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Does anyone remember when Mapquest and then Google Maps first started? Bad directions, etc. was the norm.

The only thing that is wrong with Apple doing this is that they didn't release as "beta" and make a big deal about how users can turn on the "beta" switch to test the cool new things, or the "alpha" switch and get shit that might break their phone but gives them superpowers no other geek has.
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Death of a Gentleman
Why startups with good ideas fail
Some of us find it disheartening that Lego makes "sets" at all.

What happened to kids using their imaginations?
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> [...] PHP is an old language [...] More modern languages like Python or Ruby have somewhat decent sites.

Just a nitpick but PHP (1995) is not older than Ruby (1995) or Python (1991).

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
I'm confused if you're accusing me of hating on PHP, or Ruby & Python, or all of them. In any case I'm sure you know what I mean, there's clearly a move away from PHP and towards Ruby & Python, at least in these parts.
They do have Dieter Rams blessings in taking inspiration from his work at Braun. Copying the Mondaine clock is just clearly a ripoff and terrible.
Some people hate success, or more accurately, they hate the success of others.
There are people on HN who want Apple to fail. There are people who want Google
to fail. There are people who want Microsoft to fail. There are people who want
Amazon to fail. There are people who want Facebook to fail. And so on and so
forth.

When any of the giants stumble with a mistake or show a sign of weakness, the
people who want them to fail pounce with extreme agitation.

The important thing to remember is they didn't come to HN to contribute, instead,
they came here to push their agenda and argue.
I think you spelled "sarcasm" wrong...
Yeah, let's just assume Apple was brave enough to launch an iterative product for once, forgetting to label it 'beta' and accidentally shutting out competition.
The current Go homepage is surprisingly good functionally and aesthetically. PHP, Clojure, Haskell sites look like monolithic corporate website templates aesthetically.

The main problem is with the author who can't appreciate good design when it doesn't fit his trendy aesthetic sensibilities.
There are differences, but so much is socialization. I.e. if green were a traditional girls' colour, and marketed as such, then girly girls would want to play with green toys. Parents would subtly encourage boys not to play with green toys.

Robots etc. are not inherently violent so an interest in / lack of interest in (non-weaponized) robots is better explained by socialization, rather than gender differences, IMHO.
well, but all java coders are this way. I'm working on a rails app built by java coders learning rails and it's, sadly, a pain in the ass, it's not that the code is malfunctioning, just that everything looks like it's a quantic mechanics equations when in reality it's just a 10 piece lego. Sure, they're not 100% is this way, but empirically I can state that, I too thought overengineering was beautiful when I was learning it, lame.
>That said, how many way are there already to design a clock?

I've seen a lot of clocks in my life, but never one with a big red dot at the end of the second hand. So I would say enough not to blatantly copy what appears to be a non-standard/unique design.
I absolutely agree. And I let myself sink to a bit of a troll here; but I don't expect much meaningful discussion can be had on this particular topic so I allowed myself (perhaps undeservedly) to express my indignation in a rather toxic way.
You think so? My mind went to your project when I saw the OP. I heard second-hand that you guys were showing off a prototype at Google I/O which consisted of the watch casing with a display connected to external (not yet miniaturized) electronics. This seems to fit Kickstarter's new regulations. Would something like this not have been possible before you got funded?

The reason I felt comfortable backing guys is because you guys had already delivered a product to market. A description or early prototype demonstrating what you were trying to make - almost exactly what I had pictured as my ideal smartwatch before you launched - and my wallet would have been open.
This, and inevitable references to Braun, have no place in comparison with the Samsung trial. Samsung made competing products so similar to the effect, and indeed with the purpose, of confusing consumers.

The recent rise in Apple bashing and calls of hypocrisy is even stranger in historical context[1]. Perhaps more of us should try and empathize with Apple's situation and history before passing fashionable judgement.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft
Just FYI, PHP has had a redesign in the works for a long time. http://prototype.php.net/
There it is! You can shoot me your email address for the confirmation. Mine's in my profile. Thanks!
For the record, the title was actually edited from what I submitted it as.
There's verb in Korea.

Fix the cowshed after loosing cows.
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Good to see they are working on it.
except it doesn't have the pause for 1.5 seconds at the 12 o'clock position... hardly a good copy
How can you give the PHP site a hard time for looking old and then praise Python's modified WikiMedia layout?

The point of all of these sites is to maximize functionality and make language information easy to get at. All that maters is UX, graphical niceties don't improve on that, and no one serious about learning a new language is really going to be dissuaded by "ugliness".

