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Yes, and it sucks, but it has been this way for a pretty long time. Jobs was never about expandability/hackability -- the original Macintosh required a special tool to open the case, wherein you could do nothing to it as it had no user serviceable parts. I had never looked before, but it doesn't appear that it even had any socketed ICs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macintosh-motherboard.jpg , but it did have a proper font silk screened on this board that nobody ever saw. Jobs has used engineering as a means to create the experience -- Woz used the experience as a means to create engineer{s, ing}, something that I owe my love of computers and even my nickname to. :)

That said, so long as Apple essentially has a monopoly on the smartphone experience, it behooves them to control the experience of the device (via third party applications) with an iron fist -- there's very little down side to arbitrary or even counterproductive behavior so long as the experience is maintained. Should ecosystem ever matter more than the device experience, Apple will be forced to sing a different tune, but given Nokia + MS's head start and performance since the release of the iPhone I wouldn't be hopeful.
Right. And even if the docs make you get snipped in exchange for the immortality treatments, by then we'll be able to induce meiosis, combine and crossover genes with another and produce offspring anyhow, for the right price.
You're right, that site is hideous. =P

I came across http://www.workstir.com recently too, which is a similar concept. But I have to wonder... do either of these sites actually have a business model?

I had some thoughts on how to possibly monetize this sort of traffic, so a couple other web sites in this niche doesn't really discourage me too much if these guys are just rolling on advertising.
Congrats to Peter, et al.
Bush writes a lot of his own material as well. The following excerpts show Bush speaking in his own authorial voice. Commanding. Magisterial. Lincolnesque.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ux3DKxxFoM
You are late.

http://startuppitch.appspot.com/
http://blog.clickpass.com/2008/12/19/clickpass-is-being-acqu...
Is DTH taking over Cable TV in India?
If you just look around in Indian cities you will find mini dishes popping out from the terraces of suburbs and out of the window sunshades and all obscure places that you will least expect. What are these mini dishes that we see? These are the DTH or Direct to Home TV receivers.
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"but making content is not something I recommend to friends."

Couldn't agree more, I give newspapers and (sometimes) mainstream blogs credit in that area.
looks like the ROMs are socketed. and that's the part that you'd be most likely to want changed.
From another religious angle -
As I understand - prior Noah/Flood - the Bible records humans living long lives. (Say 1000 years)

Post flood / Noah - Humans were limited to 120? Or something like that?

Found the quote: Genesis 6: 3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with [a] man forever, for he is mortal [b] ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."

So the religious interpretation could be:
a) See this proves Chapters 1-8 of Genesis
b) God will curse you / etc / etc
Ask HN: Does programming make you happy?
Does programming make you happy?
Get a degree, get out of my parent's basement, and get a job.
Congratulations. Price tag?
Is that the equivalent of directly influencing them (cram school like?) or indirectly (actually preparing them?)
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I'm actually quite surprised that his pages per visit is so low.
Wonderful! The only thing I'm left wondering are the nitty-gritty details. Are they allowed to divulge those?
From birth to age 18 I spent my entire life in two midwestern farming states, and only visited a few others shortly thereafter. When I was 21 I had the good fortune to take two trips to Japan for work purposes. I didn't spend much time away from work, but I did soak up enough experience to come back with a huge appreciation for the culture.

The notion of trade barriers between US states would be immediately dismissed by almost anyone, yet any argument I've heard or can think of for international trade barriers would fall by the same logic that they would if applied intra-nationally. I hesitate to accuse people of xenophobia, as it's unproductive to do so, but I can say that an ounce of cultural exposure at a relatively young age probably saved me a pound of it in old age.

I'm proud to consider myself a citizen of the world.
I've never heard of SynthaSite before. It looks really slick. However, I'm a little wary of absolutely free. Free hosting? No ads? Unlimited? I guess I'm a little wary. What is SynthaSite's business plan?

Congratulations to both companies!
You are absolutely correct. I would say that I'd rather have the RAM ICs socketed, though, especially considering that the first Mac had a meager 128k of it. :(
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Ah, so you're talking about capabilities? I thought you were arguing in favor of the other guy's position -- that there's nothing you can do about malicious apps. (And maybe in the face of ignorant and gullible users, there ultimately is nothing, but lets leave social engineering out of this for now.)

