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Mark already said it: if you don't like it, then don't use it. It's his money on the line, you go fork your own Unity. This is an instance of "you can't please everyone so don't even try."

While it would definitely be nice to please everyone, even merely trying to do so will seriously derail you from your own vision and design. That direction can either be yours or nobody's.

People also overestimate the effect of this kind of soloing. At worst, they will just create something nobody will use.

And if the majority of users will cease to use Unity, there will be 3rd-party packages for Gnome3 or Gnome2 or whatever it is that people want. As a critical review, if Ubuntu ever get to that point it might indeed be a good idea for Ubuntu to accept defeat and return to the mainstream. However, it is no earlier than that when we will see if they truly are stupid. And if they are, then there's a fair chance of forking and there will not only be Kubuntu and Lubuntu and ${WHATEVER}buntu but also Gubuntu.
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So worse than both cash and cards - suddenly you have to have small balances sitting on multiple proprietary cards. No thanks.
Well, I like this counterpoint too from the Google+ discussion:

"Sedat Kapanoglu: Technical innovation process on computing is too organic to find a single originator. Everything is derived from something else and that's what computing industry owes it's amazing progress in such a short term. Unix was from Multics. C was from B which was from BCPL. , and vi was from ex. We can consider vi itself as vim for ex from that perspective. I think there are no distinct thought processes for creating and improving. All creation is improvement and all improvement is a creation. We don't need to have a moment of silence for the father on a kid's birthday. Let the kid enjoy the day."
I did exact same thing - go from ubuntu to mint when unity took over.

Sadly it has most of the same silly bugs as ubuntu - a different dock fails to load pretty much every time I start it being the most annoying. I swear I saw some of those strange ubuntu scrollbars some places too but I can't find them right now.

Shame it doesn't have an equiv to WUBI. All linux should have an equiv to WUBI.
I've been making Mac apps for nearly a decade now. I wrote a summary and opinion piece on this:

http://lacquer.fi/pauli/blog/2011/11/why-the-mac-app-sandbox...

(HN discussion link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3191021)
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I don't know for sure about this new prime lending in particular, but if it works the way the public library lending does, then the answer is 'yes'. With ebooks you check out from the library to your kindle, your bookmarks remain if you later check that same book out, or even purchase it.
Some words to the people comparing the GMail app with Ping, MobileMe, Final Cut, Antenna problem, Battery time etc. (and please start to make precise distinctions here, not everything is that bad, like the GMail app).

These are not Apples core products. Apples core product is the hardware and the OS on either platform. Googles core product is creating software.

So it's sad to see, they have no capable software developers knowing how to code for iOS (or willing?). They don't use any native components from iOS, even the navigation bar is a web element, how strange is that?

It's the same with Apple and iTunes for Windows. They take no native elements, because they use some wrapper to get the OS X code to Win. When the rumors are true and only five people do iTunes, then I understand why they do no decent Windows app, but why not get some good Win developers?

Same for Google, why get no decent iOS devs? And the Google+ app is an awful app too. It's such a shitty app, it's sad too.

But after thinking some time about it, I guess, they have no usable APIs for the mail service, so they have to rely on web views.
yes, definitely. not sure if the digital one is just a fad or if it is going to shape the way we perceive data ranges for the future
I'd be interested in seeing figures comparing Europe to other continents. If you remember, Europe forced Microsoft to give the user a choice between browsers when Windows boots up for the first time.
I have to wonder, with about pages like this, do some people not take them seriously? I'm a young guy (22) and I find it interesting. To me, it shows that they are a company that can have some fun. Which is a good thing, in my opinion. But I know there are a lot of experienced entrepreneurs on here, ones that probably are more business oriented. What are your guys' opinions on this?

(I hope this comment doesn't sound like a backhanded compliment or anything. I'm really just curious).
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You're implying that being called a socialist is as damning as being called a racist? Really?
What is so evil about these Danes and Swedes?
hey atnan, great article, very insightful, congrats.
Seems like Apple has put a lot of effort on improving UIWebviews, there is more than just Nitro, apparently.

I strongly believe the whole HTML5 standard is supported on iOS5 but it has to be enabled. Did anyone notice the SQLite database that's created everytime you use a UIWebview? I've been trying to enable offline navigation and got kinda stuck but this gives me a couple of good new ideas.

