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I don't see why it is necessary for the desktop. Gmail web app already supports notifications and file attachment drag-and-drop (if you use Chrome). And on desktop, you have much more resource and don't need to worry about closing the gmail tab to release resources.
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That’s nice but also the one negative point about Apple Stores. They are usually packed and many people want to buy something, too many to really handle without a line – yet there isn’t one place where a line could form, which tends to lead to confusion. People who are completely new to Apple Stores might moreover not immediately know where to pay what they want to buy.

When I visited the Apple Store in Munich for the first time I wanted to buy a €15 gift card but every Apple employee was busy and I couldn’t really find a place where I thought I would be able to pay. It seemed like too much of a hassle and that gift card wasn’t important enough for me. I wasn’t really trying very hard to buy something but I think this shows that packed Apple Stores aren’t a very friendly place for small impulse purchases.

By the way, in the Munich Apple Store they sort of do have a semi-permanent setup on the right at the back of the store. I think a lot more people in Germany still pay cash (I payed my iPad cash – don’t ask.) so their nifty cash registers (which are hidden under the tables) are needed more often (they are also not mobile) and there are more or less permanently Apple employees there. If a line forms they will tell you that you can pay everywhere but that doesn’t really help a whole lot when every single employee is busy.

I think what Apple is doing works extremely well for Stores that aren’t packed – but if they are it seems to break down a bit. And Apple Stores are usually packed.
I find it reassuring to know that, for many of our most dire problems, there are solutions out there. The fact that we're not using them doesn't mean we won't if we get desperate enough.
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Is the output from programming "hours on end" worth the time wasted watching movies for "hours on end"?
I looked, but I can't figure out the right Google juice - example.com is, for obvious reasons, a pretty common search result on the web! USENET would be better, but Google Groups seems to not index words with periods in the middle; "example.com" returns only "example com" results.

It was common advice back in the day to use "example.invalid" and NOT kill some poor guy's server at example.com; I don't think .invalid was explicitly reserved before then, but it was known not to be a ccTLD or gTLD.
He also does a neat trick where the aliens can communicate with us, despite having no understanding of what they are saying.

"The Chinese Room Argument"

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
That image is missing a fourth circle: stuff you can do that's better than the current stuff (with the resources you have available to you.)

If whatever you want to do is not better than existing options then there's no point in doing it since your customers will just continue using the old thing.
This opens up a great use of the SendWrite API too, esp for the upcoming political season.
I'd be very surprised if they don't teach English in elementary. In Eastern Europe they start teaching English from kindergarten.
This article makes no sense.

Apple has already "snuck most of Chrome OS onto the iPad" - it's called mobile Safari, and it shares the same WebKit foundation as Chrome/Chrome OS.

Google's new search app can act as a portal into the various Google Apps, and that's somehow "sneaking in" their OS? All it's doing is taking features already present on the iPad and making them (slightly) more visible.
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The title seems entirely accurate. People are going to their executions based on old wives' tales.
This whole 'you bought it from us but when something goes wrong, you have to talk to the manufacturer' thing really threw me when I first moved to North America from Australia.

Now unless things have drastically changed in the last 6 or 7 years since I moved, the big difference I saw was that back there, you deal with the place you bought it from. In fact, I was under the impression that it was illegal to palm you off to the manufacturer.

As my PC wholesaler used to say: "they are your customer, not ours... you are our customer". That is to say, if our customer had a problem, we dealt with it. If there was a problem with the hardware, then we deal with our wholesaler and they deal with theirs if need be.

Of course all the big electronics companies had support lines and so on, but yeah, I always used to take things back to where I bought them and why wouldn't I? There's a reason I gave you my custom in the first place!
The question is how you organically build up to take on the banks and consultantocracies. Their ecosystem is about as far from a competitive market as you can imagine.

