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> Steve wasn't exactly a man of science. He pulled that number out of his ass and everyone here seems to think it smells great!

Haha, what a perfect quote! Thanks
It's an exemption for whatever is preinstalled on the device :) The actual technical mechanism behind this "ban" is simply that installing desktop apps in general is blocked on Windows RT. A "Metro style enabled desktop browser" (what Metro style IE and Metro style Firefox are) is really just a desktop executable that acts like a Metro style app.
I hear the argument about how products have improved over time and how that justifies their increased price and I don't buy it. It makes sense if people still have the option of buying the 1980s house in which case purchasing a 2012 house would be an expensive luxury. But people can't get the 1980s house for the 1980s price so we must conclude that housing prices have inflated.
No matter how you spin it, we're all scared monkeys wearing blue jeans, trying to make sense of what's happening around us on this small piece of rock flying through space at ungodly speeds.

Full grown men aren't much wiser than 10 year old girls.
Congratulations to all these winners, but perhaps more important to Udacity itself -- hopefully this and other innovations on their end will really push online learning forward.
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You got the lock-in strategy backwards. It exists to allow the incumbent not to improve their products while maximizing their profits because they don't have to compete.
Yeah, I was thinking about the same thing. Weird article name. A lot of things people brought up in this thread are nice to have, but not fundamental things that Apple needs to work on.

It would be nice to fix some of the UI issues though.
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Cargo Cult Capitalism:

Successful startups are filled with young people, so fire all the olds.
If you look at the numbers as percentage of income instead of dollars then we can see the percentage of income that an item costs go up if the item has advanced (ie better cars, better refrigerators, better houses). If the percentage of income for one item goes up it must go down for another. Since no technologies get worse over time which expenditure is suppose to become less of a percentage of income over time?
We use Plastic SCM as our UI and repo, but I hear it can connect to git (somewhat) seamlessly. The interface is very slick, and the user experience is great when you use the Plastic Repo, not sure how it translates when pulling from git though.
He answered to that:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56637...
The thing that most people don't realize is that it isn't as easy as most people think or how he makes it sound. It's very similar to building a passive income product. You invest a lot of work up front for an "easy" payout later.

It may only take him an hour or two a day to manage the network but I doubt that's all the time he spends on it. From reading the AMA and my own personal experience I bet this guy spends much of his time researching tools, improving his code, testing AV software, and browsing / contributing to "industry" forums. This isn't even taking into account the time he spent upfront before it made him any money.

It may be something he enjoys but it's not as easy as clicking a few buttons every day and watching the money pile up. It's sad to think that all this time could be spent building a legitimate product instead of something like this.
The scary thing is, if you're an entrepreneur, your days of starting companies from scratch are probably over by age 45.

Bullshit, as evidenced by reason and by actual example (google for it).
I was at a Python user group meeting with Guido a few years back, and I asked him about his plans for functional programming support in Python. He responded that he thought functional programming was a lot less useful than all the hype would suggest, and that, far from planning more support for functional programming, he regretted having put in as much support as he already had. Ideally, he said, he would remove things like lambda instead of making them stronger.

Even things like tail call elimination, he said, would just encourage people to use more recursion, when iteration was easier to read, and in places where TCE would work, the programmer could obviously convert it to iteration himself and should do so for code clarity.

I like Python, and I like a lot of things about functional programming, so it wasn't the answer I was hoping for. Unless Guido has had a change of heart since then, I wouldn't pin my hopes on Python ever becoming a first-rate functional programming language. It's first rate at the things Guido values.
You do realize this isn't about Windows 8 on Desktops right? This is about Windows RT on ARM Tablets.

This is about Apple iOS tablets vs Microsoft Windows RT tablets.

That's it.

It is NOT about Windows8 on PCs. Re-read the article.

As such it does seem rather valid that Mozilla is complaining about Windows RT tablets but not Apple iOS tablets
> If you're their competition, never let your guard down with them

I would upvote you a couple more times if I could. And, since you used a fistfight metaphor, allow me to remind you they never entered one without having their brass knuckles ready.
This thread is full of misinformed, judgemental, jingoistic BS.

