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I'm sorry to interrupt this lively discussion, but I still have no idea what Rocketr is. Could somebody please explain? Is there a video, screenshots or mock-ups somewhere?
What about Google building this into the Chrome app?

When you launch the app for the first time, it could ask "Do you want to open URLs in Chrome by default in Chrome-enabled apps?", and make it possible to change this in Chrome's settings menu.

This setting could then be stored in a UIPasteboard named something like com.google.chrome.default, and apps that want to implement the functionality suggested in the original post would just look in this pasteboard for the current setting.
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Why are people so hung up over CL's interface.

People use terrible interfaces every day and even get better at using them to the point those interfaces melt away.

See a Bloomberg Terminal, see Dwarf Fortress, nethack.
Github for Mac is much easier to use than the Git CLI. Something similar to Linux would be great so I don't have to explain the weird Git commands to everyone who wants to do a quick contribution.
How do you do lock-free updates to the R-tree structure?
in a word, "this".

in a few more: "things i wish i had known some time ago. and had the guts to act on."

i didn't expect it to resonate so well, but it did. thanks.
What about earlier-gen 320x240 iPhones (3GS; still in production!) and iPod touches? Does anyone develop with these screen sizes in mind?

Reminds me of the "Android is fragmented" cliche.
If this was in PHP people would be crying out what a bad and horrible language it is.

Javascript it's seen as an amusing conundrum.
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My guess would be that that patch is in some special factory branch that is not released publicly. Meaning that branches jb-dev and jb-release are clean and still have global search.
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So they are saying its $6 + labor + profit = $60 for a 15 minute ride.

The system is broken.
Sansa isn't Google. Apple, if they were to enter the 7-8" market, would have real competition on it's hands (Kindle Fire 2, etc)

What is more likely is that the new iPad will find a way to differentiate itself both from it's bigger brother and the rest of the pack - something that Apple can market day and night. And yes, there will be value pricing, but probably $249 at the lowest.

Dual-strategy: upsell to bigger iPad, while getting down and dirty in the 7" category so that any successes for Google/Amazon aren't cheap. One slam dunk would probably be 3G for your iPad mini, which neither of the others offer currently.
What can we do to help? Something concrete, I'm at a loss, ideas appreciated. Bitching about it here is just preaching to the converted. Maybe someone from über can make suggestions?

I love using über. I like to be able to relax at the table finishing my coffee as I wait for the car to arrive. I hate standing on the side of the street in the rain with my hand in the air wondering when a cab will show up. I hate paying for a driver of a pre-ubercab car service to wait outside for four hours while I have a drink with friends. Uber eliminates all this crap.

I'd like to help, love to hear a constructive suggestion on what I can do.
It's common to have pay bumped up a little for having a degree/masters. Why did they mention a higher salary before negotiation?
If you get UBERx its $3.25/mi now but still higher than cab pricing.
> can you include a glossary that connects all the marketing-slang to the common concepts that they represent?

What you are calling "marketing slang" are actually "common concepts". The definition of common is highly context dependent. Here, the common concepts are what is known by a clojure programmer.

> and a lot of it smells like a coffeehouse-MBA
>> The most exciting addition to the playground is the ability to use your own projects as the context for the Instarepl. You do this by using the lein-light leiningen plugin. Just run lein light from one of your projects and use the sidebar's connect verb to hook into it.

What kind of MBAs you hang out with who know what is REPL, leiningen, plugin etc, and use it in the copy-writing?

> A friendly (honestly!) tip about writing tutorials and helptext in general: the word "just" usually means it would be better to describe the actual steps to be taken. Think of it as a code-smell or a misplaced abstraction.

So, every time he posts an update, he explains what is a REPL, leiningen, how to install leiningen, what is lein-light, how to install lein-light, what is clojure, how to install clojure?

You just run lein light is perfectly reasonable. Had he gone into details about leiningen, that would have been fluff and totally unnecessary.

LightTable is an IDE which right now is being developed for Clojure. If you don't know Clojure, you are't the target audience. I can assure you there isn't anything in the post which isn't obvious to a clojure programmer.
The only reason something like this makes it to the front page, is because of the popularity of things like node.js right now. This is a bug, not a feature.
Cydia has a tweak to change your default browser. Sorted.

iOS Chrome has greater issues.

