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Google would get no anti-trust scrutiny for this (not that I think it is a good idea). Google doesn't have a monopoly on smart phones, so there really isn't a reason why the DoJ would really look at Google buying the number 4 carrier. Even if you note there were a mobile OS manufacturer, that owned a handset maker, they aren't overwhelmingly dominant in any of those areas. So, realistically, they wouldn't be able to use their dominance in search against any existing player in mobile.

I think the biggest reason to not do it is $30B. :)
I haven't used Ubuntu in two years. Is it true that there are now ads in it?

Edit: I am referring to this
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/22/1319216/ubuntu-will-n...

I haven't seen them first hand, but I was hoping someone might give their opinion here.
It's simply stunning to me to see how long it's taken the computer geeks to work this out. Apple stopped making toys for you over a decade ago and you are only just realising it now?

I guess this is another consequence of the filter bubble. As all we read on the internet is the opinion of other geeks, we forget that geeks are hopelessly outnumbered by normals and they are the ones Apple is targeting and reaping the rewards.

This was always Steve Jobs vision and it's not like it was a secret.

However, the most ludicrous part of this post is the suggestion that Apple would be best served as a company making servers again and trying its best to grab back that lucrative desktop linux market.

This, in a nutshell, is why Apple was revolutionary. The geeks just simply didn't see normal people and made hardware and software that suited their own needs and behold, it sucked mightily. Apple made the step of putting the normal person first and, shockingly, normal people decided to pay good money for their products.

All of this should be obvious to anyone who reads HN and witnessed Apples meteoric rise. It's a bit disconcerting to discover that apparently it isn't.
Your number of workers is off by a factor of 10 or 100 for the average CEO's company.
First, cool idea, being a designer I know how much a good critique can really help you polish your design and really improve it (so long as you don't take it personally).

Second, how does the process go once you do improve on your design and heed the advice given, can you upload your new design (replace the old one, show them side to side, represent a timeline of the iteration?) will it tell the people who critiqued that you followed their advice? and will your old design, having already been polished and finished, will it stay on there forever continuing to get critiqued on things that have been fixed already?

looks good I'll probably upload something soon, good luck

ps: if I did upload something are there any other incentives other than the critique (like maybe a linkback to a site) just curious.
Pingdom really started to develop into its current form around 2009 I think. Before that it might've existed, but I don't think it was aggressively marketed and developed.
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Your mention of Google's constant "toe-in-the-water" technique is a very interesting point, and is probably the biggest reason this will never happen.

It's really true how non-committal Google is with various projects, and like a research lab (not unlike the backgrounds of those who work there), they are constantly testing various proof-of-concepts to see which ones will bite. Other than search and their foray into geo, Google seems to keep playing an exploratory game where they know the desired outcome but not entirely how to get there. And they're in a great position to develop expensive proof-of-concept projects to see which gets them closer to their goals. Street View is an example of one that worked out handily but easily could have been cancelled in an alternate world; Wave unfortunately didn't make it.

It's this flat, "try everything independently" structure (with funding from some massive revenue) that makes Google a very unique and interesting company.
Excellent point. How about all those businesses that have their services hosted in the cloud e.g. Amazon EC2.
It's remarkably easy to spot these types of article early. They always begin with short sentences, and almost always include the sentence "It has been a good run."
While perhaps some are offshore oil rigs [1] - many are arrays of lights used to attract bait fish, phytoplankton, and squid [2] in order to increase commercial fishing yields.

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I came here to say this as well - Don't. This is of course my own opinion, and I can only promise this comment will get progressively more subjective the farther you read.

R's documentation is terse and unorganized. Anyone who says different is obviously someone with more experience with the language (which is not how it should be). When people complain about the documentation it's because they're trying to learn, and if the documentation isn't together learning is painful. Learning R is painful.

Next- Learning is painful, and the documentation is horrible because: the actual built in functions or extensions are a nightmare of arguments that [sometimes do/sometimes don't work]. If you plot x and you don't want the key to show up then set auto.key=FALSE, if you plot class(x) = [something else] and don't want the key to show up set colorkey=FALSE, if you want to layer plots: load this library and format your data to a new S3/S4 (object) type, add them together, then plot them (without the library you can't add these objects)... In case you didn't catch that: I wanted to layer the plots so I had to load a function that made the objects I wanted to plot add, not load a library that would change the plotting driver.

