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Funny - I've stopped reading every article from the marco.org site. I can't stand his style and I really can't stand his blind Apple - cult thinking. But to everyone his own's.
Uncertainty is not helpful. If you subscribe to the YC style of startup landing pages (look at almost all YC companies), it is exceedingly clear what the website does in one sentence.

Examples:

Airbnb - Find a place to stay.

Picplum - Share Your Best Moments

Carwoo - Great New Car Deals

Referly - Recommend products you love

Then after that headline, they go into more detail:

Airbnb - Rent from people in 26,893 cities and 192 countries.

Picplum - Send photo prints to loved ones in seconds.

Carwoo - None Of The Games

Referly - And earn rewards when people buy them

Notice that in all of them, they have a great sentence in 4-6 key words, then a tagline that details what it does specifically. Regarding your comment elsewhere on this page "The reason is that I want to attract 'others' to my site- for future use". This is a bad idea. Focus on one thing and do it extremely well. The future will take care of itself. If you aren't able to get the real estate site to work now by being focused, then the future site won't matter.
No, a GM is just like the released version.
I selected "MacBook" for my MB Air, and it worked, which is weird because I don't think they make plain MacBooks anymore.

They also ask for the address of the reseller, but I purchased mine from Amazon, so I just entered my address.
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I'm going to avoid clicking too many times - Apple has previous in charging people multiple times, e.g. when Lion was released last year [1].

[1] http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/27/paypal_users_m...
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Yes: Content-free. Avoid.
TL;DR

"In some ways, Mountain Lion is a refinement, enhancement, and yes, a major bug-fix for Lion. But the changes and additions are significant enough that they will inevitably come with their own set of bugs. Let's not forget Snow Leopard, which promised no new features but still brought plenty of bugs in its 10.6.0 release."

I hope they fixed memory management - Lion is too swap happy and slow on a decent 3Gb RAM Core 2 MBP. Windows comparatively flies on the same machine but of course suspend resume is flaky and other Win-Mac integration annoyances mean it's not a win-win.
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Am I the only one who had problem installed the GM (dev. final release) with FileVault 2 enabled? Anyone can confirms he had difficulties installing from the MAS too with FV 2 or it worked flawlessly?
Why yes, you are missing an obvious single page link. It's the big blue button in the Safari URL bar, labeled "Reader". :-)
How is it spam? A relevant developer writing something humorous and pretty insightful.
I am honest: I don't get it. Is the reviewed review focused on meaningless metrics or why is this funny? I skimmed through a couple of pages and did not see any of that, in fact it seemed comprehensive if a bit subjective and fanboyish.
If it really bothers you that much filter it out. I enjoyed the article, I'm glad HN directed me to it.
I'm not really sure it's active, but still, the question of how you get something on a surface to become visible when you focus meters beyond that surface remains.
O.O Brainexplosion.

Implementing script interpreters / miscelleneous applications in JavaScript is quickly becoming the next evolution of esoteric programming languages such as Brainfuck and lolcode: useless, unless you're in college dealing with a TA that likes to be a jerk while grading your code. Heheheh.
It sounds like you're trying to trick more people into registering by hiding the niche from the people who aren't in it.

What will almost certainly happen instead is that fewer people will sign up overall. Especially for something like 'real estate', which is a well served market by a lot of B players, you need to entice people into signing up -- your best bet of that is to clearly identify the benefits to your target demographic.

There is no benefit in having 1 million people sign up that then realize the service "isn't for them". If you're charging for membership, then obviously that changes, but nobody is going to sign up for a pay service unless the benefits are clearly spelled out.
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I don't think it's parodying the use of metrics, it's parodying the extreme attention to detail.
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No, it's a quite serious (and quite good) review. Marco Arment is only teasing Siracusa.
Hey guys I actually want to use this for something.

I want to run sendy on it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4281964

I don't want to set up a php environment, is this going to work?
Not everything is about HN. It seems to me that he is just having fun.
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I didn't mean to imply that in general it's not worth seeking out a mentor: I meant that for OP it's not worth it because he doesn't have anything he needs mentoring on.

If he needs mentoring on founding his startup or building a working version of his product, he's falling at the very first hurdle (beyond "having an idea"), and also the part of the process which is incredibly well documented online and elsewhere. It's formulaic.

