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Installing software has no consistency.

The built-in terminal is basically broken:
-page-up and page-down don't work unless you hold shift
-It uses CTRL-C instead of Command-C, unlike the rest of the OS.
-I still can't find hotkeys to jump to the beginning of end of line, or skip over entire words (home, end, ctrl-arrow in Linux and Windows)

Home and End are COMPLETELY USELESS on OS X. I have never, in decades of computing thought "Oh, I want to scroll to the top or bottom of this document with one keypress, but not even bring the cursor with me." Given how often during programming I want to select an entire line, this is broken.

The mouse acceleration is stupid. I know you can get used to it, but then try to play StarCraft or something on it, and you will be awful (or at least severely handicapped), because the mouse acceleration system just doesn't work for stuff like that. Also, Lion broke all the work arounds.

The XCode debugger doesn't let me inspect anything that even might be out of scope. Most of the inspections are useless anyway. You can't even see a list of what is in an NSArray (isa = Class, puh-lease).

Viewing hidden files in Finder is hard enough to not remember. Viewing hidden files on a remote server seems to be impossible (maybe it isn't, I don't care). Simply typing in the folder you want to go to is a huge project.

OS X is a poor network neighbor. It rarely detects my other machines, and when it does it's after waiting forever, and it still barely works.

And, oh yeah, it cost me as much as my other 3 computers combined and is the worst of the 4, spec-wise.
I actually have some experience with GoogCustSvc now.

I bought a Nexus 7. It has touch-screen problems. They provided a way to contact them here (http://support.google.com/nexus/bin/request.py?contact_type=...).

I talked to the rep (after waiting about 30 minutes). They were helpful, direct, competent, and provided a way for me to contact the person I talked to via e-mail after the call was ended.

They organized a replacement device and even worked through the fact that I'd purchased the tablet from my brother-in-law.

If their future customer service offerings are the same as what I experienced last night, I have no concerns.
> For example, in Javascript: "Hello" + " " + "World!". What the operator there is doing is concatenating the strings

Hmm, are we talking about (user defined) operator overloading as a language feature, or about overloaded operators? For example, I hate that 1/2 and 1.0/2 are different things in most languages, but I haven't heard anyone call this operator overloading in the context of C.
Two million products derived from human tissue are sold each year
Plain and simple: Google makes money if people use the internet. Anything that increases the number of times someone views a website makes google money.

It's like a billboard company offering to add free windows to your house so you watch their ads from your living room.

I agree with the motivation of your post. Monopolies are bad and customers have a vested interest in preventing google (or anyone else) from having monopolistic control of consumer internet. Unfortunately this is already true in many parts of the United States (Comcast is the only game in town where I live). At least in the short term Google entering this market should reduce monopolies not create them.
Socialcam's $60M Hack
Google Handwrite: Handwriting recognition built in to Google.com on mobile
Business Lessons from Bruce Wayne
A few things Bruce Wayne can teach you about business.
https://fiber.google.com/legal/privacy.html

Read this first, and read it well.
Comcast and TWC don't wrap all their services in a single, trackable userID.
One man iOS dev here, not really by choice, I live in a mildly remote part of Alaska, which is not what I'd call a "technology hotbed" so finding co-devs is tough, unless you count my roommate who mostly just orders the pizzas. I'm not getting rich, but I'm allowed total creative freedom, and live simply so don't need to make much. Strange to think one can pull it off at all, but that's the internet for you.
>They can subsidize it for only so long before deciding to discontinue it...

on the pricing page, they commit to providing free service for at least 7 years. So unless google goes belly-up, it won't be discontinued for a while.
Marketplace payments is the main purpose of our existence. We do our best to build a clean API on something that's rather complex to build.

