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Yeah, they are using an annoying tool called onSwipe that is supposed to deliver a delightful experience on the iPad. In reality, it delivers an aggravating experience on the iPad.

I don't know why sites still use them.

I had to switch to the desktop version, repeatedly, until it actually took, then everything worked fine.

It's a destructive process, soooo, you might want to hold out for a while.

Hmm, maybe start with the idea that the world isn't all about what works for you?

A property of the English language? I don't think so. Perhaps you were referring to a dominant tendency English-speaking cultures?

Well, for a start, did you look at any of her other blog posts, or did you just assume that all she does on her blog is complain about oppression and attack men with absurd stereotypes?

Why wouldn't it be an either-or proposition?

It is clear that Apple went to great lengths to fit a 15" retina display to a powerful laptop while maintaining battery-life and trimming over a pound from the weight.

What, concretely, do you think they should have done differently?

That's a rhetorical question, no need to answer it, because any answer you give is going to be pure BS when compared to a product that I can actually drive across town and try (maybe even buy if I get there before their latest shipment sells out).

I wouldn't call the stimulus a top-down approach, and I thin it's greatest "failing" was that there wasn't enough of it, first because no one really appreciated how bad things were, and then because one party decided to put party before country...

Maybe you are too young to remember, but once upon a time, there was this thing called economic growth...

All the things you list are strongly influenced by Moore's law and things with a similar trajectory.

Batteries are on nothing like the same trajectory. I think the average rate of improvement is 10%/year. Not bad, but nothing compared to doubling every 18-24 months.

I suspect that the entry level Retina pro is only as "cheap" as it is because Apple is assure of capturing all the upgrade revenue.

Further, if they were offering an upgradable model in addition to the current retina option, in addition to the existing model, they'd both be more expensive than if only one was offered, because the screen supply is constrained, and with the market split, the volumes on the thin/light model would be lower.

It's kind of lame, but it was clear within weeks after launch that the original iPad was gimped for RAM. Apple manged to make it bearable for a while, but iOS 5 on the original iPad has always been hitchy with a crashy Mobile Safari, so it's no surprise that iOS isn't going to be supported.

You know what? Grapes grow in clusters.

But yeah, I still want Raspberry Pi

And yet, they have all these free apps...

Huh? Sidekick was a well established preexisting brand.

Ahhhh, o-chem, how much I learned. How much I've forgotten...

This is currently the weakest link in the overall Apple experience, and it gets even worse if you want to use, say, Google Contacts and Calendar.

Also, the loss of wetlands is a huge environmental negative in other ways. The oceans are in serious trouble, and that trouble often starts at the margins between land and water.

Also, cheap natural gas is helping fuel recovery of tar sands, which brings its own raft of problems.

I can't speak to Ive's personality in particular, but many product designers view their work as inherently collaborative.

You think that innovation, whatever the hell that is, doesn't require a lot of incremental optimizations?

As has been endlessly observed, the Mac drew heavily on the innovative ideas at Xerox PARC, but it added many refinements, including affordability. Similarly, there were other mp3 players before the iPod, and other smartphones before the iPhone, but part of what set Apple apart was bringing all those capabilities together in a way that was greater than the sum of the parts. That doesn't mean that the parts are unimportant.

Does LXC have a way to control allocations of the RAM based block cache on a container by container basis, or can an very active container end up monopolizing it?

That's fine, but then it also reduces the addressable market for Facebook's advertising offerings.

And lets face it, things don't look good if both GM and an independent business don't have enough of a clue to do a successful FB marketing campaign at this late date.

I suppose I could get a blog post out of this, but I can't be bothered, so:

Please learn to use a phone to make a voice call.

I value effective written communication, but part of effective communication is understanding your audience, and in many situations, you audience is only a handful of people. In that case it is a much more efficient use of your time, and theirs, to just have a conversation.

IRC or IM is a reasonable substitute, and a face-to-face conversation, if practical, is even better.

(Writing this in a spare moment before talking to someone face-to-face. Last night I spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out how to address the issue over email before concluding that a short conversation would be more effective)

It really depends. Yes, if you have a good idea about what you want to do, find a job doing that and give notice.

If you are uncertain, and your current employment situation is feeding that uncertainty, it might be better to get out. I say this as someone who didn't really realize the way I was being effected by my work situation until I heard from a few people who left ahead of me.

A few suggestions, not necessarily mutually exclusive:

1. Start doing what you want to do at work. Don't waste time in BS meetings, go talk to potential customers or partners yourself, build what you think is interesting/valuable.

2. Change things up outside of work, go to lectures, meetups, start reading different blogs, whatever.

3. Start applying for jobs and arranging informational interviews.

In all three, a big part of the point is to change things, and seeing what happens, at the very least, you'll be getting new perspectives, and after a while, you'll find that you are ready to make the big change and find another job.

This is basically what I went through over the past year. I knew I needed to leave, but couldn't quite find a way to do so. It took a while, but my last day is in two weeks. Ironically, things are looking better at work than they have in 18 months, in part because I felt free to push and try things in a way I didn't before. I'm still going though. Not exactly sure what I'm going to do in the long run, but I'm much more comfortable with my ability to make a reasonable living as a result of changing my perspective.

Meh. I'll believe it when I see it. Apple already has an iPad Mini, only they call it an iPod Touch. It is more portable than a 7" tablet, cheaper to make and by most indications, they sold more of them over the holidays than amazon sold Kindle Fires.

Because some people realize that money is just a tool. They may prefer to get paid to work on something they are passionate about than get paid more for something they aren't.

Put another way, if you are going to end up working over a weekend, would you rather do it because you love your work, or because you get paid time-and-a-half?

This is just silly.

There are many many people who work in exploitive jobs, most don't have reasonable alternatives.

In silicon valley, there are likely many engineers who work at exploitive jobs. They likely have reasonable alternatives, but don't take them because they have hopes of a big payout.

Then you have Apple employees. They likely have reasonable alternatives to working at Apple, but they aren't their expecting a big jackpot, because Apple is an established public company. So why are they there? Most likely it's because the message of that card does speak to them. If they figure out later that it is BS, they are free to go. For all the secondhand stories I hear of how bad it is to work at Apple, I'm surprised by how few first hand stories I hear.

There are legitimate reasons for people to learn to program that don't involve being interviewed by you for a job, just as there are legitimate reasons for learning to write that don't involve writing sonnets.

Similarly, there are different ways to come to the knowledge of what malloc is, or why inserting things into a linked list is faster than inserting things into an array.

You know the best way to do that? Keep it simple.

I think the people who are most likely to worry up front about a plan for migrating off of Heroku has a great deal of overlap with the sort of people who will make migrating off Heroku difficult for themselves by depending on too many "exotic" add-ins.

I agree.

Think about what "too much" Heroku spend is. Think about what level of adoption/success it will take to reach that much Heroku spend. Then consider if you actually get to that level of adoption, are your Heroku costs really going to be "too much?" Don't spend more than 90 minutes on the whole exercise.

My guess is that, for most apps, worrying before launch about migrating off of Heroku is a premature optimization.