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The expectation of a larger dividend is what has been driving the share price up recently (which is why it will probably fall today).

I don't know where that expectation came from. First Apple had the problem of repatriating international funds, so this was never going to be a $30, $50 or $100 (some crazy estimate) dividend.

Second all precedent from similar companies issuing a first dividend (well not first for Apple, but first for the 'new' Apple) such as Microsoft and Cisco is 1-2%.

I don't think the buyback will be very effective, not against the bigger dividend expectation.

1.8% is about par. I am surprised they didn't split the stock. Question now is how far the stock will fall today before picking back up again later on as yield-focused funds buy into the new action.
You have it right and seems to understand systems programming and the consequences of the necessities underlying it perfectly.
:= and = don't do what you probably think they do, the meaning is not the same as in Pascal. If you need to compare two variables, you use ==

if a == b {}

= is the usual assignment, := declares and initializes a variable inferring the type.

var a int
a = 42

vs.

a := 42

That means you'll see explicit types in variable declarations rarely.
Fortunately today you can use string literals with most programming languages.
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Why? He has better due process protections in the US than he does in the UK.

I think you just don't like the idea of people being prosecuted for crimes that involve file sharing.
Yes, I understand that, but plasticsyntax says he is not obliged to return the item. Sure he is obliged to return the item if he placed the order by mistake, and the duplicate is sent not due to an error on the part of O'Reilly.

I understand when the second book became a freebie but they could have asked for it to be returned at buyers expense...
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In 1900s, with Nietzsche, we killed God but at least people had distractions of "work".

But in 2000s, we are slowly killing work itself and replacing it with automaton.

Without a world with religion or necessary work, I wonder, what is there for (majority of) humans to "cling to"? Without distractions, won't their "freedom" drive them insane? Without God and profession, what would give meaning to their life?
Good idea.

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One time we worked on some code, and one of the developers had the same habit: "It works, so why do I need to format it?"

We decided to make our build system run PEP over the code, resulting in a failure if PEP didn't pass.

It annoyed the hell out of him, but we quickly got the formatting up to a better standard.
You could compare python with perl or php, you could compare Go with C, C++ or Java.

But to compare Go to Python is a bit weird.

Of course, you could do it, but why would you, almost every metric that you'd want to use would be off. You're comparing a compiled language with lightweight threads aimed at just-above-low-level programming backed by a single vendor with an interpreted language that is mostly geared towards single threads of execution with a very high level of expressiveness that is developed by a bunch of open source gurus under the supervision of a benevolent dictator.
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> I would imagine that Rust would be fantastic for implementing a database or a web browser or anything else equally complexity-management and performance driven.

Yeah that's about what I'd expect considering the language's goals.

> Safety is one thing, mandatory safety means a mandatory runtime overhead with a mandatory reduction in control and power over the code which is unacceptable.

Rust has the `unsafe` escape hatch for this, unsafe blocks can do whatever the hell they want and are "unsafe function" and "unsafe pointer" types which are known to bypass Rust's safety mechanism and can only be used in unsafe blocks.
I believe GC is a bad idea. Programmers should know what their objects are doing.
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No one mentioned this - another good job done by a YC portfolio company. Congrats!
Not everyone wants to sign up for that. I had no idea there even was a thing on meetup, and I've participated before.
It's one of my favourite things about the UK. I can order from ebuyer.com who do next day delivery up until 11pm and have it in my hand 8am the next day. From order to me in 9 hours is amazing, so convenient.
Fantastically dumb comment. FWIW int in C is also 32 bit on all mainstream 64 bit operating systems, and Go has int64.
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It doesn't always matter in all use-cases, I'm afraid.
Or that is dosent need all of 100 billion dollars in cash to continue its growth.. If you look at the details, they will use 45 bil over 3 years, so in 2015 I believe they'll still have about 100 billion in cash.
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A big acquisition could just end up being a distraction from their core businesses. There is probably only so much you can spend on improving the current supply chain, $100 billion+ is a crazy large amount. What if they feel they can continue growth without spending every last cent?
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No, never been a problem. I'm looking to move, and I'll only do so where I don't need a car (waste of money)..thankfully there are tons of options.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Hong_Kong#Private...
"If data is on the stack, any references starting there disappear as soon as that stack frame is popped, so there's no lingering work for the GC to do"

You're only considering the sweep phase. Sweep is the easy part of tracing GC - you can always chuck sweep into a background thread. The mark phase is the problem. Marking always has to trace roots, including stack roots - that's how GC works. Tracing GC never traces dead objects.

