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I think it's not a good move for Amazon. E-Ink kindles are much more useful and friendly for book readers. They would choose to improve it with an html5 application platform (check this out; http://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/5966867029/)
One of my favorite anecdotes about that comes from an article found here (can't remember the exact article): The author (a developer) went along with their lead salesperson on a call to MIT. After demoing the product, which normally sold for $150k, the MIT rep asked about the price. The salesperson immediately said "$1 Million" - the MIT rep chuckled and said, "Oh come on, that's ridiculous - you know we don't pay more than $650k for software." The salesperson responded, "Ok, we'll let you have it for $650k - now let's talk extras."

So yes, price is a function of demand first - don't tell the customer what it's worth, let them tell you.
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Also, I noticed this:

(For guys) Girls like guys in ties. Show me a young woman who doesn’t like a well-dress guy and I will show you a liar. This doesn’t mean putting on a suit every time you step out of your apartment, but just putting on clothes that make you look good.

For long-term relationships, men are just as picky as women. Many men probably don't want to date the kind of woman who will be impressed by wearing a long string of cloth that symbolically represents the cutting off of bloodflow to the brain. Rather, men want to signal to women that they're looking for someone who will look beyond the surface appearance of fancy clothes and towards something more substantial.

Show me a young woman who finds the wearing of a tie the marginal tipping point at which she'll sleep with a guy in a tie and I'll show you a young woman who probably makes me think, "I can do better over the long term." And, even over the short term, I'm not convinced the tie is all that important.
Ask PG/HN: Why does PG list Sam Altman among the 5 most interesting founders?
I wonder why he lists him here: http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html.

I have never met Sam Altman and never seen him speak in public, but if I didn't know about YC, I surely wouldn't have known about Loopt or Sam Altman. I live in Europe and Loopt is pretty much non-existent here (all 4sq/gowalla). So why is Altman such a great entrepeneur (in terms of strategy/amibition, as stated by PG)? What is extraordinary about the things he does or has done? Why isn't someone like for instance Jack Dorsey on the list?
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Relevant snipper from Cryptonomicon:

It is trite to observe that hackers don’t like fancy clothes. Avi has learned that good clothes can actually be comfortable—the slacks that go with a business suit, for example, are really much more comfortable than blue jeans. And he has spent enough time with hackers to obtain the insight that is it not wearing suits that they object to, so much as getting them on. Which includes not only the donning process per se but also picking them out, maintaining them, and worrying whether they are still in style—this last being especially difficult for men who wear suits once every five years.
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What does "dress better" mean, anyway? Once you start unpacking that phrase, you realize it has very little to do with optimizing functionality. It's not the same as "eat better" or "sleep better".

Imagine if someone showed up for a swim race in a suit and tie!
What shoes could one wear with shorts? I ask because I live in Arizona, where shorts are appropriate about 11 months of the year.
Thanks for the feedback. I've also noticed the Kindle Keyboard and Fire seem to be the only ones without "special offers," which is interesting.
Exactly - when I work, it's to get things done, not be part of a fashion show. You think Jobs, Zuck, or Brin care about being fashionable on the job?? I respect the OP's opinion, but it felt very high school-ish to me.

That said, I'm not against people dressing however they want. I don't roll into the office looking like a slob, but I definitely don't obsess about my outfit for the day.

I obsess more about the thought and effort put into the products I'm creating..
This article mentions 2.3 (but it's a tech blog, so who knows):

http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/28/amazon-kindle-tablet-pict...
article is total trollshit, but still:

"You are building the future, so dress like it."

If we're building the future, we'll build one where we can dress how we like.

"Even Zuck has been sporting a suit more and more. He’s the last person that needs to impress someone based on how he dresses."

Tell that to his shareholders.

"It’s a “my talent supersedes my necessity to follow the guidelines of society.”"

If people like you are going to speak the way you do on behalf of society, maybe this society thing isn't for me.
Find better slacks.

