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That's an implementation detail that doesn't bear much on actually using the language. The cons cell abstraction leaks sometimes, sure, but I wouldn't say that the concept of "pointer" is fundamental to Lisp at all.
So they are much like a "virtual VC"? But you do understand that VCs have value because they bring "unfair advantage" or "connections" or "good advice & experience"?
FundersClub has to think of two sides of the problem - how to shield large number of inexperienced investors from the founders and how to provide network, unfair advantage and smart advice to the founders.

One of the biggest values of YC is the second part. Replicating this is going to be difficult.
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What does WS-* mean?
I think it's highly dependent on the type of person, or family. For example I have had to help many people track down their documents which are somewhere in a download or documents folder. I, personally, am not the kind of person who sorts my paperwork into folders. Neither, like some people, do I organise every single e-mail into a folder. Gmail has understood this well, and makes it easier to find what I want. I find it much easier to make sure I know _when_ something happened, I make sure I e-mail myself notes, and copies of documents, but most of the time it happens by itself anyway, so I can search for them in Gmail. For example if I want to find some paperwork done when we moved into a new house, I can track down the date in Gmail, and know in which box to go dig it up. Most of the time what I need has an e-mail record somewhere.

That said, I strongly support allowing people to approach the problem from both sides, chronological with good tagging/searching or being able to organise things into folders in a way they like. People work in different ways. However, I think the default is to be disorganised, and the best way to deal with being disorganised is to keep it as simple as possible.
Not sure how you got that impression, but a lot of stuff has happened in linguistics since Chomsky, some of it quite explicitly contrary to his arguments. None of my advanced linguistics classes dealt with Chomskian stuff.
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Sweet, great for the friday afternoon.
> except for browser testing?

This is where dropping Windows support may harm Safari. Yes we can test against webkit via Chrome now so in theory anything that works on the current PC trinity (FF, Chrome, IE9+) should work just fine in Safari, any bugs that get raised by Safari users that can't be reproduced in Chrome are just going to get labelled "NONREPRO" or "WONTFIX". Chrome and Safari are not completely in-step so there could easily be the odd issue that affects one and not the other.

Admittedly this isn't a big problem for Apple users so the above concern isn't a killer: they can use FF or Chrome if Safari won't cooperate (though good luck convincing some users that switching browser is a valid workaround for any given bug).
Geeks = super bright people? Nice pat on our backs. I just came to say that you can put tupperware into a box, but I think most of the time, people just put stuff in one box. Your street and city metaphor seems out of place in this discussion.
Basing your display decisions by the price is like basing your car buying decisions on the monthly payment. Displays are some of the sturdiest, longest lasting piece of the system, and it's the part of the computer you most interact with, unless you are blind. My single 27" LG is 6 years old and has gone through 3.5 computers in that time.

In that regard, you've got $300 right now for a monitor, in 2 months you'll have $500. If it's possible to get a good monitor right now for $300 then I'd go for it. If I can't find anything that fits me (IPS, 16:10 are critical) I'd rather wait.
> So before Chrome was released, they didn't have to release anything

They did. While LGPL doesn't mean you need to release all your project's code to users if they request it, it does mean you need to release any modifications of the parts covered by the LGPL.

They didn't have to release the changes in any way that made them easy to reintegrate with the mainline version, but they did have to release them somehow if requested to do so by a Chrome user.

Even the full GPL doesn't require you to automatically release your code back to the original source, it only states that you must provide the source to the people you distribute your product too if they request that you do.
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What's more, the South Korean government (owned by Samsung) has been blocking and putting up barriers to foreign phones for years, including delaying the introduction of the original iPhone to South Korea, to give Samsung and co. a chance to develop competitors.

See http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125367616595333125.html if you want more info on South Korean protectionism in regards to phones.

You may also wish to read:

'Republic of Samsung' Confronts a Backlash
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/25/business/fi-samsung2...

This may also interest you:

Samsung doesn't find satirical spoof amusing
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/10/world/la-fg-korea-sa...

Odd that I'm not reading so much anger about all that Samsung has done on HackerNews and Reddit.
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Hmm.

How much work would it take to get Adobe apps working on Linux?

