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> People were already using cases that camouflage the device somewhat.

It's more about the actual offering - the iPhone - that Apple makes. The more crisp this idea is in the head of consumers, the better the positioning. It is more difficult for a product to be iconic the more variations of it there are.

> the old ones get cheaper

Again, it is about what Apple's offering is. I don't think selling out old inventory interferes with the idea of what their current offering is. In fact the better defined each model is, the easier to distinguish last year's model from the current one.

> the 5C is not the "cheap iPhone" everybody expected. Seeing as it is priced not nearly anywhere you would call "cheap".

It is still cheaper, so now the iPhone I show off only signals that I spent whatever the cheapest model costs. Might not be a huge difference but I still believe it hurts important signaling value that used to be attached to the iPhone.
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Small tidbit of info:
In Finland students don't pay for studying. Instead, the government pays money to the students for studying.
I've heard this is not the case in US.
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While I understand the author is just trying to make money like everyone else, I think it would be polite to note that the links to computer parts are affiliate links.
A sport that is uniquely suited for mixed genders is Ultimate Frisbee. As long as men guard men, and women guard women, it works out pretty well. I'd say it works better for mixed play than a sport like tennis, which features a mixed doubles bracket at each of the four major tournaments (Wimbledon, US Open, Australian Open, French Open).

By extension Ultimate is also well suited for a wide range of athleticism. For throwers (aka handlers) it is more of a skill sport, involving repeated practice of the throwing motion but not necessarily speed or strength, while receivers (cutters) typically rely on pure athleticism.

It also exercises the mind for me, as do all sports. I spend a lot of time thinking, on the field and off, how to improve my play, conserve energy, what my opponent's tendencies are, etc. If you're not using your mind playing sports, you're not doing it right.
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what are your qualifications? No offense meant, but I am trying to see if this is real or not.

Quite a few smart people seem excited by it, yet you dismiss it
Like I said, I don't necessarily agree with it, but it's just bad news that it's being said in the first place. I don't think many people on HN would have belittled Apple's design strengths over the last decade. I was rabidly anti-Apple myself, while still admitting that they knew what they were doing design wise. So if some significant percentage of people start seeing them as behind the curve now, that's bad.

And I don't think there'd be as much self selection compared to say, /r/android. We should have a pretty general group of people here.
sumatra is for parallelizing mainly on GPU, not for SIMD - current C/C++ compilers neither do that. Java has SIMD support for quite a long while now, probably since Java 6 or even earlier and generally C-like Java code using raw arrays and primitives is as-fast-as-C these days. I'd be more afraid of lack of true value types in Java. This one thing makes C still a better choice for high performance stuff.
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The issue is more a one of trust, as pretty much all computer security issues boil down to. Apple (and Gruber) says one thing; but since the code is not available for inspection, and since you presumably can't alter the code on your actual iPhone, you must take what they're saying at their word.

Whether or not you want to do that is entirely up to you. The overwhelming majority of people wouldn't think twice about trusting Apple. But, as has been has revealed, government influences are powerful and are already deeply (and secretly) entwined with private enterprise. To snidely dismiss people warning you about who to really, truly trust with things as fundamentally identifiable of you as your fingerprint is doing yourself, and them, a disservice in the post-Snowden era.
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How are the new camera features innovation when other smartphones already had them? I think at many points this article is just cringe-worthy apple-fanboyism. how can you ignore that the 5C costs as much as the 5 when it's essentially the same but with plastic instead of metal casing?
I don't know for sure but I think it's because I used brew to install node and npm. When installing, brew picks a different path, which sometimes causes problems.
No, not crazy. Just really tedious. I've been there and even webdev in C++ was magnitudes more comfortable than webdev in C.

But webdev is a solved and trivial problem. More so it is an I/O-bound problem. So you can use the slowest language in the world as long as it boosts your productivity or makes your life super easy. (Sure, there are edge cases but 99.9% of webdevs never will be in the situation of having thousands of requests a second.)
There is a great advantage to combining the filesystem with the disk mapper. You don't have to use different commands to add and grow disks and the partitions upon those disks. Your filesystem knows about what it's living on and stores data accordingly. ZFS has more advanced file system properties, like sending snapshots, even of block devices. BTRFS is still working on feature parity with this. ZFS is much more stable than other FS with similar features.

