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"Microsoft had nothing to do with the openness of the PC architecture."
Actually, it does! You've mentioned Microsoft leverage - it could have been used a lot more Apple-like way, to impose a "Microsoft Application Store" or something, to racket every software company, to pillage every developer with "rights to develop" licences and to take "it's rightful cut" from every product sold on Windows. All those could induce a strong feeling of closeness. Yet, all those didn't happened under Microsoft rule. Those "goodies" we come to enjoy first-hand only in the great Apple garden!

"...another company (or a consortium of companies) would have probably got to do that if MS had not been around."
I am glad it wasn't Apple or another one with an Apple-like vision. It would have been a curse on the computing industry.
Whether something is a federal crime (you know, with warrants and handcuffs and all that) or not hardly seems pedantic. You're the one making the assertion here, so do you have any legal sources to cite or are you sticking with the "pedantic semantics" argument when someone challenges your point?
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That's wrong. 7 is really good. Comparing it to vista or xp shows you don't know what you are talking about.
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The parties aren't independent.

People are utterly dependent on software.

Net effects mean that people aren't free to choose the software that has the agreements they agree with.

I think the question anyone should ask -- is what kind of society do we want to live in? One where everyone controls their computers and software, or one where the norm is to surrender control of this part of your life to third parties?
Great, great idea!

A few comments (because this is HN):

- I'd like to see some mention of pricing on the main page. I get that it's (probably) free until you get to some sort of critical mass, but seeing that on the site would still be nice.

- Why no "about", "contact", or "FAQ" style links anywhere, so I could ask about pricing (or anything else)?

- I know this'll sound odd, but honestly, I'd like to see you have at least some modest advertising or something so that you make back your money on this.

- Last but not least, how about some sort of policy statement? Do you own the recipes I post? Do I? Just sayin'.
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In Europe you are forced to give your customer 2 years of warranty on certain products. E.g. computer hardware or electronics.

Apple refused to in the past (and still had their crazy EUR prices then). But now, after being dragged to court about it in Italy, and loosing, they at least have a good reason to charge more in Europe. ;)

This is the case for most vendors. E.g. my Panasonic GH2 camera did cost a bit more in Europe than it would have in the US. But I get 24 months of warranty.

See:

http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/apple-increases-product-w...
http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/
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While I might agree with your general point that biology is not software, I think you might be being a little too pessimistic for the field as a whole. You don't need to predict the "outcome" as you define it. You just have to get the function you want. Plenty of people, even high school students and undergraduates, are "playing with nature's design."
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I was just surprised about the office because I thought most startups at this stage work from home or coffeshops (even though that would not be very productive in Amsterdam [1]).

I have never been to any meetup, maybe I should go.

Anyway, good luck!

[1] see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_coffee_shop
It is almost... too easy now...
Although not as massive as it looks in the first place, there is still a discrepancy.
The new MBP-Retina top config is 2799 USD -> 1805 GBP.
In the UK store, it's 2299 GBP, less 20% vat -> 1916 GBP.

So they're taking more than a 100 quid extra from each UK customer, "just because".
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great comment. this is part of a series of MBA Mondays posts i called "People". earlier in the series I wrote about cultural fit.
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The problem with such an approach is that it makes computers hard to use - hard enough that 99% will not want to use it.
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i don't care. i am not going to hire anyone (or invest in anyone) without making phone calls. i don't think anyone should. but the quid pro quo, as you suggest, is don't call the current employer. great point on that.
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There aren't any docs yet according to the article, but this is almost definitely an un-standardized meta tag or something. For mobile devs, it removes some (boilerplate) code and standardizes the user experience, which is good. My only hope is that they made the syntax open enough that it will support other app stores (so a similar tag can be used if android decides to follow along). If it's <itunes> or something, well, screw them.
They don't have to do nearly as much work to satisfy the Mac Pro market. It's mainly just keeping the hardware up-to-date so the enthusiasts and high end users aren't using 2 or 3 year old parts.
I remember having to shift those manuals to a skip when we replaced the VAXCluster with SQL 6.5 (bad bad bad decision othe than for electricity usage!)...

