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> Which do you think will hold up better?

Hold better against what? Parachute drops? I have a laptop with a plastic case and I take on trips and use it at home, never had anything happen to it when I was thinking "man, I wish this thing was built out of a single-piece slab of aluminum to hold up better"

> Who would you rather deal with for warranty repairs and replacement?

A company that is passionate about their customers...?

> Which company is more likely to still be alive at the end of the machine's life?

What does that matter. I'll just review whatever else is new and suitable for me and buy that (It could be a different company).
They should make a keyboard with all the keys on the left side. That way, it won't tempt lefties into using their useless right appendage. [Disclaimer: I'm a lefty, though fairly ambidextrous.]
Thanks for the raw data. We've been considering doing an Android port but were not sure whether the resulting revenue would make it worthwhile. I'm glad to see that the Android paid app market is picking up steam.
I got the same message.
Your missing a huge market - couch gaming.

I have my laptop _on my lap_ working/playing games etc on the couch instead of watching TV.

It's difficult to play many games in this situation.
Oh nice. That looks like a pretty slick laptop. I like the lightpeak integration w/ external video card & BluRay support.
Ways you can get to a doc without the list:

- Bookmarks

- Recently Visited

- E-mail (which are automatically generated on sharing)

- It could already be open in a browser tab, either on your computer, or someone else's (and a friendly copy+paste of a URL can fix that)

There is clearly a big difference between "totally useless" and this state of affairs. And it's of great value for users to know this. But thanks for your FUD.
Typically though you don't custom-weave CF into the product shape; you buy CF cloth and lay it into a mold. I think, though, that a lot of composite layup is still done by hand since it is not as easy to automate as a lot of metalworking processes are.
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Exactly.

And this is the first one. If this succeeds with the high end people (you know those that spend $4000 on a gaming pc), then the price will come down.

This is the best thing I've seen in long time.
The 17" MBP has a quad-core processor, a 60% larger battery, an optical drive, a vertical resolution of 1200 instead of 1080, a 500GB 7200RPM drive instead of 320GB for the Razer, and still weighs 5% less than the Razer.

On the other hand, the Razer will offer a much better GPU and will be $150 cheaper than the high-end MPB 17".

It's hard to compare machines built for such different specs, but I'd say the $150 premium on the MBP is more than justified.
"Eligibility Requirements: US-based HP employees, HP reseller partners, HP customers and HP webOS developer partners are eligible to use these App Promo codes. Promo participants require a TouchPad with a current functioning user profile; with credit card purchasing enabled. The promo codes below will expire on August 31, 2011 at 11:59 PM. Promo codes are available for as long as inventories last."

The codes are invalid, it seems that, according to the last sentence, the inventory has run out. Why HP, why?
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Someone please add "Building Scalable Websites" to that list, as his site appears to have stopped doing so and the link is now dead
Pretty awesome stats. Great job, man! Good insight.
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Quick guess: Best Buy had 270,000 unsold units. Assuming they have 10% of all the market, there would be now 2.7 million Touchpads out there.

All Pre 3 inventory in Europe will get sold the same way.
Prehaps entrepreneurs should stop reading and start doing. Some things are just impossible to learn from a book, and even the things that can be learned from a book can be learned faster and better through personal experience.
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I considered that, and first submitted the WP article. But then I looked at the first line or two of each, and thought that the blog post was more engaging that the WP article. The WP article is then one click away, but the blog post loads quickly, gives an immediate sense of what it's about, and includes the essence of the proof.

So in the end I thought, after consideration, that the blog post was the better thing to submit. I felt it added some value, and wasn't a totally content-free wrapper. Yes, there's more in the WP article, but it feels like it requires more digging. If you're in a hurry and it might not be of interest or relevance to you, I think the blog post is the better item.
Glad to see actual numbers rather than the usual circle-jerk of "only iOS makes money".
The Razer Blade will use an aluminum case, and by the looks of it, it will be a unibody design that is very similar to the MacBook Pro.
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Why don't you just create your own front page with just the subreddits you're interested in?

http://reddit.com/reddits/
It looks like this could be done easily enough with the stasis server mode (http://stasis.me/#more).
Oh! Nice! I may be able to stick to my plan after all then! :)
Did you create your app before or after you heard about HP killing the platform off?

If it was after, what made you not develop any apps when the platform was viable?

This would be a great postmortem question for the HP team - if they had such a compelling development platform, why didn't anyone want to make the effort before they killed the entire thing?
same - I was really excited about Sparkle and Big Boss. Apparently they've been dead since last night. They succeeded in getting me to put in my credit card info too!
I might be missing something, but it looks like you missed the parent commenter's joke.
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Oh you're right, this article actually disproves my point. Doh.
Wow I'd really like to see some data to back up these assertions.

