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Atwood's thesis is that the new iPad improved on those things that make tablets useful.

I agree with him that the updated display is the killer feature. But you have to give props to a high performance wireless network architecture too.

That being said, two tablets with identical specs, I prefer an Android tablet and a more accessible ecosystem, the problem for Android right now is the R&D and supply chain investment competition. Ten manufacturers each investing 10 million in their tablet design is not nearly as efficient as one person investing 100 million in their tablet design.

I keep hoping Google will address that issue by providing hardware/manufacturing R&D but it isn't one of their core competencies. When I worked there folks would call me to get in introduction to the folks designing the next Android phone, I'd chuckle and explain they had to go talk to Motorola or HTC. Perhaps now with their Motorola acquisition they will be in a place to make that investment, time will tell.
THe most famous energy drink... most youngsters I see drinking it mix it with alcohol to "get pumped" for the clubz.
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I like how the MPAA is being burned by the law that they bribed the politicians to pass. They laid out a very specific set of rules for websites to follow, and now they are upset that websites are following them. If it weren't so corrupt and evil, it would make me laugh...
This is really nice. I've been working on a very similar project in fabric.js this past week (captioning a picture, dragging text around on it and posting to facebook and pinterest).

The live updating as you type is a really nice feature, one that I hadn't even considered yet.
Ok folks, let me know when you throw out your computers. I mean, seriously. I don't want to hear the 100th story about how ipad changed your life unless you literally get rid of your computer. If the number of people who replaced a computer with a tablet exceeds the number of people who still have one, we can talk about that post-pc mumbo-jumbo. So, how's gonna be?
Are vendors closing OpenFlow?
Antitrust cases against big companies are always going to be expensive, but one of the many stupid things the DOJ and states did in the Microsoft case was making Microsoft fight for its life. It was unnecessarily aggressive and drove up the expense.

And, there were competing browsers and operating systems during the first case, too. The mere existence of competitors does not preclude antitrust action. Just ask AT&T and T-Mobile.
I never heard of this site betakit.com before. Does anyone know of any similar sites? I'm trying to break away from TechCrunch
That's because flash is a single process in all tabs. It's more of a problem with the way flash is designed.
I don't think I follow your definition of 'Mathematically-secure' is this even an attainable definition? To expect all crypto to be eventually broken is an attitude with foresight.
Having used the new iPad I did notice that scrolling felt more responsive[1], but that's just as a result of having a more powerful GPU onboard.

[1]: Although not to the extent of that Microsoft demo posted a week or two ago.
Do you really think that Apple with all of their billions of dollars would pay someone like Jeff Atwood to write this, or anything? Come on.
I really don't see how this is manipulative, who exactly are they trying to fool? The "tapping into something deeper" isn't some tricksy ploy to reveal more than you want, it just means the question is crafted to address several layers of discussion about what you're looking for, all at once.

Unless you're trying to dig into their compensation priorities so you can lowball them in the right areas, this is just a question aimed at seeing how well they'd fit in to the company in terms of their own career/strategic goals, working environment, QA/testing standards, etc. I'd rather get those things out there in the interview and find out "Oh, yeah we have source control, and staging/dev servers, but I'd say our devs push about half their code changes straight to production via scp right off of their workstations. Saves time that way.", rather than on my second week when I've made X number of changes and commitments in my lifestyle & career for this job.
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Many folks in NYC feel that under Joel Klein the schools actually went down in quality -- and now he's working as a flack for News Corp so his credibility is really non-existant. There are schools out in Queens, NYC that are so over-populated with students that they are being taught in "temporary" trailers. Most of the kids can't speak English, but extra money that might help them is given to small charter schools which are pretty much segregated (including segregation of students with special needs). And after school most of the libraries that the kids might hang out are closed due to budget cuts. We're adding new cops which cost a tons of money (some who retire before age 40), but letting go of qualified teachers. A starting programer in NYC won't make less than $75 (and that's without a CS undergrad degree) while a teacher who has a grad degree can't get enough to live here.
Yeah, I went to Best Buy to take a look at the new iPad the other day. They didn't have it clearly labeled (iPad 2 vs. the new iPad) and so I didn't even realize I was using the new iPad at first. Granted, I've only used an iPad on 1 or 2 occasions in the past, but if there were some kind of new touch feedback functionality, I would have noticed instantly.
Well, I'm pretty sure all the money of those companies would not be enough to get LibreOffice to become 100% compliant with MS Office formats in a timely manner. Those formats represent decades of features, bugs, fixes and quirks that would have to be replicated in order to make sure that LibreOffice can replace MS Office in all its uses.
If you take "competing with Netscape" to mean "buying another browser and bundling it with another product they had a monopoly position on", maybe.

