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His point is not only that web apps are inferior. His point is that web apps are not good enough. Case in point:

TechCrunch goes on to report: "Don’t worry about those desktop apps you think you need. Office? Meh. You’ve got Zoho and Google Apps. You won’t miss Office."

Ah, yes. Corporate IT workers everywhere have to port decades of esoteric business logic codified into Excel macros to Google Spreadsheets, but the real problem is, what are they going to do after lunch? Have you ever tried to use Google Docs for any serious task? In the words of a true hacker, it's like trying to build a bookcase out of mashed potatoes. The Microsoft Office institution will not easily be overthrown by a bunch of jokers writing JavaScript.

Web apps may be disruptive, but that doesn't make them more useful or more likely to take off.
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Those are games(albeit annoying ones) I do recognize. That million dollars in ad revenue they spent on myspace ads paid off!
"Rumors are going around of Zynga supposedly doing something around 100MM in revenue this year--that's huge. Whether or not the rumor is entirely true is beside the point - something is definitely going on."

It's a rumor, not a fact and that makes a big difference to me.

Also, what is a MM ?
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As we all know, the killer app for 3d printers is twisty puzzles.
Looks like a pretty clean, well designed app. I personally like the big footer.

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Google can get some eyeballs out of the effort by having more Google-apps users so this effort be somewhat self-supporting but more importantly, it serves Google's strategic goals.

Keep in mind that with the web constantly growing and constantly improving, Google doesn't need a new business model - being the entrance to the greatest show on earth will work for a long time now. Google today mostly needs to fend off outside monopolists who would aim to seize the whole thing by taking control of one or another choke-points. And having an OS to challenge MS is important here - even if the OS only takes minority share, keeping MS honest is important. Moreover, if all those other companies don't make monopoly profits, they won't have extra cash to throw at Google.

To get to a Google prompt, a user needs:
1) A PC
2) An operating system
3) A web browser
4) An Internet Connection from an ISP

The OS can potentially control search engine choice. Ditto with the browser and the ISP. Notice that Google has challenged monopolistic behavior in steps 2-4 by now (wireless venture, Chrome, Chrome OS). PC architecture is already mostly open so Google doesn't have to do anything there - but Google does build PCs!
I was wondering if perhaps the drug works because it suppresses the immune system - it would suppress any autoimmune effects presumably - maybe those are important in aging?
"Isn't it ironic that the state as an enforcer of property rights is also a violator of property rights?"

Indeed. I don't see any hope for having a non-state enforcer that's anywhere near as effective though, since there would also be a lot of non-state Robin Hoods running around getting into gun battles with any non-state enforcers.

"Why do you need fiat currencies? Gold has been around as a currency for longer than fiat currencies backed by nothing."

Gold was backed by fiat just as much as paper money. The fact that it's useful for noncorrosive electrical conductors and dental work had nothing to do with its suitability as a currency--it's just as arbitrary as cloth-paper renderings of dead presidents. It is, however, rather difficult to control. This has benefits and drawbacks.

Going back to a gold standard would (in the case of a big country) price gold out of the market for any other purpose. In the case of a small country, anyone could screw you over by selling gold reserves (but even big countries would be vulnerable to this). There are also impacts on lending and other business activities that mean that, in a competitive climate, a deflationary currency would have problems competing.
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Because that's the way CSS/HTML works?
sounds like he would be good on twitter:-)
First of all, I certainly wasn't claiming that you couldn't look up more than one hash key on one line of code, using a function. My point is that you might reasonably want to extend the concept of destructuring further to cover dictionaries, and that macros allow you to extend the language in that way.

Clarity, readability, and comprehensibility are three words that, in programming, mean pretty much the same thing as familiarity. To me, if I weren't looking at the definition of unpack, the above would look weird because I'd think of the Perl function unpack(), which does something very different. unpack(d, keys) above isn't something you'd even write in Clojure because it would be a synonym for (map d keys). Aside from that, it does seem very straightforward, if limited. Clojure does win on generality, because the Clojure version nests, covering sequential data structures at the same time:

user=> (def d {:a {:a1 [1 2 3] :a2 4} :b 5})
#'user/d
user=> (let [{{[_ _ x] :a1} :a, y :b} d]
[x y])
[3 5]

Hashes are the idiomatic general-purpose object in Clojure, so this sort of capability is actually useful in taking apart function arguments.
Interestesing.

There is another company in the same space called PayyAttention.
In stores, I've usually seen parts 1-4 in a single volume.

(Note that these are the Indian LPEs (Low Price Editions) by Prentice Hall India.)
Ask HN:  Is viral marketing effective for sites/apps with high IQ users?
I get the impression that smarter people are less likely to recommend a site/app to their friends.

Is this so in your experience?

