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I think that they earned that reputation when the alternative was death. You could say that the same thing goes for Microsoft today. The iPad is going to back them into a corner, and they need to reinvent Windows and the PC in order to have a prayer of still being relevant in 20 years.

edit: I should also mention that I am incredibly disappointed that they still haven't added multiple user accounts to the iPad, which feels like a no-brainer and a critical feature.
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Are these template pre-compiled by the server at runtime or is there a build process before deploying the app to the server?

If it was happening at run-time, I'd probably rather just have the client do the compiling instead of the server. Since the client isn't going to notice a few extra milliseconds, but on the server that can add up under high load.
> When you leave, take your valuables.

So I'm in a foreign land, and I should carry around all my worldly possessions with me?

How is that safer?

(Why can't the hotel provide a lock that works?)
Agreed, that paragraph was the ultimate in apple-fanboi fan fiction.

Regarding Apple being better, I still think they have the edge on the apps front if not on the hardware front. Its also where the money is if you're a developer trying to make a living from developing apps.
Oh look, this again.

1. The internet was already a pretty neat place before online advertising became ubiquitous. There was lots of good content online, lots of curated databases of information, lots of good reference sites. If a bunch of blogs gradually dry up and blow away because they can't be profitable enough through advertising anymore, fine. They'll be replaced.

2. AdBlock is not destroying the internet. The internet was destroyed by advertising. AdBlock became popular as a direct result of the proliferation of websites that were 20% content and 80% advertising, fluff, and nonsense. It became popular as a direct result of blinking, jumping, moving, popping-under advertising elements. It became popular as a direct result of users having their browsers (and machines) compromised and infected by ad networks that did not vet their advertisers correctly. Content owners were perfectly willing to let the administration of advertising be somebody else's problem, and when that somebody else decided not to do their job either, users got screwed and they turned to AdBlock.

3. AdBlock does not, to my knowledge, block most donation requests, so I don't get where he thinks it's hypocritical that AdBlock is donation-supported.

4. AdBlock also recently rolled out a by-default "non-intrusive ads are OK" setting for all Firefox users. This led to quite a bit of controversy, which I think mostly illustrates just how sick of advertising a lot of people are. But, it stuck. So, now you can't even argue anymore that AdBlock is terrible because it's blocking all of your revenue.

5. Users may not be entitled to your content, but you aren't entitled to your users' attention, either. For instance: more and more sites lately seem to be using a Lightbox on page load to ask you to sign up for their stupid newsletter, or follow them on Twitter, or like them on Facebook. As a content owner, you're certainly allowed to do that. And, users are certainly allowed to install an extension that will block that, too.

6. I happen to agree that NoScript does more harm than good, as a practical matter, given current standards of web development. However, again, I fully understand why it exists: a huge number of attempts to compromise web browsers, track users against their will, or otherwise abuse their trust, is done through Javascript. Back when compromised Wordpress websites were a serious problem, every single one I saw -- not a small number, cleaning them up was something we did at the time -- used Javascript in the footer of one or more files to attempt to hit the browser. NoScript protected against that.

7. I didn't think Ghostery would be a very big deal, but I installed it a while back and have been completely flummoxed at the sheer amount of stuff blocked by it on websites. Loading a site and seeing a 20-deep list of social network buttons is merely visually annoying; having them all load their own little scripts and other bullshit is enough to incentivize me to block them.

AdBlock, Ghostery, and NoScript aren't ruining the internet; uninhibited commercialism and a complete lack of respect for users is.
I think ads are just the things that destroy the internet! And its good there is an thing to stop the greedy basterds who "make money" with all their adverts!
Yes, correct, that is a Customer "Pro". I am writing it on the board.

Now fill the entire board up with Pros and Cons, then matrix that across Apple, Regulators, Carriers, Engineering, and Third Party Concerns. And then get back to me on what you think the correct answer is if your name is Apple and you have 200M customers to serve.
There is also an alternate explanation that was replicated in the lab: http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050325blueberr...

He obtained a quantity of hematite and
blasted it with an electric arc.
The results are seen in the right
half of the image above. The embedded
spheres created by the arc appear to
replicate many of the features of the
blueberries on Mars. No other laboratory
process has achieved a similar result.
Ah, $600 is not too bad! Thanks for the info.
Control is control, I agree! Did I ever disagree?

We all have our own motives behind keeping control and I find it hard to believe that Zuckerberg's motives were as pure as claimed in the article (given the history of the guy and all).

I believe there is a high likelihood that the young Zuckerberg of 8 years ago may have had other motives behind keeping that control, far more personal motives than the original article implies.

