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Ok first of all.. the markets are always driven by fear. Fear of losing and the thrill of not losing (in other words, risk) is the whole point. So lets get that out of the way.

Looking at this man, he's bet heavily on a crash so what would you expect him to say? Frankly I'm a little surprised they gave him air time.
I am not sure how you can be so confident. Amazon is selling the app store to users along with the Kindle as part of the $300 price. Users will play Angry Birds on their Kindles, look at their other friends playing other new games and using other interesting apps on their Google Market based devices. They won't be able to get to those if stock Android and Amazon Android diverge even further. Game devs and App devs won't be first to put their stuff on Amazon's store because of a) incompatibility issues and b)Phones are where it is with Android and they all run Google's market.

I am not saying this is what will happen - just a potential scenario. I am actually pretty sure Amazon will have a plan to preserve compatibility with stock Android. I was refuting OP's point that Amazon will have a different 2.1 based Android going forward and they won't bother with rebasing to Google releases.
Sorry, but I tend to agree. Microsoft could produce a secure (and optional) signed bootloader that could chain load Grub, but they won't. They could require an option for consumer-targeted devices to have the Microsoft sticker, but they won't. There is almost no downside to requiring this, except for the fact that it can only serve to hurt their business. I'm not sure I blame them from a business perspective, but it feels awful par-for-the-course-Microsofty.

(I don't mean to be rude or presumptuous, but your other comment seems to indicate that you're not fully understanding the technical workings or implications of a non-disable-able UEFI secure boot).
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"All prices are for design only, i.e. they don’t include any sort of coding (no HTML, no CSS, no Javascript, no PHP, etc.)."

Then this article doesn't really tell you how much a website costs.
Nice catch. Can't wait for Assistant.
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There are some links between boric acid and fertility as well as harm to fetuses, beware.
>"Jobs, meanwhile, raced back to Apple, and demanded that the team working on the company's next generation of personal computers change course. He wanted menus on the screen. He wanted windows. He wanted a mouse. The result was the Macintosh, perhaps the most famous product in the history of Silicon Valley."

Actually, it was the Lisa.

And it was a failure.

As for it's fame, apparently Mr. Gladwell has never heard of it.
That's the great part about the market, you don't need to have these debates, you think he's wrong? Take a position against him and in a few months time you'll have dollars instead of upvotes if you're right.
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Actually, Jobs did write in some detail on this very subject:

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

He specifically mentioned the same points you brought up, plus a few others.
I put my math thesis ( PDF file ) on scribd and sent a link to my professor. He was like, you want me to pay $20 for your thesis ? It was quite embarassing considering he was on my thesis committee..morover the equations in the PDF were messed up when I accessed them through scribd, though if I download the PDF and access thru Adobe reader, everything looks okay.
I was just looking for something like this the other day. Good timing.
One thing that Dropbox doesn't do well is file segregation

Dropbox does do that. In the preferences, each folder has a checkbox for "Sync this folder to this computer"; uncheck it and the folder won't be on that device. It's marginally clunky to set up since you have to do it for each folder on each device - it doesn't have a higher level abstraction like "no large zip archives" - but the functionality is there.
Certainly going to be there! Anyone else from HN planning on going?
Yes, Bethesda is required to defend their trademark but suing the other party to completely change course isn't the only option available.

See
Trademark Coexistance http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2006/06/article_0007.ht...

SparkFun vs SPARC International
http://www.sparkfun.com/news/344
This link was cited twice here, both times using the conclusion from the article's subhead: "Eradicating any organism would have serious consequences for ecosystems — wouldn't it? Not when it comes to mosquitoes, finds Janet Fang."

But I agree with you -- careful reading of the article itself suggests otherwise.

For example, "Taken all together, then, mosquitoes would be missed in the Arctic — but is the same true elsewhere?" or "the loss of these or other fish could have major effects up and down the food chain" or "without mosquitoes, thousands of plant species would lose a group of pollinators." Any "but that doesn't matter" commentary is couched in weasel words like "unlikely", and the concluding quote is from a mosquito control association.

Finally, article makes this remark, "Ultimately, there seem to be few things that mosquitoes do that other organisms can't do just as well — except perhaps for one. They are lethally efficient at sucking blood from one individual and mainlining it into another, providing an ideal route for the spread of pathogenic microbes."

We don't know the long term effects to evolutionary processes of losing that inter-species blood to blood route, and I for one would like to see a citation saying such a mechanism, existing since the Cambrian era 79 million years ago, is irrelevant at large time scales.

