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I don't like using any computer tool, because they are all focused on making sure you never lose tasks. Even a simple text file doesn't lose a line unless you tell it to.

But... I sometimes flip back through meeting notes from six months ago, and notice that by and large I don't follow up on my "action items" and haven't done the things I wrote down as my critical things to do in the next month. The only things that get done are the ones to be done quickly after the meeting. Everything else fell off... and you know what? It should have! I have not suffered for not doing them, I did something more valuable instead.

I've tried the text file, but it goes to a hundred lines too quickly. Writing stuff down is better, it's a backup memory store but if you don't keep actively copying things over they disappear. And I'm yet to lose something that important.

On the opposite extreme, I like my bug trackers. There's a mental adjustment to the fact that I have hundreds of bugs at any given time (I'm in charge of my project and the default assignee), and it can even take years to make that adjustment, but now that I have it is a great thing. There's a few current high-priority tasks, and background noise. Its sort of the same principle in reverse, when everything is important nothing is, so only the few things that truly matter are on my mind. It's that middle mass of difficult-to-manage line items by the tens at a time that doesn't work for me.
I carried a web/mobile app idea around for a year, looking for seed funding before posting about it here on March 30th. The HN community were amazing in their support and motivated me to create a minimum viable product. But while I was out on oDesk trying to find a crew to do that, something amazing happened. I found not one, but two very talented, intelligent people, both of whom are busy with their careers, but interested enough in my project to particpate as co-founders. I encourage you to put your idea out into the world and see where that leads you.
He had an email address. He gave it up in the early 90s, when he decided that 15 years of email was enough for any man.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
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Are you trying to make some kind of joke? NP = “nondeterministic polynomial time”, and it is a complexity class of computation problems.
Are you really claiming we dont need "coercion or force" from regulators like the SEC or FTC?

It is naive to think any one human agents or regulatory agency is able to prevent those "complex unregulated derivatives" or not be corrupted by unethical firms/special interests/etc.

The free market system already have a "fail-safe" or "regulatory" function through the bankruptcy of entrepreneurs and rewarding prudent entrepreneurs with the leftover possessions of the bankrupt one. Failure is at the heart of the free market enterprise system. It is a feature, not a bug.

It is those who wishes to prevent these failures at all and any costs that keep our society stagnated or hurling down to its destruction as they keep funding economic activities that is out of reality with human needs and desire.
I am a decent coder and I've always been interested in developing games. I am a big fan of your web-site and I think you really know what your doing. I would be really interested in the specifics of what types of development tools you use. Do you think you could provide links?

Much appreciated!
If they actually had a coherent policy position to disagree with, that'd be one thing. I will happily be dismissive of a group that has no coherent stance on any issue. That's not being dismissive of disagreement, that's being dismissive of patent madness.

By analogy, should I also not be dismissive of creationism, which fails to postulate a single verifiable claim which has not already been disproved? If I am to be rational, then I must also be able to expect at least some baseline of rationality from those I converse with.

In summary, yes, I am open to disagreement, but I'm not open to be respectful of groups which have nothing with which I can even in principle disagree.
This story has been the source of many discussions between my girlfriend and I, and I heartily recommend it. While it can be a bit disturbing, I think that helps drive home the point (it is kuro5hin, after all.)

It also led to a number of very amusing jokes targeted at the author (localroger). My favorite being here:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2008/8/20/84039/4943

This [alarm clock] will be useful to me. I sometimes forget to feed the small girl chained in my basement. Serious writers need muses.
Maybe not, but closer == better. Because they're tools..
We do. It's just that stuff like this is pretty glaring.

Google Maps was released over five years ago now. If it were still in beta, I'd understand, but…
No damage or victims http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/fuerte/terremoto/pasa/... (for Spanish speakers).
Is 2011 like 1994 for Apple, Twitter, Facebook, and the Web?
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What a wonderfully positive and constructive take on the subject. Way to go, champ. You go get them, tiger.</tongue in cheek>
sigh. So this is the level of maturity we're to expect in the future from news.ycombinator?

There are obviously features beyond in-app buying and iAd that differentiate iPhone OS from the rest of the smartphone market.
Eh, maybe. Numerologically, I think you're right, but you do have to keep in mind that a $16,000 lump sum has a lot more subjective value going out the door to an uncertain future and a zero income - at least, temporarily - than it does in the course of making six figures at a stable job.