Tab management is all whizz bang but very unintuitive.

I have used it for about a day and can it fathom how to email a link to the current page to someone.

Emailing a link to the current page is not a standard use case for desktop but it is typical on mobile.

Further: it's hard to see where to arrest the loading of a page, the progress thermometer 'blue zing' thing is very attractive but it doesnt allow any interaction.

Somehow the load new incognito tab button is nearer my fingers than the load a tab in background button. It's annoying that you'd assume I'm fapping.

I think the guys developing this app need to spend more time using other mobile browsers to get a feel for the knds of things people want to do on mobile... iOS Chrome feels like a desktop experience squeezed into 3.5 inches.
There's a word for profitability already. You're arguing price-control can be a profitable endeavor, but to who? Consumers? The cartels?
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> We expect free markets to self-correct, but are we willing to accept sub-par services whilst waiting for that correction?

Yes. When the service goes to shit, a competitor comes in, steps up their game, and if demand for a superior service is high enough, they succeed.
He means MBA like "Mac Book Air".
If Apple's patents were accepted how could they have stolen the technology? That is, unless Noise Free didn't patent their own tech...
Not too big, but too heavy for casual reading in bed for long hours. 10" tablets are really the most awesome you can get if you're looking at spec docs or pdfs in a non-desk situation.
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Sounds reasonable. This idea is in Gruber's article, when he quotes Tim Cook saying (about iPhone) that Apple did not want to leave a "price umbrella" -- an open price range leaving a niche in which competitors could flourish.
I actually found out in hindsight that someone who I work with has about 15% more pay than me because of having a degree, they had less work experience than me.
Reminds me of the story in Chuang Tzu about an old man who loses his memory. Various cures are tried to no avail. Eventually a learned doctor is brought in who after much effort succeeds in curing the man. In a flash, all his memories return. Immediately he proceeds to beat the doctor with a stick, saying "How dare you? I was doing great and now you've ruined everything!"
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Uber is a premium service that is more expensive than the typical overpriced cab. If service is undercut, something like uber can pop up to provide reliable and quick service. I've gotten an uber cab in 3 minutes at 1 am during pride weekend and 5 minutes in north beach during a sunday morning. Uber is near instant in SF.
That is part of the Yatahay network. They are operating illegally, as PokerStars, FullTilt etc were for years.
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>I know of many compilers that will point them out to you, and IDEs that will offer to auto-correct them

PHP's lint option will identify syntax errors, and an IDE can identify or auto-correct typos in any language - it's not a Go specific thing.

>And if you don't make any memory allocation errors you don't need a GC.

Memory allocation is a feature. Spaghetti code is a symptom of a poor developer/team. They are not comparable.

> Hell, if you don't make any errors period
spaghetti code is not a "mistake" like a typo, missing function reference etc.
Interesting. Are there other examples of this hack being used and not kiboshed by Apple?
Price control is profitable to society? Is there a formula you could show me (I'll buy it from you)? Maybe some underlying principles? Or you just have that 'gut feeling'..
Most updates aren't lock-free.
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Very Sensational. And very little proof to back it up.

I dont know if IIT Delhi is the most entrepreneurial - because some is running around with a watermelon helmet and produced a movie? :)

Any cohort, be is the top 20% or the long tail, will have few risktakers. how does having the IIT Tagline make things any different?

Even by your own thought process, I wouldnt say they dont want to fail, they just have a very different notion of success and I'm sure they believe they are successful. Let them be.

At the end of the day, whether we choose to become entrepreneurs, fight the daily battles of life, or take a route that pays well - we have to stay true to our Dharma (that's really what it all comes down to).

PS: It does look like IITians and IIM grads find their way into the ecosystem - most of them as venture capitalists. About 60% of the Associate Partners in Indian Venture Capital firms come from IIT / IIMs (lower from 80% as to 5-10 years ago). Thats out of a sample of 1500 AP Positions (roughly)

Source (http://bestengagingcommunities.com/2012/07/10/how-to-get-a-j...)
The reason javascript won't get nearly as much ridicule as PHP is because there's no other choice with javascript. Most arguments against PHP are in the form - I'm using <super awesome language> because PHP has .... faults.

