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Who cares though. That's like arguing over which paper stock is the most prevalent in the market today and then putting the manufacturer of that paper stock in the driver's seat of the publishing industry.

The iPad rules now.. but maybe net-books will make a miraculous comeback soon. Or maybe some other kind of device will take over.. flexible digital displays? Is there anything sooo complex about a textbook (even a digitally super-duper fancy one) that really can't be done on a platform that will adapt to any device? (aka the internet)
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Is it moral to wear shoes into a Indian temple? How do you argue that without going circular?

If you ask me, the only moral arguments that aren't going to be circular are those that are based on Utilitarianism (or some similar form of Consequentialism). Of course, the parties debating then have to agree on this basic premise, or they are going to get nowhere fast. But, if you ask me, those who reject all forms of Utilitarianism are just profoundly kidding themselves. This fact is shown quite clearly by the fact that no one would accept a moral theory that results in the most miserable of all possible worlds, even if it seemed at the start that the premises of the moral theory were reasonable ones. E.g., property rights being amongst the most important rights, or what have you.
Why wouldn't it be okay? This is a link on their own website, they can control it how they want.
Set a bookmark (one tap on my Nook), go to the table of contents, choose another page, return to your bookmark whenever you feel like it.
I don't think this goes against the efforts to build a community in satellite locations. The reality is that there aren't many potential acquirers in Vancouver (virtually nil for consumer internet), so one takes an exit where one can get it. The community is helped by the fact now that when startups are raising in the Bay Area we can point to a company that was in the same geography that made a return for their investors.
I think his Point #1 & #4 are the main drawbacks. In the consumer market it's great to have a closed ecosystem where everything just works. But in a school environment cross platform is a must-have.

The irony is Apple's success with the iPad is the biggest reason for this. I anticipate a lot of people are going to buy the much cheaper Kindle Fire, find it isn't sufficient, and then bite the bullet and spring for an iPad. When they do I suspect a lot of them will donate the fire to their local school.

That's why schools have to be cross platform. Because you never know what is going to come in the door as a donation. If Samsung shows up wanting to give each student a free Galaxy Tab you don't want to turn them down.

Also, and this is a little off topic, but as someone who has tested these devices in a school I've found Apple's adherence to a single form factor to be a problem. The iPad is too big to be comfortably used for long periods of time by Elementary level kids. The 7" form factor works a lot better.
It's all about the anxiety caused by the fear.

Deep-down the unresourceful founders are afraid, which causes anxiety that their decisions are wrong, so anything that approaches being wrong causes the anxiety to repress and get in the way of the freedom to explore things.

Resourcefulness is also about letting new ideas and opportunities come to you, which helps if you listen to your unconscious, which you can't do if anxiety makes your conscious mind jumpy.
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37Signals could've completely avoided the controversy by just saying "we contacted the user who uploaded the 100 millionth file to tell them that the file they uploaded at 12:34 was the 100 millionth file and they wrote back and said it was a picture of their cat".
Until when people are going to die in the name of religion?
That's the point. It is okay as long as they play nice with HTTP headers and other info which needs to be passed downstream.
It's obviously a deliberate choice, there are no capital letters on his entire site. I don't know much about the OP but in the design world the style isn't that alien.

It originated in the 20s and 30s in the Bauhaus, Herbert Bayer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Bayer was one of the more prominent supporters, designing typefaces that contained no uppercase letterforms at all. He even experimented with designing entirely new alphabets that were phonetically based.

Jan Tschichold was another Bauhaus guy experimenting in the same realm. From Wikipedia: "Between 1926 and 1929, he designed a “universal alphabet” to clean up the few multigraphs and non-phonetic spellings in the German language. ... The alphabet was presented in one typeface, which was sans-serif and without capital letters."

It's interesting that it was born out of choices made to German, where they have many more capital letters in each sentence than we do in English. Regardless, it's clearly a stylistic choice, and one that the OP might even have to work harder to maintain, if he is accustomed to writing in sentence case.

There's that old saying that you must first learn the rules and then you can break them. That is exactly what is going on here, and the OP isn't unique in this. Throughout my time at design school many of my teachers, who had been educated by Bauhaus instructors, would email in only lowercase—they adopted the style. And others have adopted it from them (here's one of my design school friends' site: http://traceychan.net/ where she has).

I quite like the style myself.
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I think Google's Chromebook "licensing and support" strategy might be the best fit here... allow the school a way to license yearly, not only the content but the device and a lot of hand holding.