I didn't remember much hate between the UNIX/VAX people in my org as they were pooled together. I think everyone agreed that VAX/VMS was superior though when it came to getting stuff done and leaving it done.
The euro is doing really poorly vs the dollar now,
it was the same difference when 1 eur got you 1.4-1.5 USD.
i hadn't read your post until now. but it is very good and covers a lot of the same ground. thanks for pointing it out.
There's lots of good advice on building silent PCs. I actually have a roomy desktop case, a Lian Li, a passive GFX card, an energy efficient CPU and only one big CPU fan, and a pretty silent energy efficient PSU. These were all picked with noise in mind when I last built my desktop PC. My case actually is pretty thin alu, it resonates because of the hard drive and thin chassis, so I've had to tediously dampen the drives with rubber (I wouldn't recommend that case.) Some of the older cases - I'm talking a naughties case, can be found (probably at the local tip) that are incredibly thick, and these make for a better quieter unit in my opinion - but at the same time they can be quite ugly. But then again - most PCs are ugly!

A friend of mine just picked up a Pentium 4 (yes all my friends have P4s), for £20, with a nice thick case, but the thing sounded like a helicopter taking off - the fans were so loud. We replaced the CPU fan (something like an Arctic freezer), and now it's quite easy on the ears.

My PC case is hugely bloated for my needs, I barely touch the DVD unit anymore, so I could just throw it in a trunk. Or make a new chassis for it. I only keep it as the size doesn't make me curse whenever I have to go in there. How about a piano stool for a case?

I think my favourite case I ever had was a micro ATX case that I modded to accommodate the PSU on the front. I could then keep it on the floor and still turn it off easily. As it was low down it was quieter. It also served as a rather nice foot warmer.
>But it also isn't the ease of use;

That's not strictly true. Perhaps for the fanboy. I got Mac because I just don't have time to admin windows anymore. When I realized how much time I was spending on this and how many times cheap hardware had failed me I made the switch. I didn't want to because I didn't care to learn a new OS but at some point I decided the potential savings were worth the risk.
This is an interesting take. Applying the simple ideals of Kaizen[1] to our daily lives.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
Well, don't forget our lovely European regulations. The costs of hiring employees and handling business in Europe is higher than in US if I'm not mistaken.

Finally, I'd guess that Apple pays its contractors in USD. So if today 1 USD = 0.8 EUR, Apple needs to consider the fact that tomorrow it may be 1 USD = 0.9 EUR, and the price needs to reflect this scenario as well (they cannot change the price every single month to reflect the current USD/EUR conversion ratios).

These are details, but add them together, and you'll arrive at that 10% price difference (I guess)
Brilliant. This is one of those things I've always had in the back of my mind but never got around to doing.
Especially love the responsive design. However the slide out twitter/GitHub etc. don't scroll on the iPad.
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Agreed.

I think it's not just that though - there's the sales tax and the extra warranty mentioned elsewhere in thread, plus there's a bit more overhead of doing business in Europe. More languages, different rules, etc.

Adding all of that up, I can totally understand that Apple just slap on the same EUR/USD amount and call it a day.
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I need a quiet space and no distractions otherwise I cannot code.(Coffeeshops eliminated)
I was at home for 6 months before we've started Followords. I am a bit tired of it. It's nice to be at home once in a while, but not for a looong time.

You should definitely check out http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders-Amsterdam-NL/

Thanks Maarten
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In Australia, it's called "The Australia Tax".

Partly, selling into another country is a bit of a headache. That's one reason why US businesses can do so well - they only need to succeed in a single jurisdiction and they'll make a lot of money. Yes, there's different state laws, but pretty much all countries have annoying state laws, and not all countries are as lucrative a market as California alone.
This is the best explanation I've found so far: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/3528
I've been complaining about this for forever.
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> If the Apple hardware ecosystem were open like that of Windows you'd have major companies all over the world evolving the platform in wonderful ways.

And OSX would also be crashing all the time, getting a reputation for being unstable. This is exactly why they have such tightly controlled hardware configurations: so some cheap company with bad drivers can't make Grandmothers think Mac OSX crashes all the time.

