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Interesting piece - reads correct, but I wouldn't count out a company with 3 billion in liquid reserves. Wow. Also, this set my Small Sample Size Alarm off some:

> Bing is off to a remarkably good start. Microsoft has historically had 8% to 9% of the US search market compared to Yahoo!’s 20% and Google’s 65%. Early results show Bing’s share surging as high as 13% of 14% in the three weeks after its introduction. [emphasis added]

Still, interesting read. I actually feel better about Yahoo after reading it - I didn't realize they had that much cash in the bank. That means that barring an epic screwup, they've got at least 5-10 years to develop a new big revenue source. I wouldn't count them out yet, but they do need to develop some new products that make cash.
Why moan? Isn't it a good thing when people get more productive?
Biased much?

Yahoo's so called "razor thin margins" exceed the historic norm for large corporations by nearly 50%.

Any comparison to a company that has yet to (or ever will) make a profit is irrelevant.
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Quite possibly not. We're not talking about styling the marketing website, but the UI of a web app. There probably won't be the right HTML hooks generated for starters, and then making it look like a cappuccino app in one state is well and good, but there are highlights, slides, toggles, and likely a subtly different style of interaction as well.
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Just a short summary:

In Marketing and Strategic Management this effect is called the 9X effect. It stipulates, that you underestimate the power/usefulness of a new product 3 times and overestimate the old product 3 times as well. This means a new product has to be ten times better to be successful.

As you mentioned, underlying to this whole thing is, that most people are change averse and therefore resisting it. Only around five percent of people truly like change (early adopters). All the others have to be forced to use something new.
What is driving Steve Jobs.
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It's the good old Canary Trap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap
Fascinating.

As someone who's been under full anesthesia twice, I can definitely relate to the knotted-stomach feeling... It always seems fine from a distance, but when you're actually sitting in the waiting room or lying on your bed in the corridor, waiting to be put to sleep, it's truly a terrifying experience. "Someone will put me to sleep now and there's a small chance I may not wake up" is what usually goes through my head. It gives me the shivers to think about it even now.

And then you wake up and feel immensely drowsy and this pain thing keeps nagging at the edge of your consciousness (but that's ok, you can get an extra morphine shot and make it go away).

On the whole, I think the conclusion has to be: don't get yourself in situations which will require you to be operated (both of my surgeries were caused by things I had done).
Probably the great products in "Yeah, but they build great products." is the key. And by this I don't want to imply neither that Apple build great products nor that Microsoft build bad products, but a LOT of poeple have this feeling, so...
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I find the mention of obscure debug information where most of the time you can't find line number of Clojure code where the error occurred --- as a big problem.
I suppose that I'm kind of an old fart, because Facebook reminds me powerfully of AOL. They are both walled gardens.

While at one point AOL was powerful and rich enough to purchase Time Warner. AOL still hangs on, a shell of what it once was. The main difference, is that AOL had a clear monetization strategy: it charged its users for access. And, it made craploads of money because it simplified computers and getting online for millions of people.

Facebook does a similar thing. It allows people to do interesting things with their computers without having to worry about the dark and scary bits of the internet.

Us older people remember the devastation that occured when AOL unlocked the gate it's walled garden to let people access the internet at large. It's know as the eternal September. Finally, when AOL's users got tech savvy enough to use the wild internet without AOL's hand holding, they left in droves.

I suspect similar things are going to happen to Facebook users. I could be wrong.
Some were even translated... amazing.
Amen. Burying the details of such a simple policy seems like it is set up by design to confuse the confidence of the consumer. They don't want you to know that you actually own your copy.
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However I am wondering how much time is gained when one needs to custom design is website/web app.

As anyone had success on customizing cappuccino's design in a small time frame? How does it compare to the other frameworks?
I'd love to see a longer list of debug tricks like this. I've for _First Steps in 80286 Assembly_ and understand the theory, but I find it's easier to learn by example.
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It's difficult to take articles like this seriously. This type of "if we covered the entire earth's surface with (wind|solar|biomass|exercise bikes), we could power the entire world" argument is already reduced to absurdity. There's nothing there even to poke fun at.

