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OK, so let's bring this hype down to Earth.

For this kind of money this can only be an e-IPS monitor. (The specs on e-bay say S-IPS, but it's certainly a lie.)

For those who don't differentiate between the different variants of IPS, e-IPS is a relatively new thing introduced around 2 years ago (by LG, I believe) and it's a simplified and much cheaper to manufacture version of IPS. Its characteristics are somewhere between TN and IPS.

Apart from the display itself, a monitor's quality is also very much dependent on its electronics. For this kind of money it's obvious they've put the absolute minimum into this thing.

(For a little comparison: I have an old, med-quality 19'' NEC 1990FX monitor and a cheap 23'' HP 2310ti touch monitor. The NEC weighs 9kg, the HP 8kg. How can a smaller monitor be heavier? It's all electronics.)

Same applies to other aspects: you can have no confidence in the monitor's electromagnetic emissions or reliability. And if the power supply fries for some reason in 3 months, don't count on your warranty.

I mean, you didn't believe for a second that a no-name brand that sells in the US purely thru e-bay will honor any kind of warranty, did you?
You're right. It could have been much worse. It's all about perspective isn't it? I like to think I grew up a little in business after this incident.
I started with BASIC on a TRS-80 and then C64. When I first saw QBasic, I was a bit offended they took out the line numbers...I mean, how is one supposed to program without line numbers?!
This is the first I've heard of your service. It looks really cool.

I would find the image conversion particularly useful. Is it possible to upload a file and have it saved at multiple sizes? I couldn't see a way to do this in your API docs.... or else I'm just reading it wrong.

Congrats and keep up the great work.
I don't think that's a barrier to people exchanging large amounts of money. Granted, it could have been left off today for testing and asking for feedback, if that's what you mean. But in the long run it is needed to effectively complete the transaction and to keep out people who just want to browse and use up resources.
There are also many, many instances of Windows that are running proprietary software or which are connected to legacy systems that would never upgrade even if you paid them.
Wow, someone else who's read the Sokolowski book. I agree that it's very, very good, though it's been so long that I'm not sure how much it has to offer people today. (I don't own a copy.)
There's also a subtext that makes me a bit nervous. The OEM did not build these monitors as an act of charity. They were ordered by someone, with the intent of selling them at a much higher price.

When you see a deal like this -- especially if the monitors are actually of better quality than represented in the ad -- it means that someone at a major PC manufacturer ordered a metric assload too many monitors. Why/how did that happen? Does it signal a larger market collapse?
> The locks I buy cost $10-20

Have you checked Youtube for the make of lock?
Well, look at it this way: Where are such things generally made, and why are they generally made there?
Coming from Linux, you would think "new file system" would mean that: a new file system.

But its just the same smoke and mirrors Microsoft did when they scrapped WinFS: add magic folders, terrible ideas (translated folder names?) and missing hard features (links) in a limited fashion.

Thats sad, because the file system could certainly do with a complete makeover: metadata, builtin sync with the cloud, backup and encryption as a first-class citizen, etc. etc.

For now, thats only available in enterprise solutions like ZFS or in the still very alpha btrfs.
I'll have to see what this is like by actually using it. Right now, my biggest concern is that it usually makes for better usability if you allow the user to organize and group content in a way that makes sense to them. I don't feel this is an area where the OS should take control away from the user.
SEOmoz conversion isn't as great as it seems
and never took off.

IPX was everywhere NetWare was.

NetWare got into everything, like dust, in the 80s and part of the 90s.
ZNGA down 35% on surprise loss.
It's 30% failure in 3 months. How high can that go in 6 months, in 12 months, or in the expected life span of a Dell monitor?
Reinventing the billboard business using technology
In some parts of the world, they don't call someone or -thing a "X-killer" until they/it have actually killed the X in question. Cf. weed-killer, conversation-killer, cop-killer, etc.
I see there are used copies listed at Amazon. Sellers with thousands of ratings generally have bots that set the book prices. For obscure, out-of-print books, the volume of buyers is really low. I've heard cough that if you want to acquire one of these books less expensively, that the best plan of action is to also try and sell a copy (which of course you don't have). Certain automated bots will then try to under-bid you in order to keep the coveted lowest price slot. You keep reducing the price until it meets you budget. Remove your listing, and then buy from the lowest priced source. The downside is if perchance someone were to try and purchase your non-existant copy. You'd have to cancel that order. But since there is no transaction, the buyer can't give you negative feedback. Of course Amazon doesn't like you canceling orders, so they'll cancel you account if you have a cancellation rate greater than 5%. Its fun watching the different algorithms compete and thinking about what you'd do in those situations (or so I've heard). Of course this strategy probably works better if the book isn't the subject of massive coverage just before you want to buy.
Or, y'know, you could drag and drop, like in any other OS with a GUI. By the same logic, the OS you use isn't fit for mass adoption either, as it's missing the apostrophe character (judging by the fact that it's not present in your post).

