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Fair enough.

But would you rather (a) live in your choice of San Francisco, New York, Austin, Boston, or Boulder; or (b) pick five cities at random from an alphabetical list and then choose one of them to live in?

I expect the vast majority of HN readers would choose (a). SF has some disadvantages (cold weather in summer, astronomical cost of living), but pretty much all startup hubs have a high concentration of energy and generally ambitious people.
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Ubuntu was always about giving the every-man a usable operating system. Describing the typical new user as "a complete retard who can only click shiny buttons" is extremely rude and misguided. Not everyone is a terminal guru, and not everyone uses Ubuntu. If you don't like the distro, slipstream yourself a new copy with your favourite WM. I don't understand how anyone can complain about progress like this -- if you don't like convention over configuration, maybe Ubuntu isn't for you.
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This is also (roughly) how profiling JIT compilers (like most JVMs) work. The method that needs the more expensive optimizations applied to it is the one that gets the most samples.
I think he gives Ive more power because of his experience with Paul Rand and the Nextstep logo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb8idEf-Iak

In short Paul Rand tells Steve I will make you one design and I will solve your problem. Since then I believe he has given designers (Jon Ive in this case) their space to design whatever they want. Trust in the designer.
This notion of replacing every protocol with HTTP greatly depresses me.
More than that would he want to run a company.

I'm fairly certain the answer to that is no.
I wonder if phones will ever have RFID readers in them? Then I could really see this sort of thing (and more) happening.
Great stuff - thanks Chris!
I suppose Ive is Taste, now that Jobs is gone.
HTML5 has most of those things, and implementors are catching up.
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One of the best things about open source is the knowledge that once you get a working setup, you'll always be able to keep it.

You can keep it – no-one’s forcing you to upgrade. Or are you saying that every open source project should keep every option and setup it’s ever had ad infinitum?
So QT is GPL now instead of LGPL? Also what about pyQT, is it still LGPL?
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Actually, probably first article I seen which describes correctly what bitcoin is (distributed ledger to which all parties have read access and parties having correct private keys have write access to corresponding parts of the ledger).
HTML 5 has date & time pickers, data lists (combo boxes), ranges (sliders). We just need better support [1]. Not sure what you mean by Multi-Buttons and DropDowns - HTML has had radio buttons and select boxes for a while now.

[1] See http://wufoo.com/html5/ for "The current state of HTML5 forms"
> So how do you suggest you convey true emotions through words while being diplomatic?

If your emotions are destructive, wait to until they've changed to speak.

It's not like there's just one feeling that is "true." Furthermore, there's more than just feeling. The original, for example, was probably embellished to be more humorous and to get people's attention. The rant aspect-- that Google doesn't take service APIs seriously enough-- wasn't redacted or re-presented at all. So far, it's just the amazon-bashing, which, true as it may have been, was never intended to be a fair and comprehensive review of his beliefs or feelings; considered or not.
If the priority is to not break anything, sure, don't fix what's not broken.

Now every piece of code which is there for no know reason remains a problem. If you want to keep the code base simple, better remove either the code or your confusion (add a comment, refactor, whatever).
I really tried to get used to it and gave it a week, but in the end it was impossible. It's just full of bad design decisions and slows me down a lot. I think it has some potential and I tried to configure it but coudn't find any options so I googled "ubuntu unity remove" and I was back to gnome after reboot.
I considered updating tonight, but this will keep me from doing it. preventing users to switch back to a working, classic gnome gui is beyond ridiculous and downward ignorant of a large userbase. I'll probably stick with 11.04 and switch to xubuntu sometime in the future.
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There are probably a million different ways for it to go bad.

There is a theory that gets posted here from time to time that As hire As and a few Bs that get through the filter, Bs hire Bs and a few Cs get through the filter, and so on down the line until you have hired people you really shouldn't have.

The other theory is promote until incompetent.

My guess is much more mundane, when you hire middle management they act like middle management. Which works as long as Their sphere of responsibility and control is well defined. When you need to cross cut concerns middle management actively fights against it. All most like using inheritance for code reuse and having deep inheritance hierarchies.
Doesn't seem to be in line with this: http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/blog/?p=11634 ...
I run ubuntu on my asus netbook. Because the screen is so small, I like to run everything maximized, so I really don't mind unity. Unforunately, VNC server (vino) doesn't work properly in unity. I switched to unity 2D which fixes the VNC issue, but then I can't shrink the icons in the launcher (there's a hack to show smaller icons, but the launcher still doesn't resize to be the same width as the icons).

I think I'll try LXDE next.
I like ubuntu because there is a lot of documentation in the google index. I feel like it's always best to have the largest user base because then it is most likely someone else has already encountered your issue. It's too bad that there's such a split now on the default desktop environment.

