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Back when the iPod came out, MP3 players were all about features. A pure feature for feature comparison of an iPod vs other players makes the iPod look bad. They were probably trying to play the social status card. This seemed to have changed when the iPod actually got new features like the camera, the clip. But I forget all the campaigns.

Let's look at the ad campaigns for the Mac and iOS devices. There was the Switch campaign where they had people talking about why they switched and how it made their lives better. The "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" campaign which was a bit abstract but talked about what the Mac could do. And the iOS ads, all of which show you real life functions of the iPhone and iPad. The iPod Touch is being marketed as a game console and they are showing real games that you can play.

Contrast this to the current crop of Samsung commercials. All the ones I have seen on TV do not show the product in any useful way, do not show what you can do with their products and claim that you will be better for buying their product. They are all very abstract.

The Acer Iconia ads are much better but aren't very well made.

The Droid Does campaign was pretty good but a little impersonal. But there was also their initial iDon't ad which told you nothing about their device but subtly referenced their competitor. Then there was that Droid X space thing which was supposed to be what exactly? And then the Droid commercials where they try and show something that the phone can do and BTW, you will turn into some super awesome android guy.

So in recent times, Apple has not been playing the social status card so much. Also, geeks are just as vulnerable to the social status message. Just look at this "Apple is over priced and it is all about marketing" meme. Geeks are just seeking increased social status in a different group. But they want it just as much as the Apple crowd.
I have to disagree, even though they have to rebuy it he has already had a year to build up a user-base.
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Totally agree. I'm guessing that those options are spread over the 10 years, so we're talking roughly $37m a year if the stock remains at the same price. It's just paper money until those options become liquid, and he's working at a big discount when compared to Jobs' 5.5+ million shares from 1997 until today (14 years).

So yeah, taking into consideration that Apple is suddenly working with a CEO that arguably requires less compensation than Jobs, my issue isn't with the amount, but rather how he's taxed and more broadly, the large divide between the top income tax bracket (35%+) and capital gains (15%) which is really terrible, considering that it consitutes an enormous tax loophole for people who earn their income via investments, rather than a traditional wage.
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BTW: If Tim Cook can show that Apple can succeed without Steve Jobs (e.g. by launching something amazing in the next couple months), the stock could easily double, because it has been discounted by the predicted effect of Jobs leaving.
I think too few companies are throwing out static websites because they think they need something "dynamic" such as a flashy contact form. If they just used static websites and just put an email address and such by which they could be contacted they could save quite a bit on development time and cost of hosting.
Yeah, spam a place called hacker news. Brilliant!
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He is using a lot of abstractions, and is focusing on building something which will introduce the main concepts of 'Computer Architecture', 'Compilers', and 'OS'.

A student taking this course will be building something very simple, but grasping the main concepts in the process.

I think the real beauty of this book is that the simple implementations can be a segue into exploring those concepts in greater detail (if one gets interested in them) ...
> Graham could say today "no Apple vs. * debates", and about 100 people on HN would immediately start actively shutting down pointless Apple debates. But he doesn't want to do that. I'm sure there's a reason for it.

Yeah, because having a bunch of righteous do-gooders flagging topics as inappropriate isn't as much of a feature as you'd think.

I think we should all have the ability to add arbitrary meta-data to other posts and to write/tweak our own scoring system to recognize the pieces of other user's rankings we saw as useful.
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Using the pieces you built as you move along is a great idea, and an opportunity to understand the optimizations required to make them performant.

I think one reason, why they may insist is because, the basic pieces you built will be in HDL, while if you use the ones provided by the software, they will be in the form of compiled Java code. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why the books pieces will be faster/
Wow, people are apparently seriously offended by this.

Y'all really don't think they could've gotten him for cheaper?
Their stock was at its 52 week low and even after the 20% bump it got today its still closer to the 52 week low. Guess either I missed the opportunity to buy it or it was not doing that well till now given that tech stocks have been generally robust over the last year.
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... says the CEO of a QR code startup.

