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You hid your actual point in sarcasm so well, I have no idea whether your point was merely "rah rah American democracy is shit" or something more insightful.

What was it?
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I don't actually care about Steve Jobs death, despite my MacBook, my PowerBook 520c and my Apple //c. I'd probably be sad if Woz passed away.

The only public figure death that really saddened me at the time was Miles Davis'. I remember that so vividly.
What stops you from writing a GAE app to do just that? There's papers out there on how to map SQL to REST APIs, I've written a few myself.
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The only thing keeping people from paying $0.50 to remove ads and data mining is a system frictionless enough to let people do it easily. The cost is not in any way prohibitive. Make it a single click, and a barely noticeable $0.50 monthly charge and I think a lot of people would sign up.
You can support the best of both. Insisting it has to be all free or all commercial is moronic.
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On the other hand, do you wonder why CEOs of tech companies are afraid of lobbying against patents?

Imagine if you had told the press "Patents are bullshit. Nobody reads them except lawyers. Our engineers are told not to read them, because then we would pay more damages. We are probably infringing on dozens of patents every time we flush a toilet, let alone release a new product, but so is everyone else. We just pay the lawyers to keep other lawyers off our tail, and hope for the best. Business still goes on, but the same is true in North Korea - it's in spite of government regulations, not because of them".

Imagine then, you get sued by a competitor for infringing on their patent. In response, you threaten to sue them back, for some of their inevitable infringements on your patents. You can bet that your statement will be paraded around in front of the judge in both cases, as evidence that your patent is bullshit, and evidence that you were willfully infringing.

I'm not saying all patents are bad. Drugs need patents, so they can pay for the huge costs of testing them to comply with the FDA, and you need this process to stop companies selling dangerous quack medicine (or just stuff that hasn't been tested properly). OK, there are some elements of the drug approval process that are a little broken, but you don't need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. When it comes to software patents, what you have floating in the tub is not, figuratively speaking, a baby.
Nice catch - not only is the thumb-circle several pixels thinner, it's also clearly shorter top-to-bottom. Good old selection bias at work!
Would you mind editorializing in a comment rather than in the title?
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People are curious when someone like Steve Jobs dies. This is something that will never happen to you when your time comes.
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Only if you're operating in a gamelike environment where logic, not the law, rules the day.
I have an idea on how to handle it in bulk payments, as opposed to individualized transactions. But really, this is not the kind of space where a startup could compete. You'd need someone with the legal and financial backing the size of Google to make it happen.
The Google App Engine team has been working on a full-text-search service for GAE projects. They gave a demo at Google I/O back in May. Here's a video of their presentation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B7FyU9wW8Y
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I'm cautiously betting that Apple will end up like current Microsoft. They'll stagnate to some degree, have some more ups and downs, and they'll still be around for a long while. They've grown to a tremendous height, they have a long way to fall.
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I like this typo, intentional or not!
It's not entirely fair to compare the top-of-the-line product to a bottom-of-the-line product. Before the iPod even existed I had a Creative Nomad with an eight megabyte SmartMedia card. It worked, and faithfully played one single low-bitrate album at a time for years. Still would if I bothered to dig it out of the closet.

Other than offering more capacity (years later at a higher price), the iPod really wasn't radically better than my old Nomad. I'll grant that the iPod was a great product, but it wasn't a revolutionary product in the way that the iPhone was. The iPod is certainly better than the absolute worst of the market, but it was only a little better than the best of the market at the time.
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I like the term "rewatchability" but I don't agree with your logic.

Why would you limit your pool of advice-givers to your friends?

They are good for service advice where you need someone you can trust to give you the whole and honest story.

In movies it's beyond that, it's much more important to find people with the closest match to you in movie taste as possible. The more people the closer taste match you will get (goes without saying).