The big disadvantage is the memory and CPU requirement. If your server has plenty of memory and CPU, I'd use ZFS. If you're running on an ARM NAS with 128MB RAM, I'd use something less fancy.
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Yep. Just bat shit crazy.
I'm seeing this more and more since the start of this week. Actually this search engine is now almost unusable, because when this happens, almost all of the results are completely unrelated, or otherwise unreadable, being filled with HTML entities. Only some results are vaguely related but still not what I'm searching for.

Damnit, I switched away from Google for a good reason, I'm not willing to give that up, but DDG has to be at least usable or it's pointless as it's a search engine. It must be able to search.
I did say that my former employer. Former.
Your driving habits could also significantly impact your insurance premium too...
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How bad is smelly code? Measuring the effect of bad code.
Well, Scala is more modular than google closure lib can ever hope to be. By the way, Scala.js builds on top of google closure.
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Yes. See this demonstration from 2007: http://people.opera.com/howcome/2007/video/svg/video-filter....

Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPw0WNrBWuY
Re: board game, have you seen Burn Rate?
every year when a new version comes out, the old ones got cheaper

Cheaper sure, but not cheap. At least in Sweden even the old 8GB iPhone 4 costs more than the Samsung SIII.
> Apple's closest equivalent are food companies, who have mastered the dramatic, salivatory description of products.

This ad campaign illustrates the point.

http://scoopertino.com/apple-blasts-into-supermarkets-with-r...
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Just out of curiosity, I tried to start 10 million concurrent erlang processes. Event though processes does not do anything, It is nice to see that erlang runtime can handle that many processes.
For graphically intensive 3D games it may have suffered compared to the iPad2 but it is still a great piece of hardware and worthy update from the iPad2.
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> lots and lots of time to spend micro-optimizing everything

If you're an experienced C developer you know what's fast and what not (and you know about things like cache coherency). You don't spend that much time on 'micro optimization' because you know how to layout your memory in the first place, etc.
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And if you want to use your phone in the toilet you need a Bluetooth Beacon in the toilet. Moreover all these beacons must somehow remain synced with your identity, so more cloud, more sensible data stored on big companies servers.

In summary, I think beacons are useful but I think the most interesting stuff is for a smartphone to unlock a car not the other way around.
They linked the article that mentioned that 200 lumens/watt lamp (
http://www.treehugger.com/energy-efficiency/philips-shows-br... ), seems a replacement for fluorescent tubes.

Quote from that:
"[...] this new LED model achieves an impressive 200 lumens/watt while meeting the criteria required for comfortable workplace lighting (ie. a color temperature of 3000–4000 kelvins, a color rendering index of at least 80, and an R9 saturated red level of no less than 20). That's not the same as having a super-efficient LED that produces horrible light quality for the sake of breaking records."

Also: "expected to hit the market in 2015 for office and industry applications".
Because very fiewof these developers have actually read the guileless or followed by example. They've all given a very 'unique' interpretation of the style and screwed it up royally.
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I'm mainly a C dev and I would never ever use C to write a web app. Not because I don't think it could be done, not because I don't think it could be done well but simply because string manipulations in C are a pity. Containers which are not dumb arrays in C are a pity. SQL bindings are much more tedious than the higher-level languages counterparts (I wrote quite a bunch of C interfacing with SQLite, it works well but requires a lot of LoC compared to perl for instance).

Basically 90% of what you do in a typical web framework in your scripting language of choice becomes 10 times more tedious and error-prone in C (and probably 100 times faster but frankly, who cares?)

It's already painful when I need to write sysfs and debugfs interfaces (and the linux kernel has a pretty nice API to write in those).

The only reason I can imagine for using C in a web app is performances but then:

1/ I would try to profile my app and see where the bottleneck is. If it's really CPU-bound and C would really help I'd try to write a small C library for this particular piece of code and bind it in my scripting language.

2/ If I really must write the whole thing in C for some reason I'd try to push for a subset of C++ with at least std::string, std::map, constructors and destructor to ease ressource management and maybe exceptions for error handling. Done well you'll get similar performances and with a bit of luck you might actually come up with something remotely maintainable.
Richard Feynman on education in Brazil:

http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education

After a lot of investigation, I finally figured out that the students had memorized everything, but they didn’t know what anything meant. When they heard “light that is reflected from a medium with an index,” they didn’t know that it meant a material such as water. They didn’t know that the “direction of the light” is the direction in which you see something when you’re looking at it, and so on. Everything was entirely memorized, yet nothing had been translated into meaningful words. So if I asked, “What is Brewster’s Angle?” I’m going into the computer with the right keywords. But if I say, “Look at the water,” nothing happens – they don’t have anything under “Look at the water”!