This would give predictable costs and allow schools to outsource work they aren't as good at - tech support.

Not sure how this would play with Apple's hardware-focus sales strategy however.
This seems much more like a talent acquisition vs a company being acquired.
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In regards to the Google keyword search when I do an "Exact Match" I see 2,900 monthly global searches for "how to make games". You may not be ranking as highly for the more broad matches. Could this explain it?
Not really.

It merely means that you should ask people 'why do we do this' until you get a better answer than 'We have always done it this way' (unless the actual answer is that).

It is a good warning to heed too -- otherwise you will end up redoing all the mistakes of the past.
(OP here.) I have a follow-up post in the works about minimization. I think that one of the major stresses in my life comes from waste. My wife and I have always been pretty minimal in the things that we choose to buy, but after we sold our company I think we lost sight of the importance of that a bit. I'm starting to suspect that some of my stress has come from having more than we need, and having to maintain it. (Particularly having to move it all from one house to the other, which always sucks.)

Anyways, my point is, your lifestyle can expand and contract rather readily, and money is power. The more money you have in the bank (and the further you can stretch that money), the less influence external pressures have on you -- and the more freedom you have in life.

I've also instituted a reasonably strict at-work/at-home policy with respect to email. I simply don't read my work email at home anymore, ever. If there's an emergency, the people I work with know they can always call, but emails will only be responded to the next morning. This also includes weekends, which I spend doing things that I find enjoyable, and never work.

Just some random thoughts. Remember (as I've had to) that people can only do well at things that they enjoy, and they only enjoy doings things that they do well.
It likely is a problem for all those people who pirate Windows
An even older adage (from Confucius) : "I will hold up one corner. If the student does not return, with enthusiasm, having raised the other three, the Lesson ends."
"Ask HN" is seriously buggy
I've seen this mentioned before, but I'd like to ask again for a fix.

It seems that Ask HN is seriously bugged right now: there are a disproportionate number of "really old" threads, instead of fresher and active threads.

For example, at the time of writing these three threads:

5 points, 9 comments, 10 hours old: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3483708

14 points, 9 comments, 20 hours old: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482363

5 points, 10 comments, 16 hours old: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3482963

Are on the third page, way under two pages of articles that date between 3 and 500 days old. Help?
The problem isn't the cycles of encryption, it's that the data architecture has to be designed differently, and optimizations like caching can't be used as much. Document search is especially difficult on encrypted documents.
Thanks. I appreciate it. :)
Now you are making a different argument, but I can argue just as effectively against this one. :)

In my role as copyright superhero have I not only worked as an employee at companies producing copyrighted works, I have also, personally, produced and sold copyrighted works that have, to some extent, been pirated. I have yet to feel any self-righteous anger. The only anger I might feel is a certain frustration where some of these copyrighted works have not been as successful as I would have wished them to be, but I would be foolish to lay the blame on piracy. More likely, the timing was not right and the quality was not high enough to ensure success.

Any business endeavor entails risk. I would hope that my employer has factored in piracy rates and other non-specific factors in the business plan before hiring me to create a video game for him. Sometimes, things don't work out as hoped and the result is a flop. That can happen for many reasons. I have yet to see a convincing argument where piracy was the reason something did not succeed. On the other hand, I can point to numerous examples were piracy was the deciding factor that let something become a success to begin with. The currently popular example is Minecraft, which spread entirely through word of mouth. How successful would that game have been if there had been no way to send it to a friend while telling them to check it out because it's awesome? I really doubt anyone would have known about it at all.
I'm going to agree with you. The blog is from a company that sells a customer retention product.

Additionally, I've built analysis systems for more than one national retailer, and customer retention is seen as very important and usually one of the first things they try to tackle. The biggest problem is that they don't have the cleanest of data, so that's the big part in implementing good retention strategies.

These aren't so much "Myths of Customer Retention" as they are contrived introductions to a marketing pitch. I've done plenty of work in the customer analysis area and never have I encountered any of these so-called "myths."
Pretty sure stealing means to take without permission or right. Just because you don't take another person's copy away doesn't mean you had a right or permission to take a copy at all.
Another problem with chrome web app store is that you have to use chrome. That is not good enough. A huge slice of the market is needlessly left behind.
Hmm but since private schools already exist, a more granular way for families to improve their child's education by choosing to spend more money on it is surely only going to be an improvement. (no idea why you were down voted)
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The note at the end is priceless.

I think there is something in operating under a fearful authority that spoils people in this way — that causes them to make excuses, obfuscate, counterattack, pass the buck or shut down when confronted by a sound argument against their way of thinking.

