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That's because they don't use OS X. No service pack has ever made the kind of changes an OS X upgrade has, period. Anyone who spends time in both operating systems knows that's a ridiculous sentiment only spouted by the most ignorant users. I've also never heard it from someone who has ever actually used OS X for any real length of time.

Ignorant OS X users tend to consider Windows upgrades overpriced. That's not true either. It's just a different release strategy. Microsoft can't work on that kind of incremental release schedule without upsetting enterprise customers.

The only real difference is Apple has stuck with the original OS X UI and chosen to refine it, whereas Microsoft throws out the old skin for every release and designs a new one which makes updates seem more drastic. That's just the UI though. Behind the scenes, OS X has made as much progress between 10.0 and 10.8 as Windows has between XP and 8.
Sadly, I'll be out of the country. I have gone once last year and I can highly recommend the event. I am in academia and I did find the conversations very interesting. It was nice to get out of my little box and see the world, my own work and the work of others from a different view.

tl;dr; Nice+++++, would go again!
If you think a $100 keyboard case makes an iPad into a real computer, I'm not sure you've used a computer before.
Look for a book called Topgrading, it's a methodology and defines A,B and C players.

Roughly from memory:
A's are smart, get things done. The important thing is:
An A player in one role may not be an A player in another role.
If you put your best programmer at your retail store, you're probably going to have a bad time.

How do you overcome it? Find your passion, make sure you work with others that are A players (one trademark of A players is that they gravitate together), work on your skills and study peripheral ideas that could be implemented.
If you're doing the above then youre probably an A player, if youre on Facebook half the day or complaining that someone didnt refill the coffee pot then you're probably not an A player in the role that you are in and you need to decide to train up or move somewhere where you can be an A player.
> In Go, all dependencies have to be statically compiled into that package.

This is not true. If you make use of cgo, the dependencies are linked dynamically.
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Maybe it doesn't work?

(btw, this is a joke)
An interesting counterpoint is that we now (with the exception of declining numbers of nuclear weapons), have far more powerful weapons than we have had at any point in our history - and we are also, in the main, far more peaceful than we have ever been. Is there a causative effect there?
I think people who are entering college with the mindset that a degree is simply an accolade to garner large sums of money are misunderstanding the principal of college and higher-education learning. You go to college because you're interested in something enough to pursue a greater understanding of it. The degree is simply a token that you're not full of shit. So whether you're complaining about student debt or validating your academic decisions with shallow dreams of making six-figures, you're in for a pretty boring 4+ years of passionless note-taking and test-taking (fine by me).
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most companies are based on B and C players, its one of the reasons that a lot of big companies have so many management layers.
Snapping an atom’s shadow?
Sometimes it's hard to understand what problem something solves because you may not be in the target market/demographic.

Pinterest? I have a large number of friends that have used Pinterest to help come up with ideas for apartments, weddings, etc., Previously the only place they could look for inspiration was through online searches or magazines.

Skype? How did you call overseas <edit>for free</edit> prior to Skype? I was able to do it with my Ham Radio license, but for that I had to take a test and buy equipment -- with Skype you just had to install an application and you could run with it.

As for the other game categories, I agree with John, entertainment has a huge demand with a market that seems to be ready for the next exciting game at every corner, Angry Birds and Little Wings filled that demand.
This was an amazing work. That's all I have to say with my first post on a 2-minute new account.
Except it wasn't well integrated. Incompatible DOM events, non-compliant CSS, didn't implement newer standards very quickly, leading to IE only sites, or sites that follow the standard and that just don't work... How dies this making surfing the web easier?
While that's true, I feel like there's going to be plenty of awful programmers in the group that's just in it for the money (although that's not to say there won't be passionate programmers who are also awful - they're just more likely to want to improve themselves).

With much of CS and programming being so collaborative, those that just don't have the talent or the heart for it generally cause more hassle and grief for the rest of us.

Of course, I'm also not assuming that I'm not an awful programmer myself, but I really do love CS and try to improve myself all the time.
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just trying to understand how is this different from app.net? which also helps in creating app micro sites.
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This is more of a Pieceable comment/question rather than kickfolio.

One concern I would have would be that apps are now usable outside of the device. If you have a paid app are you opening the door to free usage? Say you have a specialized calculator of some sort. Now anyone can use it for free through a browser.

I realize that there's a cost associated with the number of simultaneous users. Maybe that's the limiting mechanism.

