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I think we need to realize that PCs (laptops or desktops) and mobile devices (tablets and mobile phones) are good at different things, and going forward will be used for different things. For example, I'm sure everyone (especially on this site) has noticed that software development is kind of a big thing. I don't see any indication that I'll be developing any software on a mobile device any time soon (especially not an iOS device, as far as I know running user-written code is still against the App Store TOS).

As for the "three years" projection, I'm not sure what the article is saying. Our (mobile) data will be in the cloud within three years? Probably. That Apple will kill Microsoft in three years? Absolutely not. No way. Don't underestimate the power of inertia. Even if Apple manages to entirely kill Microsoft's consumer market share (unlikely) they can survive off enterprise customers just fine. I mean, what do you use on a Mac to compose documents? Word. Are there any others? (I don't have a Mac, so feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken.)

I don't think PCs are going anywhere. People will always need to get serious work done, and larger systems will always be better at that than smaller systems of the same era, if only for the sheer amount of numbers they can crunch. Mobiles are great products with a tremendous amount of utility, but they're complements, not substitutes.
Totally agree. What she needs is guidance and he could have provided it to her with an honest opinion. Why not speak your mind?
Who says there has to be a winner? What's wrong with a world with both options?
Foo.counter = 0;
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return this.bar(data)
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else {
throw "I forgot about 'bar'."
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Foo.counter++;
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That actually seems to be a bug in their API I will forward this on thanks!
Yes, I would say that if want to emulate what you're doing with Collections in Spine, it's just a case of subclassing the model. This makes more sense imho, and may lead to even further code re-use.
I know it's an annoying 90s in-joke, but let's be honest, these instability problems did start happening weeks after Microsoft bought the company. It might not be what trolls suggest but it's certainly some coincidence..!
I think the Burroughs CANDE shell was by far the worst user environment I have every used on any system - the only nice thing (at least for Tron fans) being at least things were being fed to the MCP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_MCP
> In periods of mild inflation, people have an incentive to invest money ... In periods of deflation ... people have an incentive to put money under the bed

This sounds very plausible but simply does not line up with historical reality. Most of the 19th century saw persistent mild deflation alongside massive investment and growth. Inflationary periods have usually seen unproductive speculation and weak capital investment.

The deflation of the great depression was simply the inevitable consequence of a fiat money credit bubble and preceding massive malinvestment. The great depression deflation cannot be characterized as a deflationary tendency of the monetary policy at the time. It inevitably followed the inflationary boom of the 20s.
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How you put MMS as having no network effects and not being cross-platform is beyond me.
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Sounds brilliant, but how does it feel - plastic-y and hot would ruin it. Also what the graphics?
HTML email still handles that sort of thing poorly. I'd rather receive reports like that as PDF attachments. I can view those almost anywhere, and they're resizable.
Since he's first in line to ladle it out, I'm happy to watch Gruber eat a little claim chowder of his own, but I don't think he was being "defensive," I simply think he was mistaken.

Also, the whole "claim chowder" thing as he dishes it out usually refers to sharp criticism. As in, if someone else writes that the iPad is terrible because you'll never be able to sync it over wireless.

That's when you eat the chowder, because you were busy telling other people what they cannot do. In this case, Gruber seems to have simply misprognosticated how quickly wireless would become good enough to let go of the PC for a lot of iPad and iPhone users. I don't see that is being in the same realm as criticizing Apple or a competitor.

The canonical example of Gruber dishing out the claim chowder is probably this line:

Guess What? They Just Walked In.
--------------------------------

Speaking of Palm CEO Ed Colligan, now’s a good time
to recall his comments from last November, regarding
the prospects of Apple’s then-only-rumored entry into
the mobile phone market:

> Colligan laughed off the idea that any company —
> including the wildly popular Apple Computer —
> could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone
> sector.

> “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here
> figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said.
> “PC guys are not going to just figure this out.
> They’re not going to just walk in.”

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2007/08/24/colligan

Gruber's remarks about the need for a PC are not even remotely of the same tone as Ed Colligan's contempt for Apple's ability to build a phone.
Not entirely true.

You can get cheap IIS hosting and cheap hosting with ASP.NET. Microsoft also has a web edition of SQL Server which is licensed at a reasonable rate for people who want to use it on a dedi/vhost or in shared hosting.

If you like IIS & SQL Server in shared hosting it's a reasonable option.

Frankly, more people like PHP + MySQL. If you like Windows you can run that on Windows but people and hosting providers.tend to like Unix more.
That's definitely a possible outcome. That's not to say there won't be a battle though.
Since it's legal for me to pay legal tender for software, for jpegs, for mp3's, and other digital constructs, how could a legitimate argument be made to make it illegal for me to pay legal tender for a bitcoin?

