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Please don't argue like that: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
For the context:

Furthermore, during the development of the iPhone, Apple was
very much aware of the history of multi-touch, dating at
least back to 1982, and the use of the pinch gesture, dating
back to 1983.
great! btw a friend of mine did a thing like that for Windows clipboard - http://ybex.com/
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"The web's most popular front-end template". With the popularity of Bootstrap, this claim seems unbelievable.
From that perspective Skiena's book is also good, as it offers war stories where you can see first hand some of the implementations of the algorithms mentioned.
I'm quite aware of the "scams" they were pulling back then. Those "scams" were the ones that were indirectly getting most of the FBs profit.

But I'd kindly direct you to The Worst Argument [1], if the implied shadiness of becoming of Zynga is the argument you're trying to do.

But, along those lines - 'creative accounting' is an example of shady practices which are very creative indeed.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441734
You might want to note that I'm not saying Apple is going to implode at 15:02:32, 2nd September, 2012.

I said it depends on Apple doing something wrong and I can't predict when that'll happen or what it'll be but here are some suggestions: Making the iPhone 7 out of cheese or Tim Cook farting in the wrong direction. Either way, if the markets have shown us anything in the past, it doesn't take much at the moment to send traders into sellmageddon mode.
Regarding the second comparison, it's easy to do trivially better than someone else's work if you use their work as a starting point. But that type of optimization doesn't really matter as much as the first one you mentioned: the ability to "take that which would have run on a CPU, and parallelize it to run on a GPU.". It has always felt quite natural for me to do that, so it was strange to hear that it's so hard for others. Why is it difficult for them, but easy for me?

The easiest way for me to solve this mystery is to try to port an example someone considers difficult. Do you know of any?
There is nothing wrong with prostitution other than the fact that it is illegal in some places. You are employing "the world's worst argument" to try to compare a consensual act between two adults to murder. Proselytize elsewhere.
Sorry. Edited my original comment. And thanks for that link.
No it wouldn't. 2011 profit/net income figures (from the 10-K filings) are:

Apple - $26bn
Microsoft - $23bn
Google - $9.7bn

So Apple edged past Microsoft in 2011. It is still some way from overtaking all of the companies combined.
This one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gaqQdyfAz8&feature=relmf... is more on topic (QuakeCon panel with Michael Abrash of Valve).
Bootstrap isn't a template. It's a complete UI framework/toolkit.
How different is "scaling" an image from "zooming" a browser page? Are they different at all? Because scaling a figure is exactly what Kruger demonstrates in the linked video at 4:30, as the other commenters have pointed out.

Furthermore, it looks like he may be using a touch surface in addition to IR/video cameras, because he can draw strokes on-screen with his finger while his whole silhouette is projected. (A capacitative touchscreen or not, I don't know. Maybe the cameras have good depth perception.) Let's not mince words, "pinching" is equivalent to moving two fingertips together, and "zooming" is scaling.

I also find striking the little crawling/flying sprite his silhouette plays with, starting at 3:34. We're seeing something that should be in a Kinect game, 20+ years before the Kinect. He speaks eloquently about how natural it is for humans to expect behaviours in the real world to translate to the virtual world, when they interact with images on a TV screen.

His exposition is full of so many casually demonstrated possibilities, each of which could probably be patented in our current environment. This guy (probably) didn't - leaving them open to free, public use - and we should be thankful for that.
This brief article very matter-of-factly points out some raw stats about market cap. It never even implied that's what matters.

Talking about a company's market cap doesn't mean money is everything, just as we wouldn't conclude "desktop backgrounds are everything" if the article was about Macbook's desktop backgrounds.

It's not everything. But it's something.
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Nonsense, 20 billion coins will weight 100,000 tons (the nickel is exactly 5 grams), it will take 3000 heavy trucks to deliver, not 30.
Purely in valuation terms, Apple stock is in no bubble. AAPL is trading at a P/E of 15.86 GOOG has a P/E of 20.08, for example.
In the last decade they've been innovative, yes, but I think your examples from this year are pretty obvious iterative improvements on their current product lines. PG expounded on this once, as well:

I was talking recently to someone who knew Apple well, and I asked him if the people now running the company would be able to keep creating new things the way Apple had under Steve Jobs. His answer was simply "no." I already feared that would be the answer. I asked more to see how he'd qualify it. But he didn't qualify it at all. No, there will be no more great new stuff beyond whatever's currently in the pipeline. Apple's revenues may continue to rise for a long time, but as Microsoft shows, revenue is a lagging indicator in the technology business. [1]

Apple seems to me one of the scariest companies in the industry right now. I predict that although they'll give lip service to "building great products" there simply won't be enough executives who believe it like Steve did, and like the vast majority of corporations of their size, they'll prioritize profits over everything else.