I just didn't want to explain capabilities for the nth time, so I thought I'd throw the OLPC at him. Even a sandboxing scheme like the OLPC's addresses his objections. Not sure if it was supposed to nest.
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Agreed - the existence of competition should not be a deterrent. Angie's List is kind of similar to these two and gets close to a million unique visitors per month.

http://www.angieslist.com

And, like you, they have a monetization plan. Something to check out if you haven't done so already. They received quite a lot of useful press coverage outside of the regular tech channels - no doubt that helped them build this level of traffic. Hopefully you have some connections at Martha Stewart Living too :)
Would you support a global welfare system. A last resort safety net?
I hear if you attempt to display it in more than four different locations it crumbles into dust.
Many congrats to Peter Nixey. Great news.
Right now, there is a Web site (pogo.com) where people actually pay money to play pointless, boring games (such as Solitaire, Mahjong, etc), all of which are written in Java.

A similar Web site, using Native Client, could roll out higher quality games (like Quake) and charge higher prices for access.
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You're discounting inertia.

a) As stated in the post - people will look to cut FUTURE spending before discounting current spending. So the argument is that while getting new customers may be difficult in a downturn - the inertia of the fact they have to take an action to cancel - will slow down any attrition.

b) There's still a transaction cost - training, updating links, migrating data/history, etc with moving from SeviceA to ServiceB. Which will again push that migration down the list of cost-cutting priorities.
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Ok... then they were colonized by a wealthy tribe. Where's the dichotomy?
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No. I'm hoping it grows on me, but I've had a lot of shitty experiences so far, and not a lot to show for them. Think spending six months trying to install Lisp on a mac, or spending 50 hours installing Linux on a PC. SICP was also quite awful. Finally, I have this nagging feeling of obligation to program. So no, I wish I did, but I don't like programming. I hope your mileage varies.
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That's helpful in explaining your and my disconnect. I suspect that you are I are pretty much talking to each other at this point, which is more than fine with me, as I find it quite interesting.

> For the individual who gets told that Mongolians from Sweden pay an extra 3% if they [wear] shiny shoes, it may seem unfair.

It may seem unfair to that person, but if it's wrong (meaning not borne out by the facts/stats), then another insurance or credit card company will almost surely come along and offer Swedish Mongolian shiny-shoe wearers deals at par, or even at a discount, to what the 3% surcharge company offers. In other words, if a company significantly overprices a given risk, that's just bad business or bad judgement, but it's not unfair. Similarly, if they underprice the risk, that's also not unfair, just bad business/judgement. Wherever significant price deviations are present and leaving money on the table, a competitor will come in to address the consumer need. And if they don't, then that's just the market price, which to me is the fair price.

So I think I agree with your assesment that in my mind fair is a synonym, or at least an extremely close analog, to non-coercive.

What you call price "gouging" (such as increasing the price of food, water, or gasoline in a time of shortage), I call an efficient market allocating scarce resources to those in the greatest need (as demonstrated by being willing to pay the highest price). If you mandate that the price of gasoline be $1.00 in the weeks following Katrina, how much gasoline do you think will get sold? Almost none would be my prediction. Instead, you'd find massive hoarding and gas stations closing rather than selling gas at a loss. How does that help anyone?

Instead, if you let the price float to $5, $6, then those who need gas will buy it; those that don't will have no incentive (in fact a disincentive) to hoard it, and those who might be just driving around aimlessly for amusement will temporarily stop doing that, conserving that very limited resource. Seems VASTLY more efficient to me, and seems perfectly fair as well.

Similarly, if you arrive at a monopoly through market forces, I think that's perfectly fine. If you are AWARDED a monopoly by the state, then that monopoly must be a tightly regulated monopoly by that same state. But I don't see any reason why Google shouldn't be allowed to reap the rewards of conquering search if they eventually do so. Or why Virgin Galactic couldn't operate a de-facto monopoly on space tourism, or any other example of where a market-derived monopoly is inherently unfair. To me, the state taking away an earned monopoly is what would be unfair.

I have really enjoyed our discussion, though I suspect we're at the point of understanding pretty well what each other is saying and probably unlikely for you to agree that $5-$6 gas is "fair" post Katrina, and for me to think it is, and agree to disagree after a thought-provoking discussion.
Singapore would disprove that theory. :)
Hard to tell if you are arguing against my point through sarcasm or supporting my point by covering a contingency. Weird.
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Close, but no cigar.

Your claim is that ideas are worthless. And yet, not all ideas have the same value. If an idea seems good, really good, then people are tempted to spend 2 years of their life pursuing it. Even when the idea is bad for obvious reasons that the founders never thought about. So even if I'm willing to accept that good ideas are worthless, BAD ideas definitely have NEGATIVE worth.

