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"It's hard to imagine vibrant aftermarkets for these founding papers..."

Is it so hard, though? From reading the article, one gets the sense that there's already been a very vibrant aftermarket for these papers to date. From an initial selling price of "a couple thousand dollars" in 1994, they've risen in value to $1.6MM. Assuming the original price was $2000, that's a 79,900% increase in value in 17 years. (For the sake of comparison: the price of Apple stock has increased by about 921% between December 12, 1994 and today).

Memorabilia, antiques, and artifacts -- even the seemingly random ones -- can be extremely lucrative investments. True, there isn't always an obvious aftermarket; many of these items are purchased as curiosities or personal bragging tokens. But if one is able to create an aftermarket for them, the sky is the limit.

Who would purchase these papers from Mr. Cisneros at a sum higher than $1.6MM? It's tough to say, but I can see quite a few possibilities. Other rich guys, museums, charitable foundations, corporations, and hell, maybe even Apple itself. Maybe Woz gets sentimental one day, can't find his own copies, or decides he wants more copies, and buys them from this guy. Who knows? There are a lot of potential buyers.
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PLC and other industrial software is a long way behind in terms of "software engineering". A college classmate did a graduation project/internship figuring out how to do version control and modularize PLC programs with device drivers.
> HP is a big enough company that they will be able to take this and make it recognizable

If they have to do it, it's already a failure. Unless you are very familiar with their current logo, the odds of you guessing what the new one is are vanishingly small. They'd have to spend a ton of money to maintain its recognizability.
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Let's be honest: Native Apps can be reverse engineered, the Web/Cloud don't. And reverse engineering is an important right.

When web applications have only limited APIs, limited call rates, and changing everytime I can only think that I can turn on my Apple II and continue to use the same applications as 30 years ago.

Again, don't compare Google Spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel, look at the Microsoft balance sheet.

If you're interested I've written more rants about this on:

- The Data Portability Fact Sheet: http://blog.databigbang.com/the-data-portability-fact-sheet/

- Google Search NoAPI: http://blog.databigbang.com/google-search-no-api/
There has always been a strong "case against using CoffeeScript", from day one. Like any other new language, it's a new, strange thing to learn, there's new tools and a new compiler, and your team doesn't already know it.

In addition, CoffeeScript has it's own distinct burden to bear: the entire point is to compile (in as straightforward a fashion as we can manage) into JavaScript. That you're debugging JavaScript when you run CoffeeScript in production should be no surprise -- that's the point. But it's also quite a large hurdle to jump.

What's interesting about CoffeeScript is that despite there being a strong case against using it -- and I try to make the same case in my workplace -- people still find it useful enough, and transparent enough, to use it regardless.

As of this morning, CoffeeScript is the 13th most popular language on GitHub, and the second most popular module in npm, after Underscore. All of the top ten languages on GitHub date from the mid-1990s or earlier.

https://github.com/languages/
http://search.npmjs.org/

The better question is not "What is the case against using CoffeeScript?" ... but instead: How is it that despite all of the obvious hurdles stacked against a new source-to-source language, people are actually using CoffeeScript?

That's the question I'd like to know the answer to.
A comedy special isn't an every-couple-of-weeks thing, and the front page of reddit isn't a very exclusive club. I'd bet five bucks that his next $5 special enjoys a great deal of attention from there.
Well, Richard Stallman was right. But I wonder if he or anyone ever thought that it went so far. When they save "installed on every phone" does that mean every phone in existence? In the USA?
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"And now we've found the same link in infants from families that follow anthroposophic lifestyles, and that they have relatively low levels of cortisol"

anthroposophic apparently means religious.
Playing devil's advocate: As the title says, the vendor included backdoors in the application. I'm not sure I can trust them and their clearly irresponsible development practices to patiently wait for them to handle this on their own.
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It's an interesting and possibly important point, but I doubt its relevance to most suicidals. It implies a sort of rationality that I expect is "out of scope" for people suffering a physiological mental illness. Clinical depression is a real medical condition, with real impacts on cognition and reasoning. I expect a great many suicides aren't "choosing" anything, but rather responding to complex pains, in a condition of diminished ability to perceive situations and alternatives.

For a person in such a moment, the first advice must be: Hold on. You can, at some point, see more clearly, and then see way out and up. Then: Reach for help. If help fails, revert to first advice. Never stop holding on.

