Joel, I just wanted to say that despite the fact the evidence suggests you are an intelligent person and I know nothing more about your position than the fact you have a puppy, I want to join the horde of people ensuring that we stick our nose in your business to remind you (since nobody else has) that dogs need to be fed rather a lot for optimum health (once every two days just doesn't cut it in my experience). They also require water, and unfortunately despite my best efforts most of the food and water just comes out again several hours later. No, despite what you think you can't seem to just reuse the stuff that comes out. I'm not certain if you were aware of these things so let me call you out in public as someone who doesn't.
...
Jeez, people, lay off with the dog advice already. You don't know enough about the situation to advise meaningfully.
bugs' repeated comments being a perfect case in point. I know this entire subject is hardly HN material, but both myself and the vet sitting beside me would like you all to know that:
bugs repeated advice on exercise would, if applied, make sure that Joel's dog leads a short, uncomfortable life due to the kind of overexercise that compounds the kinds of hip problems that already lead to shortened lives in large breed dogs even when exercised properly. Do NOT overexercise a puppy. Especially a large breed puppy.
That said, don't take advise from the internet. Not even mine. Not even if it is from the vet sitting next to me since, while she may be a vet, this is still the internet. Talk to your own vet about what is right for your dog.
Not to belabor the point, but I know a lot of otherwise intelligent people get working dog breeds without being adequately prepared to handle their need for stimulation and exercise. I care about the welfare of animals and hate to see people get puppies recklessly. It's not "your business" if your choices involve the mistreatment of animals.
I'm happy to hear that Joel knows what he's doing, and apparently has a ridiculously big apartment. :) However, if a comment in this thread makes anyone think twice about getting a husky puppy, then it was worth it IMO. Sorry if those statements come off as nosy, that's not really the intent.
I don't really know all that much about Joel but huskies can behave pretty well indoors with supervision as long as those guidelines are met (exercise and training) but if the apartment is small the exercise is going to have to make up for it in time and amount.
I have had huskies that could and would run for hours on end with no sign of slowing (as they should be able to) and currently have a husky akita mix that takes full reign of five acres.
If you're not passionate about it you're not going to get anything done so you need to "man up" one way or the other (ditch or push). Really think about what you want, if you want this project to get done go at it full spin otherwise leave it and take on an easier or more passionate undertaking.
But isn't shifting into neutral common taught and common knowledge I know my driving instructor, videos, and both my mother and father told me this when I was learning to drive.
You probably just gaze through the headlines about it because to be honest Duck Duck Go isn't very eye grabbing, but there are plenty of articles about it and most of the duck duck go blog postings seem to make it to the front page and there are plenty of comments about it.
Possible. I do tend to skip most startup-related content, because I really don't care. But I have still managed to hear about Bingo Card Creator, Mixergy, and Mibbit.
Apple is really starting to subscribe to the competition is bad for business standpoint and it really is starting to get annoying.
You can see that apple really wants to be the smartphone distributor but they really can only do that two ways: create a cheaper phone or remove the cheaper competing phones from competition
For me I put my support into google I have a droid and like it very much and the iphone on the other hand was not meant for me but this fueding between apple and the tech world makes me not want to support apple.
Well, you know that Apple will be unwilling to make a "cheaper" phone. They are in the 'premium computing device' business—i.e. they'll never sell something perceived as cheap, they'll never cut features in order to get the price down.
I think what we're seeing here is partly a tragic flaw in Steve Jobs's persona. He obviously has an issue when he feels that his innovation has been ripped off. What we may be seeing here is a replay of the 'look and feel' type dispute between Jobs and Gates. Jobs felt that his innovation was simply ripped off by a cheaper, tasteless knockoff (and in a sense he was right). In the end, there was nothing Jobs could do about it. Now he feels like the same thing happened. Just as Jobs had shown Gates his ideas in confidence and was then ripped off, Jobs likely feels the same way about Schmidt--he took Schmidt into his confidence, allowed him to be privy to Jobs's vision, and now Google is producing graceless copies of what he's worked so hard on.
Obviously Google's side of the story may be true—they bought Android and developed it for a long time, well before the iPhone was revealed. Apple doesn't necessarily have a right to prevent other companies from copying touch interfaces and other aspects of the iPhone that were unique when it was first introduced. But if I were Steve Jobs I might feel like the same thing that happened to me in the early '90s is in danger of happening to me again in the late '00s / early '10s. It's one of those fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me situations, and I'm sure it's frustrating for Jobs at a time when he's rightly perceived as being at the top of his game.
While it's nice to build a cool narrative around Steve Jobs and a long time "tragic flaw," this doesn't hold up. Steve Jobs was not at Apple when they sued Microsoft. It was filed in 1988[1], and Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985 [2].