Give it a shot with some test creds (see below). You can go live directly from the site: https://balancedpayments.com

# create a test marketplace

curl -X POST https://api.balancedpayments.com/v1/api_keys

# retrieve and store the secret for subsequent commands

curl -X POST https://api.balancedpayments.com/v1/marketplaces -u $SECRET:
Get It in Writing
Heh, I own 4 of those 5 books (not the Gene Bedell one). All are on my "to read" list but other than Spin Selling (which I've browsed through a bit), I haven't read them yet.

I've heard a lot of good things about Made To Stick though, so I think it's time to bump that up the list a little.

Thanks for sharing!
The idea of a binary positive vs negative is really troubling to me as far as an algorithm goes. It should very much be on that sliding scale that Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes uses--sentiment analysis shouldn't return just a 1 or a 0.
Yes. You choose who you work for (before the acquisition and after), and stock options are a an understood risk. Let's not pretend otherwise.
The free tier? That's $300 up front. I expect some of that $300 defrays their ongoing marginal costs. See also sibling comments by eavc and EthanHeilman.

Free Internet
$0/mo
$300 construction fee
(one time or $25/mo for 12 mo)
Mountain Lion: the review
Unusable if you refuse to give access to facebook. Keeps opennig facebook over and over.
> Sorry, but that's mostly due to the desktop market size and Windows' share of it.

And yet, Unix/Linux had and has a much larger portion of the Internet-connected server market share but without the constant stream of critical vulnerabilities that Windows servers endured in the early 2000s. By your logic, Windows should have been a safer server choice because Unix servers were constantly falling to new attacks.
I was confused by this too - but it looks like the free app does have a full unlock via in app purchase for $2.99
The famous jailbreaking tool Redsn0w is compatible   with OS X Mountain Lion.
It's licensing issues, Bukkit is GPL. Mojang doesn't want to have to open up everything.

https://github.com/Bukkit/Bukkit/blob/master/LICENCE.txt
They didn't replace mice. They established themselves as an alternative for an entirely different use case.
To my mind, Microsoft ought to be putting all of their corporate weight behind Mono. CLR, F#, C# are all technically superior to JVM, Scala and Java IMHO and many others. But what holds alot of people back from .Net in the enterprise is that they want Linux in the server room, not Windows. If Microsoft really put their weight behind Mono then I think lots of enterprise customers would ditch Java in favour of .Net
Will grab it and read when I next have some space on my reading list, but as a former professional musician and occasional amateur coder, I'm pretty much the exact opposite of the target audience, so will be interesting to see how it reads for me.
Ah dang, for some reason I thought that hotmail and y!mail were in there too. It looks like there's a commitment (which CAs you'll allow to sign your cert) that's needed from the site owner for HSTS to work. I hope they get in there one way or another soon.
Right, but if a malicious JPEG exploits a code execution vulnerability in libjpeg, a malicious Web page exploits a WebKit vulnerability, or a malicious certificate exploits a bug in OpenSSL, proper sandboxing can do a great deal to mitigate the damage. Thus if "most" applications on OS X are sandboxed, the platform and its applications become less attractive targets for those exploiting what are often cross-application, cross-platform vulnerabilities.

Sandboxing is not restricted to the App Store, by the way.
The IPS LCD Revolution
To quote a recent Coding Horror post, its bugs are now Common Law Features, and must be supported.
The founder versus VC balance of power: Who's really in control?
oh, the output seems more like a leader board to me.Typically this would make corporate heads roll with all sorts of conclusions
Abadani football fan in 90 : Brasil was a part of Abadan
Moving to a different state is completely different from moving to a different country. Moving between US states is really easy. Citizens don't need permission or passports or visas to do so. Moving to a different country requires all of those things. All US states have a majority population that speaks English.

Millions of people live with ~200 miles of KC. Moving a few hundred miles is easier than moving to a different country.
Consistency + Simplicity = Intuitive
95% great interview. Actually, the interview was pretty much 100% great, some of the answers were a little off the rails. I think we can all agree that "Schwartz: There's no question in my mind that market will heat up all over again... If you go to an employee and say, "You've got two choices. I'll give you an iPad or I'll give you that last-generation x86 box," they'll take an iPad. " doesn't pass the smell test, and, in hindsight, I bet Jonathan probably realizes he got a little over excited there.

