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People are oddly repetitive, and most tend to show the same character in the future that they've shown in the past.

That much is true.

But to take that notion and to say that all people will always repeat their past... that isn't true.

For whatever percent of people that would repeat their past, there remains at least a few that will learn from their past and change their future behaviour.

What is scary is that what you've expressed does not allow for rehabilitation or for people to learn from their past. What you've expressed is a view that once someone has been judged, then that leopard cannot change it's spots.

Taking your view to the logical conclusion: Experience counts for nothing, as no-one can learn from it. Teaching counts for nothing, as no-one can learn from it.

Here we are on HN, where one of the mantras repeated over and over is test and pivot. Try something, find you're wrong, learn from it, seek a different direction. To learn from failure what not to do in the future.

Your moral philosophy is that personal change and improvement is impossible as the leopard cannot change it's spots. This precludes from the outset any chance for social mobility, any chance of rehabilitation, any chance of humanity learning from our own history.

It is indeed a scary thought.
Unlikely. Intel makes $120 on a 120mm2 Core i3 chip. They would make less than $20 for a similar size ARM chip that they would sell to Apple. That's 6x less revenue, and probably 30x less raw profit. Intel doesn't have a cost structure in their company that would support that type of revenue and profit.

Plus, it would be like admitting ARM is the future, which is the main reason why they will not do it. I'm not saying they would be right on this, just that this is how they will think.
I think Kim knows he is a joke, too bad HN readers don't.
In general and not just in Australia, terms in contracts that are against the law are null.
You need the characters to make it a richer story, he's definitely a character.
I don't understand how anyone can believe Rossi.

He has a mysterious device. He refuses to submit it to tests where anyone but him gets to measure the sytem's energy inputs and outputs. It hasn't been properly evaluated by third parties. He makes wild claims about both the product and how well it's selling. AND he has a history of this if you read about his previous ventures.

It has every hallmark of a con. At this point I'm genuinely interested - how can you believe it?
Ah, that's good to hear :)
I made a clone of rubular a while back for testing javascript regexes. It's up on http://jsular.com/
Code available at https://github.com/walle/jsular
What apps do you use on iOS that don't exist on Android?

Genuinely curious.)
Nah, have a small inline script that records events and replays them to your full script when it loads.

Or, if something only works with js, don't show it until the scripts have loaded, but let plain content load & render in the meantime.
Possibly. I am just saying that you might have things that are more important to do before the page loads that might warrant putting it in the head. It's not a set rule that javascript in the head is always bad, you just need to know the tradeoff and make a decision.
I like the no-local-storage dream. But what about when you're at the airport or the hotel network is broken or on holiday in indochina, and want to do some hacking? There's probably no network, or if there is it'll be expensive, slow and unreliable. Though I struggle with git, I love it that you can easily keep a tree pulled (even if you don't actively use it), and use that when you need it.
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I just tried entering a bogus US address, and got as far as the page where you can choose a payment method (which includes PayPal, so presumably you don't need a US credit card). If you get access to the books as a download, I suppose that you actually would be able to buy a book in this manner... Has anyone tried doing this?
How is it better? RT has zero AD support, Android apparently has lots of app options for centralised management.
@redguava ...but you can't come up with a single example?
I like his ideal, all the work being accessible no matter what device you've got in front of you but the whole idea only works with ubiquitous network connectivity. I commute a couple of hours most days through areas where the 3G quality is non-existant to poor, occasionally reaching 'Usable', so I'd be doomed to being unproductive. Caching gets you so far, but there's still plenty of rough spots to the idea.

It's definitely a nice idea though, maybe some day it'll happen. Nice to see Rob Pike getting a usesthis.com post, slightly (but not much) surprised to see him using Macs as his primary choice.
I agree, for me cloud is just another backup storage, as it surely isn't - and never will be - fully reliable. Sure, it's convenient that you can access your data from any device, anywhere, but the price of not having direct control over your data and relying on internet connection to access it disqualifies cloud as "one and only" storage for me.
Also, by not duplicating, you presumably increase probability of data loss considerably. Now you lose data if either of the devices (SSD, HDD) fails. That certainly seems a bad trade-off for a few percent more space.
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Your point is not clear to me.
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Windows 8 has a split keyboard like the one introduced on the iPad. I think they may have introduced it in developer preview builds before Apple did, in fact.
@jaffathecake I supplied a single example. Also, you might have a very javascripty web application that the users will have had the files cached 99.9% of the time so retrieving the files isn't an issue.
The problem with every analogy is that it's always a simplifying (hence flawed) method of reasoning.
Especially here, where it is easy to remark that there are not only two kind of motorized vehicles but a wide range of them. From small city cars to full size SUVs, going through family cars, luxury cars, sports cars, sedans, motorcycles and scooters, three wheeled cars...