Also, Based on Zuckerberg's stronger focus on product as opposed to business, which I feel is a pretty big weakness when your a CEO, I have my doubts he was even thinking about IPO back then, and I'm sure he is regretting thinking about IPO now.
Looks like it comes from here: http://readymag.com/js/homepage/homepage.js
Cheez, the reason to not use Sinatra for me is that I'd have to implement all the security measures myself. Sure for a hobby project or a really simple project it might be OK. I guess it all depends on what budget you have for spending time re-implementing all the plumbing.
What can people do about it? barricade their hotel door?
No, this is much more of help to people looking to get to other people and now they just got an extra option.
This really opened a market.

If you really care about hotel customers you would be on the company side that made all these locks, because they really need help. Yes they screwed up, they deserve punishment but do the customers have to be the victim?
Ask your boss. Not here.
As demonstrated by the existence of all these things, ads are hardly uninhibited commercialism - smart business doesn't piss off users.
At the end of June, in 2009, the European Commission started a movement to make micro-USB the standardized charging port for cellphones. It was subsequently backed by roughly 90% of the cellphone market holders, with Apple, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung (among others) all agreeing to the standardization.

http://www.slashgear.com/micro-usb-formally-chosen-as-cellph...

Apple get around this by promising an adaptor for the european market.

Mandated standards can be useful if you want to waste less resources making duplicates of everything in slightly differing shapes. And consumers get to carry less tatt around and can borrow charging leads off each other and stuff. This isn't rocket science.
I think all startup/business advice can be qualified with "...unless you're Steve Jobs."

I think it's generally good advice, but if you have the wherewithal to execute a combination product to perfection, then you'll win. The point is that people who focus on any one aspect of your combination product usually will do better.

Think toaster/microwaves or scan/copy/fax machines.
This isn't William Shatner.
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I thought it pointed out how accurate its hyperbole was :) 1.7% is huge.
Why don't sites more often block (or just show a message to) users of Adblock? Is that traffic more valuable than not? Are they hoping visitors will link articles to non-Adblock using people? It seems to me like there is a value in users who don't see your ads, or you'd just block them.

I subscribe to Arstechnica premiere to remove the ads, I have Adblock disabled on overclockers.com.au, The Verge. I subscribe to offtopic.com at a level that removes ads. I contributed to the Penny-Arcade ad-removing kick starter.

Everything else has its ads blocked because you need to prove your worth and trustworthiness to me after two decades of sliding in to the abyss.

If you don't want me, block me. Don't let me see your content.
I don't think that is what GP is commenting about. He is stating that previously one of the arguments for iPhone was that the weight was just right. Any less or any more would have destroyed the form factor.

While I had not seen this argument with weight, I have seen it multiple times with Screen Size. And now that it has changed I am pretty damn sure that 4inch screen will not be the only form factor that is perfect and everything else will be 'not-for-the-masses'.
I'm confused why there's no effective, tech-driven advertiser response to Adblock. Code wise, it seems to me that only a whitelist based blocker should work; blacklist based blockers can be subverted by ad networks routing through dynamic proxies. If I'm a DSP, I simply obfuscate my code and domains every two hours, forever, and defeat all blockers. Am I missing something here?
Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #16 – Thursday 27th of September, 2012
I think here Dan gives a good example of how one's pitch should be logically structured to progress from dead simple overview to details, enticing the receiver to either listen or to move on. We all know this, but I bet most of us (myself definitely included) fail miserably at executing properly.
It will take them awhile to figure this out. I just meant to say that when they announce these, it might not affect 90K worldwide employees right away, its more like the 40K in USA/Redmond + figure out how to handle in each other country based on unique circumstances (availability, taxes, etc...).
I've written a Jinja-to-JavaScript compiler:

https://bitbucket.org/djc/jasinja

It reuses the Jinja front-end, it really only replaces Jinja's code generator and supports a pretty large subset of Jinja. I think this is particularly great because it allows you to switch from server-side template rendering to client-side rendering of templates piecemeal, or use both with the same templating language.
Well, we'd shoot a team video, but we're in the process of relocating our startup so we're a little disparate. I guess you'll just have to interview us :)
I was part of the 2nd cohort to go through Imagine K12. It was an amazing experience. They definitely helped us really define our company during its formative stages and are still a great resource for us. We wouldn't be where we are today without their support. If you're at all interested in edtech, I highly suggest you apply. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.
That sounds pretty sweet. Does the network of advisors only cover the traditional education space, or also e-learning/self-teaching? Because for the latter it's a whole different ball game when it comes to marketing and customer acquisition.
> those ads pay my salary, as well as the other full time editors, professionals writers, and dedicated server costs

It depends. If your ads are pay-per-click, and if I would never click your ads anyway, did I hurt you in any way by not loading those ads in the first place? Pay-per-view is a different problem, but I have yet to see pay-per-view ads that I consider non-intrusive. After all, ads need to be intrusive in order to generate clicks. There's a conflict of interest right there.

> The modern Internet MUST have Javascript. So when you use NoScript, you’re breaking the Internet.

