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I really like your insight but I'm kind of curious as to how spectacular this marketing would need to be.

I saw a preview of BlackBerry 10's new phone but it doesn't seem like a particularly new or revolutionary offering. It makes minor, necessary adjustments but it seems as though they are late by at least 2-3 years. I see friends with BlackBerry's right now and I think that they are archaic. Granted, I am in a younger, consumer market, but there's something there.

I'd like to argue that RIM's brand is now very similar to MySpace. They might fix their product, rebrand themselves or reinforce their current, enterprise brand to push into markets again, but they are crippled by their recent lack of success, bad press and steep decline. Thus, no matter how good they get as a product, by being so crippled by the intangible effects of the brand decline, I doubt whether BlackBerry can assume their position again. Like MySpace, they may keep fixing their product, but they will keep losing users because everyone else is already using something else that's marginally better/comparable.

I appreciate your input on this. Your insight has been fantastic.
This is why I insist on having a trakpoint mouse. It's not simply close to the keyboard, it's part of it.
Be sure to use Node's cluster API (http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.0/api/cluster.html) so each core on your server gets utilized. Doesn't look like this, looking at the source, is doing that so unless they're manually running an app instance on each core and load balancing between them then they may be underutilizing their hardware.

Beyond that: using Nginx to serve any static assets (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5009324/node-js-nginx-and...) and standard stuff like making sure everything's cached that should be, load balancing, etc.
As an avid fan of Harvard Bookstore, I can say you're 100% right.

They also host philosophical society there on a quasi-weekly basis, and great people show up for quality discussion. The last time I went was for the machine intelligence chat, and who did I see across from me? Richard Stallman, ready to share his take on AI.

Harvard Bookstore is quality, that's why they're thriving.

(One more tip, they don't carry technical books, which are the ever-changing ones that I would normally order on Amazon. Good move on their part.)
My Photoshop CS6 Beta had expired as well. I followed the purchase link, signed up for the discounted $29.99 a month plan and followed the instructions in the confirmation email I received within a few minutes. I ended up downloading a new version of the Adobe Application Manager and then downloading a new (non Beta) copy of Photoshop CS6. This version gave me the option to sign in with my Adobe ID which immediately activated my copy. No serial number required. I think Adobe could make this process more clear than they have, but I can't fault them for delaying my activation.
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You can't hire doctors for 1000€(18-20keur/year gross). The lowest paid doctor working for the public health system gets 42keur/year. That's very low, even portuguese doctors are better paid, but that's nowhere near 1000eur/month.

You can hire entry level programmers or engineers por 18-20k, but experienced ones will cost you 25keur or more, and probably you can get better price/quailty ratio in Eastern Europe.
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Exactly my point. Not all products need great engineering, this is a poncho made out of blanket material and their production, marketing and sales team have managed to shift millions of units with ridiculous margins.
I share this opinion and I'm surprized so few HN readers have considered this possibility. It could make sense since the chinise could use the chip for themselves.
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Highly disappointed in the WaPo. This read like a PR piece released by the oil industry and/or their lobbyists. No mention of the environmental disaster looming from the tarsands? No mention of the effects from fracking? No discussion about how this will only delay much needed investment in renewables by the US Government?
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actually, the domain does "resolve". it's a web server configuration issue.
He pointed out the gym workouts are very intensive. And I agree with the advice from experience; I have a couple of friends who are really good swimmers and they told me their bodies respond better to short training sessions.
Maybe give it a try for six weeks and then compare the results.
You didn't answer his question, except in regard to comments. Everything else you said is based simply on the non-standard nature of this dialect.
(Anecdotally,) I disagree: I didn't discover many of the best parts of SF until I started driving around here. It feels like SF geography is really designed to keep you out of certain neighborhoods unless you're driving there to see friends.

In Boston, though, even when I had a car, I didn't feel like I was hanging out in better places than when I was riding the T everywhere I went.

