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iPad (that is, iPhone OS) could be better at setting the time. I was completely unaware I had to do that until I tried using the App Store. I wasn't prompted to enter the time when I first started the device, the time didn't synchronize with iTunes and there doesn't seem to be support for synchronizing with Internet time servers.

Maybe they overlooked this because iPhone gets the time from mobile networks?
Ouch. I hate working with XSLT, I used to use these to update eclipse update sites when I was doing release engineering at my old job.

As an aside, if I took all the effort I spent in doing things the hard way to prove somebody wrong and spent that effort on making money, my life would be a lot better right now.
Every Time You Make a Powerpoint...
Because of all the downvotes, I suspect people aren't getting what I'm saying: if the author of Hackermonthly wants to run something more frequent as the parent item suggests, he'll need a new name.
You must have started at a decent salary...

I'm earning 8 times more than I did when I started, also 12 years ago (six figures now). Though to be fair, I didn't have a degree when I started and began in tech support.
Why I Bought an iPad
I stopped reading when it referenced Microsoft as it's primary source for information concerning security. What a joke.
You could always use it to upgrade your car. Getting a large display for e.g. movies, navigation etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSnIXfoSU6I
Just so its clear, with this idea you would have to build you own achievement system regardless. You're just giving the site a copy of it.

Just curious, what would the incentive be for me as a site owner to pay for your service as opposed to building my own?

It really depends on the complexity of the 'rules' which award the badges and how often you update the requirements or add new badges. If your badges are going be like "post a photo!" then you really don't need one. But, if you have a very high traffic site and a badge that is awarded if X happens 100 times & Y happens 200 times OR Z happens 3000 times... then you have to consider how you will manage these requirements. And also how much extra load you're adding to your database every time a user performs one of those actions.
Bonuses are the first thing to go at the slightest hint of any sort of economic wobble in the macro-environment.

Unless you have it locked in, very explicitly, in writing - fuck the bonus, give me higher base.

I worked at a company with a bonus scheme, which seemed groovy in the first year I was there.

From year 2 till year 5 (when I quit), I did not see even a whiff of a bonus, despite knocking my perf. reviews out of the park. It was always canceled because of some external factors.
If you're interested in this sort of thing, definitely check out DSLR News Shooter: http://www.dslrnewsshooter.com
The blog covers video journalists using DSLRs for their stories and the articles generally come with some great advice.

A couple of examples:

- http://www.dslrnewsshooter.com/2010/03/22/johnnie-behiri-sho...

- http://www.dslrnewsshooter.com/2010/03/25/into-the-haiti-ear...

I bought a 7D a few months back. It's fantastic, although I haven't made use of the video much yet.
would be helpful if you include a link to your site in your gentle reminder email
Check out undrln.com, it is design oriented (and UX design oriented).
I have noticed this in my home wifi network. Also, I get frequent disconnects on my Sprint Overdrive hotspot.
The speed is awesome but some of the UI elements really bug me. For example, there is no elastic scrolling unlike other all other iPhone apps. Although, somebody pointed out that Apple has a patent on "elastic scrolling" which may be a reason for Opera leaving it out. I bet you can't implement it outside of what the SDK provides you.

Also the multi-touch isn't as smooth as mobile safari.
Neil Armstrong: Obama NASA plan 'devastating'
Almost always, a full tank is a bad bet unless if you know from experience that it's the cheapest station in the area.

A few years ago, I started playing the time-domain analogue of this game (which you sort of allude to later). When gas prices are low, I keep my tank close to full. I'll stop at the gas station (which is not out of the way of my normal travels) to refill even if it's only a couple gallons. When prices are higher, I can use that reserve to ride it out and wait for prices to fall again. I don't use any more or less gas this way, but I do get a marginally better price on it.
I'd love to see other applications be able to pull current weather from the location aware weather app.
Ruby Programming Challenge for Newbies: XML Transformer (#8)
One misbehaving iPad is enough to piss two people off.
Basically, a magazine can make money either by selling Content to its readers (what newspapers do, see also http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Why-conte...) or by selling access to its readers to other people with content (often known as advertising).

