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His phrasing does imply that the first product with GUI from Apple was the Macintosh and as you said, it was a failure. There were actually 3 (Lisa, Macintosh, Apple IIGS).

Lord knows I don't want to defend Mr. Gladwell, but Jobs really didn't have much influence on the Lisa and it could actually be viewed as a competing product with the Macintosh.
I'm not suggesting those users who don't have a choice should be ignored completely, I'm suggesting they be ignored for the Best Of All Possible Websites (or whatever you'd like to call it).

Even if you display to 70+ browsers you can still get away with programming two versions, as most websites do today (or more than two, as most major websites do). One will simply be less complex and pretty than the other (CSS3, etc).

In the future I imagine that will be the standard: Modern version of a website, and then lowest-common-denominator version, which works with IE[X]+ and older mobile browsers, and stubborn/corporate firefox users, etc.

In my case I don't have a choice: Canvas cannot work on IE6/7/8. Excanvas works until animation is introduced, then becomes progressively worthless.
It’s a reasonable question, however consider the following: If someone is late for a job interview and unkempt, do you question whether they will be on time for work and will have meticulous software development hygiene (by whatever standards you employ, e.g. tests, proper use of source control)?

It’s true that some unkempt people are very careful about their work, and some people who are late for an interview are on time for work. So I would personally probe further to make sure this is not a sign of a deeper lack of commitment.

Careful attention to detail in marketing materials doesn’t automatically mean careful attention to detail in product development. But you know, I doubt it’s a coïncidence that Apple's marketing materials are clean and simple, and they don’t play the “Intel Inside” sticker game, and they are restrained in the CrapWare they allow on their OS X machines, and so on and so forth.

So if you show me a busy, confused marketing item, I won’t automatically refuse to buy the product. But I will certainly probe to see if this is an anomaly or whther it is representative of their approach to product development.
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They do. These posts are for those who've never installed it before. All 5 of them :-)

Seriously, the release notes and changelog are what we're after.
Show me a modern, general purpose language for which there isn't more than one way to do most things and I'll show you a language you don't know very well.

Even Python, who's motto would be closer to "one right way to do it" always has more than one way. So you're statement doesn't explain anything I'm afraid.
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i get that they want to push it and get rid of their stock, that's just good business. what i don't like is that they specifically go out of their way to lie about it. they don't have to mention the time, they could just be pushing features or style. there's plenty of other ways to sell iphones.
Years didn't do it but less than 40 minutes (since this was published) got you in. I'm either missing something or you haven't put your time to good use.

Try vimtutor in your terminal. It's supposed to take 30 minutes.

You'll miss a lot of things from the tutorial the first time but you can come back to it as often as needed. You also shouldn't go any further than the tutorial until everything in it makes sense. Once you're at that point, you'll be autonomous for finding new commands and a happy vim user.

I may sound mad but seriously, what's with the a-web-app-for-everything madness?
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SlideShare ditches Flash, rebuilds entire site in HTML5 — Tech News and Analysis
FUD - you don't have to support every browser. And it's especially disingenuous to say that if you're developing websites/web applications you should care about, say, IE20 users running in IE 5 compatibility mode.
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So he suddenly changes from "no innovation" to "actually, it's needed?". Their games are nothing more than spam. Really! One of the reason I quit facebook was friends playing them, and letting me know about their status.

I'm a gamer. I work at game development studio, and I spam my buddies that play the same game as me with my status, but no one else...
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WooCommerce launched to take on Shopify & Magento
It would be interesting to design a programming language around jewish logic.
Cache behavior simulation would be kind of a pain to implement, but I might give it a shot at some point. What is branch behavior? I'm not familiar with the term.
Database of air pollution in the world
Xobni (YC S06) launches for Gmail and Android
>One man's root kit is another man's Linux kernel.

Not really. More like ninety nine men's root is one man's kernel based on marketshare of Linux.

> Windows 8 may boot on untrusted hardware, but will it play rented movies, work with Office 365, run apps from Microsoft's store, etc? If Windows on untrusted hardware will not be a second-class citizen, why would Microsoft bother with secure boot?

What has this got to do with anything? That will exclude Windows 7 PCs with no EFI and thus MS will lose customers who would otherwise rent movies, buy Office 365, buy apps from MS store.
Today's Serving of FUD: Public Clouds are not as Secure as Private Clouds
"Worst case Mojang changes the name of an unreleased game (that I hadn't heard about until now)."

I disagree. Worst case is both companies are out $X because legal departments collect their fees post-court for a no good reason.

Mojang is essentially playing a game of chicken at this point. They're calling Bethseda's bluff that they're not serious about pursuing the case but the longer it goes like this the more they risk losing in lawyer fees.