Also, it's too bad that X is so far behind windows and OSX. On my home machine I use a laptop with 2 external screens, one is connected through a displayLink USB device. In windows it was plug and play. I'm sure that under Linux it will take me a really long time to set it up and even then it won't work as good. It's too bad because I really would prefer to only run windows in a VM.
LOL you win! I should have known better than to go up against an IOU law expert.

I'm just a simple, evil republican bush-sucker. Does that help you categorize me and thereby ignore anything I'm saying?

Enjoy your Social Security!
Is there anyone who can replace Ive in his current position?

If you think there’s not then you already have the answer to the question whether Ive could become CEO. His ability as a CEO doesn’t even figure into it, at least not very much. He can’t be CEO and designer at the same time and a designer like Ive is at least as important for Apple as a good CEO.

I used to like the idea of Ive as a CEO but in hindsight that’s foolish and shortsighted. Sure, it sounds good but don’t you dare start thinking about it.
At first glance, the difference "get help" vs "get support" is very confusing.
With a company the size of Google, isn't releasing something for every employee considered almost "making public" ?
I don't think we need a feature more than for everyone to have a modern browser IE9, Chrome, Firefox 7+, or Opera.

Know someone with IE7 or IE8, get them off of it.
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what ever. Linux is about diversity and freedom. I personally don't like the path ubuntu is forking, but hey - it will suit a lot of people fine. And I think it will benefit the linux community that e.g. macolytes and windoves will find gnome3 and unity nice too look at. Then later they can open the pandora box of beastly beauty that is linux.

tl;dr: It's good that ubuntu experiments and lives on the cutting edge. If you don't like it install mint or fedora or debian or arch ...
Wow, I didn't know this technique had a name :)
I used it today trying to figure out why a SharePoint application was eating up the CPU - break into debugger 6-7 times and 3 of those happened to be in the same function call or its children in the stack trace - problem found!
I'm not going to buy it until it goes on sale for 90% off.
My sentiments exactly. Although Unity goes pretty far to provide keybindings for most actions by default (and compiz can provide whatever else you may want), I just couldn't get it working in a way I like. I did an `apt-get install gnome-shell`, and I've been using that since.

This didn't take me any absurd amount of time, and didn't result in any angry blog posts. I could have just as easily dropped in another distro, but I do like the default font rendering on Ubuntu, which takes some work to get right in others like Fedora.
> Why does Unity suck so much? Because it assumes you're a complete retard who can only click shiny buttons.

What most techies don't get is that this is an extremely reasonable assumption. Well, to be more fair, that most users don't care.

Everything that's hidden behind contextual menus, magic key combinations, endless configuration checkboxes or, for god's sake, command line, simply does not exist, because the average user doesn't want to spend hours to learn the "Right Way" to do something as long as he can find one way to do it, however much inefficient.
The only real interface is to create search folders that search by Tag on the server. Dovecot indexes everything behind the scenes, so it's reasonably fast.

Sadly, a full on "here's a hierarchy of tags, just display mail by tag" mail reader doesn't exist to my knowledge outside of GMail itself :(
what's wrong with ubuntu 10.04? it's still in support and has gnome 2.X
I will use it until either gnome shell or unity until get mature enough, there is no need to change OS every 6 months.
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The density/city comparison thing is really hard to measure, but I'd argue it doesn't make a whole lot of sense:

Since people are showing off re SV, I'll do the same for Chicago- where I've in the past couple of weeks met: CTO for Barack Obama (ran into at falafel place), Founder of Groupon (stood next to at Weezer concert sponsored by NEA, talked to him for a bit), Dave McClure (He's an investor in us, we had dinner. He comes to Chicago often and spends a lot of time with us because we were his only investment here until last month), VP from Motorola Mobility (architecture tour), State Senator from Ohio (bar), A Macarthur Fellow Architect (female, met at bar), Vice Chairman for Goldman Sachs Investment Banking (happy hour), etc etc etc.

Furthermore, just by chance (ie we didn't know this going in and it is NOT the startup hub area within Chicago), within 3 blocks of FeeFighters office are: 37signals, SproutSocial, Threadless, Crowdspring, and several other startups. I don't see how it helps us significantly to bump into them (though we have helped our neighbors when they've had merchant account issues). Many people think it is a wasteland anywhere not the valley but I have seen that not to be the case here, in New York, and even in Pittsburgh.

So what is the difference between here and there? The largest differentiator I've noticed between the valley and elsewhere is funding. We raised most of our money in Chicago from VC's we really like, but could have raised easier on the west coast. A lot of top VC's prefer to have you close and told us flat out they would fund us if we moved there. We had term sheets dependent on us being in Austin, SF, and LA. I don't think it has had an effect one way or another on our business thus far.