Did they correct for poor welfare moms, blue collar union workers, or Muslims?

To think that only Tea party members and Christian fundamentalists are the only ones who might not understand or have a problem with the scientific method is absurd. I really doubt your average 20 year old wearing a Che shirt cares any more about the scientific method than your average Tea Partier.

What a ridiculous question.
Instead of a handful of keys with tiny LCD's inside of them, I'd like to see a full keyboard that has e-paper on top of every key.
Sorry I don't have a reference, but as long as you are outside of an object, its gravitational force on you is the same as if it were a point-mass (at least for classical physics).
Because they just wanted you to enter your credit card information!
Speaking as a former reddit admin who had direct access to the server logs (and "wc -l"): Quantcast (and Alexa, and Comscore, and all the others) are terrible at estimating traffic. They make wildly inaccurate guesses using low-quality source data and all the ad execs just gobble up their results as if they're fresh off God's own LaserJet. It's very frustrating to watch.

The most accurate results are visible at Google AdPlanner, because it's reporting actual Google Analytics data from a bug embedded on every reddit page:

https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en...

Google Trends is also pretty good -- again, because they have access to actual, real search data which they're presenting raw and unvarnished:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=reddit%2C+digg&ctab=0&...

To my eye, the hockey stick begins in Q1 2010, well before the mid-Q3 spike when Digg v4 was launched.

TLDR: Digg's implosion may have accelerated Reddit's traffic growth, but it was already doubling yearly, a trend which goes back to the site's launch in 2005.
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Something I learned yesterday: Apparently La Guardia has a midnight curfew, meaning that any planes that need to land after midnight get rerouted to JFK. Although this curfew often gets extended due to weather, it's still something worth keeping in mind when booking return flights into LGA that get in after 10pm in general.
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Right. They definitely have saved a lot of money and increased productivity. No doubt about that. But users quickly forget about all of that when they're dead in the water. Even if there are workarounds available like getting to the document directly via a link, you KNOW some users aren't that savvy (unfortunately, but we've all dealt with them).
Many corporations do this on purpose in order to serve their bottom line. Telcos are famous for it. There's a reason you can't call ATT Wireless and request the same rep by name each time you call. They don't want you forming a relationship with the CSR. That might lead to them treating you with some favor. The process is intentionally depersonalized.
I've heard about their UX A/B testing around showing cart flow and checkout, but actual pricing? Can you link to research?
That's a good question. If you think of a model representing whats behind a view, in a non-web world (stateful), selectedness can very well sit in a model - as long as it represents a state of the view.
In this example, the selectedness sits in the collection, however it may sit in the view. See more about this here, for example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6519990/best-way-to-make-...
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The crazy thing is how Reddit dominated Digg at the v4 launch. What the hell happened there? Did the Reddit community mobilize 4chan-style? The article teases us this sentence:

Please forgive the long screenshot below, but it’s important to understand exactly how Reddit blasted the Digg front page at this time

This suggests that they have something deeper to reveal, but instead it's just a screenshot showing the actual posts on the front page—how much rather than how.
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That's what I had experienced - the Babylon toolbar, another one in a long line of annoying crapware.

My girlfriend accidentally installed it when downloading a PDF printer or similar.

They have a search page that looks just like Google's (maybe to minimize the need to switch back).

I didn't get the Microsoft toolbar version, I guess the Babylon one was bad enough.

I used to like C-net, now it's definitely going downhill.
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May I add "Erlang Programming Rules and Conventions":
http://www.erlang.se/doc/programming_rules.shtml

Going through these might clarify for which kind of programming the language is intended in the first place.

And I also recommend Logans book. OTP is an overlooked part in Erlang education although it is nowadays part of Erlang distribution and not a separable part!
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Surely there is a name for this phenomena.

Just like human languages have more than one word for the same thing (words for sex, genitals, alcohol, people you like/love/hate).

When something is popular (like the things I mentioned above) words to describe it flourish.

Also, the url is a close to a universal thing as we have in programming. Almost every framework evolves to eventually deal with a URL (Greenspun's Tenth Rule).

So maybe this is asking why the word for (sex|drugs|etc) are different in English than Russian.

</wild speculation>
It wasn't the reddit community but rather the Digg community protesting the changes to the site and using reddit links to make the point.
You seem to be under the mis-impression that there isn't already a market for gaming laptops. There is. Go to almost any laptop makers page and you'll find a whole section devoted to "gaming laptops". Hell, it's part of how Alienware made their name.

