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I haven't owned an Apple laptop. I've been using a Gateway (Vista) for a year that has had zero problems. You may be right, since I'm aware (as a musician) how many musicians prefer them.

I did get an iMac in 2005 which had a HD that went flaky in 6 months, and a display which developed (after about a year of use ...for thousands of users) a rash of colorful vertical lines which slowly took over a big chunk of the screen ... a problem which Apple resolutely avoided addressing.

The proprietary nature of Apple (like iPhone's battery) became self-evident to me as a result of two decades' experience. (Maybe you haven't done much hardware-level programming? Try to implement any MIDI before Doug got on board?) From a distance I don't see any reason to think things are different from when I was much closer. I'm staying away.
Also, what's their rate on false positives?

False positives are a killer to the airlines - they don't want to risk losing customers to another flight/airline when there will actually be no delay.

To customers, false positives are likely to be a minor issue though, probably the number of true positives will outweigh occasional false positives.

But without a false positive rate near 0, I can't imagine the airlines themselves being too interested in flightcaster's predictions.
The demos look good, although I think the 12.99 price is going to rule it out, because at least initially its too much to pay in order to use one app.

For such a critical component, youd really want something open source [and free as in beer also]... after all it needs to keep pace rapidly, be rock solid, trusted by all developers, etc.

[EDIT : correction.. Big5Lite is free, not sure what non Lite has. Big5 project is opensource it seems - http://code.google.com/p/big5/]

App developers who use it can compete while adding to this common component - it plays the role of the browser. It just happens to be a browser which gives you access to nice hardware features such as geo location, media library, contacts etc [policed by os].

Here lies the solution for some percentage of apps, between 90.0 and 99.95.
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freebsd.org seems quite hammered already
"But I also don’t think that means there is no room for companies like Adobe and Microsoft that want to see the web be better."

A piece of rhetoric there. It's implied that companies who are pushing for the standardization of web technologies don't want to "see the web be better".

"But it goes beyond features and into another problem with the web: a consistent experience. From browser to browser you’re going to get wildly different implementations of a “standard”"

Flash has a uniform experience, sure: you're either running it on 32-bit x86 Windows, or you're seeing nothing.

"Platform Evangelist for Adobe"

So the guy gets paid to be a flash apologist.
It's technically not mandated, but recommended. Servers need to be able to deal with more anyway, as proxy servers are recommended to open up to 2 * [no of clients] connections to upstream servers.
He seems to have created a lot of games, though. In what way should he scale - then there would be 1000 versions of Civ instead of just 4 by now?

Since I consider games to be works of art: can art even scale, ever? Would 1000 albums by Radiohead be better than 10?
"MI Referral Scheme", multilevel marketing scheme, recently bankrupt founder and a blog hosted on wordpress.com. What else do you want to know? http://millionimpossible.com/coming-soon.asp?page=Success%20... Who wants to be a 399pound guinea pig?
Wouldn't the popularity and success of flash games be a counter argument?

Admittedly not for 3D intensive games. But maybe flash+browser will catch up with 3D. Only a year ago RaphealJS was magic.
Yes, maybe. But I don't have a problem with Wikipedia having that information either. What is wrong with having lists?

This might have made sense in 1900s when Encyclopedias came as huge books where space was extremely limited. But putting in less information (than available) in an Encyclopedia today makes no sense to me. Challenge should be to come up with better information filters so that people get what they are looking for, not limiting information all together.
As I understand it, airlines can get down to a per-seat pricing structure. Look how much we love them for it.

There is a reason why Farecast did so well...
More like a piece of naive proselytizing.
These issues are from Oct 08. I don't know when they were fixed, but touch events and orientation detection work fine in Hahlo (an iPhone web app).
Yes.

There's a few metrics the airlines care about, the most important is leaving the gate on time. But once you're on the plane they can make you sit there for however long it is to sit on the tarmac.

When I was flying constantly for a month, almost all my flights were on time. FlightCaster did predict 2 flights that were to be delayed despite the planes pushing off on time. We just sat on the tarmac, upwards of an hour, before finally taking off.

By the same token, FlightCaster didn't predict the three other flights I was on that was delayed.