Also:

https://www.pieceable.com/facebook

"We will be winding down the Pieceable service at the end of the year so we can focus on the new challenges and opportunities at Facebook. Facebook is not acquiring the company, technology, or customer data. We know many of you have come to rely on the Pieceable service, and we want to make sure that you can continue to do so even after we shut down our hosted service on December 31, 2012. In a few months, we'll be releasing an open source version of Pieceable Viewer that you'll be able to run on your own Mac hardware - we'll have more details on that soon."

Which is potentially good news long-term.
But there are not many nations that operate in a "honest about everything" way. I mean wikileaks highlighted a whole lot of stuff about the U.S. that was very far from 'honest about everything'.

Are we holding China to a higher bar than the U.S? Or do we have blinders on when viewing the U.S's actions?
The code presented is not thread safe. It reads and writes to Counter.c from two different goroutines.

It's easy to make this mistake in Go as it's trivial to make your program not only concurrent but also parallel if it utilizes more than one thread (needs runtime.GOMAXPROCS(), which will go away in the future so will be the default).

If you use goroutines, always make sure that you are not accessing data from more than one goroutine at a time unless you are using lock or atomic instructions (which would be easy in case of a counter).

The alternative is to think of passing ownership of data when transferring it over a channel. The receiver is now in charge of it and should be the only one accessing it.
I disagree :)

Twitter - How can I message with a large group of people, and also receive alerts from people I'm interested in?
Facebook - How do I keep in touch with my friends easily?
Skype - How can I call cheaply?
Games - How do I waste my time?
Pintrest - How do collect snapshots of things I'm interested in?

EDIT: Admittedly games are the most vague when you try to define the problem.
California has the US's strongest sactions against SLAPPs (strategic lawsuits against public participation). I'm sure this had something to do with dropping the suit, since it was brought up in Californian court.
I'm quite happy though - have been trying to turn it off but it keeps coming back! Their decision is unexpected but it will solve my problem.
The pinnacle of HID would be something like Google Glass or maybe a pair of contact lenses in conjunction with direct thought control.
What's wrong with that statement?

To compare policies that affect natural assets and human assets, we need to be able to measure those assets with the same index. If not dollars, then what? "Utils"?

Once you pick the units, then we can argue about the methodology for measuring.
Oh, people do fail. They just withdraw, keep attending the course, and retake it for a grade the quarter after. As long as they get the subject eventually, it's all that matters, right?
Excellent! I'll send you an email then and let's see what we can do for Kansai.
Unfortunately I wouldn't bet on the fact that this is really over. Mr. Carreon sounds, charitably put, like a rather unhinged person with a streak for vendetta.

From the Popehat's excellent coverage of this sordid issue:

"2. Dismissal is, without court intervention, without prejudice, meaning that Mr. Carreon could re-file if he wanted. Will he? Who knows."

The whole post here : http://www.popehat.com/2012/07/03/oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-chapte...
The EPA and many other agencies try to quantify the value of life (cost of death). Without that estimate, they would be unable to decide the appropriate level of pollution to allow.
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I'm not recommending this site or principle but he does do great job of explaining the intricacies of startup legal issues and investing. http://startuplawyer.com/category/convertible-notes
Bertrand Russell is the Pope

"The story goes that Bertrand Russell, in a lecture on logic, mentioned that in the sense of material implication, a false proposition implies any proposition.
..."

http://www.nku.edu/~longa/classes/mat385_resources/docs/russ...
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>> Humanity has the ability to destroy all life on this planet many times over.

> Yah, that isn't even remotely true. It's often said, but completely false.

Really? You don't think that the nuclear arsenal in place around the world has the capacity to cause massive life loss on this planet? It's only a matter of time until the "bad guys" (whoever you choose to crown as such) escalate things up to bio/chem weaponry. Bio weapons are actually scarier than nukes.

Don't say it won't happen. We have a proven capacity to cause untold death and destruction. The world wars and various genocides are proof enough.
It's not the assignment that matters, it's the initiative that matters. Giving students the assignment to do something awesome isn't any different from giving them an assignment to do something ordinary.
I assume the CIA looks for intelligence, i.e. plans, advancements, capabilities, stuff like that. Not engineering plans to actually make a product.

> Even if you suspected your tech was more advanced, you would still steal your opponents in order to gauge where they were at.

