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Indeed. Especially worrying for me was this phrase which appeared a few times:

> Developers who can focus solely on Chrome can [..] Developers focusing on all browsers will have to [..]

This seems to imply that Chrome is the preferable target: If developers can focus soley on Chrome, they should. Or if they must target all browsers, which is less desirable in the viewpoint here, then there is some tier-two option.

Scary stuff for anyone who cares about the open web.
"You might understand why it's a bit of a sore point with many people whose wallets Microsoft is listening to after that experience."

Not "and now you know why Windows is fundamentally incapable of starting up quickly". Phrased it that way on purpose.
Yes, where you choose to live will affect your options depending on your income. Has it ever been any different?
You know, I used to agree with this statement: "Ideas are overrated." Until I came up with an idea that was not.

There are some ideas that are so complex - but then they are so simple - that it's hard for me to see other people coming up with that exact idea in that way.

Once it's done, then it becomes obvious - but that's not necessarily true before the fact.

For instance, Google's PageRank is so obviously the best way to rank links (based on the number of incoming links) - but who woulda thunk before they did it?

In fact, when they were just starting out, many of the search players thought it was a dumb idea...which goes to show that they under appreciated the novelty of the idea.
Not to be negative, but what I get from this is that their hit rate is going down while their cost is going up. Am I wrong?
Could we possibly, as a community, just agree that a blacklist of Gruber posts is good for us?

If I am to be considered to be part of that community then no, I can't agree with that. I actually like quite a lot the way he writes even if I don't agree with him most of the time.

In fact, I think the community has already agreed that they like Daring Fireball posts, otherwise it wouldn't be on the front page.

We can agree, though, to spend more time in /newest and complain less about what makes to the front page.
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Ask HN: What's the configuration of your development machine?
Do you use laptop or desktop machine? What's the hardware configuration? Which OS?

I'm planning to buy a new one for me. So, wondering what the HN Community is using.
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Myself, I'm libertarian, but I grew up in a very conservative household, surrounded by conservatives at church, and I was a conservative until my early twenties.

I have never met a conservative who believed that the poor "deserve their lot." And I can't think of one single conservative I know who wouldn't love to see the elimination of poverty. They just disagree with the liberal method.

If this were really the case why would conservatives donate money to charity? Why would conservative churches run food kitchens?
Speaking from experience as somebody who has done this sort of trip: Yes, it's hugely useful and there is a real business benefit.

First off, we're probably talking about a time when there were only a few direct flights a day from SFO to the relevant airport so if he didn't go that afternoon he'd have to wait until the next morning so instead of flying through the night he'd be flying through the day - flying RIGHT THEN means one less day in which your product slips its schedule.

Now recall that Apple used to have trouble getting enough media attention so they would schedule product announcements around, say, MacWorld or the Superbowl. Big events that cannot be moved. Every day the schedule slips makes it that much more likely you miss the intended product launch window. For Apple, if your product isn't ready to ship, it's not ready to show which means you've wasted a lot of money - your next suitable launch window might be months later by which time the product no longer has a compelling story to tell. Missing the intended launch date can mean the difference between a successful product and a failure.

Conference calls are expensive and tend to involve both high-level people and lower-level people. If the schedule is slipping, the chinese engineers won't necessarily tell you the truth about why it's slipping in that sort of forum - there's a face-saving issue. There are also communications difficulties when people who don't speak english well just nod and say "yes, we'll do that" without really understanding what they're agreeing to. Email can clarify and puts things in writing but the time difference means most exchanges lose at least a day.

Another factor is "the squeaky wheel gets the grease". The same factory is trying to build products for you and a variety of other companies. When some other company's product totally unrelated to yours has a crisis, they might choose to rationally pull engineering resources away from your product to serve somebody else...if you're not there to nag and check up on the schedule.

The bottom line is that if you don't have at least one person there most of the time, your product stands a very very low chance of meeting your schedule or your quality targets.
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I think we're in violent agreement.

But we can summarize the vast majority of Grubers posts thusly:

"Something about Apple = Great"

then generate a dozen or so threads of nothing but either fawning praise for Gruber or the same repeated complaints about his bias.

