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What I've noticed is that Apple like to charge money for their products and services, with spectacular fiscal results. Why would they want to blow money on Twitter?
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It wasn't underpowered for its time. It exceeded its competitor, the iPhone 3G, in specifications. I think what really hurt it was Android's immaturity at the time.

The HTC Dream was an odd little device, but it still holds a special place in my heart (I ended up buying one dirt cheap to hack on, so I could use my N1 for daily use)
This is a valid point. I'm in Germany and half of my software is localized, so search is Strg-S, the other half is not, so search is Ctrl-F or F3, or /, or whatever.
There is a Japanese dollar store here in mountain view called Daiso and it is great.
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I see some sort of internship process in the future for this...where they make high schoolers do this for 40 hours a week <___< . I mean, if humans do better on it, why not make it some sort of job, eh
https://twitter.com/#!/stevej/status/104955838384451584
Ichiban-Kan in SF is pretty good, too.
It's not quite accurate. As far as i know, two of the people listed as having left haven't (yet) and others who did leave aren't listed.

https://twitter.com/jkalucki/status/104452365515628544

Of folks who were there at 2007, about one to two years in to twitter's life, there is still @jkalucki, @alissa, @robey, @stevej, and @jack of course.

The truth is that for the most part there were people hired in above the original employees and they were able to keep doing tech roles. Most didn't move in to senior management. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Yes, but my comment was much more general than this particular event or invention. I only posted it because it seemed like a good context.
Any time someone says "company x hates company y", I stop reading, because it's always more nuanced than that. Any sufficiently large company competes with others on some fronts and collaborates with them on others. Apple uses Google Maps and Samsung chips. Google employees have MacBooks (and yes, they are even allowed to carry iPhones if they prefer).

At the end of the day it's about who can make the most money, and which set of alliances will get them there. No more, no less.
FWIW, you can commonly score an HTC Surround for about $100 on Craigslist, and they are completely capable, albeit unsexy, devices. I never experience the slightest lag or slowdown with Mango on mine, and it feels much faster than my iPhone 4.
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Scoble sure is great at reporting facts! oh wait!

https://twitter.com/#!/stevej/status/104955838384451584

> @Scobleizer hey, @robey and I still work at Twitter. @jeremy left in 2009 but we see him in the office from time-to-time.

Why do people still listen to him?
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And how does that make HP any money?
If you do that, you must hit the $ key 1.6 times to get £ to appear, which is kind of a pain.
I can not speak for other dollar stores but please let me educate you on how Dollar Tree manages their corporate chain.

First off there should never be an expired item in the store. If by chance you happen to come across an expired item, by making an employee or manager aware the item will be removed from the shelves immediately.

Secondly if you look closely at many of the products in the store you will find brand names to be different but the manufactures to be fairly well known. Americans tend to buy known brand names, thanks to advertising. Ask anyone who works in a packaging and labeling factory and they will tell you they label the same product with multiple different branding labels.

With that said my final point. Many company's have to much product, Dollar Tree corporate finds these companies and offers to buy all of their over head that would otherwise go spoiled or unsold at less than 48 cents on the unit. A prime example is Chicken of the Sea tuna which is owned by Van Camp's, however in Dollar Tree it is simply labeled Van Camp's (same great tuna just a different label and 20 cents cheaper).

Items will only be thrown in the dumpster if they're damaged or expired. Otherwise they're sent to another branch location for sale if it doesn't sell well.

Sure Dollar Tree deals with mass production companies located in china and other "cheap labor" parts of the world, so does the rest of the big boys in the S&P 500.

In my community Dollar Tree is the only company that hasn't frozen wages, still offers competitive wages, and offers decent employee benefits. I do not work for Dollar Tree nor am I affiliated with them in anyway, I currently work for the black hole A&P.
I've been meeting with two high school teachers from Silicon Valley who are enthusiastic about technology - especially "edtech" (education technology) - while still retaining a critical eye towards them. They are also remarkable teachers who apply as much science as art to their classrooms. One of them even crafted an organizational & classroom management system several years ago and has been training new, willing teachers in that system. Both also have impressive backgrounds (one is a Harvard grad, in case you care about that sorta thing) and work at a high school that serves a predominantly low-income, underprivileged population.

Long story short, these are the educators of the future. They aren't afraid technology and have evolved their teaching styles to mesh with it well. And younger teachers who are rising through the ranks now will be even more tech-savvy and progressive in mindset.