I see Mojang backing down last minute because after-all, your statement really is true in the sense that they might have to alter an unreleased game's name... s/scrolls/$something_else/g
Author here. Sorry about that. I didn't mean that this should get into the wild this fast.

I fixed the link (I had renamed Bitbucket repository).

Also, it is not supposed to cover the whole of Vim. Just enough to get you started without getting scared away immediately.

Also, thanks for the $ (it should work mostly but I haven't covered all the different browsers; try alt-gr+4)
Might be too much speculation, but the first thing I thought when I saw the maps icon was a hint that they'd reveal their own non-google maps system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Thomas#Importance_to_Wend...
"Doctor, doctor it hurts when I have to support 10 versions of IE"... errr... "Then don't that!"

Only support the last two version. Warn people who come to your site that they are using an outdated and unsupported browser. Point them to Chrome, Firefox and Opera, which are all free.

Cut the Gordian Knot:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot
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How Tech Crunch Disrupt Winner "Shaker" can become more than just an entertainment tool.
"As economics, as a field, becomes more powerful, the economy becomes more stable."

This is magical and, frankly, dangerous thinking.

In fact, this is eerily similar to the hubristic naivete peddled by pundits just before the subprime mortgage crash.
What fundamental new is for new UI comparing with 3.6? I use Firefox for some way, only for firebug mostly. I think its just evolution of person, now I use what is most serves my needs.
Alright, now. Pay attention to the existence of paid option.

The fact that GDrive has a paid option indicates that they are aiming directly at Dropbox. If they were offering a completely free option, it would implicitly make GDrive fall into another category thus increasing its distance from Dropbox. I would also guess that Google can easily make GDrive completely free, these $5 / 20Gb is not likely to be breaking or making it for them. It is a just conversion facilitator. Furthermore consider their selected price point - it means that they want to remove all doubts when one compares two paid services and to strongly entice Dropbox users to switch.

<tinhat>Google Docs must be not working as great as they would like it to. People are still not using it for interesting documents of some value, and that's a bummer. Let's try and get to these documents another way...</tinhat>
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Well, to paraphrase your own comment above, golfers don't care that there are many other shit golf courses being created around the world. They just play golf on courses they like. Why do you care if others are playing shit made from Zynga? You have a lot of opinions about others comment styles, what they care about etc, but frankly economics doesn't care whether you like games or not. If there's a market, it sells.
* Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases

^^ apparently not the use cases I use. FF7's been running for about 12 hours on my win7 box and is using over a gig of ram just like normal...

It started off good but then just kept growing over the hours. Nothing really improved here. :(
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> If you want to stop strangers from seeing everything you do then you're probably better off just not using Facebook. Seriously.

I don't use Facebook. But other people in my home use Facebook which means they're tracking what I do—as a non-user and someone that hasn't agreed to their terms or privacy policy—anyway. The only solution to this is for Facebook to stop tracking people when they log out. The government needs to step in because they obviously won't do that on their own.
Agreed. File sharing is the type of thing where you can't just rely on first-mover-advantage. Google has the ability and infrastructure to offer more space for free on more devices and platforms.
Typically, you're going to pay around 50-60 cents on a small transaction, unless you have a special arrangement with your gateway and/or merchant back (or they're micropayment-friendly). You can help that somewhat by batching, if you expect people to buy multiple items before the authorization expires, but the easiest way is to just increase the price.
Sorry, but that's entirely your fault.

Even if you missed the "please allow AVOS to migrate your stuff" e-mail Yahoo! sent when Delicious was acquired, you could have easily grabbed a JSON dump of your bookmarks at any time in the past eight years.
The reason it being on web is that it's a low barrier to try out, and it concentrates on the first steps; in my opinion, systems should provide a gradually progressive way to learn them.
Ask HN: Medical-marijuana friendly co-working?
I'm working on a couple of Cannabis-related properties, & would love to share office space with like-minded individuals. Are there any other 420-friendly hackers out there who would be interested in going in together on an office space in San Francisco or Oakland? I'll supply the Volcano!
At least Google is an OpenID provider, so you can provide Google, Yahoo, etc. buttons that are actually OpenID buttons, and then have a general OpenID field, and let your users choose.
Good example. MS successfully killed off Netscape (the company) within a few years by bundling an inferior browser. It also prevented them from entering desktop OS, which was perceived as a threat back in the day.

Edit: FYI, Mosaic was the one I had in mind, which was free.
Microsoft Unleashes Windows Phone Mango
Edward is a savvy guy not above getting his hands dirty with code.
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Nerd Nite! Just read about it in The Stranger. Tonight is their first one in Seattle and it looks rad. http://seattle.nerdnite.com/
No offense, but Linux people have been trying to engage hardware vendors for decades now. If the hardware happens to be a rack server or Android phone, they tend to have decent success. If it's a laptop, the answer (if one comes back) is generally "You want to run what now?"

