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That's an excellent point...and another reminder of why median is a better measure...Notch is one of a kind and his outlier effect is exaggerated given Linux's lower number of users. Of course, there's nothing stopping paragons in the Windows world to make massive donations either ;)
Try posting it on Quora for a direct response from founders
I'm guessing they are making an assumption that without Apple personal computers would never have take off and we would still be stuck in mainframe hell.
so it's like App Engine has a bigger brother :)

I hate Google App Engine, I hope Azure is better
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If your bulls raid my pasture and attack and rape my cows, I might shoot them and even have a barbecue. There's no reason I can't raise the calves as my own.

Who cares what Schmeiser did to the plants GROWING ON HIS OWN LAND? Why must he explain his reasons to anyone for dealing with a predatory invader?
It's a long-standing tradition for DjangoCon to have a "Why Django Sucks" presentation. And a healthy one IMHO.
In my very first internship/job, I implemented user management in ASP and Access database in backend. I chose MD5 for password hashing and I was so proud of myself. Of course this was about 10 years ago. :)
Well image processing will not go out of favour soon. A lot of large companies like Philips have divisions that use image processing.Think what you will do in 10 years.
Wikileaks revealed that Dow hired the U.S. private investigative agency Stratfor to monitor activists seeking compensation

This is the kind of inflammatory reporting that creates divisiveness rather than informing people.

I don't doubt that Dow hired Stratfor. But isn't that exactly what a responsible corporation ought to do? Knowing that they've got some potential exposure to huge legal losses, they owe it to their stockholders (and are probably required by the SEC) to keep an eye open for the degree and size of that risk.

There is no reason to read that as anything more than responsible, prudent business. We can see that the "reporter" is prone to think of this in one way, but we might just as well assume that they're keeping tabs on things in order to find ways to satisfy those affected without exposing themselves to huge liabilities.

In my opinion, Chomsky and Krugman both ought to turn in their writing tools, and go back to the scientific pursuits that they're proven to be great at. (to be fair, there are hacks all across the political spectrum, but for some reason it seems that many people believe that these people, perhaps because of their excellent -- but unrelated -- scientific credentials, are above being manipulative)
I want to add that you can remotely debug your applications there using your desktop Visual Studio. I think this is an excellent addition.
"[Agent Orange] was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical."
I saw Wozniak on a CNBC stating explicitly that Jobs cared very much about the allure and status of being in big business, for what it's worth. I see little evidence he cared much about the money.
"which in the pricey New York rental market is tantamount to eviction"

Running a hostel in your apt for extra cash doesn't help that situation. You're just contributing to driving rent up even further.
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Sure, if you did it completely on your own. More likely you use Flask or Pyramid which provide the plugins/entry points/templates to make wiring these components together quite easy.
This article is wildly emotional and certainly doesn't reflect the situation here in the US. Sure Monsanto and the other seed companies have been driving up the prices of seed. Farmers of course don't like that, but farmers do like the higher yields they get by using those GMO seeds. There are lots of things Monsanto does that might seem "evil", but this article is just ridiculous. Please don't use it as a basis to form your own opinions. You will just sound silly.
It wont for simple economic reasons: if (big IF) consoles really go down in popularity that means there wont be enough users to justify selling units at a loss, the main reason why consoles were always cheaper than gaming rigs.

Just look at the history of consoles, there were many models that had small userbases and thus were a niche. All failed, no exceptions.

Nobody is going to subsidize a console if there aren't enough game sales to get that investment back.

Similarly if people stopped buying smartphones then carriers would stop subsidizing them, so iPhones would cost $600 and then who would want one? not nearly enough people to justify current production levels, and BTW without those it would be far more than $600 without a subsidy.

Hardcore gamers, "purists", are already using highend gaming rigs that cost several times more than a console does. But they are a minority and sales numbers prove it.

If all this happened then consoles would disappear, or morph into something resembling the Phantom, which BTW failed big time.
User acquisition is a necessary but not sufficient part of success. So no, user acquisition isn't the key to success. And yes, you do need to engage your users and make your site/app sticky. But you can have the stickiest app known to man and it's completely useless if you don't have users. You need to do both and the only thing they have in common is being difficult.
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The more dangerous question...would he have gotten in?