I ask because aside from games, which Mr Newell is clearly all over, Adobe is one of the main reasons I hear quoted for why people can't switch to Linux.
Choice quotes I've come across for those looking at quitting a startup.
Why shouldn't storing files on the desktop be possible?
I can second this. While support for games is improving on nix, it's still a huge turn off to have to switch OSs when you want to load up whatever you're playing. So it's still nix at work, Windows at home for me.
Just goes to show that people assign far more weight and importance to words than they should.

Words don't kill people.
How much does quality matter in terms of iOS marketshare? Or is it mainly marketing driven?

For example, if I have time but not money and invest lots of time into creating a high quality iOS app for a niche market does it stand a chance or rising to the top or will it simply fall into obscurity without being featured by apple etc?
I don't know; "On Language" was a series of dialogs that took part in France, if I recall?
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That assumes that all of the apps are attempting to be businesses in their own right. There are loads of apps which simply support some other business, such as a shop, venue, sports team, TV programme and so on (typically those are free).

A better figure would be how many paid apps are there.
Not many application executables in Windows are in your PATH, so cmd is not going to find them. Even for the ones that are, you have to type the name of the .exe which is not necessarily obvious; eg. Visual Studio -> devenv.exe.
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Apple's attempts at making "seamless" user experiences can be frustrating, especially on edge cases. For example, in Garageband instruments are stored in special files down a ways in a directory tree in Application Support. It happens that files get corrupted, but access to the file is so abstracted that the source of the trouble is not apparent, as it is a directory not intended to be accessed by the user. It's an attempt to hide complexity from the user but it makes it hard to trouble-shoot, or to perform actions outside of the expected.

The area that does boggle my mind in terms of a flat structure are complex multi-media authoring environments. Where different files and types are used to assemble a larger work.

My main principle as an audio engineer is that I have to know exactly where each file in the project lives in the FS. If I'm not sure, the scenarios in which projects, or parts of projects get lost happen more frequently.

Not to mention that a given project uses many files of different types, and can have 10s or 100s of thousands of files. Automatic file management seems like a recipe for disaster, especially as it won't work perfectly.

I don't get it.
A hierarchy is inadequate for categorising data as is inheritance for modelling objects.

Tagging/Traits is more appropriate for pretty much everything.

I think SICP goes into this quite nicely in section 2.5 - search for text "inadequacies"
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Because most companies hemorrage money. Valve was built after Gabe and the other co-founder got rich as hell from working on microsoft. They didn't need funding while valve was bleeding cash, so they don't have to do that.
It's a reference to the WS family of standards, which are a huge group of enterprisey web services standards. A good illustration of the family is http://www.innoq.com/soa/ws-standards/poster/innoQ%20WS-Stan...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_service_specificati...

In short, it's collective name for many Web Services specifications that are still heavily in use in "enterprise" world. It's a mess.
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I think the last time I used the filesystem to browse my music was in 2003. And it was dreadful. I use a music library app in which I can decide which way my music is ordered. Albums from oldest to youngest? No problem. Artists alphabetically? Sure thing. Artists alphabetically and their albums in chronological order? No problem.

The music library app is especially tuned for ways to view my music that make sense for music. It makes those easily accessible. The file system is wholly inadequate for that task.

The library app takes care of the underlying folder structure – but that’s an implementation detail I absolutely do not care about. I don’t even know how it looks. (I just looked it up, it’s “Artist” – “Album”, the same structure I used before I started using a library app.)

I’m not sure that the file system is really so bad (at least I’m relatively comfortable with it) but I do think that for certain specialized tasks it’s massively preferable to have dedicated apps. Music and photos are my two prime examples.
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"Geeks = super bright people? Nice pat on our backs."

Don't put words in my mouth. "not super bright" is an euphemism for, uhm, simple people. Since I don't know how the poster I replied to defines geeks, I simply took an example from people I know that are 100% not geeks by their definition, whatever it may be.

"Your street and city metaphor seems out of place in this discussion."