I'm not saying you don't make sense. (And not saying you do, I think you're absolutely wrong about both the morality and possible rationality of suicide.) I'm saying you are trying to talk sense to a population that isn't really in a position to make use of sense.
It's like HP decided one day to lose as many customers as possible. This must be part of that plan. Paul Rand is rolling over in his grave.
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Yes, but the gradual improvement might have been happening over a long period already, and as a result, the situation wouldn't be bad anymore.
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Apps vs websites reminds of the TV vs VCR analogy. Yes you can use the VCR 24/7 but requires lots of maintainance. Sometimes it's just easier to turn the TV on no matter how bad the content.
Most interesting apps on my iPhone spend most of their time talking to web APIs, so that's a bit of a moot point.

Plus, for the client-side of things view source is a lot easier than decompiling a binary.
Backbone is for much more than ToDo apps, this is just the exampe app customized to use Spring 3.1 and MongoDB (here's the original example http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/examples/todos/inde...)

For more on Backbone here's the official page http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/
I remember tons of CD-roms which were just HTML, images , swf and java files. The same goes today for many of the apps that are sold on appstores, especially magazines and newspaper apps. The main reason seems to be that publishers can charge for the apps. On the web we don't really have an alternative yet, unless someone comes up with a brilliant, frictionless, secure and elegant web API for micropayments.
I like the current one better than the 1940's one, but the best one, IMHO, is the one used from the 60's to the late 90's.
Moot point? If the APIs change your applications turn unusable. Look at what Twitter did with third party UI applications.

You are only one case. Can you summarize all the application that you use everyday for work? are they native or web applications?
Cisco was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this new logo.

I also don't like this fad.
For me personally it would be refreshing to get something that is so deeply personal to the person or persons I support. Any band, for instance, that I enjoy I would feel overly elated to support something they spent all of THEIR time on. It becomes something very personal and I would know that I am supporting THEM only and not the myriad of people in between that have done nothing deserving. It probably won't work for everyone but I doubt everyone would even try it. It takes a lot of effort and knowledge to pull off unless you have a lot of help.
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Sure, but Apple and Google have easily recognizable logos. This one is cryptic, at best.
I thought Burt Rutan was working with Virgin Galactic on their venture.
> Playing devil's advocate: (...)

No you aren't. The parent post is playing devel's advocate; you are a down-to-earth, honest, practical user of software.
That's sweet. Incredibly useful AND a nice showcase of what's possible with special web clips on iOS.

Installed and donated $10, well worth it.
You used to be able to use your own drive as space for others, in exchange for more space for you "elsewhere". Do they still do that? I thought they'd killed that idea.
stealing, copying, duplicating... Steve said, "Good artists copy, great artists steal. We've always been shameless about stealing great ideas."
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I'm working on a game with highly-stylized art that includes a lot of blobs of single colour. It surprised me at first, but the artists have had real gains using JPG instead of PNG. Also, strangely the artifacts give the art a kind of "texturized" finish that's actually kind of pleasant on tablet screens.
Funnily enough, I just bought the thing, and at the end of the payment process was bounced back to the site, which is now down.
(the site works on my phone, though)
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Yep, completely agree with the article. For me an important difference between the 'web' and 'apps' is that generally speaking nobody builds mobile apps out of generosity or egalitarianism, ie to give something to the world for free - mobile app developers are in it for the money.

However, the openness and non-proprietary nature of the web seems to encourage people to be generous and share content and services.

How many open source mobile apps are there compared to really great open source web/pc software?
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Actually, antroposophy is a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner. To bring that into perspective, Steiner and Hermann Hesse shared many ideas, and Michael Ende (author of Neverending Story and Momo) was raised in a Waldorf school (based on Steiner's philosophy).

I'm only halfway through Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom book (it's pretty fucking heavy, to use the technical term), but by my best guess it appears to be an (impressive) attempt to derive eastern philosophies' conclusions from western premises. While there's certainly a strong sense of respect for the abstract and the mind (as you'd expect from any philosopher), I wouldn't call it "religious" in the typical sense of the word.
Wild card: the reason is that tech companies want an excuse to hire cheap immigrants.
Maybe it's for performance reasons. I have a web server in go that generate (big) png on the fly and most of the time is spent in the png encoding (mostly the compression). PNG encoding is a heavy task.

Here's (from my blog) a pprof profile of my server : http://canop.org/pub/pprof4353.0.svg so that you can see the burden.

