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No, part of the privilege of being a registered iPhone developer is you get access to beta SDKs and information that the public does not. The idea is to give iPhone developers who are in their program a head start. The fear of getting booted from Apple's program is usually sufficient to bite your tongue before you saying something in public that should not be discussed.

As an example: now that the iPad SDK is no longer under NDA: one of the most interesting APIs in iPhone OS 3.2 (iPad) is MPMoviePlayerController gaining the backgroundView and view properties. Basically, it opened up a whole arena of interactive video applications that overlay graphics on top of live or recorded video (think
watching baseball game on iPad and pulling up player's on-base stats by clicking on magic button hovering near base, true interactive TV, interactive remote control with show previews...)

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Medi...
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>* You've written your own source control for this code [ +30 points of FAIL ]

Linus Torvalds wants to have a word with you.
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It's not surprising that there is high demand and a shortage right now. I'm seeing completed (sold) eBay listings for 16GB Wifi models anywhere from $595 up to $800.

The secondary market is a huge indicator of the unmet demand in the primary market.
It's the usual modus operandi as far as Apple is concerned. Non-US Apple users and developers like me are getting used to this by now but it is nonetheless quite disappointing.
Your code assumes it is running in a POSIX environment [+20 point of FAIL]
First, congratulations! Doing what you did in 9 months is every entrepreneur's dream (well, most of them anyway).

Also, I'm looking through your product and I have to say I love the way you've done the tour and videos. I hate going to a new product and seeing a 3-5 minute video explaining the entire product. It means I have to disrupt whatever I'm doing to see what the deal is. If a feature is introduced in the beginning of the video, I may have forgotten about it by the end.

Having many >20 second clips makes it much easier to see how the product works. My company is looking for a new Agile tool now, and AgileZen is high on the list.
"Abandon" is not the right word, because it usually implies moral failure or, at the least, defection. In this case, he's taking a break for health reasons, which is an entirely different situation.

I hope he gets better soon.
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That's just a tad ironic.
Isn't carriage to low orbit about to be provided commercially?
http://www.virgingalactic.com/news/item/virgin-galactic-unve...

Seems like a better plan when the private sector is beginning to put men into space to develop the next generation of technologies.
Are you telling me you can't wait few extra months?
"Storm in Channel, Continent isolated."

;-)
Because he is. He's letting his nerd flag fly. Last I saw him he was riding a segway, buying multiple iPads, and wearing what appeared to be a giant cock ring, but was apparently some kind of magic trick.
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I recommend The Millionaire Next Door.
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this is definitely a record the site with the long domain 37 characters!!!
That's really neat.

I hit the same problem of crossing edges when doing this a while ago (in Python rather than JavaScript).

Rather than trying to get everything done automatically by the code I added the ability to click and drag a point. So the algorithm gets you close to a good layout and you can then make adjustments to avoid unwanted crossings.

It reminds me of an old HN comment "think cyborg, not robot" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164833).
Good introductory article. I never thought about branching even on smaller features (only do it for big ones) but it makes sense if you need to fix something critical and you're not finished your feature.

git branching is so simple I guess it makes sense to do so :)
One interpretation of this guy's video is that he recommends befriending nerds on the basis of potential material gain. Another interpretation is he applies this standard to everyone and only recently realized nerds can conceivably meet it too. Still, pretty funny vid.
I thought you guys were syndicating stories to reach the audiences who would comment on human interest stories, etc.
I'm more interested in releases than 'hosted projects', as many of the latter are unfinished. Which is why I've always used Freshmeat rather than Sourceforge.

I agree that it's probably a bit long in the tooth, and I'd be happy to add something newer, as long as it's not too terribly biased. Which, however, I think github (and StackOverflow) continue to be: the former in favor of Ruby, the latter in favor of various Microsoft things.
Congrats! How much did Rally Software pay for the acquisition?
If Apple only allowed in EA, Activision, Ubisoft, etc - you'd have a point with your captive audience analogy. The PS3, PSP, PSN, etc fit in great with your argument.

But the App Store is different than that. More than just the big names are allowed in and are making money. And that's the net win.

Apple delivered a massively lower barrier of entry (even if it's arguably higher than necessary and certainly higher than we might like) and they've gone out of their way to provide services that massively level the playing field: hosting, equal placement[1], cc processing, international support, etc.

Even though it's still a closed platform, more creators are making a living by creating and that's a net win in my book.

