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Funny to see this in the news today after yesterday I scoured stores all day looking for a good PC laptop for school (with a few models already in mind), determined to end up with a PC and not a Mac (for software reasons), and eventually caved for a Macbook Pro anyway. It's true that there is no good middle-ground PC laptop with potential for performance and efficient design, most models I looked at were over-sized tanks. The industrial design language was mostly just carelessness. I wish Intel luck with this venture. They seem to share the same frustration as I.

In regards to this Brit, it sounds like his only option is to just keep using his Thinkpad if he wants to stay happy. Such inflexibility.
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During my trials and tribulations of the past week I came to realize the exact same thing you posted here.

I am now looking at strictly friends and family to get the initial startup capital I need until I can properly valuate what we have here.

Great advice!
This project made a lot more sense to me after reading this introductory article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/CosmosUnderHood.aspx

In short, it's a way to develop operating systems, rather than being a particular operating system.
Learned this the hard way. Back when LinuxCon was still called LinuxCon, I made the mistake of making a beeline to the first "booth" I saw that was manned by a fellow female. I studied the setup, ascertained what kind of hardware being shown off by this particular vendor, and proceeded to inquire along the line of shop talk.

Although I don't remember exactly what I asked her, this was the gist of our exchange.

BB: "It's 2X faster!" (Vanna White, preening the chipset)

Me: "Faster than what?"

She appears panicked and quickly reads over the spec sheet behind her booth. Finally, after a minute, she looks up and says "It's just . . . faster."

Dear companies, giving the BBs a script isn't enough if they don't understand what the metrics on the script actually mean.
I listed the project on angelList - http://angel.co/fleeter

I'm not so sure anything will happen with it but at this point, it certainly doesn't hurt to at least get the word out.
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On Windows, ctrl+q will get you the Visual Block selection.

EDIT: I think it also works on Linux... Sitting on my Windows box, at the moment, so I can't test it.
The author only reinforces the fact that booth babes work. His argument that he hates them because he falls for them would probably only get me to consider using booth babes in the future. Sure, the approach is kind of 'Don Draper' but considering the audience... it's probably a viable marketing approach.

There's probably an argument there about looking for original marketing approaches, as booth babes are an old and one "might" say overdone idea.

but meh, bring on the booth babes.
I can relate to this, with a lot of sports, both online and offline watching can bet better as you could never experience (at least not without dedicating a large chunk of your life to it) the same skill level that the game is played on.
>Microsoft has nothing lined up in this space.

Uhm, Windows-on-ARM?
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I'm constantly amazed at how these companies spend all their time, energy, and money on copying Apple, or trying to catch up to Apple.

Maybe throw all those resources at innovating?
Rugby is also a terrible sport to play casually with high impact tackling.

When you think about it even more casually, going down to the park with a few friends, rugby and american football are both hard to replicate. Sure you could pretend to both be quarterbacks and pass the ball back and forward but it's really nothing like the actual sport. Same with rugby which is mostly backwards passes.

Taking the American sports angle you can see why it's much more common to seeing friends playing basketball casually as getting a few friends together you can mostly replicate the game.
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Neat, thanks. :)

I have a hardcopy of Paul Carter's "PC Assembly Language" book at home that I started reading once but never finished. Some day... :/
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I disagree in terms of Desktop. writing F# apps targetting .NET, mono or monomac is equivalent to C#. The only cost is some initial time with t < 2 hours to write a dsl to wrap your interface xaml to F# or for forms create a dsl for your interface.
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As someone who only does functional programming I do not think their power lies in their erm functionality. I have a hypothesis.

I think the key lies in how easy is it to look at your code and trigger the pathways in your brain associated with elegance. No offence to Java, it gets the job done but due to boilerplate, the likelihood of your code resulting in such triggers is much less than say clojure or scala. Consider the popularity of CofeeScript, node.js, python, ruby. These are not idiomatically functional languages but due to reduced boilerplate they too also make it easier for your code to be appreciated on an aesthetic level. What is the gain in this?

I have a belief that an appreciation for elegance is the natural outcome in a universe with a principle of least action. Prefer the explanation which takes less energy to unfold. So anways what happens is that your brain rewards you for writing code that tries to be elegant and turns aesthetic knobs. Pushing you for more and more of a hit. And you start to become more motivated to write code that rewards you thusly and a side-effect being programming is more enjoyable and you are more likely or encouraged to write code that is appreciable. Since code is meant for humans, as a start, optimizing in this way is ideal. Train yourself to appreciate algorithmic and mathematical elegance and you reap the rewards there too.
Because it's crass. Because of that asshole at the Skyrim demo who screamed out "rape her" as soon as a female character appeared on the screen, and that this kind of advertising, if you can call it that, appeals to exactly that demographic.

