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You call it a marketing ploy. I see it simply as a reaction to anti-competitive behavior. What should Uber do? Not make a big deal about it? You really think they designed their business model just to bait cities to ban them so they can get a little "free press"?
I think that if a business is trying to get another one shutdown using any other method than simply outperformance, that is a story that deserves to be on the news. It shows that there may be unethical or even illegal actions on the parts of legislators.
The flight would be just for me, since she's in the dark about what's going on, and she's handling her own bookings.

She definitely doesn't read HN. Heck, I could post it on twitter and she still wouldn't read it.

I'll see if I can put up a contest this week.
"Now I know everyone must be tired of people asking 'Would this have happened if Jobs was around' …"

Personally, I hate hearing things like this because "my concept of Steve Jobs wouldn't have allowed this" isn't an argument. It's an attempt to use a dead man to bolster an argument's credibility. But how are we to know what Jobs would and wouldn't have allowed?

Besides, the iPhone 4 came out on his watch, didn't it? Is the iPhone 5's design a step backwards somehow?
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You forgot one of the worst harms Apple has done to the tech industry:

Make it acceptable that users have no control over the operating system running on their hardware, and much more importantly: what applications they are allowed to run on that hardware.

Can anyone imagine Microsoft banning all non-MS-approved programs from running on Windows in the 90s? Or starting to sell computers that can only run Windows, and where you can only install MS-approved software (and software for which MS takes a 30% cut, if you are lucky to get approved).

And can anyone imagine Microsoft suing, say, Netscape or Sun for patent infringement?

Apple's behavior wold have been beyond outrageously unthinkable from the most vilified tech company of the last 20 years.

But because it is Apple, it gets a pass. Is the victory of form over substance, of marketing and hype over principles and values.

It will take decades to undo the damage Apple has done, if we ever recover.
I suggest you sign up to Google's Webmaster Tools(1) which will give you plenty of insight into what Google is doing.

(1): http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Regarding the Jobs would-have-wouldn't-have done this, there's actually a decent chance that he DID this.

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-worked-closely-on-...
Q. How can a site that has the name couponprinter.com and really does help people print and find coupons have no ranking on google?

A. That would be true, except the reality is that your site really doesn't help people (in the eyes of Google). Over the past few years Google has gotten better at not only judging the quality of content, but even the layout of a webpage. Your site would have been great back in 1999, but in 2012 Google views it as spam.

My humble advice would be to hire an SEO consultant. Of course you should be warned that there is a chance that there may be too much damage to repair. Also you need to be careful when hiring an SEO expert because there is so much snake oil out there. A good place to start would be here: http://www.wolf-howl.com
Assuming something better than Hadoop doesn't come out. From what I've heard from folks who have used Hadoop and then used MapReduce, that's not really a safe bet.
I created this API out of a frustration with Twilio. They don't provide such an API and when I requested a list of prices they were only able to provide me with an outdated CSV file. They've since reached out to me with an updated CSV but I had already created this and it works for my purposes.
They didn't limit access to the installer, he was trying to bring it back from a Time Machine backup. If he had the original disc it would work fine.
He was saying the original comment said "claimed to be" when it actually said "thinks they are", which is different, as the latter doesn't imply direct admission. I removed the /s.
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I use sleepyti.me quite often and it's helped me a lot. I remember about a year ago I found that sleeping ~6.5 hours or 9.5 hours felt way better than 7-8, but I never looked into why that was. After discovering your app, I now know why and how to combat all-day grogginess. So thank you.

If I get really involved in something and realise it's past my normal bed time, I'll check sleepyti.me and if it's close to a good time to fall asleep I'll take some melatonin and fall asleep, otherwise I think to myself "I'll have to survive on one less cycle tonight." and keep working.

By the way, in your research did you learn where the 8-hour myth originated?
It would be rational if Apple could somehow be certain that they have duly licensed all applicable patents for the technology in all of their products.

So, no... it's about as rational as stripping naked and running through Times Square with a vuvuzela, daring the cops to come after you.
I think there's one thing he didn't try that would've saved him some work. The path he took was (skipping some early steps):

1. Backup under Snow Leopard via Time Machine

2. Replace drive

3. Install fresh copy of Snow Leopard

4. Upgrade to Lion

5. Attempt to use Migration Assistant to restore from the Time Machine backup taken in step (1).

This failed at step (5) and he ended up having to do lots of manual work to copy his data and apps out of the TM backup.

