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So what exactly is supposed to happen when this Bubble bursts that in any way affects anybody here?

The 1999 bubble was only an issue because it happened with publicly traded companies that lots of people were investing in and making unrealistic gains on. You couldn't watch television without seeing ads for online brokers showing how easy it was to get rich quick, and your "My Account" page on said brokerage site was eager to tell you about your 10X margin and encourage you to use it. When it popped, all those stock portfolios went back to where they started (or worse), and hilarity ensued.

This time around, there's none of that. The "Bubble" is simply a handful of private companies getting silly valuations. If that stops happening, there's really no aspect of it that will bankrupt your random average family in the Midwest.

So yeah, sure, call it a bubble if you'd like. But it seems from here to be a harmless one floating off in the distance rather than a 1999-style one that we were all living on top of.
Wonderful tool! I've been doing this with the help of steer mouse and a clipboard history tool.
Maybe a bit to much to ask for, but how many sales are you up on now?
So a parallel bug tracking system that the developers (Apple) don't update... that's not a solution, that's a kludgy workaround for a problem.
This needs 2 easy additions, a slider to move the arrow closer to either corner of the edge it's on and a slider to change how big the arrow is.
This app makes me want to get a Mac. Awesome job.
Actually from what I saw on the OSX project the bugs were triaged pretty quickly by the Engineering Team. The problem is that you don't really get any feedback when it happens. And often the triage reason is technical so they can't really share it.

I think some people aren't paying much attention to Apple's products. They tend to add new features pretty quickly so doesn't leave much time for non showstopper bugs.
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Building something suitable for repair requires attention to fundamental structure -- design, materials, construction. All of that has costs. I have shoes a decade old that look brand new and will look so three decades hence. I'm wearing a boot of a type that will last forever and could climb Mount Washington or attend a Fortune 500 board meeting. Every time I replace running shoes I curse their irreparability and 6 month life span. But a solid shoe costs three or four times a comparable cheaper shoe and need annual maintenance costing about 10-15% of initial cost.

I have one fountain pen that's twenty-five years old. Pricey, cost about 100x a disposable ballpoint, but it's charged by ink bottles and has now outlasted 500 of those things.

Or t-shirts, you can now get woolen ones that last for years, can be worn several days without washing, and are warmer or cooler as needed. But each is 20x the cost of cotton alternative, and they last best if washed in an expensive detergent and air-dried.

Now I think these are good choices economically, and also socially and even spiritually. But I can see why others might not like those costs. Buying stuff worth of repair is a form of savings. It imposes some new maintenance knowledge and chores. And it forces some long-term decisions, if you want to change the style message of your shoes every year then this is not the route for you.

The culture of repair and retain is already around us and has always been. The question is the proportion of the population willing to pay the cost and acquire the knowledge to access it.
oh please, "the distrust of the entire development community"

You don't speak on our behalf, and you are sending a "message" to Microsoft about 5 years too late.

If you have a real argument then put it together and communicate it properly, otherwise this is just a continuation of shallow tribalism that really shouldn't have a place here.
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LOL. For the same reason, Microsoft Powerpoint has never crashed for me in 3+ years. (Because I haven't used it in 3+ years.)

I guarantee you that there is no professional programmer anywhere in the world that has used Xcode to write and compile their applications for 3 years and not had it crash. So your experience would suggest that you aren't one.
Article doesn't give one solid example.
Compiling CSS client-side slows the page load down...

For less.js the browser has to download the js, then the less file and then produces the CSS

Until the browser has the CSS it can't start rendering the page.

Here's a waterfall for lesscss.org (http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120509_18_ff2ca6e34c6b8e90...) notice how for a really simple webpage that the rendering doesn't start until over 1.2 seconds in!!!
The problem is that you can't get real tracking on your business critical bugs because Apple just marks them as duplicates. And once it's a duplicate, you can't see the status, so you never know if it's actually fixed. So why even bother reporting bugs?

Here are my stats from Radar:

4 Open - All over two years old.

7 Duplicate

1 Closed - The only one I got a response back on, and that Apple said was fixed.
This is exactly why action on the part of developers is a good idea. Obviously Apple doesn't need to fix it, the current system is serving them well enough. Apple's target market are its users not its developers, and that's fine.

