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Mac support is known to be one of the worst. Linux and Windows are also sane OSs. And there are a lot of high-end machines on the market. So I disagree with you.

All Apple owners I ever met were showing off. For them it's status to have a Mac. They think that when they have a Mac they belong to the group. Or they think they need to have a Mac because they are designers/hackers.

This feeling of belonging to a group knocks out the rest of the market.

I'm not saying Apples are crap. But to me they are not better than lets say a nice Lenovo Thinkpad installed with Ubuntu. In the end of the day it's just a tool to get the job done.

(Why do all iPhone owners put there phone on the table while having a meeting? Just turn the thing off and put it in your wallet!)
Haha, thanks so much!

People always say you should write about what you know, and I've spent far too long on the not completing work side of the equation.
What evidence do we have that handout are increasing with the recent increase in automation? My sense is they're going in the opposite direction and have strong momentum.

And I will tell you that few people will chose human made pizzas just for the experience, especially if their wages are going to zero.
Fantastic post!
FYI: this blog post's text was unreadably faint on initial load into FF6 with NoScript.

(Kind of ironic for a post which includes the emphatic lessons "When it comes to contrast: go big or go home!" and "Pay attention to typography".)

Enabling Javascript for the page helped; perhaps that's how the "text-shadows [Mike applied] to nearly everything" so that "the text felt more vibrant" were implemented?

So I would add a lesson #7: don't rely on fancy Javascript effects for something as basic as readability.
Connoisseur olive oil maybe. But at least where I live that market is already saturated (with greece stuff I think).
Not so subtly requires signing up with your service...I mean, that's not all bad but it's only half a solution as posted. Still quite cool for DIY mobile marketers who are willing to spand 3.5 cents per SMS.
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> if you're not investing in US treasuries, what are you going to invest in?

You could fund my mortgage. I pay 7% floating in a currency with a pretty good record of late. My property could halve in value and you would still get your money back, and I can fund the the loan from my current income.

I also can't just decide to not pay you without you being able to foreclose.
I'm reading this (http://www.amazon.com/68000-assembly-language-programming-Ge...), and messing about with it on EASy68k: http://www.easy68k.com.

I'm using that book because it seems to be a gentle start into assembly language. If you read a lot of tutorials, they want you to memorise how the architecture works before getting started, which seems to be to be a very exhausting approach that's not well suited to people who have other things going on in life.

Once I have the basics I'm going to gradually build up a libray of sharp patterns. I expect I can build a capability from this approach. Maths operations, then user input, then event loop, then moving bitmaps around screen, then very basic wave forms. 3d graphics are a fair way down the line.
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Hey guys,

Thanks for reading the post. To respond to the comments:

1. I absolutely (100%) did not write the post to sell admissions services. It was more to point out the impact Stanford has on Silicon Valley (Apologies if it came off that way though).

2. Stanford/Haas/top programs do have some great events that anyone can attend (the entrepreneurship week at Stanford is top notch). I find these are great because you get to meet people who are in a unique point in their lives. I live in NYC now and the Columbia/NYU events have been great; I have never felt left out even though I do not attend either schools.

3. Stanford has some great lectures online; Yale/Berkeley does to. Search on Youtube and they are not too hard to find.
But what have they done that other people aren't doing?

Sure they revolutionized search, but I feel they glory for other peoples hard work.
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I'd rather they "rolled out" cheaper ebooks tbh (or at least encouraged publishers to do so)
That is pretty much like complaining why your new car has no built-in right of way.

Sure, keyboard shortcuts are different. But you kind of knew that beforehand, right? Seriously, if that is your biggest complaint, how did you ever get used to Linux?
You get a lot more for your money. Sweden too.
I like this. It's a shame I don't play these games anymore like I did in college.

While it is interesting and useful, you should market it to people that could use it. I'd look at a chess sites and chess clubs. People love to communicate and share. You could also build a site that acts as a Wiki for chess plays. That would be pretty cool actually.
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I think you are talking about somewhere in India or Thailand or something, I drive in Istanbul for the last umm, 12 years and never missed a red light intentionally and saw maybe ten or fifteen idiots that does not care about the red light.