Tablets are great for small, specialized tasks. They are great because they are lightweight, have good battery life and can be manipulated simply.

However I can't help but think that they are not fit for every job, just like a small city car isn't something you want of you have a spouse and three children. Multitasking, for example, isn't practical on a tablet : I have yet to see a tablet that allows me to chat with video or text while doing research on the web or browsing my mail, for example. And doing these tasks simultaneously isn't some kind of niche or power user activity. I could find countless simple things which are as of today only doable on tablet by going through much pain. Moreover, I think that one of the biggest advantages of tablets is that because they're somewhat more intuitive, they can reach a wider audience, notably people who are less computer-literate. But making technology accessible to our elders or less educated people is a good thing, but let's not forget that the next generations are born in technology and will be more accustomed to using it in its various forms, including the more "complex" PCs (which they will most likely have to use for their work anyway).

All in all, tablets and PC will both evolve, and the gap between them will be filled in. We are already seeing bigger screen, keyboards, more powerful CPUs / GPUs on tablets (which is exactly what the core i3 MS tablet will be), and on the other hand, lowered power consumption CPUs, better battery lives, weight reductions and smaller, touch-sensitive screens on PCs (again, there are a lot of products more or less matching that description).

I don't think the PC will die anytime soon.
git-annex looks _amazing_, thanks for mentioning it!
No he didn't, he just said "Really? Can you explain why you would need to do a full cold boot?". The grandparent was talking about the command line flags as an alternative, but neither my post nor the one I replied to were specifically referring to doing it from the command line.
They could be using http streaming, like the feature introduced in rails 3.1 : http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/4/18/why-http-streaming/

That actually makes <head> the preferred place for loading scripts.

Also, I find it a bit extreme to recommend putting inline javascript in a <script> tag. I'm ok with trying to maximize performances, but please, do not recommend to produce un-seperated and unclean code. Concatenating javascript in a single file (and compressing it) is way enough, having one single request to get all javascript is not so bad.
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Concatenating JS doesn't necessarily make things faster, since (as the article mentions) modern browsers will download up to 8 assets in parallel. If JS is delivered separately, the browser doesn't have to wait for all of it to be downloaded before parsing and executing any of it--they can be parsed (and potentially executed) in parallel.
Gee, I'm happy "everyone knows" is a suitable replacement for due process. That will certainly streamline the legal system.
Sometimes you render content with JavaScript and want to avoid FOUC(Flash Of Unstyled Content) also sometimes you have JavaScript polyfills that you want loaded as soon as possible.

But I assume that in Apple's case, they are doing it even when they shouldn't be.
What extra information did the Wired link add over the page that Wired link to?

(http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/how-to-strip-drm-from...)

(http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-to...)
I honestly won't be surprised if the workers were expected to work overtime, but just weren't allowed to log more than 40 hours a week in their timesheets.
Buying a fixed-term license for a product is basically renting the product. In other words, "buying a license" is another example of replacing "rent" with "buy".

For consumer protection, companies like Amazon could be required to state "buy access to X" or "rent X" instead of "buy book X", which implies ownership of the product.
Yeh, both viable solutions. Tbh, I can't think of any other reason to have JS in the HEAD.
Thanks for your sharing. You sell through online channels? How do you deal with storage and after sales services?
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The mod_pagespeed service does some of these optimisations (plus others). It's almost certainly applying JS concatenation, and in the end there's not much difference in load time:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/121024_K0_78b60a17cae988da...

EDIT: Actually, it is applying some concatenation, but it's not concatenating everything: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/121024_35_049258ec5056f5b4...
You and me both! But there were some fantastic entries this year.
Well, it's a closed system expect for the sunlight, which is arguably the most important component of any agricultural system.
I had the Transformer Prime, and used it for some light hacking and conference liveblogging. The main thing keeping me from using it for "real work" was that the keyboard really wasn't too good.

I've understood the Infinity has the same keydock as the Prime. But maybe the keys are better now? How is your typing experience?
When you say "hundreds of millions of impressions" do you mean that literally or are you meaning "a lot of traffic"?

If it is the former then I would like some elaboration; my intuition is surprised that the amount of data required would be that large.
From his profile in Wired this month[0]:

> The rights to the Kim.com domain cost a small fortune, but it was worth it.