At this point Gruber posts and the follow up "conversation" (I'm using it charitably at this point) are something one could probably machine generate, then randomly insert the entire thing into HN's new queue and it would be virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.

in other words, Gruber fails the Turing test and I for one (among apparently several HNers) are tired of having what are essentially Markov chains jamming up the front page.
Having owned an X201, test-driven an X220, and having sold the X201 in favor of the 11" Air, I have to disagree - the X220's screen isn't as nice as the Air's. The backlight on the Air can be made about as dim, but also much brighter, and color seems a decent bit more accurate (though that could be that Windows's color management sucks, while OS X's is pretty good).
It'd be better if something I did want to read was in its place.
This book is too long for the subject it purports to impart.

Good coding is not a craft of many secrets; rather it is an art of a few core principles. Mastering them is a matter of direct experience. I believe a good book can point a programmer in the right general direction, but it is up to her to go the distance.
i cared about doing clean installs/configuring when i was a teenager and had nothing else to do. now i just want my computer stay out of my way and make me money. os x, time machine, etc all let me do that
Significant whitespace is a big turn off for me too. What you gain in concision for small examples you more than lose in tooling and code manipulation.
You do know you're not the typical laptop buyer, right? The majority of people buy a laptop, take it home, and want it to just work.

Do you buy a new refrigerator expecting to have to clean out the compressor the minute you take it home? I certainly hope not.
"The PC hardware market has historically focused on three factors: low prices, tech specs, and configurability."

That pretty much could have been what was said about American car companies in the late '80s and most of the '90s, and it is why they got their asses handed to them on a plate by the Japanese car companies. If you wanted a Chevrolet, you probably had about 1000 choices (not to mention that GM had at least 5 companies that all made pretty much the same cars, but with different logos (Saturn not withstanding)). If you wanted a Honda, you had about 3 choices. I don't think I have to tell you which business model was more successful.
I'm in the same page with you. I kind of upset with the price changes, but I thought it as a stick to optimize. Reading this announcement increases my trust to the service.

It might not be the best platform, but it serves me well so far (particularly because I'm a solo founder and don't have the expertise to manage server and stuff).
They are not presently in the public domain, therefore it is not seizing from the public domain. Rather, it is preventing from entering the public domain. There is a difference.

If you would like to claim they are "effectively" the same thing, then why would you choose a term that is different from, and exaggerates, reality? The answer is because you know there is a difference, but know the exaggerated form is more compelling, and you evidently don't have significant qualms with regard to misleading people using overly-sensationalist headlines in serious political matters.

You accurately point out that this does not incentivize the creation of the works which have already been created. But the way it incentivizes new works is by showing that copyright is now protected and ensured by the government to a greater extent. Considering the impractically weak enforcement of copyright and subsequent rampant piracy of the Internet age, this can be viewed as compensatory. Those who would make copyrighted material now have more to gain from creating said copyrighted works, and they can also logically anticipate further possible improvements to the law in their favor as a result of this precedent. The article assures us so.

But incentive to create works is not the only point of copyright law. Another point is simple justice: that a person who creates something deserves to have it as their intellectual property. Justice still has a place in the legislative decisions of the state, I hope.
Me personally, I wouldn't let the cost of one hour drive my buying decision.

But Aunt Tillie sure would.
They're on a roll.
http://animoto.com/ does a reasonable job of automating simple video production. Looks a bit generic, but it's a hard problem to solve - things like voiceovers and tightly animated text like in the posted video seem simple but require a fair amount of time, equipment and skill to get right.

Any video graphics people disagree? Anyone want to pitch the idea of an automated videographic generator to the next YC? :)
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Where do you get that information? A large fraction of Google's frontends are written in Java.
Looks like two reasons. First to differentiate Lowe's from Home Depot which is using Motorola devices (Android?).

Second, I imagine they will use the devices as actual phones to contact the employees. No need to PA a clerk to pick up a phone. Just forward the call.
> I am not saying the graphic is wrong or it is right in the conclusions it suggests. I just find it telling that the discussion thread jumps straight to an Itchy and Scratchy Show level of discourse, without questioning the underlying data.

So then tell us what's wrong with the data. I assume most people didn't question the data because income inequality since the eighties is rather well documented.

That you would call the data into question without providing any justification suggests you have some ideologies of your own.
Agreed. Moreover, push Gruber et al logic to its logical conclusion and you get 1984.
this isn't a someday thing is what I'm trying to point out. Walmart has accelerated us well along this spectrum.
Yes, it takes time to build a successful company. A company doesn't exit for $200 million the year it is incorporated. Come back in 3 or 4 years, and I think you'll see the hit rate has gone up!
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The same Intel that came up with the first Pentium M? Yeah, I'm calling bull shit on this story.
One can only take an analogy so far. I still think the analogy is good but lets agree to disagree.