What this guy does is none of your business, and I don't think he gives a damn what you think.
While reading him, remember the professors, grad students, computer store owners, etc. that he killed and injured. Prof Angelakos at Berkeley did a lot of great RF engineering work.
I don't think that's so much the point, though. It's a fun "hack". And while the receptionist may not have that authority, the end result was that he also did not sign their document, so he achieved his initial goal of not signing a document he did not agree to.

They have two choices: Treat him as if he signed nothing binding at all, or accept his version of the document.
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Thank you.

We are creating a one hundred year language -- made out of love, not fear. Our startup phase won't be earlier than 2096. See you then.
Then why not frame the article as "this is a hilarious photo that shows the length that one Android developer is going to in order to ensure maximum compatibility", rather than "this is what it's like if you want to make an Android app"?
Windows on ARM is where the action will be.

It's about countless millions of corporate machines built around cheap and energy efficient hardware running corporate applications through a browser. Microsoft wants to make sure it's their browser.
My boss tried to pull this quote out when he was trying to justify his defense against me saying we need to unit test.

His question to the developers was "why does it seem like when we make small changes things seem to break?"

My answer "we do not test, we need to cultivate a culture of testing. It takes some upfront effort, but it saves in the long run."

His response "that is what separates average programmers from rockstars..."

I cut him off because I knew he was going in the wrong direction, "yeah, the good ones unit test."

Him: "Well you should be able to know that if you make a change, it will have an affect on everything else, so you should test that out manually"

Me: "Unit tests cover every possible case that we can think of programatically. We can easily push a button and see if my change broke some obscure piece of code somewhere."

Him: "The difference between ...."

I tuned him out and lost a little respect. Oh, we develop a mess of a php app.
A lot of people seem to think this article is full of BS. Maybe. But I'm only 30 and felt that I've pissed away a lot of my younger years trying to become successful with 80 hour weeks. Maybe, by some slim chance, I will be successful when I am 40, but at that point I've already lost my youth. Is it worth it? I suppose it depends on your priorities.
You are barking at the wrong tree dog...
1) Why did they let you go?
2) What was your role in this organisation?
3) What does your former organisation sell?
4) Your age in this scenario is irrelevant unless you provide more detail.
Oddly enough it seems Firefox is able to JIT on Metro/x86
This is a big part of a lot of the talks I give about my criminal past. It's not like you wake up one day and decide to start committing fraud. It's a gradual, slippery slope. Humans can, will, and need to rationalize everything they do. As you slide down the slope the rationalization becomes, well, less rational. But you don't see it that way. If you did you wouldn't be able to do it.
I hate the sentiment that 45 is too late. Is there any statistics? Any evidence to support the theory? Not as far as I'm aware.

I really wish I could downvote this post.
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The magnet can only make the target closer to it, and has a fairly short range.

So to lift your phone into your hand, it would have to be positioned over your phone, and within six inches of it.
I'm sorry man, I have to disagree with this ... I watched git take off with the launch of github, and I've seen enough people moved to git because of github to tell you that ... sure git would be successful, but without the mindshare of github in the developer community, it would not be as popular as it is now. at. all.

When git was announced, I got it and played around with it for a bit, but I went back to svn, it was only with all the OSS that I cared about working with (rails gems anyone?) or on that I started caring about git in a serious way. I'm only one datapoint though.
No. That's over. Now she seems to be running for Director of Homeland Security. It's good to have a back-up.
Thanks reason. You made me remind myself.
I haven't read many novels lately, but I always thought they were written in past tense.
And yet as an older citizen of HN I am very concerned about privacy, enough that I use cash for at least half my purchases. Cash is wonderful because cash is anonymous.

I wise boss I had one time told me "Don't worry about the banks and US government and your privacy, they don't have the ability to actually do anything with it. You should worry about Google getting your information."
I don't want people to feel a frenzied fear, but I also don't want them to realize too late that ageism exists and is powerful.
It's not highlighted very much anymore, but the philosophy of the Ruby community used to be: Matz is nice so we are too.
Also: requires external electricity ... exceeding the minimum required by thermodynamics

Of course, there's no getting around those pesky laws of thermodynamics.
aka splash pages?
Someone needs to take a picture of all the desktop PCs, laptop PCs, tablet PCs, netbook PCs and then say

"This is what developing for Windows looks like".