I'm pretty sure James Miller is correct in his article that higher education, as it is today, will change significantly. It has to. But I don't necessarily think it will mean a significant drop in demand for college professors. Perhaps there will be a significant drop in demand for bad college professors, but not good ones with an evolved teaching style (whatever that will be).
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Like every single article on the subject, the author fails to propose an alternate credential system that will replace college. Will some academics (like the author) lose their jobs to technology? Probably, but that has little to do with the credential aspect of a degree.
Awesome. I was using sml-modeline before, but it was not nearly cute enough.
He does address that right at the end.

The critique points out that when you're connecting solar panels as in the original 'tree' article, you actually get the performance of the worst panel in the set, since they're all connected in series to each other. If that's the case, then you wouldn't get much (or possibly any) advantage from using the tree layout versus a standard fixed position layout.
If I dare say the blind 'this tribe hates that tribe' seems like a very modern concept. It was always subtle alliances, people fighting and cooperating together, bar some very monotheistic warfare like the crusades, and even they were not so black and white.
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In Common Lisp, 'Fourth' is the fourth item in a list, rather than 'Forth'.
The pervading opinion I've seen over the years is that University degrees are mainly arbitrary hurdles for professional jobs. I don't necessarily agree, but that is besides my point. If people at large really think University is an extravagant waste then we are now in a position, to do as the op suggests, and implement the technology to "fix" that "problem". Technology optimizes many other areas, even ones as deeply entrenched as post secondary education. It's not as if we will have to throw all the tenure profs. to the wolves either, someone is going to have to be curator of the online material after all. Things change, sometimes even in academia.
Privacy is about as binary as security - that is, not at all.
That link is sold out but I was able to purchase one from OfficeMax (online) at the discounted price.
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Yeah, I definitely am, though right now I'm thinking that's a good thing. I tend to take forever building/planning things and never launch.. the 1 x 52 project will get me in the mindset to actually launch, test concepts before spending too much time on anything, really make it an "M"VP. Are you posting your projects in a blog or somewhere I can follow?
Dang. Is there anyplace tracking these sales where I could sign up for an email alert?
Check my profile. I'm in Beijing.

Like it or not, the vast majority of the world uses a keyboard layout closer to that of the US than of Sweden.
> Let's say, for example, it actually had been started with variables using a £ rather than $, would it have made any difference at all?

I think that had more to do with the $ usage in Perl rather than with currencies.
You start paying for an instance as soon as you create it, whether you're running it or not. To keep a disk image around for an instance without paying for the instance, you can use snapshots, which use a different storage system.

We protect against those types of problems at the moment with keeping patched up to date. Xen doesn't solve this problem either, it has had it's own share of vulnerabilities with these kinds of repercussions. Even selinux only mitigates some of the risks - not all. A combination of mandatory access control and a good update, audit and monitoring strategy is the best approach imo.
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It's not just you. White text on a black background is HORRIBLE design. That's why my Readability bookmarklet sees a lot of use.
"pathologically_eclectic_rubbish_lister_regular_expression_match" would be my first choice.
"Humanity grows exponentially, food production grows linearly" has not been debunked. People have starved in the last few decades, and we barely managed to avoid a widespread catastrophe through a big one-time upgrade to the best farming techniques known. How many other improvements are left before we reach biology's productivity limits? How long until we run low on natural gas to make fertilizer, having long since mined the pre-existing fertility from the soil?
Yes, I'd love to get my hands on it and put Android on it.
One of the principle reasons people value it is that so many world wide banks hold it as a hedge against turmoil.
Facebook's XHP is a magnificent tool that you need to use to appreciate. It lets Facebook build a website out of reusable components that know how to load their own data. It's very different from the MVC paradigm, but very light-weight. The XML components are full PHP classes, including allowing for methods, subclassing, etc.

The emphasis on components instead of pages is not strong enough in many other web frameworks like Rails.
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Well, the downside of doing these so quickly (so far) does seem to be less time marketing them.
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I've always thought that it was the challenge that caused society to work towards a common goal. Violence is one part of that, but the space race worked effectively (though that was closely related to the cold war).
Mostly yes. By default bash is used, but there are some command not found in linux environments and vice-versa.
Outside of The Professions, where is college an effective credential system? College is clearly not that important in our field. Even at the companies that most famously do use degrees as selection criteria, the requirement is trivially circumvented with the right work experience.
hopefully not very hard: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1224540
I still insist to write "behaviour" despite the protests of my spell-checkers. And I am a Brazilian/Hungarian educated mostly in Portuguese to whom English is a third language.