Cheers,
Alex
Cute, but I'd have thought that one of the purposes of the Team pages is to associate that person with the company through a search engine. So this might look good, but in my mind doesn't meet the primary requirement of the Team page.
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Something else worth noting which the last url suggests is that Sweden can't just extradite him to the US at their own will. It would also have to be approved by Britain.
How did you get two urls in the title for this one?
I almost miss the thing as I use vimperator+firefox, I don't use the mouse that much.

Funny anyway.
Totally Agree, there is a reason Microsoft are seperating Metro and the main Windows UI and that apple have seperate types of devices (Mac / iPhone + iPad).

If you want Linux for tablets/phones just get android.
Come on guys, make that top left logo clickable.
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Are there really people that walk around with their phone GPS switched on all day? Security concerns aside, what a drain on battery life that must be.
I think what we're leaving out of this whole equation is that Arrington works in the press. Not only does he work in the press, but has helped craft technology and entrepreneurship journalism into what it is today.

He might have fell victim to a predatory interviewer looking for a "gotcha" quote about racism from a white entrepreneur and member of the press, and God knows I might well have fallen victim to the same, but he also needs to man up a little bit more and take some of the blame. This is not a business he's unfamiliar with.

This is also not a topic he's unfamiliar with. I doubt there is anyone who has spent more time thinking and writing about technology entrepreneurship over the past 6 years than Arrington. For this person to not be able to name a single black entrepreneur sitting with a major interviewer says something about race in Silicon Valley. I am not exactly sure what it says, and I am doubtful that CNN will give it thoughtful analysis, but there is definitely a point to be made there.
I immediately thought about the first (?) releases Apple did for Windows: iTunes and Safari. Both were really bad but I have never seen software as buggy as that one new release of Safari that would crash if you clicked on any button.

It's basically a matter of how many good releases you do against the bad ones. Google is in bad shape right now but that changes quickly with a good release in the near future. (I'd say the new Gmail theme is a good release.)
Oh I see now, and it also looks like he's evaluating the data on the internet, not the internet in motion, which was where the mass-of-a-strawberry idea comes in.
you don't know how long it takes them to do anything though.

hourly rates are one thing, but unless they've got reasonable time frames for building stuff, it doesn't really matter.

I typically charge 3-5x what 'regular' web developers do, and I catch flak for that from some potential clients. I also tend to get stuff done 5-10x faster than many other 'regular' web developers too, so I don't have any issues justifying myself. The people that care about hourly rates move on, the people that care about getting their problem solved quickly stay.

I imagine Oracle's got 'standard' implementation timelines for common scenarios.
As much as I would like it to be true, discussing complex issues will have very few influence on your future career.

Being good at socializing and networking will. An awful lot. And being hung over with friends does qualify for that.
Here's what she's referring to: "His startup’s really cool. But he could’ve launched a clown show on stage, and I would’ve put him up there, absolutely."

Arrington said he put Clarence Wooten up on the stage just because he's black. "He could've launched a clown show," and he still would've had him up there. Because he's black. That torpedoes whatever merit Wooten had in the eyes of the audience. Looking at Wooten's track record, it's clear that he's competent, so Arrington probably didn't mean what he said, but people really need to understand the implications of the words they use.

Her analogy is weird, though.
Another ingenious approach is taken by chesstempo.com, a chess training site. Just as in chess itself the ratings of players are determined by pairwise comparisons (games between players), they pair players up against problems. If they solve the problem, the rating of the problem goes down, the rating of the player goes up. Players are given problems close to their ratings, which keeps everyone happy. I believe they use Glicko to track uncertainty in the rating.

Chapter 22 of David Barber's "Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning" (he makes it available online) does a nice (perhaps brief) job of explaining the progression through the Rasch model, the Bradley-Terry-Luce model and Elo.

As an aside, the way they chesstempo generate the exercises is also cute. The tactical chess problems are positions taken from high level (human) games fed into a chess engine which identifies blunderous moves where there is a single distinctly best way to respond. The challenge is to find that best move. Because they are taken from real games, they have the appearance and feel of real positions, which is important; many people believe pattern recognition is an important part of chess mastery. Apparently they've built up nearly 40000 such tactical exercises.
I don't think that's true.

Ubuntu does manage to install itself on pretty much almost any desktop.