I also don't see the point of giving "quality" scores. I really don't care if a stranger thinks some movie was of high or low quality. I'd much rather know if my taste-twin loved it or hated it. I for example thought Lord of the Rings was super well done and yet super boring. But this opinion of mine only matters to someone who resembles me in movie taste, who hates and loves the same quirky things as I do about movies. And of the two opinions i mentioned (well done, boring) its really only the latter that matters to my twin, he/she should pay most attention to that when deciding if to go and see the Lord, not if I thought the movie was of high or low quality.

But having said that, I like "rewatchability" as a concept to study further. I too would rip of my nails before seeing Black Swan again but I still thought it was a masterpiece. However, I have seen Requim for a Dream (Darren's Arrenovsky's previous movie) again and again although it was also very emotionally intense like the Swan. Just in a different way, less depressive, but killer strong in an exhaustive yet positive way. And then.. yet and still.. I would recommend both movies to everyone I meet. I think both are a must see even though one of them I would never want to see again.
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Karma should probably best work on a 1-year rolling window. Your karma score only shows the last year's worth of karma, so it encourages activity.
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Well - a good test would be for someone to survey the population today, see what percentage of them are happy with their voice activated personal assistants, then do so a year, two, five from now and see how the numbers change.

The challenging part, as always will be to understand what percentage of this technology would have been deployed regardless of what Apple did, and whether it would have been deployed with the same attention to detail and quality.

I understand that Droid's are already somewhat voice controlled. Will be interested to see how Apple's implementation compares with that, and the Windows Phone 7 voice control. Anybody have a droid and windows phone 7 that would like to comment on how well it's implemented on those platforms?
I've made a filtered feed that removes most of those stories

http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-filtered

I'll delete it after the weekend to respect PG (after the news-cycle finally breaks).
I have a defy. It has some poor points (though it is a cheaper smartphone anyway), but what sold me on it was that the screen size was 'big enough' while the form factor barely bigger than the screen. Easy to pocket, light, and tough.

Compare to the iphone 4, which while being a nicer phone, has huge great lumps off the top and bottom of the screen - which means less pocketability / ease of management - not to mention that most iPhone 4s are even larger (and less attractive) due to the plastic bumper.

The form factor is what sold me on the defy over the first-class range of android phones, despite it being a bit underpowered and having one or two other issues, some of which were due to Motorola bloatware that went away when CM7 went on.

I find that in portable devices, getting the right size for you is a much underrated question when people look to buy tech.
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Surprisingly doesn't mention IMDB which has by far the best general purpose ratings.

Curious if they considered "Would you watch this movie again? [yes/no]"

I also wonder if NetPromoter could be adapted for rating things like movies. It uses the question "Would you recommend..." and has a much harsher formula (+1 for 9/10, -1 for 0-6).
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Funny you picked $0.50. At Facebook's current revenues, that's about how much each person would have to pay for month for them to be making as much as they're making now, if you took away all the other cash streams.
> What is unreasonable about noticing an improvement can be made in your surroundings, and endeavouring to make it?

I guess if the Steve Jobs aquarium urban legend didn't sound unreasonable, you probably have the silicon valley mindset. It's really easy to think of the current state of things and to feel that everything done up to now is 'reasonable'; especially if you live in a really progressive, techno-friendly place like Silicon Valley. You need to know the historical context from the perspective of an average non-technical person in places that aren't as open minded and progressive. One example would be an average person wondering why people wasted their time making unreliable experimental horseless carriages when clearly horses were superior. I also can't help but think of the author of Gulliver's Travels making fun of people experimenting with electricity.
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When starting to read the article, the first thing I noticed was the "iPhone 4′s".

For some reason I really react annoyed at people using an accent instead of an apostrophe (4′s vs 4's).

I'm not sure why, but this always gets me
I am from India, and pg I have a question for you.

Its almost 1 in the afternoon here. So it must be midnight in the US. I also see you replying to posts during the US day time.

