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>> The issue is that many Apple fanboys ...

This is where I stopped reading...

It seems to be all the rage to write up anecdotal frustrations full of hyperbole about Apple these days, that's fine, but why do they have to be on Hacker News? Why should I care some guy on the internet doesn't want a computer that isn't user serviceable, or a tablet that uses a curated app store that contains 'literally thousands upon thousands of apps I don't need'? Please just go tell your buddies on the linux forums how you built your own distro instead of trolling the internet with articles about stuff you don't like, or at the very least refrain from posting them on a site like Hacker News, which is supposed to be informational (I guess).

The information content of this article is close to zero, it's nothing more than some random rant about stuff that's irrelevant for people who just use their computers to get shit done, instead of making a statement of idealism and tech-ethics out of them. Last time I checked, Macs running OS X are still great for almost any kind of creative application.
On the other hand, in an economically strong region you would then find many more opportunities to move upwards - if you're interested in that.
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Sorry, I have to ask why it is you're disinclined to pay the subscription fee for content libraries like spotify, or an audiobook collection of some sort?

It's just that for me, Spotify has actually changed how I consume music, displacing the piratic tendencies of my past. And now, having ready access to this monumental archive of human musical output, wherever I go... that's something I've really come to value. And seriously, in the scale of what things cost in the world, the fee's peanuts! I'd be perfectly happy with forking over double the current charge.

So, we've both obviously take different mental turns along the road - that's why I'm curious to hear your take.
I regularly encounter applications that are not signed. It's easy to circumvent Gatekeeper (right click, then choose open). But I can imagine that this is quite confusing for the average end user. For them, it is already turning into a walled garden.
Strongly disagree, not being able to keep up with demand is not a bad problem to have. As for being out of ideas, Please - the competition are mainly me too products. No one else releases actual sales numbers and many android handsets are free or cheap so are not in the same market as Apple.
I apologise for ever posting this trainwreck of statistical reasoning. I don't know what I was thinking.
Affordable prototypes make sense, but what about the $500 level setting false expectations for the cost of the production-quality app? If you're pitching this at non-techies, you'll also have to get them over the hump of realising that a lash-up is easily an order of magnitude cheaper than a decent, real-world-robust version.

"Hey, WTF are you doing quoting me £5000 for a full build of this app? I had the prototype done for $500 and it does almost as much as the real one I want."
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> it's no different for Linux users

you meant Ubuntu users
Photostream is pretty much real-time now for getting pictures onto all your systems. Take a picture on your iPhone - it's on your Mac and Ipad. Drag it into your photostream on your Mac - it's on your iPhone and iPad. If you see a picture on the web on your iPhone/iPad, just hold-down the touch, and click "save image" - lands in your photo stream (and, once again, all your system).

It wasn't quite real-time for the first couple months, and I had a few situations in which pictures took a while to sync up - definitely was not as reliable as Dropbox - but, since late october - I haven't had a failed sync. I do it 2-3 times a day, it's how I get pictures onto my Mac when I'm doing documentation. It took them a while, but Apple finally nailed the "How do I get pictures on/off my phone/Mac/Ipad" - would have probably been done a couple years earlier if they had managed to acquire Dropbox.
"The stars/followers update says a lot about how good Github is at stepping back and looking at the user experience as a whole."

Ehh...it says that a lot of github's popularity is amongst people who do things like "following repositories because they like them", without actually being interested in the details of the projects they "follow". (Meanwhile, the rest of us are over here bookmarking webpages with our bookmark button, and trying to use GitHub to write code, and finding the system lacking...)

I've never "followed" a repository, unless I actually wanted to, you know...follow the repository. But you do raise a good point: GitHub lives in this weird hybrid world that's grown well beyond a simple tool for writing code. Nowadays, much of their user base is there because they think it's everything from a social network, to a blog host, to an online resume. It's probably not surprising that they've lost some focus.
Since you're new and looking for tips: "thanks" posts like this are seen negatively, they add noise to the conversation. If you want to express your appreciation for someone's reply it's better just to upvote it.
A good choice, but no movie ever made will ever top Sneakers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlKDkTbUFhU
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Supply and demand - there are specialised development roles that can command up to £2000 a day in the UK, but you need a lot of domain knowledge and the development environment is possibly some of the worst there is.
The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 12.10
What level of carrier/phone lock-in is there in China? I thought the US system of getting your phone almost exclusively via your carrier was unusual.
You can disable ads in the Privacy settings. More here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-am...

To be honest, I found the ads to be quite annoying, I usually start applications by pressing the Super key and then typing the name. I don't see how showing Amazon search results for "terminal" or "chrome" are relevant.

