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Very well. I'm only describing the people I know first-hand whom have said they are perfectly happy with small monitors. They are the same people who previously told me that TN LCDs were perfectly fine, and were content with convex CRTs before that. They didn't understand why I would complain about the low density iPad 2 LCD and didn't appreciate the appeal of high-DPI until they had a iPad 3 (or similar) in their hand.

I am emphatically against the notion of "good enough," and those whom I personally have heard express confusion about the appeal of large monitors have routinely described various technology levels as "good enough."

I don't mean to suggest that everyone who would refuse a large display is definitively a Luddite. Furthermore, I am abusing the definition of Luddite here to mean someone who is satisfied with the status quo.

That said, I cannot relate to the appeal of small monitors whatsoever. It would frustrate me greatly to use a 24" LCD for a whole day of work. All the alt-tabbing, control-tabbing, the loss of context, and window shuffling would get old, quick.

Incidentally, for me, I'd have to sit very close to a 24" LCD to have its edges fade into peripheral vision. I like having my monitors about 2.5 to 3 feet from my eyes. A monitor would need to be 50" or larger for its edges to fade into peripheral vision at ~3 feet.

Something else I really enjoy about large monitors is the ability to zoom in and then sit back further (4 or 5 feet) and relax. I like the flexibility of varying the viewing distance nicely between 1.5 to 5 feet by leaning in or leaning back depending on use-case and my feeling at the moment.
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I think the 'firing' comment was over reverting the commit that fixed the gendered pronouns. I.e. this person changed the pronouns back to the gendered version after the non-gendered ones were committed. That is a bit more than the initial rejection of the patch.
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Why give them the publicity?
Sorry, but you don't seem to be offering anything new here. We know there are large capital costs for hardware businesses. We know network effects exist for phone applications. We know UI performance is a key issue in smartphone adoption (currently).

Maybe "It's Hard To Build A Smartphone In 2013" would be a better title. But to suggest people will be using iPhones and Androids in the year 2050...Yikes. I pray that future doesn't come to pass.
As a natural skeptic, I would question whether this was really written "hours after" 9/11. Were we referring to it as "the 9/11 terrorist attack" just hours after? I don't know.

The Illuminati invoking pyramid icon throws up red flags for me. Maybe there's a more benign reason for it? Maybe he's an antisemitic conspiracy theorist? If not, why would you invite that kind of perception?
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Fair enough - if you enjoy doing it, then it's a hobby and it doesn't matter how much you make. But I certainly wouldn't want to put an entire 7+ (or even 6) figure portfolio in a single stock, or even a handful of them. Say that your analysis is dead-on, but some completely unforeseen event strikes the couple of companies you've invested in. There goes a good chunk of your life savings.

I certainly don't think there's a problem with devoting a small percentage of your portfolio (say 5%) to stock picks, or even a larger percentage split over multiple stocks, if you enjoy doing it. I occasionally do it with 5% too. But with retirement savings, I like to have as many guarantees as possible. By investing globally in index funds, I have as much confidence as possible that unless the world implodes, my savings will grow over the coming decades. If I pick individual stocks, even a decent number of them - holding say 10-15 at a time - and even if I actually AM really good at it, it is entirely feasible that I could lose money in the long term through bad luck alone. So even if I can increase my expected value through stock picking, I also significantly increase my risk.

I find personal finance fascinating too, but I prefer to spend my hobby time studying multifactor investing (regression analysis, etc.) and researching the optimal funds to achieve a moderate small and value tilt, while maintaining low costs and broad diversification.
Ha! :) I wish I had that kind of influence.
Generally tar to tar transfers have a couple more options, one being not to step across file systems, one being to keep symlinks intact (or not), and one being to avoid filling in 'holey' files.

Of course those things might not be true any more, basically I got habituated to using it when I was Sun and it continues to work, so my fingers haven't tried to learn a new pattern.
"Failed to establish a connection to the console. Please reload." is what I'm getting on most hosts I'm running on.
I think many of the author's points are valid, but I do still believe that companies like Blackberry and Nokia can build Android or Windows Mobile phones successfully, as they won't have to deal with a) user inertia from changing to a new OS or b) developing entirely new UI and operating systems.

