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One thing that I have a problem with is the complaints about the Kindle buttons. As much as I see people try and use the Kindle as a touch screen, I would not want it to be. I like the button press because I don't have to move my hand from holding the device. If I had to physically swipe my finger everytime I wanted to move to the next page I could see that being very annoying.

The two reasons I really love my Kindle are for the digital distribution and the form factor. I can no longer read paperback books. I find holding them to be just unpleasent and not near as enjoyable as the Kindle. And I think a swipe page turning mechanism is a backward step in how I move through my book.
Speaking of caching, are browsers already doing all the caching that is practical on modern machines? I vaguely remember years ago downloading a special program that sped up the internet by performing more aggressive caching than the browser was capable of (basically it was just a caching proxy). Everything was noticeably quicker.

Though these days things probably feel slower because every website is loaded down with 3rd party JS from 100 different sites...
The most relevant thing to look at is what has he done that is similar to your project? How did that turn out? Most developers are best the second or third time around.
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He's crazy to assume that the Kindle Fire isn't competitive with the iPad, or that the $199 price point isn't going to at least partially inform the pricing of the iPad 3.

The days of the $700 tablet are over.
I do have an iTouch, and was looking to get an iPad but at $199 the Fire is too attractive. If it can get Hulu Plus, HBO Go, and the like. I'll be happy. As it stands, you are right, I'm best with iOS.
Exactly! If you pay more, they will throw in an additional bundle.

So it's still the "bundle" of one item plus an additional actual bundle of several items.
Think about this: So Amazon can learn about people's browsing habits and can infer a user's interests. Now, based on this, it can put ads in the screensaver (say with "$20 off on the Kindle fire if you let us do this"). An extreme case would be to modify the webpage with their own ads (hopefully will not happen and is unethical). But nevertheless good move, Amazon.
Youtube: Chad Hurley went to Indiana Uni. of Pennsylvania. Steve Chen and Jawed Karim went to University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman went to University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Slide: Max Levchin went to University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Foursquare: Naveen went to Worcester Inst. and Kings College. Dennis Crowley went to Syracuse and Tisch School at NYU

Tumblr: David Karp never went to college.

Actually, I would say that there would very little correlation between going to an Ivy League/ top 10 school and building a company. Most people at such schools are more are interested in getting into Investment Banking, Consulting, Pvt Equity jobs than building companies. Going to a good college would a weak variable, if relevant at all, when deciding on the probability of future success for a startup.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's only true if you're on the free level (i.e. only running 1 dyno). Otherwise, your process is always active.
That would be really interesting! Any implementations of something like that working today?
I agree. I also think that the damage is going to be more for current-android-tablet makers, such as Samsung, Acer, Asus, Viewsonic ..etc. More so to the ones who price their tablets above $400. Everyone's going to compare them to the Fire and say, "Why even consider anything when I can get this for half the price?".

Pretty safe to say, Amazon's tablet is going to beat all the other android-tablets.
Me too, my library is fairly small as it's rarely used by my community and if I sat there all day it would be very awkward as i'd probably be one of the only people in there and I doubt anyone usually works from there.

Coffee shops on the other hand are usually fairly quiet in something like a starbucks (really depends on location and time). Of course when it's rush hour this all changes.
I would worry about Opera precisely because they aren't vendors of anything else themselves. Amazon can run these servers just to increase the cachet of the tablets they sell.

Opera needs to make sure that the servers they're running are bringing in income.
"You can get a Kindle Fire and a new top-of-the-line e-ink Kindle Touch for less than the price of an iPad. It’s a very different take."

But few will want to carry both. This is the one problem with non-general-purpose tablets. Various discussions I've seen today imply, by intent or by chance, getting more than one tablet. To succeed in the long run, users must see the device as My One Tablet - which will include anywhere/anytime Internet connectivity (note the absence of a Fire 3G).
This guide would probably hurt someone more than help them. It might work as a cursory overview, but even then -- my head would spin if this was my first guide to *nix.
Excellent! I especially love the improvements to Vintage mode. More progress towards replacing most of Vim's basic functionality so us Vimsters can switch without losing anything.

