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Yeah, over the years Mac OS has increasingly offered functionality that was once a separate utility to install, MacDivvy is one of the few utilities left I install separately.
yep true, but i meant "big picture" of that particular function, poor choosing of words. but it would be more cool if you somehow would be able from one function see big picture of whole project like in fractals or some thing. :-)
Sometimes the down voting here is rather perplexing. The post starts out by denying a rational explanation for the cause of salary differences without any justification.

How is noting a flaw in the argument/question-setup worthy of downvoting?
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> If you want to compare it to something, compare it to regular (snail) mail. It's exactly the same thing.

No it's not. Email occupies the space right in between IM and snail mail. It is way more convenient for me to send email than it is for me to write a letter, and that email sends more quickly. People email you for all sorts of reasons they'd never write a letter. I get tech support requests for Tumblr themes I designed three years ago, and people asking me questions about things I've written, and friends asking me what's up, and lots and lots of email from people at my work. Because the Internet lets me publish without going through a journal or magazine, I receive all the comments that, if I were a traditional columnist, would be going to my editor instead. I'm not receiving as much email as I used to when I kept a regularly-frequented blog, but even so it's weary how much communication I receive.

If I spend a weekend without checking my email, then my flow is disrupted. I have too many messages to respond to them all properly. So I prioritize them and answer many of them curtly or delete some without replying at all. Or, I make an excuse to check my email over the weekend.

If I went on vacation, I'd be incredibly anxious about the upcoming email deluge awaiting me on my return. The temptation to check my email and relieve the burden would be immense. I can sympathize with wanting to disable my inbox until my return.

(The other difference between email and snail mail is that with email you know immediately that your message was not received. With snail mail you're waiting at least two days. That's a frustrating wait. The convenience of email makes it less bothersome when somebody inconveniences your attempt to reach them.)
Whomever is doing the downvoting on all of my posts on this topic please speak up. Why the down voting? Because I do not share your opinion?
Hear hear. You make a point that is true as the day is long - one which nobody wants to hear.

Not long ago I became a boss and tried to be a textbook good one: paying generously, being generous in general (e.g. vacation/sick days on the honor system), being a real sweetheart, asking nicely, giving credit, supporting their initiatives, giving control… My employees were smart, capable, and hard-working, so I should trust them. So I thought.

I ended up having to fire all of them.

When they freelanced for me before I hired them, they were on the ball and contributing. Then I made the mistake of hiring them and it all went to shit. They were not contributing anything like the kind of value I paid them for, wasting my time & money, generally spoiled, ungrateful, and clearly contemptuous of me and what I asked of them, never considering my position as the person responsible for their salaries and keeping the company alive.

Somehow I accidentally led them to believe that they were "partners" in decision-making, even though they had none of the risk. Not that they acted like partners, of course. But they came away with the idea that it was "our" business, and proceeded to do jack all with it except act entitled.

And when I fired them, they were shocked. They apparently spent quite a lot of time bitching about me to other people (while not doing their jobs) but were caught completely unawares that the feeling went both ways. Shocking.

I certainly have learned a valuable lesson:

When you're a driven, exacting person, you have to either hope you will find somebody just like you (fat chance!!) -- or you have to make them. And the making of a driven, exacting person from the outside is never going to be pleasant for the one being made. (And no matter how much better it makes them, they will whine about it.)

What are the chances that the "beleaguered" employees Jobs upset would have done work half as good without a cruel taskmaster? Pretty low, based on my experience.

Me, I have to admire somebody who can keep the pressure on another person and force them to do great work. I don't have it in me.
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Good for them. 17 engineers, 3 support reps and 2 founders, organic viral growth based strictly on product merits - my kind of startup.

However.

Now taking bets which established IM company will sue them first and over which (trivial) patent. Perhaps after refusing their acquisition offer.
It is also worth noting that comments have less contrast on github and in most other IDEs. I think it speaks to the fact that humans and computers actually care about the same parts of the code file.
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for those jumping to html5 on mobile..

If you can avoid manipulating the DOM or use a framework that avoids manipulating the DOM you will get fast applications...
The "community" observation is interesting, but I'm curious how much of it is a function of time.

I started with PHP in 1996. While the community was not as large as it is today, it felt... a bit more alive. People were discovering this 'underground' tech, and to use PHP on a project was slightly rebellious, when you were supposed to be using Perl or ASP or maybe even ColdFusion or Java.