But the real answer to the title question is simple: They're made by programmers, not designers.
The Apple Maps team must be under tremendous pressure. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some dysfunction going on in there too, given the variations in quality (e.g., if the 3D is so bad, why didn't they just cut it and introduce it as a shiny update when it's ready?)

Someone at Apple is probably kicking themselves because they didn't start on this initiative a few years earlier.
Fool me? What are you talking about?

If I get a S3 or an iPhone 5 via AT&T, the cost will be the same over 2 years.

So what you're really saying is, if I get an iPhone on contract, I'm getting more hardware for my dollar?
They should go thermonuclear war on this.
Patterns in C
I agree with you, and would add that the precursor to the modern full-featured browser-based WWW was a CLI-based web (Lynx et. all), whereby the only means of formatting text were akin to what you get out of a word processor (linebreaks, bold, italics, etc.).

Also, most programmers (like those making the languages) aren't designers, and when they try to be, very bad things can happen[1]. Could they hire a designer? Probably not, seeing as most of those projects are FOSS, and the maintainers get paid nothing for their efforts.

There's also the fact that the maintainers of those languages, and likely a majority of the users, would prefer development efforts be focused on the language itself and not its website.

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-what-happen...
Gangnam style iPhone cases
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"The Maps application is used by millions of customers and it's the best mapping program on any mobile platform."

Pretty bold to say "the best mapping program on any mobile platform".
I wouldn't trust them with a bit of my data

I too would hate for anyone to know I have a Maroon 5 station.

[EDIT] I don't.
I think they rebranded (or pivoted) and stepout is their new name and completely India centric. http://www.stepout.com/
After checking out the bunch of complaints, I wonder what's going on with Apple's quality process. They must had seen some of this 'roller coaster street' bugs before...
They either sacrificed quality for getting the product out soon... Or maybe they are assuming most of fans won't care about the bugs just because they'll get the new phone anyway... Or their quality process just needs some improvements.
It is /not/ "in the eye of the beholder". UX is a science. If you can't tell the difference between PHP's site and, say, git's, well, I don't think there's much else to talk about here.
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But! but! but! Django has a pony!!!

http://djangopony.com/
Control and cages
Exactly what I'm looking for. I'm putting a sensor package together for my Dyna, and mounting a display and securing parts is a bit of a problem if you don't have a tool shop. And given Harley's reputation for cost, this printer may actually be a reasonably wise purchase.

And I'm fairly happy with the cost: I've put together the higher end Cupcake, and was severly disappointed with how hard it was to use well. This should allow some really neat rigs, or at least make excellent (instead of merely approximate) prototypes.
The new Git website is awesome. It makes you think: if they spend that much attention to every detail, this product must be really good..
If your company is going to make money, what is holding you back? And if your company isn't going to make money... why are you doing it in the first place?

Don't be intimidated by competition and aim for the global market when you launch. If you work hard and listen to your customers it is entirely possible that you'll win in the marketplace. Both you and them are going to run into the same problem: finding customers. And it isn't like their existence makes that much more difficult for you. Maybe even easier since a trend is sometimes a story and articles about them might even mention you.
+1 great sarcasm. Apple is allowed to 'borrow' good ideas but not other companies.
I don't know that I buy that. Development efforts have trouble all the time, no doubt even inside Apple. The problem here isn't that maps was late, it's that someone decided to pull the trigger and ship it when it wasn't ready. That's not something that can be put on the development group.

Pulling out the dead guy card again: one generally would assume that Jobs would have been using this thing and playing with it to be sure it was ready. Did Cook? Or if not, whose job was it and why didn't it happen?
> You can only put up products that exist.

That's not true. You can demonstrate prototypes. What you can't do is just whip something up in Blender, do a nice rendering, and then start selling it with with the rewards being "1 widget, 2 widgets, 5 widgets, 10 widgets, 20 widgets", with no indication that you've actually done your homework to say if this is even possible.

They want people to actually have some sort of prototype, something to show for their work, rather than just a slick graphical presentation and reward system that implies that it's far closer to completion than it actually is.
No programming language that I have encountered so far is wrong. It is only different.

What is "really wrong with Java", not the language but part of the "culture", is a tendency for writing excessive code and xml, abstraction, mocking, etc. but overdoing things happens everywhere.

And a ridiculous "Ruby culture" thing was a DSL used for BDD called Cucumber. It promised tests that look like English so that analysts could write the tests, but then you had to write backing code so that would work. But a lot of people still use it.

And a ridiculous Javascript thing is Node. Javascript on the server? You have to be fucking kidding me. But now you can get a nice job in SF with JS experience.

