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There is an art to being open-minded, but disciplined at the same time. I don't think anyone would argue Jobs was anything other than focused. Completely different from a flip-flopping politician. I'd almost say Job's flip-flopping instances were the exceptions that prove the rule, expecially because they seemed to be successful (in the market). There are (comparatively) few cases the flipped-into-flops, ya know? (pardon the pun =D).
I feel that I managed to control myself fairly well, all told. Nobody's parentage was questioned, nobody called "unsound", nobody excluded from the gentlemen's club etc etc.
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The reviews are by different people. The Verge doesn't do "this is the entire site's opinion" reviews any more, like they did at Engadget. This review is Topolsky's. And it is, almost clearly, a review of how well the Surface matches up to the strengths of the iPad and Nexus 7.
Wouldn't that be something like fountain codes?
Living in NYC makes it easy to automate some more boring things, thanks to its population density:

- Drop off my laundry at the laundromat's wash and fold service to pick up the next day. There are even a bunch of services and laundromats that will come to your apartment to take your laundry and drop it back off for you.

- Seamless has about 100 places that deliver to my apartment, about 400 that deliver to work. You can schedule your dinner delivery time.

- I've had friends my age hire a maid to clean weekly apparently without costing much, or just Taskrabbit for one-off things.

- Fresh Direct for delivery groceries.

- No need for a car, so I can be productive on the train or at least read depending on the commute.

- Cabs are incredibly cheap here.
Conclusion:

"Is Surface worth its price? I think a more useful question is this: If on a business trip, could I replace my laptop with Surface? The short answer is no. The longer answer is also no, but these are the reasons why. The overall sluggishness bugginess in the interface, especially when using IE 10, is disappointing."

"App fiends will want to keep their distance, however. The Windows Store currently looks like a ghost town, after the apocalypse. Also, though I've come to really dig the interface and appreciate its elegance, there's a high learning curve here if you're used to iOS and Android. Also, a few tablet-y features you may currently take for granted on other devices are either missing or hidden deep in the bowels of an archaic Windows interface, not optimized for touch."
I was the complete opposite. I found the story compelling and interesting from the get go. Had they opened with stats from a study, I probably would have stopped there. The personal story hooked me.
Intel i7 (4 cores w/ hyperthreading) running Ubuntu and Chrome 22 and that at one point was >60% on 3+ threads. On the bright side, it's great that Chrome is able to so seamlessly multithread complex CSS operations. That said, this is a rather fast CPU and I would have expected it to perform better.
What is your target market size in general ? I mean are you are going after a specific niche where you expect to get about 1000 paying customers total OR you are looking at a consumer app where you want millions of users ?

I would not worry about too much competition. I would rather look at how much piece of the pie is potentially available (depending on the answer to the question about market size above). For example, you say that there are 5 national competitors for that particular idea you had but locally, there might be opportunity. So why not start local and talk to your potential customers ? Again, depending on what your target audience is and their market size, it could be very likely that there still is a big piece of the pie left for you.
I'm no longer shy about flagging submits like this. You shouldn't be either.

Flagged for being - Windows FUD tripe.
Sour grapes from Luc I would say. The Lima project is tainted by breaches of the Mali license agreement and side channel information leaked out despite NDA. They need to start again with a Chinese wall.
(Edit: According to rumours in the pubs around ARM headquarters)
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Sure, but it's not about how the code looks like, we just hope to find better synergies with such initiative. And yes, we are looking for a designer, are you interested ?
Are we reading the same thing? I really don't think this post was an attack. It was someone describing a disappointing experience with a service that was supposed to make his side-projects easier to manage and having the exact opposite happen. It's a post about disappointment with a service written on his personal blog, I don't see any pitchfork calling or attacks or jealous hatred. Are you projecting something here?
Let's not forget: Aliyun OS is an admitted illegal closed-source Linux fork (And likely an Android ripoff).

Perhaps China should comply with basic U.S. law if they want to sell things here.
I agree with the statement about confusion here, though of course only the future will tell how successful it is. Of particular note to me is that on Amazon, you can now preorder Windows 8 [1]. The options are "Windows 8 Pro", "System Builder 32/64-bit", "System Builder Professional 32/64-bit", and "Windows 8 Pro Pack". So is Pro 32-bit or 64-bit? The "Pro Pack" says it upgrades from "Windows 8" to "Windows 8 Pro" -- where is "Windows 8" available?

Thinking that this was just because Amazon hadn't yet gotten the full list of items, I went to the windows site [2], expecting to find the usual matrix of options and features, but found nothing -- just a link to a blog post that talks about pricing scheduling for updates for Windows 8 Pro, with no indication of what the "Pro" means or what the alternatives are.

