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As a beginner who started trying to learn rails from 1.2-2.0 I just wanted to say that Rails was never simple with all its magic and metaprogramming.
"Blog in 15 minutes" is about being productive.

Defaults, conventions and DSL's are for less code only. You still have to know the rules.
(Both DSL and what's underneath it.)

Javascript is not simple - so we have CoffeeScript.
HTML isn't - there's HAML. (1 line of code to add it to Rails 3.1)
Web applications are now more complex - client logic finally moved to /app folder.)
We can still enable old routing (uncommenting one line).

But you have to learn bundler for dependency management, know application.rb configuration options, etc.

So I don't get what 'simple' about that technology stack. It's DRY and rather flexible, but not simple.
With all due respect, I did read TFA -

"I have been programming for a very long time. So long that it is incredibly boring to me."

But you do of course later say:

"This doesn't mean I think programming is boring, or that you will think it's boring, only that I find it uninteresting at this point in my journey."

And, of course:-

"Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting. It can be a good job, but if you want to make about the same money and be happier, you could actually just go run a fast food joint."

To me that all seems a little contradictory, but ultimately seems to say to me 'actually, after all these years I've seen through all the naive bullshit and realised that it is, in fact, rather boring'.

There are obviously crap and boring aspects to any activity, but how on earth can you say the act of doing something is interesting, but the profession itself is not? Do you mean to say that everything in the profession other than the programming is boring? Well I'd disagree with that too, though less emphatically.
Please leave political gossip out of HN.
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You are confusing the court and the cops. Everything you write is true about court. But it's not true regarding cops.

Cops do not need proof to arrest someone, they simply need to be suspicious. You want them to not be suspicious of you, and the easiest way is not to act guilty.
Programming is my hobby. I work on a startup product in my spare time, one question I'm faced with - is it possible to balance corporate work, startup idea and have time for side (hobby) projects? If startup product is not my main task when out of work, is it a sign that the thing will fail?

I'd like to learn 3d, develop simple games, learn new languages and algorithms while still working on the startup product and maintain my corp job. Do you think it's possible?
By the looks of things, this is just an add for a nock-off store. Low resolution images for a high-end brand, and a non-.com url are the tip offs.
Programming in your spare time is much less attractive when your employer claims to own all the code you write.
Like the poster above you, you are confusing the court and the cops.

> Obtaining a lawyer does not in any way imply guilt

To the court. But to the cops it most definitely does imply guilt. After arrest it's worth it - they already think you are guilty. But before arrest it's not.

> whether you are guilty or not, the only words out of your mouth when you are accused of a crime should be "I'd like to speak with a lawyer"

That will help you in court, but doing that guarantees arrest. You may be released later, but I'd prefer to avoid the arrest in the first place.
I don't think it's as simple as price. If that is the case then why did the iPod become such a dominant device back in the early 2000s when it cost $400-500? My guess is that there is a limit to where the customer is willing to pay for a quality product.

Marco seems to go a little overboard but it is legitimate to ask why reviewers seem to pull their punches with any iPad competitors. Whether it's to create a storyline of Apple vs whomever or there is a distaste for Apple products, these reviews aren't helping anyone make a purchasing decision.
Google totally rebuilt the OS for the tablet

No they didn't.

And about compatibility, Android 3.x does have new features (as one would expect from a new version, you know), but some of those features got backported in what they call the Android Compatibility package.
Does that mean you code in the shower?
That interview you are thinking of is after arrest. In which case get a lawyer 100%.

Before arrest they are much softer since you can leave at any time.

And Europe is no different.
Man, I'm sure I've watched Python conference videos at offline, downloaded from some button or link in the blip.tv web-page, but I sure can't find it now.

If you want to download the video without waiting for network buffering, or on a device without an Internet connection (or without a Flash plugin), the RSS feed has links to downloadable MPEG4 files:

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It's really hard to make comparisons with Europe, because their situation is so different, and also within a very different cultural/historical context as well. Firstly, they don't suffer from a hyper-consumerized, anti-intellectual (shit throwing) Ape culture. So they're typically more immune from Corporate Propoganda. Furthermore, they have state TV stations that are liberal and honest. Our PBS was not allowed to do anything actually relevant or watched, so our PBS was ghettoized to do documentaries about the History of the ice-cream cone on the Eastern Seaboard during the late 19th Century.
Loved the questions Emily Chang asked, she seems sharp.
>That advice is only good if you are actually guilty (or if you get arrested).

