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I appreciate the link. It's good to hear someone say that design is important. I've read similar sentiments here and there, but it's often touted that the code is far more important (especially here, understandably so). I think there definitely must be a balance and hopefully that means my talents are valuable.

Anyway, I appreciate the advice about hiring someone. I will have to consider a way to go about doing that, it's tough though... being that I cannot hire/pay someone for too much of an extended period of time. I just don't have that money.

However, it is definitely a better route than outsourcing for the reasons you mentioned. I guess I'll just have to see if I can find a way to make it happen, the intern example is a possibility.

I'll try not to waste too much time on the details and trying to be 100% correct (lol, you've got me with that one). I'll be making the leap, soon.

I have added my email to my "about me" so feel free to shoot me an email and give me a hard time if I'm not getting going!

Anyway, thanks again. I truly appreciate the feedback.
somehow my idea of the ultimate coding platform for touch interfaces would be more symbolic/graphical (eg a few of wouter's languages, see http://strlen.com/language-design-overview or scratch from MIT). I know there are many limitations in that approach, but nonetheless it would be neat to push (or nudge) the boundaries of the modern development style.
seriously, you think OpenBSD invented the buffer cache?
Why is that unsurprising?
A very good point, and I don't disagree with you. I used RPGEditor and GameEditor when I was a kid and couldn't figure out how to use plain C++ to build a game.

The authors of this software have done a really amazing job, that's undeniable.

But I'm thinking here about two things:

- There is a notion that the only thing stopping tablets from overtaking computers is the fact that you can't develop software on tablets. Under that model of the world, this is a major breakthrough for tablets. But I'm not sure it actually solves the problem of high-quality development.

- There is also a notion that the iPad is a distillation of the best parts of a computer, the things that give people joy, and it removes "cruft" that people don't want to think about: filesystems, command line access, and the like. I wanted to take this opportunity to say that this isn't the case for a lot of people and that the ability to code on an iPad doesn't mean the iPad can give as much joy to a developer as a real computer can.

My comment was less manifesto, more musing about why I can't get rid of real computers.
Right and the point I'd make is his example doesn't hold weight because the first Android touchscreen device looked exactly like an iPhone. Same number of icons per screen, same resolution, same gestures, same icon placement on the applications (at the bottom and constant).

Surely the iPhone inherited from Palm and Windows Phone/PocketPC and both those inherited from Newton. But none of those devices looked exactly the same.
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I believe that the plural of squid is squid.
Definitely - Grasshopper (http://www.grasshopper3d.com/) has kind of taken over the architecture world for being graphical / patch based.
That's actually not an option from Mercedes. All MBs come with the lettering -- however the lettering is attached basically with a dab of (pretty strong) glue, and to remove the badges requires nothing more than a concentrated heat source, a pair of pliers, and some solvent to clean the residue.

It's more of a "mod" (albeit a simple one) than an option - and most people actually consider _removing_ the lettering to be quite tacky. Why? Because the people who often remove the badges are the ones with the less-expensive model cars (i.e. the SL550 vs. the SL55) and who want others to think they have the more expensive version :)
Apple doesn't think so.

Their own iPad apps - the iWork suite, iMovie and Garageband are very capable in producing some pretty neat content.

iWork and iMovie are available not just for the iPad but for the iPhone as well. I've found the iPhone version of iMovie to be very competent for casual movie editing - proving that content creation can be form-factor agnostic.
There've been a lot of middle- to high-performers put on PIP the past couple weeks. I wondered if this was what that's about.
you might want to check out AppHarbor as well if you're interested in integrated with other non-MS services and also to check out the platform.
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Chill !!!

This is for FUN! You're not likely to write the next Microsoft Office with Codify, but a lot of kids are going to have heaps of fun! Anyone remember Alan Kay's vision for SketchBook? This has to be the closest yet to that vision.
Not much support for the genius argument here: he's just an average CEO? And plays up his product when he's selling it?
I've thought long and hard about undo for git operations. I always decided against it (in git-cola). all it takes is someone doing some git commands in a terminal to (dangerously) confuse the undo stack. That's not the target audience of this GUI, though. pretty neat.
You think downvotes for calling somebody an asshole is HN going "down the hill"? Really?
yeah, should work fine on att 3g
The fact alone that he can make ESR seem like a reasonable person by comparison must be a legitimate superpower of some kind.
We already have laws to deal with this. Skipping the court system shouldn't be part of the deal.
Parking in disabled spaces[1][2]. :)

[1] http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Handicapped.txt
[2] http://www.cultofmac.com/2613/steve-jobs-still-parking-in-handicapped-spaces-the-pictures/
Played around with it a bit, very cool.

