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I've never seen figures for 2k/XP, but here are some for Vista from when it was relatively new: http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2008/03/vista-capable-l...
It reminds me of Neil Gaiman's short story "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale", which also features a killer and would-be client meeting in a bar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Get_Them_For_You_Wholesa...
Now that Verizon will have a serious marketing launch of a phone designed for Android in November, things could get interesting.
Does that even matter? People always point to how many new OS purchases were via new machine buys but hasn't that always been the case? And even if it weren't does it matter how the OS gets on the machine? What's the distribution among Mac users, is the upgrade rate higher?
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I'm curious to know how this site would look through a pair of 3D glasses.
It's already happening, turn on your TV.
shrug

I'm using Vista as a Media Center PC on an ancient T43 Thinkpad maxed out to a whopping 1.5G RAM. With all the GUI nonsense effects turned off, it runs just fine. Seems about the same as XP. And the Media Center is quite good. (Myth wasn't an option since there were no Linux drivers for my capture card, but I like the Media Center interface better anyway)
Even though the binary submission was not altered, we were forced to re-upload the binary and wait an additional >2 weeks for the next round of review feedback for removing ONE sentence from the description.

This smacks of the sort of bureaucratic mediocrity which Steve Jobs should hate and have hunted down, quickly and without mercy. It's exactly the sort of big company rot that slows a big company down.
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An open BarCamp style event that will explore topics related to the rise of the Social Web. How does it all fit together? debate/hack/plan/collaborate!

Imagine a world where everybody could participate easily in a distributed yet secure social web. In such a world every individual will control their own information, and every business could enter into a conversation with customers, researchers, government agencies and partners as easily as they can now start a conversation with someone on Facebook. What is needed to go in the direction of The Internet of Subjects Manifesto? What existing technologies can we build on? What is missing? What could the W3C contribute? What could others do?
The article listed at least one thing -- compatibility with older Windows versions -- that isn't part of every version of Windows 7.

I hate this kind of marketing soup: nobody knows what Windows 7 will really be like, because articles and commercials can claim anything that's in the $399 version. It's time for someone to upgrade a 10-year-old-laptop after spending $100 on the cheapest version of Windows 7, and write an article about that "Windows 7".
The right way is to use my site, http://www.launchly.com.

I created launchly for this specific reason as a result of not being able to get good "additional rounds" of feedback here on HackerNews.
Ask HN: Please Re-Review My Webapp
Site: http://www.celebsutra.com

Previous Review:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=869803

New since last review:

Top celebs by twitter activity and followers, Pictures shared by celebs are easily browseable and I think the celeb list was revamped after the previous review.

About:
Celebsutra aggregates tweets by celebrities. This a side project I was working on for fun

Design is by a friend of mine: http://sandosh.info/v2/pages/home/

Thanks in advance for spending your time on reviewing the site. :)
If I could just find out about this about an hour earlier :D (Shameless plug: http://appsto.re/splitmyballs)
Clickable links

http://www.celebsutra.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=869803

The image browser can become popular is my hunch.

http://www.celebsutra.com/celebs/pictures
If God doesn't exist, it's not worth arguing Him. It's like asking if God can make a boulder so heavy He Himself cannot lift it. It's a worthwhile debate if omnipotence exists, but it doesn't, so the argument is moot.
> Contrary to what Sachin claims, there is no export function, and the read API has a limitation of 50

bah, that's based on the 'num_posts' param. But there is also an optional 'page' param right underneath the bit he is complaining about. You just have to make multiple calls to get them all out. Not such a big deal if you're used to using search based API's.

Doesn't look like author read the doc very closely.
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We've "grown" a lot as a startup through out AlphaLab. We've also learned a whole lot during AlphaLab and Demo day itself has definitely brought us a good amount of interests and leads. If I get around to it, I plan to write a blog post on our demo day experience, what went right, what went wrong, etc.
I'm coming from Chile and I'll be staying in the Bay Area (not sure where yet) until the 30th. I'd be happy to meet anybody who's up for coffee or beer (probably SF would be the best place to meet).

I look forward to seeing you all at startup school. Cheers!
Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you fall in the "videophile" category. My wife doesn't usually notice the difference between fuzzy broadcast SD and 1080 HD unless I point it out -- let alone the difference between upconverted DVD and blu-ray.

> But, if you have a big PC and big needs from your apps, you may have a reason to upgrade.

I upgraded to Vista on my old laptop because I wanted the new Media Center, however my work PC qualifies as a "big PC with big needs" and it's doing just fine on XP.
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Because Vista requires at least 2GB of memory and/or a complete machine upgrade. When it came out virtually no one (other than gamer geeks) had a machine capable of running it. The press was so bad that few wanted to.