I'm sure it would be an order of magnitude bigger, maybe 2 or 3 depending on how far back you decide to go.

Or even add up all the mac models from the last 5 years. Heck, I have friends still using power PC macs.
iOS is not the next version of OSX. Windows 8 on ARM is the next version of Windows.
I was in charge of marketing and also did all sorts of bd under the CEO.

Something I did not mention is that the CEO was cultivating an overly confidential culture. Over the past couple months I did not know who our clients were, how much they were paying, status updates from our software development. It felt like I was mindlessly rowing a canoe with blinders on and earlplugs in. While this definitely is one management strategy, I don't agree with it. As a result I think I got a little unplugged and they didn't like it.

I don't want to reveal what we sold yet to preserve confidentiality for them.
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The one thing I'll have to give credit to Linus for is that even if people continue to post absurd comments after his original lengthy counterpoint, he will delve into a more polite rhetoric and continue to explain his point, over and over. It's quite the opposite, in fact, of many people who write online where typically the end result is simply escalation or continued fervor.
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A bunch of balls in the air? This thing seems to do one ball in the air. Useful for physicists studying a lone hydrogen ion interacting with a vacuum.
Sure, but computers are much better at word wrapping than I am, so shouldn't they be the ones handling that?
Unless you use the x86 emulator image.
Do you think this is also true for people who need H1B's?
I've written a lot about how one needs to be realistic in the entrepreneurial life. Here's just a few examples:

http://chrisyeh.blogspot.com/2012/05/entrepreneurial-success...

http://chrisyeh.blogspot.com/2010/07/entrepreneurship-is-abo...

If you define success as building a billion-dollar company, you'll almost certainly be disappointed. Billion-dollar startups usually come once every few years.

But I also want people to be aware that their time is shorter than they think.
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So, because less people complain Apple does something similar (which is not really the same anyway) Microsoft gets a get-out-of-jail-free card? Because someone else does it, suddenly, doing it becomes right?
For those looking for some data for the debate, Waypoint is a jQuery plugin that can help track where on a page a user scrolls to...

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>> But... but... today's young adults have the Internet!

Sometimes I feel this is the only thing we got, and even then the government is trying to take it away also with censorship legislation.
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Your time is limited. A was talking with a friend (who incidentally is a VC) over breakfast. He noted that he was 46, and was worried about how old he'd be when his future child (his wife is pregnant) went off to college.

People also don't like hearing that they need to get married before the age of 30 if they want to have kids at a younger age, but that doesn't make it untrue.
Population growth is not constant, further more the rate of growth itself has slowed down, and there is nothing to show that the slowdown won't continue, but lots of evidence that it will.
I just have one question for the OP. Why would you do this: http://i.imgur.com/RqxZ7.png

I saw this thing pop-out and was immediately distracted, and then annoyed, and then lost my place.

Why would you distractingly lure me to one of your other articles, where I'll probably be distractingly lured to another one of your articles...

I'm not a mouse.
No, but ie + other browsers is guaranteed to be less secure than just IE.
> do we let geniuses just do whatever the hell they want.

I have to say, I am both bemused and slightly offended by your comment. Are you suggesting that famous people don't have a right to Free Speech?

> The answer is...I am not sure.

Well, I'm glad you've taken it upon yourself make this important decision for them.
http://lwn.net/Articles/140350/

It's fine. I have nothing against it. I just generally like doing as much as I can in the terminal, when that makes sense.

gitk is OK, but I like tig. Personal quirks.
True even in some tech-related areas. Nobody is going to fund a 24-year-old heading a biotech startup, unless there are pretty exceptional circumstances.
except it's just not true - there are plenty of studies that prove the opposite point. here's just one - http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/the-ca...
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One of the Jobs 25:1 people - Jean-Marie Hullot. A French Lisp Programmer who studied at INRIA under Gerard Huet. He invented Interface Builder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Hullot

EDIT: For the backstory on Steve Jobs, NeXT, Jean-Marie Hullot, Interface Builder, Tim Berners-Lee, and the WWW this is a good read http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-286207-3.pdf
How about if you have a good idea for a new business venture, do it?

I'm 20, and have no plans to actively start my own business in the next few years. I have no great ambition in that regard, and unless you have such drive, anything you attempt will be less than what could be.

