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Either cut-and-paste or a dual pane Finder would work for me.
This is not a terrible idea, but it feels like a hugely niche product. Motorola has tried this already with the Atrix and it has yet to take off. Maybe Ubuntu will fix that, but I am not so sure. If this is a good phone experience and a crappy PC experience, nobody is going to care. This needs to be both a great phone and a great PC. Otherwise it's just a phone.

Also, why is this not using Kickstarter? It seems like Kickstarter is "the place" to raise money for something like this, so it's likely that it won't raise as much money as it could just because of the site they're using.
Actually yes, the phrase 'Linux on the Desktop' does include laptops. 'Linux on the Desktop' sounds like a better rallying cry then 'Everyone using Linux directly'.
WTF, I never said I had anything to do with the project! I was merely making a point about being more supportive towards a Show HN project instead of just linking to a competitor and stating "this is better and the guy running it is awesome".

How can anyone read my comment and infer it's my project? Was my wording really that misleading?!?
I think the OP misread the article he's referring to. The point is not to avoid setting goals, but that if you want to actually get good at anything, you should first learn to create habits, and then just start doing it. Once you're already doing it, it'll be a lot easier to improve, and then go ahead and follow the usual advice on setting goals.

After all, what's the point of setting specific and challenging goals, if you're unable to stick to them?
Java got some basics very, very wrong. First-class object iteration, list comprehension, string manipulation...either these features are nonexistent or feature brutal syntax bordering on the hideous C++ container class verbosity.
In the last year I became almost but not quite entirely unlike an IE-team hater...
I mean, they're doing a lot of cool things both on IE itself and on Google/Apple/Mozilla-esque experiments.
Ask HN: Are you a lifestyle business owner / micropreneur?
I'm curious how many people on HN self-identify as a "lifestyle business owner" or "micropreneur". Obviously, there are a lot of people who are in the swing-for-the-fences startup environment. And probably more who are simply bystanders and hopefuls who wish they were in the startup environment.

Personally, I'm more interested in building a comfortable lifestyle business for myself. Would people be interested in forming a small community? These types of discussions are often tangential to the startup discussion found on HN and elsewhere - a lot of advice for a startup does not really apply to a lifestyle business.

I know of a few places (Micropreneur Academy, Dynamite Circle, Startup Guild), but each of these have their own problem in my opinion. Where else do people hang out? Any go-to blogs for reading on the subject, or podcasts?
Because, If want to try it, if I just push the button, you lost the possibility of having my email.

If I want to try it, I will put my email for free. And then you can sell me anything by email, in a future.
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I think it has to do with Microsoft's recent social kick (everyone is on that kick lately >.>) and it also uses the visual style from IE's recent ads. (Like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFE4rkSaKOY)
if you are always meeting your estimates then surely your estimates are incorrect. unless an estimate is given as x% of the time you will complete the work faster than the estimate then I would assume an estimate is 50% of the time you will fall under 50% of the time your will fall over.
Okay, I think I fit the "hacker" name (whatever that is) as well as anyone.

And for my next project, easily the most ambitious I've undertaken, I'm working on the JVM.

If you'd asked me three years ago if I'd ever write Java code, the answer would be no.

I don't really write Java though – I'm mostly using Scala, along with a couple of libraries that were written in Java, that I patch (e.g. Cassandra).

Point is, hackers are choosing the JVM today, whether its Scala, Clojure, Groovy, or JRuby, Jython, and the like. And having Java in the mix, from my perspective, is not at all bad. It means there's tonnes of relatively usable libraries out there, that are easy to tweak without breaking things, that have had plenty of time to bake.

The Java classloader mechanism is kind of nasty when it's paired with application servers, but consider on its own, it's allowing us to do live rollouts of new applications written in Scala without restarting the JVM. (We don't use an application server, we effectively wrote our own.)

Akka is like Erlang-light, and paired with Scala, makes the kinds of things people are wanting to do with Node.js (which I ported to Solaris, along with v8) easier, faster, and safer.

tl;dr Hackers are starting to choose the JVM, and the modern languages built on top of it (Scala, Groovy, Clojure) and the huge base of existing Java libs is making that possible -- just like the huge base of C/C++ libs made choosing Python, Ruby, or Perl reasonable a decade ago.
A+++ Would read again.
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Established its roots ? It is just a standalone app and would be trivial to rewrite or split into its separate parts.