If so, what sort of marketing would be effective for high IQ people?
Fuck AT&T.
In the interest of diffusing knowledge - NIN gives away studio recordings for free these days, and that saw the end of me getting $20-$50 a month from casual user visits to our music/merch page (theninhotline.net/features/merch)

Since then, I've changed our merch page around to aggregate eBay searches, and now make about the same from casual viewers as I did when the merch page was Amazon-centric.

I also make $20-$60 a month from tshirt commissions through Goodrock.

I'm certainly not quitting my day job, but I like that this hobby of mine has become self-sustaining.
I agree - it would be very intuitive to go to a "growth rate" category by clicking on one of the little black icons.
There's no credible basis for any of this news about Goldman. Taibbi wrote up a sensationalist piece in Rolling Stone and the other tin-foil caps followed. If this is such big news, why is not reported in the mainstream business publications?

Just as I have said on NewMogul, I am open to solid evidence that claims like this are true, but no one has been able to produce any.
They don't recycle?
MM = mille mille = thousand thousand = 10^6, with roots in finance culture.

I prefer M = mega = 10^6, as in SI units.
I agree. I didn't see Chrysalidocarpus lutescens (Areca Palm), Sansevieria trifasciata (Mother-in-law's Tongue), or Epipremnum aureum (Money Plant) but I'd love to be notified when I can buy them.
please explain what you mean by "controlled" then.
I collect old Transformer toys and already I have begun to see some 3rd parties sell off "unpainted" transformers. I would not be surprised if in 10 years it would be very common for their to be printed addons and or all new toys.
It's fascinating that you refused to give data in your past two posts.

Regarding land, if we used the land used to grow animal feed to grow plants for human consumption we'd get a lot more food. This is clearly more efficient, yet the page you linked to tries to claim the opposite by ignoring facts and building logic on that false basis.
CMD+L TAB might get you there quicker. Just sayin'.
Some points to remember:

1. Until a patent is granted, the applicant has no legal rights under the patent laws (although s/he might have rights under the trade-secret or copyright laws).

(Exception: if any of the claims in a published patent application survives the examination process without amendment, and that claim is infringed, then the patent owner can claim a reasonable royalty going back to the publication date.)

2. The claims of an issued patent are what determine whether the patent is infringed or not.

3. Think of a claim as a multi-part AND statement. If even one claim element is missing from the accused product or process, there's no infringement of that particular claim.

(Exception: A claim can be infringed under the "doctrine of equivalents," even if one claim element is not literally present, if an "equivalent" is present.)

4. Claim A can be infringed without infringing Claim B. (This assumes both A and B are 'independent' claims. On the other hand, if B is 'dependent' on A, then B is deemed to incorporate all of A by reference, therefore you cannot infringe B unless you also infringe A. You can think of a dependent claim as using an #include statement to incorporate the elements of its parent claim.)

(Yes, I'm a lawyer.)
I know little about materials science, but I know that metal grades vary significantly in performance (and cost). Instead of saying, "Any part can be made via a 3d printer," shouldn't it be said that, "Something in the same shape and size of any part can be made using such a printer."? It's not like we can print out a new camshaft and drive the car for 5K miles using it, right?
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On a random sidenote, I remember being at WWDC last year where someone on stage was trying to demo an iPhone app that needed a login...except the login was an Apple ID and well, the password was going to be shown one character at a time to the whole audience. That was a bit of a problem :)

While clearly there needs to be something like that for the iPhone and odds of someone figuring out your password shoulder surfing very slim in most cases regardless, I can't see a downside to there being an 'unmask password' option on non-mobile devices for users who hate that all the passwords are masked (like mentioned above).
He mentions in the article that some of the 3D Printers have the ability to make metal parts using thin steel wires.

Now, of course, Jay Leno has buckets of money to throw around to hire professionals and get professional level equipment, but he's got a point that this stuff is coming down in price all the time and that it is disruptive.

No disrespect to machinists, but getting all the measurements right is non-trivial. Letting people take 3D models, either scanned or CAD'ed and then use sub-millimeter accurate automated tools to create the parts is huge.
Up until now, I did not have a reason to jailbreak my iPhone. Now I have an excuse to l33t up. Thanks, AT&T!
I get the opposite impression: smarter people are more likely to recommend a site/app to their friends, both because they tend to have broader circles of friends and because they like the ego boost that comes from knowing about a site that their friends didn't.

They're just more discriminating: you have to be genuinely useful, because they lose face if they recommend a site and their friends try it out and say "WTF are you telling me about this for? It sucks!" Actually, that applies to people of all IQs, but smarter people are probably more likely to apply the "This sucks" label to a site.
Hmm, good to know. We are hoping to capitalize on special, hard-to-find plants that you won't find at Home Depot or Lowes, so having a wish list definitely might help.

