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The problem is not using "everyday computing" as a descriptive element in the marketing copy. It's using it as a category differentiator.

Let's go laptop shopping!

store.apple.com. Presented with pictures of things, with the name of the line under them. I can see (I don't even have to read or select a menu, I can just see!) two types of laptops: the Air and the Pro. One is little and the other is big. Do I want a little laptop or a big laptop? Little! Click on the little one, then click through "select a macbook air." Presented with two more pictures: 11" and 13", each with text underneath offering two options (more or less HDD space). At every point, the gist of what the difference is between the various selections is painfully clear to the shopper.

shop.lenovo.com. Presented with: promo for IdeaPad U300s. What if I want other laptops? Shop -> Laptops & Notebooks in the small text below the big promo. Now I'm presented with three lines of laptops. Aside from color, they look the same. How do I differentiate? One is for "basic everyday computing" the other for "dazzling multimedia experience" and the other for "tools to save time and money." Whereas I didn't even read the marketing copy on the Apple site, because I had pictures that got to the heart of the differences between the models, here I'm stuck reading marketing copy to make a decision. If I select "prices you'll love" does that mean the others will have "prices I'll hate"? Luckily Lenovo has given me a matrix to help me choose. The matrix has 38 rows... Say I blindly click on the ThinkPad. Now I'm presented with 6 series. The bold text to help me differentiate is more marketing copy: "environmentally friendly" versus "mobile freedom." Are some of these laptops not environmentally friendly? Do some lack mobile freedom? The information that is most pertinent to me as a laptop buyer (weight and screen size) is actually at the bottom of the lists in the same font size as the footnotes and legalese!
"but he forms cogent arguments"

No he doesn't. The majority of his posts are transparent fact twisting and fantastically uninteresting (as are the predictable comment threads surrounding most of his posts). On the rare occasion he's not outright fanboying for Apple, he can be a decent and breezy writer.

Unless he's actually providing some interesting commentary (and yes I do give his posts a read so I don't try and kill something that's genuinely useful) I'm resigned to just flagging his mindlessly biased nonsense.

In other words, I don't flag all of his stuff, but I did flag this.
The site design is hideous and should've made a better attempt at mating Gowala with AirBnb, but I love the idea. I walked across a chunk of Europe a couple of years ago and made good with hostels and such, but many times would've just preferred to pitch a tent overnight and be on my way the next morning. That being said, I'm a quiet, respectful person. Can't wait to read about all-night raves and tweakers gone berserk out in the shed.
Apple had to send their engineers over to Intel to teach them how to build the chips they wanted for the Airs. They wanted lower Ghz.
That is clearly a freaking insane idea in a language as widely deployed as Python...
NaCl is LLVM, bby the way. Portable NaCl is really cool though - it's an intermediary LLVM bytecode that's cross platform.
He has his bias, you have yours.
from friends who have "unlimited" vacation situations I think it can turn into a bit of a guilt trip. Like, if you want to look good, you take very little. That being said, not sure if that's company culture or just workaholic friends.
It's hilarious that Lenovo's answer to the Macbook Air is the Lenovo Air: http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/268742-7-the-u300-s-vivid...
Brightly sounds almost as interesting as Dash. A web based IDE from Google!
> You used to be able to...

And you still can, if you live like it's 1960. Cancel cable, Internet, and everyone's cell phones. Never fly. Don't buy organic food. No HDTV, iPod, iPad, or laptop. Have a modest wedding. Don't send your kids to college. Live in a one-story house with one bathroom and a small garage for your one car.

If people today have to work harder and smarter than their 1960s counterparts, it's because they choose to pursue a correspondingly higher quality of life.
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> but only on controversial posts such as Gruber's

You do realize that, by definition, "controversial" is a subjective notion, right?
I Like the ethos behind Dash but language design is also an art, and judging by Go - Google is not very good at it.
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In Thai [also tonal] people definitely sing tones. The tone is a deviation from the baseline, either up or down or falling or rising or whatnot. So even if you're singing high, you can do a low tone. May be different in Chinese [or just some Chinese music].
Is there a service to produce video like that? Where you'd choose your music, say the texts, and automatically that'll create a couple sample of it?
Agreed, but Carter was the first neoliberal president.
I'm a geek and I couldn't care less what WiFi chipset is in my laptop.

I was shopping for a ThinkPad X220 for someone, and it had the option of the regular screen or the "premium" screen for $50 more. They don't tell you what the "premium" screen is or why you'd want it. I presume the regular screen is shitty. Can you even imagine Apple offering such an option? A $1000+ laptop with a shitty screen, with a $50 option to upgrade to a non-shitty screen?
Google's Closure compiler also has some kind of ability to add stati typing annotations to JavaScript.
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What they're talking about here seems a bit vague, but with all the talk of somehow being related to Harmony, this sounds more like Traceur (get a jump on that slow-moving JavaScript) than whatever Dart is going to be. But I could be totally off and maybe Dash is Dart.
Apple's vertical model didn't work for the PC industry for a variety of reasons. But now in the new mobile industry it is so successful, that literally every big company is trying to go all vertical, all the time.