The more readers you have, the more revenue you can generate from either, or both, methods.

I don't have actual other suggestions, but figure that's your framework. How else can you charge for access to your content? or access to your readers?
PhoneGap AppStore Approval
If I can plan it...I usually fill up a gas station a few miles away...why? Because there are 3 gas stations on that one intersection..and their prices are usually 20-30 cents cheaper than other gas stations in the area.

And if I can't plan it...I just fill up whenever, since the difference between the super duper cheap gas station and arm and a leg gas station...is pretty small.

If you have a 10 gallon gas tank, and the difference is 50 cents....you'll only be overpaying $5 for a tank of gas.

And since the difference is usually much smaller...you'll usually just pay 1-2 bucks more to fill up now...instead of trying to find a cheaper station.
Theoretically, they didn't. The C2D they put in it performs as well as a comparable i3, using a core i3 or i5 meant they'd have to have extra graphics hardware.

A Steve Jobs email is quoted as saying they chose battery over CPU. Looking back on it, that's probably the choice i'd make, as well.
Interesting that the system switches between two distinct devices at different power/performance points. There is probably some redundancy here, in that the higher power/performance (discrete) GPU likely includes all the elements of the simplified (integrated Intel) GPU. So the discrete GPU could be designed in a way that dials down the power and performance to match the discrete CPU. I know Intel and AMD CPUs include voltage/frequency/power-gating dials for selecting a power/performance point, but I don't know if GPU engines make heavy use of these features.

The simplified GPU being integrated with the CPU probably saves some power from not having to go off-chip to talk to each other. This power savings might be what justifies having two distinct devices.
.. I feel like I've lost 10 secs reading this. I mean, there are so many git workflow and tutorial, this one is like the first 2 lines of a good one but extended to a full page. Hacker News or Nooby News ? Yes down me, thanks, I'm used to it.
I am unsure if this is intrinsically stupid, but in our university, we have subdomains of the form www.faculty.university.de, mail.faculty.university.de, ssh-gate.faculty.university.de, mayflower.servers.faculty.university.de and so on. At least the ssh-gate is different from the www-server, and it appears the www-server is equal to the mail-server. Stripping the www here would be a world of hurt.

Long story short: the www is not necessarily stupid, especially if you use it to designate a web server from different servers.
It's really like sowing seeds and waiting for it grow mature. You will get some weeds, but that's part of the process.

For example, I would consider some ideas and just when it's getting so good, I stop thinking about it to leave on a high note. This usually happens when you least expect it at places such as the shower or during freeway hypnosis.
PForDelta is another interesting approach that isn't mentioned here. It claims slightly better compression than VByte, and significantly faster (~2x) decompression on modern superscalar processors:

http://www2008.org/papers/pdf/p387-zhangA.pdf

I've yet to try it in practice.
Well I do hope that battery will up to its promise like the iPad's. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens when the reviews roll in with the benchmarks, etc.
I'd bring a sword and shield to school everyday.
Walnut Cookies Recipe
I'm not saying that Adobe actually would pull their products from Macs, but I'm kind of surprised by the responses from the 'Mac faithful.' A good portion of Mac users rely on Adobe products for their livelihood, yet they rally behind Apple. I'm just wondering if they would actually change their tune if Photoshop was no longer available for the Mac, or would they just change careers so that they could stay on the platform.
Google exec worries over 'rudderless' Java
Aren't there apps that can do this?
I've wanted this forever. I made http://geoipweather.com/ for my own use but GeoIP's (free) database is pretty bad, and damn near useless when using AT&T proxy servers via 3G.
NSA on the Flash-Media Hunt
Trefis: Understanding How Products Influence Stock Price
First online organization to win a Pulitzer Prize
OSQA - The Open Source Q&A System
No, emigrating doesn't help. U.S. citizens and green card holders living overseas still have to pay U.S. taxes on all their investment income, as well as on wages over $91,400.