I'm not saying he had any reason to suspect he wouldn't be able to find another job, and even quickly, but it probably wouldn't pay nearly as much and there was no guarantee of that. It's just the depressive state accompanying the sensation of having been fired, even if it's from something you hate in concrete terms.
I think announcement the Pi-version number of Tex is the right guess. From the Wikipedia entry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX ) that is when Tex freezes and no more bug fixes are allowed (every behavior from that point on is a required backwards compatible feature).
Wait a sec. “At the time”, the company making Flash was called Macromedia. Adobe, at the same time, was investing in the open-specced (through W3C) SVG format, as output for its similar tools. But you’re right, both Macromedia and Adobe sold/sell tools, not platforms. (Frankly, SVG is still better than Canvas for many purposes; I hope someday Microsoft decides to implement some of it in IE.)
I thought it was ensuring that LLVM could run everything :)
Firefox 3.6.3: 101/160

Chrome 5.0.342.7 beta: 137/160
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Jeebus. How many mag 6+ quakes have occurred in the past few months? Quakecalypse?
No offense intended, it's just a different culture I guess. I don't have a problem with this style.

I'm simply observing that, say, Django doesn't have developers asking "So what the fuck are you going to do about" the remaining tickets for 1.2.
You know what another word for psychopath is? Asshole. It's easy to spot them and it's easy to avoid them so calm down. It's not a full blown epidemic and these people have been around since the beginning of time.
How can you reconcile:

"...when we dug in a little bit we realized that it was causing massive confusion among user's who had an iPhone and were looking to use Twitter for the first time. They would head to the App Store, search for Twitter and would see results that included a lot of apps that had nothing to do with Twitter and a few that did, but a new user wouldn't find what they were looking for and give up. That is a lost user for all of us."

with:

"We will also admit our mistakes when they are made and
the Blackberry client should never have been labeled "official". It has since been changed and you won't see that language used with Twitter clients in the future."

------------------------

In the one case the lack of an official client was hurting new user acquisition and in the other (Blackberry) case it was stepping on developer toes?
Frankly, it all makes business sense. Apple's decisions today are all part of their strategy to increase the pie, increase their piece of the pie, and create new pies.

People are analyzing the shit out of Steve Job's decisions as of late, but when you look at it from a business perspective, objectively, it all makes great sense.

Furthermore, Steve Jobs does not answer to the tech community, at the end of the day he answers to only one group of people: the shareholders.

*Note: I know that he is a major shareholder himself, but the point is still valid.
Mint's uses standardized Apis that allow for balance inquries, transaction overviews, etc but NOT to transfer money. They encrypt login details so even if their db gets hacked your exposure is minimal.

In other words I feel comfortable with recommending the platform.
* flash is a fading technology now... in a few years HTML5 will replace it for video purposes. *

In a few years people will be using HTML5 video, and fall back to flash where not available. A few more years after that, maybe things will be different.
Webkit Nightly: 133/160
Apple hits "RESET" on the LBS Market
A real Google feature helping you understand a fake Google feature. Nice.
Then why bother? This is not about poverty. It is about user interface and easy of use.
Is there an option to guess never?
I'm hoping for the next big breakthrough... getting rid of all those white lines I'm not using, as my scripts are short. Perhaps they can lock the window to 5 lines or so, and then expand as I type. And, to be honest, I don't use all those columns, so perhaps pare it down to a 1x1 text box and expand as needed.

Just kidding, jeez, of course I'd want it to be 1 column, 5 lines to start with. Who writes 1 liners anymore? :-)
I'm Canadian and I don't know if this is entirely correct. Afaik you can only get acredited as a software engineer in a couple of provinces(Ontario,Quebec and Alberta I believe). Many universities have software engineering as sub programs or honors programs in the cs and engineering depts. As for job titles, I don't know if that's entirely correct either. I've seen jobs that are programmer, developer, software developer, programmer/analyst etc. Require a degree so I don't know if you can really generalize there.
This is a brilliant visualization of that data. In terms of spicing up the UI, some popurls.com-like hover over states might work.

Will the source for this project be available?
Yet the "ugly" Windows still managed to win in the marketplace. That's in no small part because Microsoft wasn't precious about what developers could build on their platform.
Thats what I have in my gvimrc :)

And for things like copy/paste across apps the + buffer works nicely.

"+yy
"+p

and so on.
A web browser is probably one of the more complicated apps you could write, though. If Apple insists on thoroughly examining what an app is doing, this ought to take awhile.
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Still, it would be interesting with connections to real-life applications. I was hoping to figure out a few practical ways of using more of my nginx spare cycles. I'm sure there's a ton of cool stuff one could actually use this for, but I'm none the wiser after the presentation.
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I don't and won't trust anyone with my credentials. Also there is wesabe.com which allows user to upload the transaction data using a desktop application or Firefox extension. Thought it is still in beta.
Basically this boils down to "don't build apps with similar functionality to twitter.com". While that may sting some developers, at least it's a pretty clear and unambiguous signal.