Btw did you visit Istanbul in the end of 80's I believe it was the only time The city was packed enough and that situation maybe seen because I can remember those times, now its different though many of the traffic lights have cameras that trigger with a red light pass, even there were accidents the first few months cameras were installed people were braking harder than usual to make sure they stop :)

As for deadlocks, Istanbul transport authority changed thousands of streets to one way or changed the rules of many areas to stop that in the last 5 years, when were you last in Istanbul seriously :) ?

And police does care, if you are involved in a red light violation and police is around you are not screwed but definitely get a ticket.
A sane OS would let me delete a file with the delete key(!).
Cool.

An obvious improvement on the animation: methods for applying moves to a board, instead of having to enumerate a explicit array of boards.
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The latest update on AWS outage in EU region. Again, secondary EBS issues are preventing quick recovery after a power failure:
12:08 AM PDT We know many of you are anxiously waiting for your instances and volumes to become available and we want to give you more detail on why the recovery of the remaining instances and volumes is taking so long. Due to the scale of the power disruption, a large number of EBS servers lost power and require manual operations before volumes can be restored. Restoring these volumes requires that we make an extra copy of all data, which has consumed most spare capacity and slowed our recovery process. We've been able to restore EC2 instances without attached EBS volumes, as well as some EC2 instances with attached EBS volumes. We are in the process of installing additional capacity in order to support this process both by adding available capacity currently onsite and by moving capacity from other availability zones to the affected zone. While many volumes will be restored over the next several hours, we anticipate that it will take 24-48 hours until the process is completed. In some cases EC2 instances or EBS servers lost power before writes to their volumes were completely consistent. Because of this, in some cases we will provide customers with a recovery snapshot instead of restoring their volume so they can validate the health of their volumes before returning them to service. We will contact those customers with information about their recovery snapshot.
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* Command-V to paste.

* Command-F3/the Exposé function button to reveal the desktop (on Apple keyboards, or you can change it; just search for Exposé in System Preferences).

* Enable right click in System Preferences > Mouse or Trackpad.

It just takes a little getting used to. But in the end all that really matters is what makes you most productive. All this elitism is stupid.
Might be worth checking Rackspace's policies on hosting proxies - you want to make sure you're not responsible if users use your proxies for illegal activity.
I have a hard time believing anyone could think that killing off half a billion people would be the way to go ... It just sounds too James Bond villanesque.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge#Number_of_deaths

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

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

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history
When I get small amounts of change, like a nickel, I often leave them on nearby ledges or fences or mailboxes or any object I can find. It's not so much altruism, as making life more like a video game where you can find small amounts of money by searching random objects.
Meh. Weak, and ending by trying to conflate Anon/Lulz with China's wholesale theft of industrial data is flimsy.
Saying true strong AI is like saying once teleportation is available, we can live anywhere in the world! Or that if we use nuclear fission for our power production, it will be too cheap to meter. Reality is a bit more sticky, and strong AI is a long ways away.
I do think there is kind of a "perfect storm" effect around this game. It isn't so unique that you can't find a game to compare it to. In fact, two of the biggest influences are already present in Notch's previous work:

Procedural landscapes: Infinite Mario Bros.

Multiplayer wilderness survival: Wurm Online

And the voxel terrain concept - the feature which surfaces most visibly - was already demonstrated in many other games.

In light of this I've charted a path for my own games which doesn't seek to ape the specific concepts or technologies of Minecraft, but instead aims to achieve the same level of intrinsic "I want to share this" and supplements it with a dynamic that adds some explicit rewards for doing so(the social game virality model - not necessarily tied to FB or any "social platform" though). This comes at some risk of sucking out the intrinsic joy, but the potential reward is to have even faster growth than Minecraft - assuming the game is equally good.
I am amazed. Just describing the various scene changes and the composition thereof in 64k would be a massive challenge!
This is a very good hack and also a reminder for Western countries and political actors that these kind of break-ins are not necessarily criminals acts but may be political demonstrations. If a break-in is non-destructive and has as motivation a political demonstration, in a democracy it should be treated as such and not be brushed aside as "criminal".
Well done Anonymous. Although it may seem like an empty gesture based on what the U.S. government has (or hasn't) done.
Once a book on chaos theory started the topic by describing the traffic in Istanbul.