// Disclaimer: Almost everyone in my family contracted malaria while living in Africa.
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A CMS brings in additional complexity of updates and security breaches, which can cost much more than a $400 update fee a few times a year.
If you want to stop strangers from seeing everything you do then you're probably better off just not using Facebook. Seriously. They're never going to shut off these eavesdropping things because that's the only online way they can grow the interconnectedness of their network - and the denser the network, the more value. To Facebook.
Next time somebody asks you why you prefer Apple products to competitors, show them this invite. Explains everything.

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This sounds largely like Google Knol. (http://knol.google.com/k)

I don't think that is generally thought of as a very successful undertaking.
I sign up for the beta and the first thing they do is try entice me to spam social network sites about their product (that I haven't tried) in exchange for a better place in line. Pass.
And all it took is a $1M grant ?
There is not one set formula, but IMO there are three attributes of engineers who successfully move to technical leadership roles: knowledge, initiative and communication skills.

The more knowledge you have, the more your opinion will be sought. Become an expert in topics relevant to your company, introduce yourself to upcoming technologies, and also know what is going on in your own company.

People who get shit done are the most important to a company. I've seen whole teams paralyzed by differences of opinion, and all it took was one person to create a adequate solution. Sometimes taking the initiative means doing grunge work, like setting up the bug tracking system, or continuous integration server. Help people out, including those outside of your own immediate team -- it gives you visibility and garners reciprocity.

Communication is the most important skill IMO. I noticed a general correlation between people's position in the company and their ability to communicate effectively. It is the topic I could write the most about, but I will relate just the few important things.

* Learn to listen, and understand what people are saying tells you about their point of view and assumptions. Most disagreements IME are because people's underlying goals and assumptions are different, and a lot of times participants are unaware of it. They may be arguing apples and oranges, but think they are talking plums (If that makes sense?). Bring those things into alignment first, and building consensus will be much easier. Lastly, ask questions to resolve ambiguity, and test for false closure.

* Vocalize your thoughts concisely and understandably. Someone who rambles and doesn't get to a point, often gets interrupted or ignored. Also, as silly as it sounds, speak loudly, carefully, with conviction.

* Learn to write well. Aside from correct grammar and spelling, it means conveying information efficiently and understandably. Long gobs of text [like this diatribe ;)] often cause people to lose interest.

* Lastly, gather a bag of communication tricks. These can be general strategies for say building consensus in an unruly team meeting, or starting out a discussion with "Let me tell you the problem I'm trying to solve, and you can fix my thinking."

Well, that's my two cents worth. Feel free to message me if you have more questions.
i've never thought of myself as a non-techie, but apparently i am confused about what HTML5 is as well. i was under the impression it meant rich web apps built with standard compliant technologies. there's a lot of HTML4 in HTML5, it's not exclusive to the few new elements.
This is exactly a "how-i-made-twelve-million-dollars-from-a-weekend-project". Winter is coming, buy shorts. Too bad Groupon didn't IPO shorting that stock would be gold in this market.
After I saw the Rastani clip Yesterday, I thought that he made me think of Peter Schiff, but one that says things the more left leaning media would like to hear.
And the clock icon never shows the correct time. It seems like the calendar app is a hack to get it to work right.
That's a good point... maybe my prompting question was wrong. "Are you familiar with Scrolls lore" or "Scrolls style of play?" or "Do you like the Scrolls games?" maybe better options so they are grouped.
The "fingers walking" logo they're using is a trademark of the Yellow Pages, so I expect them to get hit by a bank account -$millions penalty shortly, too. Logo theft from a litigious company = bad idea.
I'm not surprised. When I worked at webMethods we had to endure some of these corporate "pep-rally" speeches given by a non-technical salesy-type CEO. For a hacker, this was very very painful. I can only imagine how painful it'd be to hear SBallmer give one of these. Root canal anyone?
I really take issue with this:

"All prices are for design only, i.e. they don’t include any sort of coding (no HTML, no CSS, no Javascript, no PHP, etc.)".

I'm sorry, but a design is only a tiny, tiny fraction of a website. Usually it's the most minor and inconsequential part. I've lost count of how many clients thought their apparently simple designs can built for a toothpick and olive.

Coding the HTML, CSS, javascript, and backend (app + database) can be freaking complex and is easily the most expensive part of a site.

This article is mis-titled, since design is the least important part of a site.
You might find Sharon Drew Morgen's work helpful.

For instance: http://sharondrewmorgen.com/2011/07/why-arent-our-prospects-...

(My only connection is that I've read two of her books and talked to her on the phone once.)

TL;DR: "A purchase is a change management problem."
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I think it's a question of whether you're using "capitalist" as a shorthand for "people who profit from the investment of capital" or "people who assert ideologically that an economic system in which market actors trade as freely as possible is the most beneficial system to society as a whole."