I am happy that they accept donations on the download page now. Hopefully this will reduce the need for such experiments.
"When parents want to edit HD videos of their kids taken with their camcorder they will not run to their iPad to do it"

That's the problem right there. I don't know many "parents" (== non-technical-people) who are able to edit HD Videos, at all, period. Most non-technical people I know have memorised how to do the few things they actually need from their computer, like check emails, compose documents, and use the software-de-jour of their workplace. But anything beyond that is massively more than they know how to do without running to a more technical user for help.

The whole argument is, iPad makes it possible whereas before it wasn't possible, forget if it's fast or not.
Adding in all of the computer screens in post-production to make sure you get the code right?

(1) Un-necessary (2) Expensive (3) No one really cares (4) If you know you're going to fuck it up, why not just plan and do it right the first time?

Very few people will pause a movie to read code, and those people are such a small demographic, that to make them a target audience to the point that you're willing to go off the deep end on the film budget seems absurd.
Australian Prime Minister confirms end of the world
X11 is crossplatform (not just to unix - my VMS box runs it)
I think Unsquare Dance is 7/8, but I may be mistaken.
Most of them have, but nowadays I only see complains about Microsoft doing this.
Strongly disagree, not being able to keep up with demand is not a bad problem to have.

Yeah, actually, it is. I've heard they're still having supply chain problems with the iPhone 5. If true, that means that they've made some fairly serious mistakes that they haven't made before.
Can E-Books and Libraries Coexist?
So the SSD is going to work forever? Because that is what I am afraid of.
They have already implemented it in IDEA 12, if I'm reading their website correctly.

Which personally I think was a waste of development time, I cannot imagine how it could be useful to keep compilation errors in your code.
There was some news a few days back that DuckDuckGo was shutting down!

Where does this leave us. What is happening at DDG?

EDIT: Sorry, I read shut out as shut down!
Maybe we need better tools to study and change the program in binary form. I'm getting really sick of companies using binary blobs to obfuscate and mystify what is happening inside devices they produce. There is nothing magical to binary code, just like source code it's simply clear-cut instructions for the CPU what to do.
Sure, you lose higher-level abstractions when compiling, which are sometimes hard to reconstruct, and sometimes impossible, such as comments and documentation... But there is a lot of information that can be derived from binary form. See for example the extensive literature on producing exploits from patches, even automatically, by using smart diffing that understands the assembly.

Currently this is pretty much limited due to nonavailability of advanced tools. To do anything beyond simple disassembly one needs expensive decompilation tools and disassemblers, and specialized proprietary tools that security companies are using.

But given that (in practice) it is neigh impossible to rely on only open source, I'd love it if binaries got some more scrutiny from the public instead of "just swallow them and pray everything is OK".
Touché. I believe European politicians have talked about how the prosperity of other European countries will benefit us all in the end. The EU has provided a much easier access for Scandinavia to other European countries' markets, allowing us to export more.

But Scandinavians are not above helping others; selfless acts are never that, though, there is always some objective in mind. Like bringing the Baltic countries up? It's just smart to have stable neighbours.

Bad economies leads to unstable countries, and that leads to trouble for its neighbours. And in a world as intertwined as ours, even beyond just neighbours.

Besides, EU-friendly governments in Scandinavia hasn't been outed for their pro-EU stance anyway.
I don't think you have to tell anyone here that the iPad isn't capable of doing all tasks, we're not retarded.

That the iPad isn't best for every task doesn't mean that it isn't overall the best device, or that it doesn't substantially enable people to do whatever it is they want to do (especially people who don't do any of the advanced computing tasks you bring up). The sales numbers indicate this. If people couldn't use iPads, they wouldn't buy them.
They shouldn't need to when the only difference is the physical shape of the connector.
Actually you are able to customize almost everything. Just have a look at the screenshots below.

Without toolbar and tool window bars: https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/shared/minimized_with_project...

Without toolbar, tool window bars and project window: https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/shared/minimized.png?w=bea92c...

Full screen: https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/shared/minimized_full_screen....
The thing is, I am OS agnostic and never built a Linux distro on my life.

Yes, I even have Mac OS X systems available to me.

Maybe you should also stop stereotyping whoever hurts your Mac fan feelings.
Apple never passed 10% in China. Android has 90% right now in smartphones there.

http://www.techinasia.com/android-market-share-china-2012/

Plus, it sounds very unlikely the investors sold their stock because China Mobile chose Lumia 920. It's just another phone like many others on China Mobile, and it's not like it's Nokia's first sale in China. What they would be more concerned about is that Apple is not going to get the deal with China Mobile at all, or not in a very profitable way, after China Mobile has already made it clear in the press that they don't care much for Apple's demands.