If you are able to drive in Istanbul, you can drive in everywhere.
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I bought a Mac two years ago for iPhone dev (which I ended up not doing), and in my opinion you don't have to switch to a Mac if you are already a Linux user. I still prefer Linux.

The only problem is buying any other notebooks that are good. It is very difficult to find notebooks with acceptable design and specs.

I have to say I am not a Mac power user. I am too lazy to learn gestures (and hence don't want to update to Lion, either). I never use the F3 to show the desktop because I keep forgetting the key (Linux and Windows have clickable icons in the taskbar, much better for me).
this + coffee shop wifi (w/ ssl mitm) = instant sign in for anyone entering the shop with auto connect to their wifi.. qed.
Well, last year not an inch of snow dropped in city. That short periods of snow times had long passed since the population of the city doubled in last 20 years.
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not dead, this blog is a great example of low level and high level living in harmony: http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/memory-barri...
You use the command key to issue commands and raw keys to type. So: command-delete means it's fast and easy to delete a file without the worry of accidentally losing a file when your cat jumps on the keyboard.
> I question this. I'd like to see an example of something that really is awful, as opposed to just appearing awful, turning into something great later. I think it is likely that the seed of eventual greatness is present from the beginning.

"greatness" is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. For example, awful movies can sometimes gain a cult following.

Two movies come to mind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun_2#Reception

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film)
One important thing that might be important for a lot of people to ditch their PCs in favour of an iPad is a decent Office app (Word and Excel mainly). It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be good enough.

Does anyone here know and use a good iPad Office app, that I can recommend to people? The store reviews of the top apps don't seem too encouraging.
It's far too easy to jump to "if the non-digital equivilent happened.." comparisons without realising that they don't actually line-up right.

If I broke onto an MoD base in person, no matter how little damage I did or how much my motivation was politically driven, I'd be arrested pretty damn quick. And I'm talking about countries like the UK/US, not Syria.
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A vacation is just a special case for a workday, right? If you're spending a lot of time daily on customer support, that is trading off with higher-impact scalable activities you could be doing, so you probably want to minimize that. After you've minimized it, who cares if you're doing it from your office or from a hotel?

The most irksome thing about my work during my recent vacation was lugging my laptop everywhere. Apparently I banged it against something and now Dell is busy fixing it for me for $500. Grr. But other than that, it certainly wasn't preventing us from having a nice time.

Also, there are a lot of activities which aren't as critical as you think they are. I was used to doing bug fixes the day they were reported. That's nice, but that's not a law of nature, and you probably don't want to make your customers think it will always happen. If someone reports a bug during vacation and it isn't killing someone or taking the site down just tell them "Thank you. I'll see to it after I get back from vacation."
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It does. You just have to add the Command key.

Command-Shift-Delete empties the trash, finalizing the action.
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> Every time I get my hands on a Mac, even to simply Google something, I immediately hit issues.

You seem to hit issues because you want to hit them.

> Paste is crazy squiggly hash v (or maybe apple v?)

The key is called "command". Does "Command V" not make more sense than "Control V"? And free up the Control key for more interesting stuff?

> I can't right click

You can, unless it's a 4+ years old machine it's just a preference (if you're using a trackpad). Any 2+ buttons mouse will natively "right click". Even on older machine, Ctrl+click will open a contextual menu.

> I can't win+d to the desktop

"Show Desktop" is natively bound to Command-F3 on modern macs, on older ones it was on F11. It may also be bound to an active corner.

> So, go ahead, someone sell me on Macs.

Don't know if that will sell you. For me it was a combination of several things:

* Unix environment with an actually useable terminal. By default. Even in 10.3/10.4 (and Terminal has come a long way since then). cmd.exe never "felt" right, I never found a windows shell worth using (even Putty is a pain), and if you're going to remote log into a nix machine anyway why not use one in the first place?

Spotlight works much, much better than Windows Search, and dedicated launcher applications (QS, Alfred, QSB, Butler, etc...) take that a step further

* 99% of the time, managing applications is Simply Easier. No fudging around with installer or painfully browsing to your Program Files folder (and wondering if the soft is 32 or 64b and in which program files you should put it and if you should create a shortcut so the bloody windows search can find it and...). Instead, open your archive (zip or dmg), drop the .app bundle in the Applications directory (via the dock or your finder sidebar) and launch it whenever. You can even launch it right there, nothing to do, no time wasted.

