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Speaking as an engineer-designer: Apple's devices are better designed than a lot of the stuff out there, but they're still not that great. You can kick their asses on design if you actually find a case where there's a sufficient financial incentive to do so.

It's just, it's really hard to make money at scale on physical products. There's not much incentive to complete on this. Plus, many people have been trained to evaluate design quality as "looks like Apple products" ... which some days gets to the point where I just fire-bomb the place and take a vacation in Nepal, Tibet, one of those places with mountains.

Interface design specifically is a case where it often comes down to "stop breaking it" vs. "how do I add more awesome" - people make this horrible unusable goop and think it's good design. The Google refresh? Lord knows how much money they threw at that ... and while the old version wasn't all pretty with colors and gradients everywhere, it had fairly decent usability. The new version is riddled with issues, after putting substantially more effort into making it. WTF?
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I read this question, and I'm typing my response, on my iPad.
Only Linux could turn the GUI back into the command line.
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How do you find yours?

I'm not even sure where to start for audio books. Let alone these big fantasy books that I read!
I'm leary. The reason we've used menus and windows for so long is because it just works. Improvements are always welcome but it's always going to be easier for me to say Alt-F, O.
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That is a very confusing interface.
The best way to predict the future is to create it right? :)
> Not to mention that German is just one language

You can add more than one language. If you'd checked up on it, you would have seen that. I perceive this as complaining about advice without following it, and I find it annoying.

If you're still angry (and it sounds legitimate, especially if there was a subtle hint of a problem, but not enough to register fully), that explains where you're coming from, which puzzled me.

Aside: Unfortunately with webpages/webapps, they can and do get updated continuously, without explicit version changes or any notification at all. Ideally, all changes would be back-compatible, but then you end up with a mess (both in user interface and implementation). Continuous notifications amounts to spam, and is usually ignored (I do). Change is a problem. I'm not sure there's a solution.

I think back-compatibility is a deep, abiding, practical problem, in general.

EDIT "if the choices I made have been superseded and contradicted": just realized this is more than merely "backcompatibility of UI". In effect, they have destroyed your data. Although that sounds overdramatic, since the data itself is very minor (perhaps one bit, a binary checkbox), it's a clear trigger for notification. There might be some grey area for when your configuration is still there, but has a different meaning - but I think you're saying that your config is no longer there, and/or no longer has an effect.

I used to use Yahoo finance, and they had a nice display of 9 user-configured stocks at the top. In their latest redesign, this disappeared, and I couldn't find an option to bring it back. This was enough to make me spurn their product, and switch to google finance. It makes me think they have no idea what they are doing. I guess in this case, I had notification (as I could see it was gone). But if they had an explicit reference to it going away, even if it said "sorry, this is going away", I would feel better about it. And I have a sneaking suspicion that maybe it is still available somewhere, and I just couldn't find it.

So, changing the meaning of a user-specified configuration should probably trigger an explicit notification (and force the implementer to consider it); and deleting user-specified configuration should never happen, even if it has no effect. I think it should be treated as sacrosanct as other data stored (e.g. gmail emails, dropbox files etc). If changes render it ineffective, it should still be there, but with a notice: "this no longer works, use this instead". Again, this forces the implementer to thin about what they are doing.
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Or panoptikos.com even...
I am a big PC fan (love the openness) but even I will concede that buying a laptop has not been easy for quite some time now. fwiw - the asus u series is pretty good, good battery life and very light, the lenovo t series is built like a tank, and the hp elitebooks are very nice.
For a desktop I would recommend PC's anyday, but for notebooks I must grudgingly concede that buying a mac laptop is the logical thing to do from a hardware standpoint.
Thank you, I just lost an hour of my life. Addictive, check.
We are both brave and mad!

Just kidding.

Imagine a traffic chart. The x-axis is time. Trello will last for 20 years, so imagine it going from 2011 to 2031.

The y-axis is usage. The numbers climb up and to the right. We think we can get to 100 million. So imagine either a linear curve or geometric growth or whatever you want, climbing from zero to 100,000,000.

Now think of the area under that curve.

What percentage of it is using IE 8?

Is it worth spending much money on them? Is it worth slowing down to build something for a small group of users that will be gone anyway, and which are only a tiny percentage of the overall usage of Trello over 20 years?
I've been using http://pics.fefoo.com for a long time for the same purpose.
This is an echo chamber. What you hear here is not indicative of real world relevance.
I guess that's the only kind of feedback on the page telling the user how many images are remaining, albeit wrong.

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Ask HN: How much have you spent on your 'bootstrapped' startup
Startup community: I am wondering how much of a budget is considered 'bootstrapped'? And, I am curious to know how much personal capital (or debt) it took to generate something profitable. Of course I understand that the product/service can make all the difference in the world but your experience and numbers will still offer a valuable perspective.

