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Thanks for retrieving that. What he says and does may be slightly different (especially in a TV interview), but pretty good video.

Curious about the bit about strategy inspiration - do you remember where you learned that? Sure, Jobs isn't designing every little piece - it's more that he serves as the dictator.…

Apple has thousands of employees. But it's not design by committee. There's a strong drummer in that company that keeps everyone marching in step, so that the entire company adopts…

I'm inclined to agree. I'm happy I heard about this bundle, but I don't think it falls under the purview of HN. HN has started seeming more promotional in general in recent times, …

I think your 90% vs. 50% characterization is spot on. I once tried to found a company with someone who has fairly fundamentally different views on many things, thinking it would ba…

You should be multiplying the diesel price/joule numbers by roughly 5x to make them comparable to electrics. When you buy metered electricity, you're paying for the end product. In…

True. Too bad the media is on a witch hunt, and finds it convenient to gloss over facts for the sake of generating indignation over Tax-Payer Funded Bonuses Of Inconceivable Magnit…

That's kind of like saying we should keep crime high so demand for policemen stays high...

Which would cause all of the energy to be dissipated as heat in an instant... perhaps you could put it into some non-volatile heat sink, but unless it's a really big heatsink, you …

But as far as I can tell, the main thing they're good at is being a one-stop shop...

Yeah, in London currently, did a double take when I saw the difference between Oyster and standard fare. The standard fare is absurd, whereas oyster puts it on par with NYC (and ha…

Ooh, even more portable, no computer needed. Thanks!

Nope, hilarious. And that's the first really solid evidence that I've seen shared that zodiac signs are utter BS, which makes me doubly grateful to them. Something to point to when…

Just because it's on the todo list doesn't mean they have the manpower to get it done in the next year, especially where new features are concerned. Users pull in all directions...…

There are 300 million people in the US, but in the very specific specialties at the cutting edge of science and tech, every person is significant, and can't really be substituted f…

It looks like the only major distinguishing factor is daily rather than weekly alerts for saved searches... Perhaps it's useful for those recruiters who want to be the first to con…

I can see a great many people downloading it and then getting confused for a split second every day between the two and keeping track of what they were using each for. Over time th…

I highly recommend PG's book of essays Hackers and Painters (it contains this essay).

You've gotta put the blast shield down before you can begin to sense the Force.

I'd say that aggressive flagging and downvoting are the price of HN not becoming like Digg and Reddit. I'm really happy to pay that price, even when I get downvoted.

I looked into this a bit, and there are tons of conflicting reports on this over the web. I have a 2007ish 15" MBP, and it dithers/FRC's like a mofo with certain colors in WinXP.

mod_rails/Phusion Passenger is indeed awesome - getting set up on production was a cinch, and no babysitting has been required at all... it just works. If you use it, consider turn…

I'm not sure about this - if false advertising (millions of colors) caused him to sell his old laptop with a better screen, then he's still worse off, as a result of Apple's action…

Great, glad it's working! Please let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements. Good luck with your hunt!

Text messages are a scam. Especially when the company also charges you that .15 when you receive a message without consenting to it. And when there are no alternatives and little p…