No, I'm not breaking the Internet. I'm only degrading (or improving, depending on who you ask) my own experience of the Internet, which I have every right to do. Just like I have every right to tell my browser to display all text in green-on-black 12pt Courier, or in any of the thousands of unexpected ways in which a computer program can consume HTML. If I broke into your server and removed a couple of script elements from your home page, that would be breaking the Internet.

> So even if a tracking script does follow some of your browsing habits, is it such a big deal? At the very worst end of the scale ... they’re being used for what’s called a behaviourally-targeted market.

I don't want behaviorally-targeted marketing, and if you'd like to convince me otherwise, you'd better give me a better argument than "I wanna make money." Plenty of honest people have made plenty of money without tracking people's behavior across websites. Just calling your opposition "conspiracy theorists" will not do.

If it is "evil" to make HTTP requests to some resources and not others, I would gladly be evil. If you don't like this, you are welcome to adjust your business strategies so that your main audience is too dumb to use AdBlock.
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I'm pretty sure i/o bound go routines will use the very same kernel eventing mechanism. I looked into this recently, and you have to explicitly tell it to use more than one thread with http://golang.org/pkg/runtime/#GOMAXPROCS
Indeed. Since the colleges control most of the cards here (via accreditation bodies and what not; students are replaceable, loan companies are replaceable, colleges are not) if left unchecked you would expect them to capture all of the value generated through college attendance.
Also Brian May (Queen) built his own guitar with his dad. I'm sure it's not the best guitar out there, but he learnt how to play it pretty well.
Are we talking iPod, or iPod Mini? The structural integrity of the iPod Mini comes from being milled from a single block of brushed metal. The regular iPods of the day were at least two pieces of metal (or metal and plastic). I believe the back of the iPod was even just a thin sheet of aluminum as opposed to the relatively thick unibody iPod Mini. These regular iPods would be trivial to crush. The iPod Mini was a fantastic bit of engineering. I wish Apple had gone with that design for the iPhone. Instead, the iPod Mini look has been turned into phone design by Nokia.
NoScript used to unblock its own ads from AdBlock+ when installed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoScript#AdBlock_Plus
Nothing is secure. I don't see how the electronic lock is any less secure than the glass used on most house windows. It's like saying glass manufacturers aren't making glass secure enough to protect home owners from intruders when someone can throw a piece of brick and smash it.
I can't stand the term 'retina display'. Displays are characterised by numbers - size and resolution (and therefore pixel density) being the big two.

The iPhone has a 1136x640 px, 4" display, not a 'retina' anything. It was made even worse when it was revealed that 'retina' doesn't mean a specific pixel density, only 'a resolution higher than what the competition offers at the time'.
I don't smoke pot, thanks.

That said, I didn't know that detail how these things usually work, though that does make sense and pleases me to hear.
Education may be free, but why would that affect the price of credentials?
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No "showroom trickery"? I suggest you jump to minute 7 of this presentation.

http://youtu.be/j_QtUH_zG4U
Http://www.writelonger.com/show/xgOKC
It's nice that they are expanding. But I really wish they would add IPv6 support for EC2 instances. It sucks to not be able to natively use IPv6 for UDP applications on EC2 :(
I vote for who I like the best, and that does not limit it to the two parties that have a chance of producing a winner.

Abstaining from voting strengthens everyone else's vote that much more, indicating that I don't care who wins. I opt to select a candidate that I know will not win but aligns with my views because a) the idea of selecting the lesser of two evils disgusts me, and I will have no part in it, and b) it actively indicates that I do not want either of the major players to win.

Yes, I'm of course perfectly aware that this has precisely no impact in the final tallies (I live in California, the state's delegates have been decided long before the election; this has been true everywhere I've lived never having lived in a swing state) - not at America's scale. But it helps me sleep at night knowing that I took a (uselessly tiny) stand, and far more importantly, can be explained to people in such a way that allows them to realize that they can do the same. If that message spreads far enough, it could actually turn into real impact.
Sorry, yes, I was thinking about BizSpark. And your point is very reasonable, which is why tools like Visual Studio Express are very important.
Using Ghostery and Adblock feels like your Internet connection doubles in speed.
Now, when I say rugged, I mean throw it across the room and run it over with a truck. I don't mean "drop it from pocket height". A case protects against a light bump, a rugged design can be used as an impromptu jack stand when your car gets a flat.
A Java to iOS Objective-C translator from Google
Fair enough, changed it.
Such breathless writing, matched only by the official marketing department.

"iPhone 5 is made with a level of precision you’d expect from a finely crafted watch — not a smartphone.

Never before has this degree of fit and finish been applied to a phone...