I know there are no guarantees and that past performance is not indicative of future results! I also realize that everyone's risk tolerance starting financial situation is different. Just laying that out so that the comments can focus on individual experiences.

Thanks!
I occasionally type 'L' (for 'LOOK') in OS X's Terminal.app, by reflex.
This is roughly what our startup (not launched yet) is trying to do:

http://www.instahero.com/
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well, it lets you have a fully functional alternate system (both systems are encrypted) that will show up if the correct password is used, with no direct forensic way to prove it exists at all, by design. There indirect ways, outlined intheir faqs quite well, that could beused to suggest you have multiple instqnces, like multiple windows updates for thesame updates from th same system, that kinda thing..... but with enough diligence you could pull it off.
there are also some write restrictions iirc - may enim wrong but i think if you write to the alternate system you cansquash data inadvertently from the primary as thesecondary can have no knowledge of thereal system in any way, makingn this unavoidable.

pulling this off would require a level of diligence most people justdonthave, andthere are easierways to hide your data.
It depends. A/V assets are usually portable. Coding issues may range from having to transcode the whole mess to having to set a few flags ... but in either case, you then have to do testing & debug to make sure it works as expected (hah!).

A tool like Unity3D helps if it will actually do what you need, but it's not going to keep you from many months of testing and debug to make sure the "painless cross-platform support" is actually working and to fix the case when it fails.

Oh, and then you have to patch both / all versions when you make changes...fun!

Some are easier than others though, e.g. Microsoft has put a lot of effort into ensuring that Windows <--> Xbox 360 is reasonably painless compared to * <--> PS3 (where "reasonably painless" == "months of tedious work").
If you're signed in, click the gear in the top-right. It's under settings or preferences or whatever the option they give you is. Scroll down a bit, and turn it off permanently.
Only the very best - I prefer to use server boards which dont have whizbang features but receive bios updates for a couple of years. I think buying PC's is like an art. You dont want to buy any PC that has a radical feature vendor specific. For eg I would never buy anything with Nvidia optimus, chances of Nvidia sticking around to maintain it five years from now are zero. Youre much safer buying a middle of the road model that will receive vendor updates because the vendors lifeline depends on it. Buying motherboards that are used in supercomputing clusters is also great because those users tend to actually contribute kernel patches in case compatibility breaks over the years.
That's not the way I see it. Google realizes that Apple with a strong majority share of the mobile market would be free to ignore Google entirely. They could severely reduce Google's ability to advertise by controlling mobile app ads. Google needs something like Android to ensure some fair play I believe. If mobile is to eclipse desktop usage, they can't be left out. But in any case Apple can keep going as it is. It's cash cow might die someday but by then it will have so much money they would have a century's worth of cash for R&D to find a new niche.

One thing bodes well for Google so far, Apple has struggled getting any kind of traction in the Online space. It's early for iCloud but it's still far from the competition.
FTA:

> There’s still a lot of design and code still to do. For a start, we haven’t addressed the secondary aspect of the menu, as a visible map of the functionality in an app. That discoverability is of course entirely absent from the HUD; the old menu is still there for now, but we’d like to replace it altogether not just supplement it.

Basically - they're looking for some other interface to replace that aspect of the menu, but in the meanwhile the menu is still there for discoverability purposes.
The actual rational reasons are,

1. If you get enough shares together you can influence the company's behaviour, (not relevant to most people)

2. If someone else wants to influence the company's behaviour they might be willing to pay for your shares, and

3. If the company goes under the shareholders might get something once it gets dissected (not really relevant to AAPL at the moment)

In the case of a company in which all control is held by a majority shareholder who intends to hold 51% forever, you're absolutely right - the valuation of the 49% is almost completely arbitrary, giving no control or ownership in a meaningful sense.
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This is an email from 2001.
Use foobar2k via Wine.

This bundle may work, or do it manually if not.

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=7726...
Why? The only way you'll get that return is if you sell your stock today. That destroys any chance for you to earn future value from the performance of the company.

Dividends are the better way companies return value to their shareholders, not encouraging them to engage in "flipping" which is not sustainable for long-term value.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/15/technology/thebuzz/index.htm
We are in a community that tries to sell software and still we find it hard to spend $10 on a software we use everyday.
http://www.google.com/preferences

If you disable Instant, you can also crank it up to 100 results per page. Hell, you can manually block gplus.google.com, facebook.com, and twitter.com and pretend the whole "social" thing never happened.
Can you point out what in that article backs up your argument? I'm not finding anything relevant.
tl;dr: Yes they do, and most of it is worthless.

