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Every new technology generation seems to make claims of revolutionary battery life, and yet it seems we're still hovering around 3-4 hours of practical usage, same as the old Mac Portable from 1990.

I'll believe it when I see it.

And even if there are such savings, Apple will use them to make the battery smaller and the laptop thinner instead of actually increasing battery life.
all right bitches I'm here to teach you econ 101. THe article starts with the words "Hiring good help is never easy, but the difficulty is compounded considerably when demand for the skills you're seeking exceeds supply." Economically, the expression "demand exceeds supply" is meaningless: you must say, demand at a given price exceeds supply at that price. Now there are a few different supply curves, some of which are more "responsive" to price than others. Take something scarcle, like $2 bills. Would you say "demand exceeds supply"? Again, depends on the price. I guaran-damn-T you that Demand for $2 bills at a price of $1.90 far exceeds supply. After all, if I didn't have to do it in one batch, my PERSONAL demand for $2 bills at a price of $1.98 exceeds the entire world supply of $2 bills. That's because I can immediately use the $2 bill to get $2 of currency.

Developers are similar. It's not that the supply of developers doesn't respond to people who want to pay $500,000 or $1,000,000 for one (as is the case with Rembrandts or Picassos). Instead, someone wants to USE a developer to create a $500,000 or $1,000,000 company, while maintaining majority ownership. So, in this sense, the supply of developers falls short of demand in the same way that the supply of $2 bill falls short of the demand for it -- at $1.50. It does not fall short at even $3.

But there is a supply of $2 bills for which supply EXCEEDS demand at $1.50: novelty bills created by me and having no value. I will sell you my personal design of a non-legal-tender $2 joke "bill"... for $1 each. How many do you want? My personal supply at that price is in the range of about 100,000 pieces immediately, which is what I can produce off-hand in a hurry. How much is the global demand for my "bills" at that price? 0.

Developers are the same. What is the global supply of developers (anyone who can code at all) at $100,000, $80,000, $50,000 or even $17,000? HUGE. The problem is that these are not the same developers who will make you a $500,000 or $1,000,000 company.
Right, this is exactly what I was talking about.

Others in this thread have pointed out that MS has other technologies that are very well supported for long periods of time -- the core C# stuff, and in their OS releases they are fanatic about never forcing you to rewrite your app, sometimes going to great lengths to be bug-for-bug-compatible.
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As I recently discovered, you cannot run a software firewall of any kind inside a solaris container. Everything else about SmartOS seems quite great to me, but my evaluation term was limited.
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This was my ruby on rails mid-week project coded in two evenings. It just grabs imgurl.com links from the Reddit RSS, chaches the thumbnail locally and displays a grid of links. Simple Stupid Fun.
The difference is that you personally can't recompile .NET 1.0 to run on a Windows based ARM (only Microsoft can do this if they decide it is in their best interest). On the other hand you can, if you want or need, recompile OpenOffice (or any open source project) on ARM - see for example how Ubuntu was ported to ARM!
I agree with you wholeheartedly. The problem is that K-12 teachers are paid far lower salaries than they deserve and the talented people who can inspire will take jobs at companies where they will be paid more.

The situation is far more dire and my concerns are that the majority of students aren't as knowledgeable of general studies. I would love for them to know how to program but many in the US have trouble even with the basics of US history.
The way I see it they are the same. The concept consists of a transaction in two parts, one between Alice and Bob, and on between Bob and Charlie.

Part 1: Alice helps Bob, and in lieu of payment says "pay if forward".

Part 2: Bob helps Charlie, fulfilling his "debt" to Alice. If Charlie offers to pay Bob, and Bob says "pay it forward", this begins a second transaction.

If we look at the internal thoughts of Bob during Part 2, they may very well look like "I was helped when I started out and now it’s my turn to help others.".

The OP describes the same thing with one minor variant: instead of Alice or Bob explicitly stating "pay it forward" the general rules of their culture have a built-in, default structure of "pay forward any karmic[1] debt". It is pretty easy to envision that after enough explicit statements of "pay it forward" that the statement need not be uttered because it is understood at that point.

[1] In colloquial sense of the term karma.
In this example, I personally prefer "to cope fully" and thereby avoid the argument anyway.

But as I say elsewhere, I agree that sometimes splitting the infinitive is necessary to shade the meaning correctly.
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1. It's ironic that you are asking us to invoke belief in a statement that is merely asserted and not demonstrated.

2. I agree that the issue won't be resolved by logic alone. However, based on Craig's previous debates, he will clearly define his terms and premises, and name the principles of logic used to reach a conclusion. To assert that such debate is "the epitome of irrationality" is itself irrational. You may disagree with his premises and definitions, but that is not the same as irrationality.