We have two excellent NEDs at my company who are about as good as it gets, mentor-wise. But I'd never have gotten anywhere with them without first doing something.
I got this error, too, on my German account. I tried several times.

My US account worked fine, though. Darn you, Apple, for being so un-global.
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I'm going to review your review of Marco's review of the review. Light on discussion.
>I prefer Lisp's/Clojure's approach here - have many functions operating on few data types, as opposed to the inverse.

...that doesn't accurately describe a flaw in Go at all, and stems from a common misconception of Go's type system; namely that it is Java's type system, which it is decidedly not. The interfaces make a big difference.

An interface is simply a set of methods. Any object that implements those methods implements that interface. Adhering to an interface is implicit; you never have to say "type Stanley implements the Cat interface". If the Cat interface is just a "Meow" method, and Stanley can "Meow", Stanley is a Cat.

Take, for example, the io.Writer interface. io.Writer is a method set that contains a single method: the write method. This is the definition for io.Writer:

type Writer interface {
Write(p []byte) (n int, err error)
}

This interface definition says "a Writer is any object that has a Write method. The Write method must accept a slice of bytes as its only argument, and it returns an integer and an error". Any object that implements this method also implements io.Writer. Therefore, any function that accepts an io.Writer may accept any object that defines this method. (when accepting io.Writer, the object's type is io.Writer; the only thing you can do with an io.Writer object inside of a method that accepts an io.Writer parameter is utilize its Write method, since that's the only thing you know it has).

So, for example, in the encoding/json package, there is an Encoder object. The Encoder object has just one method: the Encode method. This is the signature for the Encode method:

func (enc *Encoder) Encode(v interface{}) error

this method definition reads "the function for the * Encoder type called Encode accepts an interface{} v and returns an error". interface{} is the empty interface; all objects implement at least zero methods, so any object can be supplied; it is valid to pass any object into the Encode method. The returned "error" value will let us know if something has gone wrong.

Now then. We know that we're encoding data to the json format, but to where is it being encoded? Where is the output going? The io.Encoder object embeds an io.Writer object; encoded items are written into the writer. That's a big leap. How do we know which io.Writer to write to? We inject the io.Writer when we create the encoder. This is the signature for the function that creates a json encoder:

func NewEncoder(w io.Writer) *Encoder

It has only one argument; io.Writer. io.Writer has only one method; the Write method. That means that for any data target at all, if you define a Write method, you can encode json to it.

So what io.Writers are commonly found? There is an io.Writer for a UDP socket, a TCP socket, a websocket, an http response, a file on disk, a buffer of bytes, etc. The list goes on.

With this one Encode method, and this one Write interface, we are able to Encode json data to arbitrary targets. There's none of that JSONFileWriter, JSONHTTPResponseWriter, JSONUDPSocketStreamer stuff like you would get in other statically typed languages.
"Once the OS has been out for a while, try asking a Mac-using friend who is not obsessively reading multi-thousand-word operating system reviews on the Internet if he has noticed anything different about scrolling in Mountain Lion."

...priceless...
Christ does the HN community give Marco a lot of grief. He's like the LeBron James of this place.
Twitter's official iOS app is also using the old logo: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id333903271?mt=8
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Have you any idea what the effects of a 10m rise in global sea levels would be? There are plenty of problems for humanity to deal with, but few more important or urgent than that.
I don't think Microsoft can reasonably compete with Apple in the hardware game. Apple's too good, and they have too much practice. I'm still shocked at their Surface tablet strategy, as I think a lot of people are. They don't have a particularly good track record recently, given the manufacturing problems with the Xbox.

I'm guessing that Microsoft's strategy still lies in software (a healthy combination of Windows, Office, and Business [Windows Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, etc]), entertainment (Xbox, Skype), and "cloud" offerings (Azure, Live, etc).

I think that their release strategy, where they release a "major" update every 2+ years, isn't inheriently wrong. It's still viable, and meshes well with a lot of the corporate money they're chasing. But I do think with the low price point of Windows 8, they realize that there is less and less money to be made in the consumer OS space, and more potential money to be made in servers and services.
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Meteor – The next Ruby-on-Rails?
Awww man, that is a letdown. Airplay was the thing I was most looking forward to in Mountain Lion. I have a late 2010 MBP. :(
It's not an uncommon trait in entrepreneurs to want to plan everything down to minute details. Don't be discouraged by that tendency.

