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Ok, then we have three years until the next blockbuster launch? That seems like plenty of time to do something.
I was hanging out and talking to other people who are interested in betting markets online, we were just speculating. We mostly talk about sports betting but the election was such a big topic in betting that you couldn't avoid it and I ended up getting sucked into it.

I should have looked into it further, this has since been posted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4756229

I don't have much experience with Intrade, but there must be a way to dump data from the site and investigate the orders and buys being made.

As that post says, putting down $1M to keep the odds more in line with a narrative of the contest being close is small change in the context of political spending today.

I had two people tell me that rumor. One heard it via friends on Wall St and the other read it in another forum, IIRC.

There must be something to explain the spread between Intrade and Betfair, that the market was being manipulated by those with a vested interest makes sense.
Harping back to Steve is silly.

They could shuffle on as-is for years and still be OK, unless you interest lies only in doubling your money.

Steve didn't have yearly "big things"

It would be healthy for them to stabilise and lower expectations.
This is actually very useful and Symbian (Nokia N73) alarm app also used to do this! Saved me many times from setting wrong alarms. :)
Another element is that, unlike Google or Amazon, Apple need big margins on their products as that is their main revenue stream. They clearly never competed on price, but that position is about to get more complicated with the new Google lineup.

On another note, I admire how you avoided the (too) easy plays on words here around eating / taking a bite of the apple.
"Google is eating Apple's lunch as we speak."
"Microsoft is about to take a bite of their pie as well."
Well, bundler solves a problem that's related, but tangential to what rubygems does. Rubygems is first and foremost a packaging format for libraries. It handles loading, provides a common format to specify dependencies (gemspec) and a default code layout for libs. It does not to dependency resolving.

So what people used to call "gem hell" was actually "I need to specify all my dependencies and take care of conflicts myself." That's what bundler does. And it uses rubygems to actually retrieve, install and load the gems.
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Same here - blogging everyday my startup progress. It's motivating. Good luck to YC applications. I've applied for the same batch. =)
There wasn't any evidence Apple was working on the first iPhone before they announced it, but it was an obvious target for Apple to hit. I had a fake osX theme on my crappy Nokia and was hanging out for Apple to enter the fray. I can't think of anything they could 'revolutionize' in their own way anymore.
"Their argument is that at some unspecified point in the future, popular sentiment will do a 180, and the company will fall off the face of the planet like they're the Crocs of the tech world."

I think there is a lot of truth in this argument, and you didn't persuade me otherwise. Many (perhaps most?) of Apple's customers buy their products for lifestyle reasons: because they're "cool" and its fashionable to have them. Such customers are often fickle and easily influenced, and the herd can move on to the next shiny thing very quickly. If Android became the fashionable choice then it would be just as vulnerable.

I'm not saying that all Apple users are fashion victims. Apple make some good products and deserve their success. If you're developing with ruby/java/etc and want a high build quality laptop running Unix then a mac is a good choice, for example, but that's not why most people buy macs.

I think that Apple's near future will look like the recent past of Nokia and RIM.
Allan Day is a designer, not a developer. Obviously he's not involved in GTK+ development. It is true that GTK+ is not much tested on any other theme than the default theme, but that is a matter of focus and lack of manpower.

IMO easier to be honest about it (no focus).
For every state he listed which direction he thought it would go, and an associated probability.

Every state went the direction that he thought it would go.
You can install it from this ppa https://launchpad.net/~hannes-janetzek/+archive/enlightenmen... .

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightenment-svn
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install e17

Logout and choose Enlightenment before login. Have fun!
As I've said before, Scott was probably pushed out because he wanted Apple to go head-to-head with Google in search and mapping. Siri is search. Maps is mapping. They are Google's strongest products, and Apple is nuts to compete. All they'll accomplish by keeping Google off the iPhone is giving Android a competitive edge, and will have to spend a huge amount to be remotely competitive. It's iWork all over again.

