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Sounds similar to Linux decisions about keeping the kernel API's fluid.

I like how it's not about the code itself being wrong, because random developers are going to hit these corner cases too, but about the closed-source framework provider refusing to make fixes unless they get some quid pro quo based on the leverage they have.
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Why wouldn't you? Paid-for apps have been available for over a year now on the Android Market, assuming you live in a region where Google can take payments from...
With Google's repository of digitized books, they seem better-poised for the ebook market than even Amazon.
True, complements to existing products can avoid typical barriers to entry for non-disruptive products, but they come with their own set of issues. Generally speaking, they are at high risk of being absorbed into the products they complement. Xobni -> outlook, facebook apps -> facebook, etc.
> It doesn't matter what's acceptable from a legal standpoint.

I agree.

> The overwhelming perception in Europe is that hosting data in the US is a risk.

Which stakeholders have that perception? (Serious question.) Specifically, what kind of customers care? What kind of investors care?
Re: "The only real way to stop," I don't entirely agree. News sites could approach their comments like they approach their letters to the editor, and ask for the phone number of new members.

Verifying every phone number would be a lot of work, so you don't do that. Just verify the folk who post more than, say, 5 comments.
I don't know, but I think it's a horrible conclusion. He hated his job and felt he was making the world a worse place. If that's what his top-notch education got him, why did he want the same for his children?
Good question. Are you asking if you can target .NET 4.0 with VS 2008? I don't know, my experience has been that it's like swimming upstream to try to separate the IDE, .NET Framework version, and language version -- best to just get them all.
> And if you're not developing apps for the platform then you have no grounds on which to bitch and moan.

Except in the case when Apple has a monopoly that holds back other mobile platforms for which you would like to develop for.

This is not the case, not yet, but some can see it coming, although for obvious reasons I don't think it will ever be a monopoly.
Enron is an energy company that decided it wanted to be a Wall Street firm-- a trader rather than a maker. The problem is that it didn't have the cultural "memory" that most banks have-- that prevents them from doing outrageously stupid and illegal things (that people in the banks would also love to do if they were profitable, but history has shown to be bad ideas). So Enron became an outlandish caricature of Wall Street.
Deja vu,

iPhone and iPad will eventually be dominated by cheaper and more open commodities and they can keep their "we don't owe anyone anything" mentality
Oh, believe me, I'd love to. The difficulty, however, is that extracting H264 or FLV streams from embed codes is a process that every video host is actively attempting to thwart--and there's some 15,000 of them, and one of me. :)
A very good point! I was referring to in-house development, which is essential during the startup phase. It's tough to outsource the innovation that comes from ramen-fueled coding marathons in a tiny studio apartment.
Hmm, I didn't see exactly how the article fit the headline, except that he thinks we should stop crying fowl about Apple telling us how to do our jobs.

BULL!!

Apple has been using "Apps" to sell its super successful phone. Without its developers and robust App store, the iPhone would hardly be in second place IMO.

Apple OWES US EVERYTHING!

I don't own an iPhone because I like the shitty keyboard or because of AT&T and its limited 3G service. I own one because their app store rocks. That's it really.

So, Apple should be jumping through hoops to help their developers. Sure devs make money, but that's part of the give and take.

We scratch your back, you scratch ours.
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AFAIK, it wouldn't work. Flash can only copy to the clipboard after an event like click, doubleclick, etc, within the swf.
One of the things I'm looking forward to is the managed wrapper for memory mapped files.
"These guys aren't the first to do these sorts of experiments."

Actually they are the first to do most of them. Back in the 60s they used to use LSD, which they no longer use because it's too long lasting and also because of its bad reputation. We also now have an empirically derived mysticism scale which wasn't available in the 60s, as well as a bunch of new methodologies that are much tighter than what they were using for the good friday experiments.

Not to mention that in the 60s the studies they were doing weren't on end-of-life anxiety, and it wasn't even known that ego death was the key mediating variable.

edit: And, most importantly, the reason they're doing these experiments is to get psilocybin approved as a drug by the FDA. And I somehow doubt the argument that because LSD had some similar benefits in minimally controlled trials 50 years ago, that psilocybin should now be moved to schedule 3 without safety or efficacy testing.
Visicalc: 1979. Excel: 1985. Garnet: early 1990s. Cells: 2000 or so.

