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I'm definitely in the minority here but sometimes it's good to have some counterpoints about the new MacBook Air. I recently bought one with 13" thinking it would be my best computer ever. Well, hardware/power-wise it is incredibly fast! But I found out some things that make it almost unbearable.

There are only three ways to interact with a laptop and I believe it fails deeply in two of them.

The trackpad is very much ok, probably the best one I ever tried. But the keyboard... While the design looks amazing, keys are really thin and feel cheap. As soon as I turned the laptop on and needed to enter my Apple ID, the first time I pressed the Alt key it just came out! This hasn't happened yet to any other key on this laptop but I used to have an iMac with a similar keyboard and three keys stopped working. You can feel the fragility of the keys by putting one finger on the top of the key and another on the bottom, and then press them alternatively: the key bounces like a boat. While I can't say it's the worst keyboard I ever had (because I owned an iMac), I never had such problem with any other laptop or external keyboard. I could also talk about the really small size of the arrow keys. I miss them all the time. And the return key is also much smaller than every other keyboard I have tried before.

The other way to interact with the laptop (more like it interacting with me) is the screen. I was crazy about having a really good definition screen and it is. But operating systems are not made for resolutions like that so it all ends up with really really small text everywhere and zooming all the time because you will mostly never get into a text properly sized for a screen like this. If you use Windows you can set the DPI to whatever you want but webpages text will still be incredibly small.

So I have a hard time typing and reading on it. I can't recommend it to anyone.
Of course it depends from person to person, but in many cases the advantages gained by upgrading are marginal. If you don't do serious photography, your 5MP phone camera may be more than enough for you. If you all you do is Microsoft Word and Internet, Windows 98 may be sufficient for you. Of course, if something you absolutely need (not desire) requires an upgrade, you have to do it.

Enjoy advantages of modern technology but don't get too obsessed for its own sake or because others are doing it -- there are far more important things to do in life.
wow, had this book for years but never took the time to read it. After reading that chess comic I really want to now.
Doing a little digging, it seems that it's $199 on Verizon with a contract. But you need a data package on top. It's $60 for 450 minutes.

Go for the Droid Bionic and it's $300 with a 2 year contract. So that _looks_ more expensive, but it's not, because it's $40/month for 450 minutes.

So over the two years that's an extra $480 dollars you spend on the Apple, to save $100 up-front.

I don't see how that's cheaper.
"Exposure to..." is also a red flag. I had one candidate who listed "Exposure to C++" at the top of the skills section of his CV. Turns out he meant that he ran programs written in C++ - he'd never written a line of it himself.

"Familiar with..." is often a warning sign too.
Regardless of what the book says (I see there are some comments here that it is addressed), have you ever considered that its because he was a 21 year old kid at that point -and shock- people make stupid mistakes throughout their lives? Turns out, people's priorities are allowed to change as they grow and mature.

This seems like such a silly straw man argument and I'm so surprised every time I hear someone make it earnestly. I'm sure Steve stole a cookie when he was 5 years old too, that doesn't mean his whole life was a scheme to acquire cookies.
This should be re-titled to "Lazy people drop-out, genius is doing something better before dropping out"
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This sort of stuff used to be really common. When I first started programming on networks we were using something called Z-NET (800kbps running over coax[1]). The receive buffer was 128 bytes long.

Myself and another school boy wrote enough of a connection based networking system that we could reliably send about 100 bytes of data into that receive buffer. By having our 'protocol stack' then CALL the buffer itself we would execute the code that we had just sent (i.e. the machine code).

Building up from 100 byte chunks we built a network monitoring and management system which allowed things like screen mirroring, chat programs, taking control of the keyboard and broadcast functionality. The entire thing was written in assembly language.

The actual protocol stack was loaded into a part of the BIOS of the machine that was unused and we just grabbed a bunch of NOPs and over wrote them. In the end Research Machines were kind enough to send us the spec. of Z-Net (which they considered somewhat secret) as we'd already reverse engineered the entire thing by disassembling the operating system.