You can reduce allocation pressure by using the stack, which will make the GC run less often, but my point is that when it does run you're no better off than Java, and quite a bit worse since Java's GC can run in parallel with the mutator and Go's can't.

"Your comments strongly imply that you have no practical experience with Go's GC. I suggest you stop claiming that it has certain performance characteristics or behaviours when you have not experienced it yourself."

I have experience with GC generally. There's nothing particularly special about Go's GC: it's a standard stop-the-world mark-and-sweep collector for a language that supports a limited form of stack allocation but generally uses heap allocation. The performance characteristics that this form of GC must have are well-known.

If you want data, look at the binary-trees benchmark: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

It's mostly a test of GC. Java's GC runs more often (thus the memory use is lower) and yet it's still 4x faster. This is because Java has a generational, concurrent-incremental collector.
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why they are announcing this 30 minutes before the actual conference call?
They make more money every quarter than they plan to pay out with dividends or stock repurchases - so their cash hoard will continue to grow...just more slowly now.
"And, the worst problem I faced was of sockets. Non-blocking, multi-plexed and cross-platform socket support with C is basically non-existent (unless I wanted to use libev or libevent,"

What are you talking about? Most every single evented io library out there just boils down to a single system call in the underlying language - C: epoll(or select, poll, or kqueue) on socket/file descriptors. You do know that socket() returns a socket, which is actually just a file descriptor, right? You don't need libev and libevent because you can just write your own in two seconds with epoll! And if you're really attached to having the library handle the work for you you can always use one of the many cross-platform event libraries, like Glib which, last I checked, works on Win32, Mac, and Linux.
To anyone thinking of jumping on the App store get-rich-quick bandwagon, this is probably the most important piece of the article:

The studio, which has been in operation for about four years, had previously struggled to make any traction on the App Store
But it isn't by the backspace... in fact it's almost the furthest from it! Probably depends on your keyboard layout though.
He's been missing since the 14th (according to the article). 5 days is a pretty long time. I hope he's found. I've tweeted this.
You'll have no argument from me that the agency could be better managed, and that politicians need to stay the hell away from it.

And indeed, other arms of the space industry need much more funding. They will ultimately do all the common varieties of manned spaceflight better, that is inevitable.

The question is, will problems be solved by reducing NASA's budget? I think that is incredibly fucking unlikely. Instead as far as I am concerned we should be shoveling money at all of them like coal into a locomotive. Don't reduce NASAs budget so you can give more to Boeing and SpaceX.. give more to Boeing and SpaceX in spite of NASA's budget.

One half of a penny of every dollar you pay in (federal) taxes goes to science^. That is appalling. For as shitty and expensive as those shuttles were though, that money got us more return than pretty much the rest of that dollar.

If you look at how we budget for science and think "NASA is getting too much" instead of "Science is not getting enough", then you are missing the bigger picture.

^(ie, NASA. the money spent on the NSF isn't even worth bothering to include...)
Then it might work out fine, I don't know.

In general I have to work off of their purported goals and priorities to get a feel for where the final destination of the language will be when it's more complete.

If they say they aren't going to prioritize machine semantics, C-level runtime performance, or systems-grade control over code generation then I have assume those priorities will fall wayside to the established priorities of safety and concurrency.

I'm not saying Rust will "fail" like Go seems to be doing so far, I'm just saying I don't think they're going to prioritize making Rust useful for driver development[1].

[1] Which I think is brilliant anyway. It's solving a very hard problem that needs solved.
A more positive way to see this is that Apple has become so profitable that they can continue funneling huge amounts of cash into everything that they want, and still have lots left over.

But I agree with your sentiment. It's a bit sad that Apple seems to have maxed out their ability to use money on themselves.
Reminds me of many discussions I would have explaining how to invoke a particular DOS command to people whose MO was "dir" and then violently mashing <break> to allow themselves to page through a large directory.

"File slash" and "option slash" were far less confusing than decoding the secretary's concept of "forward" and "back."
I love the idea and I was actually thinking of doing something similar myself.

