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You know, you're right.

It's definitely a very "nice" phone. Innovative? Not so much.

29MP cameras taking pictures of parts to match the case? Cool, but 99% of people won't care. I know Jony does. And I have A LOT of respect for that. It's like a $30k Patek Philippe watch - a lot of polishing, precision, care, subtlety, microscopic advancements - but most buy it because of the name; the brand.

Gruber's reviews are very Apple influenced. I wonder how much cash they're giving this guy. I remember reading one of his posts where Phil Schiller met him in a hotel room to intro Mountain Lion, how perfect the presentation and the conversation was. Clearly a very pro-Apple journalist (blogger? reviewer?) There's nothing wrong with this but his iPhone 5 post is pure "this is the best iPhone yet"

Anyway - nice phone, best iPhone? Sure, why not. It's the "biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone" That kind of says it out. We're out of ideas here, thinner, smaller, lighter, different materials - whatever.

I don't remember where I read it but I remember reading a piece that mentioned a few very wise things: smartphones will become so standardized in the next few years that we won't even notice what it is we are using. After all, we can't really go much thinner and lighter, we're reaching an apex here. Smaller? Not happening. People have hands that are a certain size. Smartphones will be replaced by something - be it Google Glass, foldable displays, chips in our brains (can't wait for this one! haha) --- the bottom line is that we're reaching levels of engineering where we just can't go much farther.
Qt Pornstar Hacker Hustler Princess ^_^

On a related note, the Android port of Qt (http://necessitas.kde.org/) seems pretty active, having released a recent alpha, and it looks like Qt's new owners plan to pour a lot more resources into mobile platforms than Nokia did.
> I'd suggest that if this truly is a goal of yours, you apply yourself to achieving it. My guess is that there are other things that you actually want more. Accumulating money is probably one of the easier goals in life to achieve, really.

The American "You can do/get anything if you really want it" reality distortion field effect with its corrolary "if you didn't get it it's because you didn't really want it".

And here we all move on to the next personnal development website with Mr Moustache and the Pavlinians at the helm. What an emotionnal bumpy ride.
The bit at the end[0] is hex for 'ProPuke is awesome'.

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Apple's own hyperbolic marketing is to blame. If you want to describe every new product as revolutionary you should make a little more effort to make it so.

And the jump from SG2 with 2.3 to SG3 with 4.0 is a night & day improvement.
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Gruber did make fun of himself for predicting that Apple will never make an iPhone with a bigger screen.
"asking a doctor for advice about a sickness". Odd example given the poor objective performance exhibited by a significant percentage of medical professionals. I remember a study done evaluating the ability of medical professionals to identify spinal injuries in a CAT scan. Very high false positive rates. Scans of normal uninjured people were labeled as herniated discs, etc. Same story with financial professionals, too much subjective judgement involved. Pick a profession that is more objective, eg: civil engineering, will this bridge stand or not.
Rob Walling & company have a startup course thing too: http://www.micropreneur.com/

I like his writing on startups a lot, but I haven't paid for it or tried the course... nor do I think I would spend money for something like that. I'd rather participate in communities like this one that are free and open.

I think I'd go for Steve Blank's course first, before shelling out that much money for something.
Most (all?) military fighter planes have had odd flight conditions where they would get into a fix that would kill the pilot, and it happened often enough. A large part of pilot training is avoiding those conditions.

Long before software.
Exactly. We are not machines and we can't program ourselves even if the mass media and the motivationnal websites and that under 24 startup guy who built a webpage would like you to believe it.
It's biggest problem is complexity. Full stop. Any engineer can tell you that. The interesting question will be what hidden problems lie in wait, only to be discovered at the worst possible time....

What people will do to spend more money in order to maintain an image of technical superiority.
Not a problem. Find them and kick them out. The system works.
maybe more dice ads
>As of the last two design revs, though, I also have an aesthetic aversion to the iPhone. Gruber describes the jewelry or fine watch-like quality very well. But I don't wear jewelry or fine watches. (Ok, I wear a wedding ring, but it's a plain band.)