The hard bit is in the overall experience. Splitting one app into 5 or 6 was manageable on iOS but could be unwieldy on OSX.
This is an interesting read for me. I am 33 years old and work as the CTO of a large fund in NYC. I started off as a coder and then got promoted all the way up to the glorious rank of CTO, which really means the guy with the most responsibility and doesn't get to code as much anymore :(

I agree with this article in many ways but I don't think you can separate out the two characters in such a black and white fashion. Where I work, there is no such thing as "bad coders" because the standard for hiring is so tight. Everyone here really knows their stuff (including me!) but I do agree what separates people apart is their communication skills. I was one of the few people that was not afraid to talk to management and express my opinion on certain things. Most of the other programmers just deferred to me and I was almost always the representative of the coders to management. I work with some really smart people, genius-level guys, but most of them are extremely introverted. The ONLY difference, from what I can see, is that I am almost exactly the opposite. I am an extrovert through-and-through but also love nerd-type things. Someone that can bridge the gap between the technical and non-technical worlds is a worth a lot to an organization.

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It's a list of feature requestes; none of this is necessary. But ZFS would be very nice to have.
Funny they haven't sued Apple Records (company that produced the Beatles) yet.
> a hunch that it [Java] won't be a very successful language

He lists COBOL as a bad language - but it's been very successful. So I think he's not really writing about "success", but about what hackers like. Interpreted this way, he's accurate: hackers don't like Java.

Businesses like investments that keep returning value - for languages, that means compatibility and portability. Hackers like to change things - expressiveness and power. Java code from years ago still works; it's also portable across machines and OSes. In contrast, ruby broke my simple toy code, after just a few months, in a minor point-release. Similarly, I believe there are many incompatible versions of lisp, and many hackers write their own libraries rather than reuse, so there's little standardisation. Different things are valued.

So I agree with pg's theme that if businesses like it, hackers won't. (There's some factual inaccuracies in the rest, but that wasn't his point.)
JVM does not do black magic. You can donwload the source if you want to see what's going on: http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot/
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Unfortunately, it's not about how many lives can be saved. It's about how many dollars can be gained.
I'm not saying that USSR was imaginary (I was born there). I'm saying that USSR as an enemy to US was more or less 'imaginary'. (Same goes the other direction as well, BTW). Did USSR attack US on a massive scale, and on US soil? Like Germany attacked Poland during WW2? Was the threat as real as it was being presented to the masses?
Could you elaborate on the alternatives?
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I'd argue the "Processing" dialect is more important than some of these.
Oh so instead copying Safari's logo they now copy Firefox? http://elementaryos.org/sites/default/files/user/5/midori.pn...

Elementary might have something going on for them but originality is not it apparently.
The US government in the 50s and 60s wildly overstated the strategic threat from the USSR to the United States, notably the infamous bomber and missile gaps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber_gap

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap
The slide-out menu pattern showed up on both platforms mostly simultaneously (think Facebook may have been an early adopter). Also, it doesn't seem to follow the action bar pattern any more than other iOS apps do. Back and search buttons in the title bar has been an iOS convention since the dawn of the OS.

Visually, it is adopting a similar "flat" design to Holo (as has Google+ on iOS), not sure how I feel about that but I'm not a primary user of iOS so my opinion is mainly moot there.
Does anyone know of a similar law in Canada?
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I think YouTube borrowed the menu-behind-the-content-when-it-slides-to-the-right from Facebook. Anyway, that's where I first saw it.

Design-wise, it looks pretty much like the new mobile website.
I don't look at ads or register them, why should I let them destroy the page layout?

I was on a public computer recently and was shocked to see almost half the screen of a newspaper site was full with ads.

I would very much like a pay-to-remove-ads business model on free sites.
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/Inter-universal%20... — oh, I need some time to accept this is not machine generated :)
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Reputation in the field is not a proxy for general intelligence. That there are only 10 people with the reputation to make it worth them assessing the proof does not mean those are the only 10 people with the smarts to understand it.

And yes, a large part of being able to work in a specialized field like this really is about having the specialized knowledge and vocabulary, rather than general intelligence. If this is anything like most proofs in mathematics, most reasonably intelligent people would be able to understand it given ten years of studying the field. It's not about being smart enough, there's just so much existing knowledge that you need a lot of specialization to be able to really contribute to any given area.
And about time, too. The old youtube app was the worst of the built in apps.
Micropreneur is what bugs crap. try meet-up.
Apple has generally been pretty good on this front.

