
Good luck James.
Seeing that Apple takes 30% of the cuts, 5% seems to be a reasonable amount. However, if anyone reply you with this kind of demands, you won't entertain any demands from that guy without 5% cut on anything ever in the future.

There is a blur line between friends and business partners and things like that make this line crystal clear.
Usually a contract would do.
i've gotten a few of these, and I believe they are hijack apps that send the same message to all of your friends. Interesting too is how they're coming up with messages that make you wonder if it's real or not. In this day and age, you can't even trust a friend in a world that sells access to your information
It may be a flaw, but it appears not to be a flaw in ''education'' but elsewhere.
Help with idea
I need your help. I have this small idea for a webapp, but before I waste my time it would be nice to run a poll and see how useful it sounds. Keep in mind that this is not something too serious. I just want to make something that is useful, so the poll will mostly dictate if I do it or not.
Any comments in addition to the poll would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Poll: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RVG3Z2C

Idea: I've found myself Googling for something like this and I couldn't find it, so that was the initial spark to the idea. Basically, the app will deal with uploading game save data to a registered account, where one can share it and comment or download other peoples save game data. Initially, PC save game data would be the main target, since it's the easiest save data to get a hold of. I foresee perhaps PS3, Xbox360, and Emulator game save will also be included, but I would start small.

Advantages:

All in one place for game save data. Possible analytics on specific data
formats, and per user statistics (private to user).

Community based save-data sharing and commenting.

Game save data cloud.

Disadvantages:

Niche to gamers only.

Closed save-data problem (i.e. systems that don't allow users access to save data).

Essentially storage cloud + gaming community, nothing special.
once upon a time, it was either really hard , really expensive, or both, to get your hands on a c compiler for whatever platform you were on. nowadays, thanks to rms and all of the folks who have worked on gcc over the years, the very idea of charging for a compiler seems crazy. now, gcc is dead easy to install on almost every platform, and we take its availability for granted.

(as an aside, have you ever tried to download xcode for a version of osx which is not the current one? i have had to do this several times, and it is an absolute nightmare.)

i see that clang has a license that would allow apple's version to have proprietary bits. do they? under what license does apple distribute their binary?
The thing that didn't work iirc is that people other than Nokia tried to write their own Symbian Telephony server (TSY) and failed to get it working.

What makes Android successful, was coming late to the party are QCOM & co having easier to integrate solutions with their baseband chipsets.
Just a correction.

As far as I observed in my coworker Macbook gcc still is the default compiler in Xcode 4. Just compiled some software with it today, and it pops a lot of gcc's in ps aux.
Who are you talking to and where are you finding them? They must be coming from offshore because no self-respecting recruiter in the US would go that low or be allowed to go that low if they were working for an agency.

On second thought, what a brilliant way to reward bad recruiters - by by taxing them for helping you waste your own time and simultaneously testing good will of people in your network. Save yourself the time and use your spam filter on bad recruiters. Not good enough? Change your email address, stop posting your resume on job boards, and stop talking to bad staffing agencies. Better yet, save yourself the time and get to know a handful of good recruiters and then forget about all the bad ones. Only let good ones through.
Having an IDE as a "service" is a pretty big leap for me. Paying a monthly fee for this is beyond my current ability to fathom.

For $22/month I can get 10 users on a private github - the 2 ios devs can use xcode, the 3 rails guys can use textmate, etc..

When you compare this against the more "corporate" stuff - VS or IntelliJ, well...most large corporations aren't ready to store source outside of their firewall, and they have volume licensing anyways.

Eh, but I'm generally wrong about this sorta thing anyways...
github_update.php wouldn't be linked to by any of your pages, so it shouldn't show up in the google index. You could also force it to accept some password as a GET parameter for a wee bit more security.

I agree though, this is still a really simple way to automate deployment.
I'm going to assume that Spanish is not one of your languages, so why does it matter to you one way or another that this site exists? These arguments sound like bikeshedding, not real objections.

