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I don't think that's competing on price first, I think that's a graceful and inexpensive way to increase market share in a very competitive mobile environment. From everything I've read, it's the $0 with contract 3GS that is accomplishing this, and I don't think the people who would get a 2-year old iPhone because it's free are the same kind of people who would spend $800 on a laptop, regardless of the brand. I don't think the drop from $1000 to $800 would really be that compelling to them, because they likely aren't type to care about getting the super-thin awesome hotness with a small hard drive and no optical drive at a significant cost over a run-of-the-mill Dell (or comparable) laptop. The Mac has never had huge market share, and their Mac business brings in a scant amount of profit compared to the iPhone and iPad business, where they can much more afford to lose a small amount of profit in the interest of increasing market share. I don't see why they would kneecap themselves by reducing the price so much just to increase market share, when they make such a nice margin already with what little market share they do have.
This article seems to just be a lazy rehashing of the Mother Jones story www.motherjones.com/media/2012/04/silicon-valley-brogrammer-culture-sexist-sxsw They mention the exact same examples ('bro down and crush' & bikini shots) even. I'll admit, I didn't read the whole thing. I'm waiting for the NPR Morning Edition rehashing, complete with a chuckling Steve Inskeep. :)
You didn't miss much. Just one of the guests making fun of how geeks dress.
After a while, the number of languages becomes quite large so they resize text and icons so that everything fits on the page, at least horizontally. The problem with that is that the language name then becomes too small to be legible. It's useless to change the zoom level of the browser page/tab, either. The page seems to insist on fitting everything.
Oh, I see. Sorry my browser window wasn't that wide, I didn't even notice that background.
Idiot.

Roundup is a herbicide. There some problems with it:

1. Some plant life has developed natural resistance to it so it's not going to last forever. At that point, the non-roundup supported ecosystem will be dead so there will suddenly be a fallout from using it.

2. The surfactant it's mixed with is toxic to humans and wildlife so you're going to kill everything with the run off and poison the water supplies all over the place.

It's a shitty solution to the problem.

GMO will feed idiots for a profit for a few years and kill the rest of us.
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>I really don't see how they go to $800 and preserve margins.

When manufacturing electronics, the cost curve has HUGE fixed cost elements (design, factory setup, supply chain setup, quality control adjustments), then relatively few marginal cost items (actual materials and shipping). Additionally, in tech, storage and ram of a given size typically gets cheaper year after year. SSDs have dropped precipitously from about $2 a GB wholesale to about $0.78 or less a GB wholesale.

So while they may only have had $50-100 profit on the newest 1k MBA on release day, they probably have 2-3 times that by now on the line. They can still sell it profitably (most likely) at this point as they get no more fixed costs with regards to the product.

Now you say 'Why not keep selling at 1k?'. The reason that doesn't work is because they're releasing a new line. So this older design (current 1k MBA) is just going to be obsoleted if they don't make a 800 MBA. They'll go back to the same initial high upfront cost 1k MBA.

Sure, some of the 800 MBA sales will be cannibalization of the 1k MBA sales they'd make this year. However, as I mentioned before, electronics have a very high start up cost for a new line, per item profit will actually be pretty similar between the new line and last years line, but they'll sell more total units, making higher profit.
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Hopefully it flakes out/dies less often than offlineimap.
While this is (from my experience) incredibly inaccurate of the programming community at large. My fear is that it will encourage a perception of people looking for a career to embrace this stereotype. People who read this article may think "This is awesome, I definitely want to do this!" and a new wave of people who think that "brogramming" is the norm will begin to seep into the industry. Maybe the numbers will not be that much and it will allow a more diverse culture.
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Did he build the site himself as well? Either way, good on him - these kind of services are a hit with the match.com / eHarmony crowd, even though attracting someone under false pretenses kind of defeats the purpose of online dating. But that certainly isn't your dad's problem!
You left out the part where you were swirling your wine in its glass and adjusting your top hat while angling your nose sharply toward the sky.

HN is a place where lots of launches happen. A place where open mindedness is a plus. Seriously.. if this is actually your attitude, you might miss some cool things. Take a step away from the hive mindset every now and then.
The filler copy for all the stories is hilarious. How was it generated?
I read it differently. To me it reads as though they want you to gladly give them more of your only finite resource. If it were as you suggest, there are better ways to say so. Words mater.
It works for that, but Roundup is poisonous to wildlife and plants are developing a resistance to it.