* A thriving indie community with loads of good software at fair price. I did buy licenses one Windows, but not many, and I did not find much which made me go "damn I have to give these guys some dough back for their work", even after I stopped being a poor student.

* Package managers. Whichever your pick is between Macports, Fink and Homebrew having one is invaluable.

* The machine is generally useable as is. Even if you don't download anything it can be used, you have a good PDF & image viewer (Preview is fairly amazing), lots of serviceable software, and it does not "feel" as clunky as windows long did.

Only negative I've found is that Finder is not as good as the Windows Explorer. Though with Windows 7, they've become significantly closer in that search has become shit in 7's explorer.

Essentially, OSX is a full unix with a bearable interface, softed by people who care.

Now if you don't do any dev on your box, it might lose some of its appeal.
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I was there in 2008 when I attended a conference near Taksim square. However, this was during Ramazan - so maybe traffic during Ramazan is worse then during the remainder of the year.

When I was there most crossings looked somewhat like this (warning: terrible video quality): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cYdHUmG100 (I had a green light when I passed this crossing as a pedestrian).
Some company in the Gold Coast (originally it was the city council, but they stopped, so someone else took up the slack) hires gold-bikini clad girls (called "Meter Maids") to put money into parking meters that are just about to expire. And leave an ad on your windshield. But then, it's a tourist city.
I take some issue with this argument. Not necessarily to say that it's false, just to say that it's not a strong argument or at the very least holds little foresight.

As an example I recently downloaded Words With Friends on the Android, became immediately annoyed with the ads and was at a loss when I tried to find a pay version. I emailed them and although they replied within hours (fantastic!) they said they don't have a paid version at the moment (it's in the works).

I'm reminded of John Carmack's ad-hock survey of iOS and Android users to find how many people would have spent at least $20 for apps[1], and then he explains in more detail why we won't be working with Android at that time. His reasoning is solid, but that survey puts an exclamation on the same point you're making, which is unfortunate.

It's easy to claim nobody pays for things on Android if there's nothing there worth paying for. It seems to me this would make Android a prime market rather than a poor one.

I've personally spent at least $40 on Android apps in the last year or so (mostly games) and will spend plenty more as developers come and give me reason (or at least a chance) to give them money.

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_SdC8LVODY#t=8m40s
I wrote a really scathing review. So scathing that even I couldn't post it. But in essence:

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This is exactly what I say when I explain why I like using a mac. Also the touchpad is amazing. For most of my day-to-day tasks its better than a mouse. I would have never imagined that this was possible.
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Hi Bemmu,

I am not sure if this will be of any help, but I have noticed there is a fashion trend among some young people, mostly girls, to dress like babies, you know with ping dresses and stripped stockings, baby aprons etc. They always seem to be currying some lollipop-type candy with them. I have seen them in Tokyo/Osaka but it seems very possible that this trend exists abroad as well. They seem to behave like a tribe, so they should have their magazines, events, web-sites.

Maybe if you could get in touch with that tribe and advertise yourself properly there, you may have chances of good conversion there.
I hope Starbucks' system can handle the amount of activity this thing is eventually going to get! You're picking up a lot of steam.
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I like the redesign (it's hard not to), but I had similar misgivings. The biggest issue for me is the mystery meat navigation. The icon that looks like an iPod would intuitively go to music, but mousing over you see that it's for electronics. So the record must go to music, right? No, it's arts and entertainment. So now the visitor needs to hunt around via mouseover to find what they're after. Looking at the screenshot for their mobile app makes me wonder how they handle this effectively without mouseover. E.g., click on the pizza icon and see sushi gift cards? What, where's the pizza?
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I really like the ones by Ji-youn with a triangle for stop, circle for orange and rectangle for green. You can see some serious effort went into this
If you read their earlier post on it, the squareness is far from a quirk and actually a very well thought out design decision. Obviously design is a matter of taste, but like them or no, their method is a lot more than just being quirky or using buzzwords.
I hope Starbucks has some mechanism to prevent brute-forcing like this.
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The peak is set to hit towards 2013. ZDNet (I think) ran an article on how it would mean that power would need shutting down for 3 months to avoid being burnt out during the peak