So, yes, confusing.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000843871

[2] http://windows.microsoft.com
Yes, and get all the bugs they want to fix fixed for free, is it not? And leave open those they deem worth leaving.
So jealous, I would kill to have access TaskRabbit/Uber/FreshDirect/etc, but it seems like those types of services only make it to NYC or SF. Living in Charleston, SC has its perks, but getting new tech first is not one of them.

Laundry & Maid service is next on my list, though. I figure, if they save me even 2 hours a week, I've already made my money back.
At this rate I'll finally get a chance at submitting pictures of Mr. Mittens to ycombinator.
Nit-picky corrections:

1. Top Putnam score in Colorado. There's a pretty big difference between that, and say, top Putnam score in Massachusetts (which is more likely the same as top overall due to many Putnam Fellows coming from Harvard or MIT).

2. Elementary proficiency in Classical and Leventine Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, and Koine Greek
Anyone can downvote as long as they have 500 karma points. Exception is replies to their own comments. In that case only another person with required point can downvote.
Mr. Jobs specifically asked that people not refer to him in this manner. Makes me sad every time someone does it.
Indeed, another blogger of my acquaintance (Joshua Gans, a really excellent economics blogger) heard about my moving to WPEngine and moved several independent blogs across. He's a fan of theirs.
I'm so tired of popular HN comments because drawn out blog posts that volley back and forth. I'm also tired of talking about Steve, regardless of what direction it's in unless it's a purely historical one.
This is exactly what I was thinking. There has to be enough outcry from the world for a simple problem to get answered and fixed? I feel this is a little ridiculous...
Pagely tried to help him. Tried really hard. WPEngine didn't even try - their cust support people just read from the same script over and over. And then charged him $500 for support.

If they can't support customers like him, they shouldn't charge him $500 for the time it takes to determine that.
Well that's one way to put it!
I dream of Rob's dream setup as well. I suspect many people do. But I hope it shouldn't be too hard to make it a reality.

A smart phone which is always connected to remote storage (the cost could be a problem here?), and how about an electronic paper keyboard which rolls up to the size of a pen, that's somehow attached to or part of the phone.

Sit down somewhere, connect, unroll the keyboard, and there is your computing environment.
I think that's unfair. So if you sign up for a premium service because they say they can help you solve problem X, and then you follow their exact instructions to no avail and get the runaround from customer support, you're a toxic customer?

I don't know what your experience with WPEngine is, but suffice it to say, this post is not the first complaint I've heard, and I've personally had...issues with them as well. And my setup is even more vanilla than the one described in the linked post (which is pretty vanilla, honestly). I love Jason Cohen's contribution to the startup community and I want to love WPEngine, but I am starting to wonder if something is amiss on the technical / customer service side there.
I wanted to use PHPFog for an ExpressionEngine site but deploys seemed to take an unreasonably long time. Their pseudo-git (CLI task `pf`) is also kind of silly.

If you're not going to be doing a lot of dev work and making a lot of commits, I'd recommend.
The point is that you can't judge a company solely on where they are from and that simply because of the company's origin to not only state concern, but to actually completely ruin their reputation by issuing serious concerns about possible spying activities, before having analyzed the products in suspicion, is just wrong.

That is btw exactly what you are doing.

Aliyun OS is illegal, so Huawei has to suffer?

This is at least what is the logic i draw from your statement in connection with the article

Note: And after having destroyed part of their reputation in the US and having analyzed their products, the official conclusion was that there were security risks found, but no possible spying or anything.
see, a brief tour or highlight would have helped make that point a lot faster. i have no doubt that you guys have a system worth checking out, but i have to evaluate a lot of solutions quickly.

you haven't yet earned a special place for me to invest a login and/or more than a few minutes of evaluation. you earn that by convincing me you hold value. a tour or an overview would help sell that promise. a login screen does not.
Stories like this are a little dangerous when taken at face value. Americans sometimes get diagnosed with cancer and then have spontaneous remission too. We don't know anything concrete about this guy's case. It's also not a good idea to say that a Mediterranean diet is ideal for anyone that doesn't have a Mediterranean ancestry. Greeks have been eating the same sorts of foods for a long time and are most likely more adapted to them than I would be. My hypothesis is that any society that doesn't drink sugary drinks, eats enough fat (olive oil, goat cheese in this case), doesn't often overeat, and gets plenty of exercise should have a healthy population.
On many occasions, I tried to load some data set that would not fit in memory. Usually on accident. If I do that on Windows or Linux, the computer becomes slow, I cancel the operation, and everything is well again. Same with OS X and an SSD. On OS X with an HDD, the computer becomes completely unresponsive with no recovery beyond a forced reboot.

