hankejh

$1.2 B

Hmm -- never heard of them -- neither has Quantcast or Compete. Alexa knows who they are -- says their users spend a whopping 86 seconds on the site.

Tweet from dbushell // David Bushell hipster apple developers @paydirtapp block IE. Every sentence in this article I reply with "You're Doing It Wrong." paydirtapp.com/blog/we-dont-s…

F o l l o w e d

I can haz?

Poor flower doesn't get it -- Node.js is a cancer, and Ruby is dead.

I'm surprised this hasn't gained more HN traction love -- check this shit out -- avseminal, timely example of crowdsourcing on a large scale (hello, 120 writers) executed in short order.

wow -- that's a whopping 0.019% per year! [ snore ]

Unfortunately, the only recourse is to have an attorney send a letter declaring a plan to file a lawsuit if payment is not made by a given date, which will cost around $300/hr for a few hours. The follow-on lawsuit will cost at least $3K to get started, and more likely $7-10K to close. It's important to note that choosing the lawyer option can cause the client to dig their heels in (they know how much it will cost you to run a lawsuit and might just let you burn the cash in an attempt to call your bluff). Freelance workers often require a retainer or upfront payment to reduce their risk of payment defaults.

"their security model has been working well so far" -- that is to say, the Mac security model, which has hardly been tested at all (relative to say, Windows), has been working well -- which isn't saying much.

Heh -- you mean to say that shitty HTML coding caused a problem in IE8. Did you even try it in IE9? I get this from crashie8.com (note -- no crash):

--- Internet Explorer has stopped trying to restore this website. It appears that the website continues to have a problem.

thank god -- I wish it worked on my end, but I'm endlessly forced to empty cache in Chrome to avoid broken images, stalled scripts, etc. -- which makes it altogether unusable.

Thanks, but I received great answers for both browsers without having to register/post in multiple locations -- all in under 6 minutes. HN rocks.

Thanks for the referral to Anne Taylor. I'll definitely connect. Can you email me off list -- I'd love to get your feedback on our upcoming release,

I should add that given the mention of 3-4 years amortization (which doesn't net out, given the correct pricing on the sheet), Apple limits your coverage to 3-years. There is no option under any circumstance to acquire a 4th (or further) year of coverage (Apple FAIL). HP, on the other hand, will cover your machine for at least 4 years -- and I believe you can purchase coverage indefinitely (requires further investigation). Killing support on a machine that should last 4-6 years demonstrates a complete disregard for environmental conservation, given the enormous* (frankly staggering) energy required to manufacture it in the first place. Shame on Apple.

The links and prices are correct. You'll have to match the specs on the sheet when configuring at Apple's store.

Note that the drive option (500GB vs 750GB) does not change the price -- you can have either for the same price. I chose the faster drive (7200 rpm) over the slower (5400 rpm) -- a 25% increase in drive speed makes a world of difference in performance.

I'm not sure what you did with the HP configuration -- starting with the base config ($999), adding the specs listed on the sheet (note: there is no base 6GB to downgrade to 4GB -- and Apple memory options are never* competitive compared to other options), the price remains as noted on the sheet. Perhaps try it again from the base config. So, the rest of the analysis is unfounded.

Agreed -- Jobs believes we all want to write with our fingers or type on sheets of glass with no haptic feedback.

R u b b i s h.

If that were true, handwriting apps would not be as wildly successful as they have been in the app store -- and accompanied with reviews slamming the missing stylus. If iPad had Newton's last iteration of handwriting recognition (or [gasp] some improvement thereupon from the past ~10 years), it would become a notably more alluring productivity tool and less of an overpriced eReader/game toy.

Sorry ebiester -- I had the heading incorrect (Envy 15 rather than Envy 14) -- they discontinued the 15 and 13 in favor of the new 14. The link should point to the new machine and the heading is updated. +1 on HDTV bastards!

Heh... fair enough, updated the doc -- the numbers show HP is getting better at cloning by the year:

Dimensions --- MBP: 14.35 x 9.82 x 0.95 HPE: 14.01 x 9.33 x 1.17

Weight: --- MBP: 5.6 lbs HPE: 5.5 lbs