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Best of the Best Steve Jobs Tributes
I really like this! Great work. The best part is your 'listing' on your own store never expires or gets buried by other listings.
It was probably as simple as evaporating the liquid and then heating the gold residue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_parting#Acid_parting
"Great salesman" are folks you see doing informercials. That phrase is reserved for people like Billy Mays(big fan!).

Anyone who wants to paint Steve Jobs as mostly a salesman is showing utter ignorance. Salesmen mostly sell stuff made by a product guy. They don't work on building a product that is perfect to their vision. Steve Jobs believed in perfecting products as much as selling.
I've not used Symfony2 but my colleagues say that the admin functionality is not as good as what exists for Symfony1. Is this still the case?
Actually I would say 5GB is a more reasonable minimum.

I recently installed an old XP Home CD in a VM with a 4GB disk. The only way I could get enough space for SP3 + updates was to compress the disk.

AFAIK, there is no easy way to resize the primary partition without reinstalling the OS or using third-party partitioning software, so I get by with my 4GB primary and a 2GB secondary for applications.

And I thought my days of running "Disk Cleanup" and manually cleaning out "\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution/Download" were over...
Undocumented feature: Creating a speed dial in Chrome 15
There's a lot to this.

What does genius mean? Has the meaning changed over time? Look it up, observe the etymology.

There's much more to being a man of character than simply being a man of genius. And Jobs failed to show he was a man of character. We have no evidence to suggest he was a man of character.

If the article is meant as a cautionary note to young people who might mistakenly attribute character to anyone who posseses what we define as genius (again, look it up), then it's certainly justified.

There's a common misperception promoted by business journal type literature that to be a financially successful CEO one needs to treat others well. This is simply not true. There is at least one study that has examined the issue but the vast majority of studies aim at other conclusions. They avoid the question.

The reason to treat others with respect is not one that arises out of the pursuit of financial gain. It comes from another source. You might say it's rooted in a man's character.
On the contrary, I'm very happy with the way things are happening. Sure, I hope to wake up tomorrow and here that the Nokia Searay is real, is awesome, and is available to buy immediately (with free same-day shipping). That would be awesome.

But the reality is that the first batches of Windows Phones did not sell well. There are a lot of reasons for it, there is a lot of blame to go around. Nevertheless it's understandable that the carriers weren't urgent to get more Windows Phones. They do seem to be relatively excited about Mango, though. The Focus S seems like a pretty awesome phone to me. As does the Titan. As does (hopefully, if it's real) the Searay.
All this talk of dropping out or not reminded me of a characteristic I've come to recognize in folks with Phds. There is an assumption that if you don't have a Phd like they do its because you could not get one, not that you chose not to get one.

I think some of that flings back on people who drop out of college. Work, regardless of company size, is, to put it simply, work. That sounds circular of course but really the key is that if you can't find the motivation to get you through college then where are you going to find the motivation to get you through the 'last 10%' of a project which is what takes 90% of the effort?

As pg pointed out, and Jacques does too, if you're wondering if you should drop out then you shouldn't. You've got bigger problems and you need to deal with those. If on the other hand getting school stuff done is hard because your business is growing in leaps and bounds and you don't have time for both, that is a completely different story.

Work can suck at times, that is why you don't see travel agents advertising "Bankok Work Vacations." But getting stuff done rocks. You have to see the goal, if only in your minds eye, to get past the stuff that is lame and irritating.
Here's a link that takes you to the full article:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=Amazon%2527s%...
Because he intentionally made the reference to PE to pick up on PE's context. He "sampled" PE, he didn't "sample" Thomas N. Todd.
You're absolutely right. He was a living legend.
Good question. Since LightningJS writes the iframe with a "javascript:" URL, that iframe is really part of the same domain (and therefore same security context). To access the window on the original document, just use the "window.parent" object.
"Rometty’s naming as CEO makes it an interesting moment in history. With Meg Whitman at the helm of HP, women now run the two biggest IT companies by revenue in the world."
JRuby doesn't have a GVL (Global VM Lock, equivalent of Python's GIL), so you can actually get wild with multithreading. :)
There are a few reasons one might choose to use JRuby.

The most frequently cited reason is to take advantage of JRuby's generally quite excellent Java interoperability. In many cases it may be the best way to introduce Ruby into an organization with a large, legacy Java codebase. Further, despite its oft-maligned reputation, Java still offers the largest number of high-quality, performant FOSS libraries of any platform. In our case, we are developing a Rails application along with a supporting Scala library simultaneously. In my experience, JRuby/Java/Scala integration is largely painless.