This happened particularly frequently with virtual machines and/or Matlab, both of which can very easily exhaust any amount of memory. But maybe no one else is doing stuff like that.
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I had the opposite experience as well -- I tried Page.ly first but could not import any of my sites (which all use a variety of custom post types). Their import process seemed more attuned to vanilla installs. Closing out my billing with them was also somewhat arduous.

WPE has been great so far -- very responsive support -- and their caching handles about 8 million pageviews a month with 600-800 simultaneous visitors and very little downtime.
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Considering how well Jacques presented his arguments and experience, I'd say that this is one of the better examples of public flogging.

It seems like he's spent an extended amount of time complaining to internal channels, and he just needed to let other people know about his experience of not receiving the promised levels of service.
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Huawei wants to enter US market

-> spying suspicions

Huawei makes source code open

-> all they want is free bug fixing

Is that really fair?

Note: Have you even read the article? They say they would make the source code available for official governmental institutions to analyze it if they wanted, they don't say anything about making it completely open-source!
Jason, what's up with this comment?

Where did you find this 'complex edge case of a system' in his post? This 'unique setup'?

Why do you think 'impossible things were about to become' when he was able to easily move the sites to WP Engine... after paying a 3rd party to do it?

He didn't describe a single special requirement that I can see. Just plain old WordPress with some existing data to move. Not even a large network or a large amount of traffic. This is supposed to be WP Engine's bread-and-butter customer.

All of WP Engine's plans other than "Personal" say "Hey WordPress MultiSite customer, come here! This plan is for you! Hundreds of thousands of visits a month and 20GB+ of storage!" http://wpengine.com/pricing/

Why are you calling him a 'toxic customer'? He's been running this WordPress install himself on an unmanaged VPS. He wasn't wasting their support staff's time on unnecessary questions -- they were wasting his! That's not a 'toxic customer', that's a 'toxic business'.

I'm having a hard time connecting this comment to the HN submission at all.
Hasn't (hackers in) Iran been behind hacking registrars and intercepting social networks etc? I thought it was a nod to that.
Jobs had a reputation for killing products at late stages - after lots of money had been committed. Traditional big companies aren't good at that for reasons that I won't examine. If that reputation was deserved then a year is more than long enough.
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I love Steve's posts because I can always relate.

I definitely need to start using FancyHands (got the email from the guy who created it recently about how he was killing an old company and putting all effort into FancyHands). Unfortunately some of my current tasks require calling my lawyer and doing some other things that really only I can do.

I do need a dentist though, and a handful of other things. Time to delegate!
They took down the one he sent me. Here's the hackernews page about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3270841
Has that got anything to do with Huawei? As far as I know, that was developed by Alibaba?

Or are you just complaining about Chinese companies in general?
The article reviews the Surface RT which comes with Windows RT and is not compatible with Windows 7 applications. But there is a different Surface model which does come with Windows 8.
I don't think this article holds up. The point made iterating "Apple doesn't get it anymore" refer to weight and thickness, which have always been center to Apple design. Apple isn't dissecting processor clock or even the amount of RAM in devices, so the article fails to make the point that Apple is all about specs and not design.

Apple is still the "Aston Martin" in tech design. Just for the sake of argument, if they aren't the pinnacle of tech design who is?
Just scraping.
It's not automation, it's hiring other people.
Well, afaik key length isn't the problem. Weak algo is. I assume they use RSA, they should use ECC. 512 bits is more than enough.

https://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/elliptic_curve.shtml
First and third are definitely true for async. I'm not sure about the second, but it looks like something one would achieve with a try/catch block inside a task.
With Fancy Hands, how do you deal with tasks (such as buying tickets) that require the use of your credit card, password, account info etc.

If there is a solution, they should mention it on their front page because I'm sure half the people who go there ask themselves: "Wouldn't I have to give my credit card info to complete strangers for this to be useful?"

This seems to be the weak link with these services.
Immediately I think of that Robot in Rocky 3 that serves them food and the like..
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TIL that even if you study longevity for 10+ years, you're never allowed to share anecdotes (or god forbid, close with a joke) ever again unless you're prepared to be crucified by twentysomething pseudo-experts in Silicon Valley.
> "But the government of Iran probably could"...At this point I stopped reading, as this article became propaganda.

How is that propaganda? You don't think most countries have that kind of computing power?
Nicely done, I was disappointed to see that this one couldn't be scrolled.
In my opinion it's the right way to address this.

They enter the US market to have their reputation instantly destroyed by official US institutions, that are filing concern about possible spying through their products at a moment where they haven't even looked at it, to later conclude that there were security risks found but none of the allegations were true.

I don't know how big the final damage for Huawei is, but that in order to avoid this just to let them look at their source code seems like a good way of addressing this.