3. Dawkins has been asked again and again to debate Craig, and has refused again and again. As I've said before, other prominent atheists have criticised Dawkins on this matter.

4. You can download a number of Craig's debates here: http://rfforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=2703927
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Is this rotating cube interface user-friendly?
A picture like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Exponential.svg would help.

To rub it in, the x axis should go to 20 or so, e.g.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2**x+vs.+x**2+%28x+from...
Perhaps Microsoft is finally beginning to realize that Web developers are moving on from IE because Microsoft was trying to do their own thing while all the other browsers were moving in a different direction, and now they are trying to catch up to get usage and respectability back.
Dropbox are making a play to be the storage platform for all your cloud data. I.e I design a wiz bang SaaS collaboration app using their API and you get "control" of your data.

Justifies the valuation if they can pull it off..
The whole article is based on a strawman. Who contended that reducing price per unit by an order of magnitude would result in an equal increase in volume?

Pricing at a dollar is a definite advantage for certain products which have mass appeal and have potential for massive volume ( Ex: Angry Birds ). People are significantly more likely to buy something that's only mildly interesting if it costs an insignificant sum like a dollar.

If you sell a textbook on Applied Thermodynamics for a dollar though, you sir are an idiot!
Pressing escape in Vim will put you back in command mode.
I don't know why you chose to post that blatant Mac fanboy blogspam instead of the original Gizmodo article.

http://gizmodo.com/5839806/intels-next-chip-will-run-your-la...
That's not what I'm arguing at all.

These models show that temperatures are going to rise.

Your tuna model shows that tuna populations will fall after overfishing.

At the end of my climate model, I have a world with a higher average temperature. At the end of your tuna model, we have a world with no tuna. I fully agree with both of those.

But the consequences are a lot less clear. Obviously a world with no tuna is one where I don't like the menu at a sushi restaurent as much. I want to avoid that, I see a negative consequence there directly related to the model, no other models required.

What is the negative consequence of higher average temperatures? There are models showing things like more storms, higher sea levels, drought, etc etc etc. Those are definitely things we want to avoid. But those secondary models are a hell of a lot less concrete than the temperature models. We might have more drought in some places but more crop yield in others. If we have more storms obviously there is more cloud formation - won't that be a negative feedback on temperature? Those things are a lot harder to show and thats what I don't think has been sufficiently proven.

We aren't really concerned with the change in temperature. We are concerned with the consequences of the change in temperature on the world's weather. That is a significant difference.
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There’s no Moore’s Law for novels.

There have been some technological improvements that make writing more efficient (e.g., word processors), but the process for making most other consumer products has become efficient at an even faster rate. The Baumol effect predicts that this imbalance will lead to more expensive novels and/or cheaper novelists.
Another great addition is: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key

Getting out of insert mode with a double j instead of moving your hand (esc) or doing the slightly awkward ctrl+[ is a godsend.
A little Chrome Store experiment
Whilst I'd love to agree, lots of people in my world (the UK insurance industry) don't get a choice.

When reporting issues I often say "Can you upgrade your browser?" to which I get the reply "No, it's what the IT department put on all of the machines, I use (BrowserX) at home though."

I suspect this is common.
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> Nor can most organizations continue to evolve open source project X.

Can you name any project X you feel fits your hypothesis?

> The fact is that the vast majority of uses are not capable of contributing to open source code

At least they can pay someone capable to do it. Can you find someone capable of evolving Windows 95? No, you can't. Source-code availability is critical for this.

If your company, for instance, depends on PHP3 (or Perl 3, or Python 1 or something similar) you'll find readily available talent that can either port your application to a modern version of whatever it needs, or add whatever functionality you require to the ancient product you depend on.
I'm sure you are more painfully familiar with the matter than I am.

I have an adopted Jewish aunt. Her mother and father put her on one of the last trains to leave Germany for England. At the last second her mother pushed her baby sister through the window to her. She never saw her parents again.

I have a Jewish friend who's grandfather was one of the last survivors of a concentration camp, and who walked to Israel and started repairing shoes on the streets of Tel Aviv.

I live across the road from the South African Jewish Museum, and I have seen the photographs. I am not a historian and I do not claim to be one, but I think it's sensible to say that something happened, and that hundreds of thousands of people died and were affected. Furthermore, anyone who would suggest these things never happened would have some "explaining away" to do.
And I suppose that means no Adblock, no Noscript, no Lastpass.

