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YouTube videos and reviews (online or not) are mostly just astro-turfed advertising campaigns. You and your friends are likely influenced by either of these things on both a conscious and subconscious level, which then feeds back into the advertising campaign (this works in both a negative and positive sense). [Edit: this is how the "cool" that you mention gets created. I highly suggest watching a PBS documentary called "The Merchants of Cool", if a bit dated, to see how prevalent this is]

As an example, take a look at any car magazine (e.g. Sports Compact Car) and read any of the articles. Or read a Cosmo or GQ article. The one thing they all have in common is they push a product through a story that doesn't even seem like advertising. It's both brilliant and slimy at the same time, and is the ultimate goal of any advertising campaign -- to assimilate itself into the culture without appearing that it is even trying. Like Apple.

Like it or not, we are all influenced by ads on some level, and if nothing else, the reason any one of us "hackers" should care about advertising campaigns is at least to appreciate, analyze and improve upon them for our own products.
My example was pure hyperbole. :) But I think my point stands: any government program can be justified by some party, deficit or not. Even deficit spending itself is a virtue for some.

There is no test to separate pork from fiber where there is no fundamental accountability. Spending programs exist because spending programs exist.
Thinkpads are still quite nice.
I have a friend who worked at Amazon Fresh and enjoyed it, and I hear AWS is good. Amazon has some really neat technology and an awesome business, it's a shame that so much of the company is broken.
I still don't see how that is an incentive to allow a third party to extract anything from the transaction. He could run an auction for tickets himself to satisfy that desire (if he had it).
And a dishonest one at that. He's behaving no differently than the rest of Washington.
A friend once complained to me about how all of the "unlimited" plans are secretly capped (at, say, 3GB), which makes it very frustrating for anyone who would regularly go over the cap, as there are often no other options. He told me he would much prefer a pay-per-use model, which is apparently much more common in his home country (despite internet being much more expensive there).

At first, I was against this idea -- my gut told me that uncapped service is what enables us to use the internet to its full potential, and as soon as you start enforcing limits, you limit that potential -- but when I thought about it a bit more, it makes sense. You are paying for what you get, and if you need more, you pay more.

With all of this in mind, there is something to be said for treating everything as data instead of charging for 'minutes' and 'texts' and other abstract services on top of the data. (After all, it's data all the way down.)
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With other languages such as C/C++ if you link a library into your program statically, that library may dynamically load other dependencies. In Go, all dependencies have to be statically compiled into that package.

Rob Pike made a good point about this in one of the Go talks [1] (I think it was the "Meet the Go team" talk) when they were talking about package management and the static linking, and how in C++ you could get massive chains of useless includes (I think is came out of a question on the speed of the Go compiler). His reasoning was that all the code you need to compile a package should be in the one package binary. You shouldn't need to worry about having other 3rd-party packages that your dependency depends on installed on the target system.

[1] http://blog.golang.org/2012/07/go-videos-from-google-io-2012...
You really think it takes 1 person to maintain iGoogle? In a corporate environment with so many users, business rules and systems/infrastructure I'd imagine it is quite a few.
I'm glad I decided to move away from all google products a few months ago. By now I'm almost done, and I already feel like my privacy is healing.
The big issue that comes out of that mindset is that it's people that do work in those folders that end up telling laymen that stuff is done stupid, opening up a nice spot for apple and it's simple and easy everything to come in and take away sales. (Or my favorite, when I can manage to get someone to try out Ubuntu :) )
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The Vice-President simply has no power to order anything more complex than pizza.

Having the tie-breaking vote in the Senate is a very tangible power of the VPOTUS, especially when it is needed.

I do agree that MU may be able to prove that it didn't break any laws, due to their minimal DMCA compliance. And, it is for that reason that higher powers in the US may have had to resort to illegal tactics to shut the website down. I also agree that Biden, if he was involved, would not actually take the responsibility for any actions. However, politicians are playing a game of public perception, and none of them want their names brought up when foul play is being exposed.
I'd be afraid that MS would turn out to be an amoral megacorp...

Too late. Hopefully, they won't go down any pathways involving weaponizing alien lifeforms. (1 - become amoral, 2 - weaponize alien, 3 - ????, 4- PROFIT!!)

Really all three are amoral megacorps. Apple has been good at putting personable faces on its brand. Google still has some "Don't be Evil" cred, and is still held in good regard for open standards.

Microsoft has a lot of catching up to do in the PR department.