Even now I see machines with only 1GB of memory and Vista, and I have seen friends of mine sold laptops from reputable companies like HP with only 1GB of memory. Those machines do not work in any way shape or form how a new machine in 2009 should work.

And then there is netbooks which can really only run XP partly because they only come with 1GB of memory.

I think this combined with as the article said there is really nothing new in Vista that people really care about. For most people typing facebook.com in somewhere, is all they want from their home PC.
Except if his education somehow make him say "gross!", in which case he would have missed this particular opportunity. (I agree, with you, by the way.)
He did forget Angelfire though
If we were going to make a comparison, we would have to use expected or median pay. People in sales tend to have large variance on their paychecks.
"Reverse SEO." Great! I was wondering what to call it - I've co-oped your name into the title.
"We continue to make steady progress, and we hope to be able to begin restoring"...

What does that even mean, Microsoft? If you haven't begun restoring, after saying you could, what are you making progress on?
In my opinion the picture browser should be your homepage with a twitter stream running off in one column. Then people could click in to the twitter streams they were interested in.

This is just a guess of course, but I've always felt like people like pictures over text, especially when it comes to celebrities.

(For the record, I am almost assuredly not your target market; I have no idea who most of these people are with the exception of the politicians.)
Where in SF?
I went to Cal. I recommend Jupiter which is a local brewery pizza restaurant in Berkeley that serves great hefs. It was one of my fave places to go.

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=jupiter%27s&ns=1...
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Sure, and that's a growing problem. But 500 identical or nearly identical ads for fake viagara? I'd bet good money there's nobody pasting that into boxes over and over again.
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yawn. dude confuses introvert/extrovert dichotomy with male/female dichotomy, complains about trashy pop-culture.
XP is better than Vista. People usually only want to upgrade to better.

Looky - it took me only two sentences to answer what you couldn't in a whole blog of nonsense.
If you like colorful-data you'll really like

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
That doesn't make it a good idea. :)

It's such a bad fit because your keys will be spread across other nodes in the cluster. Even appengine datastore, which doesn't go nearly all the way towards full sql and still emphasizes denormalization, has latency commonly in 100s of ms.
I don't quite follow -- I thought a nofollow link doesn't enter into the search algorithm at all?
I am one of the founders behind appsto.re. The analytics appsto.re is providing focuses on sales conversions per click for iPhone apps. Bit.ly does not do this. Bit.ly will give you referral sources but does not provide any transparency into what happens when someone lands on your iTunes app page, appsto.re analytics can tell you if a click actually converted into a sale.

I hope this answers your question.
Is there a way to find out for any given domain how many actual servers hand out responses to other DNS servers to hold in their caches?
I'd love to be a king, my wife would love to be rich :-) But she supports me in my quest for the crown.
And on top of that:

- Sign up for your own affiliate account
- Link to your apps with that affiliate link
- ???
- Profit!
Don't forget that SCO was a publicly traded company.

According to my (admittedly fuzzy) memory they were trading somewhere around $12 a share when the "be as evil as possible" plan was unveiled.
Because it only offers a marginal improvement of XP

Contrast this with Apple. They seem to have realized this and they have been putting things in recent OS releases that are truly useful and nifty. (Spotlight, Time Machine, Quick Look, to name a few.)
Microsoft is forced to price Windows higher than OSX, because their product is the actual OS, whereas Apple makes their money on the hardware.
Unfortunately, like google, apple has never been big on customer service, of which this is a sort.
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this is one of the most beautiful things I have seen on the web so far and it is one of the things I would point to if I had to explain why coding can really be art.

Congratulations to whoever made it: You made my day.
I've talked with a philosophy professor about this. She doesn't see a dividing line between "modern technology" and "natural living." An "addiction" to a Blackberry or iPhone is no more unnatural than a dependence on indoor plumbing or grocery stores. Even language itself is a communication technology; no myth of a noble savage should convince us to give up real, material benefits like instant research on any subject from anywhere, or never getting lost.
I think you're missing an opportunity. Every language can benefit from more users, especially fledgling ones like Clojure.

The problem is that Python, Ruby and Lisp developers are likely Clojure's target market... and they know enough to know when things are getting slanted. Like I've said before, I don't think you've got bad intentions, I'm just trying to give you some advice. It's very tough to create a comparison without the illusion of advocacy, so it can't hurt to make sure that you're comparing fairly.
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Flickr's not a backup service, and from the quoted TOS:

> Your photos are not removed from Flickr, only from the list of your photos.

Right. You can't browse your old photos. Links to those photos work, but your list no longer contains them.

Web 2.0 really has spoiled people. If I stop paying AT&T, they cut my iPhone service. If I stop paying for Basecamp, they cut my number of active projects (presumably, haven't checked the actual consequence.)