I would love to see iCloud support and a desktop version. It would be awesome to have something like the Processing IDE with a sketchbook that automatically syncs between my devices (e.g. my iPad and MacBook).
I echo the approval of AppHarbor. They have integrated with Bitbucket so that when you push it triggers a rebuild/deployment.
Don't overly idolize the concept. The SL55 is, relatively-speaking, a fairly modest car (brand new, the SL55 was a bit over $100k vs. the SL65, which looked the same but had a bigger motor and was almost _double_ the price). Among car nerds, Jobs' choice of the 55 model showed a lot of restraint.

It's a nice car, but far from one of the finest cars in the world.

And lastly, I'd bet that he didn't actually get a brand new one every six months -- leasing companies generally don't do that without requiring a massive chunk of money up front (i.e. $20k each time), and given the restraint he showed with the car selection, I doubt he'd be so, well, inefficient.

It's MUCH more likely, as another commenter suggested, that the actual loophole they used was for him to "sell" the car back to the leasing company and immediately re-lease it every six months.
How do people track your work, if at all? Daily status meetings? Weekly status meetings?
nobody forces the creator to create [or distribute the work].

Of course not. We just want to encourage them to do so.

Nope, somehow "creators" feel that the society is owing them the copyright protection.

That's the agreement between this society and creators who publish their creations.
Empirical evidence suggest a reduction of work hours will NOT increase employment. See when France went from 39 hour workweeks to 35.
http://www.cepr.org/meets/wkcn/9/973/papers/estevao_sa.pdf

As a founder, this seems intuitively obvious. I have problems finding the correct people. There simply aren't enough skilled people who can do work (that is where the overhead of managing them + their cost < my time loss). Consequently, it makes economic sense for everyone to just work longer hours. If we had to limit hours, we'd simply produce less. And because our product provides time-savings for our customers, all of society suffers.

I also completely disagree that people can buy so much stuff. Sure, physical items, yes. But 77% of the US economy is services.

From a personal perspective, I don't need more trinkets. But if I had the money, I'd never do my own laundry, shopping, driving, etc. -- that is I would spend a lot of money to gain time. Whether that time goes toward pleasure or working harder, it doesn't matter -- society still wins.
Perhaps something like this: http://company.mappedin.com/
Except down to a product level?
I'm curious to see what options he chose for the interior such as the stitching and leather.
I considered it in terms of teaching computer science, especially given (http://carlos.bueno.org/2011/09/ipsum.html) and (http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/07/corrupting-the-youth.html). In that frame of mind, chapter 0 exert seemed like it mentioned computer science concepts, but they weren't really explored as such. I interpreted your goal as edutainment, a noble goal, but one that fails so often it triggers a certain amount of skepticism.

Being entertaining is a tough challenge as it is. Trying to be entertaining _and_ informative, and you're unlikely to accomplish both. That was my biggest challenge as an EFL teacher - I spent most of my time planning activities trying to be engaging and informative. Even then, I'd say only ~30% of the time did I really get the balance right in my lessons and that's in an active media where I can react to the class.

If its just meant to be a bit of fun with a topic then its a different thing. Perhaps its better described as a pop sci book for children. Like how Brief History of Time didn't go into detailed maths, but gave the reader a working mental model of complex phenomena in an interesting way. Perhaps Lorem Ipsum aims to give children that mental model of computation, without any expectation that they could reasonably apply it. Is that the sort of thing you're aiming at?

Edit:
I just read through (http://carlos.bueno.org/2011/01/tortoise.html) extract you mentioned, and am a lot happier with it. You do have a really good way of personalising problems so that its about people all the time. I really like that, because that's something that is extremely important with children (and some adult learners). I remember I first groked multi-dimensional arrays from this MS-BASIC book I found in the school library, where it was explained by a large red jellybean jumping on this grid. I never understood the C-language book that dad gave me. That jumping jellybean was easy to understand.

I don't have any kids of my own. My cousin has young children, the oldest is just turning 7 in a few weeks. I think concepts like the sum of an infinite series might be a struggle for her at that age, but it would be very interesting to see what she and her brothers make of it. email is in my profile.
As a counterpoint, there are innumerable software projects that would better our world and create wealth, but only a limited number of developers. Assigning two teams to do nearly the same thing is a waste.
Hoo boy are you wrong.

You are so, so wrong.

I was hoping you were being ironic, but apparently you're serious.

Raising minimum wage and cutting working hours will drop productivity like a stone. You're effectively saying that all workers are equal, and interchangeable. You want to forcibly stop the more productive ones from working, so that their tasks and livelihoods can be given to others.