Other cultures can handle sexuality better. Americans, male and female, toggle between acting like a a pack of feral dogs and a congregation of calvinists whenever the subject comes up.
Ask HN: Question about the YC WInter 2012 round. 
Once I submit my application to the YC Winter 2012 round, does it show up under "submissions" in my profile? I'm just wondering. If so, it's not showing up for me, and I've resubmitted 3 times (after updating some valuable information of course).
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I just wanted to start some discussion and see what people are hacking on the side nowadays.

On that note, I'm in SF for the semester and would love to hack on something if you're looking to pair program. I like Javascript, Ruby, and front-end stuff. Email's in the profile...
I subscribed and unsubscribed because the selection of movie is awful + it doesn't work with Linux or a CPU with less than 1.2 Ghz. :(
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Good read! I think Apple is responsible for all this "App reflex" we are experiencing. They capitalized on this and it undoubtedly made them more successful. Without this 'reflex' we would be using more non-Apple devices.
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I sort of accept booth babes as a given (I'd prefer to get rid of them, too, but once one company uses them, everyone has to; at the very least companies should commit to "no first use").

The thing that surprises me is when "booth babe" type people turn out to be actually intelligent, informed, competent people who are knowledgeable about the product. Sometimes they're full time staff, and sometimes they're professional conference booth presenters, but there have been times when they actually knew more about the overall market and sometimes about the specific product than the company employees, mainly because they'd worked the same conferences over and over for different firms.
Actually, I'd argue that they're shooting for where the puck will be two years from now (possibly less?). The article doesn't quite mention it, but it sounds like Intel is seriously concerned that future MacBook Airs aren't going to be on Intel processors. If its fair to assume that Air and Air-like notebooks account for the majority of sales in the future, then Intel is staring at a massive drop in sales, two years or so from today.

I'd venture to guess that the $300 million aren't for beating Apple, but for nurturing and mentoring the company that will replace Apple as Intel's primary/flagship notebook processors customer.
Being creative can draw the worst out of people you are working with, unintentionally you belittle them, or expose them as frauds or whatever, some people are just jealous, others lazy and just offload hard work your way.

Thinking of yourself as part of the top 0.1% people on the planet may lead to an attitude that makes people feel belittled or antagonistic.

If you treat people like idiots or mindless sheep, of course they'll reject your ideas.
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It's often been considered a problem in the states because there is a lack of women in the tech field. The high presence of booth babes at tech related events is rather disturbing for those few women in the field. I'd honestly be more okay with it if they actually tried to hire attractive in general, and not just attractive women.

Though, at the guts of it, if you have to sell your product with attractive people then you may not have much of a product to sell.
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The keyboard problem is actually a really easy one to solve, with a modicum of forward planning: order your laptop off their website, and specify the US keyboard layout. £ and € are still easy to type, so there's no reason not to.

I don't know why Apple has this option, but their UK keyboard is atrocious, so I'm not complaining. (I've never met anybody else who's taken them up on this offer, but I suppose it must be at least somewhat popular...)

Once your laptop has arrived, you don't need to use the website again, which solves the other problem.
At /archive on the various domains :-) e.g. http://javascriptweekly.com/archive - they're scrappy but they work.
I find C and C++ fun to write. The difference is that functional languages make (50th-percentile) code fun to read. In C++ and Java, even 90th-percentile is a bitch to read, hence people don't. At best, those responsible for maintaining it will skim it. This is also why the "broken windows" pattern (once things get ugly, people "hack" them and they get uglier) sets in so rapidly in C++/Java projects.

Functional programming encourages beautiful code (although it certainly can be ugly.) A consequence of this is that people, even if they're not skilled enough to write pretty code, actually read code-- not because they need to, because they want to-- and become better programmers as a result.

Functional programming, for a passionate programmer, refines the aesthetic sense and 2-4 years of it will give most people the skill to be a passable software architect (whether they are passable or great depends on talent IMO). Not so with C++ or Java. You can spend 10+ years in those languages and get really, really good at optimization but still have no aesthetic sense.