Hardware, software, development tools, operating system, mobile and desktop platforms, app stores, single sign-on, cloud services, music, movies, and tv delivery, voice and video communications...

Google, Apple, and Microsoft are all trying to build an entire computing stack, back to front, and leave the other guys out. Nokia, Motorola, and HP knew they weren't going to be able to compete in the new vertical world. Samsung is trying to get into the OS game with their Bada and maybe something after that.
The title annoys me, it suggests a mass extinction of server side code and the article describes an evolution to a more complex beast where existing traits are maintained and added to.
Your best bet is to check out Strongtalk to see if the main designers have a good artistic sense. It actually has a number of similarities to how Dart/Dash is described.

http://www.strongtalk.org/index.html

Although perhaps because it's Smalltalk you can't learn much from this example.
High level:

Capistrano is a tool for deploying your applications. You use it to push out new versions of your own codebase.

Chef and Puppet are tools for provisioning/configuring servers. You use it to install the right third-party libraries, programs, config files, etc.
Whatever happened to undo?
To all of the UX designers who think it's super-trendy to have dialog boxes without save/cancel buttons, please have the goddamn courtesy to at least provide an undo feature. Thank you.
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Eric's gotta love that popping collar picture.
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Wow, way harsh.

Those of us that actually use Go are pretty enamored with it.
I really want to know what everyone thinks about this… I've been teaching myself RoR to catch up, and now I'm a bit worried I need to be learning node.js or backbone.js.
I was fully expecting this to be a parody site.
If you honestly want to live in the 60s, you can pick up 1960s era farm equipment for the price of a song. The job is right there on your land. Commodity prices are strong right now and with no real machinery capital outlay, you'll have no trouble making a living as a farmer.
This is a question with a remarkably easy answer:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/placebo-effect...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/placebo-effect...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-placebo-ef...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/placebo-effect...

Placebo effects are strongest for patient self-reported subjective symptoms (classically, pain) and weakest for objective clinical signs measured by experienced observers.

By the way, the co-author of the reported study should not have been taken seriously by a journalist as a medical researcher.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/dummy-medicine...
Right, but you can't discount the vision that Jobs had to show Apple and everyone else that having products that are uncompromising on design + are solid technically will lead to great success.
> The reason that the government should provide . . . welfare . . . is that it results in an incredibly desirable situation where any citizen of the United States would know that, no matter what . . . it is guaranteed that they will be taken care of.

I don't see it desirable to disconnect causes from consequences. Quite the opposite. Society functions best when people are very aware that their choices have consequences and when they choose to act in ways that produce good consequences. In fact, individual responsibility is essential to civilization. Society would just fall apart if more than a few percent of people began acting irresponsibly.

For example, America has a problem with education. There are a lot of children not learning despite a lot of money being spent. I think a root cause of the problem is students knowing that nothing bad will happen to them if they don't work hard in school. If all the unmotivated students would be put to work for a few weeks in picking crops, with the promise that this will be their lot in life if they don't learn, I suspect the education problem would solve itself quickly.

We live in a world where it is possible to be tremendously productive and wealthy. But it is still necessary to labor and be disciplined to achieve wealth.

Retirement, doing nothing productive knowing that you will still be able to eat tomorrow, should be the reward of years of diligent work, not the entitlement of the lazy who want to benefit from the toil of others without contributing.
Believe it or not, people once did productive work on a computer with a 386 chip. Fastest does not necessarily equate with best.

EDIT: I misinterpreted the above comment. It's Friday and I'm sleepy.
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> We can't recruit for you, so please don't ask. We hope you find the advice below useful nevertheless.

Does this mean they're closed to new clients? I've never seen a recruiting agency do that.

Edit: they are. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2979874
BTW, you're seeing a test that most people can't see. Here's what it looks like: http://mashable.com/2011/09/04/amazon-redesign/
NaCl does not allow direct manipulation of the DOM or provide other JavaScript APIs like canvas. NaCl provides alternative ways of getting things done like pp::Graphics2D, but it is not meant for DHTML. Dash, on the other hand, provides access to JavaScript APIs.

I think that browser "assembly" code, like Dash, would have to support this, particularly if it is meant to be an alternative to compiling to JavaScript.
great analogy. and just like with food, anyone who has a clue about what they are ordering, will never enter an apple store.
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How do you launch Gmail in offline mode if you just booted you machine without any connection? It's not offhand, HTML5 offline support is limited.

