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I'm surprised that after 75 comments nobody remarked this quote:

"You’re shocked because your initial image is of some back-alley Eastern European bootlegger — not an old Jewish guy on Long Island,” Captain Curran said.

I may not be so familiar with the north american culture, can anybody clarify this for me: Is it a generally accepted fact that bootleggers are east europeans and old jews would never do such a thing?
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Yes, I do mean interpolation. Just for the record, in the parts of the world where I have worked (Australia and France), a typical video stream, be it broadcast/pay-tv/dvd runs at 30fps or less. Recent televisions will interpolate to display frame rates up to 120fps.

Like you, I hated the effect at first, but I left it running because I do STB user interfaces for a living, and I need to know what people that don't fiddle with their television are seeing. It's jarring at first because for reasons that I don't fully understand, you are able to discern where the light sources are in a scene when using this technique. You can see that big reflectors have been used for outside shots, or that there is a spot shining just off camera. This is what gives it that cheap video effect, because as anyone that works with video for a living can tell you, the crappy quality of home videos is mostly due to poor lighting.

Cinematographers are going to have to work harder in the future to assure a more even light field in their shots. In the meantime, I have found that after using this type of display technology for more than a few months, you start to prefer the high frame rate to older technologies.
> iPad probably isn't the place to rant against an iPad.

It's no rant against the iPad or tablets and sorry that I disagree but I see a strong relation to this kickstarter project which proves that tablets haven't got the perfect form factor.

> It's light, very unobtrusive in public, and easy to handle on a bus/train/plane.

Where is the advantage to a powerful smartphone?

> And there are many, many, many people who are passive consumers of the internet

That's the point: the Internet made all of us to producers: people who weren't tech savvy started to do small websites, writes blogs and so on. The tablets bring the people from where the came, from TV, from just consuming and getting dumber and dumber—before they consumed crappy TV shows and now apps and whatever.
Well actually, "doing something clever" is damn close to the origin of the word.
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Phil says the only valid reason to do a startup is to "change the world."

Phew. I'm doing it for the right reasons after all.
My go-to coding music is the TRON: Legacy soundtrack, but this is turning out to be a pretty awesome alternative so far.
Curriculum Vitae. You can think of it as a long form resume if I understand the US notion of a resume correctly. They are commonly used in place of resumes here (Netherlands, and presumably larger parts of the EU).
When I saw the movie the movie I thought they were depicted as two useless, uncapable boys whose only advantage in life seems to be 'My dad has lots of money and connections'.

In fact in a scene, the Zuckerberg character says 'The winklevoss are suing me only because, first time in their life things are not going as they desire'. That almost means they are used to getting easy money and making others work for their luxury and that didn't happen this time and they met someone far more intelligent, capable and hardworking who doesn't need 'Dad's money and influence' to win in the world. And he can do that on merely merit, while they can't.
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Discussion:
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'To change the world' is a terrible reason to do a startup
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"The success of this kickstarter project shows that there's no real use case for tablets except [...]"

I would like to point out, in a non-flamewar-inducing manner, that your assertion above has some severe logical flaws. For example, the success of McDonalds does not show that there's no real use case for healthy food..

At best it shows that Kickstarter is doing very well and some people dislike the iPad on-screen keyboard enough to part with money for the option of having a real one occasionally. Keep in mind you can optionally put a keyboard on an iPad, but you certainly can't remove one from a Macbook!
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We can't even come together for universal healthcare coverage, so maybe we don't deserve to be the lead dog of the sled.
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I think you're looking at it from the perspective of someone who is technically literate, which is not the segment for whom the iPad is life-changing.

You can give the iPad to even very techno-phonic people and they get the touchscreen interface very quickly. It's intuitive to them. iOS isn't scary and doesn't look "techy" like Mac OS X does.

The bigger question is whether these people would like iOS on a laptop. I'd say probably not, as I think they need that touchscreen interface.