Pointing these things out is useless. I make a lot of mistakes. Many publicly and online. People grasp onto "bad ideas", but really they are just ideas later proven to be not as good as some other idea. So, write your "everything that is wrong with Java" classes, SpringSource/VMWare/EMC employees. Nothing wrong with that.
Getting the first 1000 users
That's a huge stretch. There are many profitable small game studios that will never be great nor media empires.
I don't feel that it's too slow right now, mostly because I don't feel we've built up enough case law and precedent to trust faster feedback. That puts us in a painful transitionary period. Hopefully, it won't last too long.
the actual django page is being redesigned https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/django-de...
Pachinko Gundam is a thing, too. (Panchinko machines, like Vegas slot machines and Zynga products, are often themed to stimulate additional interest over the base Skinner box gameplay. Unlike Vegas slots and Zynga products, the core pachinko customer is a Japanese salaryman, so most of the themes skew in that direction. The most popular, by a wide margin, is about a chesty mermaid and her under-the-ocean gal pals.)
There's no middle ground? I assume that Opera wouldn't be vulnerable? What about the browsers that wrap UIWebView like Chrome?
definitely a bug. most browsers, going back a decade, support 4-8+ concurrent connections to a given host (hostname, really).
I think a big part of it has to do with the fact that a lot of the people using the languages are engineers or like minded people.
The one consideration is this: Aus has 22.6m people. The usa has 311m. At some starge your valuation potential will be constrained by adressable market. If there is an obvious niche that is too small locally, for example, you may want to consider it. But could still easily proof/concept and test product/market fit etc. And then compete on the terms of your initial success. And there are all kinds of examples (rocket internet etc) for geography being sustainable barrier to entry. Or of fast follow building a better product (FB vs myspace, etc. iphone vs palm). The variables are the potential for variation in the design/execution, the size of the market, and your own vision/skills, etc. Provided you have access to capital, talent, and a toe-hold demographic (oz is pretty good in ABC1s), why not start.
I think the main Go site could be improved, but i quite like the new version of the Go tour:

http://tour.golang.org
Sure. If you don't like OO and not found it to be productive, you don't have to use it. And you are more than welcomed to state OO doesn't work for you. However, blanket statement like Java sucks or OO fails (not directed at you) is not constructive criticism. It's just insecure programmers using other languages trying to justify their insecure language choice.
After reading the news, I keep thinking "aren't they missing something?". Can't they seize this audience that come to the site to buy stuff? Maybe a spin-off from the original kickstarter, specially tailored as a sales platform.
Did Apple think they would get away with copying one of the most iconic clock designs ever without anyone noticing? I am speechless. Are cracks starting to show in a post-Jobs Apple too big to fix? I don't want to bash them, but this is blatant and unlicensed copying at its best. Kind of ironic given the recent events with Samsung.
A diagram isn't a product render. It'll be interesting to see how vigorous the enforcement is for all the grey area in between.
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They are diluting the brand's value though. I'm not sure I would be pleased to have spent $350 for a watch to find a free replica on the nearby iPad.
#!: 42. The answer is always 42.
Ruby & Python are growing, but not at the cost of PHP. New developers are choosing non-PHP languages when moving into the market.
I noticed the similarity right away. I had assumed apple had licensed the design if it were still protected.

I would like to expect better from them. It's a beautiful design and a smart addition, but doing this at all, regardless of the Samsung case, is shameful.
Bring your towel much? ;)
Is it just me, or does the digital version have a more prominent drop shadow on the hands, and thus look more "real" than the real watch?
You are treating "better designed" as a single axis: the question should be "better designed for X" given a specific value of X. As an example, to take your feedback item "the mascot looks amateurish" <- the kind of quirky humor that the people who designed this project have, and are thereby are appealing to, actually likes that mascot. In the genre of programming languages, this is quite honestly very typical: that mascot is part of what makes it feel like a programming language "worth paying attention to" to people like me (aka, people who study and learn interesting programming languages).

Without taking into account this context, your feedback is frankly about as closed minded and generally insulting as claiming that XKCD (or hell: anything by Don Hertzfeldt, which is probably an even stronger extreme case) is poorly executed because the artwork is likewise "amateurish" to someone used to full-color 3D rendered 60 fps animation (or hell: an actual HD video). However, these people have managed to entrench an entire genre of art that now others try to invoke in their own audiences.

Personally, I find the git-scm.com website to be full of way too much clipart and not enough personality; to the extent to which there is personality, I might call it "Web 2.0 with a hint of retro-corporate", which is highly awkward as I have always felt git represented something grungier, certainly "harsher": tied to ideas like raw power and distributed anti-disestablishment as opposed to control or simplicity. However, someone liked that website, and apparently you do. I find http://darcs.net/ much better at first glance, for a version control tool.

