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In the long run we are all dead. And all companies go bankrupt.

Aggregated numbers do not tell the whole story.

If smartphones mature to good enough and people shift to slower upgrade cycles (think 2006-7 in PC terms) then apple will have trouble growing. And in our quarterly reports world growth is what counts. Which is already hard when you have the revenue of a couple of countries. And there are not many people that can afford to pay the apple premiums and are not already paying them.

For me the interesting stuff is what is the breakdown of the sales. If the majority of these 9 millions are iPhone 4/S users that switch it can mean one thing, if 6 of those 9 million units are new customers is another story.

We work in industry where the rise and falls of titans is rapid. I will be equally unsurprised if in 5 years Apple still have amazing performance or they are on the brink of bankruptcy.

Apple have some structural problems that they need to address to stay on top - the lack of Steve Jobs (mostly as a perception thing for the products), the store, how to reach to new users that are poorer and protect the margins and the perception of premium-ness of their brand, deal with the growing share of Android etc. None of them are unsolvable but combined they are a challenge.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6430779 seems they did send most of the gold phones to Asia, and all sold out first day.

Still may be a bizarre cultural misunderstanding, as sounds like it's crazy popular everywhere else too.

Expect every smartphone maker make & push gold phones hard after today.

ETA: Note "seems". That's my impression from the link, no hard data seen yet.
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Not sure about bulkier 10 years ago, the nokia 8310 was all the rage back then and they were so tiny that people used to lose them down cracks in sofas. Not to mention better battery.
He doesn't actually have to keep replacement parts in the datacenter or have staff close by to the datacenter to go and perform replacements or new installs, or worse - pay >100$/hr. for remote hands with colo.

Over time it's certainly more expensive to rent, but you get to cancel and move on to better hardware when it comes out, without having to worry about re-purposing or selling old servers.
Note to non-regular django devs: a django view is equivalent of the controller in other frameworks.
Really the issue is that virtual hosts can affect each other quite a bit on Rackspace compared to, say, AWS. If your server behaves poorly, Rackspace can and will shut it off. One of our non-critical servers ran out of memory, thrashed swap, and was shut down in pretty short order by Rackspace. Which is good, sort of, I don't want to hurt other customers. Still, getting it turned back on was not a very fast process.

So it is kind of a roll of the dice. Are the other customers on your hardware well behaved? Will they stay that way?

It is a trade-off, you get way better performance if the other virtual hosts on the box are quiet. But if you plan your capacity around those quiet periods you can be in for quite a shock once the hardware gets busy. I've run critical servers on hosts like this and it can be a headache.
Sorry. No atitude!

Just pointing out that it is impossible to guess, and that your last number constitutes less than 1% of the total estimated iPhone 5Ss sold.
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I can relate. Building the website is fun. Promoting it takes a massive effort, and can make you feel like a sleazy door-to-door salesperson.

I feel the same way applying for jobs.
I think the 5C would have driven him over the edge. It looks like it was made by Mattel or Hasbro (although it feels surprisingly sturdy. Salespeople should be doing everything they can to get it physically into customers hand). I actually really like iOS 7, although there are some rough edges that I bet would have bothered him (although I had to use an iPhone 1 for a week when my phone was stolen, and I think a lot of people forgot how clunky some of the software was). The only thing I don't like is that some buttons (mainly send and end calls) are extremely bright. It doesn't seem like it fits with iOS, plus it reminds me too much of Windows.
I was expecting side-by-side comparisons at first. Then I saw the format and realized it's EVERY constitution. Wow.
I bet you gold isn't going to stay hard to get (harder to get than any other 5s, at least) for very long at all.
Some, hopefully, constructive criticism:

The rain drops are too spherical as they traverse the screen. The friction plus surface tension of a water on glass pulls the tail out significantly farther then represented and also varies on whether the drop is following a path that's already been traversed and therefore has less friction. It would be really really cool to see that effect added in.
That is quite slick. If you really want a rainy day in your browser, there's always this one...http://www.rainymood.com/

Looks like they even have apps for portable rain now.
Not to mention - you're assuming your children will grow up, move out, establish themselves, become very successful working adults, have enough money to support you and their own children (which are their "responsible financial future investment,") and then wish to support you also.

These are all crazy assumptions.

What if your children are born with disabilities and can't work and require care for the rest of their lives? You might be able to provide that care, but they might also need expensive professional care. The State might have to step in anyway. What if they move away? They might not be able to move closer even if they wanted due to circumstances, like being in the military for example. What if they can only find work part time, or minimum wage? What if they are lazy or depressed and won't work and don't want to move out of the house? What if they get into drugs? What if they become homeless? What if they simply don't want to help you financially? They actually do have free will. They might be willing, but not able. They might be willing, but upset they you expect them to help you financially. What if they have medical problems also? What if they die young, before you? They might have an accident, and lose their ability to work.

