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I agree with some others here -- the iPad is great, but "great" needs to be prefaced with a descriptor of what it is great at.

eBook reading is definitely one thing it is not especially good at in many cases. For the past 2 years I've been reading ebooks, and for the past 6 months I've been using an iPad for reading ebooks, and I've found it just too cumbersome in many cases -- you essentially need 2 hands to hold it, the screen size is unnecessarily large for 99% of books I read, and it's almost too large for using on-the-go.

(Regardless of whether you read electronic books, the simple fact is that very many people prefer ebooks to physical books, myself included, and have many very reasonable reasons why. There are also many reasons why it would seem that reading eBooks is one very reasonable use for the iPad.)

What about the alternatives?

The iPhone screen I find too small for many books (ie. if they have diagrams/pictures/graphs especially).

The Kindle (and other eInk eBook readers) I've found to be a pain to navigate to take notes/highlights on and are poor at displaying diagrams/pictures/graphs.

So from my experiences, I think a 7-8 inch one could be the sweet spot as long as:

1. I can use it with one hand (e.g. it's not too large or heavy).

2. Can be used to easily take notes and highlight.

3. Performs great (can flip pages quickly). (The Kindle Fire is excluded because of this point)
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There's some badly defined stats here, with no info on overlaps between the various groups. But anyway, so what? even nailing these figures down a bit, would they compare less favourably with any other industry? I doubt it: every business I've ever been involved with or studied has benefitted from tactics or stratgegy ranging from underhand to downright illegal.
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Are you referring to "rent control" or "rent stabilization" or both?

It's not clear to me how/why rent stabilization (which merely limits how much rents can increase each year) would lead to less "building new capacity" -- an argument could be made that it forces new capacity to be created, because landlords can't make much more money off their existing units.
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> So contrary to your comments, they're doing this because the W3 said that it's time to do so.

My point is that support for prefixed CSS properties should not be available in stable releases at all.

What they should have done from the beginning (and from other comments seems it will be done in the future) is to enable experimental prefixed CSS properties only in dev builds (to demonstrate to the W3C working group the feasibility of those new properties) and remove such properties from stable releases. In this way the stable releases will have _only_ W3C approved prefixes, not the current mess of draft + CR + TR support.
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Read the whole article but note the closing - A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered "hit by pitch", and would be eligible to advance to first base.
Just because you have weak types does not mean you have to have automatic coercion.
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In 2007 the iPhone was considered an abomination in size. I would not have been surprised if Apple said at the time that 3.5in screen is the maximum size a user would like to put in his pocket and they would have been right.

In 2012, it is perfectly reasonable to sell a 4.8in phone.

The company is adapting to the market and user expectation, even if that mean contradicting past decisions. Isn't that a good thing ?
Not realy there have been large States that covered a substatial part of what is niow India but never one that covered the entire subcontinent in the way that the Raj did.
Javascript's maze of type coercion rules produce results which manage to be frequently wrong but in ever more bewildering ways only slightly less crackheaded than PHP. It's also saddled with Java's inexcusable "everything is an object, except for all the crap that isn't" philosophy. http://wtfjs.com/ is a growing list, but a few of my favorites:

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Pretty clear case of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

The shared resource in this case is traffic capacity.

It's proved ineffective to regulate traffic by making cars expensive in this market. That's because cars are not profit centers for people -- they give mostly intangible benefits (increased comfort, status, etc). Taxis on the other hand are cars that are used for profit and therefore will respond efficiently to regulation (if that regulation increases capital or operating costs).
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You could use it just for the syncing aspect, but still prefer Safari.
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> GitHub tries to become the standard in software coding

Standard. Really?
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'So easy'? Well, you don't want to hear this, but HN is not a reflection of reality. Most millionaires get to their first million over 55 years of age. Not the 25 y/o millionaires/billionaires you see passing the homepage here. The Citizen Kane quote was done in the context of someone who spends all his money rather than saves it. That's the clue here; if you live frugal and save all you can of your wage, you'll be a millionaire around 60 without effort. Remember; all you want to do is make a lot of money so you don't want to spend money on fun stuff, kids, family, vacations etc. In the area from the Netherlands I came from (and this goes for other parts on earth too i'm sure) all old farmers are millionaires. They NEVER spent $0.01 they didn't absolutely had to spend.

So, again (and this is the reason why most people are not automatic millionaires after a certain age) IF getting a lot of money is ALL you want to do, you will sacrifice things; you will move to a cheap place, you will eat and live cheap. So yes, it's easy, but maybe not what you wanted to hear.