I'm pretty sure Google wants Google Maps and Google voice search on the iPhone. I'm pretty sure Apple said no, to retaliate against Google's work on Android. (Yes, there's no turn-by-turn, but that's in Apple's own app using Google data - a Google Map app would probably have the same features as Android). The only reason Google made Android is to have more people run Google Search, and Google Maps, and click on the little blue text ads.

Apple can compete with Android, as long as they don't block good apps. Having a good relationship with Google is a pretty good start. Lots of people will pay a 30% premium for an Apple desktop, despite Windows being the dominant platform. I'm pretty sure they'd pay a premium for an Apple phone / tablet, especially when iOS is the dominant mobile platform.

I can't see iOS remaining as dominant as the iPod was, but I don't see it being an also-ran like OSX.
I might be asking the obvious here, but just to make sure we're on the same page, you didn't just set one alarm for the end of the week did you?
I guess you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ubuntu app, or an XFCE app

That's it. Gnome has peaked.

No point supporting people who are unable to grasp the idea that they work in a software-community and that pieces, even ones they don't use or make, will need to fit together.
Interesting. What did you learn from the experience?
It took them two years to put back the power off button back on the menu. That's quite some progress.
I would think that scaling the web servers to handle 15k requests per second would be relatively easy compared to scaling the database servers.

I would have thought that you could just throw cheap hardware at that problem, whereas the database would be a considerably complex scaling issue.
How does that explain Julia[0]/Node.js? Both within 1-2x speed of C, I think static has less to do with it than you think.

[0] http://julialang.org/
I am utterly dumbfounded by some of the comments here. I feel like people have completely misunderstood his philosophy.

To me, Dustin is advocating a very practical position of minimalism. It's about starting from scratch and thinking carefully about everything you own. There is a huge upfront investment involved but you will get that time back (and much more) because you trust your tools. They won't let you down, They won't break, They will work exactly as intended and you will understand why they work in that way. This frees you up to spend more time on the things that are important to you.

I spent a few months travelling this year and I spent an awful lot of time thinking about what I wanted to bring with me. I bought almost everything from scratch and each item that went into the backpack was meticulously researched. I ended up with only 7.5kg (including backpack) of stuff but I had everything I needed and everything I needed was important. I was suddenly less anxious about setting off on my adventure. When others found that their backpacks were coming apart at the seams, mine was as strong as the day I bought it. When spending a month motorbiking through Vietnam, it took my friends 15 minutes to strap their 20KG+ of luggage to the bike every morning, it took me one minute. I always had the perfect clothing for whatever activity in whatever weather (despite the fact that I had about a third as much clothes as everybody else). While others were wondering around rural areas looking for a launderette, I had everything I needed to wash my own clothes (The liquid I used for washing clothes could also be used to wash my hair and shave, and I only needed a few ml of it). I got better sleep in dodgy areas because my fellow travellers were sleeping with one eye open while my bag was securely locked and tethered to something grounded. I could go on.

The bottom line is that I spent less time worrying and more time enjoying the moments and being with the people I was lucky enough to spent those moments with.
Yeah, had a tough time reading it as well.
Guess you are unlucky.

I'm not being sarcastic either. It just is more difficult to support many different themes than just one.
I fail to see why mapgrep's position is a strawman. Is it not valid to question the opportunity cost of a lifestyle, in which one is obsessed more about objects than about lives? His tone may be slightly mean, but that doesn't invalidate his argument.

Dustin's article is more about lifestyle (his lifestyle), not so much about design.

If it's about design, then I would think his analysis of flatware is fairly shallow.

Or is it about how elite designer's lifestyle should be? If so, then I think you're right to say it alienates people.
What I already knew: that essentially I'm the laziest person I know and that I need to work hard and set personal challenges (against time) to be productive.
> file dialogs

As in the "Open File" or "Save File" widgets in GTK3 (at least I assume it's GTK3 and not GNOME3).
That theory also jives with Jobs' traditional (perhaps slightly irrational) fear of being dependent on any other company after being held hostage by Adobe back in the 90s and early 00s.
Great blog, I've buffered it.