I know of people where all of these things happened. These aren't super rare occurrences. If you think these can't happen, think again.

Having children with the expectation or even assumption they will provide some kind of services (financial or otherwise) to you in your old age is extremely unfair to the children and to yourself.
Works better than timer / alert functionality of Google Now which is horribly broken. (At first I thought it was just rounding errors, with 25 minutes being set to 24 minutes, but I can't explain a 3 minute difference easily with rounding errors, which has happened to me. )
For those who do not use coffee script, it would be nice to provide a java script parallel example.
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A case of bad being better than worse?

Babies are all about sensory input, and need a great deal of hands-on (and mouth-on) contact for learning. TV at least has a lot of dynamic visual & audio stimulation, while admittedly books are static and visual-only ... and both place the content beyond a flat smooth surface.
You pretty much got most of what I was thrusting at.

I'd only differ with you on larger companies wanting more holistic folks. In my anecdotal experience, large companies are usually hiring to fit somebody into a particular business process block and want ultra-specialized people for that block.

In my area it's not even uncommon to see job reqs for experienced people using very specific development tools as well.

It can get weird when that role is a new industry one, like less than 5 years, and they want a senior person for that role with 5-10 years of experience in it...which is clearly impossible.
> She said she called me because she was writing an email to me, but couldn't find the Send button, so didn't know how to send it.

Yeah, the send button used to be in a horrible place in Gmail. Nowhere close to the editor, and oddly detached from the compose area. I always had trouble finding it.

Thankfully they fixed it in the UI update the author's complaining about. Now it's where I'd expect it to be...attached to the email composer.
TIL that Asimov supported the notion of "nearly right", which is good enough as long as you tried really hard and could explain how you got to your incorrect answer.
I understand the complexity issue, and how large corps deal with that stuff... There are other ways you can chunk that stuff up though. Maybe you don't have a choice.

I don't think you can fault Visual Studio for not handling that many projects well.
I would really be surprised if they underestimated the demand, Asia is known for loving gold. I would bet more likely it is a marketing thing, the news that they have all sold out pushes up demand even further and also hits all the headlines. How many people are going around now saying "I have one of the new gold iPhones" to all their friends and colleagues.
I now realise that the submitter wasn't the developer so my comment doesn't stand.
A minor nitpick on (3), commercial mobile phone service dates to 1946, and the first service that we'd identify as being something like a modern "cell phone", with actual cells, automated handoff, integration into the POTS network, etc., came in 1978.

Technology always seems to progress both faster and slower than you think.
If you have a problem with the new Gmail, you can use the ancient gmail at https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html&zy=h and set it as default. I honestly didn't even know that there was a new Gmail.

If you look at that basic html version and cry about all of the features you're missing, IMO you're really just being a backseat driver. You're not going to like every improvement that they make, but if you like enough of them to render how we used email in the very near past completely unusable, then they're doing a good job.
It's because you only have 2 servers, which reduces the likelihood that you're sharing a host machine with a misbehaving vm. You're probably also not using a load balancer or taxing the network much yourself.
I've been using Mac Mail for years. I don't think I've ever even deleted a message. Still seems to work fine -- but I see your point.
You should. Just don't expect to make money off it.
Funny how a long in the tooth phone has taken more than 1% of the US market in 2 days and is the fastest selling phone in history by a huge margin:

https://mobile.twitter.com/asymco/status/382147503644098561
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If Stallman is doing such a wonderful job, why are parties, like the various BSDs, making a concerted effort to move to software that is not bound by the restrictions on distribution the organization he leads requires? I'd argue that in releasing the GPLv3, with its increased politicized language, and increased restrictions on use, has fragmented the Free Software community, and made their goals all that more difficult to reach.
The pervasive casual racism when discussing the gold iPhone is just astounding. If news outlets were talking about black people this way, there would be riots in the streets. Why is this considered acceptable?
I was thinking this was going to be animated. Am I wrong, or did I miss something?
Throw away Sprockets, use UNIX!
A grad school for startups..probably just what new infant startups were looking for. Expect to see big companies rolling out soon from here.
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> Django "class views" are a product of brain damage, really

“Brain damage” is rather harsh: they're following a valid design principle but (IMO) carried a little further than the scope of the problem might require, running into the classic tradeoff versus ease of acquisition.
Apple's marketing is insufferable. The apple designed A6 chip? What a complete load. What did they design exactly, the apple logo they paste on it? And they talk about going 64bit on a device that has only 1GB of memory as though that is a benefit to anyone. It will slow down every single app out there currently. The benefit of going 64bit is that it gets people to start writing apps that support the technology. For the future. When 64bit phones will actually make any sense, so it's a good move but they talk about it like it's a benefit to consumers now.