As far as I can tell, there won't really be any new carriers or any new operating systems, but that doesn't preclude competition in the hardware space.
Have you ever thought of running server-side analytics?
That's a good idea. I think a lot of people have that trepidation about switching to flask. Just a quick "instead of this in django, use this in flask" section would go a long way.

I think there's a great book to be written about scaling codebases that started out as monolithic MVC frameworks (Django, Rails, Struts, etc.) I find Flask's design is heavily informed by the problems that monolithic frameworks create, so it would be a great case study, but it's totally out of scope for an intro to flask, though.
I don't think the technology can be that futuristic if companies are already raising money and have products.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rakeshsharma/2013/11/26/growing-...

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/3d-robotics-raises-30-milli...

Granted the ability to deliver directly to homes may face years of legal issues, like self-driving cars. However, there are plenty of problems that can be solved today by current technology, or products that are 12-24 months out, where you don't need FAA approval, like in agriculture.
All of the technology for Duke Nukem Forever was available. People are just as much of a problem with vaporware products. With the drones, Amazon will have to deal with the tech in various forms, the people problem (shooting them down, capturing them, stealing packages, etc), and the regulatory problem.

Five years is an _eternity_ in Internet Time.
Ah, I appreciate that. When I saw customers I thought it was referring to actual consumers (as a former Blackberry owner, myself).
There used to be a flag for that. Starting in 2006, there was a special "DPI Slider" in Mac OS X that allowed you to set the resolution from 1.0 to 3.0. Each WWDC they claimed that by next year they'd activate it as a user feature, but that never happened. Instead we got retina mode. The reason probably is that they never really got all apps and all use cases to look terrific in all supported scale variants. I remember playing with it a lot from 2007 to 2010 and usually there were always apps (oftentimes even Apple apps, like Textedit) that simply looked awful at 1.3 scale or other variations.
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Yep, I like the way it tells me how long my journey to uni in the morning is going to take.
Assuming the current bitcoin tulip mania keeps going for a while, can't the thief just launder small amounts over a long period of time?

Right now, a small army is attempting to track the thief, but how many will still be doing so in a week, a month, a year? Obviously there is a risk that in a year bitcoins will be worthless, but at current value, couldn't the thief be cashing out $1,000 a day (a single bitcoin) without being traced?
78.75%? That's great news!

I imagined a lot of people would be using mobile and I know that Safari iOS doesn't support SPDY. Does this mean that > 80% of users are browsing on desktops, or is it possible there's a mobile app that's reporting a false user agent?

Or maybe all the iOS users fell victim to waterproof tests...
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I wonder if crime really is as rare at this BBC article suggests: Why is violent crime so rare in Iceland? (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22288564)

Would any negatives of living in Iceland (every country has negative points) be outweighed by this seemingly very safe environment?
I still think it's incredibly dangerous for anyone to follow "default advice". If you have had the luck of having investable savings (most of the world doesn't so consider yourself very lucky), please do yourself a favor and educate yourself on your financial goals and options.
I'm 30 days away from finishing my second attempt at a 365 day photo project[1] (where you take a photo every day for an entire year). Interestingly, everything[2] Ben writes about writing 750 words a day holds true for my project. I suppose I'll have to do a writeup on January 1st after I finish this one and kick off the next one.

1. Process over product

Totally agree. Being absolutely comfortable with the technical fundamentals is far easier if you're not concerned with the quality of your output on a day-to-day basis and—instead—concern yourself with the quality of your output over time. The quality of my output, in general, has increased over time as I've spent more time immersed in the craft.

2. Know why you're [shooting]

I'm shooting because I want to become a better photographer, get better at capturing my artistic vision, and, eventually, get published or shown.

3. Planning always helps

It sure does. There are days (or even weeks) where I realize that it's 11PM and I haven't shot anything for the day. Having a shot list to draw from, along with the occasional planned shoot, helps a lot.

4. There are no good first drafts

To produce my one published photo every day, I'll shoot somewhere between 2 and 800 photos, with the average being about 35. Yesterday, for instance, I had a photo shoot where I shot 813 photos. I'll probably winnow that down to about 30 'selects.'

6. Jerry Seinfeld is Smart

"objects in motion tend to stay in motion"

7. Mix up your [photography]

Yesterday was a self-portrait triptych. The day before that was a dog on a table (always bring your camera!). Shooting different things helps me get better at different types of photography (studio, street, still life, macro, etc etc), but they'll inevitably inform each other in ways I couldn't even imagine until after.

