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Just sheer force of will. Intel has the engineering talent, the experience, the motivation and the capital. If they can't do it, who can? Apple has a lot to prove here, and so far all they've achieved is purchasing a few smaller chip design firms and managing to adapt existing ARM cores for their own SoCs. They have a long way to go to be able to be competitive in this area. The one thing going for them is that they have the capital to burn, and I can't think of a better way to use it.
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realistically ARM currently lacks the raw power intel chips provide. you can argue about battery life but most work is still done in offices where power sockets are not an issue.

it might change in the future but.. i don't think arm will catch up with x86 for at least a couple of years - in the meantime intel won't sit around doing nothing.
I really doubt a service that crops your images to squares at a low maximum resolution is going to compete with Flickr.
You have to store both. Also, you can't vaporize much air at low temperatures, which we aim for. You have to hold onto water for its sensible (no evaporation) heat capacity.
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I want to build one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_accelerator

Fortunately there's very little H2 involved (mainly I think in the later stages), it's mainly CH4.
This statement holds exactly on desktops & laptops, but not at all on mobile phones, tablets, palmtops, etc.
> Telling your potential customers that they are idiots

Their potential customers are not people standing in line for hours to buy an iPhone, so the ad is spot on.
I also would not be surprised if Apple builds a fab, possibly operated by Samsung or GloFo. Apparently a lot of the tooling in Foxconn's factories is actually on Apple's books, so it wouldn't be a huge stretch to apply a similar approach to making chips.
I love this idea!

I could never attend a "normal" hackathon because, while I really enjoy being sociable and interacting with others, I struggle with my focus. I need quiet and solitude to really get any coding done.
For Apple, leaking news like this makes sense for a few key reasons:

1) They obviously are eager to take another step towards complete vertical integration, giving them even greater profit margins
2) Apple made it known wanted to make their Macbook pros as thin as their Macbook airs earlier this year, but the (relatively) high TDP of intel's mobile chips would've scorched users laps.
3) It's an obvious message(and challenge) to intel that they have to do even better. Apple will likely continue their growth to the largest PC maker (if they aren't already) and Intel needs their business. They're giving Intel 5 years to show them something special.
:)

Funding isn't the constraint now, it's time. But believe me there are more off the beaten path ideas where that came from ;-)
Thanks for sharing mate :)
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It's good to see that startups that are generating revenues and solid profits can have access to this type of financing, resulting in no/little dilution compared to VC funding (like all mezz funds I guess HS has had to issue warrants). I'm curious to know the cash vs PIK component/terms of this instrument.

The mezzanine market is huge (but not as big as it used to be in 06-07) and a great bridge-to-equity instrument if an IPO is a viable option. Kudos to HubSpot.
Don't forget Elon Musk!
My two cents: it's pretty hard to take this seriously when you lead the post with a picture of a naked woman clinging to Richard Branson kite surfing.
Thanks for these definitions. In a post on Hackalone, I had incorrectly lumped together "antisocial" and "introverted" as synonyms. Your definitions (and a comment from a reader) clearly highlighted my error.

Irony: I'd classify myself as introverted and antisocial. But not anymore. Now I'm just introverted ;)
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I know things have changed a lot since the PPC days, but it seems like this might not be the best idea, and that Apple's history might point this out.

I can see it for iOS devices, but for a legacy computer part of what's attractive to me about Macs is the base compatibility with commodity PC hardware. Of course, I also am not the hugest fan of the move toward merging iOS features into the desktop OS, so maybe I'm just being old fashioned about this.
ultimately apple doesn't want to be dependent on suppliers. I guess CPUs and displays are the next obvious things. not necessarily a good thing - this will lead to de-standardization of components, more undocumented hardware and drivers.
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I give a 3 minute TR35 award talk on the concept at the emTech conference this year.

Starts at 5:27

http://www.livestream.com/emtech2012/video?clipId=pla_cdd4c6...
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Have Shervin clean your house while you pitch him what you are building: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/05/want-to-pitch-a-vc-while-he...
Thanks for the info. It is good to know that they're not considering turning off the API or limiting it. There's very little information on the official channels about this.
What a pointlessly snarky comment. I didn't see anything in the post that implied that the task was easy or that he was underestimating the work. He seemed to know the product, and to have even been involved with it directly at some point in time.
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Note that as of the A6/X, they have now designed their own ARM instruction set cores (as opposed to using ARM-designed cores).
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And as far as cars go, I'd rather have a self-driving car than a nuclear car.
It may take more than one election cycle.
The article is meant to be useful for the community. There's no use of us manipulating anything as my intent was to share some tips that worked for me (and might work for someone else). It got republished on lifehacker.