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I hate cut-and-paste
No need to buy the Steve Jobs Autobiography
As all of the excerpts are being published and linked to on Hacker News. At least all the good bits...
"having a car to drive your 5 year old kid to school can be a lot less stressful than taking a bus or train"

And living in a location where your child can walk to school is a lot less stress than driving - especially if you can also walk to work.
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Yes, the interesting bit is not the Cosby sweater, but the interfacing of the knitting machine itself by emulation of a serial attached Tandy floppy drive.

http://www.antitronics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Electroknit_...
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Looks pretty good, though I would probably want a non-free option if I was going to use it for a larger site, and maybe a few more servers around the world for better response times.

"Cloud DNS" is currently dominated by huge companies charging way more than they need to (Dyn etc.), with a few additions (location based response, better API, stats etc.) it has the potential to go somewhere, if that's what you want it to do.

Possible bug; the 'Log Out' link takes me to a 404 page - http://entrydns.net/users/sign_out
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This is positively magical. I can't wait til my child is old enough to draw something coherent enough :)

Absolutely brilliant.
Am I the only one who occasionally gets a page full of Go Daddy ads on http://lamernews.com/news/1 ?
I have been in the workforce for several years now and I find that I need to constantly be refreshing my math. A big chunk of math reeduction came when I moved from doing web development to doing games development, and I find that now that I am in the field, it seems to be sticking with me.

I think that one of the big missing things in math education is the application. I can remember all of the stuff that I learned when using a compass and a straight edge, but when I came out of private school, and went to a public school, and started learning out of books, nothing stuck.
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I always ask this, but not for the reason you think: it's so that I, as an interviewer, can adapt the interview to you. Recent example, one candidate had no idea what I meant by "principle of locality", but I probed a bit, and he understood it perfectly well: but lacking a formal CS education, he didn't have the vocabulary. Same with big-O notation, some guys have never heard of it, but show them a code snippet and they'll tell you straight away how efficient it is.
Definitely.

The problem with the word "drop out" is that people are starting to use it as if every drop out has something special to offer. Most drop out for reasons that do not leave them in a state to be helpful to society as a whole. Some drop-out just because they signed up for the wrong course to start with (and, disillusioned, often don't return for another shot at something else), some because they get lazy, and so forth. I dropped out for personal reasons (I went properly metalist for a while, bipolar before it was trendy to be, and was medically signed-off) though luckily I'd made an impression on a local company the year before and got a part-time job with them while I sorted myself out (one day a week at first, then two, and so on until I ended up there full time) and I'm still there now.

It isn't dropping out that is important. It is where you drop in to, or push your way into, afterwards. Just dropping out is not an answer to anything. Dropping out to pursue a thought-out and potentially ground-breaking idea (or just a dream: it can be about personal growth more than career building or world changing) often is.

Most drop-outs make nothing of themselves and we shouldn't be encouraging it as a way forward (though I firmly believe that many people would be more successful building their career without University (the system is against me on this one!) but again dropping out isn't the answer on its own here: don't go, or if you go and find you've made the wrong decision have somewhere to move on to planned before you make another big decision that might be equally wrong). I was lucky. Mid-/long-term (short term was a slowish start, the first 6 months at least mainly spent "fixing" myself) I dropped into a better position then some of my friends graduated into and have built a healthy career. Many aren't so lucky, or are just perpetual drop-outs. Some are following an idea or dream and a few of those are destined to be game changers, but only a few.
I bought the iPhone 4S, upgraded from an iPhone 3G and I would be more than happy for more users to get Siri because it is absolutely fantastic. I would love to get it on my iPad 2 as well for example. If more people have Siri and use it, it will most likely improve faster, we will hopefully get API's to program against, and it will get better and better at understanding or processing commands.

I don't see how it would be a blow for iPhone 4S owners ... they got early access. The iPhone 4S pretty much stands on its own, the dual-core processor definitely helps, and the increased speed in graphics makes games and apps look absolutely fantastic.
Homogeneous founding teams also bring no new novel insight to the problem at hand.

I'd think time wasting arguments aren't a symptom of diversity, rather it's a quality of pig headed dogmatists.