But if you stop paying for Flickr, they still let you use up all the drive space and bandwidth you want, they just limit the number of photos they list on your account page. This somehow isn't good enough for some folks.
Suppose you discover that you can get nasty illnesses from being exposed to other peoples germs which are spread in their bodily emissions, indeed some of those illnesses can kill.

You then have kids.

Do you defend that truth by instructing them to wash their hands, cover their mouths when they cough, avoid contact with faeces, etc., to stop germs spreading? Or, do you have to wait until that child is old enough to discover germs for themselves?

The Church has always sponsored scientific enquiry as Christians believe that knowing more about the created enables us to know more about the creator.
I found HN via a link on reddit, probably somewhere in the programming subreddit.
You are not limited to developing native apps, in fact, even if you are comfortable in developing in Obj-C, for applications of a certain size using PhoneGap or YUI to make cross-platform WebKit based normal apps is perfectly reasonable.

For apps of significant size or those with performance issues, it is not unreasonable to expect to have to use one native language, such as most game consoles do, or even Android does as pointed out in your link: "If you have performance concerns for your application, it's probably better to use the standard Android SDK (or NDK) where you'll have more control over the system."

Sure you could write a huge app in ASE instead of being restricted to Java, but its not recommended. In the same way you can write a huge app in PhoneGap over Obj-C, but it is not recommended.
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I do wish, instead of "saving" the big banks, we had broken them up and given the chunks to the smaller well run banks. Instead we gave them the money to buyout better run banks.
Hi Timothee, We need to use the affiliate link to provide sales conversion tracking. That is only way you can get transparency into iTunes. I understand your knee jerk reaction but honestly we are just trying to make a useful tool for the development community.

If you really want to do the hard work of getting all the analytics we provide setup your self here is a blog post for you...

http://shanecrawford.org/2009/119/tracking-appstore-conversi...

We have a dedicated group that is going to be adding a bunch more cool features to the appsto.re service. Give us a shot we are here to make the service a valuable tool.
The problem is that 80legs works to a trojan/malware type model - the runtime is installed as a background service on apps like Digsby.

It's fair to say that many people who are using these apps don't know that their machine is being given tasks to work on in the background.

Aside from the unknown bandwidth/cpu/throughput unknowns IMHO there is an ethical question of using this software. From what I can see there is no opt-out other than not to install the software the runtime is bundled with. And that assumes you even know it's being installed.
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Ha, he's going to have to rewrite that opening para for his kids book if he wants to base it on evidence. The evidence no more shows that Earth moves than it shows that it is static, unless you assume that humans and simplicity in our mathematical system is special.
The problem is that packages aren't as useful as they should be; I actually prefer solutions that fall outside of package managers, because I am forced to rebuild from source (without the package manager) more often than I'd like.

For instance, I usually need to ignore packages whenever I can't be root, or when I need more than one version of something at a time. While many packages "can" handle these things, it is often a matter of improperly maintained packages (e.g. RPMs might be relocatable, but not all of them are; it is too flaky to rely on this ability).
We are working on new features everyday. I promise you that the analytics is going to get better and better.
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What an evil devil you are putting the name of one mini-game of a mini-game collection, that shipped as a bonus to an accessory, in YOUR keywords - thereby harvesting all the hard labor done by Nintendo. Outrage! You absolutely deserve to be punished by Apple (which is obviously just doing the job your parents should have done a long time ago!)
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aside of making my head hurt. What should I be seeing there?
I disagree in full.

There's much more than 2k-4k lines in a good javascript library.
You've got years of bug fixing/perfomance improving and months of fixing browser bugs.

For example, try writing your own css selection framework and I guarantee it to be slower ones in prototype/jquery/mootools no matter what. If not in one browser then in another.

You might want to modify your library, but you shouldn't start with bare hands for sure!
If Microsoft had done 10.6, it would be a service pack and would be free. I'm surprised so many people paid $29 for it.

Don't forget 10.6 drops PowerPC support meaning for many users a the price of a 10.6 upgrade is not $29 but $599+ (the price of a mac mini) and Apple were still selling PowerPC macs in 2006.
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Was thinking along the same lines. As you said pictures seem to be far more popular.
How soon before we see this meme evolving to "Every developer deserves more SSDs"?
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But it would serve the reader better then changing the meaning of the answer.

The last election cycle had one too many edits to video that made people look better / worse on both sides. Lord only knows how many quotes in print articles got the same treatment.
linux users tend to upgrade as well.
You're right, but you should be validating with CSS3 instead of CSS2.1:

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%...

The only "error" is the British English way of spelling grey.
Of course. But I meant the source for which he could "win prizes for minimal or beautiful code". AFAIK none of it is legally available to anyone.
If you read HN, you already wrote this in blog post years ago.

