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I'd say iPhone users care about apps, or being able to do what they want to. I don't think they particularly care about developers.
Do you think people will spend more time using apps in the iphone store, or webapps in the browser?
I'd bet on the latter personally.

People have been saying Mobile is the next war for the last 10 years.
It seems that for a long time, people possessed an intuitive notion that smoking was bad (it makes you cough, gives you shortness of breath, etc.) but mostly ignored that intuition.
That was really good! Thanks!
That was a lot better than I was expecting it to be.
Keep it to two or three syllables, then work on the product - this process can turn into a huge time waster.
Ask for 5%. See what they say. You can base this on staying at the company for a year - they can ask you to sign something saying you will return the equity if you leave before then.
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Ah okay fair enough. Its kind of early to say at this point, but yes, I would like cross-domain scripting too.

That and a pony.
Actually, I think as company's get bigger, they don't hear the "I am frustrated by X", they see "ohhh we made HOW MUCH this year?"

I'm sure that Apple is peopled with nice guys and all, but seriously developers are a drop in the bucket (and thus easy to ignore). Either they stand up for themselves or they are going to keep getting abused. All the talk of how developing for Apple is sharecropping is moot because people keep developing.

Also, the "still pretty compelling for a business to hear"? If users said that to me I'd love it, because it means I got them. They're paying money for something that they actually disagree with. That says something about hitting the right pain points and such.
(you do know about ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab right? Its pretty standard in tabbed windows apps, so I guess people just keep using it for consistencies sake.)
Apple is there to make money, and give users what they want. Not developers.

When people own computers, they want applications available -- the more the better. Remember the "10,000 programs" television ad for the Apple II?

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22apple+ii%22+%2210%2C000+pr...

The decision to buy a computer is mainly based on the size of the application-base. The early-adopters are anticipating rapid application-base growth. To grow the application base, one needs developers. As Steve Balmer said:

http://www.google.com/search?q=steve+balmer+developers
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I'm really curious why this is cast as a "Japanese girls are lonely". My girlfriend also watches those horrible Asian romance dramas and (jokes notwithstanding) I'm pretty sure the reason is more to fulfill her sappiness quota and not to cure her deep aching loneliness.

I think its more notable for its interesting game mechanic and the utterly evil method they have for getting high page counts per user. (I mean, it seems that the company just implied you advance in the game by looking at pages you wouldn't have looked at normally. Devious!)
I actually think its more a reinforcement of the "Windows can do anything" manta. All those "regular" people do all sorts of different and constructive things.

One thing that really amused me is how charity-friendly the ads seemed. It really seemed a stark contrast to the clinically white sets of the Apple ads and the total personal focus of their characters.
The iPhone has one of the best browsers available, with a pretty fast javascript engine. You can run whatever you like.

I disagree about people wanting native installable apps. I don't think they particularly do any more.

I'd be really surprised if anyone bought the iPhone because of a certain app in the app store.
Excerpt:

Future: Putting Feet on my Web Cam - Telepresence Robots?

Chris Sells (who also works remotely) and I have been brainstorming and prototyping ideas for smarter telepresence. Chris really wants a high-res camera with an optical zoom so he can see whiteboards.

Chris would be happy "without feet." He would like a computer/device/system that someone could pick up and take to a meeting - basically his disembodied virtual head - so he could participate in meetings.

I'd really like be able to "walk" into someone's office. Just pop in to see if they are there. I want to get involved in hallway conversations.

Chris and I had the opportunity to remotely drive/beta-test a Telepresence robot from RoboDynamics. They've built their software on .NET 3.0 and the robot runs XP.

It was pretty sweet. They've got a 26x Optical Zoom and pan/tilt/zoom on the camera. There's a screen for your "head" so that folks can recognize you as you wander around. I was able to walk all over their office.