Again, just an anecdote, but one shared by several friends.
It is true, I do not care about design. I am not a designer, nor will I hire one. I produce apps that I find useful, and try to make them easy to use and not too ugly.
they exist for a reason: water, sewage, traffic, pollution

Not really. See Edward Glaeser's The Triumph of the City, Matt Yglesias's The Rent is Too Damn High, and Ryan Avent's The Gated City for more; pay particularly close attention to the sections about how urban life tends to be far more sustainable than alternatives.
fair enough. I think that Interaction Design is now becoming a technical job, using feedback loops and numbers (ie Steve Jobs dropping the original iPod into the fishtank to illustrate dead space in the ipod) rather than the marketing/design led way (ie adding bigger fins to cars in the 50's)
it's very possible that gimp might not be able to cut it for a lot of creative professionals, especially if they already have a lot of process and money invested in the adobe stack.

it's definitely my experience that a lot of more of my professional/creative friends rely on photoshop than gimp.

with this latest push to 2.8, i'd say the gimp folks still have a bit of kick in them and it's hard to argue with their licensing strategy. since the latter is what the original article was addressing, offering up the gimp as a good alternative seemed prudent. and, possibly, if facing a situation where i couldn't get photoshop licenesed over the weekend, it seems gimp would do in a pinch.
no mention of youtube, apple tv, get glue, or chill.com
I agree completely, and that's what I do too. But I also understand that potential iOS users are not necessarily engineers and if my goal is to sell more apps to these naive users, I'd better find a good designer.
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I kinda sound like a grumpy old man, constantly complaining about the same stuff. But..

For the love of everything that's holy, stop adding these totally useless social media bars that are floating on top of your potentially interesting content. This entry is unreadable on the go, I'll probably forget to come back later today and the only thing I'll recall is that there was another "of those" useless submissions.
It's too bad, though, because all the extra quotes bloat what is otherwise a nice, spare format.
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yet they still manage to attract more and more people every year

See the second link:

Meanwhile, San Francisco—one of the most expensive cities in the United States—added just 418 new housing units in 2011, the fewest since 1993. What’s more, 149 existing units were removed, leading to a nearly nonexistent increase in housing supply.

Farther south in Menlo Park, Facebook raised billions of dollars in an IPO, instantly putting millions of dollars in the hands of early employees and investors. But as Trulia’s economist Jed Kolko notes, the surge of cash will create losers, by bidding up the cost of local housing. “If Facebook were in Texas or North Carolina,” he observes, “developers would have been building new homes in anticipation of this day,” but in Silicon Valley—as in San Francisco and Marin County farther north—it’s essentially impossible for new construction to meet rising demand for living space. So some of the people living in the area who didn’t just reap a financial windfall are poised to be priced out of their homes as high rents get even higher.

Silicon Valley has largely become zero-sum, population-wise (see also Edward Glaeser's The Triumph of the City on this subject).
I used to love local, independent bookstores.

Then, when I wrote and published my own book, and learned a lot more about the industry, I realized that the current book publishing and distribution model makes no economic sense (unlimited returns!!??) and is fated to die.

Support your public library. Support online competition to Amazon. But the brick and mortar bookstore, except for a very, very few, is history. Don't mourn it. Create a better, different tomorrow.
Crock made a post about JSON comments?

Anyway, I wouldn't focus on JavaScript engines because JSON is now a universal format so for languages other than JavaScript you will have to define a formal specification.
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>Actually I'm under the impression the Ballot boxes against EA were stuffed by religious groups unhappy with EA morality.

From what I've read that didn't actually happen. EA spun it that way to make it look like they were the victims, and it appears to have worked.

Here's a forbes blog article about it http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/04/05/ea-in-full-d...

Basically the only proof that EA has is some anti-gay hate mail they received that has nothing to do with the poll. There are no indications that the people voting in the consumerist poll were some kind of anti-gay mob.
> > The way to really understand the idea is to re-create what the author left out.

> If reading mathematics requires re-creating what the author left out, why not leave it in?