Welp. I know what browser I WON'T be using when Win8 lands.
Yes, I know how to use the editor and use it moderately. I'm saying there's something fundamentally unlearnable about modes for me as I keep making mode related errors after years of using both emacs and vim.
Actually I think the syntax is quite nice, it's just a pity that the usefulness is limited to asynchronous computations.
I noticed recently that you can use the ex commands in Emacs without converting the whole editor over to Viper. This is really the part of vi that I find attractive. Notes:

http://www.advogato.org/person/chalst/diary/277.html

That said, vim's command set is a superset of ex, and includes some nice things that the above misses.
Here is what we did

Modern browsers such as Chrome come with their own database system and one such system is called as “localstorage“
"We singled out all the needed database objects that are needed to create projects and mockups
We redesigned the system using only localstorage
We kept the User Interface as it is.
So now the entire MockupTiger application is bundled into a single HTML file. No need of a webserver or database system."

What do you think about the pricing?
How is it "true in spirit"? Microsoft is practically the definition of backwards compatibility.
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Meta comment: This post must be getting flagged a lot.

114. Dawkins' Stupid People (jgc.org)
34 points by jgrahamc 3 hours ago | flag | 76 comments

I also note that the comments are full of civil and intelligent discussion. I wonder to what extent the flagging helped it stay that way by keeping it off the front page.
It's a good talk, but I disagree with the advice "you don’t have time to go out there and talk with the customers, get feedback."

Not every company builds products that they might need internally, and even among those that do, their use of it may not match the usage patterns of ideal customers.
I've been struggling to come up with a good cross-browser(ish) solution for gradients that doesn't require external images or extra markup, and indeed SVG + CSS3 + IE's filter is the best I've found. It means IE9 (via SVG) renders the page exactly like Chrome, which is great. For IE8 (which has a larger market share than IE9 in our userbase) I had to use IE's filter property in a separate conditional rule so as to not mess with IE9 (for which it breaks border-radius).

Unfortunately, I'd rather not request 10+ svg images, so I chose to embed them in css. That means around 512 bytes per gradient, so around 1K for a button with a mouseover effect. But it's something I can live with (and compress). If you're willing to load external images for linear gradients and don't want the hassle of creating each image by hand, you could build a lightweight server side script to generate the SVG based on url paramters.

There's several IE behaviours out there, of which I found CSS3Pie to be the most complete. It implements border-radius, linear-gradient and more for IE6+. All that warrants a Keanu Reeves-like WOAH, but there's a catch: it's VERY slow.

All in all, unless your userbase is using ancient browsers, go ahead and use CSS3 while make sure older browsers show a degraded, but still useable version. The days CSS advancements were unuseable due IE6 and such being the dominant browsers are pretty much over.

Slightly offtopic, but here's a snippet that I found on last.fm and was blown away by (although it's obvious, I just never thought of doing it):

<!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <body class="ie ie6"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7 ]> <body class="ie ie7"> <![endif]-->

and so on. Makes for easy conditional CSS rules without the need for separate files.
Two things struck me:

1. Not much overall change.

2. Negative slogans are quickly phased out in favor of positive ones. "Drop a bomb on your competitors" and "gain an unfair advantage" quickly give way to "a better way to work with people."
1.) The whole thing is rather stupid, because it shouldn't be about belief. You can get Dawkins book and make up your own mind. Likewise (allegedly) for Craig's writing.

In that sense, what is a public celebrity match supposed to achieve? Will people decide according to the merit of the arguments (then why not just read), or according to the better haircut?

As for 4), I tried to follow a link to one of the transcripts, but it only lead to the "restricted to members" page again. Can't be bothered with Audio or Video.

So if 2.) is true, at least Craig should present an easily digestable resource with his arguments.

As for 3) as I said, I think Dawkings is wasting too much time with futile discussions already. I don't think refusing to discuss with anybody is an indicator for the merit of his arguments.

Edit: also, since I suppose Craig has published books, name one good reason why I should expect any interesting points in them?
I like mine better ;-)

Your idea about the the primitive state of our algorithm knowledge is interesting. This has nothing to do with the article, but I do believe there are deep philosophical implications here. If we knew (and could make use of the fact) that everything is P, it would fundamentally shift our relationship with reality. I would go so far as to say that P =/= NP is an instinctive model we have formed about the universe as it presents itself today. If this were to change, it would affect pretty much everything we're doing - I can't even begin to imagine what would happen on the day abstract problem solving becomes a P algorithm...
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All this consternation and speculation (and general negativeness) about a completely alpha stage product is why Apple does not show their products (much) before release.