Further, JRuby could legitimately be considered the best Ruby implementation. It's very rare to find pure Ruby code that works on any other Ruby implementation but not JRuby. JRuby is, in general, faster than Ruby 1.9 (and in almost all cases much faster than 1.8). Further, upcoming enhancements in JDK 7 may allow some very impressive speed-ups (see http://blog.headius.com/2011/08/jruby-and-java-7-what-to-exp...).
Something about the quality is so much more inviting and warm

From the vid: "I did give this footage a slight grade with the 3-way colour wheel in Final Cut."

I'd say it's the change in colour balance that gives it the feeling you're describing, it certainly feels that way to me.
Just fyi: You should check out Romain Guys other posts, he is an Android developer and does quite a lot of awesome photography in his freetime, always enjoy his photos.
IBM Names Next CEO
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204777904576653512671012304.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Agreed - while this is flabbergasting compared to anything, say, three years ago, the crunchy / overly sharp quality and blown-out highlights are the hallmarks of a cheap point and shoot.
Cheap Kindle Fire Drops Amazon Income 73%
On the other hand, revenues can mean nothing as well, since profits are what count, and huge revenues do not always translate, and could be a sign of a spending problem.
I psuedo-dropped out* a week ago. I think the thing that really stuck out in my case was that all of my family and friends responded with a sincere "congratulations!" when I told them about it.

* I've scraped enough credits together to collect my CS degree in May with my peers, though I do miss the english lit classes I was taking.
The article points out a weakness in the author's philosophy of management, not the weakness in Jobs as a manager. The notion of 'personality disorder' seems largely out of context for someone of the mindset change the world.

'Old Steve'? People grow. How does an individual overcoming personality 'disorders' make someone a bad role model? Sounds like the last paragraph of the article is actually contradicting to the headline.
I'm perfectly willing to believe Steve Jobs had a mean streak or whatever, but you can't call it evil when someone refuses to do something no one else does either. Steve Wozniak giving away some of his stock to other Apple employees at the time of the IPO is the only instance I know of that happening. What this story shows is that Wozniak is a saint, not that Jobs is evil.
That's not an article, that's a press release.

Source is Business Wire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Wire

"Business Wire is a company that disseminates full-text news releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences"

Does the press have an incentive to talk about the plunge in profits? Yes

Does the company itself have an incentive to spin things by touting increased revenues? Yes
The TV business model is that customers pay for more than they consume. The bill keeps running while you're at work. The bill is the same if you go on vacation. It doesn't matter, because you pay in advance for more content than you can possibly ever consume.

That is the business model. That is the way it works. That you pay for shopping channels that you don't care for allows them to pay for expensive shows like Mad Men.

So what we need is real disruption in the TV business but that is not a new UI. It's a fundamental change in the way TV programming is financed.
> Genius is in the mind.

Agree completely.

Steve didn't accomplish all he did using his fists.
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I'm sure you're right.

A slightly different twist: a friend of mine is a pharmacist and he was decrying the end of free lunches provided by pharma companies after he finished first year (a few years ago). The influence of drug companies may exert is a recognized problem, even where it doesn't take the cash for prescription model (that I agree with you is probably illegal but I haven't looked into it). I do think it's likely though that there are creative ways out there that drug companies have come up with to encourage prescriptions.
Kiwi Discount Club Ltd
Why is the limit on earth?
Started out as a Systems Engineer at IBM in 1981. That's an impressive rise within the same company from the technical side.

Mr Palmisano started at IBM as a Salesman in 1973.
If you're comparing the experience of playing a video game to a physical good, yes, but really you're paying for the right of use to interactive content. Comparing 'owning' a video game to owning a car is fallacious.

I think you'll find that when you look at car ownership rights and digital content ownership rights there is completely different legislation and laws for both, and with good reason.

The physical media distribution of a game has merely been a cost effective delivery method. If publishers could distribute their games directly to your device over the internet or whatever they'd have done that as a first option.

If the contract of sale determines that your license is non-transferrable then, well, that's that, if the publisher can enforce it. It's the way things are going for digital content, get used to it!
I wonder if analysts have learned yet not to dismiss apparently crazy moves by Jeff Bezos.
You!

Reading about all the cool stuff you guys did with GOOL is the reason I got into Lisp.

Awesome to see that you post here on HN. :)
Check out "Enable NTP bookmark features" in chrome://flags/
For what it's worth, that's the company press release you just linked to. (Business Wire is a service that broadcasts press releases and regulatory filings.)

Compare: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=iro...
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"If those three conditions are not met . . ."

There are four conditions there, not three.
No war? What would you have done if you were a leader of a European country at the onset of WWII? Just let Hitler come in and take everything? Or were you just referring to modern wars?
Broadcasting a suspect's photo is only done when there's a newsworthy story about a crime. Automated face recognition can be done routinely on a much vaster scale.
UEFI vs. BIOS
I'm skeptical that rental business models can work without DRM; the temptation is just too great.
I'd add that it's important to know when you need to break out into internal APIs. It means nothing to do it just because you want to and think you'll get more out of it. Measure the benefit. There are many refactoring techniques to kill app bottlenecks well before it's time to create an internal API.
From what I understand, they make more sense wherever Chrome is used as the main OS GUI ("chromeos" or whatever), basically being yet another app store.
Love this!