If its not too personal, can you share you a brief outline of your schedule. I assume you do not procrastinate, but about the energy and how do you plan your tasks.
I wager that the difference between Apple's implementation and others will be as vast as the difference between an iPhone and a Nokia Communicator.
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Very well said. And it is important that we help making this a PR disaster for the company, even if we have to be cautious - being it a quite obscure entity, even bad publicity could be useful to them...
> I would like that quote more if it read 'Therefore all innovation'

I feel that progress implies innovation. Shaw's quote was meant to be general and universal, applying to crazy inventors as well Women who wanted to vote, and people of color who wanted equal rights. All of these people probably seemed unreasonable to their peers at one point.
I am sure they see great value in being the only Astrologers who can do this, which means that they need to suppress access to this data.

It's amazing to think that people might actually care about this kind of "accuracy" in Astrology, but unfortunately, you might just be right. Geez, maybe in a year or so, they're calling the other astrologers phonies because they can't possibly have the right data.
I won't go so far as to say "anti-patent", but both Techdirt and it's userbase are...extremely jaded towards most patent disputes. Additionally, the focus of the site is almost exclusively on the damage and retardation that results from attempting to apply non-tech rules in a tech-dominated society. In essence, pointing out every instance of the buggy-whip salesmen attempting to outlaw and regulate the car industry.

So yeah. Techdirt is great, but considering how infrequently appropriate trademark/copyright suits are posted on there, the bias is very liberal and should be taken with a grain of salt. (Personally, I read Techdirt, but I almost invariably come away feeling depressed at all of the backwards rulings and inherently trollish lawsuits, like that whole timezone thing from this morning.)
Its interesting how much energy people are putting into shutting his observation down. It might make sense to ask someone at Apple how they decide on product dimensions for mobile devices. I'm pretty sure some thought goes into the size of their products.
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I don't know if this will add much to the article, but let's go over things step by step.

scanl is the same as foldl, save for the fact that it outputs a list of all intermediate values. So where

foldl (+) 0 [1..10]

would output 55,

scanl (+) 0 [1..10]

would output [0,1,3,6,10,15,21,28,36,45,55].

(1 :) means prepend a 1 to the list it is given. The function that is passed as an argument to fix therefore returns a 1 followed by the successive summation values of its argument.

fix just infinitely applies its argument to itself, i.e.

fix f = f (fix f)

In any strict language this would ofcourse just result in an infinite loop, but fortunately Haskell has lazy evaluation. So if we evaluate the list, for example with

take 5 fibs

the following happens:

Haskell wants the first list element. The first element of (1 :) . scanl (+) 1 is 1, so there's no need to evaluate the scanl part yet. Now we need the second element. scanl first returns its accumulator, so that's another 1. For the third list element scanl needs the first element of its argument for the addition, so now we get to the recursive application. As before, the first element of (1 :) . scanl (+) 1 is 1, so the next element is 1 + 1 = 2. This 2 is then added to the next element, which is another 1, resulting in 3. Finally, we add 3 to the third element, giving 5. We now have five elements, which is what we requested, so the result will be [1,1,2,3,5].

I hope this helped a little. If you have any other questions, just let me know.
That's really great. Over how many months, did you make that money?
Considering that Siri has been available on the App Store for a while, and no one really cared, I doubt it.
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Chances are you would not be posting this rationale online if not for Steve Jobs.

He brought computers down to the level of mere mortals (and others copied his vision leading to the explosion of personal computing globally).

No computers --> No internet. You should keep that in mind.

ps. Even the original protocols for the internet were laid down by Tim Berners-Lee on a Steve Jobs-conceived Next computer.
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The ability to reach the whole screen with my thumb, while still having a high resolution was one of the main reasons i bought my Motorola Defy. It has a 3.7" screen with 858x480 resolution. The other main reason was that a waterproof phone is a good idea when you have a two-year old toddler.
Swatch beats were pre-Y2K!

It's kind of a shame they went nowhere. Something like Swatch beats would be useful. See, for example, Stack Exchange "days" - I have no idea when they start or finish in my time-zone.
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I think rewatchability is a great metric for one thing: whether or not someone is going to want to rewatch something...

Just because the data better fits your desired skews, doesn't mean it gets at what the users actually want.