OK, lets look at it this way. I think Steve Jobs could have been successful without Tim Cook, but Tim Cook could not have been successful without Steve Jobs (In turning Apple around). The reason I say this is because Steve Jobs use to do Tim Cook's job when he first returned to Apple. He did it himself, along with his CEO job, until he found Cook. Had it not been Cook he would have found somebody else.

Lets not take credit away from Cook though. The guy is good, otherwise Jobs would not have given him the job. But I don't think that we can say that Apple would not be as successful without Cook. However, is almost universally accepted that Apple would not be here without Steve. Hence the Car-Driver analogy >:)
At least as far as CDMA and WCDMA go, control signalling is shared for all mobiles camped on a cell. In CDMA, while a mobile is just camping there's not a lot of traffic going between the cell and the mobile on the access and reverse access channel. The mobile registers as per the registration settings, and the idles its radio until it is paged by the cell, it originates a call, or the registration settings require it to register again. When idle, there is no signalling going back and forth on the access channel, so that bandwidth can be allocated for other things.

I'm not at all familiar with GSM, so I can't say how it works. I expect it's similar, though.
Well geez that's a really strong argument in return. "Ugly as shit" is not subjective at all.
While I agree that the 'Tim Cook' advantage is very important I wouldn't dismiss Steve Jobs' unique abilities so quickly. Yes there are many exceptional designers in the world but to say that was Steve Jobs' biggest influence is wrong. I would even go so far as to say that Ives is the bigger design influence. What I admired about Steve Jobs was his ability to make the right sacrifices. From ditching the floppy drive in the original iMac to refusing to support Flash in the new iOS devices. These sacrifices, while obvious in retrospect were decisions that no other hardware companies were capable of making. While everyone was trying to build what the consumer wanted, Jobs was always focused on what the consumer should want. A huge difference.

As Henry Ford once said: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

While everyone else tries to make faster horses, Jobs has kept Apple focused on building cars of the future. He'll be missed.
It's a seductive-sounding model, isn't it? I couldn't find a way to make the business model work. It sounds like you've departed from that model pretty completely (not a bad idea, I say now that I've tried it out).
This is a cool idea, but it sounds like something that will be shut down pretty quickly. If not directly, then by carriers who decide that your unlimited texting plan actually does have a limit, kind of like your "unlimited" data plan.
In Formula 1, the winning driver gets a trophy, as does the team behind the car. The driver is whomever is CEO; the team is the company.

But, as dasil003 said, that's a pretty horrible analogy.
In most places when the government seizes property the citizens are entitled to compensation (and to sue if they don't get it). I wonder what the result of a EU-wide class action from citizens to demand compensation for the loss of every single creative work in the applicable time period would be?
Such people seem more than ready to forget about something called "Jubilee" in the Old Testament, it seems. Jubilee was essentially a 100% property tax (property, not income) collected (and redistributed) twice a century. Of course, that era in that tradition had no aristocracy, despite the supposed "divine right" of such.

It's funny how people can skim through a 1200 page book and select just the parts they want to emphasize. I could go on, but I'm getting way off topic.
"I know everyone likes to think Steve Jobs came up with the idea of focusing on a few very good products, but it's actually an old idea."

No one thinks that. I, at least, have never read anyone who has made such claim. Where did you get the impression that that is a widely-held belief?
What's the shortest FizzBuzz you can write? What language?
If I could make a 100x profit on my time doing it, you bet.

To put more forcefully: if I needed to maintain one of those room sized refrigerators, and could save $10,000 for a couple hours of messing with a compressor the decision is a no brainer.

I agree that mortals can't/won't do this -- doesn't mean the HN crowd is being intelligent when they say what the guy I replied to was saying :p

EDIT: Downvoters, please explain -- For people with high computing requirements who insist on the x220 / Macbook air form factor, this is an accurate picture of the ROI.

Look at the performance differences between the macbook air ssd (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3991/apples-2010-macbook-air-1...) and the vertex 3 (http://www.anandtech.com/show/4316/ocz-vertex-3-240gb-review...). If your job commonly has you IO bound you will see at least 100 hours of your life saved over the 2,000 hours of a year of 40 hour work weeks (a 5% savings -- not all your time will be spent IO bound). And that's not including the difference between a 2.7 Ghz and a 1.7 Ghz processor...
> For Apple, if your product isn't ready to ship, it's not ready to show

Hm. I guess the iPad that shipped a couple of months after being shown is the special butterfly exception that confirms your nice fluffy rule.
Gruber's analysis is flawed because there is currently no competitor to the Apple products he's discussing, so necessarily, anything the competition has to offer today looks silly.