I've been anti-QR code for a while—partly just because I like playing devil's advocate—but mainly because I see little benefit and a lot of friction to use "in the real world"

Now, please, someone on HN who isn't a QR-preneur tell me a story of how a QR code in the wild made your life better ...
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Terminal is a program of some kind, like xterm, (or a monochrome device with nice smooth scrolling), shell is a different kind of program, that interpret your input like bash. TTY is an interface to access a system over serial line, and console is an interface pre-configured for administrative access. ^_^
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I've been experimenting with using QR codes just to copy/paste text and bookmarks between computers. It's something that sounds simple, but really there aren't any good ways to do that, especially not once you add mobile devices and computers other than your own.
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Yeah, when Apple ships something in September the press will say "I guess they can survive without Steve" even though those products have been ready to go for a while.
QR-codes can act as a fallback when NFC isn't available on the device.
I've used QR codes to exchange contact information with people at conferences, and found it to be the most efficient means to go from meeting someone to having their email address in my phone.
The real thing will be image scanning and nothing else. I'll post a video soon here on HN to prove that images are way better "barcodes" than both 1D and 2D/QR barcodes.

What I can say now is:
1. QR codes don't work on distances - state of the art image algoritms do.
2. QR codes mess with the brand appearance - basically H&M don't want a QR code all over an ad.
3. QR codes fail when there's reflection, dark dirt, and very skewed camera - state of the art image algoritms don't.
...

I wish I could post our video today to prove how much more convenient image scanning is - and what we use it for - for non-believers, but I have to wait a few weeks. Until then check YouTube.
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...well NFC/RFID will be useful for some scenarios - but they don't work on distance reliably if you want to target "something" directly.
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If you are interested in eye tracking and HCI it's worth reading up on saccades (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade) and eye tracking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_tracking)

I didn't do much HCI but worked with some HCI labs that did saccade analysis with photography and photo manipulation. Fascinating stuff.
Saves me having to open safari and type in long url (better spel it right too). Im a huge fan of getting stuff done faster so if its cuts out a step Im all over it. But Ill admit that QR tech has a some resistance ahead of itself before people get used to it.
Ill agree though that many QR codes annoy me when it just goes to a home page. staples.com is not difficult for anyone to type in...

Im sure there is some character count threshold for the average user where a QR code would be worth the effort of opening the scanner app and scanning it rather than typing in a URL.

Then again there is placement, Im not going to be able to scan a QR code on a freeway billboard or on a car going by but on a subway or bus advert where Im already stuck in a spot for 10-15 mins and probably already have my phone out is great placement. Advertisers and QR codies have to be smart otherwise it will turn people off and it becomes just another thing in our face.
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Right - because chiseling the incoming CEO is exactly what you want to be doing when the entire world is looking at you for signs of confidence. You've got a market cap that's a third of a trillion dollars, and THIS is how you handle the most sensitive transaction imaginable?

Christ, what total lunacy.

And what if Cook decided this is bullshit, and goes? Then what? That's right, total implosion. And for nothing.

And by the way, since when is 'cheap' a part of anything that Apple does?
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The world wide web was created on a NeXT computer -- if that's a failure, I want to fail! Also the NeXT operating system still lives today inside of OS X...

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A terminal can also be a hardware device with a keyboard and monitor that is hooked up to a computer through a serial port. I used to have a VT102 hooked up to my Linux system at one point (it's in storage now).
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This seems like a horrible way to do things. I really don't want to throw a ton of loop logic (data-foreach?) and other data attributes in my HTML.

I think all of the JS MVC frameworks will be short lived. Someone (hopefully) will develop with a real soup to nuts solution that will make writing a front end heavy app simple. In Rails, I can see it being as easy as "act_as_front_end" somewhere, and the app automatically serves up your JSON to a generated frontend that mirrors your Rails app. I know that would be a hard thing to make, but this is where things should converge.
My understanding is as follows:

a. A good developer should be able to know a few languages, and to keep on learning new languages.

b. In theory you pick the best language depending on the requirements of the project.
Again, what makes you think 'cheap' is how Apple wants to be perceived?

Pay more, demand more, get more. Only idiots (or the truly broke) focus on cheap when they're standing in the spotlight. What you really want is value. And given that their stock didn't crater in what is, again, the most sensitive transition imaginable, their non-asshole savvy already paid for itself several times over in the last 48 hours alone.

If you're going to cut corners, play lowball, or just or drive a hard bargain, fine. But be sure you're doing it in places where you can afford to lose he deal.
Why should they know the difference between these things? Unless they are trying to implement a new terminal, there isn't much of a reason to know this minutiae. The rationale for the differences between them are mainly historical and not really a good design.

Now, I'm all for a "History of Computing" class being required for CS, but that's another story. I also wish that I had time during undergrad for a "History of Biology/Chemistry/science/alchemy" class (I was a biochem major).
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I said about QR codes on Twitter a while ago:

"QR codes: like using a megaphone to seduce someone. The ugliest, stupidest, most useless (and used less) tech in a while."

