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> And misses the relevance of the app store for Amazon, who sell slates to sell book content.

I'm not sure I understand this. There is no issues with selling book content on any flavor of Amazon device, it's all the stuff. The issue is with Apps and having two or three tablet devices, all running different OS's with different app stores.

> The OS determines which app store one can visit.

Sort of. I have both an iPad and iPhone, but rarely use the AppStore built-in to either one, unless I know exactly what app I want to buy. I prefer discovery using iTunes. I'm sure some % of Amazon uses do something similar with the www.amazon.com app store front, though not having an Android device, I'm not entirely familiar with the options available and how they compare to Apple's AppStore.

> I.e. even my mom can't download Macapps to her iPhone.

She can't download them, but she could mistakenly purchase them. I think the separation is clear enough to avoid mistakes between Apple devices. I'm simply arguing that the potential is worse for Amazon should they roll out both Android and WebOS tablets. Again, the issue would only stem from an off-device app store, since an on-device store can obviously filter.

> Your argument also assumes that Amazon will not differentiate the tablets which seems contrary to their differentiation between the Fire and Kindle

The argument is not whether or not they will differentiate, but rather to what extent they will be differentiated. The differences between Fire and Kindle are obvious. The difference between Fire and (WebOS Tablet) is more of the question.
Very funny :)

I wonder how xkcd would draw the same comic about the new advanced file copy of Windows 8, where you can see performance graphs and stuff.
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There is a lot of room in this market for competition from open source projects. Really, the concept is so simple that it could be done with a shell script for simple failover:

(pseudo code)
if (curl http://ip of main site) fails then
copy alternate zone file to bind dir
service named reload
fi

You get the idea... F5 Networks is really just a fancy DNS server running on a BSD based OS on an x86 appliance. Zeus, which another commentor mentioned, has an AWS version and will let you run it on your own hardware if you like.

I'd love to see some open source competition for this space, or even low price competition.
"...why not address the shortcomings that drive people to use Mint and other analytics services?"

FWIW, the main selling point of Mint over Google Analytics is "up to the minute reporting" (or at least, it was, before Google "addressed" that particular shortcoming). As someone who used to find Analytics "only able to tell me stuff I wish I knew yesterday", I'm now super-excited to dive in.
I could imagine the hoops that he has to jump through to get things working correctly under both windows and *nix environments
Apologies; I'm sure you do. I have a lot of rage at our unwillingness to look at the mess we've made, the extraneous complexity and unmanageability of our systems, and those who seem to defend it.

90 years ago, I think Jamis could have written a similar deck about why cranking a Model-T while pumping the throttle was just the hard work necessary to enjoy driving.

Edit: Funny you bring up a Kay quote I've heard that he regrets

If he regrets such an important and honest quote, he's off my Christmas list! :-)
Dismissed as high or low? With all due respect to your YT friends, most people will lie to you about how much they make in an attempt to make you either think they make more or less than they actually do.
And now you know why I use a Mac. :)

Unix is there, if I want it and thank the gods there are package managers.
Windows uses two modes for USB devices - cached and uncached. When you plug USB stick, it is uncached by default. It was done this way, because most users do not bother with disconnecting the device and just pull the stick from USB port (and then they are surprised, that their files are not there).

You can change the defaults in device properties, if you want caching on USB stick.

I can show you an USB stick, that is slower than 2 MB/s. :(
Nice, thanks for the reply... I am not sure either if it can be done like that, but It would be great to have it.
Good luck with the experiment I hope it works out well.
Can we just ban links to zdnet? It's almost always unresearched FUD.
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> Proposals like this were debated at some length back in 2008

No, they were not. The proposals were about how to avoid doing the above list.

Firing the management and BoD would take less than a day. Wiping out the shareholders and bondholders would also take less than a day. Injecting new capital would take less than a day.

All of those could be done on the same day. I'm alloting a week in order to find/promote the correct caretaker CEO.
I'm the writer of the post. You were in the Pilot of the program, they adjusted the rules of the program through their experience with you, our program is subsequently different. The same thing is currently happening from feedback within our cohort and they are adjusting it for the next cohort, it will be a different program for them than it is for us. I stand fully behind the $10K being the number needed to fully access your grant. This is a critical number that the new cohort should know so that they don't come in and end up in a difficult position.
I regularly only see two things that make windows 7 significantly better, and both are essentially UI changes. The first is the taskbar reorganization. It just works well for me, I like being able to pin my programs and toggle between them with the super key + a number.

The second is that I can maximize windows by dragging them to the top of the screen, and have them take up half the screen by dragging them to the side. These two things make windows 7 almost like a tilling wm.