8. Get it done early

Having my daily photo out of the way earlier in the day inevitably makes me feel lighter and more relaxed. It is a strain, even though it's just for fun.

9. The ultimate practice for…

I love shooting studio self portraits. They give me a chance to practice different lighting setups, and (in a lot of cases) fail miserably at it. But, by failing miserably on my own and alone, I have the chance to perfect or totally write off that setup before I try using it on a subject.

10. Prime Yourself

Flickr, 500px, even Instagram. Plus photo blogs, photo books, art galleries, and so on. I spend a significant amount of time looking at others' photography.

[1] In case you're curious: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronbrethorst/sets/72157632426...

[2] #5 is the only 'lesson' that doesn't hold for my project for obvious reasons.
What the fuck is with all the hit pieces today? Who the hell cares what comes about it. It was an interesting little side show.

Guess this is the story that's going to rack up page views for at least the beginning of the week.
More than anything, I’m bothered that the submitter has submitted multiple articles[1] on the same subject. Is HN karma really this important to people?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6836581
This is a big part of it. Also, AMZ knows full well that they are a 900 pound gorilla. Going public with this increases the chances that the problem will be worked on by other companies as well. I see it as a similar move to what James Cameron did for 3D production in the years before he made Avatar. He was very smart about getting the industry to move in that direction so that when the time came, the tech was tested and solid.
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I don't pay enough attention to know, honestly. I know people who invest their own money and put a fair bit of time into it; they seem to survive just fine. But they're either angel investors or long-term value investors, and those don't seem like what you're looking for.

If you just want a hobby, have you considered just doing it as a game? You don't actually have to execute the trades.

If you want to do real money, you might consider whether you think you are prone to a gambling addiction. I've seen some very smart people think they had a great system for beating the market get hooked on the gambling aspect and lose a lot of money. One of them ended up mishandling other people's money; they were lucky to stay out of jail.
The fact that you're a PhD student might help to explain this. My experience is that most people just won't care, but will be reassured by seeing real code in the text. They will skim without understanding, but getting the idea that there is a concrete process being explained.

You (somewhat like me in this instance) will want to understand what's actually happening. For that case the author has in fact provided more detail, relegated to a footnote. You decry this, but you (and I) are in a significant minority in this instance. We want to understand it properly, but I suspect the vast majority or readers won't. Or if they do, not yet.

Your comment is useful, and I will keep it in mind next time I write something. For reference, when I want to tuck away technical details I do it in side-bars so it's there to be read alongside the main text.

Here:

* http://www.solipsys.co.uk/HowHighTheMoon.pdf

* http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheBirthdayParadox.html
Weight them by a power of their age or something like that.
"first time someone has been killed in an armed police operation"

emphasis mine. As much as Iceland seems like a lovely place, I'm sure officers there have killed people in the line of duty before and it's more just the "armed police operation" that represents the difference.
That's not a particularly bad hit/miss ratio. The mid-90s were full of a lot of overheated rhetoric about the massive life-changing applications of the Internet. Skepticism like the points above can be broadly grouped into two types of target.

First, you had claims that the Internet would substantially improve civic engagement, government transparency, education, etc. The results are mixed on this end, mostly because a lot of the claims expected people to be more virtuous than they really are -- that people would 'get up and get involved' if they were only given the necessary access.

Second, you had claims that were essentially impossible with the structure of the Internet as it existed. This is an era where Internet access for most people was extremely slow, expensive dial-up service. Other dial-in information services had existed for decades and had not brought about a revolution. Most of the "wrongs" above only really became wrong after the introduction of always-on broadband, WiFi, cheap data plans, and smartphones, none of which were obviously on the way in 1995.
This doesn't square with several team's assertions that, according to their analytics, their videos had never been viewed by the judges. I wish they (saleforce) had addressed this issue in their response.
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Ask HN: do other developers just ignore all emails from recruiters too?
Whether it's a LinkedIn message or they somehow they got my email, with one exception, I never respond to recruiters. Their emails could be polite, personal, and non-aggressive. Or they could still have template placeholders (ie. "{{their name here}}") and tell me in my first year as a developer that I'm a great fit for a senior engineering role. I just don't respond, because otherwise it'd be hours/week of sending email.

