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The first advantage I see of Apple's support of Ruby is RubyOnRails developers may be able to create a Mac desktop auxiliary versions of their applications with less trouble (like Evernote: although I'm not sure if it's a Rails app, it does have desktop versions for Mac, Windows, and Linux fro offline use). Without Apple's support of Ruby, a company would of course need to hire Mac developers who know Objective-C.

I'm sure it's more complex than just that, but this does take down an entry barrier for me to developing for Macs. The next language on my list to learn is Python, so Objective-C was going to have to wait...
Take a weekend and do something basic in it. Don't "learn" it, just use it to make something.

These days, it seems a blogging engine is the new hello word due to it's ubiquity. Try that. What about a simple chat client? AIR would be good for that.

The key is, use the tool to build something you don't have to think about too much, and you'll end up learning all the things you'll need to. (Including where to get help)
To be honest, Leopard is a lot better than Vista.
You could train the Markov chain specifically on all registered domains. And weight by recency, if you want to be trendy.
You still need a backend, just not a complicated framework. The backend for my Cappuccino application does not have to manage any UI state. It just reads and writes to a db.
I blame Bush.
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Although located in Northern Kentucky, I use this floral and gift shop for Cincinnati deliveries. Very professional and prompt.
4. Y'all can have socialism. We'll call it "meritocracy".

If I remember correctly, socialists rile against "meritocracy" precisely because it veils the unfair "merit" of those who can afford private tutors (or prep schools).
Thanks! This is Neat. I can actually read your .cls file without getting a TeX headache.
Thanks, everyone. I've been around for a little while. I recently moved my entire blog from plpatterns.blogspot.com .
Is anyone doing this already?

Close: opensecrets.org
Any libraries for this?
I don't have an EeePC so I am probably not the best to compare, but at the $300 price point the Aspire One looks to smoke it. I can't imagine it has better build quality, the Aspire One is really solid. Here's the EeePC I found for the same price:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ZLSXJO/prsboos

It has a 7" screen, 800MHz Celeron, 4GB SSD, etc. The specs aren't even close. I think screen is the most important, there is a huge difference between the 1024x600 that the Aspire One has and the 800x480 of the EeePC.
Webapps have their own host of issues.

Besides, Balsmiq clearly works better for people as a desktop app, as shown by his sales.
but it comes with a table of contents. ;)
maybe he should always include one
"But now it just seems mean."

This is Microsoft you are talking about.

One thing Microsoft can never, ever earn is the right to sympathy. You may say that business is cut throat, and thus Microsoft's pitiless, air supply choking history is entirely justified. But feeling sorry for Microsoft because someone is mocking them is just absurd. They have richly earned several lifetimes of ridicule.
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What are they wibbling about?
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...and leaving Java 1.6 to sit on the shelf for a few years is far from 'bleeding edge'.

Mac is very slick, but Apple isn't particularly kind to third-party developers who build software for their platform.
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A house worth $1m in 2006, but bought for $3m would therefore be 200% overvalued in 2006. A drop to $300,000 a few years from now in today's dollars (factoring inflation, smarter consumers, banks loaning money only at very high interest rates to reduce their risk of losing money to inflation and being in trouble again, tougher lending standards) would then be a drop of 90% from $3m, or 70% from the "real" price.

I've also read a similar post by a blogger who bought a house seven years ago, before the housing bubble, and now his house is worth much less than what he paid for it even seven years ago. His argument is, shouldn't he get bailed out, too?

EDIT: here's the post, titled similarly to Peter's article:
http://www.wisebread.com/should-we-all-just-stop-paying-the-...
"If Apple can't market it's products on their own features"

I might be able to accept this technique if I could see any evidence of Microsoft actually advertising their features.

What the heck is "I'm a PC" advertising? Can you point out the features highlighted in those commercials? What about the "Wow." commercials before that? I'm trying to remember the last Microsoft commercial I saw that actually advertised a feature of its products.

The iPhone ads are almost entirely about features, and brilliantly done. As others have pointed out, many of the "I'm a Mac/PC" ads have highlighted differences between Macs and PCs. I don't see how Microsoft has any standing when it comes to complaining about advertising based on actual product features.
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I installed Ubuntu onto a friend's Vista box using Wubi (http://wubi-installer.org/), and it works perfectly. Apart from altering the boot manager, Wubi doesn't alter your existing setup, and it can be removed like any other Windows app. Please do check it out--but if you decide to try it, defrag your disk first.
I would imagine that since your mortgage is secured debt, if you defaulted on it, while they might not be able to take your house, they could take some of your other assets. Namely, your start up.
By that definition GE (Apple, Pfizer, Microsoft...etc) are startups too.
If you're working with other people: Pair Programming. Fastest way to learn anything.