After all, you're dealing with a college dropout who didn't study anything related to computer science and had personality issues. I suspect that the HR guys at Apple would drop Steve's resume in the waste bin if he applied today.
I keep about 3 passwords at one time. 1 password for email, one for bank accuonts, one for everything else like HN, reddit,linkedin etc. I treat email as most critical since emails contains pretty much everything about you including critical documents that you email (passport copy etc). Then comes financial accounts such as bank,credit cards etc. The last one is everything else.
I'm not seeing a problem. Check the hyperlinks in the article, they go to more reputable orgs.
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"They didn't care about the money"

While your statement is true about Wozniak from what I know it's not true about Jobs. He was a business person and he knew how to make a buck in addition to wanting to "change the world". Same with Gates for that matter.
I don't know how this type of graph tells us anything useful. I actually clicked linux even though I wont play these games on linux or use it as a gaming/desktop OS. I just want these developers to continue to support linux so I don't have to hear about all the crying and bitching how there are no games on the platform.

Also, you have to think most users on other platforms probably spend their money on different games, why donate 60$ to humble bundle when you can get skyrim or whatever for that price? Platforms with many high quality games will have weaker showings for indie games(not to say they aren't good games).

Guess linux desktop users need SOMETHING to feel good about :) maybe I shouldn't try and rain on the parade..
This has got to be the most naive statement i've ever read on the internet.

First of all, it's not illegal to sell arms to your own government's military, and the whole point of the military buying them is to kill people with. (Sorry, "defend our freedom")

Second, products aren't manufactured just for fun. They're made so someone can buy them and use them. The market's demands are the reason the product exists. So if you don't like the product, you have to direct your attentions to the market for the product, not the manufacturers or salespeople. You can get mad at the salesmen all you want - they'll still just collect their big fat paycheck and the market will keep on killing people. Assuming it's the killing and maiming you don't like, I highly recommend you get angry at the USA and not Dow, since the USA is the reason Dow invented and sold chemicals to begin with.

You can call Dow unethical if you want - they don't give a shit. And it is completely meaningless in the context of wanting people to stop getting hurt.
No, "gb" are the initials of one of the developers. They're targeting Australia first, but I guess world domination is always possible if things go well.
You know, and this got me off the Facebook:
"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."

I'll wager dollars to doughnuts that all those sites are selling user data to Madison Ave et al.
Not to say that stealing other's content is okay, but I could certainly understand "borrowing" images to use in games when you're just starting out. I actually think it's usful because you can make clones of your favorite games in order to learn how to program.
Exactly. As I said, the openness is also its greatest weakness. Fragmentation is still a huge issue (look at the average Market app for one star reviews of the format "Force Closes on $device")

I see what they were going for, but their execution frankly sucked.
Not sure, certainly they shouldn't be won as a rule. Maybe there are exceptions, but it shouldn't be just a case of whoever hires the most expensive lawyers wins.
I completely agree with you about needlessly provocative titles.

On the other hand, in the world of frameworks, it's not entirely common for the use cases to be (as) disjoint as they are for hammers vs. spatulas. More often, frameworks overlap in functionality and differ on matters of style and ideology. And this is what feeds the flame wars.

For starters, you have a choice between MyKitchen and spatula. MyKitchen has everything you need to make a reasonable pasta meal for up to 8 guests. The pasta practically serves itself... even when you are making steaks. spatula is totally dedicated to scraping things out of pots, and obviously you could just use MyKitchen.SpatulaFactory(_ctx) instead (you did read the equipment manifest, didn't you?) Plus MyKitchen has a plugin which will make pork buns that practically serve themselves... why waste time with low-level stuff like spatulas?

Some guy graduated from spaghetti to pizzas and he can only scoff at spatula, which is not necessary at all, since you can cook pizzas directly on the rack.

Another guy made this incredible pocket-sized leatherman which includes compact versions of all the kitchen tools including a camp stove.

It is true that most frameworks are better suited to some tasks than others, but for a given task one might be just plain technically inferior, or only different in some stylistic way.

