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In his post, Fred dismisses critics by saying "I got a lot of heat from Apple fanboys for that post"

However, you don't have to be a "fanboy" to recognize that Fred is a huge proponent of "free". It makes sense for VCs to promote a zero-revenue, high-growth, "free" approach.imo that explains a lot of Fred's bias towards Android.

I'd say that vc-funded companies should develop on both iPhone and Android (as Color did).

However, most developers will be better off with iOS, if they can only invest in one platform - unless their business model is strongly predicated on a "free" app monetization model.
Investment bankers are aggressive male animals. Is is possible women actually find that exciting? ...
+1 on all the various comments recommending learning Ruby first and then Rails.

The Ruby standard library is pretty big, and the language has a large number of syntax options, which means that there are often 30 different ways to do something, and you'll often see over half of those in the real world. Those various options can be undeniably handy at times, but even after working in Ruby for several years it's not uncommon to come across code that uses something you haven't seen before.

Rails is great, but it's quite large and also quite clever, and clever can be very difficult to understand unless you have a solid grasp of the language.

Starting with something simpler like Sinatra would be a great idea, but I'd still recommend going through a Ruby book first.

The most difficult thing for me learning Ruby on Rails was separating what cleverness was coming from Ruby and what cleverness was coming from Rails, learning as much as you can about ruby first would be a huge help.
I just got done moving 100 domains over to ResellerClub from GoDaddy. The API really sold it for me and it makes it was easier to manage them all.
I'm working on a print server written in JavaScript using Mozilla Rhino, and I have configuration definitions for: Windows Server, Windows 7, Windows 7 Parallels, and OSX.
Its not so much that mistaken intellectuals declare things that aren't true, but that those incapable of thinking for themselves use the power of government to impose these ideas on the rest of us that is the problem.

For example, Keynesian economic theory. How many of its advocates can actually explain it, let alone question its precepts. This even after trillions of dollars in destruction, all because they gave up on trying to grasp it in college.
Android is going to "dominate" in the same way that Microsoft still "dominates" the desktop. That is, it might end up with a larger share of the market because it ends up getting distributed on 101 phones, but the actually valuable and choosy end of the market will still be on the iPhone. I'm sure Apple's quaking in its boots that it'll get to maintain its crazy profit margins while people are making pennies on the Android.
I'm liking the potential of these ideas:

"extending the use-szenarious (eg inviting friends to share pivots for your own website), showing a tree of pivots with their forks and ancestors"

It would be really useful to see a history of versions and easily toggle between them.
Because responding to someone's statement of opinion with "prove it" isn't an effective way to further a conversation.
Only for isolated systems where you don't need to correlate logged data.
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I don't see what this offers over HN that would cause the people here, who provide excellent content + discussion, to jump ship; especially considering they're the likely target audience for this website. Also... the design is quite, link-farm-ish...
Being parallel on a task is a little silly.

Being on parallel projects is very possible, and is also a great way to happen when there are "waiting fors" on projects, either from lack of specification, lack of data, lack of knowledge, etc. It also is a great way to combat some burnout or dealing with a very hard project (which you can only do for so many hours a day directly).

I do agree most businesses are unwilling to properly prioritize. But the idea each person should work on one and only one thing till complete is a little out there.
I'm definitely missing a lot of plugins built in Boston. please let me know which I am missing
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Is it still a strawman if you don't have an opponent?
As far as wikipedia can be trusted, there are explicit rigits to privacy & secrecy of correspondence [1] in western countries.

The examples you give fail flat out -- mechanical sorting & filtering of email, without any direct human intervention -- has no way of breaking privacy. No person learns anything private, and nobody will ever get pestered by the spam filters of google or other such.

Also, there's no crates of illegal drugs there being moved around. There is opaque electronic correspondence. Paper correspondence is by default secret, unless interceped by law enforcement officials under court order. No provisions out there for private parties for wildcard checks if their rights are infriged somehow by paper mail -- and you can be sure every now and then somebody slanders someone in paper mail. Rumors and whatnot.

The point of the article is, why are there blatant double standards when it comes to electronic correspondence?

EDIT: also note the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katz_v._United_States

In short, ``[[SCOTUS interpreted the Fourth Amendment]] to count [[also]] immaterial intrusion with technology as a search''.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence
It isn't. It's newsworthy that the iPhone 5 will have an 8Mpixel camera. Why? People love to gossip about secrets.
Buy an iPad.

Clear your computer's history/cookies, and never use it for distracting/unproductive sites again. Use the iPad exclusively for your unproductive browsing going forward (preferably in a different physical location).

You will be amazed at how quickly it pays for itself (and the browsing experience is better too).
This may be regional - in the midwest, "doctor's wife" and, hence, "doctor", are still very prestigious.