Most of them unfortunately have a reputation for being enormously heavy and bulky, and for generating inferno levels of heat. But people do still buy them. If this thing really does have competitive performance to the current top end gaming laptops and is as thin and nice looking as those pictures make it seem, I think they've got a real winner on their hands.
I already had mine entered >_>
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I'm having a hard time seeing anything of interest in the whole thread, funny or otherwise. Who are these people who see a comment with 600 upmods or 80 downmods and think, "Yeah, I better add my vote to that gross consensus."
As awesome as that setup is, I can't imagine any college being okay with it. Holes in the wall? Glue? Custom flooring even. The amount of damage that all must have caused would give Resident Life an aneurism. Where I go, we have a $400 housing deposit each year that is only returned to us if we didn't cause damage to the room. And then we get fines on top of that if we did anything that would be costly to repair.
Well, unless that person happens to be an entrepreneur with a track record of successfully pricing products much like yours.
It looks like the TechCrunch comments page has somehow merged with the SuperPoke Pets forum. Nobody complaining about their Video Inbox or Pool Party products getting shelved.

Just SPP pet owners.
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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2000/09/38622

Searching for Amazon different prices with Google provides many claims of this over the years.
Do you think that malware deserves its own section? Or might it be simply a related field? I have yet to hear of a computer security course that does (real) forensics or encourages creativity to better understand the criminal mind.
How much would that increase the cost of the product, though?
Really a pdf...government.
A simple jpeg would of worked.
I wasn't happy with the hiding of comment scores on hacker news but I think that reddit should go in that direction. Keep the existence of karma but no longer show it to any users -- there are far too many posts that exist solely to collect meaningless points. I think that would drastically improve the content of a number of subreddits.
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Jokes don't have to be funny to be recognized as jokes.
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Thanks for the details. Feel like sharing numbers for the iPad too? Please?
Many of the users on Digg considered V4 to be about monetizing the site at the expense of a lot of features they really liked.
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After.

The only reason I didn't create one before was because I didn't think the platform had enough users to make the ROI on learning how to program for WebOS worth it.
And in case it helps, I was about to write the exact same comment. They are using Alexa numbers which are, basically, unsubstantiated guesses.

Heck, they didn't even bother to read the numbers reddit actually publishes.
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These studies always leave out the negative side of social sensitivity: bullying and exclusion. In a task worked on for 5 hours everyone still has on their party manners.
GPU becomes a lot more important if you are going to be using the laptop for gaming.

Ultimately they serve two different needs and therefore two different markets. For one person the Macbook is a no-brainer, but for someone else, the Razer laptop is a better choice.
I certainly hope they succeed. Not only has Alienware's quality reputation been slipping, but they've always been absolutely hideous eyesores. This razer actually looks pretty sexy.
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Surprised that no one has yet mentioned EOPL ("Essentials of Programming Languages"). An awesome book imho.
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Just want to add that when consuming an API like this, it's always good to make sure you're adhering to the Terms of Service.
reddit was actually already bigger than Digg before they launched V4. There was a lot of overlap of users and people were pissed off, so they thought it would be funny.
In the snapshot he put, the stories has lots of diggs, but surprisingly few views. The first story has for example 5733 dig and only 1015 views. This is not normal, and suggests that something is going on.
Just wait for a YC S13 startup announcement for some kind of bitcoin wallet developer tool or optimized way to spend bitcoins on mobile devices... :)
It's an aluminum unibody according to this: http://www.pcworld.com/article/238897/razer_blade_eyeson_wit...

Not plastic.
Most of the submissions on the default front page are atrocious.
The default is best, but if you've ever sorted by "top", it will remain "top" until you change it back. It's a long standing bug. :)
At the state school I went to they didn't even want us using push pins to hold up posters.
I got these last night. Sparkle and big boss are lame, but I'm not a fan of touchscreen games. Glimpse is the best of the pack. The camera app sounds like a good idea, but is really useless except for taking a picture of yourself.
Hmm, are you aware you can install Windows on a MacBook ? see BootCamp..
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There is no way this laptop is competitively priced with Alienware and MSI. For about $1200 you can get an Alienware with the same GPU(which accounts for 90 percent of your framerate). For under 1500 you can get an MSI or Asus laptop with a GTX 560M which is significantly better than the GT 555M. If you actually wanted a high-end gaming system you could go all out and get a M18X Alienware with dual 6990M GPUs. Just so we can rule this out as a gaming computer once and for all, here is a performance comparison.