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Yup, the standard library was all I ever needed. People from other languages are familiar with frameworks and seek them in Go, but I'd say they are seldom required. The rich standard library and the language makes everything easy.
I could believe it for C (tcc is an existence proof for very fast C compilers), but building a C++ compiler of that speed is a pretty difficult task. Separate compilation for templated code is also really hard to get right, since the standard isn't really designed for it and gives few guarantees; if a templated class is changed, determining when you can safely avoid recompiling classes that use it is tough.
A potential relevant gaming point, Minecraft does double that ($210k per day average) and has done consistently for over a year now.
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Interestingly, if you ever come to Japan you will find many people expect path separators to be yen symbols (¥). Their windows paths look like:

¥docs¥finance¥

To understand the reason, just check out the table on the Shift-JIS encoding:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS

Specifically, look at the character at 0x5C where the backslash sits in ASCII. Learning this was one of those mind-blowing moments when you try to imagine what a world where that was normal would be like.
I also don't plan to learn Go, but if I have to because it becomes the de-facto standard for some important niche, then I will. This depends massively on the quality of their implementation and also on that of their competition.
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During this next couple of weeks we are going to be working on our pitch and I would really appreciate some pointers on what makes and needs to be addressed within our pitch.

What do you consider essential and what should be left out? Generic feedback would be great!

Thanks! :)
jarofgreen: I've thought a lot about this. I'm a big proponent of open source. And I intend to giving a lot of thought to open sourcing Nilai sometime in the future - just so that (as you put it) "techie people" can run their own servers if they want.

However, I think running the service is where the value really is. If someone is techie enough to grab an open source project, install it on their own server, and keep it running - I have little doubt that they could build Nilai. In fact, they can probably build it better than I can.

That being said, I do hope that Nilai will turn a profit. I'm charging such a small cost that I obviously do not intend to get rich off of Nilai but I wouldn't mind it running in the black rather than in the red.

Perhaps you could give mittechie's Bookie a spin? https://github.com/mitechie/Bookie - I think it looks pretty good.
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User space threads don't run in parallel, i.e. they don't take advantage of multi-core CPUs and can be blocking.

Fibers are for cooperative multitasking so no parallelism either.

Goroutines are multiplexed as needed onto system threads.
http://golang.org/doc/GoCourseDay3.pdf

So they are a bit different, in the spirit of Go: they make for a simple and general solution to both parallelism and concurrency. They combine naturally with channels to give the functionality of OS threads, user threads and fibers.
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Maybe the issue is that its rare for an audiance of a speach to make the difference between the way the content is communicated and the content itself.
Agreed, in a speach the way is the raison-d'être. But when you are good in writting, which I'm not, I guess it can ruin your day in a speach that you are unable to transport your message as you are used to in an essay.
If pg meant that in his essay, I agree that the idea counts less in a speach than it does in an essay. But you could well make the same point in a speach about essays, if you get what I mean.
P.S.: Apparently, I'm even worse in writing as I thought...
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It's actually trading +1.67% (pre-market).
On a UK keyboard, it's by left shift, making slash closer to backspace.
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After reading the article about SpaceX, I think Apple should start their own program. They can afford it. SpaceX is being paid less than 2 billion to go to the space station. I'm thinking:

iRocket
iSpaceShip
iStation

See, there a product family already. And the best part is that the iSpaceShip can only dock with an iStation. So you gotta buy everything.
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toadi: I understand your concern. And it is valid. I totally plan on scratching my own itch and I hope that my itches align with other's itches. But, I'm also excepting as many suggestions as anyone cares to give.

Maybe you could come back to Nilai in a few months, see where it is, and if it fits.
For MSFT, they started dividends in Feb 2003, but then did a huge one time dividend in Nov 2004, $3.08 / share or about 11% of their stock price at the time. So there is precedent for tech companies issuing large dividends to get rid of cash stockpiles.
Actually, if you'd be so kind as to indulge, let's back up a step and tell me what you think it is that we're doing so horribly wrong.

How would you sell enterprise software differently?
Because all of these factors have some degree to which isn't under our control - by this logic a muscular woman pays less than a muscular guy, which is sexist.

Would you have disabled people pay a huge amount for their wheelchair? How is discriminating based on sex or height or build any different? Some people naturally gain muscles at a much faster rate than others. What makes it okay to discriminate against those people?