Since it's legal for me to take legal tender for software, for jpegs, for mp3's, etc., how could a law be passed to make it illegal for me to take legal tender in return for a bitcoin?

If I advertise that I want to buy bitcoins, how can they stop me from spending my dollars/euros on them?
If I advertise that I have bitcoins to sell, how can they stop me from doing so?

Now, if I advertise that I both buy AND sell them, at some bid/ask spread, than perhaps I have blundered in to an area where they can, indeed, regulate me.
I think the Transputer/Occam and Google Go have a better approach where they were influenced by Hoare's CSP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proces...
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For 99% of the 99%, yes.

self.blueView = [[BlueView alloc] init];
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etc
Comparing in non-competing spaces vs. comparing in competing spaces.

I choose the latter.

No one is suggesting reducing the sample further down with cherry picking.
I wish people stopped trying to solve the CAPTCHA problem with other CAPTCHAs.

This proof of concept, while pretty cool from a geek point of view, doesn't do anything to solve the problem in a better way.

Stuff like hidden fields, timestamp analysis, crowd-sourced classifiers (like Akismet), on the other hand, do.
It's not the Welfare State but bureaucracy and tax greed.

Today I've read a blog post by Jesús Encinar, CEO of idealista.com, the go-to site for renting and buying real state in Spain. The article is in Spanish, short summary below):

http://www.jesusencinar.com/2011/06/10-ideas-concretas-para-...

"Ten ideas to promote startups in Spain"

- Limited liability

- The State shouldn't keep VAT returns for a year.

- Not overtaxing employee's stock (taxed 47% for employees)

- Not overtaxing business angels

- Easy foreign workers recruit

- Limit the need for licenses for everything.

- Lower freelancers taxes

- Lower startup social security burden

- Remove 1% tax on capital ampliations

- Stop attacking Internet sector

These are only the titles. Reading the details is depressing. Some of what you take for granted in the USA is impossible or infeasible here.

The basic idea is that, in order to startup, you must pay tons of taxes and licenses from the start, even if you're not earning a cent.
Personalization in entertainment is one thing; but it becomes a problem when personalization extends to news, i.e. the information about the world that we use to make civic decisions.
Which is all fine, and it's all very valuable work of course.

The problem is when cryptographers say something is "proven secure" it turns out not to mean that nobody can hack it, especially in an actual deployed system.

This is surprising to many people.
I think you misunderstand the concept of EROEI. Oil extraction requires large energy inputs. This energy is currently supplied entirely by fossil fuels, and is probably not substitutable in the near future.

Given this constraint, aggregate EROEI even approaching 1 means insufficient oil to fuel exploration/extraction activities and power infrastructure, and that's just fundamental economics. Add to that the fact that large-scale integrated projects, such as oil field development, require enormous capital and human resources, which in turn rely on economic and political stability, which in turn rely on stable and plentiful energy inputs... I'm sure you can see the problem here.

Accumulators (e.g. batteries) are not primary energy sources like fossil fuels are; EROEI does not apply to them like it does to energy production.
Yeah, I'm planning to have a switch to revert to default letter-based CAPTCHA for cases like this. thx.
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More likely, they could run a bunch of PR campaigns and plant news stories about how risky and unstable Bitcoins are -- either in an attempt to scare consumers away from the currency, or to actively destabilize the speculative market for the currency.

"Banning" the currency seems beyond the reach of a government unless it's prepared to place restrictions on internet usage in general (a la the PRC). This is because, even if the U.S. government (for example) were to declare that dollars are no longer convertible with Bitcoins, people could still trade dollars for BCs, and vice versa, under the table.
this has been fixed simple string replace for now...
I actually LOL'd at geordish's, though.
Yep. You're totally right. Contacting her now...
You worry about annoying your followers by talking about the wrong topic. Sounds like preaching to the choir.

Flip the coin.

You can be more interesting by providing information or point of view that isn't expected. Embrace your broadness and don't siphon yourself off into well defined silos.
iCloud is a great idea, so is Google Apps, so is Office 365. None are designed to "kill Windows".

iCloud's real purpose is to sell more Apple hardware, not kill Windows. Hurting Windows sales would simply be a side effect.

It's a smart move to put iPads and iPhones on equal footing as the Mac in that regard. If your docs, pictures, apps, and music are all on iCloud, your computers become disposable digital devices. Want a new one? Buy it, all your files are already there waiting for you.

The disposable digital device is a huge idea. Google, Apple, Amazon, and HP all benefit hugely from disposable devices because they all profit hugely from the mass distribution and churn of them. Mobile has a faster consumer turnover than PC's.

For example, my parents have had the same desktop computer running Windows XP since um, 2004 or so I think. Before that they bought a computer in 1995. Most people get a new phone every 1-2 years.