Probably without using periods for whitespace.
Namecheap doesn't suck as much as the others I have tried. I like it.
Sorry, but we do want to use actual useful objects (including built-in types) no matter what you'd say.

It's viable, it's useful, it's done, it works.
This doesn't explain all the downgrades to XP people bought, but otherwise summarizes the situation well
No. Other party still has to deliver your order and you enforce the delivery vigorously. The speed and extent of stock price changes is what makes them different.
OK but to clarify, a developer could just create a linkshare URL and then drop those links into bit.ly to track clicks and then conversions on those clicks?

You say you track conversions by source but I assume you have to have 1 URL per source correct? If this is the case you are no different than what I suggest above but you take a 5% cut instead of the developer getting it.
And when we show there is no rational answer that is discoverable ...
Agreed. A Google search of my name (no quotes) brings up...

1) my web site, modestly named after myself
2) my amazon.com profile
3) one of my music albums on cdbaby.com
4) my weblog at MIT
5) my linkedin profile
6) my GNU Savannah profile
7) my photo.net profile
8) my facebook profile

So perhaps getting one's name onto some other more high-profile sites is a decent way to wash out some unwanted history.

Edit: ...whereas a now embarassingly uninformed post that I made to a mailing list in my earlier days on the web doesn't show up until page 10 of Google results. Used to be on the first page.
I think it matters because the OP's thesis is that XP is "good enough" and that Vista's competition is XP, not OS X. If Microsoft allows its HW sluts^H^H^H^H partners to offer a choice between XP and Vista with new machines, Vista sales reflect people choosing Vista. But if Microsoft doesn't allow their partners to sell new machines with XP, the sales numbers appear high but those number don't reflect anything except a large number of people that would have bought XP any ways.

In fact, the numbers are crazy-bad with new machines, because some vendors insisted on the right to sell XP, and Microsoft gave them the right to downgrade Vista machines to XP. So even if a large corporate customer buys 1,000 systems with XP on them, Microsoft records it as 1,000 Vista sales!

I'm interested in sales reflecting choice, but it is not clear to me how Microsoft's accounting practices help us understand that at all.
Interesting.

It would be more useful for me if it displayed only a subset of messages from any one account. Some accounts are very active (e.g. Martha Stewart: http://www.celebsutra.com/tweets/index?profession=Corporate ). I'd like to be able to get a sense of what's happening from a single page.

What is your target audience by the way?
Ain't Android limiting you to Java only, while for iPhone you can develop in any language which can be compliled into ARM ELF object file and linked by ld ? Beside the UI part of course.

I hate developing for iPhone too cause Obj-C is not a language, it is a piece of messy crap! It makes code look like spaghetti. I receive a great pleasure developing for Android, yet Java is far from the language of my choice though it's far better than Obj-C.

PS. What disappoints me about Android is that a simple "hello world" app consumes at least 12MB of RAM because of a running copy of Java/Dalvik VM. Google has to do something about it.
Sorry, single page link here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427306.200-was-our-o...
I assume lacker's point is in reference to the use of the word "Wii" itself, which is clearly a Nintendo trademark. It is not unreasonable that Apple does not want to have an app using a recognizable trademark of another company. And if you read the article, you notice that the reason they were rejected for using Wii, is because Apple felt that it was unrelated to the app, and was used as a keyword to drive search results. (Which was not the case, but from just looking at the keywords is a reasonable response).

The issue the article brings up with Apple is the overall process of such a small issue resulting in an overall 40+ day delay of release due to a poor reviewal process. The article was must less critial of the actual banning of the term "Wii".
I surprised that all browsers still understand the meaning of "gray" as opposed to "grey". Anyway, it's fixed. The CSS validates now.
thats what I havent decided, I dont know SF in the slightest, I just think it should be easy to get there by public transport, and quiet enough to talk
Dang and I thought the 3GB I have on my P4 3Ghz desktop circa 2005 was awesome </sarcasm>. Although I can't complain, I can still run the latest Ubuntu, an XP VM for Outlook and the occasional Word doc, Eclipse and a memory hungry Weblogic/ATG setup. free -m reports I'm only using just over half of that 3GB so I'm doing pretty good. To be on a MacPro with 20GB of RAM...sigh...
This dude seems to have some issues with his sexuality.
The article is not pretending to be economic analysis! It is author's investigative piece on collapses of two huge firms and practices that contributed to them. Economy related, sure, but not an "analysis"!

Naked short selling sounds fraudulent to me, but I'd like to read a intelligent defense of it from supporters of the practice.

So you think it is illegal, but would like to know how would practitioners justify it? Kinda perverse, like asking rapist how would (s)he defend rape.

Here's standard Naked Shorts' defense: it provides liquidity and makes markets more efficient.