It's not "free" throwing in support for any stupid (even conflicting!) configuration that people could come up with. You have to write your OS different and you're still not going to stop all the problems. Most of Windows old reputation for being horribly unstable came from a handful of drivers.
This is all plain vim, so this'll work in MacVim, GVim and Janus (just MacVim and a bundle of plugins).
Not to worry Fred. I partly guessed it was co-incidence as the topic is relatively linear if you know how to do it right which you obviously do.
What is the point about this beyond showing pictures where the finger is next to my cursor? (Why is this popular?) It's not more interesting than a circumference search. You could implement that with a simple rtree.
Very nice, but consider smaller screens. There is no way to scroll the left sidebar
Sorry I meant when they announced a few weeks ago that the expression version wouldn't support native Windows apps.
That's it, the developer has defined the pointing position for every photo manually.
If your current setup satisfies your needs then don't update your apps.
...and you call yourself a tech recruiter?

Actually I don't call myself a tech recruiter. Haven't done so in a while. That's a very old blog post and I am well aware of who the author is. A highly public personality doesn't preclude you to taking inspiration from other sources.
I believe it's weighted just as high as the name & in-app purchase names, but still far higher than the keywords.

As for the company name, I believe you're talking about "Angry Zombie Kids Apps & Doodle Zombiez Birds Jump Gun Games" (true name).

Fortunately you can change company name only once, so this is limited. But still..
Hopefully, guys from Chomp will get this fixed within a year.
I know that this is a bit snarky, but I can't help feeling, "Solve 50 problems in 50 days with design" is not a million miles away from "Solve 50 problems in 50 days with great hair"
The Bone is currently among my favorites, if not the favorite. I second your recommendation. I liked the Globalscale Sheeva/Guru/Dream for a while but their terrible build quality and ever changing spec put me off them quickly.

When I need graphics (mostly we drive plasma displays for signage) I usually use a Lanner. (http://www.lannerinc.com/Embedded_Computing) Fanless, cooled through aluminum case, generally indestructible and less than $300 each in bulk.

If you just want to throw a switch via wifi, a TP-link 703N with OpenWRT can do it for you for even less than the cost of a RasPi. I've got one opening my garage door from my iPhone.
The guy is a lawyer and seems to think that they do.

If you read his letter it's very specific, he's not saying that the material isn't there, he's taking issue with the suggestion that funnyjunk is willfully violating the Oatmeal's copyright (as opposed to just not responding fast enough in pulling it down). That's the complaint - the suggestion that it's intentional.

Just because you've been wronged, it doesn't give you carte blanc to say what you want about the person doing it. You're safest sticking to the absolute barest facts with no editorialising or commentary.

I have no problem in seeing that there might be a valid case here. I don't like it and it sucks, but in the eyes of the law there might be something.

(Obviously all this ignores the possibility that he's just rattling the cage and seeing if there's $20,000 of easy money there based on Inman running scared. It might be significant that neither the requests being made in terms of removing the material nor the amount (compared to potential legal fees in fighting the case) are that onerous).
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His post was very clevery written to lead the reader to believe that Funnyjunk was stealing the images and that their statements that the users were uploading the images in question were a smokescreen. Could he defend this claim in court?
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As far as I understand, B2G feel that their USP is performance on lower-spec phones, for use in the developing world. Yes, you can get cheap Android phones, but they generally run like crap. I think B2G are aiming for sub $100 smart phones that actually run the web and web apps/games well. Good luck to them - its an admirable aim.
IMHO the underlying technology has no significance. People still write native iOS apps even though HTML5 is available. Nobody will say oh they used javascript and web for every thing I must use/develop for this phone.
The other thing is that the price they set at launch doesn't change when the exchange rate changes. So Apple doesn't set the price relative to current exchange rates, but relative to whatever rate they're hedging against. So don't look at the current rates, look at the long term futures rates.
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The new retina display MBP US starting price 2199$ == 1757€.
The new retina display MBP FI starting price 2349€ == 2938$

Difference of 739$ or 590€ feels quite substantial.
I dont think so. Im using hackernews app on iOS,which displays your page truncated and unusable. Responsive means all widths are possible, not just some of the more common ones.
If this changes small creators like The Oatmeal won't stand a chance. He bootstrapped the success of his website in large part through Reddit, which is of course a commercial site based around user-submitted content that allows and profits from a ton of copyright infringement. Stopping people from infringing your copyright is no good if no-one ever finds out about your content.

Obviously this doesn't matter to The Oatmeal anymore - everyone's heard of The Oatmeal by now, and preventing competitors from becoming well-known is probably good for profits - but it's not great for the internet in general. Probably wouldn't be good for YCombinator either.
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Apart from Tax, there is also the problem with fluctuation of exchange rate. Then there are operating cost and other sorts of things.

