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Quite the talent buyout I'd say: they're actually convincing people to move to Palo Alto from Amsterdam. That's not particularly Mountain View.

Surprising, too; If some BigCo would buy the company I work for and ask me to pretty please move across the pond, I'd reconsider inf times.
You probably crossed a common discretionary spend limit - under that amount people might not have to get explicit approval for purchases.
I think you could do this with open source, but it would only last so long. I tried this a few years ago (I found some open source software, fixed bugs and added some features) and sold it.

In the beginning I got sales. But over time, I got less and less because people would just re-package it and give it out for free (they are allowed to do this under the GNU).

I suppose it depends on your demographic of users too. More tech savvy users will figure this out quickly
I use Google Docs, and I like it fine. Apple is taking a different approach which takes advantage of the full power of a native app. The advantage of Google Docs is it works on any computer that has a modern browser. Apple's solution will not have the ubiquity of Google's, but it has the potential to provide a richer user experience. It may be worth it for many of us to buy Apple hardware to get that richer experience, and that is what Apple is counting on.
But focusing on the negative really isn't constructive and will only lead to bitterness. Looking on the positive side helps you get back up and try again.
Failure with some positive spin is still failure. The word failure shouldn't be something to hide from. Embrace the fact that you tried and failed in a not so horrible way. It's still failure. And failure can be good.
Possibly referring to http://tbbuck.com/building-a-web-application-that-makes-500-...

Prices went from $9.99/month to $19.99/year to $19.99/month

The take home quote

What difference did increasing the price 12-fold make?
Colour me shocked, surprised and, frankly, happy: it
made *zero* difference!
Good to see. It's about time PHP got forked even if experimentally.

It seems to me that you could fix a lot of the problems with PHP by breaking backwards compatibility.
I get pretty annoyed by its generic use, but I'm hopeful that we're seeing a narrowing of the term here.

Larry Ellison is right, we've had the "cloud" forever -- the network is the cloud -- but I think there's a good fit for the term "cloud" in the user space. "Cloud" describes a user experience. It's something that laymen can latch on to and begin to identify with an experience. While it abstracts detail, it's useful for marketing. The user may think:

"When I access Google Apps from this computer, my environment and experience are exactly the same as it is on any other computer. This is cloud computing."

The same would would apply for iCloud. Any device registered under your account works interchangeably.

Operating in the cloud means interchangeability of some underlying component that users are used to having to think about. E.g., "Oh, I'm not at my computer, so I can't access that document."

As an industry, we should try to narrow our usage the term to refer to services that deliver a location and device agnostic view of the entire end-user experience.
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Well you could never say it outright, could you? But consider that the last government increased the number of nurses by 10% yet doubled the number of managers. Other than shuffling paper back and forth amongst each other, what do they do?

It's a truism that a bureaucracy always seeks to expand itself. They could all be brilliant at it, but the problem is a) it takes time and b) isn't actually necessary oh and c) they are all paid a fortune to do it, including their gold-plated pensions.
I run a magazine for software developers, so my strength is in the access/contact with hackers as well as detecting who is a good fit for a given startup.

What I am unsure of, is if I should sell my services directly to founders or if my direct customers should be headhunters who are already working with startups.
"primary mission of the NHS is to provide jobs for bureaucrats"

That might be the case for the bureaucrats in the NHS (of which there are too many) but I'm pretty sure that most of the actual front line staff are there to help patients.
Better approach (and legal). Put a credit card and let it do some charity payments if you are late.
Mmm, string looping!
Best of luck with your app, but I'd like to take a second to play devil's advocate: what does your app offer me over my existing location sending apps (Latitude and Glympse)? Latitude being there to let me friends know where I am without me even having to initiate anything (for when I don't care about privacy at the moment), and Glympse lets me send temporary expiring location messages via SMS, Email, etc (for when privacy of my location is a concern).
How do you market MS-only products when all the early adopters are using Macbooks?
> one of the most intellectually interesting people of the last couple hundred years.

So, that would be since about 1800. In science and mathematics, that would put him in competition with Gauss, Einstein, Darwin, Maxwell, Turing. In philosophy: Mill, Marx, Nietzsche, Russell, Wittgenstein. Not to mention harder-to-pigeonhole people like, say, Goethe. You think he belongs in the same list as those guys? Really?
I didn't say that they should have tested it on every target, just that they didn't. They accepted the risks and were bitten by it.
I was going to say something about this being flame bait, but I went back to MS's marketing material and it does seem like their vision marketing is at great odds from their execution: http://www.microsoft.com/softwareplusservices/software-plus-...