Giving up your U.S. citizenship doesn't help either, they make you continue to pay U.S. taxes for the next 10 years or bar you from the U.S. for life.

(And the banks overseas aren't in the habit of helping you generate all those IRS forms, the way banks in the U.S. will do when you earn interest on your savings account or whatever).
I guess all they care about is blocking the flash to iPhone compiler.
Not sure if the article writer is American -- in many other countries 'mobile' is synonymous with cell phones, and thus 'mobile games' could be interpreted as 'cell phone games'.
Hey, if you're getting tired of having coffee with VCs, send 'em my way, Ben! I'd gladly have coffee with VCs! :)
We Need A Payment Revolution
But that's due to a captive audience and a single channel of sales. You could make the same arguments for many things.

Disney can turn a higher profit selling soda in their parks because they are the only ones selling soda in their parks and a 20oz bottle costs $2.00+. That doesn't mean this is a net win for anyone but Disney.

If WalMart were the only retail store on the face of the planet, people that were able to sign deals with WalMart would also enjoy great success...

The reason they wouldn't do as well in shrink-wrap channels is that they would have to have a larger marketing budget, and market to a wider audience at smaller returns. The audience of iPhone users is an audience with low barriers to impulsing purchases, and an audience of relevance (i.e. iPhone users going to the AppStore are all potential customers, random people in a B&M store may or may not be potential customers).
But the time saved adds up at the same pace, as well. If spending $1.50 to save 10 minutes is worth it in each invidual case, in aggregate it's worth it as well.
Beware at Customs: Gov't has banned iPad imports (Israel)
Wouldn't giant cans of bug spray be more effective?
You're right about them being redundant if run in succession. Fixed in the post, thanks!
How can non-techies be 'frustrated with the lack of continuity of Android' if they don't know what it is?
Google docs viewer has worked well for me:
https://docs.google.com/viewer

Example here:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/embeddable-google-d...
Inside WikiLeaks’ Leak Factory
Europe Finds Clean Energy in Trash, but U.S. Lags
I hope this works, but my guess is that a minority will say "no", and the majority will ignore your request.
Does it take pictures?
Is cleanliness to blame for increasing allergies?
I feel that large amounts of bug spray would have detrimental effects on other life as well.

Plus, it is much less fun than swords and shields.
I'm glad that iPhone OS is providing us an excuse to take personal computing a least a few steps down the path to where it should have gone years ago.

Users shouldn't have to launch and quit applications. They shouldn't have to save and open documents. State should just persist. Always.

If you pull the plug on your box you should be able to plug it back in and all state should be restored within seconds.

All applications should always be "running" and in the same state you last left them. You only need to switch focus between them as you perform your tasks.

Can modern OSes really not be made smart enough to manage our systems in this way? Why do users decide which applications get memory and CPU resources? Why do I need to manually start a bunch of applications and open documents after restarting my computer? None of this makes sense.

Hopefully iPhone OS can push us further down this path.
This is of course the well known secretary problem. Of course to equate this with the secretary problem, one must assume a random distribution of gas prices.

But I think you can do better in real life. You can find a gas station that is more likely than average to have lower prices.

Just look for the station that would seem to be in the worst competitive position. I.e., the one that is inconveniently placed, that is away from the highway, that has a small sign, or that has a less famous logo. It will probably sell you cheaper gas.
This seems like another skirmish in a fight that's been simmering for ~20 years within NASA over its various missions. One side, which most of the astronauts (incl. Armstrong) are on, thinks that manned exploration ought to be paramount, and therefore supports things like a return to the moon, a manned mission to Mars, etc. Another side, made up mostly of scientists, thinks collecting interesting data ought to be paramount, and tends to believe the most cost-effective way of doing that is via probes, satellites, and robotic rovers.