(...)

Since I had gone to Brazil under a program sponsored by the United States Government, I was asked by the State Department to write a report about my experiences in Brazil, so I wrote out the essentials of the speech I had just given. I found out later through the grapevine that the reaction of somebody in the State Department was, “That shows you how dangerous it is to send somebody to Brazil who is so naive. Foolish fellow; he can only cause trouble. He didn’t understand the problems.” Quite the contrary! I think this person in the State Department was naive to think that because he saw a university with a list of courses and descriptions, that’s what it was.
Just to provide a counter example to balance your assessment of VCs: Our lead investor has a Ph.D. in EE from Stanford. Our secondary investor has an engineering degree from MIT and is a serial entrepreneur. They have been very helpful in terms of advice and support.
Out of interest, I'm considering porting an open source diagramming package that I wrote a while back (before canvas was widely supported) that although it was written mostly in JavaScript use a Flex component to actually render stuff and handle user input - given that EaselJS is pretty much a port of the Flex display object model to JS and canvas I thought it would be a good choice.

Have you actually had problems with EaselJS?
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one problem with canvas is there are use cases where you are going to want to export as a vector graphics file. This is doable (but somewhat non-trivial) in an SVG element, but basically impossible for a canvas element.
It's not John Gruber's fault that Apple hits all these home runs. When Jordan's Bulls won title after title it wasn't hard for sports fans and journalists to keep saying how they were the best.

Eventually Apple is going to strike out with a major release but, at as far as phones go, this wasn't the year.
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...but if Apple doesn’t offer a larger display option soon then I believe it will lose some users not because of cross shopping, but out of frustration.
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I don't get this huge screen trend for phones. That's not a smart move from an ergonomics perspective. Almost person person that has a phone with a big screen has to use both hands to comfortably use the phone, one to touch and the other to hold.

One would argue that more pixels == more content. But that's not an issue with iPhone 5 even though was with previous models. I mean, not an issue if you don't have ads taking up your precious pixels. And that is easily solvable by paying for your content and apps which has other benefits too.

Anyway, I feel the iPhone 5 screen size is perfect. And I still have one hand free to do whatever I want. I think more pixels are not more useful than a hand. People who think that too won't get phones with cumbersome screens, unless they have huge hands.
I can't tell ams6110 what intent he or she may or may not have....

but I can say that "he" will not be reliably read as gender-neutral.
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Absolutely tue regarding Ortega. One of the case studies that are mentioned all the time in supply chain management. Yet, most people just look at Inditex, say "wow" only to turn around without having learned anything from it.

Regarding the rest, good list. Regarding the previous geneeration I would add the TPS guys from Toyota.

As for Eric Schmidt, I can't neither agree nor dosagree since I'm lacking the necessary insight.
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> The use of actual lab-bench display testing alone puts them in a category of their own.

That and the architectural dissections they do every time a new CPU or GPU is even announced, only through anandtech do I look forward to new Intel or NVidia stuff, even though I'm not a hardware geek at all the reviews are engrossing, interesting and interested and strike a very nice balance of depth and clarity.
The latter. Vision algorithms run on the iPad.
A bit like that but it might mislead. US teachers have higher salary than Finnish teachers. Salary level in general in the US is much higher than in Finland. But for teachers, the difference is smaller.

In general, with high progressive taxation, income is much more equal between sectors. The job market is just different. Things like shorter hours and longer vacations also become larger perks.

The society also is just not as money centered, for example status is derived more from other things. Finns are also quite jealous and shy, meaning people don't tend to exhibit it if they are wealthy. Some people from other cultures might feel it as a sort of repressive "keep your head down" attitude. It is anathema to try to raise yourself above others in any way. In total it makes things like luxury cars or flashy villas much less desirable here - they would be boorish. So what is your motivation for a higher pay? You won't use it for status or luxury. Education for your children is free anyway. Most people use it for apartments in slightly better locations.
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Only that all the bigger players are doing basically the same thing. Only difference being that the big players use the results to drive up their margins instead of lowering prices for customers.