Two more essential Vim ingredients to draw in the Vim crowd:

* Relative line numbers

* Ability to do stuff like "d/hello" or "ma", move cursor down, "v`a". Right now it just searches for "hello" or goes to the mark 'a' without visually selecting it
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[1] - http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/11/spdy-google-wants-to...
Apparently it does offer an opt out. Which is nice.
I don't understand this:"The iPad is a credible laptop replacement for many people and with iCloud and another year or two of hardware improvements, that’s going to be true for more and more people. The Kindle Fire is a laptop replacement for almost no one. It’s a peripheral, not a second computer and it’s priced accordingly. " What is it that makes the iPad a possible laptop replacement, but the Fire not? To me, the primary market for people replacing laptops with a tablet are casual users, many of whom care more about content and entertainment than producitivity, in which case it would seem the Fire would be equal to, if not beating, the iPad.
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1) I like the idea but it took me a few seconds to figure out what the site was offering. Maybe clarify the VP?
2) The logo seems a bit small and disjointed from the design
3) It needs an integrated cart.
He's not crazy and that conclusion is not unique to gruber. The screen area of the iPad is nearly 2x that of the fire. Resolution is 1.3x but pixel density will increase on iPad3.

They are about as competitive as a 15" laptop is to a netbook: not very as they are physically quite different. The price difference reflects this.
Don't forget:

7+ hours video
(vs 0 for e-ink)
Especially if Silk doesn't offer an opt-out

Which it does. "Fortunately Amazon will support an "off-cloud" mode for Silk. This lets users opt-out of the benefits of using EC2 while retaining the traditional privacy benefits of connecting directly to remote web sites." - http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/28/amazon-kindle-fir...
This is to be applauded but it needs to go a step further.

What is really needed is for all the academics to agree to retain their own copyright because they, the authors, are the natural holders of it. Worldwide, they ultimately have a much bigger clout than any university.

Under this Princeton proposal, though well meant, one exploiter (the publisher) will just be replaced by another (the institution).

The arrogant wording: 'Staff will grant to The Trustees of Princeton University “a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all copyrights in his or her scholarly articles published in any medium, whether now known or later invented, provided the articles are not sold by the University for a profit, and to authorise others to do the same.” ought to ring the warning bells.

What happens if some staff do not want to do this, for whatever legitimate reasons of their own? Not to mention the innocent little lawyers' trick of adding 'or later invented', thus essentially appropriating their poor members' entire life's work in advance?

Let me repeat the obvious: it is the author who holds the rights. The institution may politely ask for them but it can not unilaterally formulate its own policy to usurp those rights.
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Is there a point where even "anonymized" data can be mined and recombined into something that is used to personalize and sell things better?
Overall, the servers would have to suffer less than they do now. It's just a single pipe instead of multiple short-lived parallel connections.
The first thing I would ask is:
How is this guy sure that he is being sued by Craigslist, and not some scam artist pretending to be affiliated with Craigslist? Was a cease and desist ordered first?
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Traversal methods are built-in for Neo4j, so those can be used for representative testing. The MySQL traversal methods chosen are very basic and don't necessarily reflect the optimized methods people will use in production.

It's not that the traversal methods are built in, it's that that each node as a built-in index of its adjacent nodes so it doesn't have to do external lookups on each traversal step.
As soon as we see people getting work done on the Kindle Fire, I'll grant you that.

If your work involves a lot of writing, then the iPad isn't an obvious boon [1]. But if you can do your work more efficiently by treating data and actions as symbols, the iPad is just overflowing with potential, much of it already being realized. Musicians, artists, animators, logicians, teachers, doctors, researchers; the list of professions offered new ways to work is getting longer and longer. To these people, the iPad can be life-changing.

I don't think the Kindle Fire will change anything. It's just not in Amazon's DNA to make a product focused on anything other than buying and consuming content — and there's never been a shortage of ways to buy things.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/09/doable-or-not-my-e...
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This is already being discussed extensively in other threads.
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As a non-tech founder, I can relate to your frustration. Trying tools like http://interviewstreet.com to test the extent/quality of code may better help you understand their skill level. Best of luck.
I don't think that hidden css would qualify as spammy, because of the sites that use javascript to show hidden divs for comments, etc.

Another related question to the post would be: "Does the Google Bot index the css tag "background-image" for google images?"

Edit: removed question answered in a comment below.
Well, as the networks/devices get faster, the web pages will get bigger and load more javascript than every before. We have already seen how the html/js/css growth has been since early 2000s. If not for that, all those pages with 10 years of growth of network/devices speeds, we should've blazing fast web right now!
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While it's a nice design, it's been done.

So what? It sounds like it will greatly improve the browsing experience on a under-powered small-screen tablet. And it sounds like they have improved upon the Opera and RIMs implementations.

like having trouble with private intranet sites and VPNs

That's an edge case that could be ignored ("Kindle Fire is only intended for personal home use") or worked around (separate browser/browsing mode in those scenarios). EDIT: Reading below it sounds like they have an "off-cloud" mode.

because all the requests come from a few centralized IPs

Amazon's network is massively distributed...
That's interesting. I started in physics and moved to computer science. I would much rather be programming.