The community around R is disenchanted. If you get into the right place on the web and ask about a feature that doesn't exist: more often than not I've seen the typical guru response of the type "It doesn't work that way - that's a feature, not a problem." Change is bad, and in my experience generally discouraged.

Finally (and perhaps this really doesn't need to be said) the more I've been working with it - the more I feel like the reason it is so popular is because you can load it up read your data set, google some of the more central functions, and poof - get that set of characteristic statistical answers everyone needs to have in their [presentation/HW assignment]. If you look at the answers in this thread you get 2 types A) it's impossible to use, B) it does standard statistical analysis really easily. In my narrow world view it appeals to people who don't work with software a lot - professionals who need some automated numbers on the side without hiring someone to do it right.

That all said, I still do use R. You can do some nifty statistical analysis pretty easily and push it to a vector plot, pop it open with your favorite editor and post edit it super pretty (in a few days).
Apple still has plenty of cash , and its fundamentals are strong. They may have been over priced for a fews years it's true but they'll hit the 600$ a share soon , i'm sure job didnt "left" without some new ideas to exploit. Tim Cook might however not be the best CEO for Apple.
Using the svtle theme while not being part of svtle comes off as really slimy. You are ripping off someone else's work and there are no two ways about it.
Besides really pretty Russian girl, there is very little benefit to that video. Maybe add some subtitles or spend more seconds on video portions that have text? I couldn't figure out why some things she scrolls have price tags of $250 and some $30 - what is she seeking in such wide price range?
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Great! That's just what I was looking for to try again this awesome IDE. Thanks for the input!
Really? Care to expand? That just surprises me!
Why does this have to be such a negative article? I would prefer to see a praising of how great the latest Ubuntu is in detail. Intro with "I've been a power mac user for x years..." and then go on to sing the praises.
What did an ubuntu upgrade break that required building something from source?
The technically fascinating aspect of implementing narbuncular/portal physics is the optics of looking into a portal, not the trivial translation/rotation of passing through a portal in a platformer sideview.
Perhaps leave autoscroll as an option? I don't like having to type, move my hand to the mouse, scroll, move my hand to the keyboard, and repeat.
They might have borrowed from R.
Wes McKinney admits to being influenced by R especialy data frames...but it makes data analysis all the more easier when i can do everything i want within the the Python environment.
pandas is proving to be a bit of a longer learning curve i must admit, but then the python environment and native Matplotlib support made life oh so much simpler.

That's just me though.
So iOS is for porn?
And the people analysing it as a cardboard cut-out were also wrong.
No one is afraid of older people. they are afraid of not having the upper hand. This business speak about culture is lame. Say what you mean. Don't say culture when you mean power. Yes, the problem is that more experienced, wiser, and older people are scary and will take control of your company if you hire them and will ignore all your power games. They are not going to respect your "culture" (power). Scary stuff. In reality, the powerful don't work for the weak so you don't have to worry about it.
I think it is not so much "computer as an appliance" which is the issue but the fact that you can do less and less with your computing devices, or that they become, in the end, more convoluted to use because of the design choices made. Like, turning a desktop computer operating OS to a tablet-like OS is just plain stupid and is a loss of efficiency.

Otherwise I agree with you, Apple has not changed a bit. Some people take longer to realize it, apparently.
It is on the site - for better or worse, HN auto-capitalizes submission titles
That Flash intro pic made me think I was watching the trailer for "Stepmother III"
How is the TI-83 still a thing? iPod is superior in every way: CPU display size and color, flexibility, cost (well, if they produced a last-gen version for the down market, it would be)
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Can devs sign apps with a self-signed root? If that's not possible, it's a closed garden already. And even if it is we can't be certain that they won't change it to App Store only in the future.
Not all action should be seen as a political advantage for one self. Particularly not if you are a rich country, like all Scandinavian countries are. And Nordic countries for that matter as well.

I feel it is about trying to help Eastern Europe obtaining the same standard of living as Western Europe. After the Wall fell, Scandinavia worked together to help the three Baltic country up. Work that has paid off well in Estonia. Latvia and Lithuania still needs some work.

