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Personally I prefer the Acer. It allows me to:

a) Not require the work to gain the remaining $1600 meaning more time with my family.

b) Alternatively if it is from money surplus, it allows me to do more activities with my family.

Plus does it help you get from problem A to solution B any better or is that down to your abilities?

The MacBook is an Acer in a pretty box. If you're interested in the box, you lack any real meaning in your life. Real beauty is in the mind.
Anecdote from 1996 in the UK, back when web consultancy was still relatively small, but growing: fma (my employer at the time) bid for one web design job against competition. When we got the job, we learned that our bid was the highest by a factor of two! And we got the job because we were "reassuringly expensive"!

Folks who don't understand a new field will throw money at it because they want a serious professional to hold their hand. As the old 80s aphorism put it, "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"; an executive at an FT100 company, dabbling in the web for the first time, would expect to spend lots of money at the steep start of the learning curve. But once they began to get a clue about how difficult (or easy) the job really was, they'd start to play hardball.

And that's what the early web consultancies didn't understand: they were living on borrowed time, and basing their growth on a commodity that could only scale linearly (web developer/programmer hours).
The reviews on the add-on page look like stupid flames..
I have no problems with Firebug and JS-Debugging or anything else it does. DOM-Inspection on deep nested trees is faster then ever. I love this release.
Microsoft is a disease. Their products are buggy, ill-designed and over-priced.
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You expound an overly romantic view of education, that is completely at odds with the actual practice of learning. There are many things you only learn by repeated application of the same basic principle to a great many 'contrived tasks'.

I wouldn't have been as proficient at arithmetic as I was at age 9, if I hadn't done the same simple "2-digit number times 2-digit number" exercise hundreds of times. You can't possible practice that on 'challenging, related to life' tasks.
at some point we'll realize that we don't need all of what we've got, and we'll start being satisfied with it.

That's called getting old.

The fun of chasing the new is half (or more) the point.
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It would seem that the deal in question offered the same benefit to all shareholders: an exchange of their stock in the company for Amazon stock. IANAL, but I doubt that the fiduciary responsibility includes ensuring that the founders get to keep their brand independent, especially when it makes more financial sense for the shareholders to sell.
The next meetup is this weekend, I think, so if you want to run something like this around DC, that's a good bit of your audience.
Considering how emacs is very old (lots of person decades of development), is focused on niche/advanced text editing, and is built around one of the most praised languages, it's interesting that it doesn't have this.

SubEthaEdit's use of bonjour to fing other computers on the LAN running it is a great advantage. Heck, even MS OneNote has a collaborative edit feature if you give the hostbnames/IPs.
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Thanks - I assumed that I could get the old one back by resubmitting, but it went to my more recent submission instead... oh, I see why: I added a "/" to distinguish the url, and firefox preserved this when I clicked on my link to the story, and thus HN identified it as my submission.
A lot of them looked fine before the piano lacquer abomination. Aluminum is classic, but other variants where OK, too (why not carbon fiber?). I guess there is also experimentation.

Also go for simplicity, I suppose. No fake parts designed to look "high end" in a phony way (kind of like "spoilers" on cars).

To me the utmost example of bad taste is the leather coating ASUS is going for in their latest creations. But then I don't like leather in general.

Just try to remove as many superfluous parts and elements as possible I guess. Just as Apple does - battery covers are superfluous. Mouse buttons are superfluous. Multimedia buttons are superfluous. Shiny areas anywhere but on the display are superfluous. And so on...

Important: large borders around the screen are superfluous and look cheap.

I can't think of a situation where multiple colors would look good (ie notebook cover red, bottom black), but I am not a designer.
Thanks, I hadn't noticed any comments about it actually being a GPL violation, just speculation. Probably added after I'd looked.
Depends on what their code is written. I handed out a lisp binary and an image dump; I update it once every 2 weeks and I send them a single .core file as an attachment.

If you insist on exact version compatibility, I am sure you can dump images from most mainstream dynamic languages or ship intermediate "compiled" object code.

There is also the option of getting them a standlone host and billing them extra for its monthly costs. Failing that, there is always the law.