Startups need money, and often flock to where it is. Things are changing all over the place though (Rich people in Chicago all of a sudden want to fund startups, will be interesting to see if that continues post-Groupon IPO)
It also depends on your type of business. If you sell mainly to startups, you should probably be in the valley.

BTW in case you missed the discussion re: PG's original article, it is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3077165
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I had the same thing happen to me a couple of days ago when I did the upgrade.

My old gnome2 desktop was set up so that I almost never had to use the mouse. I used gnome-do for application launching (excellent software!) and various compiz plugins for window placement with the keyboard (dual monitor setup).

I gave unity a try when I upgraded to 11.04, but it felt so "unfinished" back then that I figured it would take at least a year for me to give it any serious consideration. And it lacked all the configuration required to get to a mouseless setup. And it still does.

Oh, and it made X really sluggish and I've had at least one compiz crash every day since I upgraded (the ui crashes and reloads, putting all windows in the top left workspace).
Edit: thanks for the comments. I fixed the story title. I still think it's pretty 'sweet' (but not quite as 'magic' as the source title seemed to hint), but this is indeed app-specific, rather than iOS.
Exactly. I can't believe the author expreses surprise that it knows which Apple Store you're in!
Interestingly enough, there is a quote from the Jobs book, from Ive, that was tweeted by Bianca Bosker, who works at the Huffington Post:

https://twitter.com/bbosker/status/127357233632788480

"Jony Ive:'I pay maniacal attention to where an idea comes from...so it hurts when [Jobs] takes credit for one of my designs'"

As much as Jobs considered Ive a 'spiritual partner' there was still a power play that existed between the two.
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+1 on wanting to keep the old desktop environment.

I've been an Ubuntu user since 7.04. One of the biggest benefits was that the desktop environment stayed pretty consistent throughout the years. I always enjoyed upgrading b/c I got the benefit of bug fixes, performance improvements, and better hardware compatibility, but w/out having to re-learn a new environment. Enter Unity, and now I'm forced to either learn it, or jump to another distro.
It staggers me that time and time again Apple lays out the reasons for it's unrivalled success for all to see, yet non of it's rivals seem interested in copying their methods and opt for simply copying their products.

Fortune favours the brave.
And karma should only be from comments. I don't understand why someone has downvoting power just because they stumbled across and posted a popular story on HN.

Like the guy who submitted the story for Steve Job's death, now has over 1k karma simply from posting a link to apple.com at the right time, and from nothing else. How does that qualify him to downvote over me, who has been thoughtfully posting comments here and there for nearly a year now?

I'm not really that concerned. I don't care about karma, really. I just think it's a very stupid system.
Are you sure? I've read that Margaret Thatcher would ask herself "What would Margaret Thatcher do?" because her public persona had outgrown her own actions. I think Steve Jobs may have been in that same situation where he sometimes felt he had to live up to his own legend.
Delightful bit of complete bullshit. The complaints range from "I don't want these icons!" to "I can't find my favorite program!" If this blogger couldn't find Google Chrome, despite the gigantic search bar in the applications menu, then maybe he personifies the pointy-clicky-user he so rudely insults.

Moving on now...
i'd like to see more support for memento

http://www.mementoweb.org/

it adds date negotiation in the vein of content negotiation to http. it is like browser support for the wayback machine.
A bonus, think about the sort of analytics you could get out of such a thing. Even though GPS isn't very effective indoors, consider that nearly every product on their floor has Wi-Fi. It's conceivable that you'd be able to get a fairly accurate trail of your customers as they go through the store, actually tracking specific people's movements instead of just "X people crossed the tripwire in front of the Mac Pros"
This is not about replacing E-mail protocols but extending its reach. For example being able to link to e-mail messages in an issue tracker instead of copying its content.
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I was really surprised to see Boulder on that list... had no idea that there were apparently many start ups there, even if it is just by percent.
I like unity in many ways, except for:

1. app centric alt+tab (100% showstopper, will not use).
2. menu on top (almost as bad)
3. hard to start multiple terminal windows

Can't really say more, because of #1.
I really like reading blog posts on this topic. The "greatest hack" question on the YC app always made me hesitate because I don't really think of anything I do as "hacking". It is good to see different categories of hacks to get an idea of what everyone is talking about. If anyone has any links to good posts in the same vein, I would love if you would share.
It also works to find out in which loop a process is stuck in, and in this case with 100% accuracy :)
Linux requires that you use the command line anyways. For example, you can't even format a USB disk unless you spend an hour looking up an obscure command.
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It's not entirely something new but its just one more thing that Apple is actively doing to increase customer awareness. A better user experience = success. Can you imagine walking into a Best Buy, or an IKEA and getting the same type of service. Think of the possibilities...
Or configure a different interface for yourself, e.g. gnome or xfce. I can't stand Unity either, but I just don't use it. It would have been nice if the default interface was more usable by power users/developers, but I can see why they made Unity simple. We are not the target audience.