And most of innovation is payed for by cash instead of mergin anyway. I, for my part, like that strategy.
The Verge also held their review last year for Josh's appearance on Fallon.
> It's worth noting that there are double the number of general purpose registers

Yeah same as x86 -> x86-64, but x86 was really starved in general purpose registers with only 6 GPR. Even in ARMv7, ARM had 2.5 times the number of registers of x86 making register pressure a much lower issue.

This means the performance gains from lowered register pressure are going to be significantly lower on ARM, as register pressure was much, much lower in the first place.
It's in their About page (https://readtapestry.com/about#) too:

>> It's simple: tap to move forward in a story. There’s no going back, so take your time—that’s the whole point!

Not allowing the viewer to know how many slides there are and navigate between them is a terrible, terrible idea.

I think Mike Bostok's Stack is worth a mention:
http://mbostock.github.io/stack/#0
Yeah, there are are bunch of other emulators. I try to push this cause it's open-source and it implements an open-source instruction set.

Here's my list, please add to it if you know any others: https://gist.github.com/ysangkok/5606032

Arm-js has a control panel which is really nice. It would be sweet if the open-source emulators could share some code, but they are pretty different code-wise right now...
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Anecdotedly, I interact with scores of iPhone users every week and not once have I ever heard a complaint about the screen size, even when prompted.
> So, imagine a violent crime; a robbery attempt goes awry, and a convenience store clerk is killed. The murderer (in a perfect incarceration system) is "rehabilitated" in a year. Should he be freed after 365 days?

I read about a case like this in Sweden. Kjell-Eric Eliasson, who was a soldier at the time, was sentenced in 1986 for a sadistic murder of a young single mother. He butchered her and dumped the corpse into a well outside his mother's farm.

The man was sentenced to a mental institution. He was treated for a single (1) year and then released to as "cured", much to the horror of the relatives of the murdered woman. Some 25 years later, in 2010, he lost his job as a highly paid government official, when the truth about his dark past hit the internet.

Was it right to release him? It seems he lived the next 25 years well, with a great career and paying his taxes. So society didn't need to be protected from him any more. But was it morally right? There is a perceived need of revenge, of punishment. Of some justice.

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Details of the case are here (use google translate to read)
https://www.flashback.org/t1287612
See https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k/issues/3

I tried adding an extra serial port some months ago, but I didn't succeed.

It would be really cool if you made this. Here's a use case I had in mind:

You go to emulator.html#http://otherwebsite.com/packages.json . The emulator's JavaScript part detects the fragment, and downloads a list of dpkg packages to the HTML5 file system. The emulator boots up, checks the HTML5 file system over 9P, and installs all those packages.

Like this, you could test any binary package over the web without fear, and it would be decentralized, you wouldn't have to modify the emulator.

But for jor1k, we'd need networking and 9P/HTML5 support (like in Arm-js). For Arm-js, just the networking would suffice, as the 9P support is already there.

9P in Arm-js: https://github.com/ozaki-r/arm-js#emulator-features
You're better off asking the founders themselves. It would be inappropriate for YC to release the info without the founders consent in any case.
I finished the game.. I wont spoil the end, but it felt very anti-climatic.

More a "Oh, I am fighting the end boss? I didnt realize..." rather than a "Oh cool! I'm about to fight the end boss! Better get ready!"
Yeah, the most annoying thing ever. Didn't they ever attend a real presentation where people actually asked questions about things that were shown on past slides?
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> It is still cheaper, so now the iPhone I show off only signals that I spent whatever the cheapest model costs.

Isn't it the other way around? Under the old system, you bought a "high end" 4S. Then Apple introduce the iPhone 5, drop the 4S to a low price, and now your 4S is suddenly the "cheap" iPhone. Under this new system, you bought an iPhone 5, they introduce the 5C, drop the iPhone 5, and your iPhone 5 is still recognizable as the high end model.
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From your two points the weight of punishment can be concluded. The punishment should be higher then the benefit of the convict and high enough to deter others from repeating it. The interesting point is that the damage does not come into the calculation. This means crimes of passion (especially murder) should have a lower punishment than robbery, because the robber has some benefit, but the murderer basically already punished himself.
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This doesn't seem to happen on iOS7. Note that I know it must happen but however they are doing it/hiding it it doesn't bother me as much.
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