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TL;DR: A small rant about why I find most of the points in the blog shallow, misleading, dangerous and downright doomsday-ish at times.

YMMV. Discussions and arguments are welcome. Name-calling will be ignored. Trolls will not be fed.

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> Downplaying the timestamp attempts to make the content appear more evergreen.

This is dangerous.

Imagine a newbie developer landing on one of your old posts looking for directions on something. Unfortunately for her, there isn't any other relevant material available anywhere else on the web. Also, whatever you wrote in that post was was relevant only for a few weeks after it was written. Can you imagine the anguish you'd be putting them through because they tried to follow your directions and failed miserably?

Before you claim it to be an edge-case, I've fallen prey to the same situation many times in my search for such elusive knowledge.

Personally, this is one of the reason I HATE the non-availability of time-stamps, especially on tech blogs. What the hell are you trying to say? That your code is perfect and won't need to change ever? You aren't fooling me, rather, you are fooling yourself.

> RSS is dying.

RSS isn't dying, sorry.

Tracking google search trends isn't a good way to measure how popular RSS - or anything, for that matter - is. A simple explanation could be that because more people know about RSS today than a few years ago, searching for it is no longer necessary. Almost everyone knows about Hurricane Katrina, but they don't search for it everyday, do they?

The consumption of RSS has changed, though.

Until a few years ago, feeds used to be the ONLY way to consume RSS. Then mashups happened. Then APIs became ubiquitous. PubSubHubbub, JSON & JSONP have flourished in recent times. All of these were 'derived' (in a broad sense) from RSS.

Oh, and before you point to Google Reader, allow me to make an anticipatory point. Google shut down Reader because they didn't find it worth the effort to monetize - it had nothing to do with the consumption of RSS. Even till the very last day, there were people clamoring for Google to continue or hunting for a suitable GReader replacement. In what way does that strike you as the 'death' of RSS?

Almost every site out there, that updates regularly maintains a feed. Except Twitter, of course. But then, Twitter implementing an RSS feed isn't adding much anyway. Their existing consumption patterns and the ecosystem around them is robust enough to do without RSS and Atom feeds.

If anything, I agree that RSS is very unidirectional, but that's where I believe PubSubHubbub can make a difference. In fact, if I may be so bold, I'd say that RSS is evolving and PubSubHubbub is one of its evolutionary intermediates.

With the insane number of consumption platforms and our burning desire to instantly know everything, I wouldn't be surprised if, sooner or later, someone finds a new way to consume RSS & Atom feeds.

I have already begun this process for myself by building @updt_me - I now consume all my RSS & Atom feeds through Twitter. Yeah, that was a plug but hey, it also happens to be extremely relevant.
This is a bit surprising. I was expecting an increased effort into their proprietary drivers due to Valve's Linux announcements, but not this.

Of course they could do both, but isn't Nouveau 3D performance so far behind the proprietary drivers that nobody is going to be using it for gaming anyway (at least for a long time)?

I guess it could be that they're just buying some goodwill from the general community in anticipation of working closer with it.
If you knew all this why ask a specific question?

I am really trying hard to take you seriously and not treat you like a troll.

As far as supporting code written by someone else years ago, that's just the nature of programming. If you find it too painful, get out of this industry, find something you truly enjoy and do your best in that area.

Life is too short to be struck doing something you really don't enjoy.
You are unlike 99% of the atheists that it has been my experience to encounter, for what that's worth.
Why are there so few people over 115 years of age?
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Sorry, let me re-phrase. What objective tests does Apple do to ensure reliability/durability?
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Which biography is that? I see a few on Amazon.
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who is you know who? patio11? huh?

I agree with you - ads play a big part in this, although I would not discount giving the NSA a legally acceptable black eye. If the US is seeing a backlash over Prism, Google and Amazon will see it before the State department.

Google has a balancing act between delivering genuine results based on PageRank (ie relevance - what people use google for) and getting people to click on adverts. As a small business I value the nearly levelled playing field out there and would hate a world driven by ad dollars again.

But I struggle to see how Google can replace ads. And yet everything they do makes ads less necessary and organic (free) search more relevant.

However we are not at the ad-opocalypse yet. ads replace relevance for your internet presence. as every business everywhere gets better at SEO we shall see the SEO advantage disappear and the only way to beat your competitor is to advertise again.

it's probably got some analogue in evolution.

however everyone is not good at SEO yet and the number of people coming online probably will keep googles tills ringing for while yet.
I think AV Foundation is two words, separated: http://asciiwwdc.com/search?q=AV+Foundation

But yes, all of the archives would be awesome if it's not on there already.

One thing I would suggest is to make the link to the video more obvious. I thought it was just an apple logo up there for no reason.
Most of these "problems" actually sound like good things to me. It's more difficult to override stuff like the title bar for a reason.

