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I have some doubts that's that the case. why?

1. The IPAD might did some cannibalization to the mac market but in general, it brought much more profits.It was a pretty good bet that this what it would do(esp. considering apple's supply chain strengths, expected prices for android and IPAD tablets, apple's marketing value and ecosystems, etc).

2. The iPhone was launched when it was clear that mobile phone would integrate MP3 functions, and the iPod market would die. But it was more profitable than the iPod, so no dilemma here.

The real test for the innovator's dilemma is:you develop and sell a new product that might HURT your profits ,but is the future of the industry because it's better or cheaper, and you understand that having some some slice of the(smaller) future is better than nothing.
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Which is why I really like what Zed Shaw is doing and I hope his series extends to "Learning X The Hard Way", where 'X' can be anything. http://learncodethehardway.org/
Most banks use an eventually consistent message oriented architecture, not a transactional one.

At a low level banks use both absolute consistency (for physical transaction stores) and eventual consistency (for logical transaction implementations). The logical transaction implementation abstracts inter-bank and physical payment messaging.

It would be impossible to have absolute consistency in the logical transaction layer as transaction scopes would have to be open (i.e. locked) for days at a time in some cases. That simply doesn't scale.

Ultimately banks have millions if not billions of pounds floating around not in traditional transactional stores all the time.
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When the site started there weren't very many competitors. They were also unique in the fact that they are absolutely free.

Sites like match.com and the other dating sites at the time (most were bought out by match.com) allow you to search, but messaging costs money. It was the standard model of the dating site for many years.
You could have the entire playbook of the other team and a list of plays they will be running, but it's moot if your players can't execute.
At least they aren't following the movie industry's model of forcing you to watch paid advertisements first...
At the moment profiles aren't publicly listed so we are not offering an open search. if you know the name of a user you can search them though...
While it's certainly a neat trick, I wonder if there is any real world application to such techniques.

When I saw the title I expected to see something about using CSS for things other than styling HTML. It may be useful, for example, to use CSS to style native GUI applications or similar.
I used this technique to make the isometric effect at http://drawbang.com, see https://github.com/potomak/drawbang/blob/develop/public/styl...
Guidelines vary between countries, but when you move from classic trading/manufacturing to services, they simply cannot be applied literally -- i'll need my computer to make software, but i won't sell it over, and i'll get vat relief anyway; and obviously i'll need an ipad or three to test my website, etc.

This is why vat auditing is so ruthless: because it's routinely abused by everyone, so the enforcers have to be harsh to maintain a shred of credibility.

I'm not saying VAT is bad per se (it's just another tax), only that is a clever way to tax consumption by fixed-income employees in a regressive way, which is really not what you want if you're trying to make the system fairer for, er, those fixed-income employees.
Yes there is, see my comment at http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3612459
Well what i want is to put up an online e-book library, like ebookee.org
Gnus is an awesome piece of software and having all of Emacs editing capabilities at hand when writing mail is fantastic. I'd use it as my primary mail client if it weren't for the multithreading issue.

Not sure why you'd mock this use of Emacs, after all mails are text and as such very well suited to being composed with a text editor...
Wow, thanks for sharing that, I'm work at a different university in Canada but I'll have to check if this deal is coming here too. That's one ridiculous thing to have signed for sure. I'd like to know if anyone has more back story about this deal.
Here are all LME vendors who distribute delayed data over the Internet:

http://www.lme.com/market-data/data_vendors_30minute_delayed...

They also offered free next-day data and historical data, but it seems maybe that is changing:

http://www.lme.com/historical_data.asp
I used OKCupid (free) to give more spontaneity to my dating and the vibe I get is that nobody identifies with it as a serious pursuit. Paying for a site can seem try-hard if you aren't one that feels very invested in it (despite how invested you might actually be).

Whenever OKCupid itself comes up in conversation with a girl I hang out with from there, they always say that they registered to just see what it was like -- "might as well". No perception of personal investment that would validate spending money. If it comes up, girls even mention that premium membership comes off as sorta tacky/corny and that's my feeling as well.

I have no idea how PoF works, though.
I'm in the UK.

I ask adult students if it is ok to send them text messages, everyone says yes basically, I've had one opt out in about 5 years. The Colleges were I work have enrollment forms that include the relevant data protection clauses as they collect addresses/phone numbers for contact purposes anyway. I use a password protected Web site to send messages which keeps an audit of the text of the messages sent, and I have not enabled the answer facility so these are 'one way' messages. I think that is more secure for the students than using, say, my own phone.

