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The funny thing is that it can be easily patched out by modifying the XNU source code, which made me wonder about open source politics inside Apple.
As way of a cautious recommendation:

About a year and a half ago, I was stuck for a week away from home traveling for work. Searching for something to read while I was gone, I popped into an Atlanta Barnes and Noble and futilely tried to find some books which were on my Amazon wish list. Of the five or six I looked for, they didn't seem to have any, save for "Hackers and Painters" (which required a storewide manhunt to track down where exactly they had decided to shelve it).

I read it in my hotel room that night and spent the rest of the week enthralled by the thought of quitting my job and working at a startup (either my own, or someone else's). When I got home, I told my girlfriend that I was possibly in the middle of something, and would need to take the next few weeks to decide if I was about to upend my (our) life. She was understandably nonplussed by this discussion.

Fast-forward a few weeks and I managed to come back down from the ledge. It may have just been the comfort of home, or the general inertia of a content over-priviledged life; but I reverted back to my previous plans, and set aside the fanciful notion of slaying dragons and working at a startup.

So by all means, you should read it. Just be careful about your mindset when you do, lest you also be swept away by notions of ramen dinners and liquidity events. Like a call to the sea, it has the potential to plant itself in your mind and than drive you mad if unheeded. You've been warned.
Thanks, I somehow didn't know about css media queries. That almost makes CSS an appropriate solution to this problem.

Almost.
PhoneGap wraps everything inside a webview so there is no actual native code. Titanium maps to native elements so you can use real UI elements and in my experience at least (based off an older PhoneGap version admittedly), Titanium apps run much faster and smoother.
Same for small-scale computerized manufacturing. The educational requirements are slightly higher (shockingly few people know even the simplest shred of trigonometry) but it's still a great way for some who would otherwise be flipping burgers to support a family.
The good news about PowerPoint is that you start from nothing and have a slide presentation in five minutes.

The bad news is roughly the same.
Ever wonder why it's called a "transistor"?
Core Duo was in a ton of Dells, HPs, and so forth.

(Not that most of what you've been saying is untrue, but this particular part is a bit dodgy.)
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I wouldn't stick Dune solely in the second category. It has a great deal of social commentary, and touches on a number of environmental and ethical issues. Herbert simply went to great lengths to create an extremely detailed world in which to present these ideas.

I think Stephenson's Anathem is a better example of the second category. It's almost purely world-building escapist fiction. There's not any obvious message apart from perhaps a satirical introspective of our own society.
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I have no idea why you are being downvoted, because it's the truth. It's exactly what Apple does.

While yes, no one should need to understand how a TV/Car/Computer/<insert everyday technology> works under the hood, how is that an argument to stop people who WANT to know?
I'm a web developer with experience of technical editing, a native speaker of Arabic, have translated many popular Firefox extensions to Arabic, and worked in "Google in your language" project, since I speak English and German fluently.
I'm willing to help any HN member who wants to localize his startup/website to a RTL language, for free.
If you contact me, I will gladly review the Arabic localization and RTL design and help you with the globalization in general in my spare time.
As a thank you for the community I'm a big fan of.
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That terminology is an approximation of explaining the math that is used to describe what's going on at a quantum level. Basically you end up with a matrix that has one part describing one outcome, and another part describing a different outcome. Both outcomes have to be considered part of the same system, you can't have one without the other. For example, the "quantum bomb tester" https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Elitzur%E2%80... requires both paths to be available at the same time, or the system would behave differently. This isn't just a thought experiment, it's been experimentally verified. Without the bomb of course :)
I thought it was about delivering the clock signal to the processor (before the next cycle) ?

As I understand you have to make circuits faster and smaller at the same time, so you still have time for clock distribution...
Thanks for linking Steve Novella articles. That guy is awesome along with the Skeptics Guide the Universe.
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Hasn't things been always like this? People would complain that Macs were too expensive, wouldn't run most apps/games, that the iPod had DRM, that the iPhone had no SDK, that you had to code only in Obj-C (section 3.3.1, dropped).

In the past, people would try to come up with arguments as to why Windows is better, and ran more games. Today it's all about Android.

It really makes me cringe that some people buy Android because it's "not Apple" rather than because there's amazing Android devices out there.

(Disclaimer: I own an iPad, a Xoom and some Macs)
Right. How does that add to my point?
> Some people may have been spoiled by operating systems like Linux or BSD, where you can look up each and every line of code that comprises the whole software stack

I'm quite sorry, but what? Spoiled by having the freedom we should have for every technology? It's kind of like saying that "Some people are spoiled by having civil liberties, but most people don't care about those".
I don't understand why TEC hasn't been somehow used to make 3D chips workable by now, even just for specialized applications where size and weight are not major concerns.

