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Look at the linked profiles and at the comments they posted. If you go back far enough, the sea of dead comments (turn showdead on) will stop and you will see comments with up- and downvotes as well as responses. That’s when they were banned, so the reason must be somewhere there.

I couldn’t find it, though. Seems arbitrary to me. Looks like commenters with slightly below average quality contributions who wouldn’t be missed by anyone were banned.
Past performance is not indicative of future results. Otherwise we would all be filthy rich by now.

Sticking to the topic: Apple is well on its way to becoming the future Sony. Microsoft is throwing money at everything it can (which is a surprisingly effective strategy sometimes), and Google is throwing money and brains at interesting problems.

We live in interesting times indeed.
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Thrill as the corporate partisan sets up the straw men and then knocks! them! down!

Nobody serious is saying "Adobe's going to to get Apple" nor that "Apple owes Adobe" nor that "Apple has a legal obligation to support third parties" nor that Apple has a moral obligation to offer the choice. At the very least, these are not consensus arguments in the debates over Apple's new language restrictions and decision to not allow Flash.

Dilger really should link to examples of these opinions he purports to be exposing as myth; examples in serious posts by people with some credibility or skin in the game, not "some anonymous schmuck with a hotmail account" (as he calls his commenters.)
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Do you have showdead turned on in your profile?

His posts show up for me with it on (but greyed out and marked dead)
The quality argument isn't bunk. If a single tool becomes mainstream to 'automatically' build the same app for iPhone,android,flash,html5+js,etc then the quality is going to go suffer. Apps won't be well tuned to the individual platforms.

I disagree it restricts choice for users, and I don't think there's such a problem on the appStore. If anything, there's too much choice and not enough quality.
I honestly plan on seeing if CS5 can create anything serviceable as a UI for business apps. I can honestly see adobe going on the warpath there after this bullshit and now they have all the iPhone platform compatibility guys with nothing to do.

If that fails, droiddraw looks like a possibility. I just tried it out. Would need to test it further, but has promise.
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I did that with "access_denied", someone I've actually seen comment before, and I couldn't see it.
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Where would somebody like Gosling go to find a home?

I think it depends on the road-map of java
C# has dynamic types now and it would be hard to say it "sucks" when "hackers" and "enterprise guys" alike can use it and enjoy it for different reasons (standard static typed OO base with optional power on top like lambdas, dynamic types, implicit types, common query functions for all collections (LINQ) etc.).
vb is, as far as i understand things, similar to qemu + qvm86, if that's any help.

[i've since re-read both and i don't really understand your point. you describe 3 approaches: emulation, [hardware] virtualization, and paravirtualization. qemu (alone) does emulation; qvm86 does virtualization; vb does both (like qemu + qvm86). i get the impression you're correcting some mistake i've made, but i can't see what it is...]
Not an iPhone developer and I disagree with it. It seems ObjC iPhone devs will be happy since it means less competition for them. As a user, you should be pissed though since you WILL miss out on quality Unity3d, Appcelerator, and Flash apps/games. When I say "quality" I mean that Apple did it's job with the review process and didn't accept the crappy Apps.

I also think it was an "evil" move to wait until days before CS5 release. From a business perspective I believe Apple would have made more money by the potential sales of the banned apps (think of Farmville #s) but don't want to lose control of their vision of the "future of the web". They simply don't want any chance of a superior IDE for iPhone to be created.

All arguments of "quality" seem silly to me since that's the point of the review process. How much does it cost to hire a reviewer? How much money will the influx of quality Flash/Appcelerator/Unity3d apps bring? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to accept 60+ fart apps.
Definitely. Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was an exploration of how society could be structured to incentivize moral behavior. Schools should be structured to incentivize education.
I have a Java/Flex background, and I have spent the last four months (approximately 300hrs) fully invested in learning Cocoa/Objective-C. I love Categories and Protocols. NsNotificationCenter is beautiful. Cocoa is design patterns in real-life. Instruments is amazing. IB doesn't suck as much - it's good for some views. Cocoa/Objective-C are so well designed that I have been struggling with an impedance mismatch when going back to Java/Flex and most importantly, Windows and 'Not Responding'. I can understand why Unity3D and MonoTouch.Net make things easier for developers. Because at the abstract level, the consumer doesn't care how you wrote the application - they care about how your app makes them feel - as in did they get personal value, does it make them look cool, does it look kick-ass...

However, if an app can be written once in a framework and deployed to Android and iPhone simultaneously, that weakens the main tent pole of Apple's strategy.

I don't support Section 3.3.1, and I believe it will be enforced (with high-profile exclusions).
Nope showdead is off and they aren't greyed out unless downvoted.

