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People actually still use ISP provided email in 2012? Really?

"Sucking the profit" out of an industry is something that happens when you're undercutting everyone on price, driving prices down and reducing overall profits. Apple products arent exactly known for being cheap, so i think it's a stretch to say they're sucking the profit out of the industry; if anything they're conditioning consumers to pay more for a phone than they otherwise would.

They fact they are able to sell a lot of units at those healthy profit margins while competitors struggle to sell cheaper devices at razor thin profit margins (leading to revenue breakdown chart like you linked to) does not lend to them "sucking the profit out of the phone industry", it's them showing everyone else you dont need to peddle cheap crap because customers are happy to pay more for something that doesnt suck.

There are actually two dates associated with each commit. I cat recall the names for them off he top of my head but they're basically created_at and modified_at, and the modified_at ones will be chronological after a rebase.

No need to make a new branch, just look in git-reflog and pick out the sha you want to reset --hard back too

"Now these content creators have to worry about their clients on Linux platform."

The sort of content creators who care about this (ie good ones) already had to worry about the tens of millions of ios devices out there. Linux is barely a blip on the content consumption radar

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Comparing reading a dictionary definition to an encyclopedia entry, and complaining that the encyclopedia had more detail? Perhaps it'd be a fairer comparison if you compared reading the first paragraph of the wikipedia article to the dictionary definition

Not having automated test covering a piece of code does not imply that it's untested at the time it's written, but it sure as hell implies that it's not getting tested when seemingly unrelated feature X gets refactored and unknowingly breaks it.

Tests are only marginally important at the time you're writing the code they test. The real value comes months later when something else causes the test to fail, and now you a: know the code is broken, and b: have a clear specification what what that code was supposed to do.

You sound like someone who's never dealt with a blackspot on their credit history (as an aside, never leave bills in your name when you move out, trusting your ex-housemates not to be douchebags).

It's not about not being able to borrow, it's about companies refusing to accept your business because you're a "risk", even when you offer to pay out the entire contract up front to show you're good for the money. It's a fucking pain in the ass

Too bad for IE users. They've said they're redoing it to given users of modern browsers the best experience, and if you use a crap browser you just get full page loads. /#!'s are getting kicked to the curb

I stand corrected, I hadn't thought about js requests

It's not an issue because web browsers only support GET and POST. Rails works around this by including a hidden field "_method" which contains the method the server should treat the request as.

It's shocking that the USA is so far behind in this respect. Here in Australia we are probably 10 years from getting anything like square, but we've had simple bank to bank transfers between individuals for as long as I can remember. I'm always amused when I hear about people _still_ using cheques, I'm 29 and they were dead here before I left high school

iBooks has full text search, My kindle appears to as well although I think it might work off a prebuilt index

Definitely agree about the poor quality publishers dump for sale

As a counterpoint, I find myself thoroughly drained after any meeting that goes for an hour or more. Put me in a two hour meeting first thing in the morning and I'm not going to produce anything useful that day; I'll pretty much be zombified for the rest of the day.

I figure it comes down to extroverts (recharged by interacting with others) vs introverts (drained by interacting with others).

It backgrounds the running process. Type 'fg' to bring it back to the foreground. This isn't actually a vim thing, it's a shell thing

Boxer + GOG.com = retro heaven. It's just a shame you need a windows pc to get the GOG installer to extract the setup installers

Spotlight could save you that frustration already.

I think you missed it. Mike said he ran PAX, the guy didn't recognize the name and started tying to name drop and claiming he'd get a booth if he wanted one. When the penny dropped that mike == gabe, and there's no way they'll be at PAX if he doesn't want them there, the penny drops and his tone changes

Maybe because they struggled to run iOS 4 usably?

Can you name a handset that received official software updates for longer than the iPhone 3G? Seems odd to attack what is probably the longest officially supported phone yet... Sounds like axe grinding to me

Add more than one physical screen you'll see lion's fullscreen mode completely wastes the extra screens by blanking them out with that grey crosshatching. very lame if you have 3 screens

If I read that without having read the original my eyes would glaze over with buzzword overload. So much lost information in the "generic" (or more correctly, vague) form. This is the sort of stuff I'd expect in a sales pitch, where I'm barely any better informed after having heard it, even for someone with domain knowledge in the area.

The original however is packed with specifics, most of which can be looked up if you're unfamiliar with (for instance I had no idea what NLTK was, but a single google search informs me it's a toolkit for natural language processing). They're not buzzwords, they're product names. It's clear and concise to someone with the domain knowledge.

I went the opposite way and dumped windows and started telling people I had no idea how it worked anymore (Vista was a blessing, moving everything around into new places :P) which reduced my tech support to pretty much nothing.

Now whenever a novice asks for advice on what computer they should buy, I point them towards a Mac. For the most part, people just dont have problems; but when they do I tell them to go in to the genius bar so I _still_ dont have to do tech support. I offer advice, Apple handles support. Wins all round from my perspective!

Maybe not "as it comes" but even if you dont have iBooks, the "Open in.." menu will show any app that support the filetype. I can open pdf email attachments in iBooks, GoodReader, Dropbox or TabToolKit.

well they obviously restrict our freedom to use their software without paying, which we should all be entitled to do

/sarcasm

Wow, I heard it was so bad that they pulled it, it must have really stank before cause its still terrible now. Horrid black colour scheme (aka 90's teenage webpage scheme), slow, unresponsive, menus flow past the edge of the screen.

This doesn't really sell me if they're trying to show me what I'm missing by not using android.

Take a step back from being the author of this article, take a deep breath, and read through the whole of this comments page and try to get a feeling for the big picture.

From an non-vested point of view, I see an article presenting a point of view, 95% of comments disagreeing with the article, and the remaining 5% are you telling them they're wrong.

It feels like you've got a bit of an axe to grind. You've said your piece, now it's time to just accept that not everyone (or in fact most hacker news readers this morning) agrees with you

Wow, first time I've ever heard someone say that. Most people I know think XML is horrid to read, myself included. I'd take json or yaml over XML any day

I havent tried Vundle, but looking at their github the search and installation stuff looks pretty cool. I'll probably stick with Pathogen though since it's already setup and working.

I just feel really bad for anyone who hasn't started using a plugin-manager with vim, and think it's crazy that this functionality isn't built in yet. Smooshing everything in together in ~/.vim was/is so archaic

I love vim to bits, but can't believe that plugins are still such a mess. Why haven't they just rolled tpope's Pathogen into the standard vim distribution yet?

you shouldnt need to sudo "brew install" commands. if you do, you've messed up the permissions it's setup. there's a part in their faq about why they believe sudo is bad https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/FAQ