Unless by services they means software updates, CDDB updates, and downloading Office templates...
I agree. It is the simplicity of things that Apple gets right. Most of the time when Apple says "it just works" that it does and consumers like that.
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I agree not massively innovative but it's not just the presentation, they're very good at removing all the rough edges and creating a coherent whole.
Humans aren't meant to stare at a computer all day, and they're not meant to stay inside an isolated domicile the rest of the time. I think our lifestyle is mostly to blame.
I'm a long-time PHP user (since 1998) but I never really peered inside the discussions of the internals of PHP. Now that I'm more connected to others in the PHP world, what you see inside the mailing list for PHP internals is what I would label as obstructionism and an attitude that seems to imply that if you cannot code the requested changes yourself, don't even bother asking.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way are the only three choices available to any language.
Why I love Git
Could be, but the end result is that I have fewer customers who happen to pay more, and the time I spend responding to customer support emails has dropped =)
Javascript proves the contrary. You can be successful with a shoddy foundation if you promote well and find the right opportunities. For engineers that takes pride in doing things "right" this can be a hard pill to swallow, but, once again, worse is better.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
What has army website takedown got anything to do with the fight against corruption??

Can we please get beyond the script kiddie phase and actually start bringing to light some of the deeply corrupt politicians and bureaucrats ala Wikileaks style?

Even that I am not hopeful about. Corruption is so pervasive in India that Indians glaze over them except when something of the scale of 2G Scam hits. Accusations fly back and forth, and then its relegated to Page 10 and everyone moves on. Judiciary, Legislature, there is hardly any aspect that remains untarnished.

There is a moral tug of war today waged for the heart of India, a tug of war between Technology and Transparency against corruption. Once that is won, there still remains a task of punishing the offenders and ensuring the frameworks are in place to prevent it from happening. Neither the Legislature, nor the Judiciary is vested enough to ensure that.
w3 schools is good.
Can someone who has experimented with re-pricing their product explain the legality of it? I mean can you offer different prices to different customers at the same time? Or do you have to globally shift your pricing? Also, where would you look up the laws for stuff like this?
Interesting, I must have missed that earlier this week. Great concise summary of the long term philosophies of the two companies. Thanks.
The best part about this graphic is it shares the habits of highly successful people (and that to succeed, you don't need to be in the office, in a seat, all the time) ;)
Git is definitely a big step in the right direction.
Astronomy is just a dream of mine since childhood...I'm 38 now and set in my career path more or less. I agree with you that professional astronomy is probably not very sexy. My interest lies in the large scale stuff like quasars, galaxy formation, and the physics underlying neutron stars and black holes. For some reason exoplanets don't do it for me.

Thanks for the reply...it was very interesting.
or just moving on.

php itself does break backwards compatibility, and it doesnt really help.
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These are awesome! Why have I not seen this before?!
What is Soft reference
Soft reference is the term that is used in the java programming language and thus it is also used when some of the strengths need to be identified for the non strong references whereas the other refer
Boo, deleted short tags. Why do people hate short tags again? I can't remember because <? is not valid XML so there shouldn't be any problems with mixing php and xml... hmm... I wonder ....
Essential stuff that a front-ender should be able to do?
You name it :)
PHP,CSS,HTML,Design,Javscript,etc etc etc
I don't think you can jump into DOM Scripting (building page structures) without a proper knowledge of the language. At least if you're not comfortable with programming already.
Also, if you can code the change yourself it gets rejected as "not a bug" for a few times, then they think about it and say that it's too late for any reasonable release and that it will go into PHP 6 or 5.3 or something that you won't upgrade too because it breaks too much other stuff.
"all the early adopters"? Isn't that's a bit hyperbolic? Can you clarify this?
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Ask yourself this question? Would you hire a lawyer that charges $9.99/hr or one that charges $299/hour? The higher the price the more "Perceived" value it holds. Pricing strategy is an important part of bringing a product to market. Then there is pricing optimization that needs to take place to find the perfect mix of profits and revenue. Luckily for us techies we can iterate as much as possible to find the right mix.
You know, the funny thing is that as nerds we tend to look at iCloud and say, "well I can already do that with Dropbox and Amazon Cloud Player". It's not revolutionary to us.