I don't often wear dress slacks, but when I do they feel more comfortable than my usual khakis or nice jeans. Hm...maybe I should wear those dress slacks more often.

Oh yeah, dry clean only.
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this post is just as short sighted as the quote it's arguing with. strange to see banter about what people are wearing in a place like this. wear whatever you want.
"Developers need to think about this as another golden ticket. Here's the iOS gold rush, part deux."

My thoughts exactly.
This is horrible. Seriously, this will eat you alive, you must impose yourself to your environment, not the other way around or you'll be crushed.

You think this meeting is useless? Tell others, and don't attend it.

You have more work than you can reasonably do? simply say no. You won't get any advantage from working too much, anyway, you'll just be squeezed some more.

When others leave, leave too. You're not supposed to spend 12 hours a day at work. Will someone die if you don't finish this document/program/web page? Heck no.

Your boss is unhappy with your new attitude? Explain the situation. Tell that you won't be this nice guy that get exploited to death any more. Either you're respected or you're better be elsewhere.
dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas

This is perhaps a little strong, but I did think about this when I read this line from the original post:

You are building the future, so dress like it.

No. Engineering is about the things, not the people. Our goal is to draw attention to the work, not the worker.

There's a reason why Steve Jobs became famous for always wearing the same, very neutral uniform on stage. He does this because it really isn't about him. It's about the product. The product is the star.

Engineers dress like stagehands because that is our aspiration. The message we're sending is: Don't watch me. Watch the product. I'm focused on the product and you should be as well.
Cool story! This is interesting.
I wonder if they'll use non-TCP connections on 3G. That'd be cool. (http://blog.davidsingleton.org/mobiletcp)
Thanks for the tip, but the jetBook seems to use a TFT screen: "jetBook uses a huge, state-of-the-art 5-inch VGA reflective monochrome TFT screen" (http://www.jetbook.net/specifications). No word about resolution but I'm skeptical that it could compare in any way to e-ink, especially the new Pearl panels.
An API to pick best developer who can write code on my behalf :-)
For myself, I due to an accident I had when a tutor / counsellor (door knob caught on the neck strap with id and sent me to the floor - lots of blood), I don't like wearing things around my neck including ties. I'm ok with slacks but not in the winter here because that's jeans weather and you never know when you might need to help someone out. Polos are ok and I mostly wear them instead of t-shirts.

I also grew up in an area where wearing a suit indicated that you were probably here to take money, land, or rights away. Suits were really the first sign not to trust that person. This belief is very hard to shake (along with the thought that anyone calling a noon meeting without providing food is sending a clear insulting message).

I hated my time in places that required a suit and tie and believe that culture is corrupting ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3015969 ).
> E-Ink kindles are much more useful and friendly for book readers.

In some sense, you could use that same rationale to discount the possibility of the Kindle succeeding against books. E-ink is arguably nicer for reading, but on the flip side, access to video, apps, and the web is a big selling point. I think it's up against the iPad, not the Kindle, and I think it stands up pretty well.
Does anyone use the Kindle for technical books? If so, how does it fare? For the $79/$99 it's not a big price to pay, but I have 10s, if not 100s of PDFs that I would like to keep and read (reading on the iPad isn't working out for me).

Any thoughts?

Update: Just saw fribblerz's comment about the DX. But I am still curious about the other Kindles.
Is that a serious question? No.

1. Microsoft and Samsung have a licensing agreement now. We don't know how much many is trading hands, but Microsoft will get paid for each handset Samsung sells, and Samsung will get paid for each handset Microsoft sells. Judging by other deals, it's likely a few dollars per handset. That's not a big issue.

2. Furthermore, the licensing deal is probably not limited to Android. I assume it would cover other mobile OSes as well. So leaving Android would not necessary even save a few dollars per device.

3. Samsung already had Bada as an alternative OS to Android, as well as rumors of some other projects. Maybe Tizen is one of those. These are long-term backup plans. They don't imply Samsung is dumping Android.

