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only me full time. I hire contractors for graphics and some programming. Android is handled mainly by a friend of mine and we have a 50/50 revenue share.

I also have another iPhone app that sells much better but it came out recently so I haven't had a chance to port to iPad or Android yet.
A few simple thoughts about QR codes.

NFC fails on some advertising... advertising on a metro system? Your advert is likely to be the other side of some high voltage train tracks, no-one could scan the NFC, but people can still scan a QR code from that distance.

For transactions printed QR codes are a poor choice. A lot of the time transactions want to prove that you are there performing the transaction. As an example, think of payments and cardholder-not-present... the magnetic stripe and the chip on a debit card both hold more information (just a few extra bytes) than the 16-digit number printed on a card. It is possible to prove the debit card (and implicitly 'you') were there.

With QR codes someone is able to take a photo of a QR code and then scan it again else where. It's very hard to prove you were there for the sake of a transaction. Ignoring payments, think FourSquare check-ins that are tied to promotions where check-ins are done via QR scanning at a café, you're giving away a deal based on something you cannot prove and is open to fraud.

QR codes do help with transactions that don't require security, and with storing a fair amount of info in a dense area. Think vcards stored in a QR code on badges in a conference, or a bicycle with security QR stickers declaring ownership located in places where a bike mechanic would find them (under innertube on wheel rim, inside handlebars)... the ubiquity of QR readers (pretty much all smart phones) makes them ideal for communicating a small chunk of data to anyone and not requiring specialist equipment to read that data.

Where QR codes have weaknesses are related to storage of hidden data, and different values per instance of a code. Financial transactions depend on this to prove cardholder is present, and stock management depends on this to accurately count stock.

QR codes have their place (advertising, conference badges, tagging things, small chunks of dense data), and NFC has it's place (transactions, stock management). Sometimes these use cases overlap (conference badges) but mostly they do not.
While it is true that the Vaio Z is priced higher than the Air, the Vaio Z also has a faster processor (2.3ghz vs 1.7ghz), and can be configured to have up to a 2.7ghz i7, 512gb SSD, 8gb of ram, and a full 1920x1080 display (the Air maxes out at 1.8ghz, 256gb SSD, 4gb of ram and a 1440x900 screen). That alone would be worth it for many users looking for a machine that is closer to a desktop replacement in a small, lightweight form factor.

Oh yeah, it also includes a CD/DVD drive and a decent GPU (although it is external only).
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Which means it won't be sold by Apple. It's a shame too, because it's the first true iProduct.

Edit: I am a bad man.

On a serious note, I wonder what the power source actually is? WiFi and video must take a lot of juice to run...

Also, is anyone else kind of freaked out that he's touching things and then putting the "eye" in the eye socket with dirty hands? I never had the opportunity to see what an empty eye socket looks like, but I imagine it's got a lot of exposed flesh prone to infection, no?
>Bonus, I can even use it on my laptop that doesn't have a QR code app! Or any other browser for that matter!

hmmm, hmmm, well .. you actually can use QR codes from your laptop - and - any other browser (that supports flash, as the HTML5 webcam API is not yet ready) - i know this, as i created it myself - it's called http://miniqr.com/reader.php (with some paid help from http://www.peterelst.com/)

does it make sense? well, that's another topic.
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Folks seem to be mentally linking this news to Warren Buffett's comments about income tax disparity. Keep in mind that RSU's are taxed as earned income, valued on the day that they vest. Any appreciation above and beyond that would indeed be taxed at capital gains rates (15% if held longer than a year after vesting), but the core value will be taxed at his marginal rate of 35%.

Buffett's tax rate hovers around 15%, because the lion's share of his income comes from cap gains and qualified dividends. Cook will be paying more than double that on his income from this deal.
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QR codes also happen to be a fantastic way for devices to communicate when their primary peripherals happen to be cameras and screens. Both are now nearly ubiquitous on all phones and increasing in quality at a ridiculous rate.

I do not want to do a pairing dance to send you a link on my phone. Point a camera at a screen with a QR code, bam.

QR codes or something like them is a key step in augmented reality based on machine vision. May as well stick with what we've got(1). It seems to work.

