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Do you mean cheap as in "not made by Apple", cheap as in "I cant think of a meaningful adjective but I want something negative" or cheap as in "costs nothing, same as the tool used to code Obj-C"? And let's hope these mysterious spammers don't learn how to use Obj-C. And you need to pay money to have the right to submit apps, right? They can pay the highly paid technical whatever out of that.
"Languages just don't matter. They don't."

I find this discussion very intriguing in light of Apple's now-infamous ToS clause 3.3.1 (can only use C/C++/ObjC on the iPhone). So is okay that Apple's limiting the languages you can use, because they doesn't matter? Or is this still evil on Apple's part for trying to be restrictive?

I'm not trying to troll here; I'm honestly interested in people's opinions.
...but it HELPS.
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Languages are just tools, but the ones I've been using have had an impact on the evolution of my coding.
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There are hundreds of games in the App Store built with Unity, including at least one in top 10.

You can be sure that if Unity games are taken out of the app store, people will notice.

Which just shows that some people go to great lengths to explain Apple's anti-competitive behavior ... "it's OK, it doesn't affect me" ... maybe not in the short term.
ALL other user interfaces by ALL other vendors suck.

I don't understand your enthusiasm for aqua (I've got a mac) but I understand what you're sayin in a general sense because I came to a similar conclusion about ten years ago.

If this is a big thing for you, I'd recommend the path I took after Be folded. Accept that complex user interfaces have bad tradeoffs (platform dependence, inflexibility). Find a full-screen tty you like (I use iterm because with apple+key + enter it goes full screen and gets rid of aqua) and return to living in the habitat of your ancestors!

A few things are inherently visual: paint programs, 3d games and movie editing. Everything that is not can be done effectively on the console. These interactions are often far superior to GUIs.

There's a learning curve. But once you're over it you'll have enormous power at your disposal and won't ever get locked in again.

Two things make this far easier than it has been previously:

1) Python. The standard library contains everything you'd want to do to push a system around. You can hammer out powerful tools in python in a casual manner and at a speed that has not been available to mere mortals before. You can get it on a variety of platforms.

2) Web browsesr. It's now easy to get high-quality web browsers on any platform you'd want to use. Where you do need to produce a GUI, you can knock up a trim webapp with html and forms.
That clause is Apple's attempt to prevent a flood of low-quality ported apps. Therefore the argument would be that if languages don't matter, Apple's policy is misguided, and if languages do matter, Apple's policy actually makes sense. (Neither position has any connection with the evilness/goodness of said policy).

Personally I tend to believe that languages do matter, and therefore Apple's policy makes sense as a way to prevent crappy ported apps, but it's still evil. It's not impossible to produce a great ported app, just more difficult; plus, porting apps isn't the only reason why you might want to run non-Objective-C code.
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Looked to me like it merely signed in. It didn't ask me permission to do anything, so I assume it didn't do anything. Looks like nothing got posted to my wall, etc...

It may have done something, though. -shrug-
I've started using it this week. Alt+tab becomes more and more broken with every release. There was a time when excel was the only application that didn't behave properly.
That's Objective C and C++. You can't program in those for Windows, they are pretty much Apple languages despite things like gnustep.
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If you don't want to, you can just ignore my comment.
Hierarchy does not imply folders. The difference between folders and labels is the multiplicity between message and label/folder. 1 message, many labels. 1 message, 1 folder.
That includes filesystems and RAM. And relational databases, which is something that the phrase needs to distinguish from.
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> > Red Hat, Canonical, and Google are just some of the companies that have found valid business models around "free software".

> That's a fallacy.

> The majority of open-source sponsors are selling closed systems or services to sponsor their "free software" involvement.

Red Hat, Canonical and a large chunk of IBM GS wouldn't be able to sell those services with proprietary products - the OSS licensing of various Linux OSs, Apache, etc. are the basis for them being able to have an audience to sell their services.

I agree with you re: Google. They're not a service business and could have written their own OS or used a proprietary one and not affect revenue.
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I was about to ask you for proof that Haskell is faster and crashes less, but then I saw who posted.