//Edit ignore me they're old posts. That was stupid of me. Misread something.
It's not a performance thing. It's a productivity thing.

Eclipse is not particularly intuitive for an IDE (and if you're a java developer who uses it all the time, you have no clue if it is as you're past the point where you're learning it).

Eclipse is very testy on some platforms to get working

Eclipse really confuses the issue when there are some compile errors in your android code.

Eclipse is a fullscale ecosystem for some problem you are not solving (largely enterprise java development).

90% of the tool has nothing to do with android.

Most if not all of the "Android Plugin" is calls to standalone EXE's you can use without eclipse, and which make gobs more sense when eclipse isn't doing the calls for you.

I honestly made a pretty pure run using Android via Eclipse, then read 1 article of "Android Without Eclipse" and was able to Compile repeatedly, deploy and debug the apps I was working with easily once I jettisoned it.
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Why did the goal posts for my point in the conversation suddenly get moved to 5GL? That feels like a bit of a disingenuous reply.
for what it's worth, i would say i am I * * J, while i think you're saying i'm * * F * . so i guess that wasn't as interesting as i thought it might be.
Yeah, as a kid I would do almost anything for money. The interesting thing was when my father offered me money for performance in sports, I often delivered when normally I couldn't.

When I was 8, I was offered $25 for each goal scored in my next hockey game. I got a hat-trick...that was the first and last time I got that offer and the only goals I scored that year.
I'm rarely extrinsically motivated so even though I had a cash incentive as a kid to get good grades it made no difference to me. Even if it had, the difference between the action (significant assignments in the semester) and the reward or even evaluation (end of semester) is pretty high and could impede the motivation. Even then, it can't hurt.

On the other hand, teachers are against pay bonuses based on student performance :-/
Apparently it should be taken as significantly higher for Polish politicians, given the safety record of their air fleet. They had a previous prime minister survive a helicopter crash in 2003.
It doesn't work very well here in the UK. Here kids are paid from 16 to 18 to stay in education (and attend) - it's silly for 3 reasons:

- Everyone games the system to make money while avoiding school.

- It's not awarding achievement but attendance

- More importantly it helps expand the stigma to leaving school at 16

With that said... My Mum is a teacher and believe me: School is all about bribing kids to learn. Doing that with cash? I can't see how you could get it to work in a way that stimulates learning.

Just to blow my own trumpet for a moment, I have my own take on a solution to stimulating education:

http://www.errant.me.uk/blog/2010/04/an-educational-startupa...
According to the article, rarely.
I work in IT, where we use C# and .Net exclusively, and would love to develop iPhone apps in MonoTouch.

However, I also think Apple is doing the right thing by banning "meta-platforms" from the App store. Adding layers of abstraction that only serve the developer, rather than the phone's owner, is hard to justify on small, battery-powered devices. Especially when introducing multi-tasking features, RAM becomes even more precious, and fameworks, interpreters, cross-compilers, etc. will cause a bloating trend.

If OS 4.0 does indeed make it easier to deploy IT apps across the enterprise without going through the App store, and 3.3.1 only applies to the App store, then I know my problems are solved.
Hellbanning for spammers is great. They can keep spamming away, to the detriment of nobody!

Perhaps some sincere people are not quite {smart, thoughtful, kind, cautious, interesting, deferential, in agreement with our general mode of thinking and writing} enough to cut it here. I do think that for them, an old-school ban (one that actually notifies you of your banishment in big red letters) would be more charitable.

The funny thing is that when I make a post that gets no replies, I'll open an incognito window just to see if I've been hellbanned.
That's because HN doesn't seem to keep a full history of comments. At some point there is no "next" link even though older comments exist.
From the article it sound like a pretty solid study, other than the phrasing:

"Grades are subjective. The more objective measure would come at the end of the year, when the students took their standardized tests"

Though from the sounds of results that's just poor wording more than an actual claim that standardized testing is a Good Thing.

I think the most important results can be summed up as:

rewards work best when coupled with things that students can control (in context, not as vacuous as it sounds) and rewards should follow the actions fairly quickly.
I've had this discussion many times with friends. We believe it all comes down to the personal investment in the child's education made by the parent(s). How much they care and most importantly, how much time they spend being involved with their child's learning. It's not about how much money the school district has, how rich the kid's parents are (good test: are the cars in the faculty parking cheaper than the ones the students drive), how much is spent on tutoring. It's up to the parents to emphasize (or de-emphasize) how important learning is.
I would say it depends on the bribe.
It might work; it's a good experiment; but it's dangerous. I'd lean in favor of the Deci argument against "cheapening" the reward system for learning. The author seems to disagree. He closes with:

I ask her about the psychologists' argument that she
should work hard for the love of learning, not for
short-term rewards. "Honestly?" she asks.
"Yes, honestly," I say. She looks me dead in the eye.
"We're kids. Let's be realistic."

