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^ this.

That is 100% my experience too, and it's complete bs imo.

Between the co-opting of "interactive designer", "web designer" and "ux designer" I am just happy to call myself a developer now.

A developer who also knows a thing or too about design, and yes, user experience too (duh! isn't that a given?)

I will do this until people realize that developers, in this web/app/tech industry, are really the designers -- and it will happen one day :)
Are they? On Ruby conferences, I see showoff (by schacon, sorry for the missing link) pretty often. It can be exported as well.
Sounds like a cool idea... Off-topic but I run a meetup group called NJ Startups and would love it if you joined! http://www.meetup.com/njstartups/
Cool app. One method of getting quality lists created is to offer bloggers a backlink in return for creating good lists. This has 2 effects they are more likely to create a list. They are also more likely to promote it/ write about you/ their list as they will want to improve the seo benefit of the backlink you have given them. Have to bear in mind that you will get some spam and so you need to be ontop of moderation.
I have some reservations about upgrading the Market app in my CM7.0.3; that strikes me as "plumbing" software, in the same way that I would not update com.android.dialer.

Are my concerns founded or is it just inexperience raising its voice?
I think of it this way: the majority of iPad users probably spend less than $10 on apps, ever, and the same for media. And a big proportion of them spend $0, only using the iPad for Web, email, Facebook, etc. So on this group, Apple makes a couple bucks on apps and media, tops. Compared to the ~$100 they make selling the iPad.
There's no cost or anything like that... Just trying to build a startup community in NJ.
While Finland's educators have much to be proud about, this is not a particularly difficult goal to reach. You simply need teachers who care, administrators who have students' best interests in mind, and parents who aren't trying to protect their children from any challenge or punishment.

Of course, those things are fairly rare, and it isn't that easy to create such an environment. But, as anyone who has even been in such a school knows, it isn't due to "reform" or "constantly trying to improve" in the way that parents and education policy analysts expect. It comes from fortuitous groupings of teachers, shared priorities, and people who are sane because they love their families, get enough sleep, and aren't under stress.

This is the flaw in most education reform: in a broken social environment, working harder for incremental improvement leads to more stress and worse interpersonal relationships. It's like a bad programmer who works 80 hours a week to make up for his inefficiency, and is surprised that he gets even worse. Sometimes it's better to just take a break, reset your goals, and try something else.
I hate abhor mobile formatted sites that only send me an image reduced to 25% of the size. I can zoom in and see full detail on that full sized image when I want to, but only if you send it to me. At least allow me to tap a reduced image to grab the full asset on my phone.

[This applies particularly to photos or any images with small text in them.]
Org-mode is an unmatched tool for keeping track of your day to day tasks. I have yet to find an alternative that offers scheduling tasks with as much flexibility as org-mode. The biggest barrier for me, however, is that org-mode runs inside of Emacs. As a Vim user, I have tried all of the org-mode implementations for Vim and have yet to find one that can come even close. Further, fitting something similar to org-mode into Vim goes against the simplicity of Vim which I value so much already.

Taskwarrior is a decent command line alternative to org-mode, but is lacking in the scheduling of tasks department.
Thank you, that was very helpful and informative.
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I also disagree with Arrington on the Touchpad, but Gruber and other Apple acolytes' disregard for high-volume low-margin markets seems misplaced. Yes, Apple makes a lot of money by tailoring devices for high profit margin markets. That's clearly a lucrative way to do things, if you can pull it off. But, obviously, not everyone can. Surely there's room in the market at large for both models? And surely it's good for everyone to see competition at all levels?
Your short rant, on the other hand, is so elaborate, so unique, so daring and so enlightening!
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On the one hand, using examples which do nothing more than print "quack" is a bit of failure of imagination on the teacher's part. But then, _needing_ an example to do something other than print "quack" is a failure of imagination on the student's part.

You had, I assume, seen functions before.

If I were teaching such material I would keep the content of the functions themselves as simple as possible to allow the student to concentrate on the novel material. Once I had established that the student understood the principle we could then examine or at least discuss more "real world" cases.