How's your GMO now the rivers are poisoned and superweeds are everywhere?
That's why people love tablets and smartphones. You're much faster using them to check your mails or weather, etc than using a topnotch PC.
[Now of course that doesn't include booting but when did you reboot your tablet or smartphone the last time?]
This Google Hangout thing is the biggest success story out of mediocre Google Plus. They appear to have found the next evolutionary entity after YouTube. It fits so nicely and it has a huge potential as a game-changer beyond TV viewership.

Add the availability of green-room technology for average computer user and one can imagine the possibilities.
Is there any data transmitted to servers other than Google's?
It doesn't solve anything for the industry, but for the individual it lets him demonstrate high social status.
Regular full-price business tickets let you do this anyway - that's why flights are overbooked.

Airlines prefer not to overbook first and business class - because these are the sort of customers you don't want to piss off - which is why there are normally upgrades available.

With 3hour checkin requirements it's got a lot easier for the airlines to manage who is missing up front and pick the tactically best customer in cattle class to upgrade - or just to sell the upgrades, sometimes they even sell them after you get onboard.
I would really want to be around when it blows up. Stasis pods please!
For those of us at work with mute permanently turned on of necessity, a quick summary?
Finally, a way to easily share HN posts! Had to adjust the styling using Stylebot, title fonts are way too big... Can you add an Instapaper button? Would be really helpful
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If the defect is recurring, or on a really expensive item - yes. It will go back to the manufacturer. But many defective items aren't indicative of a mass problem, but rather a one-off slip up.

If it costs $10 to ship a product from the customer to the wholesale, and then another $10 so ship it back to the manufacturer for a refund, it just doesn't make sense to do for inexpensive items each time a defective one is discovered.
We still do.

The PC users are the silent majority now as they were 10 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_OS_share_pie_cha...
How exactly does this make money? There's no clear indicator on the site that either it's a for-pay (e.g. a 'Pricing' tab) or free (e.g. '100% Free!') service.
You really think that is a good comparison? I am not an Apple user, but Apple nowhere in my mind competes with MP3 player makers. It is a vast tech company with massive investments in designing and manufacturing of MP3 players to Laptops, phones and developing a host of really large software.

That is not Facebook, it sells nothing other than the network, much like MySpace used to. If yours friends drop off Facebook, you will drop off too. That is not same for Apple. Apple users will continue using the products even if their friends do not. Its a personal device.
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- The VC compiler is actually really good, especially for Windows code (obviously)

- Visual Studio is a great IDE but more importantly it's what MS devs are used to. It's harder to attract good MS developers if you don't support Visual Studio

- Binary compatibility issues between stuff compiled with gcc/mingw and stuff compiled with VS (??? Someone chime in here if I'm wrong)

- Gcc/mingw setup on Windows is perceived as more complex than installing VS
It should be more clear that you'll login to people's OKCupid and Match accounts to handle things for them, as opposed to just writing generic profile text. I'm sure there's people searching for terms like "okcupid tips" on google that might be in your target audience and you could try testing out some adwords campaigns on these terms.
You're not supposed to try and cheat the SEC. It's long seemed that Groupon raced to IPO so that some people got their money before it fell apart.
How do you get it to encrypt its own archives?
Rather than what? Windows update?
Gotta love the "throw mud at the wall and hope some of it sticks" business model.

At least they threw enough mud before the IPO to cover up the writing on the wall.
I wonder if it works in Internet Explorer 6 or 7.
Saying that the lottery is a tax on poor people is like saying that buying a bottle of Coke is a tax on poor people. Both of these events are completely voluntary. No government agency was involved in making you spend the money. You are not obligated to do it. And, if you choose not to spend the money you are not violating any laws. It is not a tax. That's the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard.