4. This is the main one. Samsung makes a ton of money off of Android. It's very successful at making products with it. A lot of that success is tied into the platform, for example the app store. Why in the world would Samsung risk all that?
It really depends on who you're talking to, for the most part especially dealing with clients, you get better treatment wearing a suit.

However you dress, you should look good, if you're confident in t-shirts and khakis presenting to a room full of suits then do it, if you're more confident in a suit then wear a suit.
He's doing what the RIM CEO did when presenting the playbook!

He's clutching a tablet-shaped-MacGuffin which may as well be a bottle of water for all his body language says about it.
Chances are if your tie/dress shirt makes you feel uncomfortable, you bought the wrong size. Comfortable dress shirts and ties do exist.
1 million Android downloads - but how are you doing financially?
Because
a) There are usually negligible amounts of women around

b) I sweat in dress shirts which makes me less productive

c) I stay seated a lot changing posture constantly, which makes shirts look wrinkled

d) My job does not depend on how someone perceives me physically or socially so... Occam's razor.

It's not just developers, it happens with many people who work in science. I know a guy in a biology lab who only dresses in suits, and i 've heard his supervisor say that he sometimes can't give him real work to do for the fear of ruining his suit.
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I can't scroll the page with the up/down arrows. It don't get why no one mentions this. Sometimes I'm afraid they're targeting just me. Is it really the right trade-off to steal the arrow key to scroll the results with a cursor? Who uses that feature? Leave my arrows alone.
Another vote for eccos here.

Super comfortable (almost as comfy as sneakers to me) and reasonably dressy. Not a true "dress shoe", but I've taken to wearing them nearly every day.

They're a great way to class up your typical "jeans + x" wardrobe.
Ah, but what if you had great ideas and dressed well to back them up?
The guide doesn't quite achieve what it sets out to, i.e. showing a GUI user some concrete examples where the command line gives you more power. Instead the reader is presented with lists of fancy ways to access a shell (you realistically expect a Unix beginner to rent a linode.com server?!) and with semi-comprehensive listings of the root file system (as if e.g. "/opt, package-manager installed files" is some place where a beginner might profitably venture).
Does it seem like Amazon is solving yesterdays problem instead of futures? With the speed of CPU's doubling every 18 months and the amount of bandwidth increasing by 50% annually, the accelerating growth of CPU's and bandwidth will leave this sort of client-server architecture behind. It's only a matter of time.
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> Next step: make e-books cheaper!

Don't sell your freedoms that easily. I'd rather have Amazon sell the DRM-free.
I can't speak for other people, but I'm a developer and I put very little effort into my wardrobe. This doesn't derive from a conscious decision as much as it is that I simply hate the concept of "dressing up". There is no relationship between how good someone is at technical tasks and their affinity for fine clothing. In actuality, I've only ever observed the opposite.

Ultimately, I'm not a peacock, so I have little interest in human plumage.
Yes, you can boulder by yourself (I find bouldering more fun anyways). Most gyms have sign up sheets to connect solo climbers with others. Even better, when you sign up at a gym you'll probably receive guest passes, take a friend some time and they'll probably want to sign up themselves because its so fun. My group has increased from 2 to 4 over the last few months.

EDIT: For those who are unaware of the climbing terms, here are some brief descriptions:

Bouldering: Climbing solo, with no gear, usually up a wall ~8-12 ft (with mats below, in case you fall). These routes are usually tougher focus more on technique/strength rather than endurance.

Top-Roping: Climbing with a partner (one climber, one belayer), both partners must have the proper gear and tie in to the ropes in order to climb. These routes are usually 20-50ft and require a good deal of endurance to reach the top.
Does it seem like Amazon is solving yesterdays problem instead of the futures? With the speed of CPU's doubling every 18 months and the amount of bandwidth increasing by 50% annually, the accelerating growth of CPU's and bandwidth will leave this sort of client-server architecture behind. It's only a matter of time.
The TouchPad also sold out as fast as people could find and purchase them, and you could easily turn right around and flip it for more than $200 on Ebay (typical seemed to be between $225 and $240, from what I could tell).

