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Few of Apples products have the latest, best hardware in them.

Whenever Apple launches a new product, they do generally have the latest, best hardware in them. The "everyone else is chasing specs" argument seems to appear a bit later in the product cycle when competitors have jumped ahead.

With all the potential an Apple TV has, with the iOS-ecosystem, with Siri-voice control, streaming media from your Macs (the list goes on), I'd be very scared if I were Samsung.

I have a Samsung TV. My smartphone acts as a remote with a cute little app. I can "throw" pictures, videos, and music to it. I can't run Android apps on it, but it is one of their "Smart" models with a bunch of apps on it.

I use zero of that functionality. Instead I just use the on and off button and the functionality of my cable box. If Apple thinks they're going to disrupt the content business, har de har har.

Sidenote -- my cable box is from Motorola, which is now Google. So Google just reentered the TV business in a very, very big way (after the rather dismal failure that was Google TV).
Irrational reasons? Do you even know what people want in a computer? It's like pegging all BMW buyers as "irrational" because a Kia is just as good a car, all the same features, and comes at a fraction of the price.

I don't know what "walled garden" you're talking about. It was Microsoft that started locking down their systems with CD keys, Windows Genuine Advantage, and Windows Application Certification. DRM everywhere! Apple, on the other hand, has never had a CD key for their OS.

Your ignorance is staggering. Steve Jobs was working on NeXT in 1986, a BSD-based UNIX-type system at its core. Linus Torvalds was in high school. How did he rip off Linux, exactly, when it didn't even exist?

Your thinking is at least fifteen years out of date. Anyone who dismisses OS X as a "toy" doesn't know what they're talking about.
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Agreed, how you send that message that you want to get acquired matters. In my case too, I'm not really that desperate, so I do have the advantage of time on my side to work on a good deal.
That must be a US thing. It seems strange to first do a course without proofs and then later redo it with proofs. My point was that where I studied, the courses for mathematicians were all "proof courses"; there were separate courses for engineers and other scientists who are happy to accept mathematics on faith.
I wonder what happened to Shen (http://www.lambdassociates.org/Shen/newappeal.htm). From the blurb,
This function set defined a Lisp that was much smaller than Common Lisp, in fact, much more like John McCarthy's Lisp 1.5 which is the distant ancestor of all subsequent Lisps.... I went further and suggested that this small Lisp could probably be mapped into many of the Lisp-like successors to Lisp like Python, Clojure and Javascript. This meant that because Qi was bootstrapped, these mappings could be used port Qi into other platforms"

Actually come to think of it, what ever happened to clojure-in-clojure [1] - that would have made implementing clojure on top of any VM, relatively trivial

[1] http://blog.n01se.net/?p=41
I'm a friend of Matt's, and I enjoy his blog posts, but I'm afraid this post is full of bad advice and misinformation. He claims that `with` followed by an object literal is fully statically analyzable (it's not, because of prototypes), and he recommends using it without considering how badly it deoptimizes in all modern JS engines.

And spicyj is right that NaN is not equal to itself in most languages because that's how IEEE754 specifies it. In particular, this is true in Scheme, one of Matt's favorite languages. ;-P

(Also, depending on what he means by "true equality," his `equal` function fails to distinguish -0 and 0, which are distinct values in the language. However, I suspect those are best treated as the same value. It's extremely rare to want to treat -0 as if it exists at all.)
I haven't received an OTA. Some version was released in December soon after the Galaxy Nexus launch, but it was sufficiently buggy that they pulled the update after a few days. Presumably the problems must have been fairly serious, since that was 2 months ago and they still haven't restarted the push. If that counts as an official release, the term has no meaning at all.
I don't wanna bring up Steve Ballmer here.
In the "key insights", he includes this:

"Android is mentioned slightly more often than iOS/iPhone."

But in his chart, it looks like Android is just shy of 100, so let's say 95. But it looks like there's separate items for iOS (around 70), iPhone (around 60), and iPad (around 40).

I was about to naively say that he was wrong and that this is 170 mentions for the iOS variants, before I realized that I was about to make the fallacy that all of them appeared independent of the others. From the information give, we can't really make the determination at all.
Here is a site that's been around for a while : http://www.theassayer.org/
In the beginning when I saw the pictures, I thought that you could build levels for a 2D platform game with Lego and the game automatically reads them in via Webcam or so and you could play them.

That would be fun! :)
You aren't exactly the target market then ;)

In my experience, tech savvy readers do have html on but only respond to well designed, catchy and succinct ads or CTAs. CTR is often 1%+ to a well targeted and scrubbed list, with a very high EPC, so it is definitely worth it for advertisers like me to have an accessible platform.