A few notes:

- When I click on an item thumbnail on your sample list page, it takes me directly to the image hosted on S3. Having the image appear in a lightbox would ensure that users are kept on the page.

- The title tag for every page reads "List of Things for Sale". I would populate the title tag with the name of the user (e.g. "Matthias McGregor's List of Things for Sale")

- Add FB/Twitter/Email to Friend links, which would provide three one-click marketing channels for users to share their for-sale items with their immediate network.

- Populate the page with Facebook Open Graph metadata. That way if users want to post a link to their store on Facebook, they'll get a nice link description and thumbnail automatically.

- I like the single-page experience, but I can't help wondering if it would be better if the app would generate discrete pages for each item users are selling. This might make it easier for users to share each item discretely, instead of just point people towards a single store page.

Really nice work!
Seems Amazon is taking the long view, and reinvesting their revenues. The opportunity for them is huge. Wall street doesnt care and would rather see quarterly profits. Good buying opportunity if you're interested in watching them take over everything in the next 5 years.
One of, if not, the most important lessons first time entrepreneurs should learn.
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Developer alert: Flurry adopts new privacy rules for mobile analytics
They'll probably never learn, but Jeff doesn't care: http://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazons-bezos-innovation
A History of Anonymous
What software specifically stopped working (and are you aware of why)?

Have you researched alternatives?
That is indeed impressive, especially seeing as she transitioned from Engineering to Sales.

I can't say I know anything about her, but it's good to see people climbing the corporate ladder the old fashioned way, and C-level execs who know what life is like on the front lines.
Time lapse server build
Great song, cool video.
Interestingly that's what more or less the UN predicts, too [1]. My milestone may take a few hundred years it seems

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
Tonsil Removal May Cure ADHD Behavior in Kids
It would be worth the cash since my parents could actually read the temperature. I do hope Apple adds Siri integration into apps, then my Mom could just tell it what temperature she wanted.
You purchased a Windows XP license simply to run one app?
Hah. You know what?

I'm a third into the Isaacson bio right now.

The following thought popped into my brain as I went:

"Wow. This is some Speaker for the Dead shit, right here."

It's an honest, unbiased, thorough appraisal of his life. Very human. Very real.
Jiagra: Javascript/Website Performance Enhancement by Samy Kamkar
Indeed. I've been out of the job market since 2004 and today after a (thankfully) long dry spell I got a "cold email" asking about a .NET position. I was working on UNIX(TM) when .NET came to be and therefore it's never ever been on any of the resumes I left behind.

Then again, since wherever resumes of mine that are still floating around are so old, a shot in the dark like this has a higher chance of working than your situation, where I assume your resume is reasonably up to date.
MD looking for dev-co founder for vegan food/health start-up
Discover How To Get Six-Pack Abs
ADHD symptoms <- sleep deprivation <- sleep apnea <- obstructed breathing passages ???

One of the most disciplined people I know acts (re: distractibility) like she has ADHD if she doesn't get enough sleep.
I use a text file and I have an 'ideas' folder in dropbox. One folder per idea. If I need to add more information like photos or a business model canvas. I just put into that folder. It's works for me.
Inspired by Zach Holman's post (http://zachholman.com/posts/why-github-hacks-on-side-project...). I was planning on releasing it yesterday but GitHub beat me to it :)

It's just a week old, the Wolfram Alpha integration needs some care, but it's working good enough for now.
Nice. I never looked it up, but always just assumed it was Farrakhan. Always good to have assumptions proven wrong.
breaking.
I do this and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone else. At least "real", "evil" spam mails. Clicking an unsubscribe link is a confirmation of your email address and will usually lead to more spam than less.
HTC gives all Android os phones 5GB of Dropbox Free Storage
Anonymous shuts down child porn sites and exposes users
AFAIK there is no substantial evidence that the Kindle Fire is being sold as a loss leader however I can imagine the profit margins are slim.
ELECTRICIAN SEATTLE
Back in the days of phreaking, this was called a 'Cheese Box' and was used to great effect by calling two locations of any chain. From what I recall, a report in Phrack called two 711 employees who started yelling at each other 'NO, THIS IS 711, WHO IS THIS‽'
There are a lot of usability improvements as well. Maintaining the "All Programs" menu in XP was a full time charm. In 7 you just press start (or hit the Windows key) and type the first couple of letters of the program you want and hit enter.
Human societies with different development levels could be considered as different species competing for more abstract resources, such as money. Assuming the world order will remain constant for a few decades, maybe you could apply such a model.
One of the most inspiring keynotes I ever saw.
TLDR summary of the article:

"Confront reality and focus on execution of your product/sales plan to get competitive. No pie-in-the-sky strategizing would save your bacon if you fail to get stuff done."
Volcanoes in Greenland possible origins of life
U Grok It Helps You Find Your Stuff, Or Not Lose It To Begin With
Samy Kamkar (http://samy.pl) is the inventor of the Evercookie, the MySpace worm, pwnat and a bunch of other really smart hacks.

