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it's not "nostalgia" in the sense of old/classic things, or at least that's what I get from his thesis. it's nostalgia in the sense of doing things because, gosh darn it, that's the way we've always done them.

his argument is that the Apple of "the crazy ones, the rebels, the troublemakers" would ignore what's profitable and what the rest of the industry does, and make wide-open systems, humanely -- because Steve would've seen what doesn't work about the current model, thrown it out, and done it his own way.

The Beatles and historical figures are (arguably) timeless classics which don't grow worse with age; walled gardens and overseas manufacturing are (arguably) relics of an era where Apple was struggling to gain a foothold in the industry, and that's what the author claims passes for nostalgia.
In my opinion, this is one thing that the Rails folks have definitely got right. Testing is very important if your project is going to be of any size or if multiple people are working on it.

Testing with Django should probably be more transparent and definitely encouraged for beginners, and this is a great start!
One problem I see with this is that these statistics involve a lot of human bias. If you train your classifier on crime statistics, it's not based on a 'ground truth' (which is never attainable in a criminal case), but an expert's, i.e. judge's/jury's, decision.
OK, so it's only a prison to the extent you use it.

Better not let your important data get locked up in any non-portable formats though. A literal prison is far easier to release someone from.
>I really hate the idea of buying semi-disposable items, particularly electronics.

There's no reason for a Kindle to be "semi-disposable". There isn't anything so cheap that it's going to wear out or break in a short period of time, as long as you take care of it.
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>they are just wined and dined by the contractor when they should be directly overseeing and controlling.

There are actually very strict controls on how much government personnel are allowed to accept from contractors. IIRC, the limit is something like $20-$50 per year in gifts. When contractors host large events with catered lunches, they put out bowls or some other sort of receptacle so that government personnel can pay for their lunch, otherwise it would count towards that annual limit.

Enforcement at the level of "you didn't pay for that six-inch sub and can of coke" is not really practical, but quite a few government personnel have gone to jail in recent memory for accepting more lavish gifts from contractors.

Now, if you send your lobbyists to buy expensive meals for legislators (you know, the ones who actually decide how the money gets spent) and write them big checks, that's generally perfectly legal.
Heh I actually don't mind that picture and I like the author photos.

I am still on a kindle 2 and if I were going to upgrade it would be to the keyboard 3g without ads but for now as long as my kindle 2 isn't broken and keeps that amazing battery life with 3g off I don't see any reason to upgrade just yet. Now if they cut the price of the kindle keyboard 3g with no ads in half for prime subscribers however I would buy it in an instant.
Yes, Stallman often violates social norms in a way that does little to advance his cause. My friend Sofia was volunteering at Wikimania a few years ago, and when he couldn't answer some question he asked her, he yelled at her and called her an idiot. She laughed about it at the time but she also dropped her involvement with Wikimedia.

It probably seems to you like this kind of behavior is increasing, but I think that's some kind of cognitive bias. You'll probably never talk to Sofia unless you come to Buenos Aires, and so you never would have heard about her story if I hadn't told you about it. Similarly you probably didn't know about the conferences Stallman's been uninvited from over the decades, the old friends who don't talk to him any more; you probably didn't even know that the FSF had two founders. Because people forget stuff like that, or they don't talk about it and then new people never learn, and then they use Emacs every day. So when you see him committing some shocking social faux pas, you naturally think that this is some kind of new phenomenon that never could have occurred 15 or 20 years ago.

It's not.
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As you'll hear from Guy, he rewrote his presentation thursday morning as a tribute to Steve Jobs.

He finishes the 12 points by 28 minutes, the rest is Q&A (still good).

12 points:

1. Experts are clueless

2. Customers cannot tell you what they need

3. Biggest challenges beget the best work

4. Design counts

5. Big graphics, big fonts

6. Jump curves, not better sameness

7. "Work" or "doesn't work" is all that matters

8. "Value" is different than "price"

9. A players higher A players

10. Real CEOs demo

11. Real entrepreneurs ship

12. Some things need to be believed to be seen.
You could just use Raphael and do it in a browser, no need to generate a MOV file.
I'm going to say no for the moment. I'm taking a page from Zed Shaw's book and making the book "all rights reserved" until I have time to really sit down and think about a license.

I'd feel bad if I decided to sell it on Lulu like Zed and someone else had written some chapters.
But mostly your child's life is not in your control.