However, my guess is there is a large silent majority who find computers unnerving (not scary, but not comfortable). They probably bought iPads, but realized they needed to type emails and such from home, so they're now looking for keyboards. Every time I get on a plane now, I see a good handful of people sporting terrible keyboard cases for their iPad. I think these people would be well-served with an iOS-based laptop. Apple could certainly serve this segment much better.

Tim Cook came out last week and said he thinks hybrid devices are a bad idea. Personally, I think they're leaving money on the table by not having a Transformer-style setup, or even a return to the swivel laptops of the early 2000s. My worry is that Windows 8 won't do well out of the gate (people want iPads because they are iPads and Apple have served them well), and Apple will take that as an implicit validation of their anti-hybrid strategy.
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I agree in most of your points but your uses case could be done with other devices better:

- Taking notes => smartphone, always with you and small

- reading books => ok but you could read them as well with your smartphone (4" display are big enough) or with an paper display based device like the kindle. I think reaidng is good with an ipad but rather for short-form content like articles not for books because staring hours at a bright screen, holding some (after a while getting really) heavy device is no fun

- drawing stuff => a 50 bucks Wacom tablets does a much better job or you have to get a pencil because drawing with fingers feels unnatural/clumsy or get the Wacom Cintiq

- listening to music?? => smartphone, always with you

- watching movies for 10hours => my MBP get 7h that's ok but anyway this point is more about the hardware architecture which is great iOS/ARM and should be done in notebooks as well
There is no advantage. If you are a LaTeX-Guru use LaTex, in other cases use a tool you allready know. And concentrate on the content of the CV.
>First of all, I'm not sure it's right to call Crockford "the greatest JavaScript guru". That's a stretch, to say the least.

Well, he sure is on a very short list of js programmers. Who other can you add? Maybe Resig? Ashkenas?

>Secondly, you appear to be claiming that Crockford offers strong criticism of JS's inheritance model in The Good Parts. If that's what you took away from it, I think you would do well to reread that chapter.

No, I'm saying that Crockford doesn't like the way prototypal inheritance is implemented/exposed in javascript --not that prototypal inheritance is inherently bad. He even writes that the basic action of getting prototypal inheritance is not first-class in js:

"In a prototypal system, objects inherit from objects. JavaScript, however, lacks an operator that performs that operation."

And in order to use prototypal inheritance he has written a wrapper function to hide all the inheritance boilerplace correctly. (As has every other js programmer I know of, using several patterns).
Probably the best way to ship "wrong". You ship, granted. But I imagine that part of the feature you push weekly are small, and so would have more meaning if part of a bigger push. You also probably end up with a lot of non-polished features, half-baked as you name it. I honestly don't see anything good point in that article, what happens to 2 months project? You cut it in 3 to 6 pieces just to have to ship? Meaning you waste time forcing yourself to push something that works rather than focusing on the end goal.
This is not that great tbh.

If you compare it to the Transformer Prime keyboard-dock solution:

* It doesn't provide a battery extension, yet has it's own battery.

* It connects to the iPad via Bluetooth, both using A2DP and as a keyboard. (So it uses the iPad's battery.)

* The iPad doesn't clip OR dock in the keyboard, it just sits in it, however secure it is. (A large enough force could knock it out or have it slip out.)

* The Apple symbol is sideways! (Serious business this one.)
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I'm looking at adding live chat/support to the Pwinty website, as a way of engaging customers and answering their questions quickly.

So firstly- has anyone got data on how this has impacted conversion rates for them? Our target market is developers, so do you find live chat annoying or helpful?

Secondly- there seem to be hundreds of companies offering this service- can anyone recommend a supplier (preferably free, but I will pay for the right service).
Save the page, open it in a good text editor (eg jEdit) and see how easy it is.
That's interesting. What are you expecting to change?
first article on HN and with a complicated subject.
Slightly disagree.

Yes, doing a startup for the wrong reasons is totally reckless and will end in tears. Chasing money and fame its a recipe for failure.

However taking the risk on startup without a reason or purpose will equally end badly.