I blame my high-school English teacher.

But then, when in the browser, I also catch myself submitting forms with control-x control-s.
This is already extremely common, with significant efficiency gains. As ever, the downside is added complexity and cost.

See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Solar_tracker
Thanx, I'm a young ruby developer and found several of your links valuable!
If not I think they are very similar try a few commands in both and see the results like for example: uname -r
that should display the kernel version
It's as if you're proposing that your time has value, and that fungible commodities should be sourced based on expediency and price.

Utter crazy talk.
You're right, but they also aren't averse to providing free stuff when it backs up a product. Eg. Ping (admittedly dire), iTunes (free music player), all the free stuff in the App store (apps, podcasts, ebooks). And Facetime.
Good point.

How about you press $ eight times - that gives you five £s and then you hit backspace four times leaving you with one £.
Bootstrap.less seems like it's just a bunch of LESS preprocessors for things like rounded corners, color transparency, grid layout, etc. Bootstrap goes further and includes navigation bars, table styles, alert message styles, and a lot more. It's conceivable that Bootstrap.less is used in Bootstrap, because I know that Bootstrap has similar LESS preprocessors, although I don't know for certain.

Skeleton is very similar to Bootstrap, and Skeleton was designed by a designer at Twitter as well. Bootstrap seems to contain more styles for things like tables, alert messages, modal dialogs, etc.
I currently run an unsexy Android phone, so I could bare with something less than optimal. It runs, makes phone calls and I can play with it, so I am happy and fairly easy to please. With that being said, I just checked ebay and you're right, the surround is listed quite cheap. I'm currently in Canada (for now) so I wonder how easy it is to unlock so I can run it on a Canadian carrier?
Outside of the silicon valley/ tech industry, it's impossible to get a decent job without a degree.
They are clearly on the track to developing their own software; if they don't, a similar business in the same situation will.

How long before they want to book orders via website? Unless there is an OpenTable for gardeners I am unaware of, that will require some custom code.

How long before they want to join their calendar and help desk software? How long before they want email logs integrated into the help desk? Those are custom software opportunities.

One of the most interesting things happening in software right now is how easy it has become to write just a little bit of it. The idea of a gardener developing, or directing the development of, custom code would have been laughable 20 years ago. With PHP and MySQL and ubiquitous cheap web/app hosts and proliferating web APIs, it's become increasingly common.
>> Technology is advancing, rapidly, to the point that humans are not able to compete in a general sense and in a number of fields. If you're edged out of a job as a human it's getting more and more difficult to re-train.

> Ok let's say they don't re-train. Let's say they just go out and try to find a job as

No, the point is what if: 1) The easy to do and train for jobs are all automated away. 2) The available jobs require PhD level expertise to do.

If I've studied for 8 years to get my quantum physics PhD to get my job as a technician at Quantum World, then it's going to be damn hard to retrain for 8 more years to get a PhD in Natural Language Processing to work phone support at AutonomaTech.

People are becoming increasingly specialized. If automation eliminates the easy to learn jobs, it gets harder to jump from one specialization to another.
It seems to work ok for subjects like chemistry, biological sciences, and other engineering disciplines.
How do I find unused functions in my PHP project?
The problem is: there are plenty of 13-year-olds that apply the same astuteness to ants, pet rabbits, pocket calculators and other things that are not really interesting to the mainstream.

So the reason why everyone is excited about it is that there's a hope to get a contribution towards a socially relevant problem. Except there's not, because no one is there to explain to the kids how to design an evaluation for their solution that makes it possible to relate it back to the important problem.

As a comparison, consider a cake baking contest in which only the participant himself/herself is allowed to taste the cake where everyone else can only look. This would not be a recipe to develop good-tasting cakes, even though you probably get some very beautiful cakes made out of styrofoam by people who believe that styrofoam tastes great.

Besides giving up the claim that science fairs are more relevant to science than high school orchestras are to music (because, reasonably, a high school orchestra delivering a crappy performance of a virtually unknown piece may still make some kind of contribution), another possibility would be that somewhere between regional and state levels, participants get expert advice on their creation and formally have to factor in the expert advice into a revised version of their experiment.
Can you list some of them?