Also, please update your info: Adios, offline Gmail on Chrome for now:http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20066170-264.html
How hard is it for you to not click on something you don't want to read?

I see hundreds of posts here every day that I don't click on, some in the top 5. I don't start campaigns to censor these posts, I assume people upvote them because they find value in them. Obviously people find value in Gruber's posts if they are being upvoted.

So here's the suggestion again: don't click on it bro. Problem solved.
The first time I tried reading Anathem, I couldn't get into it and put it down for a year. Then, while travelling (read: lots of time on my hands), I picked it up again and couldn't put it down until I finished it. The richness of the world and the pacing of the plot (past page 300 or so) as the mystery is revealed is gripping. I didn't think it was an earth-shattering book, but it was certainly a great read. In the same vein, Ender's Game is just another book about a child prodigy/outcast who saves the day. It seemed far more profound when I was 13 than it did upon re-reading. Some books aren't revolutionary; they're just a good read.

I haven't read Snow Crash or Diamond Age, but I'm about a quarter of the way through Cryptonomicon right now and it's starting to get good. I find Stephensen's books tend to start off slowly then quickly pick up steam.
> Why do you feel you need to frame the argument as such?

While it might not be your view, the notion that the poor "deserve their lot" and even that their being poor is the Will of God (evangelical prosperity theology) is literally a mainstream conservative position.

If this doesn't ring a bell then you haven't actually been paying attention.
Status is a zero sum game. Also:

a perceived threat to one's status activates similar brain networks to a threat to one's life. In the same way, a perceived increase in fairness activates the same reward circuitry as receiving a monetary reward.

http://www.edbatista.com/2010/03/scarf.html
It's exactly the point other market players don't get: give people less choice i.e. less confusion. Save their time and they will pay premium for that. And in the end, serious and smart people care about piece of mind not specs or even price.
Yes, Manber derives the linear-time algorithm for the maximal subsum problem exactly like that in his textbook. As you say, if x is involved in a maximal subsum, it must extend the tail's maximal prefix sum, so you return that in addition to the maximal subsum.

Regarding recursion vs iteration, Manber generally develops the right induction hypothesis gradually, using informal language ("remove the element and solve the smaller problem") in the process, and only turns that into a precise algorithm once the final induction hypothesis has been found, so he doesn't present the recursion elimination as a separate step. That works well pedagogically. His main idea is to guide the student's intuitions rather than formally derive a program that's correct by construction the way someone like Richard Bird might have done it. (Bird has an interesting derivation of the maximal subsum algorithm that begins with the brute-force algorithm written as a combinator-based functional program and gradually transforms it in a correctness-preserving way using program calculation techniques until arriving at the fast linear-time program.)
I think you've misread my comment.

The extra Mhz here is wasted because Apple intentionally values the heat/battery dynamics more in this product. That's how the whole 1.7 Ghz lines of the Core Duo (and now the Core i5/i7) chips came about: Apple worked with intel to make the chips and got a good deal of exclusivity. This was all made clear when the Macbook Air debuted with Paul Otellini and Jobs onstage together.
I don't know but am also interested. I do know of services like GrumoMedia that make top-notch vids that lots of startups use to market and intro their product.
You can have growing inequity whilst at the same time having better non-monetary benefits for all.

For example, in medieval times in Europe (and identically in sub-saharan africa), there was very low inequity.

The ruling class did not own anything except the shirts off their backs. Their jewels were "crown jewels" and couldn't be sold. They had control of the land, but usually couldn't sell it between themselves.

The few fungible valuables they had (salt, and other trade goods) barely elevated them above the common masses.

Today, the power of the ruling class is magnified a 1000 fold, but the working bottom 10% lives better than they ever have thanks to innovations in technology. Indeed, the bottom 10% lives even better than medieval kings despite living in a highly unequitable society.
Isn't it about selling the sides as well, like the soda's?
What an odd way to decide which machine you'll use every day for the next year or more.

A clean install is really easy -- maybe one hour if you sit and watch it, fifteen minutes if you use your old laptop while it's going... why would you let a cost of <one hour drive your buying decision?

Setup time is part of the cost of a system. I'm sure that the apple machine isn't actually ready for you to use it out of the box -- if you're like most HN readers you'll have tons of tweaks you need to install before the computer actually works the way you want it to.

I'm writing this on a x220 with a 240GB Vertex3 under the hood, which is 4-10x faster than my coworker's13" 240GB macbook air for bioinformatics workloads. It cost about $100 more, and yes it required a clean install as part of setup.