That strongly suggests that HP could easily have charged more and still moved all the units they wanted to move -- even for a discontinued product running an obscure OS.
Maybe it's good for Alzheimer's patients, but how does this affect everyday situations. It's not like our neurons need to stretch and relax, so they need more mitochondria. I wonder if they found any other alterations in brain chemistry.
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The smart people at http://automattic.com/ might take umbrage with your classification of their services.
I just saw Sam Altman speak at YCNYC and I was impressed. I have never actually met him or heard him speak before Monday, but one of his stories really stuck out and went something like this:

"We were trying to get a big client for weeks, and they said no and went with a competitor. The competitor already had a terms sheet from the company were we trying to sign up. It was real serious.

We were devastated, but we decided to fly down and sit in their lobby until they would meet with us. So they finally let us talk to them after most of the day.

We then had a few more meetings, and the company wanted to come visit our offices so they could make sure we were a 'real' company. At that time, we were only 5 guys. So we hired a bunch of our college friends to 'work' for us for the day so we could look larger than we actually were. It worked, and we got the contract."

I think the reason why PG respects Sam so much is he is charismatic, resourceful, and just overall seems like a genuine person.
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"At first glance the Fire looks like a hybrid between the failed Barnes & Noble Nook and the also 7-inch screen Samsung Galaxy Tab."

About 40% of the people I know who have e-readers didn't give a damn about eInk and chose the Nook.

The rest of this comes off as "Waaaah, I don't want Angry Birds on my Kindle" to which I say: buy one of the two new eInk models...
I work at a startup in San Francisco and I'm "that developer who wears a tie every day".

The traditional adage is that when you dress for success, people take you more seriously. I'd like to believe that this particular industry is beyond that, which may or may not be true, but the truth is that when you dress up, you take yourself more seriously.

The benefit of having everybody at the company know who I am is pretty nice, too.
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In the words of Barney Stinson:

"To score a ten would be just fine, but I’d rather be dressed to the nines. It’s a truth you can’t refute, nothing suits me like a suit."

Suit up, Men!
exploited nice guy ...

That's another interesting side conversation. If you start out with the attitude that it's just a job and you leave when your time has been put in, it's far better than starting out as the nice guy (read that as dedicated) and then changing. You'll be massacred for changing your attitude.
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All of this while KDK is still in beta. And from the looks of it it will never escape it.

http://www.amazon.com/kdk
Good question, but the T&Cs do state you can operate in "off-cloud" direct site-access mode http://amzn.to/qHBhqP
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I have a pair of Streetcars Milan (http://www.kohls.com/kohlsStore/mens_shoes/casual/laceup/PRD...) that I quite like -- they're comfortable, they look good, and just roomy enough that I can put my Superfeet insoles in them without cutting off circulation to my feet. The only complaint I have about them is that the tread on them is wearing down a little faster than I would've expected.
equity for x deals are pretty much standard, aren't they?
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I am in what might be accurately called a "student" position. I work not more than 4h/day, vary wildly in capabilities, and occasionally need training on the spot.

We don't have customers. We have the sysadmins, who want features, and ourselves, who want our names to be associated with quality software. Maybe it helps that we're an open-source-only shop.

Stories seem like they might not work well with what we do. For example, a bug I was given in January was "implement WebSockets in this proxy so that we can have WebSockets in the backend." Estimated time: 2 months. It's now September and we are just now considering the relevant code battle-ready and getting it out the door. Turns out that the bug didn't really address any of the design decisions, so those have all been slowly reevaluated over the spring, and I ended up rewriting an entire library in July.