Then again, maybe Microsoft should apply the principles of Judo, and just go with it. Instead of fighting the public perception currents, they could gain incredible momentum by going with them. Forget the progressive and clinical Sci-fi future -- embrace dystopian darkness and evil! That stuff is geek-cool! For me, Steve Ballmer publicly and wholeheartedly embracing evil would result in an 800% increase in credibility. Add an evil scientist laugh, and he'd get an equal boost in nerd-cred.

http://imgur.com/3Seb8

Also, they could dispense with their long struggle to be cool. Just embrace basement-dweller IT-worker RPG-playing nerdyness.

Microsoft: Just Be Evil!

Microsoft: Inflict your users, for the Lulz!

Microsoft: Help us destroy society and make your Sci-Fi dreams come true!
How does being upgraded to the first-class cabin deprive a poorer person of flying?

And no, it's not a blanket statement of the way the world works. There's plenty of things like copyright that prevent a gorilla just coming along and taking your toys for themselves.
So you stick to vendor-supplied "vi" binaries as well?

The Windows NT problem is this: it's very fussy about whence and how it's booted, and there's therefore never been an easy, obvious way to set up a decent, customizable recovery environment on external media (including, naturally, one's favorite editor(s)).

Contrast with, say, OS X, where, in a pinch, you can even run suitably linked GUI versions of Vim and Emacs directly from a Time Machine backup in the recovery environment.
This all makes me wonder: why don't we have scalpers for popular plane flights?
this id a joke right? i mean what should go viral in this? do you expect people to go around screaming "oh my god a website that i do not know what it's for and neither do the creators".

Meh.
It depends on what you want to visualize. This graph is great for visualizing the effect of Mac sales outgrowing the pc market for 24 consecutive quarters.
Most startups I see are solving first world problems.

Ignoring the fact that there are billions of starving people.
The fact that it's a simple and elegant version of what microsoft was failing at attempting with their metro logo.

Don't you know, Apple own the ability to make things simple and nice. Or user friendly. Or stylish in any way. /sarcasm
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As silly as it sounds, this almost sounds like a job for Git. In that case, you could simply revert a single commit, and have the user resolve the conflicts. For that to work well though, you'd need to keep separate "repositories" for phone/Google/Facebook/whatever addresses and merge them locally, which could get very ugly for end users.
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I think you're being a bit lax with history here and looking with rose-tinted glasses, Apache had made far too many inroads in the server way before MS really tackled servers properly. That C# is as popular as it is kinda debunks your entire argument, it's a firmly entrenched behemoth in the corporate world.

The MS hate that was in the 90s/early 00s just doesn't exist any more. What should worry MS far more is that these days so many programming articles and guides just assume you are working on a Unix system. Windows is becoming irrelevant to the elite. It's a bizarre phenomenon given that MS is still dominant in the OS field that has been gaining serious traction for the last 3 or 4 years.

Also SQL Server is good. Very good. And cheap, very cheap compared to the other good DBs. While MySQL and Postgre are alright, in reality they really are quite bad compared to SQL server in terms of overall polish and quality. I got reminded of this the other day tracking down an excessively poorly performing query, fixed in MySQL by an index that MS SQL would have effectively just done for you.

And don't even get me started on how many business run exchange. Ugh.
one thing to note about virality is that users only share if they care about you/your company/your product.

so, you're not giving your potential users any hint of what you're up to and on the other hand expect everybody tell their friends about it.

your twitter account seems to be 1h old and your website tells me that you will launch in 6 and a half years, which most people interpret as you say/plan/hope/... to launch at that time.

seriously, if your idea is good people will copy you. cope with it.
once again, execution is what matters. and the good thing about this is, that execution can't be copied that easy.

if you ask me do the following:
start a blog. write about what you do every day (product, idea, company,...). follow people of your field on twitter. tweet every day.

don't tell anyone you won't reveal more details because you'll be copied. (a little secret (sorry to be that direct): it makes you look either unprofessional or like a jerk. you don't want both i guess.

tell everybody about your awesome idea. you'll get valuable feedback from people you wouldn't expect it.

sorry, this got so long.

martin
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When will this ridiculous fad end? If you want to stand, stand. A standing desk is no substitute for getting regular exercise, and this has nothing much to do with hacking.
Does the "embed options" button ever give more than a link? It seems a bit pointless as it is, as you can just copy that from the address bar.

Also, is there any approval process? If not, I think people should have to register to submit, have a "vouch" button, or something, so we know who we're trusting.

Finally, when all the fields in the submit form have validation errors, the submit button disappears.
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And people won't purchase a luxury car if the engine doesn't work. Clearly that means there's no difference between a luxury and regular car, right?
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> A $350 borderline unusable computer is no bargain. I think people are starting I catch onto this.

I agree 100%.

