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Placing OK phone on the market, and adding features in the next revisions is called "release early, release often".

Having AppStore turned out to be more important then having copy/paste, this is why it they appeared in this order on the device. A lot of smartphones out there were able to beat 1st and 2nd generations of iPhone in terms of built-in functionality (and 3GS will reconcile this), but no phone will ever beat iPhone in terms of the number of available applications (which is much more important).
I think the mystique of Tony Hsieh is that he gives you a personal perspective into what it is like to be a CEO of an innovative, growing, top company. Engaging employees. Meeting customers. Meeting other influencers. Day-to-day musings. Celebrity meetings. Marketing pow-wows. Taking pictures of El Gato (his cat). Possibly the first Internet celebrity CEO.
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What I find surprising is that investors react so strongly to a single case, just because it's high-profile.

Investors can never know everything about how a company works. Despite efforts to minimize risk, there are "hit by a truck" hazards all over the place. Arguably, losing a lowly engineer with critical knowledge can do more damage than changing the CEO, but companies aren't digging up and disclosing all of those cases.

It's also important to realize that many of Steve Jobs' contributions are already sufficient: radically changing management, refocusing product lines, pushing into new markets. Apple can survive on those decisions alone. You have to believe that Steve doesn't change managers unless he's appointing someone that he trusts to do the job. In the case of Apple, I suspect that constant leadership isn't as important as a few key decisions.

Only by working at a company for a few years, can you begin to understand how that company works. Investors claim a lot more insight than they could ever have, which probably explains the volatility of the stock market.
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The bad usability and user friendliness in free software is a product of the process, namely that anyone can change anything, and that there isn't one master designer. The reason Apple's products work so well is that there's a strict hierarchy, and only one person gets to decide how the product looks.

This won't change.
Does the iphone have a USB port? Can I plug in my 19" monitor, keyboard, or mouse?
would you advocate that having 9 out of 10 students in grades 1 to 4 with a laptop on their desk is not a model for other countries to follow?

Yes, because results of studies in the United States suggest that more computer use by schoolchildren results in lower rather than higher academic achievement. Computers are important, wonderful tools, and you and I are using computers right now to communicate about this interesting submission to HN, but children have a lot of development to go through for which computers have no demonstrated ability to help. On an issue like improving education, research matters, and there isn't a strong body of research to show that increased computer use does much to improve primary education.
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I read once that "3GS is everything 1st generation iPhone should be". True enough. Now, as market position of iPhone becoming more and more stable Apple will inevitable drift in the direction of offering more open platform.

I predict one of: (a) removal/simplification of application review process, or (b) official SDK available in more languages with time (first being Java or Python) in couple of years.
... the time-and-quantity-limited pre-order price; more of a marketing maneuver than a price cut.

Frankly the boxed OS prices for Windows are moot.

Individuals get the new OS license with the new computer and businesses go through resellers. 7 isn't any 'cheaper' than Vista for any significant number of Microsoft's customers.
I don't have a convenient way of segregating my paid and non-paid Bing traffic, but I thought it might be interesting to try comparing to paid and non-paid Google traffic for giggles. The conversion of interest for me is a trial download. I'm analyzing the data only from the date Bing was publicly released.

Google (free): 10.4k visits, 12.76% conversion

Google (paid): 5.2k visits, 21.61% conversion

Yahoo (free): 1.2k visits, 18.64% conversion

Bing (both): 945 visits, 17.69% conversion

I'm not exactly seeing the sort of results that it would take to make me mentally retool my SEO thought processes away from "give Google what it wants". For instance, that volume problem you're talking about is an absolute killer for me -- there is no way I can justify rewriting my ad text to match the habits of Bing searchers when at best I'm going to be getting a couple hundred clicks a month on ads.

(The lower conversion on Google searches is because, in the course of giving Google what it wants, I have ended up ranking for a high-volume term or three whose searchers are not looking for what I have to offer. The biggest offender is [bingo cards].)
But please please look for ways to live your life so that when you die, the fact will be discovered not because some irc channel regulars notice your longer-than-usual absence.

Why? If I preferred to live my life alone, then it wouldn't really bother me if I died alone and noone knew about it because of the simple fact that I'd already be dead.
I'm no expert on the topic, but I believe he's referring to "the new HTC Sense widget-based interface" (http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/htc-hero-details-begin-le...).
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I'm supposing Android's interface is customizable, so HTC managed to build a whole new experience on it.

Check this: http://www.htc.com/www/product/hero/overview.html
Oddly named campaign to promote better use of inheritance. "The Anti-Type Fields Campaign" would be more appropriate and less confusing.
Jurassic Park didn't make CGI look real; it just used real-looking models that happened to move.
Stem cell surprise for tissue regeneration
>you don't really believe we should all be using plain text, do you?

