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> holding down one key while pressing another has no parallel to real life searching.

Yeah, but having a device instantly find something for you among a stack of 100 pages also has no parallel to real-life searching. The parallel to real life searching is paging through pages one by one, or browsing an index - precisely the things we're trying to get away from.

If you stretch your search for metaphors too far you end up with outdated ones nobody knows about - like for searching it'd be the old library card catalog. Heck even today, I bet a majority of computer uses have never used a filing cabinet with documents in folders.

At some point we have to create new metaphors, when the digital realm create opportunities that never existed in the real world
"Who would want to buy the HP PC division?"

Maybe a dominant tech giant seeking to control every level of its customers web-browsing experience:

Chrome Browser, ChromeOS, Chromebooks, Android OS, Motorola-Mobility acquisition...
And whatever it is that we do or don't do if we do or don't do it "will strengthen our ability to focus on further innovating with webOS". Please still come to our developers conferences!?

I commend the PR guy who banged this one out... I'm guessing he risked creating a paradox that rent the space-time continuum to get this down.
This is one of the best HN articles I've read for some time.
Yup. When my mom tries to double click a mouse button, I hear anything from two to five clicks, and the mouse shudders under her hand as she attempts this. The result is predictably unpredictable. She seems to do OK with single clicks.
No, read the comment you just responded to. I only did grading. It wasn't until I asked a friend of mine who was in the class what he thought of it and he responded: "Line numbers are a bitch" that I discovered what was going on. At which point I mentioned to the professor that she might want to bring up man pages.
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There's two sides to this argument and you appear to have missed the important half. Anyone can slap a better GPU on and get better framerates. Not just anyone can slap on "the next GPU up" and still beat you in battery life.

Everything I've ever read about Apple's supposed optimizations is that they have to do with power efficiency.
Haha! Money! I am developing an iPhone app for them and helping start GoLocal in Boston :).

The GoLocal Austin people are awesome and a half :)
I like SMS. It's completely universal, anyone who owns a phone made in the last 10 years can use it. It's great to build applications on top of (Twilio, Voxeo), and it's very efficient-- a little slower than XMPP, but it has the advantage that you can use it anywhere, even if there's no wifi.

Paying to send 160 chars of text is a little annoying, but at $0.01/text it's hard to complain too much about.
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Your stance is a kind of funny. When people complain about certain web dev tasks being difficult on Windows we say, "Yeesh, just run Linux already! You can even use a VM."

And if you ask me that's precisely the response MS should give to requests such as yours. I mean, would you really expect them to port their SDK over so that a handful of Linux devs will consider trying it out? Doesn't seem like there would be a big payoff. I bet a majority of devs who use Linux wouldn't even consider it. After making a WP7 app at my day job I sure wouldn't.
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If you're worried about this kind of tracking, install the Ghostery addon for Firefox, Safari, or Opera. It blocks like buttons, +1 buttons, google analytics, kissmetrics, and a few hundred other trackers.
Having "The Social Network" be the first trailer would be awesomely meta.
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He omitted a bigger, more central point:

The main drive in the economy is more productivity; the main approach there is more automation; the main approach there is computer hardware driven by software.

Next, the main point about software is that it be 'smart' enough to give especially valuable output. For that the main tool is math.
This is actually one of the things we consciously look for: companies that are turning businesses that didn't use to be software businesses into software businesses.
... and the doors open. If the dogs don't leave can you really blame whoever left them? Nothing can get rid of the remaining webOS dev dogs at this point.

Too bad. I had a lot of hope for webOS but that has been reduced to barely a shred. Such potential squandered by a big broken machine that paid handsomely for it, sang its praises, made huge plans, and then killed it on purpose.
Jesus, what tech stack is that?
LOL! That's hilarious.
I would wonder what the proper thing to do in this case is anyhow. As a user I'd hope I'd not be asked with a random interface to repost when some background JS runs XHR asynchronous from my interaction. That's obviously not workable. In this case the user of the agent is more like the application code and XHR doesn't really have the API to support this sort of event AFAIK.