I am open to constructive conversations and suggestions. If you have ideas about social hacking, then please share them.
It is likely that she/her office felt that they did understand the issue. Most people are not tech people and her only inputs were probably executives/lobbyists looking to strengthen copyright. I'm all for lobbying to make sure more congresspeople know what the issues are but writing off candidates because of one issue is really silly.
Note that recentish high-end ARM processors (Cortex-A9) are out-of-order and superscalar, and have long pipelines.
Thanks! InstaDesk still has many features that their current web implementation doesn't have, so in the short term I expect the hit to be marginal, but in the long term it's good that I have other products lined up :)

You're right about the spam, but it always saddens me if somebody buys my app and can't use it due to the lack of an IG account (I'm stating this restriction right in the first sentence of the app description, but some people don't even read that).
Actually, the rear wheels were placed directly beneath the reactor to accommodate its expected-to-be-significant weight. And the front wheels couldn't be too far from the rear wheels, in order to support an appropriate turning radius (without all-wheel steering). There was actually a modest amount of real engineering done in support of this thing, and the wheelbase was one of the results of that.
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Ah, I wasn't aware of this, thanks. I thought they were still packaging ARM-designed cores. For anyone else who'd missed it, here's a good article on it on Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/5
Awesome (the product works pretty well for me, at least in the Bay Area; not so great in Hawaii yet).

Please don't be tempted to go down the "extort small businesses" path that Yelp seems to, though.
"In fact, the sources said such a move was years away, potentially not happening till 2017."

So this article is about something may or may not happen in 2007.
It seems most of the backlash around that was due to you suggesting you publish IP addresses. Since you are already taking credit card details I don't think people would object to recording IP addresses to prevent credit card fraud (maybe only record IP addresses for credit card transactions not general usage of the site). If someone wants to anonymously contribute they already have to get an anonymous credit card, getting around an IP address block would seem trivial.

I would also, advise against your plan to just white list givers. There are already too many barriers to contributing. I would suggest just charging and holding onto money when the transactions seem dubious. Do you also get charged the cost of fraud? because if you don't I would just charge the credit cards and forget about it and let your provider do their job.
I have to admit that a lot of the joy I get from using MongoDB is during dev.

While you still have to think about your schema, it does mean that you're not constantly writing and removing migrations (rails), while an application is still evolving.
The main thing is that the mist process is higher efficiency.

If you compress the air, let it heat up, and THEN cool it by mixing the air with water, the pressure will be high during the compression process, which will take a lot of energy to compress it, and then cool off and reduce in pressure. That's bad.

What you want is to keep the temperature as low as possible during compression, and to keep it as high as possible during expansion. We do this.
Most people were still skeptical about this move when the first rumors started appearing about 2 years ago, just like a most people were skeptical about Apple's move to Intel in 2005, before Apple actually said they were doing it.

But this makes perfect sense for Apple, especially now that they are designing their own CPU cores. What's next - either Apple will buy Imagination, which is less than $2 billion in market cap I believe, or they will design their own GPU, too.

And of course they won't quit Intel right away, especially from the Macbook Pros. But they will do it gradually, not unlike how they are introducing the "retina displays" in the Macbook line-up now, which should take at least another year until Macbook Air gets it, and maybe another 2-3 years until the iMac gets it.

My guess is they will start moving to ARM in 2014 once the 64 bit chips are ready, and with OS XI (which I don't think will come next year).
Apple proposed to pay Moto at most $1/unit "going forward", which has been interpreted (perhaps wrongly) to mean that they want to pay nothing for past infringement.
Protip: when you write tounge-in-cheek, <parody> tags are required for some readers.
I like the idea from the Exec crew but I'm also impressed by the way that the TC reporters seem intent on actually trying out the products now. We did this with Anthnoy Ha for using Perfect Audience for retargeting too.

Admittedly in both these cases, the product was given to the folks for the review. But even with that, I would rather hear someone talk about the service than just describe it to me.
It's not really this at all; the point is - read the docs, research and understand the tools you are going to use. Choose the ones which fit best. Understand the trade-offs.
Did you build this with native Obj-C and UITableViews? Or did you use a platform like PhoneGap or something else to make it easier?

Just curious, because I'm always looking for easier ways to build iOS apps.
Local search today is in the state that web search was in, pre-Google. There are lots of Yahoos and Altavistas, but no Google (Yelp is so reminiscent of Yahoo web search).