Most companies just want to improve their business processes and use tools to make them more profitable in their line of work; just think of how much software you use, and see how many of your vendors do you feel like competing with. If anything; quicker money is made from asking the vendor for a reseller license and agree on a partnership and sales commission.
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the battery would not last as long as Apple wants it to

The battery lasts even longer if you turn your phone off. Of course, you have no functionality, but who cares... great battery life!

what if 2 applications receive a notification at the same time? how can this be handled (what if 7 apps at the same time?)

Say hello to my little friend "loop".

there is not enough ram available for apps to stay in memory, and when an app receives a notification it should than be started with this notification

If the app can't handle the notification quickly, then it can be dropped on the floor. This is Google Latitude, not a controller telling your heart when to beat.

Also, handling notifications doesn't require the entire app to be available. When I process emails, the only thing that actually runs is a tiny script to insert a record into the database. The intense processing can happen latter.

In the case of Google Maps, the GPS location is passed in as an argument to a tiny script, which makes one HTTP POST request. If that takes too much memory, then the iPhone really, really sucks.
I agree, I think Apple just wants to make Google look bad here. Latitude works great on Android and Windows Mobile. It's just the iPhone that sucks, "at Apple's request".
I know someone at Google that says it was Apple.
we've been using mixpanel for our facebook apps since launch and it's helped us greatly, and our entire team loves it. even the pm understands the stats without asking questions (which is usually not the case).

understanding how a user uses the application has not only helped us figure out what features the user wants, but also which of those actually WORK (in real time).

love it.
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Nice, I have found EtherPad to be really fast, and if it remains that way I think that's a pretty good advantage.
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That's cool, I'm working on a 'buzz' site as well for the edinburgh festivals, though we're doing some AI magic to pull in crowdsourced reviews and classify them with star ratings. It's jolly good fun, though working with thesps is doing my head in.

(No URL 'cos it ain't finished yet!)
I actually didn't realise just how active the php project is! Got to love stats and graphs from GH.
Ask HN: Does this app exist ?
I sometimes look forward to buying some things that are still a year away from being released. Some of these items are vaporware, others do come out later than advertised, others do come out earlier but it's a different product with similar capabilities but from a competitor. I cannot keep up with all these information though which I am sure is the case for many people.

I am wondering if there is an app somewhere that resemble something like a more intelligent version of Amazon wish list.

For instance, this press release comes out saying that this product will come out in a year. Amazon does not have it, since it is not even on the horizon yet, I'd like to put it on a list of things I'd like to have and then when this product or similar ones, I get to have an email saying where I can buy it.

There are also books that are extremely expensive for instance, yet, I have seen wide fluctuations in prices. If that book were on my wish list, I'd like to put a number that would trigger an e-mail to me if this item shows up on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles or Ebay or else below that price.

The business running this app would definitely have some traction with different vendors so it would seem that is a buck to be made out of setting it up so the service is free or near free to the user.

In short, does this app exist ?
My instant thought is it simply trains a naive Bayes or similar spam classification algorithm on the tweets you label ;)
I post this not to fan the recent flames but rather to point out that there is often a lot of press about FSF extremism and ideology that is somewhat overstated. I was recently referred to "why the GPL rocketed Linux to success" ( http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2006/09/01/#gpl-bsd ), that makes a plausible argument that Linux would not be successful were it not for the GPL.

How many programmers are attracted to more "liberal" licenses because they hope to profit from their efforts in some commercial setting and find those licenses more conducive to that? In fact I believe the GPL bests protects the interests of programmers/hackers. For example anyone who invests time and energy learning and hacking Linux can be assured of finding employment doing that precisely because it it GPL code. It creates a level playing field for all.

Freedom is never free, it always has costs. Linus Torvalds can smugly opine and comment about not being so anti-MS and so forth, yet he chose GPL for Linux and did so again for Git. He made the right choice.
Well, most of the "secret sauce" is wrapped into the algorithms that we've built so I can't say too much. In general, we're able to learn what topics you're interested in via data that we collect through your implicit and explicit actions. (i.e., we're learning about you by watching who you tend to interact with, retweet, what topics you tend to click through on, who you follow, etc.)