1. http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
The problem with shorting is that you can make the right call broadly, but time it wrong. I think AAPL is overvalued, but I don't know when (or even if) the market will come to the same conclusion.

It costs money to keep short positions open - there are several examples of people who exited short positions in the subprime-mortgage bond market just before the credit crunch. They were convinced that the market was going to crash, but they didn't know exactly when.
What is inherently immoral with prostitution? Unlike murder and rape, it is a victimless crime and is in fact legal in many countries.
Various Police forces also do cycle marking for free, worth checking the website of your local force. This isn't UV ink but a unique number that is etched into the frame (they've different etches for different frame materials, I've had both steel and carbon fibre frames done).

MET: http://www.met.police.uk/transport/cycle_marking.html
BTP: http://www.btp.police.uk/neighbourhood_policing/london_south...
I think you're being way too pedantic here. With your definition you could argue that truly nothing is innovative then...

From Wikipedia:

Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments, and society.

You don't think Apple fits that definition?
They do have different characteristics, but presently you can focus on just two architectures: the 7970 and the 680.
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> Just realised it has a kickass gallery viewer

Actually the kickass gallery viewer works on all WordPress.com blogs regardless of the theme.

We call it "Carousel" [1] and it is also available for self-hosted WordPress installs in Jetpack [2]

[1] http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/around-the-carousel-...
[2] http://jetpack.me/2012/07/13/jetpack-1-5-with-carousel/
Well obviously whoever Paul talked to is clueless about Apple.

All of Apple's products from now through the next year or two was designed and developed when Steve Jobs was alive as was revealed in his biography.

So this idea that Apple is somehow on their way down is ridiculous. Also all of Apple's releases for the last few years have been iterative.
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses" - Steve Jobs

So, according to Steve Jobs, a faster iPad/MacBook/iPhone with a clearer screen is the opposite of innovation. Apple died when the iPad came out, but they can still grow through a strong brand presence and law suits.
might be better titled as "8 Unix commands every developer should know".

They are all generic unix commands.
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It's called Twenty Twelve because it's the default theme that was released this year.

Next year we will have Twenty Thirteen and so on ...
Yeah, but you can log-in with private keys instead of passwords, so that problem was solved a long time ago.
The selection of iTunes movies in the Netherlands is a few months to half a year behind what you'd find on pirate bay though.
The Retina resolution 'issue' has been solved and well understood for a while now. You simply create two images one at original and one at @2x.
And I've just finished the Iliad (in translation) which dates from about 800BC describing events of ~1250BC.

It's a bit like the descendants thing that was discussed a few days ago on here - either lots of stuff will survive the next 1000 years (and therefore lots of running code will) or almost nothing will.
That's ridiculous. Apple's recent 2-3 quarters have been SUPER strong, much more than I would have expected.
Direct link to the pinch to zoom part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

So, tacking on a "BUT ON A CAPACITATIVE SCREEN" got Apple the patent?
Well, im not going to be drawn into the usual tried, simplistic and stupid arguments tending to include some of the following baseless comments like 'Apple is an a-hole company' or 'The patent system needs reform' or 'Apple doesn't innovate' or 'Apple steals' or 'Apple is due a fall'....etc... Grow up. I suggest you visit /r/circlejerk and start a conversation there with some like minded folk, you will probably feel more at home. Truth is, Apple's market capital, EV and other measures are all topping and for good reason. People (lots of them) like their products and find greater value in them compared to other technology companies.

I will say that Apple is more valuable to me than any of those other companies there. I have always used Apple computers. They have supported me through school, university, several years of research and all the jobs I have ever worked. Apple and MS create value and innovate, the others don't. Apple, MS and IBM are the kinds of companies that wont be going anywhere for quite a while, and if you think otherwise you are living in a fantasy world.
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No offense. But you are so ignorant about the facts it is scary.

Apple does NOT have a patent on rounded corners any more than Coke has a patent on soda bottles.
Is this a social media expert consultant robo-comment? Coz i read it in "the Fred" voice, and it sounded "right".
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The icon layout was also in the Newton MessagePad, which pre-dated Windows CE.