(I didn't make comparisons with other languages so I don't know if Go's png encoder is fast or not, I suspect it isn't)
Updates are a major issue. Most web-spoilt users don't even understand why apps don't update themselves. Browser functions are useful in most apps, hence the 'back' buttons in the top bar of most iOS apps. People are used to the web nowadays and expect similar functionality from the rest of the software they use.

Discoverability is a big problem. The chrome web store is an example, it's interesting, but it's only built into chrome, and we had too many failed "Web directory" projects in the past anyway. There are other routes, like facebook viral apps, but these are also siloed.
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Well that's precisely the point. The advantage of the Web is its concept, not its implementation. URL is great, instant delivery of content is great. But the technology stack that Web is currently implemented with, i.e. HTML, JS and CSS is full of crap. Advocates for Web confuse the two: it's not HTML and JS that constitute the main advantage of Web, it's linking and sharing. And those technologies need to be replaced as soon as possible. Good that Google is trying to do something about it: Native Client and Dart.
Maybe they should change this from 'Person' of the year to 'politically motivated thing we want to recognize'
I'm all for this model.

But a major challenge remains, and it's this: Trent Reznor, Radiohead, and even Louis C.K. were all hugely popular and successful before they employed this model. Can the model work for lesser-known artists attempting to capture an audience?

In theory, sure. If anything, I could see this model's working out quite well for the proverbial little guy. But first, that little guy faces a big challenge: how to get himself noticed. How to turn himself into a Radiohead without the tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars that EMI spent marketing and promoting and touring Radiohead, over 20-odd years, prior to the band's online release of "In Rainbows." How to turn himself into a Louis C.K. without two major HBO series deals, a bevy of TV roles, sponsored tours, and a movie role or two.

In looking at the majorly successful artists in pop culture today, we see that 99.99% of them were "made" by a big company or series of big companies. They were self-made in the sense that they quietly worked in the trenches, perfecting their craft, sometimes for decades, before they hit their big breaks. But big breaks were necessary conditions of becoming superstars. And becoming a superstar seems to be a necessary condition for big success in this model.

[I don't want to get onto too wild of a tangent, and start discussing the philosophical meaning of "success." For some, success might mean simply making a living as an artist. I get that, and I respect that. I'm putting that aside for the moment, however, and focusing on the top of the game.]
> Radiohead and Trent(nine inch nails with ghosts) did the same thing but at different times

Not exactly the same thing: Ghosts I-IV was fixed price(s), provided lossless downloads, under a very permissive CC license and the first quarter was put on torrent sites directly.

Similar yes, same no.
"The defining signature of the system is the 13° angle. 13° represents HP’s spirit as a company, driven forward by ingenuity and optimism about the future and a belief in human progress."

This reads to a non-designer like myself as pure BS, written merely to justify the likely exhorbitant cost of their work. All that seems missing is a few "paradigms" and "outside the boxes".

Could an experienced logo designer weigh in a let us "pure techies" know if this kind of stuff passes muster with you? Does a 13* angle really convey that much more than a 14* could?

For what it's worth, the new logo looks terrible. The old one had a classic tech look like IBM's.
In my case, Rails 3.1 is the answer. I never felt the urgency of a better JS so much as to look for solutions, but having it already integrated into the workflow makes you really appreciate it. Except when debugging, of course :)
He personally said that. It was mentioned in this thread.

EDIT: Ah correction, he says "this is less than I would have been paid". It's the top comment.
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They have form on this one; in 2006 it was "You," in recognition of the rise of user generated content.

Kind of annoying that the massive 2010 student protests in the UK never get mentioned in articles like this. Tens of thousands of them occupied their universities for months, stormed and trashed the HQ of one of the governing parties, and attempted to burn down the treasury offices. Running battles with 14 year olds throwing lumps of concrete at police on horseback. It was chaos.

I am by no means condoning it, just pointing out how strange it is that these events never get mentioned in articles like this, because they predate the arab spring/OWS and therefore don't fit the media narrative.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/2010_UK_stude...
How stupid to vilify one source of distraction. They should also condemn driving with a friend in the passenger seat, driving with children, driving with a pet, listening to the radio, billboard advertisements near roadways, etc.

We live in a society based on cowardice, fear, and a desire to be 'safe' at all costs.
I think companies that are falling behind seem to be grasping at the straw. Someone suggested "well we seem to be losing market share, it is probably because we have an outdated logo, let's fix that"
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With JavaScript ordinary developers hit a wall at some point and can't make further progress. Like Java has shown, how good the language is seems secondary to how good the implementation, the runtime, is.