If a YC service can keep people from wasting their time on bad ideas that would be incredibly valuable. The founders are always too close to their own company to see if it's really viable. Either success hits you out of nowhere ("I can't believe people are paying for this!") or you're left quietly wondering what's wrong ("OK - no people are ordering dogfood over the internet yet, but any time now. We just need to increase our marketing budget...").
hope he doesn't have to go to any weddings or funerals next year...
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Your products are shipping out to be great man. I really appreciate the follow on Twitter @stevenkovar. The company's site looks really sharp as well. Simple and to-the-point. Keep it up!
Emm, Newber's logo looks similar to Ubuntu's
Macworld founder looks back: Steve Jobs didn't make the first Macworld, either
There are lots of ways of implementing sandboxing; I think capability systems are the most elegant and flexible, but I don't know for sure that they are the best way, given that the judge is the messy real world, not mathematical abstractions.

I was arguing that the other guy was right that sandboxing in itself is not sufficient; you still do need to have a way to deal with code that you give the full run of your system, even if you keep the amount of that code to a minimum.
iPhone is 1 device on 1 network, Windows Mobile is hundreds of devices across all networks.

"Gartner Q3 2008 data shows iPhone passes Windows Mobile":
http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=354
What is the value of this over Google CSE (Custom Search Engine)?

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
Someone please quote The Eyes of Heisenberg by Frank Herbert! In fact that book is a take on living for, well, ages. :) I enjoyed it.
You can read cookies from javascript, so it's not the issue. I think cookies' domain names are set strictly to 'github.com', not '*.github.com'.
In this up and down economy I’m outsourcing my wardrobe (namely shirts) to corporate america and you!

Whoring out.

Awesome.
Much better. See, before I had no idea if it applied to me. Now, a business owner would at least know if he should keep reading. If he doesn't have any tv screens or monitors around the store, then he'll stop reading, if he does, then he might be interested. Now refine and tighten up those sentences. I'd get rid of the technical stuff above the fold (OS X, .Fla files, etc). Move that below the fold, and put up sentences on what it can do FOR the business owner instead. Saying you can play Flash files isn't a hook. Saying you can coordinate digital signs across an entire store using your software is better.

I would add a "How it works" link and a section with screen shots. Not everyone has sound enabled, and I know a ton of people (I'm one) who read much faster than it takes to click and wait for a video to play through. For example, you might show the (easy) process someone would use to get their sign up and running and explain it as this:

1. Create a sign using our software. You can use a pre-made sign, or add your own text, images, video, animations or even live data from the web.

2. Choose the displays across your store you want to run it on, and a length of time you want it shown on the screen.

3. Run your digital signs using our software.

Accompany the above sentences with screenshots and maybe a caption or two.

Then, in a few short paragraphs, explain that the customer can use flat screens, giant billboards, what kind of files work (i.e. Flash, powerpoint slides (a biggie if you want adoption by the older crowd), etc). Explain how complicated OR simple you can get (attracting big and small businesses in one pitch). Then, link to an in-depth FAQ about almost every question you can think up.

On the name:
I've only ever seen a 3 pronounced as as an "E." So I first thought "See-mer" but for some reason also thought of "Schemer." "Streamer" was not even on the list, so I would rate that name as low.

I'm sensing a disconnect. I don't picture retail business owners who actually run stores spending time appreciating a name like "S3mer." I see them appreciating a name like "Sign Streamer easy management of in-store digital signs"

Go for less techy, less Web 2.0-y, more enterprisy if business are actually your focus.
I can state confidently that there are no fundamental physical laws preventing 1000-year lifespans. There aren't even fundamental biological limitations---lots of organisms live that long. At this point it's "merely" a (very difficult) engineering problem.
"before getting the green light from Apple"

There is no mechanism for preemptive approval of any kind. Either they could take no risk and not develop the product, or they develop the product with risks.

What's inexcusable isn't that the product might be denied, its that they do not yet know. They have to simultaneously act as if it will be in the store in the future, and as if it won't be. I don't know what practical implications that has, but I know its a ridiculous situation to be put in.

If Apple insists on the approval process, they have an obligation to do it in a timely manner. They ought to be embarrassed about the number of cases being reported of unreasonably long waits and flat out wrong assessments of SDK violations, but they aren't.
Merb will accumulate the same complexity if it's successful.

Not likely. Merb will accumulate plugins. Rails had most of its complexity, or at least signs of it, from the beginning.
Could you piggyback RAM by soldering it on top of the existing chips, bending out a single chip-enable pin so it alone wasn't in parallel with the existing chips, and soldering it to a wire? I had an H89 with 64K of RAM; the last 16K was hacked in that way.
Hehe, I guess we're in big trouble now that China is building all our stuff now then ;)

(Yes I know, most of it is still designed/developed in the west..)
I think it's prety inexcusable that this software, or any software, might be denied.
The only presidential speech I really remember was Reagan's challenger speech. the "slip the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of god" line still makes me proud and sad.