There are definitely some things under the hood that make more sense on windows 7, but those two UI changes are what I see on a day to day basis.
> She can't download them, but she could mistakenly purchase them. I think the separation is clear enough to avoid mistakes between Apple devices. I'm simply arguing that the potential is worse for Amazon should they roll out both Android and WebOS tablets. Again, the issue would only stem from an off-device app store, since an on-device store can obviously filter.

I don't think they'll have 2 OSes but I don't think this is true. Buying an app requires an Amazon account, so they could obviously stop people from buying apps that are not compatible with their device.

Probably if they buy WebOS it will be for the Kindle Fire 2 which won't be for another year, at which point they can transition (slowly) away from Android. Buying WebOS on the cheap might be too good of an idea to pass up on.
Here's a site which does 31 apps in 31 days: http://www.appsamuck.com/
Was it a promise of future reliability or a statement about historical reliability over some time frame? Because everything has been working 100% reliably until it fails...
Actually, they are considered hallucinogens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen.
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There's something more than slightly Heinlein about that company. I love it.
Can you share some accurate numbers?
Same comment as the GP. I felt like you're breaking a convention by not having the logo go back to the chooser page, and by not returning to the chooser on refresh/revisit.
Here's a simple thought experiment:

Imagine a distro that changed the terms 'login/password' to 'password1/password2'

No commands you type would change, but you'd wonder why the password is in 2 parts. That's how redundant user is!
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Windows does have per-process I/O priority (at least since Windows Vista). I think async I/O design is baked in to the OS probably more pervasively and with a better model (e.g. no polling) than most other OSes; however, fairly few applications outside of servers use async I/O.

What does "the entire OS has to do a lot of system calls" even mean? I don't think you're talking about the kernel, because the point of avoiding system calls is avoiding a user/kernel transition (something Windows' I/O completion ports is good at, IMO the reason its async I/O implementation is fairly solid). But it leaves open the question of what it is you are talking about; is the problem Explorer? The shell? The Win32 layer?

Windows, for me, does not feel laggier than other OSes. In particular, Linux has always felt substantially more laggy for mouse input. Linux has long given me the impression of having an egalitarian scheduler, giving equal weight to user interactive apps and background processes when they have the same priority; but Windows bakes interactiveness into the scheduler algorithm as another input alongside priority. I haven't used OS X long enough to give a solid opinion on it, but it seems about as responsive as Windows and almost certainly better than Linux.
I'm not blaming the Egyptians; I just don't want to be them.

I think we should looking for the arch, and not be happy with piling rocks in a heap.
Scheme runs nicely on an iPhone 3GS. The Emscripten-compiled stuff crashes before you get to a prompt. Still, good stuff!

EDIT: I take that back. Lua runs, Python and Ruby do not.
Nice Jeremy. What is it you're building?
Show HN: SurfControl - helps you be more productive online (made at a hackathon)
Hi HN,

We participated at the Mozilla WSOH (http://wsoh.eventbrite.com/) over the summer. It was a hackathon organized by Mozilla for interns all over Silicon Valley with an attendance of over 300+ interns from Facebook, Google, etc.

A friend and I made SurfControl and were the winners of the hackathon. We just pushed our product live and would love to get feedback!

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About SurfControl: "SurfControl is an add-on that shows you how you waste time online, and gives you tools to block or limit your time spent on different websites."

It is a Firefox add-on and can be downloaded at http://getsurfcontrol.com

Would you use this tool? Why/why not?
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You are certainly an enlightened "youngster" ... I didn't even think about this sort of question until I was much older. But I did quit college to join a start-up as the third employee (in the tech arena) and then went to work for 2 more start-ups where I was the second and seventh employee.

In 2001, I took a job with a publicly traded company which at the time had around 1700 employees. The group I worked for had around 55 people and was a completely new line-of-business for the company. The company's president treated us like a start-up and was basically our investor. My first real task there was figuring out why we weren't generating the amount of code we should have been ... it led to getting rid of about 20 people that weren't contributing but were slowing the rest of the team down. Curiously, these same people were the BDUF, ex-military contract people that had injected the corporate behavior into our little group.

Unfortunately, the larger company bought a few more companies in the same space, merged the groups together without a mandate and we became just another department. And with that there became a pressing need to behave as the other corporate drones ... go get honey, bring it back to the hive and lay the paperwork so others could also find the source of your nectar.

So this was the first and last time I intend to be employed by a large corporation. I just find it hard to tolerate the low expectations of productivity. If they only realized how much they give up in the interest of conformity.