I can understand this perspective for the 4 and 4s, as it's made from relatively delicate glass. But this phone, carved from aluminum, should be extremely rugged. The chamfer polish (not the geometry) is ornamental, but beyond that it's a purely functional expression. Apple didn't say, "Hey, Aluminum's pretty, let's make a phone out of it!" An aluminum unibody requires less parts, is more structural, more rugged, highly recyclable, dissipates heat, etc.

Beauty and function are not at odds. Often they are related, especially in nature.
That's still an improvement.
> "A trip to Alpha Centauri would take about two weeks. Traveling as fast as we are now currently able, it would take tens of thousands of years."

This isn't true. Nuclear pulse drives built with currently available technology could achieve .05C [1], meaning a 4 light year trip would take ~80 years.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsi...
All airplanes have bugs, too.

The F-80, for example, if you flew it too fast (and the engine was powerful enough to do that in level flight) the airplane would suddenly "pitch up", fold the wings back, and crash.

There are endless examples of these kinds of "bugs" in leading edge fighter design that have nothing to do with software.
"I can't really afford .. but I ... value it" . I sometimes hear this and think, do you really? Customer pays for expensive car, hits the right social standing events, but consulting services get the "I can't really afford" story. Truth is that we don't value consulting on subjective issues because there is little conclusive data indicating that the consulting resulted in increased value.
My first iPhone 3G, I used it without a case. When I got 4/4S I got a case for them, for the reason that can be amusing: those models got a pretty decent camera so the case was meant to prevent scratching the glass covering it.
iPhone 5 got sapphire cover on the lens, so I intend to go case-less again.
> Wikipedia and alleged conflicts of interest are not known to be handled with practicality - or clarity.

In a large organization/community, bad apples are unavoidable. What matters is how the organization/community deals with such cases as they come along. If what the article says about this rogue trustee is true, then he needs to be fired, and fired hard, to send a message to the rest of the organization and its many international branches.

I can understand why Wikipedia the project generally does not want to make top-down changes, but Wikimedia the foundation needs strong leadership in order to avoid corruption among its ranks. With great power comes great responsibility, and it cannot be denied that Wiki[pm]edia has gained great power in today's world, whether intended or not. There must be rules. Those rules must be written down and enforced consistently. Yes, that will lead to bureaucracy, but bureaucracy tends to become necessary when your organization reaches a certain level of complexity.

I'm not sure who (if anyone) is in charge of granting and revoking "Residence" status, but that person needs to be dealt with, too, and swiftly, and harshly, if the allegations have merit. "Paid PR" is a vague concept, but openly advertising profit-motivated wiki-editing services is clearly unacceptable by the cultural standards of Wikipedia. If the community can demonstrate that it can enforce discipline even upon its most highly esteemed members, there is no reason to suppose that this incident will be a net loss for Wiki[pm]edia in the long term.

Fortunately, it shouldn't be too difficult to find out who made which edits.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4534359
I've read or skimmed through another 10 reviews today and Gruber's review was arguably the most critical.

"Apple has added ZERO product innovation this time in software or hardware."

This is just exposing your ignorance and bias. In hardware alone this phone:

(1) has the best SoC available;

(2) has a solid unibody metal construction but weighs less than creaky plastic phones;

(3) pairs world class thinness with world class battery life (according to Engadget);

(4) has a camera that's only beaten by the nokia 808 pureview;

(5) supports beamforming, something almost no other high end phone does;

(6) supports HD audio, another something almost no other high end phone does;

(7) has a full sRGB screen, something we've only seen in mobile from in iPad 3 and ???;