Perhaps they didn't "win" the battle fairly, but back when IE market share was in the 90%+ range, I think it was fair to say Netscape had unequivocally lost.

Mozilla/Firefox was a "Hail Mary" plan that only succeeded because a lot of smart people and a lot of money showed up at just the right time. I shudder to think what the web would be like had they failed.
Yes it does. As you drag it back from the edge it returns to its 'desired size' (the user's last explicit resize).
I don't know which Android devices you've used, but I simply haven't found this to be the case. From my experience, the touch response on high Android devices (such as the Galaxy Nexus) is indistinguishable from iOS devices.
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Although you appear to have been marked down for this, I kind of agree. Not that Apple paid him of course but that there is no real news in this article? If any other person had written this (not mainstream), I would argue no one would read it. It certainly wouldn't have made front page HN. It doesn't teach me anything I didn't already know and even if I didn't know it, it poses no real value apart from being very sales heavy.

EDIT: Spelling mistake
I guess that would be me. ;) I agree on the asshole part, but I'f like to believe that most of us are capable of creating if properly stimulated or nudged and given a framework for it.
I don't think people need to throw out their PCs , just maybe start using them less and then not bother replacing them after a while.

Of course pending a convincing replacement for the keyboard and mouse I'm not sure how long it is until we see this in office environments.

However I don't necessarily equate Post PC = Tablet , there will be other devices that fit other needs.
I do use FF every once in a few days, I just find its start up time irritating (the difference is on the order of seconds). I will say that it definitely has improved though, and I do like the way FF manages tabs over Chrome, but Chrome just feels more pleasant to use
I think what's interesting is that Red Bull has been around for over 30 years. Growing up in Thailand, I have been aware of Red Bull in its original form for as long as I was aware. All the time we would see commercials in Thailand saying it's all over the world. I just figured it was exported as is. But years later when I did see that Red Bull had made it to US shores, it was vastly different from the syrupy version marketed to Thai truck drivers to stay awake during their long hauls.

I think the story of how they managed to transform a niche product into the hottest club drink (redbull + vodka) and the whole extreme sports marketing angle is very interesting.

Incidentally my mom is classmates with the person who came up with the formula.
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It's 264 PPI, not DPI.

My monitor is 2048 x 1152 23 inches.

20.05" × 11.28" (50.92cm × 28.64cm) = 102.16 PPI, 0.2486mm dot pitch, 10437 PPI²

At one foot away I still cannot see the individual dots.

There's been a 200 PPI option for over a decade now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors

If the ipad3 has added expense or limited availability to get ppi above 100, it was a waste.
And yet, there are so many more things that can still be improved"

Quality daytime viewing, via LiquiVista (or similar)[1]; electrostatic haptic feedback for something better than a goddamn vibration [2].

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6tzaIgZKs0 (LiquiVista)
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiCqlYKRlAA (Senseg)
For a while, Chrome was bundled with Adobe's Flash Player installer. Chrome bundled Flash and Flash bundled Chrome. People downloading the Flash installer for Windows would also get Chrome, if they didn't opt out:

http://www.salsitasoft.com/blog/2011/09/23/wonder-how-chrome...
I'm sure this Mikeal guy is a genius and everything, but is it really necessary for him to interrupt and contradict the other guy (was that Isaac?) every 3 seconds?

Anyway this Domains idea, is it something like:

var domain = require('domain');
var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');

domain.handleError('fsdb', data, function(err) {
console.log('There was an error updating thing #' + data);
});

updateThing = function(id, data, callback) {
domain.run('fsdb', id, function() {
var options = { host: 'things.myserver.io', port: 80,
path: '/update?id='+id+'&v='+data.new};
http.get(options, function(res) {
fs.writeFile(data.fname, data.file, function() {
callback();
});
});
});
}

So something in fs and http makes it call domain.handleError with the details if there is a problem with the request or file write?

Forgive me if I am completely misunderstanding or if this is a bad example.
How much would you pay for the universe?
Fascinating trivia from the history of character encodings
I'd love to see a list of some standards more backwards-compatible than HTML.
One reason Apple jumped straight to 264 PPI is to exactly double each dimension. This makes the 2x scaling beautiful.

(I'm repeating hearsay, but it seems intuitively obvious to me - feel free to correct me.)
Chrome has just one plugin process. All tab processes share the same plugin process, so if one Flash crash will take all Flash.
+1.

They're still just expensive toys. And I really, really mean that.

Have I ever received an email from someone using an iPad?

Nope. Not once.

Has anything I've looked at online in the last week been created on an iPad?

Nope.

Post-PC? Try post-TV.
Before Television came along, people were going to movies at least once a week. Movie theaters still exist and people still go, but it's no where near the same.

