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I think it is called being an Opportunist Fanboi.

Maybe there is a new word in here someplace - because there is certainly a career to be made out of it, although he could just be the modern Cringly/Dvorak.

FanOpp?

EDIT: I love being downvoted for an honest and direct reply to a question.
I'm really annoyed with ad hominems like "Anyone who thinks Apple only makes high-priced products has completely lost sense of reality." Statements like this basically amount to "everybody who disagrees with me is an idiot" and add nothing. All they do is annoy the reader.

I really wish people would avoid them both in blog posts and comments. I've been seeing some here on HN as well and really wish they would go away.
"The retina display is amazing, everything in the UI feels faster, and the price points remain the same. What’s not to love? It’s that simple."

Sadly, it's not enough for me to switch from the ipad1 to the ipad3. If there was a way to have a reduced prize by trading it with your ipad1, then maybe.. :) Still, I wish there was something more to it..
Yup. Give those people 2 days to learn a new instruction set for an architecture that's only ever synthesized onto an FPGA, then reverse firmware compiled to that architecture back to an exploitable overflow. They'll do it. And they won't even use Mongodb to do it.
Thus the perfectly worded event invitation: "We have something you really have to see." (... "And touch.")
First off, I get that Norvig is a celebrity. Celebrity has little to do with teaching ability.

Secondly, I think reducing my point to 'argle bargle...social' is a little unfair.

This may just be coming from my psyche as someone who has been in a fairly lonely job with few peers, but one of the best things about going to college was getting to know smart and interesting people.(On the other hand, learning to deal with people who have difficult personalities was also useful).

To really get to know someone you have to be in a community with them. I'm not sure that 'social solutions' on the internet would really fulfill this need. They are all the things that you do to kind of numb yourself at the end of the day so you can sleep... there isn't really an intention to engage.
I agree, but it appears that while he doesn't "count", He plays a more general "averages" game. Per the article: "More useful, for his purposes, is running a smaller number of hands and paying attention to variation. The way averages work, the larger the sample, the narrower the range of variation. "

Edit: I would guess he's developed some algorithm for keeping track of swings and general variation, so he plays not hand by hand the way counting goes, but rather "batch" or "streak" While will also have wild swings of him making and losing lots of money, but if he keeps tabs on these variations, he can swing them in his favor over time.
"Photos from a 2011 presentation by AWS Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton show 1U “pizza box” rackmount servers rather than blades"

Those look like 2U boxes to me. The slides even talk about a "rack of 20 servers with Top of Rack switch".

And it's been obvious from the start that EC2 instances are subdivisions of larger servers; given the sizes of servers involved, the power distribution and cooling issues would make using blades a nightmare.
I wouldn't mind that so much but Microsoft/Windows observer (sometimes insider) Paul Thurotts' http://winsupersite.com is hellbanned on HN.

Can't have a Microsoft enthusiast site even be seen or the submitted on the site right? Who knows, it might get some upvotes on the new page and not enough flags from the haters to kill it, it's better to squelch his articles and not take any chances of them hurting the anti-MSFT, pro Apple and Google sentiment on here, right? Bring on the anti-MS articles though, they're surely welcome on the front page.
It depends on the number of hands he played. As it mentions in the article, the house edge is based on billions of simulated hands. If he played nonstop for 1 week, that is at most 14,000 hands (100 hands/hr x 20 hrs/day x 7 days). Card counting or not, this is a statistically insignificant number of hands.

This article describes someone with a lot of money playing blackjack with bad bankroll management who quit while he was ahead.
Why shouldn't you love that? It means you don't have to spend money.
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Same as the difficulty of writing a multi-platform anything. All development takes time and effort, which equates to money. Netflix is simply measuring expenditure against likely reward.
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Why do you have a tv when the computer meets and exceeds such functionality?

I havent had any form of cable for about 6 years now, I do have a screen which i watch some netflix on, but watch 98% of everything on laptop or ipad.

TV is dead to me.
I can imagine how the meeting after the scanners were proved worthless* went:

Boss: "Guys, the $1B investment in body scanners is worthless. Suggestions?"

Tom: "We could monetize the old way, call it another name, and pretend that we would actually do some extra security check to keep people from panicking."

Boss: "Good job, Tom. Get it done."

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3673462
Right, but this is purpose speced for long-term stationary operation. FPSOs and other ships like that DO operate in that manner. Naval ships do, too. The reason other ships don't is that they're in relatively constant motion, and even those are switching to use shore power and aux power, since they have switched to more expensive fuel (diesel vs. bunker), fuel has gone up in price (what, 3x?), and environmental regulations apply.