Does having a Polish or Portuguese section of Wikipedia harm people too?

I, for one, will use this to practice Spanish by reading topics with which I am familiar, and conversing with native speakers about them.
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Subversion merging does not work fine. I guess you didn't read my links, so I won't spend more time on this.
And on the annoying candidate list.
If it's nothing special, then why are you doing it?
It will make me mad IF Apple does not release Xcode outside the fucking App Store. I do not care paying for an IDE, that I do not use, but I still want a compiler, some assemblers (nasm and gas), and a working linker.
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Elegant devices, seamless integration, simplicity -- what Apple's ads are all about today -- are brand advertising. That is the brand's promise and differentiation wrapped up in one tidy package.
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>Apple releases their gcc package, installs it in Lion by default, or otherwise makes it available. This would be excellent. The holy grail would be if Homebrew could use this and we could just run brew install gcc. It would be a huge, huge impact to our community.

Or, you could JFGI[1]: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=apple+open+sourc...

Do people just not know about http://www.opensource.apple.com/ ? Apple's GCC source: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/gcc/gcc-5646/ go ahead, compile it. Add it to Brew. It's still under GPL. They even include instructions on how to compile it, flags, everything. There's a lot in those readmes / changelogs.

It seems that every time someone laments that Apple is oh-so-closed and has-no-source and etc, they merely don't know about opensource.apple.com. I've seen "how could they not release it, it's GPL!" complaints all over the internet, and they sometimes go for months without someone doing a search anywhere for "apple open source". Or in this case, "apple gcc source", where the first link gives the location to download the source right in the very first sentence: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Develo...

[1]: http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/
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If you're on the annoying candidate list for the recruiters that spam everybody in the hope they'll place somebody at random, you've lost nothing.
I used to do that, too. Now, I realize, if the recruiter is hitting me up for, say, a vmware admin position, the recruiter probably can't tell the difference between a high quality candidate and a low-quality candidate, and is someone who is not worth doing business with. The spam belongs in the spam bucket, not my friend's inbox.

As far as I can tell, most of those recruiters are just building up a list of resumes. even if you respond with relevant resumes, the hit rate is no better than what you'd get responding to ads on dice or craigslist.

Sure, sometimes recruiters take the time to actually figure out who or what I am and send me appropriate jobs. And in those cases, if I'm busy, sure, I'll pass it on to people I know who are able to do the job. But those are extremely rare.
I think it's useful, I don't particular think it's special. . In any case, In the disadvantages section I was trying to express the extreme. Perhaps it's special, that is what I'm trying to find out.
Annoyingly, over the years I have told myself that I should be buying AAPL instead of the products. Never took my own advice.

Although it'd be more interesting to see the differential between AAPL and the SP500 in the same time (because you probably actually did buy that via a 401k or whatever)
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Er... most permanent recruitment agencies charge between 15%-25% of the first years annual salary of the successful applicant.

Unless you are helping a friend, why do it?
I watched for a few seconds, then jumped a few seconds later, and then closed the window.

A few reactions:

- show me, not tell me. lots of blah blah

- i still hate "building 43" as a name. it's a strange reference to a part of another company; is rackspace SO limp that they have no corporate culture whatsoever?
Maybe more relevant, the offer: http://us.blackberry.com/developers/tablet/playbook_offer.js...

(get an app into their market, they'll give you a free playbook)
Even if you're a solid single candidate, evidence seems to suggest that YC strongly disapproves of single founders. Consider finding a technical co-founder before applying. If you won't be writing code you'll need someone to do it anyway and only a moron would build a startup without equity ;)
I think Gruber frequently presents biased statements or opinions as facts (e.g. his rant about fonts on Android devices being unreadable was just strange) but if you take his name off this piece and read it objectively then he's actually making reasonable arguments against Mossberg's article. I don't mind this piece as much as some of his other stuff.