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

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
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Would you find it disgusting if they started buying up failed companies for the patents & suing left, right & centre?
Maybe, he wanted to show that he is actually human!
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About the Bear Sterns bailout:

"If you really look at what the Treasury and/or the Fed was doing, they know that they have to protect the financial system from grinding to a halt, but they don’t want to create a moral hazard as a result of people thinking they’re going to get bailed out no matter what. So yes, there was a bailout of the counterparties, but they needed to take Bear out and shoot it in front of everybody. So they took it out, at a 2-dollar offer, all the senior management is gone, and that’s the financial equivalent of taking the shareholders out and shooting them."
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I modded you back up because people who write civil comments sharing another opinion don't deserve to be modded down just for being wrong.
PS: lumpenproletariat - ridiculing newcomers who aren't as knowledgeable as you is what got Lisp to where it is today.

I don't ridicule people who don't use Lisp--I don't use Lisp professionally myself. I was trying to get into the spirit of painting programming languages with such broad metaphorical strokes that you could sum up their entire character and history by comparing them to an operating system... from two decades ago!

My experience with Lisp programmers has been uniformly excellent, however there are certainly people who paint Lisp the language as being inhabited by hostile self-proclaimed experts, so I played along.

It doesn't suprise me that things could be this way, I have observed people taking much the same line with Linux: "What, you have trouble recompiling the kernel? You're an idiot, go back to WIndows!" or more recently, "What do you mean Software Update is a feature? I just use apt-get! And Time Machine? What does it do that git doesn't do? grow up and become a real programmer!"

Or more HN-local, there was a post somewhere that suggested owning a MacBook Air was all about impressing girls at Starbucks. I took this as a mortal insult: I would certainly buy technology to impress people, but the suggestion that owning a Mac means I drink Starbucks coffeee... That was a low blow.

So I compared the two. Seemed entirely within the spirit of the OP.
I'd be really surprised if anyone bought the iPhone because of a certain app in the app store.

So would I, which is why I said that people want the availability of a wide variety of applications, not any particular application.
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Yes. For some reason I thought of "cars", too. Not sure why, but it seems like the only consumer good that still gets passed around.

Bumper stickers?
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"... 1000 SSD 40 Gb ..."

this one ... http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2008/07/10/As...

"... Ahh with the HD. Nice, more power usage but you don't have as much problem with solid state storage & swap disk writes. ..."

What I though might be wrong. Says here it's flash disk ~ http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/1107149-ssd-2-5-sata-40gb-s... so does that mean you have probs with swap-disk?
Still halfway through it, but it's a good read so far. I like this quote:

"Today we have a recruiting group, and what do they do?—they throw resumes at you, and it's, like, one business school guy, one finance major after another, kids who, from the time they were twelve years old, were watching Jim Cramer and dreaming of working in a hedge fund. And I think in reality that, probably, if anything, they're less likely to make good investors than people with sort of more interesting backgrounds."

I talked to a lot people in a lot of fields before landing where I am today and the people in each one who really knew what they were talking about all shared the same belief as this hedge fund manager. Much of the technical knowledge necessary for these jobs can (only?) be learned on the job. But the ability to look at problems in innovative ways comes from having more lateral experience.
"... Ok it's not only in the west the programmers are focused on bullshit ..."

Making things that people want?
A significant portion of my purchase decision was that OmniFocus was releasing a portable version of their program.

The trouble with browser-based iPhone apps -- around here, anyway -- is that you can't use them on the subway. The GMail client on my old blackberry was like that and it was totally worthless during most of the time I was mobile.

I do think that web apps with the HTML 5 database ( http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#sql ) and clever caching would cover most use-cases. It does still leave email-outbox style functionality out of apps, but a simple message-passing service in the API would solve that.
First paragraph:

If you spend more than a quarter of a billion dollars on an ad campaign for a tech company, people will talk about it. If you give Jerry Seinfeld, the most famous comedian ever, $10 million to be in a few of the commercials you do, people will talk about it even more.
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The internet in the 90's was so different from what it is now, it doesn't even make sense to compare them.

SEs are already becoming opt-in for some sites.
Extranets are a great example. Some people are already building up robots.txt files that either exclude by default, or they have long lists of blacklists that they add to whenever they notice a new spider. For example, look at http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt. It disallows /reply? and /user?, which is basically all the content on the site. I expect that a large percentage websites will become more like opt-in instead of opt-out, especially as the number of robots increases--eventually, there will be so many robots spidering sites so frequently that bandwidth caps will be exhausted just from the robots.