Big marine engines are crazy (like 100k horsepower?), but that's not what you would use for this purpose.
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It's just his dressed up version of saying "is wrong," by point of fact. And he is addressing a viewpoint that pundits have historically harbored.
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Consistency and dedication. Then he decided to be a full time blogger and sold weekly sponsorship slots. Selling out and charging enough to make for a very nice salary.
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I have a bunch of painful stories about using Arch but the best one happened most recently.

I had some outdated package that I wanted to update so I asked in the #arch irc room how to just update that one package. I was told upgrading a single package is generally a bad idea and its better to just update the entire system. I have had a server running Gentoo for ~5 years and I frequently upgrade single packages at a time so I saw no problem with this but ok, I'm not an Arch expert so I followed the #arch people's advice.

I invoked the upgrade command and I see it wants to upgrade the linux kernel to 3.2 and a bunch of other stuff. After the upgrade completes I rebooted the machine (or it rebooted itself, I forget). It wasn't able to boot up. I put in a rescue cd but I couldn't figure out what was wrong.

This is exactly why I don't do 'emerge world' in gentoo anymore. It has backfired on me more than 50% of the time (when I used to do it). I simply do not trust these bleeding edge distro people to get everything working all the time and I am annoyed at the zealots who constantly advise to just upgrade as if nothing could possibly go wrong.
I'm not very surprised by this decision, I like Kevin Rose and his ideas, but in my opinion OINK was late to the game. In a time where you have so many app options to check-in or review things, this app becomes very unnecessary.

I guess this proves that even a great design and great execution are not enough, you also need a clever idea huh. What do you think?.
Exactly. If I read a review of an Apple product there, I know I'm going to be reading a positive one, but it's the clear details he goes into, the fact that they're reasonably well-written, and the interesting and relevant observations he makes along the way that I enjoy reading (and that I believe is noticeably lacking in many other sources of writing online, especially relating to technology).
slashdot had a bunch of things; I did a Q&A there, and maybe 10 other articles got posted. That, the wikipedia article, and the wired article are probably the best overall information.
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You honestly believe there are a lot of families that would pay you $50 a month for a service that enables them to easily create todo lists and share attachments? You're a pretty optimistic person.

How many services do you yourself pay for today on a monthly basis? I can count mine on one hand. To get $50 from me every month you better have a life-changing service.
I like it, it shows initiative and creativity, although it sounds a bit awkward if you sent the emails without asking your parents.
Platform matters. It's his own website. Should he really not say what he thinks?

If you get annoyed by words online, you have a very unhappy life ahead of you.
YMMV, of course, but my Android tablet's 16:10, and it's fairly comfortable in both portrait and landscape.
Note: I kind of dislike the negative connotation the author here (and on other sites) seems to give. Kaplan gives valid logic--look at the money restaurants make. Why aren't we getting into that? The streamlined ordering process--do it on your phone, go pick it up--seems like a nice convenience. It might not be big, but its another step closer towards hackers taking on existing industries.
Not groking TDD, I literally worked my way thru the book, doing each and every step, just to get the gist of the experience.

TDD works fucking great. If you know what you're doing.

Alas, that's a big IF. Most of the stuff I do, I'm just figuring shit out.

Mostly, like when designing a new library, I work outside-in. I imagine how I'd want to do something, writing the client pseudocodeish stuff first, and then trying to make the implementation support my idealized programming mental model.

I end up throwing away A LOT of code. Getting something short and sweet takes a lot of experimentation, most of which are duds.

Though my personal approach of outside-in is trivially like TDD, it's not nearly as rigorous. Were I to be as thorough as TDD, I'd be spending all my time writing tests. Which seems pointless, for code I'm like just going to throw away.

Anyway. Much respect for the guy who wrote that first TDD book. It's one of the few methodological strategies that works as advertised.
It's not an ad hominem, it's a statement of fact. Apple has a reputation for producing expensive products which are distinguished mostly by industrial design and software rather than specs. It remains absolutely true of their peripherals and accessories, and true, though to a lesser extent, of their computers; however, in smartphones and tablets, Apple is the company that releases best-of-class hardware year after year at retail prices that their competitors have a hard time matching, let alone beating.

And anyone who can't admit that is ignoring reality, yeah.
For the longest time I thought he and Walt Mossberg were Apple spokesmen.
Damnit, I accidentally downvoted you. Your old links just got some extra love to make up for it.