Many friends and family have cheap and crap laptops that continually crash, and last only a year or two before being replaced (for another cheap, crap laptop)

As time has gone on, you can see they are slowly realizing this is no bargain, and are starting to look at the expensive end, and towards Apple.
Isn't the internet a first-world phenomenon? How can a starving person access the web through an $X00 device?

The gap between the 'top 1%' in America and the rest of us, is as nothing compared with the gap between America and the third world.
From personal experience they still do to this day.
What you call "visible support" is really only "polluting the comments". "Me too" posts just fill up the comments with text without substance.

See also:

* Feb 1983 First "Me too" post (http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html)
Good until they change.
Not at all. By B-school professors mentioned Taylorism primarily as a matter of historical interest. None of them suggested using it to manage a software company.
> You can’t be successful to the level Apple is by only selling to rich people

Porsche and Ferrari come to mind...
HN criticized, but I've heard "the guy who redesigned American's website" referenced in several times from several sources. It spread, it got him a reputation, it gave him a brand! Dustin Curtis is now recognizable in any kind of design discussion.

I've never heard of minimallyminimal, but I'll remember "the guy who rebranded Microsoft" for a long time.
I think on the Windows side of things there's been a huge drop in the quality of PC games which is often overlooked, contributing to an overall degradation of the market. I used to only build rigs and run windows for games and dual boot into real work mode (ubuntu), but with such low quality content on PC nowdays its hard to even justify installing windows let alone building a PC. *disclaimer: I'm neither old or jaded, its a trend I've noticed amongst my peers also.
Supposedly there's this, but it's the old processor: http://www.quantaqct.com/en/01_product/02_detail.php?mid=27&...
Well someone could have easily discovered the environment variables vuln without getting the source code, although it is unclear why so much was disclosed in env vars. It suggests that everything runs as the same user, or you would not get anything.
I think a lot of people have the idea that it would be great to be 'so rich' to have 100% free time. I haven't met many people who could handle that though. People need structure, pressure, responsibility. It's easy to misread this blog post as written by someone who is very young and naive. I don't think that was the idea, it just reads like that.
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How is that 'smoothing' the market? CK Louis seems to have smoothed it flat with $45 for all tickets.

If the scalpers didn't exist, the eventual ticket-holders would still be able to purchase from the original vendor. It's not like scalpers make tickets magically appear.
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Somewhere, the MPAA is watching people who want to liberalize copyright law. Watching them tarnish the reputation of the entire liberalization movement by publicly cheering on an sleazy businessman whose picture and life history are repugnant to those who are uninformed on this issue. The MPAA could not have picked a better person to play the villain if they tried.

They are very, very pleased with this outcome.
> true fans are not necessarily the earliest at the gate.

If we're going no true scotsman, I'd say the true fans ARE the earliest at the gate. They're the ones who camp out for weeks.

So really, you're sticking up for the fair-weather fans who can't be bothered to put in the extra effort to get their tickets at face value.
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Or how about this: MS could just build again inovative and beautiful products and invent new stuff that pushes the limits of technology, rather than only having the legal and marketing departments kill off competing products? Sounds crazy, I know.

The new Windows interface is a good start. But with Balmer at the top, I don't have much hope.
Bezos is pretty good at business strategy, and from the outside it looks like upper management is good at forcing a workable product to be delivered come hell or high water.
Ad Hominem applies to facts and reproducible reasoning. It does not apply to mere slander.

Name one serious question of illegal conduct raised by Dotcom.
Porsche and Ferrari combined don't have the market share for vehicles that Apple has on computers, so the comment is valid. Apple's market share is too large to just be for "rich people."
> and then tried to sneak his way out of trouble by telling the law all about the users

Not only did he try to sneak his way out of trouble, he actually tried to make a profit by selling his insider information.

The obituary to Gravenreuth (the lawyer he teamed up with) by gulli.com[1] has some information about what Schmitz' was up to in the 90s.

[1] http://www.gulli.com/news/12565-nachruf-guenter-freiherr-von... (German)
I tried to explain that above. Opera's revenue, and therefore their development and marketing and sales strategy, is primarily in the mobile market, where it has been "picked up" quite successfully. They haven't focused as much on competing for usage share in the desktop browser market. (And even so, 2% of all computer users in the world is not exactly a failure; it's a very large number!)

It's like a mirror image of Firefox , which focused almost exclusively (and successfully) on the desktop, but has not been picked up on mobile because it has not focused as much on development or strategy there.
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As a longtime Apple product fanslave I've got to say, something like this would be welcome competition. Apple's obsession with sickly-sweet sentimentality (seriously, who uses FaceTime with any regularity?) grates on the nerves. A cold sci-fi revamp is exactly what I'm expecting from Microsoft in the next few years.

