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I don't think many would claim that Jobs came up with the idea. He is undeniably one of the few people who has been able to apply it successfully to the computer and consumer electronics industry in recent years, though.
What percentage of movies actually turn a profit (real profit, not paper profit) after all of the costs are taken into account?
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Apple's vertical model is working in the PC industry now, but only because everyone else is fucking up so much. I think if any other PC manufacturer handled these issues as well as Apple does, it wouldn't matter that they don't make the operating system. Even Apple barely makes any of the actual hardware.
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It's sort of amusing to continually hear these arguments because they always miss the main point: It doesn't matter what you, as a dev, prefers or envisions. It's about what the user wants. Today they prefer native apps. They look and generally perform better. There may be a day when web apps catch up but it will be up to the user to decide which path is taken.
> I'm not exactly sure why you have a problem with this. Yes, devs are asked to sign an NDA but it's their choice to do so and I've yet to see Apple publicly go out after devs for violating their agreement.

It's also pretty much the industry standard. When we hear about Windows 8 from the MSDN blogs, it is not because some developer decided to write it; it's because it has been approved for public dissemination. Apple does much the same thing at its developer conferences. Google, in ways, is even more secretive; by the time we hear about what's in the latest Android, the first devices with said version are often already on the shelves; Apple at least gives developers a couple of months heads up.
> r from over 2000 years ago to bolster a claim about a
> modern government.

It may be specious reasoning, but I read justifications for a number of things coming out of China that appeal to their long history. E.g. Country X was part of China X hundred years ago, therefore it has always been a part of China and we are just reclaiming what is ours.
"Design is copyable. But the Cook side of things — Apple’s economy of scale advantage — cannot be copied by any company with a complex product lineup."

What nonsense is this? If a company copied Apple's economy of scale, it would no longer have a complex product lineup.

It's like saying "Design cannot be copied by any company with ugly products".
Of course, true for professional production. But for a perosn who is starting out, e.g. a film school student, camera and Final Cut is what'll get you started.
The recycling principle is part of Wired's approach to its international expansion. But it also reveals what the German edition is lacking: Being up-to-the-minute is clearly not the top priority. For a magazine that deals with the extremely fast-moving digital world, that can sometimes be a problem. Several months ago you could, for example, already read elsewhere -- including on SPIEGEL ONLINE -- that Tetsuya Mizuguchi's video game "Child of Eden" is an abstract masterpiece. True digital hipsters will not find much that is new in the German Wired

Isn't that also true of the English-language version? How can a print publication compete with what's on-line for reporting what's he latest and greatest?

That was one reason I canceled my subscription some years ago. The other reason was that it had become a catalog of toys and bling for the well-off, with what seemed like more ads than content.
4. Make a profit.

Meebo is on their series D and has raised $70 million. It seems it's still being run off VC after 6 years.

Meanwhile they seem to have peaked in 2008 http://www.google.com/trends?q=Meebo
And now, starting with HP, they're bailing out.
I had used this for a while before the re-designs of most of the Google products: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oddhbkghjoccbljmag...
The article is specifically about generics in Java. I don't know Java generics, just the c# ones, so it's hard for me to say if the author is right about generics in java only or just wrong in general. Either way, a pointless article for this discussion.
Yep; they did make it outside Apple, but only barely. There were a few products from other companies using them, mostly low-power laptops, and of course they lived on for a year or so more as a budget chip branded as a Pentium.
As we're talking about the X220 here, it might be worthwhile to mention that Thinkpads do not ship with crapware. Period.
Yes, Apple does include a small display card of the basic specs near each machine

They've replaced the cards with iPads. No joke.
Forced registration can have its downsides.
Unfortunately necessary unless Google adds more fine-grained permissions, which only help in some cases. Fortunately though you can audit this source code yourself.
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1. The economies of scale may not translate to lower prices for the consumer. Consider their mobile offerings. Apple has a tiny portion of the handphone market share, but makes huge profits. They appear to get massive economies of scale.

If you sell a handphone cheaper than the iPhone, you make very little profit and if Apple ever feels threatened, they can just slash their own prices and still make more profit than you. Until then they charge what the market will bear and make huge profits that they reinvest into their business increasing their lead.