>By going to the police and cooperating, they ended up his side, and worked to figure out who the real person was.

That is incredibly, unsafely naive. I wish I were still naive.
Right. Had the telco not realized their mistake, it could have gone much worse.

Prosecutor: Was there anything suspicious about the defendant's behavior?

Officer: Yes. He was surprisingly knowledgeable about computers and hacking, and was very quick to provide several reasons why it couldn't have been him, as if he had rehearsed ahead of time.

...

Prosecutor: Are the defendant's reasons plausible?

Expert Witness: No. It's true that the average person would have had difficulty performing those actions within five minutes. But it would be easily possible for a technically skilled user such as the defendant. (Proceeds to demonstrate a "simulation" of the hack in a few minutes).

And heaven help him if it turns out the victim was a friend-of-a-friend on Facebook; then they'd have him "lying" in the first thing he said to the police.
It's not political gossip, it's probably the most important question concerning the future of a free and open Internet.

Are you familiar with the implications to the future of the Internet regarding the merger between the largest ISP (Comcast) in the United States merging with the largest content provider (NBC-U)?

Probably not, because there was no real news coverage of it...

But I bet you can tell me a lot about Congressman Anthony Weiner... And that's my point.
why did the iPod become such a dominant device
back in the early 2000s when it cost $400-500?

I don't know why you say the iPod is a "dominant" device.

Sure it is successful, but it created a new market - tablets before it weren't really counting. It's easy to be "dominant" in a market that you created, but I'm also pretty sure that if you compare the number of iPad owners to the number of PC-owners, well, those numbers won't look so great.

What I'm trying to say here is that a LOT of people that would be interested in something like the iPad haven't bought one yet, and those people are much more in number than the current iPad users.

The pie is currently very small. It can be much bigger and everyone can have a slice ;)
It comes down to caring enough to do it right. You have to love it and be a pedant who pays stringent attention to detail. You can be smart and motivated but unless you really want to know why and how it all works and fits together it's hard to excel.

That type of person will always be reading and writing code and solving problems. Spare time and work time all blurs if you are focused on a problem.
Wait, you're implying that bringing a lawyer with you is grounds for arrest? You need to get a better lawyer if that's happening. You realize that cops can't just arrest you for whatever right? They have to have grounds to arrest you, and in a case where you're getting voluntarily called to the station, someone has signed off on it and has either said that they can/can't arrest you for reason X, Y or Z. Walking in with a lawyer doesn't give them cause to arrest you, and if they do so, any lawyer worth their salt will ask why they're arresting you.

There are legal limits to how long they can hold you for questioning without an arrest.
Very inspiring stuff from Jeremy Ashkenas. Also, he's made talking-with-ones-hands into an art.
Bit of a difference between patenting something and it actually turning up in iOS as a "feature"
There is nothing inherently non-dynamic about classes. Python has classes and is fully dynamic.
There's a great series of answers to this on StackOverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3956478/understanding-ran...

In short: doing things like this actually reduces the randomness of the end result.
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iPod != iPad.

The iPod marketshare was really high for a premium priced product (on specs at least)
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For me (I don't claim to represent a viable market share though) it's simple enough:

I have no use for a tablet so far.

I played around with an iPad, and frankly I couldn't care less. Yes, it's nice and "shiny", my inner gadget collector wants to keep it. But I know that I wouldn't use it. I want _my_ selection of software available, I want decent tinkering ability (can I easily create software for this? Can I change things to suit me, whatever the industry defines as 'best' right now?) and - power. A smartphone with a larger screen (which is more or less the impression these things leave on me) is nothing I long for.

I'll wait, look at each new candidate - and see if anyone of them might appeal here. The iPad, while beautiful, probably never will. Touchpad maybe? But I doubt that as well.
I am a software engineer by degree, but also took many electrical engineering courses in uni, and I can honestly say that it is starting to make a comeback. Sparkfun, Adafruit, MAKE and many other places are starting to make it more accessible, cheaper and easy to learn. The Arduino has been a boon, providing people with a cheap but powerful microcontroller to get started.