I think that it is a bad closing. No matter how intelligent you are, there is something that challenges you that you find rewarding -- sports, math, BMX, etc. The problem with education -- pointed out by the iceland article from earlier this week that I can't find -- might be that children are not given appropriate challenges. Incremental advancement by grades seems ugly and woefully imprecise. Some students are learning far behind their levels; some, far ahead. the former students learn to hate learning; the latter are bored.

So again, good experiment, but cause for concern. I'd be more interested in experiments that educate kids by intellectual level, not years in the school system. (Although, admittedly, parents are the obstacle. "What?! Billy's not in the highest class?!")
The intersection of ads with the new rules only has to do with location-targeting. Apple had unofficially discouraged it before, saying your app couldn't use Core Location "primarily" to serve targeted ads, and they've now strengthened that language and put it in the dev agreement (3.3.9).

There's no reason to think the Deck or FusionAds or AdMob are going away in their current incarnations.
No, I meant, I couldn't see what 'access_denied had done wrong at the point they'd been "banned".
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I'm pissed. Not sure if I'm and iPhone developer now that Steve says PhoneGap is out. Oh, well...I guess I won't be able to make 99 cents 10 times a day through iTunes sales.

On the plus side, using PhoneGap I can still develop for Android and Blackberry...and if Steve changes his mind I'll definitely take that $10 a day.
I'm not a fan of junk food and especially highly processed food but the demonstration made in this article is clearly not a demonstration. This is just a fact that is difficult to degrade organic components without water, oxygen and some organisms like fungi, bacteria or earthworms.

This could have been a better experiment if they used a real composting technique to evaluate the time to degrade and being transformed into compost.

The McDonald's Happy Meal (without the packaging) can be crushed/mixed into small parts. A similar burger (made from fresh/untransformed food) could have been used as a comparison. As the composting takes some times (depending of the oxygen concentration, temperature or the biological activity), the Happy Meal and the reference could be split into 4 equal parts. Those 2*4 parts would have been put at different place inside an active compost (from bottom to top as the type of biological activity is different). Every 2 weeks (or every month depending of the activity level) a sample is taken to confirm the level of degradation. It's not full proof but that could already provide a ground for comparison.

By the way, Is McDonald composting their unused food? or something else? we never know.
Actually it matters a whole hell of a lot.

There is a dev phone you can buy once you create a market account. It appears to be an HTC phone similar to the T-Mobile myTouch. It may be the best longterm solution as you can update the OS with Google Images.

The issue with android is that there are 4 separate versions of it in the wild: 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, and 2.1. If you want your app to have the widest penetration, you need to target 1.5 or 1.6

The moto cliq (one of the the T-Mobile phones) are stuck at 1.5 and haven't been updated to 1.6 or 2.0 yet. The G1 will likely never be able to update to 2.x (too small of on board flash space on the phone).

I've settled on a myTouch from t-mobile as my dev platform as it has 1.6 on it (which was required to run Appcelerator's Titanium). It may get returned for a cliq if they release an upgrade or any 2.x phone that comes out this month while I'm in the 30 day return period which all cells have in the US when bought without contract subsidy, or perhaps even the dev phone.

The Droid has a 2.x series android release on it.

Do not ask the people in the store, they're clueless about what version is on a particular phone. You can see it in the about menu on many of the phones if you dig in the floor models.

The android phones are not user updateable a la the iPhone. They image gets updated over the cellular network semi-randomly.

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

can be very helpful in picking a phone.
Rather inflammatory article. Some good points, but he confuses Apple "supporting" languages with "banning" them. Big difference.
You seem to contradict yourself.

"You can't build a business on Apple because they can shut you down when ever they want"

I totally agree...so why are you OK with that when you might be next?
I agree, it seems that the deadpost and comments system is analogous to TV broadcasters not showing people running naked across the field to discourage the repeation such actions. It doesn't work there and it really doesn't work here.

I find it annoying when a response to a dead comment has lots of up votes and is useful but I can't read the comment that it is responding to.
Hire a proxy in a valid country to sell them.

For instance, I'd happily sell your apps for you on the marketplace after licencing them from you (I run a US based iPhone and Android* development shop[see my profile for contact info])

*Still only 2 projects deep into android.
Summary:

"If you pay a kid to read books, their grades go up higher than if you actually pay a kid for grades, like we did in Chicago," Fryer says. "Isn't that cool?"