You also learn faster when using FP languages because you can do more in them. You get to see the consequences of your architectural decisions long before the project goes multi-developer and is handed off to someone else or a team.

Functional programming is not a great career move. It makes you a difficult fit for 90% of jobs that are out there, and it makes a lot of people think you're a hipster jackass. But it's rocket fuel for your skill as a programmer.
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Okay, so there is one customer who is buying this new Anti-Airbook... Any others??? Don't think that there are many people searching, and I quote, "to find a 13" MacBook Air that isn't made by Apple." You have to just laugh this off...
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I want coworkers who were irresistibly drawn to making software as soon as they saw a computer. I don't much care who we could lure in adulthood by merely making the incidentals look more pleasant. If anything, I'd like to find a way to deflect the horde of male dilettantes we're saddled with, because they're showing up just shockingly unqualified and I'm past tired of interviewing them.

Besides, how many developers even get sent to trade shows other than staffing their employers' booths? Isn't that more a PM and marketing thing?
For people who have been following the tech scene since the 80s, the evolution of the tech space is bordering on hilarious.

In the 80s, Apple was dominant in the GUI space. Windows 3.1 put a huge dent in this. By the time Windows 95 came out, Apple was essentially dead.

During all this, Intel and Microsoft had an uneasy marriage of convenience. They were dependent on each other but had clear lines of separation between hardware and software.

Microsoft tried to branch out. The original versions of NT ran on other architectures, like Alpha and MIPS. Under Steve Jobs (many may remember that Steve Jobs was only interim CEO for years after the NeXT purchase while the Apple board searched for a replacement for Gil Amelio).

5+ years ago, with a resurgent Apple in the PC space, Apple abandoned Motorla for Intel, killing the PowerPC in all but name. Microsoft had long since abandoned all the non-x86 architectures.

Intel was so dominant that they sold their low-power chip division (XScale) and seemed to have an answer for low cost computer devices in the form of the Atom as the netbook market just exploded.

Intel basically discounted any device smaller than this. So did Microsoft. Apple completely transformed the mobile space with the iPhone and then the iPad, catapulting ARM from a niche embedded product to something eating away at Intel from the bottom end, potentially threatening their entire business.

In the 90s the churn of forced obsolescence made MS and Intel a lot of money and solved a lot of problems. There were no old versions of Windows to support as the market for PCs was growing at a huge rate and hardware just didn't last that long.

Now the CPU power that the average user needs has plateaued. Any PC made in the last 5 years (maybe longer) will be fine for most people. The trend now is towards lower power and more mobility, which is why ARM is a strategic threat to Intel.

It's incredibly funny ("the ironing is delicious" as Bart would say) that Apple is now one of Intel's biggest customers while being the driver to the threat to Intel.

And now Microsoft, once an unstoppable juggernaut, just doesn't get it when Ballmer describes tablets as "just another form factor". They failed for 10 years to make tablets just another way to sell more Windows licenses. They're still kicking that dead horse with Windows 8.

All the while Apple is making money hand over fist and HP, Dell, etc are struggling to make a buck or, in HP's case, getting out of the PC business entirely.

All of these companies try to imitate Apple releasing vaguely copycat products but none of them get it. They're engaged in what I call "shotgun marketing" as they have no idea what the market wants and just fire off a shotgun blast, hoping something will stick.

Only Apple seems willing or able to put the consumer first. The Apple-haters will I'm sure violently disagree with some or all of this.

Microsoft I believe will continue a very long but now inevitable slide into irrelevance (companies that large take many years to die). The jury is still out on Intel.

The only companies that seem to have a long future ahead of them are Apple, Google and maybe Facebook.
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Despite the sensationalistic leded about ratting out your brother in law, if you read the details of the article, this is program really about getting accounting professionals to report large-scale tax evasion by businesses they work for or with. The IRS doesn't want your vague reports that someone you know brags about not paying his taxes; they want details and specifics, and they won't pursue it unless the numbers are very large.
There's something that gets missed in most of these discussions, and it makes me think that no one will be able to stop Apple's growth for many many moons. I don't know if there's a particular business word for this, but for me, it's 'trust'.

When buying a Macbook, I know I'll be able to get parts and service for it - often from a local Apple store - for several years. If I buy a Dell N5040 today, and need service for it 2 years from now, will I be able to get it? Dell's got a reputation for good service for businesses, but that's because they're paying a lot extra for service contracts and such.

Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Inspiron then looking at http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-laptops - I don't see some of the Dell models on the Wikipedia site (granted, they may not be 100% up to date all the time) but I also see a long litany of model variations, none of which inspire much confidence in me. With all the differing parts that change between models, will Dell even be able to get the same parts for my model in, say, 3 years?

Some of this is just trust in the brand - I know Apple's changed their macbook lineup several times, but rarely enough to warrant an entirely new name change - usually just spec upgrades. There's a certain amount of trust I and many other friends seem to have in Apple because of the simplicity of the product line. Yes, it's better for Apple as well, to streamline cost/operations, but from my standpoint simpler == less cognitive dissonance. I say this as someone who grew tired of building my own desktops years ago, speccing out parts (and trying to find linux drivers for them during my linux years), and have gone more mobile. There's usually far less "build it yourself" in the laptop world, so you go with what's available from manufacturers. Apple's models have a consistency between them and over time which builds confidence in the brand itself, not just any one particular model.

Trying to compete on specs with new models being introduced quarter to quarter will not work - Apple competitors need to rethink their long term strategy if they want to win back customers. I still run Windows sometimes, but I don't need a dedicated Windows machine from HP/Lenovo/Dell to do it on, and I'm not sure what would ever get me back to that camp.

Would I pay a 'premium' price for a Lenovo? Possibly, but there's gotta be a bigger faith in the brand, and I don't have that right now.
Shifted keys, or at least upper-case letters should be easily handled. The problem I suspect is deciding which shift key has been used (or whether caps lock is enabled).

As far as other modifiers, I think a lot of those aren't available to the keypress handler (Specifically, things like cmd-* on a Mac are usually handled by the windowmanager or as app menu shortcuts). I think I have seen html5/js demos that capture more than the usual set of keystrokes though (emacs & vim js demos spring to mind), so it might be possible to do so.

As far as special characters, that'd require you to detect the user keyboard layout in order to know where the appropriate key lives (with added effort for dead-key style modification)

Edit: poking around in the http://www.ymacs.org/ source, there's a reference to http://unixpapa.com/js/key.html which gives access to a whole bunch of extra keycodes.
The Toshiba Portege has been out for a while and can compete with the macbook air right now. It's expensive but gets the job done.
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Please get rid of the recruiter "babes" too!

I'd rather hold a conversation with a knowledgeable technical person than yet another clueless plastic barbie doll!
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So I'm pretty new to the world of software development but I believe I've put together at least a couple of good apps for Android, but getting found in the Android Market is a joke. I've tried getting apps reviewed by review websites but this has its own set of challenges, so now what do I do to get word out about my apps and get people downloading them?

Here's an example of one of my apps - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.platinumapps.platinumtasks&feature=search_result

All suggestions & feedback welcome.
This is exactly the OP's point---the existence of booth babes has conditioned us to be surprised when an attractive woman, or possibly any woman at all, is "intelligent, informed, competent". This follow-on effect is even worse than the already-bad first-order effect (namely objectifying the booth babe herself).
Yet further proof that colleges are reverting back to playpens for the children of the wealthy. This can be rectified:
1. Found free and open schools, research labs, and workshops, i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace.
2. Encourage great thinkers and innovators to boycott the universities and join these new institutions instead.
3. Support these new institutions and their members through donations, sponsorship, and employment.
4. Persuade companies and start-ups to validate the work and members of these new spaces by recognizing the achievements of their members as more valuable than paper degrees from grade-inflating universities.

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It's a nice idea, but I don't think I could muster up all the self-righteousness necessary to go through with it.
It would be good if you at least had a blog explaining what lua features/technologies you are going to make use of. A few tweets and bullet points is way too terse.

It looks like test marketing to me.
Yes. I will remember your product. I will remember that you had a pair of very polite models wearing baby-doll tees with your logos on them, and that they were completely clueless about your product. I will never buy your product and actively recommend against it. I remember all the booth babes I saw at OSCON and LinuxCon this year, and I will not forget.
How seriously should we take this? The LaTeX 3 project is almost twice as old as Perl 6. It was in development for years even before the first announcement of Duke Nukem Forever. That's a long time, folks.

Certainly, LaTeX could use an update. And I applaud those working on it. But really, is it going to happen?
Not Opened Sourced though, which is something I would prefer and am very interested in.