But I know if I discover some new-found passion I wish to venture upon in my 50s, and there is no business established for it yet or that the current king of the hill is in desperate need of a good shake down, I will jump without hesitation into my own start-up venture.

I mean, I hope. 30 years is 150% of my current number of rotations of Earth that I have spent breathing of my own accord.
Cool. I'll email you when it's ready public consumption.
It's never too late...but it gets harder.

None of us likes to think about getting old. "Old" is always 5-15 years older than we are. That's why we don't realize the danger of ageism until it bites us on the behind.
I think it's a tool I installed while looking at a company as a potential investment. I'll try to figure out how to turn it off.
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I just turned 47 last week, and I'm just about established with my first startup. It took several years.

Does this mean I should quit and go get a corporate job?

Startups are a numbers game. Just know that and work the system. Don't fret with how old you are, where you live, or any other thing that you have no control over. You were dealt cards, now play them.

I would say the article offends me, but it's nowhere close. If anything, from the echo-chamber that SV can be, it probably makes a lot of sense.

But not everybody wants to work a startup-VC life in SV. If that's your thing, then fine: be aware it's an ageist culture and you have an expiration date.

Maybe I'm missing it, but as fast as funding requirements are dropping for startups, this (and SV in general) just doesn't seem that big of a deal anymore.
He also stated that he was apparently "self-taught"
Harry Bernstein began writing his first novel at 93. He published it and gained fame at 96. He published two more before he turned 101. His fourth book will be published this year (posthumously, unfortunately).

Is 50 too late to start a new career? Only if we decide so in our minds.
Gotcha. Don't invest in them :)
great article about the way secrets harm us
Selection bias!
does this mean i have more than $50 fraid liability if something goes south with my newegg purchase? if so- thus is a real reason not to risk doing business with them.
> Learning the techniques of design without the basics is like trying to be a writer by learning all the functions of MS Word but not having read Shakespeare.

You can be a perfectly good writer without having read a word of Shakespeare.
The problem with articles like this is they actually contribute nothing. What is one supposed to do in response? Work harder?

Real entrepreneurs pay no heed to the arbitrary limitations implied by this sort of BS. Carry on.
I think the whole article boils down to this (note my emphasis)

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The scary thing is, if you're an entrepreneur, your days of starting companies from scratch are probably over by age 45.

I'm not happy about this; in fact, that particular deadline will loom in my career all too soon. But it's based on a realistic assessment of the Silicon Valley ecosystem.

Like it or not, the startup world is full of a pervasive and unacknowledged ageism

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* He doesn't provide any data to back up his claim that starting a company from scratch is over once you hit 45, and I've read enough outside of HN to know this is not true especially when you get outside of Software technology.

* Noting how he mentions the 'Silicon Valley ecosystem' should give you further notice that you can safely ignore this article if you don't live in Silicon Valley. Just because things happen a certain way in one place doesn't mean that it happens like that everywhere ... There is ageism in the software industry and that probably manifests itself in the startup world, but we haven't even matured as an industry ... Do you think Mark Zuckerberg is going to get turned down for VC money at 50 because he's over-the-hill? I'm thinking not.

The industry is still young (we have what ... 10, 20 years of data to back this up?), extrapolating things like this while we're in the middle of one of the most fascinating periods of technological change is kind of silly, history has shown that resolve more than anything else determines success in areas such as this ... its not like sport where your body gives out long before your mind is willing to.
Heh - if you were in charge of marketing and didn't know who your clients were, your CEO's out of his tree and your stock's never going to be worth anything anyway.

I'd take the 3.5 months worth of equity just in case and start looking for another job.

(Oh, and next time do your expenses and take a sustainable salary! Early-stage employee doesn't equal martyr.)
Could you give a quick summary of how technology inevitably leads to loss of freedom?

I understand that this is often the case, but is it always necessarily the case? Ie. Is it a universal law that "Technology leads to loss of freedom"?
Vivek Wadhwa has done a great job of writing about how older entrepreneurs are an important part of the economy:

http://wadhwa.com/2011/12/02/washington-post-the-case-for-ol...

The ageism really is a strong part of Silicon Valley culture. Just look at the quote with which Wadhwa begins his article:

“People under 35 are the people who make change happen,” said venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, “People over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas.”