But accepting that there are multiple ways do reach the same goal would require adjusting the "haha linux sux0rz" attitude first; that may be impossible in some cases, I'm fully aware of that.
Again, I consider this far less offensive and distracting than the undesign of, say, the garish red "Create" button and the garish blue "Search" buttons that pop right out of the Google Calendar interface. And you can actually have your calender occupy the center of the window in Calendar, which is aggravatingly impossible with Google.

I'm not trying to point to an Apple/Google horserace, but seriously, there are other aspects to design then skeutomorphicness. Textures that appear as subtle gradients in your periphary are barely noticeable for most the vast majority of the population. I mean, just ask a non-geek iOS user what they think of the silk texture in iOS and prepare for a blank stare.
So ... what happens if I drop to the terminal and:

mkdir -p /Users/username/folder1/folder2/folder3

... and then open the finder and navigate to my home dir ... do I just not see past the first nesting ? Is it hidden ?
Exactly, it is hard to validate a genuine user without an email address.

For now, you can enter a dummy email address and the system will let you in.
My understanding is with these 'B stock' parts the big guys will reject an entire batch / production run when the quality drops below a certain threshold. So these companies are probably salvaging the parts and either testing them or just passing the risk onto the consumer.
> if this piece of crap doesn't even have an ability to regulate brightness and contrast

Reread the article. You can adjust brightness just fine, he just wasn't pressing the button down for long enough at first.
I'd go with the first one. You can make it scale with other ideas later on or with new products, and you'll have a solid base to work off of. The viral app idea is a crapshoot these days.
It would be inaccurate to say "he has". Marco has stated on his podcast that he has had absolutely nothing to do with Instapaper for Android. If I recall correct he said it was an entirely-clean room implementation by Mobelux.
I would jettison every piece of computing hardware I own right now and switch to the first device that would let me add (and search) tags in file metadata.
Windows did it first... My Documents / My Downloads / My Movies / My Music / My Pictures. The author makes it seem like Mac's "default content folder" scheme was a novel idea.
You may like the Asus PA248Q. IPS, 24" 1920 x 1200, for $339.
Why did YouTube succeed whereas Vimeo failed?
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this is a _lot_ of money, way to go YC!
meanwhile, can we have less job-posting here...
Apple Discontinues Safari Development for Windows
As long as big companies are adopting mobile as a service channel, there will be a market for click to call. Their army of reps in a low cost location somewhere won't worry about floodgates opening. It will take you into the large enterprise space where the big bucks are. Good luck!
YClist is a bit out of date. It gets information from the Google Spreadsheets I used to maintain, but which I've since deprecated.
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Thanks. That is what I am leaning towards as well.
He means that in the past, they made good guesses about which companies would be winners. Now, they have so much clout that merely by picking a company they can make it a winner.

Of course, they're still making smart picks. It's just easier for those picks to succeed.
I've found pairing to be very useful when I don't know the stack or codebase all that well. It can certainly be frustrating though when the two people in the pair have extremely mismatched skill levels and are working against a deadline.
> Caltech study

No link to aforementioned study though. Hm.
We currently allow you to resize on the fly.

Preconfigured conversion is coming soon :D. Actually, feel free to ping me on olark (on the site) or liyan@filepicker.io as we're working on it right now and I'd be curious to talk to a customer about some details.
Sorry about that - what I meant is that an investor role is to identify likely winners and support them until they get acquired or IPO. But ycombinator have more than the ability of identifying winners, I think they have achieved the status of turning people into winner just by picking them. Their true value is not by giving out money or knowing who are the winners, but by adding value to teams to a point where everything they touch turn into gold.
People will want to get associated with anything ycombinator invests in, you can see that with the fact that the startfund is now offering $150k convertible note to any company getting accepted into YC. That is amazing.

_disclaimer:_ I tried getting into YC once but got rejected - but I still think of myself as a winner!
> they should have built a box that they'd have sold to users as a loss leader to let people watch movies directly from them ... but they never did, now they're dependent on the studios

There is Roku, an app for Android tablets (used it on ASUS transformer, works great), an app on my Vizio TV (also works great), my LG blue ray player also has Netflix support (also works great). I wouldn't want another box in my house or around me like Roku even it was free just to handle Netflix.

What I want is a better selection of streaming movies. And unless Netflix starts producing their own movies, I don't see what you mean by them not being dependent on studios.