(8) probably has the best included headphones of any phone.
There are crazy politics involved in editing Wikipedia articles and it really does take a lot of skill to know how to edit, format, and properly cite an article so that your changes do not get reversed or article deleted. The editors have tons of internal politics and personal reasons for removing articles. You really need someone who knows how to navigate the waters to get things done. People imagine that anyone can add or create articles, and while that's true on the surface, if you aren't a part of the community, it isn't really true.
There have been a very similar but actually happening lock-up of all systems of F-16 and same with soviet Su-24 when flying below zero altitude. Designers haven't looked at the map to find out there are plenty of places with ground much below sea level, and it happened for Israeli F-16 near Dead Sea, and for soviet Su-24 near Caspian Sea, when they tried low-level flight.
Does Facebook Integration Eliminate the Mobile Sandbox?
Problem is that 99% of the developers that work in the industry usually do it wrong.
Sony announces new PlayStation 3 again
At the Tokyo Game Show (TGS), Sony has announced a third model PlayStation 3 to arrive on the market later this year.
kool-aid?

I find Daring Fireball to be at its best when Gruber pushes back on Apple's design decisions with thoughtful critique: skeuomorphism, Safari tabs experiments, this screen thing.
The simple solution is to make sure you have a good reason to offer for free, gratis.

For example, for consulting clients, I have a cutoff of 10-15 min before the bill starts. That is enough time for me to talk with the customer, scope out a problem, give them quick, simple advice, and prepare a quote. It is a good idea because it keeps lines of communication open and it makes sure I am in the loop when something goes wrong. At the same time 10-15 min is also enough time I can get informed consent for paid work and it's a nice value add.

It works well for me, actually. It also allows a little bit of leeway without allowing a lot of sliding.
It's disappointing that it appears this won't make the front page. It appears the domain is on a blacklist.

Makes sense from a cheap humour perspective, but that's not what this one is about.
"as if we should assume"

Whoa. Where are you getting that?

I will let the @strawman take it from here. Because that's who I think you are trying to argue with. :)
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Agree, I know two people that got owned in the last year, both were using - outdated - Firefox browsers on XP.
Excellent! I feel like Randall is getting closer to producing an actual game with his worlds and characters. I look forward to what he has in store for us in the future.
Before your ninja edit, you had a "(in 1994!)." The exclamation point implied that it may be more than 40% today.

Also, your argument is the strawman:

> My opinion is that lawyers do not add anything to the client's bottom line (but it doesn't matter what I think, only what the client thinks).

> But beyond that, it gets very subjective and very speculative. Needless to say, lawyers are very good at arguing the need for their existence and for their value to the client.

It was an economist, not a lawyer, who made the case for the value of lawyers to the economy.
One pet peeve of mine is when you set up a new Android phone. I've only done this once, but from Google Play it's pretty easy to find all the apps you've installed before. But after clicking one and installing it, you return to the app list at the top.

I know they meantion a different use case in the article, but this literally turns what should be a quick and pleasent task of getting your new phone going, into a killer. Maybe there is a better way of doing it, from their website? Whatever they should make it easier and clearer.
Safari does have a 'readability'-esque relayout engine - that's what the 'Reader' button does.
Come on, you should use coderay instead of pygments. 100% ruby ;)
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Ask HN: If you could hack job search, then how would you do it?
For example:

- Abolish tech recruiters (that have no idea)

- Go beyond keyword searchers (include phrases like: "2 years experience in..."

- Set the search results to only show you jobs within your local area

What are some of your ideas?
I love Teller.

That said, you can't steal an idea. It's physically impossible. The original idea-haver still has it.
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echo `cat ../password.txt`;
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That doesn't look like the work of a very talented hacker. Whatever happened to readfile() ?

The attack could also have been a lot more interesting if .php files were disallowed but short snippets like this could be hidden inside GIF images.
That is what kills me in iOS, I regularly get an email with a few urls to check. Heck even one is a pain: open email, see link, click link, browser opens, check link, press home button, swipe to screen with email client, press email, press email account was in before, scroll to email, press email, scroll to point I was at in email before I was dragged away.