But the community changes as more people who are using the tech get involved. More people end up using the tech not by choice, but by mandate. Current infrastructure is LAMP, so new hires have to use LAMP, etc. PHP is no longer a rebellious underground choice - it's a/the standard.

Similarly, I was doing VB stuff in 1993. Rather revolutionary in many ways, and it felt like a whole new world. People were jumping ship from other platforms to be more productive in VB. I don't think it was ever 'underground' like PHP was, but certainly an active, vibrant community of people who wanted to be using that tech.

Fast forward to the mid 2000s - Rails becomes the new hotness, and people jump all over MVC. The people who are joining these communities in the beginning are there by choice. Lots of progress and rapid iterations are possible because of the passion and focus. A couple years from now, loads of people will be doing maintenance Rails projects, and the community of Rails people will be less active and less passionate about things than they are today. Many of the 'best and brightest' are moving on to node.js and other new hotness.

The cynic in me will point out that the newer members of the community coming in later will be stuck maintaining "first drafts" of attempts at Rails projects, that won't have benefitted from updates. I say this as someone who was shown a Rails 1.1 project in 2010 that had been started 3 years earlier, but never upgraded. I'm sure that's not the only one.

But... this is also the nature of tech communities. People come and go, but the people 'going' are often 'going' to the new-fangled stuff, and leaving behind a mixed-bag that the maintenance generation has to deal with. This skews the 2nd generation's view of the tech (not always, but some). I know people who left PHP for Rails, complaining about all the stuff PHP couldn't do. But they also left behind piles of poorly written PHP - there's nothing in PHP forcing you to write bad code, they just didn't have the discipline which something like Rails seems to force.

Long story long... the .NET community seems at a cross-roads, and the MS corporate involvement in the tech decisions isn't a spanner-in-the-works that most other tech communities have to contend with. Other tech - PHP/Perl/Python/Ruby/etc - tend to live and die outside the directives of one particular company. But the 'top down' community comment was spot on - it's hard to 'force' community on a group, and I suspect the reason most of the .NET users don't behave like other communities the OP compared to is that most of those .NET users don't want to be there. Not saying they hate .NET, but they just don't have the passion for tech that motivates the visible community members in other tribes.
The Las Vegas example is the one I use also. I could get on a plane, go to Vegas, spend every last penny I have, borrow all I could and spend it, and what happens? Nothing. People might tell me how stupid I was. Yet if I do the same thing with startups, somehow I've been swindled and the public has an interest in protecting me.

Huh? So how about if I created a roulette game where you spin a wheel and one time out of 50 you get in on a hot startup. The other times you lose your money. Would that be acceptable?

I read the article, desperately trying to find something redemptive. I think the key statement is here:

..."The idea that a company could do this with no oversight is frightening because there are plenty of people out there who are willing to separate investors from their money," says Melanie Senter Lubin, Maryland's securities commissioner. "We are concerned about anything where investors have the potential of losing money or where they're making an investment without the information they need to make an informed investment decision."...

So you put a up big huge disclaimer that says you have an extremely small chance of ever seeing your money again.

I think that pretty much covers it, doesn't it? How much more informed do we have to be to spend our own money?
1. Semantic web. Not really. People are still trying, but it's not at all clear whether it will actually take off some day.

2. Artificial Intelligence. Not too long ago I would have said "Nope, keep dreaming". But recently there's been several AI-powered applications and projects that are actually useful. There's of course Siri, but also a whole bunch of Computational Linguistics and Computer Vision projects going on. I doubt we'll get an actual scifi-like "talking computer with personality" soon, but AI is more than just that.

3. Virtual Worlds. Well there is World of Warcraft, but I'm kind of glad 2nd Life didn't take off. It was much too bright and shiny to become a Snow Crash Metaverse ;-)

4. Mobile. Yup. Spot on.

5. Attention Economy. I'm not really sure what this is. I suppose that's a no then, even though parts of it seem to be implemented, it's not as ubiquitous as to be a "thing", or trend.

6. Web Sites as Web Services. Yes and No. We've seen quite a lot of these, and I like them a lot, but they never seem to be able to stay "just" a Web Service. Always expanding, not content to remain a single cog in a user-ducttaped web. Twitter is a good example of starting out as a brilliantly simple Web Service, expanding and doing so much more than "Do One Thing And Do It Well".