Background:

I worked in the music business for a while, and we always tried to be at the forefront of trends. Because of the position we were in, where we were able to market through technology with built-in lead generation that didn't cost us anything (radio, television, PR, movies, etc), it was a good way to test a technology with a lot of people early on.

QR codes were a flop. We tried them a lot (http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/mobile-marketing-qr-cod...) and they never caught on. We'd have been better off putting a short URL up.

They are inelegant, ugly, and scream of self-justification from people more infatuated by technology they understand (badly) rather than use.

Reminds me of other "mobile marketing" trends, i.e.: ringback tones, ringtones, video ringtones, and anything RIM tries with the music business (i.e., thumbplay). And the Motorola Rokr.
A terminal is a physical device for access to a computer. The VT-100 and Teletype ADM-33 are both examples. Xterm is a terminal emulator for X--it pretends to be something like a VT-220, so you can run your text mode programs.

TTY, of course, stands for Teletype, which was a common terminal used in the early days of Unix. In the old days, you'd talk about having a whole room full of TTYs. Now, it seems to refer to the emulated terminals provided by a Unix-like system.

A console would originally be a specific terminal (often hard-copy, like a Teletype) hooked directly to the computer for administrative tasks.
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I'm sure most people these days don't know that the VT102 was an actual physical device, not just a configuration option...

(I'm only 33 and having get those kids off my lawn moments...)
Wait, what? Can't all of these magical "state of the art image algorithms" be applied to scanning QR codes?
Let's be clear about this: a terminal is what you have to disinfect Friday nights in the computer lab after a week of disgusting freshmen.

Wikipedia is sorely lacking in this critical detail.
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I think the Lisa has to be considered a prototype rather than a failure.
I'd like to think it went mainstream. You can still find those same discussions, but they've gone to the subreddits (which was a fantastic idea, by the way).

Maybe HN should do something similar.
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Meh, I think it is that people really just don't feel like they have an optimal choice. So they decide based on what matters to them most. Some think healthcare and education are more important, others security and freedom. Either way you can't have it all.
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From by biased perspective scripting languages are leaders for web development.

* Ruby
* Python
* JavaScript
* PHP

These are also the most brittle because they invent and change quickly.

I used to be a PHP developer and I thought the frameworks borrowed heavily from the stable Ruby and Python ideas for web app development. You'll find the crazy ones in Ruby and Python and a safer ground in PHP. Safest in Java. My bias.

Vibrancy != longevity. Rails 3 bit me tonight because I didn't understand a 201 status code and I almost hacked the path and then what was going on…it felt like the most correct, wonderful thing to do. I'm happy with the result, especially because the code is clean and browsers honor it without a fussy redirect.

Ruby and Python are vibrant, hungry communities.

PHP is vibrant, more stable.

Java is stable and most difficult to introduce an idea to unless it's a language atop the VM. :)
That math is not quite correct. There is a timeout before the TCP stack will release the port for use in a new connection. That timeout can also be tuned, but just saying, not that simple...
The long Esquire interview referenced in the article is worth checking out:

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> Apple's branding and advertising tends to exhibit a similar focus on how their products will improve your status, rather than on the capabilities of the actual hard/software

Look at the lid of every mac book. Which way up is the Apple? Your way so that you naturally see it right side up when opening the lid? - no - it's upside down to you, because the point is, everyone else is supposed to see it.
These algoritms can look for features in the image in a matter of milliseconds and match those against known ones (which is not a problem, the set can be huge withour performance impact if handle correctly). If you want to detect QR codes that works per definition of image detection, but you are not bound to such - a red shirt with a tiny tiny logotype is good enough characteristic.

Not sure if I answered your question though. Did I? :)
You think they're ugly? They've always reminded me of abstract expressionism, I enjoy seeing them.

But I agree with you that they haven't seemed catch on, I think they're about as enticing as a TV ad flashing a Facebook Page URL for its product or marketing campaign during its last 3 seconds.
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Why this as opposed to:

* Clojure on Heroku
* Java on Heroku
* node.js on Heroku

They aren't doubling down on Ruby, let alone Rails.

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Steve Jobs is a great man, but isn't this a little much?
For a newbie to web programming, it seems like Ruby has the spotlight on it.....

I would love to go the Java route, but I keep seeing fragmentation ala platform on top of a platform....not sure if that is the best thing to work with.
My "Formal Methods in CS" prof dropped this conjecture into a problem set without naming it or remarking on its heritage.

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