Their hiring practices might seem illogical, but I would disagree. They're just not hiring for what you think they are. It's fundamentally about hiring people who have a lot of cultural capital coupled with a work ethic and an above-average-but-not-spectacular amount of intelligence. This has only a weak correlation at best with ability to allocate capital, manage, or "consult." (Those latter skills are genuinely rare, valuable, and hard to identify anyways, so they're increasingly being replaced by organizational and technical solutions.)

Why that group of people? The types of organizations we're talking about are successful because they have secured a privileged place in the network of our economic and political economies. Their target hiring group is people who are consciously or subconsciously supportive of that existing network and will be effective at using and extending it.

So, if you had to name a group of people who are generally content with the status quo, familiar with the world of the rich and powerful, hard-working, and smart-enough, who would you go for? People who graduated from an Ivy League and have access to the resources to spend on things like climbing Mt. Everest or winning an Olympic gold medal in lacrosse.
That was the lesson I was drawing from the essay; it seems as if they hire in a monoculture. That implies to me that hiring more freaky people with as much weird as can fit into a job is likely to produce some pretty wild stuff.
In my opinion this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eATawqVOXWI&feature=playe...) is a much better demonstration of the glider in work than the one in the article. I think it's pretty cool to see the full system working!
I generally prefer to quote somewhat more authoritative sources than Wikipedia, it isn't that they are always (or even most ways) incorrect or ill-written, its just that for subjective things they cannot be relied upon. It is the nature of Wikipedia of course.
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Always the best reason for ever doing something. Nice hack.
How have I never heard of longbets.org before? This site is fascinating.
Yeah, I thought it was about "End Capitalism Now!" and "Bail out students", or something like that.
One of the most common comments I heard was that the Apple Store succeeded because it carried Apple products and catered to the brand's famously passionate customers. Well, yes, Apple products do pull people into stores. But you don't need to stock iPads to create an irresistible retail environment. You have to create a store that's more than a store to people.

People come to the Apple Store for the experience — and they're willing to pay a premium for that. There are lots of components to that experience, but maybe the most important — and this is something that can translate to any retailer — is that the staff isn't focused on selling stuff, it's focused on building relationships and trying to make people's lives better.

Best of luck creating a great experience that makes people's lives better with shit products.
Not to be pedantic, but it's "dissent." This seems to get spelled wrong a lot.
OWS is not against capitalism, it is against corporatism. It wants the same laws enforced weather you are rich, poor, an individual or a corporation.
It's the "app platform" parts of Chrome that are and will continue to be missing from Safari. Things like WebGL, NaCl, WebM/P, Dart VM, and various extension-only APIs that Chrome has introduced. WebGL may be enabled in Safari eventually, but the rest have basically no chance as far as I can see. Not that Safari necessarily should implement all Chrome features, but it would be nice if Chrome was actually available as competition.
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More precisely, the url is:

http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html

PS @rufibarbatus : It sure is! I still keep in touch with them (some of them are here on hacker news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3192719)
As you may already have discovered, it’s part of the Long Now, which is making the 10,000 Year Clock[0] (about which a friend of mine wrote a play[1], and which helped inspire Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel “Anathem”). It involves a bunch of the smartest futurists around, including Stewart Brand (famous for the “Whole Earth Catalog”), Danny Hillis (the Connection Machine), and Brian Eno (producing Talking Heads and U2).

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now

1. http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/article/You-don-t-have-to-be-a-s...
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I would cast your inspiration net wider than media that is zero or one steps removed from literal programming :)

It's a bit off the wall, but I enjoyed this a lot (American Movie): http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3336241945/

You might like this documentary about Netscape programmers: http://clickmovement.org/coderush
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Its a fair point. One would hope that the only information you share with advertisers is what the person is looking for, not things like they just signed up for a ski vacation with family, or recently became single, Etc.