How are those as-fast-as-C Python networking scripts built around epoll coming along?
The arrow keys and space bar keep scrolling the page up and down in addition to controlling my ship!
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://apenwarr.ca/lo... says "It's not just you! http://apenwarr.ca looks down from here."

It got news.YC'ed? or HN'ed?
Unfortunately, there's nothing funny to see here, please move along.
I honestly wonder what you mean by Alt-Tab being broken? Surely it does switch windows, doesn't it?
Who exactly required an explanation? We all know it was intended to mess with the competition.

And if your explanation includes claiming, falsely, that all those affected were producing shitty apps then that's not an being an explainer, it's being an apologist.
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It doesn't cover any Scheme that compiles to C since that would be indistinguishable from regular C/C++ code, at least on Apple's side.
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I must say I am very sceptical about web applications. Not because of their performance. But because of their (major) privacy and data control problems.

I think that will make most web applications obsolete within the decade. Things like Gmail, Facebook, Google Docs, Blogger, and YouTube will be wiped out by plug computers (provided they are made as easy to use as web apps).
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Fuck, I'd settle for just being able to reorder my filter rules!
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He's never been rational, but that irrationality generally expressed itself as biting critiques of minor aesthetic and usability issues that Apple was mucking up.

He's let himself be thoroughly trolled by all the gadget blogs that alternate between calling the iPhone the best/worst thing that's ever happened in search of pageviews and as a result became very defensive and self-righteous lately. The world has been divided into those who "get" and those who don't "get" the iPad.
I very much agree with this article, copyright terms have become way, way too long, and are very close to no longer being the 'limited time' that the constitution requires. Another good read on the matter is http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/papers/copyright99.html .
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Cool site! I wonder what stuff are most popular among these brilliant guys so i # curl "http://www.usesthis.com/ | egrep -o "http:\/\/.\.usesthis\.com" | xargs curl | egrep -o ">[^<]+<\/a>" | sed -e "s/>\(.\)<\/a>/\1/g" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nbr | less

20 MacBook Pro
20 Firefox
18 Safari
16 iTunes
15 iPhone
14 Mac Pro
13 Tweetie
13 Mail
12 TextMate
10 Twitterrific
10 Photoshop
10 iChat
10 iCal
10 Gmail
10 Dropbox
9 Twitter
9 Time Machine
9 Terminal
9 MacBook
9 Google Reader
8 Xcode
8 Things
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7 LaunchBar
7 Flickr
7 Coda
7 Adium
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CS5 isn't shipping for another month, they're just unveiling it now.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/23/adobe_to_offic...
Yeah, but there's no actual multitasking in iPhone OS 4. Just some 'background' system services. Apps cant run in the background.
And the clause doesn't say "you need to link to our libraries", it says "you need to author your app in [languages] etc".
You can't program in C++ for Windows? What in the world am I doing with all these Visual C++ books, then?
How many loaders can it possibly unify if it's a plugin for a specific framework?
Or LOOM/Stella - Java/C++/Common Lisp - http://www.isi.edu/isd/LOOM/Stella/ -

"When we embarked on the task of developing PowerLoom® which had to be delivered in C++, we were faced with exactly this problem. Our response was to invent a new programming language, called STELLA, that incorporates those aspects of Common Lisp that we deemed essential into a language that can still be translated into efficient, conventional and readable C++ and Java code."
"At the very least, you're a more dedicated developer"

What a rose-tinted way to describe lock-in.
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This video was uploaded 1 day after the conference. I remember searching and not finding any videos of railsconf 09 expect dhh's keynote.

Were these videos really available all the time and I just didn't find them?
>porting apps isn't the only reason why you might want to run non-Objective-C code.

The Objective-C language being one very good reason for wanting to run non-Objective-C code.