The parts that are in your control affect how the child acts for the rest of his life.
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This is a likely violation of the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984.
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First of all, Thank you for the contribution to the OSS community but I just have to ask one question. With all the language wars and what not:

1. This is written in C#, correct?
2. Two full years of your life - do you literally mean 40+ Hours/week?

If this took two full years as in 40hours/week or working on it full time, I'm shocked it took two years. SMTP, POP3, and IMAPv4 are exceedingly simple protocols and the UI just seems to look like standard controls, no custom UI elements. Just had to ask.

I know I could probably whip together a decent email client in C++ within a couple months from scratch and maybe a week or two if I used any number of libraries out there.
Which likely violates the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984.
You might naïvely think that, but it turns out that things that need building often don't get built, or at least not for many years after they first needed building. I mean, you could have written jQuery in 1999. We still have problems with hardware that isn't supported by free software.
I'm sure that Facebook isn't ignorant to this.

When two companies' enemies are aligned, allies they should be. Or something to that effect.
The most important question involved with increasing the screen size is what the story for developers is. Increasing the screen size from 3.5" to 4+ inches would cause many many apps to be rewritten. Yes, you could just scale apps up and they would work a lot better than they do scaled up on the iPad, but even scaling them a little would change the physical size of buttons and text etc. that were all designed to be a different physical size. That means definitely doing new artwork for this third physical size, but in some cases, it probably means doing a slightly different design! With a bigger screen, maybe you could squeeze an extra button on your toolbar. That means that an app developer has to manage three different versions of their app (iPhone, iPhone+, iPad) with two of them being very similar. That adds complexity and the possibility for bugs.

Why would Apple want to impose that extra workload on itself and its developers?
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I'm 41 and have been experimenting with different contacts prescriptions for a couple of years to try to put this off, but I just got my first pair of reading glasses yesterday.
Agreed. Google is neither plaintiff nor defendant in this case. Not actually, not effectively (they don't own a controlling stake in IV). I came here from Slashdot to escape sensational headlines and linkbait.
I think davidw was referring to Steve Jobs, who was registered for just one semester at Reed in the 70s and then hung around for a few more semesters sitting in on whatever classes interested him (including a course on typefaces, which came back into his life when he was working on the Macintosh). He talks about it in the Stanford 2005 graduation address:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

Also, your comment Can't say the same for Yale graduates I've met, most who contribute little to society and are for the most part ignorant seems unnecessarily harsh.
Same here. It was really unexpected, suddenly I went from laughing to almost crying like a baby.
Ask PG: What % of a failed YCstartup employees are rehired by other YCstartups?
Emilio Castilla and others have studied the movement of employees among the VC firms in Silicon Valley vs. Route 128 (http://www.stanford.edu/group/esrg/siliconvalley/docs/siliconvalleyedge.pdf)

Has anyone at YC or outside looked at the movement of employees and founders from failed YC startups to other YC startups? While no one in YC wants any of their peers to fail, I would imagine that the failed startups provide an ample base of talent from where other startups can hire from. Do you guys have any numbers on how much talent "stays in the family"?
Consider then this:

Steve Jobs had a huge impact across numerous fields.

Computing and tech, from the hardware side.

Business. Wall Street doesn't much like being told it's wrong, but there's one refutation that it will accept: taking a loser and making a winner out of it. When much of the world (myself included) was writing off Apple in the late 1990s, he lit off a rocket that's still burning bright.

Music: iPods, iTunes and more.

Movies: Pixar and Disney, as well as presentation on his devices (Macs, laptops, tablets, handhelds).

Design: much of the creative world literally couldn't operate without their Macs.

News: Apple's pretty well represented there as well.

Popular culture: Because of all of the above, and the huge success of his products, he's among the most recognized of tech/business leaders.

There are a few holes. He wasn't an engineer himself (though he had a very strong grasp of what good engineering was), and he wasn't publicly philanthropic to the extent some (notably Gates) are (though I don't know what he's done on a private front).

But across a large swatch of contemporary popular culture, he was recognized as a leader.

Again: the HN headline smash was organic. I think it's fair to say that it accurately reflected the interest of the day.
This is awesome! I think more tutorials should be written this way. ;-)
so a $400 iPhone or even a $200 smart phone is a better option than some of the $25 robot kits you can buy that have much more to learn from?

not buying it.
They are void under Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 16600.

The California courts have decided that California's policy against them is so strong that when California is applying another state's law under California's choice of law rules, they will be treated as void even if they are acceptable in that other state's law.

(A lot of people don't realize that courts will use law from other states when appropriate. For example, if you and I enter into a contract in Washington, and then we get into a dispute over that contract in Nevada and one of us sues the other in Nevada, the Nevada court will apply Washington contract law. It will use Nevada rules of civil procedure. I don't recall, but I think it uses Nevada rules of evidence, too).