Under 19 its official channels only, and the College system has 'standard messages' that we click a button on to send from the Intranet. The student database has phone/address details and we have all the legal permissions to contact both students and their parent/guardian as needed.

Basically I'm in a regulated professional role where contacting students is regarded as good practice.
you have an error in the code:

> hash = {:this => {:is => 'a hash'}}

> Rails.cache.write 'complicated-object', object

change hash for object, or viceversa
Besides the fuzzy feeling of helping a open source project with comercial endeavors, how does it compare to services like Server Density, Nagios, Monit, etc?
I wasn't confident that Forbes benefited more from the article than the NYT which is why I looked up the Likes myself as that was the most unbalanced comparison metric, and just didn't seem correct. After the look-up, the Likes are close in number (I prompted the update), and the comments on the NYT are greater.

Forbes lists the page views, but it's a metric against nothing as the Times does not.

There's some pretty heavy quoting in the Forbes post (9 paragraphs from the NYT), but it's all sourced, linked and even encouraged to be clicked-through to.

While Forbes did well with the post, I'm not convinced they did any better than the Times (on the web) with it.
But you make these two arguments with hindsight.

1. Creating the iPad was not a good bet that it would create profits. Microsoft had tried pushing tablet computing for a decade, and they lost a lot of money doing so. The iPad was a gamble. It was not obvious, people scoffed when it was announced. "No keyboard? No SD slot? Why would I need that when I have a laptop and an iphone?"

2. Again, people scoffed when the iPhone was released. There were already phones with MP3 functionality. It wasn't clear that the phones would kill off the iPod as the iPod allowed you carry your entire music collection with you. Smartphones back then couldn't do that, nor could the iPhone for that matter. No one at the time wanted to use touch screens. The reaction was also a lot of scoffing. "You want me to pay how much for a cell phone that doesn't even have keys?!?". The iPhone was a huge gamble too.
Maybe they shouldn't change things so fast, then. I'd rather have a stable tool than one full of new features that is unstable and hard to use.
What is the rest? I.e. how can one access this, which to me seems to be a site on the Web (a "web site", to many), other than "on the web"? I'm feeling my age, here. :|
>When I turn my computer on, it should just be on. Ready to go. Kind of like—well, like my phone, for example. Which is, after all, my real computer.

what phone does he use? every phone that I know of takes at least two minutes to come up from a cold start, and has for the last ten years...
Besides whether the issue he's addressing is real or not (i dont agree with him), this is not the way to address the company you work for and i would completely agree with Adobe if they do fire him for this.
It looks like a great project. Some features I would like to see:

* Alerts via SMS (possibly by integrating Twilio / Tropo).

* API via zeromq instead of HTTP. Async logging via workers. This could become handy if you log lots of things. It would also prevent logging to become the bottleneck of my applications.
I hate Adobe software with passion.

I used to love Macromedia Fireworks, so that I bought a copy of Fireworks after Adobe acquired Macromedia. I had to jump through some crazy hoops to prove that I did not steal the product, and that was nothing compared to what I had to do after buying a new computer – it turns out that I was supposed to unactivate the product on the old one and then activate on the new one. This is not what you do to your customers. I don’t even want to start on the issue of software quality or customer service (I once did the mistake of trying to report an i13n issue with my copy of Fireworks).

I swore there’s not going to be any software by Adobe on my computer anymore, and I even disabled Flash in my primary browser. I am lucky that I can do with the new wave of Mac graphics editors like Pixelmator. I was so happy paying for that product on the Mac App Store, getting a copy and doing nothing else that would require it to work. I was so happy that it starts immediately, that is has a decent UI. It’s not feature complete, it’s got its own bugs, but it’s a software and experience I am willing to pay for. Unlike Adobe. (Which is a company I once liked, being a typography geek and typesetting our school magazine in an old copy of PageMaker.)
If it makes you feel better I'm part of Generation Y and I'm not sure where else one would see a 404 besides on a "website".
Nice site. However you seem to be using CSS as it's intended: styling content.
The featured article uses CSS to generate the entire content, which I doubt is of any use besides showing off.
Might I also suggest nib, and excellent set of Stylus extensions for working with CSS3. One of the most useful features is image inlining, especially for gradients. While they end up being a fixed size, they also work crossbrowser (at least with any browser that supports data URIs).

http://visionmedia.github.com/nib/
http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/

All the examples show how to integrate it within your Node project, but you can just as easily use it from the command like with the `u` flag.

stylus -u nib <file>
Is JotForm a poster child for domain suspension overkill?
Cliff Click: Many concurrent algorithms are very easy to write with a GC and totally hard (to down right impossible) using explicit free.