Easter egg: visit his homepage with Chrome on a MacBook (Pro) with builtin accelerometers. Now tilt your laptop.
Thanks for all the nice comments!

- We've debated the pros and cons of lightboxes for a while now. We don't like them and prefer to see the image without chrome, but our users may feel differently. We'll soon see!

- Excellent point. I'm really looking forward to making loads of little tweaks like this.

- Yep, totally agree - it's coming.

- Thanks for the tip. It will be done!

- Item pages are on our list of things to do, although it's another tension between minimalism and e-commerce.
Be Pythonic
Top reasons why Ruby sucks
Who should stop screwing the customer? I thought I was clear on that.

When 90% of the world gets the game in January, and you get the game in July, you feel pretty screwed. Everyone has already explored and spoiled everything. There's very few people left to have a discussion about anything, because they already know. You get to watch everyone else play the game, wishing you could.

That's assuming the game EVER comes to your country. It might not.

And you'll probably pay more for the privilege, even though the game is worth less, for the reasons stated above.

That is, unless you pirate it.
Distributed Open House the day after Startup School
Invoking Godwin's law so early? Hitler's rise to power probably could have been prevented had the EU existed earlier, or had Ford's german subsidiary not built Hitler's armaments.
Given that no kindles fires have shipped, they haven't booked any revenue or costs for them yet, either.
I have a section on my desk for all my scraps of paper, I prefer paper, because it is physically in front of you reminding you of your ideas and to take action on them.

Plus writing seems to be less mechanical and more creative, which helps me get the juices flowing when I come up with a new idea.
Waterfield Designs iPhone Wallet
too late for me :(

http://github.com/grifo/florinda

Looking at it, it's very possible that hubot's scripts are interchangeable with ours with a small translation layer.
Guys, everything can go downhill without power. A wheel would go much faster and more efficiently than this. It's thanks to something called gravity.
S.968: Protect IP Act of 2011
Animation of Steve Jobs Biography [video]
Show HN: My minimalist Dropbox+iPhone note-taking app
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How do you balance that with the culture of patenting and fear of ideas being stolen?
You point out the 'silly' con remark but you do much worst, actually comparing a mere successful business guy with a whole civilization.
Comparing download casinos to Land based Casinos
Facebook Messages Storage Infrastructure
Guardian's Obituary for John McCarthy
I run only SSD in my desktop and I was running out of space for VMs. I decided to move a VM to my NAS and I discovered, happily, that it runs great on the NAS, connected over Gig-E. I moved the rest of my VMs over there and I really don't notice a difference in performance.
I don't know what the rest of the world is like, but in the US prisons are just another economic opportunity. When there's money to be made off of incarceration, there's money to be made by increasing crime.

Cases of rape and murder could be quelled substantially through better economic opportunities and greater access to healthcare, including abortions. Bad men usually had bad upbringings.

We probably can do better as a species, but we need to address all of the issues of the human condition with compassion, research, and empathy, not with guns and cages.
http://xkcd.com/962

http://explainxkcd.com/2011/10/10/the-corliss-resolution
Invoking emacs from the command line is my go-to method to format code that I've generated from another program.
How to execute "Five Whys Analysis"
From what I know about Stripe they are purely making it easier for developers to accept payments and as far as I know they aren't looking at developing technology aiding the sending on money.

* Unless they have some underground project that their website doesn't mention.
If they had they would probably be off running successful companies of their own instead of analyzing.
I.B.M. Names Virginia Rometty as New CEO
Have you tried Evernote?

Is fantastic. I can't imagine not using it.
Luckily nobody reads articles on /. anyhow. Submissions like this are probably what led to that sort of culture on the site.
People had been asking if we'd be doing this again. Yes! Sorry for the late notice; this year I have to read applications and prepare for Startup School at the same time. (I think I will try to avoid that in the future.)
That's strange because in Engadget's camera tests, the iPhone 4S had significantly less battery life at the end compared to GS II. Or were you talking about the original iPhone 4?
I feel like scoopinion.com will go into that direction.
I suspect a lot of the R&D goes into making sure that people can make this sort of "is that all" type comment without looking ridiculous :)

Perhaps if Windows 8 were to break all your old apps, and look utterly radically different, then people might find it easier to believe that it was genuinely something new? Maybe that could work.
There was a course back in college that alone required 30 hours per week. And it was only the third most difficult course or so in the program, which was computer science.