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Haha, I hear you but I am also referring to the quality of their products.

Yes, Photoshop et al have added a bunch of really great features but along with that comes convoluted, inconsistent and sometimes ugly UI features. Is it worth the expensive prices? Not really.

Remember Homesite? They integrated that into the convoluted trash that we now have called Dreamweaver. Homesite's features made Dreamweaver the editor to have 7 years ago but I graduated from this editor b/c I couldn't stand how bloated it was and Dreamweaver fell behind.

What's to say this won't happen to Typekit? It could easily be integrated into a bloaty, proprietary crapware that will essentially kill it like many others Adobe has gotten rid of. Sorry, I just don't have a much faith in Adobe.
Can anyone upvoting this please explain what objective information they got out of this post? All I read was marketing speak in bold and caps, with no new information on why people might actually use this.

I'm obviously not doubting the potential, since I haven't seen the app yet, but this article is terribly low on substance.
I'll admit straight-up that I haven't looked at any of the Siri presentations, so I don't know what is and isn't possible with it, but the simple fact of the matter is that AI like it's being pitched ("reasoning", ever-learning, fast and flexible to respond to natural language input) takes an obscene amount of RAM, computing power, and persistent storage to be any good. There's not a chance that this is going to be an inherent feature of the iPhone 5 - it might be a "cloud" feature that the iPhone uses, but if it's as good as the rumormongers are making it out to be, we're talking datacenters worth of hardware, not one phone's worth.

It'll be interesting to see what's actually announced, but I'm having a really hard time swallowing the idea that Apple's putting a Star Trek AI on a phone.
IIRC the original price-point target was $55k. Their listed price of $50k is after a $7.5k federal tax rebate - so depending on how you measure it, they're either slightly above the target or well below it.
Do you live in a country where there are restrictions on products you would like to purchase? (as in -- anywhere that's not the continental US). Perhaps an ebook that's not available in your country.

If the only way to consume a good is to obtain it illegally (and there is no loss of the orginal owner - I'm talking about digital copies) then moral offsetting is the only slightly moral way to consume/acquire the item.
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Translating Pig like high level data flow jobs to Riak's pipe/erlang would be a major endeavor, but definitely one that would worth the effort.
Siri has been out on the iPhone for at least a year and while impressive, I don't believe qualifies as game-changing (it couldn't, for example, tell me what the average velocity of an unladen swallow was). I'm wondering if there've been any breakthrough(s) after they were acquired?
What I find hard to understand is that Google who has been working on the voice recognition for ages and has actual products out there and enormous data, still struggles with quality in this area. How can everyone put so much trust on Siri that it would change the paradigm when it's hardly tested in the market.

In my opinion it all stems from the trust on Apple. Apple has the reputation that they don't ship half-products and with the rumours going strong that Siri would be part of iPhone 5, everybody is simply jumping on the bandwagon and _assuming_ that Apple has solved the voice recognition problem.

As much as awesome Apple is, I still find it hard to believe that they have figured out voice-recognition.
I think maybe we just need to grow into it. This takes time, and probably generations. The first generation that has truly never been without a globally interconnected computer as part of their life is about to come of age. Lets see what they can do.

There was a time when there were no humans who knew how to drive a car.
The author said in the comments:

"The point of the article is that making that choice for someone else is wrong."

It's my feeling that in this article at least, the author does not really care about the rights and wrong of copying, piracy, intellectual property, etc. He is scared by relatively few people on the internet being both lawmaker, judge, party and executioner when it comes to the monetization of a digital product, and the reason why he is scared is that these few people are not even potential customers.
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Sadly, Flash still is how you play video on the web and make a lot of rich, interactive presentations on websites b/c only in the last few years has HTML5 started taking off. We're stuck in a proprietary world until we get over the bickering and complacency of open standards.

I'm definitely not trying to discredit the HTML5 work Adobe has done to play catch up but part of me feels like it's too little, too late in some ways.

Adobe has to make money, they obviously have a huge grip in the design community and they're not going away anytime soon so we need to push back as much as possible to make sure they don't continue on with bad practices and listen to the community, which increasingly they are. Sadly, too many of us feel abandoned when some of our favorite software gets left behind (Homesite) or bloated (Photoshop/Flash/Illustrator).
I just can't see how this would be anything other than very annoying to use. It would have to work flawlessly to not be.
I don't see where I said that I endorsed this state of affairs.