We've been building and improving the algorithm for a few months now -- it's certainly got a long way to go still but, on the other hand, it's certainly come along way so far. :)
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We just did a "Review my app" here on HN. http://flooha.com

It's a place where open source developers can upload their add-ons (and apps in the future) and users can add their software to their website just by clicking. We hope to bring a much bigger, immediate, and organized user base to open source developers.
Great article for CSS hacking! Bookmarked.
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Somewhat off-topic now... but I am not a big fan of cl-who; I prefer cxml with the cxml-stp DOM. I started porting my Perl sugar layer over the XML DOM to CL:

http://github.com/jrockway/cl-template-refine

I think I got distracted by something and didn't finish it, though. ;)
Cool, can we use this hosting service to send spam?
http://analytics4i.appspot.com Google Analytics web interface for the iPhone.

Feature list is still very short and I'm having some trouble with OAuth on GAE.
Actually, that's exactly what I did in the early stages of the project. Once I started getting some traction earlier this year, it made sense to start putting some real effort into building a much better engine.

Today, that's still one of the methods we employ but it's certainly not enough to make solid recommendations or wrap IP around... so, I've built a team of people much smarter than me to help take this thing to the next level. :)
Spoke to him last night, he was typing with one hand before it. After it, he could type normally.
I don't think the article was saying that the GPL is the wrong choice, but that focusing completely on the license misses the point. The article was more about the dogmatic stand that certain people within the free software community have taken. Is identi.ca "better" because it uses the GPL but has a closed platform while Twitter uses closed source but has an open platform?
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On the joke front people here seem to take a dim view of anything that might be frippery.
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It's not impossible - many older hackers learned to program in college because computers were inaccessible to the public - but the people who haven't tried to learn on their own are years behind, and (perhaps worse) less curious/motivated/used to teaching themselves.
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I am reminded of Joel Spolsky's observation (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...) that there's no software priced between about $1,000 and $75,000, because anything that costs above $1,000 has to be approved by multiple layers of corporate bureaucracy, which means you need a salesman to schmooze potential customers into giving up that loot, and it's going to cost you $50,000 just to make each sale.

(Joel wrote that five years ago, so I assume the numbers have shifted around a little, and he doesn't really talk about SAAS pricing models. But the general idea is sound.)
the same way every other company in the world does? by engaging with customers, measuring feedback and common sense.

you seem to be confusing permissible with law with the right way for a company to act, whay they did may have been legal, but it was very very obviously wrong, they understand that, everyone else does.

changing the laws to be somewhat sensible would obviously be a better solution, but amazon doesnt have that luxury, so they should strive to be making the best judgement decisions they can.
I think he found someone based upon his last email. I'm also MD based so its not totally convenient, but if he still needs someone to help takeover I could help out.
If one looks at a graph of MS stock from 1986-2000 and compares that to 2000-2009 it shows the stock has basically languished. MS is a cash cow, slowly dying. They were the first and perhaps only company ever able to successfully leverage large network effects and create a proprietary lock-in model that has enabled them to dominate the desktop for a long time. Moreover it's so dominant that the only thing now worse than Office is Google Docs :)

Their business practices, particularly with respect to extortionary illegal contracts with hardware manufacturers were only finally stopped with a government anti-trust suit against them.

Although it may be enticing to spend a few years with a slick point and click IDE such as VisualStudio and pretend you are programming, as anyone who has ever done so knows at some point you run into something broken and it's tough shit because you can't fix it.

But you can relax, you are correct. They were never able to "own" the net and they don't own the pipes (which I've read is the real reason Buffett never invested in MSFT, he's a very long investor).

Please don't think ill of those who lived through those years. About three years ago now I swore off windoze for good and my health has improved considerably. I truly hope others have that same opportunity.

I might be early, I often am, but if you have the stomach for it I'd say MSFT is a good short, even if you like the stock it can be just as profitable on the way down as it was for those on the way up :)
I'm a rather low-tech guy, but does anyone have any experience installing such a Linux setup on a external HD.

I've got no PC (or Intel-based) machine around, but I'd like to be able to set up a local serve for my beginner development projects - using a long-in-tooth (667MHz) PPC Powerbook. And I've got an external (firewire) HD (250GB).