Yet, can you imagine how many sales Apple will be able to take from Microsoft just by saying, "all your files are backed up and synced automatically between your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Mac devices." No more worrying about backups, losing your photos, or losing your music.

Up until now GeekSquad and other computer repair businesses made a killing just on moving files between machines when you replace them or recovering lost files.

Apple is getting this right because it helps them sell more devices. Microsoft is getting it wrong because it would cost them a lot and wouldn't sell more copies of Windows or Office.
The difference is more nuanced than sales. At Apple designers rule, and because Steve understands design, they higher excellent designers. At Microsoft program manager's rule, and a PM is neither a technologist nor a designer. They represent "the user". As a result Microsoft is great at feature-rich products that solve many problems. At Apple, they focus on the human side of technology. They try to make things easier to use. They focus on design details and strive for minimalism while still being feature rich. At Microsoft a PM could never remove an on/off button from an MP3 player.

Microsoft's cloud strategy is very good for their business. They will run many enterprise products in the cloud successfully (Exchange, SQL Server, etc.) that generate revenue. You just won't read about them in sfgate.
Extrinsic motivation is a tricky one; rationalization is easy: "I will make up for the 100$ if I'm well rested, so I better snooze some more!".

What about a guillotine above your head? That should be enough.
Well, it's not hard to convince me that large bureaucratic organizations turn into a mess.

But the same thing happens in private industry, too. Constantly. And nobody would ever label a private bureaucratic mess as "there to provide jobs first and turn a profit second". That was my bone of contention with your post, you're mistaking generic incompetence for something more perverse.
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Apple is indeed good at marketing, but how do we know they going to succeed at marketing iCloud? We haven't even really seen any marketing about iCloud beyond the keynote, which is them preaching to the choir and frankly anyone watching already "got it". After all, Apple pretty much never pitches software, and the idea of an iPhone/iPad/Mac commercial saying we keep everything in sync is fairly weak (most consumers already have that experience with their phone without even thinking about it). iCloud after all is in part a rebranding of a product that has already failed multiple times already.

Past success doesn't even imply future success, and past failure is even worse.
You'll want to read Alastair Reynold's Pushing Ice, if you haven't already.
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I guess the part about your phone already being able to determine where you are. It's quite common to have GPS turned off to save battery afaik, and I'm not sure how Android would get my coordinates from the other two, unless they maintain a database of all wlan networks in the world.

I'd add an explicit 'no need to enter your location, that's what our application does' text.
I have strep throat and may not be at my best right now, but iirc the chandrasekhar limit is 1.5 solar masses - it's enough to form a black hole because not only is there a lot of mass, but it's also falling into the center, compressing everything further. So one of your "magic wand" options is acceleration, I think.
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How is git rebase different from svn update? Is it needed because in git I would locally commit small changes vs. keeping them sitting around in svn?

I like the look of the page, by the way.
There's currently a big thing going on in India with some anti-corruption protests led by some Yogi. I think they're trying to express solidarity.
I heard some say that I need to know DOM if I want to write Js !
so do I start with Learning Js by SHelly Powers or Java script the good parts by Douglas Crockford ?
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The difference might be that on a new OS X install in the near future, pressing Save on a document open in even a simple text editor will automatically sync that document to "the cloud" and all my devices.

No desktop app that I'm aware of from Microsoft does that today out of the box, as the default action. Sure you can easily sync stuff with Dropbox or whatever Microsoft's product is, or you can do word processing in your browser with Google Docs - but it sounds like with iCloud that Apple will be the first to offer this type of syncing as the default, no-extra-steps-or-thinking option.
<warning, long reply which hopefully also answers all your questions>

You can also easily add you own points, which is what you probably end up using a lot. "I'm Home now", "Still at the Office". It's a one time tap/enter name to add these, and these are the ones you probably end up using a lot.

(Not really related, but: Also usually the app is pretty good at picking up the correct landmark even without GPS (from the inexact cellid location), so you can just forget about it, send your text and automatically also share your location.)

Regarding the cheating girlfriends, we let the user select any point she wants. This is by design, this is not a tracking application but a communication tool. For example sometimes you know your mother will not be familiar with the closest automatically selected landmark, and can easily select another one.

It's not about exact location (going all psychological: there is not exact location, ever), it's about human understandable location.

Currently it doesn't work backwards. On a concept level, we want to think maps suck and landmarks rule. On a technical level, this is something we may well implement. (Sidenote: I guess the view with the landmark points can also be considered a "Map", and that we definitely could want to show on the receiving end.)