But this will change, as it always has when Apple's competition catches up. When this happens, Apple's simplistic "one size fits all" strategy will backfire again like it always has in the past.
There's still plenty of fail, just different kinds of fail.
Flights from SFO to Hong Kong / Shenzen area sound difficult to come by...
I agree with you. I created this thread because I keep hearing about companies that offer "unlimited vacation time" that ends up being under 15 days per year because of employee fear. Also, I am not looking for a job.
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Near as I can tell, the online Apple Store was largely inspired by/based on the work of the most successful mac clone makers. Power Computing sold just a few kinds of mac, clearly differentiated in "good/better/best" configurations - both their print ads and their online store were easy to use in exactly the way the Apple Store is now.

Apple complained that Power Computing was marketing to existing mac owners, but the real problem was that Power Computing was marketing well to existing mac owners at a time when Apple was marketing badly to them.
For instance, if the goal is to reduce poverty, you assume that it is mathematically possibly to take money from teachers. But if teachers are already on the brink of poverty, that won't work to reduce poverty.

That's not an assumption, it's a simple fact.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=teacher+salary

Teacher wages are not even close to poverty, and they get lots of non-wage compensation which costs real money (not to mention they only work 9 months/year).

Politically connected insiders are less relevant than those who actually have the majority of the money.

On the contrary, the existence of politically connected insiders mooching off the system is evidence that we can provide more assistance to the poor without raising taxes.
FYI, this is a reference to a previous Google bomb where Microsoft was the target: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb#History

I guess there are teams at MS that are lucky enough to be able to avoid the policy against Easter Eggs: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/10/21/483...
> iPad will probably be a year out before a decent competitor comes along.

They've been saying that for a year.
It is far from certain that technological progress was the cause of the increase in inequality. There has been much study on this question--why inequality--and the results are inconclusive. Unfortunately, I don't have the links to back it up right now, but I suggest that you look into the academic literature before coming to a conclusion on the cause of increasing inequality.
Yes, it is seductive-sounding. And yes, we switched to a very different idea shortly after YC started.

I still think "OkCupid for jobs" has merit, but it has some serious problems, too, not least of which are that it only gets really valuable after lots of companies and people are using it (and we didn't have a good way to bootstrap, at least from the job-seeker end).

Another issue is that matching isn't the really hard part of hiring -- the hard part is finding good people.
This wasn't for show, wasn't symbolic. Without going into details, there was no alternative for being there in person (remember Apple is as much, or more of, a hardware company as a software company).

As for your second point, I think you make the mistake of assuming that there are only two states one can operate in: stressed or relaxed. In fact, there is a third...let's call it "flow", for lack of a better term. That's where you're up all night, running to the airport on a moments notice, pulling out all the stops to be absolutely perfect, but you don't feel stressed in the slightest.

...Apple runs on that flow.
>This realization sort of snuck up on me. I’ve always been interested in Apple’s products because of their superior design; the business side of the company was never of as much interest.

It's news that economies of scale helps keep Apple's parts costs down?
I've been reading Gruber for a couple of years now and I really believe that it's not nearly as critical/analytical or interesting as it used to be.

While previously he would write much more in-depth articles (often of a technical nature relating to OS X or Cocoa/Obj-C) now I feel he is really just writing what his audience wants to hear and, what's more, 95% of the time simply linking with a sentence of commentary. Some of his links are interesting but for the most part they're either criticising one extreme or showering praise on the other.

I'm an Apple fan, but yes - it really is boring waking up every morning (I'm Australian) and reading the same thing day in, day out. He's just as guilty of shock-jockery as half the people he links to.
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FWIW, the "premium" screen is IPS. The regular is TN, which like all TNs (including those on Macbooks ;)) is indeed shitty. I do agree the "premium" description sucks.
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I prefer to tack the fractional portion onto the date.

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Replacing the income tax with an incremental property/savings tax probably would go a long way towards motivating people with wealth to use it or lose it.

That idea is dead on arrival in today's heavily lobbied climate, I'm afraid.