This sounds interesting, though. Thanks for the story.
Yes, but there's absolutely no reason why a consumer needs to know about that, so why would they advertise it? That sort of things goes in developer API docs.
>Riskier move that has now spectacularly failed.

Samsung's sales figures beg to differ. In an extreme, extreme way.
No shoes, no shirt. Just shorts. I put on a shirt and flip-flops when I go out.
Nope, they do not use hidden divs.

They only display the answers if a) you are Googlebot, coming from a Google IP address, or b) when you HTTP referer contains google.com.

If it weren't for the latter, they would be banned by Google. Of course, they still hide the answers all the way on the bottom of a very long page.

Kind of related: Ever since the advance of "open" sites like Quora and StackOverflow I have not seen Expertsexchange[0] in my results anymore.

0: I still can't read that name without snickering.
I came here to comment the same thing

The cheapest Kindle is $255.57 with shipping and taxes. Now remember that the Brazilian Real is worth half a dollar, but has approximately the same buying power. In the end the cheapest Kindle costs 472 bucks here.

The monthly minimum wage is 545.
Take a look at the Red Wing 101 [1], a.k.a. "the Postman". Designed in the 1950s for people who had to walk a lot while wearing a uniform - I actually first spotted them on the feet of policemen in New York -, they combine comfort with a simple-but-neat look which provides a nice contrast if worn with straight cuffed selvedge jeans.

[1] http://www.redwingheritage.com/boots#&f=&m=/detail/1...

Edit - better link: http://www.b-74.de/out/pictures/1/red_wing_101_postman_oxfor...
Even worse, Gravatar images are generally linked via MD5 hash. If you see two Gravatars with the same hash on two different sites, you've found the same person. Combine that with a large spam list of email addresses, or brute force simple addresses from common suffixes like @gmail.com and @hotmail.com and you've got identities.
Where do they call out the amount of ram?
From Tom Ford's five lessons:

> You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.

I try to dress well (note that there is a difference between dressing well and dressing formally) because I want to show respect to those around me. I find poorly dressed people almost as off-putting as catching a scent of someone who didn't put deodorant on seeing too much of someone who doesn't have the decency to wear a belt. Again, it's not about level of formality: someone wearing an ill-fitting suit isn't dressed as well as someone wearing properly fitting jeans and a polo.

Developers value elegant code as an indication of programming skill, so why not value elegant dress as an indication of interpersonal skills? (The answer is that a lot of developers don't value interpersonal skills at all).

"Why This Matters" from Jesse at Put This On is a good read: http://putthison.com/post/665640307/why-this-matters
The video explicitly states that the browser+ec2 work together to decide how to divide up the work based on network conditions, page complexity and other factors.

I would assume that to mean that if there's Javascript that can't be run on the server side, it will be run on the client.
I think the author was Steve Blank. I have an MP3 where he mentions this happening, but I can't for the life of me remember the name. You can probably find it on IT Conversations.
But the Nook Color has probably been the most successful Android tablet/ereader to date, and Barnes and Noble hit $250. Amazon has been more aggressive than B&N on price with the e-ink Kindles, so that's why I'm not surprised they were here.

What separates Amazon and B&N from Motorola and Samsung is that content sellers don't have to make all their money on the device -- they're really interested in the back end revenue stream from books, music, video, etc. It's the same basic idea as selling gaming consoles as a loss and collecting a toll on all of the game sales for that device.
I love my Kindle, but I think it's awful for anything with graphics, tables, code, etc. Basically: if it's not free-flowing text you're not going to enjoy it on an e-ink Kindle, imo.
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Oh definitely not. But its not bad in its own right. It's not backlit, it uses ambient light to display the picture. So battery life is quite good. Personally I found it easy on the eyes, but then again I don't particularly have trouble with backlight LCD's for extended periods of time either.

The resolution of my 5'' is 640x480. The size definitely kills it for anything other than standard novels. If they came out with an 8inch version I would be all over it.