For example, the last PowerPC mac was discontinued August 2006, and the first incompatible OS (10.6) was introduced August 2009. That's three years.

Similarly, the last 32 bit x86 Mac was discontinued August 2007 (Mac mini) and the first incompatible OS (10.7) was introduced October 2010.

And that's the most pessimistic view possible. Looking at typical purchaser lifespans, it seems you can look forward to around three major upgrades to Mac OS X over the life of a particular machine.
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I always click the comments link first. If the first set of comments look interesting, I'll read the article, the come back to the comments and read those.

I probably read 60% of the articles after skimming the comments.
From reading the spec, the problem with SVG is that it is very difficult to implement completely due to the all-encompassing rendering model, javascript integration and animation scripting. This makes it difficult to read and write, without pulling in half a browser, and next to impossible to edit fully, unless using a text editor.

So if we do see more adoptions, it's quite likely they'll either end up incompatible with each other or some consensus on a work-able subset of SVG is reached.

Perhaps if W3C had done a reference implementation much like, say, H.264 has reference implementations, some of this could have been avoided?

I'd enjoy reading opposing views on this, interesting topic.
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> in 10 years' time, the most popular languages will still be some variant of Java and C#.

Well... I'll probably have to open a restaurant somewhere...
Which Java thread consumes my CPU?
You're wasting money if you buy into this crap.. but it's a free country I guess. I just wanted to provide a warning!
I can see a problem with this, when I open the link the URL remains the same (i.e. the "referrer" part is not updated). If I were to share it I'd just copy/paste the URL, in effect meaning that I won't appear as a "node" in the graph. I wonder if that's why the graph seems very "centralized" around a few points.

Unless it's because I refused to share my location. They should explain why they need it beforehand, I would never allow that by default (I only understood the point once I saw the map).

EDIT: Also, it will probably not take the retweets and similar into account, as the URL will remain the same. Overall it's an interesting concept but I doubt it'll provide any worthwhile data.
The Facebook share option is not working for me.
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This reminds me a Steve Blank's funny story about the letter "e" and Microsoft:
http://steveblank.com/2012/08/20/when-microsoft-sued-us-over...
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This campaign will receive all of the funds contributed by Sat Nov 10 at 11:59PM PT.

Also, Kickstarter seems to work best when you offer the actual product as a perk.

I don't believe that there is even a remote possibility of this being more than a vaporware. Even if they get to their goal. The amount of money isn't enough for producing a smartphone in today's situation(patents & all that jazz).
I've given some thought to the iTunes problem. I think the best solution is to break it up into smaller apps. The tricky part is no one wants to have a dozen different apps installed separately so iTunes would have to still be distributed as one big monolithic application. So instead of trying to cram everything into one window I would suggest something like a Springboard style UI to greet the user when iTunes is launched. From there the individual apps would be more like their iPad counterparts. Simple and to the point. Library management could be broken out into its own separate app to avoid a lot of UI clutter in the Music app itself. Going forward this would let Apple easily add or remove things from iTunes.
Cmd-Opt-V (vs. just Cmd-V).
Ask HN: What Managed DNS do you use and why?
After yesterdays GoDaddy woes I'm curious in seeing what everyone is using for their DNS and why. The thread yesterday had a few recommendations but wasn't focused on alternatives.

I've seen a couple of comparisons. CloudFlare, Route53, DynDNS look good but some comparisons show one is much slower than the other, etc.

Was curious what you use and why, and what experiences you've had with your current and old DNS.

Edit: Meant to include one of the comparisons made and posted on HN yesterday: http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2012/08/comparison-and-analysis-of-managed-dns.html and
Great Wikipedia page:
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I don't think they can either. But it's in the law. It's completely crazy.
Not to mention all the clones... who usually are run by the kind of people you mentioned...

"Germany has a great tradition of a hardcore hacking culture and engineering culture, yet the startups of Berlin seem to be driven purely by generic management graduates and it shows. Not sure why this is - maybe saying 'I work on my startup' is the same as saying 'I work in Media' five years ago - it's a lot more about the lifestyle, than the substance and results."
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While I don't think that 12 (or 30, or 100) is worth shooting for specifically, there is a sense that "billion dollar startups" aren't going to happen if they require resources that cannot be effectively provisioned and scaled.

People are exactly that kind of resource, and thus hiring should be on the radar as one of the things you optimize when designing your business model.

One of the main reasons my current startup sells exclusively through VARs is because there's no way we could possibly scale out our support organization as fast as our SaaS product can be adopted by companies, and the product is such that companies will need support.