Frankly, I'd much rather they adopted a direct appstore policy to reject apps that don't feel native or performant enough, rather than coming up with a second level of indirection that assumes all apps not written in their approved language of choice has those qualities.
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Perhaps they've improved things since I left iPhone. But I distinctly remember unwanted, aggressive copy / paste dialogs popping up when I wanted to do move around the page.
Simply you are mistaken, and that's not true (submitting the source code).

First of all, lots of companies do license many 3rd party libraries, without their source code. Sometimes these said libraries are specifically compiled with latest bugfixes to the relevant project they've been used.

What the companies might require is usually symbols/debug information/etc. But never the source code!

After all, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo are direct competitors. Why should an independent publisher (EA, Activision, THQ, Konami) be sharing source-code with them?
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Can anyone summarise the main points? I don't feel like watching a 1-hour video on this topic just to get to the "mystery".
This is my go-to reference for web typography. It's simple enough that I can re-read the whole thing whenever I need to make things that aren't completely hideous.

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Might sound ridiculous, but how would one write GLSL shaders now that the C/C++/Objective-C/JavaScript only rule is there...
Valid suggestion, though copy + paste into a word processor might be easier/yield better results. Whoever downvoted you has too much spare time.
Democracy is similar. I used to have a nice life as a french king, until the stupid peasants took over. Now everything is fucked. I feel so locked in.
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this is all about controlling the quality of applications, its is good, congrats to apple, they want to controll the quality of their applis by forcing people to code in a low level structure, they are right, high level abstractions when badly coded are a mess.
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That's a good observation -- I wouldn't put it past them.

I think the relevant psychological principle is "transfer of excitation." Apparently it's pretty obscure, but here's an article about it: http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/6426/Arousal-Pr...
Although short, the last bit about focusing on a single school is important. Electronic Arts does some heavy recruiting at my school, including tours and talks with our student ACM chapter.

I know it works because they got me to intern there twice. :P
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1. Don't do an MBA to do entrepreneurship. You would be far better off finagling your way into a job in an early stage startup, seeing what's going on and getting experience in a company without lots of structure and procedure. See spencerfry's take on what even someone who's not overwhelmingly technical can do in a startup[0]

2. If you do an MBA, do an accelerated one [1],[2]. If you're considering changing because you've plateaued in your professional growth you may just need a change of area and that's where MBAs are good, but if you have a Masters already you've spent enough damned time in college without doing more than is absolutely necessary.

3. UChicago has a CS Masters that I believe is more welcoming to students who don't fit the traditional profile for people wanting to do CS. I imagine it's pretty brutal though.

[1]http://spencerfry.com/whats-a-non-programmer-to-do

[2]http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020425140457434...

[3]http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/st_mbamainchart_...
or how many CPU-years are wasted by viruses vs. CPU-centuries wasted by anti-viruses.
> then that would be theonion.com territory

As opposed to where they are right now?
Enforcing what higher level language you write in before it gets compiled down to machine code?
It's certainly true of one developer .. I'm a C# developer who was about to buy a Macbook Pro specifically so I could target/port an app to run on iPhone (was just waiting on the refresh). This is the last straw as far as I'm concerned...

So yes, one less developer for iPhone (except as a web platform, if they are lucky). Also one less MacBook pro sale for Apple (probably, because I'm so steamed about this.. though .. heh, maybe lets see how the refresh looks next week and then we'll see)
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true, but I don't want to support a company that does not respect privacy and collects data without any control - I also don't have the time to inspect their code
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Apple has always been too rude to developers. Returning the iPad will be a good way to protest. Lets see how well apple does without early adopters (a major chunk of which are developers and developer referrals)
This is what happens when you don't let Java people write your blog software.

(since we're overgeneralizing)
It would be certainly nice if Google did offer some sort of direct calling program, instead of connecting two landlines. I was wondering as well how long Google could offer such a service for free, does anyone know what sort of costs go into a business like this?
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Let me preface this by saying I didn't vote you down (Not the right karma threshold, and I wouldn't bother to do so either). Furthermore, I agree with your sentiment, although I disagree with the premise; that people stopped trusting newspapers over Iraq. Why not over Viet Nam?