You're right that the lawsuit itself was not Jobs's personal doing, but the acrimonious personal dispute between Jobs and Gates certainly was about 'look and feel' and the perception that Gates knocked off Jobs's innovation. Gates was brought in by Jobs and shown his project in order to get Microsoft on board for Mac software. Then Gates came out with what Jobs thought was an imitation of the Mac UI, an imitation he believed that Gates could only have done by copying what Jobs had shown him.
Jobs's perceptions in that case or in the current case with Schmidt may not be accurate or just, but that doesn't mean they don't play an important psychological role in Apple's current strategy toward HTC, Google, and Microsoft.
while Pirates of Silicon valley was a cool movie, it wasn't exactly a good recount of the whole affair. In fact, Microsoft really mostly took their idea from the same exact place Apple did, Xerox. They even hired many Xerox employees to work on Windows.
Jobs seems incapable of believing that two companies can come up with similar products at the same time. The iPhone did not include any technology not already available elsewhere. It was the package as a whole that made it innovative.
You left out differentiation, which has always been Apple's primary way of competing. Differentiation becomes a lot harder when the competition can simply copy you.
Apple already did differentiation, that's how they became a leader in smartphone products and sales. It took how long for the competition to "copy" Apple? How much has Apple's market share, and market cap, increased since the original iPhone differentiating point? Maybe it's time Apple start differentiating their products again, now that the tech that made them different to begin with is commodity.
What you are suggesting is exactly what has happened: It is called the iPad, with books and periodicals in iTunes to boot. By his own admission, it is the first device to satisfy the ultimate vision of Alan Kay, the father of the modern personal computer. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
The interface potential of this device is enormous. Expect to see a whole new generation of must-have applications taking advantage of multitouch on a larger screen.
Hah! Touche, yeah the closed platform was not his vision at all, but the iPhone dev kit must be good enough he is quoted as saying that a bigger iPhone would constitute a dynabook.
even so, the ipad technology will become a technology that is common as muck in even shorter time it took the industry to mimic and build on the concept of the iphone. what then?
This is the situation patents and IP law where designed to deal with. The real cost of innovation includes all the the failed ideas. When people can wait for a first mover and then copy them there is little to no value in being a first mover.
Perhaps some sort of short term look and feel right with a mandatory licensing agreement might be the best way to deal with this stuff. You can make as many iPhone / iPad knockoffs as you want but you need to pay 10 cents a pop.
Yes, Apple continues to innovate in new areas, but being a leader doesn't seem to be enough for them/Jobs if they are going to attempt to keep their leadership in markets that are becoming a commodity by enforcing patents on what amounts to commodity technologies.
It can actually be a pretty wilily to upset one industry, let everyone spend their time catching up and dealing with it becoming a commodity, while you move on to upset the next industry. Apple is doing that with the iPad, and they still have, and will continue to have, a lead position in the smart phone market letting them have some influence over where that industry is headed, especially with things like the App store and their market penetration. But how much time and effort is it worth looking back at previous industries they've upset while they upset the next industry? Apple has had more success at exploiting their good brand name to enter markets that they wouldn't necessarily have been in and upsetting them, complaining about other companies copying them, after they've already reaped the rewards for their effort (and continue to do so), is not the mark of a true leader.
Apple is really starting to subscribe to the competition is bad for business standpoint.
Competition is bad for any company that seeks to maximize profits. That is just a fact of life. You cannot hope to innovate forever and expect demand to grow or even remain steady for all but a few markets.
A monopoly is bad for the consumer (most of you) but it is definitely good for the company.
To maintain a monopoly in itself would be expensive and not necessarily the way to maximum profits (there is always the threat of outside investors). Innovation of course costs money but if a company remains stagnant (because its profits are unaffected by competition) then it runs the long term risk of becoming obsolete when substitute technology comes onto the market. You could say competition is a short-term cost but non-competition is a long-term disaster.
In Apple's case, though, there's already plenty of tough competition going on.
mhm, but those are GPS receivers only. SFE sells the 'ubertracker' for $325 which is GPS + GSM. You could also whack together a super-cheap prepaid phone ala http://instamapper.com
They should and mactex should basically be the same as texlive as I believe that is what it is created from, if someone wants a gui for the mac I believe http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/ is popular
You could use a password scheme for sites you don't really care much about and stronger separate passwords for important and often used sites.
I do this and it works out well and if you use the important sites enough you will and do remember your strong passwords but for the ones you don't you always can reset your password by email which isn't that inconvenient if you think about how often you are accessing the website that you cannot remember your password.
- they need a lot of exercise everyday (like a few hours)
- they need training (not good couch potato dogs)
- they need high and secure fencing (many will try to escape if left alone and to their own devices and they are master escape artists)