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Re: Ask HN: 2011 Predictions

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Post by pieter »

spydum wrote: post #48
Devilboy wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait what? Wasn't the original shipping date in 2009?

I don't think anyone has ever laid out an official release date.. "it's ready when it's ready" was always the mantra.

> The next batch of units will ship no later July 30th, 2010. Based on your pre-order date (11/24/2009), you should expect your WakeMate no later than 07/30/2010, but probably significantly sooner.

Re: Ask HN: 2011 Predictions

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Post by rorrr »

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #5

Camera and facetime for the iPad. iPads and macbooks coming in colors. Web of things will kickoff with arduino and programmable toys that can be controlled from and ipad/iphone. Geolocation businesses are the new black. One can possibly disrupt eBay or craigslist. Facebook IPO will be the best evar in terms of hype and money made. Just to deflate at the end of the year and leave the tech world in ruins. Google IS the…

Firefox 4 beta is already faster than Chrome.

http://arewefastyet.com/

Re: Ask HN: 2011 Predictions

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Post by Symmetry »

chailatte wrote: post #3

Next year austerity and rising interest rate will take root in major economies, forced by runaway inflation in food, gas and commodity prices - caused by massive printing by US/Europe/Japan/China. This will result in money in flight from risky investments (emerging countries, startups, expansions) to safe investments, which will cause job losses in many of those sectors. Healthcare and Food industries will grow. Ente…

I wouldn't bet on inflation. Inflation is most directly caused by people's expectations about inflation - and the market's expectations as seen in the difference in price between inflation protected securities and securities that aren't inflation protected (the TIPS spread) is still that inflation will remain low.

Re: Ask HN: 2011 Predictions

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Post by prodigal_erik »

spydum wrote: post #48
Devilboy wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait what? Wasn't the original shipping date in 2009?

I don't think anyone has ever laid out an official release date.. "it's ready when it's ready" was always the mantra.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1185478 said the first batch was supposed to ship last March. I'm glad they've reined in their marketing to reflect reality (they also added a compatibility list, much more honest than the "all phones" claim which was never feasible).

Re: Ask HN: 2011 Predictions

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Post by ryanpetrich »

rorrr wrote: post #52
Kilimanjaro wrote: post #5

Camera and facetime for the iPad. iPads and macbooks coming in colors. Web of things will kickoff with arduino and programmable toys that can be controlled from and ipad/iphone. Geolocation businesses are the new black. One can possibly disrupt eBay or craigslist. Facebook IPO will be the best evar in terms of hype and money made. Just to deflate at the end of the year and leave the tech world in ruins. Google IS the…

Firefox 4 beta is already faster than Chrome. http://arewefastyet.com/

Those graphs compare only the JavaScript runtimes on two standardized tests; hardly a measurement of overall browser performance.

Re: Ask HN: 2011 Predictions

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Post by cryptoz »

rorrr wrote: post #52
Kilimanjaro wrote: post #5

Camera and facetime for the iPad. iPads and macbooks coming in colors. Web of things will kickoff with arduino and programmable toys that can be controlled from and ipad/iphone. Geolocation businesses are the new black. One can possibly disrupt eBay or craigslist. Facebook IPO will be the best evar in terms of hype and money made. Just to deflate at the end of the year and leave the tech world in ruins. Google IS the…

Firefox 4 beta is already faster than Chrome. http://arewefastyet.com/

I don't think OP was referring to JavaScript speed, but to user adoption. Chrome is rising fast and Firefox share is pretty stable. Chrome's got the momentum.

Re: Ask HN: 2011 Predictions

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Post by nikcub »

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #5

Camera and facetime for the iPad. iPads and macbooks coming in colors. Web of things will kickoff with arduino and programmable toys that can be controlled from and ipad/iphone. Geolocation businesses are the new black. One can possibly disrupt eBay or craigslist. Facebook IPO will be the best evar in terms of hype and money made. Just to deflate at the end of the year and leave the tech world in ruins. Google IS the…

Web of things

that term will not take off

Re: Ask HN: 2011 Predictions

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Post by pjscott »

This post got me started thinking about computer hardware, and I made some predictions for the next five years, along with technical explanations of what they mean and why they're likely:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970884

tl;dr summary: More cores; optical off-chip interconnect; network-on-chip interconnect; 3D integration for better yield, as well as memory bandwidth and latency; tighter integration of CPU and GPU. Widening gap between server and desktop/mobile processor designs. Also solid state drives, but that's pretty obvious.

Re: Ask HN: 2011 Predictions

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Post by donspaulding »

General IT: Sales of MSFT's Kinect will surpass XBOX sales.

Web Development: Python will get a library/framework that is a paradigm shift in writing apps for real-time clients. Something that ties together Twisted's reactor with Django's approachability with socket.io.

Personal: I will finish building my house, then focus on shipping a single side-project.

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