Rounded corners by themselves are not what made the case; it's that rounded corners, having the same grid layout, same connectors, same screen-edge "rubber band bounce-back", same coloured icons and claiming those as "obvious" when it was demonstrably proven that these things were not at that time, were what made the jury decide in Apple's favor.
By that definition, Samsung is more innovative than Apple-

4.8 Inch Display vs 3.5 Inch
Quad core processor vs Dual Core processor
4g vs 3g

And, no lawsuits from Samsung. Who is more innovative, now?
Could you explain why?

The dividend is an indication that they have too much savings. Share repurchasing is an indication that the company believes its shares are undervalued.

Or am I missing something?
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Oddly enough it would be victimless if it was legal and regulated.

But since it isn't in many countries it is a haven for people trafficking, child prostitution, kidnapping, drug abuse etc. The sooner we shine a light on these darker parts of society the better everyone will be.
Guess people aren't laughing at Shay Pierce any more, huh?
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Why do you think the stock is overvalued? They only trade at 15 x earnings, so the cap is very much aligned with earnings and growth, i really see nothing in the stock price, that indicates a brand factor. If you compare it to Google, they trade at 20 x earnings.. and have less growth...
Just a note: $('input[name=firstname]') and $('#firstname') are not same. First one returns an input with name firstname whereas seconds one returns and element with id firstname.
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That's a flawed lock strategy. I wouldn't ever want to do that. I always include the rear wheel and the seat-tube (or seat-stays) inside my D-lock.

"There is no need to loop it around the seat tube as well, because the wheel cannot be pulled through the rear triangle."

The two simple methods I've seen for defeating it (based on seeing just mangled rear wheels locked up to railings/bike racks) is to:-

a) Stamp on the rear wheel and fold it so that it fits through the rear triangle. (No tools required).
b) Cut a bunch of spokes (easy to do with a pair of wire cutters) and press the rear wheel flat so that it fits through the rear triangle.

The rear wheel on one of my main bikes is £100; the rest of the bike is £1500. No chance I'm going to risk that.

Thieves won't care about not having a rear wheel if they're sticking bikes in the back of a van to sort out or sell off at a later date.

Sadly Sheldon isn't alive today to discuss and review that strategy.
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Perhaps you should redirect that reference to your not relevant link to the author of the article that is cited and quoted. You asked why Zynga was getting beaten up so much, you got an answer to your question.
Writer's internet license should be revoked.
I'm a designer myself and what you're telling me is not a 'fix', it is a maintainability nightmare.

http://tablettrends.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/the-retina-ipad...
Because they just copy existing games and then add their "micro transactions" and A/B testing on top? From FarmVille to Mafia Wars. They strive to create virtual operant conditioning chambers.
Apple does NOT have a patent on rectangles or rounded corners.

And there is no evidence that Apple's image hasn't been tarnished at all in the eyes of the general public. I see no reason that the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini will again be record breaking sellers for Apple this year.
Having read the article I don't really see how this is anything other than an extremely labour intensive method of doing content spinning which is as old as the hills. There are many SEO spinning tools that allow the user this kind of granular control but which are still much easier to use for this task than excel. The quality of the article wasn't helped by the fact that it sounds like the author is (quite clearly) not a native English speaker.
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Can I suggest changing the CSS units for fonts from points to pixels? That way HN will look the same on both Chrome and Firefox for me :)

On Chrome 10pt HN type is 12px on Firefox it's 13.3333px (Mac OS X).

(Apologies if this is not the way to do this! Thank you for HN!)
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One would think there's not much left to be done when it comes to the boilerplate, but these guys prove there is.
Apple has won a jury trial in its own backyard against a Korean company. Now, I do understand the anger among the people of California about Samsung copying their home side's products so brazenly. But a patriotic statement like that isn't exactly what I find very relevant when making up my own mind up about the merit of those patents or the merits of the US patent system.
This is nothing new. Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, also known as Witkacy, was painting portraits of himself and friends under influence of drugs in mid-War Poland. He was actually making a living of it through his Portrayal Company (while at the same time writing ingenious prosaic, poetical and drama works that would make him famous), though most of the bespoke portraits were not drug-influenced, the so-called Type C being reserved for friends and acquaintances and created mostly during parties. Some of these portraits contained cryptic inscriptions next to the author's signature, indicating the influencing substances.

More on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Ignacy_Witkiewic...

A sample portrait (with an inscription hinting at alcohol and/or heroin): http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Witkacy/Images/Nena_Stach...

More assorted portraits:
http://images.google.pl/search?tbm=isch&source=hp&bi...
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The graphic is unusable - i.e. don't use it. And it's not a bug - HTML leaves such anti-aliasing rules undefined, which is why it's a bad idea to try this sort of practice, and why CSS "graphics" nearly always look crappy.
Or, you know, you could optimize against providing value, and gather pagerank organically rather than adopting the mentality of the shitbirds that send me postcard spam by snail mail.