True, this was done without the help of the EU, but one of the main purposes of the EU is solidarity. Ensuring that all of Europe has a decent standard of living.
This seems to be a copycat of www.quietwrite.com (which was launched a at least a few years ago
Your criticism misses the technical points, either because stallman don’t always explains them, or because he assumes that people who needs the detailed facts will be able to find them out.

The back door feature of windows is not that users can receive automatic updates. Automatic updates are great. The problems is that users can not turn it off completely. Even if you disable automatic updates in windows, some updates will still be pushed regardless. Windows has demonstrated this in the past, and said (when asked about it) that they wont use that feature other than when "needed", but that fact that they can do this mean that they can turn it over to who ever, when ever, and for any reason that makes business sense to do so.

How does Windows spy on users. Over the time of windows history, users has found out that windows sends back a list over installed programs, encrypted to Microsoft, through I do not remember if they included statistics over usage. Now days, a default installed windows 8 machine will a) inform Microsoft each time you install a new program (to check for malware), and b) each time you visit a website with IE (to check for malware again), and c) your IP address each time you connect to the internet (to check if your internet connection works). You might be able to turn of some of those "features", but honestly, I don't know. In Windows xp, you could not disable the statistics gather of installed programs, as Microsoft said they needed that to improve the experience of windows. Now they turned it to a dual statistics and security feature, so maybe... maybe...
The ironic ending of the blog post is interesting. He's running Ubuntu... on a MacBook Pro.

Even if you hate the software and all things iOS, it's hard to find a better designed laptop.
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I think the author is maybe reading too many Apple fanboy blogs. Apple still makes OS X and all the developer tools. Developing for iOS is far easier than Android.

Sure the Mac is becoming more of an appliance but with stagnant hardware speeds is it that big of a deal? Also, Apple has been hostile to DIY repairs and add-ons since forever. I remember being 12 years old arguing on the 1-800-APPL-SOS help line that 3rd party RAM was not causing my problem and no I wouldn't uninstall it to get help.

Apple relies on its developers to power the App Store. They (hopefully) won't forget that. I'm not worried.

You don't hear anyone ever talking about how awesome Apple Logic is for making music or how easy Final Cut Pro is for video. They still make them and they're great quality. Just because the masses of Apple reporters aren't focused on your baby doesn't mean Apple doesn't care about it. Apple is just selling their profit vision to investors.
More like Portal: Flash Version 2D

http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/

Weird that this portal-dedicated person and Are Technica hadn't heard of Portal 2D.
Technically, that's a raycasting engine (a la Doom and Wolf3D). The first implementation that I know of that was made into a game was Daedalus for the TI-85, back in 1997 http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/11/1147.html
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R's documentation is fantastic (the stuff summoned up by ?foo). If you want bad documentation, look to scipy.

(I'm not particularly an R fan. It's great for stats, numerical calculations and plotting, but it's not a good programming language.)
Free-speech issues aside, there's also the question of whether you want the IAB/IESG/IETF engineers to continue define Internet standards, or whether you want a group of telephone monopoly bureaucrats to take it over.

Let's consider some of the protocols that the ITU has produced: OSI, X.500, X.509, GSM, V.92, etc. The one thing that they all have in common is that they're all orders of magnitude more complex and difficult to implement than they need to be. They're often also covered by a ridiculous number of patents.

The ITU organization doesn't seem to be capable of producing anything that doesn't cost billions of dollars to implement. Just from a purely technical standpoint, the ITU's history does not suggest that putting them in charge would be good for interoperability, competition, or technological progress.
You can't lock down an iPod or wipe its memory before a test.
It doesn't search for 'google'. Nothing pops up.
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Great for hosting documentation, blogs, brochure sites or simple static clients: push your API code on master and other branches and have your static client to consume from the API on the gh-pages branch.

Be careful though, if you push something on gh-pages it will be public, even if your repo is private.

From what the guys at Github told me, they don't have to restrict their users as long as you don't commit obvious abuses. Either very large files or gigantic amount of files, which will both create issues with Git. In short, "don't be a dick".
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Isn't this more of a shell than a terminal emulator?
Interesting review of the different methods proposed for compressing pages by either using dictionaries shared by several pages and sending diffs of some sort.

The review concludes arguing that the author's product is the best... so it feels like a sales pitch.
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To really understand the electropermanent (EP) magnet wobble motor, I strongly recommend checking out my Hizook.com article about 'em a while back:

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I don't know if you can justify statement like that from the proposed evidence.