The original author (edit: apparently, also you) even liked the Firebase website, which has always turned me off as something designed to attract people who don't know what they are doing: it feels too "Web 2.0" and has much too strong an emphasis on "nothing to something" as opposed to "something to something great" to be a product to which I'd trust storing my data. Of course: I'm not in their target market, as I don't need their service and in fact "know too much" and can nitpick how they built it; they are targeting people who don't know enough to build backends, and that design thereby probably works for them. I thereby can't negatively judge their website without paying attention to that context.

tl;dr different strokes for different folks
It's a different attribute name on my system. Looks like it is different for each account, as it should be.

It's just sad seeing Pandora raked over the coals for this when they clearly have put in a lot of thought and done things as right as possible given their constraints.
"If I were Google, I'd hold off on releasing a Maps for iOS just a little while. It's firmly in the "killer app" category at the moment and might help spur Android adoption just a little."

Based on this logic google should withhold search (after contract runs out) and only serve youtube in VP8. Releasing Maps soon but not immediately for Google (which is what it looks like they are doing) wins in several ways:

(1) reap the benefits of Apple's Maps launch negative publicity for a couple weeks.

(2) once your app hits, more people are using your services. Google loves people doing this.

(3) and less people using Apple Maps and helping improve it. Keeps the gap wide.

(4) finally, if not approved, you can use the disapproval as another competitive advantage.
We're not supposed to criticize Apple for straight up abusing patent law because they failed at straight up abusing copyright law in the past?
It's like an unwritten maxim: the more technical a site is, the more basic its design. A corollary might be: the more in-demand (famous) a person is, the more basic their site will be.

Here's some "homepages" from programming gurus:

Dennis Ritchie: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/

Brian Kernighan: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/

Bjarne Stroustrup: http://www.stroustrup.com/

Richard Stallman: http://stallman.org/
I would say programmers using go don't really care how amateurish the mascot looks (see the linux penguin) or how good the typography of the website is.

I would assume programmers care about things like:

- How can I get to the documentation fast
- How can I start playing around with the language
- What are the language features
- How do I install the language and how do I use it

all these things are easily accessible through the golang website in my opinion.
As the appointed special master, I agree and liked Corporal's better at 30% of the words. (If grellas didn't have the 2nd and 3rd to the last paragraphs I might have called it a tie possibly.)
Don't forget http://norvig.com/
Great idea, this would definitely work in the UK
Serious question, if the Railway company was a government institution when the design was released, is the design not in the public domain?

Nowadays, it seems they're quasi-governmental, but back then I think they were strictly a national org. It'd be like DARPA trying to get royalties on the internet or something similar. I could be wrong in this line of thinking, of course.
McHeskin
Is it 망우보뢰(亡牛補牢)?

It's actually Chinese (亡羊补牢 from 戰國策).
Apple Maps only looks bad because barely anyone has used it. Try comparing Google Maps from launch day in 2005 to Google Maps from now.
I don't know but that would be a cool country to live in, don't you think? Rational self-interested people helping each other out. It could be a good thing.
Mixed reaction.

As a father of two daughters, this makes me sick. I'm not a feminist, but I can't stand when people make "things for girls" that are pastel-ly and have ribbons. That does not help them, unless it is clothing or accessories.

To make girls want to play with tinkertoys, you make... tinkertoys. My youngest- she loves guns and trucks. I don't even own a gun or a truck!

Unfortunately, McDonalds sells "girl toys" and "boy toys". That makes me sick too. But they know their market. So- I think it is a good thing. There is a place for almost every toy. Just not with my daughters.
I think you have a good point, but wanted to point out that you already can restrict the number of rewards available when starting a project.
I actually really like Java logging (well, I like SLF4J and logback).

On Ruby, I'm constantly at a loss on how to do logging. Sure, in Rails there's the Rails logger available pretty much everywhere. But if I'm writing a reusable library, I can't count on that. So what do I do? Demand every user of my library configure it with a logger?

The stdlib Ruby logger also has no way to fine-tune log levels by class. In a Rails app, sometimes I want debug level, but I rarely care to see each and every SQL statement. (There tend to be hacks to monkey patch around the common cases suggesting others have been similarly frustrated.) Even if I use log4r or some other logger with more fine-grained tuning, within Rails, everything will be using the same logger object, so the typical Java method of tuning by giving each class its own logger doesn't work.

Bleh. Give me SLF4J with logback any day. When writing a reusable Java library, I really have no qualms about using SLF4J.