I don't want to wait that long so I have the next easiest thing; software services. Works great, no competition. It's much harder than the above, but it's also much quicker.
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Since I've been tired the last few days, here's a late reply:

Direct pointer offsetting of fragile base classes and statically generated copy/destroy code for blocks in lieu of type information would be fairly unthinkable in a managed language, whose bytecode probably wouldn't be low level enough to even express those designs; it would still have been a good idea to think ahead and use indirection for ivars and include full type information in blocks, but managed language designers never really had the chance to make such mistakes in the first place. For other Objective-C changes, like garbage collection, the changes to code generation would have been unreasonable to make "in advance", but it's hard to imagine an analogous change in a managed language that would require an ABI break. Though Objective-C could have done better, it's a bit unfair to compare it to something like the JVM.
How isn't this on the frontpage with 42 points?

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Ah, that sounds reasonable.
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> Kind of interesting that this doesn't appear to have explicititely happened very often before with email software -- but intuition might imply that it should have.

It most certainly did.

Pine

Mutt

Eudora

All are basically done, and are maintenance only. Pine turned into Alpine which added unicode, and that's about it.

There is actually a lot of software where this happens. Tex, and gzip come to mind immediately. I'm sure there is more.
So according the the rumors it will probably have a screen of lesser quality than the Nexus 7, it will probably be more expensive and it will probably be heavier (because it is much bigger).

What's the point again? Ok, it's bigger but if there is any advantage of a 7 inch tablet it is the form factor (being small and light). So if Apple won't/can't adress the problems mentioned above the only reason I see anyone buying the iPad mini would the the eco-system. A huge plus, no question, but enough?
Yes, that is a fair point. Perhaps I could have better said that all sensible web programming environments give you access to a stateless programming model.
You raise another point I haven't thought of: 3D. People are different heights... surely that changes the fields too. Interesting problems to be overcome.
That's because there are no historical examples of free markets, and for good reason.
Contrary to what some people may think, this is non-obvious & surprising behavior which has nothing to do with JS being a "dynamic language". It requires knowing that the IEEE floating point standard arbitrarily defines 1/0 as positive infinity instead of being (the more widely accepted, obvious and unsurprising) undefined value. I believe JS is a powerful language but calling this reasonable behavior smacks of Stockholm Syndrome.
Why raise money? I love Github. But this bothered me. I believe they can pretty much earn a lot from their current subscription plans. Why raise? Githuubbb!
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Until the factory images page gets updated, I'm staying put:
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I really like Vim as a concept, but the implementation is somewhat laking and not so easy to extend.

At the moment I'm using Emacs with EVIL (Vim layer) and loving it. You should check it out :)
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I have not read the book, but I'm told that (despite being only 176 pages) half of that book actually talks about language flaws and bad parts and only half of the book is actually about the good parts. Again, have not read it, just what I was told.
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People don't buy cars because they need them, they buy cars because they want them

Or to show that they can afford them. "Oh you take the taxis? Poor you. I actually own my own vehicle, I don't have to share"
Oh. This is a nice coincidence - I just wrote a paean to Pinboard as a great example of a product done well here [1]. (Okay, it's not really lyrical, just an everyday blog post)

This was just recently when Maciej just gave away the schema to the site! [2] I'm still reeling from the awesomeness of that move..

[1] http://shrik.theswamp.in/2012/07/youre-doing-it-right.html

[2] http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/06/do_it_yourself_bookmarking/
I tried and used many different bookmarking services, but in the long term ended up using none. Recently the need became apparent, though, and I signed up for Pinboard.

Pinboard is nice, but sadly, as much as I like it or admire its founder, I can't recommend it. Just because of the uptime. I don't think I'm a heavy user (have around 120 bookmarks since joining in March), however two times I couldn't save a bookmark because Pinboard was down.

This led to my realization that 1) the primary purpose of bookmark manager is to allow user to quickly save the page and forget about it, so uptime matters, although I took it for granted before, and that 2) reliability is (maybe the only) one nice thing about free services owned by a large faceless corporations.
Labour is fixed at a minimum price (the minimum wage), this reduced the amount of consumers who aer working for very little.
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I've been using spectrwm (www.spectrwm.org), which was called scrotwm, for a couple of years now. I switched from musca (Sean's previous wm), mainly because musca didn't handle full-screen apps very well.

It has been pretty rock solid. I like that a window can float if you want, it is good for watching something with mplayer.