Also, the nurseries don't necessarily list their entire stock, so if they saw a wish list with something they sell but hadn't listed, it might provide a strong incentive to get it up there.

I'll talk it over with the team. Thanks :)
I recall one passage in the book "What the Dormouse Said" mentioned in the article about a company (I'm not sure but I think it was Ampex, by 101 towards San Jose) where a high-level executive actually asked his product managers to take LSD to get new product ideas.
There would be a huge market for things like this. My father collects multiple copies of war toys (things ranging from Micro Machines all the way up to planes with three feet wingspans). He's said that good ones are hard to come by. With a tool like this, he'd probably churn out several copies and spend considerable time detailing each one.
People switch to Dvorak after decades of touch-typing Qwerty. Switching to a different set of keyboard shortcuts should be no problem if you use emacs heavily every day.
Heh, it's also 10 years since I first got into entrepreneurship and realised that running a company was a) fun and b) a decent way to spend one's life. The journey since then has detoured through university, but I was always freelancing on the side. Now I'm running a company "for real" and loving it.
There are some apps that I do recommend quite a lot. But I don't usually send an invite without asking first, and I'd never upload my contacts or let you log into my email to fetch them. I've sold a lot of family and friends on Aardvark and a few on Twitter, usually face to face.

I'm not as likely to invite all my friends to play some stupid game on facebook or send them flair for their myspace page; I'm not above playing with these silly things, but I wouldn't want them spamming me. The difference is that Aardvark and Twitter actually increase the quality of life of the people who use them.

To get high IQ people to virally market your app, it just has to reach a higher standard of quality. It has to actually be worth telling people about.
Ditto.

Sometimes I take a look at other people's code just to see how they implemented something, even if I've already implemented that something in my own code.

Diving into a huge codebase is daunting, but I love reading snippets or small scripts written by other people.
A couple of comments. First, I wonder how the copyright will shape up for this kind of things. When they become ubiquitous, will a Mercedes still be a Mercedes part if it's downloaded? And will you have to pay a licencing fee to use it? Will we see a ground-up reimplemented Open-Mercedes?

Before you think this is science fiction, think about the current market in spare parts. Far too often you have to pay 100+ for a piece of plastic or metal of a certain shape. The moment the price for such parts gets under 100-200, you will actually be able to re-build your car radiator in the service cheaper then ordering it from the producer. Customized and upgraded too, if you want it.

Which will cut into a huge source of income for producers - and open up one for enterprising repair shops. Both industries who care about money and don't shy to show it. It will be interesting.
You miss the point in your second paragraph. If anti-aging research succeeds the way its proponents want it to, old people won't need to retire, they'll be healthy as ever.

The first paragraph .. well, we'll just have to do better with resources, won't we. We need Fusion, basically. And the 3rd world always has population problems. They will have to sort them out themselves. Most developed countries are going backwards in population, so it's not a problem there, assuming we can solve the resources issue.
I can't imagine any other reaction at WWDC, considering that several very shiny new features were available basically everywhere but the US thanks to Ma Bell.
Just select your furniture from a computer and the automated ikea design system will automagically build your furniture infront of you. You could even make slight modifications on the spot.
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Maybe he's right, maybe he's not, but calling people who think differently a bunch of morons isn't what makes his case.
I find reading other code is a great way to learn. I'm working through both Quantlib and GNU Scientific Library to learn numerical methods that can be used in finance. Theory is one thing, but when you see an actual implementation of it, then it becomes much more clear.
I dream of the day where I could potentially have my own audio hardware startup for under a couple grand. Being able to print custom parts would make it so much more viable to make boutique audio equipment, instruments, etc.
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Yes, absolutely they do. But it's not as straightforward as it should be because the aluminum swarf is contaminated with cutting oils and other nasty materials.

All the scrap gets recycled, a typical price for a pound of 'dirty' scrap is $0.09. Contrast that with $.70 for a pound for stock (and more expensive if it is a special grade or shape).
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Hmmm. It costs me $175 bucks to break my contract with AT&T. That's basically 3 months of data tethering fees.

I guess I may be returning to T-Mobile sooner than I'd originally thought. (Assuming this is true and not total speculation).
I really, really hope that the iPhone "officially" opens to other US carriers after the exclusive contract ends.
So according to http://www.facebook.com/ATT?v=app_7146470109, tethering will not be $55 additional per month. I've not seen an official announcement from AT&T (I don't consider appmodo to be "official" and they don't link to anything).