On your own? I'd look for a reasonably simple project on github, or somewhere the source is available. Before you start trying to understand everything, prime your brain with a little previous exposure. Look through the directory structure, look through the source code. See if anything makes sense. Build it, to understand the build process. Run it. Now change something. Could be a title bar, a background image, a validation. Just something. Build it. Check your work.

Now your head is in the right space to learn. Find a cheat sheet, and go through that. Go back to the app you're fiddling with and walk through it again with the cheat sheet handy. Change something more fundamental. Build. Check.

After you've gotten the cheat sheet (primer) understood, build something from scratch. As run4yourlives mentioned, the blog is the new hello world. Build that, build a file uploader, and build something event-driven and flashy. At this point, you'll want to go through a book -- but skim the whole book first to get a sense of where things are.

Now dive deep. As you are learning, write stuff down -- build a tutorial. Try to explain it to someone else (that always helps me, anyhow). By the time you finish writing your tutorial, you'll be ready to contribute, and you'll learn more on the job.

Good luck!
Mark, what are you talking about? It's an good app, especially for 48 hrs. Don't sell yourself short.
Buy.com's price is actually $294.99. That is after you factor in coupon savings, which is what we do with prices on Bountii:

http://bountii.com/search.php?item=aspire+one&sort=price...
MSFT price is essentially unchanged over the last 10 years.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ninaflute

I came across that musician some time ago. She complains that listeners today are overly fixated on accuracy. A generation that grows up on the internet might not be as concerned with authenticity as you might think. Or they might find other qualities more important once the visuals become 'good enough'. The recording industry will probably drive this & i doubt they get most of their cash from live performances.

Anyway synthetic intelligence is the future, whether it's ten or a thousand years. Human arts might end up being the least important part of this.

btw i've been doing some algorithm work & I assure you improvisation is not difficult at all.
I'm not going to make an application that is a good desktop app a web app because I am afraid of it being pirated. Make a good product, don't let fear of 'what if' make decisions for you.
To be honest...any version of Windows is better than Leopard. Especially if you value choice and flexibility.
And Apple's full of angels right?
This is one of my favorite of Mark's articles on HN. The advice about PR firms and cost cutting was great, and the bit about doing what you love, rather than something you're looking for an exit plan was even better.
Ask HN: Free (or almost free) hosted version control?
My current web based version control (in this case SVN) service just announced they are going to stop support free and public plans (what is a totally valid business decision), but the way I used it the charges will be too high for all these small projects I like in a hosted repository but can't make public.

So do you know any free or almost free hosted version control?

I added the four I already know, please feel free to comment on them as I only have experience with Assembla and clearly need a new one.
Assembla.com - 200MB, SVN, unlimited users (but: free only for public projects)
What does having glasses have to do with anything?

That is exactly the point Microsoft is trying to make. The Apple ads personify Windows as a glasses-wearing dork, while the Microsoft ads try to dispel that association.
"the Linpus Linux Lite operating system"

Do you really want to pick a brand name with the word "pus" in it?
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Really? You're certain? How certain are you?

Both me and my wife have had the displeasure of using Macs in the past. I even owned one for about 6 months, a mac mini. I replaced it with Vista and Vista's Media Center pretty much owns Front Row (pfft, don't even get me started). The dock sucks compared to the task bar, you can't even see what's running on the dock. Oh and it's slow.
I agree, with a mockup tool it's probably most useful as a desktop app so you can use it anywhere.

However, it does seem like he vastly underestimates how simple it is to pirate if anyone wants to.
Well, at least the "bad guys" are "hackers" ;)

I must be in some other group; I buy software based on the value of the software to me. If it's valuable, I will pay for it; if it's something I already know I'm going to use once and never touch again, it's highly unlikely that I'll pay for that privilege. I think providing a fully-functional limited-time demo would deter a lot of cracking and redistribution that goes on.

I think the fact that I paid for Adobe Web Premium CS3 or whatever the hell it was called shows that I'm pretty open to paying for software I'm going to use a lot.
Try plugging a Vista box into your living room TV and getting a Gyration remote.

Then come back and tell me how much it sucks.
No. I've played with Ubuntu in each iteration, and its level of polish is on a magnitude below what Apple's doing. Compared to Windows, it's very nice: I'd pick Ubuntu over Vista at this point without hesitation. But OS X has polish to a level that's uncanny: it's the sort where I'm still finding out new things about my computer that make my life slightly easier every day. It's really beyond comparison to other operating systems as the other systems stand right now.

