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Damn. Talk about targeted content.

The guy writes an article on a failed Android experiment, makes the front page of HN. I click on the link and I'm on a blog with 32 articles in the last couple of months, all highly-targeted at Android developers. Android book ads on the side. All very nicely put-together (I know some folks would consider my analysis an attack. It is not.)

This guy is either going to make money on Android apps or make money advertising about them!

I like the app idea, but the story shows something really sad about these app marketplaces -- there's so much social engineering it's not funny. The right name, the right logo, the right first customers, the right momentum -- if the die come up the right way, you're on a roll. But if something happens to mess up one or two aspects of it? It can all fall apart. Or to put another way people buying the app are the number one signal for other people to buy the app. So it's kind of a weird little high-stakes popularity contest, at least as far as I can tell.

I just think it's cool that the author took the failed app idea, turned it around into a blog entry, and then might make a few bucks on that. Having the targeted blog to go along with your app efforts was very smart. If nothing else, as long as you keep trying, even if you go through a hundred ideas which never pan out, you could end up with a nice ebook out of all of it one day. Call it something like "How to win by failing"
With Google though you would ideally want to avoid it altogether, although in this case that wouldn't really be possible. A lot of Google logos have specific terms of use, most of which include that they can't be modified in any way which I thinking might have resulted in the ban in this case.
That is bizarre and fascinating, thanks for explaining it!
Probably worth noting that you can use --disassembler-options=intel with objdump, if that's your thing. Makes it much nicer for me.
My main takeaway from this article is to be glad to be from the US vs. UK; almost all of his concerns were UK specific (crappy Apple UK keyboard layout; bad websites for UK products).
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Yeah, I definitely do not want to be working on web apps in 3 years. That being said, I do have an interesting job doing interesting work that is both challenging and rewarding, and is NOT in the website business. They seem not to care too much about whether or not I have a degree; the CTO was more impressed by my github repos & other public-facing aspects of my "hacking life." But good thoughts, thank you.

edit: I'd eventually love to be working on problems e.g. NLP & ML but those are master's and phd-level fields afaik, and I definitely am not interested in chasing that at this point in my life.
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Neither did I. Isn't Ruby amazing?!
This title is incorrect and somewhat misleading. The link points to the homepage of an online book titled: "Small Memory Software - Patterns for systems with limited memory."
Don't Macbook Air's run on intel chips?
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Yup. While it is true that allowing others to modify my work will probably bite me in the ass in the future, there are also some arguments for allowing this.

For one, the book is targeted to Filipino students - teachers may want to modify the names/scenarios to better suit their country. Sure, gives them a low-hanging trolling fruit (e.g. putting vulgar words in the i18n section), but I really don't have the time to review these forks.
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Yawn. (Admittedly at a glance...) They still don't get it.

Apple doesn't sell spec sheets. They sell end-to-end integrated systems. A 7 second boot time doesn't mean as much when it gets me to a relentless stream of "the webpage you're at wants to open a webpage you trust - are you sure?" and other user-unfriendly operations. Total experience sells. The iPad is beating the pants of tablets with twice the specs - but half the user experience.

Intel is aiming at where Apple is now. When Intel arrives there, Apple will have moved on. Don't build what I want, build what I'm going to want a year after I buy it a year from now.

And for that $300M plan, Apple has $30,000M cash to counter it. Get in the right order of magnitude first before picking a fight.
Seriously, stop with the booth babes
if the PC makers want to make a successful air replacement, they have to realize that apple makes their designs clean and small by sacrificing things. you can't support all the legacy PC hardware all the time. the supposed ultrabooks i've seen posted on engadget this past week still have VGA ports, ffs. that's not a thin & light component. also, 1366x768 needs to die in a fire.
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Ultrabook? They couldn't think of a better name? Sounds straight out of the early 2000's.
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Ah ... I misinterpreted the statement to encompass the expression rather then just the application of the Ycombinator.

Y(F) is not recursive. (Y(F))(X) is recursive. Is that accurate?
I'd have probably liked this when I didn't get used to Window navigation on VIM, now I want everything to work with C-W C-[HJKL].
So, you advocate tax revenue aggregating to the Fed, then the redistribution being managed by private banks?

I didn't advocate any policy, I merely pointed out a logical error by the author.
Perhaps today, but Intel might be getting a little nervous about the A4 and the A5
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Yes, sure, fair point.
I was talking about strategy games as such - but you are right that there's large elements of execution skill in many games, even in an RTS like starcraft, which is also fun to compete on.
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I fail to understand how this gets to be on the first page of HN, sided by links to the usual great stuff. My opinion worths for what it worth, but I would say this is a rather bad article and show some poor programming examples.