"Thermoelectric cooling uses the Peltier effect to create a heat flux between the junction of two different types of materials. A Peltier cooler, heater, or thermoelectric heat pump is a solid-state active heat pump which transfers heat from one side of the device to the other side against the temperature gradient (from cold to hot), with consumption of electrical energy. Such an instrument is also called a Peltier device, Peltier heat pump, solid state refrigerator, or thermoelectric cooler (TEC). The Peltier device is a heat pump: when direct current runs through it, heat is moved from one side to the other. Therefore it can be used either for heating or for cooling (refrigeration), although in practice the main application is cooling. It can also be used as a temperature controller that either heats or cools."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling
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Jerry Yang should not be mentioned in the same line as the god (Nas).

Nas is like Mark Cuban. Hot back in the day; picked some fights with chumps, called them out, continued to be on fire.

Jerry Yang is like Vanilla Ice or maybe Milli Vanilli. Did it big in a new way, everyone loved him, then clearly slipped and was exposed; not a one-time thing, but perpetual like the Oyster rollie.

What I wonder: who is the Suge Knight of the VC world? Steve Ballmer? The Skype guys?
http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps

http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Maps-Atlas-Cartographic-Curios...
This book was an epiphany for me! A colleague lended it to me, I started because the title sounded interesting, but I was thinking "here's another cocky all-knowing hacker type giving out cool advice". Boy, was I wrong. I first read the title essay and the truth of it struck me so much I took the day off (not literally, just hid somewhere where I coulnt be found) and finished the whole thing. That was almost three years ago. I've given quite a number of copies as presents and observed similar reactions. I go back and reread parts of the essays every now and then.

A good/bad analogy is a good book (or the good book), most of the advice has very long shelf life.

I created my HN account soon afterwards and applied for YC that winter (rejected). I haven't done much in all this time, though. Books can carry you only so far.
I'm not fully sure what the author is trying to say here.

Is it that a small screen isn't as good for looking at geographic information? If so, then I completely agree. But large tablet screens, touch surfaces, pico-projectors, etc will all come, and be cheap in time.

Is it that there's a high density of information on an atlas? Well, yes, there is - but this isn't necessarily a good thing. It can be hard to focus on the information that you want. A large LCD surface, where you can choose which layers you do and don't want, is surely better: maybe I just want to see contour and topo information, and don't want to see political boundaries.

Maps are awesome, and were great technology. But we're starting to see digital versions that will far exceed the paper ones in almost every way.
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That still doesn't mean that the US can't exit a recession even if Europe or China enter one (maybe it's our turn for good news). Also entrepreneurs should keep in mind that a recession is always an opportunity.
Wouldn't Python's use of whitespace to indicate nesting be annoying? JavaScript sometimes gets into pages embedded in script tags (as opposed to be being loaded from external files by script tags), and this is sometimes done by being echoed by server-side PHP or something similar.

Having to deal with getting the whitespace right while doing that could be annoying, and would also make the code much harder to read on the server side.

I think for this application, the more forgiving a language is about layout the better.
Summary: "kind of, but not really." Only in the comments is the name LiveScript mentioned. I remember actually playing with JS as LS in the Netscape 2.0 days.

So the gist is kind of there, but if you want actual history I'd suggest :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History
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Don't worry about it, if a user doesn't know what Tweets or direct messages are then the service isn't for them. You'll struggle to get people to start using Twitter just to register domains when there's plenty of good registrars already, most people will have their favourite they use regularly.

I see this more as a service for power Twitter users so they can easily register new domains after having a drunken idea.
I can recommend the Carpet Makers. I've read it in German. The structure of that novel is quite interesting, too.
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HTML is perfectly fit for the purpose for which it was designed - presenting content in a way that different pages of content can link to each other. It's only recently that people have begun to use it as a platform for applications.
Sequoia is EMI or Universal. Been in the game since the beginning, play in multiple genres (they invested in a bunch of restaurants, life sciences, etc., not just rap). Their hip-hop/tech business is Def Jam.

Paypal is the Wu Tang Clan. Awesome as a team, split off to do awesome solo projects too, but still linked up through the 36 chambers and able to form like voltron.
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I'm looking for a web based application that is focused on personal metrics and logging.

Things such as the ability to manage a timeline with various waypoints and periods that I can set according to things that happen in my personal life.