I love my iPad - but, if I only get one system to do work every day, I'll suck it up and take that "last generation x86 box" - if only so I can run VMware, Microsoft Excel, Visio, Outlook, etc...

Maybe there will be a day in the future when I can get by with an iPad only - but until I can book resources in our corporate calendar, or run a virtualized OS (or three) on my iPad - the utility of an operating systems like Windows or OS X wins the day. But maybe I'm a dying breed of "Needs a truck" kind of guy...
Kansas City is partly in both states. Why KC? Google had a competition and they won.
you cant follow the wow model, the wow model requires constant fees every month, thats my whole point, when you play wow you pay blizzard constantly, and anytime there is a major update you pay another large chunk. you cant do that with a video editor, and its not like maps where you can segregate off chunks of content. like i said completely asinine, and unequatable in this circumstance, the fact that so many people agreed with such an obviously flawed argument speaks volumes.
I guess my biggest problem is all of the people claiming Haskell is pure, lazy and fast. It seems disingenuous when to actually be fast requires swapping out the standard data structures with non-pure, non-lazy versions.

To put it another way, a naive implementation in C will compile and be relatively fast, while a naive implementation in Haskell will, at the very least, require replacing the standard data structures with things like ByteStrings, just to match the default C speed.
I noticed that there are no FOX Broadcast Company channels on their channel list. That's a shame because I'd really want to keep Fox Soccer Channel if I was switching.

I would guess that has something to do with Google and Rupert Murdoch's well publicized icy relationship. It'll be interesting to see who blinks first if this takes off.
God I hope they bring this to the UK!
Though it could be read from several disks simultaneously / cached to flash/RAM and other neat tricks to improve I/O bandwidth.
Thanks for the response. However, a nice thing about ack is that it's not a binary (necessarily) - it's a perl script and can be used without sysadmin permissions: http://betterthangrep.com/install/

The other points are quite understandable and correct though. It's always best to at least be familiar with standard tools, even if you want to use an slightly different version for yourself.
Could you please point to some blog/book on why and how more landing pages translate into dollars ? I am a developer but totally new to AdWords or marketing. I had started a campaign for my online products but not getting enough traffic. I appreciate your help. Thanks.
* Prediction: this will wind up with a lower corporate take up rate than Vista (ie next to none).*

* Prediction 2: this will accelerate, rather than slow down, the rate at which enterprises take their enterprise specific software into platform independent programs*

* Prediction 3: by stuffing this up Microsoft has just about lost its bet on moving the retail computer market into docking cloud computers. Apple will do this. And they will do it by stealth.*

Unfortunately, Microsoft seems to have survived Vista experience without too much injury. And having had some experience with enterprise platform movements, accelerating a "glacial" speed is still pretty slow. And finally, I still have doubts about Apple's capability and interest in the general "retail computer market". (Although I could be wrong about that.)
Damn!!!!
Their free tier is better (with a higher upload speed) that what the max AT&T can provide my home, via DSL, in San Jose, Capital of Silicon Valley.
Go figure....
Usually you'd expect to pay $100 or so for that.

But the history is that a cable TV package alone is generally $60 and has been increasing. The secondary TV channels have figured out that if they produce high quality original content (like Breaking Bad or Mad Men) they will be considered essential by the consumer, and can raise their price to the TV cable operators. Who then passes that on to the consumer.
Twitter's move into TV could be a recipe for disaster
Google's total revenue from advertising in Q2 2012 was 10.5 Billion dollars. so yes, those ads can definitely pay for a couple thousand dollars worth of equipment.
design me a complex product in solidworks with a touch only interface please.

how about some detailed, effects heavy video project?
Well Mountain Lion was released as a new 'appp' rather than an update to the Lion app, so it seems Apple want people to release their major updates as new releases.