Not that style doesn't matter, if it makes you feel happier doing your job. Otherwise, why bother with Ruby or Python when there is already Java EE or COBOL?
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Would it not be an aid to users in cases where they are reusing the same password on multiple sites?
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As noted, I think employment opportunities are one way to potentially get some cash. the bigger opportunity is being able to quantify knowledge and expertise in a subject. All these sites can verify and demonstrate a given understanding and communication of concepts, experience and expertise. Seems like the way to drive revenue would be to provide a potential employer or current employer with a skills evaluation or the ability to find expertise.

Plus, all have the ability to connect people who would pay for access to individuals with info or knowledge. Similar to Gerson Lehrman Group.
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"I see little evidence he cared much about the money."

Jobs was not the Ben & Jerry's guys. Jobs cared about money. Just because someone doesn't live an opulent lifestyle doesn't mean they don't care about money. Buffet is a good example of that. He lives in the same house he bought in 1957.

Money, even if you run out of things to spend it on, or if you don't buy luxury goods, allows you to have power and do so many things that you can't do without money.
You know, i've always wondered why some targets for target practice show a humanoid form... y'know, if people aren't practicing to shoot other people. Maybe they were trying to paint a deer and got confused.
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The major problem with financial transactions is that each country (or I guess, _most_ countries) have different laws regarding banking, fiduciary responsibility etc.

Paypal/Amazon/GCheckout work globally because they use CC and charge handsomely for the privilege. Companies like Pin, Stripe and Dwolla are trying to cut out the idea of merchant accounts (which create the major hassle for a lot of small practitioners), but that means tailoring your service for local laws = hard problem.
Yes, there probably aren't any at this time. I'm just outlining my main points of critique to suggest further improvements.
the "benefits" of flask vs. django can easily be attributed to any of the so-called web micro frameworks vs web full stack frameworks.

it's interesting to me that django seems to be getting grief for some of the same things zope was/is. Time to reinvent the wheel again I guess.

http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/2006/02/02/zope-vs-django-here...

So surprise surprise, you stray from the happy path the full stack framework lays out for you, be ready for the pain.
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I'm not sure you addressed the issue at hand. Others are arguing that using a framework will make your codebase worse in the long wrong. I'm asserting that all of the homegrown codebases I've worked with are worse than the ones using a framework, after a few years.
Does anyone know when this is actually going to be available? (Its currently "coming soon") After Scott's talk today? Or are they going to slow ramp this?
Next year's iPad will most likely be more powerful than the XBOX 360 and PS3 (it already has more ram and supports a higher resolution). That will be a big deal. As it stands, it already does better graphics than last generation's consoles. Add in the really high resolution display, and you can see why console gaming will become more niche.

People have limited money to spend on electronics, and as gaming on consoles becomes better, more people will play games on them instead of buying dedicated gaming machines. With technology like AirPlay, consumers can play tablet games on big TVs.

The same hardware that is in tablets makes its way to phones, which is going to make portable gaming systems very niche. We may even see phones next year that can create better looking games than the XBOX 360 and PS3.

Cloud gaming is on the way, and this will further erode consoles. You'll be able to have a dumb terminal of a TV or set top box that uses servers to render gaming content. Better looking games will naturally happen as servers become cheaper and more powerful.

None of this will replace the console gaming experience for those that really want that experience, but for the more casual audience, it will begin to erode it. With tablets, AirPlay, cloud gaming, etc. what future does a console like the Wii have? Phones can even be used as motion controllers with all of their sensors built in.