The issue is reach - ideally, I want to hit 5-10mm people in a drop to a large list, but with a narrowly targeted list set I can probably get a better ROI, thus why I'm testing Launchbit.
I'm not sure if that's as efficient as sticking to the prescribed agenda, and having the non-agenda stuff taken offline / discussed after.

You don't have to schedule an entirely different meeting room to talk about it - more often than not at my work, the people who want to discuss the unexpected point just stay after the original meeting has ended to discuss it.

To everyone who was there for the agenda, the meeting is effectively over - for the others, you could say the meeting continues on with the unexpected topic.

The important part is that everyone meets for as short as is needed - they don't have to keep running in and out of meetings to see if things are relevant, or stay and listen to things that don't matter to them.
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There is one big problem in projects like these - Clojure's packaging system is strongly tied to the java ecosystem.

packages written in pure clojure are also distributed as jars and the ecosystem is strongly dependent on maven.
So, why did it only break Chrome?
I suppose that scenario could exist somewhere. It definitely doesn't on Comcast in the US.
I've got a MBP and a Thinkpad and though the TP is by far the best PC (win/lx) notebook it's nowhere near the MBP if you compare build quality and ergonomics.
Swapping out bullshit about how the iTV will fail, with bullshit about how the iPhone would fail. So familiar...

”We’ve not seen what they’ve done but what we can say is that they don’t have 10,000 people in R&D in the cellular reception category,” Moseley said. “They don’t have the best baseband firmware in the world and they don’t have world renowned call quality that has been awarded more than anyone else.” Read on for more.

“Phones are ultimately about voice and call quality. Ultimately. How smart they are…great, but let’s face it that’s a secondary consideration. The ultimate is about call quality and there is no way that anyone, new or old, can come along this year or next year and beat us on call quality,” Moseley told Pocket-lint. “So, from that perspective, it’s not a great concern but it remains to be seen what they’re going to come out with, if anything.”
Agreed wholeheartedly. Before the iPhone, the telephone industry, cell phone manufacturers and carriers thought that size and call quality were the primary factors in purchasing a cell phone.. Enter the first iPhone in 2007 with abysmal call quality, the paradigm shift in the industry thereafter, and the rest.. is history.
I must say all this proves is that MOST people (random selection of people) aren't GOOD at brainstorming. Having worked with highly-trained and practiced brainstormers, I think you can train yourself to be good at coming up with ideas in a group setting.

However, the "intermediate Q proximity" idea is definitely spot on.
Hey Jason yeah that is what I was trying to say. Login screens are so second nature to people: username, password, login... that I wonder if that extra check in between would throw them off.

I agree that the auto check does come off slimy at times, but I think I get more annoyed when I have to login to a site again vs. seeing that they already checked a box for me. Either way you have a solid argument. I'd really like to see someone do some A/B testing on this. Oh, and thanks for the response.
I have one of the Philips wake-up lights[0] which gradually brightens its lamp over 30 minutes before playing some optional bird-chirping.
The gradual light-up feature gives it an edge over the sharp turn-on of a lamp plugged into a timer, but I'm often lying on my side with my back to the lamp, in which case the bird-chirping wakes me instead of the light.
I'm thinking of running a cord from the Philips's bulb socket to the bulb in a floor lamp which I can position above my head (instead of to one side, like the Philips).

[0] http://amzn.com/B003XN4RIC
Personally, I would love Siri on my TV. It would be awesome to just say the name of a show without viewing the channel guide.
You may be thinking of Minidisc. Recording time was a principal issue in the tape wars – Betamax could do 60 minutes per tape while VHS variants were good for 120 to 240 minutes. Hollywood movies couldn't fit on a Beta tape.
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Absolutely. I don't know anyone on HN, but my post yesterday (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3586260) made it on the front page, I think peaking at #9.

One thing I did that might have helped- I tweeted a link to both the blog post and the HN entry, and was retweeted by MapBox, the makers of the software I was discussing. It didn't generate a ton of traffic, but it might have generated those 3 or 4 upvotes you need to get going.
Signed up to try it as an advertiser. $300 minimum spend made me reconsider.
Yep, no porn on Beta.
Very cool. Bind is a much-appreciated addition to the language.
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Beautiful app.
Not all of us wake up easily. My body loves to get 9+ hours of sleep, and I need something to kick it out of bed in the morning. At the moment, that's whacking the snoozer a lot, but I need a better solution.
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Are people on here aware that Apple already makes Apple TV? By many of the comments I have to guess no, given that many seem to miss that Apple has already demonstrated what intelligence and ease of use they bring to TVs.

The TV industry is a massive, hyper-competitive industry with extremely tight margins (I can buy a good quality 46" LED 1080p smart TV for less than the price of an iPhone 4S). TVs have -- by design -- tried to focus on the display side, leaving the content side to whatever myriad of boxes you have pushing content to it, and that's how customers differentiate.