As far as putting your age on future posts, my question would be "why would you remove it?" You wrote an excellent article and you'll be commended for it by those who favor excellence. Everyone else is irrelevant!
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I appreciate the snark in your post :), but it also brings up a serious question:

How does contract law handle significant figures?
I agree with his conclusions and have experienced it myself while working with clients. Trying to copy a code project (with a lot of assets) of about 300mb says it will take 3 hours to go from my laptop over wifi on their LAN to an external USB drive hooked up to their server. When I have to copy something large I always request to either unplug their external hard drive and plug it into my laptop, or copy it from my laptop to one of their desktops an then copy it to the external drive. I do think there's something fishy about going over a network to a USB on Windows.
You can open up a bank account in the US without US residency - but it's more of a hassle than just using a service that supports your country because of tax issues and such.
No. K(1/1 - uptime) = K(1-uptime)

If you are going to use brackets, use them correctly.
I let my customers chose between PayPal Subscriptions and 2Checkout.

Both work okay, but I would absolutely prefer a method that didn't involve redirecting my customers to unknown domains and interfaces like Paypal.com and 2Checkout.com.
You should be able to comment with any OpenID, Facebook or witter account.
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There's only 20 or so people in the field, and they all help each other to get their studies approved. I think that Rick Strassman is the one who came up with this idea, and he writes about it a bit in his book DMT: The Spirit Molecule. Then all the other investigators started doing this as well. Roland Griffiths may have also talked about this in one of his talks, I forget.
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These claims are common for all the big CDNs and ISPs but it's always accompanied by half a page of fineprint that rids them of any liability when an outage happens and limits compensation to a microscopic penalty (usually a fraction of the monthly fee).

You can negotiate steeper penalties with funky multiplicators - but they make you pay through the nose for such an arrangement (for obvious reasons).
We're also using Adyen, and it gets the job done. Downside: it keeps like 10% of your revenue as a deposit.
…try explaining this to my mother.
I think the very premise of this "Roundtable" is flawed: Given the propensity for humans in large and relatively anonymous groups to descend into fatuous vitriol and misspelled narcissism, why bother at all?

This isn't the case. Sites like Lamebook show us that people will attach their face and names to stupid things. There are countless (semi-) anonymous webforums, etc that provide useful discussion. You are right, it doesn't matter what type of community you post in.
Website conventions?
We think of repl.it as a webapp, not a website. Once you load a language the app remembers your language and loads it for you on next page load, and if you want to change your language you click the language selector button (which I agree is not that clear at the moment).
Hmm, MorphOS on PowerPC sounds quite neat. I've got a few old Macs and applications that run on 10.5 are getting fewer (or you're forced to stick with ancient versions). An interesting OS to play around with would be quite appreciated. An alternative to sticking with 10.4/10.5 or using Linux/BSD…
I see the Getting Started developers intro, but I'm having trouble visualizing what this can look like purely from the customers side. Do you have any live implementations you can link to as an example of a Stripe integration?
I don't assume that he likes what he created. My point is: if he thinks things are these way why didn't he try to create a framework that did things simpler? The research on concurrency has plenty of options that are easier to read and reason about than callback-based code.
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This is the answer missing from SF. This is the true "what would it take" that could be presented back to the client.

Would the client go for the cost? Who knows,but that's the client's decision.

Add a little more data on the DNS failover and it would be a good community wiki entry there.
Yes, it's one app that works on the iPad and iPhone.
Way too low. The starcraft commentary community alone splits more then a million between the popular casters.
At this point, I'd only pay to read/watch the NYT, The Guardian, Nat Geo, Al-Jazeera (English) and The Onion. The ability they have to affect the 'real news' is unprecedented and intelligently done.
Yes. As a single founder in the program I can claim up to 400 000 CLP, I currently pay 300 000. The difference is now available for me to use for any other purpose that is reimbursable.
Those people who are always on the go - especially those backpacker freelancers. Those who can work regardless of their geographical location.
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The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham is in this category.
JS is known for being a language with a lot of "WTFs" in it. Yes, you can write bad code in any languages and you can even write great code in JS. But to quote Fogus: "My problem with Javascript has always been that expertise is defined more in terms of understanding its faults rather than its features"
First time I hear that. And it's actually nice! Your environment can definitely affect your outlook in life
You had me until "straying so far from the path of the UNIX philosophy". UNIX is a huge part of the problem IMO. Worse is better. Systems like Linux are the enemy of progress because while they suck horribly, they work much better than some alternatives (not to mention any naMeS) and at least as good as others so why spend time actually doing things right?