Still, what works for you works. If Ubuntu's doing the job for you, then congrats and have fun. Just don't make the mistake of comparing it to the Mac systems without spending a lot of time in each.
He did his homework and made a compelling presentation. And Steve is diligent as hell. Nice work on the pitch.
I don't get the whole 74 signals thing...
Just a note, there is a python library implementing something very similar to this. It's quite nice, I use it regularly.

http://code.enthought.com/projects/traits/
Exchange support? Whip-dee-doo. How about offering some _real_ developer tools?

Oh, that's cute...you think xCode, Python and MySQL can actually be compared to Visual Studio, C# and SQL Server.
If I were trying to hire top people, I would try the idea of Sony's Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) where everyone is on a 1-yr contract (a variation of publish or perish).

"Unlike the rest of Sony, CSL employs researchers on a one-year contract basis, with annual performance reviews. Salaries are high, but they are based on success, not on seniority."

http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.asp...

And then you have GE and IBM.

At GE in Jack Welch's days, they routinely fired the bottom 10%. Up or out.

At IBM, they rank all of their scientists from top to bottom.
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Leopard's plenty flexible. By choice, do you mean being forced to pay extra money just to get an operating system that hasn't had features removed? Because I know Leopard only costs $80, but it's full-featured and that's what I care about.

Or do you mean the choice to tinker with every little aspect of your computer? Because the system's entirely moddable. I mean, I would never voluntarily hack my computer, because I cherish it the way it is, but I remember there being a lot of buzz about the Gaia Suite, which is a complete redesign of the OS.

Do you mean the lack of programs available? Because you can get MS Office if you really don't like iWork (though iWork is wonderful, in this user's opinion), and you can get replacements for every single iLife program. It's just that most people don't, because iPhoto and iTunes and Mail and GarageBand are really all excellent programs. (The one program on my entire system that I dislike is iDVD, and I feel like one bad program is a small concession to make.)

If by "flexibility" you mean a non-unified system, then you might have a point, but I like knowing that the same keyboard shortcuts work for every single application I have. I like knowing the menus work the same. Hell, I like having a system-wide spellcheck. You've still got choice - I'm sure you could make a new spellchecker - but really, what's the point if it works?

If you're going to diss an operating system in a community of people who really are enthusiastic about the computers that they use, at least make a good point, like the guy who mentioned Apple's Java fark-up. You can't come in blindly making insults and expect anything good to come of it. So how about you come up with some good criticisms, and in return I will try to be fairly critical of your operating system in return.
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Agreed. What happened here is that narag's employer wanted to fire him, or at least demote him. Irrespective of the moral issues, it's not at all unusual for an employer to choose their favorite customer-facing employees based on who their customers prefer. That's just good business. The review thing was just paperwork, basically. They needed to push some numbers around to get the result they wanted, so they did. Is that ethical? Probably not. But it's not insane either.
Subversion can be hosted on any webhost like webfaction or dreamhost. You need a website anyways, you may as well drop your code in there.
Thanks for your post, ashishk. I've been ogling the various netbooks/ultraportables/what-have-you, not wanting to spend gobs of money but also really wanting to have one, just for the sake of having one. This seems like a nice compromise between those two conflicting desires.
Sounds like Scheme and Common Lisp all over again. Every popular framework eventually gets complicated and tempts us to do a "clean slate" rewrite.

Rails succeeded because it's opinionated. I don't want to choose from five different ORM layers. I want one that works.
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Yeah. The irony is that server-side frameworks really started to get good just before most of their functionality migrated back to the client.
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Yes, self hosted of course could be an option, too. But I don't want to manage it myself, building integreation to whatever ticket system and so on.

(I'm a happy paying customer of Assembla for my commercial projects, so it's not about that I'm a "FREEEEE!!!!!eleven" person - but for small projects it's just too expensive, it adds up quite fast.)
Hi there, this is Peldi. A little update: I will be trying out SecureSWF tonight, after a twitter friend recommended it: http://www.kindisoft.com/secureSWF/ - we'll see. :)
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I've never used a Mac Mini, so I don't know how slow it is, though I'd guess that it's not in the same league as Apple's higher-end products.

Out of curiosity, what makes Front Row worse than the Media Center? I rarely use Front Row, but I'd like to know what Vista Media Center does better.

The dock absolutely is better than the task bar. The TB is cluttered - why do I need a box for every open window when I can just see the windows (hence Expose)? The Dock shows you running applications (though not background processes, though that's okay since neither does the task bar), it shows you minimized windows, and it shows you your set launch applications. I've argued before and I still believe that the presence of the dock is what makes OS X the superior system. It focuses on efficiency. The fact that it houses the Trash and the new Stacks system makes it even better: it removes a hell of a lot of clutter.

I've never had a speed problem with my computer, though to be fair I use a MBP with 2 gigs of ram. That said, I can run multiple intensive processes at once and still do casual tasks like browsing without a speed hit.