I don't care so much if you in specific endorse it. i do care about how it's a line of thought that we hear more and more often.

Also, I think you are the one spouting pure arrogant bullshit when you completely dismiss amateur production.

I dismissed amateur production? are you sure you hit reply in the right comment?

In fact there are tons of hugely talented musicians out there who aren't making a living off their music.

no kidding! you just blew my mind. now think of what they could do if they made/played their music as a full time job.
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Tesla is going to be one of the first indicators the bubble burst. The tesla cars are overpriced, inconvenient, and they do not look particularly nicer than other cars in their segment.

Tesla is just a game for financial speculators to make a lot of money of the tech bubble.
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Most of this content is already in Code Complete.

There are two anti-bug ideas I strongly agree with: bugs are found by use of the code, whether through testing or actual use; and that great unhindered programmers tend to write solid code. It's very logical that bugs will be found by usage - this is basically the test-driven reasoning. As far as programmer quality, it is also logical, but it is underemphasized in the article.

I distrust articles that emphasize one-size processes for software development. In the end, there's talent and something like culture. Government agencies that can't go out of business follow policy, and provide results just above the legal required standards. Old companies with seniority-based hierarchies feel similar to code monkeys. A small company with respectful, productive, and creative builders is ripe for a culture of sincerely-desired quality. This is what I mean by the importance of culture over process.
Yeah and at that time say there were dudes running around on the rigging of big 4-mast galleons like it was no big deal, and if you dropped one of them on a busy road they would be as horrified as I would be if someone dropped me in their place and told me to splice the mainbrace or whatever...
If you look at the history of smartphone development, you'll find a better analogy.

You see, back in the '00s, it used to be common knowledge that "nobody pays for third-party smartphone apps". It was scientifically proved over and over again, on platforms like Symbian and Palm, by research after research. You see, back then getting hold of a mobile app was relatively hard; you had to go hunting for it online, find it in some sort of online directory, pay tens or hundreds to the directory (which was also trying to sell you some other crap like proprietary downloaders etc or spamming you or generally treating you -- and developers! --- like shit). The market was tiny and tech-savvy, and resented having to pay so much for small add-ons, often of dubious quality.

Then came the Apple AppStore, and lo, all of a sudden people were paying for apps! Why? Because the ease of purchase and lower prices dramatically enlarged the market to people who simply couldn't be bothered to jailbreak and pirate just to save a few quid, or wanted to support authors. The pirate market didn't disappear, but mobile developers flourished nonetheless.

Now replace apps for music, and good streaming services for the AppStore, and I think you can see where things are going: consumers wants a simple and immediate buying experience where they don't feel like they're being ripped off by third parties (even though he still is, by Apple) and with low prices. Give them that, and they're quite happy to pay; try to force them into digital slavery, and they'll resort to the black market.

Now, guess what the music industry tried to do for the last 15 years.
"Would you even say the BMW and the toyota are in comparable categories?"

I would. They both get you from point A to point B. And for most people, that's what matters.

You are missing the real point here. Most people aren't making a choice between the Kindle Fire and the iPad. Most people are making a choice between a Kindle Fire and some other non-essential purchase (like an extra couple pairs of shoes.)

The Kindle Fire will blow open the market for tablets. It will appeal to an entire set of the population that could not previously afford or justify a tablet.

It will be very interesting to watch development in this space. You have Amazon hitting Apple on the low end, and Microsoft gearing up to hit Apple on the high end with Windows 8 tablets that run regular Windows programs. The iPad is getting some stiff competition.
I have seen a few US writers attempt to call CSIRO a patent troll. Somewhat amusing. This article isn't talking about the CSIRO patent though.
I still report bugs, but nowhere near as many.

Before there was a feeling of progress: report a bug, see it fixed. Now it's report a bug and silence.
I wrote the post, so I should probably answer you. :)

Honestly, after watching the 45 minute presentation, there were a ton of interesting tid bits I transcribed word for word (that's what you see in all the quotes and the video is embedded if you prefer that).

For skimming purposes, I tried to bold the most important bits in the quotes, so it was straight from Siri's Co-Founder, CTO and VP of Design, Tom Gruber's mouth.