Once someone has succumbed to the politics within a large organization, they have likely internalized these patterns of dealing with objections.
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I wrote an article with the exact same title but very different content almost exactly one year ago: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/01/the-real-difference-betwee...
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1. Go to an Apple store and use it. Its nothing like a CDROM encyclopedia. Encarta comes to mind. The richness of Apple's Textbook experience is definitely immersive and, like most of their products, can't be perceived until you actually use it for a while.

3. Interactive features can be a movie, HTML(5), 3D, or, yes, a Keynote presentation. Imagine a richer image gallery type experience, but with text, transitions, effects, etc. All this can be done w/ Keynote (and a little bit of visual design know-how) right now.

4. Not basic Keynote-style interactive stuff like I described above. You need to be able to produce and edit movies to add a movie. You need to be able to use 3-D software to make a 3-D model. This is obvious stuff. Multiple disciplines go into making even paper textbooks.

6. eInk IS great... for long-format reading. K-12 and Undergrad textbooks never really involve that much long-format reading. Plus Apple is trying to really show that there are alternative ways to learn besides reading. Getting immersed in the subject matter — whether that's through video, audio, games, text, or anything — is the real threshold to learning.

7. iBook is based on the ePub3 standard. I think they're one in the same, but with different headers.

8. See above.

9. No. Never will be.

10. No. Probably will never be able to.

11. No. Textbooks won't exist in 50 years as all knowledge will grow into your brain from a bionano parasite injected into all humans upon birth.

OK, now to take 9,10, and 11 more seriously:

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, textbooks are hugely expensive and are NOT designed to last forever. They contain proprietary information owned by a publisher who has the right to let you not share it. I'm sure some version of these books will be stored in the Library of Congress forever. And much of the material is probably available online or at the library in one way or another. Isn't that fine?

Apple is ushering in a new wave of education materials reform that costs LESS than the current model and is practically weightless. Who cares that you can't pass it on or share it. Its practically disposable.
The Internet has made copyright law outdated.

Sir, what make you think our situation is historically unique? If you read the history of copyright, you would realize that our is not so special. Rather, the current situation is a continuation of debates that started centuries ago.
What is it like to team up with Ashton Kutcher? Gidsy knows.
Regardless of profession I think listening and reading are the most important skills.

Unfortunately I find many technology people are programmed to discount or deprecate any and all "soft" skills.
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Wait, Mercurial users start coding when they run into a problem with the tool?

I always start googling and hoping there's a stackoverflow question about it that has an answer that I don't get.
Are you talking about the current push to sanction/bomb Iran for its alleged nuke program? Sadly, I think what you say is true of many Americans.

Happily though, there are also a great number of American who disagree, loudly and vehemently.
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Twice today, I have received emails with, inter alia, the phrase "it might be useful" in the subject. In both cases, the emails had apparently blank PDFs attached. Anybody else seeing this?
It seems the textbook category is not available in the UK. Or is it?? I can't see it.
Well done visualization of tweet frequency/time
> By accepting this behavior, you are just allowing it to continue. I don't accept it and I will always be against a country that treats its citizens this way. More people need to stand up to this bullshit.

I'm sorry, but you must be living in a dream world, where governments just sit back and allow the opposition to overthrow them... You know, it's a little harder to do that when the government in question is extremely rich (oil, gas, ...) and most things are state-owned, than in a country where the government lives off taxes and has to 'borrow' money from private banks!
Ok that seems stupid in the extreme.

Yes in this case he was right, but what if you knew something about where the man is? He might have saved days of this crucial journey.

To me, he is no smarter than I would be if I was late for a train and ran out of the house rather than look up how to get to the trainstation.
The university I attend recently switched to using Desire2Learn, a competitor which for many years was fighting a legal battle with Blackboard. I haven't used the software extensively yet, but my first impressions are that it's considerably better than the embarrassingly poor system employed before.
So here is a reference, 'Confronting Reality' by Bossidy and Charan [1] it's worth a read. (Their book on execution is better but they are both worth reading)

The core thesis is exactly what Paul writes about, successful enterprises are successful at confronting a reality which does not agree with their world view, or their desired world view. Fundamentally, if there is a problem, or more importantly a problem in a place where you won't look, it needs to be dealt with. If you don't deal with it sooner, then you will be forced to deal with it when it does so much damage that you cannot deny it any more.