If you need any advice from a technical guy - feel free to reach out, I'm glad to help.
Well github is quite profitable , maybe that's twitter's problem... what service does twitter provides that people are willing to pay for ? None...
Now the group is called Cologne Startups. And you can report the "Meredith" account for abuse here:

http://www.meetup.com/Cologne-Startups/abuse/68317022/
You know, if I wanted to add toggle button back to the dialogue box, do I really need to fork the Gnome project just to get it back? Seriously?
I just went through

http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=download

Grabbed the EFL libs and did a bunch of tar -xzf , ./configure, make, sudo make install

Then did the same for the tarball for the alpha.

I had run various incarnations of e17 in the past which left a bit of odd setup. I removed ~/.e/e so I started with a fresh start on the alpha.
Neurotic materialism. Or a joke.
also dont forget grails!
Previous sibling, the missing CSS selector?
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The flatware recommended in the article is $10 a piece. It compares a bit to buying a $80 dollar stainless steel salt shaker to match the $60 carbon-fiber wine bottle stopper.

It's probably those kinds of things op is calling a status symbol.

It compares to buying
Relative to other tools we've used, Ruby has caused a disproportionate number of problems.
I don't claim to have ever achieved perfection with anything I've done. But I can say from experience of designing a lot of systems, that the initial designs are usually messy and complicated. A lot of developers stop there and start building. But if you keep going, at a certain point things start to become simple and obvious. That's how I know I've managed to get to the core of some certain problem. It's a great feeling when all of a sudden the design or approach seems to just fit perfectly.

I don't really know how to get there except to just continue re-working things until that magic moment happens.
Would love to see screenshots if anyone got it built and running?
Indeed.. i remember when i was so proud to have a nice looking desktop manager with really old hardware running, it was awesome.

Nowadays i am not sure.. i will try E17 again and see how it compares today :)

(p.s.: i even did a screencast of my "wunderful" E17 Desktop 5 years ago and it still has effects and a look and feel that is ahead of gnome/unity/xfce with a laptop that was over 5 years old back then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lOa8o1tgIU )
XFCE was really different 5 years ago. It was much simpler and pretty much a CDE clone that was gone in GTK. Now it has become something like GNOME 2.x.
Ruby has nothing to do with Python. Python is strongely typed and compiled into bytecode, just like java. It is just not the bloated and verbose language java is , which allows fast and pragmatic development.
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"not open-source in the sense of being a community project."
Android is no less a community project than FF OS. And it does have a great community of outside developers around it, XDA. Check out the forums.

If you want to contribute back, Google has been good about accepting patches into its AOSP project. For patches they won't accept, there's always CyanogenMod.

"JS engines are pretty fast" Good enough for simple text based apps and casual games, yes. Modern 3D games, not by a long shot. Native code, NDK, or Java under HotSpot are the only decent options creating for modern responsive 3D games.
There is also a more immediate and practical issue. Each connected "thing" (let us assume sensor for the moment) is supplying a state signal about one thing - this needs coordinating in some way to tell you useful things (like some action needs to be taken or there is someone in your house - or better, a particular person is in your house). This requires some form of set-up for each potential scenario.