Diversity + open mindedness is the way to go!
The magnetic display clip probably refers to the Air being held shut by a magnet instead of the latch that you find on most (all?) notebooks.
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I read that Google asks for it, but they are a bit, er, happy when it comes to statistical analysis. IIRC they were not impressed by the statistical power of transcripts.
One possible thing you might want to look into is Anycasting your DNS servers, although understandably this is costly. I myself was researching starting a DNS provider after Dyn bought EveryDNS, however the inability for me to find a way to cost-effectively provide Anycast was what stopped me in my tracks.

What you have right now looks good, good luck.
Regarding your complaint of rocking keyboards.

I went and checked my ol' T60 and by god, do T60's keys rock like a drunk sailor.

But it's universally regarded as one of the best laptop keyboards available.
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It is obvious that you need to think clear and not make this an emotional drama. We all, at some point, believe we are the perfect match for a job and we resist change. Also, at this stage of a company is really difficult to decide if you need more R&D or more sales persons. The chances are you need both but you could also go on with none...

That said, the fact that the person you are about to hire is the son of the adviser makes me wonder about his real motives. Also, it is clearly unproductive to impose a new technical member to your team without the CTOs permission.

What I would do would be to scrutinize the ability of your new candidate. Make clear that you are still the CTO. If you are not satisfied with him, just come back with a stronger argument. Otherwise, embrace him...
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Is there a mailing list or something so I can find out about new stuff if you add it? We currently use Zerigo but, for what we get, it's far too expensive, so it would be nice to keep up with things like this.
The article seems to miss that for the examples it gives, while the founders might have been college dropouts, the products/companies themselves would not have made it to where they are now if not by the work of many people who did finish college and in many cases graduate school.
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Actually cut-and-paste is ok, since the code is moved from one (wrong) place to another (better) place.

Problem is copy-and-paste, which litters codebase with duplication and lead to messy and hard to maintain code.
I hope we're not far off being able to sit your child in front of a webcam, sample their voice, click a button and stream the latest Pixar film with them as a protagonist.

In the meantime, a 99designs for people with time, knitting needles and sewing machines seems like a lovely idea, and easy to achieve.
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Good, quality, affordable software, of course. Have you seen how easy it is to buy a high quality 79c game and play with it in a few minutes?
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This is a cute idea. I'm wondering if they make any money since on their website it says: "Child's Own Studio has custom made over 200 personal softies".
I'm thinking whether a redesign of their website and a more aggressive Facebook campaign (they only have 1000+ fans) would help them sell more. It probably would. No. It definitely would. They could also have a checkbox on the order form to allow other people to order their drawn creatures. And then have a top 10 on the front page with the most popular toys. They could even have a competition: which kid designs the cutest animal. Oh, I could make this a phenomenon.

Boy, I can't believe I'm thinking about strategies of how I would improve a toys' business. Eh, just 2AM rant.
The answer then would be "Company policy prohibits me from giving a corporate reference. Here is my personal cell phone number if you would like a personal reference."
dropbox started with getdropbox.com and it didn't seem to do them any harm.

Their customers were techies though so I take your point about lay people not being 'used' to them. It's really a pretty arbitrary decision though, 'google' means nothing to their customers intrinsically. Build a brand and the name is unimportant.
"most of Google's non-search products have lacked great design"

What about GMail? One of the reasons it was so successful, apart from the storage capacity, was the simple and elegant design, at least in my opinion.
I'm pretty sure it's easy to find a bad keyboard, I was just never that unlucky until now I guess. The problem is not only that they bounce but that if I press either the top or the bottom I feel that it might break the key.

I believe the MacBook Air is universally regarded as one of the best screens available for a laptop but on a recent poll here more than 50% of the comments said they zoomed in all the time so I tend not to care much about what is universally said and more about how I feel about it. It's good to know how people feel about something but I can't make it my word until I try it myself.

Edit: Also because I might be looking for something else than the majority of people, I don't know, just thinking out loud now because I like that topic a lot!
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> My question would be: assuming you want to, how do you scale it?