EDIT: And yes, I know that it is harder to get a "normal" gnome interface in 11.10. That's why I haven't upgraded myself yet. But I will, and I'll see what others have done to get around Unity. I just can't see it as the "end" of Ubuntu. Maybe some of us power users will go back to Debian, or to Xubuntu, etc. Maybe we'll lead an exodus to a new distro, but I think more likely Ubuntu will stay at the leading edge of the "user-friendly" Linux distributions for a while.
I actually like Unity a lot better, probably because I was never a gnome power user. I used Ubuntu in college because Linux was what we did but I never fell in love, and I've just recently returned to it for Python development.

Honestly I'm sick of people posting these UI critiques that are so rash. He's mad that Libre Office is in his toolbar? Removing those takes about 15 seconds. He makes valid points but when he throws on those tiny insignificant details it makes him seem like any little change would piss him off.
you are completely correct (if it works that way, I'll have to try it later)
Is it? The contributor agreement page says LGPL.
Why is this so hard on everyone? There is Xubuntu which provides a fantastic interface. There is also Kubuntu if you are just jumping on the Ubuntu band wagon and don't care about Qt vs GTK, etc. You always have the option to install classic GNOME and this is easy to do. In the time it took him to write that blog post, he could have done it 10 times.

Look, Unity is not a great choice for everyone, clearly. It took me a while to get used to it, after using Xubuntu for 4+ years exclusively. But this is not Windows or Mac OS X. There is nothing preventing you from trying an entirely different environment that is only a single apt-get away. You have choices and if the default does not suite you, change it.

EDIT: To answer my own question, perhaps it is a failing of Canonical. Maybe they should do a better job explaining the different types of desktops you will get with different flavors of Ubuntu, instead of just telling you that "Ubuntu" == latest Unity-based UI, and others are on the fringes.
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It's also a great way to get a trip to the hospital too.
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Except what the article doesn't mention at all:

Cost to ship up to three ounces as first-class-PARCEL with tracking is $1.75

Cost to ship 8x11, same three ounces without tracking that is machine-sortable (bendable) is 88 cents.

So you are paying for that as a parcel, it's not just bureaucracy.

They cannot put tracking on every first class item, it would destroy their profitability.

Just try getting FedEx or UPS to deliver anything these days with tracking for only $1.75
Except it doesn't always apply.

Lou Gerstner and Meg Whitman are two examples from the technology world. Both came into their jobs at IBM and eBay with zero tech experience, but got up to speed very quickly. Of course, had they failed to do so they would have been out within a year or two.
Yes, to you it might be. To a 13yr old... maybe not so much.
Is there any good way to use multiple applications side-by-side in Unity? I understand that it's optimized for little netbook screens, but wasn't any consideration taken for big desktop monitors?
I primarily used Gnome for the last 10 years, but now I prefer Unity. Why? Because I love the keyboard shortcuts, especially Alt-tilde. It's still fairly buggy (i.e. behavior is often inconsistent and non-deterministic), but no more so than Mac OS X Lion's new windowing model. So long as it continues to improve, I'm sticking with it.
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Can't you combine both? Open your own pharmacy, and after a little while explore the idea of your own health/pharma-related startup? I'm sure that you'll find something in the pharmacy that you can vastly improve with tech. By the time you figured it our, you saved enough money to tinker with it AND you'll have quite some experience in running your own business. I can't think of a better way to get involved in your own startup!
The problem is that Gnome2 is awesome, and both Unity and Gnome3 are just ways to try and make Linux into OS X.

Guess what? Gnome2 plus stuff like Avant Window Navigator beats the shit out of OS X in terms of ease-of-use and productivity.

Gnome3 and Unity? OS X is better.

(I'm a Linux programmer by day and an iPhone programmer by night.)
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This implies I can do it better than Google or any other big-name-company CDN I happen to trust.

I don't know about you or Thomas, but this isn't true for me.
Err what? Try Disk Utility in Ubuntu.
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Why can't you use the partition manager? It's installed by default.
Untrue. Gparted works fine.

I have several non-geek friends who use linux, and they almost never need my help. They don't know the first thing about the command line.
Probably because Apple's approach to design isn't what they teach in business school...which obviously means its an anomaly!
I get that #OWS could use some work on the message. But isn't their whole point to be outside traditional systems of capitalism and structure?

It's like saying, this anarchist mob isn't very organized. Well, yeah.

That being said, I agree with Meetup guy that sites like Kickstarter are exactly the kind of peer-2-peer marketplace that could help reshape our economy and empower the 99%.
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There is a way to fall back to locally hosted version in case the primary one goes down. Still not convinved I should give up on the speed bonus a precached asset gives me.