While yes technology is getting smaller I have found that with many parts I can now easily find replacements online, I can get advice from other professionals, I can easily figure out how something works so that I can fix it. I've currently got a power supply sitting on my work bench that has a weird issue and I am slowly going through, making a net list and building a schematic with part numbers in an attempt to isolate the fault.

Maybe I am a rare breed, but seeing as how the interest at Maker Faire keeps going up, and interest in electronics also keep going up I will assume that eventually more and more people will get into experimenting in this field.

At least that is my hope.
Zed Shaw is trolling again. His ego is so boring.

Good that I stopped reading the rant when I found out it was him.
This has been discussed before, I believe, back when someone notified Facebook that a page violates copyrights. FB took down that page without checking for facts and told the owner of the page that he has to resolve the issue with the one that raised the complaint.
Even if that would be the case now, how does Facebook assumes that the protesters can settle with the Goverment of Macedonia about the pages when they're still in the streets?
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I heard a lot of these arguments before. 3-4 years ago when the early Android phones came out and being compared to the IPhone.

From the post:

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Developers will rush to Android tablets once a lot of people are buying Android tablets. But hardly anyone will buy them if there’s too little compelling software available.

So there must be a very good reason why someone would choose any given Android tablet over an iPad, and that reason can’t be the available apps.

This, not how closely a manufacturer can mimic the iPad’s hardware, is what reviewers should be asking about each new tablet: Why would a significant number of buyers choose this instead of an iPad?

Or, more generally: What will cause enough people to buy this that developers will beat down the door to make great apps for it?

========

Replace "Android tablet" with "Android phone" and "IPad" with "IPhone" and it's almost exactly like what Android naysayers were saying years ago.
> Wait, you're implying that bringing a lawyer with you is grounds for arrest?

It's not grounds. They already have grounds or they wouldn't be talking to you in the first place. But if they are unsure (which they usually are) a lawyer will tip the balance toward definite arrest.

A good lawyer will get you out later sure. But he can't prevent the arrest in the first place.

> There are legal limits to how long they can hold you for questioning without an arrest.

If they are "holding you" you are basically arrested.
Oh, fanboys like you are the worst.

His online persona has one truth - he spits into communities.

And to compare DHH with Zed is unfair to DHH. DHH never made such idiotic rants like Zed.
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safari does not allow file uploads. you can't share your photos if you're on an ipad using FB in the browser.
cough

Yup, software is why the iPhone is enjoying so much success and Android is struggling to gain traction in the smartphone market. The Xoom has been out for a couple of months, the 10.1 hasn't even been released yet.

Is it possible that we could wait a bit longer and reflect back on Android v. iOS Tablet-edition (or at the very least the 10.1) rather than espouse these completely inferred blog posts that only lead to fanboyism and (literally, seriously) useless conversations.
I'm sorry, but no. You're wrong and this is horrible advice.

The whole point of bringing the lawyer to any interview is to prevent you from saying something that could be twisted against you later. It doesn't matter if they're 'much softer' before they arrest you, anything you say at any time can and will still be used against you.
I don't consider myself particularly successful compared to many people here, but yes, I've created products which got users/customers, and made a few bucks.

Its good that you have questions and curiosity, but some things you need to figure out or learn on your own. So in short:
• If you need to accept money, use paypal or google "accept credit cards online". Thats your research.

• If you have unhappy customers, you talk to them and resolve it. Don't worry about terms unless you have a good reason to.

• If you want to know more about Twitter, look them up on Wikipedia.

Don't worry about other people or about trying to follow a pattern to success; there are no patterns. Just work hard, and do what you gotta do.
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Yeah, it is a GNU extension to rm/ls/and others to have the options at the end of the list. Never did like that, but it does mean that people who log into my BSD boxes can never force delete or recursive delete ;-)
With the iPod there was no competitively sized device for a while. And the iPod actually did develop an ecosystem that did matter -- HW ecosystem. The iPod could plug into anything.

In contrast the iPads ecosystem is a lot less important. And the HW/SW advantage the iPad has is dwindling quickly (the HW advantage is basically gone -- but it is still better SW, even ecosystem aside).