Wrong, we did it.
The post is actually easy to read and understand. Funny thing is, in the last couple of weeks, there has been a lot of material (podcasts, posts, screencast, etc) on the subject. But it didn't really take off until 37signals mentioned it.
That's a complicated topic.

For the social web, people typically denormalize data because consistency is less important than personalization and/or read performance. At some point, it's just easier to write the same data in a redundant way than to query from a canonical source and transform it on the fly. Wikipedia's raison d'etre is to show the same data to everybody. In fact, it goes to great lengths to ensure that everybody sees the very last updated version, no matter what. So there's no great pressure to denormalize core services; in fact, quite the opposite.

The next part of your question is whether a document-oriented database would be better. I think it would be possible to write a wiki on top of a document store. You'd gain a lot from simplicity, although you'd lose certain kinds of flexibility.

But, this is not practical for Wikipedia at this point. For everything else that goes into rebuilding a page, or administration, there are plenty of traditional joins.

The software is very much married to SQL. MediaWiki, the software that powers Wikipedia, is open source and database agnostic. There are people running MediaWiki sites on pretty much every RDBMS you can name. While queries and updates are all abstracted away, the core concepts are all obviously SQL. The abstraction layer just gets rid of syntactical quirks and handles escaping.

That said, a typical MediaWiki installation is not well normalized either. MediaWiki is capable of hosting a lot of extensions that extend the behavior of the wiki. If the extension needs to persist data that's associated with existing tables, a typical strategy is for the plugin to maintain its own parallel tables of data, which reuse the same primary key.

Like a lot of successful websites, the MediaWiki culture is pragmatic above all else. SQL databases are used to persist data and the best you could say is that it's a hybrid strategy.
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Sure, but that's imported content again. It's reliant on the foreign publishers deigning to think it worthwhile. Is the existence of LPEs enough to prevent the growth of a market in indigenous content?
What's the big deal? Showing a splash screen for less than 5 seconds (oh yeah, get an SSD) until everything initializes is better than opening a non-functioning UI ("the cloud" is not a solution - what are you going to do when your connection goes bad?). It would be nice to not have it, but for such a bloated program as Photoshop or After Effects, it's pretty much expected...
For a moment, I thought it was going to print the lyrics for the "Hello" song, by Lionel Richie.. that would've been hilarious..

Hello, is it me you're looking for?

'Cause I wonder where you are

And I wonder what you do

Are you somewhere feeling lonely or is someone loving you?

Tell me how to win your heart

For I haven't got a clue

But let me start by saying I love you
Of course, PageMaker wasn't created by Adobe — you're thinking of Aldus, who also published the excellent FreeHand.

Note the ongoing efforts to get Adobe to free FreeHand, including the recent antitrust lawsuit:
http://freefreehand.wordpress.com/

Adobe is just another company where good software goes to die.
You certainly can't get far without someone playing the "apologist" or "fanboy" card. This is annoying because you are presenting no argument or evidence, you're just saying "this person's opinion is bullshit because of the apparent side they have chosen". I don't see what value that adds, it just dumbs down the entire conversation.
You can in fact apply CSS to non-HTML documents through the `Link` header. Here’s an example: http://eligrey.com/blog/post/title-image-files-in-opera

Similarly, full `Link` header support would also make it possible to have feed-autodiscovery on non-HTML pages (like images, audio, video, plain text files, etc).
It'd be nice to have the option to choose to spend that million on pursuing a bucket list, or on a horrendous treatment with a single-digit success rate.
As a non-coder, I'd like to have read a bit about the planning vs code learning bit. For instance, the author states that "...I built the first version of Hngry while working through the first edition of that book."

The book presumably dealt with Ruby, the libraries, the agile process, but how did the author translate the interactions he had in his head into objects/procedures/whatever in the code?

Abstractionacademy anyone?
> The featured article uses CSS to generate the entire content, which I doubt is of any use besides showing off.

That’s absolutely correct. (To be fair, this is mentioned in the article under “Disclaimer”.)
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Yeah it's a reference to this wonderful song ;-)
In specific, yes. In general, I don't understand why, to pick an arbitrary example, O'Reilly gets a free pass as a go-to publisher on technical content, or why academic textbooks should be imported by default. Put another way: why isn't there yet an Indian publisher with the status of O'Reilly, whose books we're all desperate to get our hands on?
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You could have Googled this :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_M._Christensen#Career

He founded Ceramics Process Systems Corporation, and served as chairman and president.
He founded Innosight LLC

He serves on the board of a number of others, and also works directly with a couple more.