If we go back to the original article for a moment, I can far more easily see an immediately accessible problem-set emerging from bird / duck / penguin (e.g. programming the behavior of animals in a virtual world) than a particular drum machine whose operation might make no sense to many people. Are ducks a "subclass" of bird? How do we handle the face that penguins and ducks can swim and penguins can't fly? Is it useful to consider be the penguin as a "bird" at all. Perhaps we shouldn't have a "bird" class but an "animal" class. Should we do multiple inheritance? Mixins? Templates? Perhaps we'd be better with an "animal" class and allow some animals to fly and some to swim? Are complex classes like this bad? How could all these different approaches to OO design be applied?

Now explain to me how a drum machine illustrates these problems in a way everyone can immediately appreciate.
In fact it detracts from the mail with a misleading title.
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>Have you actually written, in shipping code, a single-linked list or an elementary algorithm to operate on one?

Yes, I have. Admittedly, I had to do it much more often when STL was a toy.

But this is not the reason for this question, this is simple coding exercise, if a candidate can't do it without bugs in 10 minutes, there is nothing to talk about. Of course jobs not requiring writing C++, Java, C#, or Python code need different set of questions.
yes, this was my point. in an absence of evidence making a claim either way is foolish. guess I should have phrased it differently.
Not everyone needs to be Apple, or to do things the Apple way. Apple makes big margins on their $500 hardware. Why can't HP or some other company be profitable by making small margins on $200 hardware, moving a lot of units, and taking a cut of app sales?
So why don't you have twenty? Or one hundred? Did the quality of the children decrease linearly or is it just the third that was so bad you had to quit making more?

I am kidding, of course -- I doubt too many people these days have children for purely dispassionate economic reasons, but we shouldn't pretend that those considerations don't enter into the equation, and aren't entirely legitimate.
http://www.asymco.com/2011/01/21/65-of-apples-sales-from-ios...

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/iphones_ipads_are_nearl...

Keep in mind those cite revenue; of which Apple retains only 30% on apps. In short: if the app store loses to HTML5 in the long run, but people continue to prefer iPads and iPhones at current rates, you'd need a microscope to see the effect on Apple's bottom line.
I have been pretty impressed with https://read.amazon.com/ so far.
Wait - is this special? Don't hundreds of companies do this?
An area chart of format sales over time would have been a better choice than an animated pie chart.
I tried briefly to find actual numbers on the manufacturing run(s) of the Touchpad. I wonder how many of these are really out there. Is this just a blip on the chart compared to iPad numbers?

I'm a bit concerned about what this will do to the real Android tablet market numbers. How many Touchpad buyers would have otherwise bought a low-end Android tablet? That market is already fragile enough without HP blowing out tablets well below cost. (It's not that different than the Borders liquidations hurting Barnes and Noble's numbers when they're already struggling.)

Oh, and when does the RIM Playbook fire sale start?
On the the contrary. Military discipline developed from the necessity of training reliable soldiers who don't question critical orders. Independent thinking is an admirable trait, but knowing your soldiers wont leak information is crucial.

In Israel there is a mandatory draft. Every soldier goes to boot camp and units like 8200 have strict military structures. (Success is hard to measure, but Israel's high tech industry is some indication of the benefits of military discipline.)
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Apple has suggested the App Store is just above break even [1]. I personally find this believable. I download at least 15 free apps for every paid app. It might even be worse. Approving, hosting, and marketing all those free apps comes at a cost that adds up.

By contrast Apple likes to mark up hardware at 100% over bill of materials. That is to say if $300 worth of components goes into an iPhone, Apples wants to sell it for at least $600. The major exception to this is the iPad which Apple takes less to keep pressure on the competition.

Regarding iAds, I believe iAds was suppose to have sold around $65 million worth of ads for the initial launch. The revenue from that being split between Apple and the app maker. This is a tiny drop in the bucket. And there are reports Apple is having a hard time getting advertisers to renew. [2]

[1] http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_app_store_runs_...

[2] http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/10/apples-iad-program-strug...
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I would disagree and say that the majority probably spends significantly over $10 on the apps. Remember, the "normals" who don't have the time to jailbreak their devices and such, those people actually pay money for games/apps ...etc. For somebody who was willing to pay ~$1,000 for an iPad, paying $10 for an app is not a terrible option, so I'd guess those people spend _significantly_ more than $10.

On top of that, there's probably a smaller segment of users who spend _ridiculously_ more than $10 on applications, and then even more on in-app purchases.
Apple's total software sales, which include but aren't limited to their cut of the App Store revenue, brought in $696 million this past quarter [1].