As many pointed out (five proper versions of the first snippet so far), the examples are not really valid.

I do not necessarily agree with the trend of criticizing javascript of being a language that needs to be fixed. Quite frankly, it is a proper language.
Coffescript introduces some practical sugar, class construct being IMHO the best plus as javascript class definitions are rather verbose. CS object notation is another neat advantage.
Many other things on coffeescript appear to be concepts that for some reason are fashionable these days such as the arrow or the conditions after the statement.

I write javascript everyday and I absolutely don't feel like there are anoyances which need to be taken care of urgently. It's a language as enjoyable as most. Cofffescript does look cool and I do plan to use, at least for fun if not for any other reason.
But saying that is the missing piece, or that is the long expected replacement for javascript, sounds like fanboyism.
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By that you mean authority level attached to the idea? thats what I've noticed, brilliant people without any authority get laughed at, and the converse people do what idiots command as they have the authority.

Myself I'm somewhat of a creative anomaly (I have psyhc tests that put me in the top 0.1% of people on the planet). When I start a new project I go through this flow very quickly, I start by being laughed at as a crazy man, far out ideas. I pull a few tricks out of my hat, and within 2-3 months I'm the go to man for entire business.

That said I shift jobs every 18 months or so as I get sick of fighting with people constantly. 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. You end up polarised very quickly.

I now run my own business because of this (as opposed to contracting which I was doing for a long time), and the majority of my ex employers still come to me for advice, some 10 years later still phoning me up with questions or inviting out for lunch/beers etc... I even have open ended job offers sitting there if I ever want to come back.

But as this article says its hard being creative in a world that out right rejects it.
> Is the MacBook Air actually an Ultrabook? Intel told us that that's up to Apple—the MacBook Air is an Ultrabook in all but name.

Riiiiight, Apple’s marketing plan is to take a successful and strongly differentiated product and then say it is interchangeable with its competitors' products. Actually, they will say it is inferior because it lacks goodies like VGA ports.

Joel Spolsky wrote a long time ago that companies like to commoditize their complements[1]. Apple wants to commoditize the CPUs and the applications, Intel wants to commoditize tablets and notebooks. Intel is going to fight like a dog in a cage to get people to think that notebooks are all pretty much the same, provided there’s an “Intel Inside” sticker plastered on the case.

Apple is not going to play along, period. Instead, they are busy trying to get people to ignore the bits and pieces inside. How much RAM is in an iPhone? Who makes it?? How fast is the CPU? Apple is working hard to make these questions irrelevant for mobile devices, and Intel’s behaviour is going to encourage them to do the same in notebooks.

I don’t see this article as being about Apple vs. the cloners. I see this article as being about Intel vs. the entire notebook manufacturing sector, with Apple being the biggest target.

[1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
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> that starter language for just about anyone who learns how to program these days

It's also the language that most big businesses run on these days. It's popular to learn because it's used many places (e.g. useful). Language has nothing to do with it. The iTunes App Store is riddled with comically bad apps and that's never going to change. NetFlix is also riddled with horrible movies, it's the nature of the business.
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The websites don't seem to be a UK specific problem; dell.com offers me the same kind of annoying choice between "Design and Performance", "Everyday Computing" and "Thin and Powerful". Plus there's the stupid home/business distinction which offers even more options...

Also, does anyone else find the apparently marketing-led commandment to describe all laptops as 'less than 1" thin' (rather than the more usual "thick") incredibly awkward?
I didn't realize ground-penetrating radar worked this well.

(I mean, I realize that the cheesy graphic is an artist's conception, and that the radar doesn't have that kind of detail. But they can count all the cells and spot the wooden post in the center of the compound? Nice.)
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Your experience and what you were discussing are two issues entirely. Equating the two is a misunderstanding of the problem. Presenting a list of cards and throwing errors based on the select list are two things.

> I did see higher than anticipated abandonment rates after wrong CC numbers/types were chosen.

No. You didn't. What you saw was a higher than anticipated rate of abandonment after a user was presented with an error or told they'd entered an invalid number.

> So... unless a client wants to pay for A/B testing

That's true. But even still, you opinion is still heavily biased.