That's my answer to the poll as well. All the extra stuff that seems to go into a start-up (knowing about finances and advertising and networking...?) - I'd rather be programming.
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Logicians? I'm not seeing the iPad app to write math papers without, y'know, writing.
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i've done this so many times it's not funny. it hasn't stopped me from getting a job yet. my thinking is that this stuff will come out eventually anyhow, so it's better to be up front about it.

people seem to like honesty.
What about pageviews: If Amazon stores one copy of NYTimes and serves it to 1000 users, will NYTimes record it as a single hit?
I think their IPs will start getting blocked if they substitute ads. However, the Kindle ads would work wonders. Just inferring the main categories in which the user makes purchases from their Amazon history and showing the top five best sellers in those categories would be sufficient, but having the web history is huge. That said, the potential abuses are also massive if they start getting hit by warrants/national security letters.
Since when was linking an action with its consequence 'deciding that I shouldn't be doing something' or 'authoritarian and creepy'?

Patient: "It hurts when I do this!"
Doctor: "Then don't do that."

You can still do it, just don't act surprised when it hurts. You can't have it both ways.
I don't particularly love Eclipse, but I just don't agree that the commercial alternatives are so much better. Which IDE would you recommend yourself?
Replacement vs. addition is a situational trade-off, but ultimately the problem remains that you need to bring more RAM to the party.

My biggest RAM consumer stores historical data for a goods trading platform. Each trade is a unique key, with all the trade data being the value. Access speed is important, but not as critical as the other goodies I get from Riak (replication and automated rebalancing). Metadata is stored separately, but I hope to change that with Riak 1.0 secondary indexes.
I hear this reasoning all the time -- that your desire to keep X private is null and void because some fringe Y case would expose you. The world isn't black and white and privacy isn't binary.

There are already privacy protections for doctor/patient and attorney/client, so clearly a legal precedent has been set in those cases -- why not others?

The comic book example, just because the source knows who you are doesn't mean it's for them to plaster your picture up on every internet site and telephone pole.
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Wonder if he will apply for YC.
To me, this just shows that the iPhone app is totally hit based

The medium lifetime revenue is right beside the 90th percentile, which means those top 10% earn the vast majority of the revenue
The peer review system isn't something that the journals provide. All the review work is done by academics who don't get paid a cent for it. Peer review could be done just as easily if papers were published on free web sites like arxiv.org.
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Google also has a massive network of distributed servers and a couple browsers. I wonder if they'll start doing this for the Android browser and maybe even as an option for faster browsing on Chome.
Despite 10 years of evidence to the contrary people keep telling themselves that Apple is going to change their device pricing due to pressure from the rest of the market. Good luck this time.
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IIRC It depends on the direction of polarization of you glasses.
Consumers are funny, though. They don't really care about stats; that kind of data is for geeks, who are not the target audience for this at all.

And don't forget Christensen's adage that the truly disruptive technology is typically a little bit worse and a whole lot cheaper than the incumbent technology.

One way or another, there are some big advantages to a smaller screen.
The Kindle is not for getting work done. It is for consuming content.
You're probably not going to sue someone for under $30,000 and yet I wouldn't call that a trivial size of business.
> This is the first shot in the new war for replacing the Internet with a privatized merchant data-aggregation network.

Doesn't this already exist? Google has the information from toolbar data. DoubleClick has already classified everyone on the internet based on their interests based on what sites they visit. How much better are Amazon's product recommendations going to get based on this new source of data? My guess is some, but not much.

A cheap tablet with a fast browser will bring new people into the Amazon ecosystem, and that will be worth far more than the clickstream data.
Logic is a game of symbols and relationships. The iPad is the best tool I've ever seen for working with symbols and relationships.
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It's hard to know what to do with that information in a world in which the current android tablet makers can barely give their devices away.
That graph looks suspiciously like a countdown until the Fire would be released.
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What is stopping you from installing another browser on the Fire? Wouldn't that entirely bypass Silk?
> Conceptually its almost identical to Opera Mini. Amazon, however, gets to take advantage of their massive infrastructure.

Perhaps Opera Mini runs on Amazon EC2, which would mean they use the same infrastructure ;)
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Musicians, artists, animators, ???

Any serious professional will have a maxed out task specific equipment.

logicians??