Don't pretend this tactic is anything less than gas for a race to the bottom. Is that where you want to be?
Exactly what I was thinking.

Zynga are noticing the issues they're having and trying to create a few more lifeboats.
If you need it done in a hurry, you don't use a mainframe. Their performance is actually quite poor compared to pretty much anything else, as is the cost per transaction. In general, if you need a machine where the hardware never fails, and you can't get the level you need with a cluster, you use a mainframe. Of course, it's still human error that bites you in the ass every time anyway. These days, you really only use a mainframe if that's all you have.
> "Japan? There's no startup scene in Japan. Hell, that's a 12 hour flight. You think VCs are going to fly 12 hours for a board meeting?"

Who said there's no startup scene in Japan? On the other hand, it's indeed much harder to get funding for an early stage startup in Tokyo than it is in Silicon Valley. This is not obvious, because Tokyo is home to one of the biggest stock markets in the world, and to a lot of rich people too.

I don't think you're contributing to the discussion by juxtaposing a fairly ridiculous statement with a reasonable (but not obviously true or false) one; unless someone in fact said that.

> I don't think people are this naive about Japan in particular, but I hear them say the strangest stuff.

So why write it? Honestly I don't see the point of making up some quotes and then countering them.
Splendid work guys, but I am still unhappy that you guys closed the Google group around it.

Will check out the updates shortly.
That's what copies are for. Store one in a secure place.
Most of that software is still in use because it's very poorly written using a combination of COBOL and assembler and people are afraid to touch it.
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But why is bigger, more and faster automatically better or more innovative? All three of your hardware choices (assuming the lower level details are understood) have a direct worsening impact on battery life for example and so need to be chosen and used wisely.

The innovation in a modern handheld device is about so much more than the base hardware spec.
I definitely tend to suffer from the second type as well, lucky enough to have a great product manager who keeps the specs tight and limits how much I can "just add this one really cool thing!"
hey actually sell special processors that run Java for 'Free'. Most people don't know that IBM charges you for 'MIPS'. They actually charge you for using your computer. They have some other specialized processors as well ... all are very expensive.
CPU cores as a performance metric between two very different platforms.

Makes sense to me.
To continue reading, subscribe? seriously?
The suggestion to use Stackoverflow as support channel is a good decision imho
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tail -f filename should definitely make the list, essential for watching what's appended to log files in real time.
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The parent to which I replied edited the comment, so you can't see the relevance.
A better title:

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Cool. Tried out appfog, was pretty straight forward and easy to use. No SSL support as of yet though, so not committing to them.

Need a node.js PaaS that supports both sockets and SSL. Haven't found anything yet.
Why do I own a home?

My girlfriend and I bought a house together a year after we finished university. We're now married. We found a beautiful 100-year old brick house in a village in the UK an hour from my work, 30 minutes from hers. It's just big enough for the family that we want in the future so we're not planning on moving.

We bought it because we wanted to have our own space to live and raise a family in. Every penny that we pay off is ours in equity. The interest base rate is so insanely low (0.5% in the UK) that we hardly pay any interest on the mortgage. We've worked hard to pay off as much of the mortgage as possible, forgoing holidays for a couple of years, so it's now more ours than the banks. In a decade or two it will be ours entirely. If we rented (and some of the houses in the village can be rented) we would pay twice as much each month and having nothing to show for it after decades.

We're close to two major UK cities, so we are not out in the sticks. We're both young academics, so we are certainly not rich.

As a couple we have a lot of fun decorating, remodelling and maintaining it. The previous owners had windows that weren't in keeping with the style so together we replaced them with hand crafted sash windows. Every summer we spend a glorious weekend having fun painting all the woodwork together.

When we die we will be able to pass on our house and its value to our children. It will be the house they grew up in, in the village they grew up in. They will either be able to sell it to get our life savings, meaning they or their children can buy their dream home, or perhaps they'll build a family in it as well.

Having your own house is about having your own space - your own castle.
AeroFS, a yc alumni works great if you're concerned with where your data is stored. Nothing is stored on any cloud, because they use a p2p tech, or something like that. They also seem quite serious about security.

www.aerofs.com
In that case, I apologise most sincerely.
Thanks for that! I was somewhat interested, but not enough to subscribe to WSJ.
Apple should send back those trucks to Samsung and say - 'Sorry amount not matching!'
Don't they say that EVERY firefox release?