Starting a startup is hard therefore you need to accept reality and pursue a purposeful reason.
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if a company has multiple releases releases v1.0,v1.1,v1.2,v2.0 and there is something to fix in v1.0 and there are customers which want to stay with each release, so there is a need to propagate this fix, how do large scale companies manage it? is it a manual process of merging? if yes, how is it controlled? (i need to have this fix in all releases, lets take the case its not up to me there are customers with all these releases and they all require this fix and they won't move from one version to antoher), are large scale companies having such a case? (microsoft, apple, google, ...) lets say there is no good answer to that (I know the alternatives, trunk stable pattern, no branches at all - but please note i'm extremely interested to know what happens when you do have that situation).
Looks like SF bay only, more or less. Sad, seems like a neat idea.
Very much so! Would also love to see what the exams are like.
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For long time core devs wanted to use support the common denominator (svn) and let users choose their frontend (hg-svn, git-svn, svk).

Now they realised that github presence will raise number of contributors.
Actually, the design of your CV is somewhat irrelevant. Unless you're actually a designer ;)

It seems that everyone in my office used a pretty plain CV typeset with moderncv LaTeX class.
70% of all processes computed right in this secound were written in COBOL. I don't think this guy has ANY idea how to interpret the data he got.

And yes, I'm a freelancer fixing COBOL code ..
I'm purely speculating, but I think they are appealing to the wider audience because of the 'cool' factor. They've been successful because of the way Apple positions the device. It's just a cool toy made by a company with a cult following. You use it to impress your friends, your coworkers, and probably because you want everyone else to think you're a geek that's into the latest tech. In short, it's a status symbol.

It doesn't offer anything new in terms of functionality. Everything you want to do in an iPad, you can also do with a modern laptop. Ok, laptops can't do touch screens, but I'll argue that it's not really novel functionality. In fact, as Brydge's Kickstarter campaign has shown, it comes with reduced functionality.

In two paragraphs you made about ten claims that are just flat out wrong. You apparently don't have any use for an iPad but how do you begin to assume no one else does? Maybe you were just wildly speculating, but still.
You might want to add an example PDF for those too lazy to compile the resume to check out the format. Also a license file couldn't hurt.

I like the separate cls file for handling most of the layout. I do pretty much the same in mine: https://github.com/treyhunner/resume
The advantage of LaTeX is that is will yield CVs which look better than those from a word processor or HTML. The same is probably true of InDesign; both tools presumably focus on typographical principles (I've never used InDesign). The programming community generally likes LaTeX because of its technical workings, the fact that it's open source, and its associations with computer science (TeX was created by Donald Knuth).

For comparison, my résumé (made with LaTeX, content very out of date): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/712576/thomas_shaddox_resume_old.pdf
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> Why the heck did MS pay so much for it?

Skype has a huge userbase. They can always migrate that userbase to a different technology later if they think it's worth it.
Even if you do a startup for 'wrong' reasons like chasing money and fame at least you did something, hell you learned something and made mistakes. That's what's all about! What's the alternative? Staying employed and missing all your life?

It's the experience, it's the way and not the goal.

Discussions around doing or not doing a startup are just excuses for oneself to not start something because it's not the right idea, not the right time, not the right co-founders, not the right setup and suddenly these people are 50, missed everything and are full of fear loosing their crappy job.
Some people buy iPads simply because it's a novel gadget in the same way hobbyists get into cars, photography or bbq grills. Folks who get serious about their hobbies tend to "gear up" on accessories and markets often thrive on the "prosumers" who are not really thinking about necessity but purely desire.

Those of us who don't subscribe to the hobby are bound to find some things superfluous. I get this feeling when I see a "Salad Spinner" in a Kitchen gadget store but I'm sure to someone it's a lifesaver. Just another hypothesis.
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That's funny, not a month ago, somebody on HN said “it seems the only successful Kickstarter products are all related to Apple devices”. This goes a step further in that direction.
Why cannot one gain the experience by pursuing something for purposeful reasons rather than 'just for the hell of it'?

Lessons learned and battle scars are important but why not make it meaningful?
true, same experience here often. I'm often reading things here after they've been on for a while, and I often have to read over comments complaining about other people being negative... I would probably agree with them, if only I would have seen any negativity besides the comments about negativity ..
Herd mentality? It's the only explanation that fits the facts...

