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Not to mention, sometimes "innovation" just means innovative pricing schemes. Not innovation in actual technology. Google has been able to price their devices more competitively, which in and of itself is an innovation.
What makes you include GMail in that list? It has, by all measures, failed to move up the value chain, its revenue is completely eclipsed by that of Exchange. (Disclaimer: I work at MS.)
Wouldn't anyone who actually needs this level of performance sooner go for HipHop? It seems like you would get better performance with HipHop and still be able to use your framework of choice.
So I guess you must hate Samsung product now, since they have started to make a good profit as well?

That is one of the more ridiculous reasons for not buying Apple.
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iPhone's profit is larger than MSFT's profit as a whole.

Your argument is invalid.
There's a livescribe->evernote bridge, though, isn't there?
I love the QS movement, but I sometimes worry for it. It is young, and there is a wide variety of methodologies being used to draw conclusions, some are solid, others are far from it.

This can be expected from a group of people that have no requirements for joining, and this is a strength as well as a weakness. I have noticed that QS has attracted some "alternative [to] medicine" types who seem to be happy to have the validation, as well as some seriously interesting projects from hard core science types.

I am hoping that as this movement evolves, it will mature in the right way. Having amateurs participating is incredibly worthwhile, but guidance and best practices will hopefully develop in the community so that when people want to draw conclusions about causality, they can do it legitimately.
Putting the firm on sale earlier and saving the jobs or negotiating a decent severance package would be my idea of leadership. This is charity - worthy as far as it goes, but reactive rather than being out in front of the company's problem.
> free food

Am I being dumb or are you saying Facebook pays for their employees' groceries if they choose to work from home instead of working at the office and eating at the free cafe(s) there? I'm impressed if so (even though it probably wouldn't really add up to that much money for a company that can afford to pay $1B for Instagram).
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Cool, but it needs some music!
Well, company X is shipping its phone with an almost free (as in beer) software stack. If their entire stack was paid software, there would have been some more margin for profit. I cannot even guesstimate on how much would their profit share increase (given that higher price would mean lower sales), but it might be significant.
2889 beat that!

edit: 3630 died trying to catch a spring ><
Wow.

I don't understand the attempts to paint the President asa conservative. It's not gonna fool anyone.

Just who is the intended audience of this terribly long piece?
Oops! I didn't know the game got HN'ed. I was improving the details adding license info, you can find them there now.
That defence does not justify someone blatantly copying someone else. If Samsung has mass produced some components, that does not give them the justification to copy others stuff and claim it to be their own.

About markets, if you do not like paying for a product, then don't use it. That's how the whole FOSS works.
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A sane voice. Trademark/copyright is enough to protect your product, only in rare cases should a patent be awarded for an algorithm (think RSA).
Well put, the database is usually the bottleneck in web applications, not the language or code.
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https://twitter.com/SolitaryDesigns/status/23923144911764684...
This note is very clever. A lot of "fact" are just wrong but they are written in a very convincing manner so that nobody will check them.

"sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn’t right"
Well Steve Jobs liked to quote something like this: "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." Jobs was clearly spreading the message that Apple liked to steal mastering the "borrowed" product making it into a product of their own. Apple made no secret about stealing design from Braun and Sony. Jobs had great respect for those companies.
And I think the same applies to Samsung. They have great respect to Apple (although today that may have changed) and mastered the iPhone into an even greater product than the iPhone.

"We value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on earth."
Well they may be the best looking products on earth for some, but they are absolutely not the best products. Apple mouses look great and are great to obtain RSI. MacOs is looking great but I can't get as productive with it as with Windows or Linux. The Mac Mini is looking great but I can buy twice the power for the same price. Most Apple products are looking great but why not supply a standard connector? Well we know the reason for that one. And now they are called the most valuable company of today.

Yes Samsung did look very closely to Apple's products but so did Apple to other products.

We all copy!

-edit1- Brown -> Braun ;) thanks.

-edit2- I also was thinking about a tablet I once bought. This was a complete copy of the iPad. Even the box had the same white design. But Apple didn't go after that company. Why? Because it was a peace of crap. You had to break the tablet before the screen became responsive and the battery didn't last 10 minutes.
The link shows is a community fundraiser for COBRA donations to the laid off staff. It shows a bit over $55,000 in donations which came from a list of dozens and dozens of people, 52 right now. Stephen G. Perlman, the CEO is in fact in the list of donors, but it doesn't say how much each person donated. There is no indicator anywhere here that he himself donated almost everything there. Does the OP have another source where he mentions having donated $50k personally?
It's still uncool to do that so blatantly, you should at least take this as an opportunity to develop your creativity and use what you've learned to drive something of your own making.