There's one unsettled situation, I believe. That would be where we have a non-compete, and it goes to court in a state that enforces non-competes, and plaintiff wins, and then plaintiff tries to have the judgement enforced in California. The Full Faith and Credit clause of the Constitution would seem to require California to enforce the judgement, assuming that the other state's court had personal jurisdiction over the defendant when it ruled. (States generally have to enforce judgements from other states, even if the case would not have gone the same way under their law).
Yeah, it did. I watched it a few times to see if I could put my finger on what it was that made it come across that way, and I'm still not sure I can.
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No, in my experience it's mostly about the competence of your peers and the expectations of your professors. Decent schools teach you about operating systems. Great schools make you write an operating system and don't care when you bitch that it's "too hard" and takes 20 hours a week for that one class.
This article fails to make the distinction between technical product development (where one needs to invent/build new technologies in order to make the product come alive), and just general product development where your not actually overcoming major technical challenges.
agree, it actually is well designed although I would have expected a telex number on there
If 1 GB of static ram were even remotely cheap enough and dense enough, our processors would have more than a few megs of L1-3 combined cache. Especially since high-end processors cost hundreds of dollars already.
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I'm stupid, that's what you think, right? So after creating a massive unisson over a dead body, we start insulting those who don't sing as loud as the others. In other thread they are asked to leave.

You show by the example that my concerns are grounded.
1. correct
2. not as a paying fulltime job, but still probably around 30-40 hours a week
3. good luck with that, I also thought I could whip up the first version in 3 months... :-) Its not writing the code that takes so damn long its getting the machine and the user experience/expectance aligned.
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However, you must be willing to integrate it with other tools (a frontend, something like fetchmail, and something like procmail, etc.).
That would indeed produce incorrect training for a classifier of "who should we pull out of line for a search". For that, you'd want to train exclusively on the observable characteristics of the people pulled out of line for a search versus whether you found something.
What I would be looking for is a diversity enforcer.
That’s logical if you insist on looking at it that way but it would be utterly stupid to actually do. It would confuse people.

I don’t know what the next iPhone will be called but I’m willing to bet that it won’t be “iPhone 6”.
"If anything the number is a form factor designation."

False, 3G and 3GS had the same form factor. When Steve introduced the iPhone 4 he used reasoning similar to mine above - the "4" was the 4th iPhone (literally). The next iPhone will be (literally) the 6th and calling it the "5" would not follow this logic.
Of course you can. It's the same economics whether the incremental costs are $2 or $80. You could make a comparison between the Kindle and the Camry the same way. Both exploit price elasticity by segmenting and selling nearly the same product at very different price points. It's irrelevant that the Camry's CoG is probably 200 times that of the Kindle.

What's different about the Kindle vs Windows is not the CoGs. What's different is the indirect pricing. Amazon is willing to sell the Kindle for cost because they know they'll make their money in sales of books. Microsoft won't really make any extra money just because you buy Windows. (Windows 8 with the App Store will probably change that somewhat.) On the other hand, Microsoft sells Windows to OEMs very cheap, because there's value in having such huge market share.
Huh?! If he's the copyright holder, he can license the code under whatever license he chooses and use his code in a commercial product if he wishes.
Am I alone in really not liking this design? I can't really pin down why, but it really doesn't do it for me. Makes Windows Phone and the like look positively radiant.
When you're talking about the size of markets you make generalizations. Inferring that the lower and middle classes of America are not well educated is not to say that none are. However, if you're willing to accept that "smart" and "well educated" are two different things, it would be pretty hard to argue that the poor or middle classes of America are well educated, in general.
How about just shortening it to getting "Zucked"?
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The github page has a screenshot, but no features list. It could be a good idea to add one. Right now, I still don't have any idea of what makes your email client different from any other, and why I would want to use it.
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"Surely that no collatoral innocents be harmed ever is too high a standard ..."

When we're talking about independent outlaw actors, as opposed to the law and justice that you invoke in your response, then no, I don't think it's too high a standard.
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They rarely are, especially in california. My guess would be the same, that there was some other reason and it was more of an excuse. Maybe he wanted to show loyalty to the other company.
Yeah, I'd have to actually view source to snag images ...
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It does not help.