Also, the fact that very few people code pure javascript, instead choosing frameworks like jquery, goes to show how much people like it!
Some tech nerds are unable to empathize with normal people.

From the perspective of the majority, their naming is less confusing not more confusing. This is why people love MacBook and loathe the Dell InspironXE E1795fpw-A
I do honestly prefer Unfuddle.
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Honestly, I don't know why Apple would create an iPad mini.

I have an iPad 2 and absolutely love it. There isn't another tablet I'd trade it in for (other than an iPad 3). I surely wouldn't trade it in for an iPad mini.

Paul Buchheit once said: "If your product is great, it doesn't need to be good."

To me, the iPad is a great product. Focus on making it better.

As Steve Jobs has said: "It's what you don't do that matters most." (Paraphrased.)
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Really long article, but missed an important point. Technology has atomized the required scale of a new company with reasonable ambitions. It costs cents on the dollar to accomplish what would have taken a scale (10mm+) investment to get done in 1995. The dark side of this is that
1) Only companies with superb prospects will attract large capital investments required for job stability. 2) Lots of risky jobs will be created at little companies versus big "safe" companies.
They likely feel that they are taking a bit of a risk to hire you. If your performance is as good or better than others, then you can expect that your pay will increase to match theirs over time. Longer-term it has to be about performance, not what degree you hold.
Last point being that if the person who write application has to do more work and effort then it will put more people off and as such mean more work for those who can be assed to do that extra little bit of work.
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> Also, the fact that very few people code pure javascript, instead choosing frameworks like jquery, goes to show how much people like it!

I'd say most languages are coded in frameworks and not just the "pure" language.
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There aren't any historical examples of free market monopolies. There are only examples of government enforced monopolies.
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The reality is that nobody writes parseInt(1/0, 19). Get off your high horse.
Apple can both have believed everything they said and be creating a 7" tablet. Prior to the iPad the conventional wisdom was 'there was no tablet market.' As with most things the software execution is key.

That said, I'd love a 7" tablet that I could open up into a 12" tablet with a seamless center.

Of course the 'real' market is for a set of glasses that project an arbitrary high pixel count screen relative to you (and stable) head space (where your head is 0,0,0 but your view is independent.) Then you can look at a white area on the wall, select to drop a display there, look at another area, drop another display, etc. Then do some sort of focus follows eyeball thing. Put up a DVD on the wall, put your email into a display on the dinner table next to you, or the seat back in front of you. That won't be until 2015 though at this rate (Google Glass not withstanding).
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I have a Retina iPad and I would trade it for an iPad mini.

The iPhone is small enough to use every day, but it compromises in its smallness. The iPad is great- probably the best web browsing experience anywhere, and with apps like Flipboard and iBooks, etc, I just love it.

But the iPad is too big. I use it a lot less because it is too cumbersome.

An iPad mini might give me the greatness of the iPad in a smaller package. I don't know if it will be small enough to go with me all the time or not.

I can say one thing for certain: If it is under $400, I will buy one, no question.
Thunderbird is far from 'done'. They had plans to replace somewhat problematic Mork format with SQLite based storage since 2008, and it was never implemented.
No, there are only two interfaces you make-- the iPhone and the iPad versions. These are your two code paths and the two Interface Builder projects.

You want to make normal and 2X graphics of course, but for all of them this just means making 2X graphics and downsizing for a normal version as well.

The iPad mini will use a screen with the dimensions of the original iPad and the touch targets will be of sufficient size (people did the math on this months ago, it works out fine.... the touch targets are closer to the iPhone size but plenty big.)
Um what? 3GS is 480x320. There's retina (2x) or non retina, iPhone or iPad

Android fragmentation is a cliche because it's true.
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And you'd be proven wrong by a simple google search on "database copyright"... first hit [1] shows a compilation of laws and court rulings that support copyrighting collection of records... and this stuff has been around for a decade or more.

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I started off with Textmate, then Emacs, then Vim, then back to Textmate, then Vim (for real that time), then Emacs (for real, that time).