Apple has learned to get its way with charging carriers the full $650 retail price for iPhones (which are $200 worth of components), and I think some carriers are going to have enough of it soon, and start asking Apple to give them discounts for volume, just like they do with every other manufacturer.
Basically, Everything ;-)

But start with Take Five, Unsquare Dance, all of the "Time Out" series, and then sample some of his later "classical" stuff. Speaking of which, I didn't know he'd written a mass, and a musical. I need to hunt those down right now...
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> Surely it's an issue with the people who tend to be Open Source advocates, complaining that Apple are no longer open?

The thing is that Apple was never open.
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Well that's what I like about Linux, I can make it to work for me (not how any distro or company want me to use it).
This one? http://www.amazon.com/☺/dp/B00006BXBS
X11 is a platform.
Wow.Finally a solid example of "strange business models" that I was looking for.

http://statspotting.com/2012/11/strange-business-models-a-th...
Wii U hardware back-compat penalises PAL gamers
Good idea. Will try this in my next lucid dream instead of pushing the light switch
Can you please point us to that article?

Just so there is no ambiguity, we are alive, doing well and growing: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
My main problem with this proposal, is that WE all know that $500 buys you a rough prototype or a proof-of-concept. But a quick search through Elance or Odesk shows that there are many many potential clients who seriously expect a fully-polished product for that amount. What happens to the poor contractor when the client comes back with a huge changelist, which they're honoured to complete before getting paid?

Having said that, there was a pretty successful version of this idea implemented for designers a while back.
Tim Cook definitely hurts for not having Jobs' Reality reality distortion field.

Just thinking about it recently, and I'm surprised that they manage expectations before the launch a little better. Most people were expecting a jaw dropping new phone.

Instead they got the i5 and Tim Cook.

I suspect if it was Jobs they would have got the i5 but along with : "I spend a lot of time on my devices just listening. And you know how much you pay for good sound? So we made these amazing, beautiful and cochlear perfect (tm) headphones which are world standard, and only @ 25. This is why Apple is the cross roads of liberal arts and Tech."

And then apple would have made a killing on selling overpriced head phones with a 400% profit margin, while everyone ignores the Meh-ness of the phone itself.
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Yup. Movies that mess with the best die like the rest.
It's a free install. They don't include it as part of the operating system so they can upgrade it on an independent cycle. iBooks is one of the "Ten Apps that every iPad User should have" I'd also recommend GoodReader - which should be on every iPad (Except the US Air Force, who got worried it was written by a Russian)
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If you take 'Apple fanboys' to be the group who came to Apple in the early 2000s (I was amongst them) I think the parent is probably right.

I fought the fights and put up with the greif for being the only developer with a Mac out of the 50 in the office. I lived on the bleeding edge - even paying for access to early unstable OS builds. I watched the OS get better and better with each release.

It opened the doors to the world of Unix for me and I thought it was wonderful having all these amazing tools at my fingertips, thanks to Apple. I got the wrong end of the stick.

This whole article feels bang on the money to me, and I'll bet the reason it's at the top of HN is that there are plenty of us in the same boat.
Bunchball shows off the ‘rock stars’ of gamification
Awesome! I think some light gun games used this method too :)
As of IOS 5.x, photostream provides a pretty simple way of getting Photos on/off your iPad/iPhone. No cables needed.
Has much changed in two years? Every once in a while I hear Linux is finally user friendly, and I go try it and my multiple monitors don't work and my graphics card drivers require manual installation and I get constantly riddled with permissions prompts which I'm sure is necessary but still annoys me as an end user.
"potentially lowering the iPhone's market-share among smart-phones to well below 10%."

I am continually amazed by people who quote these figures as if they say anything meaningful. Apple doesn't compete in 2/3 of "the smartphone market" by their own choice. By choice. If Apple thought "global smartphone market share" was all important they would probably sell a phone that's cheaper than $400 pre-subsidy. They don't. By choice. Apple has made the radical decision to voluntarily take a 0% market share of the extremely large sub-$400 pre-subsidy smartphone market. On purpose.

"It seems pretty clear the iPhone has peaked,"

I don't think this is clear at all.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=iphone%2C%20android%2...

Apple's trajectory looks nothing like Blackberry and Nokia, two brands that clearly peaked in recent years.

"Apple needs to get back into the innovating business as opposed to the lawsuit-business and quick. This minor drop is just a warning about that."