Foursquare still has a long way to go before it can consistently give better results than Yelp, but this is a great start! Hope some startups get inspired by this and realize that local search is not a dead problem to work on!
Yep, I deserve a "RTFA award"

So I'll rephrase and say that the rating, as it seems to be presented in the app, doesn't give enough context to show how it is different from how 1 to 10 ratings are done elsewhere.
Most stem cell research doesn't involve aborting human foetuses. Only embryonic stem cell research does.
There's of course a range of densities. :]

In the worst crush loads I've experienced commuting in Tokyo, I could read a small book only by holding it above my head and looking up... Most days weren't quite that bad, but "can't really move" was common.

[I tried to go in late so my morning commute was often downright pleasant, lazily reading in the morning sun... I also liked commuting because it took me through a range of interesting and popular station areas, and sometimes I'd get off and go shopping or meet someone for dinner or something; I found this much easier (mentally) than making a special trip to do the same after a hard day's work. Now I walk to work and sort of miss my commute...]
Mostly in agreement, I never said one shouldn't learn the git CLI and the fundamental concepts - I did that myself. But once you've mastered that, you're ready to move on to something that speeds up your day to day work.

Needing to use git now and then while SSH'd in is not a good reason to make your entire development process slower and more error-prone. I would also say that there is a larger problem with your process if you have the need to use git on "a remote server in a pinch".

It's kind of like learning to play a musical instrument. You absolutely must pay attention to the fundamentals as a beginner, but if you only ever work on the fundamentals you will never become a great musician.
I am working on the project where I also have to scrape a lot of information about a user(posts/tweets/statuses, photos, friends, etc) on the social networks(g+, twitter, facebook, youtube, etc) All these limitations are really annoying. Errors are expected almost on every API call (timeout, 5xx errors, host not found, new fields on data structure, etc). The scraper should be smart enough to support all these caveats.

What I do not understand is why these major players do not want to introduce API for money? I am ready to pay for it and I know a lot of people who also are ready to pay for it. But please, remove these limitations and make your APIs more stable.
Good point.

One of the reasons for the Mac's success, during the last 7 years, has been the x86 architecture. They better know what they're doing - I would hate for history to repeat itself.
Traditionally this has been the case, and largely because POS required such a large upfront investment that merchants needed to be sure (or be 'sure' thanks to a product already having been established in the market) of what the details of the implementation are. When changing POS is as easy as uninstalling one app and installing another... UI will be a much greater factor. I expect many players to attempt to tie-in users through one method or another as a crutch for lacking quality UX.
> Competition with lower price is not good for business.

It's not that simple. Competition with lower price points can drive innovation and reduce costs and hence can lead to an increase in volume that more than makes up for the reduced prices.

In the case of digital music with a potential market of 100's of millions of consumers and a baseline of anywhere between 10K and 200K for a professionally produced piece of music it could very well be more profitable to sell your content to a much larger audience at $0.30 than to a smaller one at $.99 Without competition people would get stuck at unrealistically high price-points and we'd all be that much poorer (culturally) for that. Musique pour supermarché is a nice example of how far you could push that. It made a fraction of what it would have made if it were released.

Competition driving lower prices would unlock a much larger market. Of course from a monopoly position such competition always looks bad, especially if you can squeeze both the consumer and the producer.

This mechanism doesn't hold forever, here is a lower boundary where you will no longer be making more profits and that sweet spot is the point where most of all the sellers will congregate. Given that the cost of distribution is negligible (music tends to spread for free) you'd need a way to piggy-back onto the music being played rather than the music being transferred to side-step the issues of piracy.
Water actually has the highest volumetric sensible (no phase change!) heat capacity of any substance on earth.

We don't rely on water vapor -- the problem is that at low temperatures there's very little vaporization that can even take place. This limits the heat transfer. Though there are alternative approaches that use this effect more fully.
It's not obvious that "essential" patents are more important. 3G and Wi-Fi are commodity technologies while iOS is less so.
Sure, who wouldn't want free advertising on a highly trafficked site with no strings attached?
> But believe me there are more off the beaten path ideas where that came from ;-)

I wasn't in the least worried about that ;)

Take care!
To tell the truth I'm not sure we ever spoke with Thiel about the DOE/ARPA-E rejection. That was back in 2010. We've come a long way since then.
I am so glad for this. Yelp ratings have been horribly un-useful to me. Their questionable business practices aside, it's really hard for me to figure out good places to eat when I'm in an unfamiliar city. And Yelp's ratings are to me useless: highly recommended places which are terrible, and mediocre recommendations on places that are actually quite good for what they're aiming to be. One good thing about Yelp is it tells you if places are open now or not, and what kind of dress code to expect.

Yelp provides a service I really need in a way and from a company that I really don't like, so I'm delighted to hear about competition!
Man this article has created all sorts of strange discussions. I've watched in on G+, Facebook and now here, and eventually they get soooo derailed talking about odd ball stuff not really related. I guess this means Mr. Christensen is onto something stirring up this much discussion.