Bush mostly sided with the first group, making a manned return to the moon as a stepping-stone to a manned trip to Mars the centerpiece of his NASA policy. Obama's mostly siding with the second group.
I'm curious why iPhone can't page application memory out to persistent storage (whatever of that 16GB etc you're not using for music) when they're in the background and RAM runs low. That would be the ideal - frozen background apps saved to persistent storage until needed without sitting in RAM.

I'm assuming the OS is modern enough that all apps have their own address space so perhaps the hardware doesn't have an MMU capable of the necessary remapping of physical memory into a different address space.

Oh and two nits with Grubers piece. 1) This system is well thought out but it's hardly "state of the art" and 2) on iPhone OS 4.0 backgrounded apps will receive a willTerminate notification before they're completely terminated.
Could you clarify what you meant by this? When a new game is created, the developers of the game will be responsible for defining the achievements in webchiever.
Apparently, since their own header site talks about cross platform compatible code. This makes somewhere between 0 and negative sense, considering Jobs basically said "read Gruber" and Gruber said all kinds of things about why cross platform platforms were bad for apple.

I...I... I'm really damn confused by this.
I don't think anybody's ever got this quite right. It's especially frustrating working with Firefox and GNOME terminal. Firefox copies into both clipboards, GNOME terminal replaces the selection clipboard when I Visually select something in vim, then when I paste from what should've been in the selection clipboard, I get what I just deleted in vim. It seems the behavior wrt selection vs copy clipboard is inconsistent from desktop to desktop and version to version.
The close button on Windows Mobile never closed the apps either, it just minimized them. If you ran out of memory, Windows Mobile would close the oldest used application automatically.

A great blog post, the Emperor has No Close about this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/10/05/The-E...
On Mobile Safari, the URL is displayed without the http:// until you tab on it and it will include the http:// as the URL box expands.
I expect it was omitted just like copy and paste were omitted so they could get it right. But the squeaky wheel gets the oil so they haven't done anything about it.

Thats my guess for what it is worth :)
When an app is swapped to disk, all it's code and data pages are stored. When it's resumed, the code and data pages are loaded back. This isn't so terribly different from relaunching the application (loading the code) and having the app restore it's state (loading the data). In fact, the app can even be more efficient in saving it's own state because it can discard anything it knows it doesn't need.

Paging is really only necessary if you can interact with more than one application at time. On an iPhone, that doesn't happen. Paging is probably less efficient than this system.
I like that it showed me the weather in Fahrenheit, even though I'm in Australia. Location aware...ish.
"Actually, when I started reading your post I thought to myself, "seems like this guy just finished his chapter on Perfect Competition"."

I will admit to being an economics student, but I've known about this principle for years, I didn't just learn about it yesterday. I made this post because five people on a forum I frequent were all talking about how great it was for them that startups required very little capital.

"But the main difference is that regular people have the opportunity to actually strike it rich."

Regular people have always had the opportunity to strike it rich, and for most of the US's history, it was easier than it is today. The idea that technology startups are some sort of fundamental shift in US social mobility dynamics is a harmful, dangerous lie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie

http://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Thomas-Stanley/d...

"High capital requirements tend to mean you need social connections to people with money."

You need those connections anyway. Or, at least, you need to be part of the upper third of society. It's not an accident that Bill Gates's father was a name partner in the largest law firm in Seattle. Why do you think Y Combinator has so many applicants? It's because they provide the connections people need, and the applicants know that.

"than you see low capital requirement markets are in fact a blessing,"

Low capital requirements are good for the customer, and I explicitly stated that fact. What I was saying is: they aren't necessarily good for the entrepreneur.
Mobile Apps Market Scales Up From Zero To Billions
To explain the context - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte#Criticism_of_Power...
The default is to minimize apps when you tap the close button, but kill them if you hold it down. You can change this in the preferences.
Plot Written Entirely On iPad.
In Starbucks.
Does Anyone Actually Watch This Stupid Show Any More, Didn't It Jump The Shark A Couple Of Series Ago?
This article gives more context and seem an more interesting read: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36476183/ns/technology_and_scien...