I don't believe in "forceful" anything. But, I do believe that large, popular sites will make by making (exclusive) revenue sharing deals with search engines in the future. And, robots.txt can be used to advance some social policies too--for example, you could cut Yahoo off if you don't like its human rights record. Copyright is what will enable those kinds of things to happen.

I also think that Google's domination of search will come to an end and there will be more incentive for publishers to listen to offers that other search engines make. Google is probably not going to offer revenue sharing (from ads off SERPs) first, but I bet somebody else will. By this, I mean that the search engine will share revenue from clicks with the sites that appear on the SERPs that the clicked ad was on. It is the naturally evolution of SE advertising, and it is the only thing that will make SE's increasingly agressive use of publishers' and authors' content bearable for some people.
I had time to read it again now because of your posting, so thank you!
I agree that there is some opportunity there. However, it really depends on the ToS. And, they have to provide people a way of opting out without accepting the ToS because the people own the content they are distributing. In fact, I already tried to sign up for a BackType account to see what controls there are, but I stopped once I read the ToS.

Since I first heard of BackType, I've been thinking about a way to solve this problem that isn't based on mass copyright infringement. I think I have a pretty good idea on how to do it. When I have something concrete I will bring it up as a new topic on news.yc.
I can think of a scenario where this could work, and it's not unreasonable.

Imagine that time is not linear. Imagine that it's something that is similar to matter and space, and we move along it, just like we move in matter and space.

Now, imagine there were some law that would render it completely invalid, i.e, make the item in question break out of this model. If that thing that were to cause an item to break out of the model happens at any point within this 'space' of time, then the item in question would already have broken out of the model, and would never have the chance to be inside of it. So the only things that could possibly exist within the model are things that can NEVER EVER break out of the model.

This is difficult to explain. The assumption is that future time already exists, irrespective of where matter is positioned in future time. Now, if future time already exists, and has already been executed, then if something in future time were to happen that could destroy all of time, then time would never exist, so this thing could never happen! The only way time could exist is if this future event will never happen.

There is only one assumption in my hypothesis there but it is an assumption that is very difficult to prove.
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I agree that it's not a problem, but for newcomers all that parenthesis accumulation is quite problematic. I speak out of my personal experience: I've abandoned lisp even before learning something about macros because I couln't stand the parenthesis. I gave a second chance to Lisp some time ago, years after my first attempt. I've walked through Seibel's book entirely and know I love Lisp, but the parenthesis give a really bad first impression, they only make sense after you get to know the language better.
3 of the boys look like girls... True to the tradition.
The fact that nicotine is highly addictive probably had some influence there..
A lot of the convolution goes away if you embrace the third-person singular "they". It sounds odd at first but I'm slowly adjusting to it as I hear it more and more.
If you read any old literature, even as far back as the 1800's, you get this feeling. No one ever outright says "this will kill you," but it was certainly regarded as a poor health choice.

The one thing that bugs me about this was, as a kid in a health class, I was shown a video of a little girl and her grandma. The girl asked the grandma "Why do you smoke grandma?" The old lady responded "Because when I was your age, nobody knew that smoking was bad for you."

The bullcrap we were fed as kids is incredible.
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People simply wanting it doesn't make it important or useful in objective terms. Diggers, for example, really keep up with the service, even though a) almost all of the stories are a waste of time and b) almost all of the commenters are hilariously misinformed, to put it politely.
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A 'top' reveals there is no swap to speak of:

Mem: 1028172k total, 588652k used, 439520k free, 46080k buffers
Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 354084k cached

Is that what you mean?
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pretty but more like rediff material. isn't it?
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Ornithology

The Advantages of Being Different

Zebra Finches Display Remarkable Differences in Their Individual Sexual Behavior

by Christina Beck

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The male zebra finch shakes himself after the scientist opens his hand and releases the bird into the cage but he doesnt appear to be put out by this involuntary displacement. Instead, he ruffles his head and neck feathers and immediately starts to court the only female in the cage. Her reaction is one of diffidence, reluctance hes really quite a womanizer. Zebra finches display remarkable differences in their individual sexual behavior, says Wolfgang Forstmeier. Many males begin to court a female immediately and persistently, while others are surprisingly shy. The females, too, all react very differently: some are prepared to copulate with one or more males immediately, while others strictly reject all advances.