Either way, the use case is kind of limited. Even if the prediction is true and given enough warning ahead of time I have no means, and in most cases no need, to switch flights. For business travelers that have the expense accounts to make this work, this is a great tool.
TC write-ups of the last seven batches in order (most recent first):

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/19/silicon-valley-elite-fl...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/18/y-combinator-demo-day-s...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/y-combinators-demo-day-...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/14/y-combinator-demo-day-r...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/16/y-combinator-demo-day-t...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/09/demo-day-y-combinators-...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/09/the-y-combinator-compan...

Keep in mind every batch had a bunch in stealth mode by Demo Day, so you'd have to do a much more in-depth TC scan to nab them all.
We can criticize the delivery.. but given the popularity of the thread, I think the OP is making a valid point.

I have written location-aware iPhone native apps, and if I had an open-source alternative to Big5 then, I probably would have used that.

In my case it would have saved me quite a lot of overhead in terms of moving from Linux to a full mac development platform. Not having to learn a new syntax and api for iPhone might have been handy... and then I would have avoided having to jump through the code-signing hoops that tend to break when you upgrade software versions.

So.. that's quite a bit of overhead for an app which only uses the geo-location feature of the hardware.

I do enjoy the Mac platform, XCode etc. I'm not apple bashing here, but making a comparison.
It doesn't - but one could imagine adding support for raw sockets in the DOM. It's easier to change things at the document level rather than at the discovery and transport level.
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I got (similar to) this as a first impression too (didn't catch the recently bankrupt founder, so thanks for that), but I just thought it was worth putting to the community. I'm still wet behind the ears as an "entrepreneur" and thought there might be someone here who knew of this and/or had some personal experience with them.

One thing that confuses me: when does multilevel marketing become something to avoid? For instance, we recently had contact with whitedotbox.com who have partnered with Yahoo! to offer a pay-per-click search box that can drive revenue for charity and third-sector organisations. This seems all well and good, but it's highly tiered and has affiliate/referal incentives built in. What is the line between a "pyramid scheme" (so to speak) to be avoided, and a method to build in growth?

Might just be being very naive so feel free to kick me into gear ;)
On second thought, I guess you are somewhat right. I don't see how having more articles would hurt, but imagine every single article being 1000 pages long. Google would not help with that.

I still wouldn't consider deleting stuff the best solution to that. It just is a matter of organizing the data better. A hard problem, no doubt. I suppose for the YC example, the list of YC Companies could be a separate article.

Maybe this is also a hint as to what the next search engine after Google could provide. I guess that would be more like what Wolfram Alpha had promised to be.
Cappuccino + regular html served on a dish of clean content negotiation with a side-order of browser sniffing.
Looks very similar to this older framework (only CSS)

http://www.minid.net/iphone/
You're on the right track there. Knowledge about staying healthy and avoiding conflict has helped the most.
Are you tracking who invested the further amounts?

Would you care to share it when your done? I am putting together a wiki/public database of that kind of info (see elsewhere) and finding reliable data is something I haven't had a free week to do yet :D
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I really liked this list, especially all the remote stuff. Though he did make an error: lower nice values get "more favorable scheduling". That's why +10 is default.
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I don't want to sound negative but this is getting ridiculous. The article is about an allegedly easily configurable conference call product, but the title imples some sort of cool, smart code that programmers would be interested in. Surely, the code backing the application is not three lines long but more like measured in tens of thousands.

This is not very different from posting an article with the title "How to solve the halting problem in one line of code" and then have

SuperLibrary.SolveHaltingProblem()

as the code. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Twilio is a great product and that it is very easily configurable or usable, but I think the title is simply misleading. Sorry for the rant but this is getting more and more epidemic on HN.
Doesn't predication usually work this way? "Socrates is a mortal" makes just as much sense as "Socrates is mortal". The former is extensional, the latter intensional.
The program 'unp' will unpack _all_ kinds of archives with one command.
True. I didn't mean that some markets don't support price discrimination, just that customers' perception of it -- if they know it's going on -- is terrible. With airline tickets, people see prices fluctuating over time: lots of bumps but also some apparent connection between the time/effort involved with buying early and a generally better price. Customers seem to be more infuriated if they can easily tell that someone else is getting a better price on the same exact seat at the same exact time. Given the fluctuations and the expectation of fluctuations in airline pricing, there's not much direct comparison going on among airline ticket consumers.
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Mines full of programming feeds mixed with a bunch of other unrelated stuff - might contain something you like. http://38.99.2.122/subscriptions.opml
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The release notes (list of whats new) is not even made yet: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/RELNOTES.HTM
Oh dear, that will induce a nostalgia overload. Though I wish there was a hardcopy of this I could buy at the second-hand bookstore (it was released on a diskette in 1997).
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How does including information prevent me from finding other information? Sure, it makes the "random page" option (which really should have a bias toward popular articles) less interesting, but if you're looking for information on something, the article on it will be the first search result and you can go straight to it ignoring all the other ones. I have never in my life been incovenienced by insignificant articles getting in my way.
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Arguably not a single statement that you have made in your overly hasty post is true.