Do you know of such apps, or startups focused on this area? (If I got the terminology wrong please let me know)
Peltier cooling is very inefficient; water cooling (especially with microchannels, where you could use some layers of the chip for cooling) is more efficient.
Who said anything about impoverishing anyone? What does "impoverish" mean, exactly, to you?

In France, the wealth tax is 0% under €800k, increasing to a maximum of 1.8% (once the person gets to ~€17 million). How could this lead to impoverishment when even relatively conservative asset management averages returns of >5%? Even in this case the party's wealth is still increasing (especially since the proposal is to offset the wealth tax by eliminating all capital gains taxes, which are already extremely difficult to calculate).

And it's hardly an abuse: property taxes (a kind of wealth tax) are already levied, and while many complain, few claim it is government overreach. Government policy that favors a small and already powerful minority would seem to be a much greater abuse.

The bigger question is: why do most governments tax people for creating value, instead of taxing people for failing to?
If someone needs to be persuaded to participate in open source projects, they shouldn't be participating.

You participate in open source to fuel a passion. You do it as an outlet for your creativity. You do it to scratch an itch. You do it after looking at the landscape and saying "I could make it better".

If you're doing it for fame, glory, or job prospects, you won't contribute anything decent or noteworthy.
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I ask this as an absolutely honest question, when Gruber writes (as he is prone to do) a piece that consists pretty much entirely of Apple praise, what exactly is it about that you find interesting?

I'm not trying to troll, it's clear that there is a minority here, including myself that can't find any possible information in them, but the HN majority clearly find his writing absolutely fascinating and full of all kinds of information nuggets that pass me and others right by.

I always propose banning Dvorak because he is actively corrosive to intelligent discourse

No argument from me at all.
Wow, just wow.

Unfortunately I want to the other article, the one that I cannot get anyone in the 'movie biz' to fess up to. That is what would it be like if it were perfect? Would there be a mandatory licensing fee for scripts? Would there be non-discriminatory rights for theatres? What?

Someone needs to sit down and design a way to disrupt Hollywood. That requires three things, production disruption (how movies get made), distribution disruption (how they get distributed), and consumption disruption (how they get consumed).

The good news is you might have an ally here in the form of NetFlix or Amazon. They can handle distribution and consumption, which is to say they can 'sell' views via their networks. You might also get some traction with 'Fathom Events' which rents out digital theatre projectors for pay per view events.

You don't yet have a way of disrupting production.

To do that you probably need to re-create the old 'studio' model where you have a staff of production people and actors. A couple of sound stages with solid green-screen technology, and your own 'pocket' CGI capability for putting together scenes. That is your 'back lot' equivalent.

More importantly you need a disruptive business model. That is because as it stands bankers and other sources of capital understand exactly who gets rich and who gets screwed in the movie industry, in your new model they won't know and they thus they won't be able to understand how much (or how little) risk there is to their capital. And you will need a lot of capital to make movies or 'serials' (Think of them as sporadic TV shows where the episodes don't necessarily come out every Tuesday at 8PM)

This is going to take some strategic planning and understanding exactly what things really cost. I worked on this sort of project to understand how the periodical publishing market was to be disrupted (and to identify business opportunities in the disrupted market) and its painful. There was no source of 'how much do editors make?', 'journalists?', 'folks who run printing presses'? 'folks to drive vans to drop off papers/magazines?' You really need to open up a business from the inside, and dissect it to understand how it works, where the money goes, and what the leverage is of each of the individual pieces. But understand that doing this sort of dissection gives you to knowledge of how to disrupt and that means the person sharing it with you, if they aren't already committed to joining the revolution, is writing their own death sentence. Ouch!

The best you can hope for is to approach the problem like the CIA trying to infiltrate an enemy government. Develop assets, interview people who are fired or leave, do forensic accounting on suppliers and contractors and unions. Not easy, you are a threat, the people who have the power know you are a threat and they will do things to slow you down or stop you.