It's obviously started to dominate their product line and is slowly permeating their flagship UI. The dubsteppiness of the Surface commercial wasn't an accident. It will take a long while before the company has earned itself a rebrand, because a rebrand without actual, significant and, here's the kicker, successful change to its entire product line (including Windows, that poor magnificent demented bastard of an OS) is an empty gesture and deserving of contempt and mockery.

Microsoft is fighting an uphill battle with itself, but it has one advantage on its side: technology rapidly changes and improves, and it's only accelerating. As long as the company doesn't fall too far behind, the shifting landscape of mobile platforms, touch surfaces and desktop v. small screen conventions will be a perfect excuse to retire its failed products entirely, rather than endlessly iterating and mutating them beyond reason.

If they can scrape by long enough to let the features rot fully and throw the garbage out the window, and finally shine some sunlight on their promising new seeds, they will be able to justify a new brand.

Til then, moar dubstep.
The enemy of my enemy...

K.C's appeal comes from the fact that he quite rightly criticizes the incompetent and heavy-handed actions of some very unlikeable people - DC insiders and lobbyists. His portrayal of events is, if perhaps exaggerated, certainly plausible and more possessing of verisimilitude than the official party line.

As with Assange his appeal comes, not from a reasoned appraisal of the totality of his person, but rather from a shared dislike of his powerful enemies.
Yep, although that's a picture of an actual balcony (a small one, but still), with a proper door instead of just a window above it.
It seems at least as plausible that they were there to discuss ACTA, which was signed three months later.

Beside, it wasn't the Executive branch that ordered the Megaupload shutdown: it was the grand jury, followed by an Australian judge (apparently improperly.) Mr. Dotcom doesn't appear understand the US legal system.

Or, more likely, he is willfully ignoring it in favor of a story. Given the lack of evidence that the VP actually did anything, much less that he did anything corrupt, this seems like a desperate bid for attention.
Your hyperbole ("the minute") isn't aiding in understanding reality. Lots of artists have enough good will built up in their fan-base that they can produce a few bombs and still retain enough fans to reboot their act back to something that the fans like.
Dynamic pricing.

No such thing as "face value" for a plane ticket.

Ability to schedule more flights in the same day as demand increases.
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Because in 2012 every little website ends up loading two dozen external scripts.

I only allow it when a website is unusable without it.
The latter. Futures do not change the supply or demand, and therefore do not change the overall results of a supply-demand curve. What they do is allow people to estimate where it will eventually land, and choose whether to lock in prices some distance in advance.

This ignores a subtlety. If one consumer locks in a large fraction of the supply at a low price, then the supply is smaller than expected, you've made the supply-demand problem more extreme for everyone else. So futures allow entities to lessen their own volatility, but that increases everyone else's volatility.
I figured :), but I love reading about aircraft and hate Wired's reporting on anything involving risk or the military.

At this point, if it doesn't keep the lights on, the trains running, or protect / save lives; it needs to be looked at for cutting.
Leaving money on the table does no one any favors.

God bless the US health system!

$50 for tickets means the rich will pay less than theyre willing to pay and the poor won't get in anyways. No one wins in that situation.

Economists are crazy. A full house is a full house. The people who win are the people who attended. How you can possibly say 'no-one wins' from a full house of successful comedy on the cheap is beyond me. Yeah, bummer, the cheap tickets to a very entertaining night left us all feeling crappy...
Yea, why do you think MS is creating Metro?
>"..in England and Ireland it's the outdated 'kick-and rush' style football (aka "hoof it up to the big striker") versus the more patient possession-focused, passing game in continental Europe. "

This is the very reason as to why England fails to perform in the big competitions. Lack of creativity.

> "...but it doesn't tell you how to play like Spain or how to beat Spain."

Exactly this data might provide some statistics on the formation and player agility but a team's performance is largely dependent on the gameplay and the strategy of the manager.

I find this site: http://www.zonalmarking.net/ to be much more useful when it comes to tactical analysis.
> So, when Biden talks, is that Obama talking? Maybe.

Your reasoning fails here. An ATTORNEY does not just guess at who is ordering him to do something. An Attorney only obey an order from the VP if someone he reports to ordered him to, in which case the person who ordered him owns the responsibility for the action.

And since the action is hardly a secret, that person knows and owns the action.
Through a VPN most likely.
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There have been a couple web services I've done which we've modeled as a state machine. I found the approach gave the architecture and API much more consistency, especially when paired with REST.