(1) Unless its covered by a bunch of brain-dead "gif"-like patents in which case I suggest a grid of Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons, Orange Stars, Green Clovers, and Blue Diamonds. I've heard there's prior art for that scheme.
> I think Windows uses alternate data streams to mark files as coming from the web, if the web server is Unix it can't, and will not do such a thing.

Doesn't that depend on the e-mail client / browser rather than the server? The client will mark the file as downloaded from the internet when downloading it. The data in the HTTP protocol is not altered.
QR codes are apart of our strategy at Infostripe. For free (in beta) you get a web app designed to connect everything about your presence online, a virtual business card. Put the generated QR code on your business card, badge or home screen and bring it all together. It's worth a look. http://infostripe.com

We really like QR codes and hope for a day when smartphone software gets built in scanning and seeking.
In terms of ease of learning for someone with no programming skills, I say PHP, Ruby, or even Python. The community for each is large and not going anywhere.

PHP is a good intro language because you can easily run with it (build a simple site), it has great documentation, and the hosting is straight forward (thus it is easy to launch). Once you get more accomplished with you skill-set, you may get picky and want a more robust language, but 99% of the beginner type stuff can be done with PHP.

Also, Javascript is great, you will use this regardless of the "server side language" as it is "client side" (in the browser). jQuery will help, as it standardizes many common and/or complex problems.
I think they each have their strenghts. A QR code allows immediacy and loudness, it's more spontaneous and fun. There's a mystery to it because it can't be read by humans. A URL can be understood and remembered. It depends on what you're trying to do with the design. I wouldn't say a QR code is a substitute for a URL, it's more of an alternative. And it can be more than a URL.
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As it seems that non-hackers and just general idiots become more common on HN, it would be nice if pg & friends thought about some counter-measures.
Almost every other laptop manufacturer also does that, at least now-a-days. And it was true when I got my first laptop, a ThinkPad in 2004. Did Apple start the trend, and was it different before that? I am not sure, I could not find enough conclusive pictures of older models.

More broadly, this is the kind of rationalizing which probably come from some irrational hate that the grandparent is talking about.

Also to talk about advertising, it generally works that way. Not just in the first world, but in the third world too.

Let me give you an anecdote. tl;dr: ads targeted towards working class in India had the decor which is not even common among wealthy, it works.

I grew up in India, in a rather wealthy family in a medium-sized city. And I mention that, because with it comes with something which is very uncommon in most of the Western world and even bigger Indian cities. I had an entourage as a kid, the kind that only old money has in US, with a pretty minute fraction of wealth. And I was close with some of my help, been to their homes, parties etc. (May sound weird, but is not that common in that part of the world.) And most ads which specifically target them, project a lifestyle which I have generally not seen even among the wealthy i.e. people who they work for. And yet, instead of shying away from those products and considering them elitist, they embraced them, as opposed to the things that used more down to earth marketing. I have not watched Indian TV for almost a decade, but I doubt that things have changed a lot.

So what's wrong with Apple projecting a slightly more stylish and affluent image. Benz does that too, and so do most startup videos I have seen, irrespective of whether they were made by Adam Lisagor.

Errata: On second thoughts, I am not sure if it was true for the ThinkPad. But the Dells and HPs were like that.
Somewhat interesting that most of these comments are about the accuracy of the observations that looks have a beneficial impact in the stated areas. Is that really up for debate with the amount of verification already done on this subject?

I think a far more interesting question is how to exploit this global and obviously negative fact.

1) Don't play the game, you don't want to bother being stuck in a peer group where this is standard operating procedure. The fact that it is so widespread is actually a bonus here because you can easily cut out association with a huge swathe of humanity purely because they are simple beasts hung up on their evolutionary drives.

2) Know that generally, others not playing the game are likely to be focused on other areas also. Take their lack of focus on their appearance as an indicator that this might be the case, try to see where they are actually focusing their attention.