It's cool that some of these technologies are making progress and all, but really, is there anybody who actually thinks it's a good idea to scale them up to this level? In the name of the environment???
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Thanks for the link. These are great mixes. I signed up for a cloudsound account. :-)

I find that words distract me - I want to sing! - so techno/trance/dance/whatever is great for me to code by because it's mostly repeated rhythm.
I'm a customer, a potential user of duck duck go; he didn't build it out of charity. By making it TERRIBLE, he is alienating me. He also wasted my time.
I was surprised by the amount of cash they have too.

Other than that, it is an entirely incompetent piece:

1) He appears to think that acquisitions can only be paid for with cash.
2) He does not explain why he thinks search is Yahoo's critical business: Carol Bartz does not seem to think it is. She may well be wrong, but he needs to explain why he thinks so.
3) MS may be willing to invest heavily in search, but throwing money at something does not guarantee results.
4) Yahoo can afford deals such as the one MS has made with Verizon - especially as the wording he quotes implies that the payments are being made over a period of years and are likely to be covered by the revenues it generates. If MS is willing to make unprofitable deals to gain share it will make Yahoo weaker in that market, but he gives no evidence of that.
5) Yahoo has huge amounts of traffic, and a lot of good products. Even the search engine is at least on par with Bing.
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Thanks, I've been looking through their website for a while now (extremely interesting) and wondered what their business model is.
When you get "annoyed" by hearing someone's positive tale of rediscovering his love of his work, something's rotten in your life. Anger at other people's happiness is a poisonous thing and you need to find a way to fix that.

"There's a whole lot of people out there who (for example) have kids and can't just get up, quit and spend a year traveling and relaxing and having fun."

Not can't. Won't. Usually for reasons which boil down to being too in love with their precious little middle class lifestyle. Meanwhile, a family of 4 could pack up and live like kings for a year in practically any developing country for 10 grand.
The probability stated in the article is incorrect. I have no idea how the mathematics professor calculated his odds, but they're not correct.

A collision happens any time two seven-digit numbers are identical. They don't both have to be 3511587. They could have just as easily been 3511586, for example.

If the lottery ticket contains a 7-digit number and only the digits 1-9 are allowed, then the probability of a collision is 1 in 9^7, or roughly 1 in 4.8 million.

Of course, I agree with the commenter above who hypothesized that it wasn't truly random chance; the "current time as random seed" sounds awfully likely.
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This would explain the same height, weight, and blood type.
"A git repository can be a completely local undertaking. The whole repository content is stored in a folder named .git in the root of the project folder"

This is one of my favourite things about Git. These days I create local git repos for practically everything I do and basically use them as persistent, super-flexible "undo".

I'm waiting for someone to write a nice text editor which completely integrates this process; I'd be a customer for sure.
You seem to completely ignore the fact that there are environments where speed does not matter, but memory is constrained.
In those environments even Java is prohibited and C/C++ or even assembly is a way to go, because in these languages you have direct control over memory allocation.
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Moral of the story: buy tickets at "weird" times, to maximize your expected utility (assuming the pot is split among all wining-ticket holders).

Same reasoning applies to lotteries where you pick numbers. Avoid primes, patterns, sequences that amount to dates and other magical/folk numbers.
I have worked with GWT quite a bit, and yes, its all CSS for style. But I still haven't found it easy. If you do, and are interested, I would love to hear from you in terms of making something "cappaccino style" in a few days !
How did you set this up? I'm interested to give it a go ;)
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The point is that using posterous removes the added effort that 'blogging' seems to be.