I think if he restored from the the Time Machine backup after replacing the drive, then attempted the Lion upgrade, he'd have been successful. Minimally, it would've been a combination of well tested scenarios. I'll bet not as much testing went into using Migration Assistant under Lion against Snow Leopard TM backups.
yeah I would imagine functionality and network completely trumps "look". doesn't make much sense to me.
It feels like Apple's soul is gone and now its a zombie hungry for cash. All of their executives and their top engineers are already awash in cash. They are worlds top company. what are they after now ? Is this how the greed looks like at a global scale ? They should learn from nature, Lions do hunt for food but when they are satisfied they leave other animals to scrape meat off their hunt. They have stopped acting like smart group of people and more like a tumor.
Blaming issues (which most would consider a non-issue) like this on Steve Jobs not being around is insulting to all of the hard-working designers and engineers at Apple that worked 80-hour weeks to get this thing into your hands. They didn't do something wrong--you just don't like a decision they made.
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I've always disliked this quote. One, it's a false dilemma. Two, it could just as easily apply to criminals as it could to innovators, but I wouldn't call that "progress."

I will grant that if the quote applies anywhere it applies here.
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Apple controls what I can install or not install on hardware that I already bought and which is mine, Apple does all it can (which is a lot) to make it close to impossible for me to run any software I have not got from them on hardware I own.

Even if I write the software myself I'm supposed to pay Apple for the privilege of running software I wrote on hardware I own!

If that is not insanely outrageous, I don't know what is.
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I think it's possible to scale a personal approach to support.

Maybe, as Quibb grows, Sandi doesn't actually manually send each message. Maybe she sets up an autoresponder with a default welcome message. However, it's still possible to send automated messages in a personal way. Instead of the email coming from noreply@quibb.com, or even support@quibb.com (better), maybe Sandi continues to have the welcome emails sent from her personal company email. Maybe she continues to use a tone in that default message that suggests approachability. As you scale, there are always tricks you can use to make customers firmly believe you care.

Also worth considering: sure, Facebook don't personally interact with every new user, but you can be damn sure that they take a more personal approach when dealing with advertisers.
Very annoying problem for me as well.

I think the iPhone 4/4S is a revoltingly bad industrial design, and am utterly flummoxed by the acclaim it's received. The iPhone 5 looks pretty good but I haven't actually held one yet.
How about indifferent?
On the most recent macs, it works even on an actual empty HDD. The core utility is baked into the firmware, and then downloads the rest of itself (the hidden partition part) over the internet.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
I would happily pay for Ubuntu. However, Ubuntu would have to charge quite a bit of money in order to make even remotely as much per user as Apple is making by being a high-margin hardware company (where the OS is almost nothing more to them than an incentive to buy more hardware).

Even so, I'd happily pay for that as well; but, I can't, as Ubuntu won't take my money [1]: they don't sell anything I can actually buy; AFAIK, the only thing they accept money for is sending people to my business to give talks about how to better use Ubuntu.

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/why-is-it-free

Now, that said, a lot of the value that Ubuntu brings to the table is actually thanks to the people working on Debian: Ubuntu just takes their packages. I would also quite happily pay for things from Debian; I'd probably be even happier doing so than paying for things from Ubuntu.

However, they also do not charge for things, so I cannot pay them for things. I can donate money to them[2], but now we are talking about something much more complex (involving physical mail and checks or money orders) at a much higher mental cost of deciding "well, now how much?".

[2] http://www.spi-inc.org/donations/

I personally don't even think that I'm rare: a lot of people are quite happy to pay for things that provide them value, and Ubuntu is not just helping me personally, it helps my business. I run all of my servers using Ubuntu: I'm paying Amazon to run the machines, I'd happily pay Ubuntu for the software.

I thereby don't think it is quite fair to put the blame for this on the "very few hackers [that/which/whom/omgdunno] are willing to put their money where their mouths are": Ubuntu is much like the business that is undercharging for their services, and thereby cannot satisfy the customer [3].

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4555062

(Though, I can totally see the argument that the reason that they are able to even do what they do is that they do not charge: that if they charged there would be tons of internal community arguments about what the money was for and who would get it; or, quite simply, the direct monetization could undermine the charitable aspects.)
On a similar topic from a recent experience...I recently got into a conversation with KLM about delayed luggage. You fill in a web form that emails them with your complaint. They reply to your email address. If you reply to their email, you get an automated email back saying that they didn't receive your response and that all information must be communicated via a web form.

So now you must go into your sent box, copy the email and then go to the link on the klm.com website. You find your reference number, put it in and then paste the text of your email into the text box...and hopefully get a reply. (It's been 3 days.)