So, upgrade once every 5-10 years or every 2? Which do you think makes Apple more money?

If all your files magically move between devices, and the devices keep getting cheaper, people will naturally upgrade faster. This hurts the Windows monopoly for sure, but the point is not to kill Windows. The point is to increase their own lock-in and device sell rates.

Selling more devices increases profits. That's the point.
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Cringely is in the business of trying to look prophetic so he makes wild predictions like this to get attention. I don't think anyone, Apple included, things the Personal Computer is going anywhere for the very reasons you laid out above. Even with a wireless keyboard and a Monitor hooked up the iPad isn't sufficient for any serious writing, coding, photo editing, etc... You still need a PC for that.

I think Apple laid out its position very clearly yesterday. The PC isn't going away it's just being demoted. It isn't t he center of your digital universe anymore. But that doesn't mean it isn't useful.
Note that the retroactive copyright only applies to foreign works. The Berne Convention requires a country to apply the same copyright protections to foreign works as the country of origin. It began as an effort to standardize copyright terms throughout Europe in the late 19th century. The US didn't become a participant until 1989 which is why the retroactive law was passed.
Netflix doesn't work in Chrome on Linux period, what makes you so sure they won't use it in the future when they are ready to release? Despite being immature, it's a very logical choice.
He's starting a business in Austria not Germany.
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Do you have a source? I'm not saying you're wrong but it seems crazy that Apple makes more revenue off of iPad covers than all of the app market.
Binding time was thought of as compile time, link time, runtime, and even execution time. So in the time frame he was talking about nearly everyting had early binding, compile time or link time when libraries were included. With todays languages, like Java you have runtime loading which would be considered late time binding. Dynamic languages like Python have extremely late binding where the operator/operand type binding is done at the operator execution time.
Well, giving something away for free is not a bad business move (Facebook's free ;)), but do you really think that Google just makes their services free because they're nice? A business like any other, they just make $$$ of us in a more indirect business model.
The article overlooks that fractional reserve banking is totally feasible with bitcoin. Bitcoins will not inevitably sit on people's hard drives doing nothing, hoarded. Saved bitcoins will likely wind up as reserves in some bank, just as with dollars, from whence they are loaned out.
Is Apple making MobileMe web mail look like the desktop app really an indication that it doesn't know how to make a web app?

Where does the "Apple doesn't know the web" idea coming from? I've heard "Apple doesn't know social" because of their stumbles with social in the past, likewise with Google, but Apple not knowing the web makes no sense to me. The last place I saw it was saying Apple didn't know the web because their designs were "pixel-perfect" and beautiful. That's two people saying it because the web apps look nice??

What does it take to "know the web"? So iCloud doesnt have a web interface. Who says one still isnt coming. Judging by everything else in the keynote, it won't look like tradition cloud storage, a la Dropbox. Apple is abstracting away the filesystem. It will probably show you the apps you have that include iCloud support and the files each uses.
so..when hoarders realize by not allowing bitcoins to circulate, they will have no worth, some will start to sell their holdings since it becomes obvious they are not going to continue appreciating. This causes circulation to increase again, which will make the currency more valuable again. The point is, people are just assuming that both extremes happen--hoarders hoard forever, despite the currency going to zero. In reality, there is a feedback loop and an equilibrium will be reached.
I wonder how such taxation policies might even loosen the appeal of Silicon Valley as the center for startups.

Granted, a lot of other relatively business-unfriendly California tax structures have not (so far as one can tell - without a control group).
This is incorrect. Just because spammers use HTML email doesn't mean HTML email is evil.

To give a very practical example, I sign up for newsletters from FontShop so I can be updated about new fonts. The email includes images to show how the fonts look. The utility of these emails would be drastically reduced if they were to use plain text.

Reference: http://www.fontshop.com/blog/newsletters/june2011a/
But now you have really good ammunition when you need to explain to someone else why his race-condition laden system of nonatomic asynchronous updates is insecure.
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Heh, I understand your confusion. I was at the talk Bussard gave and it seemed to me that if it was feasible then it would have been trivial for any of a number of early employees to drop the 'requested' development funds on them.

ITER is one approach to building a device which can use a fusion reaction to produce more energy than it consumes. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawerence Livermore is doing the same but using inertial containment with laser beams. The guys in Canada [1] are using another form of inertial containment. Here is a link to a survey from Bnet [2].

All of these efforts have one thing in common, they haven't been built yet so there are engineering issues of unknown magnitude to overcome before they are workable. The science is pretty solid, but I don't see us build NIF style power plants any time soon.

That being said, there are more potential winning solutions in the mix than their has ever been before. Frankly I'd consider success in one of them to be a pre-requisite for the mis-named 'singularity.'