However, as a developer, I'm going to be trying my hardest to pressure Apple into making my life easier, and the more people doing the same the better. Just because they can get away with this sort of thing, and it makes logical sense for them to do so doesn't mean that's the way things have to stay. A better ecosystem for Apple developers is a better ecosystem for their end-users, down the line, anyway.
Oh... your distrust uh? Do you seriously hold grudges against companies when they release a good product after some bad releases? And it's not like you need to do anything if IE 9 is not good enough, just don't be an ass and block them.

I know some think it looks "cool" to appear tough and act like an internet super hero, but really it's counterproductive and this witch hunt is getting ridiculous.

Gosh, sometimes I wish the HN and tech crowd was a little more mature technology. Grow up a little bit and stop the knee jerk reactions to everything you see.
This is more Gold Rush 2.0 than Bubble 2.0.
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It depends on the business. There are a lot of people bootstrapping here but their business is in the US or Europe. The cost of living is still a lot less than those places, the weather is great, talent is good, etc. It's true the government is insane, but the average small startup here is below the radar from that stuff.
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Sure. And in a repeated game theory environment, tit-for-tat, that is punishment for a default, is successful general strategy. No emotion required.
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Just bad reading. Despite what you think this article says, it clearly acknowledges smart phones existed before 2007.

The source article is claiming 2002 as first availability, when Palm's and their ilk gained the ability to make phone calls.

Then it claims it took ~8 years to reach 10% saturation, and then another ~2 1/2 to reach 40% saturation.

I don't think you can call the first cell capable palm pilots the first smartphone, but that's where the article starts.
Isn't that what Rey was doing?
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It's entirely possible that the extra material required to make items that can be repaired, wastes more material than making objects that are "disposable"

Modern manufactured goods have -huge- volumes (there are a lot of people on this planet) and low failure rates.

If serviceability takes more material, it will probably be more waste, than otherwise.
There's already an effort to do this:

http://fixradarorgtfo.com/

500+ developers so far have submitted this to Apple.
I would not call this _more semantic_.

It is definitely a very cool and clean hack (more of these on HN, please), but not semantic at all: in the source there is not indication that the box is pointing at something or where it is pointing.

Looking at the domain name I thought it was a public request for a new CSS property like

p {
border-bottom-right-cap: solid-arrow-outward;
}
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I'm aware of similar "briefings" happening in Australia. I think it's important for no other reason than security awareness. Often there are internal security staff in organisations who know just how vulnerable their organisation is to targeted attack, but it's hard to get that message through to the C-level staff. This approach does get through.
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This is horrible reporting. First the headline states Anonymous targeted someone. Then they say this someone incurred the wrath of both Anonymous and The Pirate Bay which implies that TPB had something to do with it. Finally they post a statement from TPB that they specifically had nothing to do with it. They do not give the TPB statement as an update so they knew from the beginning that TPB was not involved, but implied it anyway. They even decided to make TPB part of the "hacking collective", since when is TPB a group of hackers?

I don't see the point in doing this anyway. Virgin was following a court order and had no choice in the matter. Plus, what change are they hoping for by bringing down a website? Big deal. Bringing down websites is what children did in the 90s, it will change nothing.
> Many, many, many items are made to break.

And many things aren't. These are typically distinguished by the addition of an extra "0" at the end of the price-tag.
The market environment is characterized by myriad unnecessary and often equivalent products, all trying to struggle their way to success by way of generating popularity through people telling their friends about positive user experiences.

In an environment like that, wantonly deciding to rudely alienate 20% of your potential customer base simply because you've got a chip on your shoulder about the company that makes their web browser is a recipe for failure.
I don't know for sure, but according to their FAQ they use PhoneGap behind the scenes for iOS, Android and BlackBerry.
PhoneGap often has APIs for some of features you listed, so exposing them through their abstraction is probably quite possible.

PhoneGap have a matrix of features available per device here:
http://phonegap.com/about/features
A quote from the darcs wiki:

This is why darcs currently doesn’t always works so well for keeping a “local branch” of some source. The local deviations are likely to cause exponential conflicts after time. Local deviations must either be isolated in some way (kept in separate files) so they never conflict, or changes from upstream needs to be merged in “by hand” and recorded as local patches that doesn’t conflict with the local changes.

Can anyone help me reconcile why I would give darcs a try over git if I can't do local branching?
I've been thinking a lot about this as we finish up our tenure at a Canadian accelerator and are getting our seed round together.