Also the iPod, with the white headphones, became a fashion statement. That's why Apple spent so much time on the iPad2 cover. They wanted to create the same visual fashion statement, but I don't think the iconic look has been created.

For these reasons I think price will play a major role. Not yet. i still don't think the core Android platform is good enough. But by the holidays, it might be.

I will say though that if Android misses the holidays, then Windows will likely be the one to really take on the iPad and Android on tablets will probably go the way of Linux on netbooks.
You are the third person to confuse the court and the cops.

This is all true in court. But if you are innocent you don't want to be arrested in the first place. And the best way to avoid that is to talk to the copy, and not try to stonewall or hide things.

And, BTW, "surprisingly knowledgeable about computers and hacking" is no longer so surprising these days.
I guess not everybody caught the irony
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It's so interesting how PG answered that GroupOn question.

He dodged giving GroupOn his stamp of approval, but hedged by approving Andrew Mason. That's definitely an interesting approach, especially for someone like him.

Edit: Also...that TechStars response...talk about awkward. Definitely good questions from both hosts though.
While I disagree with Marco, I think you can't make this comparison.

Android (for phones) came up in a different world. It competed against the iPhone when the iPhone was on one US carrier and Android went to the other three. Android on phones had a captive market. That doesn't exist for tablets.

On tablets Android must win marketshare by taking sales from the iPad ... not by saying, "if you're on Verizon, there is no iPhone".
The police were already suspicious of the guy as he received a letter in the mail to come down to the police station. Why are you so insistent on talking to police without a lawyer? People watch too much TV to think that "not acting guilty" will get you bonus points in the real world. Also, police job performance is not measured by letting innocent people go. It's measured by arrests and convictions.
No kidding. I have to admit when I saw Emily Chang give her opening spiel, having never heard of her or Bloomberg, my mind immediately put her in the "vapid TV personality" bucket. But over the next minute or two I realized that was a complete mistake, and was extremely impressed with how sharp she was.

I don't even think I was aware of how low my expectations of TV anchors are.
I like the point mentioned that we should avoid being allied to a particular language and reflect on solving the problem.
This seems to be an American thing - many Europeans really trust the police. Certainly in the UK I expect police to be helpful, polite, and fair; from everything I've read, that doesn't sound like the case in the US
It's on NYT's tech blog.
'Improving lives' is ambiguous, it centralizes around solving problems that people have. However if you scale these problems from 1st world to 3rd world problems it seems to me that improving lives in this context is aimed more at 1st rather than 3rd world problems. Which makes sense from a business standpoint, but the title somewhat implies that is about making the world a 'better' place.

I am not criticizing pg because I strongly believe that it is a winning strategy when talking about startups, just take improving lives with a grain of salt. I'd love to actually improve lives, but unless you can take the Bill Gates route (earn billions, do charity work), it's not easy to do so from behind a computer, writing code. Are there any startups taking the route of actually improving quality of life?
I like his energy and clarity. The money people @bloomberg weren't getting it but knew he was right.
> something that could cost more than just letting people record the event itself and sharing it on their websites.

What, $1+ ? Honestly the only people that lose out from you taking a shitty mobile recording of a concert are those who are standing behind you.

But yeah, DRM on your camera? Awful precedent and a great reason to root/jailbreak if ever there was one.
And later in life he stabbed a nurse, did some shoplifting and (IIRC) is now a professional poker player. It's hard when you reach your zenith that early.
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Two people at $50/hour x 40 hours x 50 weeks = $100 000/year. Law firms have quite a bit of money; don't you think $30/month is low? (Note that you can give essentially no support for that price, too.)
PG discusses this at about the 5m mark in this video, using the example of curing Malaria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7K0vRUKXKc
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The really good iPad apps have interfaces that were designed for the iPad. Rethinking an interface for a completely different form factor is a lot more work that twiddling with enough APIs to get your code running. Just ask the people complaining now about Android phone apps stretched to fit a tablet screen.
Ouch. That'd be a very Kafkaesque situation to be in. You know you didn't do anything, but they claim to have your IP in the offending logs. Luckily, it sorted itself out.

This is really scary. With the little the police knows about IT, there's no way you could prove yourself innocent... even in the case of an accident like this.

I don't even want to think about cases where hackers would plant an IP address in the logs on purpose to get someone into jail.
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