You can tell from the post times that I spent over an hour (off & on while doing other work) on my post. This article was so absurd that I wanted to make sure I addressed it exactly the way I wanted to (which I did).

Baker was an established and respected computer scientist and iconoclast.

Therefore, everything he ever wrote or said must be true, according to you.

To treat the letter as if it were written yesterday is foolish and disrespectful

No letter that begins with "I had great difficulty in controlling my mirth..." deserves respect. He was begging for rebuttal. I simply complied.

"Flat files" were used often for batch processing.

See there's one of the many differences between sitting in an ivory tower and actually being on the ground doing the work. This was written in 1991, not 1961. Batch processing had long been surpassed by on-line transaction processing. CICS had taken over for batch COBOL, and mini-computers and PCs were always on-line oriented. Dismissing an entire technology because it performed less well in one area of 5% of your processing sounds like something said by someone who doesn't have to do the work and doesn't have a clue how things really work.

Baker was always in demand. No need to compare resumes: you likely would not rank well against him,

My work is my resume. AFAIC, the only thing that matters is delivering results to customers. If I have relational database technology in my back pocket and my competitor doesn't, I'll kick his ass every time. (This is not a judgement on anyone's ability; it's an assessment of the technology under discussion.)

Today network-style databases remain faster by at least an order of magnitude (and sometimes two) than relational databases.

What difference does it make if you lose data integrity? This commonly happens in flat file environments. Doing the wrong thing faster is meaningless. There are many times when RDMS makes much more sense.

My memories are that Oracle's early versions were performance dogs by any standard.

Oracle was a dog. Therefore relational database technology performed a task that didn't need doing. Just like the internet performs a task that doesn't need doing because ie6 is a dog. Right.

PICK was not a relational database. TOTAL was not a relational database.

Let's see. Both had columns, rows, joins, indexes, stored procedures, and triggers. What else did they need, certification by Codd himself?

Your remarks remind me of how so often when an excellent programmer leaves a shop,

Based on OP's original article (the data at hand), he most certainly would not make an excellent programmer in any shop I've ever been in. He sounds like the ivory tower guru who pontificates B.S. while the rest of us got all the work done. Again, the difference between theory and practice.
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It directly speaks to the ease of use issue weather I choose Ubuntu or suse or whatever doesn't really make that much of a difference. Besides the non easy to use distros still exist for the people like the OP who want the added control and added time.
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I'm half expecting someone to post a list of Sid Meier facts now.
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I'm guessing it is more like he uses a lot of arrays and simple structs and the C++ guys want everything in classes, stuff like that.
An actual attempt at a list of "What You Can't Say."
A less timid attempt at such a list: http://tinyurl.com/yfyl83b
Congrats to Jason and the FlightCaster team!
It also depends of the personality, I hope and want to be working with someone who make me feel inadequate like Sid did to the junior designer... It's a great opportunity to learn and compare the result of Sid's work to see what went wrong with the original prototype...

Working in an environment where one never feels inadequate leads to a career stand still. That's what I love about open source too, when I look at the work and productivity of John Resig or Yehuda Katz for example, I feel inadequate but it's also tremendously motivating....
Thanks and a reminder that Dell always advertised on the back of PC Magazine (way before they were big or even medium-sized).
In case you missed it yesterday here is the journal of the designer of Prince of Persia: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=956077

If you only read one entry, this should be it: http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/1988/11/november-12-19...
If you added up all the things that have supposedly "set the industry back by 10 years," the industry would have to have been born before Galileo.
See http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s... for an anecdote about Steve Jobs and the design of the original Macintosh. I've heard variations of this story for other products, too, so I suspect he's got things structured so he has a final veto on any design.
Ask HN: How observant are you?
My wife likes to tell a story about how on Valentine's Day she left a rose on my desk (she's quirky like that) and in order to ensure I saw it, placed my wallet directly behind it. When I went to find my wallet, I reached around the rose, grabbed my wallet, and walked away, completely failing to see the rose. My wife, watching this happen, starts laughing and shaking her head. All I can say is, "What?"