That's quite an accomplishment. Remember the Debian install horror stories? That's pretty much history now.

The ubuntu orange and purple makes NASCAR race days look tasteful and understated though. I spend my release days at the Kubuntu table now.
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I'm a bit confused by your comments.

You weren't interested in the iPad, were interested in the Kindle Fire, but got a touch instead? Is that right? I've got the HP Touchpad, and don't really use it. I don't think the tablet market is as important as the marketing hype is saying it is. I suspect we are going to see more dedicated touch devices for specific uses, like the kindle (non-fire) rather than the do-everything tablets that you'll just take everywhere.

As far as Google dropping the ball on the YouTube/Netflix thing, YouTube wasn't about renting or watching full length videos. It is very difficult to occupy two concepts in the consumers mind. YouTube was always about UGC, so the transition to now also having mainstream content was always going to be a huge challenge for google and opportunity for competitors. At the same time, I don't think Google has yet released a compelling 'store' for getting content. what do you think?
I have mixed emotions about this post. It's both really frustrating & reassuring for me at the same time. I've been working (with a partner) on a very similar concept for the past couple of months.

Though I'd say that the features of ours are far more developed (we're implementing most of the ones I've seen suggested in this post); you're first to market. I guess the list of MVP features we've been working towards was just a little too long. Lesson learnt.

Sigh! I'll just have to get that signup page finished a little bit quicker.
> But if you want to remove all the "probably's" from that sentence you can pay 10x as much and have Oracle do it for you.

It looks like you're assuming that the guys Oracle sends out to do the job are true domain experts, and that's a giant leap of faith.
That one just nails it (but it's in Flash).
"Coordinate and oversee the bodies responsible for technical and operational functioning of the Internet, including global standards setting;"

All they need to do now is write up their proposal as a draft RFC and mass post it to important hacker mailing lists (open source, Internet engineering, standards groups) on April 1st, 2012.
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What happens when the merchant doesn't care he's paid by the right customer?

How does the system handle the common use-case where you give a third party (wife,friend,kid,..) the money to go and pay the bill.

Both Facecash and now Square Card Case have this problem, but maybe I have missed something.
Heard they're parking this near the ISS so they can get Chinese carry-out.
There's a second advantage to vendors setting their consulting fees quite high, and that is not to undercut their professional services partners. It also leaves room for others to compete in that space.
Why would the phrase "clown show" make you think "black"?

If he said "I would put KNuth on stage even if he wanted to launch a clown show", it doesn't sound like a mocking statement, but one of unconditional approval.
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Interestingly in a world of blogs and HN (and sites like it) he actually gets to tell his own story, where as in the old media world you couldn't because no one would really print your side.
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I used to do that (in Python) but find it's much more efficient to use the logging module. If you're going to put in print statements, it's likely to be a good spot to put in a debug/error/info/warn log, so when you're application is being used you can turn the logging to whichever level you need and see what's going on.
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I'd say it's sometimes a little risky thinking this way. 1. wage-days are not a good way of measuring things. You don't take into account recurring expenses, taxes and costs of doing business. 2. Spending your own time on something is rarely a loss.

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The RSS reader of www.netvibes.com isn't that bad.
It wasn't because of "clown show," nor was it an assumption. The original article provides the context, and Arrington hasn't disputed the reporter's characterization of his statement.

"In the documentary, which airs November 13, Arrington talked about his difficulties finding African-American entrepreneurs to launch their ventures at his TechCrunch Disrupt conference -- and suggested he would accept almost any black entrepreneur, regardless of merit."

Read the article for the full context. It's pretty clear what he's saying. http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/27/technology/silicon_valley_di...
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I don't see any date anywhere, though. Those rates could be from ten years ago.
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I love Samba , it is like the silent unsung hero of the Linux world. It is probably used on countless NAS systems and file servers yet most of it's end users literally have no idea that they are running it.

It seems to get very little press these days though, probably because it 'just works'
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I agree with you about the face to face interaction - the people I see in shops at a daily basis generally know what I want, and just asks me to confirm, and we can spend that 30 second face to face time exchanging a few comments about other things instead.

And that is the thing I loved the most about this concept. It is one of very few recent technological innovations that actually enhances face to face social interactions.

By requiring you to tell your name, you now have an "excuse" to introduce yourself and get on a name basis with people you often see day out and day in but who most people might otherwise have a very impersonal contact with.