How so? To me it seems like pretending people can only understand one level of hierarchy flies flat in the face of daily experience. You pretend the tupperware exists in isolation, it doesn't.
It's the users own fault? Really? We make products for the users, and they never do anything wrong – and it's never their fault.
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I guess that statement was a bit of a stretch, probably I could have worded slightly differently, but I'm not sure its too far from reality. If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_video_g... the only games which are up there are BG/BG2, NWN, and Star Wars Galaxies. Which is pitifully few for such previously dominant companies which had huge fan bases.... Also probably reflects that WoTC did a better job after buying the D&D trademarks (1997 - just before for 3/4 of these games) after TSR completely failed to capitalise for 15 years or so...
I think wave failed more because the UI was horrible and of course it was linked to Gmail rather than being usable with exchange/other mail systems.

If you had some sort of standard with various different native clients, then it might work.
Looks like I might just do that. Thank you!
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Actually it was Red Alert 1 with altered graphics and just a single new feature: technology overview screens. The graphics for the G.I.'s were exactly the same as in RA1.
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Or maybe they realized that implementing Google Drive would be quite challenging with tags instead of folders.
Files are sorted into filing cabinets or boxes, which are stored on shelves, in different rooms etc.
"in order to (successfully) own a car you must know that the oil has to be changed every now and then"

I do not drive a car, but aren't we moving towards "a red blinking light means 'go to the garage within a few weeks'"?

Similarly, "to (successfully) go from A to B you must know how to read a map", "to print a photograph you need to be able to work a dark room", "to make a hole in a wall you need strong muscles", etc.

" But ruining it for the rest of us isn't the way to fix that."

Counterargument: ruining it for the general population is not the way to sell shitloads of hardware.
> ...news they’d seen on Twitter, rather than news they might have previously seen on Digg.

Reddit, for the most part, does not have this problem - reddit is about the community and the discussion, not about the MLP. Maybe Rose still doesn't understand (or maybe doesn't want to admit) why Digg failed.

> Rose also said that Digg hired individuals with very niche skills, like developers who only knew PHP and were not as useful once PHP went out of use.

If you own a startup, and you're hiring the kind of programmer that only knows one language, you're already making some pretty big mistakes.
I'm finding spideroak superior to backblaze - it actually backs up my entire system rather than skipping /Library & /opt and allows me to backup external drives without needing to have them constantly plugged in. I think the pay-for-what-you-use model allows them to be a lot more flexible.
The apps he cites in the study are all games with some kind of price tag, whether up-front or IAP.

Other statistics show that games tend to rank higher in overall revenue than any other category so this might actually be painting an excessively rosy picture already.
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There seems to be alot of the comments here pointing out that the users are dumb, or they "just have to learn" – really? Aren't we the ones that should design solutions that are easy to understand, and easy to use?
They (Ars) did a massive in depth review of gimp 2.6 including fair positive and negative points. Now that gimp is finally close to getting 16 bit mode after all these years(in the upcoming 2.10 release) it would be cool if they could do a followup.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/01/gimp-2...

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The app market is extremely competitive now. You need a quality app and a serious marketing effort to make real money. Just tossing an app up on the store among 600k other contenders isn't going to get you far.
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As I understood it, the author didn't claim folders were the epitome of file management, but rather lamenting that newer systems don't even give us folders.
I think the article may be referring to the directory structure in iCloud, which allows only one level of nesting similar to the folders feature on iOS and in Launchpad. John Siracusa's review describes it[1]:

"Only one level of nesting is allowed, and the "folders" are of the iOS variety, complete with tiny icon previews and inline expansion of their contents."

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/os-x-10-8/12/
I hope he did not kill himself because of the the big layoffs at Cisco...
My .vimrc contains :

set pastetoggle=<Esc>[201~

noremap <Esc>[200~ :set paste<cr>0i

inoremap <Esc>[200~ <c-o>:set paste<cr>

cnoremap <special> <Esc>[200~ <nop>

cnoremap <special> <Esc>[201~ <nop>

let &t_ti="\<esc>[?2004h"

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>reddit is about the community and the discussion

This is very true. While you might look at it and think it's any other "news"/"meme" site, it is actually a large community made up of smaller, sub-communities, devoted to a very wide variety of topics. My Little Pony? Covered. Nonsensical technical babble? Covered. London? Covered. Obscure Japanese visual novel? Covered. AMAs? Covered.