I am looking to start in with the Eve Alphs Kickstarter project http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ciseco/eve-alpha-raspber... to explore ways for sensors to self organise through software to provide a higher level view of current state that can be interrogated at a much higher level - perhaps be able to deal with a completely new situation.
isn't this just the sunk-costs fallacy? Notice how it seems to be an argument, but you're just anchoring to burning things from "a few years ago" is better than from "a few million years ago." In fact the net effect is the same. If you have a house and a tornado rips off an extension, the effect is the same as if the tornado rips off a much older extension - it just doesn't feel like it.
Personally, I think that 'huge upfront investment' is excessive and I don't believe that the return on it is enough. Compare Tom, who bought the first backpack he saw in a store, Bob, who spent an hour or two looking up backpacks and then bought one, and Dustin, who spent four weeks studying the history of the concept of luggage. Bob's backpack is likely to be just as good as Dustin's. Dustin can look at Tom, who got a crappy backpack and is sad, and say 'see how valuable preparation is?!' but there's an extreme on both ends, and both of them look stupid to non-extremists. The bottom line is that Bob probably spent less time worrying about his 'stuff' than Dustin across the entire lifetime of his ownership of it, which to me is more minimalist and more desirable. Sure, reasonable people can debate where the line of 'too much thought' is, but only an unreasonable person would say that it is always at the extreme Dustin end.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but how? I thought that the interface for notifications was just to provide some text and maybe an icon.
What about the people in the countries you visited, I guess their lives weren't constantly bathed in that rosy glow of knowing they had the best backpack.
The LuaJIT performance is pretty impressive for a dynamically typed language, but it's hard to deny the fact that mainstream dynamically typed languages our outperformed by their static counterparts.
Well, there are several problems with MRI-1.8.x/REE that come into play when you try to go for raw performance. The biggest problem is probably the "stop the world" GIL that occurs around the GC and AFAIK around all external C calls. The second biggest problem is that the lack of multi-core capabilities. Both can bite you pretty badly when you're aiming for raw performance of a single process. They're both not as bad when you're doing web-level stuff where it matters little whether you start one, two or 20 processes to handle your load.
I thought the iPhone (and most phones) did that too.
Also try out terminology, the new E17 terminal.
It has an awesome look and feel. Once it supports tabs i'll use it fulltime :)
python is not interpreted,it is compiled in bytecode just like java.
> Another big problem is - Apple hasn't invented
> anything in a while.

They don't invent, they reinvent. We got iPhone in 2007, iPad in 2010.
Do you want to bring completely new product every year? What company does that?

> Their OS is super stale and is sooo far behind Android.

It's mature, not stale. I won't go into "sooo far behind", because we both know how it really is.

> but they don't manufacture the screens,

True. Does Google manufacture screens? Does Microsoft?

> and so now everyone has high resolution displays.

Not really true.

> From my perspective, Apple is done

From your perspective (applying the same criteria) Google and Microsoft are even more done.
Having enforced immovable schedules can be very useful for productivity. I doubt I'd have the willpower to ever enforce one upon myself but, luckily, I don't have to.

My wakeup time is determined by a wriggly 2 year old alarm clock that comes in to the bedroom at roughly the same time every morning (~7am) shouting "WAKE UP MUMMY AND DADDY! WHERE'S MY MILK?" (we're working on the pleasantries). Last night my sleep time was determined by same said wriggly 2 year old alarm clock who has a horrible cough/cold combo disrupting her sleep (and ours) throughout most of the night.

I have to leave the office at a certain time in order to pick her up from nursery, no chance of running late or getting someone else to do it. That hard cut-off to the end of my working day is very motivating as I know I don't have any buffer to stay a bit later to finish off something I'd said I'd do by the end of the day.

I got in to the office this morning and within 2 minutes I was programming away where I'd left off the night before. The commute in (cycling[1] usually, train sometimes) is where I do the majority of thinking and planning for the day ahead.

There's very little email where I work and I keep my distractions in check with willpower and Leechblock (not got long left to post this).

I definitely believe that I'm more productive in these 8 hours a day (9 if you include commuting) than I was in the days where I'd be 'working' for 12-14 hours.