JavaScript runtimes have kept on improving and with the V8/Node.JS combination have started taking over the server-side code.

With careful engineering, developers can get even further with just JavaScript the language. I wonder for instance whether using the Google Closure Tools can bring more gains there. Such tools help with checking the code for common pitfalls and the style guidelines also help a bunch. Plus, they might help with deployment, with the packaging for the specific program you've written so you don't need to package up all the library with it. Then you don't need to feel ashamed of making use of lots of library code, if only the part of it that you're using gets deployed.

Still, working with JavaScript directly can also bring debugging challenges, even more when you're trying to debug code that has been mangled since leaving your library source files.

Languages like CoffeeScript and Dart have success because the alternative in pure JavaScript is still quite painful, as I've mentioned above. It's a mistake to dismiss languages like CoffeeScript and Dart because you want that 50% extra performance.

Still, CoffeeScript is a concept. It could be said to have been over-engineered in places. Some of the stewards of JavaScript would have found it better if it was more like a JavaScript with JSLint turned on and some niceties on top of it.
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By portals, I mean enterprise portals (like Liferay, JBoss Portal, Apache Jetspeed, etc.).

The biggest problem with them is that the "applications" or "portlets" that occupy its pages we're really meant for dashboard-like information. Just show the most relevant information in a small space on the page. If you want more detail and functionality, you should be able to click on something and be taken to a full-blown website.

In reality, IT managers here the word "applications", and they then try to cram the full web app into the portlet. So now you're stuck trying to provide web app functionality in an environment where the only programmatic links you can generate are to yourself, you have no ability to control what other things are going to be on the same page as your app. Forget being able to set HTTP caching headers, since you aren't in control of the page.
I've read those. They were not about "keyboard heavy users" of our ilk --mostly about power desktop users.

(Not to mention the keyboard benefits of less RSI from mouse use).
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"A modern web application is no better in this regard"

Due to the web's open and standards-based nature, all you have to deal with is compatibility problems, which are resolved over time. I 'll take that over having to build for 6 different APIs, in 6 different languages in order to reach everyone's phones.
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Unless I am missing something, the bullet point near the end, "Progressive rendering", is not correct when it states that template rendering is asynchronous and parallel. Fetching of data, sure, but unless they are using web workers to execute the templates client side, and I do not see workers mentioned anywhere, this is not accurate. When a template is rendering, all other JS and UI will stop.

Having applied the same approach as LinkedIn on past projects and jobs (e.g. BN.com), there is definitely a lot to be gained if done right, and web workers, when available, ease some of the issues with rendering large templates and/or large datasets.
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Seems to imply this is some kind of joke?
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As a long-term investment, it's a bad choice though. I still make money from web apps built in 2007, and there's a pretty good chance i 'll keep making it with incremental changes in the following years. I doubt i 'd say the same if i'd started with phone apps in the pre-iphone era.
What do you mean by 'significant amount of content'? Inserting html is of course faster than rendering in the client, but the javascript involved here is not slow - I haven't seen anything over 15 ms yet for rendering a fairly complicated page (I'm using a resig-style microtemplate, which is probably faster).

Are you perhaps constructing the nodes on the document, instead of doing them off the tree and then inserting/replacing them all at once?
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This article helped me clarify an interesting contradiction in my own motives. As a founder I'd much rather pay market rates and hold on to equity - 0.5% incentive doesn't hurt me but my hackles raise at 10% or more. (The state of my hackles is not correlated to how fair the compensation is, BTW - it's just greed.)

On the other hand, even more than getting the top 2% unicorn squad, I want engineers who believe in the business. Taking equity in lieu of salary is a sort of screen for this, and I think that's why I've structured things that way in the past.

I agree with the article that it's not fair to the first N employees, though.
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To pick up on your last paragraph. I don't understand the connection you're making with morality... What has morality got to do with suicide? Are you saying that it is an immoral act?
1. They're douchebags (which is proven by the terms of the "investment"). NEVER sign your company away to douchebags. You should prefer to shut down.

2. Which country are you in?

3. You have a (terrible) offer in hand. Now shop around. Decide how much you need for 12 months runway, minimally, and sell 20% of the company for that. Tell us your country, and ask for people here to connect you. Try to connect to expat technology people who are from your country but live in the US tech world. They are more likely to invest a few 10K at reasonable terms.