One of the ways Blekko (a search engine) differentiates itself in this space is by having a privacy policy that let you keep all of your data private, up to and including not being advertised to at all. (and yes I work there, and no this isn't my pushing 'my' search engine, just that you applied your response to search engines and there is an existence proof of folks who took that step to give you the option of not sharing anything about your searches with anyone)
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The recruiting funnel isn't supposed to be perfect. In fact, most of these 'elite firms' know that their recruiting funnels bring in, essentially, statistical noise. And that's just fine.

Your chances for being hired at an elite firm are roughly .5-1%, or roughly 1 hire per 100-200 applications. No filtering system in the world could accurately filter that many candidates in a reasonable amount of time. As it stands, using the highly flawed criteria we use, it still is an enormous drag on the firm to do hiring.

The criteria used - 'elite' school, impressive extracurriculars, good grades - were selected because of their performance in a quality-time trade off. Your choice in reading resumes is to do a good job with 90% accuracy at 15-20 minutes per resume vs a quick filter with 30% accuracy at 1-2 minutes per resume. With hundreds of applications to read through, which would you prefer?
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Yes, and huge ones at that.
They should just use Postini and let Google handle it. Really impressive service that.
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Here's an interesting long bet: Warren Buffett has bet $1M that the S&P500 will outperform hedge funds over a 10 year period.

http://longbets.org/362/
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It's very different, the first step of a ticket to an investment bank, consulting firms etc is your "super-elite" school name.
"laterally related market segment."

Facebook's core competency is social networking. Mobile devices are one mode of social networking - it is a logical choice of theirs to create their own mobile device, strengthened by their brand it would be adopted on novelty alone; to a global user-base they can reach at little cost seeing as how they own their own advertising platform.
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What kind of heuristics would you use in a search like this?
In this case Microsoft represents the thing that can do stuff better than everyone else:

Scott had just gotten a job with Microsoft. I recall thinking that the point of his picture wasn't just to convey how happy and lucky he felt about the new opportunity, but to also explain why he was leaving his old employer.
I don't really understand this because:

1. The HTC Status already exists
2. Every single modern smartphone is trying to integrate multiple social networks more tightly (which includes competing non-FB networks)

I had previously thought that the Status made sense as something cheap for kids- like the Kin, and as a test device prior to a game-changer- like the ROKR. My previously assumption is that FB will either come up with its own OS (doubtful) or even buy WebOS. To release yet another branded Android phone seems a bit unrevolutionary from a rising star.
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Whoa, I can mail physical things from my computer?

Definitely checking this out.

Edit: Ah, looks like it is only for cards. I hope they add regular snail mail capabilities.
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When they said elite, banks, law firms, and consulting business did not come to mind. The first two I consider them as leeches.
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Cracks me up how managing Google+ Circles has become work.

I keep hoping someone comes up with a metaphor/system for managing the ultra-dynamic nature of real human relationships in a way that does not require admin tools like this.
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Great question.

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/promo/ama...

Provides no clues. Anyone?
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Yeah those poor guys with thousands of acres of land with fences, barns and hundreds of pounds of feed for the winter. To bad they aren't smart enough to heard animals. </sarcasm>

Owning a ranch typically isn't a poor man's occupation. It requires investments in land, improvements to the land, food for the animals when the land is unable to support them, etc.
Cooks Illustrated is pretty much the only website I regularly pull recipes from. I've taken some things from eG, since so many pros used to be on there. On the rare occasions that I ask Google to find a recipe, I'll take a FoodTV recipe if it's from a show by someone who actually owns a restaurant.

The rest of the Internet is rife with people who think mayonnaise goes in Caesar Salad.
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Nixon's bold stance(?!) predates P.S. Lang's invention of a synthetic replacement by a number of years.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=3731

Of course, he could never use the term "sperm whale". But this is what led to the Endangered Species Act that granted the whales a reprieve. Lang's invention was only a reaction to this. It's still a good read.
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I don't think that only the artist and the bands will be the ones who survive in this new media ecosystem.