However, I think Obama's "race in america" speech is quite good. No matter how his presidency turns out, I think that speech will be remembered as the moment Obama turned the tide against Clinton... The speech that, effectively, gave him the presidency.
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All new business plans are risky. Dependencies on 3rd parties add risk, but if the potential rewards are big enough the risk is worth taking.
I don't think that's the deal; I think the reason it's interesting is that Newber has $500k hanging in the balance, and Apple's commitment is zero. They can vaporize that $500k instantly by saying no, or slowly by never responding. This is not a good position to be in, and it dramatizes what a lot of people (investors more than hackers) have been feeling about iPhone development.
That's how consoles work; there's a new generation every 4-5 years.

Cell has evolved some in the form of PowerXCell.
They aren't written anywhere. At least, many of them aren't.

You can find a list of reasons in the SDK agreement in your developer.apple.com account, but you won't find listed many of the reasons that apps have been rejected, like "limited utility" or "looks too much like our implementation of coverflow" or "using too much bandwidth."
Thing is, Apple doesn't review code. They review applications (which isn't the same thing).

More importantly, the review process is arbitrary. There are no strict guidelines, and no strict technical analysis is performed. This is easily proven by looking at the number of apps on the store using private SDKs, and the number of cases where apps have been rejected for using private SDKs even when they do not.
Sometimes. Other times it's a tedious obligation. Then there are the times when you're not sure if it makes you happy or not, but you can't stop doing it.

If you're wondering if you enjoy programming, try giving it up for a while and see if you keep coming back to it.
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I wish the GitHub guys would stop working so hard; they're making everyone else look bad by comparison. ;-)
Anyone who searches on a social security number to see if it has leaked online anywhere.
Ask HN: Interesting recent developments in academic computer science.
Curious to learn about any concepts or techniques developed recently in academia that you think should be used more widely in applied settings.
So is Blackberry.
And that's why Sumerian investment banks rule the world today.

To get your $300 million number, you're assuming a 5% risk-free return on investment over 400 years. I very much doubt that you would have received a 5% return on investment by investing in a diversified international portfolio of joint stock corporations from 1608, leaving aside the great likelihood that you would have lost everything by personally being a victim of one war or another, as the Cherokees did on the Trail of Tears, as the Jews and Gypsies did in the Holocaust, as many of the Guaraníes did in the War of the Triple Alliance, etc.
Synthasite raised 5 million and has valuable stock so everyone can make their own guess.

Everyone is more risk averse in a down economy and it is truly an honor to go out like a pro. Congratulations Clickpass.
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That dot operator took me forever to understand , its highly unintuitive. @synthesize should of just created the setMethod and getMethod that would make sense. Not some weird property light. I'm also a big fan of the parameter descriptions, it makes it really easy to read.
synthasite is competitor in the same segment in which weebly and jimdo operates. Good move for synthasite. isnt it?
I'm guessing that shares in synthasite were a large part of this transaction. Otherwise, this will probably be a "undisclosed amount".
The Songkick team is awesome. Many congratulations.
Kudos to BackType. They've made a bunch of progress recently including the implementation of a nice, simple API.
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(lame site but just put it up for the hell of it)
Would you support trade unions being allowed to organize internationally? How about international environmental regulation, like the one that overturned California's MTBE ban? Do you think these institutions can be made to work as well in the world as they do inside the US? (Not that they work well inside the US, but they are currently much weaker internationally.)
Sounds like there's a pretty big opportunity for early stage seed funding in India, like, umm, you know, YC? :)

Anyway, there's still a lot of resistance to business and red-tape in India, I think. Couple that with the lack of a professional environment in a LOT of technology companies (the so-called sweatshops) and you have the classic slow bureaucratic anti-thesis of small lean startups. Not sure how and if this will ever change (or if it is already...)
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For me it's 99% frustration, but the other 1% is the moments when the thing that used to be an idea in my head becomes a part of reality, and those moments feel so good I'm willing to put up with the frustrating ones.
Nice! I love Clickpass. It's so neat and is the one startup I tell my non-geeky friends about.
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Why would one want population to stop growing?
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I don't understand why this makes you a lifelong fan of free trade. Those countries are pretty corrupt governmentally, so maybe it makes welfare look bad, but I have to say the companies aren't treating people all that well either.

(I say this as someone who is actually Taiwanese.)
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