One nice thing is that they're spending time and effort to talk to their dev community. Much better than the Apple approach, which is to make large disruptive changes without warning or explanation.
Pretty sure that's the same thing as proving P=NP.
I like the analogy between the 2010 Time iPad app (and similar worse-than-the-web publisher-specific apps) and 1994's Pointcast: similarly pretty but equally doomed.
Well he was taking a double course-load and working, so that may count as being buried in sand.

But still, even if he didn't know beforehand, he figured it out very quickly upon arrival and then stayed for a long time for the money, so I agree with most of your point.
And without all that pesky portability either.
Their fixed costs keep rising. When you are 22, you think that $100,000 a year (rising with inflation) is heaps. But by 30, you buy your first yacht, and it takes $50,000 a year just to keep it in the dock.
So it can be read with the iPhone?
It seems like there's been more 6+ earthquakes recently than normal, I've tried to find the data to support this claim but have come up empty. Anyone have any insight?
What percentage of lines of code written for the twitter platform have just been clients? I'd be shocked if it wasn't the overwhelming majority.

It may be a simple principle but it is a change in position and it screws over _a_lot_ of people.
I thought they rejected apps that replicated core functionality of the native apps a la google voice.
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I like it. Some thoughts on the design:

-Stack the controls vertically on the right. Center the "blank sheet" (to make it feel more like a sheet on a desk or typewriter).

-Cut the half-sheet from the top (it felt a little crowded to me... not sure where to place your "just start typing note, but it might be nice to fade in briefly and then out).

-Adjust the alignment on the header.

-Lighten the page outline to #AAAAAA and shrink the drop shadow to 3px.

Maybe it's too minimalist, but here's how I would imagine it:

http://michael-kelly.com/minor-onepageperdaycom-edits

Good luck!
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I don't mean to interrupt you guys but you're arguing politics on a technology site. Please stop.
Maybe the world is just too big for only one platform.
People can be coerced by their circumstances; but that's beside the point.

You can hire someone to murder someone else. Nothing wrong with that transaction in a free market. Similarly, you can be a credit card processor for child pornography - you take your cut, but since you don't do the deed, it's not your problem.

Do you see the problem?

(Hint: morality isn't emerging here. It comes from somewhere else.)

And I have no idea why you mentioned some "other economic system". I didn't. Why? Because I wasn't contrasting economic systems. I was contrasting moral systems.
Not to mention that Apple had just burned Adobe with the whole ditching Copland fiasco. I'm sure Adobe was thinking, "Oh, sure yet another framework from Apple." Also, remember at the time Apple was promising windows availability of OpenStep as a reason to port to Yellow Box. Where's Windows Yellow Box today? iTunes/Safari for Windows. i.e. Apple's use only.
Maybe I'm in the minority here but I'm a developer who works on iPhone & iPad apps, loves Objective-C & the Cocoa frameworks, loves the App Store, makes a decent amount of money from iPhone & iPad apps, and doesn't have much of a problem with Apple's latest restrictions.

Anyone else in this boat?
You have completely missed the point. Contrasting economic systems is completely irrelevant.

The choice here is not between different economic systems, but between different moral systems.

You cannot make a free market your moral system because markets are amoral. That is, it is not that they are not immoral and so should be replaced with something else; rather, they have no moral content - morality comes from somewhere else.

You can pay someone to punch a third party in the nose. You get the value of knowing that someone is going to get hurt. The other guy gets your money. The transaction, in the free market, by itself has no moral content, though. A free market just means exchanging value for mutual gain. It doesn't say that those values have positive or negative moral worth.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/11/spain.earthquake/

The depth of the quake was about 400 miles deep, so there was less damage than if it were closer to the surface.
I remember the plot striking me as a bit cheesy and having some holes, but it's all well compensated for the awesome view of how a virtual world can turn out.

If you haven't yet, read it.
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I loved this back in 1994. Definitely worth a read, although I think the whole S&M thing comes through a little strongly.
Hahahaha! How they can do that with a straight face is beyond me. I particularly like the third couple; they refuse, until he says, "Well, then we'll shut off your Google", and the next scene is them photographing the bedroom.
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H.264 codec support is NOT part of HTML5.
And in a similar way, everybody has freedom of government, because they can just move to another country, right?