There is so much more that could be done with operating systems in any direction you want to go. I'm thankful that doing things on my iPad doesn't involve messing with command lines. But for when I want hackability I'd rather have what a Lisp machine could have become than a silly way to do functional programming in shell.
All the posters are stuck on the fact that 100% availability is impossible. But why not instead try to learn from others who offer 100% availability, like Rackspace and SoftLayer? These (legitimate) providers know 100% availability is not possible, but they guarantee it anyway. How can they get away with this? Easy, they have a contractual SLA that indicates what their clients are entitled to when their network fails for any period of time. Further, neither is a low-cost provider, which allows them to engineer their systems to reduce incidences when clients will invoke the SLA.

Note that this doesn't mean that Rackspace is shady because they promise 100% knowing they can't deliver it. After all, they put their money where their mouth is! They have an incentive to actually achieve 100% uptime. I'm sure there are other applications where the target is 100% (not 5 nines) availability, especially in finance, medicine, and militaries.

My recommendation would be to take your engineering hat off, replace it with a business hat, and provide them with a series of price quotes for various uptime SLAs. And then make sure you're pricing high enough that when something goes down for any period of time that you can make good on your obligations under the SLA without losing too much sleep. Then let the client choose the SLA that matches their business needs and budget.
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No problem! One more thing I forgot (an ancillary benefit), about once a week what I'm doing leads to conversations that I didn't expect to have. Wireframing & coding have both lead to meetings, contacts and a couple consulting contracts.

Good luck!
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Detection dogs are not trained for obedience, the goal is to have them focus on exploring & finding and not setting quietly. The idea is to have them only give the desired response(in that case sit and point), when they detect a substance they have been trained to detect.
Using an agent is a good idea when you have no lay of the land. There are safe and less safe areas here, knowing the difference is what an agent does for you. Also, if you do not speak the language negotiating can be extremely difficult, a local agent can iron all those out. For me the fee was only around $125 USD, which is reasonable for the work they do upfront and the ongoing support they can give you on the backend.
patents seem the big thing to me. If they are not cross licensing with microsoft/apple already they will probably get sued very soon, the Palm IP would be quite a big shield.
I agree with Hewitt. I've kept myself employed since I started web development in the mid 90's. I've progressed through the various approaches/languages - cgi/perl, asp, servlets/jsp, php, rails, etc... They've all been good learning experiences. But I've never felt that it was always just HTML or nothing.

In fact, many times I wished for something better and when I would play around with a fat client I would think 'oh, it's not cross platform, never mind' and that was that. In my mind, mobile, specifically the iPhone, changed everything. And on top of that it was JSON.

Nowadays, after feeling like I've done it all, when I approach a project I look for the best user experience. I look for the best design. Then I figure out if it's just web based or a mobile client or both.

Having gone thought HTML on mobile, I don't believe it's as good of an experience as a native mobile app. We had this discussion at my last job - mobile web vs. mobile apps. I the customers voted app hands down.

Anyway, HTML is still great, but like I said, I completely agree with Hewitt on this topic, 100%.
This would be my guess too. By default, Windows optimizes removable devices for filesystem consistency. For copying (or worse, moving) lots of files, that means updating filesystem metadata after every file moved, and flushing buffers. That kind of sync-interspersed random access will kill performance on hardware set up for sequential writes.
Yeah we are working on that. We didn't have a physical iOS device and the simulator cheated us into thinking that it actually works!
The linked story is from a year ago. I actually run a YouTube statistics site called SocialBlade which one of the things it provides is estimated earnings of everyone, be them partners or not meaning if they do become a partner they can see how much they could make. It's based on some data from this story and also feedback from many many partners so its more or less accurate.

I am currently as of this post using an estimated cpm of 0.75 to 8.0 (ads have gone up dramatically in september). The cpm that partners will see vary greatly depending on what types of ads they use (prerolls pay way more for example) and where their viewers are (us pays way more then canada for example) but this range seems to be on par for most people.

Regarding what people are saying about partners dismissing the linked story, that was true, but they dismissed it because they said they made 3x more then it back in aug 2010.

Check out my site if you want to see updated estimations :)

http://SocialBlade.com/youtube
I agree. I think this "JS is Lisp" nonsense is a pretty little platitude that many developers use simply because they don't know any better.
I have been usinng WHMCS.com's billing system for a few months. It has modules to handle many payment systems, and handles recurring billing.

You still have to have a merchant account; but, you have the potential to save 2-3% of each sale, since you will be dealing with the payment processor directly.