As someone mentioned, presenting the options via some mechanism (whether that be a select, or a list of images or something like it) doesn't necessitate throwing an error. PayPal, has mentioned, handles this gracefully.
I'm not saying it happens all the time, but it could happen, especially in a packed room, such as a theater. If death results from an intentional false alarm, I believe the culprit should be punished, and we should discourage such behavior.

Of course, we shouldn't punish people who genuinely thought there was a fire. We definitely should encourage people to give the alarm when needed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_alarm

"Intentional false alarms of any kind, especially through emergency notification systems, are very serious criminal offenses, and can result in very severe legal punishments."
Some specs are more important than others - eg battery life, weight, form factor and price. Nailing a placeholder product while you figure out the reinvention prevents you from losing by default.
Also I would be interested to hear what strategy you think Intel should follow to stop a future arm+apple duopoly.
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Ah, it will be the PPC -> x86 mess all over again. Can't wait!
When Apple sells a Mac, Air or otherwise, Intel wins a bit. They're inside. Because of that, they are definitely shooting for ahead of now - to the part where Apple decides they may not need their chips.

I agree that the user experience needs to improve across the Windows 8 platform for this to really matter, but that is mainly in Microsoft's court.

For me, I like having both a Mac and PC on hand. An Ultrabook would be nice if only for the size.
"programming did become fun again when I started using functional programming as my main paradigm"

That's exactly what happened to me.

Even though I mostly program in C# (at work) and Ruby (for personal projects) these days, my code and my team's is full of functional idioms, mostly thanks to LINQ, lambda support in C# and lazy evaluation (IEnumerable generators).

Now our code is much shorter, way more readable and much safer compared to what it used to be. We avoid mutability and state changes (meaning, we don't use mutable variables or flags), most functions are testable by themselves, code reuse is much better, objects are much thinner, and even 17 old interns are fluent on such idioms by now. In fact, most new hires already come with LINQ experience, which is cool.

I don't know why the "fun" factor was increased so much, but it did for me. I believe it is because we're forced to think in a straight, linear way that produces the cleanest, safest code possible. It is like some kind of puzzle. It's just like working in Haskell: you have to think before you code.

Well, also it helps a lot that mundane tasks such as calculating the largest number in a list is reduced to list.Max()...
The popularity of iOS around here, a consumer-centric platform blatantly hostile to tinkerers, makes clear we don't have such a consensus now if we ever did.
If you haven't seen it you might find one of the early Amazon job postings amusing: http://groups.google.com/group/mi.jobs/msg/d81b6c1fa8f361fc?...
The gladiators, the museum says, were often convicted criminals or prisoners-of-war, and almost always slaves.

Did you know that Mexican drug gangs sometimes capture groups of civilians and stage gladiator games between them using crude weapons such as hammers? And then when the winner emerges after breaking enough skulls, his big reward is to go on a suicide mission with an assault rifle into an enemy town?

History comes alive.
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Well he does quote the third law of stupidity:

"Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake."
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Bezos job post from 1994:
http://groups.google.com/group/mi.jobs/msg/d81b6c1fa8f361fc?...
It's setting iframe src on a timer to detect when the hosted html file is present. Yeah, that's unfortunate about the back button, something we didn't think about during the hackathon. It would be easy enough to have the user ask to validate the existence of the hosted file instead.
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The function names are hidden in the .text section; each character is xored with 0x55. You can see the xoring here:

80484e0: 83 f2 55 xor $0x55,%edx

The encoded strings are:

>>> def ascii_to_xored_hex(s, xorval):
... return ''.join(['%02x' % (ord(c) ^ xorval) for c in s])
...
>>> ascii_to_xored_hex('ptrace', 0x55)
'252127343630'
>>> ascii_to_xored_hex('printf', 0x55)
'25273c3b2133'

They're hidden in plain sight!

mrj10@mjlap:~/Downloads$ xxd hackme | grep 2521
0000680: 008d 7600 2521 2734 3630 0090 2636 343b ..v.%!'460..&64;
mrj10@mjlap:~/Downloads$ xxd hackme | grep 2527
0000690: 3300 6690 2527 3c3b 2133 0090 6afb 4c8d 3.f.%'<;!3..j.L.

To the disassembler, these strings look like and-xor sequences. e.g., for 'ptrace':

8048684: 25 21 27 34 36 and $0x36342721,%eax
8048689: 30 00 xor %al,(%eax)

As you can see from the hexdump, these did show up when he ran strings (e.g., %!'460 and %'<;!3 ), they just weren't recognizable.
How clever. I've been inspired, I'm going to write a module named "mkfs" and it will do absolutely nothing related to making a filesystem
I think this is the downside of intelligence. You see so many patterns you start to believe that everything falls into one. New ideas are assumed to be no better than old ones.