I think this is why reddit continues to grow and stick around. People aren't just there for the jokes, they are there for the community, and the communities which match their interests.
But physical paper has basic restrictions that digital media doesn't - like lack of easily searchable metadata, and being able to be in multiple groups at one time.

My photos (many thousands of them) are stored in folders by date, but I pretty much never search them that way. I use Lightroom, which automaticaly puts basic stuff like date in there, and allows me to tag every photo with things location, themes, people, ratings etc. It also allows me to put them into (multiple, if I want) groups. And it's combinations of these things that I use to locate my photos - e.g. all the photos of my daughter in Berlin in 2008.

My music is little different - I might fancy listening to a specific album, or a random bunch of jazz tracks or whatever. I get to them through my music app, not through the filesystem.

Some other stuff still relies more on basic directory structures, but that's only because I've not found a suitable set of tools that provide me with a full metadata approach just yet.

And yes, a lot of people would probably initially struggle with moving away from directories and over to a metadata-based world, but that's more to do with the fact that it's what they are currently used to than it being a fundamentally better approach.
Zynga is (with some collaboration; to call it the singular reason would be a massive oversimplification) the reason Google+ Games failed, and the mediocrity of Google+ Games is one of the major reasons Google+ is seen as a "Me, too" product and will probably never have break-out success. Huge missed opportunity.

Given this, I can't say I'm upset to watch Zynga fail. Although much of this loss was indirect, they probably cost Google billions of dollars.

I predicted this in August 2011. I was at Google and wrote an internal missive on how social network fatigue, led by these shitty "social games", was about to evolve into outright brand damage and that it had the potential to ruin Google+ from the start. We had to differentiate ourselves from Facebook on the things that were causing SN fatigue. If we were going to do Games (which was a risky decision) we had to do them right.

To its credit, Google+ seems to have managed to avoid a persistent association. Google+ isn't associated with Zynga shit-games. In fact, I'd bet that 99% of the people reading this have no idea there ever was a Google Games. Google did a good job of hiding that one under the rug. But if they had engaged independent developers and built a real community (I suggested starting with the German-style board games, then moving into 2D RPGs and decent casual games) then they could have had something massively successful and important.
What was the supposed purpose for oath 2.0?
Ask HN: Review my startup mojoLive (CV/Career Management)
We're looking to change how you go about managing and maintaining your professional CV. One of our goals is to encourage you to keep your CV up to date so you (and everyone else) won't forget how awesome you are.

Now that we've built out the profile management functionality, we're looking to build a recommendation/suggestions engine to help point you in the right direction in terms of career moves. This could be anything from attending specific conferences and meetups, reading certain books, learning new skills, all the way to leaving your current employer.

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As a $5-VPS-with-512MB-of-RAM user, I would agree that us folks aren't the kind that want big upgrades. I use it to host a personal site, an informational site (http://websocket.us/) and that's about it. I'm not out there to build huge cloud apps.
>Yes, in principle they could learn that stuff; but they consider it to be a waste of their valuable time, for which they have other priorities.

Yet they spend their valuable time on watching television while being bombarded with adverts and forced to come back because their favorite series always ends with a cliff-hanger. Or they are drinking. Or they are working excessive hours because in spite of the fact that we have automated massive swathes of work, five days a week is still the standard, which makes absolutely no sense. Or they are too stressed by their dire financial situation because we have an economy based on gambling and usury.

My point is that people are naturally curious creatures who, given the time and opportunity, are quite capable of learning anything.

When we have a society which spends a great deal of resources constantly diverting peoples' attention, creating fake demands and generally holding an air of chaos, is it a wonder that nobody can be bothered to learn how to operate a revolutionary class of machines which provide one with knowledge about anything and everything?

By dumbing things like this down, we are approaching the problem from the wrong end. We need to work on creating a bigger leisure class which will naturally be inclined to understand it's environment better, since it will actually have the time and focus necessary to do so.

By another way of analogy - we're in the position of the 16th century puritans (in this case tech nerds) asserting that ofcourse everyone must learn to read (or operate computers) so that they can read the Bible (internet) for themselves and interpret the word of collective wisdom directly. Notice how the result of that battle was not to dumb down the English language, which is unnecessarily complicated in many places, but to teach people how to use the bloody thing. This is a similar situation.