It's a nice job you've done, but I'd like to see you put your skills to use creating instead of imitating.
"I respect the original creators Igor Pusenjak and his brother for their great work."

Uhhh no you don't. This is textbook copyright infringement. You can't copy without permission and then claim you respect them. That's not how things work.
My question in response would be: what accounts has Microsoft lost to Gmail in the past couple of years?

From my connections, I'm aware that much of the startup world is on some mix of Gmail for Domains, Google Apps, and/or Mac for desktops/laptops. Microsoft really doesn't play.

Granted, those are small accounts, but I've also seen some household name established businesses ditch Exchange for Gmail. And in a world for which changing enterprise platforms almost universally elicits dread, the announcements were met with cheers. Really loud cheers.

And to answer in part: again, read Christensen. It's not that the cheap competition generates more revenue (though in some cases it does). By that metric you're making the same strategic error as recoiledsnake. It's that by growing marketshare, disruptive innovations suck the revnue out of the market.

It's what Red Hat did to Sun. It's what Craigslist did to classified advertising.

It's what Gmail's doing to Exchange.
A little meta, but whatever... I am not sure the reason, but the "this" thing really annoys me. Am I the only one?
What's with the high voltage lines right next to the building? Or is it something else?
>Brown

I'm guessing you mean Braun and, yes, Apple is very obviously influenced by the aesthetic Braun popularized.
Egads, what a mess. You can't think rationally without fearing being labeled a monster. OK, here goes. Here are three separate strategies to avoid this situation:

Strategy 1: "Help thousands" in a way that allows you to capture some of the value yourself. Use some of the proceeds to buy health insurance.

Strategy 2: "Help thousands" in a way that allows you to capture much of the value yourself. Be rich enough to pay for your own health care.

Strategy 3: Do whatever. Buy catastrophic health insurance with a high deductible. It's not that expensive.

The sob-story blog post linked in the article even says This man doesn't know how to be selfish. The result of this lack of selfishness is having both a friend and a "life-partner" panhandle for him on the internet.

I'm no fan of the U.S. healthcare system, but framing this as an indictment of that system is absurd.
I think the best "term" you can use here is "side effect free". I almost wanted to say "pure" would work, but there is no real requirement that GET always return the same thing: it just needs to not change the state of the server in a way that a later GET could detect (although, honestly, you really only practically care about "find bothersome", and if there is a term for "bothersome side effect free" it would probably be from medicine and not computer science).
I also worked on this at uni and had lots of fun -- those lessons certainly look familiar! We were trying to mine Wikipedia for more information on the movies. The code's here:

http://code.google.com/p/wikipedia-netflix/wiki/WikipediaNet...

It includes Wikipedia parsing stuff and a fairly fast C++ implementation of the very cool BellKor kNN algorithm.
I donated $30 (thought I'd add more social proof while I'm here).
Hi Jon, I've been working as a DJ for 10 years so here is my experience from sifting through thousands of mix tapes/CDs/USBs/Soundclouds.

1. If you want to force people to listen to the whole thing then by all means force them too, but it will decrease engagement from people checking it out quickly.
2. Things I listen to first from a song, intro, chorus, breakdown, outro.
If you're using Grids then this could even be marked out.
If you have a waveform then this makes it easier and you can look to see the structure from the get go.
3. One thing to be aware of is that if music tastes do change (ie non-quantised music such as Electronic Dance Music) then your market could deacrease as I imagine you're placing yourself in the market as a online version of what Fruityloops was to kids back in the 2000's.
I don't know the full situation, but if each of those who were laid off owned part of the company it seems a little unfair for the majority shareholder to be able to sell the company to himself, leaving everyone else with nothing. What should have happened is that the company should go up for auction and the proceeds split by percentage owned.
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There's a comment from "President/CEO at OnLive" where he wrote that he donated 50K and will donate more if needed.
Was the company valueless when it was sold? How much did it sell for? Were the proceeds distributed fairly?
That's TOTAL expenditure (public and private). It's misleading to include private insurance and self payments unless you're talking about the total cost of healthcare.[1]

The German government covers 77% of its citizens health care costs. The US government covers 48%.

In countries like Germany, I am sure that 77% number is evenly distributed across the population. I.e. All citizens are mostly covered by government insurance. In the US, I am sure the number is disproportional to the elderly and on government assistance, such that people between 20-60 are not covered by any government insurance. So it's a bit more lop-sided than the Wikipedia chart says.