I don't see Apple being successful at TVs at all, or even why they would want to be beyond what they offer with Apple TV.
It's such a pleasure to read well organized, well commented code. I'm a total JS n00b, but I feel like I could learn the language very quickly with examples like yours to follow.

Cool library, too. :)
Just watch the download rates on pirated cams and you see how little 'many' people care about the screen resolution.
Nice work Ben. Bet it felt good to get that shipped!
Soccer has a lot of tactical sophistication too, probably even more given that there are hundreds of competing professional teams in the world and not just 32, and out of that competition and diversity there have simply been more tactics that have been developed and attempted and put in competition against each other. Certainly there's more for the fans to dig into, because most of the interesting tactical information--not just the playbooks but also the overhead footage the NFL distributes to coaching staffs but doesn't make available to fans--is a trade secret of the NFL.

Also, while there are certainly plenty of fine points in the game to obsess over, it's a less open game in general so there's less room for tactical variation. There's no way to turn attack into defense, defense into attack, or possession into both at the same time, but there are plenty of ways to make the opposing middle linebacker take a misstep and leave him two seconds late to react to the play and hence win an extra few yards.
I don't see how this is the original authors problem actually, regardless of the cause. Someones incorrectly written code injected into your own runtime environment could cause all sorts of weird problems.

IMO this is a reasonably serious browser security issue along the same lines as CORS, but thats another argument.
wrong, the US has many extremely old, dirty and inefficient coal power plants.
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Agree with all of this. On top of it, passed the it not really increasing the quality of my waking up..Just increasing the chances I will. Even if it solved a problem that I really needed to solve, which it really doesn't. The price is wayyy too high, just in a whole other league. I could never justify over $100 on just an alarm clock. It doesn't have awesome speakers, or an ipod dock etc. I could buy a dozen alarm clocks for this price, and literally just put them everywhere.
I disagree. It's also what allowed the "IE-only web" to persist for about five years.

It might have been a good thing until about 1997, but at that point there was no shortage of people creating new web content, and raising the barrier to entry would have done no harm. And a lot of innovation in browser features might have happened sooner (due to increased competition between browsers.)
The OP, written by Inkling's CEO, also says: "I also previewed Inkling for Web, which will make all of Inkling’s great interactive content available in any web browser."
Thanks for the feedback! I thought about this, and I wanted to do it.

A really effective way to measure REMs cycles is to have an accelerometer on your bed, just how the Sleep Cycle Iphone app does it. I designed a system that would involve having a small wired puck that you put on your bed, under your pillow, that links to the Ramos. The coding and interfacing with the micro-controller is straight-forward, and it would work.

The issue I had with it is that it was extra "baggage" i'm adding to the clock. I felt like to implement the puck system, it would take away from the simple straight forward, 0 installation solution that I really wanted to achieve. That wire really just like, irked me. And to make it wireless means another radio which leads to more cost to the user. And with a wireless puck you need to power it, which is again more cost to the user. I actually also made this earlier alarm clock that used a heat sensor to detect if you're still in bed. Hehe it didn't work real well though. https://s3.amazonaws.com/ramos_alarm/Paulsammut_BHS_alarm.pd...

But still, i agree, it would be really really cool if it had that feature, but it got to the point where I started trying to add all these little things, and the whole Ramos idea started shifting. I didn't like it. And the remote panel really does the job at getting you out of bed and away from it, which is key.

PS. from what I've noticed from using Ramos for a year, is that I've developed a fear to it. Like, deep down in my head i know i'm gonna have to wake up, and I usually will naturally wake up with the alarm time.

again, THanks for your interest!!

-paul
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rsnapshot, which does all that for you with automated rotation, built on top of rsync.
i know, and it really sucks that I can't make it cheaper. Its literally me and a couple of friends starting a whole manufacturing process. I can't afford to invest 2-3 million on a large production run to get the per/part costs down to regular alarm clock levels. Along with that I have the wireles radio modules to contend with.

But, I put alllloottt of effort in the wood housing and the alarm functionality that I really feel sets this apart from just a regular alarm clock.

Thanks for your input; the fact that you've taken the time just to talk about it makes me grateful
The problem with cricket is, first, that it's absolutely beyond most Americans' comprehension, and second, that we already have an incomprehensible sport that involves throwing a ball and hitting it with a stick.
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This is a lovely story, great parenting, and a lovely gesture.

But I could not stop thinking about how many extraordinary coincidences would be required for this to happen to a little girl.

Would her parents have encouraged her relationship with video games?

Would her friends support it?

Is it even physically possible to make an "Edge" level with the new "girl" Legos?

These are the tiny little experiences that turn little boys from future Biologists into future Computer Scientists.
The spy 'experience' described is just a theme park ride or haunted house with different set dressing.