(Perhaps you can tell that it isn't my favorite region of the country)

I also suspect that corruption in India plays a role - if policemen are constantly hassling people you know and extorting bribes it may change your outlook on that particular profession. I don't think the respect we have for law enforcement in this country is unwarranted.
That is real easy and simple, install VirtualBox (or another VM flavor) and create an image just to do development in. Plus with this you get the benefit of being able to recreate it quickly, move it to other machines, and to save "snapshots".
I believe my comment took account of the role that some extreme religious viewpoints play, while stating that the moderate majority is capable of accepting science.

It seems no matter what I write you are blaming me for having an extreme stance. I do not. There is no reason for me to give all religion viewpoints a pass. I will not. There's no reason to take criticism of any religious sect as a criticism of all religion. That's not the argument I'm making, nor am I implying it.
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"bus scheme" is cute: http://technomancy.us/98

You could do "airbus scheme".
I sort of agree: hitting the highest priority tasks first is a generally good idea. However, there are often small 10 to 30 minute tasks of lower priority that still make sense to clear for many reasons: cut down on synchronization effort with co-workers, free up even your subconscious mind from thinking of them, etc.

Also, sometimes we may have to wait for an hour for a very large build to run. Sometimes you can stay on the same task by editing code, designing, etc. but often these delays are great opportunity to clear small tasks.
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A list of resources from the video:

Web resources:

- http://guides.rubyonrails.org

- http://peepcode.com

- http://railscasts.com

- https://github.com/edgecase/ruby_koans

Books:

- http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails4/agile-web-development-... : Agile Web Development with Rails

- http://pragprog.com/titles/ruby3/programming-ruby-1-9 : Programming Ruby 1.9 (Pickaxe book)

- http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Way-Addison-Wesley-Professional-... : The Rails 3 Way
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I wonder: are these people lying to themselves, or just lying to him? I eat meat, but if I thought it would upset a vegan who'd brought it up, I'd probably 'enhance' the truth.
Unless Apple has no interest in the low end.
Very nice! There is not much information on the website, do they use the regular schedule to calculate the train positions or something more sophisticated (GPS positions broadcasted from the train)?
Look up the Informatics Olympiad. Some awesome theoretical puzzles: http://www.olympiad.org.uk/problems.html
I think the big difference here is that in the physical world all that work that lead up to distributing 1000s of DVDs carries much more weight to the person making the copies. With Napster it was literally just start the program and point it at your music folder. People don't see it as "fair" that you can click twice and be doing the same crime as someone who methodically collected all the DVD copying hardware, bought disks, made the copies, found distributors and systematically created a business whose purpose and intent was completely clear. I think the same logic for people applies to people posting in forum. Computers have drastically increased the productivity of everything, including breaking the law, to the point where it was so easy there was no time to think about what they were doing.
I hope people recognize that CL's continuing longevity is because of it's simplicity, not in spite of it.
Productivity on desktop machine, browsing on the tablet/laptop. Pinboard/ReadItLater anything that looks like a timesink and catch up when away from the desk.
It was a prototype I made for a prospective client. I sometimes use Dutch comments (and variable names) in such a case. Btw, 'Tekstanalyse' is also a Dutch word.
Sometimes you have to force yourself to be parallel. Software projects are often exploratory and you can quickly find yourself falling down rabbit holes so one project can easily consume all the time available. Parallelizing can at least allow you step out of the warren for a while at which point you find a more direct or better implementation.
I'm not sure why anyone bothers to read let alone make these predictions. Last week's was how WP7 would overtake iOS phones within a few years, the basis of which seemed to be to replace Nokia's Symbian numbers with WP7 units. Yeah, in-depth research there.

Frankly I'm more willing to bet money on Nokia fading into irrelevance.

Message to Elop: if someone needs to pay you billions of dollars to do something, it's probably not a good idea, especially when that other party will be getting most if not all of that money back in licenses anyway.

Another fallacy with such "analyses" is that they assume static goalposts. To me--and I suspect to Apple--smartphones are no longer what matters. In this sense they're much like the MP3 market. Sure, Apple dominates that market but it's just not of primary importance anymore.

The real prize isn't smartphones (IMHO), it's tablets. A tablet is much more of a general purpose device than a phone. I use my phone for calls, messages, checking my email and the maps/directions. I use my iPad for Web browsing, reading, research, watching movies, playing games and, well, basically everything else.

I think Android got a real leg up in the phone market because if you give someone a phone that makes and receives phone calls and SMSs then you've given most people what they need most of the time. Not everyone (with a smartphone) is into buying apps, music and other digital content on or for their phones.

Tablets strike me as different because that ecosystem is far more important. The availability of digital content, the suitability (eg hardware consistency) as a game platform, etc all advantages that are going to be extremely difficult to match anytime soon (IMHO).