To really get some feeling for the content of the text, it seems to be really essential that the reader explores the content a bit herself. This is illustrated quite well in Don Knuth's "Surreal Numbers". Knowing this is probably the key to learning to read mathematics.

One can try to write all this out, but that will make the text harder to read for the mathematician, who now has to find the important bits of the text (think of the various 1000 page Visual Basic books). Also, it takes a lot more effort to write down all these "trivialities".

Perhaps the problem here is really with the school system. We study "maths" for many years in school, without ever learning how to read it.
I agree Ender's Game is elementary. It's to Dune what Harry Potter is to LOTR.

It's the character himself that's appealing. He's innocent and his burden is so huge...You just feel for him. You want him to get through it...it doesn't seem fair..you want to help him...protect him.
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Does that include the 57x57 icons though? As several people have pointed out, most of the icons you posted won't scale down, whereas Apple and Co may have some beautiful hi-res icons but also completely re-do them for smaller display.
very odd to not mention the downsides of fracking. a quarter of the article is about it, and it seems like the crux of the argument of the new dependency on america comes from resources attained through fracking.

very biased reporting.
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As I said here already in another comment; that 'lining up' of programmers here isn't exactly happening.
Seems like quoted keys are a pain in the ass. That's the only useful change I see here.
>Everything you trade is based on trust, and trust is, and always will be, a bet on the future being better.

Paper money can be made out of thin air. Gold can't. Big difference.
One of the cooler things about the field of machine learning is that conferences like ICML, and little mini-summer schools like this are very "rich", so talks like this are all over the Internet.

For those who are curious Tenenbaum has recently gotten very famous in the community for Bayesian style work. His students are getting very very prestigious jobs, so a talk like that is worth a look for sure.
What's your experience with LXDE and multimonitor setup? I have some issues with ARandR, it doesn't remember the configuration; and I "fixed" it with a little bash script that configures xrandr.
Slightly OT: does anyone have a good explanation for module.exports vs exports and for the expression 'exports = module.exports = someFunction' often found in modules?
According to the documentation, they are the same:

http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.18/api/modules.html#modules_the_...
I actually have read fairly widely and taken courses in Systems Theory, but I'd appreciate a synopsis of your argument.
Arguably a company strategy of moving work from skilled people to unskilled people is likely to apply in more than one area of the company, and therefore could well explain problems such as a poor shopping experience.
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Great that you care about this, but the environmental consequences have been largely invisible to Americans for many years. Be it CO2 or destroyed ecosystems in every oil producing country, the damage is largely done.

I'd hardly blame this rag for the oversight at this point.
> Not gonna happen for the rail transit modes, the down time is necessary so maintenance and track inspection can happen

Having lived in Boston for 6 years, 4 of them without a car and getting around on the T, if they are doing maintenance on off hours, I've never seen it. Rather they shut down sections of the T line for days at a time and run buses in their place.
And yet, it still is the Mecca of technology, isn't it?

If we are talking about population growth, I'd agree with you. But the point was in changing the demographics, not just growing it.
Reassigning the `exports` variable does not change the return value of `require`.

The return value of `require` is `module.exports`, which may be reassigned.

Initially, the global `exports` variable is set to the same value as `module.exports`. Writing `exports = module.exports = ...` ensures they have the same value as you would expect.
I'm about 90% sure that Adobe makes their software very easy to pirate in order to keep their monopoly. For CS4 and CS5 there were no cracks to install, just map the sites it uses to call home to localhost and enter a fake serial number. You could even run the updates. They could have very easily disabled this in an update, but they never did.

Businesses will still pay for it, and there isn't much room for competition in the individual/very small business/student market because it's hard to compete with free.

No one's really clamoring for a reasonably priced alternative b/c it's basically free.
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Not really. You make a tonne of assumptions stating that gold will be better than paper. You assume rule of law, efficient markets, a government that will protect your assets, a place where you can spend your gains. etc. etc.

Reports of paper money's death have been greatly exaggerated.

Floating paper is here to stay people. If the world falls apart, all that matters is guns, food, water and shelter.