[0] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/ff-kim-dotcom/all/
That becomes true when your scripts are massive. With the sizes Apple are using, the connection & HTTP overhead become the bottleneck.
The only high resolution ~10″ displays on the market currently are those that didn't pass Apple quality control ...
The inability to install anything on the desktop OS apart from the Office makes it less compelling as a laptop.

But the jailbreaks will come sooner or later, anyway.

edit: oh, you speaked about x86 version. Well I would guess this will have higher energy consumption and be less compelling as a tablet.
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Yeah, that's the basic idea behind both permaculture and aquaponics: Build a tiny ecosystem that can sustain itself with as little input as possible (and like all agriculture, obviously with useful output like food as well).
The good ideas taken from plan9 aren't isolated to it and could have been fostered outside of it, perhaps speeding up adoption of those ideas.
We're clearly in a this means war situation with all the launches targeting the Christmas shopping season... Surface, WP8, yesterday's iPad announcements, Google's event next week. All of them are clearly timed to try and steal thunder from the others.

I suppose the extra viciousness is because the next two quarters may well decide the fate of several major product lines: Android on tablets, Windows on phones, survival of companies like Nokia and Sony's mobile division, ...

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/22/3537380/the-high-stakes-o...
> ...comes from a content-creator's POV...

Where 'content creator' means typist - ok, writer.

Meanwhile if you are a musician, painter, sketch artist, calligrapher, or casually work with video or photography or many other artistic or creative media the iPad is a fantastic content creation device. To be fair to Anandtech they don't appear to fall into the trap of narrowly equating typing with creation, but so many people in this comment and many others here and all over the web do so regularly. It's an infuriatingly narrow perspective.
Yeah. It looks like the current x86 version isn't going to be too popular, but I expect there will be an improved second generation that might take off.
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Your enemy's enemy isn't necessarily your friend though. It's possible to have issues with them both.
In the UK at least, there are a variety of reasons why a contract, or at least part of it, may be unenforceable - such as unfair/unreasonable terms, things that contradict the law, or the particular terms were considered "hidden" (e.g. too small a font size, or an important clause is buried in page 27 of an unrelated section).
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Very interesting stuff. Got interested in permaculture a couple years ago, and this seems a great complement in many ways.

Obviously much more sustainable than how most people get their food. I wonder what the energy & water requirements for this sort of system are.
Why? really why do you put this kind of article here?
Well, zoompf.com takes a minute to respond at the moment. So maybe they're not the ones to judge.
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Are you serious? Fossil's docs have been "embedded docs" for quite a long time now. Even the main page is served from a file within trunk (this is the url / redirects to):

http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

For the issue tracker: just try to report an issue (without logging in with a dev account). It has been very long time now that Fossil is accepting issue reports only through email. It's quite an ironic thing to do for a project that's providing an issue tracker, isn't it?
Maemo/Meego or whatever they're naming it today is probably the closest thing to what you're referring to. It supposedly had a very standard Linux userland although it had some binary-only packages (IIRC for the radio parts).

Canonical has also been pushing Ubuntu onto the space. They have Ubuntu for Android[1] where you keep using Android on phones/tablets but then are able to tether them to a screen/keyboard and have a full Ubuntu running out of the same device and accessing the same data. They've also just demo'd Ubuntu as a real tablet OS on a Nexus 7[2].

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
[2] http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/10/23/ubuntu-running-on-nexus-...
If the x86 version has sufficient horsepower, they could present the iPad with a serious high-end challenge, because there's a lot of software I like on my Windows box that I'd love to be able to use in a tablet environment (without needing any more functionality than mouse emulation), not to mention a goodly number of USB devices that interface with same. That would substantially reduce my iPad envy.
A friend of mine actually does this. He's an MS hire. No wonder he figured it out long ago :)

http://coderuns.co.cc/
Tu quoque...

However, it is curious to discover they have quite hefty JS files loading in their own HEAD element.
The land in West Oakland where Eric Maundu is trying to farm is covered with freeways, roads, light rail and parking lots so there’s not much arable land and the soil is contaminated.

There is no light rail in Oakland. BART is heavy rail.
> Is there a large population of people and businesses who are solely focused on having a website up and running no matter what it looks like?

Yes. Any business that does more of its work offline than online, is just putting up an online site for convenience.
Something I found from youtubing the subject is some of the commercial farms seem to go astray from the closed-system concept which makes it most awesome...
You can backup your purchases using copy-and-paste to your hard drive. Or do you mean "remove DRM"?