People who can confront those issues fix them when they are small and thus don't waste any time on excess damage control.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Reality-Doing-Matters-Thin...
This is the most awesome kind of solution: built off of few mostly-off-the-shelf moving parts, simple and easy to understand, and entirely perfect for the problem at hand. This write-up would be awesome teaching material for anyone moving from "I know how to write a program" to "how do I build a clean, elegant system to solve a specific problem?"
There is a key difference. Those limitations of the physical books which you mentioned are inherent in the book itself. I.e. there is no way to implement a downloadable physical book and etc. Limitations of the DRM / vendor locked in ebook aren't inherent, they are imposed by interest of the vendor (Apples interest in the market share for their devices in this case). I.e. there IS a way to implement ebooks in another fashion, which won't limit interoperability and will promote more choice. But Apple is knowingly pushing worse approach, that's why it should be criticized.
Great news Amit, hope everything goes well. Wish you the best.
The partner note at the bottom is spot on. I have reflectively seen myself doing it. I used to get so focused on the particular idea I had that I lost sight of the fact I was solving a problem, for which there were likely many solutions – blinded by wanting to simply do it the way I had in my head. Conversations would just be a way for me to validate my concrete idea, not to search for additional ideas or entirely new approaches to the problem.

I like this essay because it serves as a personal reminder to always avoid that. As soon as you close your mind off from the ideas others may give you (directly or indirectly), you've lost.
Which is staged. I wonder whether the real challenges are in similar style and difficulty. Looking at the problem in the video it would help to just quickly pull out template code and compare it. Would help to have an easier way to know whether this is something I could accomplish or is completely over my head.

$100 bucks, I could need those.
I don't know if 'resourcefulness' is the right description for trait pg observed. I think 'assertiveness' is more accurate.
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I've paid for World of Goo twice (When I first bought it when it came out, and once for the iPhone version).
I've also pirated World of Goo three times. When I switched from PC to Mac; when I gave my iPod touch to my sister and installed it on my new iPhone as well (does this count as piracy? I have no idea. Its the same iTunes account running on two devices now...). And once on my Linux box when I wanted the linux version.

Does this count as piracy? Probably. I think they even have platform-free redownloads. I can't be arsed. I've paid for it. When I want it in a different version, I'll get it from the most convenient distribution channel that happens to be the pirate bay.

I also own like 4 Windows 7 licenses. But my Windows 7 computer is running a pirated version because:
1. I lost 2 of the license keys (the sticker at the bottom of the laptops burned out from heat). So much for that. I liked my home-premium install, too. But that's a non starter because the keys can't be recovered. I'm supposed to write down keys in case of this problem? What is this? 1999?

2. There are numerous version incompatibilities. 2 of my Windows 7 licenses are "academic versions" of Windows 7 unlimited because they ran some promo when it first launched that I bought. Apparently, despite being Unlimited, if you get the ISO off the pirate bay for the unlimited version, it doesn't work unless you have the academic version of the ISO. I have no idea how to get the academic version of the ISO, because the ISO downloader on MSDN academic is a Windows-only program. (At the time I had no Windows computers --- I was trying to get my first Windows 7 install up!). SO I got the same ISO from the pirate bay (the only place to get hassle-free ISOs). It's important to note that I have Unlimited-edition licenses. It's not failing because I paid for Home-premium and am trying to run Unlimited. This is different versions of Unlimited. It makes my ears bleed just how many different incompatible versions there are.

It's just a confusing mess. I'm sure I count under the piracy statistics as a pirate user. But in reality, I have 3 computers, two of which have Windows 7 installs, both "pirated". The fact that I own 4 licenses, none of which I could manage to get activated, won't come up on the statistics, will it?
...like those poor American hikers US government freed?!
It could do - I was never clear on what exactly the right option was to use in that tool in order to gauge good keywords... whether it was broad, phrase, or exact.
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How did this happen? I mean, I understand the debug key combinations, but how did they get mapped to actual keys? The commit says To use these, you need to modify your XKB maps.
Wasn't this always there?
Indeed, referers are useful information in some cases. For bookmarking apps like http://noteplz.com one useful thing is that along with the bookmark, they also store the referer, so you can later go back to the google search result where you found that bookmark.

On the other hand, with https and url shorteners,referers are a dying breed. The situation with URL shorteners is absurdly funny now, because twitter double-shortens the shortened urls, since most popular sites have their own shortener.
I think the author was referencing hg's numerous extensions. In reality I think both git and hg users turn to Google when they get stuck (same for bzr, svn, cvs, and every other scm).