On the other hand ... Sketchpad: 1963. (Constraint satisfaction, but not embedded in a general-purpose programming system.) Prolog: 1972. And Guy L Steele wrote a nice general-purpose constraint system in 1978. ("Constraints", MIT AI Memo 502.)
There is a distinction between the physical hardware that you purchased, and the electronic services that you access using the device. The argument of whether you should be able to install any app you want is another matter.
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What IDE/texteditor does not have that? (Or can have it via a plugin?)
Am I the only one starting to see a pattern here? Why is Google suddenly following in Apple's footsteps after every new product?
This rampant stockholm syndrome is just plain annoying.
Microsoft buying Plam may not make a whole load of sense given they have an exciting new mobile platform coming on stream soon. It's a similar play to them buying Yahoo to compete better with Google in the search space.

I don't see exactly how Facebook competes in search, all I see it as is an increasingly spammy social network that I could easily live without. Google on the other hand, is indespensible. The very sight of Bing makes me want to punch the monitor (when I'm not using my own PC).
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> Because "bloated" is still bloated, regardless of how much memory and processing speed you have at your disposal. It's much like a 200 Kg fat man driving a bus. He is still fat.

While he's fat, it's not clear why it matters. (It matters to his health but not to the bus passengers.)

In what ways does the VS "bloat" matter?
Adobe makes CS5 preorder form Flash only. Alt title: Worst use of Flash ever.
ultimate version available for a completely reasonable $12 000! http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-ed...
Or itty: http://github.com/toastdriven/itty

Examples of mini-frameworks in various languages: http://gist.github.com/353559
If cable weren't already included in my HOA payment, I wouldn't subscribe. I never watch live TV. I usually watch shows on Hulu or download a torrent of the episode with the commercials removed. Since I'm in California, I can usually watch the show at the same time it comes on live because someone on the east coast has already encoded and uploaded it during the 3 hour time difference.
Problem with 360s: at least in my experience, I've never seen people "done in" by their direct boss, because the boss wants has too much of a stake in the performance of those below him to be a total jackass. It's middle management and influential co-workers (people who are technically same-level but have more influence over those with power) that you have to watch out for. Much more common than the caricatured asshole boss (a rarity in my experience) is the "too nice" (often overburdened) hands-off boss who inadvertently leaves newbies to be eaten alive by co-workers. 360s are just going to make that sort of Lord of the Flies environment more common and harsher.
From my experience, it's still incomplete. They aren't doing pretty basic things like "show controls on your movie player" etc.
> Seems like you pay a heavy price for dynamicity on Dalvik, because introspection is expensive

Citations?

On Android it seems to me that all APIs are running on top of Dalvik, so to use other interpreters (outside of Dalvik) means you have to pay the price for IPC calls (coupled with an interpreter that isn't optimized for mobiles).
I have no grounds to voice my opinions and advocate for the world I wish to live in. Thanks for setting me straight a2tech!
A tablet interface is very different from a desktop interface with an on-screen keyboard.
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I think the point was that a "home made" allocator is going to be able to exploit structure in the data that won't be visible to a general purpose malloc -- c.f. the pool allocators used in Apache, which know a priori that they'll be freeing everything at the end of the request. Likewise objects with the same lifetimes can live in the same block, etc...
It's the lack of understanding that's the problem.
Try flash CS5. It has support.
How about this? Apple only owes me what I paid them for. Apple can do whatever it wants with its device otherwise. It can set any rules it wants for its app store. It can build phones and tablets so that only signed code will run on them. I have no problem with any of that...

..so long as _I_ can do whatever I want with _my_ device. I want to setup a business around breaking phones out of Apple's jail? No problem. I want to create an app store to compete directly with Apple's own? No problem. I want to sell apps directly to users through my website? No problem.

The app store is Apple's service, so they can do whatever they want with it. If they want to lock out competing app stores through software, that's fine. I have a problem with the laws that make circumventing those software locks a crime. Jailbreaking is legally questionable; developing for jailbroken phones is risky, so very few people get in on it. Without those foolish laws, I'm sure we'd have a number of alternatives to Apple's app store, and this whole thing would be a non-issue.
C++0x! Time to use auto, move constructors, and shared_ptr!

http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2010/04/06/c-0x-core-la...

In fact, I've read existing STL-heavy C++ (returning std::vector<std::string> by value from functions, for example) will sometimes double in performance when compiling with a C++0x-capable compiler.

I wish the new historical debugger worked for C++.
He is saying that when you click on the color it sends a message to the flash object as to which color they are interested in and then the popup will be eligible to click on which will then copy to the clipboard.
Love it or leave it, dude.
Some questions about the copyright status of Sherlock Holmes stories still exists: http://www.techdirt.com/blog.php?tag=sherlock+holmes&edi...