By redefining the problem as email, it's much easier to just sit down and write. For example, I had been thinking of tracking my moods for a very long time. Finally, what I did was sign up for posterous and set up a google calendar reminder. All I now have to do is hit reply and type a couple of lines. It's been working great for two months.
It might be a personal thing, but I never submit anything I've personally written. I leave it to others to figure out if it warrants being on Hacker News.

(in reference to posting stuff from one's own blog lines)
This is a particularly nice editor. Native python plugins, supports textmate snippets and language files, and a really nice look to it. I've been using it for over a year and find it, well, pleasant.

Just a really good user experience, with all the power of python.
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Using a Mac app called "Awaken", though I've heard good things about "Aurora" too.
oh, man. to all the people who say "why would you put up with apple's draconian app store policies?" this article is the answer.
Google Reader is Google's feed reader, and its users can choose to share items that they read. The sharing is/was done by clicking "Share" on relevant items in your feeds, and you could give other people a unique URL (containing random looking characters, possibly just an obfuscation of your username, who knows) and they could check your shared items or even subscribe to them.

People used it for all kinds of things - political news pieces for likeminded friends, some spouses shared raunchy things, some dude even made it part of his business.

One day Google decided that all of your friends should be able to see your shared items. And that your friends are everyone you've ever sent email to from your gmail account. This caused a bit of anguish for a fair few people - family rifts, job issues, etc...

The official workaround was to either unshare the items or delete people from your contacts list. Sometime after that they added the ability to not have everyone you've every contacted be your friend, and now I believe there's an option to opt-in to the feature and then select who gets to see it.

No trace of an apology to anyone, and the thread of angry people in the reader google group basically got admonished for believing that the pseudorandom looking URL that only the user had access to in anyway implied that the data was private. If the shared page was www.google.com/readers/[username] that'd be fair enough I guess.

For some people it was as big a deal as making everyones email readable by any and all, and there wasn't any kind of official response that acknowledged it was a misstep, let alone apologizing.

I figured since it was around a month after the Beacon fiasco at Facebook that they'd decided that an apology would get them bad PR and so they just ignored the upset people. I switched to Bloglines, and I imagine quite a few of the people who were effected by or noticed what happened did as well.
I wonder what kind of tools this covers. Only things like screwdrivers, toothbrushes, or even things like cars?
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And with the number collision likely being caused by a half-baked RNG, this article basically just confirms that journalists have a weak grasp of maths.
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Seriously, I don't think it should be that hard to purge user data, unless it has already been assimilated/linked to other user statistics.
Well, I've at least styled a gwt app to be very similar in a short period of time. Usability was left to the developers.

I think I might have to post a tutorial.
Alcohol can help to fall asleep, but it is known to reduce the quality of sleep.
Yes it does thank you.
Rubbish. We could all, individually, convert to wind power right now and do it quite successfully.

Your problem only exists if we all have to be lumped into a group, together, so someone can sell us shit and control the whole thing.

In short, you clearly wanna sell lemons. There are other ways...
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The New York Times sure is ticked at Apple for leaking Jobs' liver story to the WSJ. Guess we know which is the paper of record, eh?
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I've been in surgery a couple times, and I don't remember the knotted-stomach feeling, or any pain either, really, other than in the area where I was cut up ..

What I do remember is how quickly everything went by .. apparently my operation was 2 hours long, but I remember it going "bink" like that, and I was being wheeled through the hospital in what seemed like a lightning flash of time. Also, the nurses were hot.

But yeah, I'm with you on the don't-get-yourself-in-surgery-situations .. also, gunshot wounds: not funny.
That's Facebook's issue; if you delete your account, photos you've tagged remain tagged, messages you've sent remain in people's inboxes, groups you've created still exist, and so on. Google doesn't have anywhere near that level of linking between users.
I've got far too much work on at the moment but if I get a chance I'll post a tutorial.

What in particular have you found hard?
I have had troubles for years to get up in the morning. Here are some tips I use fix it. It has help me a bit to get up earlier.