In android it just a single back button away, or if something goes wrong, when I return to email I'll be where I was before, correctly scrolled in the email I was reading.

I miss android!
I recently bought an SIII to replace my old, broken Galaxy Nexus (cracked screen from being hit by an SUV). I ended up buying another Galaxy Nexus, and will sell the SIII.

On paper the SIII blows the Nexus out of the water, but after using both for 2+ weeks, the SIII feels like shit to me, compared to the Nexus. It may just be because the Nexus is on Jelly Bean, and the SIII is (embarrassingly) still on ICS, or maybe its Samsung's TouchWiz that slows the phone down.

So I definitely agree with you; my anecdote matches your experience. But I'd still say the iPhone should be compared to the Nexus, rather than the SIII.
yes, but Steve sent email only 10 hours ago ;)
enjoy it
Randall just got crazy (with a good meaning).
This is not really a comment - reads more like an Apple hater mocking John Gruber for cheap HN karma. Personally, I think you're just regurgitating the notion that the iPhone 5 is disappointing, based purely on the fact that features are more interesting to write about than things like design or fit and finish.

To summarize your "comment"

0. I was really just skim reading the post because I already had my mind made up before I even read it.

1. I also reinterpreted long passages of Gruber discussing his personal experiences as polemic arguments in defense of Apple.

2. And threw in irrelevant comparisons to the Samsung S3 and phrased them as if Gruber mentioned the product a single time in the entire post.

3. I knew all along the other Android fanboys and Apple haters would upvote me for this so I didn't really try that hard to say anything insightful.
tl;dr

"hi, I'm Gruber and I love everything Apple does. Well, surprise: I love the iPhone 5 too!"
HN's been in the trash heap for the better part of six months now. Been looking for a replacement.
The deeper problem is that such people are needed at all. Wikipedia is an example of revolution within the form[1] -- the concept of an openly editable wiki was silently replaced by an Editoriate who spend a lot of time on impenetrable internal politics.

All the knobs and dials for the open wiki are still there. But the actual day to day operation of the machinery has long since been completely inverted.

[1] The top link on Google for "revolution within the form" links to what appears to be a neo-nazi wiki. I don't even know what to say about that.
Not everybody lives in the US, you know. In Europe we have NFC in our credit cards. You put your wallet close to the register, write your PIN, and pay. Few small stores support NFC, though.

I'm not saying that's the reason why Apple ditched NFC, but maybe we would need an independent study on actual stores which support NFC and consider if whether it's a useless standard. You're gonna carry your wallet anyway to pay in cash, why not put the NFC in the credit card?
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If you want to manipulate articles, you definitely need a lot of knowledge about Wikipedia "rules" which you can cite to constantly revert edits based on some reason: (NPOV, as in maintaining a neutral point of view, WP:RUMOR, WP:BIO).

It's definitely much easier to wear people down if you're someone who is always on Wikipedia. In fact you can further wear them down by getting into a "Revert War" with the conflicting author. Since after 3 reverts you risk getting temporarily banned on Wikipedia for revert warring, after the 3 reverts you have to go to some random committee page on Wikipedia to settle the dispute.
What is your point ? Every phone upgrade is a hardware upgrade.
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Thanks for the heads up :) anything in particular that kills it for you?
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I'm not even sure they read the review otherwise they would've seen their very own selfs and comments prophesied.

He spoke of the 'tech crowd' and of how the iPhone 5 is 'nice' which that certain crowd doesn't get.
I kept reading waiting to find the section on what he DIDN'T like about the phone. I prefer reviews that address both the good and the bad about a product.

For example, the article about the inconsistencies in Android 4.x was pretty well done and definitely points out issues I've had with Android.