If you want to chat sometime, I'm on Gtalk & Jabber 24/7. My email address is in my profile.
His site isn't ad supported–I don't think he's trolling for pageviews. Also, if you listen to his podcast, he's stated that he doesn't much care for hitting the front page of HN because we're such cynical dicks (paraphrased).

UPDATE: His site is ad-supported. It was just blending in a little too well.
Due to the expansion of space the edge of the observable universe is now about 46 billion light years away: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space
I think it's our perception because I bet if you looked at a plot of users, it'd dramatically spike around the intel switch, which was around 10.3 / 10.4.

To my recollection, early versions of the OS (Cheetah) were essentially unusable for many applications. Puma was the first really usable version.
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Comparing to zip (algorithm last updated 94 or so) for speed? Why not compare against the leaders, LZO and snappy?
Having studied Chomsky a fair bit in grad school, and also studied cognitive linguistics a fair bit in grad school, I think the idea that Chomsky's models will ever win anything is just wrong.

Chomsky's central problem is that his modeling is not based on anything biological at all. His models don't correspond to reality. Some of them were based on some assumptions about how the brain works that were untestable in the 50s and 60s when all of his linguistic models were developed, and have since become testable and are not particularly evident in the way we currently understand the brain to work.

Given this fact, I think your current best bet is Norvig as a modern approach to AI or anything linguistic-y. But this is only because it is slightly more grounded in reality rather than being something that Chomsky (who is a very smart guy) came up with on his own without the benefit of actual biological models of the brain.

In the end, I think there will be (eventually, a long time from now) an actual model of how the brain processes language based on actual observations of working brains that throws away much of what Chomsky has proposed but probably uses some of it and that doesn't use huge Google-esque lookup tables but is highly influenced by statistics.

But until we get to that point, statistics are probably your best bet since at least they're grounded in reality (unlike much of Chomsky's work).
I loved the article. Spam was probably a strong word. He has perfected the art of getting his blog to the top of HN by writing a meta article.
But what exactly is true artificial intelligence? For example, I consider Google search and Wolfram alpha very intelligent. They can do math, answer questions, rank information, follow current events, ...
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If he wants to expand his user base, yes he is. The essence of a business is doing other people's work for them and then charging them. If doing other people's work for them also brings you money, well, you'd better have a very good reason not to.
I can't stand his style and I really can't stand his blind Apple - cult thinking.

He is leap years better than Gruber and Daring Fireball. His posts are witty without being cynical, and he's frank without being rude.

He also has much more to say on entrepreneurship (given his first-hand experience with the App Store).
How else would you define the legality of a C program? The language specification comes with constraints, and code which violates those will probably fail to compile (eg syntax errors); any other semantic violation (ie when you see 'shall' or 'shall not' outside of a constraint clause) only results in undefined behavior.

See also the C99 rationale:

"Undefined behavior gives the implementor license not to catch certain program errors that are difficult to diagnose. It also identifies areas of possible conforming language extension: the implementor may augment the language by providing a definition of the officially undefined behavior."

Undefined behavior only occurs in case of program errors or language extensions, in which case you're not dealing with standard C, but C-with-extensions.
Make sure Time Machine is working and up to date on your current Lion install. Use Recovery Disk Assistant to create a Lion recovery USB stick (just in case).

Try out Mountain Lion.

If you don't like it, boot off recover partition/disk and restore from your old Lion Time Machine backup.
He's on The Deck network, so it is ad supported. That's not to say I think he's trolling... I think he's just having fun.
I would upvote you a thousand times if I could, there's so much of value here.

Why don't we ever see tutorials on how to write modular code? I guess because it usually just works well, so nobody feels the need to evangelize it.

I'm saving your comment to refer to the next time I need to deal with yet someone else who wants to over-abstract their code.
Nothing's wrong with making money? I'm currently looking for $2,000.00 per week myself:

https://www.gittip.com/whit537/

;^)
No, unfortunately it doesn't work like that. It's not like the big bang took place "within space" -- like a grenade in the center of a stadium, but the bang is the rapid expansion of space(-time) itself. So, the universe could have even been infinite and very dense, and then BOOM!, it's still infinite but less dense.