Look at iPhone 5 and you can’t help but notice the exquisite chamfer surrounding the display. A crystalline diamond cuts this beveled edge. It’s what gives iPhone 5 its distinctive lines. Fitting for a phone so brilliant."

http://www.apple.com/iphone/design/
How to share PCs VPN connection with Android/iPhone
I think the article's author makes the point that Apple have operated using the same evolutionary model for 30 or so years. Five years after the Mac was introduced, the latest version of the product looked similar, but was faster, more capable, and subtly refined. So too with the iPod. It's unreasonable to assume Apple could "break eggs" on an annual basis. The original iPhone was incubated inside the company for roughly half a decade, and it's likely Apple's next big product is maybe halfway through a similar incubation period. When that next big product is finally revealed, pundits won't recognise exactly how long it took to develop, and will voice their disappointment when the second generation model is only slightly better than the original. And so history will repeat.
ads are an euphemism; as if they would only inform you of something, that then you would feel compelled to purchase. Instead, they track people. Build profiles. Store profiles. Which are the to be used. Sure, you can make your salary by being a collaborator, but history will set you in perspective:

"With hindsight, we didn't need this giant network of unofficial collaborators," he adds. "We were too worried about what might happen. We should have trusted people more."

But they did not trust the people when they were in power.

And thousands of fragmented lives, and fragmented documents, still bear powerful witness to how a secret police force spread throughout a society.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19344978
Meeting was webcasted around the world (within MSFT).
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I totally agree with employees being allowed to enjoy and explore company products; and that such experiences should be absolutely free for all employees; but wonder if this experience should be limited within the company premises.

btw, does the hardware belong to the employee or is a property of MS. If the hardware is property of the employee, how does that make sense for MS, when employees switch jobs for their betterment (job + monetary reasons) .

AFAIK, MS at Redmond does not give Windows OS(software) for free; but gives it at a discount to its employees. Why not use the same strategy with hardware – give it with some discount – say 50% discount.

Win Apps - Do you really need to give hardware to build Apps for WP and Win8 or software alone would do ???
You should write a page for it. You aren't supposed to create pages for your own projects/products on wikipedia; they should come from neutral parties.
That's because the tooling does well enough versus your $50k dev project.

I'm not a fan of LightSwitch myself, but this is the right step forward for business software and fits in with the Office VBA ecosystem well (i.e. customise it yourself).

It's business mecca.
Something like a lightweight low-latency bittorrent for browsers would be the ultimate caching solution.
Smart sites detect Adblock and ask you to consider disabling it for their site. That approach seems to make the best business sense to me (as in: I do consider and disable Adblock for those sites, unless their ads are annoying in which case it gets turned on again).
Zune is actually quite nice from experience. I use Zune for my Windows Phone.
I was operating under the assumption of reasonable execution risk. If you can't even get the product out the door then you'll definitely fail. My main point was that it's hard to disprove ideas that are feasible and are something people want. To pursue such an idea is a gamble; to not pursue is also a gamble. I've unfortunately been wrong in both ways ;)
Scrolling through those -- I don't know if I should be impressed or not: how much effort are these to make? -- I saw one that doesn't render well for me:

https://www.scrollkit.com/s/gBbcZ8v

(on an old version of Chromium, 6.0.472.63 - for some reason I am browsing on a stable Debian, but the rendering of css/tables on that version of Chromium seems pretty solid).

Aside from uncertainty, I did have a positive impression: these are pages that aren't instrumented with cruft around the edges, and that makes a huge difference.
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> The iPad is going to back them into a corner

I don't think that is true necessarily. Firstly, as much as iPad may dominate home use, enterprise is still a territory that it will find incredibly hard to cater to. There are multiple reasons for this; the two most that I think are most important: (1) Lack of backward compatibility with existing code and apps (2) Dependence on Apple's curated marketplace for installing applications

> still being relevant in 20 years.

Now, for personal usage, I think WP7 was nice and WP8 will probably be better. Which means that if they realize a tab, as they are planning to, it will be a product that can at least compete in quality if not quantity or marketplace. But again, this is a problem for NOW. 20 years is a LONG time - I cannot even imagine how computation will look like in 20 years!
"I have chosen to have a policy of NOT paying for my phone".

Suddenly it is all clear why you have gone through 16 phones.
We're coincidentally holding the Kansai HN meetup the very next day!

http://hnkansai.doorkeeper.jp/events/1688
MHL moves 1080p24 video and 8-channel audio over a micro-USB connector. The use cases for the 'dock port' in 2012 are docking in cars/alarm clocks/speakers/video docks and charging. MHL covers the first set, and any charger can give the right amount of amperage as long as they reverse-engineer Apple's hacky way of using a resistor grid on the data pins to control how much power the device can take.

Just because you don't hear about these things in the Magical Revolutionary Wonderful Apple bubble doesn't mean they don't exist. MHL to HDMI cables exist today and are usable today.
And what about the conectivity with the previously existing deplyoments?