The profit I've made on that $100 + 1 hour is insane... probably 100x return so far this year on decreased compile & run times (calculated as delta in experiments per day times my annual salary)
Objects are not idiomatic in this particular case in Ruby. That's why we haven't been doing things this way for the past several years. Ruby's pseudo-functions (actually private methods on Object) and class/module functions are idiomatic. They are part of the Ruby language, and people use them all the time. Not only is this not the idiom in Rails, even vanilla Ruby projects avoid this, despite the lack of a framework pushing them in that direction. Ruby is very strongly OO, but idiomatic Ruby doesn't go out of its way to call attention to this fact. We don't fastidiously box every block just to make sure everything goes through an object interface, nor do we write 1.+(2) just to make it really clear to everyone that 1 is an object and + is a method. To create accessors, we just call attr_accessor — we don't do AttrAccessor.new(self).

The code Steve suggests here would be more idiomatic in Java than in Ruby. That's what this reminds me of — Java's endless array of classes-that-want-to-be-functions. Next somebody's going to realize that you might want to present dictionaries in different ways, so obviously you're going to want a DictionaryPresenterFactory to create a DictionaryPresenter to your specifications (because just having a method with that functionality would not be sufficiently OO, obviously).
>>Jobs deserves a lot of credit, but there are hundreds (if not thousands) of people doing the critical design work that make Apple products great

You could say the same about the car-driver relationship.

"The driver deservers a lot of credit but the car has hundreds (if not thousands) of parts doing the critical work of moving the car forward"

Or you could substitute parts with designers.

Keep in mind that Steve Jobs chose Tim Cook and Tim Cook worked only with the approval of Steve Jobs. Had Tim Cook not performed (just like the car) be assured that he would have been replaced by a better person (car)? This in no way diminishes the person (car) but notice that the main person doing the decisions is Steve Jobs (The driver).

Had Apple failed everybody would have blamed Steve Jobs not Tim Cook, so I don't understand the double standard.
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This looks like (from my admittedly limited perspective) an attempt by Google to build their own language ecosystem to reduce the reliance on Java and limit any potential future liability from patents held by sun/oracle.
Maybe I'm a little biased, but I didn't find the "more evil" joke especially funny - to me it felt like they'd taken it a little too far so it was more mean-spirited than necessary.

I did like the "whiner" one though.
One is in dollars, the other in dollars per time unit.
That discussion of Science Fiction heavily disappointed me because it lacked any mention of some books that are full to overflowing of amazing ideas and insights. And well written to boot.

The Uplift Trilogy (the first one) by David Brin
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A fairer comparison might be the X220 with the 6 cell battery which is about 2.9 lbs and around 10 hours (advertised). It also has a 12.5" IPS screen.

I believe the 3.6 lbs you mentioned is with the 9 cell 15 hour battery.

For comparison the 11" and 13" Macbook Airs are rated 5 and 7 hours, respectively.
My reason for asking, is that most small business started over the last decade have been LLCs. If the stats are only tracking corporations the data could be extremely skewed.
Steve Ballmer has the first 1000 covered.
I'd agree w.r.t. Go in a sense, but Java doesn't have much of a stake in front end web development.
I don't care about WiFi chipsets either and should have added that in my comment. I was just using that as an example of the type of thing geeks might care about.

I just took at the Lenovo page for the first time ever. Of all the PC manufacturers, I've probably spent the most time on Dell's, and Lenovo's site looks like a complete rip-off of theirs.

And that display choice is horrible. Like you said, the $50 gets you a "premium" screen, where the only discernible difference on the page is that it comes with a 3x3 antenna instead of a 2x2. I've never heard of YxY as a measurement for antennas, nor is it readily apparent what 3x3 gives me over 2x2 (speed? power?). Not only that, I have to decide whether a webcam is more important to me than a 3x3 antenna because I can only get the webcam (a $30 add-on, by the way) with the 2x2 antenna.

Whatever respect I had for Lenovo (which is more than any other PC manufacturer thanks to their apparently successful continuation of the ThinkPad) just went down the drain. Average people are supposed to get this stuff? Give me a break.
The separation of Java the language from Java the virtual machine might allow Sun/Oracle avoid the Innovator's Dilemma. They can maintain Java as a conservative language, the "COBOL of the 21st Century", but innovate with new (but conveniently binary-compatible) languages like Scala and Clojure.
Those parts are inanimate, they are not making decisions in and of themselves. Even the engineers working on the cars are operating within the unchanging constraints of physics. Also, if Apple fails people would blame Jobs, but if the car suffers a mechanical failure people don't blame the driver. The driver of a race car needs to push the machine to it's limit but not past it or he will flame out spectacularly. Such is not the case of an established technology company. In fact whole goal of a race is much more uniform than the goal of a company operating in the consumer market where you are contending with the fashion and whims of the public at large.

All in all I just don't see the point of such an analogy. It sheds no insight. Racing cars and building tech companies are no more alike than skydiving and underwater basket weaving.