This seem workable to anybody? (I'm between jobs and trying to ramp-up my trial projects.)
I'm wondering what kind of tools you are using for such a fast tempo. Are we headind towards automagically generated web applications?
How is this news - I have those videos in my favorites on youtube for a year at least.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_FGqb0cr1k (with awesome scifi sounds in the background)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVsgSjm_vXg (also a great sound)

I remember reading, when these engines were announced about 15+ years ago, that theoretically they could get us to at least half of the light speed with these engines - and they will. Trouble is that acceleration with them takes time.

In the mean time we have stuff like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9m4d137N1Q (since you made me go to my favorites on youtube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn5odETw3Yc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZGjHeI_hj8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjoY_cSmQ70
A little - tho most of the good ones are taken.
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I find Matt Assay's columns pretty weird. This one, like many others, comes close to being stream of consciousness yet I always feel there is some coherent, yet alien to me, worldview in which it all makes sense.

I mean it's all very well to say that the licence isn't everything and achieving your goals of "freedom" requires a more holistic approach, but to follow that up with using Microsoft as an example of someone who can attract developers? It's a mind-bogglingly obtuse non sequitur.

His closing line:

"So long as it's the customer that takes center stage in the debate, I'm convinced we won't go wrong."

The key word here is "customer".
This sounds like fun. It's the ICFP competition (www.icfpcontest.org) of webapps!
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Dear YC: Please stop downvoting thoughtful comments you disagree with.
When someone has obviously put effort into contributing to the conversation, it's rude to downvote them to negative scores. Most recently, there some major offenders here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=720779

and here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=720215

and here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=720569
No, it was an attempt to implement the Actor model in Lisp. The Actor model isn't what people usually have in mind when someone says OOP - it's more like Erlang or Termite.
You have a point that you can provide a "public performance", but as I understand it (clearly IANAL) that is defined quite strictly and you may show friends and colleagues in a private setting at will.
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I see your point. I'm not familiar with identi.ca, presumably a Twitter competitor, but I'd say the answer is no if by open platform one means the ability for programmers to interact with the service and build value on it. I don't think the GPL had this usage in mind when it was written.
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IMO All the comments on those threads seem fairly downvoted; either for knee jerk inaccuracy, flogging a point or just generally ranting.
EDIT: the FF3.5 one I might agree with - did that get edited in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=721314 I didnt see it the first time?

I think it's wrong to call it rude to downvote them......

EDIT: according to the rules comments like "why was that post downvoted" are discouraged. Just FYI.
"Although it may be enticing to spend a few years with a slick point and click IDE such as VisualStudio and pretend you are programming, as anyone who has ever done so knows at some point you run into something broken and it's tough shit because you can't fix it."

Really? Pretend? Really? That's what you think? I hope what you mean is the potential for over-reliance on wizards, which is easily countered by, oh, I don't know, learning what they're doing so you can accomplish it on your own, just 20-100x slower. Then use the wizard.

I'm sorry to respond to flamebait but I use visualStudio and emacs, compile by pressing a button and using make. As long as you understand what's going on it's all good.

I also think it's strange that in the Linux community there seems to be such a negative vibe around anything that even slightly raises the level of abstraction on the "tooling" side, yet on the languages side it's mostly a good thing, in my eyes they're both just tools, as long as understanding is sound then bring on the productivity boosts, again IMHO.
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It would be nice if you linked to the actual comments that were down voted instead of to article pages with dozens of comments, where, presumably, the reader has to guess which comment you were referring to.
I wouldn't call it laziness. It is often being frugal. You would be surprised at the number of large companies that use stock photos as well. I think you would also be surprised at the amount of stock photography that you have not idea is stock photography, because the designer either manipulated the image or the chose a good photo for the purpose of the page.

I think we are limiting ourselves here in how stock photography can be used.
Multimethods means that a method is dispatched not only on basis of the receveiving object (or read: first argument) but on basis of all arguments. The term is inherently related to OOP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimethod
Many years ago (just as the web was taking off) I was the database guy for a local soccer association. I always liked the idea of abstracting all that out to a general purpose application but never acted on it. Good luck!
It's a trackball, I have the same model. Very comfortable (at least is you don't have any smashed finger).