For post-PC, I think the important metric is how much more time are people spending on their tablets and phones vs. their PCs rather than whether or not they still own a PC.
Skimmed the article 2-3 times and must've missed something obvious or maybe obtuse.
It wouldn't surprise me if he becomes President some day.

He's not a practicing theist, so his chances are about zero.

http://anamericanatheist.org/interviews/interview-with-neil-...
1) does consumer reports count to you? http://mashable.com/2010/07/12/iphone-4-consumer-reports/

2) yes but you go to Apple and want to buy something and tell them: oh let me wait for next iOS version because it will be new. the response will be that your Apple device will tell you when it can update itself.

I actually think Apple kind of cannibalizing (monetary-wise) itself with the fact that 4th gen iPod, for example can update itself all the way from ios4 to 5. But of course, before bunch of downvotes come in, I think its a good approach that they don't take advantage of this fact and let you enjoy your old device with newest software.
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If they ask for your input and then move on to the next question, absolutely. But at that point you're blaming the tool and not the user. The conclusion to draw is the interviewer is lazy / doesn't know what they're doing if they ask a question like that and move right on without inviting 2-way discussion over it.

The article clearly intends this to be a jumping off point to talk about what you're looking for in an employer and work environment in more detail. And it gets the ball rolling a little faster rather than just saying, "talk about what you're looking for in an employer and work environment in more detail".
Interesting video but the system appears to only be a small parts solution. I don't think it could even handle a 20" monitor.
Hi! That's me.

I used to use my laptop all the time. Browsing the web, social web jerk-offery, entertainment on planes, whatever.

The iPad has pretty much replaced my laptop entirely for casual computing. I barely use it these days. Mostly it gets dusted off for looking at porn, since Flash isn't coming to mobile. And even now, that's becoming less and less an issue as more content distribution – adult and otherwise – moves to H.264.

Laptop is still good for designing things, for writing code, cutting video, whatever. But I'm quite impressed by how thoroughly the iPad has replaced it for the majority of use cases. And that's how it works. It doesn't happen overnight. It creeps. I didn't immediately stop wearing watches when the cell phone became ubiquitous. But eventually it was a no-brainer.
Further Reading: Write up in MIT News discussing Dina Katabi and Piotr Indyk's work : http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/faster-fourier-transforms...

The write up also links the pair's arXiv paper : http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2501v1
> They have a significant stake in the DMCA and what its legislation protects.

So does dozen of other tech companies. But it's Google who keep showing over and over again defending internet freedom. Where are the others defending Hotfile?

I don't mean to naively imply Google is somehow a benevolent saint that values altruism over capitalism. But assuming the human beings running these companies don't try to push their ideologies whenever they get a chance, is naive as well. There's a strong culture for internet freedom among Google employees, and that is reflected on the company's actions.

But for us, all that matters is that they're doing something good. We should be supportive and do what's in our power so others join them.
I wouldn't be too worried about the size, unless you're speaking from a purely aesthetic perspective. For usability, being on the edge of the screen makes it an easy mouse target.
The iPad doesn't have to replace a computer to make a big difference in computer sales. I bet there are large numbers of people who already have computers but that aren't upgrading them like they normally would because the iPad serves their needs. Or not buying additional PCs (one for the kids for example).

The iPad is sort of like buying a scooter when you live in an urban area. If you already have a car you might not get rid of it, but you drive it a lot less and when it comes time to be replaced, its worth is now a conversation instead of a sure thing.
Actually, as noted in a sibling comment, you can open two excel documents. However, as far as I can tell, you absolutely cannot open two powerpoint documents side by side.
> Laptop is still good for designing things, for writing code, cutting video, whatever.

Oh, well, looks like you're stuck in that ol' pc era after all...
The conclusion of that thread was that his Python benchmark was accessing the hashmap's entries in sequential order (due to python's hash function being intentionally non-random), while the Go benchmark was accessing keys at random (since its hash function is random) and trashing the cache.
Chromium is open source, which Chrome is based on. I don't understand what everyone is complaining about. Chromium will always be around, so if you're paranoid about Google sneaking in some stuff into Chrome to steal your info, then use Chromium. I like Mozilla, but they haven't been able to keep up in my book.
Its an interesting question. Probably won't get a lot of takers here on Hackernews but my non-programming friends are totally in the "Great I can toss this stupid PC" camp.

For them, they have never written a line of code, their work doesn't require them to change a computer but it does require that they communicate, schedule meetings, take pictures, exchange data. For them a 'phone' is not enough and a laptop is a bit too much.