If I had any literary talent, I'd think twice about writing any Sherlock Holmes sequels, etc, althought I cheerfully bought, read and enjoyed "Shadows over Baker Street", a mashup of Sherlock Holmes, and HP Lovecraft's Elder Gods.

Surely this illustrates that "chilling effect" on free speech that copyright has, eh?
Is two really the minimum for a successful species? For the next generation to reproduce, it will have to resort to either incest (dangerously similar genetics) or interspecies mating (dangerously different genetics). Then again, I'm not a biologist, so maybe one can correct me here.
Yes for live sports. Streaming quality is too crap online generally for me.

Apart from that, no. I have a big screen LCD TV in my room, and it acts as a media centre monitor for my XBMC setup. It isn't hooked up to anything other than my PC.
thanks for the great comments.

I will add the privacy policy info, etc. The google auth is completely secure (a feature via app engine) but I think the twitter auth could be secured a bit more. Interesting idea about adding a username/password option for the site itself.
This is (good) news for two reasons. 1) The evidence is now much better. The old studies weren't double blind and were otherwise flawed procedurally. 2) The government (many agencies) approved of the studies after decades of denials. EDIT: plus reason 3) demonstrating lack of negative side-effects.

The scientists who are behind them have made significant (to put it mildly) sacrifices to advance a cause that you will benefit from. "Irritation" is an ungracious reaction (to put it mildly).
5% of the people who have ever lived are alive now.

50% of the people who have reached 65 years are alive now. [ http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627550.100 ]
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Apple has been jumping through hoops to help their developers, but the developers are acting like spoiled brats who see the iPhone as just a small Mac.
As Yakov Smirnoff would have probably said:

In America, you found company.
In Soviet Russia, company founds you!
I'm sorry for the late reply. Did you have to go back to school or were you able to be hired on the merrit of your web app? Do you think that not having a formal CS degree has been detrimental to your career?

I do plan to start programming again. My experience was mainly Perl with some VB and Java thrown in. I've heard good things about Python and am going to try it out.
Okay, I understand that, but judging from the briefness of the post and its lack of detail it looks like Jason Evans must have simply intended to direct his readers to the official site. Therefore it would seem to me that this post should have linked straight to the official site as well.
I can confirm that Google has been working on this for quite awhile. At least 2 years in one way or another. They anticipated the move into tablets and a lot of the work of maturing the Android platform has gone towards that.

In this case, they're not following by any stretch.

Oh, and while we're at it: It's not like Apple is the first touch enabled Tablet to ever come to market. I would argue that the iPhone is an incremental improvement on the Palm products (the first non-stylus gesture based app I used was SnapperMail way back on the second gen Palm devices).
Dont think so-- Clojure's map and filter return lazy sequences, so this code likely only iterates once (in the +).

http://richhickey.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#c...
I don't understand the logical step here, I am afraid?
Perhaps I should have said empathy.
Yeah, isn't this a straw man? Nobody has claimed Apple owes them anything. They're just voicing their opinions to make the community a better place.
Is all the data you ever operate on stored in the database? Do you never load things into memory?
interesting idea... i will have to think about how to make that easy ... i suppose it could pop up a facebox that offered to save if they signed in...
And http://pleac.sourceforge.net/
I'm very interested in the start-up culture and definitely agree that I've done enough school for the moment and am ready to get to work. I think the thing to do is just get back to coding and getting into the community to see where it can take me.
Sorry, but the record seems to indicate that your viewpoint, although common and valiantly expressed, is wrong:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090308/1022324034.shtml

Copyright on music got introduced part way through composer Giuseppe Verdi's career. He clearly coasted for the latter part. Want more from Stephenson or Torvalds or even Stephen King? Shorten or eliminate copyright.
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> We have a handful of .NET sites, and a few Ruby sites, and I'd bet that the salary of the 4 or 5 guys who work on those sites is more than the combined salary of the other 50 PHP devs.

Where are you paying .NET and Ruby developers 10x what you pay PHP folk?
Looks like it's abandoned (last post was in October of '09).
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There is such a thing as trust and reputation, though. I don't owe Apple anything, either. And if I can't have faith in them approving my app in the future, I'll think twice about investing in their platform. That is not moaning and complaining, it is simply business.
I am based in India. Initially it will be me, a partner(both Asp.net mvc devs) and a UI guy working on the App. Hiring outside devs is far on the horizon but its good to consider that now.
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Hi Kyle-

If you agree with somebody's comment, please push the up arrow next to it. If you have anything to add to said comment, feel free to post a reply.