It really amazes me that companies are so bad at communication.
There is a problem here: The evaluations would be most helpful if they occurred partway through the year/semester, rather than solely at the end of it, because it would give teachers time to react to the feedback. Would you be willing to honestly critique a bad teacher if it meant you would have to deal with them actually doing their job for the next few months?

I'm also not so sure that everyone would be so willing to honestly critique their teachers at the end of the year, either. A lot of kids come to like their "bad teachers who lead fun classes" almost as much or more than the teachers who do their jobs well. Kind of like how many kids are unwilling to "snitch" on kids who have wronged them, even when guaranteed anonymity, I think a lot of them wouldn't want to get their teachers in trouble, even if they weren't doing their job properly. In my experience with such teachers, even poorly behaved students would act extremely respectfully when the principal came around to observe. Then again, maybe they were just afraid of getting on the teacher's bad side.

Even worse are instances where the administration knows fully well that a teacher leads a "joke class" and keeps them around to funnel the "bad kids" into. I grew up in a school system that straddled the border between a middle class college town and Section 8 housing packed with families ruined by the collapse of unskilled industrial labor in the area. I have no doubt that a large number of the elective courses existed solely to fill credits for disruptive students and keep them from causing problems in the "real classes" that the middle class and brighter/better-adjusted lower class students took. It didn't matter if the class actually learned anything, the school was just desperate to raise their graduation rates.

I do think these evaluations can help good teachers improve and possibly help to identify people who don't deserve to work as teachers, but they can't solve fundamental problems like "the early education and home environment of these students has failed them, and now the administration of their high school is ready to roll over to keep them from dropping out."
The most widely read political tract of all time, at less than 50 pages. I think you owe it to yourself to see what the fuss is all about.

My understanding is that Marx, and op, sees this constant training as a negative. Workers sell their skills and time; constant obselesence of works' skills to keep up with the Capitalists' automation of the job, in persuit of higher efficiency and lower costs (i.e. salary), is, in my understanding of Marx's ideas, a Bad Thing(TM).

This is not because Marx is a luddite and the workers anti-intellectuals, but because constant training weakens the labor guilds and unions. Workers cannot form any sort of long-term professional union if their skills are being obseleted constantly. This destruction of independent labor renders us all subservient to Capital and Capitalists, who are the only ones afforded the luxury of being in charge of their future and destiny.
There's something called target customer segmentation. If building for consumers, do a website and/or mobile which are great for consumption (hence the name consumers). If building a "creation" app for businesses (ie. payroll mgmt, Photoshop, etc.) then do a desktop and/or website with perhaps a simplified companion mobile app.
Ubuntu never gave me the option to purchase hardware and an OS of Apple-level quality. So I haven't. I would like to.
Not this time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M5q5TRuAsY
I am surprised to see that we disagree on the facts as well as the interpretation of them.

I don't think the literature is nearly as scientific as you seem to think it is, nor do I credit Hahnemann with the shift to empiricism in medicine, which came later.

Again, just saying that medicine was harmful and that Hahnemann was observant does not make homeopathy of the time scientific.
I don't see anything particularly terrible about how the js was built. It's not the style I would have done it, but I wouldn't blame the programmer. He/she was most likely just following specs and doing what they were told and not involved at all in the strategy or design. This site is what you get when programmers are treated as end-of-the-line production workers.
Seems like his market research is purely based upon himself. To expand the control group to 2, I have a smartphone but only use it secondarily when I dont have access to my laptop - to me poking around on a 4 inch screen is usually an inferior experience in many cases.

Smart phones and tablets are decent for consumption but their main limitation is screen real estate and efficient user input (which usually refers to typing). It really is a case by case basis (whats the product, who are your users, etc) and usually the answer is that you're going to want to be well represented across all typical client types.
> Kind of like when you see a fake Rolex from 20 inches away and it looks pretty good, but then you look up close and suddenly one little flaw makes the whole thing fall apart.

The crystal on a Rolex sticks up above the bezel as well.
"too many of us and we're unable to live within our means"

To me a change of practices would be far more preferable to eugenics, which itself is a horrendously ugly option and a proxy for stupidity. Even with 90% of the population murdered, who's to say the same problems wouldn't reappear some time further in the future when the population reaches current levels again.
There are founders [owners] and investors. Fact that there are people who 'work for' startup is irrelevant to the interplay between the investment risk/return.

True, one can be not-a-founder and work for startup. But this person would be just working for salary, and hopefully at market rate. So it is irrelevant to the investment risk/return equation.