Having a society where people are not discriminated against based on factors they cannot control is far, far more important than private profit.
So according to your post, having more money = freedom ? Does it not look like what a slave to money would say to deny slavery ? Or as stated in the article: Various religions in many countries have been used to justify the continuation of slavery. "They make people believe that going to paradise depends on their submission,"

That's said, what you stated is false,it's a known fact that the abolition of old style slavery was to replace it with a new from of slavery, namely minimum wage slavery, according to a then emerging economic context.
Something along these lines: freed slaves have to find money to buy food and shelter and are offered minimum wage for jobs doing what they used to do when they were slave.
They could buy a well run supporting business and leave it alone. Diversifying outside your core business is a bit risky, of course.
As the world's largest corporation, they are now under intense scrutiny by the US Government, which prefers to leash all massive corporations.

Apple is not allowed to spend its $100 billion buying companies, even if it wanted to. For example, they could buy HP and Dell and shut them down (maybe all PC manufacturers in fact, just with cash); such would not pass anti-trust concerns. They could buy Facebook with cash + stock; again, that wouldn't make it through anti-trust review. And so on.

Even though they're not formally regulated under anti-trust just yet as, say, Microsoft was - their actions are indeed strictly limited by what the government will allow them to do.
Because investor conference calls are not Macworld keynotes. The call is for questions, not "one more thing".
Not intentional - I'm simply not a designer. Maybe someone would like to submit a better logo?
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which is up on Fridays close but down a few points on the highs reached in after-market over the weekend (~609).

get a better sense a bit after the markets open and then at the end of the day today.

this news should be a disappointment, but nothing about the hysteria around AAPL surprises anymore.
Backslash is near L-Ctrl on my keyboard. Forward slash is far closer to backspace.

Perhaps a better way would be to think (for L-to-R language users) of the charater toppling "forwards" / or "backwards" \ WRT the text direction.
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I think Evernote has a built-in bookmarking and read later service. So perhaps you should give that a whirl?
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But then, many people are on medication that causes huge weight gain, or are naturally built bigger, or are taller, or are male. We shouldn't support discrimination in order to detect profit, and something like "how much someone weighs" is far too simplistic to take into account the factors that would contribute to it being a horrendously unfair system.
I know I will be down-voted for this, but I just have to say it: US is a nation of slaves. People are slaves to their banks. They have to work just to have roof over their heads and medical care.

I used to live in Poland, Germany and the US. I'm citizen of all those 3 countries.

In places like Poland people are just free. You can even sense it from the way they act in Poland. They don't really give a damn about their jobs, this or that. They know they are covered. Most people in Poland own their apartments/houses. I mean they own it. Not the banks. It's not like you have to work. It is an option. Americans and the other hand are just so intensely focused on their jobs even when it is picking up garbage. But hey, they have little choice, don't they? They need to bring their paycheck to the bank every month, just not to be thrown outside the boat without the life jacket.

The most perverted thing about this phenomenon though is that, Americans think they are free. They don't even see how enslaved by the system they are.

Don't understand me wrong. I love the USA. It is my country. But it is just simply staggering when you think about the cognitive distortions Americans have when they look at themselves. Born in debt, die in debt. That's feudal peasants AND NOT free people.
They're now accumulating $40 billion per year in cash (for likely fiscal 2012 numbers).

So they'll continue to add to the stock pile of cash most likely. By 2015, under this plan, they'll have perhaps $135 to $150 billion in cash, unless they increase the buy-backs or dividend further, and that's assuming their annual profit stops growing.
for a sec, i thought the line said "How we got ripped on AWS' cloud" , +1 me if any one else thought the same.
I am in no position to tell Apple how they should spend their money but after reading the articles about Elon Musk today I can't help but imagine how the world could be changed to become a better place with all this money.

And I don't mean that Apple should give money away to charities.

Why not invest in space exploration , electric cars, self-driving cars, medical devices, green energy,... It is not Apple's core business, but "phones" have not been the business of "Apple Computer" as well.

Apple has moved humanity forward with the personal computer and mobile phones. I don't want them to stop with computers, smartphones, tablets or TVs.

I want Apple to aim for more than just consumer electronics - but I guess we won't see that happening.
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Why I have learned go:

The overlap between problems that I'd like to solve with node.js and go is pretty large and I prefer being able to use a statically typed language with coroutines and multicore support built in.

The libraries are great for server side programming.

Go optimises for both speed and memory usage. Folk who run benchmarks often seem to ignore the latter but given how the cloud is priced, optimising for memory usage can be a big win.

Go's GC is suboptimal at the moment. That said, I suspect that it'll improve pretty quickly. Go benefits from all those lessons learned during the man centuries spent building the Java GC.
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