There will be a future for XBOX 360 and PS3 style consoles, but I agree that it will be more niche and that the next generation will last a long time. Because of this, I hope the next generation of consoles are built to last a long time.
The first thing I've wondered about was "how come smaller countries (with possible only one ISP) aren't on top"? For City-states as Andorra, San-Marino, Monaco or Vatican, that figure can jump from 0 to 100 right away. As for Buthan... I didn't knew they had any IT infrastructure!
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bash$ diff -u <(curl -s http://leakedin.org) <(curl -s http://leakedln.org)
--- /dev/fd/63	2012-06-07 15:31:02.000000000 +0100
+++ /dev/fd/62	2012-06-07 15:31:02.000000000 +0100
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</noscript>
<form id="leakedin-check" onsubmit="hashIt()">
<fieldset>
+ <input type="text" name="uname" id="uname" placeholder="Type your username here" />
<input autocomplete="off" type="text" name="check" id="check" onblur="hashIt()" placeholder="Type your password here" />
<button type="submit">Check</button>
</fieldset>
@@ -329,7 +330,7 @@
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+<script src="/static.getclicky.com/js" type="text/javascript"></script>
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FTA: "Alzheimer’s mice given caffeine alone or decaffeinated coffee had a very different immune marker profile."

> @hendler: "Grounds[sic] for more research for sure."

I fresh grind coffee beans for each cup, with a coffee maker that has a bean bin, so it's not convenient to swap types of beans.

To control caffeine intake while enjoying coffee, I use decaf beans, and take an aspirin+caffeine tablet with the first cup of decaf but not with subsequent cups.

This lets me regulate caffeine, gives me the RDA of aspirin, and lets me enjoy as many cups as suits a given morning without risk of jitters.

That said, I can certainly understand why the researchers would think to check caffeine alone vs decaf alone, while not checking caffeine + decaf. I suspect my use case is unusual.
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> How often do you actually drive 200+ miles in a single day?

At least once a week we're close enough that 200 miles is our "with a reasonable safety margin" number.

BTW - when I'm driving 400 miles in a day, I don't spend an hour eating lunch on the way. (It's very hard to average 50 miles an hour, so 400 miles is around 8 hours. I've actually done far more, and you can't do that if you're off the road.) And, why are you assuming that the lunch place will have the relevant charging station?
True, but they can both generate click events; I've got widgets that listen for clicks and work fine on mobile Safari.
With all the gender bias issues awareness on HN, that explicit call out might actually be taken as evidence that he's serious about it and not just paying lip service by using the correct gender neutral language.

What say you, women?
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Oh God no. YC is too unimaginative. They settle for "also rans" and are too prepared to lose.

And Steve could never tolerate the money-fixation of PG and co. Steve was always about blowing people's minds and changing the world with transformative technology.

This is why I will always be a great admirer of Steve (despite his glaring weaknesses) and disdain YC.
I don't necessarily agree with your stance because you still haven't materialized official court cases dealing with this issue.

I would like to see a case where Monsanto was sued for seed contamination and the farmer won the case.
Timing matters. Later example - many things had to come together for the ipod to be a success as well as the iphone and for that matter the ipad. While there is no question that Jobs did much to mold this, there were many other factors such as the price of components and technology the products relied on. So you can't "mold" anything without the proper materials.

Much of what we have today wouldn't be possible w/o broadband. Instagram wouldn't exist unless digital camera technology was developed to the point it had. Facebook became immensely popular because of digital photos. Wouldn't happen if people had to scan photos to get them on Facebook.
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If you have a copy of Jakob Neilsen's "Designing Web Usability" to hand there is a detailed critique of the MapQuest user interface of the time. In comparison Google Maps really was a breakthrough in usability.
And the ads obviously.
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I'm surprised by the amount of negativity here. These are some of the most advanced cars ever made and they're made in the US.

Keep in mind, Tesla is at the very beginning of the adoption curve for electric cars. When I was a kid, in 1984, my dad bought a CD player for $1K. It was an expensive "toy" for rich people. I'll spare you the rest of the story.

As for the government backed loan, I blame the government, not the corporations that take it.
That's a good argument against the patentability of genetically modified plants, but not against the validity of the case given that GM plants currently ARE patentable.
This won't be the best answer, but I remember once reading how TomTom and Garmin were being punished by the advent of Google Maps and smartphone GPS. New technology essentially cut out the need for paying money for a dedicated satnav or personal navigation device; plus the map content.

With this knowledge the companies were at a cross road. Compete on content or technology? They pursued different paths with different financial results. I believe initially TomTom stayed with tech and Garmin with content.

Unsure the current strategy but know Garmin are big in fitness products but TomTom still remain holding satnavs.

Any improvements in maps is going to hurt both firms.