By going through VARs, we solve that problem by first training the VARs to support the product, and then selling to their customers (the VAR getting the support contract).

It's way more effective in terms of time, and scales a lot better than the alternative: hiring and training our own support organization, which is ridiculously people-intensive.

Without that strategy, our company could only scale out with VC money and a "hiring binge", as the author put it, if at all. By taking the time to see where those scaling challenges would be now, we're able to hack around it and position ourself for growth without needing capital to do so.
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I’m impressed that the Prof pronounces your first name, if it’s one of the names he knows – it makes his talk feel a lot more personal. And he even knows my name, “Rory”, which is fairly uncommon. How many names did you record? How did you choose those names?

On the home page, the “How it works” three-page widget scrolls too slowly when I click one of the three page circles. That speed is fine for the automatic page-turning every 8 seconds, but if I click a circle, I want to see that page right away – the animation should be about 5 times faster. I was slightly annoyed by the slowness when I tried to go back to the first page, which you don’t want.

It also might help to stop that widget from scrolling until the user has scrolled far down enough that you think they have started reading it, so they can read the first step first, and aren’t forced to click on the first-page circle to go there themselves. Perhaps you don’t care which page the user reads first, but the chronological ordering of the pages contradicts that idea.

When I read https://www.sleepio.com/sciencebehindsleepio, I was impressed that you said you had done experimental trials, and I couldn’t see any sign of obvious bias in the experimental design, but I was still a bit skeptical and worried that the experiments were biased. I just realized that an addition that would have convinced me a lot more strongly would have been a LaTeX-formatted scientific paper about the experiment, typeset in Computer Modern. The paper would not promote Sleepio, but just describe the experimental method and results. I don’t know if LaTeX supports exporting to a web page with the Computer Modern font embedded – if not, you’d have to link to a PDF, which you’d have to work hard to convince me to open.
Except iTunes contains two bits of functionality Apple can't afford to break:

- iPod/iOS sync

- iTunes Store

Break the primary route to a user's wallet/content, and the Apple experience starts to fall apart.
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2 kids; 3y and 1y.

I pay for office space and treat my own work the same as if I was working for someone else.

I go to the office to work, and when I'm home my interrupt flag is set to 1.

This is the only way I can get things done. Anything else and someone is bound to be unhappy.
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I'm concerned about the laptop mounting design. If you were using the laptop in a public place, what's to stop someone swiping the phone from the back of the screen and running?
> Sexual relationships for minors is also illegal in most jurisdictions. Why do you need to allow minors to send erotic images of themselves when they're not allowed by law to engage in physical sexual activity?

In Scotland, 16 year olds can legally get married (without their parents' consent), and thus have a state-approved sexual relationship. They can perfectly legally take photos of themselves having sex, but the moment they show these photos to anyone else, they are evil child pornographers who must be punished.
You would need to know them a bit at least - for debugging.
I'd say relabel iTunes as iSync, remove the media player from it and build one from scratch, something that's snappy as hell and more modern.
That seems like such a terrible idea; I love the fact that everything is neatly organized in iTunes.

Think of how terrible it would be for your Apple TV to then break out and have to look at multiple applications for your content instead of one.

I highly doubt apple would make the mistake of creating more mini apps to manage each of the various items; just would be a stupid design move.
>If someone leaves their journal lying in a coffee shop

Not even remotely near the same thing. Can we agree to stop making crappy physical analogies, please?

> If my neighbor leaves their Wi-Fi open, I won't hack it.

It's not "hacking" (or even a little bit unethical) to associate to an open AP - it amounts to an advertisement of a free service available. Really you're not crossing any creeper lines there unless you start rifling through the other computers connected to that AP.
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In my own experience, such simplications begin to fall apart as soon as you find the slightest bit of complexity in what you're building upon them. As soon as something doesn't fit the mold, you adjust the mold - or worse, you adjust the something. The next thing you know, you're spending more time customizing your framework than you are being truly productive.

There is an inherent simplicity in HTML / CSS / JS that can be easily forgotten and difficult to replace. Each has its responsibility: Organization, Style, and Function - The combinations of these 3 simple entities are amazingly capable of representing the entire internet. That's a pretty difficult thing to simplify further.

Nonetheless, I like your approach and I wish you luck.
Disclaimer: original title says 'non short-term' and i replaced it to 'longterm' to keep the title below 80 chars. Sorry.