Lol I take it that you are not being serious!

teachers, doctors, researchers!

haha Doctors need to enter lots of information and prefer a laptop / proper keyboard. As far as researchers are concerned any serious researcher will be either using legacy software or cutting edge software that runs on specialized machine. And oh if you actually leave your hipster utopia you will realize that teachers get paid peanuts.

please iPad is a toy and kindle fire is a cheaper and much more affordable toy.
capitalism "in the purist laissez faire sense" becomes meaningless - you can't have a market without some mechanism of enforcing private contracts and securing property.

believing in others' needs and wants only needs to oppressive governments IF those beliefs come from a place of condescension (i.e. that poor bastard is too dumb to take care of himself, we should try to run his life for him) rather than compassion and understanding (i.e. he doesn't save money because he sees no point in planning for a future he has little hope of enjoying, let's give him the support he needs to function better).

condescension is not egalitarianism.
"school district can give those to every student"

How cool would that be! My library finally got the overdrive support so I wanted to check out an e-book (an audiobook) to try out on my kindle/iphone. And found a nice book that I wanted to read and the page says, "available copies : 0, library copies : 1, No. of patrons in waiting list : 23, Click here to add yourself to the waiting list".

File this under w.t.f.
dynos != virtual machines

Well, yeah, a small instance on EC2 is the equivalent of 20 dynos, maybe more.

What you do get with dynos is scaling out when you need it, however you can do the same thing by having a prepared AMI, a load-balancer and a bunch of scripts with which you can start new instances in seconds.

focus on rapid iteration

I really do think that sysadmin work and rapid iteration are orthogonal. When you're starting out, administrating you servers is something that hardly takes up any time ... but the flexibility is priceless.

... infrastructure pieces such as reverse
proxies, caches, etc.

Well, Cedar doesn't have Varnish anymore -- and IMHO, setting up Varnish is just a day's work, which includes configuring it for your own needs.

Yes, Heroku takes that away by (1) giving you a useless Varnish configuration OR (2) eliminating Varnish altogether, as they couldn't figure out a common denominator.

Also, I know that "reverse proxies" and "caches" sound bad ass, but it's really a solved problem.

Of course, infrastructure can get very hairy further down the road, but that's what I've been saying -- when starting out, you just need Passenger or mod_wsgi, as in one "sudo aptitude install" or "gem install" away. It took me a day's work to configure an EC2 instance, including a deployment workflow with Capistrano (for the first time ever). That server is still running just fine, with no further maintenance.

And if small deployments is not Heroku's strength, than what is? If you've got a successful app that needs special infrastructure care and you can't afford a good developer/sysadmin to take care of it, then you're doing it wrong.
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Consumes don’t care about stuff they can’t (easily) see. Pixel density, probably. 10" and 7" tablets are, however, sufficiently different.
One could argue that Opera Mini has been doing the very same thing for a while now, and it did not appear to cause any major uproar between the privacy proponents. This might be a typical "Ah, that's Opera, cool stuff, but who cares" attitude, but it might also indicate a profound shift in surfer's attitude towards their privacy. You press them long enough and they will grow to accept that intrusive Web surfing is a damn norm.

That's the shift I am personally really afraid of, but by the looks of it and as upsetting as it sounds, it is inevitable.
If I have the money, I'd be just as glad to separate my ebook-reading from everything else. When I read an ebook, I do want an eInk screen, ridiculous battery life, and no distracting apps or websites.
If you read the message in which I said that, I was specifically referring to their free quota.
Apache SPDY module: http://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/

Tomcat SPDY implementation: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk/modules/tomcat-...

(haven't tried yet)
No one buys tablets by the square yard, though. Lots of people seem to say that a 10" tablet is inherently better than a 7" tablet, but I think the market is still far too young to really know the winning form factor.
Don't all JS engines compile to machine code these days?

If the special thing is cross-compiling to machine code on the server and sending binary code to be run on the client, then that might be new - but it's scary from a security perspective.
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anything in the requirements.txt is picked up by pip and installed into a virtualenv from what I have been able to gather.
R -- http://groups.google.com/group/rrook/browse_thread/thread/33... (although detect isn't really the case, but run certainly is)
Short term, yeah. But Facebook needs its ecosystem to be healthy too. That said, you're correct -- I conflated "profits" and "revenue" and shouldn't have.
Ignoring the nitpicking about 'impacting the content':

It impacts the time scale. If I click on one of his links and buy a gadget, I get the very same thing. He gets a one time bonus that _I_ didn't pay and the experience is the same (granted, if I want to buy the thing in 3 weeks I'm going to Amazon's site and search/buy it there, not looking up his links to do him a favor).

The ads on the device, however, are semi-permanent and are going to stay with you. You trade _your_ money for things that are shoved in _your_ face.

I don't even understand where a comparison between these things (affiliate links vs. ads on the device) are meaningful..
>Doctors need to enter lots of information and prefer a laptop / proper keyboard.

Any reference for that?
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This link doesn't work on the iPad - you just get forwarded to the iPad version of Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/forum/m/. You can view the proper post at https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/phonegap-dev/vFy8G...