There is still quite a margin, but same type of Electronics devices would have cost more in UK compare to US even without the tax difference. So it is not really a Apple thing at all.
Not so simple.
Sometimes you need to update an app, because of bug fixes or security issues.
I guess caching is in order
Apple found the perfect way of forcing its customers to buy more hardware 20 years ago and has been on this path since. It seems like you're saying that 'progress is a bad thing'.
I agree multiple cursors are awesome and largely can replace macros with real-time visible changes.

But there is one use-case of macros that cannot be replaced with multiple cursors -- one where the places being affected by the macro are themselves computed by the macro.
You can actually choose to just be charged 65% in the first place.
I changed the tag line into "Easiest way to find quality content". Does it make more sense ?

Not really. This is the tag line I saw, and all it did was confuse me. To be proper English it needs "the" at the beginning, but it still wouldn't really mean much. "Find", "quality", and "content" are very vague terms; what does it actually do? How can it be easier than Google (for specifics) or Hacker News (for broad news)?

The second tag line, "See the web the way you want it", is similarly confusing. I already do see the web the way I want it.

Some other things I noticed: The tour's quickly fading screenshots make it hard to follow, the "login" button on the tour page is different, the "Notifications" slide seems empty, the "any device" slide's images didn't load for me, and "Home" and "Tour" have horizontal scrollbars (my browser window is about 1030px wide).

Hope this helps!
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It looks like they have aligned it with the home keys, which seems rather sensible.
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This seems like a pretty obvious (and simple) response to Google's Chromebox.
No it is just a tiered pricing model. Either get 35% royalties and no delivery fee or get 70% and pay those very high fees. Almost all the things you include in the list apply to both pricing models.
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I'm fine with this, to be honest. Once we hit the limits of the technology the price will come down even further, and it will become standard.
To make it short: Because they can. As others have pointed out there are taxes, regulations and so on, but the main reason (in my opinion) is that they still make a very good profit in Europe, so why should they reduce prices? Apple is a business and businesses will do almost anything to make more profit (that's the reason they exist, nothing wrong here).

p.s.: Steam has a similar policy and one could note that Steam and Apple share a common trait: No real alternative.
I'd like to watch the video, but using Chrome on Linux I just get the message: "Please install QuickTime for mac/pc".
Not forgetting that things are priced by what people will pay for them..
It was a very good read. But not what I was expecting. If vim is indeed speaking a language this is what I would expect a vim tutorial to have.

1. Basic commands.
2. Syntax to chain basic commands.
3. Ability to form other commands from basic commands.
4. Way to write macros.

Instead most vim tutorials I have read present with a list of several commands to memorize and then a cheat sheet to navigate you through a jungle. Often they are letters, and not meaningful words. So they are difficult to put into ones brain. Couple that with vim's modes. And you are set with a perfect recipe for disaster in case of a new bie.

If vim is indeed speaking a language than manuals and tutorials teaching it, must explain how to speak that language.

This is 2012 and the need to memorize commands, and read cheat sheets to edit text doesn't belong to our times.

What I seem to get is vim aims to provide sed, grep, tr, cut etc kind of tools inside a text editor in form of some interplay of letters and words. How I haven't figured out till today's date.

Every time I've tried to learn vim, I've quit trying to memorize 'yy P...' kind of commands. That happens as I first can't memorize random arrangement of characters. Secondly if its not random, I've not understood how to arrange and use those letters to make meaningful commands.
The european regulations are cheap compared to the legal risks of operating in the states. So, thats not it.

Exchange rate? You keep assuming prices are based on costs. They are not. They are based on profit.

So, when the population in a country has more money to spent, or better but, there where the median, rather than the average, income is the highest, the prices will be too.

So, its cheap in the US because americans are generally more poor, except for a few that throw the average. Off course, "poor" is a very relative concept in this regard.

Income inequality leads to lower prices, and lower margins.
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This is awesome, sure most of the solutions have extra hurdles to overcome but that's not the point, it reminds me to keep my eyes open and remember things that I accept as unchanging might not be as rigid as I assume.

Very inspiring.
LCD has much better colour accuracy right now, probably because it's a much more mature technology.