EDIT: "agree" might not be the best term. You can disagree and still think the comment was of quality, in which case an upmod and a reply stating your opposition would be appropriate.
"Simple, modest goals are most likely to succeed, and most likely to make us happy."

That's certainly true for 99% of people, but someone trying to start a startup has already declared by doing so that they are not part of that 99%.

I think for some people it's ok to have ambitious goals.
The whole Android vs Chrome OS thing smacks of a badly planned platform strategy.

Seems like both OSes are suitable for tablets, and both are being developed (by different departments, no doubt) for that purpose.
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That's the one. Thanks a million!
Damn it, the spam on here is starting to get ridiculous.

I hope no one in Vermont gives these idiots their business. I don't care how good a dentist you are; I don't welcome your graffiti here.
Looking forward to it - Will see you all there!
While I agree with the author that "Apple doesn't owe me anything," reading past the title I didn't find that more words added value to what ought to be a tweet, not an essay.
Google is starting to feel like Microsoft. They're trying to compete everywhere instead of focusing on their core competencies.
I think that, ultimately, it depends a lot on the economics of the business you want to go into. Competing with eBay is probably not an easy thing to do, for instance.

Also, you want to be able to do a good job in your niche, not just be a hanger-on fighting for the scraps, knowing that, by and large, the big guys in the market are better.
a list of companies that could buy palm

* Dell, Sony, HTC, etc.. -- Have mobile devices, but this could give them an edge.

* ASUS, Abit, etc.... -- All make hardware and could use a nice mobile platform.

* Amazon, Barns and Noble -- both make eReaders that could be decimated by the iPad, Palm's Web OS could give them the engineering talent along side a great OS to create a new Mobile media device.

* nVidia - if nVidia had a platform like WebOS, they could ensure a rockstar platform for their mobile chips.

* AMD - I don't think AMD has the cash to buy palm.

* IBM - Could be interesting, IBM has cash, and they don't have a mobile plan. This may be reason for IBM to go after a mobile leader.

* Oracle - Since Oracle has acquired Sun, MySQL, and .... OpenOffice by default. It might be interesting to see what this Tech Giant could do in the Mobile Enterprise Space.

* Google - Could buy Palm to strengthen it's position against Apple, and could port Palm's intellectual property to the Android OS.

* Nintendo - Hmmm, this could be interesting, as I think the companies would culturally work well together.

* Microsoft - Yeah, WM7 +++ MS could somehow make windows mobile better, or better arm it's lawyers against Apple. Can you imagine the MS Palm Courier?
The first thing I tried to do was disable a css line a-la firebug. That did not work which saddened me. This is still pretty neat, and would be a cool way to do a mock-up. Very excited to see how (if) it progresses in terms of functionality.
plentyoffish comes to mind..but am not sure if they use any MVC framework
I think disruptive starts when you have a big idea of how to change an industry, a political system, a society. Aiming to be disruptive (in this sense) is a valuable goal, since a big idea (put a computer on every desk; organize the world's information) provides the direction that helps you lead and not simply react to market conditions.

So I don't think it useful to chase technology which you think might be disruptive, but rather see how you can change peoples' lives, and then figure out how to do it,
Apple is not supporting them anyway. These platforms mostly support themselves.

Guess what, Lisp and others have C FFIs and Objective C bridges and can call Apple's library.
I will never understand this mentality. If there's a situation I don't like, I shouldn't do whatever I can to improve it? If someone does something I think is wrong, I should keep my mouth shut because they "don't owe me anything"? After all, there are plenty of other people in the world, I should just associate with the other ones.

Apple is looking after their self-interest, and I am looking after mine. I don't see why it falls on a random blogger to tell me whether my self-interests are best served by complaining online or not.
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Just curious, but can you cite an example of Apple jumping through hoops to help their developers?
I've never had cable. Well, honestly, I've never paid for it. I've had roomies who just had to have it, but I never wanted it or had a TV until a few years ago. In the past couple years I've been watching TV series like Battlestar Galactica on DVD, but otherwise my TV is for watching movies.
No, not really. Not at all. Microsoft is developer friendly. Microsoft jumps through hoops to help their developers. Apple has a LONG history of not working with developers the way MS does. Apple doesn't work with developers, it tolerates them. If Apple could do it all in house, they would.
Is there a business reason behind playing catch up in big companies? I understand there's a market opporunity, but so many of these "copy cat" products fail to live up to their potential simply because they are side projects (especially something like this to Google). It seems this is quite a trend for Palm, MS, Google and other megacorps and it rarely turns out well.