No one cares. Margins are too thin to "engage the community" or any other such nonsense. Does it run Windows? Ship it.
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Every business model depends on customer acquisition. I don't understand where you're going with this question.
The other wonderful thing about the market is that it doesn't care whether you have favorable odds if you only take one bet. Lucidity in a debate is much more likely to produce upvotes than 55% odds on a single speculation about the market is to produce dollars.

(As Keynes said, "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you or I can remain solvent.")
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It's probably cheap to do so, and helps with the specs race.
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There was a photo posted online from within Apple that someone analyzed, and there was circumstantial evidence to suggest that it was from a new iPhone. There was a spec bump to 8MP, but the extra resolution didn't really add additional detail (which is common for 8MP phone camera sensors).

I guess we'll see next week whether that was the real device or not.
Have you tried with CSS color names?
Nice to see this guy back.
> Meanwhile, you won't have to worry about supporting Firefox 6 or Chrome 13 in November.

You sure about that? Just because they're not officially supported doesn't mean a significant number of people won't still be using them.
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I honestly have trouble deciding if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

Good: It's less ego-centric.
Bad: It's more idea-centric.

I mean, the YC mantra is that founders matter most, no?
From a user perspective, it'd be nice if it just came with Chrome.

I'm sure Dropbox would be horrified
Wrong forum.
What the hell does this stuff do on HN front page?!
"Next time somebody asks you why you prefer Apple products to competitors, show them this invite. Explains everything."

I suppose in your metaphor it would be: "Next time somebody asks you why you prefer Jim to his colleagues, show them how he dresses. Explains everything."

I think your formulation is reasonable and measured. I totally agree that Apple's marketing reflects something about the company. But the GGP comment is hyperbolic at least, sycophantic at worst. If I asked you why you like Apple products and you showed me this invite, I would probably disregard your opinion.

It's the kind of comment that makes many Apple fans seem like cult members, at least to me.
Yeah, I can see that. A big problem is that the set sizes where cache effects start to come into effect are much larger than the sizes you're modelling. A level 1 cache is going to have 4K, which is at least 5x the size you're modelling by default. But you can probably use play sizes, like a cache which only holds 16 or 32 ints.

By branch behaviour, I mean branch prediction. I did some research (http://paulbiggar.com/research/#sorting-tr) before that showed that branch prediction is really important for sorts. For example, insertion sort is way better than selection sort, and radix sort has really really good branch prediction properties, making it beat quicksort (well, this is LSB radixsort, and I think you implemented MSB radixsort, but no doubt it applies somewhat).

So for the branch simulation, implement a 2 bit dynamic saturating counter, and note the number of mispredictions. There are simpler and more complex predictors, but that's probably the simplest that's a reasonable approximation of real life.
Data from Ancestry.com would also be a nice way to seed a social network... I'm actually surprised that it hasn't yet been an acquisition target for either Google+ or Facebook.

As a pay service that is in dire need of an updated interface, there must be a ton of untapped value. From a technical perspective, I'm fairly certain that the data is exportable in GEDCOM format[1] (which, interestingly, was created by the Mormons), so mapping to a social network profile would be seamless. I know that older folk especially enjoy researching this kind of stuff, so you would also have a large built-in user base.

With the advent of modern social networks and the availability of published first-hand accounts, services like 1000memories and Ancestry probably won't be multi-generational companies unless they find a unique angle to the social networking business and/or trap their users data.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM
This sounds terrible, but it seems to me that nobody will let it get that bad. It's infeasible to support 70+ browsers simultaneously; no dev shop can afford that. So they would either pick versions or choose some common set of features to support. If this meant that IE users got crappy experiences, despite developers' best efforts, people might finally start ditching IE. (A man can dream, can't he?)

But I think the IE team will find a way to prevent this.
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if you define 'usefulness' in terms of the manner in which you perform your work, you might have a point.

if you define 'usefulness' in terms of 'alleviating some form of human suffering' then i think your point vanishes: prop traders don't have clients. they make money for themselves alone.
Frankly, I dislike "promise". You do not remove features from users without a significant reason, you work within the constrains of what you have and build upon that.

The tag list isn't even ordered alphabetically anymore, for $DEITY's sake...

How would users react in they opened Word one day and found out it was actually Notepad, just because Microsoft wanted to create a "beautiful thing" and rewrite Word from scratch...?
It looks to be a subset of the color list from Wikipedia. If you use it then you will have less accurate results.
Your requirements for a Startup Shuttle?
WooThemes Launches WooCommerce To Turn WordPress Sites Into Online Shops
Be sure to enable this:

* Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox

Some of these issues are very hard to reproduce for the developers. If users like you turn it on, there's hope of actually getting it fixed.
"Here’s three things that really pissed me off that rolled through my feed."