Content owners, it seems, think they can and should run their own streaming and distribution and they see Netflix eating their lunch. I bet each one of them think they are the shit and their content is so awesome, customers will trip over themselves to pay extra or buy specific hardware just for them for a premium just to watch that content.

And I would guess every contents owner thinks that. Except I really don't see myself having 10 different apps for each of the studio and picking based on owners what to watch (For ex. I wouldn't say, hmm, I wonder what wonderful movies Sony Studio App has today).
I think there are some Linux solutions for this using extended attributes (which are by the way pretty easy to use).
This petition is misguided. The Moon Landing anniversary will be a holiday only for those eventually living on the Moon.

Other than Spain, Old World countries do not celebrate Columbus Day - see the analogy?
But if 20-30% failed in the first few months of an expected 5+ year life cycle, that's indicative of a >50% failure rate in the medium to long term. You'll probably come out a loser in monitor-years/dollar.
Well, that's part of Gruber's point - he makes the connection between the low price and the fast adoption rate in the next paragraph..
I couldn't get past this part:

Even geeks can’t handle folders in folders

Hierarchical file systems weren't invented because it was ancient times and they were the easiest thing to produce. Hierarchical file systems were invented because they are a really, really good paradigm for storing and retrieving hierarchical data - which I strongly believe is still the case for the majority of files.

I didn't read further in to the article so perhaps I missed where this same idea was discussed, but I think a useful idea going forward would be meta-tagging of data. Something very basic like the ability to flag a file and later search or sort by those flags. Do it for specific folders, like the Documents folders. Done.

Now the 'non-geek's can deal with flat file structures and us 'geek's can do smarter things.
Thanks for translating it!
> Hope they can sort out the Kindle release, definitely going to purchase that.

Whatever for? It's interesting, I'll give you that, but why don't you just spend $20 on the OS itself?
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That's not a pair programming though. It's just one person teaching another whatever there needs to be taught.
Folders or tags are hard in the sense that both of them require a user to think about organisation, when in reality any of them just wants to find the file 'magically' where they last left it and do stuff with it. In most cases this is in some application or (in my opinion still a temporary stop gap) a one level deep file system.

The applications itself will serve the needed context or metadata (type of document, last modified time, access/sharing privileges) to find the files you're looking for.
Raising venture capital is an interesting way to pay salaries.

But maybe a more interesting title is how much profit YC companies have made.
It looks like starting a new startup is easier than getting a startup job
Awesome, great work. When do you expect google+ integration to be ready?
Thank you, sir! These help a lot!
The explosion of IPS panels is because LG figured out how to make them really cheaply. And those economic, low-quality variants are called e-IPS and I have absolutely no doubt that we're dealing with one here. (Despite the fact that specs on eBay say S-IPS.)

Also, $337 is not only cheap - it's dirt cheap.

$300 for 24'' IPS is cheap. Courtesy of e-IPS, of course. A Dell U2412M would be an example.

A decent 24'' IPS display, say a Dell U2410, will cost $500.

A high-quality 24'' IPS display, say a NEC PA241W, will cost $1000.

A high-quality 27'' IPS display, say a NEC PA271W, costs $1400.

Welcome to the real world.
Sorry to hijack, but I'd love beta access sooner than later for our event, Playlist Live if you can do it :)
> Compared to the cost of buying chips or making sure that you have a plant that can turn out thousands of these things a day or being able to get strengthened glass cut exactly right within, you know, two days of this thing being due, that’s what’s important. Labor is almost insignificant. What is really important are supply chains and flexibility of factories. You want to be able to be located right next to the plant that makes the screws so that when you need a small change to that screw factory, you can go next door and say, “Give it to me in six hours,” and they can say, “Here you go.” Because if that factory was in another state or on another continent, it would take two weeks. It’s the flexibility within the Chinese manufacturing system, that’s what you can do in Asia that you can’t do in the United States.

-- Charles Duhigg, the NYT reporter who wrote the iEconomy piece on Apple’s supply chain and the reason the tech giant doesn’t produce its devices in the U.S.
I test this several times and found that the page to select files take a while.

Plus, I suspect will be good to have a very prominent 1-default choice. For example, if I expect that the majority of the files come from the user PC, then this will be the default, and the other sources optional.

