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Only having one easily-reached Ctrl key strikes me as a bad idea. Rather than chord a left-hand key with a right-hand Ctrl, you're likely to contort your left hand to do both (I know I used to), which has gotta screw up at least your touch typing habits if not your hand.
Thank you for your comment which speaks from experience in this matter.

I am not a Microsoft fan, but your description does make me interested. Thanks again.
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That's a good 90% of their (The DOD's) job though.
There's an excellent This American Life programme that addresses these kinds of issues in post-earthquake Haiti: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/408/i...
I maintain that if you're not remapping key you shouldn't be using Emacs -- not just to avoid RSI but also because the whole point of a customisable editor is to well... customise it to suit you better.

Pro tips:

- Don't press multiple keys with one hand. If you're pressing Ctrl-A, press the A with your left hand and control with your right hand.

- Remap common functions onto function keys. They're easy to press and will give your hands a break.

- Look into a Maltron/Kinesis keyboard. I have a Maltron and it pwns hard any other keyboard I've ever used.
Awesome, the demo is pretty slick! (unlike some other demos, it runs pretty fast on chrome, very impressive).
From their site (http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/mission), we find that the Lexington Institute's mission is...

"The Lexington Institute believes in limiting the role of the federal government to those functions explicitly stated or implicitly defined by the Constitution. The Institute therefore actively opposes the unnecessary intrusion of the federal government into the commerce and culture of the nation, and strives to find nongovernmental, market-based solutions to public-policy challenges. We believe a dynamic private sector is the greatest engine for social progress and economic prosperity."

Thompson's article does not align with this mission.
Me too haha =)
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if touch is not "forward" then at least the mouse is definitely "backward". the ideal PARC machine would have been keyboard + touch, not keyboard + mouse. "touch" is interaction with something approaching the real world as it's been known since hunter-gatherer times. the "mouse" is just an artifice to make up for technology that didn't exist in the '70's/early-'80's.

the only thing missing for business apps on iPad form factor is quick text entry. we should drop the mouse. for precise detailed work one could use a stylus. touch is the ideal.
But that doesn't mean when people want to buy a new car they go out and get a boat instead. Change from Windows 7 to Windows 8 is a marginal one. Change to another platform is much larger.
What this really is, is a nice proof by contradiction, that objects with absolutely no elasticity, cannot exist.
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I don't understand the point of your post. You do a great job of calculating the strength of the Android pattern lock screen and then explain why that's totally irrelevant because of the 20 invalid entries hardlock. You could have just put that first, and saved yourself the tldr, but then you mention a few improbable hypotheticals for no discernable reason. Am I missing something?
I'm really happy to see SlimGems released. In addition to the deprecation warnings and lack of backwards compatibility, there's been some major performance degradation in recent versions of rubygem (e.g. http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=575&a...). It's about time someone offered an alternative.
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Extra features can hurt if there's no clear direction for developers.

When do you use the touch UI, and when do you revert to the Windows 7 UI? Does it depend on the complexity of the application? Will Office switch over to the Metro UI? And if all the momentum and familiarity is in the legacy platform, what convinces developers to try out the newer platform instead (that users can all but ignore if they choose to)?
Ironic that after years of promoting their own complex software UI stacks they're going HTML5 + Javascript for this one. One more reason why JS is quickly becoming the most important programming language.
Good article about always the same problem in development politics.

Simple ground rule: If it does not create business for local companies, its usually not a good idea in the long run.
Safari is most definitely a Cocoa app, and Apple has a Windows compatibility shim for it.
I think one of use misunderstood him. I assume he meant that using a touch screen that's in front of you (vertically) is unfeasible (nothing to do with x/y-axises).
> A couple of years ago I also thought desktop-Linux will completely replace Windows.

I don't understand how you could have ever thought that.

> Truth of the matter is desktops still represent the largest market of devices consumers are buying and at least 90% of them run Windows. This whole post-PC notion is crappy and doesn't hold water - tables and smartphones are complementary products to desktops, and won't replace desktops until you'll be able to attach to them a 21 inch monitor, a keyboard and a mouse/trackball.

There's a contingent of desktop users who just can't let go. The idea of things changing is a scary thought. Tablets are exploding in sales because they're fulfilling the ultimate goal of accessible computing. The maintenance hell of PCs, tying people to a desk, will be viewed as a fluke in an industry that was in its technological infancy, the same way we no longer hand-crank automobiles to start them.