The varying reactions to this interview are interesting to me in how they reveal people think about the market. I'm seeing a lot of pushback along the line of "So what? Most of what he says is true!" I think people's negative reaction is a result of a decade or more of an ideological push to get ordinary people's savings into the stock market, and, furthermore, to portray the people who are active drivers in those markets as job-creating heroes who know better than some government bureaucrat and who therefore deserve their high compensation. When it's revealed that at least one such marketeer dreams of profiting from a general economic collapse, that seems to invalidate the promises of an ideology that is often described in shorthand as "pro-market" or "pro-capitalism".
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This is why SendGrid is so valuable. I learned all those tricks for getting emails into inboxes, but it took me a while to learn and it was a constant battle keeping up with everything.
If you quote a number and people are happy to pay it straight up, there's a reasonable chance you're pricing too low.

You might not want to scrape out the absolute maximum each client will pay for each job (at the least, it's a very difficult thing to actually determine, and makes for a bad client experience if you're negotiating too hard), but it's always good to have a sanity check that they're not happy merely because you're charging way below market rates for your talent.
Does anyone else have problems with Vim on AZERTY keyboards? It's really annoying that I have to hold shift to enter numbers.
Apple sells both the hardware and the OS that runs on it, they own the whole stack and thus can do pretty much what they want with it. Even so I don't think there are any problems installing a Linux distro on any Mac, and Windows is directly supported by Apple via bootcamp.

Microsoft only owns the OS part of the stack, and this move, combined with some shady back room dealing or just relying on plain old OEM incompetence, could potentially prevent you booting any other OS on hardware they don't own or manufacture themselves.
Speaking of Scribd. I didn't know they have a paywall so I decided to check how it works and BAM, they logged me in using my Facebook account immediately!.

I need a separate browser just for facebook.
Dropbox is a dominant product because they understand user experience. Google's in-house products are, increasingly, failures because they don't.

* Of course, there are a lot of smart people at Google. It's not that there aren't Googlers who understand user experience, it's that the Google organism rejects their intuition and refuses to understand it. They methodically optimize UX to a local maximum, and throw up their hands when nobody is impressed, like a Vulcan trying to compose music.
I would have to disagree with this:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=EURUSD=X+Interactive#char...

That's a 6 months chart. From May 2011(1.48 Eur to 1 USD) to today(1.35 Eur to 1 USD), it has been very volatile but generally trending down. So I would say he is right.
At least my Apple computers allow me to boot Linux and FreeBSD.
I'm still not sure what the point of SlideShare is, especially when Chrome has a PDF presentation mode.
Hat tip to dxbydt for mentioning this new article by Emanuel Derman, a famous Wall Street "quant" (physicist who theorized about financial trading), in an HN comment today:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3043777
Friends of friends is a joke the second your cousin goes to college and friends the entire freshman class.
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I expect GDrive to compete with Backblaze and Crashplan (cheap + inconvenient compared to Dropbox), but its effect on the Dropbox userbase to be minimal.
>I think there could be some confusion among those unfamiliar with the two games in question.

Probably has nothing to do with the name; both scrolls (the objects) and Fantasy-style characters in leather and metal armor are incredibly common video game tropes.
Then they might justifiably reply "So, you don't care about the product at all, and just care about the way the company presents itself?"
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That's "evil" only because they will compete with a smaller company that you personally happen to like.
Huh, what? The ability of disable secure boot IS in the spec, and it is included in the Samsung tablets that Microsoft got Samsung to make for their developers. How was it implemented if it's not in the spec.
Buy a Data sim, what to do as outgoing SMTP ?

Vodafone for instance : http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=vodafone+smtp

Our service, one of a few, offers SMTP Auth'd or just relying on MAIL FROM: envelope header for outgoing email, utilising TLS, especially useful when on free-wifi.

Set your SPF settings to allow our sending IP in order to improve one's SPAM score.

The TLS route means that if one is sending to a GMAIL account then it is the recipient who can break the chain of trust.

If you have an SMTP receiver you can send from an open wi-fi access point in Karachi and know that only in server was the plain text processed. I guess that's not saying much but you can easily set it up for yourself.
In what way? It's already on par with most point and shoot cameras and better than many. Resolution is well beyond useful levels for a phone; I'm surprised Apple is chasing higher megapixel numbers when 99% of iPhone photos get cut-down for web use anyway.
Not to mention, MS made a (then) superior product. I agree, the analogy doesn't work.
Be careful using the verisign logo if you're not actually a client (which it appears since you're using an image, and not the verifying script). Also, paypal name shows Edison Labs, which is confusing given it doesn't match your domain name
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You’re a busy man, why waste your time trying to win over a girl at work when you can win one over without having to leave the house?
>but let the user have the choice of overriding those settings

How is MS restricting that? They even let the user do it on their own tablets that they got Samsung to make for them!
If you're going to bother putting date on your page, put it at the top, close to the title. Always at the top. Thanks.
I don't know, shouldn't their trade-mark only protect "The Elder Scrolls"? Otherwise, this would be an incentive for companies to trade-mark longer trade-marks, as they would receive protection for every word in the mark. For example, "The Elder Fantasy Knight Chronicle Scrolls".
Capitalism is about the allocation of capital, shorting a stock helps alert the market to the possibility that the stock is a poor place to put your capital.