The market for computers has many components, one component is the engineer / programmer / scientist. Their use of computers is like their use of calculators, they always have one somewhere. But there is another component to that market which is much larger which are the people that are forced to use computers because businesses don't use the yellow pages, or have catalogs, or answer customer support calls, or deal with people on a face to face way.

For that segment of people the iPad is a total win. They can look things up on the web, they can order from Amazon, they can keep in touch with their friends, and they can fill out forms etc. They will have a PC in their den or something for a while and when they haven't turned it on in 6 months they will put it out with the other junk at their next garage sale.
That's great, but it doesn't tell me how I should assess whether to buy from any other manufacturer.

To extend into t-shirts. (Not an analogy) I'm told that a discount shop selling t-shirts for £1 is using sweatshop labour. The obvious implication is that more expensive brandnames do not use that sweatshop labour. But I don't know who audits that stuff, or where the numbers are. Can I trust, say, TheGap to make sure all workers are paid properly?

It's a weird market niche that hasn't really been filled by FairTrade yet.
I wonder if that could handle changes in typing style. I've had finger injuries where I was deliberately typing softly with one or more fingers. Would I still be able to log in?
There would have been a cost involved recently with giving a group of journalists private briefings on osx mountain lion recently. Which would have been done to get more press.
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> I would say get ready for the Post Hardware Era.

That's what they said in the mid-90s as the web was catching on (remember the "network computer"?). And then came Flash and Java applets and Javascript and various other things and it turned out that a dumb web client had to be pretty smart to keep up with the web.

I try never to say that something is impossible, because I don't really know what the future will bring, and convincing myself that I do would be foolish. But I will have to be shown a lot more than what we've seen so far with OnLive before I'm convinced that the future of mobile devices is as dumb terminals.
If they think a question that gets at "What are your main priorities in looking for new employment?" is bullshit, I hope they do walk out of the interview so I don't waste anymore time on them.
> The mere existence of competitors does not preclude antitrust action.

Agreed. I just don't see the anti-competitive behavior around virtual desktops that we did with WinOS and IE, so I think it would be a very tough sell.
"nothing is more fundamental to the tablet experience than the quality of the display"

Well, I'd have to say the OS's interface and overall UX is more important. Maybe not for some, but it's a big deal for me.
"That's a great question! I wish more companies cared about this sort of stuff. To save us both some time, while I'm writing these down, why don't you write down the 5 most important metrics you are going to weigh if you are deciding between multiple candidates. When we're done we'll just swap papers, OK?"
I think the 'imagine' asks for an insincere and interviewer pleasing answer.

The way to get a real answer is to ask about a real situation.

Have you ever had two job offers to consider? What were they? What was interesting about each of them? Which did you pick? After you worked there how did it go? Would you evaluate them differently based on your experience of how it worked out.

Get real detail about real situations and it is much harder to fake. At least that is what they taught us at 'big company' that I last worked at.
I thought this was an interesting post... but let's say for the sake of argument that it doesn't have a "decent point."

Do you think Jeff Atwood is less likely to have a decent point if Apple is paying him for his writing?
You're of course right and that's why I said "A sizable portion" ;)
Things might be different but the last time I checked I could not find chrome addons that are equivalent to NoScript, RequestPolicy and AdBlock. These three addons are keeping me firmly in the firefox camp...
+1 for the most part the only time I ever use my desktop at home is to manage images from my SLR and... That's about it. 90% of my non working computing time is spent in an iPad.
Exactly. I'm only using my laptop when I'm actually writing code. All the rest of the computery stuff (like HN) happens in a comfortable chair with a tablet.

Eventually either somebody invents a great way to write on these devices, or I'll finish my visual programming project (see http://noflojs.org). Then (and only then) I can see my laptop usage starting to near zero.
I've thought of making something like this, but can't think of an elegant approach. One starting point might be to show closely related books in chronological order of publication.
Modula-3, Ada, Oberon are just a few of such languages.
So the iPad can't be disruptive for computing unless people also stop using their computers completely? It can't be disruptive and, say, replace 80% of the usage for 80% of the people?

I've shared this anecdote several times on HN, but my parents bought iPads instead of laptops for travel.
I agree, and additionally would like to know; how much tunnel vision must one have to believe that the next generation of a single successful tablet, in a sea of tablets that are failing, denotes that we're "post-PC" because the PPI has been increased
Lets play to the clairvoyant, the post-tablet era is going to be glasses-PC (circa 2025) and after that is going to be micro holographic touch projectors (circa 2040); and those are going to be more like terminals with everything in the cloud.
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4203.en.h...

precis: exhaustive search on DES for $1000 in FPGAs from eBay, 2 years ago

DES is in the range of 'costs less than a new phone/iPad' to do an exhaustive search at this point