What is the markup on these things? Who is buying a phone that costs more than 3 times as much as its competitors and the screen size still hasn't exceeded 4 inches? The "retina" display on these isn't even 720p.

I'm obviously disturbed. Don't even get me started on the 5c.
My favorite part of watching rain on a glass surface is when two raindrops connect with one another and merge together into a larger one. It would take a lot more work (more intensive computation based on the location of the drop, constant checking if another drop is on top of the target raindrop, etc...), but I'd _love_ to see two globules merge with one another. That would be incredible.
Don't you laugh. Flat Earth still has a following today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society
In other words, Apple sold more iPhones over the WE than Nokia or Blackberry shipped smartphones during the last quarter...

http://allthingsd.com/20130718/nokia-sold-more-windows-phone...
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Sure, he's the benevolent dictator (and the creator of language, itself), but he would've explained himself somewhere. About the benefits of refinements and how to deal with the downsides. Any links?
A, sure.

Well, as the culprit, you can always arrange some things or leave other stuff that also points to me.

Also, your main benefit is that the police will more easily believe that it wasn't you (since your DNA won't match).
The government does not care what we think it is.
My experience has been that plain old function based views work out to be simpler and more flexible, at the cost of a little more duplication. Don't forget they are an alternative too!
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Locks just keep an honest man honest.

If someone wants what you have bad enough, there really isn't anything you can do to stop them.
Yes. That's right. I submitted three times at one hour intervals deleting each time. I was experimenting with submissions times hoping to do a follow up on: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/12/how-i-ended-up-with-so-much-hack...
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Moore's Law was never about clock speeds. It was always about feature size i.e. number of transistors per square inch.

For a long time, transistor count directly enabled higher clock speeds, and so people conflated the two. But the original statement of the Law has no mention of clock speeds.

Why does it matter why single-core performance has continued to improve? It used to be clock speed, now it's something else, but it's still getting better all the time.
This is why you make backups from your physical hardware to onsite storage, but also replicate those backups to Amazon S3 and inhibit the delete functionality so you need MFA in order to complete the delete.
In a podcast with Steve Gibson I was watching this morning, they were talking about whether it would be OK for us to follow all children on their way from home to school (and back) and everywhere they were in public, listening to (and logging) every single thing they say because they were talking in public.

>The school district’s move has raised privacy concerns, with some comparing it to government-sponsored stalking.

Read more:

http://nation.time.com/2013/09/14/glendale-school-district-h...

But on the other side of things, there is targeted collection of public data, where teens trashed a home in New York and caused over $20k in damages.

>"parents of the hundreds of teens who broke into and destroyed former NFLer Brian Holloway's upstate vacation home are threatening to sue him for outing their brats on Twitter — saying he's spoiling their chances of getting into college."

Read more:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/20/224382580/tee...

http://nypost.com/2013/09/20/parents-want-to-sue-former-nfle...

I don't understand why vandals would post on twitter to boast publicly (in a way that can be easily linked back to their name) about their deeds. It seems to me that the school being proactive is morally wrong [TM] while someone trying to piece together who was present at the home at the time of the vandalism is right [TM].

[TM] my personal interpretation of right vs wrong. Not a legal opinion.
This is one of the things that surprised me the most. After reading about the Snowden documents this summer, I did some historical reading on the topic. I was amazed at the lengthy progression of surveillance in the U.S., and as a result, I am no longer amazed at the Snowden documents. It's all business as usual.

(I'm not convinced, though, that it's all okay... there seems to be both real and potential abuse in the system.)
and to illustrate my point, HN post, a mere 12 days ago:

Apple's Windows 95 problem.
http://blog.raavel.com/2013/09/11/apple-problem/

"Apple recently unveiled its new iPhone 5s and 5c models, to a collective “meh”. The stock sold off and is poised to continue moving lower. The market is telling Apple that it is not innovative enough and that its need to do much more, and within that lies the crux of Apple’s problem."

But yeah, a lot of comments, falling over each other in their collective agreement. will that same random blog now turn 180 and consider it's failure?
When the author revealed that he's invested in one of the companies being profiled, he lost credibility immediately. There used to be a concept called "conflict of interest" that journalists and media paid attention to.