Except it's often not that simple. People can be locked in in lots of different ways, and suffer at the hands of a dictator, one way or another.
You claim in your blog post: "Until iPad comes along, only few people can use computers"

I'm not sure what you mean by this: 78% of American households 3 years ago had computers. 95+% of those making over $100k do.

I suspect only two groups don't:

-The poor who can't afford one, let alone an internet connected one

-The elderly who are confused by computers. The iPad is a bit less confusing (but still very much so!), but unfortunately uncomfortable to use (esp. for a senior).
They don't want anyone that has a clue and might therefore threaten them! (sadly seen this in my work)

Edit: many of the other cynical explanations further down in the thread are quite valid too (scapegoat theory et al)
If you're running a web scale operation then the ability to talk to memcached directly from nginx lets you do something like "Grab the page out of memcached if it is already there, if not, pass request to application server.", totally avoiding the application server and database for a huge portion of your "dynamic" requests. Given the relative costs of two roundtrips to memcached and e.g. going through the entire Rails stack, that is a bit of a win.
Lots of other games are ports using VMs. Escape from Monkey Island is one notable example. Another is the Frotz (interactive fiction) port for the iPhone.
And yet there are plenty of third-party browsers in the app store...

(The major difference is that the browsers in the store today use the included WebKit, while Opera Mini has its own rendering engine that relies on Opera's server-side proxy.)
i think concrete5 is all right. It uses a mysql back-end but might be overkill. I know the click to edit stuff works pretty well.

I have noticed that benchmarks are slower as they don't really have a full page cache mechanism, but overall it does a pretty nice job for that niche.
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The two main reasons why I prefer to stick with an online tool:

I don't have to carry an extra notepad+pen with me.
I can easily copy and paste long urls and click on them

When I am not in front of the computer, I use my iphone to write down ideas and tasks and I update my online tool when I am back on the computer.

For those who want to stick to paper and stay minimalist: http://www.pocketmod.com/

For those who want an online weekly planner: http://weekplan.net (my own tool based on the 7 habits)
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I use Gnucash (http://gnucash.org/) for personal and business accounting. It's a "serious" double-entry accounting system with a nice UI and good documentation.
Not always, or at least they're not so obvious, some pretend to be your friend and to console you all the while they are the ones causing you harm.

A better word may be "manager".
I was agreeing with the essay until I got to about the 75% mark, and it went off-tangent about how religion helps enable psychopathology, despite explicitly avoiding the topic for most of the paper. (I should have taken the mention of "Indigo children" as a warning sign, despite the paper treating that as more of a kind of fashion rather than a religious concept.)

It turns out that this page appears to be SEO content bait for a constellation of crack-pot sites dating from 2005, most notably "Signs of the Times" and 9/11 conspiracy theorists.

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/site_map_qfg.htm
I highly doubt this will be approved. There is no way Apple is letting a third party come and play on their turf in the mobile browser market. Not to mention this would mean Apple would not have full control of who the default search provider is.
While I don't subscribe to the doomsday cult thinking (at least not anymore), I do think their little habitat is pretty cool. If I had the money, I'd build one for myself.
I'm so sorry for pointing this out, I loved the article, but was surprised that no one else raised issue with:

"Like downloading MP3s, it was a victimless crime."

After all these years we know better than to say this carelessly. Is stealing code from a hardworking programmer a victimless crime?
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Maybe, maybe not. If anything, I think that the current interest in these sorts of apps is because they can cache content. The network is not pervasive yet, thus using a web browser to view all of it is impractical.

When you can reliably browse the web at broadband speeds in a car going through Bumfuck, Appalachia, the web will emerge triumphant again.
I wouldn't be terribly surprised if their plan was to get rejected and then sue Apple (in Europe, where they would stand some chance at winning).
And in the past, since I've been here several years longer than you and have two orders of magnitude more karma.

But anyway, why not list some of these features? That will improve the quality of this discussion.
I must agree, Apple failed in the 90s because they did not reach a critical mass of developers.

Today they have more developers then they would need.

Still their tactics has one weak point; They must deliver the best product in the market. In the moment there is a better Product, with a better OS and it is open, the users and developers would abandon the "Apple Empire".

The loyalty and "fanboyism" for the Apple brand is not for Apple itself, but for the high quality products they consistently produce.
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Exactly.

He even said that he decided that he would rather have a "hypothetical children" have a rich morally bankrupt father that could pay for college than one with integrity.

edit: oops this is pointed out above.
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He's behind all of the earthquakes of late!
I love buxfer.com. One of the things I love about it is that you can choose to keep your credentials local if you choose to.
Sue them for what?