Mac apps aren't iOS apps, and if you're developing them as if they are, you're app is going to look goofy and ugly running on OSX. Your app isn't as special as you think; it should use the standard conventions like everybody else.

That said, there are a very few apps where going away from the conventions can work. Lightroom comes to mind, but there might be others. In any case, it only works if it's done all the way and not half assed, which I'm not sure 99% of software companies are capable of doing. If Adobe wasn't a mega-corporation with tons of money to throw at it, they'd probably screw it up.
Redis. I got back into web programming this year and looked over all the NoSQL databases and it was the only one that really stood out to me. I've even read a bit of the source code and it's all very well done and nice to use.
Either way, this is NOT how you deal with a customer who supposedly violated terms and conditions. That email response was atrocious. Arrogant and bullying. No sensitivity to whatever plight he may have, or reprieve offered. No 'we'll call you directly'. Nothing! I am about to make a BIG decision for my company and DO was in the discussion. It is not, not! Companies like this irritate the heck out of me and have no place doing business on a large scale. Keep up the attitude boys! ;)
Here's an investment banker joke I've been hearing oddly often recently: "How do you get a million dollars?" -> "Invest a billion dollars in the airline industry".

On a more serious note: there's a lot of talk on this page about the finance and logistics of starting a company like this - but I think the human factor is also worth mentioning. I fly a moderate amount, and whenever I have an hour or so to spare on a layover, I try to find interesting people to talk at the bar. While I've had varying levels of success, last layover at O'Hare, I spoke to a pilot who had been with a major airline for about a decade.

Having seen "Catch Me If You Can" and surmising that the situation must have changed, I asked him about his job. That was the most dismal response I've received from that question. We talked for about half an hour about how terribly pilots are treated, and how (maybe a bit of an exaggeration) a good number of beginner pilots for airlines are on food stamps because they're paid so poorly. I asked about benefits, and his response was, "just about every benefit you can think of is basically unusable." I asked him why he did it, and he told me that flying was like a drug.

Pilots are responsible for lives, and I'd feel a lot safer if my pilot was paid enough to survive. Yet, with dwindling margins and a thriftier consumer base, it's going to take a lot to disrupt this industry. In reality, I don't see anything major happening without some drastic innovation that cuts associated costs significantly in order to build up that margin.
CSS did not, could not, solve the problem of disorganized, inefficient document production, typography, layout, style management, etc.

Meaning, the Mixpanel abuse of styles is an old problem.

What CSS has over most all DTP and word processing apps is that CSS is declarative and explicit and discoverable. With CSS, styling is source code, and can be managed as such.

Or not, like Mixpanel apparently has done.
> As for familiarity, you wouldn't test current Gmail users against a new interface. Of course they would perform better against the old one. You'd get a group who'd never used either one and run your tests (unless you're incompetent).

Everyone has used email at this point except babies and tech averse grandpas, and all clients look more or less the same, i.e. like old gmail.
Probably they "think" (never thought that I would use it in the IT world) that you are running some torrent client or anything like that. It's very common in EU to use this kind of hosts to download torrents and avoid problems with the law
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The board was a party to the negotiation of Elop's contract. If such terms are in the, it is only by consent of the board. If they are incentives toward a particular outcome, then that outcome was deemed acceptable by the board at the time the contract was executed.

There is nothing unusual in it other than the emotions sparked by the names of the companies involved in the planned sale.
Personal computers aren't interesting "tech" anymore, they are commodity consumer products which most of us discard after a few years.

Tinkering with your own PC is rapidly becoming a niche similar to model trains. (Or working on your own car, also completely unnecessary and doesn't yield any new insights or advances.)

It's not about tech and curiosity anymore, just another hobby. And as such, you'll never see discussions about it on HN, there are other forums for such hobbyists.
I was talking to the parent of a boy near college age recently, and he said he's trying to steer his boy off a CS degree, and into one of the lesser studied Engineering careers.

In my country, a relatively inexperienced Mechanical Engineer or Agronomist or Petroleum Engineer makes between 200% to 400% the salary of a CS graduate the same age, and they have no salary "glass ceiling" (CS graduates are not considered for management positions and are topped off as employees here).
The OP has deleted two posts so far in this thread, both saying that DO found him to be engaging in a DDOS. This "authorization" could disappear soon as well.
I can't confirm it because I don't have iOS 6 to hand, but I'm pretty sure the difference in button highlights will be the same.

The buttons in Timer works based on the OS wide standard of activating on release.

For a stopwatch, however, you want it to be instant because it's time sensitive. It would kinda suck if you're timings were all out by a bit because you kept you're finger on there slightly too long.