One could argue that spending money on a lottery ticket is actually better for you than spending the same amount of money on a soft drink. One gives you hope and entertainment and might have other positive "feel good" side-effects. The other fills you with sugar (high fructose corn syrup) and is not good for anything at all.
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Just like you'd buy any other stock on the NASDAQ or NYSE...
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How come your dad wasn't the one to post this to HN?
As God is my witness, CSS will need to be split into a presentation language and a logic language. /s
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Very eloquent knOthing, keep keeping it real on the big media stage. Not sure if I will follow your stock tips though.
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There might be some merit to this. If you want a language that is very portable and has a definition that is compact enough to be fully understood both by you and by programs you might write that operate on source code (static analyzers, interpreters, compilers, etc.), you are probably going to use C89/90 instead of C99 (at least that seems to be what K&R felt--and what K still feels). Otherwise, what advantages do you have in going with pure C99 over the C99 almost subset of ISO C++? Even if you don't really use any language features unique to C++, you would still get some safer library functions and better portability than you would if you limited yourself to the C99 standard.
In addition to opposing CISPA on moral grounds, do you think that Facebook's attitude towards similar issues and their willingness to compromise user privacy will have a negative financial impact? That is, will enough users turn away from Facebook because of a fear and poor user experience to cause the company to lose money?
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Well, typically Apple just sells all of the stock of their current Macs when they are about to release a new model. The rumor mill usually kicks into high gear around the time all of the retail and online stores start running low on stock. In fact, with Macs, they typically do just upgrade the hardware and keep the price point the same on the newer models. I'm not saying that it's impossible that Apple would release an $800 MB Air, just that it would be atypical for them, and it seems unlikely. Maybe if this story offered some actual evidence for why Apple would drop it's prices, but it didn't. All it says is "Somebody somewhere said so", and continues on to actually weaken it's point by saying that everybody else in the "ultrabook" segment is cutting back production, presumably because they aren't selling well vs. the MB Air.
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I always thought the whole brogrammer thing was kind of a nod to everything that the community is not.

It seems akin to the "D&D enthusiasts are devil worshipers." hysteria back in the day. More than a few people when asked what they did when they played by those that had no idea what it was like would say something like "Oh. You know; we don our blackest robes and light candles at midnight etc. etc." Of course, this would get around and then you'd end up with 'that guy' trying to join your gaming group.

No one seriously considers themselves a brogrammer and if they do, they just mark themselves as someone not to be taken seriously...

Oh well, I guess we have to declare the joke over because now there is a weird feedback loop creating a self fulfilling brogrammer subculture.
I'd like to see it too.
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Ask HN: advice for young people joining startups?
Good people of HN,

I'm lucky enough to have gotten a job interning at a really awesome startup next year. I'm very excited, but I'm also a little nervous. Besides to work hard and get shit done, do you have any advice on what to do? What not to do? Is there anything so obvious that it normally goes unsaid? I'd love to hear any advice you have to give, especially if you own a startup yourself.
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This article points out the issues I have with the "software craftsmanship" movement. By definition, crafting is building by hand. When we treat software development as a "craft", we attribute too much benefit to hand-building software and lend little effort to finding ways to be more productive and efficient at software development.

As long as software is considered a craft, it will always be an expensive, laborious, and frustrating process for clients and customers. That may be great for software developers' egos and pocketbooks, but does little to improve the image of software development projects among the general public.
Digitimes is completely worthless as a source of info on Apple. (They're right sometimes insofar as a stopped watch is right twice a day.)

That said:

1. Apple is pointedly not afraid of cannibalizing its own markets.

2. Apple is pointedly thinking in terms of "the Mac should respond to the iPad as a competitor" and this basically puts the iPad + keyboard case directly in competition with the Macbook Air (expect the SSD capacity of the Air to be reduced or the iPad to increase -- no way a 64GB Air sells for the same price as a 64GB iPad).

3. Now that the Mac is decidedly not central to Apple's revenues, expect Apple to rethink its Mac pricing in (to competitors) scary ways. Apple can afford to license its OS to third parties, and/or replace the Mac Pro with a dongle-based OS X license (buy whatever beastly workstation you want, and install Mac OS X Workstation Edition on it).

4. Apple really has no-one to compete with but itself at this point. Its competitors are a joke.
He bootstrapped the thing on his machinist's salary and hired a web designer. The content, idea, and business side are all his.

No false pretenses. The site offers the service of a well-written profile, not a fake one.
My understanding is that modifying and querying DOM elements is what's slow, not just creating them.

http://jsperf.com/lazy-url-parsing
This is a pretty neat idea, well executed - it took me a minute to realize what was happening when nothing displayed for a few seconds.

Sidenote: instead of shrinking the list to the left (it becomes a little harder to read as languages are added), you could wrap them more fluidly with Isotope (http://isotope.metafizzy.co).
As the headline suggests, CISPA.
I've used Banks' in-house fitting/tailoring to satisfactory result. Your results may vary by retail location; at the location I've used, substandard results simply won't be tolerated (discriminating consumers).

At Banks, sales are definitely a way to go (and, for suits and trousers, help defray the cost of a good fitting). As a separate example, they have had some of the best-fitting polo/rugby shirts I've found. They are normally rather pricey, but if you pick them up at the end of summer they are quite reasonable.