Profiting from a market collapse is the preservation of capital which is exactly what capitalism is supposed to do. This kind of profiting would be disallowed by a less free market system and thus the populace would suffer a worse fate as more capital is destroyed via mismanagement.

Capitalism is not the idea that stocks and other investments go upwards infinitely. Capitalism is about the idea that we live a better life when capital is allocated efficiently. It's a good thing that we don't allocate very much capital to buggy whip manufacture. Allocation of capital to those concerns would beget the production of goods we don't need.

Similarly, the market is allocating capital away from national governments who wastefully spend it and allocating it to governments who can put the capital to good use and return a profit from the proper stewardship of their capital.
whats better: not messing with the environment and continuing to allow hundreds of thousands of human deaths a year.

One could argue that in the light of human overpopulation it might not be wise to remove one of our last natural predators.

A cynical stance, for sure, and it gets only more cynical when you consider that we might be trading mosquito-deaths for starvation-deaths here...
That headcount is part of the reason it's easier to compete with Google.

The design of the Google organization rewards micro-optimizations (use data for every decision, or else your ass isn't covered) and risk-aversion (set low KPI's and game them to get the biggest bonus each quarter).

By contrast, the design of the innovation space in general rewards peak-jumping, risk-taking, and a healthy blend of intuition and data. And it already selected Dropbox.

Don't get me wrong, the (layers and layers of) leadership at Google want to make killer products. But at the level of the lowly implementer, not only is making killer products only a peripheral concern, but those who can and want to make killer products tend to self-select out of Google.
When I first read that there are 76 browsers to support, I was thinking... Hmm, yeah this versioning thing is going out of hand. But it was Chrome + FF + Opera + Safari + 72 versions of IE. Seriously? Projecting all the way to IE20 (2022) with a compatibility mode between any two versions of IE?
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This is a bit off-topic, but I'm actually looking to build a new website to replace my current poorly-designed one. It's basically just three static pages. Current website and contact info are in my profile. Contact me if you're interested.
Just two days ago when I decided to clean up Facebook applications, I found that I have apparently authorized Scribd to access my data 6 months ago. I never used scribd, and I am very sure I didn't authorize it consciously - there it was in my Facebook applications! Very strange.
Facebook raises its game in Washington by forming its own PAC
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>If they can't find a solution that's acceptable for both sides of the equation, then they should not be allowed to do this.

Who is 'they' in the above line? MS or the OEM?

>To simply tell us geeks to "suck it up, consumers are more important" is an equally as fatal mistake as "fuck the consumers, the geeks demand something".

I see that this is working VERY well for Apple and Android OEMs.

The solution is simple, bu
So Wendy's is named after Dave Thomas's daughter Melinda. That seems to raise more questions than it answers.
a dose of reality, and it's really a shame.
It's not working for me on Chrome Stable 14.0.835.186 m. The report bug link gives me a 404.

Looks like it works fine on Firefox 6.0.2, though.
I've only ever heard it referred to in the plural sense as 'elder scrolls' series, across quite a wide variety of people. This is from casual players, console version players, d&d geeks, as well as the hardcore modding communities. In almost all cases someone refers to a specific game by its subtitle though, and noted above.

I'm not sure many people would realise what you meant if you asked "Do you like the Scrolls games?", whereas s/Scrolls/Elder Scrolls/ and you'd have much higher recognition. I might try asking a few people and seeing how it actually works out, but IMO the names are sufficiently distinct as to not cause confusion.
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I was going to write a satirical comment pointing out how ridiculous this is, but I can't come up with anything that even semi-serious. Bethesda needs a PR team.
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I'm especially loving the way they deleted my entire account and everything I ever saved in it.
I used to own an iPhone 3G and was pretty mad that the calendar icon changed day to day but the weather icon always showed 23 degrees C, sunny. So very frustrating, especially in winter when it's -35 and windy.

I now run Android and have Beautiful Widgets showing me the correct weather. :)
I'm hoping for a more durable case. If Apple's design skills are so great then why is the phone so fragile? I'd prefer an esthetically pleasing phone that I didn't have to wrap in a rubber case that obscures my nice looking phone and makes the phone larger in my pocket.