There's data, and there's data. I distinctly remember that Google used to have an "Instant feed" on Google News (I may remember the name wrong), where it showed relevant results from Twitter in real-time. They don't do that anymore, because Twitter no longer allows Google access to the real-time data. Google now has to crawl for it, which takes much longer and completely destroys any semblance of immediacy. They had to take the feature down (or, in any case, I can't find it after about 15 minutes of searching).

Facebook has always hid as much data as they could. Searching for "site:facebook.com" in Google does, as you say, return about 7.5 billion results. Glancing through the first few pages, a majority seem to be from various organizations whose profiles are left completely open to the public.

I'm not contesting that Google has some data from Twitter and Facebook (though on rereading my post, it does sound like I am saying that). Rather, I am saying that Google no longer has accurate, up-to-date information on a majority of profiles from Twitter and Facebook.

If a majority of the data from a site is not complete, then Google has no choice but to penalize those pages in its results, because it has no way of guaranteeing that those results are relevant. It used to be able to do this with Twitter, but one side or the other let that deal fall through (I don't know which side is most responsible, but I heard, from here and other places, that Twitter was the primary culprit). It never had an information sharing deal with Facebook.

What Twitter and Facebook are getting pissy about is that Google is refusing to send Twitter and Facebook pages to the top of the results page. They want this done, no questions asked. Google cannot in good conscience do this, because they do not have enough data to make accurate relevancy predictions. Google also cannot use Twitter and Facebook data in the Search Plus Your World results, because they have absolutely no access to Twitter and Facebook's social graphs.

So, yes. Google has incomplete and outdated data from several billion pages from each site. It does not have enough data to guarantee relevancy, and so chooses to penalize those pages it does have, thus making Twitter and Facebook upset.
Correct you are. Let's try this again: Is it a euphemism for disinformation?
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I read it in a few minutes and it's in pretty plain language. Altogether a nice change, I think.
Sure, having a virtual human try to solve the problem would be pretty good. However, even the virtual human would never be able to check the specification correctly for every possible program due to the halting problem. In particular, no matter what the specification was, a malicious user could create a program that mimics the virtual human's response and then does the opposite thing (it's the same basic proof that the halting problem is undecidable). By construction then, the virtual human would answer incorrectly when asked whether or not the program matches the specification.

So, academically, even the "virtual human" approach doesn't work since it doesn't answer correctly for every single program. Practically, you're right, having a virtual human would be good enough for most uses.

That said, I wouldn't want to use a virtual human for this due to ethical concerns :-).
or use a better method to keep your data unknown to the world that doesnt requre as much precision handling...

or like, dont break the law, or dont get caught.
I strongly recommend ordering laptops online (even with how atrocious the HP website is, I mean GOOD GOD IS IT BAD). You get much better deal and customizability.

On the MBP side, my Macbook overheats running windows, I can't play any games longer than 10 minutes. (It has been doing this for more than a year EDIT: my Macbook pro is a 2009 model). I've finally broken down and bough a Desktop PC. The MBP will still work for mobile dev but at home it's going to be Linux for Dev and Windows strictly for gaming.
The ability to tell the person who posted the project that their project will be a piece of crap if they try to get something done for that much and why.
Mongout only pawn in game of life ...
Also, those spray and pray 'generic' bids that many companies on Elance and oDesk can't get away with that. So they actually have to display some sort brain power and ability to the project poster.

The ability for the project poster not be embarded by 40-50 bids all at the same time and not having a clue about their work ethic/communication/etc. and going purely off of reviews and botched portfolios.
I like this a lot. It's very difficult to hit the arrow buttons on an iPhone, though. An alternative navigation method or larger hit areas would be helpful.
which means prosecutors will have supporting evidence that you have the info they need andyou wonthaveevidence that you are acat freak.
iCloud is a service you could build on AWS - not the other way around.
It's worth noting that iOS is pretty conclusively outselling Android at this point. 60+ million devices in Q112 vs. at most 50 million Android devices. Android may be selling more phones, but at the operating system level, there's no contest.
Using bang syntax in the address bar is awesome. I still use Google fairly often, but via DDG. It shaves about 30 seconds off of the time it takes me to get a result.

Most search tasks I do are "hand me that spanner" tasks. I don't want you to give me a big spiel about how great your business is or to show me how thoroughly you can erase all semblance of privacy via data mining - I just want the damn spanner so I can get back to work.

I switched to Google in the first place because they did the best job of getting the right spanner with the least amount of fuss. They're getting much worse at choosing the right spanner vs. feeding me a bunch of spam and ad content, and they're simultaneously taking longer to do it.
great question. I was a web designer working with only html/css. I had no clue what an MVC was before I got told the best route is to learn Rails by Josh.