You talk about connecting to a 21-inch monitor and using a keyboard and mouse as if people WANT to do that. People today are using game consoles and touchscreens. If they want to see something on a big screen, they'll plug their mobile devices into their giant HDTVs, or they'll use their Apple TV or their game console. With the exception of Blizzard, PC gaming already died and went to consoles and mobile devices, and it's not as if PCs are going to let users watch YouTube videos, send email, or read books better than an iPad will.

Mobile devices are the futuristic vision of appliance computing that everyone has envisioned for decades. That leaves PCs as something leftover for power users. Steve Jobs gave a quote about desktop PCs, comparing them to pickup trucks. Most people won't need them, but they'll still be around for those who do.
I guess the inverse of this is

cd <dir>;
touch ./-rf
A slide rule and an abacus.
Media Center is pretty limited in what it can do, though. You can't browse the internet or browse the file system from it for example - two things that were shown in new-style Win8 touch UI in this video.
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You can develop/submit/get approved iOS apps using a hackintosh.

However if you really want to develop iOS apps for fun/money/education/whatever I think this is something you need to be pragmatic about. Sure the requirement to use Mac OS, that can only be officially used on Mac Hardware, that is expensive to buy, requires you to have another computer, etc can be very frustrating and hard to swallow. But you need to put those ideals aside and concentrate on your real goal.

As a number of people have said when developing iOS apps you don't have the luxury of slipping too far behind the Mac OS updates. Apple only accepts app submissions from certain Xcode/iOS SDK versions which require certain Mac OS versions. Those requirements are constantly advancing. So it won't be long before you get very frustrated with the hackintosh update process.

You will probably also be learning many new things at once. Mac OS, Xcode, Objective C, Cocoa Touch, mobile dev, etc. So adding hackintosh maintenance into this mix is the last thing you need.

The only hardware requirement for iOS dev is that it's an Intel Mac. I personally use a Mac Mini and it's more than capable. After all you are developing something that needs to run within the limitations of a mobile device.

Have fun!
>Basically, is there any valuation method you have that would make you indifferent to a bet on the portfolio's valuation going up or down?

No, there isn't. Angel investing is an inherently speculative game. What I would say is this: a YC investor could reasonably claim to have seen a return on any shares he sold, or any shares he holds of a company that has gone public. That's it. Beyond that, all investments are good only in theory. Were I to buy a house, I would decide what was affordable based on the former, not the latter. The same is true for my contributions to my children's college fund or my retirement fund. In short, all of the things that actually matter in life would be based off of what I had sold and what shares I held of public companies. To make any long term financial decisions based on the projected worth of companies that had, at best, gone through a successful series A or B would be foolish. They're nice numbers to think about, but they don't mean a damned thing until they're putting food in my kids' mouths.

Let's illustrate my point like this: Suppose you are given the chance to pay 1MM for some good that has a 20% chance of being worth 1BB in 5 years. If you can spare the million, then this is a fantastic investment by any measure. Having bought into this investment, however, how would you describe your net worth? Your investment is valued at 1BB. The fact that it will likely never be worth that much doesn't change its value. Heading off the foreseen criticism, let's say that savvy investors would only say it is worth 200MM, the ultimate value times the expectation of realizing it. Still, that 200MM is fairy money. It doesn't exist, and you can't do a damned thing with it until you somehow manage to convince someone to give it to you. To claim that you're "worth" 200MM is silly, as you can't spend a dime of it.

This is the problem I have with pg's numbers: They sound great until you ask what the cash-out is. Saying "I've invested in companies that are worth 4.7BB" is great, but it doesn't say anything useful about how well your money has been used. Remember, prior to investment it was real money that could buy apples and tuitions. Now it's theoretical money that could buy a whole lot of apples, but only under a specific set of favorable circumstances.

A final reduction: There is a claimed ROI of ~13:1. Being generous, I would ask this: how many people who invested 1MM into YC have pulled 5MM out?
I wonder whether they are confident enough to trade on this information. If it's as "definitive" as they claim, they can make a lot of money in the long run.
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The world was pretty significantly different at that time: in 2007, we hadn't even seen 280slides yet. It wasn't obvious to everybody that you could write really great javascript-based webapps. Nobody was even calling it html5 at the time.
I detest this rationale.

Have I used Airbnb? Yes. It was a great experience. And I have recommended it to all my friends (until now at least).

But that doesn't mean I think that they should be excused for violating a very rationale Terms of Service policy, e-mailing people explicitly against their wishes (as indicated by don't contact me for commercial services option), and creating e-mails that violate CAN-SPAM policies.