7. Online Video. Absolutely. Funny how they don't even mention YouTube :)

8. Rich Internet Apps. Yes. Although not on AIR or any other platform, but HTML5 and increasingly powerful JavaScript. There's successes and failures, some things work as Internet apps, some don't, some things need to be re-implemented a few times before someone gets them "right". But on the whole, this has been rising and probably will continue to do so for a while.

9. International Web. I don't know. I'm not seeing it. The big languages are still very isolated in my experience. I can't read Russian or Chinese so I don't know what's going on there. I can read Dutch, some German and a tiny bit of French, and when I do, it really feels to me as if they're on their own web, with their own web culture, style and sometimes even their own technologies. It seems that "everybody" is on the English web, but not vice versa.

10. Personalization. Yes. They try. It's interesting how most consumers never asked for this, and some of them really don't even want it, yet the marketing and advertising opportunities provide a strong enough force to push it any way. I'm not sure where this will end up going but they did get the prediction right.

So that's about 6 out of 10, maybe?

I think this tells us more about the feasibility of making these predictions at all, than whether RWW had a good grasp on the playing field in 2007. I remember 2007 and from that point of view, given this blast-from-the-past, indeed all of these technologies would have sounded just as reasonable as the rest.
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Many students at my (non-US) university use Wolfram Alpha for graphing, simplification of formulas and similar every day, yet most have no idea that Mathematica even exists. If Wolfram wants Wolfram Alpha to drive sales of Mathematica they should do more to advertise that program through the service.
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> Of course, there's also the fact that people email/IM/FB others simply because they can, whether they have anything of import to say or not. You'd think twice if you had to walk over to somebody's cube to show them a picture of a cat, but you wouldn't blink an eye to post an article with the same content to 100 people on FB.

Daniel, thanks for talking about this, because it's made me realize how different people's perspectives are when it comes to this technology. I started using IM in seventh grade, and for me it's always been a tool for social distraction. Recently I've started using it for business and for thesis interviews, but I still don't turn it on unless I'm expecting small talk with friends. Ditto Facebook, which was created my sophomore year in high school and the point of which was to give other people opportunities to small talk with you. If I say ten trivial things a day, then other people have ten chances to start a conversation they might not have started otherwise. I dated a girl who I basically met on Facebook Chat, and I strengthened a lot of friendships with people I rarely saw IRL but bullshitted with online a lot. Yet this is social behavior rather than productive. Its only aim is conversation.

Of course, this social software also makes it much harder to pay attention to work, which is why I dropped Facebook for Google+ and now am slowly phasing away from Google+ too. It's a shame that these social sites don't differentiate play from meaningful construction. Come up with a way of filtering people's noise from their signal, so that you can decide: do I want to see important information? Or do I want a lot of time-wasting bullshit? (There is a time for such things, I feel; I've tried cutting it out of my life entirely but it's no fun to be all business all the time.) Perhaps this is a problem that should be solved by using two separate mediums for communication, but that's inconvenient.

Anyway, it's food for thought, and it's going to make me reconsider how freely I fling nonsense around the internet. Thank you.
>Hell, by the time you've switched context, you might as well read the article: your concentration is shot. Ten seconds of scanning an email header might take five or ten minutes to recover from.

I read email only once or twice a day and have turned off all email notifications, which eliminates this objection to email.

Footnote: "turned off all email notifications": exception: I set procmail to play some music whenever my machine gets an email from my girlfriend, but that is a temporary measure designed to condition her and reward her (with prompt responses) for emailing instead of calling.
I haven't encountered a physically fit individual who has struggled to lose weight

I do daily exercise, have done strength training for years, and am careful of what I eat and how much of it — even with this scheme it’s not easy to keep my weight at its present level, so while I’m definitely physically fit, it is a big struggle to avoid gaining weight.

If I compare my activities, food intake, etc. to those of my slim peers, it’s clear that the cards are just stacked differently.
Good for them. 17 engineers, 3 support reps and 2 founders, organic viral growth based strictly on product merits - my kind of startup.

Agreed. It's refreshing to see a startup that is actually in business to sell a product, rather than aiming for acquisition and trying to be the product.
Further to your 3rd point, you can go further and apply Orwell's 6 rules of writing from his essay "Politics and the English Language". The last rule is the most important.

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.