I'll definitely be making a blog post about the learning Rails aspect as it was requested alot today. If you want, I'd suggest to subscribe that way it'll email you when that post is created.
wasn't looking for a specific car, just wanted a good deal on a car that matched my criteria

ended up getting the car 30% below the KBB value
I was thinking of antitrust suits for abuse of market-power. i.e. not about how you got it, but what you do with it. So the analogy is microsoft using their market-power to bundle their media player. BTW Bill Gates thought as you did, that this was perfectly legitimate.

Your point about alternative search engines, and Windows being hard to avoid, is relevant for another kind of antitrust.

Aside: though, I think google is still far and away the best, in terms of response time (especially for predicting search queries as you type - that requires huge local data centres all over the world). e.g. Duck duck go has great features, but it's just too slow (at least, over here in Australia). Who can afford data-centres everywhere? (maybe Amazon...) Google also has one of the strongest brands in the world. So, the choice is kind of figurative. It's an earned monopoly, not earned through abuse, not bad or wrong; but a monopoly nonetheless.
I'm sure this is going to be unpopular, but sorry, when it comes to corporate success, values don't mean shit.

The HBS case study on Google won't even mention "don't be evil" except maybe as an example of how amateurs shouldn't be permitted to do corporate communications.

There are plenty of companies that we love (hello, Apple) that don't pretend to have lofty corporate values. Yet we keep buying their products and they keep making assloads of money. That's the way it is.
...so, if you type something where synonyms might be helpful, it should automatically use synonyms...

...but, sometimes you want to type something that looks like it should be autocorrected, but you want it to not autocorrect it...

...and it's not enough that you can do these things - you want them to happen automatically?

I'm sorry, but that is not "a search tool that does what you ask for," that's MAGIC that you want.

If you think a search engine exists that does this better, please tell us all about it, because I think it would be an example of an intelligent machine, in the Turing Test sense.
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The first and indeed many would say only thing high heels are designed to do is to make women look attractive feminine and sexy; or attractive and dominant - in the boardroom or the playroom.
It's quite ridiculous, I wonder why they don't use that as leverage to truly screw with everyone hiring talent in the industry.
Co-operate to compete effectively. Interesting thought.
UNLV's major programs, iirc, are hospitality. Lack of tech talent might be a bit frustrating, though it's not exactly the middle of nowhere.
Ask HN: How do you read Hacker News on an iPhone?
I switched to an iPhone 4s from a Nexus One and shockingly realized that iOS5 doesn't allow you to increase the font size in the browser.

Also iPhone doesn't manage to click zoom many pages including Hacker News. It just zooms in with a very small fraction and the font size is too small.

If you pinch zoom further in you get horizontal scrolling on iOS5, but the Android browser does correct adaptive zoom.

iOS5 has the Reader functionality, but it seems to be triggered only on some selected sites and not on HN.

I have also seen some ways to increase font size using a bookmarklet, but this is too cumbersome for my likening.

So I wonder whats the best way to read Hacker News on the iPhone browser?
Is 3 ever relevant? Most failed companies go into insolvency and then bankruptcy, which means creditors walk away with it all.

1 and 2 are fair points, but with interesting consequences. By 1 and 2, it would be rational to invest in failing but promising companies, since they are more ripe for takeover. With a successful company like Apple, the profit-maximizing move from shareholders is to make sure they keep doing what they're already doing.
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The amount of converters depends on how many people are telling the casual Ubuntu users what they want instead of letting them decide.
> going to destroy far more more wealth for their contemporaries than they create for themselves.

"Destroy" is not the correct term. It is called creating efficiency. Reducing resources towards the same end is what increases wealth for everyone. While PG and the YCombinator crew might not capture all the wealth, they will capture enough to keep themselves satisfied and continue doing what they do, while tremendously increasing efficiency in the market and thus making everyone involved wealthier.

Assuming Matt's surface analysis is actually correct. I didn't put much thought in to that angle.
Read the book "Why We Buy." This guy has built his career on doing A/B testing in actual department stores.
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Wow It's awesome. One small thing I would point out is to please set cursor to pointer on the color scheme selector.

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It is not true. Facebook uses this: http://three20.info/
A recording of a phone call is now physical evidence of the existence of information somewhere else?
That's incorrect. The hardcoded Google+ results in the "People and Pages" box, as well as the other two hardcoded locations outlined on this page (http://www.focusontheuser.org/examples.php), appear for all Google users -- whether or not they have a Google+ profile, and even whether or not they're logged into Google. You can see that in this video, which is conducted in a Chrome incognito window in logged-out Google: http://www.focusontheuser.org/video.php

If you're not seeing the Google+ results on some pages, it's just because Google is still in the process of rolling out the feature.