$2880 Razer "gaming" computer - GT 555M Bad Company 2 Ultra Settings - 17-20 FPS
$1799 Alienware M17X with single 6990M - Bad Company 2 Ultra Settings - 57-59 FPS
$2499 Alienware M18X with dual 6990Ms - Bad Company 2 Ultra Settings - 110 FPS

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Comparison-of-Laptop-Graphics-C...

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6990M-Crossfire.5...

So price/performance wise, the Razer laptop offers about $550 worth of gaming performance, but it is lighter and also has a $2200 dollar trackpad that no one in their right mind would use to play a real video game.
I think the word "Balkanization" is pretty accurate. "Divergent Evolution" if you're into the whole PC thing.
> and it's in a plastic case, as opposed to a single-piece slab of aluminum.

My Lenovo T400 has taken a lot of abuse, and it's still kicking.

> Who would you rather deal with for warranty repairs and replacement?

In the PC world, each manufacturer contracts this sort of thing out. Apple does it in-house, sure, but that's not how it works outside that ecosystem. I've had no problems dealing with the Lenovo warranty people, and it's fairly likely that it would be the exact same people.

> Which company is more likely to still be alive at the end of the machine's life?

I don't need them to be alive at the end of the machine's life. I just need them to live through (or insure) the manufacturer warranty; then, I can just get any repairs directly or do them myself.

I would be very surprised if this laptop manages to bankrupt Razer within the term of the warranty, even if they did bet the company on this thing.
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For $2800 it had better have an SSD. Compared with a 320GB HDD, a 256GB SSD would only add $2-300 to the price of the laptop.
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If he did the same thing with 1 character strings instead of 9 character strings, he would generate all of Shakespheare very quickly by his definition.
He said he had been flabbergasted to learn that computer science was not taught as standard in UK schools, despite what he called the "fabulous initiative" in the 1980s when the BBC not only broadcast programmes for children about coding, but shipped over a million BBC Micro computers into schools and homes.

It really was a fabulous initiative. I'm not exaggerating when I say pretty much everyone in my classes when I was around the age of 11 or 12 knew at least some BASIC or LOGO programming (though nobody really thought of LOGO as a programming language - it was sneaky that way!).

I am sad to see nothing like that initiative in place today.
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Any reason you didn't include iPad sales? There are also Android tablets, so unless none of your sales are for Honeycomb users it might not be a fair comparison.

I'd also be interested in seeing how it changes when you take into account ad revenue and in-app purchases. Do the numbers stay as close when you add them, or does one platform take the lead?
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Those (and similar symbols) have actually been used in several Node testing frameworks. See e.g. nodeunit (https://github.com/masylum/testosterone), Vows (http://vowsjs.org/), and Testosterone (https://github.com/masylum/testosterone).
Anyone feel lost in the high amount of traffic? I have been a redditor for 5 years and I feel not only has the traffic grown considerably but the content submitted has changed so much. The tone of the site has changed enough that I only subscribe to usually low user count subreddits.
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The processes for Fiberglass and carbon fiber are nearly identical (both use mats of the material and resins that have to be formed/cooked (in the case of carbon fiber)).

I would imagine carbon fiber wouldn't conduct heat quite as well as aluminum, but I don't have any data on that.
It doesn't look like this is a fair comparison. If you ported your app from IOS to Android, then presumably the IOS version has had the opportunity to gain popularity already, which the Android version has not. I'm not a mobile app dev, but I assume that it takes some time before an app can gain popularity and hit it's sales peak.

It may make more sense to compare the first two weeks of IOS sales to the first two weeks of Android sales, even though they'll be different dates. Or, maybe that is what you're comparing and I just missed something.
Actually, one of the new guys fixed that. Hooray for progress!
Sounds like a long standing feature to me; sticky settings. Anyone who prefers setting X over the default shouldn't be forced to change it every time they view a page.
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Neat. Hopefully serious. I bought one put as a test.
I would have appreciated a NSFW warning.
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Having just launched a Mac app, I can definitely say that the Mac App Store market is really wide open for developers right now.

The main caveat is that Mac development is a lot more challenging than iOS development, especially if you want to create a custom shiny user interface like Sparrow's.

Simply put, the AppKit APIs are not nearly as nice to work with as their iOS counterparts.
Gorgeous! I will definitely give it a try when I need to build a static site for the library I'm working on. I like the scrolling effect with the links on the documentation site.
People think a lot of wrong things. It's more productive to inform them when it comes up than it is to change the word you use.
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TIL you can use + to combine subreddits