And despite what you've said, I'm still fairly certain. Meaning no disrespect to you, I've had such a wonderful experience with my computer that I can't possibly imagine people liking Windows more once they get into OS X. Again: your existence shows that I'm not entirely correct, but I'd still believe that of the people who've used both OSes noncasually, more people like the Mac over the PC.
Which is even more funny because Cuban is a major investor in Mahalo.
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It's straight out of the book Made to Stick.
While I do like that you're taking the time to reply to each of my comments in turn, could we keep this a little civil? I love flamefests as much as anybody, but this isn't the sort of argument that requires sarcasm and vitriol.

I said Exchange because it's the one thing I've read about. I am not a businessperson, nor am I a programmer: the closest I get to programming is PHP, because it's all that I need. I said that that's what Apple's been up to, because it is: they're obviously pushing to make Macs business-friendly.

I'd guess that most businesses don't have computers for the sake of programming, though. Most people in the workplace don't program. They email, they discuss things with coworkers. With a few tweaks, the Mac ought to be ready for that sort of thing in a secure environment. And that's just as much a part of business as coding is.
Whoa, what a coincidence. I thought of using this for a major programming project I'm doing, without any idea whether it was a good idea or not. I've been having some serious doubts as I've been implementing it, so this article gives me a sense of validation.
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This seems like it could be really handy if someone could perhaps narrate along with it and help me understand what all of his talking points are about.
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Something tells me that the most successful bloggers are the ones that never followed a list like this.

Wasn't blogging all about the "personal" revolution? Wasn't the point that now you were allowed to just be yourself? If you have a blog, write whatever you want to write. If you happen to be bright and learned enough to have things people want to read, you'll be successful. That's the big secret.
But those names suck.
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Microsoft know their customers are consumers, and businesses who need lower-end servers (yes, they have other markets, no, this isn't where the Office/Windows revenue MS live on comes from.

Pfizer's customers are sick people and governments who will pay for their drugs.

Apple's customers are design-conscious individuals who like elegant, easy to use computers.
Ditto with Lisp, actually. Maybe something good could be done with read macros, but |(table 'key) -> (lookup table 'key) just doesn't do it for me. Any ideas? Lisp has alists, but (as noted elsewhere) they search in linear time.

Python, Lua, and JS all have syntactic sugar for maps, and I think it makes a really big difference. They're quite versatile. Lua's table.key -> table["key"] sugar for all string keys is particularly nice.
It starts well, then gets all political at the end. You don't get trapped in a job by the job. You get "trapped" by commitments that you freely entered into at the time, such as, having kids, buying a house and so on. Commitments that the job makes it possible for you to keep. If you really want to stay out of the trap, it's not hard! But is it worth it?
That struck me as a little long and that was only part 1. I guess even at that point Steve Jobs had enough clout to hold peoples' attention for 10+ minutes.
Do they take people over 30?
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Yeah, i've been using kubuntu since 7.04. Unfortunately kubuntu is less polished than the gnome version, but for the last year and a half it got better and better with every next release. Hopefully the next release will not be a disappointment because the still raw kde 4.
Is this how Experts Exchange content is provided to click-thru Google searches but not by direct access to the page?

If so, this might not be so great for publishers, as savvy users will just ALWAYS access their content via Google searches.
Very cool ... but I don't want the code, I just want a web app to generate names for me (and check that the domain is available, of course).

C'mon, where's markovr.com?
Unless they want to be employed.
This request is now current once again. Who else is here? Thi time I'm staying at least until end of December.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad...

Just kidding.

I can't comment on how it compares, but it is awesome.

I have one of the new 6 cell ones. I get 5 hours of battery life actually doing stuff on it (multiple programs open, etc)

For $300-ish I think it totally blows away the competition as well. I feel almost stupid that I just bought mine from Amazon now for 399, but it is worth it
I believe one of the best blogs that was original from the outset is: waxy.org
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And here I thought this would be about a vulnerability in IE that lets an attacker run MS Office.
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Why does he say varchar(255) is bad design?
Actually... yes; and, I daresay, comes out on top. Having lost countless hours of my life debugging .NET Framework installation problems (yay, installer ran and finished. Why isn't this damn thing showing up in my list of components?), I have to say that never spend nearly that much debugging silly installation issues with Python and MySQL.
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Killerstartups.com if you just want volume. There's definitely room for a happy medium of the two.
Friend linked me to this and I got a chance to set it up last night... it's exactly what I've been looking for to jump into the blogging world without feeling like I have to write a lot of blog content regularly. Check it out, really easy to install and configure... and built with CodeIgniter. Here's my site:

http://colinanawaty.com