Some guy on the internet gets offended at out-of-context blurbs he read on the internet about an event he did not attend? Stop the presses.
Hopefully I'm understanding this correctly: you're creating a service that lets you send emails securely using your hosted SMTP, from anywhere in the world?

Useful for traveling on business, I would assume!
But for Pete's sake, only warn them once. Every time I visit Hotwire with an unstable version of Firefox, it reminds me to upgrade my browser with an obnoxious pop-up.
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The corollary to that argument is if you want to send someone a message without other people seeing it, writing on their "wall" probably isn't the best way of going about it.

There are some pretty reasonable objections to Facebook revealing things unexpectedly: this isn't one of them. If you wish to control who reads a message you've left on a someone else's quasi-public wall then Facebook certainly isn't the service for you.
Gruber says it means 1 iPhone model only.
Doesn't work.

"There is no ROM loaded, or it is invalid."
File sharing is the type of thing where you can't just rely on first-mover-advantage.

Yes, especially in a market where there are many, many users of computers who might have occasion to share files who have not used (or even heard of) any of the available file-sharing solutions yet. I am a sporadic user of Dropbox strictly for back-up of documents I produce, and a moderately frequent user of Google Docs for collaborative editing who knows a lot of other Google Docs users. I could see Google making huge gains in market share, turning it into tomorrow's "first mover" from the point of view of most users, for a file-sharing service.
IMHO quite importantly, this version also includes a list of Microsoft fonts that don't render well with DirectWrite, and will switch back to GDI font rendering for those.

On my machine, this fixes the "fuzzy fonts" issue that existed since Firefox 4 if you enabled hardware acceleration.
Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" update begins
Yesterday a large number of you indicated interest in a Startup Shuttle service from the peninsula to the south bay and back.

I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to break even with this kind of service. Please help me by filling out this form and spreading it to everyone who might be interested in it.

Thanks!

Edit: FYI the original thread is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3041545
The only thing that would incentive in OEMs pulling more shit like this in the future.
Finance allows people to -

1) attend college and pay for it later
2) buy a car to get to work
3) raise capital to start your business
4) Allows people to enter positions which cut down the risk to their business from external variables like currencies and commodity prices
5) Allows people to do stupid things
6) Allows people to travel light without having to carry loads of cash
7) Enables stupidity

If you start holding the enablement of stupidity against industries then there will be very few left that dont enable stupidity in some form or another.
Maybe Apple is trying to promote 4ormat http://4ormat.com with the "4"
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What will kill Dropbox?:

Some similar product where we can install and manage our own servers.
I think that's because people just don't know a whole lot about these kind of things, instead of being vague I try to teach them a little about it. Generally people mean well.
Zoho creates new JS Editing & Rendering engines for presentation app
Thanks that was useful, and does make clearer why the complaint exists.

It almost seems like there should be two Win8 logos:

1. The Standard Win8 Logo -- where secure boot is disabled.

2. The Secure Win8 Logo -- as I think the best story is for MS to sign all the drivers.

That way if you're buying something like a laptop or tablet, where you're a lot less likely to swap things in or out, then maybe the Secure Win8 is what you want. But for a desktop where you plan on moving over a lot of your old HW or do upgrades, you may not want the Secure logo. Just thoughts.
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Chrome 13 will definitely be gone. You can verify the data.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201009...

Mozilla has more of a problem getting people to upgrade but I think they will if simply nudged.
Borax will also annihilate flea problems :)
If I'm not mistaken, libev and AnyEvent are designed by the same guy (and I think AnyEvent was what libev was created for).

Also, check out Coro (coroutines), Tatsumaki and plackperl.org for other awesome libraries and tools that rival and even surpass their counterparts in other languages.
How would anyone know that? If any personally identifying cookies remain you could.

And personally, from my corporate experience there's a good chance that you're simply lying to us here and a better chance that you're telling us what you think the truth is but have been lied to yourself.

For instance, the FAQ directly contradicts the Wall Street Journal. You and the FAQ say no logged out info is collected, the article says exactly otherwise.

> WSJ: Facebook acknowledges that it gets that data [from logged out users] but says it deletes it right away.

Oh, I see. You do track them. But, you don't inhale...

Even if we believed you, by collecting that data you change the game entirely. Now you can be legally required to log data from a specific user which you couldn't if the system wasn't in place.

Stay shifty, Facebook.
If you bought an inverse and you think you have no time decay, then please read the prospectus. Inverses are comprised of various instruments (including put options) and DO have time decay. If you read the prospectus you will see they are for replicating the movements on a DAILY basis. If you hold overnight for regular periods of time you are in for a shock.
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The designer sitting next to me is most excited about this:
>* Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis
That won't kill it for my mama.