Legality aside, I think it's slimy and in my eyes, taints their grassroots story which I had really embraced and enjoyed telling people.
Well then they will just have to unlock themself - we can't wait for the slow people to catch up if we are ever to get close to the future.

Personally I was hoping that they would remove the support from the search site, which may yet happen.
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It's a model that I followed when I wrote Hello Python. The theory being that the way that most of the good programmers that I know learned was by extending their knowledge, not by inhaling massive chunks of information.

I'm now reading K&R, and I'm surprised at the similarities, although I introduced new libraries just as much as new language features.
What do you mean directions to developers?

As a developer, I will write my app in the new more touch friendly "Metro" UI because it can also be used with a keyboard and mouse.

The familiarity that is there in the old platform is the familiarity of the tools and the API which I believe continue would to exist even with the new shell.
Look MA!.. I dont need to sync my devices.

This is what Win 8 hopes to offer. Its a bold , risky & tough task , but if it does work WIN 8 will blow every other tablet out of the water ( I am saying this while being an Droid Army member :-) ).
> Is the paperwork involved laborious?

Depends on what you mean.

As I said in the GP, under the Berne Convention, copyright exists in a work when it is created. There is no paperwork required. For example, thousands of people hold copyright to portions of Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation makes the license, and the terms under which contributions are accepted, clear, and that's it.

But if you want to be dividing up money, then you'll need to carefully consider the issues of whether the licensing terms would hold up in courts in various jurisdictions, how to prove at a later date that authors did indeed agree to the license terms, and how the licensing terms might be changed, if necessary, without all authors needing to be contacted individually. For that, you need to talk to a real lawyer (which, once again, I am not).

And then there is the issue of just how you're going to collect money and get it to all those people ....
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My guess would be Wufoo.
It's the UI from Windows Phone 7, which didn't exactly light the industry on fire.
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Emacs pinky is mostly a fault of keyboard designs. Emacs' reliance on ctrl-combos exacerbates this (vi has fewer issues, Esc and the colon).

Typematrix.com keyboards ameliorate this, as do the (not shipping yet) keyboards at trulyergonomic.com

Thumbs should be used for common keys, the Maltron, Kinesis and Typematrix keyboards make this possible.

So does the Alphagrips.com device, which I am eagerly awaiting.
The problem with touch is that's a coarse-resolution input. You can be much, more precise with a mouse and hence have denser UIs. For "pro" apps this is a must.
All of the above are still used pretty heavily, even by new work coming out of MS.

You're RIGHT though, it's just the examples aren't so good. In recent memory: WPF, Windows Forms, MFC, .NET Remoting, DCOM...

They actually had a session at a recent dev conference (I saw the video) where they told you all about the underwhelming list of new features coming in WPF. The main message: WPF isn't dead! But it made things pretty obvious.

The trouble with a company the size of Microsoft is that there are so many people creating so much STUFF that it's nearly impossible for them all to work together. It may be better for them, as a company, to allow their various branches to function independently while exposing an inconsistent API story to the outside world. The alternative would be to make everybody talk to everybody else, causing all work to come to a grinding halt.
OT, but this reminds me of something I've wondered about. Assume it is winter, and I live in a region where this requires me to run some kind of heating system to keep my house sufficiently warm.

Under those conditions, is my computer use essentially free? The idea is that when the computer is on, it generates heat, which presumably reduces the amount of heat that my home heating system is called upon to produce.
> One of the big selling points of windows is its pursuit of backwards compatibility.

To who? Does grandma give a shit, or will she just buy an iPad?

> As a windows dev and user I was close to having a heart attack until I saw "normal Windows" alongside.

Guys like you are why Microsoft can't let go. :)
Nor did sidebar widgets for Vista/Win7 (also HTML + JS).
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To me this UI looks like the tile-based UIs people have been experimenting with on Linux for a while, only much more polished and user-friendly. It makes a lot more sense to me than the old WIMP model or the fullscreen-app mode of iOS.
If Gruber is biased toward the Apple way of doing things, maybe that's because iPad is currently the king of tablets, so they must be doing something right (especially after everyone mocked it as a giant iPod touch with a silly name).
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Not sure if you're being ironic here, but I'll assume you're not - iPhone DOES run OSX, but with those parts removed that are not required for the device, it's not Mac OSX, but it is OSX
I'm pretty sure I'll have to hook up a mouse to a Windows 8 tablet in order to configure the IP address.