3) If your discard evolutionary metrics for lifestyle, largely you get to make them for yourselves. This is an enormously freeing experience in and of itself and I can't recommend it highly enough. If there's one thing life has taught me it is that you do not have to accept the measures you are constantly barraged with as the only valid ones, and in fact if you don't, you will have less market competition in the areas which you end up focusing purely because humans generally don't do that.
I get the joke and I don't mean to lessen Jobs' accomplishments in any way. But don't underestimate the challenges Cook faces.

Services like Netflix are eating into Apple's video business while services like Mog and Spotify attack on the music side. Android devices have already overtaken iPhones in market share and Microsoft is determined to gain a foothold (which Nokia's distribution channels might provide outside the U.S.). Android tablets are quickly getting better (Honeycomb is still lacking but is 1,000 times better than first generation tablets). On the Mac side you're already starting to see more attempts at cracking the Mac's security (since the platform is now growing fast enough to create a big target).
On the home front Apple still hasn't really cracked the living room market (and I say that as an Apple TV user)

From a business perspective they'll obviously start to see at least a little brain drain as the lure of working with Steve Jobs is now gone. Record companies are still determined to get out from under Apple's thumb and Amazon's new tablet seems to represent the most significant threat Apple's ever faced in that regard. Plus you have market saturation among Apple's traditional market of upper middle class and above (i wouldn't say they've reached that point yet but with their current sales levels the day is rapidly approaching)

So it's hardly smooth sailing. I mean, being on top is great but it also means EVERYBODY is looking to take you down.
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Another issue is the presence of competing technologies: I hadn't heard of Microsoft Tag before (the invisible elephant in the room?), but the presence of rival technologies might slow down adoption. Soon packaging is going to be covered with tags, bar codes, QR codes, etc.
This logic doesn't extend to computers as they are just so much more complicated.
I cannot say for a certainty that they aren't as I'm not privy to that information. I'd hope with the new tokens released the backup of the information should rely on the owners infrastructure. RSA has been put on a secluded network away from EMC network.
Well, in our case we have the long-term vision of being the first choice for bying products via image feature detection. We believe that people in the future will expect anything to be scannable, in same way anything is searchable. In both cases you might get false positives with a rating how good match it was. Though, our view is that most people haven't seen the state of the art solutions in use for consumer products. We want to change that, very soon.
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Why QR codes shouldn't be trusted for anything but shipping labels:

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Say you bank at BofA. On the door of the branch you go to is a sticker that says "Bank online, it's easier" and it has a QR code for you to conveniently scan to access their website. Now say someone came along and put a sticker, the exact size of the QR code, over the QR code of a QR code of a malicious url. Not only do you have no way of verifying the url, but it would even be hard for employees of the bank to notice the change.

You could print 1000 of these stickers and place them on bank doors and ATMs all throughout New York City and I bet you at least 10% would never get taken down.

The malicious url could then easily mimic real sign in screens to harvest credentials, and even have a seemingly legit url.

The problem with QR codes is you have to place almost all your trust in them as they're hard for anyone to verify. When shipping packages, who cares? Whose going to try to change a shipping label while in transit. But trusting your internet browsing to some garble of black squares seems like a huge security flaw.
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I've worked with them quite a bit. The controller/lightweight AP setups they have are by far the best, Cisco's is a horrible stack of kinda working (imagine massively giant event where the cisco controllers are having cascading failures causing the controllers to reboot from too many clients associated to the LWAPs). However, last time I worked with the Aruba's, every model of controller supposedly had the same SNMP MIB but with tiny differences in the enterprise tables that made automatic data collection and management a pain in the ass. However, it's hard to beat IOS if you're configuring by hand or script and Cisco's standalone APs are still some of the best if you get the right antennas for your environment. If you want to know more about the situations they were used in (or most other brands of APs that exist), feel free to shoot me an email.
If someone is discussing the concepts with the wrong vocabulary, then that means they are sufficiently important to that person that the should have known about it.

I wouldn't be noticing that many people don't understand the concepts if it were not relevant to these people. It's not like these are particularly deep subjects either, people directly interact with 2 of the 3 every day. They're not buried details, they're frontline human-computer interfaces.