In MBA school, you learn about stuff like discounted cash flows and how they are ultimately what is used to value a company. (Comparables and multipliers are really just proxies for the notion of what the present value of a company's cash flow is)

Then you get out and start raising a round, you throw valuations around in the air and to most outsiders it seems illogical. I think this comes about because many founders simply aren't financially literate enough to do more than say "If AirBnB is worth X, then we must be worth at least Y"

Some people get excited by these uninformed valuations, others write blog posts and call it a bubble. In my opinion, the truth is somewhere in the middle. This crop of entrepreneurs learned some big lessons from their older brothers. They've learned the importance of revenue and having an unfair advantage. With a few exceptions, my experience leads me to say that most entrepreneurs are trying to build real businesses and are not gaming the funding community. This is very different from the IPO fever of the dot-com bubble. (Not to mention the fact that the size of many seed rounds today would barely cover a month of runway in 1999)

Capital is out there but the funding environment is not loose and there is less cash in the system than there was the last time around. TechCrunch and YC make it look easy, but fundraising is still fucking hard. Anybody who's pounded the pavement or sat through months of due diligence only to miss closing date after closing date will confirm this.

Instead of arguing on what our companies are worth, we should all be focussed on building a strong, diverse and healthy North American tech industry. It's time to get back to work and stop giving a flying fuck about what some investor thinks you're worth. Debating whether or not we are in a bubble are simply unproductive.
It is pretty amazing how far down the rabbit hole you can go in "5 why's".

Louis C.K. does a very funny bit on the topic of the OP (NSFW I think)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJlV49RDlLE&feature=playe...
That has always been a funny scene for me: somebody feels guiltily about throwing away there junk, so they "donate" it to charity.

Give me a break, nobody can use that junk!
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Think of the varying reasons why people use incognito mode.

The advertisers have chosen to show the advert to this group of people. I can forsee incognito mode users being targeted more and more for any adverts relating to personal security, cyber bullying and as - in this case personal attacks.

While people think incognito mode makes you anonymous it actually puts you in a sub group of people who are admitting they are highly aware of personal and online safety. The adverts shown will become more aimed at this.
I've also just converted to LessCSS mixin. Free for your use. (I added a 6th argument so that you can change the class name that gets generated).

Clickable: https://gist.github.com/2644661

.arrowgasm(@position: top, @size : "4px", @background-color : #88b7d5,
@border-width: "2px", @border-color : #c2e1f5, @arrowClass : "arrow_box"){

(~".@{arrowClass}") {
position: relative;
background: @background-color;
border: @size solid @border-color;
}
(~".@{arrowClass}:after"), (~".@{arrowClass}:before") {
bottom: 100%;
border: solid transparent;
content: " ";
height: 0;
width: 0;
position: absolute;
pointer-events: none;
}

(~".@{arrowClass}:after") {
.b(@position, @background-color);
border-width: @size;
left: 50%;
margin-left: @size * -1;
}
(~".@{arrowClass}:before") {
.b(@position, @border-color);
border-width: @size + @border-width ;
left: 50%;
margin-left: ( @size + @border-width ) * -1;
}
.b(top, @border-color) { border-bottom-color: @border-color; }
.b(right, @border-color) { border-left-color: @border-color; }
.b(bottom, @border-color){ border-top-color: @border-color; }
.b(left, @border-color) { border-right-color: @border-color; }
}
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My understanding, and what I mean by Net Neutrality is that ISPs should treat packets that I access equally. This does not prevent ISPs from providing tiered services or instituting network caps.

For example, if I get a plan that promises:
1) 5 mbs download
2) 1 mbs upload
3) 15 GB usage cap

The ISP is well within it's rights to provide me with such a slow connection, as long as the packets I access on that slower connection are treated equally.

Net Neutrality is not concerned with providing everyone the same internet speeds, but rather that packets are treated equally (ie throttle all packets equally, instead of discriminating against certain packets).
It sure does, but this kind of stuff also hints at a future possibility of government involvement at a level that makes many people very uncomfortable.
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I'm about to reveal the most mind-blowing secret of internet security. If you have data that must not be compromised in any way, don't plug the computer into the network and heavily screen all storage media to be placed into said computer.

Plus, Gibbs from NCIS taught me that if a hacker is getting into your computer and you can't stop them, unplug the computer from the power outlet.
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So the fastest adopted technology in human history is one that allows us to yak incessantly, send banal ill grammared missives to each other, generate fart noises, and watch videos of kitties doing silly things. The future is going to be so awesome.