I wouldn't be surprised if they continue to update the iLife products such as as iPhoto as they always came free with the OS and I don't think many people bought the iLife pack separately but I'm really not sure how they'll handle keynote/pages/numbers.
"That free tier? That is outright illegal and its sole purpose is to eradicate all competition."

Why don't we sue Google for providing free WiFi in Mountain View? And Google Fiber isn't free - its $300 to cover the equipment costs. I'm pretty that 12 months of basic DSL for less than $300 anyway, installation included. Some neighbors will "freely" share their internet, should incumbent cable co sue them aswell for unfair competition?

What is to stop a cable co "recycling" old equipment to provide basic freemium internet to people who don't want to pay more for premimum plans.

The unfairness of having all that equipment already owned and built out... somebody stop them... oh wait what is Google doing?
Yes! This is what happened in Japan. The telcos dragged their feet. Dial up Internet was pay per minute and adsl was $60-$90 a month. Yahoo Japan came in and offered adsl 1mbit speed for $20 a month unlimited. That is the moment Internet usage took off In Japan.

The telcos lowered their prices to match. Yahoo doubled the speed for the same price. That continued up to at least 8mbit speed for $20 month

Similar things need to happen here
Am I the only one who can't open this in Acrobat?
Douglas Crockford : Don't forget to use your semicolons
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Didn't Dan Lyons ("Fake Steve Jobs") once say the real target of his comedy was blogging CEOs and particularly Jonathan Schwartz?
Roku raises $45M in new funding
Slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
For me, it's not the airlines themselves most of the time, but the airports & governments and the requirements they force on airlines.

The airports & government bureaucracy take something that should just be a catching a greyhound within 10 minutes of boarding into a 2-4 hour stressful nightmare.
I think the blogpost is worse than helpful, as the author is simply parroting common hiring tropes, then adding misleading advice. Consider:

* He recommends CLRS for learning the basics of algorithms. This is like reading baby Rudin to learn about the basics of numbers.

* He edited his post 2-3 times because he can't identify whether Common Lisp is a purely functional language or not.

* He mentions that side projects don't need to be complex, then suggests "simple" iPhone apps or open source libraries. In practice, neither of these is "simple."
Physicists create world's smallest semiconductor laser
I was being ridiculously literal in my interpretation as I felt that you were being ridiculously hyperbolic and that you were verging into being insulting to the chinese in general rather than the chinese government in particular, even if that may have not been your intention. Saying that you would rather drown than live in a particular group is a pretty strong statement.

To be honest I don't believe for a second that if you were actually magically turned into a chinese citizen, by some nefarious wizard with an exceedingly strange sense of humour, that you would then say to yourself "Right, that's it, I'm off to drown in the Yangtze river, only got a day.".

For one thing you would have at least a few days initially of wondering what the fuck was going on and feeling lost and bewildered and stuff, so the timeframe isn't realistic. And even then, I reckon you would be more likely to just get on with life from then on, and also be completely shit-scared of wizards.

[edit] Actually, the fear of wizards might even keep you alive as then you are less likely to be worried about the power of the chinese government. Unless they also have wizards, in which case you might have problems.
Darpa has come up with a way to put out fires with sound waves
Building guns with a 3D printer
GemJars.org: Seamlessly Resolve JRuby Dependencies with Ivy
Google is taking over our lives :(
Even my Late 2009 Macbook White is able to handle 8GB of RAM (unoficially) and that's what I've done.