Anybody have an official link?
This is an example of why Ma Bell was broken up in the first place. The monopoly they have on the hardware is clearly being abused by them and the consumer pays the price. I pay this price for phone, data AND Tethering on my Treo with another carrier. The only Reason AT&T can do this is they have the whole market for iphones.
Are you familiar with the work being done at Stanford on music? I saw a special on TV (I think it was on Nova Science Now) about the group. They are doing some interesting things in terms of making new instruments out of things they find sitting around. They also have their own "computer" symphony. Here's a link: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/overview/Overview.html
Usability folks at Apple already thought this problem through and came up with the compromise seen on the iPhone.

jQuery implementation here: http://blog.decaf.de/2009/07/iphone-like-password-fields-usi...
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Guy Kawasaki said it best:

Nobody wants your crappy idea, everyone is already working on their own crappy idea.
I think it depends on where people live. When I see foo.py I think of a Python filename, but I might think differently if I lived in Paraguay.

But outside of country TLDs I haven't really seen much adoption of .name, .biz, .mobi, etc.
Jailbreak isn't necessary for unofficial tethering. There's iPhone mobile configuration profiles floating around to enable that in 3.x. Of course, you do run the risk of AT&T charging you for tethering without a plan.

Sigh, I despise AT&T :(
I do this with my cell phone too. I carry a Skype number that I use on my ipod and call people back on that rather than burn cell minutes. With caller ID on the cell phone it is pretty easy to know if the call is urgent or can wait 20 seconds till I call back on Skype.
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It would be cool to have HTTP proxy software that did this. So you set it as 'ie6' and it looks at your CSS and HTML and translates it into the "ie6 view" with problems annotated.
Yes, those metal parts will then have to be sintered. This works but leaves a fairly brittle piece, nothing you'd want to entrust your life to.

The parts that are being replaced were engineered to a certain spec, you can't just come along with your 3D printer and 'print' a copy of the original shape in a different material than the original and expect it to work long or safe.

I agree that getting all the measurements is non-trivial, but the way to use that data is to then send it to a milling machine to recreate an exact copy (not just shape, also material grade).

Sub millimeter accuracy will not do it for real parts, you'd have to go down to about 0.01 mm for anything beyond the trivial.

Machinists and their gear routinely achieve such accuracies in an enormous variety of materials.

Rapid prototyping, fine. Checking shape for fit, also fine. But to suggest that you can 'print' working parts with the same characteristics as machined parts from a 3D printer after scanning a machined original right now is simply not true, and to suggest that such a one-off is cost effective is really nonsense.

But it quite possibly will be true at some point in the future.

For the future of machining have a look at http://www.emachineshop.com/ , that's what I call disruptive.
I normally wouldn't upvote a comment like this, but I think it concisely illustrates what everyone who reads this submission must feel.

Why can't AT&T et all get it? I would gladly pay on a per GB basis if it was offered on a comparable rate as the 'unlimited' plans. Those plans usually cap you at 5GB to prevent 'abuse' to the network, so you get 5GB for $40/month-ish, or or $8/GB. Is there anyone who wouldn't be willing to pay for a real unlimited plan where this was the rate?

(I'm not sure if any companies are offering such rates. Please let me know if they do.)
Spot on.

That's exactly where this whole article fudges the facts.

You're 'printed' camshaft might even fit but it would explode the moment you tried to crank up your car.

The metal parts that can be made using this process are 'sintered', which is an expensive way of saying that they consist of compressed powder.

Such parts have compressive strength but usually not much tensile strength.
As other people have said, he's mostly using this printer to print molds of the parts. These molds are then used cast the parts out of whatever grade of metal is up to the task.
while a senior in high school myself and my friends took LSD and while it was certainly not lab-grade acid, just street acid, it was a fascinating experience. We repeated it a couple times more and by the end of the third trip, I felt that there was nothing more to learn from it so I stopped. They kept on for a few more years. I read as many books as I could get my hands on from the library, including a fascinating book called "Acid Dreams" which told how LSD was used by the CIA for research into a possible truth serum. While I would not recommend LSD to anyone for recreational purposes now, it is important that we can learn more about how the brain works by having the chance to use LSD as a learning tool. I think it can be used to help people with various disorders, if used by a qualified physician/counselor and in a good safe environment. Cary Grant was an LSD user and he felt it helped him a great deal late in his life.
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Right. That much I got.

The part about "non-solution to a non-problem" refers how the author thought that not only is the interface a non-solution, but that having datasets and visualizations would be useless to lay people (a non-problem).

I was asking the question whether it's really a non-problem. I figured that a nutritional label is a bad example, and that if WA had sports stats or product comparison data, the lay person might be very interesting, hence upgrading WA to a "non-solution to a problem"
It truly has become tiring. I already pay $96/mo for what amounts to a data plan, considering I almost never talk on the phone. And now they want another $55/mo to give me the luxury of maybe getting my money's worth (in some Universe)?

Edit: Even if this turns out to be untrue, "Fuck AT&T" still very much stands.
Port it to what? Ruby? Python? Run it on the cloud?