P.S. Understanding cars is very similar to understanding computers. There are numerous layers of abstraction in place that allow us to rope off areas of understanding for later. I would argue that there is actually more information to learn about cars than there is computers for a few reasons: 1) cars are jam packed full of computers these days. 2) there are half a dozen engineering and science disciplines involved in cars off the top of my head, and that number is only limited by the number I know the name of. 3) (depending on if we're pulling in computing hardware into the discussion or not..) cars are things built in the real world with imperfect knowledge of all the systems that go into them. You can be sure people a century ago were not paying a ton of attention to fluid dynamics in engine cylinders. You can always dig deeper into what is actually going on.

My point is here is that if computers are more complicated than cars, it's not by much. I believe my comparison holds.
Unlike your other examples, QR codes actually have a utility beyond "mobile marketing".
I am not sure I understand the objection. It costs nothing and it clearly makes people happy. Let them be.

Saying thank you, like most happier emotional expressions, has a positive effect for the sender as well as the recipient.
Whose going to try to change a shipping label while in transit

Depends on the value of the goods, and how easy it is to get access to the labels before they are directed on. I don't think that scam is unrealistic at all.
Do you have a citation for this?

If true, it's counterintuitive - one would expect the risk-tolerant investors to have higher returns.
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..and looks stop mattering completely the moment people start speaking instead of looking and deciding weather or not speaking will be interesting.

How you look signals what sorts of conversation are likely to be possible or interesting. e.g. if you really like knitting, go talk to the person wearing the nice custom sweater.
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No. It's not anywhere close to enough. Wozniak might have been the way for the beginning of the PC revolution, but Jobs had the will, and more importantly, he told us all why we wanted it. Why we needed it... There is literally no amount of praise that would be excessive. For what it's worth, I would say the same of Gates, Stallman, Torvalds, K&R, Sussman, etc. etc. etc. Contrary to popular belief, enthusiasm, love, and praise are free.
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I understand the general idiots point, but why non-hackers? I remember that a lot of time I read very valuable comments from doctors, or lawyers, or mathematicians. Some of the articles that go to the front page are not related to hacking and this has always been fine.
Which only matters when it matters. There's lots of use in having sometging hackable. And who knows where it's heading. So no need for the "it's not as scalable as X hence it's worthless" attitude...
I've built a minimal "online presence" website for a friend's business with nanoc.
It does not need any dynamism, since basically it's just: home, contacts page, directions page and products page (unlikely to change more than once a year).

It has the side effect against a joomla install or whatever that if he wants to change something I have to do it for him, but since this event is pretty rare and non time sensitive it's not a big deal.
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They've been doing the image scanning thing a bit in Sweden, where you can take pictures of bus stop ads and be taken to a site. The problem as I see it is that it needs a database connection, which means

* You need a network connection for it to work, so it won't work everywhere (subway ads)

* Since there's a network service involved, it can't be an open standard, and users will need 20 different apps installed for all the different service providers, and figure out just what app to use for this damn ad.

* Due to the network roundtrip, you don't have instant feedback that the scan worked, which is a problem since

* Performance is poor in the dark.

QR codes also solve the problem of telling people that there's something actually there to scan.
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Actually, NO - it's not at all like that.

Teachers are the 'instruments' of government education policy. Sure, there's an inevitable variation in teaching quality between individuals, but the way the system works is that a set curriculum is delivered, and assessed, by teachers. 'Creativity' and 'innovation' has to be quashed to fit within these constraints. This is the cause of much frustration amongst teachers who entered the profession to 'make a difference'. (And this last sentence is very understated.)

Education is a factory: it processes young people through an assembly-line of set ideas and knowledge, much 'political correctness', and 'dynamic range compression' (an analogy to audio processing) of the highest and lowest intellects - culminating in an individual suitable to place in a working society.

Please don't blame teachers.
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Nah, it's not really that big of a deal. It's a little sensitive to irritation from foreign debris, but that's about it.

I don't think I've ever had an infection in mine and have probably only scratched/irritated it 4-5 times in the past 16 years. Usually that only happens when something gets behind the prosthesis and rubs. More often, I find that I've given myself a black eye in my sleep, because a hard prosthetic makes it easier to bruise the lid than having a soft, squishy eyeball in there.