That said - partisan, knee-jerk analysis on HN will only lead to HN being another Digg (with people only reading stories that reinforce preconceptions and congregating around certain users).

In the end, if you express an opinion that isn't based on data, and doesn't have anything else about how you reached the opinion, you will probably be modded down by someone.
Now that Apple is publishing newspapers, can newspapers cover Apple?
FUD promoted by the well known Weston A Price foundation a very successful pusher of fat in our diets. While their motives aren't yet clear (diary&meat industry lobby) their methods are clear:

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I can understand Apple wanting to lock down their property to make sure what comes on it is quality and secure. Look at MS, anyone can develop almost anything on it, and what we have is a massive bug and virus trap.

BUT... Microsoft was given into trouble by the competition commission over the tight reign it had on Windows. Now what are we saying, Apple should be allowed to get away with near enough the same things Microsoft got fined for? just because they are Apple?

If Apple just lets this happen, and lets iPhone apps be developed on other OSs/SDKs/whatevers, then if a developer wants to produce a piss poor version of something then let them. Apple can then say yeah or nay when the App goes into the Store. They are still going make money, their phones are still going to be bought in droves.

Open the doors Apple, you might let something good in.
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Have Apple crushed CS5 Flash to iPhone opportunity?
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Forget the iPad, where do I get one of these? For the kids, of course ;)
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Basically, at 21:30 "What killed Smalltalk is that in Smalltalk, it was just too easy to make a mess."
When I need to I've found that separating different activities helps me from getting "caught up" in the Internet. I use a HTPC to watch tv-series/web-tv and listen to music, an android phone for connecting with friends, e-reader to read books and documents. If I do need the computer I mainly use my laptop without wifi, and plug it in when I need to access the Internet briefly.

I do use my desktop computer for gaming, surfing the web and other purely recreational activities, but at least I'm not kidding myself when I do. Before I would tell myself that I was doing something useful, while I would get into the "loop" you're talking about. Now I read and watch video less, but I read and watch things I actually like.
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Nah, PostgreSQL is sticky, it has a Write Ahead Log !!
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He basically warns for the ruby community to become too arrogant about their technology and tools and stop following all the good practices of software engineering (especially unit testing), because they "don't need them".

It's actually a really inspiring video, I watched it twice so far : )
Yes "UK" is the correct term for the country. However London, the capital, is in England, is a large percentage of the UK population (about ~15 - 20million out of a UK population of about 60 million). The vast majority of the programmer jobs would probably be in London, so you might wind up going to "England" itself.
It's more like those bases were never built because the money went to Vietnam.
You know what would be embarassing? If a company selling web-based project planning solutions had broken links in their website. Especially a link that was at the bottom of every page on their company blog, and was the link that was supposed to take you to the page about the product they sell.
If your grandparent was Irish (unlikely in South Africa I guess), then you are entitled to an Irish passport. You are then a EU citizen and can work in any EU country with no visa issues. Just something that might be of benefit.
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I am not regretting my decision to move away from Apple and it's products.

The first thing that came to my mind when I read the title is "wtf". What a really bad move. I wonder how much more can the app developers take.
Because of the lack of touch interface, or because of some missing standards support in mobile webkit?
That's cooler than a real Veyron ;) Amazing. Lego has been my favorite 'toy' since age two or so when I inherited an enormous pile of it from the time when lego was first launched.

The uncle who gave it to me has been my favorite ever since :) Runners up where meccano and fisher technik, but I only got my hands on those much later.

Now, a good 43 years later some of that same lego + the additions of several family members has made its way to children two generations down the line and is still in use. Most of the 40+ year old parts still look pretty good, and are still in 'daily' use.

Rather than any of the shiny toys with 'batteries included' of some merchandising formula I give little kids lego for their birthdays, and I'm always happy to see that years later when all the 'shiny toys' have long been forgotten the lego is still in (more often than not quite original) use.

I credit lego with my passion for 'modular' programming.
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