Yes, mail clients should support plain text only, the world would be a much better place.
Hear, hear. I like Apple's marketing sometimes because I thinks its slick, if a little snotty. But the reason I keep buying their products is because I actually enjoy using them as opposed to the Palm Centro and the Dell Latitude I've owned in the past.

I've owned Apple products for 15 years now, and most of the time, when exploring other options (like those mentioned above) I end up coming back because their UX is good, not because "I drank the kool-aid."
Don't solve with conditionals that which can be solved by your language's dispatch mechanism.
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Ask HN: Would you replace your numeric pad with a trackpad?
Take a look at your keyboard. Now at your numeric pad.

Now imagine there is a trackpad instead of all those useless keys.

Would yo use it?
Yeah, so I'm back on Safari. Plus c'est la meme chose.
I concur, but as a group cutting out one of the medium's biggest (if not THE biggest) draws was sure to have some affect.
The Photo Album app does indeed rotate in the simulator, but only when you are viewing photos. The list of photo albums does not re-orient when rotated. This is how it works on actual hardware as well. Are you seeing something different?

As an aside,in the 3.0 version of the simulator there is now an option for sending a shake gesture but in the one app I have that responds to shakes it didn't work no matter how low I set the threshold.

Edit:looking at the shake gesture it seems that the method accelerometer:accelerometer didAccelerate does not get called (which is the method my app is using to detect shakes) when you send a shake gesture to the simulator so I'm not sure what the shake gesture actually does in 3.0.
> especially when it comes from a company that could easily afford to give the OS away for free.

I don't know if this is true. Microsoft would have a very hard time keeping their revenue and profit where they are, much less growing them, which is what the street wants to see, if they gave away their OS.

If they suddenly lost their OS revenue the stock would take a dramatic hit, I doubt they could afford to do this.

Given that they can't afford the hit on their stock price that loosing their OS revenue would bring, can you show how they can afford this?
if impressions are down, it follows traffic would be

From what I understand it depends on the CTR.

My point is that a lower CPA is largely useless if the volume is also lower.

Now I don't get this. If you want more volume, you buy more impressions, don't you? CPA going up means you get more value for money invested.

Please correcct me if I am wrong.
Exactly. My prediction is that as cell phones become increasingly powerful, they will eventually replace computers, as we know them today, in most average consumers' lives.

When this is the case, I don't think that closed systems can or should be tolerated. Phones will simply be too important and too central to everyone's life to allow for this.

This is why I'm hoping that Android (or some other similarly open platform) gains a prominent place in the market, showing the rest of the industry the way forward.
Apple is master of the user Interface hands down. Where else besides a device you use contantly, in quick bursts, while on-the-go does user interface matter more?

Sure some folks on HN will prefer an open OS- but for the general public it will be a very long time before any other mobile OS catches up in terms of ease of use. And when they do catch up it will be from copying Apple's every move.
It is changing.
Canonical's CEO (Mark Shuttleworth) said their aim is to deploy interfaces as good as Apple's.

What do you say about projects like GnomeDo with great interface?
I've met very very few IT workers who are happy with their jobs
I ask this question as I try to use my recliner as a workstation and the mouse is the only setback right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recliner

I already placed a huge flat monitor on a stand at 45 degrees from the horizon so my neck rests comfortably in the recliner.

A wireless keyboard fits nicely on my lap, but I would like it to have a trackpad instead, to have my dream workstation complete.

More or less something like this:

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/4290/keytrak.jpg

(No, laptops are not an option)
And here we go again criticizing the Free Software (or Open Source) model, without any valid reason... remember that the iPhone is highly based on OSS, you just make a lot of non-sense.

Also probably you haven't tried the latest distro versions of Linux or an Android phone or WebOS.

Then you say: "Why do you call me fanboy?" read your comment and you'll know.
This sort of debate annoys me - not so much because of the potentially fragile design on one side or the perhaps pedantic adherence to OOP principles on the other, but because I know that I could have things like pattern matching and a scarily expressive type system and, well, that'd make a lot of these problems disappear.

Curse you, Haskell, for making me so bitter!
I wouldn't call them useless keys. When I'm typing in any multiple-digit number, I find it so much easier to use the num-pad than than the single row of numbers at the top. I only use that top row when I'm inputting a single number in the middle of other text.

As for the track-pad, I think they're extremely inefficient. They were a good innovation for laptops, but I would much rather use the keyboard for everything. Since I rarely use the mouse as it is, I'd rather not give up what I consider to be useful keys for another one.

edit: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=keyboard+trackpad&#...
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Dude, The Rainbow Fish is just a book about sharing. You know, like stickers and crayons and stuff.