Regardless, that is a separate issue to what is being discussed, and the article does mention it; I'm sure it's not that it was forgotten. Standards documents aren't always perfect in predicting every possible scenario so there must always be room for practical implementation and I think IE has a very good argument to make in its favor for this specific case.
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It's modern sun god mysticism loosely veiled in science (go astronauts!) in order to get around that pesky thing called evolution. Evolution is universally accepted by science and if you dig deep you realize everything on Earth is connected in all kinds of ways via multiple evolutionary paths.

What's more probable is that IF any ET exist they live in a galaxy far far away...too far to ever travel to ours.
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>And, perhaps most telling, you can't have a bubble when people are constantly screaming "Bubble!"

Not true. People were conscious, as early as 1997 that the dot-com bubble was just that. It didn't stop an unsustainable rise in valuations.
$1800/mo. Damn. That's the equivalent of working a 40 hour week $10.80/hour job. I'd be pushing my kids down the stairs to make sure we got our money's worth.
The essential error is the conflation of degree of advancement and metaphysical nature.

If ancient ones were visited by aliens, then these aliens were liars for they claimed the mantle of angels and spoke of the Throne of The Almighty One God.
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Women are rejecting marriage in Asia. The social implications are serious.
The main use (as far as benefiting users) for the UID was so that you could install an app on your iPhone, and without ever using any kind of username/password it knew who you were and restored all your data. Of course it also meant ad networks could track you as well. So overall this is a good change, just kinda weird it comes in so late.
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The error does not come from “Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn”, but from â€œIÃ±tÃ«rnÃ¢tiÃ´nÃ lizÃ¦tiÃ¸nâ€, which contains U+009D character (correctly encoded and delivered as UTF-8). Apparently that character is not allowed in HTML documents. So & is not the only character you need to escape, and seeing that even you didn't know this detail, I don't think it's a bad habit to play on the safe side and just escape all non-ascii (printable) characters.

edit: I read the HTML5 spec, it says: "Text must not contain control characters other than space characters". So a reasonable solution would be to pass all printable characters as UTF8 and encode control characters. But as I said, I'd prefer to err on the side of caution, in this case encode more than necessary if I'm not sure exactly which characters need encoding and which do not.
While I don't really agree with Marc's take on what's going on with current tech valuations, he hit on one extremely important point, and about it he is spot-on.

There is a major crisis coming in this country if the gap in skills and quality education continues to widen. Too many manufacturing jobs are moving overseas while high-tech jobs are expanding at unforeseen rates. I worry a lot about what's going to happen, and as controversial as it may sound, I think we may see a day in the not-too-distant future where the minimum wage is done away with.

As for Marc's commentary, it seems to me that every significant example he cited was related to content disruption (communications, entertainment, etc.). So I think a more accurate theme would have been "Why Software is Eating the Entertainment Industry."
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The fact that the now-fiat currencies of the world used to be pegged by some fixed ratio to gold and to one another hasn't totally left the collective psyche.
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He mentioned it in the beginning with Twitter and Foursquare.
Worse than Google Analytics, ad networks loading graphics on remote sites, tracking cookies, or any other form of remote tracking system that's been around since the emergence of the commercial web and arguably is part of its design?
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Sold out online at future shop, was going to get one. I could try door crashing the store tomorrow and see if they still have the one for demo...

http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/hewlett-packard-hp-16...
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Because the law requires it, and it requires it because people who can't drive can kill or harm themselves and people around them. If there was absolutely no risk of harming or killing, the law would probably not require training before you can drive. If not being able to use a computer meant killing or harming people, the law would probably require training but because there is no such danger, no one cares and everyone can buy a computer and start using it with no training.
Another example of legit usage of UDID: TestFlight.
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I still stand by my belief that Nokia should've bought WebOS.
I own a Nexus S, kind of feel obligated to take you guys up on the discount. Thanks.
This is good. You like Gmail. What one better feature would entice you to leave Gmail. Only no ads?
I think the problem for WP7 is that there are now two "good enough" options out there now so all new contenders are going to have to take things a big step forward to attract any interest. From what I've seen of it WP7 isn't enough of an improvement to be genuinely disruptive.