1. There's my hour a day exercise too.
Although not habitable in the sense that a human could just walk around on the surface. 7g is a bit much for us.
I think it's highly probable that if Apple put in enough thought to implement this feature at all, they thought of and tried out all the possibilities. Number of hours seems unnatural to me.
Yep that's ALL it is.
A different birthday present
You can throw wikipedia links to try justify an argument ("hey, look at how many other projects there are!"), but GitHub and Heroku both leverage RoR heavily and both are incredibly large, successful products. Having competitors does not a failure make.
Pivoting stops when you have found a scalable, repeatable business model, not an idea to work on.
how to hack?
You're completely ignoring Apple's best in class customer support.
Especially if you can't/worn't stabilise theme APIs...
I think I could write a scalable Twitter using mostly low-paid workers who manually write down the tweets and deliver them in person. It's just a matter of hiring enough workers now that I've designed this scalable distributed system.
After reading the full piece, it's obvious Ubuntu and KDE are not that much better than Gnome. Should we say 2012 looks like the year Linux "lost" the desktop after a few years of prosperity?

For someone running Ubuntu 12.10 with "basic" desktop needs, can anyone come up with some recommendations for a more open, forthcoming distro and DE? Someone to reward for their efforts?

It seems like using and supporting Ubuntu, Gnome etc at this point would be sending out the wrong signals.
At high temperatures above 1000 degrees C, dioxin decomposes and the incinerators here are constructed for that.

Offical numbers:
"The total emissions of dioxins to air in Sweden in 2008 was about 38 grams of TCDD equivalents."

Of that 5g is supposed to be from wasteburning.
(That number is disputed by greenpeace who claims that to be 114g)
Maybe, more simply, Wall Street today believes that the insanely big profits that Apple is making - and that made it the most valuable company in the world in Wall Street itself - aren't sustainable in the long run. And the bullish speculation on Apple shares that came out of the continual growth of those profits may be reversing itself.
> I think that Apple's near future will look like the recent past of Nokia and RIM.

Those companies were rendered irrelevant by radically new products they couldn't compete with. I can't see that happening to Apple. Even if Android or Windows devices achieved quality and feature parity, or even pushed past Apple's devices, Apple still have oceans of room to compete on price to retain market share. That combined with their best-in-class supply chain management would keep them competitive for years to come.

So IMHO the worst case is they become just another device manufacturer in terms of profitability and their design and software chops contribute nothing to their ability to compete. That seems unlikely.
> It's exploitation, but what can you do?

Use Linux.
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I am using unstable build of http://elementaryos.org/
So far, its excellent. Cant wait for the real release
I also pay for a second bin to throw garden waste into. I could probably goto Jordcentralen later and buy it back as soil.
Same discussion from 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4706196
I think it's wrong to compare this - useless ads on a product you pay for, with Ubuntu - search functionality that happens to benefit a specific provider, on a free OS, which is removable by a single command.
You don't pay for Gmail.
Yup, and from experience, you're going to end up rewriting big chunks of your stack multiple times. (In a previous life, I worked on a team that grew a Java-based SMS gateway from an initial design limit of 10 msg/s on a single box to 10,000+ msg/s sustained, replicated across a high-availability cluster.) Props to the Twitter team for pulling it off, because at volumes like that you start to get into seriously arcane stuff like JVM garbage collection tweaking, or otherwise a full GC that halts all threads of execution for 30+ seconds will create entire pods of fail whales.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/gc-tuning-6-14...
i still remember me hacking through all the configuration files of E16, yeeeeears ago.

If i hadn't shifted from Linux to MacOSX, it would probably still be my window manager of choice.

But boy, this e17 thing is taking a ridiculous long time!
I don’t think iWork was every intended to compete with Office. It’s a different product. I take it as Apple’s insurance, showing Microsoft that they could if they wanted to, decreasing their complete dependance. Apple doesn’t want to lose Office.
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Handling email as a team.
Thank you. It's on my TODO-list but not on top priority.
I'm mostly working on compatibility issues these days. If you found some, please open a bug report or contact me about them.