I am tempted by Sublime Text and Vim, but can't live without a few Emacs features these day. But sometimes I miss the fluidity of Vim.

That said, I found the most important influence on my productivity is fun. I am most productive when I enjoy what I am doing. And this is very directly influenced by the way I do the clickety-clack thing with my keyboard.

In fact, I sincerely think that Vim is the most efficient text editor out there. Nothing else comes close. The thing is, me personally, I am having more fun elsewhere, for reasons that have little to do with text editing performance.

Mind you, this is not critique against Vim. But I would like to discuss text editing productivity in terms of fun instead of keypress efficiency. Whenever anyone argues about the relative merits of EditorX against EditorY in terms of key presses I feel like he is missing the point.

What do you think about this idea/argument?
> Yea, tabs are a very useful feature in vim that many people don't seem to use. I know people that use the panes.

I don't use tabs because I don't find them useful at all. If I need to see 2 files at once, split panes it is; if I am switching between files, I have them open as buffers(NERDTree and BufExplorer makes it pleasant).

> I use tmux as my window manager for my terminal, so I have not use for panes in vim.

I use tmux as well. The only times I use tmux panes is when I need to run shell in the same window.

> I just have a bunch of vim processes running and use tmux for the window management.

And I have one vim process running for one project root. Coding rails? Open vim in top folder and open all files from there using rails.vim navigation commands(:Rcontroller, :Rmodel...) or NERDTree and switch between them using BufExplorer.
The thing which attracts me to windows 8 (or maybe 9) is that it will run on everything. If I want to build giant wall sized touch apps, I can.

I hope Apple releases a headless iOS box (some kind of AppleTV descendant?) at some point so that arbitrary touch surfaces can be powered by iOS. (I doubt Apple will release a software only iOS to compete with Windows, so this is the best I can reasonably hope for).
Apple is just getting back to its roots of success - multiple product versions.

Obviously an iPod was amazing, but they captured a huge chunk of the market when they came out with the lesser Nano.

I think tablets are hitting the phase where it is less about the features and more about true mass market adoption. The key to this is grabbing the huge chunk of the more price sensitive buyers - who appear to be quickly running to the Nexus 7.

Apple and Google are fighting to make money on the backend from each tablet sold. Content distribution tax will likely propel one or both of them to new heights in revenue.
The only thing you have to provide is low-resolution versions of your graphics, assuming you don't need the newer hardware for some reason. The layout's still exactly the same.

iOS has two screen sizes, with a third rumored. Apps on that second size are usually designed differently anyway, to take advantage of the larger screen on the iPad.

Such fragmentation! And this is over how many years?
> In fact, I sincerely think that Vim is the most efficient text editor out there. Nothing else comes close. The thing is, me personally, I am having more fun elsewhere, for reasons that have little to do with text editing performance.

> What do you think about this idea/argument?

Unless you can tell what is the fun part, and what are the reasons you are having more fun elsewhere, I don't know what do you want to discuss.
My reaction from reading both your original pitch and your revised pitch is that you were being quite vague. PG knows about the problems of collaboration, limitations of current tools, etc, you don't need to sell him on the existence of pain points. What you do have to sell him on is how your tool is uniquely suited for solving these pain points, which is what I missed entirely in your blog post. His interview style is to cut you off when you are telling him things that he already knows or when you are being to vague. He will force you to be specific and drill down on the points of your idea that are most critical.
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Interesting.

Why and how is it cumbersome for you?

I agree that reading a book on it isn't the best experience. But I personally just don't read many books anymore. I'm very selective as to the books I read now, as oppose to even 3 - 5 years earlier. And the ones I choose to read, I still prefer them in a physical copy. And I think, generally, people will continue reading (and buying) less books going forward, so trying to create an ebook reader would be a mistake.

>I don't know if it will be small enough to go with me all the time or not.

For me, the thing that'll always go with me (in addition to an iPhone) is a MacBook Air.

>I can say one thing for certain: If it is under $400, I will buy one, no question.

But will you buy a second and third one at some point? Or will you mostly be buying it for novelty reasons? I just don't see an iPad mini being a hit product that generates repeat customers.
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