And Microsoft's indecisive churn on its development stack lately has got to make developers a little wary.
When we were writing an iPhone client for our web application, we were considering using the UDID as part of the authentication dialog with the server to allow for easy removal of devices if they get lost and to never have to re-prompt the user for their password.

In the end though, we decided against the UDID and just generated a random "installation id". This works much better in all regards:

1) when the user updates their device by applying an old backup to the new device, the app would continue to work exactly as before.

2) if the user wipes and sells their phone, the next user wouldn't automatically get access to the webapp if removing the device from the app was forgotten.

3) when something goes wrong and users try to reinstall the app, the user experience will be pristine, the server wouldn't know who you are.

4) the sometimes privacy sensitive UDID is never transmitted over a network.

5) it's not using deprecated APIs :-)
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I see the similarity, although webOS is nowhere near the heart and soul of HP that Mac OS is to Apple.

Should HP's management be fighting a two front war against IBM and Apple? Maybe not. Apple dumped Xserve, has nearly dumped the Mac Pro, and pretty much ignores enterprise users entirely despite being on a stratospheric trajectory. WebOS probably means as much to HP's bottom line as Xserve did to Apple's and HP is treading water.

Consolidating on a consistent corporate vision is the first step to being like Apple. HP's vision is all muddled between being a consumer company and being a business company. Hopefully HP can figure out who it wants to be so it can start doing it well.
Am I alone in trying to avoid trailers? I find they tend to give away too much of the story, and always contain the best special effects from the film. I want to be surprised by the movies I see, and trailers act against that.
I agree, I've tried a lot and none worked for me. That was the reason I built GoalStacker. I wanted something that kept me moving forward and helped me not get overwhelmed. I've been using it for a while now and its been working for me, I'm sure it can get better and it will, promise.
If your friends use IM services, you can use an IM aggregator like imo, Meebo, or IM+. There's also eBuddy, but in the past they have sent passwords to their servers in plaintext.

disclosure: I work at imo.im.
Actually, with the exception of the visual layout tools, I find IntelliJ better in just about every way than Eclipse for Android coding. And it's so much better than XCode 4 that I wouldn't know where to start enumerating the differences.

I know a lot of people are happily coding Android apps with Vim or Emacs and command line tools too.
> $0.01/text it's hard to complain too much about.

That depends entirely on where you are and whether or not you have a texting plan.

For example, I have very little use for texting, and simply cannot justify the cost of a monthly texting plan for my (non-smart) phone. Since I'm in Canada, and our telecom companies are all complete bastards up here, I pay $0.15 to send a text. I also pay $0.15 to receive a text. It's ridiculous.
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Has anyone ported Android to it yet?
At $99 I'm sure I could find a use for one. Low price GeckoBoard/Leftronic mini status board? Good looking digital photo frame?
Hah this is funny. I was sitting in the theater this past week hoping there was an app just like this that I could get reminders for trailers I see that I want to make sure I catch the full movie when it comes out. Just wish the android version was out....
No, Blueprint (which I am a fan of, especially with Compass/Sass --- we shipped a product built on Blueprint) is a CSS grid that happens to have some nice typographic defaults.

Admin themes --- which, again, cost tens of dollars --- are uncannily similar to Twitter Bootstrap: they include full page layouts with dummy navs and a series of demo pages with styled markup for... well, more than is in Twitter Bootstrap! (They get to cheat and use jQuery). They are basically what you'd get if you gave a designer the brief "build the layout for my app, Lorem Ipsum 3.2 Pro".

You really ought to take a look at them. I know it's hard to take things from Themeforest too seriously. It was hard for me too. Now I feel dumb about that.
I saw a demo for something like this at a PLDI conference a long time ago. I think it was someone at IBM Research. I'm not sure if this is it, but the Quake IDE extension looks similar: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/other-pubs/sloppy-programmin...
If anybody sees legit links for $99, please post. I was going to get an iPad, but for $99...

Edit: spelling. I can't type.
I think this is why iMessage is attractive, because you're not supposed to notice the difference between messaging friends via SMS or via iMessage.