"Kids may respond better to rewards for specific actions because there is less risk of failure. They can control their attendance; they cannot necessarily control their test scores. The key, then, may be to teach kids to control more overall — to encourage them to act as if they can indeed control everything, and reward that effort above and beyond the actual outcome."
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Dilger sloppily conflates the two very distict arguments over Flash on the iPhone platform and the new restrictions that dictate the languages you may use when writing native apps for the platform. Unsurprisingly, as the former is a reasonable business decision, whereas the logic of latter remains controversial, regardless of the Adobe angle.

Frankly, in looking over his 2010 posts, Dilger seems to be little more than a foot soldier in General Gruber's PR backchannel army. There's precious little critical thought, and loads of partisan, fawning obeisance to All Things Jobs.
If 10 .NET apps in the top 100, this is going to affect a lot of users as well.
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The thing is, schools already use a reward system. What do you think a grade is? An A is like a gold star.

Yes, obviously if a kid is doing something for pleasure, you should continue to let them do it for pleasure. But if they aren't doing anything to begin with, no amount of waiting around for them to discover they'll like it will work. You need a stick or a carrot. And in schools, they have been using sticks and carrots from the very beginning. This was just a study on what is an effective carrot.

And rewards don't completely kill your intrinsic rewards. I loved reading as a kid, and I also participated in those summer reading programs. I got lots of prizes, and I still loved reading. The studies show that rewards do diminish intrinsic rewards, but to what extent? Maybe it's worth mildly damaging some children's intrinsic rewards in order to encourage kids without that motivation.

Remember, their studies found that the rewards showed the greatest improvement in some of the lowest performing students. The ones that are intrinsically motivated are probably already at the top, so public schools are less concerned about them.
Say for a moment that there are lots of students like jrockway for whom this would work. Give 'em $100 and they go from B to A students.

So what? Why do we want more A students? Space in universities is a scarce resource and grades are a sucky predictor of success there already. Why make them suckier by increasing the number of people not intrinsically motivated by the subject?

It keeps more people in school? Doubtful, since once you move to cash you're competing with the work force. But even if it did, again, so what? Reluctant scholars aren't made into better people by an extra year of school. If anything they're worse since they're delaying engaging in something they might enjoy, whether it's welding or carpentry or just entering the adult world.
As far as the statement from unity is concerned, it sounded like it wasn't really backed by any real indication from Apple about their solution not being banned. However, there is also no actual evidence (yet) that it is actually banned and that Apple will enforce the ban. Consequently, as they are about to ship a new release, they want to sound as confident as possible. I am very doubtful though whether they have any real idea regarding if and how they will be affected. I think they're mostly trying to prevent panic.
My latest addiction isn't an MMO, but otherwise fits your description pretty well: http://np.ironhelmet.com/
Well ... UNIX back in the old days was something of a moonlight or stealth project. Then they got money for an original PDP-11 (later the 11/20) for a specific project or task, serious text processing as I recall, and that lead to the money for their PDP-11/45 (significant since its split I and D allowed for 64KB of code, 56KB of data and 8KB of stack (the latter split due to the 45's MMU), significant because that allowed much larger programs to be written (as I recall the 11/20's architecture left the last 8KB for devices)).

That's why nroff (from a Multics program, as I recall) and troff were such a big thing back then, troff would output to a professional phototypesetter. And they had upstream piped software that would DTRT with e.g. typesetting math. And this was practical, all parts of AT&T had a lot of manuals and papers to produce.

At some later point, AT&T/Bell Labs realized they had something seriously useful here, and the research people got funding for OS work while Western Electric forked UNIX for AT&T production work. (You can find this all in the appropriate histories, I know it from them and from starting with V6 in the summer of 1978 and writing my final project in nroff for a XEROX Daisywheel printer.)

Anyway, my point here, going back to the original point, was that Bell Labs per se was much more of a pure research lab, and it was the job of Western Electric to turn some of their output into stuff they'd use in the system.

And Bell Labs was a tacit part of the monopoly agreement that gave AT&T all the telephony business in the US that they wanted, it was "a price of doing business". That's why they couldn't sell research UNIX (Vx) for real money, things like the transistor weren't locked down with evil patent terms, etc. etc.

In other words, not a situation we expect to see repeated after the '80s breakup.

Right now Go is in an alpha stage (significant parts are missing and known to be needed, code you write will get broken) ... we should perhaps judge it more by guessing whether Google will eventually use it if and when it's of production quality. In the meanwhile, we can look at them as a fairly unique company that really understands that technology is a competitive advantage and that having some of that be open source is good for them.

See Joel S. on how companies desire to commoditize their supporting technologies. Google's open source browser and mobile phone and netbook OS projects are examples them doing very directed projects that support their real business. Indirectly they do things like hire Mr. Python.