Just try giving shop assistants eye contact. Most places they're not used to people even looking them in the eye, and the entire quality of your experience and interaction with them go up tenfold if you make sure to make eye contact and smile. But we tend to mumble down into our wallets stuck in our own worlds and ignore that there's a human on the other side of the till. I used to do that as I'm strongly introverted normally, but a few years back I started forcing myself to focus on peoples faces whenever I pay, or enter the bus or whatever type of transaction it is, and it makes such a difference in overall degree of human contact (and it makes the response you get from the other person dramatically more friendly)

As an example, there's a bus driver who frequently drives my local bus, that I've gone to the same gym as for more than 5 years. I never even recognized him until I decided to start focusing on giving more eye contact. Now we greet each other warmly and talk whenever we see each other.

I thought this was "just me" before I took action to change it, but the more I did it the more I saw how taken aback a lot of the people I did it to were, and how out of their way a lot of people I'd give eye contact would go to do things for me - as it turns out even otherwise very social people often completely blank people in these situations. We "switch off" socially in large number of situations.

I think Square could have the potential to be far more important to the world for its possibility of disrupting social interactions than its mere impact on commerce...
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I'm no proven entrepreneur but being in that space, personally i think its a good move by this company. In marketing, provided it's done in a manner that suits your business, you should do everything you can to create conversation, i.e something worth remarking on.

Seth Godin talks more about this in Purple Cow but the above is the general gist of it
The great thing about the headline to this piece is that it started with MG Siegler, which meant I could ignore it.
I think resume.io/user/public would do fine, wouldn't it?
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Some of the places I order, they get my stuff ready when they see me walk through the door. Much more convenient for me than having to fiddle with an ordering system even if there's a saved order I can repeat.
Ninefold is cloud.com on top of some EMC sans.
CloudCentral is very modified cloud.com running on top of a damn cool san.
Most of the others are all Vmware and such, all on fairly standard hardware.

And then people wonder why their support costs are so high (hint: Cloud.com isn't exactly quality), and why they can't maintain profitability (Those $1m sans....)

But yeah, we're a little different. Think of Orion this way:
- Take a standard HPC cluster
- Make its DSAN tankier and more customised to deal with virtual disks
- Run (very heavily customised) Xen on the (very horribly customized) nodes
- Build on a full cloud orch stack on top.

This lets us have a better experience then any other stack, whilst being orders of magnitude cheaper.

So you can have cloud servers with hard disks faster then dedicated servers, that are HA under hardware failure, and that have proper layer 2 private networks between each other and the outside world. All for cheaper then the standard dell server + EMC san arrangement most people end up with.
IE9 is good! I say this with my web developer hat on - my current site works best in IE9. It’s got the smoothest animation by quite a long way.

Just a pity it didn’t get text-shadow.
Recently there were few (one for sure) postings with scribd.com listed in parenthesis and they had nothing to do with scribd (they were all pdf's if i remember correctly).
This case sure is different - even stranger.
Looks like HN script is behaving.

edit: Fresh example from /newest list:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3190866
I'm a 100% behind the idea of sandboxing, one of my apps in the Mac App Store already comes with sandboxing enabled even though it's not required yet, but I feel like the current way to do it can be very limiting. Some perfectly legit applications would be inherently broken with no easy way to fix them. Heck, even Xcode would be broken as you only open the project file directly, how could you edit the source files in the project individually without opening them one by one?

The only way I can think of is having the whole project, including the source files in a single bundle but that would break everything currently out there.
People everywhere seem terrified of the console. It has a banner over it saying "Know What You Are Doing" and most would prefer to stab away at tree controls and tabs randomly filling in fields until it does something similar to what they want.
Have you talked to them? If so, what was their response?
Here's one of the reasons:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3190205

"If I remember correctly, Google engineers are given the choice of one 30" monitor or a two 24" monitors,"

That explains all. At the time "normal people" converge to notebooks and laptops with even less height, they "optimize" UI for their immense screens. The managers who approve also test it on their 30 inch screens. And they certainly don't understand the complaints, probably saying:

"don't you all have 30 inch?"

"let them eat cake."

I have an old notebook with 1050 pixels height and even there the new changes are annoying to me. What's with now more common 768, 800 and 900 pixels?
Sigh. Some things never change.
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