Anyways, I was attempting to upvote your comment because I've noticed the same. I'm sure it will change once they see the display in person, and then see an iPad 1 or 2 again. I stare at pixels all day and it was an incredible upgrade to go from a standard Dell to a MBP with a high res display a few years back. Looking forward to this next step as well.
Its accuracy or lack of accuracy doesn't really matter. Even if you are an idiot, my calling you an idiot is unwarranted.
Apple's choice of the display is a good/bad situation. They are getting some positive press around their so called "retina display" - but I suspect that Apple will have supply shortages that will negatively impact them for a significant portion of the quarter. The 2048x1536 display is a fairly new component, the yields are probably suboptimal, and the manufacturing lines are probably not up to speed. Don't be too surprise if you are unable to purchase the "new iPad" for several months while Apple (and it's component vendors) try and crank out enough supply for the foxconn factories.

And yes - I do agree with you - Apple and their bundles of cash have likely hamstrung world-wide inventories of this display for a minimum of 60, if not 90 days. No other electronics vendor will be shipping the 2048x1536 form factor in large volumes until June/July at the very earliest.
Hrm; I read that as "Oh ho - so the TSA strategy comes to light, _molestation_ plans are implemented"
He does original thinking. This includes analysis and synthesis. Additionally, he practices good journalism. He is one of the few people that I read routinely --- I don't read him because he is about Apple, but because of his original thinking. He isn't a fan boy, as many people like to belittle him; he discusses good design, and points out when others practice it, such as the latest Windows mobile (metro? Or something).
Thurott is more Microsoft-centric than Gruber, who does write about other things, and generally just not as polished a writer or open to criticizing his “side”. I think you get a certain pass on HN if you write long pieces about typography and other web miscellany, particularly if you're above average as a writer
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What I don't get is.. if they "police" their networks, wouldn't they open themselves up to losing "carrier status"?

It seems like such a move would make them responsible for what happens on their networks, something I can't imagine they actual desire.
no one called anyone an idiot
damn I was actually thinking about how awesome the Kindle app would look on PDFs, do you know if Adobe Reader or any other PDF reader will use the new retina resolution right off the bat?
The std. deviation of blackjack is quite low. 14,000 hands would be a fairly large sample for blackjack, for live hands.
Now if we were talking about something like video poker, then yea, 14k hands would be nothing.
Writing what people want to hear is a business model - half the stuff on HN these days was written for HN. Writing skills and the ability to connect some dots is all you need.
Do you have a point or are you simply taking the obligatory ad-hominem cheap shot at Mr. Gruber? His reviews have, as you might recall, correlated quite well with customer satisfaction ratings and market performance of the products under discussion, and he gives considered reasoning for his viewpoints. If he's wrong about something, let's by all means discuss it.
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I think the key thing to take away from this post is how many lightyears ahead the third generation iPad is from its competitors, or current consumer technology in general.

> Going back to the iPad 2 after reading for a few hours on the iPad 3 is jarring.

> ...most graphics and images on the web are behind the curve, as of today

> The iPad display is so good that it shows, like no device before it, just how crummy most images on the web are.

It's like using a product from the future. Except Apple has engineered it now, and everyone can have one for a (relatively) decent price: $500. The new iPad is the poster child of everything that Apple does really well, and why it has been so successful over the past couple of years.
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Sorry to down vote you, but I can't upvote even "funny" support of the fucked up system we live in.
His best ever gamble was selling Channel 9 to Alan Bond for $1 billion, before getting it back a few years later for $250 million.

He later said "You only get one Alan Bond in a lifetime ... and I've had mine".
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The op-ed also reminded me of this: http://adgrok.com/why-founding-a-three-person-startup-with-z...
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As a note, financial accounting as a discipline has solutions for this that can be applied elsewhere in the business process. I am perhaps lucky because I build financial accounting software :-P
U.S. soldiers have been tried in foreign courts for breaking local laws. From a Stars and Stripes article regarding a soldier tried for rape in Korea:

"The U.S.-South Korea status of forces agreement allows servicemembers to be turned over to South Korean custody if servicemembers are suspected of heinous crimes and law enforcement officials request it" (http://1.usa.gov/yrzicW)

I don't know what status of forces agreement exists in Afghanistan.
I meant for the application-reviewing process, which has much faster feedback, vs. the "are the applicants qualified" process, which takes waiting at least through the session, and possibly a few more years.

They should be able to tune the app-review and interview process pretty easily, at least to get the same amount of information as from teams with ideas. Figuring out if those teams, if accepted, are markedly different from those who came with existing ideas, that's a much harder problem.

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My FF was the crashiest lump of pudding ever - seriously it was crashing a few times an hour ... until I started with a new profile and moved across my various .sqlite files (eg places.sqlite, cookies.sqlite, etc.).