While Armstrong is on one side, Aldrin is on the other:

On the other side of the debate, the most outspoken Apollo-era advocate of NASA's new policy is the man who was Armstrong's co-pilot for the first moon landing: Buzz Aldrin.

"Many said the president's decision was misguided, short-sighted and disappointing," Aldrin wrote in an op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal. "Having the experience of walking on the moon's surface on the Apollo 11 mission, I think he made the right call. If we follow the president's plan, our next destination in space, Mars, will be within our reach."

What is the Constallation program?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program

An excerpt from the wikipedia page:

President Obama's argument[32][2] is that the lifetime for the International Space Station would be extended by an additional 5 years and an additional US$6 billion would be paid to private companies for shuttling astronauts to and from it after the Space Shuttle program ends while NASA develops new technology for future space exploration missions. According to Obama, his vision embodies a "bold new approach to human space flight that embraces commercial industry, forges international partnerships, and invests in the building blocks of a more capable approach to space exploration."
This is my new game Trickochet, and how I fund my startup
Elon Musk and electric cars
Android 2.1 at Fault for Nexus One Screen Issues? Droid Owners Beware
Twitter vs. Facebook
False dichotomy. There is a linear continuum of skill, from "completely unskilled" all the way up to "world-class rockstar". In some fields, eg. medicine, if you have median skill for people in the field, you'll do pretty well. In other fields, including programming, sports, movie acting, and math, if you have median skill you'll never get anywhere. Your argument was, "If you have world-class rockstar skill, you don't need to worry about succeeding". This is, in fact, true. However, this does not apply to the 99.9999% of us who do not have world-class rockstar skill. And it does not refute my argument that, given lower capital requirements, there is going to be more competition, making it more difficult for the 99.9999% of us without world-class rockstar skill.
Hope you guys like it. It's exclusive to that site and others within the same network for about a week so if you have feedback or find bugs please share with me.

I should gross about 7 or 8 grand off it in total which is how I've fund my startup over the last year... an analytics platform for Flash games like these and their more social cousins.

Edit:
It also provides me a great opportunity to really show what my startup does and means:

http://blog.swfstats.com/post/Trickochet-launched-today-or-w...

It's been out about 24 hours and an early, glaring and killer problem has become visible. Nobody will share, favourite, or rank well a game they start losing on the 4th and abandon on the 5th levels.
If DS sales is 2x of iPhones, then Apple did beat them, because iPod touches sold more than iPhones (not sure by how much).
The article discussed was this one in CACM (link is to discussion on Lambda the Ultimate) http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3824 . I remember seeing it on HN too, but couldn't find the page immediately.
Nothing in PhoneGap is against the TOS. It's a wrapper around HTML and JS, providing in WebKit's javascript engine access to system services. In that sense, it's not against the part of the TOS which says specifically you can use Webkit.
He pretty much lost me with his "the USA is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity" and the "to be without carriage to low Earth orbit ... destines our nation to become one of second or even third rate stature" lines.

In an environment of extreme political and economic turbulence, the status of the space program is about the last thing I'm concerned about. The space program was a useful ideological tool when it was fresh. Now any state with enough cash can launch.
I agree. I was showing my iPad to a friend the other day and she asked me how to save a Pages document. It took me a few seconds to figure out how to explain that there was no need to save documents. Documents are just always there.
You mean, following down the path that Palm OS devices used since first released in 1996?
You only develop strong muscles and bones if you put some stress on them in the form of exercise. Without that stress demonstrating the inadequacy of the existing systems our efficient bodies don't waste energy building muscle and bone.

It stands to reason that the other systems of the body similarly only develop when they are required. They need some level of stress put on them to develop to their capacity.