It is written by a BSD guy and the code is nice and easy to follow if you want to see some X11 programming.
I doubt it will be more expensive. After all, they still sell the iPad 2 for $100 more than the Nexus 7. The only other advantage would be price. Apple's been willing to cut some corners to achieve price before, for instance the iPod displays are (or used to be) worse than the iPhone ones even though they had the same resolution.
To be exact, {} + {} is NaN only when used as a statement. In fact it is equivalent to {}; +{} which results in the last statement being evaluated as NaN. When you put parentheses around it (e.g. ({}+{})) it evaluates to "[object Object][object Object]", which should be obvious from [] + {} if it were indeed obvious.
There is are a couple appendices at the end that discuss the truly terrible and the simply bad-but-work-aroundable parts. Most of it is discusses the subset of the language that is powerful and expressive. He starts the book off by saying "Javascript is a steaming pile of good intentions" which pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the book.

You should read it. It IS very short and can be read in one sitting. Then you wouldn't be left to trust the word of others.
As others have chimed in, the smaller iPad is better suited for one handed holding. An example, reading at the breakfast table. The iPad ended up laying on the table which was not ideal, the Fire was thumb scrolled kept upright in my left while I ate, like a newspaper.

Kids. The regular iPad is not only too large for them it is too expensive too. The apps are very good, the price and insurance on it are not. Face it, kids will break things. Some will say, don't let them play with it. Well to them I ask, then what is the point?

I have the iPad2, Kindle Fire, and a Kindle Touch. The Touch really spoils you on weight. Can't wait for the day a fully functional table appears at that size and weight. Fully functional means the screen works inside or outside.
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I was reading a report today that states the following

"Digital TV Research calculates that China became the largest digital TV household nation in 2010, and will boast 417 million digital homes by end-2017, by which time India will almost certainly have overtaken the US."

The USA (eg read Hollywood) has been a long time social influencer of the world because of its ability to export its tv/movies to the rest of the world powered by a profitable cable revenue generation cash machine that is the US cable tv market (just look at the recent A&E sale as a guide to valuation).

So my question is this......

If India takes over the USA in terms of pay tv market size, and China already bigger than the USA (almost as a rounding number with continued annual growth), Could we ever see a situation where "BollyWood" or "Shanghai" is the exporter of cool around the world? Will it get to a situation where Hollywood police no longer matter?

- http://blog.collins.net.pr/2012/07/bollywoodchinese-entertai...
Pinboard is absolutely wonderful. The only thing i'm still missing is a nice iPhone bookmarklet i can use to bookmark stuff on-the-go.
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I really don't get why page flipping at speed (and/or fancy transitions) is a necessity. My Kindle blows away any back lit device for reading (IMHO.)
I have a 15.4" 16:10 screen, and I just placed an A4 sheet over it. The width of the sheet is identical to the height of my screen, while the length is around 1.5 inches lesser.

This brings us to an aspect ratio of sqrt(2) with a 14.4" screen. Not going to happen anytime soon, sadly.
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Unfortunately, the public is being continuously brainwashed by the state controlled media to share their opinion.
It is mainly related to the fact that parseInt in JS slightly converts a positive infinity to a string "Infinity". Base 19 does not add anything to the humor. And well, neither does the presence of a positive infinity itself.

So yes, this is nothing to do with JS being a dynamic language (which main feature is not a variable/slot but a value having a type), but it's something to do with it being a weakly typed language (which main feature is an implicit and generally unpredictable type conversion). Of course many popular dynamic languages are still strongly typed in this sense.
In a classic tragedy of the commons, you might have a common field, on which sheep graze. Everyone takes their sheep there, the sheep deplete the grass, and after this process has been in place for a while, the total capacity of the common field to support sheep is lower than it might be otherwise. That diminished level of sheep capacity is the "tragedy".

What's your model here? That if there were fewer cars on the roads of Bangkok, it would be able to support more cars? What would there be more of, in total, if you confiscated a bunch of people's cars?

Would you advocate banning most people from a popular public beach on the grounds of overcrowding? Would you justify that as preventing a "tragedy of the commons"?
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Does anyone have a list of all existing interpreters in the App Store? This would be a nice compilation for newbies to programming, teaching kids to program, etc.
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I'm not sure they're even facts. Was Ceausescu beheaded?
I guess it's time to move away code from github. Now a VC has insights into all private repositories ... a VC that possibly is funding competition.
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That's actually a widely accepted definition of "weak types": automatic type coercion. That said, "weakly typed" is not a well-defined term and I prefer not to use it.

Note that it is not the same as dynamic types. A dynamic type system is a well-defined concept and says nothing about type coercion.
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