I agree with your second paragraph.
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`git log` command works too. or, if you need activity across projects - github.
I signed up to be notified. But... Please include a quick summary of the app in the notification mail to make us remember what it was, when the time comes.
I really doubt it.

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

Also, appeals haven't even been heard. This is far from over. Apple hasn't won until appeals are exhausted.
Here's a question.
What if you build an app or site that is a wrap around for cURL but that is used locally.. I.e. it's your machine or iPhone or Android that actually makes the necessary URL calls to check in at exactly 24 hours before check in? Does that violate ToS? Where do we draw the line?
I think he meant something like:

<script><%= File.read("file.js") %></script>

Not that they should literally move the script inline.
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There is git-annex, and of course also http://owncloud.org/
The the relatively recent rise of two big types of software pricing & distribution is a opportunity to notice how different things in markets interact in these markets. If you spend your career in software you forget how weird an industry with n marginal costs is.

An app store lends well to $1-$10 apps creating a demand creating a supply.

Web based Saas lends well to $5-$50 apps creating a demand creating a supply.

If you need a sales consultant or a long decision making process you need to go into the 5-6 figures realm.

These things didn't happen because consumers really wanted smartphone apps that happened to cost around $1 or webapps that happened to cost $5 per month. The marble dictated the sculpture

Consumer webapps need to be sold as monthly subscriptions. Subscriptions have a customer decision making and vendor responsibility overhead that makes $5 roughly the lowest possible price, so you naturally get the "cheaper" apps bunching around the lowest viable point.

B2B web apps/services were able to crack into a price range that was inaccessible before. $1500 one off payment for a shrink wrap version is too expensive for self service sales & too small for a sales teams. $99 p/m with 30 days free isn't. Whole programming cultures formed around this new opening.
I didn't read it that way.

I took the primary point of calling a PC to be that it is too large to be called a tablet. The article goes to great length to point out that the keyboard is pretty much necessary, the full size usb port is necessary and that the whole package is as big as a laptop.
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Please don't ever do jury duty.
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Plan 9 did leave Bell Labs, http://www.york.ac.uk/ used it for one, and it was released under a more free licence in time.
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I think this should be interpreted as "do a better job managing your business by keeping a steady flow of incoming work".
Most video files could probably be cached in ram at this point anyway.
Amusing set of definitions from the article:

Cloud - Fire your systems people and ditch your comms room!

Big Data - Parse Twitter in order to learn how to read your customer's minds!

NoSQL - Stop paying Oracle!

Functional - We couldn't get good enough at mainstream programming languages so we switched to something more difficult!
This is just like his old kimble.org page... big words and I promise you: nothing remotely justifying it actually behind it. He has been trolling JUST like this in the 90s and looks like he is using his current publicity to do the same now.

In the end it is ALL about making money for him and it always has been. He has been doing the same "business" back in the 90s and famously turned over former associates to the police to cut deals.
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Well, images.apple.com is Akamai'd (22ms for me) and it also supports keep-alive.
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If you are distributing free content, they have pledged not to charge you. It isn't so much an argument as a statement of fact.
I can imagine myself having a few windows open on one of these things doing small bits of programming. On the go. That would be great!
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This looks like Fountain codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code

Basically, you split your data into blocks, XOR random blocks together and the client can recreate the data by solving the equation of which blocks where XORed with which.

A good tutorial is here: http://blog.notdot.net/2012/01/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Fountain...

And a fast implementation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_code
I've always recommended OneNote as one of THE best tablet application ever. Using it on TabletPC almost 4 years now.

It will really be a shame if it's not featured full-featured on Slate.
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Thanks! Am excited to to make it more hassle free to enjoy these great video moments.
tl;dr of this review: IE sux, keyboard sux, Windows sux, don't buy it. Read Anandtech's review instead, which is much more nuanced.

You can really see how techcrunch rushed this one out the door as quickly as possible without doing much error checking. None of the images work when you click on them, there's spelling mistakes/typos everywhere and some weird expressions that don't seem to make sense at all.
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I'm more interested in ideas themselves than details about how they're marketed. Plan 9 and its novelties are well known and published in detail. The authors of Linux, BSD, OSX, and NT are aware of Plan 9 and decided it wasn't worth imitating. What could be gained by wasting time lobbying to change their minds? They care only for what they and their customers want, and the average Joes that Microsoft and Apple sell operating systems to aren't exactly clamouring for them to be more like Plan 9. If you like an idea, then adopt it yourself. If not everyone shares your taste in operating system architecture, that's alright too.