The App Store and iTunes Store are pretty damned successful services, whether you like them or not.

iCloud is not a joke, it does it's job well for the 99%. I turn on my new phone, enter my apple id, and I have all my settings, apps, etc synced and ready to go.
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I use Eclipse simply because it allows me to have multiple projects open in the same workspace and search for files/classes across all projects. When Idea gets that feature I'll probably take another look at it.
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He didn't go dark. He has been publishing but no one knows what he is going on about.
> For the first time in as long as I can remember, I know my next laptop and phone will not have a Apple logo on it.
A well-designed laptop which is heading toward zero upgradeablility.
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I don't see how can you compare the two.

Trusting Canonical with their bits just assumes they are not malicious and data will only leak by some freak bugs.

Trusting them with your every typed char in a search box is a totally different matter.
Well they might be counter-sued or asked to pay for both parties' legal fees.
Supply and demand is really the only consideration. However, I think that is implied. You could rephrase it: If tech is so important, why is IT demand not rising faster than supply?
Do you often have questions about that? I figured, unless it was flammable or fire arms, it usually goes in a box?
What I'm about to say doesn't have anything to do with anything, but I find it remarkable that he died the eve of his birthday.

I have a theory that people die not long after their birthday, and never before -- meaning that the time from their last birthday < the time before their next birthday (the theory being that they fight to live until their birthday, and then they let go).

Anecdotal evidence gathered among people I knew confirms this, but I would like to test it on a scale that would be statistically significant -- but I don't know where to find the data...

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This specific event would appear to be a counter example, except one can consider that dying "almost" the day of one's birthday doesn't really falsify the theory. He tried to live up to the day of his birthday and almost succeeded.
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I have doom on my TI Nspire CAS :) Unfortunately the crappy screen is no good for playing it.

I've seen all sorts of hacks like this over the years but to be honest, I've fallen in love with the HP50g for hackability. The thing is awesome.

Not sure if its just me but I seem to accumulate calculators.
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There is a difference between having updates, and having updates you can't disable or turn down.

Ubuntu has no updates that are forced onto the users after the users disable automatic updates, but Windows does it. Apple? I do not know if apple has ever pushed an update that has ignored the user setting, so I will put that down as a maybe. Iphone, doubtful if apple can't push updates regardless of any user settings.
It's the first time he's been happy with an OS rather than OS X, so it would make sense that he wouldn't swap out the hardware before making sure he can live without OS X (seeing as OS X is hard to run without Apple hardware).
ha! That's exactly how I started a bit more than 10 years ago. IRC, geocities, and a bunch of ugly websites.

My father always used to say "Leave the computer alone and do your homework. No one will pay you for 'playing' on the computer".

5 years later he was my first paying client. Nowadays people only pay me when I "play with my computer".
It is a play on the name of the play.
"Apple, I am done with you! I shall throw out this $2000 laptop, and purchase a Thinkpad, because I cannot see any way to get any more use out of the hardware I have now!"
And while Iraq wasn't as predoomed, it would likely have been more human-life-efficient to have left it alone.
Can I ask what your role was? US military? I'm always fascinated hearing American service men and woman having opinions similar to what I and those I know hold. The view we get from US dominated media is the extreme right, bomb and be gone sensational type stuff. Even a cursory reading of Afghan history gives a deep sense of the complexity of occupying the place.
there are quite a few people depending on aws-lib (https://github.com/livelycode/aws-lib). So maybe we could re-use the base of the official SDK but retaining aws-lib's API.
Yes, to really have this available in my terminal would make far more sense then in the browser where i can do the same stuff by entering stuff in the location bar..
> :why Because Devdas uses vimperator with Google?? I don't think they mix well.

and I had to disable vimium in order to use this one. they don't mix well...
tl;dr Adding TL;DR to stories encourages lazy readers and might mislead them.

:) ... I see this often on very long stories and ones which are tough to read (like a nitty-gritty physics story). I don't see a problem when used judiciously. Plus the up/down-voting usually only surfaces tl;dr's when they're actually good and needed.

What's absolutely terrible are Slashdot-like forums where they give an official TL;DR for every story. I think /. quality would improve greatly if they removed these.