Apple sold 15M iPads in 9 months last year. This year predictions are running at 40-50M (if not more). We'll start to get a better idea of this when Apple releases their earnings report in late April (and a much better picture in July).

I would put the competition for the iPad at at least 1-2 years behind the iPad and I'm not sure what'll happen first: 100M iPads (likely by the end of 2012 easily) will have been sold or 10M of everything else.

Back to the phone market: I think this is actually a reasonably conservative estimate in that I believe in 5 years it quite likely there'll only be two games in town (meaning with >10% market share), being iOS and Android, so I fully expect Android to have 45% of that.
The number of people unwilling or unable to own a phone that costs more than $200 will remain huge for years to come. Apple will never sell a sub $200 phone, Android already does. All of those people with their $50 Nokia's are not going to replace them with $600-$700 iPhones, but they might replace them with a $100 Android phone.
And if you read the rest of my comment, you would see I am aware of that.
To say that Android will seize some percentage of the market by 2016 is baseless, especially if you're basing it on yesterday's numbers. "Research" like this is fatally flawed for one simple reason: 2016 is five years away.

The way that tech is moving these days, in five years most of the current platforms will either be replaced or will have evolved into something entirely different. Keep in mind that five years ago we didn't even have iPhone at all.

This is the same reason that I laugh when I see a company planning to "overtake Product X" in five years -- it shows a misunderstanding of how quickly this market is moving. The future is rarely like the past, and unless you're innovating, you're losing.
That is a much, much higher standard than TechCrunch itself seems to use.

On one hand you claim inaccuracies are "2%" and acceptable, and that a few phone calls is enough research before going to press. On the other hand you demand a 6-point research project before someone can even begin to criticize TC in turn.

Where is your six-point research project backing up why "his own post is complete shit"? I have no opinion either way -- but I believe you're applying very different standards of proof.
Create 2 files hosts.work & hosts.play in /etc

Add these 2 lines into .profile or .bash_profile

alias work='sudo cp -f /etc/hosts.work /etc/hosts'

alias play='sudo cp -f /etc/hosts.play /etc/hosts'

If you don't want to sudo, chmod /etc/hosts.
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That has been mentioned actually, and there are requirements to be in Boston for some parts of MassChallenge.
This is an attack on multi-tasking, not on multi-projecting (sorry for the mangling of the English language).

Working on multiple tasks (or even large, meta-tasks) at the same time sucks. However, working on multiple, completely separate and independent projects at the same time is great.

Look at the most successful people out there and you'll find that one common property is the seemingly endless number of projects they are involved in at any one time. Having your fingers in a lot of pies is definitely a way towards success - far from the "pipe dream" this article declares.

Progress in your work-life can be measured in the number of balls you can juggle without dropping them. Of course, one of the key skills to acquire in order to do this is to learn how to delegate parts of those tasks - but the central ability is still that of handling more than one project at a time.
Node.js isn't a client side system, just server-side. If you need events to trigger without concern of network latency etc, the triggers and checking should all be pre-loaded on the client side and that would be independent of the server technology used.

Look in to popcornjs[1] and see the Donald Duck sample[2] utilizing popcornjs to see what you can do client wise for synced triggers.

One a different note - Node.js is an amazing server-side system and I highly recommend playing with it.

[1] http://popcornjs.org/

[2] http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/semanticremix/
That's sort of the whole point. A strawman argument is one where you make up an opponent to better knock it down.

"Yes, did you see that man? I just knocked him down good!"
I haven't personally done this, but here goes!

- Make a list of websites you want to explore before doing work and give them a video/article count per website.
- At the end of the list add a video or article to read that pertains to your actual work/task that you wish to accomplish. Hopefully, after you read/watch this, you're more motivated to work or at the very least, you realize that you need to get cracking at it.
- Crawl into your 'Cave'. And I mean bury yourself! Block the outside world, listen to music that has no words (that you can understand), dim the room and have a spotlight upon your desk, get a pitcher of water and a pack of Depends. Whatever it takes!

Hope that helped a bit.

Good luck!
Totally agreed. The incompetence of the producer is a problems for the producer's backers. It has no bearing on the obvious wrong done by the ex-employee.
I enjoy my Ratatat station on Pandora. It has very few vocals to distract me. They are just a torrent of noise without much I only play it when I'm working so my brain knows what time it is.