[1] http://www.oecd.org/health/healthpoliciesanddata/oecdhealthd...
And what exactly the money have been used for? In this case I suspect quantity != quality.
> > What sites out there still use that blue color for a link?

>> "that blue" is the default browser blue and if you check Facebook uses a different blue and doesn't use the default underline, neither does Google and neither does Github. They all changed the default.

Bootstrap doesn't use the default blue either.

> it's part of legibility. And yes, it's part of usability as well

It's part of legibility, but your changes aren't making it any more legible than it already is.

> that was a point. Do you want to look like every other page hosted on github or any other small app page?

Depends.

> Within that time, you can have a site that doesn't look like stock bootstrap thus differentiating yourself from the rest of the sites that look exactly the same.

Again, that depends. Consider freshbooks - a small product I use. It can very well switch to bootstrap theme or geocities era design. I won't give a damn because it's free and serves my purpose. I am pretty sure there are other invoicing solutions out there, but whether they use bootstrap or not(an example; none of them do) isn't a variable in my decision.

> however, having a site that keeps away from the default is brandable, much more so than a default Bootstrap site. Branding is marketing 101.

At this point, I will just agree to disagree. You seem to place a lot of importance on visibly differentiating a product. For me, visibly differentiating(as in changing a few less variables in bootstrap) is so low on the list that it fell down the list.

> What's your site's URL? I'd love to check it out.

Mostly enterprisy stuff. I do contractual work with Ruby/Python/Clojure.
I said the other folks are doing automagic BS, :-)

Yup, Thats one of the problems I'm solving "right" (or nearly so) in the basic alpha as it gets in shape.

Thanks! Were you the unicorn email dude?
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And the PyPy authors told us that Python would be to dynamic for ahead of time compilation. This is awesome.
My reading is that the $1bn figure excludes any multiples for wilfulness.
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But ERs already have a system to limit 'abuse' by people with minor complaints: triage.
That is if we kept spending at current levels. Canada spends much less on healthcare than the united states. Canadian life expectancy is also higher, which leads me to believe that their gasp socialist healthcare system is actually more efficient.
Samsung didn’t copy iPhone design, court in South Korea rules
Donated. Get well Ken.
Would it be in line with those values for Apple to pay royalties to Google for "stealing" the omnibar in the new version of Safari? What about the numerous similarities that Apple's new maps app will undoubtedly have to Google Maps? Or is it only important when other companies do it?
Yeah I don't really see the point with your average web app requests, if anything is so intensive as for this framework to make a difference it is likely better done in the background rather than as part of a user request.

Granted it may well be good for common functions required in intensive background processes.
OK, thanks, in my browser the comments on the donation page show up as empty.
Samsung lawyer: "We respect the original creator Apple for their great work." ... comes to mind.
Have to agree here. Kevin Rose sounds like he maintains his friendships at the level of a popular high school girl.
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I always find it a little staggering when people start tracing back profits or motivations to prove a point, but stop as soon as their point is made. If you want to employ a systems thinking view of the world to make a point, you need to chase the rabbit all the way down the hole.

Google didn't create all that wealth. They took a large part of that wealth from other advertising companies - primarily newspapers. And that money came from companies which in turn came from consumers. A good part of the wealth of companies is from arbitrage, monetising previously non-tradable items and digging stuff up - you know, externalities. A good portion from consumers is intergenerational. Very little actually comes from wealth creation.

Wealth is for all practical purposes, finite. This does not mean it is fixed. As a previous commenter pointed out, global economic growth is increasing at 3-4%.. at least some small portion of this is due to wealth creation rather than the monetisation thing. Understand also that monetisation usually transfers wealth rather than creates it, but sometimes can actually reduce wealth overall (take say, tobacco companies as a non-controversial example.. a controversial, though equally true, example might be BP or Shell).

Then you start asking yourself, if wealth is largely finite.. and some companies are making money hand over fist, then surely someone must be losing out? Why exactly do you think there are people living around the world who cannot afford good healthcare or clean water? You think they are just lazy? You actually believe all that BS in the doco you watched?

It also amazes me when people point out how generous US companies and people are in philanthropy - generally 1-2% of profit - while completely turning a blind eye to the very low levels of tax they pay. The democratic-capitalist-welfare state has a bigger positive impact worldwide to population health than all the charities put together, and it can be cheaper to run.

And another thing, you think google giving the doctors 500k is actually significant? In addition to the $400m / 80% figures already pointed out, think about the individual contributions - peoples life work. Also from wikipedia, in 07 there were 26,000 professionals who helped MSF. I don't know if you are aware, but people who work for charities don't get paid as much.. and that is if they are not just volunteering their time. Say 26,000 x 10% pay cut x ave wage (in aus dollars with aus wages this would be about $130m, you can adjust elsewhere if you like).