Think about it. Now if you are Microsoft, you have to decide whether your vision is good or if you should "listen" to what the market is telling you and shift your strategy. Glad I don't have to make that decision.
There are mountains of evidence - in fact, mountains of bodies - that 'support the claim that the Holocaust as is told today ever happened'. That the Holocaust occurred is completely and utterly beyond question.

Next time you choose to post this sort of thing from an anonymous account, just write 'I'm an antisemite' instead. It'll save us all time.
> Until such a time that a computer is as ubiquitous as paper and pen or a stick and some sand -- I think algorithms and programming will be skills relegated to a privileged, nerdy class of people.

But computers are about to become more ubiquitous than paper and pen; most people do (or will soon) constantly carry a powerful computer in their pocket.
Pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev”
Part of the problem is that people don't -think- about what they're signing. If they did, there would be a lot less crap that goes on.

But non-competes are one of the few things I don't disagree with. It's only a year, and it's only that 1 industry. And it's designed to prevent people from giving away business secrets to the new company. The kind of person who would accidentally give away business secrets is the very same kind that doesn't pay attention to what they're signing.

I have both signed non-competes, and refused to sign them, when the situations were acceptable and unacceptable respectively. If, in her situation, she didn't think she would be privy to business secrets, she should not have signed a non-compete.

And finally, it's not like she can't get a job elsewhere. That she chose to stay in the same industry was her fault. If she wasn't privy to any business secrets, she doesn't have any more experience in that industry than any other.
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It amazes me that real-world battery technology hasn't really progressed within the last decade. Much of the increased battery life has been reducing the power consumption of processors.

That said, I'm with you. I really don't listen to these announcements because it's more hype than reality.
looks like the result of continuous a/b testing results... change one thing, deploy to some people, capture funnel change, rinse, repeat.
Yes, I said the OS was Windows 7 64-bit, VBox 4.1.2.
The rule against split infinitives is a legacy from people who wished that English should have been more like Latin.

You never split an infinitive in Latin because the to part is part of the word.
Is spam really such a big issue right now for you? You're probably missing out on a lot of users for stopping a couple of spammers, which you can do manually anyway.
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Another good alternative is to remap the infrequently used Caps-Lock key to Esc (what Emacs users remapped to Control for ages). http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RemapCapsLock
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The plugin-free aspect is only for their windows metro-style apps. The IE10 browser will still allow plugins.
Awesome video. Sales is the core of any enterprise, yet it is not taught in schools. Relentless hustling, fearless of rejections, moving forward w/grit,and the ability to create "buy now" urgency can only be learned by doing.
Not much overall change? Midway through the movie the complete design for the entire thing changes from a colourful, pastel shaded page to black/white with large fonts and a focus on copy. That's a pretty huge change and definitely not inspired by marginal A/B tests. They just changed their minds, tried something different, and stuck with it.
OK I admit I never tried SMIL, but I believe the browser support is terrible.

The CSS support works in principle, but in fact almost none of the SVG properties can be transitioned in any current browser. I think some of the shared properties like color can be though, but I couldn't get anything useful to work without javascript (and d3.js has nice javascript transition support...)
Considering the focus on bountiful procreation that many religions advocate, I doubt they're going to die out.

There was a paper a while back focusing on abortion, which combined a bunch of statistics on who got them and what their political views were - the conclusion being that in the US, the Democratic party's ranks had been reduced as a result of their support for the policy.

The flip side for religious groups (who are generally anti-abortion) could easily be true.
1. No, that's not why I visit Reddit.

2. In any case, this is HN, not Reddit.

3. Images only? Oh dear, this is just going to be a site full of cat photos / American newsreaders showing their boobs / etc, isn't it?

Lucky for you I click through to read the comment instead of flagging the link.

4. Oh, you're showing us something you did in a couple of nights? That's different then. Well done, have a karma point.
Actually, Ctrl-c is the fastest way to get back to normal mode. Unlike Ctrl-[ and <Esc>, it does not check for abbreviations and does not trigger InsertLeave. And on most keyboards it's even easier to type.
I have read Barnett and am reading Bruce. They focus on the New Testament documents as sources and they touch on the martyrdom of most of the authors, especially Paul of Tarsus who had himself previously persecuted Christian men, women and children.

There is a temptation to explain these events away, each on their own, one event at a time, tackling one and moving on to the next, without ever tackling the combination of them together.
It is indeed blogspam, the cult article we have here breathlessly implies that only Apple products will get this technology. I've become extremely hostile to the Apple bubble recently as it's gone from massive historical revisionism about certain inventions - and ignorant columnists who don't even use things outside their sphere - to actively using ridiculous patents to stop, to my mind, superior products.