If you listen to metal, I would recommend Machine Head and Lamb of God as two excellent band for "work mode".
The article never says that the Sony CEO mentioned the 8 megapixel part. As far as I can tell, that's still just speculation.
That's a good point, updated the title. I added projects to the title (which was not in the original) to make it clear it is not a blog post about pipelined CPUs :)
The link to the iPhone5 seems pretty tenuous to me. Apple has cameras in virtually all of its desktop, notebook, palmtop and tablet range.
Well, with _why the Lucky Stiff's 'Poignant Guide to Ruby' of course ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff

One of the developers in the video suggested to learn some Ruby first before diving into Rails.
Wah wah, what a waste of time and energy. This is just another person with the attitude of "you think your life is tough? Well mine is tougher."

Paraphrase: You think its tough going to school? Try going to work all year with a boss.

Wah wah.

He is simply trying to apply his personal life experiences to the masses. My guess is he never become who he dreamed of becoming. His oversimplification of these "universal truths" is annoying, and his arrogant self deluded wisdom can be seen in his final two words....you're welcome.
I'd say as a developer, all I care about is a nice niche market to serve with a development environment I enjoy. All of that world domination, battle stuff doesn't interest me very much at all.
here are the three that within in a month you should be able to write some sweet apps quickly.

1. Head First Rails
I first poohed this book but I had read 7-8 other books adn still was confused so I thought what the hell.
I did each project several times and started making changes. Totally awesome especially the ajax integration parts. This is when I could actually make my own simple apps in less than a week.

2. I loved Agile Programming book - totally awesome. Not enough apps though. Great explanations. Gentle exposure to Ruby.

3. beginning novice to professional for ruby. I love this book. It is just plain fun. Good examples. I totally had fun with this. Peter is totally totally awesome - I wish he would write every tech book!!

Now you have the grounding, start making and asking questions.

What killed me was the UX/UI stuff. Then a friend suggested CSS Mastery book and using blueprint this got me clued in. Now I was not paralyzed. It was so awesome to see an app created in literally minutes.

I loved RoR - I miss it terribly. I disliked the community. Fanboyish. It was like being in all male high school with everyone thumping their chests and no help.

I still miss it very much. Whenever I code I first think in RoR then do it in php. My background was coldfusion, c#asp.net, java, etc. I need something dumb simple and php does the trick. And the people are nice and there are tons and tons of example to do anything. Also I needed something that is simple to deploy and maintain. Yeah yeah -RoR is easy to deploy - my first deployment took me several hours. Whereas php was minutes. In terms of sys admin and performance and optimization, I rather deal with php. As DBA, I do not really want an ORM. BTW when you feel good with RoR - check out Enterprise Rails - wow - good stuff on performance and optimization.
Since iPhone market share is still growing, Google clearly hasn't reversed anything yet. Android tablets might still defeat the iPad, but for now that's just talk.

What Google has done is provide an OS that let's the 'disintegrated' market show up at all, and achieve volume through low pricing and wider availability. This is a huge achievement, because without them the other manufacturers would be lost. That said, even if there had been no Android, could Apple have sold more iPhones? They seem to be selling them as fast as they are able to make them.

I suggest that major advantages will be conferred on whoever achieves greater synergies across the ecosystem of devices (i.e. makes devices work better together).

So far, neither platform has a decisive advantage here. The question is, who is better positioned to move forward?

Google, who don't have a completed tablet story, are stumbling with TVs, and are struggling to contain fragmentation on their phone? or Apple, who have the Phone and Tablet well under control, are well on their way to bringing the desktop into the picture, and have a smoothly improving TV story?

If I were Google, I'd be trying to counter this using the Web and the Cloud - which we see them doing with things like Cloud Print, but it's not obvious how strong their strategy is yet, especially since they can't easily roll out new capabilities to their existing users. That said, they could end up with a trump card (e.g. mobile payments).

The game is levelling up, and we have yet to see either side show their cards let alone stop the other in its tracks.
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I opened this now it wont go away. I wonder what do you have to do to get it to go away. I must not be that good with computers...
Is HN the new Techcrunch?
I see more depth and breadth of quality information coming out of HN than from Techcrunch, which used be the dominant channel in my daily routines.

Thoughts?
I start a project with other people so I am accountable to someone other than myself.
This is hacker news, you know
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Vivek Wadwha needs to start his own (regularly updated) blog, or start writing posts for The Startup Foundry. His content is just on a whole new level compared to the other posts on TC. Here is a recent post he wrote that completely blew me away:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/26/friends-don%E2%80%99t-let-f...

I've sent this article to numerous GSI's (Berkeley jargon for a TA) and professors and they were blown away as well. Even my Dad, someone who is a hardcore WSJ guy and doesn't read many blogs enjoyed it immensely.

I'm at Berkeley now, and I need to meet this guy, yet I have no idea how to go about doing so. Perhaps I should just shoot him an email and let him know that our passions are in line? Unfortunately he may be a little busy for 1 on 1 time with a freshman, but it can't hurt.
Yeah, check section 274 here: http://delcode.delaware.gov/title8/c001/sc10/index.shtml

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