Even if I had a template to respond with, it still would take up time. It's strange to get so many emails from people and never to respond, but to be fair, it's the equivalent of cold calling. Do you guys just ignore it too?
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Absolutely. Index funds reduce the burden, but don't absolve you of making decisions. Asset allocation, as you say, is still hugely important. So is geographical diversification.
Personally, I have found that even in those areas where I find the intellectual position X to be a complete waste of time, it is still well worth my time to engage empathetically with people who strongly believe X.

I am unlikely to have my mind changed, but I am more likely to understand my fellow human beings better than if I just dismiss all people who believe X.
Sounds like a situation where X-Sendfile could help?
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On the other hand – how many other businesses have a guaranteed product/market over an 11-years-into-the-future timeframe?

And keep in mind too – if what they're doing is long-term worthwhile, there'll still need to be people hashing to authenticate the blockchain after the last bitcoin is mined, they'll just be relying entirely on transaction fees to support their work. If there is a "bitcoin economy" in 2015 (and whether or not that's likely is a different discussion), then it's inevitable that participants will overall need to pay sufficient transaction fees to support enough "mining type activity" to maintain ongoing signing of the blockchain.
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Mike Ash did something similar on his Friday Q&A posts: http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-02-22-lets-buil...
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With a bit of tongue-in-cheek...

1. Data networks

It's an open question of using WiFi as the universal carrier - we're not at that point yet; but it's not a question of using existing GSM networks. It's going to be hard for carriers to deny, after some point, minutes to paying customers.

2. The cost of entry - OS, cloud store, apps

This happened time and again. Remember when Linux has appeared on the stage? Seen porting projects, like Wine, PetrOS, Mono? Realize that Android was built not from scratch, at least concerning interfaces? Second time is almost always cheaper - and in our times, by a wide margin.

3. Access to hardware components - need good hardware...

No. I don't care much if the phone is 5 mm or 2 mm thick, 100 g or 250 g heavy - just like a word processor user doesn't care if letter appears on the screen in 10 ms or 90 ms after he hit the keyboard. At some point it becomes irrelevant, and competition shifts elsewhere. See Firefox phone as another example.

4. Retreat to the low end

Yes, you see it. The fact that the product is a commodity doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

5. A disruptive UI

It was surely a pain to switch from sleeky Nokia UI to strange future of IPhone, no? How about Sugar, from One Laptop Per Child project, which was done anew?

6. Be realistic?

I certainly see a point in what you're saying; but don't you see the power of fashion - ones all important things are by default? As soon as changes become unimportant, returns dwindling and defaults good enough, attention goes to other things - a similar thing happened in automotive world, where a lot of customers buy not the functionality, but trendiness.
> Wow, he is nearly totally wrong on every point! :-)
"The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."

Of those three, he was only wrong on the first point.

Archives of facts are very useful, but they do not teach. The internet has changed (and accelerated) the way government delivers talking points to the nation, but it hasn't made anything more egalitarian or democratic.
A few weeks ago I was reading in a local paper (Berliner Morgenpost, I think) about how the police in Berlin had shot an armed person in the leg, thereby succeeding in arresting him without any further injury.

Made me quite happy, because I was reminded of all the Americans who vehemently insist that shoot to kill is the only option ever, even if the person only has a knife.
> so small as "free" 2-day shipping

The speed is not something that can be underestimated. I recently ordered from an online store here in Australia and it's been over a week since I made the order. They haven't even processed the order yet (not the first time this has happened to me).
Interesting. I am crosseyed and I never paid attention to how it plays out with my monitor preferences.
The newest version of Google Analytics eliminates most of the cookie bloat. There's now just a single id cookie that's around 30 bytes or so.

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This thing is all over the web now, and the one constant is that everyone's mocking the stuff he was wrong about but ignoring the stuff he was dead right about.
> "Inadequate" for gaming, yes. Inadequate for computing? Hardly.

How about for watching movies? High framerates would obviously seem very important for gaming, but it's not clear how important they are to movies/shows. Your thoughts?
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Transferables are fast, but they are still a copy operation.
Well, this apparently bothers you, so it must be, right? :)