For comparison, their total hardware revenue was just under $28 billion [Ibid.]. Making software something like 2% of their total revenue.

That is, more or less, a "drop in the bucket," as Gruber says [2].

[1]: http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/fy11q3datasum.pdf

[2]: Which doesn't of course, make Gruber any less of an insufferable ass, yada yada, so on and so forth.
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According to a recent study ny IDC, China finally overtook the US in the world PC market and with this the long established supremacy of the US led by IBM and Apple Inc has finally come to an end.
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Good post. No one has cracked the discovery nut well in e-comm yet. If they do though, the bigger challenge will be monetizing effectively. You don't want to end up like Yelp, waiting for a Groupon to leapfrog you.

Inspyr (www.theinspyr.com) has an interesting take on the monetization, and unique UI to boot.
If you want to see the future of Google support, look no further than AdWords "support". This is Google's money maker, and most customers are largely ignored.

Google's "support" is basically a series of weak decision support systems that yield nothing of value, unless you're a complete noob. Email support is a guy in India that does a look up in the public knowledge base and sends you the result.

If you can get your hands on the unpublished support phone number and call it, you'll have to enter your account number. Then the system tells you nicely that you're not important enough to talk to a live person. Fine, for me I understand, I was only spending $400 a month, but there were people on forums that were spending $10K a month and getting the same treatment.

Sometimes I wonder if Google will ever be more than a text box and a button. People knock Apple and MS but these are real software companies who understand much of their business is customer support.
Interestingly, it works fine on 5.0.5 on 10.6.7.
yeah, even a million touchpads wouldn't be anywhere near apples numbers AFFAIK. I've heard numbers ranging between 250-350k for touchpad inventory.
The article actually notes that those up/down 2% results are statistically insignificant ("a specific person didn’t quite matter among the set of people we tested"). But the lift from no-person to big-smiling-face was very significant: more than 100%.
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> you should be A/B testing.

37 signals should be A/B testing, because they have the volume to do it.

Many of us don't, or aren't sure. Anyone want to comment on what sort of numbers you should be looking at, roughly, in order to get statistically significant results?
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all we need to do is teach kids how to open and run a business. that'll get things turned around ...
A very interesting idea of moving abroad to take advantage of cheaper labor. But, he suggests taking 9 months of prep time (6 to move there and try it out, 1 to vacation there and think about it, 2 to do research) before even starting the company in another country.

In that amount of time, you could take a product to market, iterate a few times, and gain considerable traction. I wouldn't trade that for cheap labor. As an entrepreneur my most precious asset is time; I can't give up a week much less 9 months without advancing the company.
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Recently Steve announced 2 billion paid to devs. That makes apple's cut close to .9 billion. Meanwhile in a quarter Apple has profits of 7billion.
What I mean is that even without knowing that, you can still do it in an automatic way.

E.g., like this: https://github.com/albertz/automatic_object_locking/blob/mas...
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Judging by their track record, the fact that AOL paid $36.5M for a company doesn't mean the company was worth that...
Thanks for the links, I'll definitely check them out.
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The Hawthorne effect probably wouldn't apply since it requires the subject to know he's the subject of an experiment. The novelty of the new designs might be a factor, but since we're measuring new sign-ups, it seems kind of unlikely that a lot of people were familiar enough with the design of the page to realize it was new.
It would be a huge step forward if more people simply did the things we all know we should be doing...

That's what I mean by "effective security".

Although security breaches at banks should fall under such laws (especially since they have personal identifiable information), I do not believe defense contractors, energy concerns, industrial suppliers, etc, should even acknowledge such breaches simply because of national security.
Why can't you just share a simple link?

Note these presentations were made with a different html slide deck utility, but I think that it should be easy to do the same thing with deck.js.

http://bit.ly/mozilla-metrics-mango-brownbag
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I'm interested in this too. It sounds like it would be hard to do A/B testing pre-launch with our tiny volume, and unless we get a significant amount of volume immediately post-launch we won't have much data. However, I do plan to get a framework in place for A/B testing immediately after launch as we go into a refinement phase.
Procrastination at his best! Writing a blog post about how to optimize your tasks by customizing and configuring a mode of Emacs!