If you're pursuing a programming language/environment because it's fashionable, you're doing it wrong.
I agree with most of Crockford's advice here and in general about JS, but the "new" issue he mentioned is not an issue to me.

It's pretty trivial to have a constructor function that can also identify if it's called without the new operator and then in fact return a new instance anyway.
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I'm not a huge fan of Zuckerberg in real life - I admire what he's done, but not his personality. But in the movie, he's written to be the hero, a hero with flaws certainly but hero none-the-less. So yes that's certainly part of it, but just as he was written to be the hero, so too were the twins written to be the bad guys, even if they weren't as bad as we might expect hollywood villains to be.

I don't think egos is weird to parse, they didn't just come from money (incidentally I come from money, to a lesser extent, so that doesn't set me automatically against people), they were the type of people that think their coming from money makes them superior in more ways that just their bank account balance.

As to money-grabbing, it's my opinion both from the actual story and also the movie, that they frankly didn't deserve the money they got from Facebook, so yeah they were money-grabbing in their legal pursuits.
I always take a second look at a LaTeX resume, if only because learning enough LaTeX to make a decent resume is a positive indicator - albeit merely a cosmetic one.
but I wonder if it would be usable by a typical non-geek user

I'm working at one of the largest chip design companies, so you can assume that the engineers around me have a sound understanding of technology (I mean we know how to use all the EDA tools, if there wasn't SAP software I'd say that's the most complicated software you can get :). We use WebEx heavily for intra and inter company communication. Still many of us have trouble using it, and explaining its workings to first time users almost always takes a lot of time (and nerves!).

I'm eager to have a look at OpenMeetings. But assuming it already has all the needed corporate functions I'd say concentrating on usability (especially for new users) would be a major differentiation factor to other products in this space.
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"I think it even might be fine if you only allow ASCII to input names—most people who use a computer are probably used to writing their names in latin alphabet."
But why? Why tell people they are second-class because of their alphabet preference?
Not really, design is an important factor, someone reviewing your cv isn't going to be looking at it very long so it's important that they be able to extract the information they need from it very rapidly.

The design of a cv is as important as the design of a sales page on a website.
It's more the following:

1. Location. In Bristol, United Kingdom. Not London.

2. The .NET scene isn't very startup focused. Of all the .NET usergroup events I've attended (in Bristol) over the years I've only seen 1 person talking about their startup needing developers.

3. I scare other .NET (501) people with all these new hipster technologies like NoSQL (RavenDB, Redis) or cloud servers.
Does this sound anti-free market and pro-regulation?

Because I can totally imagine how a lawsuit can suddenly incentivise them.
Have you read much on an iPad?

- Reading on a phone involves way too much page-turning

- When I turn the screen brightness down (and invert the colors in iBooks), I can read forever on this thing

- You don't hold the iPad in the air when you read on it. You rest it on something, just like you do with a book (unless it's a very lightweight paperback).

In my opinion, and many others', the new iPad is the best reading device that has ever existed.
That's two posts in a row that began with a disclaimer to avoid downvotes.

Not that I blame you since I'll probably be downvoted for pointing that out. Ahhhhhhhh HN.

You actually have a very good point about not being able to remove the Macbook keyboard. That clearly has to be a focus of Apple R&D in the future, to make an iPad like device that runs full MacOS and is convertible to usage with and without keyboard.

We cannot be far off that, multicore iPads with fancy graphics can't be more than... what, a year away?
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Seems very sensible. I hadn't thought about doing it. I'll draw up a list and start sending emails out.

My current client is going to talk to me about the idea Monday. He has alot of knowledge and could help verify the idea. I suspect he will tell me all his horror stories of other companies trying this previously.
Anybody else see the coincidence between the Apache announcement of the new Citrix sponsorship (platinum level) and this? What does Citrix gain out of sponsoring an organization that competes with their product line?
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$200,000 to research, develop, design and manufacture something like that is VERY VERY low.
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