Was the stock market very excited about Apple's lawsuits before as they skyrocketed over the last couple years? Trying to read morality into the stock market is a losing proposition.
He's using a Macbook because he already has one. He's not going to buy another one.
I think it is important to draw clear distinction between "hiring senior people" and "turning over control".

If you hire a VP Sales and they do not work out you can rollback the change with pretty limited amount of pain and start over. If you decide to hire CEO or COO you could be irreversibly transforming your entire organization and a subsequent "pivot" may kill you. You might hit a jackpot with an Eric Schmidt or a Jim Barksdale or you could be stuck with a turkey that ruins your company (which is a lot more likely outcome).

There is nothing wrong with hiring senior talent (for whatever role) as long as everyone is clear about the chain of command, responsibilities and expectations. Whether you want to make the top decisions or let someone else do that be sure you know what you are getting into.
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Star-vs-watch is very useful, actually.
It seems to be all the rage to write up anecdotal frustrations full of hyperbole about Apple these days, that's fine, but why do they have to be on Hacker News?

You mean, as opposed to all the news praising every minor thing Apple does and banning all articles critical of Apple, which historically has always been the way things was here on HN?

I think it's about time the tide changed, and it's probably a good reality check to the people stuck in the valley still believing that Apple "defines" the market.
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I'm not sure HN does humour well. I suspect that was a little tongue in cheek.
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Github cloud
You are right. Bad example. I was just trying to do something with pipes to illustrate the point.
99designs.com was the link, took me a while to remember
Sadly, I'm still in Apple's target market, because Lenovo is unable to put reasonable displays in their 14" laptops.
>> Maybe you should also stop stereotyping whoever hurts your Mac fan feelings.

Just cut the emotional crap, it appears to impair your ability to see the point I'm trying to make.

I've been using Linux and OS X alongside each other for over a decade, and many other *nix derivatives at work. I just pick the right tool for the right job, and more often than not, a Mac running OS X turns out to be the choice that offers the best tradeoffs, and allows me to do whatever I should or want to be doing with the lowest level of frustration. My HTPC/home server isn't running OS X, and neither does the VM I use to cross-compile packages for embedded systems. What does that say about Macs and OS X? Nothing.

That said, the problem I have with articles like this hitting Hacker News is not because I can't stand the idea some people have different ideas about what a computer is to them and how it should work. I couldn't care less. The problem is that the information content of these dime-a-dozen run-of-the-mill Apple rants is close to zero. I simply don't understand their purpose, do I have to stop using Macs because some guy on the internet prefers to use something different for whatever reason that doesn't affect me, or almost anyone else who uses their computer as a tool to get shit done?
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I've had precisely this experience as a developer. If our user interface confuses people that's our fault, not theirs.
It's fantastic. Google should implement their own tty emulator immediately.
Ah thanks for pointing that out, it was baffling me and I couldn't even send feedback :P
It can't be mining, otherwise we would see similar patterns in South Australia (at least) with similar patterns likely to be visible in every other state as well.

I'd be interested in knowing why this is so as well.
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I have noticed this. There seems to be a massive gap between the finance sector and everyone else. I'm not too sure what to make of that. For the sake of comparison, the average salary for a Software Engineer at Google in London, according to Glassdoor (before bonuses) is £45k.
This should be the film's slogan, methinks. ;-)
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"Why should I care some guy on the internet"

you shouldn't. And what you probably should also not do, is first write stuff like this and then do the opposite namely caring about it anyway (even though you seem to claim you don't) and then express that by posting your feelings about it on HN.

"The information content of this article is close to zero, nothing more than some random rant"

strrep( 'article', 'post' ); //The pot, the kettle, yadayada.
PDFs are easily saved by selecting "open

Because that is extremely intuitive. I can see Apple patenting this right away.
I'm bookmarking this comment so I can come back at the end of January and gloat.
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Also referred to as a "troll" in all circles not blindly apologetic to Apple.
Apple is Dead (http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html).

Lately I had to think about PGs essay "Microsoft is Dead". And I think the same is happening to Apple. Imho that's a good thing for consumers, developers and even Apple.

Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9770

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2085601
Also recommend Measuring America, very readable history of the American survey. http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=8989073835&...
Google announces updated Maps API for Android developers
What does that even mean? Is HN supposed to be a medium for the preservation of some kind of philosophical balance of power between operating systems and hardware vendors? Shame on me for thinking it was a medium to report on technology and the startup scene all along :-/

It's really sad to see how every.single.time community driven websites devolve into ideological crusades between people who can't seem to just accept different people have different preferences when it comes to computers (I'm being polite here). There's a meme in here somewhere, maybe I should try to coin it.