In the case of a software company you're introducing the twin evils of bad hires and oversized teams. For what? An inferior product produced at a higher price.

Dropping productivity means a drop in living standards for everyone, not just the rich people.

The reason people are out of work is because too many people are paying back too much debt, and that equates to negative savings.

Minimum wages increase unemployment because they set a price floor above the clearing price for the going price of a worker. Now, that's not an argument for getting rid of minimum wages, but you can't argue against the reality of what they do.

The solution is to continue paying back debt, and learn the lesson not to borrow so much next time around. Yes, that sucks, but hard lessons seldom have pleasant consequences.

If you want to stop a lot of wealth accumulating at the top end of the pyramid, by all means break up banking cartels and break the ties between legislators and big business, you won't get many arguments from most people. But fairyland schemes to force people to pay more than wages are worth, and force people to work less hours than they want? Hello, central planning. Hello, centralised control. The only way for this to work is to put the needs of the state above the needs of the individual. Which must, by definition, mean less individual freedom and more state control. What are you going to do with someone who works more than 35 hours? Lock them up at the point of a gun?

"Wasteful excessive consumerism" is an entirely relative proposition. One persons waste is another satisfactory standard of living. To impose an arbitary living standard on someone is to completely control their lives.

You're asking everyone to do less work. Less work by definition means less production, and less production means a lower living standard. And guess where the bulk of that lower living standard will fall - that's right, you can bet your peasant clothes it won't be on the 1%.

To conclude : you're effectively asking for centralised control of peoples wages, centralised control of how much a person can work, and centralised and arbitary division of what is small, medium and large business for the purposes of handing out favors, subsidies and handouts. Eventually businesses will start to fail and so will seek more handouts, bailouts, concessions or are nationalised because they are vital to society (eg mining, energy, farming).

You've effectively described a blend of National Socialism and Stalinism. And we know that both eventually lead to mass murder and misery of millions. This experiment has been tried before, it ends badly for all involved.

I hope you're young and still learning, because if you're of any reasonable age, you should know better by now.
I'm in the luxury car industry and I can say that the "celebrity-owned" cars fetch approximately $0 in premium in the marketplace.

Dealers will certainly (try to) use that fact in their marketing, but the cars are such commodities anyway (particularly the SL55, of which there are TONS out there) that nobody, in the end, really cares who owned the car as long as it looks and runs like it's supposed to.
Freeing energy from the grid
Steve Jobs looks like Gandhi.
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I think you nailed it on the head here. This is the most likely scenario for what actually happened.
Beautifully simple single product page. I've recently become a convert to no gradients, flat buttons etc.
Hmm, your links imply that my old Inspiron 6400 might be able to take two 2 GB modules (the manual says it can handle a 2 GB module) and have access to something more than 2GB of addressable RAM. Anyone happen to try this with this or a similar model Dell? (The 6400 is equivalent to the 1505, IIRC. Its manual says it's limited to 2 GB of RAM.)

EDIT: Answering myself, it appears it can take 2 x 2 GB sticks. The following Dell forums thread describes this, although this particular post linked claims that the configuration will disable dual channel memory access (but then again, other posters are happy and view the expansion as an improvement).

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/...

EDIT2: I've seen some other comments that dual channel remains enabled (with matched 2 x 2GB sticks). I guess I'll give it a go.
"there's some loophole that lets the dealer resell"

Exactly. The way the law was written, the exact wording, it would never be expected that someone would not want to do something like put on a license plate and go to the added expense that Jobs did.

The law probably reads "x" time period from the date of title.

Even if that time period was only 30 days there is nothing to prevent someone from selling the car to their wife, buying it back, and re-titling. And a transfer to a family member in many states including California is exempt from sales/use tax:

http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/brochures/howto/htvr1.htm
Looks pretty cool, but for the love of god please slow down your slideshow (maybe 6-8 seconds instead of 4).
It's compressed after encryption, so the effects of the compression is minimal. I believe that my post was correct: due to the effects of the encryption, the compression is almost useless, rendering the large iOS file size essentially equivalent to the size when installed to disk. That's all.
> Yes, this is how it should work, but it hasn't worked this way for a long time;

More concretely, this bill would be allowed up by the prevailing (contorted) interpretations of the copyright clause and the interstate commerce clause.
It was all down to woocommerce, clearly ;)
You're right, of course.

The top marginal tax rate and corporate tax rate should be equalised.

That way there is no tax benefit to putting revenue through corporations or individually.

Yes, the tax offices can catch abuses like this, but it would be much simpler if there was no tax advantage to doing it one way or the other.