This is why the answer to the OP's question is "never." "Experiences" were very popular before movie theaters even existed.

I think the "replace" part of the question is silly. Movie theaters never replaced live stage productions, in fact given population growth and increased leisure time there are probably more of those going on today than there were in Shakespeare's day. Likewise we actually have more hobbyists, archaeologists, and students making Stone Age arrowheads today than we had actual hunters making Stone Age arrowheads to hunt with during the Stone Age. Replacement is a myth in my opinion. But even if replacement were a logical model for this sort of thing, if anything it would be movie theaters which already replaced "experiences," back in the 1890s or something.

That, combined with 'you should follow me on Twitter here', has me tempted to filter out everything this guy writes. (I won't, but I'm tempted.) The 'you should follow me on Twitter here' meme started when somebody A/B-tested 'follow me on Twitter' phrases. Tons of people who read that post adopted the phrase which that one person found most effective.

Problem is, A/B-testing is extraordinarily context-sensitive, and quality is much more important than quantity on Twitter. It's not a video game where the person with the most followers wins. If anything, it's a video game where the person with the smartest, least annoying followers wins. So "you should follow me on Twitter here" is cargo-culting in the service of a goal which is questionable at best.

I basically think that meme is stupid beyond words, and I very much disagree with this blog post, but despite all this, I'm not trash-filtering this domain (I use a custom HN viewer app I wrote which trash-filters a lot of domains, e.g., TechCrunch, anything Zed Shaw). Reason is, the Aaron behind aaronsw.com also wrote a terrific Twitter conversation viewer. So, I might disagree with the guy, but I love the tool he wrote, and I use it all the time, which is really the most sincere, practical form possible of respecting somebody's idea.

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It isn't that Americans don't elect a particular type of person, it's that Americans do elect a particular type of person. Americans by and large voluntarily limit themselves to candidates showcased by the two prominent marketing wings of American politics. This minimizes the amount of effort required to make a decision, the hallmark of not just the American masses, but humanity in general.

From there, you need only look at the type of person those two marketing organizations are likely to champion. I'll refrain from stating what I think they are but they decidedly are NOT celebrated academians.
I re-read it and it still looks like a rant from an uninformed person. He spent a month with Linux and didn't notice NetBeans or Eclipse? Is there ANY programmer on Earth that doesn't know those? He claims Windows enjoys better "hardware, software, IT guys" because it's more popular. Linux is only unpopular in PCs. In every other segment it trounces its competition.

And maybe you have a point about fixing things. On Windows, people just reinstall or download a freeware tool that cleans up some specific mess and may (or may not) make things better. But the truth is it's much harder to break stuff on Linux than it is on Windows. And on Linux, you may be tempted to actually find out what the problem was (because you are able to) and fix it, which is much harder than just reinstalling the thing.

Except for the fact that, after you do a clean install, you'll have to download missing drivers, service packs, run Windows Update a couple times and reboot the machine each and every time something major gets updated, which happens a good couple times in this process). Last time I tried, reinstalling a Windows machine from scratch took me a day.

Reinstalling my Ubuntu box takes, usually, less than an hour.
This is not a new game. "No one gets fired for buying IBM" was born, then later became "No one gets fired for buying Microsoft" on the back of "industry journals" that were more or less the dead-tree version of the rackets Fake Steve is describing. None of this is new. This, more or less, is the history of subscription trade journals in every industry for the last 100 years.

Model is thus: Subscribe to our journal, we'll ply you for survey responses/advertising. Fail to pay? You won't get reviewed or if so, it won't be flattering. Advertise? You'll be reviewed, and positively so. Oh, and we'll charge you for the report born of the analysis of the survey data you gave us. Repeat for all major players in a niche field. Welcome to industry publishing.
The same can be said of PC's. Apple came in and changed that.

The iMac turned around things for Apple because they were cheap, all-in-one computers. I considered getting one at the time just as a kitchen computer.

Apple played the existing game with the iMac. Even now in their computer products if you spec out a comparable competitor, the pricing is very similar.

Apple makes big money in nascent new markets -- tablets and smartphones. Tablets because they can draft int the pricing of computers, and smartphones because most of the cost is hidden by subsidization (if everyone had to pay the total upfront cost of the device things would rapidly change).
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The way around this scoping issue is to declare `that`.

It's simpler to bind the function to the current object. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global...
I think Chrome is more insistent in trying to fetch resources. I don't know for sure, but I think it's likely that other browsers also failed, but only occasionally.

Firefox, for example, quickly gives up if it can't fetch a resource, and so would fail but then work a second time. A glitch like that could easily be overlooked as a mis-click or network error.
> If the door to a meeting is ever locked, I would assume that they could get by without me and never show up for a meeting on that subject again.

Unless it was a meeting that you wanted, or needed, to be there for!