I think a major issue at hand is that people often rate things as they expect a critic to rate them. If you would give Transformers 2 a 5-star rewatchability rating, you should be giving it at least 3 or 4 stars for quality, because obviously you enjoyed it very much. Instead, many people pretend to be film critics, whose jobs are very different, and assign an 'objective rating'. A film critic can not give personal opinions because he's supposed to speak for the masses--to appeal to some higher taste he aspires to have and that he hopes society would have. If you loved Transformers, rate it 5 stars--period. The rating isn't meant to be read by others, it's not meant to appeal to an idealized world, it's just how you felt about the thing. Convince your users to rate intelligently with that mindset and you'll start to see good data.

All that said, more data is better than less, and if you could convince your users to double their average rating-time investment and give you ratings for both, awesome. I'm skeptical that users would bother to rate two metrics for everything they've seen...but I think it's certainly possible they would. Be interested to see.
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Implementation is key.
Siri in app-form was a very different thing, far less capable.
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Nothing funny about it, it's a number calculated deliberately.
'Ship spinning' also covers an easier way to access certain well-used menus for managing your ship, without having to open the 'Ships' window. The 'spinning' part is a minor loss, not being able to easily access cargo/fuel/hangars is a major UI drawback.
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Comfortable thumb reach? I don't think so.

If anything, I'd say it was chosen because the size 'feels' about right.

For me the SGS II is way too big; it doesn't fit in my pockets comfortably and it feels awkward when holding it to my ear.

There's a balance - bigger is better in terms of a touch interface but smaller is better in terms of convenience. Somewhere around 3.5" seems about the best compromise for a smartphone.

For me at least.
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Even if you do, you're still liable for any charges which hit the account after it's been closed, at least according to every closed account letter I've received (in the UK, not sure what the process is in other countries). Plus you can't close an account until the balance is clear.
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Why are they shutting it down? Why don't they just update those entries to use a different source?
I didn't see anything intellectually interesting in Larry Page, Sergey Brin, etc. posts about SJ death. Maybe I'm blind... Oh, and please avoid ad personam arguments, they are useless.
Desktop UIs are generally not resolution independent, they just have resizable windows. The UI component sizes stays the same.
The key point here is integration though. Just putting a speech recognition app on a phone isn't doing much. But making sure the most common cases you are going to be using it for, e.g. appointments/reminders, searching for specific things, finding a nearby hotel etc. work reliably no matter in what way you phrase it, is the part that makes it really useful. Also consider how you can make sure this works as expected by using all the context available onm a modern smartphone (location/movement, weather, calendar, emergency information, congestion) If Apple does the polishing work for that to work it will be a huge success. They probably aren't there yet though, otherwise their presentation would have put much more emphasis on it.

I tested the current state of voice recognition on Android and was mostly disappointed (bad recognition, and nowhere the "intelligence" you would expect).
This is most probably false, but even if it was true it would not be a receivable argument.
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Evidence? Citation? Or are you saying that on blind faith simply because it's Apple?
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"Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

I'll print this and place it in my office at home.
That was not an obituary. It was Wolfram's recollection of his personal interaction with Jobs. Since much of that interaction was over the development and bundling of Mathematica, it is expected that Mathematica would be mentioned a lot.
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I think something that's been somewhat overlooked in the Siri discussion is the expectation of usability. Our expectation relating to standard touch screen/keyboard/mouse usability has been fairly standardized by devices over the last ten to fifteen years. With Siri this expectation is not yet present, meaning we may have unrealistic expectations for the timeframe between command and action, and we will have far less tolerance for misunderstanding, mis-communication or failures with Siri than we might with traditional user interfaces.

The bottom line is that Siri better be basically perfect - if it's unreliable, even within what in engineering terms would be totally acceptable standards for such an advanced bit of software, people will just not bother and revert back to standard UI mechanisms. This is always the danger with any new user interface, but, I think, especially relevant here. After all, people tend to get pretty annoyed when you don't listen to them.
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