2. It's possible. In 2009 Apple purchased all of Samsung's NAND. At the time that was apparently over 40% of the world's NAND.
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Someone just downvoted the post without any fruitful comment.
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This may be old news.. But a lot of people coming across that article will think it's an April's Fool joke. It's not. It actually works quite well. SVN to me is good enough, and I know it well (git can be a tad confusing)...
Wait, I thought Apple hardware just works and delivers exceptional user experience without concerning the user with "2010" vs "mid-2011" or specifics of which CPU it uses and why.
I consider _counting_ and _indexing_ being two different concepts. In C, you declare int a[5], where 5 is the array size (element _count_), but its _indices_ run from 0 to 4. (Indeed, an array of size n can be also viewed as a _function_ with domain [0,n-1].)
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In addition to #4.

I don't know about IMDB's relations with releasing companies but the ratings for many movies behave strangely. When a movie is released the rating is very often around 8 fading to 6 in several weeks when more people vote. It's odd that the first batch of people usually likes the film and the rest don't.
How does Apple catering to a subset of consumers mean they are not acting in the consumer's best interest. From the standpoint of the consumers they cater to, they are. From the standpoint of those they don't cater to, I suppose they don't.

No, even from the standpoint of customers they don't cater to. You can't be all things to all people. You make the products that you can make best, and the products you can't make best, you let other people make. If your needs don't fit what Apple is good at making, then you shouldn't buy an Apple even if they try to make something in your category.
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I agree. But, FCP7 :) Also, good lens and light is better to have than a good camera. People often forget that. I'd rather have a good, rock solid tripod, good light and lens than a great camera.
To answer these questions for the US futures market:

The options clearing corporation [OCC] is the organization that performs clearing and alleviates most of the counterparty risk. They demand deposits from various member companies to ensure that, if a member defaults, at least the other parties get their payments.

Organizations such as SIPC offer protection for investors in the case that brokerage firms belly up. They are government-backed. It's hard for a private company to do that.

Leverage involves a contractual agrement which generally involves some sort of clause that allows the broker to go after your company assets, and sometimes even your personal assets, if you blow up. And the brokers generally have enough cash to provide necessary float (in case of a failure to meet requirements).

zhoutong, it's useful to study how existing futures markets work, and try to see how you can replicate some of those key facets (like counterparty risk)
Most engines don't cut out if you do choose to pop the hood open.
Many companies are reporting a shortage of skilled labor (mainly in the IT sector). How can this exist alongside 9% unemployment? It exists because the American workforce is not trained for the changing job landscape that has been brought about by technology. Technology supplants some jobs, whil e creating others, this is what economists call "creative destruction".
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Thanks for the effort you took to make these papers more accessible. I've downloaded them to my computer.
I've come to view downvotes when commenting on a Gruber post on HN as a sign that I'm doing something right. (Disclaimer: this post is a generalization, valid and relevant 80% of the time, but I will make it sound universal anyway. It will not provide good experience for some users, but that's okay.)
I'm a geek, I love Star Wars, Star Trek: TNG, and I love reading science fiction by Asimov and Crichton.

But Ender's Game and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are two of the worst books I have ever read. I got about a third through both of them and threw them in the trash. Sorry, but they are truly awful. Ender's Game has a very childish and incredibly boring writing style, as if that was the author's high school attempt at a novel. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has some good writing, I will give him that -- he is a skilled writer. But the humor is so not funny I couldn't bear reading it.
It might just be that people who think they'll like the movie tend to go see it sooner and post reviews sooner.
Who's claiming that? For a while, the Macbook Air was in fact a particularly bad choice if you wanted high processor performance (which is a big if; computers are now fast enough that for many users it hardly matters). This is no longer the case. Simple enough.
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Color, storage space, and 3G are the only options though. If you count all the options for Macbook Air, there's roughly 524288 combinations.
I think mgkimsal was making a joke.
What about blogs. Aren't they condensations of both?
That's not true either.

Both land and other stores of value (eg gold & silver) were frequently traded between medieval landowners.

Even looking at Europe alone, the Kinghts Templers acted as bankers as early as 1000AD, which allowed the rich to transfer money over distance. By the 1300's the Medici's had created an institution that would be recognizable as a modern bank.
>With top-notch video camears as low as $2-3K now, I'm forever expecting a DIY movie explosion, which never happens. People explain this as "it' difficult to shoot,edit, etc. a movie" which is true but I think the much bigger factor is the stronghold these companies have on distribution.