Franchising perhaps? Quality control would be an issue once you start farming the job out like that, but it would be a good way to better cover international markets. They could keep the designing local to the current HQ, hiring designer types there to supply demand and farm out the physical work.

Though I suspect a project like this might be a personal one, they they don't particularly want to scale massively.
It sounds like you're a tech recruiter or another guy from big corporate heritage. I say this because your answers are a shining paragon of why most of the participants at HN avoid and loathe big corporate jobs.

Do you have any particular programming qualifications yourself? I'm curious. While it is of course a great sign that you are reading HN, it doesn't sound like you know how to rate candidates in an objective and independent fashion.

Let me tell you that many of the legends in this field didn't finish or didn't attend college (and some didn't even finish high school) merely because college is really silly.
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If you read her blog you'll see that she's at capacity. If they really want to turn this into an enterprise (and I absolutely think they should!), they need to figure out how to handle more volume before getting more volume.
I'm replying to you again but with a different view. Is the T60 keyboard the same as the X200? Because it's what I am using now and it's an amazing keyboard. This is important because if you say these keys move a lot then we are definitely not talking about the same feeling, probably because I can't explain myself much better. My only problem with the X200 keyboard it the documents keys near the arrow keys, even after almost one year working on a X200 everyday I still hit them. It used to be so good when the arrow keys were a little bit apart from the main layout of the keyboard. I do love my Sony Vaio for that.
Well if you must buy a new product at retail pricing, then yes. :)
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Earth != Maps. Earth was a desktop application, and except for some very geeky tech enthusiasts, nobody used it. The innovativeness of Maps came from fusing some of the satellite imagery of Earth (done by Keyhole technologies) with the innovative UI (done by Where2 technologies, another acquisition, but one that used a C++-based browser plugin) with existing internal work on Google Local and Google's expertise with browser-based applications.

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> Turns out, people's priorities are allowed to change as they grow and mature.

I am reading Anthony Kiedes's autobiography in which he states that he ripped off so many people in his past (mainly drug related) and then later went back to right his wrong. So if anything this could have been an avenue and opportunity for Steve to say "ya know what, I did screw Woz over and we agreed on XYZ"

Furthermore, you are simply assuming and drawing ill-informed conclusions. The OP is basically asking that this question be raised, regardless of whether he is insinuating it's truth. It's disingenuous to make conclusions like "it's not about the money" when there are sources that state otherwise.
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no Thunderbolt

But it does have a USB3 port, and HDMI port and an eSATA port. I have an Air, and it's awesome, but I fail to see how thunderbolt counts as a plus. If I could somehow trade it in thunderbolt port for a USB3,HDMI and eSATA port I would do so in an instant. Sure in the future once thunderbolt become widespread perhaps it might be useful, but for me, today, it's completely useless and it definitively was in the minus column when deciding which laptop to buy.
My first programs ran on a programmable calculator. I wish I could have kept the habits I had back then. Drawing block schemata on paper before coding seemed tedious but it was in fact valuable. Damn you lord Sinclair and your ZX Spectrum for providing a full screen "editor" which let me skip the design phase. And it didn't really have cut'n'paste in the modern sense.

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When Microsoft put speech recognition in XP, were you complaining? When Nuance made Dragon dictate? When Kurzweil made Voicepad Pro? When Google made the Android only Voice offering? Were you complaining they had hardware requirements or were platform or OS specific? But now Apple buy and release it in a way people like, easily a decade after this kind of technology was first commercially and suddenly that's why nobody else has innovated?

And your complaint isn't even accurate aside from that - DARPA funded SRI for military purposes, SRI finished their military contract and reformed to a commercial company and Apple bought them (I.e. innovation happenings) and in an interview with the company founder he said they had to struggle to get it to run on the 3GS and implied it would be much better on better hardware. Speculation is that it does voice recognition on the client (I.e. There are plausible technical reasons why not every smartphone could run the current implementation).

Having to differentiate their native platform drives innovation, its having to support the lowest common denominator and backwards compatibility which stifles it, and patents which roadblock it.