I see TV is a close 2nd there, so you know, there's a pattern here.
I just read through most of O'Reilly's new Clojure book and implemented a simple Clojure app (a web-based tic-tac-toe game). The analogy to making friends in a new language is really good -- it was full of moments like "I'm sure somewhere in this dictionary is the perfect word for what I'm thinking" and "you have a word for that?!" and "I never would have thought of putting things that way!"

The primary consequence was to improve my use of my native language, Python -- I'm much more likely to use all() and any() and map() and reduce() and set() where they make sense, to think of my functions in terms of composability, etc. I'm not sure that I'll ever put in the time to be fluent in Clojure, but I'm glad I spent some time stumbling through it.
Indeed. There was even a "Design for Manufacturability" elective in my ME undergrad. I don't recall seeing a countervailing "Design for Serviceability".

I think another factor is the inordinate price sensitivity of the aggregate consumer.
I really suck at CSS. I mean, I really suck. It takes me forever to accomplish the smallest things. I love these sites that keep popping up that generate CSS for cool little effects.

Thanks!
Hi, I'm the product manager of the Joshfire Factory.

Most of the templates we provide do not use hardware features. However, because you can import your own application code in the Factory as a "private template", you can access hardware features in deploys that expose them. We are using the excellent Phonegap for our Android, iOS and Blackberry deploys. We automatically inject the Phonegap javascript API to the generated application.

So the answer is yes, in your own application you can call the Phonegap API v1.7 (http://docs.phonegap.com/en/1.7.0/index.html) when deploying natively for iOS and Android.

Additionally, some add-ons specific to a platform inject native code to your application. This is for example the case for SmartAdServer or ShareKit.
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I actually worked on the 9000 Communicator when I worked for Geoworks in the UK, many moons ago.

We also worked on the Seiko Epson locatio, phone with PDA browser and GPS all in 1998,
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totally agree about the misguiding article. When you compare to the first 2billion mobile phones, smartphones may even be seen as slower, given there is a strict definition for what a smartphone is.
BACS, cash, or Paypal. I prefer BACS or cash as no fee's. Speak to your bank they will guide you through your options. I am with Natwest in the UK and they have a small business helpline/guide that will happily discuss things like this.
I'd argue it's already been disrupted by rap.
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I've been learning d3.js myself lately, and i'm very impressed. As it's popularity increases it's worth reading this article from Mike Bostock, the creator of d3 proposing some conventions to follow when building charts with d3...

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/chart/
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Earlier submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2902329

And another: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2902496

Debunking: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2906538

Significant (and relevant) discussion on all three.

(And in re-reading one of those threads to make sure it was relevant I'm reminded that some people don't want me to cross-reference stuff. I find it hard, as I see it as a way of creating value by preventing duplication and re-raising previous discussions. But I'll stop again. Like an addict no doubt I'll start again, but I'll try not to. See my profile for more information (if you care))
I have two kids, and the youngest is just starting on the 'why?' phase. Its great fun! I treat it as a game to try and see how long I can keep on answering. As soon as I don't know the answer, I explain that I don't know (or perhaps that nobody yet knows) and discuss how we could find out.

One interesting thing I discovered - a surprisingly large number of things will either lead to physics or human psychology if you keep asking 'why?'. However I don't know if that reflects some deeper truth about the world, or just my bias in how I answer the questions.
I'm actually in discussions with Shark Tank about appearing on the next season right now. I've passed the phone interview and am in the video application stage. No mention of equity thus far. I may drop a note to my contact there and see if I can get him to comment on this post.
indeed, in some military organizations, i witnessed that computers have no connection to any network.
As an outsider who watched a couple of bubbles from the outside (dotcom and housing), it seems that the likelihood of being in one ends up being inversely proportional to the vociferousness with which those on the inside claim it's not a bubble.

i.e. Tell a Pets.com shareholder in 1999 that owning company stock and they'd look at you incredulously and tell you how we're in a new economy. Or tell a homeowner in early 2007 that prices are crazy and it might be a good time to sell, and they'd look at you like you had two heads because, as everyone knows, house prices always go up.
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Does git-svn now handle svn:externals properly? I can't find anything saying it now has support. I'd love to switch to git as my client, but we have upwards of 70 externals for libraries we maintain, and converting those to git submodules is not an option. Well it is, but it is far more work than simply using git as a client.
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While you probably get a lot of traffic with HN and reddit it really depends on your product.

For example: if you build a managing app for landlords I doubt any of the sites you mentioned will bring you paying customers.

Maybe some people spread the word about your MVP but I'm not sure if a MVP has enough impact to make people spread the word.