Honestly, skimming through the article quickly myself (it took me 3 hours total to write including watching the 45 minute keynote and transcribing the important bits) I can't see how you think it is low on substance, because there is a ton of it in there.

I'm honestly fascinated to see if Apple open's up the Assistant API to 3rd party developers as the Siri team clearly planned to pre-acquisition. In my mind it makes a lot of sense given the new "verb" world Facebook introduced, and I think developers would have a ball with it.
There's a demo of Siri in the linked Vimeo presentation that starts around 8:00. It's pretty impressive

http://vimeo.com/5424527
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The Arctic hole graphs are from the end of Winter, and the Antarctic hole graphs are from the end of Summer.

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A lot of pie in the sky speculation based off a three year old talk there. Especially since I am sure an Apple acquisition wasn't on the road map at the time. But my answers to his questions would be:

* Will Assistant be world-changing?*

No. But it will probably be a damn good feature.

Will it address foreign languages/cultures

Probably, since Nuance can do a fairly impressive number of languages and all signs is Apple is partnering with them.

relationship questions

No. God no.

open task API

Maybe, but I would be a little surprised.

payments

Now we are just throwing buzz words together. Want to know why the "speech to text world" is "untapped"? Cause it is made up. Plus it would essentially be either a search ad or affiliate marketing situation, neither of which seem very Apple-like.

Facebook social knowledge

Again, doubtful. I mean, they've gone out of their way to integrate Twitter in iOS 5, which reeks of Facebook and Apple not coming to terms. But maybe they banged out a last minute deal.

I am sure Assistant be like most Apple features. Fairly impressive, a bit more detail oriented than the competition, but ultimately not that much better. If anything, I think it will be the new Facetime. Good demo, good for ads, some people will use it a bunch, but mostly a showy feature that will get used once and then ignored by the vast majority of users.
> While tools like functional programming may indeed deliver on the promise of a 60% code reduction,[…]

Most code is badly written C++ that could have been written in, say, Ocaml, Haskell, or Lisp. This is easily a 10 fold reduction. And the guys at http://vpri.org/ are doing at least five times better than that (50 fold reduction compared to well written C).

On your point 3, Bugs have lower accountability. Meaning, lower impact for those who commit them. If they have lower impact as well, that's because they forced us to distrust software.
The batteries in this car are not easily replaceable I believe. This is one of the problems of this solution - coming up with a size and spec standard.
Yup, and they wouldn't have bought it anyway. Someone not buying your shit and someone stealing your shit both get you $0.

(I mostly buy CDs these days because of the lossless issue. But if I'd have to import the disc from another country, I just torrent it, because fuck paying $30 for a CD.

And yes, I know that 44kHz is not "lossless". So that's fine, let me buy 24-bit 192kHz files instead!)
> Git requires you to accept certain behaviors and the cultural encouragement of same, e.g. rewritable history, of which I'm very much not a fan.

I've seen this opinion espoused by others and I just don't understand it. I'd never ever use a VCS anymore that didn't let me "rewrite history". "git filter-branch" has saved me many hours of commit-work on multiple occasions--I just can't see why not having those kind of tools is considered a good thing.

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Actually one of the things I discovered while working with someone close/relative. Firstly they assume that you sort of come for a cheap price and won't have qualms or complains working for peanuts.

Secondly they assume you are some sort easy punchbag to offload all their anger in case something goes wrong for which you aren't even remotely responsible. Somehow its assumed since you are close to them you won't mind taking all that.

Part of what really pisses me off is, they feel its OK to make profit out of your work. But consider it some sort of a selfish action from your end when you expect to get paid for the work you do. I don't mind doing extra work for free sometimes. But when that sort of becomes a norm and you are expected to be the sacrificial goat for their profit, you must just politely call it quits.

These days you can earn a lot of money working for yourself. No point in doing donkey work for others profit while you are eating grass yourself.
Another one. No?

What's the difference between a "startup" and a "business"?

I'm going to go with Steve Blank's answer: A startup is in search of a business model. A business has found it.

Pretty sure Dropbox has found theirs already.
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How can more maths be applied to the everyday lives of people? I think it can be, but I struggle to come up with examples.

For starters, I think we have to do some maths ourselves, like evaluating investments. No outsiders can be trusted to make the best decisions for us.

Maybe if the "collect data about yourself" movement takes off, there will be more opportunities to optimize our own lives with maths :-/
Too bad the site is a bit light on info.