I agree with you to an extent. You can always find young, talented actors who are willing to do a film but the main problem is the script and finding a talented director who hasn't been signed by a major studio.

Another factor are the viewers themselves. They have been so conditioned to expect that only a major studio picture is worth watching (similar to the music industry) that they're not willing to give anything else a chance. How else do you explain the success of Transformers or the moderate success of the Green Lantern when most people have heard of neither unless you were a comic book fan or grew up on 80s cartoons?
I'm sorry to hear that. For me, I have heard of it and I looked on the website, but I didn't dig deeper. I wanted a simple video to tell me what it is and what can it do for me, but there wasn't. "Real-time notifications from tons of services pushed to your mobile phone.
Free. " I didn't understand why would this be useful to me, when the services I currently use had push notifications. It seemed like a redundant app. I feel like the marketing of this product was not powerful enough. You just needed to show me how I can use this and how I can fit this into my lifestyle. My 2 cents.
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Ah, a blast from the past. This is a classic that gave me a better appreciation for DFW, literary non-fiction and the game of tennis.
Sure, there's 18 varieties, but there's only 3 vectors that a person needs to choose from. What color? What networking? How much storage?
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Some interesting discussion here, but I think it's too harsh on music startups. "Big ideas" are not immediately apparent when they occur. Only in retrospect—and with a touch of nostalgia—do they seem so towering and impressive. Napster, iTunes, Pandora, Last.fm, Spotify and let's not forget Internet radio have made a far bigger change in the ways music is distributed and consumed in the last 13 years than anything that occurred in the preceding 50.
The code linked to doesn't have any comments in it.
Mostly, yes. :)
I wonder how strategic they're being in their choice of IPs returned. Sending a large number of invalid requests from IPs all over China to foreign servers could help in masking their hacking attempts against those servers.
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About the Permissions:

This extension will never access, read, store, or transmit your personal data.

The "This extension can access your data on all websites" warning comes from the optional feature which replaces all "mailto:" links in websites you visit and opens them with Gmail via a short script. By leaving this option unchecked, you won't make use of the latter script.

The "Your tabs and browsing activity" comes from the fact that this extension modifies the style and UI of Gmail within your browser and so needs to know whether Gmail is open in your browser (i.e. tabs) to apply those changes.

Moreover, feel free to check the code source on Github...
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Seriously? I was doing this with X2vnc and win2vnc before the turn of the century. Perhaps getting it to run as a service around all of the "as administrator" crap in windows 7 is the innovation?
Like I didn't know that. Sometimes internet, sometimes...
> I understand the appeal of using json, but it doesn't support hyperlinks. There really ought to be a hyperlink datatype as part of the json standard

No, there's no need for it, you can just define it in your own media type, which is expressed in JSON. JSON is a meta-format with a few datatypes, XML is a meta-format with a single datatype (strings).

> Not having this datatype is a big drawback of json for RESTful responses.

No, it's not.

> I consider the ability to use the API using a generic client to be a good test of properly implementing HATEOAS.

That's nonsense. Your browser is not a generic client, it's an interface to a user. There's nothing "generic client" about a user in front of a browser. And as far as the actual users of the API (code) are concerned, your urls could be in `a href` or in `span data-whatever` it makes no difference, as long as they're built with that understanding in mind.

And that understanding is the API's media types definition.
Are there even more basic technical skills? Wondering if most non-technical folks even know how to setup basic web hosting.
The iTunes GDB brouhaha was in 2004. Before that you could run iTunes under GDB and in fact Apple had a dev doc showing you how to. It turned out that it was quite easy to get around the PT_DENY_ATTACH system call. You could still run every other Apple app under GDB. It's not hard to see why Apple would have that restriction placed on iTunes.

So if I take your word on your story, that since that day in 2004 when you supposedly discovered you couldn't run iTunes under GDB and you vehemently swore off Apple, and it now being 2011 when you've finally found a good laptop, you've used shitty laptops for 7 years? All for something that 1. was easily skirted around, 2. Anyone could see Apple's motivation for doing so.
From the post:

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> The base definition of XML doesn't specify hyperlinks.