This is actually an example of breaking a convention to improve usability [1]. It's also an example of how if you're looking hard enough you'll find inconsistencies and things that are theoretically horrific in stuff you've been using absolutely fine for years.

The real inconsistency on this screen is that the Reset button doesn't activate on release. If ever there was a time you want to be able to back out of an action by moving your finger away from the button before release I'd say this is it.

While the faux naivity is a bit irritating, it does make a valid point (if not entirely novel). The more you pare back your UI the more you lose distinction between interactive and non-interactive elements. If your buttons are simply color tinted text, it's difficult to unambiguously use color tinting to highlight text of note such as the current day.

What makes iOS 7 really interesting is how it tries to counter that. For example, color hinted text in the edges of the screen will always be actions, so color is enough; color hinted text in the middle of the screen could just be marking interesting things, so actions are usually accompanied by thin borders.

An proper dive into the design and the trade-offs rather than endless "look at this edge-case" would be really interesting.

[1] Caveat because I'm sure otherwise someone will try and pull me up on it. No, this isn't amazing revolutionary design by Apple or super-human attention to detail. I'm sure the Android and WP 7 equivalents work the same.
"Losing My Virginity".
Please delete your incorrect statements that there exists a pharmaceutical treatment for autism.
What paranoid tripe, complete with mass downvote conspiracy theory pandering. I never thought I'd hear someone on hacker news actually complain about search engine results not being commercial enough.

Most of the changes you describe enhance the user experience. Do you honestly prefer to wade through a few dozen promotional emails to find messages from your boss, friends or family? Is your argument seriously that google should make their products more inconvenient so companies have to spend less money on adwords? Not to mention the idea that there's some kind of zero-sum trade off between email marketing and adwords is ludicrous.

Similarly, wikipedia ranks high for keywords when they are associated with queries for information, not product offers. Your example of the keyword "computer" is a terrible example for making your point: for me at least, only two ads show up for this keyword, but there are dozens for "laptop". This is a strong indicator that "computer" by itself is not what people google when they're buying computers. By contrast, type in "new computer".

Finally, the keyword tool has required a (free) google ads account for a long time, so I really don't know what you're going on about here.
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> Ever wondered why Wikipedia ranks #1 for "computer"? IMO, it has to do with forcing Dell, MS, HP and others to advertise and to increase clicks on ads. I doubt most people want to know what a "computer" is when searching Google on a computer.

If I am searching a single noun, it is almost certain that what I really want it a link to Wikipedia. If I am looking to buy something I always add "buy" or "purchase" to the front of my search. I don't think I am particularly weird in that regard.
I just bought the U2413 (replaced a 2006 24" UltraSharp - not a bad lifetime!). At first I thought it had a stuck pixel because of a red dot in the center of the screen ("Why oh why did it have to be in the middle??"), but it turned out to be some joker mods on Reddit that had put in some CSS to turn those dots red.

On the whole, I like the monitor. Non-glare screen, menu controls are pretty responsive. USB hub. But I wish it still had a legacy VGA port. If I ever have to reload some of my older machines, I'm going to be stuck since I won't be able to SSH/RDP in.
I think the point is that at a certain level there are only 3 or so defense contractors that have the infrastructure to bid on and win those contracts. Given that they are not "subsidies", but when there are only 2 corporations that are expected to receive the money, then you must call a spade a spade.

If you look at things like the Boeing/Northrop Grumman Tanker contract, then it is hard to fathom that any of the $35B for 180 planes (that's 190M for each plane) wouldn't lead to significant development that could be shared with Boeing's commercial sector.
Right after reading the pg essays, any startup founder should read everything Jason has written. Cuts right to the points that many are too uncomfortable to talk about.
ASCII? Really?
If it makes you feel better, you can say the same thing about No. 2 pencils. Imagine all of the de-forresting infrastructure, shipping, carbon processing, glue, rubber for the eraser, etc. All of those different experts and workers you have to hire. The money you need for the bulldozers, ships, etc.

That's the power of the modern age :-)
I wonder if the focus should be on the question of disclosure of the incentive. It's one thing to put a company up for sale, and another to set a strategy with incentives to put the company on a course for sale without fully informing all the stockholders.
Me too.. especially for remote work, it would be extremely disruptive.

I don't want to move from Uruguay, but a person with similar qualifications in the U.S. makes at least twice as I do.

If telepresence makes it easier for me to work remotely, it would be huge for me.

The telepresence robots are cute and maybe a step in the right direction.
I was curious what the nature of his art director position was because I was having trouble conceptualizing what field he was in. I assumed since he wasn't being clear on the point that it was straightforward prints or something, but it was probably t-shirt designs. That partially explains why pop culture and parody were so successful. Clothing is almost a pure signalling mechanism, and signalling relies on (or at least streamlined by) relatability and social cues with viewers.