It seems like Google decides what to show by IP address - not sure if it based on history of queries from that IP address or based on location of IP address. The same query from my college's day work (just a couple of miles away) gives different results.
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I felt like this as well. I think it needs variable font sizes and the ability to move the first or last letter and then this would be great fun.
Part of the 'moreutils' package, for the curious. The description for sponge on the project homepage reads "soak up standard input and write to a file."
o/ another squinter here, got 92/100 in the first try :)
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Well, that's what happens when you don't rotate your herbicides every season like all the agriculture experts always told you to. Good luck with the next business model, Monsanto.
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I would seem to me that if anything is going to change now is the time. Performance reviews are becoming more evaluative (is that a word?) of both upside and downside of not taking a particular action. Also, as competition within a company heats up, internal folks will look for outside talent to help their projects shine more. The argument you made could have been made for facebook, groupon, and a number of other startups/concepts that have been tried before and failed but "for some reason" are working now
Yeah; if a web startup sold to Google at essentially no profit when you paid out the investors, I don't think it would be considered a failure. Maybe not a great success, but certainly no one would consider it a bad thing.

And if a web startup sold to Google at essentially no profit when you paid out the investors, and the technologies pioneered at it went on to power almost every major product Google released for the following 15 years, people would consider it a deeply influential and successful company.

People seem to grade NeXT on a very, very steep curve.
I'm surprised he didn't give an even simpler reason, which is that algorithms were designed to work with pointers as well as objects.

You can't call begin() or end() on a pointer. And although you can figure out the end of a stack-allocated C array, you can't do it for a heap-based array. For example, with "x = new int[30]" and a call like "sort(x, ...)", you may know the size of "x" but the algorithm can't know. The solution is to make algorithms accept a form like "sort(x, x + 30, ...)".

Of course now, with things like std::array in the standard, there are fewer reasons to care about pointers than before.
I'll presume that Mr. Jobs is well educated.

The point is I only know a limited number of people from any particular university, as does anyone. From what I have read of Mr. Spolsky, a Yale graduate, he is well educated, but I haven't met him so can't speak too much to that.

It seems it is of intrinsically questionable validity to make sweeping generalizations about whether graduates, attendees, and those merely accepted by any given university are well educated.

Again we end up asking what it means to be educated in the first place. Different people may have different opinions of this as well. Clearly there will be some who believe it has to do with whether one has been to the same class of university as themselves, regardless of what they gained from it. This seems like specious reasoning though.
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Personally, I don't care what the next iPhone is called, so long as it's not called "iPhone 5", because that would be a lie.
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> Sure, none of you should be thrilled about the situation because as technically-oriented people with generous motives the system is not set up to serve you. But that's not a failure of the system, except maybe from your own individual perspective. Believe me, AmEx has done the cost-benefit analysis and they are saving boatloads of money by having those rare well-intentioned hackers listen to some hold music

Which is why we shouldn't jump through their hoops. If we do we let them get away with it. If we didn't they'd be forced to pay more attention.

The well-meaning person in this thread did them and us a disservice by going so far out of his way.
Yea, and it comes from the old FOSSPatents run by Florian, BTW.
By the way, the New York Times is publishing an op-ed violating the same norm, with much the same points as Stallman: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/opinion/jobs-looked-to-the...
The reality will change in America long before the culture will. The Asian obsession with education is ingrained from literally over a thousand years of systemized, central testing. I have my doubts that The American middle class (or, those who were once the middle class) will go from borderline anti-intellectual to embracing the need for education, in a mere 30 years.
We all have different lifetimes I suppose.

As a kid growing up, the Commodore 64 was more than a tinker-box that blinked a few lights. And later, the Amiga won hands down over the Mac that we had in the house. I was definitely no hacker. I was an average kid wanting to get enjoyment out of a computer.

For me, the Commodore stepped up to offer what you describe as "consumer-ready". We bought and swapped heaps of software for C64 and Amiga over many years, as did millions around the world. We would play Summer Games as a family... mum, dad, sis.. we'd have a ball.

Even at high school, the BBC was king in my day.

When I got to Uni, I saw all these Macs everywhere, and apart from the crisper display suitable for word processing, they did not offer anything I would have called a step up my previous experience with computers.

It was around then, that I discovered the 486 PC. I saved up and bought one. Never looked back.

Just trying to balance the perspective here. Let's not get too carried away with the history of computers and what the Apple co-founder did for his company, ok?
He was scared. Just like that. You know all that, but when you face a lawyer or an experienced abusive superior, it's hard to be reasonable. Especially if you're not experienced in dealing with people like that.
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I'm not a designer so i don't really understand the importance of kerning, but I do run http://use.fontorie.com. So I'm interested in making it easier for developers to do design. I'd like to incorporate kerning if you'd help.
But how could you View Source when they disabled Right-Click? ;-)
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Note that the article is talking about VC-scale (think 10s/100s of million in revenue).