FWIW, even if this turns out to be nothing, it's quite well possible to get very good guitar lessons online. I started playing again after some years of absence and I'm positively happy with the quality of some of the material.
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A little late Microsoft. I guess better late than never. Oh wait...noone uses hotmail.

I'd be surprised if anyone endured hotmail this long, let alone logged in all this time from their android browser.
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Why? Surely android has a built in mail client and a built in contacts app, that can connect to servers over imap, exchange, etc?
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I'm basically trying to find out the 'right' way to do this and can't find a definitive answer anywhere.
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there's nothing worse, in my opinion, than writing a blog post in a wysiwyg web form when you know how to type and all you want to to is just type up a post. c'mon, it's 2011 and editing text in web forms is an execrable experience, one of the least pleasant things to do in a browser. markdown is a snap to learn and it is such a relief to be writing in your favorite text editor, without the copy-paste rigamole.
I don't mean to belittle anyone's achievements, but this is what I got from the bold parts of your article:

The technology came out of a government funded project on which hundreds of people worked.

It's iterations ahead of the market and so it's real AI with real use.

It will be useful to most people most of the time.

It can't understand languages other than English.

It can't answer relationship questions.

It may have an open API, in the future.

It may allow you to pay for things, in the future.

It may use social data, in the future.

I guess I'll just wait for the actual release to see why and how this is world-changing. If the product is truly world-changing, I don't think anyone can do justice to it with a blog post. Imagine if people tried to explain Google the search engine like this.
I'm referring to the original post (http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html), which did test concurrency. The Haskell guy missed the point entirely and seems to have given up after Haskell is shown to memoize his function.
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Norman Winarsky, the man who put together the original Siri team, was asked what kind of power the Siri AI takes and if it could have delayed the iPhone today on 9to5mac.com, saying:

Norm: I’m not familiar with Apple’s roadmap and any delays but I can say that AI takes a lot of computing power. The Siri software needs to cache data, needs to access a big dataset at wide bandwidth and needs a big processor to crunch all of the numbers. When we originally released Siri for the iPhone 3GS, we had to perform all kinds of optimizations and shortcuts to get it to work efficiently. All I can say is that it will likely run much better on a faster phone. (Source: http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/03/co-founder-of-siri-assistant-i...)

There is a big jump in performance from 3GS to even iPhone 4, let alone iPhone 5 with possible A5 processor (dual core), 1GB RAM, iOS optimization, cloud performance, and network performance--and that's not even considering if the Sprint iPhone 5 exclusive is true which would mean the device runs on a 4G network that would make this type of interaction even more interesting if interacting with the cloud in some way.
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Who determines what is priced 'too highly'?

The market.

Also, do people have a right to content/things created and sold by others?

Nope! But they steal it anyway. ("Bean counters said I couldn't fire a man just for being in a wheelchair. Did it anyway! Ramps are expensive!")

Ultimately, I'd gladly pay for Netflix. But it doesn't work on any of my computers, so I just get better-quality stuff from Illegal Places instead. Honey badger don't care, and neither do I.
What the parent meant is that these kind of offers make more money long term. Partly by exposing your business to new customers, and partly by the simple fact that many people see your company name.

So if you set aside a 10k yearly advertising budget, offering deals which make you lose 2k is perfectly reasonable - if you think the exposure and new customers are worth it. The advertising budget is already accounted in the yearly ROI, so you don't have to worry on each deal's bottom line being in red.
In light of all these recent rants it would probably be interesting to track what Alan Kay and his team are doing at www.vpri.org. I am looking forward to see what they'll come up with.
I think it is an interesting scenario, but I don't think that every competent software engineer will want to start their own business, even if the capital cost is zero. I believe that even most of the competent people in the world likes a safe employment where they are challenged. So maybe there is a middle ground somewhere.
People are still "making it", whatever that means. But, yeah. Welcome to the reality of 90% of all musicians, actors, artists, entrepreneurs out there.
This is exactly what Apple needs to catch up with Android, but it's going to have to work well, and do more. Apple can't just play catch up, it has to leap frog.
> He wants compilers to just insert the semicolon for him? I'm glad mechanical engineers of the world don't have the same attitude about nails and screws!

Yes! I guess we could learn a lot from other engineering disciplines.
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