I'm all for calling bullshit on "big name, no experience" entrepreneurs, but Clay Christensen is simple not one of them. His work is phenomenal, there is so much to learn from it.

Just because he's an academic, it doesn't follow that he's wrong.
Which technique? `::before` / `::after`? That’s not really what this article is about. (Nice site, though!)
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I'd be happy if people just stopped claiming they made a pun, simply because a word has two slightly different meanings in the dictionary and they used it both ways.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that we couldn't fully implement this on mobile due to keyboard restrictions..
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And there are a variety of programs on my phone that take a few seconds to start. Angry Birds has a splash screen, for instance.
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Did you really not have the time to open the App Store and type "Xcode"? Really? Hell even if you're not on a Mac type "Xcode" into Google and look at the first result!
My MUA (Mutt) can launch any editor you like for composing mail. I use Vim, but it would work equally well with Emacs, nano, or whatever you prefer. Mutt is not alone in this regard.

The point is, you don't have to have embed your MUA inside of your text editor in order to use your editor for composing mail. There's nothing particularly wrong with that approach, but it's not the only way to get that benefit.
I never use it, but Safari's Reader will actually make the text readable with no need for an additional tool.
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Er, no. But there's an important psychological difference between "X is expensive." and "Y is cheap."

Honda Civic's aren't cheap. A Lexus is expensive.
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I think not putting profits first qualifies as "ignoring profits" as far as standard business practices are concerned.
I don't really understand the sentiment of the author. Xcode is free, and even when it wasn't free it was very very cheap. A decade or two ago it was very common to charge hundreds of dollars for much much shittier IDEs, the Professional edition of Visual Studio is still at least $500 and Apple is giving away Xcode for free. There are alternatives if you don't like it, JetBrains has an excellent IDE for Objective-C development but you can also use VIM or Emacs.

Really, I am puzzled by this level of sense of self-entitlement.
Add a code sample to the home page. It gives an instant feeling of how the language is.
Does it have long-scheme-like-names? Do you have to sharpquote the #’functions? ...
At the bottom of the page, an interesting approach to gaining wide distribution. The HN poster did not add her/his email address.:

Add your email address at the end of this page's URL and share it with your friends on facebook or twitter or blog or email. And when they visit us and click on any Google ads, you will earn monies.

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Glad to see Facebook is rolling this out now.
My computer is pretty responsive, at least as much as my smartphone is and I'm not running anything special (No SSD, 4GB of RAM and an older model of quad core).

Ok, I wait maybe 2-3 minutes for the computer to start (not even that if I just put it to sleep instead of turning it off). I can work for ~8-10 hours so those minutes aren't a big deal.

There are a few programs that are particularly slow to start (eclipse, steam, openoffice) but that's mostly just because there is a lot of code to load and I'm sure a comparable application for a smartphone would be just as slow.

I do run Linux most of the time though so there is probably a bias there towards smaller non-monolithic programs there and not having registry bloat helps.

However I still remember the days of Windows 98 and how horribly slow everything was back then on anything apart from a freshly installed machine and having to wait a full minute for Office 97 to start, we've come a long way since those days. I can't see it taking long before every PC comes with an SSD drive (which is probably part of the reason smartphones seem responsive as well as having a well warmed cache).

As for doing something like running a cloud instance of the program and then somehow syncing back to the desktop app seemlessly, that seems like it would add such an insane level of extra complexity and problems which is exactly what he seems to be against.
The amusing thing about this is that Dave Winer used to be quite vocal about comments being one of the defining criteria of what makes a blog. I guess his thinking on this has evolved. Sad to hear that he will be shutting down opposing viewpoints on his site.
>It isn't completely a cost center as they do make money from developer subscriptions.

That's a weird statement. Do you think that employees at Apple use something other than xCode? Surely they have access to private classes but I don't think they are currently developing two distinct IDEs.

Secondly, I think that Apple is probably aware that 3rd party developers are holding up the entire iOS eco-system. It seems like a lot of people are taking these bugs very personally.
Have you been upgrading your Xcode installations or starting from scratch?

I got my Mac in 2010 and was having major Xcode problems with 4.x but I had to nuke my computer when 10.7.2 came out and I've had almost no problems since then with a fresh Xcode 4.2 install.

Not trying to apologize for Apple, Xcode does seem to have some serious problems, but figured I'd throw out how I "solved" my problems.
Would be awesome if advertisers can tap into this information. Show ads / discounts to people for products they actually want and haven't already purchased.