I don't think it should matter where an idea comes from. I read an article from Fred Wilson that mentioned (in a good way) how surprised a CEO was to find so many good ideas coming from customer service reps (who have the most direct experience with customers). I won't assume you ignored interns, but I think stereotyping by position is a good recipe for overlooking opportunities, just to save yourself some mental fatigue.
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I guess I've followed thinkpads long enough to know 1) the "X" series is the small fast kind, T-series is the normal kind, W kind is workstation-type, and the rest can be ignored and 2) all non-apple non-thinkpad laptops can be safely ignored.
Apple might eventually place an A chip, maybe A6 on it's MacBook air, if intels upcoming ivy bridge doesn't live up to it expectation, which I doubt it won't, the new 3d transistors are awesome! The pressure that apple has placed on intel is quite serious and I thank them for that to long has intel made power hungry chips!

This ultra books are meant to compete against tablets which are growing quite fast and where intel has no solution yet afaik, I say take that 300 million dollars and invest in even more efficient and powerful architectures that could be placed in tablets and smartphones!
That mostly benefits HIM. Really, I should get to spend that 10k on Wallmart/Netflix/etc. so that it benefits ME.

If you are advocating for reducing taxation and redistribution, I agree with you.

I was merely arguing against the dichotomy implicitly put forth by the author - either the government spends the money, or else it is wasted.
This might be the most terrifying program I have ever heard of. I am struggling to think of anything other than the potential consequences of this.
> the original claim that games are decided over affecting 1% of one's opponents economy?

The original claim wasn't that the game was decided over 1% of someones economy. Rather, that games were decided over many small advantages gained, things like affecting someones economy by 1%. You do that 5-10 times throughout the game, and that's a good 5-10% of their economy.
Sounds like this would make a better web page then an app.

With the web, it's easier to share, there are far fewer rules, larger user base and if google has a problem with your logo, they can send you a detailed C&D letter which you can take care of without losing your existing work.
Surely there's a better way than using $name in every structure?
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Apple seems to be getting better at this: The transition from 68k to PPC was a nightmare. The transition from PPC to x86 was surprisingly smooth.

I bet the next one will be close to seamless.
Regarding ammo.js, I am working on it in large part specifically for paladin. But I want it to be easily reusable by other projects, hence it is separate.
Yeah! Your joke library that appeals to a niche audience is really going to fill that second page of google results.
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Apple is always one step ahead of the game. All their competitors are constantly trying to get to where Apple's products are, but by the time they get there, Apple has moved on to something even better.

Intel is scared about Apple becoming the dominant PC maker, especially because Apple has been using non-Intel chips in their new premier products (iPad and iPhone). My guess is that Apple's next big move is to start selling something in the laptop space that uses either the A5 processor or the next generation of it, which I guess would be called the A6. This will be huge. Intel processors are major power hogs and there's no way they can make them significantly better. Apple is poised to release a laptop with the Air's form factor that runs iOS on an A5 or A6 that Apple manufactures.

This could be an absolute coup if it happens. They will be selling something like the 11" Mac Air for between $600 and $700, possibly less. It would have sick battery life that nobody could touch. It will run all of the iPad apps, have Safari and all of Apple's Office replacement software. The best part is that nobody could compete with it, because the only way would be to also ditch Intel's x86 processor, but there's no other OS or developer ecosystem that could run on it. Maybe Android on an ARM processor. Microsoft has nothing lined up in this space. They are dead in the water.

The best part is that you don't need Jobs to make this happen. What you need is the manufacturing knowledge and capacity that someone like Cook can deliver.
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Racists were also in favor of socialism, gun control, teaching evolution in school, reduced taxation, labor unions, and freshly baked apple pie.

The fact that racists favor a corrupted version of a certain policy does not imply that the policy is bad.
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I will certainly check them all out. Thanks for the comment.
I'm not sure why there is such a push against this in the states. Its very simplistic marketing, yes, and it does shift behavior (ignoring the women or overbearing attention to them) but them it seems all sectors use sex and sexuality to build attention.

I don't think the authors attempt to embarrass companies will work. Because it worked. You showed up at the booth. And any marketer will tell you that even a bad interaction is worthwhile. Attention is at the heart of this strategy.

If you want to reduce booth babes, avoid the booths completely. Treat them like kids with ADHD. Berating them wont work. Ignore them and they fall in line. (of course, that is a simplification)