Kinda missed my point there didn't you? I'm talking about stealing tech in order to use it. Stealing tech to find out about it is not the same thing.
Do you think the export ban was in good faith?
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Startups create the future, not companies like IBM.

In the context of my comment, people in the orbit of world-changing startups are the ones that matter.

You make some interesting points though. Good post.
Mehan Sahami. Eric Roberts. Julie Zelenski. Jerry Cain. (bonus: keith schwarz). Look no further for explaining the rise in popularity and quality of the Stanford CS intro course. I had the privilege of sitting in the class of each of these guys and they were all respectively the best professor/teacher I ever had. Period.
Compare:

"destroy all life on this planet many times over"

vs.

"cause massive life loss on this planet"

Not exactly the same thing, yet you said both. Which is it?

> It's only a matter of time

i.e. doesn't exist right now. So you agree with me.

> Bio weapons are actually scarier than nukes.

I agree.

> We have a proven capacity to cause untold death and destruction. The world wars and various genocides are proof enough.

In the entire history of the world the death rate from wars has NEVER been lower than it is right now.

Lookup total war to see how bad it was. Compare the death rates (as a ratio of soldiers involved. Include civilians if you wish) in Iraq vs. Vietnam or WW2.
This is a fun site, nicely implemented, and a subject close to my heart.

I can't help but wonder why some Show HNs get 50 points easily and others languish in indifference with none. Perhaps the key is the poster's network rather than site quality?
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No. There is no lisp. Maybe there's a link to a talk by a guy who wrote a book about lisp. Maybe there's a link to blog to a talk about clojure garbage collection. No lisp.

Also, no one links to postscript files. So, no original research, just a link to a blog about a guy who did a thing.
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Maybe there's another way to look at this: In hindsight.

An idea that succeeds to garner users, clients or customers is one that probably solved a problem, filled a need or fed an interest. An idea that fails. Well, it was just an idea.
I guess the same reasoning can be applied to Surface. I really find Surface idea interesting but I find it highly impractical knowing my work habits with netbooks and tablets.
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>Leaving money on the table does no one any favors.

Except fans. Who can now buy his DVDs or other swag. (Or afford both his show, and rent.)

If your goal is to get as much money as quickly as possible, there's another word for that. Short-sightedness.
> Should I refrain from posting at all when what I have to say boils down to "I don't believe your story"?

Yes, that's exactly what you should. That sort of comment contributes exactly nothing to the discussion.
> Skype

Skype solved a real problem for people with friends and families around the world. It was near impossible for regular users to make real-time audio/video conferencing work (NetMeeting, ICQ voice plugins) until Skype came along and made it possible.
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This series of articles [1] by Russ Cox is also interesting for anyone interested in parsing regular expressions.

[1] http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

See at the bottom of that articles for links to followups
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html is pretty good.
How come these meetups are always set during the week ?
I live in Beijing, and I would love to attend, but work and the timing of the meetup makes it impossible for me to join.

Wouldn't it be easier for everyone if these were in the weekends ?
4 or 5 years ago, fedex was fined because it shipped a flight simulation game to a Chinese student in Bejing University of Aeronautics.

US always complained about CN export/import imbalance, OTOH it simply doesn't want to export any high tech products.
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While this end is certainly favorable for Inman, I'd have preferred if this was decided in court. This way Carreon can pretend that he had to abandon his just campaign under pressure of the savage hordes of the Internet and try again with a softer target than Inman. If he had been thrown out of court with a clear statement, things would look different.
> How come ... Jobs was able to cross the tablet threshold and Gates wasn't?

There's also the small matter of 10 years worth of Moore's Law. It's significant, though, that if the tablet-winter could be overcome, perhaps other winters may yet also be...

EDIT Apple also had the Newton, a tablet-like device...
Its one thing to get your hand caught in the cookie jar, and another thing to claim the sky is hot pink when its really blue (or that the air is clean in Beijing when its obviously not). Certain parts of the US government lie, yes, but they get caught (and a handslap), don't do it all the time, and don't come off as insane.
I do apologize if this post is inappropriate.
Questioning yourself is the first instinct of an A player. They don't believe they have all the answers, they believe that they are frauds in a lot of ways because they see the large picture and realize that they cannot hope to know all that is required to be an expert in all areas. Instead they become proficient in understanding the thought-processes that lead to expertise in multiple "specialized" fields and apply it to all areas of endeavor.