On a desktop however, the tiles and fonts are going to be incredible and allow many visually impaired users to use a computer without wearing glasses!
No, but I think that had as much to do with marketing and overall execution than it did the UI itself. I have to admit that what I've seen of the WP7 UI looks quite nice, even if it pains me to complement MS.

If they execute properly on this I could see it being a big hit.
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Amazon already invested $175M in LivingSocial, so isn't this cannibalizing that?
With Windows 8's Metro interface being a shell on top of the old Windows 7 shell, I can imagine pretty well how HP's Web OS running on Windows is going to work.
I love the way Good implemented the Twitter/Facebook sharing feature. Very minimal.
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> cd <dir>; touch ./-rf

Ha! That is evil!

But I can counter it. Assuming we're using Bash:

$ alias rm="rm --"

Your move. ;-)

P.S. OTOH, the alias above also defeats the "touch ./-i" idea.
I use my palm too. It seems to be much better than pink, but still causes some strain (especially after long coding sessions).
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While it's what I'd expect Gruber to say, it's not realistic to say that nobody else would have made a touchscreen OS for phones and tablets by now if Apple had not.
Never mind - that statement referred to a startup in a recent batch while Wufoo was part of a much earlier batch.

Interesting to note that there are probably a few Wufoos in the total YC universe that reached meaningful profitability without having to raise more money.

Those are the ones worth emulating even though they don't get nearly the amount of attention as ones raising mega vc rounds.
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Reason #1 to always request a receipt when purchasing anything. It's entirely possible that the Cab Driver just thought he was getting a good deal off of craigslist, but, without a receipt, he's now in possession of stolen property.

Also a good reason for the purchaser to visit the seller's place of residence, instead of having them come to your home.
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Honestly I wouldn't be very happy doing live coding in a stressful situation in some random web interface (emacs not supported? heretic) - half of the time would be wasted on writing import statements, non essential functions, etc.

I understand why companies would want to see somebody code, but if they can critique some code that they have never seen before that is properly as good a signal and it is easier to give the same test to the candidates.
People seem to have a lot to say about Win8 that isn't too thought out . .
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This must be very highly tuned brand management, keeping the brand proposition value in the eyes of the consumer. If it's free too often, it loses it's value.
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I have to say I'm really impressed. This exactly what i was hoping for after the introduction of the metro UI in windows mobile 7, though i didn't expect microsoft to have the guts to do it. Glad to see they did.

One thing though: I really hope they don't keep the explorer in it's original windows 7 style. It breaks the metro experience and i can only assume that this was in the video because of the early developement stage.

Well, this won't make me replace my mac, but it looks very promising.
Oh, yeah I was talking about the millions of primarily vertical scrolling mousewheels Microsoft helped put out there.
That's if you want accountability. I believe Airbnb wanted plausible deniability.
a good reason for the purchaser to visit the seller's place of residence

--or if that's not practical, for the seller to show purchaser his DL.
The timeout behavior I describe is only for the Droid X model. For instance, I'm told that variants of the Galaxy S series (e.g. T959) have a 30s delay every 5 tries, but no limit on total tries. That would be a little easier than my 13s/try scenario above: (30+5*3)/5=9s/try, or 13 hours average crack time.

Regardless of whether your device has a limit on total attempts, you ought to be aware that the security of your lockout resides not in the complexity of your pattern, but rather in a subtle facet of your phone's volatile->nonvolatile memory transfer timing.
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Yes, that seems likely. However, it leaves my question unanswered: why not just store a browser cookie?

Is it because the user has requested that no browser cookie by stored? If so, then they're storing information in a place the user might not know about, due to the fact that the user has requested that it not be stored in a place they do know about. That sounds ethically iffy at best.

After all, LSOs are not well known, even among people who care about privacy and try to manage their own responsibly. Trumpeting the fact that they store no browser cookie, and then storing a LSO, smacks of shady dealing. Maybe they're okay, but, as I said, I'm not quite convinced.
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You could do 6 like so for kicks (it's pretty horrible and writing a real partition function is easy neough):

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Well, this article in particular has more biased based phrases than actual content, but I do see why people are so inclined towards Apple due to the success of the iPad.

And you are right, I had the same misconception of the iPad, now it is a common place name, and product that all CEO's must have.

I just desire that people not be so part of the -cult- of certain groups. My favourite are those who switch, Windows one day, Apple the next. I have a growing dislike for those who limit themselves.

But mostly, why am I bothering to comment at all. I'm just a cubicle worker. Its comments exactly like mine that I think pg and hackernews complain about when it comes to quality. Meh.