No definition of XML does.

> But XLink does

By having the client understand xlink exists and accessing xlink attributes you get links. This is no different than specifying that there are URL values corresponding to specific keys in your JSON-derived media type.

An XLink-containing document is a media type derived from XML in the exact same manner.

> and because XML has namespaces, it can be integrated into any other namespace-aware XML application without risk of collisions: http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/

Not really relevant to the discussion, is it?
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The problem with the Segway is more likely the fact that it's extremely expensive compared to similarly-purposed motor scooters.
DF is an evangelist for the Apple religion, so he reliably brings out the true believers. This stuff might be entertaining but it's certainly not informative. BTW, this is part of the diabolical genius of Apple - it is not a consumer choice, it is belief system.
Seems like the parent comment equates "This is a general problem in x industry" to "stop rabblerousing about problems!"
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Well, calling it lightweight when something _lightweigth_ like backbonejs is around (4.6kb production, 41kb development with comments), is begging to not be taken seriously. Naming aside.
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If i18n is a priority on your project, make sure you show your designer(s) this article. With the current trending emphasis on grids and horizontal rhythm, left-aligned labels are quite fashionable.

An effective bandaid solution is to set left-align labels to text-align: right; thereby visually linking the variable width label to the field.
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I guess I'm not currently competent to comment on this aspect; it is something I'll have to investigate.

I'm not opposed to automated trading. I do, however, think (well, have the perhaps unqualified opinion) it has become excessively focused on near time outcomes and pushing transaction volume in preference to the actual performance/outcomes of investment properties.
Does a file containing one method need comments?

initialize: function(model_name, callback)

It would be pretty pointless to add comments before every line of code like some people do:

// here is a for loop
for (var i...)
// declare a variable
var x = 0;

If there is supporting documentation about the operation of the method, which there is in that github page, then I fail to see what would be gained by adding verbose useless comments about typical code.
This is exactly as open as Android. The language is developed entirely in secret, and code is dumped into a repository on the day of a big announcement. Google's preferred partners (in this case, Chrome) get to see the source before the public does.

Quibbling about whether this qualifies as "open" or not is arguing semantics, but I think recent history has shown that the Android model doesn't lead to the openness that its proponents had suggested it would.
Um, I'm not entirely convinced that a high-level Apple employee on critical business would be restricted to any particular airline. If you're willing to pay, between SFO, LAX, and YVR you should be able to find a flight heading for southern China in any next four hours, except maybe at 12:30 AM.
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Had a similar experience about a month ago when my wife said she wanted a new laptop for school, but wanted it small and light.

So she thought Netbook. I told her she'd be pretty unhappy with a netbook's performance. So I began looking for an "ultraportable" laptop in the 11" range that was nice and light/small for her, but still fast enough to have the performance she would expect and be happy with.

I considered the Lenovo X220 or whatever it was, it was on sale from like $1400 or whatever to $900, but unavailable in any stores around here and she really wanted to see it first. There is an Acer(?) one that just came out, but it was like $1700 or so. The new MBA? $1000 and does exactly what she wants. I was pretty shocked to find that the MacBook Air was the most reasonably priced laptop in that size range.
I think the most promising kinds of music startups that are on the right track in terms of 'saving' the music industry are the ones that are:

1. Lowering the friction of building a fanbase for the musician

2. Improving discoverability for the musician

3. Helps musicians monetize their loyal fanbase

In short, the musicians are there customers. CD Baby, Myspace, Soundcloud, Youtube all got it right.

Turntable, Pandora, etc. are going after the segment of the music industry that needs the least help, mainly brands (thru advertisers), listeners and music labels.

Serve the musicians, dominate the market. (all IMHO)
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To be fair, briefly explaining the value of an IPS to those not familiar with it is not trivial. If they just put "IPS" instead of "premium" they'd be rightly maligned for using meaningless acronyms. I suppose something like "IPS technology for truer colours" might work, but...
He mentioned the lack of ROI for advertisers on Pandora. Personally I listen to Pandora in my car and just like FM radio I am forced to listen to audio ads.

Most ads they play are focused on New York City, but give it some years Pandora or a future/similar service will take over the local radio ad market. If not fully over take, offer a better alternative.