We need to fix the problem of getting tens of thousands of bands to the potential millions of customers. If every band's expected to do their own marketing and music spreading then we'll end up with stuff like Soulja Boy and the Chocolate Rain kid. I seriously doubt you'll stumble upon the next Rush in a random YouTube video.

I wish we could say that Pandora and other online services are fixing the problems but I can't believe this is all we can do about it. I also wish I could provide a solution to this problem and cash in millions in the process :)
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I think this is correct, but it's a bit like watching the centuries-long decline of Rome: the idea of "just a matter of time" is a relative concept. How long will it really take for inefficient dinosaurs like ASCAP and the RIAA to finally die off?
Either less drivers on the road or more accidents ... looks like a very powerful feedback loop for me.

I think you wildly overstate the impact of a whale-oil shortage on traffic. Regardless, unless the horrible maiming of a few thousand distracted drivers would somehow save the whales, we're not talking about a loop.

Huh? who was driving automatic transmission cars?

Humans were, of course, but demand for whale oil was a function of the number of automatic transmission cars on the road, not a function of the human population count. And the places with the strongest population growth at the time (China and India, I would guess) weren't the places buying up all the fancy new auto-transmission cars.

If there were a strong relationship between the population and the demand for this commodity, then demand would have risen relatively smoothly with the population, rather than exploding with the rise of the American suburb.

We'll see how we escape global warming.

I don't know what will happen, but I'm confident quite a few animal species are going to be a lot more screwed than humanity as a whole will be. As long as there's a way to keep humans comfortable by strangling the ecosystem, some of us will do so.
Allowing to omit closing tags is a bad idea. It doesn't add to clarity. In fact, it makes complex HTML much harder to read. And if you want to write your own simple parser - good luck dealing with all those special cases. Where is the benefit?

If you want minimalism, true minimalism, you should come up with a simpler model, rather than introducing a myriad of special cases to an already complicated model.
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Web-app repackaging instead of a tailored native app seems mostly of benefit to the developer rather than users. I don't especially care how easy a time developers of apps I use had.

Reminds me a bit of the "console port" phenomenon that ruffles PC gamers sitting with their gleaming machines.
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Almost no-one uses transcripts for graduate recruiting in the UK.

There's also quite a bit of variation between how banks hire graduates in london. Some such as KBC have very hard-core testing, some like barcap use psychometric style programming questions, while some use mostly "soft testing".
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Thanks for the heads up, I actually haven't seen this site until now. We haven't gone after the "search for your data out on the internet and send opt-outs" piece of puzzle. Some of them require you to submit a copy of your driver's license. Also, it seemed like the reputation.com service is on top of this currently.
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I see the biggest value in the auto-generated Nutritional Information. Obesity is one of the major factors behind high healthcare costs in the U.S.

If you can incentives image upload along the recipes, you could build a nice database with image and calories as a label. Then you are one step towards building algorithm where you shoot a photo of your food and get approximate calories. This gives you millions of dollars of healthcare venture capital from obesity prevention programs for household environments.

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The user is important. In a related vein, back in the 1990 time frame when I was in a lab trying to remove film from the radiology business, among the deal breaking, must have or it can not be used, was that we had to use a foot switch to move from one set of four "films" to the next. Nothing else was acceptable.

I've been away from that field for 20 years, I wonder if radiologists have learned to use something other than a foot to advance the films in the reading room.

EOM

The following line intersects the article at precisely one point…

Radiologists are bizarre creatures who have rebuilt their brains into sophisticated, hard wired image processing and analysis systems. You do not screw with their mojo.

If you are ever compelled to be a radiologist you need to do this:

1) Look at the pictures.

2) Say aloud "Normal chest".

3) Put a $100 in your pocket.

4) Tap the foot switch.

5) Repeat.

You'll probably be right for 90% of cases too! Though, the 10% that die a premature painful death might not appreciate that fact.
This seems to be much in the same vein as operator overloading. As long as the programmer defines these with intuitive names, I think they'll serve to make C++ a more expressive and readable language.
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