The concept of editing the game loop code while the game is still running is new to me (even though apparently this has been around for a long time).
Couldn't agree more. Its been the use of XHP and looking at the ... contraption HPHP is that started me thinking about this in the first place.
He just said, "The funny with my Lundum Dare entries is I never have any idea what game I'm making while I'm doing it."
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It may not update fast enough, but http://wantsthis.com will email you when an item in your list goes on sale on that site. You could just add all the sites you'd buy from that still have it at the normal price. (Although I've only tried it on Amazon, fwiw)
No, your problem is that the UTF-8 encoding of U+009D isn't 9d, it's c2 9d. So if you're encoding it as 9d, you're not writing out UTF-8, you're writing out latin-1, which of course leads to displaying random characters. Serve your page as utf-8 and encode it properly.
Why would one spell it 'forth'? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals#Ordinal_number...
Can I order these and ship internationally ? I guess OfficeMax does not ship over seas.
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Yep. Maybe small companies are this way but within something the size of Apple or Google there are always different groups with different plans and priorities.
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How long until some bored hacker writes a british<->us PHP compiler and posts it here? I give it a week.
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Thanks for updating the title.
This linking of services is very irksome, and has driven me off of several. Microsoft was there first, as usual, but Google is following in their footsteps.
Nonetheless I give the kid credit for exploring Fibonacci and biomimicry. Cool concept.
Very nice contribution!
Previous submission here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899191

2 days old, 72 points, 12 comments, actual scholarly article is behind a paywall that many universities can get through here: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2011/CC/c0cc05...
But how do you know generated UDID won't collide with other phone manufacturer companies?
And if PHP was Japanese it would commit Seppuku.
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They may domninate the download-and-own market. However they still need to compete with other distribution mode, e.g. Netflix and Hulu in video, Spotify and Pandora in music.
> If I dare say the blind 'this tribe hates that tribe' seems like a very modern concept.

No, that must be one of the oldest tools of demagoguery ever. It was probably useful in the prehistoric "environment of evolutionary adaptedness" out on the plains of Africa.
It's a question of wealth distribution. Jobs have traditionally been a relatively fair way of doing this. I put in effort to produce something in the economy, my effort is acknowledged through some money, and I can trade that in for the fruits of some of your labor.

The question in the article is phrased as "what about when people can't find jobs?" However, when we get to that point, perhaps the question should in fact be "what about when people don't need to find jobs."

If automation and technology in general continues to increase like this, at some point we should be able to produce the equivalent of today's standard of living with very little human input. Hence, our current framework that incentivizes everyone to work becomes less necessary.

Should people be rewarded with a comfortable standard of living simply for being human, even if they don't do anything, in such a scenario? I tend to think yes.

Here's my proposal: We implement a Basic Income Guarantee as a fraction of GDP. It can be so small as to be negligible right now, but as human capacity to produce increases, everyone reaps the rewards.

When we're so technically proficient that the Basic Income Guarantee is enough to sustain yourself with a meager lifestyle, some may just not work and live on it. Lucky them, for living in such an era, but that's something of a reward that humans could have earned through increasing technology.
congratulations Temporal this looks great! :)
Sorry, can't read the article, blocked here(China). There is plenty of money here, especially if you've got a good idea and whats needed, no shortage.

But China in general doesn't do different or new or innovative. They do better at the same thing, where better usually means cheaper, but not always. If they can't compete in that way, then they just try to get the government to crush any non-Chinese competition.
Its amazing to watch him build this. I also find it inspiring that he is still doing this because he simply loves building games despite the fact he has made millions with minecraft already.
some crazy woman somewhere decide that they want to force the man to create a child?

The third verse of every other rap song is about this very topic.
I do like the PbP's from Peepcode, but Notch is something else.
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I tried integrating this with the html5-boilerplate project as that might improve the cross-browser compatibility. It seems doable. Most tweaks seems to be related to the css reset part as they differ a lot. (Newest h5bp uses normalize.css vs Eric Meyer CSS reset.)
Yes I would because it is where the web is heading. I would adopt Dojo + jQuery or backbone + jQuery and a REST layer. I personally use JAX-RS because I do a lot of enterprise apps and Java is entrenched there, but there are REST libs for most major platforms now.
The knowledge that it is still a beta product should soften your anger, it's a matter of tweaking the system it's nothing to be offended by.
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True, but everyone tells people to be realistic and not idealistic. I think that's one (not the only) reason for things becoming better.

In today's world swimming with the crowd is what works best for most people. Not because it is better, but because everyone does and therefore don't know anything else.

However continuing to live without a plan won't really get you anywhere either, so "works best" isn't completely true.
I, for one, would prefer clojurescript.
That ship has already sailed.
Thank you :). I'm happy you like it :).