Now if there were the same cross-platform transparency between other messaging services then that'd be something really great. Sort of like what the hybrid IM clients kinda-achieved in the late 90s.

I can't really see it happening though.
I doubt SAP would want to be sold. HP is in no position for a hostile takeover.

Their [HP] best bet, IMHO is dump this guy, sell off the consumer pc business and get back to their core.

How many predicted this would happened when HP merged with Compaq?.
What an utterly obnoxious "parody." Poorly made and in terribly bad taste.

I highly doubt _why would approve of something so malicious. Likely made by someone who was never actually around _why to know what he was like. Ugh.
Agree.

When you look at someone like Groupon their competitive advantages are "brand", "voice" and "scale", none of which are technological. Facebook, Twitter and Zynga might depend on really impressive development work to widen their moat; but again their potential for profitability is down to a business development team's ability to sell ads and sew up strategic partnerships. They're selling eyeballs, not tech, and the people shouting Bubble are pointing out that eyeballs are fickle, possibly even more so when placed in front of a computer. Advertisers can find other channels too, especially if they're not getting the ROI they want (given the conservatism of media buyers it might even be a disadvantage that unlike display advertising, Groupon, Facebook and Foursquare campaigns can conclusively be proven not to have worked).

You can't really compare FedEx's business model being dependent on software-driven superior logistics management with the public current preferring Facebook to other distractions.
Why would anyone buy one? It's a door stop.
I find it even less satisfying than plugging knowledge gaps with "god" stuffing. Unexplained phenomenon from the past? Aliens did it, and you know, they work in mysterious ways.

At least with a god, you get a complete origin(1). With aliens, you just punt the "how did life originate?" question to a galaxy far, far away.

Its hella good fun for a few episodes of Stargate, but somewhat lacking as a cosmology.

(1) As long as you are prepared to deal with the "where/how did your god originate?" part.
Why? And why do this on whyday? It's totally mean-spirited.

At the very bottom it says:

"Relax, breath. It's a _whyday parady. Maybe _why would love this."

Somehow I doubt it.
I agree on most of your points, but disagree on that guessing encoding should not be done. I think that it conflicts with basic robustness principle "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others".
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I taught myself to ride a motorcycle after somebody explained the throttle, clutch, brakes, and shifter.

Giving some basics is not an unreasonable way to get people into the 21st century. People can take it from there.
In Canada Future Shop, Bestbuy, & The Source all sold out online, but may get more stock. In store they are available, but good luck finding stock.

In the USA apparently HP direct has updated their pricing - they likely have the most stock, so I'd suggest calling/ordering from them first.

I have an iPad & iPad2 already, but I'll pick up one or two of these. I find tablets handy to keep around, keep in the car, etc. Hell, even as a Christmas present you'd be the most popular guy in the office giving these out ;-)

Some ideas for what you can use them for:

Easy browsing on roadtrips (wifi from your phone)
Picture Frame/Video player
Taking Notes
Viewing photos
Games on flight, etc.

At $99 this is a no brainer for me, but I get a lot of gadgets
The bird, 3 down, doesn't look stolen. The rest though, damning. Unfortunately, this is a commonplace on sites like 99designs too.
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I just want a tablet sized web browser to read HN in bed before I fall asleep. Hard to justify $499 on that.
If this was accurate then there is a strategy of buying every company that makes big risky decisions. If the market always hates them, but in general some are good then this strategy will win.

Of course few simple strategies are good so this one probably is not either.
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¹: I believe Unicode encodes some meaningless Kanji/Hanzi glyphs that were created by accidentally confusing two other, genuine glyphs; I'm pretty sure it only does so because it inherited them from legacy pre-Unicode encodings.
This is a good thing; you wouldn't know it because you don't install a lot of enterprise iPhone apps, but UDID "abuse" (ie, broken security systems that pretend the UDID is something akin to cryptographically strong) is one of the top 10 security things that go wrong with iPhone apps.

I'm not sure I can think of anything the UDID does that you can't do better yourself.
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I believe the sale starts on 7 AM eastern time at HP.com. They still have them in stock.