[1] http://www.generalfusion.com/

[2] http://www.bnet.com/blog/energy/ten-serious-nuclear-fusion-p...
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Well, we also have 5 million/billion years to deal with those problems. Our descendents, if they are still using nuclear power, will be no dumber and less capable than we are of solving problems, and probably a great deal more so. If nothing else, "blast it into space" is likely to be feasible within our lifetimes. (And not just "leave it in orbit", but drop it somewhere where it won't be a problem anymore. Space is full of such places; space arguably is nothing but such places. Space is big.)

Besides, what massive problems are you worried about? On that timescale, radioactive waste just dissipates. It doesn't build up over millions of years. If it could build up over that time scale, it wouldn't be "radioactive" in the first place.
Blind users would have a different sort of HTML rendering mechanisms (screen readers, braille output, OCR, etc) that might make hidden tags visible input unless you somehow indicated to them that the field was a honeypot. I'm not sure on the details, but the concept of hiding a field from the user's view probably doesn't translate very well once you leave the visual rendering arena.
Do you have an issue with opt-in HTML emails?

I don't think this site is advocating spamming at all, nor do services designed to facilitate sending HTML emails (MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, etc.)
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Wait, is he really trying to suggest that in real life, he talks to everyone the same way? That as a CEO he talks to clients the same way he talks to his drinking buddies? (Assuming he has them.)

Why would the internet be any different? If you want to mass communicate, you're going to have to sort your people into categories and communicate with them according to that.

Because that's what it comes down to. Mass communication.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2483976 could be sort of a prologue for Susam's post. The origins of the problem lie in the system and surrounding culture.

EDIT: And http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2411695 too.
The real shame is that most of Disney's early works are based off of stories and characters that are public domain.
Why would he divide by GDP? Just because the US is rich, it therefore requires more money to provide the same service?

I believe govt revenues adjusted for PPP is the quantity you are looking for.
Microsoft has never tried to compete in the $5-10
dollar shared hosting space, EVER.

http://www.microsoft.com/web/hosting/home

On GoDaddy Windows/IIS hosting starts at $4.99, and Microsoft is known to cut deals with such providers. I also remember a talk from MIX in which a microsofty said Microsoft is working with hosting providers to give devs an alternative just as cheap as EC2 Linux instances.
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In a perfect world, yes.

In reality, you can't trust all browsers to behave the way standards dictate. If you're doing business online, through email, etc. you need to be able to reach as many people as possible and that may mean sending 600px wide emails instead of 900px.
Google can't go vertical no matter what because they are an advertising company. They need their ads in as many places as possible, and the only way to do that is to make sure others can use your platform pieces.
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Not really related, but Gosper's algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospers_algorithm) is the thing I've learned in the last few years that blew my mind the hardest. It's how Maple or Mathematica can reduce your crazy sums to a single formula. Earlier work was apparently pioneered by a nun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celine_Fasenmyer
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Are you familiar with the Tragedy of the Commons? "Oh, well of course it's important to keep bitcoins circulating... but it won't hurt anything if I hoard my coins, I'm just one person! Besides, I know there are other people hoarding theirs, so I might as well do the same!"
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While they are at it, I am surprised Apple didn’t integrate LaunchBar/QuickSilver/Alfred functionality into Lion (and take those guys out). It would go really well with the full screen apps.
> strong static typing and binding things as early as possible is how robust systems are built and how errors are minimized.

Huh? What about Erlang?
Also autorelease only applies to NS objects, not plain C data.
I actually prefer a blinking cursor so long as the window has focus.

Both you and a commenter below (wzdd: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2629575) mention this. I've never encountered cursor-blinking-without-window-focus in any app I've ever used - what programs actually exhibit such obnoxious behaviour?
I think I've found a healthy balance. I don't use twitter for generally personal stuff (except for the occasional twitter commiserating with other parents) and I don't use Facebook for any technical stuff.

My blog is mostly technical and the only place I'm even linked to the company I work for is LinkedIn.

I don't HIDE that fact that the two "personas" are connected but I try to keep a separation in place. My family and most of my friends don't care about the technical stuff and most of the people in the various OSS communities could give two shits about my kids pooping in the potty.

Shit, I've even got two about.me profiles.
I was hating on Skype way before it was cool. ("What, SIP? It's a pretty obscure protocol; you probably haven't heard of it.")
Are you really linking the Great Depression to fiat money when the Great Depression occured while the dollar was still on the gold standard?

And there was no «persistent mild deflation» in the 19th century; there were massive swings in value: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/US_Histor...
In those days everything was terrible. We had to deal with 360 JCL an similar abominations. You couldnt dignify them with the term shell. It was timesharing and ultimately Unix that liberated us.
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