I've never owned an iOS device so I want to hear all the pros and cons. Raving reviews like this one do nothing to persuade me to buy it.
Many people in large technology companies are threatened by software patentes, and spend lots of time and money defending and preparing to defend against them. Were these people (who are among the richest in the world) left out of the controlling congress conspiracy club?
It's on the front page as of right now.
The mind boggles. How long must it have taken him to create this. It is HUGE. I have been scrolling round for about 20 minutes and still have not found an end to it.
What's missing from the site that would make it open and inviting again?
That coincides with my vision of people traveling around the city in the air in clear spheres arcing gracefully across the sky...
> There's no reason you shouldn't have the full uncrippled power of UNIX in the palm of your hand.

I couldn't stop laughing when I read this. There's probably a few reasons I can think of.
"the exclamation point implied"

Well, if it did it wasn't intentional.

I am always editing. It's just how I write. HN faux pas I guess.

I'm not sure I follow the rest of your comment.

I was not suggesting the author of the article was arguing for the value of lawyers, I was saying that as a general statement. (And not that it proves anything but in this very thread we have a lawyer - you - arguing in favor of lawyers.)

It may be I'm just too stupid to undertand whatever else you are trying to show me with your quotes. But it does seem like you are reading things into my words and coming up with your own interpretation which, alas, does not match my intent.
> Realistically Apple wanted to milk more money from people

No, they wanted to make the phone thinner and lighter. They gained 20% with an adapter that's 80% smaller.

My guess is that the Lightning adapter will be, at minimum, USB 3.0 speeds, if not better. It's also entirely digital, meaning the adapters have to have DACs in them to output analog, hence the price.

I wonder why each iteration of the iPhone has to be science fiction?
>(6) supports HD audio, another something almost no other high end phone does;

Well. Unless you count Nokias and SGS3...
Also it won't be available in USA, which I guess is its primary market.
see, cheap and functions as well appeals to a certain demographic. by that mindset you would never by a BMW (to stay out of mobile) - which is perfectly fine, you can argue that this brand of car does not add anything useful to the table. a prius gets you from A to B as well, as a commuter you never use all that horsepower anyway.

this is one side of the argument, represents a demographic and target group. no need to invest in luxury for your products, focus on utilitarian approach. can be rough around the edges, but needs to get the job done.

but what about BMW buyers? why is BMW selling like hotcakes? is it just about the marketing? all an illusion? just like with a mobile device, you need to try it to find out. Gruber calls it "niceness", which is a pretty good term. Attention to detail, materials, the composition of it all. No rough edges. Apple is showing of the micron-precision manufacturing in their latest iPhone video. Why does a phone need that? BMW does the same, visit BMW world in Munich to get a grasp of it.

There is a target group that responds to level of detail. Even superfluous one, think of classic traits attributed to Japanese handiwork or cooking. Does sushi need to look that good? Does a wooden temple need such intricate structures?

No surprise that Jobs' was infatuated with Japan and Sony.

Do specs and factsheets appeal to everyone? Obviously not. BMW exist. Apple as well. Both can be described as overpriced, overhyped items of self-indulgence that are being surpassed by a lot of competing products. But that 'surpassed' is subjective. Once you add taste and design into the mix, it becomes a very different picture.

Now think of your target group. Is your own taste a good indicator or does it cloud what your users would actually like?
The Mini-iPad is widely expected to be 1024x768.

So really there are only three display targets. iPhone, iPad and Tall iPhone.
Looking forward to the Post-Facebook Social Renaissance
I'm running a program to map it right now
I think that shooing away the deletionists would be a great start.

There's also an annoying culture of instant reversal for pretty much any change. The headline says: "improve me!". The small type says: "and some editor will undo it!"
For agile projects - do architects become redundant?
a lot of polishing, precision, care, subtlety, microscopic advancements - but most buy it because of the name; the brand

In Apple's case, I think you're putting the cart before the horse. The brand surely is created by that precision, care and subtlety.
AFAIR there are reversal bots, to prevent vandalism.
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