The amount of tax accountants and lawyers that do no productive work because they are moving stuff around in entities makes me want to cry. It's a giant churning game that does nobody any good. The govt doesn't get the money, because they can always be outsmarted. The armies of people doing the outsmarting don't contribute to society.

Just equalise the top tax rates for individual and corporations and loopholes disappear by the bucket load.
It would've helped if he had just specified which kind of tea he likes. That way, he wouldn't have needed to write most of that paragraph.

Now we're left to guess, which means we will stock several kinds of tea, in the hopes of one being to his liking.
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You are so wrong. Less work?

There is no cure for cancer, no clean energy, no cheap housing, no good education. There are so many things to do.
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I guess I intend this list to be used as a set of tools. Just like recommending aspirin or mucinex to relieve symptoms does not mean people shouldn't see a doctor to see if they can't be prescribed antibiotics. What is the reason to treat depressed people specially so that this reasoning doesn't apply there too?

As a side question -- and I am really just trying to find out more -- you are extremely confident that depression must be given medical attention and only medical attention. Can you elaborate on that? What specifically do you mean by this? Is it a well known condition that can be treated in all cases? Or is it a cargo-cult-science type thing where some things are treated but over half the cases are just handwaving? When a psychologist says "you should see me again, how about next week" how do you know they are actually helping? etc. When a psychiatrist prescribes a drug, how do you know people wouldn't be cured without it? I am just asking how do you know, because I really want to have more information about it. And since you seem confident I want to ask what you know about this condition. Is it one specific disease or is it just a general guessing game by the experts, kind of like the drugs in these studies: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_...
Make sure to update the page with the pub you plan to over-flow to. I can't make it at 7:30 but after 9, I will be free.
As cjfront is saying, Socket.IO supports Web Sockets, Flash sockets and long polling. The nice thing is it detects the capabilities of the browser and gracefully degrades.
Typical buy-out of a small business with a proven revenue stream is 7X annual gross. Source: Bruce Williams talk show. You can also speak with a business broker to feel out a rough rule of thumb with someone who is a middleman for buyers and sellers of small businesses every day.

Showing her that you are serious about taking your mutual business to the next level by being willing to commit to 7X her share ($69,300, likely in installments) may convince her to put in more time into pulling her share of the work. You are essentially offering to lock in her upside, with the implied optimism that you will make back many times that once you own the product. If she is perceptive, she'll see that you wouldn't be offering this to her if you didn't think you would make it back and then much more besides, and that could motivate her to put more effort into the product.

Another option is to explore a royalty arrangement. She agrees to sign over her ownership (which seemed to be loosely conditioned on participation level) in exchange for a perpetual or term-based royalty to sit back and do nothing. The term could be temporal ("5 years") or metric-based ("until X% of the functions committed to the repo are fully authored by me"), level ("X% of gross sales") or tapered ("start at X% of gross, drop to Y% per fiscal quarter"), pretty much the sky is the limit on what you can make up and negotiate.
One thing I don't understand: why is the (relatively small) entertainment industry still so much more effective at lobbying than the (relatively large) tech industry? Google, Facebook, ISPs and others would seem to have a strong incentive to not want excessive regulation of their industry. So why aren't they stepping up to the plate and countering the entertainment business' lobbying efforts with serious bucks?
How I wish they would hire some experienced Lisp people and make a dream IDE.
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I agree with most of your points except for 3. As long as the income from the transactions are conducted legally, then you'll get the tax money for them. If you try and tax each transaction, you'll just move the transactions offshore. Communications technology means that a derivative market can be conducted anywhere.

I think what you want is for derivatives to not have the chance to bring down entire sectors of the economy. That's fine, and your point in (2) would acheive this. There is also a case to be made for larger capital and margin requirements for trading firms above a certain size - ie, anyone who trades over X,000 contracts per year.

Derivatives traders can fail as much as they want as long as the failure doesn't threaten stability. It's when they bet too large, and use depositors money, that the problems start. Introducing capital and margin requirements keeps the size of the bets down and isolating trading from banking keeps them from using depositors money.
For sure. It's going to take time. I'm more excited about the short term where we can actually use them as development accessories. For me, that'd be enough.
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good link!
I don't know what your pricing model will be, but might I suggest a way for users to create a one-off online store.

I have a lot of books I'd want to sell to my friends/networks, because they'll pay me more than Amazon or EBay. While a monthly subscription wouldn't be feasible for a user like me, I'd gladly fork over $10-20 to set up a one-time-use online store.

I really, really like it. Excellent work.
> the functionality provided by GNU is critical and would require a large effort to replace

This isn't really true. You could just grab your userspace from a BSD, or Plan9Port. Clang and LLVM do well enough to replace GCC on most important architectures.