Obviously, I'm not totally serious here since it seems that he use it effectively each weeks; And I'm also happy that he shared it with us. However, talking for me, my best todo process consists of "Do it NOW else write it in todo.txt".
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Nice. I checked, and the source to the restore tool has been updated too:

https://github.com/sreitshamer/arq_restore

(I haven't run a test restore with it yet, though.)
I don't see why they should be different. Consistency conveys simplicity.
> > Will WebAPI provide hooks for standard widgets for dialer, SMS, contacts, etc?
> Yes, that's its precise purpose.

I'm not seeing any indication that standard widgets are even in their goals. For instance, their Telephony API [1] lists functions that an application implementing its own UI might call, but nothing that indicates that those are UI widgets or expose UI-like functionalities.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674726
The Reddit thread yesterday has some detail and discussion.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/jqnpa/oops_china_...
Virtually all AES/RSA/SHA256 cryptography outside of a very few well-known, well-regarded cryptosystems is effectively snake oil.

It's a credit to Zimmerman's article that he doesn't leave it at "don't write your own block ciphers", adding that you need to understand block cipher modes (we should stop calling ECB mode "ECB mode", by the way, and start calling it "the default mode"). But obviously, this 1997 article doesn't nearly cover the bases on all the other things you have to do correctly to not end up with trivially breakable cryptography. A lot of those things weren't even known to the public in 1997.

An even more important point is that Zimmerman is talking about cryptography implemented in its strongest, safest venue: data at rest. As implemented by most developers today, crypto ends up in a far more exposed venue: one where a server holds a secret key and uses crypto not to protect a file but to enforce policy. Despite being the 2011 common case for crypto, this is a far harder scenario to get right, because adversaries can devise ways to query the key-holder to learn things about the plaintext, ciphertext, and behavior of the system as a whole.

My advice: don't trust crypto at all outside of TLS, GPG/PGP, and SSH. And know that of those three systems, two were broken relatively recently.
Gotos were traditionally discouraged to students since they would write code that was needlessly hard to follow (and buggy as a result), so instructing them to not use gotos improved the readability of their code and improved their thought processes.

That being said, Richard Stevens, a respected author on Unix programming, had this to say:

http://www.kohala.com/start/rstevensfaq.html
Q: Why do your programs contain gotos?

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The difference here is that Apple has such a good supply chain that it's practically impossible for anyone else to undercut Apple without selling at a loss. It's quite likely that an inferior competing device has a higher manufacturing cost than the iPad.
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Oh, nevermind.
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I posted this in another thread, but it warrants repeating:

The key factor everyone's missing from a loss leader strategy is that the consumables must be a requirement to use the device. Consoles, razors and printers can all sell for a loss because they are worthless without games, blades and ink. You can get by on a tablet (and I bet a majority of non-tech savvy users do) by just using the built-in apps and/or free apps.

If HP went with this strategy with the TouchPad, it would require that a user spend $1000 on apps to make up for the $300 loss on each TouchPad. At an extremely generous $5/app, that's still 200 apps per user.
The Linux kernel does not just use gotos to "jump forwards." If you look careful, they've implemented a simplified version of try-catch-finally. It's a structured use of gotos, implementing clear semantics.
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Also, that cut is revenue, not profit.
You're not alone, but are there as many of you as there are other people? Even if you and a hundred people like you spend 75% of your income on everything that's advertised according to your specifications, that's much less money than 5,000 people who make half as much as you do spending 5% of their income.
HPQ's top line is $31Bn/quarter. Cuts on app sales are a rounding error. Meanwhile, they're selling tablets at cost, devaluing the space they're competing for, and they remain at a structural disadvantage to Apple and Samsung, both of whom are handheld supply chain giants.

How does this work out well for HP?

It's easy to see how it works out well for Hacker News: there's a third viable tablet platform! Yay! But HPQ can't make decisions to maximize hacker morale; they are legally obligated to serve HPQ's bottom line.

Incidentally, your comment addresses only half of Gruber's point; the other half is that a $500->$100 discount's success doesn't prove demand either for a $200 price point or for a product with a $200 BOM.
Stuxnet was Israeli, from what I understood.

That said, I'm pretty sure that if it's anywhere, it's hidden in the NSA or CIA instead, and that they're pretty damn good.
The really sad thing is that it's not just used throughout this infographic, it's all over the web:

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