Stuff like that happens all the time.

I thought this was just part of my personality, but it occurred to me that maybe my tendency to be unobservant is correlated with my introversion. I think part of the reason I miss things is because I'm usually so wrapped up in my own thoughts that nothing else grabs my attention.

I'm a stereotypical INTJ on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and, according to polls on HN, a good chunk of you are too.

So, I'm looking for a few more data points: how observant are you and how does it match up with your personality?

Also, is there anything you can do to improve how obeservant you are or is it as much a part of your personality as being an introvert/extrovert is?
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We're almost there, one step removed and we'll have it.

Let's replace 'stupid' for 'greedy'.

Then --> more fool the iPhone users that are paying billions of dollars for average/poor applications that could be replaced by FREE, high quality web apps.

Apple have found a way to make a forture selling what is already freely available - a neat trick.

Isn't it incredible that anybody would pay for a 'dictionary application' these days - whatever the platform?
The question is about whether a photo depicting someone looking happy or having fun precludes the condition of depression, and is in itself a sufficient basis for terminating benefits.

It is no a part of the known clinical attributes of depression that a person must appear unhappy and detached 100% of the time. In fact, I have not known a single depressed person - including those with severe clinical depression - who exhibit such consistency.

In fact, volatility of mood, including extreme variations, is often a key characteristic of whatever it is that depression is. People who suffer from depression often have no problem participating or "blending in" various social gatherings, events, etc. - it's more that in their private world, they are unable to maintain stable emotional equilibrium.

In any case, this is irrelevant. The point is that a photo of someone with a smile on their face on a social networking site does not meet the evidentiary burden required to make decisions with nontrivial political and legal weight such as denying someone insurance coverage.
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Not a surprising list. I agree with some points, and disagree with others. But this:

"6. People believe what they want to believe. Any evidence they possess is an excuse, not a reason."

Seems to pose a bit of self-referential paradox...
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "viable", but the principle structural advantages FreeBSD has are:

1. FreeBSD has system libraries maintained together with the kernel, thereby reducing compatibility issues, and

2. FreeBSD provides stable ABIs and APIs, so if you build some code -- including kernel modules -- on 8.0, it will run without recompiling on future 8.x releases.

Depending on what you're doing, other factors such as the BSD license, the ports tree, and performance (FreeBSD and Linux each win in some areas and lose in others) may also be important considerations.
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The Wall Street Journal is a prestige masthead, but comprises only a minor part of News Corp's print media holdings - so no, I don't even consider it significant in relation to the current Google play: Murdoch has bigger fish to fry.
Additionally, (almost all) Unix filesystems do not fragment under normal use. This is far superior to FAT, which does have this problem, but also means that there's typically no way to defragment them short of recreating them.

A nearly-full disk is not "normal use" in the above sense.
They use some Asterisk. There is also a significant (and well-known) commercial component proprietary to the enhanced voice application services industry, although there are various reasons for which I cannot disclose what it is.
"Better" is very relative, as the sibling poster rightly points out.
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Like choosing Debian over Red Hat, or Solaris over Linux, some people just prefer the way it does things.

You can geek out on millisecond benchmark performance comparisons with FreeBSD vs certain Linux kernels, but really it comes down to preference.

I love its design and have been using it on all my servers (and often my home/dev/laptop) since 1998. But that's just me. No need to try to convince you to do the same.

http://www.google.com/search?q=freebsd+linux+comparison
Here is a 3 minute install video of FreeBSD 7.0:
http://www.installandboot.com/freebsd-70-installvideo/
Nice to follow along while booting a virtualbox.
If you think Michael Jackson was a musical master, you've come to the wrong shop.

Oh, blow me. Michael Jackson was an incredible musician. Have you actually listened to any of his music?

Four decades ago, Time magazine declared "Civilisation" to be TV's "most distinguished (not to mention only new) cultural series" of the year. Those words have a hollow ring today. For years PBS has been trimming back its high-culture programming, partly because it doesn't do well in the ratings and partly, I suspect, because such lofty fare has lost favor with the intellectual elite.

I bet that, decades ago, the quality of AM radio programming declined as it struggled for attention among people (especially younger ones) turning to TV. It shouldn't be surprising that today, TV programming is racing to the bottom.
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