The observable universe is even bigger than you'd expect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Size
I expect him to have certain biases but I don't find it unbearable like I do with Benjamin Brooks and Matt Gemmell where I always get a sense of anger, contempt and general negativity in their writing.
They're still computers in the traditional sense - they only do what someone told them to do.
Well, in the big picture, Chomsky created an activity which keeps liguists very busy. His approach, however, has contributed very little to language engineering.
I let my Mac developer account lapse a few months ago, but at least here's how it worked with Lion:

If you went into the developer portal and claimed the App Store redemption code for the beta, then you were automatically licensed in the store for the release version as though you had paid for it.

If you didn't claim it for the beta, then you could still claim it after the fact and get a license to the release version.
Wow, congrats. Great work.

Anyone know if they are close to having proper auth in the client for DB work yet?
If they can make Meteor as accessible as PHP, they have a great chance of success. It's definitely heading in the right direction.
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One point Swombat missed was that much of what we read as non-fiction is actually closer to very speculative science-fiction. For instance, nobody really knows what the year 1700 was like in England. We have various accounts, we make various assumptions, we fill in the blanks with educated guesses. In the end, whether we mean to or not, we create a narrative of things that happen that makes sense to us.

I'd argue that you could say the same about supposedly factual stories and accounts. After all, people are highly subjective in the way they remember stories. For example, the way I would tell the story of how my first startup fell apart is very different to the way my cofounder would.
I believe that you are then referring to sentience in addition to intelligence? Artificial sentient being is another thing entirely, I think. And tougher nut to crack :)
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"we've arranged $11.2 million in funding for Meteor's continued development."

That's a nice arrangement. Do anyone know about other open-source web frameworks that have managed to get so much funding?
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Seems as if Apple has been sending out tons of duplicates of their "password protected" upgrade claims for people who bought Mac's within the last month. Or the Mac App store is dealing with a cold.
thats a big assumption to make from a video. I am not engineer, but isn't there other methods for brakes other than rubber on metal?
You can use lenses or mirrors to change the apparent focal distance of an object. Google's implementation is rumored to use holographic optical elements instead, probably for compactness: http://www.google.com/patents/US3940204
By the simulation argument, it's likely that there are only copies of me reading this argument.

(Alternatively, if the simulations are allowed evolutionary freedom, there may not be any primary version of me to be reading.)
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> develop a little humility, all you young amnesiacs

Really? There's no need to be insulting or condescending.

The reaction against Backbone is that people like the tutorial author evangelize it as a universally better solution, like the line about the original example code: "It looks like most JavaScript code I wrote a year ago." That's just smug and annoying.

And while a strong MVC pattern is appropriate in some instances, the fact is that it is not appropriate for probably 95% of web apps out there. Instead, it's over-abstraction and over-architecture that gets in the way of productive development.

There, now I'll get off your lawn.
Isn't this basically an argument over John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment?

It supposes that there is a program that gives a computer the ability to carry on an intelligent conversation in written Chinese. If the program is given to someone who speaks only English to execute the instructions of the program by hand, then in theory, the English speaker would also be able to carry on a conversation in written Chinese. However, the English speaker would not be able to understand the conversation. Similarly, Searle concludes, a computer executing the program would not understand the conversation either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Here you go: "Better"
Every browser doesn't support them though. The nice thing about a language compiled to Javascript is that you don't have to write any code to check if you can use getters.
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That's exactly what I was going to ask. That's the one thing keeping me from building something serious with Meteor.

The rest I tried, and it does look really nice for real-time webapps, as soon as the Javascript development environment grows up a bit more.
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I'm pretty sure he does not care about HN, he's just horsing around with his blog and having a bit of fun with his reviewer reputation.
Children learn language much faster than it seems possible for a "blank" neural network to learn. It seems that there is some "circuitry" hard-wired into the human brain that helps learning language. So the question is: can a computer learn language as well as a human, without simply hard-coding language into it?
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Ah, very interesting, thank you.
I find it fascinating that he "wrote" this piece using Dragon Dictate, a dictation program.
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Wow, because running one "broken" language in another is just what we need.
I had the same. The preparatory install that is carried out by the app, while still in Lion, went fine but upon restarting, no further install process took place and it would just boot back into Lion again.

I had to disable FV, install, then enable it again to get the GM working.
This isn't really his process, it's just the formats, costs, and a few details on the article.
Not easy. You need a full backup (preferably not one touched by the new install) and to reinstall from scratch, restoring from the backup.