From his home page:

> My name is Jimiyo. For the last 8 years I operated as an art director and designer for the apparel industry. I've worked with companies such as Nascar, Threadless, Billabong, Arbor Skateboards, and many more. Until my recent exit, my efforts helped Teefury.com become a successful leading entity in the online shirt-a-day industry by being the sole decision maker on over 1500 designs that were sold over the last 4+ years. Currently I trade stocks and design t-shirts, but am looking to find opportunities in mentoring and teaching others how to achieve a successful and profitable career in the art industry.
Dunno about the author here, but when I looked at MySQL Cluster a while back, it immediately disqualified itself for lacking foreign key support. That's apparently been newly added in the last few months, but there's still no shortage of annoying limitations to be had.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-cluster-limitat...

And apparently they require a minimum of six nodes. And the supported installation method is a GUI installer. Sounds like typical "enterprise" Oracle trash, further eroding whatever confidence I might have in it.
Skeptical panda is very skeptical. If these open source drivers perform as well as their proprietary ones I will eat a whole crow pie.
As far as the timing of this move and the announcement of SteamOS is concerned, I'm having difficulty seeing the reasoning behind it. Wouldn't Nvidia just continue work on their proprietary Linux drivers, and wouldn't most gamers (who are unlikely to care about FOSS) simply use them? I imagine OEMs would include the best drivers available for the devices the choose to use, which at this point means proprietary.
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Finally! I have an image of Linus flipping the bird in my image library :)
> What right do you claim in calling the OP a liar?

I didn't, I said his comments were disingenuous (what was your "[sic]" for btw?). I meant exactly what I said. I wouldn't call it lying, I'd call it disingenuous (i.e. put-on naivety).

> Are you really claiming that he disliked the iOS UI because his theory told him to?

No. I'm saying his theories about what's confusing, while sometimes interesting, are not necessarily representative of what regular users will actually find confusing, and you'd need to do testing to find out. The problem is he presents them as if they're definitely true, with absolutely no evidence.
Haha, thanks! I watched the WWDC sessions to learn about the frameworks, features and see the intricacies of Interface Builder. And then spent a lot of time in iOS developer docs, stackoverflow, and cocoacontrols.com.

For the website, it was designed in photoshop, and coded using Zurb Foundations, SASS and Skrollr.js.

I'll be doing a post on how I got started on iOS and lessons I learnt to help others get ramped up quickly. So look for that in the next few weeks!
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Hi, just wanted to say that if you lost a point of karma on this post, it was because I accidentally clicked downvote. Pure accident, really, because I actually think everyone in this thread should be heading over to youthrights.org and reading a bunch of their literature right now. This issue has festered outside the adult-public consciousness for far too long.

National Youth Rights Association (for Americans): http://www.youthrights.org
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This is interesting to factor in, too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_candidacy_laws_in_the_Un...
That's not entirely different from what a simple JIT does (or the unoptimised stage of a JIT without an interpreter).
You're making the assumption that the problems with performance are caused by many small issues. It could very easily be the case that a couple medium-sized changes will drastically improve performance.

This is pure conjecture on both our parts, of course. I was simply taking issue with your prediction of Nouveau not being useful for a 'long time'. It almost sounded like you were suggesting this was a useless gesture on Nvidia's part.
I've read a report by an insider who claims that the unions negotiate a payout of 97-99% of the projected total profit (or revenue sans some given costs) the airlines make, when it's contract renewal time.

This kind of makes it difficult for the airlines to make anything, especially on the down years that don't match projections, when they end up paying out over 100% (and end up having to borrow money, or get bail outs).
I don't know why you're using removal of the outer case in the event of damage as a comparison of durability. Can you expand on the reasoning here? You can't take off the unibody of a MBP if the case is dented or damaged and still use it safely/comfortably.

My thinkpad doesn't have mechanical latches for anything -- not even a wifi enable/disable switch. I don't know about the entire series of thinkpads. The lid closes and opens smoothly, no latching mechanism -- and stays in the position you leave it in. It's just as smooth if not smoother than my old 2009 MBP.

On the subject of the stigma with 'plastic' cases -- we are not talking about cheap plastic here. The bottom of the laptop is metal of some kind. Same with the edges. The top of the lid is some sort of rubberized metal. The palm rests/speaker area is the only plastic I can find, and it has a similar texture and "solid feel" to the stuff I find on my prosumer DSLR -- something also designed to be rugged.
Surely SteamOS will be using a proprietary driver build. There are reasons to desire DRM/KMS-based drivers, and Valve might have been pushing this to NVIDIA, but surely "open sourceness" isn't going to be a feature driver for SteamOS.

And in any case the NVIDIA proprietary userspace driver stack doesn't work with the Nouveau kernel driver anyway. Maybe this means there is hope that it will someday.
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