Anyone who thinks they are an A player quite frankly isn't.
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I'm having a hard time understanding the benefits of goroutines compared to Actors on top of the JVM.

I never played with Go, but I was somehow under the impression that goroutines behave like processes and thus the only way to share data being through messages.
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As much as I enjoy the hilarity of psuedoscience and anecdotal evidence - this oft-repeated plug has become tiring.

Will someone (other than Steve McConnell) who parrots these numbers ad nauseum please provide some evidence for your claims? Really, the best car is only 20% better than the average car? In what way? Define the best? Please, go on, explain your methodology.

Do the people who continue to spew forth this gibberish actually claim to have education and credentials of a scientific persuasion? Do they actually consider themselves professionals in a field that requires logical and critical thinking skills? Barf!
> Startups create the future, not companies like IBM.

There are so many examples to the contrary of this that it'd be exhausting to list them all. IBM had lived many lives of men and was long past being a startup when it helped create the PC industry; seriously, that company was pivoting before "pivoting" was even a term in usage. Apple was a long-toothed public company when it reinvented portable music and, later, smartphones. We're still observing the fallout from the iPad, but it's safe to say that was a game-changer in tablet computing, too.

I'm not saying that to kiss these companies' asses, either; these products genuinely redefined the marketplace. And both companies were public and had a checkered history already when they reshaped these markets. I remember cellular phones before the introduction of the iPhone. So do you.

Saying that the only innovation happens over lattes in SoMa is just so blatantly wrong that I wish I could persuade you otherwise for your own well-being. (Before I forget, thank you for the compliment regarding my comment; though I still disagree with you, I do appreciate the nod.)
I don't think he/she is. There might be 20,000 people interested in tickets to the show at $55, but only 1000 will get one and 19,000 will be left out in the cold. If 100 of those tickets are purchased by scalpers, 19,000 will be left out in the cold. The difference in the two cases is that 100 of those tickets in the second case will go to the people willing to 'be the most useful' for them - and in an ideal society that seems to me like the fairest way of doing things.

The only problem I have with it is that due to general political market distortions, money is very cheap to a small number of people who do very little and have lots of leisure time, so the dollar commitment for a ticket price has little relation to either subjective or objective (ideal) utility.

As a performer, I'd have an interest in keeping the ticket prices low simply because I wouldn't want an audience filled with the kind of assholes who would pay $500 for a ticket to a two hour comedy show. If I really adored Louie C.K., was one of those assholes, and it took 11 minutes to get to the site to buy a ticket that sold out in 10, I'd hope that scalpers got a significant amount of those tickets.

Hell, even if I wasn't one of those assholes I'd hope for scalpers, because if they overestimated demand and priced too high, they might end up dumping tickets at the last minute and I might end up paying less than face value. Instead of not being able to get a ticket at any price, the tickets are handed out based on how much you're willing to commit to get them. If demand then raises the prices to $1000, I can still get a ticket if I love Louie C.K. more than I love keeping my apartment.

Because, really:

the number of people who lose = the number of people who would go to the show for free - 1000

Personally, I lose at face value, because the day I pay $50 for a concert is going to be the day a gallon of milk goes for $15. It doesn't mean that I don't like Louie C.K., it just means that I like 3 gallons of milk more. Everybody makes their own call, whether it's when the cost goes over $10, over $1000, or over $55 + F5ing a site for 6 hours.
“A quarter of all undergraduates and more than 50% of graduate students [at Stanford] are engineering majors."

I can attest Stanford really feels like a tech school in disguise, especially at the graduate level.
I don't think I missed your point. I suspect the CIA do a multitude of things, encompassing what we've both said.

I was simply illustrating that just because you haven't heard about it. Doesn't mean it didn't happen.
As per Welch, stack ranking works because managers are themselves stack ranked. All the way up to the CEO.

Therefore if a manager plays politics and promotes his inefficient pets, sooner or later he comes ranked last among his peers. So if though he wants, he can't.

He also says that the stack ranking system makes it very difficult for the managers in the 3-4 year after it was implemented, because now they may have to let go some good people to retain the very best.

However it did work to a large extent in GE. Jack Welch's immediate reportees all went on to become CEO's of top companies.

But things like this blind copied and applied don't fly much. You need to implement them in spirit and that's difficult.
Have you used coroutines and threads before? Goroutines are basically coroutines multiplexed on threads.
If you want to, you can even just think of them as super lightweight threads.

They are not like processes, they share the same address space.