Also, I've installed a SSD.
Which requirements are you talking about, specifically?
More importantly, where's the whale?
Flagged as irresponsible linkbait. The article itself acknowledges that these people "only sold a fraction of their holdings, so they've been hammered along with the rest of Zynga shareholders by the subsequent collapse."
Parse creates Instagram clone using their platform in 30 mins
agreed, very well written. I love when he talkes about the signs of procrastination (like what I'm doing right now).
I'm pretty sure it's not illegal to pay up front for service. Note that the "free" tier is either $25/month or $300 up-front. I never heard anyone accuse e.g. TIVO's lifetime service of being illegal, or any other such pricing scheme.
Though a big datacenter seems like the perfect place to spread the bits around so that you can read from multiple physical disks/computers simultaneously to improve performance. This is unlike your laptop where you are probably not carrying multi-disk arrays around with you.
> iOS and Android have no relevance in this discussion as they are not real OS'es.

"Mavicas and Digital Elphs have no relevance in this discussion as they are not real cameras. You cannot expose film with them, you cannot do work on them except for taking candid pictures and sharing them with friends. And that's how it will remain."

It is always dangerous to assume that you're in the market you think you're in, and not the market that your customers are telling you that you're in. Microsoft seems to believe that they're in the "real computer OS" market, but their customers believe they're in the "lets me run my apps" market. And to those customers - whose vote ultimately matters the most - Windows is competing directly with OS X, iOS, and Android as a way for people to run the software they want to run. Increasingly, that software is the kind of stuff that runs on the tablet or smartphone that they're doing most of their computing on.
Interesting! Please let me know how it works for you. You may find "Learn Python the Hard Way" a good complement:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org
Just a word of advice, I've read most of those books and haven't found them super valuable. It really depends what you're selling,

Yeah, we're working on a somewhat traditional product oriented company... more Microsoft or IBM, than AirBnB or Dropbox. In that world, I think the positioning stuff matters, but I will freely admit that it may be less relevant in a different domain.

Nontheless, I would think most companies would want to achieve what Chet Holmes calls "Top of Mind Awareness," where your company is first in mind for a customer when they think about a need for $FOO. For example, ask most people to "name a router manufacturer" and the majority will almost certainly come back with "Cisco" (a few oddballs might say "Juniper" or something weird, but Cisco clearly has "TOMA").
Not at all.

Something can be very complex even abstract and still be intuitive. It's all about understanding the context.
sorry for that, working on it!
> the 4 bytes sequences (Supplementary Planes) are very rarely used (most used languages and useful symbols are already in the Basic Multilingual Plane) and also more complicated so I did not vectorize that case for the scope of this blog post. This is left as an exercise for the reader ;-)

And you still call them UTF-8 and UTF-16?
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The lack of paid upgrades is irrelevant. I never understood what people are missing here. Apple has shown how to do it: Phase out the old version and offer the new version as a new product.
Completely agree! The extra effort to go to the actual product's website makes me wonder if the startup even knows this is an issue.
Is that necessary? For some reason I can't think of any problems with the freemium-like approach. Basic app has a fixed price and basic features. It's what everyone gets initially. "Versions" are really just premium features available via in-app-purchase. Bug-fix updates just affect the basic version of the app. And they're available for free to anyone who has the app just like the iOS store.
I tend to buy small utility apps in the range of $10 on the app store. But I would never buy "serious" software on the Mac app store.

The MAS already has this flea market feeling to me and so I'd rather have a real license from the original vendor than this app store receipt thingy.
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Is there some mailing list we can sign up for, to get volume 2 news? I just bought volume 1, browsed it, and it seems like an excellent fit for my way of thinking.

I'd love to see some more advanced topics covered in much the same way!
I never said abstract was an issue. But, do you have a counter example that is inconsistent and complex and still intuitive without training? Because, it sounds like what your describing is what happens after someone has learned a system and not how long it takes them to learn it.
Exactly. The lowest bar we can possibly set is the only one that matters.
I know little to nothing about Digg and even less about Kevin Rose, internal drama, et al... however, hiring people who are locked into certain technologies, especially non-optimal ones like PHP, seems to be a bad idea.