130 million a year in wealth donations from ordinary people.

I am all for wealth creation, which I think was the crux of the OP - if you are not contributing value to people's lives, you are not creating wealth, just taking it from someone else. And I don't discount the efforts of the people you mention. I think companies like google have helped in other ways with more impact than just their cash. Just want you to see these efforts in context, and maybe think a bit deeper. Because it is a very long rabbit hole.

And because it irritates me.
How the "values" have shifted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU&t=12s
this would be a great feature for goodreads.com
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Who other than you doesn't?

E-Book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book

Quote: "An electronic book (variously, e-book, ebook, digital book, or even e-editions) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices.[1] Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines the e-book as "an electronic version of a printed book" ...

http://speakingvolumes.us/about-our-ebooks.asp

Quote "Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, eBooks can also be born digital ..."

No need to repeat ... hundreds of other sites make this meaning clear.
Thank you for the warning. Do you have a test case that reproduces the problem that you can share?
Well, I enjoy using my Apple gears tremendously and they enable to do a lot of things that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise. I'd rather pay a $400 premium on a MacBook and have peace of mind for two years. People pay 100 times more for cars and housing.

Obviously I'm not implying that you or others don't care about 'peace of mind' and are cheap bastards who never pay for anything :) - it just happens that you don't find a MacBook or iPad or iPhone as valuable for you and your lifestyle as I do, and purchase what suits you best.
Is copying really so bad? It seems to me that, in this case at least, it's just synonymous for Samsung being heavily influenced by Apple. What's so malicious about influence? As everyone has heard a billion times by now, Jobs himself was a huge proponent of "stealing" the good ideas of others (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU). It's not as if Samsung tried to confuse consumers by impersonating Apple products or anything.

Capitalism is competitive. If you do something profitable, people will try to beat you, and they'll piggyback on your research to do so. Tough cookie. Your goal as a company should be to build a competitive advantage by (a) capitalizing the fact that you're the first mover, and (b) building moats that are tough for the competition to cross. Unfortunately for Apple, aesthetics just isn't that big of a moat.

And, unfortunately for the world, the government is providing big businesses that are too lazy, incompetent, and/or ill-equipped to do the above with an underserved competitive advantage in the form of a broken patent system.
Donated $40.

Two days ago, there was a post on HN announcing Watsi, essentially a Kickstarter for healthcare (Sorry if I'm discrediting it's overall value in any way, it's a great idea: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4424081). Most of us in the Western world aren't the target audience for Watsi, but this seems appropriate. Can we not make this happen and see a cohesive case to be made for those asking questions about cause and background?
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No. It adds nothing except irritation.
Samsung copied the iPhone. They didn't "steal" its essence and make something better.
I got all my coverage of this trial from Groklaw, and I certainly got the impression that it was heading south for Samsung.
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Then you look at international health statistics and stop wondering.

Lifespan is a good first pass indicator of the quality of health care.
What about that part where Samsung was basically like "Oh, Apple's icons look like this using this light effect. We should definitely make our icons look like that too."

What part of that is innovative and advancing technology? No, they just wanted to piggyback off of Apple's success and make money that way. Which I don't think is fair.

Just ask any app developer who enjoys success. The Chinese clones eat away at revenue and potential markets. It degrades the experience for everyone when one party leeches rather than innovates.

I always say that Microsoft came up with their own UI that looks and works great. There isn't only one solution to this.
Cheaper but otherwise the same is better.
As brodd says below: the moment you do something useful the percentage of time wasted by the framework becomes so small that it's in many cases not worth optimizing there.
There's a lot of this kind of thing about. Black holes and the big bang arguably started life in this category, no?
That stealing which is good is at the conceptual level.

When someone has a document that shows a hundred different things which are developed over years of research copied blatantly without investing a minute, something needs to be done really.
It's one thing to make a Pacman-like game. But this is being called the trademarked name Pacman, and you've copied the artwork straight from Pacman.

Seems certain this isn't an official licensed version. In which case, you should change all those items immediately. It's illegal and it's just not cool.

Here are the guys you are ripping off. Tōru Iwatani and his friends at Namco. Tōru is a very nice guy:

http://pacmanmuseum.com/history/Toru-Iwatani.php
^ THIS.

Of course, it's ironic that in a single breath you complain of the "^ THIS" trope, while at the same time invoking the "DAE" trope.