A book that used to be heavily recommended is "Dress for Success". In essence, the recommendation and instructions are to learn to know and then insist upon certain rather conservative but attractive styles that never go out of fashion.

"Dress for Success" appeared some years ago to have entered that perpetual "revise and republish" life, similar to, for example, the career advice guide "What Color Is Your Parachute" (a new version every year). I don't know what that means for its quality, compared to when the same edition continued to be valid and current year after year.

P.S. Thinking about what I just wrote, you may want to drive over to the part of town where discriminating people shop. If you're unsure, think of contacts who would know and get some local recommendations. If you can get a reliable recommendation to an individual salesperson, or perhaps even better, fitter or tailor, so much the better. (Assuming there are still some that haven't been squeezed out of the economy.)

Tell them what you're after, and count on their advice to steer you to quality items. Don't begrudge the markup that pays for this service, as long as it's not excessive.

I have several 10+ year old suits that are perfectly serviceable (thankfully, also fairly lightly worn), by virtue of following this route.

Hopefully, such service has not completely disappeared from today's marketplace. Again, you may have to drive to the right part of town to find it.
> It is a vast tech company with massive investments in designing and manufacturing of MP3 players to Laptops, phones and developing a host of really large software.

It is now, but the iPod is a good portion of what made all that possible.
If yours friends drop off Facebook, you will drop off too. That is not same for Apple. Apple users will continue using the products even if their friends do not. Its a personal device.

This works both ways. I use Facebook because my friends are there. I use Apple products because I like the products. Switching social networks is has a high friction point - all my friends need to move. Switching phones is my own choice and easy to do.

Look how much easier it is for Google to gain half the smart phone market compared to how (relatively when compared to Facebook) unsuccessful they've been at getting "social network" market share. I think a very good argument can be made that Facebook's position is more defensible then Apples.
CISPA? What about the Facebook Terms of Service? They include the following words:

We may also share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to: detect, prevent and address fraud and other illegal activity; to protect ourselves and you from violations of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities; and to prevent death or imminent bodily harm.

This is a broader privacy exemption than CISPA offers; CISPA (in its final amended state) actually goes through some effort to define and narrow the scope of what it's "protecting" and what "illegal" activity it governs. Unlike the Facebook ToS, CISPA explicitly excludes mere "violation of consumer licenses" from its scope.
var link = $('<a/>').attr('href', 'http://example.com)[0] in jQuery, just to show how simple it can be.

A stylistic point is I'd just call it something like "link". Assigning a link element to "parser" is being cute and it's not what the object actually is, even if it's being used with intent to parse.
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I'm the only one in the family that reads or knows about HN. I also posted for my brother a few months back (he only reads Reddit!). Just trying to offer my support.
I really don't think so. Imagine every app with custom images / icons would need an update and this is way harder than updating iOS apps. The App Store is pretty "new" business and it is really fast but on the Mac it is kind of different. These things take longer.

Imagine Microsoft would need to release a version with retina graphics. This would take ages instead of weeks!

Another point is that it would cause fragmentation in the whole Mac / MacBook ecosystem.

I really don't think that this will happen in the next time!
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That just means you're not doing the sort of work you'd sacrifice a weekend for. Why is everyone in this thread boasting about this?
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There was an old couple in England who sort of did this in the equivalent of a Travelodge/Holiday Inn place.

They looked for special offers and booked months in advance and stayed at 1 of two local motels for 15+ years. On average it cost them about 10,000GBP/year (say $16K) with all their heating, laundry, etc paid for. They worked out it would have cost 10x that much to be in a nursing home.

Touchingly the local staff had become friends with the couple and did their personal laundry, kept 'their' room reserved with their own personal touches etc.

Even more sensibly when management found out about this 'abuse' - they spun it into a big 'just like home' and 'the motel your grandma would be happy stay in' story and got a big boost.
The thing is I don't see what can be addictive in this game. I am easily addicted to games, but nothing with this one. It is so simple that it I find it very boring. I try to understand the mechanics that make people addict to this.
I know. You have to sign up to see pricing. http://www.profile-buddy.com/user/register

This is good feedback, though.
The orignal seems to be down now. Note that there are many ways to name the bits you parse a URL into: http://tantek.com/2011/238/b1/many-ways-slice-url-name-piece...
To be fair, IE8 was released on March 2009 (according to wiki), Chrome at that time was v1.0 and Firefox was v3.0.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder mate.
That would involve logical thought and perceiving the future effect of business decisions.

This is an AIRLINE we are talking about!