So take the current players and develop a parallel track. It will be hard, and it will be expensive, and it will be beset with issues the entrenched folks throw at you. But you do need a solid strategic plan and good backing.
"I've seen it a couple of times on big community websites when people complained about a new design, and then a week later realised that just because it started off not feeling like the site they grew to love, it didn't mean it wasn't a huge improvement." - Very true. Can some one recall the users reaction when FB launched newsfeed
We had this yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2980157
Speaking of Hackers and Painters, I don't believe I ever saw a response to this piece of writing:

http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
I'm not sure, but maybe this is what you are looking for?

http://www.goalsontrack.com/
What, no mention of "HotJava"? (just to sully the waters)
Just putting a bunch of DRAM on the same chip as the CPU could make things faster and more energy-efficient by reducing the amount of time waiting for memory.
At least in the short- to medium-term, it seems unlikely that we'll get tablet-like machines that are of a size to compare favorably even to a travel-size road atlas, much less a bookshelf or library atlas like in the OP. The physical size of it is useful because it can take up a larger portion of your field of vision, which better helps you get a sense of place within the mapped region. Even in a large browser on my 24" iMac I have a somewhat frustrating sense of looking through a too-small window that is blocking some of what I want to see. If I zoom out, I lose resolution.

So maybe eventually, but I don't think we're "starting to see" electronic atlases that uniformly exceed the paper variety. They are better in some ways and worse in some ways, and that will remain true for at least another couple decades, I think.
Honestly I don't know. I would guess it's slightly under the average at most companies. Cetainly less than 20 days as an average. But we've had people take a month and work in Thailand which is not counted as vacation. So this is not some scheme to get people to work more. It's simply offering flexibility and empowering our team to make their own choices.
pandora is at -$100 million, not really a study or source but google "Pandora profitability"
Eh, it would actually be more reasonable in that context. Dipping into wikipedia for a quick quote:

>The shift to agricultural food production supported a denser population, which in turn supported larger sedentary communities, the accumulation of goods and tools, and specialization in diverse forms of new labor. The development of larger societies led to the development of different means of decision making and to governmental organization. Food surpluses made possible the development of a social elite who were not otherwise engaged in agriculture, industry or commerce, but dominated their communities by other means and monopolized decision-making.

(Dr Catbox's comment, though, was just kinda mindless reactionism and had nothing to do with the original question.)
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I remember Meebo.

the biggest shock to me is that they're a 200 person company. good for them, probably.
Not only do they release buggy software, they also crash IE8 instantly.
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Ridiculous indeed.

People think that Apple did a lot of things on the iPad, but all they did was removing the pen, removing some useless physical buttons, using a tailored touch-oriented OS instead of adapting one from desktop computers, bootstrapping this operating system on years of success of the one for phones, using a single sheet of glass instead of plastic screen + plastic bezel, using the internet for app and media distribution, cutting corners to provide a midrange-laptop instead of costing an arm or a leg...

Don't forget how much they disappointed their geek fan base when they announced that their tablet was just a "bigger iPhone" instead of a "smaller iOS". And that's where Android wins: Android managed to actually change the opinions of geeks.

Seriously, Apple did some breakthrough changes. Android follows suit. Those lawsuits might piss you off, but give credit where credit is due.
Slacker is a better comparison for your question. Their playlists are created by professional DJs with years of experience. The guy didn't say you can't find playlists created by people, but seemed to hone in on the fact that those people, for the most part, don't know that much about music. I don't think the "DJs" in Turntable make a good argument that he's wrong.
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http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

Probably worth linking to here.

While I enjoy pg's writing and I think the essays convey a good message in spirit, I do think there's quite a substantial populist aspect to some of them.

I'm glad I read all of them, but if I had to choose, I'd probably get On Lisp in deadtree format first.
I infer from your list that you're talking about small businesses. They are your customer and I believe that the customer is always right. The employee may be the tail that wags the dog but they do not pay you. They should be aware of the pitfalls of web apps:

1. They're generally not as fast as native web apps. At the very least they don't appear to be so.

2. A user/employee is more familiar with apps that are native and they will understand them better than a web app.

It is up to your customer to know what they're willing to sacrifice, immediate cash or the quality and recognition of their product in the long run.
Yet we don't do that today, either. Do we? Also, water is not as easy to handle as electricity, and such a system seems to be more complex than a sandwich of computing layers and thermoelectric cooling layers. Additionally, the side where the heat finally comes out of the package, could be connected to a thermoelectric generator, thus converting some of that heat back to electricity, which could then be used to reduce the total amount of electrical input, thus raising the efficiency of the entire system.
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But that's a fallacy - web apps can't be "anything". For example, right now they can't pulse phone's vibrate function, or turn on camera flash LED if your stock hits a certain price. Yes, maybe some day they will, through a "camera flash control XHTML extension", but by then we'll want those same apps to also toggle the built-in hologram projector.
Having a startup isn't slaying dragons, it's shipping something, charging money, and reinvesting revenue into growth.

It's not rocket science- just time consuming.
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