Extrovert or introvert, confident or shy, macho or softie observers may use attributes like these to describe human beings, but surely not birds? On the contrary, says Forstmeier, such personality traits can be observed in young zebra finches early on, and they are still apparent years later.
Yeesh. Just put a hold on it with my local library, and I'm already 20th in line.
> We definitely need the equivalent of a CPAN for Lisp

Agreed! I like the Eggs repository for Chicken (http://chicken.wiki.br/Eggs%20Unlimited%203), but individual Scheme implementations just aren't compatible enough for such things to really benefit them all -- I'm pretty sure the lack of a module system in the core for R5RS is to blame. There's one in R6RS, but I hope it's not too little, too late.
After getting and doing a couple small-retail business sites, you'll probably be ready to revert to less effective techniques. They're the most painful and least profitable IMO.
Overheard at a VC meeting last week...
Like this nugget:

A man may go on "change" and make fifty or one hundred thousand dollars in speculating in stocks, at a single operation. But if he has simple boldness without caution, it is mere chance, and what he gains to-day he will lose to-morrow.
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Besides the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (which probably doesn't count, for your purposes, but it's a good example of a large and complex program), the best example is probably Darcs (http://darcs.net/), a distributed version control system with a powerful patch composition system.

There are further answers from the Haskell wiki here:
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_practice
I'm willing to entertain, for the moment, the idea that some particularly high-energy collisions are capable of reaching back in time and preventing themselves from happening.

But there are easier ways to do it than to reach weeks back in time and blow up a macroscopic object like a transformer. Far more likely that the trajectories of the particles themselves would be altered to just miss.

Now, if they were to actually start up the LHC, run the beams into each other, and find that all the particles were missing each other -- well, that would be really interesting.

In the meantime I'm pretty tired of the fact that every article about the LHC feels the need to throw in the fact that some moron thinks it might destroy the world.
That's not true. The law has already driven new types of futures markets from the United States. And the rules that implement the law (drafts of which apparently are far-reaching) aren't even in place yet!

http://www.creators.com/opinion/john-stossel/government-stif...
He's been doing a book tour, stopped by Cambridge yesterday. If you're not in a place he's stopping by, check out the Authors@Google talk he gave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE

He makes some long-winded jokes for the first few minutes (mainly about authors being ill-suited to public appearances), starts talking about Anathem around 3:40, and starts the Q&A time around 8:30.
If you can tolerate all the Stephensonian camp, you might enjoy this book. The ending is my favorite Stephenson ending. For extra credit, find the error in his astronomy.
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The ending was certainly different to his usual endings. While most of his books feel like the last chapter is missing, this one just feels like the second-to-last chapter is missing.
So basically he thinks a killer idea is to 1. use a phone, 2. to do voice recognition, 3. to send message as text, 4. to recipient which somehow will get the same message read as if spoken originally.

So what he is saying that every phone should have voice recognition, voice regeneration and blah blah. Colour me stupid, but for this purpose, why not, you know, send a voiceclip over MMS or just make a damn call?

This is a hammer looking for a nail.
Henry Ford's book is pretty good, too. (My Life and Work. 1922.)

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/hnfrd10.txt

"Business" in the sense of trading with the people is largely a matter of filling the wants of the people. If you make what they need, and sell it at a price which makes possession a help and not a hardship, then you will do business as long as there is business to do. People buy what helps them just as naturally as they drink water.
I also bought the iphone because OmniFocus was going to be available for it
I think what we need to do is go to everybody's house and make sure that only licensed statistical arbitrage traders have black boxes.

What a great idea. I thought I lost the ability to be surprised by recent remedies proposed, this one still got me.
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...to fulfill her sappiness quota and not to cure her deep aching loneliness

Just like boys who play counterstrike do it to fulfill their violence quota? Give me a break.
That's the best submission ever posted here as far as I'm concerned!
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