Thanks for your positive words! This is version 1.0 in terms of marketing texts and everything, so the journey for this app is just beginning.
I agree. W3 should get you started on the right track. Learning code in books has never worked for me. Learning online is the way to go because you can test everything on your own and go through their tutorials along the way.
it replays your local commits on top of the changes you pulled down.
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It is not a unique escape code.

Everytime I type those three little characters, it gives me great pleasure.
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I would think that the hacker might try to turn that off before he starts looking into emails? If doing that can avoid detection, then, its difficult to have faith in this system.
Does that work when you look at small countries of the World? I would have to look but I am thinking "no".

Edit: Found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_system_of_...
Don't designers represent "the user" also? Maybe a closer analogy would have the program managers representing "the business".
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Can you give a demonstration of its non-uniqueness?
> Microsoft and Google both suffer from the same disease, they try to sell a product, not address a need.

Actually, Chrome and Nexus-branded Android phones are the only Google products that I've seen advertised, ever. Of their hundreds of products, those 2 are the only ones that they're trying to "sell". In fact, Wave was pretty much their only product that comes to mind that didn't address a need (or at least that was the public perception), hence its inevitable demise. The rest (Search, Gmail, Docs, Android, Chrome, etc) were all direct responses to problems that people had.
Thanks for the mention, but it's independent of me :)

One aspect I didn't mention in my blog post is that I have a hard-core following of four people that email me once every few months complaining about the price. They complain that $9.99/month is too much, $19.99/YEAR is too much, and that I can't be making any sales at $19.99/month. In short: don't take pricing advice people who aren't giving you money :)
Actually, past success is probably the best single indicator for future success.
"My friend recently got a Mac, and unbeknown to himself was forced to download a 2.something GB download for the developer pack just so he could get GCC, Now I know there are better ways to achieve this, but this to me seems counter productive."

Development on Macs is certainly not without problems. I think Apples philosophy is to provide the whole package to assure there is not problem because of missing parts.

Being a Mac developer is also not free anymore. XCode 4 is the first version of the development tools that costs money. Nothing compared to Visual Studio of course, but the direction is not so great.

I usually ignore all these tools and use Netbeans or bbedit and commandline tools. I can afford that because I build scientific software in java and don't have to deal with Apples packages.
I don't agree that this is about "getting" marketing. You may not mean it this way, but when people describe Apple as being a marketing company, the implication is that given the exact same product, Apple would succeed where Microsoft would fail. The truth is, Apple doesn't build the exact same products as Microsoft. What Apple does is what Dropbox did: They take a product and build what people actually want. People want A, B, and C, so Apple builds that. People don't care about technology X, Y or Z, so Apple doesn't build that or hides it under the covers.

http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-tha...

People want their stuff to just be there. People actually don't care about the cloud or whatever, they just want their documents and their presentations and their calendar and their music to just be there for them on every device they use.

So Apple built that. I don't think this is about presenting the idea differently, I think it's about actually doing the idea differently.

I go back to Joel Spolsky: When talking about Architects, he said: Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like "Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music" and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it's interesting because it's peer to peer, completely missing the point that it's interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html

Remember that? Apple does, because with the iTunes Music Store, people could type the name of a song and listen to it right away, and Apple has made billions of dollars making that work simply and easily.

I agree that Microsoft execs probably think they already do product X or Y or Z that Apple is doing, but I don't think they do X or Y or Z the way Apple does them: I think Apple does them right much more often than Microsoft does.
It is interesting because the data point is not an isolated example.

From Dijkstra to Torvalds, there are a many prominent examples of top notch computer talent from Europe choosing to live in the USA. The resulting brain drain leaves fewer top people in Europe, and more opportunities for Americans to benefit from that talent. Benefits range from their availability for American businesses to the fact that it is easier to meet and be inspired by that talent if you live in the USA. (Particularly if you live near a tech center like Silicon Valley.)
Don't even need that. BTC has been growing in "value" significantly over the past month or so. If they just wait a month between receiving bitcoins for payment and redeeming them for cash or whatever, that'll likely be a reasonable return on investment.

Assuming, of course, that trends continue.
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You're also never supposed to rely on GPS while flying (AFAIK). Has that changed?
Having a salary cap for public sector employees might be another way of doing things - say the same level as the PM (£140K or so).
Looks like a walled garden to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambus#Lawsuits is the first that comes to mind.