As stand today, everything look equal and could be confusing
[citation needed]

I'm fairly sure that Mac OS X was here first, and it was copied to XP. IIRC, I was running Windows ME at the time of Mac OS X, and ME did not have those default folders.
That one satirical expression was enough to get me a laugh and upvote it. I dont see how so many people here that are calling it, dont see it.
It's a rehash of http://norvig.com/chomsky.html and the talk by Chomsky that led to it (both recent and relevant). I can't wait to read the continuation of that article that Norvig promised in comments.
It's an interesting idea. But the European Journal of Social Psychology is currently beset with a number of articles that have had to be retracted,

http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/three-more-r...

so of all the relevant journals, I especially doubt the acumen of its editors and peer reviewers. Before I would believe a finding like this, I would check it against the full checklist "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

by Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, and I would definitely want to see replication of the result by other researchers, published in better journals, with lots of critique and refinement of the experimental method before accepting this finding as a fact about the external world of how most people's brains work.
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I might suggest that either you have already watched a lot of movies or your definition of interesting is rather narrow. I have hundreds of films in my instant queue. The number of critically acclaimed TV shows is pretty large, too. Have you seen all of Mad Men? Battlestar Galactica? Breaking Bad? Arrested Development or Louie? It would take a while just to get through those. There are, of course, many more. Lots of documentaries and smaller films you might not yet have heard of, but that you might like a lot.

It's hard for me to understand why anybody would think there's nothing interesting to see there.
What if the universe is empty beyond a certain distance from the origin/central point, like a tiny explosion in the middle of an unending emptiness? Then there wouldn't have to be duplicates of you.

(This is about the same thing as the question asked below about whether infinite size implies infinite mass.)
I wish that they were still making 4:3 LCDs. I like having 3 side by side, and I currently have that setup with 3 20" 1600x1200 monitors, but at some point I'll want to upgrade to something with higher pixel density. My concern is that with new wide screen displays, things will span too wide horizontally to be usable.
Thank you for pointing that out. Corrected.
Because it gets them pageviews.
I guess you weren't there for Be OS, which did let you define your own metadata and then search on them. The bundled mail "application" was what OS X calls a "smart folder," a saved search displayed in the filesystem browser. The software that downloaded mail stuck the headers into metadata attributes which the finder-like filesystem browser (the Tracker) could display in sortable columns. Really quite an impressive demo of the technology.

The music player worked the same way, relying on other software to copy information out of the ID3 tag into the filesystem metadata so you could search for music by artist, album, year, genre, etc.
I'm not sure why the researchers assume that this is sexual. They even designed one of the tests with only sexualized body parts in play. The experiments are about objectification, but there's no experiment here that could even verify whether it's sexual.
My feeling is that Microsoft is much closer to a post-files world than Apple is. Apple thinks files should stay within the app, which is exactly the opposite of why we had consumer-viewable file systems in the first place. We want/need to be able to edit files in different programs.

Windows 8's Contracts, combined with system-wide Share, and storing everything on Skydrive (so when you log in to another Windows 8 machine with your Live ID, it's all there) is a much more rounded vision for a post-file world, one where you have documents which are shared around, rather than opening apps then pointing at files.
That's not really pertinent. The point is that the difference between using slave labor or using the abundant low-skilled cheap labor force is minimal. It might possibly swing the price of the product by tens of dollars, but there's no way it would swing the price by hundreds. Labor is already one of the cheapest expenses in manufacturing, going to slavery isn't going to change it that much if at all.
Would love to have a ubuntu version of this. Will pay up to 30$. Or any other mail client
> we wouldn't have had these stupid patent wars.

Patent wars are as old as this country is - there's just too many floating around. In any case, it has nothing to do with Jobs.
Apple is a company of extreme focus so this is to be expected. After all, Safari on Windows wasn't going anywhere and it wasn't a substitute for Safari on the Mac.

Hopefully, they'll refocus any Windows Safari people on Webgl.
Actually, these are not e-IPS monitors. The panel inside the Catleap variants is a WS LG.Display H-IPS (LM270WQ1). TFT Central has the model number's listed in their database: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk
For some reason I think the author is being overly wordy. The point if I understand it, is that Apple is once again moving OSX towards iOS by switching from a strict folder based filesystem to an App structured file system (from the user's point of view). This allows people to find content and files more easily because they will always be where they left them. In the app that uses them.
Nothing new here. These are just someone's notes on hiring (the post does not at all deliver on the title). It's all been said before, and in better ways.

Also I'm tired of the "learn C" mantra. You don't need to know this language to understand pointers and their difference from references. Or the different approaches to memory management.
What do you do? From your site, it looks like you let people upload songs for others to hear
The same reason it's easier to remember that something in a book was 3 pages ago rather than 14 paragraphs... or even sections. It's cognitively useful to have a physical measure for distance rather than a more abstract one; clicking a link on the web is (metaphorically) understood as a physical act of moving. Scrolling is physical, too, but it's more fluid while paging is sort of "integral".
> why are they generally made there?

Because every dollar counts, especially in massive quantities. But don't kid yourself, the difference between manufacturing in volume in China vs US is just a few dollars per unit. Certainly not enough to explain a difference in price of hundreds of dollars.
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