I'm pretty sure we can take any children's book and, with some rhetorical gymnastics, reconstruct Harrison Bergeron from them.
Relevant discussion from the last time this came up: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652747
I completely agree that for most people this is a non issue, however this is HN where building your one system or upgrading the OS is a real possibility. And the price drop was large enough that I am going to preorder Windows 7. So I felt it was worth highlighting.
The iphone does have a connection point, and if I remember correctly, they are opening it up to third parties. So, if the phone can take blood pressure and insulin readings, I'm guessing it will only be a matter of time before it also accepts USB enabled devices. On a side note, I did see a pocket LED? projector (~$400) connected to this port on the iphone. It worked nicely.
"and there isn't a strong body of research to show that increased computer use does much to improve primary education"

Maybe beacause primary education students do not have computers in the classroom in all countries but Portugal?
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Rewriting would be something closer to:

The passages he copied were short descriptions of events in history. Repeating them word-for-word, like he did, would be considered plagiarism, but since they are a source for events he wasn't there to see, shouldn't he just reword them?

There's no point in doing that. It's better to quote verbatim with citations, and to write when there's something new to say. Historians can compile primary sources into a new document that adds something to the existing information; they don't curate documents, they narrate events.
5 exculpatory grafs. 3 grafs that contain actual apologies, each of which is buried in a mitigating construction (of the "I did this in good faith, but that's no excuse" variety).

What would Timothy Noah think?

http://www.slate.com/?id=2061056
Nice piece of writing, I thought your last article on the downward spiral was good too, felt I could really relate with parts of that.

Good on John for submitting it :)
I totally agree and we can name a lot of apps... people, use the software before criticizing!

IMHO yes, there are some OS X apps that are very good in usability but there are a lot of exceptions:

Banshee > iTunes
Gnome-do > Quicksilver (even though this is not from Apple)
Nautilus > Finder (yes this is very true)

I'm not even mentioning the apps that just don't exist in OS X: a real multi-desktop, Tomboy (even though there is a port), a real app manager.
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Again, here is the link to my experience doing polyphasic sleep: http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/category/polyphasi...

I agree with Dustin - it works but you have to be strict on the schedule. My life didn't accommodate the schedule so I had to stop, but it did work for the short time I could schedule it.
Nope.

Or rather, I might use it to click to find a site where I could buy a keyboard with a numeric keypad. I use the keypad all the time.
If you're trained on 10-key entry those keys are not useless at all -- they're extremely fast accelerators for data entry.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2106407_type-using-10key.html
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I owned a couple of Win Mobile phones prior to the first gen iPhone. The first iPhone was the first where browsing the internet was practical.
Ok, this is no reddit and you should be downvoted. But I won't do it because I got the joke: http://xkcd.com/272/
Inheritance or polymorphism?
Would I have to set up two views within Interface Builder, one for landscape and one for portrait, or do I use the one single view and rotate it using code?
Google Takes On Tourism With City Tours Experiment
I love the comments here and elsewhere... MS sets the price of Windows 7 around or a little lower than the price of Leopard, and everyone makes smart remarks about "no family pack" and "it would cost $4 bajillion to upgrade my houses 8 family computers". I feel sorry for MS now... even when they do something nice, they're still wrong.

Comparisons to Snow Leopard are particularly unfair... If you don't pay the full price for Snow Leopard, you paid the full price for Leopard! How is that actually cheaper again?

Not to mention the fact that Apple can freely move costs among its hardware and software because they're selling all of it, for example charging more for RAM and less for OS X. MS has to make the money on its software.

-- A happy XP user since 2001, who supports and can use any other newer operating system, but likes XP.
I'm going to look through the Apple sample code and see if I can find an example that changes orientation properly.

So far none of the sample code apps that I have found rotate. Once I find one that does I'll be able to check the code and see how it is done.
No, I use those keys and I have a mouse for a reason. The number/arrow keys are actually why I'm using the old style Apple Bluetooth keyboards as the new ones don't have them (but the wired ones do, frustrating).
Just wanted to say thanks for the comments. We've worked hard on this, and there's obviously still a ways to go....but we definitely appreciate the constructive criticism, and the time taken to reply.

jack
Windows 7: cheap prices but painful upgrade for EU
Hmmm... would it really be that hard to automatically do (most of) the extraction of text constants?
>MS has to make the money on its software.

MS makes it's money on server and Office licenses. Profit on retail sales of Windows are minimal
Polymorphism. I knew just saying "inheritance" didn't feel right. Thanks.
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They already exist. I performed extensive research and came up with exactly what you want:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wireless+keyboard+trackpad
There's also biphasic -- 4 hours + 4 hours, but you could probably comfortably spread the two sessions out across 28 hours however you want
Well actually I think I made a valid point, I just put in that quip at the end because I thought it was relevant commentary. I basically said there are less expensive alternatives that I believe are better, and yes I do realize my zealotry is slightly naive and/or ridiculous out of context but is entirely relevant in regard to pricing of said operating system.
calambrac gets it right: 'dispatch'. I though the article was going to be about pattern matching, actually. I guess polymorphism is a sort of pattern matching, but the real thing goes farther.
No one's life accommodates that sleeping schedule - which is why we don't naturally sleep like that.
Right, I forgot to add "authority figure".