Now? Completely crash free AFAIR.

I used http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile... as the basis of what to copy, though there are other such pages like http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering%20important%2... which might help.
How is he an opportunist?
The real reason that is there is a fanatical fanbase, especially among sites like HN, who not only make sure his posts get top billing but also flag posts by Windows enthusiasts and insiders like Paul Thurrott are flagged to death, so much so that that http://winsupersite.com is hellbanned from HN.

Haven't notice an actual big Microsoft announcement get far less votes than Gruber's snide and often factually wrong take on it? It's the community of fanboys and worshippers he has created.
Why is it that every single HN story I have read for the past week has this kind of fucking sarcastic hater comment at the top of the thread?
It was in part designed to suggest the perverse incentives that our government operates under....
Unrepentant war monger.

If you really want to get worked up, watch one of his tete a tetes with Mark Shields on PBS (if they're still doing that). I'm surprised Brooks has the brain power to breathe.

Anyway. Is it really too much to ask submitters to prefix their links with the celebrity neocons name?
Claiming somebody has "completely lost sight of reality" is similar, differing only in degree and number of words.
What an incredible farce, although such talk of this mystical 'Joe' intrigues me.
Just tried out Arch a week back now, and I was quite happy with it. Here's to 10 more years!
What is surprising is how easy it is to compute the odds..its just permutations and combinations..not that hard its a 100 level math course in most colleges.

What makes it different is that we needed two things to leverage the $1 million he put up per Casino and the Casino management being fool-hardy enough to believe that they computed the odds on the change in rules and discounts correctly.

It would be like say oh stacking the deck in that the founders get one class of stock and everyone else another class which allows the founders to retain ownership control of a start-up.

You do not need to card count as he changed the rules to only have hand shuffled six decks in the shoe..I can with a certain memory system compute the odds on cards dealt from that shoe and so can you..its not hard..its simple math..
Hey TSA broke my windows and now they're offering to repair them (for a reasonable fee)! Hooray! According to this pizza box advertisement I could even be fixing them myself...
"He's a blatant apple fanboy, but unlike most others he's not a stupid fanboy."

Very nice. I think tikhonj's comment from below applies better here instead.
> First off, I get that Norvig is a celebrity. Celebrity has little to do with teaching ability.

It's not like he's popular for being snooki's best friend or something .. I feel Peter Norvig is a celebrity for the right reasons here.. there are two types of teachers - those who get you to see the world in interesting ways, and those who illuminate targets that one wouldn't hit normally on one's own. I'm guessing Norvig's course might be more of the latter type..

> .. but one of the best things about going to college was getting to know smart and interesting people
personally, I feel 'getting to know' is not enough. As math ematicians/scientists or techies or programmers, our peer group /culture is our identity, and pretty much the main reason we wake up in the morning and check email for patch updates or stay up till 5 running code and what not.
yep, online courses don't give that. And I too badly feel the need for it

tl;dr first point - disagree, second point - agree
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Idiot is your word. Gruber said "lost sense of reality", which is what you would have to do to think that Apple only makes over-priced products. It is objectively not true.
I did not mean to be hostile. I was just curious about the relationship if any...
Sure, that might explain why Thurott's articles don't make the front page and Gruber's do, but does it explain why they're completely hellbanned from HN from even appearing on the new page where people can actually see them and vote on it if they find it interesting?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3408883
that sounds like a really exciting direction. can't wait for the retina display to catch on in other tablets.
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Why do I have the odd feeling that Apple has cornered the market on retina displays?
"Patent law like Copyright law has become completely impractical in its current form"

While I agree patents for software are impractical (to put it lightly), I don't follow what that has to do with copyright. They're two very different things and I haven't seen many issues with copyright for code (now, copyright extensions by lawmakers/treaties to avoid works hitting the public domain... that's another story).
The university I work at, without any kind of official direction, has had the entire staff body move from the internal mailing list to Yammer for staff chat. It is brilliant.
I'm in the market for a tablet right now and I wanted to choose the new iPad for its superior resolution, high quality app store and great pedigree.

But I can't. When I put aside any internal biases I realize that I want a tablet whose memory I can expand with SD cards. I want one that I can throw ripped movies onto without jailbreaking or going through time-consuming video conversions. I want one that lets me use it as a simple removable drive, free of the Apple ecosystem and its bloated iTunes client.

The iPad would be a great device for someone like my mom, but I can tell I'd forever regret its limitations and barriers.
iBooks has already been updated and supports PDFs.