3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
I'm concerned less about lawsuits and more about in-grown group messaging technology. iOS 5 just brought about half my friends/my entire family over to iMessages, which duplicate IM features like seeing the other person typing. It's so nifty that it makes me wish I had an iMessage interface on my computer, or an integration at least with iChat. And it makes me a much less likely user of mobile IM applications, because now I have a built-in equivalent that works without my searching out (or paying for) an application.

Which is too bad, because I wish we had more start-ups this honest. Make something somebody wants, charge them at a rate they're willing to pay. I'm increasingly sick of advertising models, and of start-ups that start with funding and then move towards a profit model (which is usually advertising).
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Thanks for taking the time to write all this up. I haven't delved into my copy yet, but it's great that now I can do so knowing that I shouldn't trust Isaacson's editorializing.

I joined Hacker News a long time ago. I think it's shameful that people here now don't know any better -- or don't have the brains -- than to say that it doesn't matter if the book is full of bald-faced lies, because Steve Jobs was not a nice man, or because the iPhone isn't "open."

What a load of brainless boloney.

In the old HN, this post of yours would have triggered an interesting discussion about other lies found in the book, and/or stories & facts (real ones) omitted, and/or the perils of biography in general.

So, just so you know, some of us old guard are still here, appreciating what you're doing.
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It'd be nice if there were more like you.
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Knuth would probably disagree with him also; Yegge's post is almost an anti-literate-programming manifesto, opposing the idea of interspersing your code with English explanations of what it does and why.

Of course, literate programming doesn't advocate writing completely trivial English explanations, so they agree on the counter++ case, but it sounds like Yegge opposes a large ratio of explanatory comments more generally.
On that front, NeXT's networking was a clear step forward, and Be's barely a step sideways.

I am not saying they made the wrong decision, quite the contrary I am saying they made the right one, but I was just adding some historical context to the discussion that many of us at the time thought Be was the better choice. History has proven that we where wrong, but none the less a lot of us thought Be fit the bill. I no longer hold that position given what the future became, but I would be lying if I said, I and many people saw the logic back then.
Those are great numbers for PC gaming. I wonder what the ratio is for playing vs. bought.

Todd Howard, the game director at Bethesda Game Studios, has recently claimed that consoles make up about 90% of their overall game sales. If this is still true for Skyrim it means this game likely has massive sales #s for a single player RPG, or any other game for that matter.
You know something interesting? I went around linking friends to this article due to Bill possessing a lot of the traits typically lionized in entrepreneurs.

My psych major friend reads it and goes "yup that's a checklist for psychopathic behavior. Don't believe me?" then he links me the wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

VERY interesting if you read the wiki on psychopathy and re-read the Bill Nguyen article.

I'll also be careful to state I'm not trying to say anything here - behavior is highly contextual after all. Take for example a professional fighter who can be a really nice guy, loving family man and friend yet flip a switch when the bell rings. You just can't say whether this man is violent or not - his behavior is contextual.
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The new behavior protects from the following scenario (which I think is very common): Someone wants to use an old document as a template and in the process overwrites the old document. That’s data loss and the user likely becomes unable to even find the new document since it’s saved under the name of the old document.

It used to be the case that users had to actually make a mistake in order for this to happen (i.e. they had to forget to do a Save as and do a Save instead – that happened to me way too often, though), with auto save they would make that mistake automatically and every time.

I think what Apple could do is add a “Duplicate and save” function, I don’t think Save as is salvageable with auto save.
I do that, and it's the greatest thing ever.

For 3 years now, I've had a full-time assistant who filters all my email, handles the FAQs, and only leaves a few per-day for me - just the ones that only I know the answer to.

Anyone interested in this, feel free to email me for details.
...which would have created unemployment in its export sector, reducing German wealth production until the German economy adjusted.

Aren't we considering the counterfactual where Germany never entered the Euro and had it's currency dragged down by weaker nations? In that counterfactual, the currency appreciation would have been slow and there would have been plenty of time to adjust. So the unemployment effects would have been minimal.

So ultimately, all the Euro did was reduce German buying power and force Germans to work more.
You didn't find it distracting when people walked to your cube to talk? Or was this a very infrequent occurrence (and/or only by team-members, not the business)?
It is also encoraging to see a subscription business that is reasonable priced at $1-2 for 3 years, way under what people tell you is the viable minimum.