Now if one is not working at MARKET RATE - here we have some muddy waters. Because this person would be essentially making a monthly investment. This investment would likely go towards COMMON [not restricted] stocks, WITH vesting/cliff, with NO CAP. If this is the case, one can just assume that startup would have an angel investor doing a monthly investment on these terms. This would go into risk/return equation. Again fact that somebody is working is irrelevant to risk/return.

That's why I've said that your 2x2 matrix doesn't make sense. Now, you can replace 'work for' with 'founder' and it would make sense.

And by the way, if you read the original pg article, he doesn't mention people who 'work for' startups at all. He is talking about founders and VCs.
Besides, if I could ask anyone today what Steve Jobs would've thought of a design, it'd be the people who worked with him for years.

…and I'd still take their answers with a grain of salt.
What's the problem with the front not being flush? I noticed this from the first time I saw the iPhone 5 and immediately thought it was an aesthetic decision that ties the iPhone 5 back to the iPhone 4/4S. FWIW, I like the design (ftr I'm a Nokia E6 owner).
Purchasing-power parity is an approximation, it doesn't take into account the fact that relative prices can be very different depending on the country. E.g., suppose day labourers get paid $15 an hour in developed country X, but only $1.5/h in India. In general you cannot extrapolate that heavy machinery that costs $15000 a week in X will cost only $1500 in India.
They've shown how profitable the high end sector is with lower sales.

Kind of like how nobody really makes netbooks, only ultrabooks. That also has a bit more to do with Intel/Microsoft threatening/bribing manufacturers, but even without that the manufacturers don't like dealing with that low-end sector.
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My fine swiss watch has damn near the same profile.
Your example is confusing, as Mac is branded as a consumer product: if a corporate market "were concerned only about branding" it would choose Windows, not Mac, as Windows is branded as an office workstation. The word "branding" in this context does not mean "trending", it means something closer to "typecasting".
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Rent is a factor of both supply and demand. High rents don't necessarily mean that demand is sky high in absolute terms, just that it's high relative to supply, which isn't a very meaningful statement if supply is artificially restricted.

The point isn't to grow at all costs. The point is to not let the people who already live in an area restrict growth so much that people who want to move in cannot reasonably do so.
Even if students are colluding to give poor ratings to teachers they dislike, it won't significantly alter the relative rankings of the teachers - the better the teacher, the fewer students that are willing to systematically exaggerate the teacher's weaknesses, and the best teachers (the ones who make learning fun) won't have their scores hurt at all. Students colluding will make it hard to set a threshold for "good enough" to not fire, but even if the students catch on, it should still be a good tool for identifying the best teachers.
By 'criss-cross' I mean that your FTL devices in different reference frames need to repeatedly get close enough for causal contact. Is there another way to make a loop using simple FTL devices?

And I might not have been clear enough on acceleration. I meant you might be able to construct a device capable of FTL transport, but it might be far harder to traditionally accelerate this entire device to high speed. The FTL isn't moot, but if your FTL is only 5c and you can't accelerate your turned-off FTL device faster than .1c you're not going to make any loops with it.

In other words, in this scenario, there isn't a preferred frame of reference per-se, but there's no way for such a large and complex construct as an FTL device to get far enough away from the galaxies' default reference frame.
Any citations for this? I can buy that this is the case for some jobs, from some school districts, for many students, across a certain distribution of grades, some number of years after graduation. I have a hard time believing that a D student who barely passed college will do just as well in a new consulting job as an A student, simply because the A student probably has actually learned a hell of a lot more useful information.
From my experience selling services and products to large companies for the past 10 years, "interest" doesn't mean much. Everyone is interested. You don't have anything until you see the signature. And I don't mean the signature on the contract. I mean the signature on the check.

I agree with you that pg's point about startup growth is not invalidated by the realities of enterprise selling. But I think te way past those realities is to change the rules of the game. The "sale" should be a low-friction agreement to do business at some cost per unit/user/GB/etc. Growth is the. The ability of the product to go viral within the account. Essentially, it becomes the same process as a consumer sale with the one additional step of getting approved to sell into that batch of consumers.

While that might seem to be a big negative against starting an enterprise business, the advantage is that you're then convincing people to spend someone else's money which is easier than convincing them to spend their own. How else could a $.99 app look, feel, perform better than a $100,000 peice of enterprise software.
wouldn't it simply be obtaining software via unofficial means rather than piracy since he already paid for it?
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Maybe they do, but I wasn't literally comparing the glass sticking up above the bezel when it came to the Rolex.
If you don't mind the question: what kind of activity do you need to have in a site to generate that kind of revenue from it? ($ 1500 - $ 2000). Is it something in the order of, say, 10k ad views per month, 100k, or something bigger like 1 million, or is any other interesting factor that needs to be considered?