- Reduce Caffein intake. the half life of caffein is 6h on average...

- Reduce sugar intake.

- Try to go to bed at a regular time.

- Eat more fruits and vegetables.

- No coffee or tea in the afternoon.

- try to respect sleep cycles.

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Exactly.
Burning stuff is a mature technology and we are plagued with inertia.
Sorry to reply again, but this bugs me. Go to 280slides.com and tell me: what would you say is the hardest part about replicating the style of that site? Keep it specific (e.g. dialog borders or listbox), I'd like to know.

I'm obviously missing something.
One of the potential upsides of global warming that gets little attention is the opportunity for great waves over the formerly-urban reefs along the edges of the risen oceans.
I can't find any major drawback to their free version: just "support non-available". It means that it's hosted on their server, but should be fully functional -- and a good way to test drive the process.

For those of us who might aspire to offer related services, it's also a nice way to experience SN's vision of collaborative software.
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Let me get this straight... an Advisor to Bush - the president who started 2 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and was well on his way to a third. Who reopened gitmo to do unspeakable acts is talking about who should get the Nobel Peace Prize?

Does anyone else see the irony in this?

Not only that, but he thinks it should go to a web company.

What about the many organisations that have done ACTUAL good around the world? You know, the kind that do activities like feeding starving people, providing medical supplies, mediating intense situations.

As far as I can see, all twitter has actively done for the iranian elections was reschedule some downtime, since they would have been operating regardless - that's deserving of a peace prize?

I don't even know where to start on just how idiotic this actually is.
The Zen alarm clock was popular a while back. It basically wakes you up with a series of gradually more frequent chimes.

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I agree that the best option availlable at the moment is nuclear energy.

But what about the thermic solar plants that are currently being built in the deserts of the US and Africa? Those with parabolic mirrors heating the pipes set at their focal point?
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The mileage with meditation will vary. I feel very rested afterwards, and can't sleep for many hours even if I try.
If my housekeeper imagined that her job was only to buy the toilet paper on time I would so fire her ass.
We already have thousand of miles of cables and transformers.

My Aunt and Uncle own a wind power company and they cleverly sited nine turbines next to a coal plant so they would not have to run miles of cables.

These are trivial problems.
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This guy must have been joking.
The fact that HE always types his passwords alone in his office does not mean that any sane person would like a possibility that anyone ever has a chance to see his password. Apparently, some people are not always alone...
Usually this guy's observations are spot on, but this is just wrong. For instance, every time I give a presentation I usually have to login to a secure site. I'm almost always plugged into an overhead projector while I'm logging in.

So, not only is this guy suggesting websites change their technology, he's also suggesting users modify their behavior to be more secure.

Not going to happen.
Isn't there also a thing that password form fields can't be read by Javascript?
I foresee issues around the longevity of mirrors in sandstorms.
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First, check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome

If it applies, then a change in career is probably best. I'm happy freelancing anyways :) Probably the most interesting thing to take out of this is that being tired will not help you get to sleep earlier - but being rested will.

Other than that, I now use black tea as a caffeine source (only two cups, at the time of day I'm most likely to be drowsy), put a couple variators instead of light switches to be able to dim the lights, use f.lux on my comp and don't read in bed. It works pretty well.
This site date representation is really not user friendly. At first I thought "Jul 13" is a schedule for near future, but after clicking it video showed up. Comments are marked "48 weeks ago", so after some calculations I could finally confirm it's from last year.
Let me put that another way.

"Does anybody think it's a good idea to depend entirely on a finite resource that can only be used once and also smells?"
Legions of itinerant mirror polishers.
Nope, they can be - it's how things like SuperGenPass work. (Highly recommended btw)
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Yes, good luck to anyone in (a) an open-plan office or (b) an office with security cameras.
This guy is just completely detached from real world...
Combine this with the "remember password" feature of most browsers, and you have a real problem.
Ummm.... Nagios?