Your baubles are worthless without the society to back it up. And since we move trillions across nations everyday, I'm going to go ahead and say the world trade markets are synced up and highly correlated/dependent. If one super centre goes down, so does everyone else.

We live in one world now, people just don't know it yet.
One thing I am very happy about is the undeniable signs in my everyday life that tell me that I without a doubt now live in the future of my childhood. My phone, laptop, my work are all things that not only didn't exist as they are back then, but didn't even exist in earlier versions. The exception, in one way, is my iphone which had a precursor in our heavy mechanic rotary dial landline telephone with spiral cord back home (still remember our phone number - 0345-12119). But it is just an example of how extremely fast technology has moved, since my phone now serves me with not just the ability to talk to others but to access vast libraries of information, schedule my haircut and transportation, and just about anything at all in life.

One of the most elegant qualities about everyday technology is how it fits into our lives in a very natural and economical manner. This is both what makes it very hard to write good science fiction, and what makes it hard to simply appreciate how quickly technology evolves every year. My smartphone is a natural extension of both my arm and my mind, my body just fits into my car and I rarely make a concious choice between the numerous different ways I have to get in touch with any of my acquaintances. I just reach for my cellphone, skype, facebook, email, gtalk, twitter etc whatever is more convenient without much thought about how none of those existed just a few years ago.

This brings to me a deep awe and trust in my current future. I am very comfortable to say that in ten and twenty years I will be equally satisfied with the mind blowing pace of tech evolution. And it makes it even more awesome that every step on the way will fit so perfectly into my life that it is only in hindsight I will recognize the sheer magnitude of it's awesomeness.
I have to agree with most of the criticism in this thread. The lack of comments, strict quoting, no trailing slashes - these aren't problems to fix they are features.

As others have noted this is not JSON and is not necessarily an improvement to JSON - so calling it JSON5 is presumptuous.

Embrace the criticism. Instead of JSON5 call it NotJSON - a standard that breaks the JSON rules for a few narrow use cases - namely when you want a hand-written, commented JSON-like syntax.
Same here. I signed up for Adobe Creative Cloud yesterday. Easy peasy.

The first step after getting a Creative Cloud subscription is to install the "Adobe Application Manager." With that installed, it's one click to install whatever Adobe app you want. There's no bothering with serial numbers.
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I'm building a price comparison website that allows users to buy the product without leaving my site. Is this legal to do? All the sites have standard EULA that says all content is property of site and cannot be used for any other purposes. We haven't asked them to use their content.

We're just going to be scraping the prices though. Not even the names/descriptions/images the sites use. We're using our own for that. Does this fall under the protection provided by Feist v. Rural? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural)
Maybe their support sucks or they don't really understand your issue - but you do not need any serial number for Photoshop CS6 with monthly plan.
This highlights the core question of property rights applied to private data.

Surely individuals must have the same rights in this regard as governments and large corporations whose database may have been stolen?

The wisdom of the decision about where to store that data should not be important in law, as long as there was a reasonable expectation not to have it stolen.

We are not even talking about just unauthorised access to private data but about deleting it altogether! Once they get away with this, no data will ever be safe again.
The NSA has it's own fab resources. That fact alone tells you everything you need to know. The only remaining question is to what extent is it cost effective to still use suspect parts.
I think your point is a bit separate from the parent post. I definitely can get anywhere I need to on the T in Boston, it "goes everywhere".

The problem is that the way its laid out does not support movements in a reasonable amount of time unless you happen to be along one of the primary spokes. If your trip involves the outer parts of the green line your completely screwed, it stops every 2 blocks so it takes forever to get anywhere. I used to live in Coolidge Corner and work near Alewife, that is a 15-20 minute drive that took around an hour and half on the T, in T cars packed so tight you were reaching through and around people to hold on to a bar. I despised that trip, if it weren't for the fact that a parking space costs $300+ a month I would never have done it.
Considering that gimp is out as 2.8 now, and will properly hit 3.0 before this mythical competitor can be written, what does Photoshop have that Gimp doesn't?