It's especially ironic in this case, given the subject matter. The supposed point of this piece is that some companies are shying away from publicity, yet the article itself seeks to publicize them. It's almost like the humblebrag of publicity: "These guys begged me not to write them up in a national news outlet!"

I'm sure the companies mentioned are interesting, and that the founders deserve the success they've achieved. And the author raises some good points about substance vs. signaling. But the self-interest in this piece is naked and jarring.
The impact of unchecked surveillance, like bad security, is impossibly difficult to quantify until shit hits the fan long enough for it to inconvenience people. Furthermore it's simple and easy to dismiss serious problems as exceptions to the rule, for example Snowden was branded as "very smart" after there were claims that a "high school dropout" evaded NSA's internal security systems and successfully escaped to Hong Kong.

If there are egregious violations of privacy and freedom then we won't be seeing the admissions of guilt/reform, but instead we'll be seeing recriminations and diversions. There needs to be punitive measures in place to deter that kind of negligence and recklessness, in addition to the punishment for actual violations.

Rehabilitation and recidivism are very serious issues that need to be focused on, especially because those who disregard privacy will do so on an ideological level -- it's part of their personal belief system.
It's probably 'easy' if you've already made a bunch of successful startups, and have the confidence to know exactly what to do. Getting that skill set in the first place is quite difficult though.
Perhaps facebook should have a responsibility similar to that of other professionals?

Granted some data you put on facebook you obviously intend to make public or semi-public but not necessarily all of it.
Just so you know, OVH has just _halted_ its dedicated server offer.

TL;DR from today's French blog post:

Our offers were so competitive that too many customers wanted them, and we're loosing money if we don't keep customers for at least 2 years. Sadly, they migrate to new offers before that. We're halting dedicated servers until we figure out what to do.

[edit] Link: http://www.ovh.com/fr/a1186.pourquoi_160sold_out160
OK, I probably misread the tone in your first sentence.

It's easy to guess! Nearly impossible to guess accurately, though, I agree.

You're right about it being less than 1% of the total, although I disagree that this makes the estimate absurd. I think it's entirely possible that the gold 5S constitutes less than 1% of production or sales so far. I certainly could be wrong.
We also give third parties the content of our calls as well. Under the third party doctrine, it's then legal for the government to listen to the content of our calls. The reason they claim they don't collect all the content of our calls is that they know people would be up in arms. But it's perfectly legal for them to do so according to the third party doctrine.
Does anyone have any experiencing with OVH's dedicated cloud offering?

I'm looking at this as an option vs a small AWS deployment. Seems to offer a lot of the flexibility of virtualization at a much better price/performance point than AWS.
"This makes sense since those who feel the need to buy a new device the very weekend it launches are most likely the power users who want the highest-end phone experience."
I quoted what the poster said.

It is _naive_ for a person born into low caste, to believe that the reservation system is corrupt.

On the other hand it is _mischievous_ for the elitist to claim that it is corrupt. Indian popular media and the justice system which are disproportionately occupied by the elitists, have been successful in their propaganda to make the younger generation think that it is wrong to utilize the reservations.
The geometry of (the surface of) a torus is actually flat, not curved! This is quite unintuitive.
Sure, but that was a barebones model. I had the equivalent of today's iPhone style things (a Sony-Ericsson P910 IIRC), and it was like 3 iPhones in bulk.
> In my opinion, Django's CBV's are polarizing [..] I feel like inheritance is a poor way of modeling views and reusing code.

I share your opinion on CBV. Personally I like the old function-based views because everything happens in that little block of code and I know exactly the order in which something happens. CBV quickly get me lost in the chain of method calls across classes.
> These are all crazy assumptions.

They're really not. Even western society relied on them almost exclusively to support old people until just 60-70 years ago.
This sounds quite a bit like the way you're supposed to use AWS--you spike out your services quickly, figure out how and where you need to grow, and then move to a different service that provides that at a cost-effective level.

I can't imagine building a complete business model around AWS, but using it to begin the growth period seems reasonable.
Lately? Since I first saw a Tesco store it has been a multipurpose all in one store.
It will be for almost everybody, as long as you have someone somewhere with a 5S to use for a sanity check before you ship.

In my case, there was some code dealing with low-level stack walking and such that really needed the actual hardware in hand. Not a common case, to be sure.
I don't think the weird zealous paranoia does much to change their minds. If anything it might motivate 'normal people' to steer clear of questioning privacy issues.
It's not legal. The technology is being introduced slowly by the current manufactures as well. Assisted parking. Enhanced cruise control. automatic braking. If they can manage to get it legalized quickly Google has a chance to disrupt the market. But the car companies are introducing products to market that people are buying.