Among my friends, we call those dangerous old men as having "Old Man Powers". Having had a day to think this over, I'm not sure "authority figure" would be the right attitude either. Even though I'm nearing 30, the demonstration of old man powers still awe me, however, "authority figures" whom I have little or no respect for (the man, not the office) inspires disgust or contempt. I like Neal Stepheson's description the best -- every teenage (boy) grows up wanting to be a badass.

I think someone suggested creating a program for this. Although it would give violent teengers of apprenticeship age a chance to integrate into society, that is only the symptom. A more complete solution would be people reading here -- me personally, you personally -- to acquire badass skills and cultivate them in the teenage apprentices, regardless of whether they are likely to be violent or not. Instead of waiting for a far-off government administration to get the genetic testing in place and create special training camps, do what you can do in the local environment. Lend some time to Boy Scouts or Venturing Crew. Or just demonstrate some badass skill to neighborhood teenagers, saying, "Hey. Check this out."
If they set an extremely low price or even gave away Windows, would that not make Office seem more expensive by comparison?
Are you sure Microsoft doesn't know this? I would imagine that the vast majority of Outlook users are corporate users. In this case Word is a better choice.
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I personally don't mind the full number pad; it comes in handy when entering a set of numbers. However, if you're on Windows, you can also use the number pad as a way to control your cursor: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Use-Mousekeys---Move-...

It isn't exactly a trackpad, but it works.
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This is a joke, right? They're making fun of all the programs you see that have 20 different forests of tiny classes spreading the logic of one function across 45 files, right?
I type large numbers of numbers with the numeric keypad, and I absolutely hate having a numeric keypad stuck on the right of my keyboard. It gets in the way of my mouse, and it makes me move my unnaturally far to the right of my desk in order to center the text keys in front of my monitor.

I find that a keypadless Apple keyboard with a separate (moveable!) USB numeric keypad is perfect.

If the wireless mighty mouse were illegal, then I'd use a trackpad affixed to the keyboard, but only if it were affixed below the spacebar; never to the right.
I would like a trackpad like the one on the new MacBook. You could even print it with a numeric keypad and make it dual-use. I like using a keypad for entry, but I only need that occasionally. A trackpad would be more useful. Even better: also replace the arrow/delete/home/end cluster with trackpad gestures, or trackpad + special lefthand key. This would make it much more convenient to my right hand and save space.
use instapaper.com If you really think it's great, find it on searchyc.com then upvote. For me, it's fine that I got to read it instead of upvoting. Besides, if you can't find it on the front page after you saw it there, your one vote can't make it raise anyway.
Presumably this isn't an issue if you encrypt using AES/CBC then add a MAC to the encrypted data?
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Honestly, I think the main reason why Snow Leopard is so cheap is due to the fact that Apple wants to reduce support costs for old versions of OSX. By lowering the price for the newest version, pretty much every Mac user is going to be running the exact same version, significantly lowering the support costs for old versions.
Hey I wasnt saying it was a bad thing - I was trying to sound impressed.

Anyway, mostly his post just sounds like over-eager "they sold it to me" stuff :) just what I took away.

The Iphone is a fantastic product. That doesnt matter in the slightest (it really doesnt, welcome to sales :)). What does is that Apple knew their market, played the product into it and pushed all the right buttons in the right sequence. It's an exercise in how to launch and maintain a product :)
Computers are quite central to everyone's lives, and still, 98% of people 'tolerate' Windows and OSX...

Plus, cellphones are much more seen as appliances than 'computers' (at least today). As they get smarter, so do videogames, DVRs and other appliances - and still, there's no rush for making any of those electronics 'open source', nor claims for intolerance.

Android has an edge since the company behind it knows how to make software - I'm not convinced, though, it would be any different if Google did it all closed-source...
Keep it Simple and Scalable.
Looks like you are talking about on a desktop keyboard. If that is the case, no I wouldn't want to have a trackpad instead of my numberpad (even though I don't use the numberpad much).

However, I had this discussion with a friend a few months ago when he was trying to decide what laptop to buy. He couldn't decide between two models because one had a number pad, and the other didn't.

If laptop makers would merge the two, that could be interesting. Something like hold the function key, and your trackpad becomes your number pad. Sure you don't get keypress feedback, but it's better than having all your numbers across the top row.