And that is actually one of the big pro free software arguments in general:

By having the source code openly* available you know when you are screwed over.

Congrats Huawei for an in my opinion right way to address this issue!

* in the scenario of Huawei they only want to make source code available for analyzing purposes by governmental institutions. That does not change the statement issued above though
True but in general the Arduino community is very lowering the bar for these kind of things.
Just to be absolutely clear on the facts here:

WPEngine are not billing me the $500. WebSiteMovers are.

I approved that work and I will pay that bill, just as soon as they help me out with some technical details. WSM are not in the wrong here.

However I do intend to present an invoice to WPEngine for the amount that I have paid to WSM.
I wouldn't put them in the same class.

I love Ubuntu Linux... when I ssh into it. From the viewpoint of a hardcore unix command line programmer, putty on Windows is much better than all the various *terms that come with Ubuntu, all of whom feature their own unique of fubared cut and paste. (xterm is better than most, but in 2012 the scroll wheel on the middle button conflicts with the cut-and-paste use)

I only have one X Windows application I need so I can pretty much ignore Unity.

As for Metro, I can say that the Metro launcher is a better launcher for desktop apps than the start button used to be. I see some promise in the Metro UI, and my experience as a Silverlighter in a past life leads me to believe it should be fun to program for.

On the other hand, there are hardly any apps for Metro and the ones Microsoft supplies really suck in the preview version. There's the "XBox Live" application where it seems you can't play any games (even minesweeper) if you don't have an XBox.

What the hell is this? Is this just "iTunes" for the XBox or is every Win 8 system going to be an XBox now?

Watch a video from your hard drive in the Win 8 preview and when you're done you'll see teasers for all of these videos that you might be able to buy if you were able to buy any at all, etc...
Since NFS and NAS both have caches I don't believe they would be a bottleneck.
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No end in mind! Aside from my company, I hadn't launched anything in a while and had the itch. I'm not looking to make a fortune (I'd be fine making $0 to be honest). I wanted a site like this, so I decided to build it when I realized it didn't exist.
There are a lot of problems with Metro and Unity, but starting your essay by ridiculing the fashion choices of non-conformist teen girls is absolutely the wrong way to frame the discussion. The essay would be much stronger without the off-target metaphor of the title and first paragraph.
I don't think you're correct about the cash advance - as I recall the merchant only gets paid when the coupon is redeemed. Groupon keeps the float and the breakage.
Absurdly precious in this case, given that it's just an RPC wrapper around the closed-source blob running on the GPU processor core which contains the real OpenGL ES driver. This reveals literally no technical details about the actual GPU hardware that the existing API didn't.
+1 Absolutely.
To 'thank him'? The guy makes huge bank on speaking and his books, which is deserved. He gets paid for his work, and for that he can pay for the work he receives. 'Let's work for free for a rich guy' is hardly what I call a good idea.

This isn't a dig on Seth, either, he's a great writer and solid thinker. He deserves what he makes, but I have a serious problem with giving free IP and sweat to a guy who can afford bespoke software.
I think the Chromebook missed the boat for consumers. If it had a 128GB SSD drive that automatically synched to Google Drive, then it would useful. Now it just doesn't work for photo, video, and music editing, as well as HD movie viewing on the road.

In its current configuration, it's an anemic iPad with a keyboard.
The target customer are mid to large restaurants and bars. So, it could be a local idea but long term would be national. Seeing the same device/software at whatever restaurant you go to might be important and make it harder for me to have a piece of the pie.

My biggest concern is how important is it to differentiate myself? The competitors have had a working and refined product for months or years so chances are they'd have a better product. They charge monthly with no upfront hardware costs and have small trial contracts with Applebees, Chilis, etc.

I realize there's 100 companies that make toilet paper and most survive, I'm just not sure if that is an appropriate analogy.
As a seasoned WordPress developer and entrepreneur, the OP is making wrong assumptions. If I was the WPEngine owner, I won't be bothered by seeing him go.

WPEngine provides WordPress hosting services. They are professional and they do it for $250/month (which plainly means that their target audience is professional bloggers). For $250/month, they don't provide consultancy service as why your particular setup couldn't install in their server. This is your responsibility.

Setting up a WordPress blog can be easy (5 minutes) and complicated (Professionals charge up to $350/hour). What you are asking for is someone to move your blog. Fine. You are responsible for that. WPEngine offers you a "6 hours coupon" from another service. That is, they are not responsible for that.

Page.ly are probably doing this to get more clients. This is the wrong thing to do, because their support service can't scale this way. I have been doing this to bootstrap my services and it had more negative consequences than positive ones.

tl;dr: The OP is expecting WP consultancy services for signing up to WPEngine.