One thing is common among all of the discussions which is the fixation on the tax proposal, but I think it was just a swag at what a policy might look like. I thought the real interesting part of his observation is that we are rewarding efficiency innovation too much and transformative innovation almost nothing. Try and develop a new power system not based on fossil fuels and see how much money people want to give you when your time horizon is 10-20 years out. It is the transformative innovation that recreates jobs for the jobs lost through efficiency innovation. I think that is the more important discussion over a regressive capital gain tax. Remember, most entrepreneurship would qualify for preferential capital gains taxation (except for ISO options oddly) because even the efficiency innovation takes more than 1 year to payback.

His tax would mostly affect wall street and the trader mentality: HFT, ETFs, day traders, etc. Remember people buying or selling securities don't actually give companies money directly. Companies only get more money when the issue more shares (or hold their own shares). If I buy a share for 1 day or 10 years the company doesn't benefit at all from my action.

If you look at the green energy movement a few years back was going to be very transformative, but VCs backed off when it was hard to turn a profit as quickly as information technology. It's that kinda of calculus that needs changing if we really want to do what Christensen is outlining.
I don't think they are moving away from intel chips but doing something similar to Microsoft's approach with the Surface/Surface Pro versions.
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Apple May Switch From Intel To In-House Chips For Macs
i agree, a pricing model would be very interesting. and probably a good way for twitter to monetize their platform.
Last night at 11pm, I stood a block from penn station trying to find a Subway sandwhich store that was still open. Armed with my iphone, it took me a full 15-20 minutes and a half dozen calls before I found one.

Sometimes I feel like companies like foursquare would be better off working on much, much more basic(and less glamorous) problems than ratings and check-ins stuff.
A problem with that approach is that owning a top-of-the-line fab is expensive because you have to buy a new one every few years. Every next generation is more expensive than the one before it.

I would think owning a fab just for the production of chips used in Apple products would be too expensive to consider. Owning a fab and selling chips to others, to me, looks to go way too much against Apple's culture.

"Apple users have watched their computers slip behind before with PowerPC"

I think that is exactly why Apple has a backup plan to move to ARM. If Microsoft is successful at moving to ARM with Surface, they will have to follow.
No, the proposal is to give cetaceans the rights of life and liberty. Humans have quite a few other rights. Animals have no rights whatsoever.

The proposal is not equating humans and cetaceans. It is stating that cetaceans are close enough to humans that we should respect their life and not treat them a property. One hopes that an alien species landing on Earth would feel the same about humans...
Save time with a GUI? Seriously???

Keyboard strokes are, by any definition, much faster than mouse pointing-and-clicking. I have yet to find a single GUI that gets stuff done faster than what I can achieve with a command line prompt.
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It implies a consumer preference that isn't necessarily there and appears to show android at a higher share of device use than is likely a real picture of actual user behavior.

Information that is wrong makes people make poor decisions. I would feel bad if someone overvalued this marketshare number when choosing to make apps, for instance.

Additionally the actual statistic gathered is "shipments" not "sales" which is a different definition. One KEY point there is TONS of iPhone 5's didn't ship in Q3, even though they were purchased then.

Lastly, quoting "shipments of smartphones" then talking about the iPad mini as if it's in these numbers makes the article itself dubious (it is not taken into account in these numbers).

I just want people to stop cheerleading and report facts. Android is leading in # of screens, I just want someone to quote accurate, non-bullshitty numbers about it, instead of fake sliced up numbers about it that give a false picture of the landscape because it ignores members of the ecosystem (Ignoring small tablets such as the galaxy S 5"/iPod Touches is like ignoring PCs that just don't happen to have a 802.11b card installed in them: A weird way to slice statistical data).
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Heck, it's in the same state it was post-Google, too, when Citysearch was the disruptor. Yelp started out good, probably very akin to where Foursquare is now (clean-ish data, fresh perspective), but tolerated too much garbage, much like Citysearch did, until the user has to over-engineer their search in order to get relevant results that aren't contained in 400 pages, 5 items per page.

Think of how long it's been since Yelp added any filtering criteria. Take a look at their user-photo gallery functionality. Old, stagnant, and ripe for a new generation. However, since sites have been repeating these mistakes for 15 years, there's no indication that any of these are solvable problems.
Apple doesnt historically pander to the enterprise market. They're eyeing their consumer laptops.
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Running cars on nuclear energy instead of oil is a great idea, but putting reactors in the cars is neither necessary nor desirable. Keep the reactors in big central power stations where they can be properly shielded and use grid power to charge electric cars.