[1](Try getting a shrink wrap game on a shelf at Best Buy next to The Sims. Increased marketing/packaging/distribution costs aside: it simply does not happen unless you sign on with a publisher.)
The site's source code is almost even better than the site itself.

almost.
Original HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236686
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Yeah, I'm not surprised that much. Next up: the 500 euro + VAT iPad and the even higher UK prices.
Yes. I just think programming languages, as mental tools, have much more influence on our thinking than physical tools. It's easy to observe: I have colleagues who don't know currying and lambdas, others who don't find them useful, and others who plainly don't get it. Programmers. I doubt such blindness applies to physical tools. But that may be because I'm not proficient in manual works.

That said, even if I am wrong, "languages are just tools" is still harmful. This phrase is often followed by statements like "the choice of languages don't matter that much", or "don't whine about your language". These are valid to the extent you have to take into account existing code (read: past mistakes), and team expertise (read: ignorance). However, they tend to overstate these issues. For any big enough project, the technical merits of a language trumps anything else.
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Thanks jonp. :-)

I think that's a good idea. The force directed layout algorithm isn't bullet proof, but it's a good approximate layout for a human to tweak.
I don't think there is any cause for worry. Lets look at some dates...

(1) Snow Leopard was released 8 months (Aug. '09) ago. (2) Leopard was out about 20 months (Oct '07) before that.

Given that, Apple could announce 10.7 at the 2011 WWDC, release that Fall, and be within their normal timeframes. I think for Apple this is the "Year of the iPad (and OS 4)." We just have to get used to that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
Hardware vs. Software: http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/01/20/hardware-vs-softwar...
He deserves it.
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Apparently you missed this last night: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1263994
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This is an interesting motivation, but the algorithm itself isn't particularly novel -- it's more or less a Quick sort with a really bad way of selecting pivots.
Guys please explain to me why so many of you are coming to the defense of the engineering effort? Perhaps it's different in this case, but most companies, particularly ones funded with 33 million dollars, make decisions based on business and what will eventually lead towards making actual moola. Theirs is not a charity case. Engineerig efforts there are not acts of chivalry. What is their big master plan on coming out the end of this tunnel, or are they simply taking random shots in the dark hoping to hit somethig unexpected?
Besides the email being show plain, is it me or the is no way to change the email address?
I tried and couldn't find it, and that's really inconvenient.
Assuming that you're running on POSIX is pretty safe these days. Even Windows has a POSIX compatibility layer.

I'd go so far as to say that being able to build and run in a POSIX environment without needing any platform-specific configuration (or autoconfiguration) is worth at least 20 points of WIN.
Out of interest, what was the charge on an ipad for their service? The rates are hard to figure out on their site.
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I don't want my font size jacked up to incredible levels, thanks.
"If your CPU power dropped by 75% for an hour every day, how long would it take you to notice?"

As long as the hour was one when I was using it, I would immediately notice. But then, I usually only work on dual and quad-core boxes and our optimizing compiler isn't. Maybe I wouldn't notice if I were on a 16 core box and it was just one of the cores.
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Everything Apple sells has a primary purpose. If their products didn't, they wouldn't be very good would they?
Interesting that Jobs complained 'sub-standard apps', and then allows PhoneGap? I think PhoneGap is a great tool and should be allowed, but look at some apps made with it. They feel chintzy to me. Navigation bars and toolbars don't stay on screen when you scroll for instance.

I don't think that's really a big deal, but the logic doesn't work if that's your reason for 3.3.1 and blocking flash.
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Not quite fashionable in the cloud era, but still power/price ratio is crushing :)

I post it as I find it quite funny. I don't have any relation with a seller, so please don't consider it an offer spam as it isn't.

Unfortunately the auction website isn't in English.
One thing particularly interesting about this is that Graph Isomorphism is in a hypothetical category of problems sometimes dubbed "NP-intermediate": they are believed to be hard, but nobody has proven they're NP-complete. Linear programming used to be one of these, but was proven (rather brilliantly) to be in P by Leonid Khachiyan in 1979.

Notably, as far as I know, it hasn't been proven that NP-intermediate even exists. It's quite possible that all problems believed to be in that category are actually either P or NP-complete. If this proof is on the right track, this possibility may be all the more likely.
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Reminds me of Bret Victor's BART train schedule redesign: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#case_study_train_schedules
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I agree. But versioning isn't implemented in the iPad and they may never implement it because it's too complicated for users to understand. Without it, though, any program that just saves your document (permanently) without asking is going to be annoying.
I will though acknolwedge sympathy to the engineers for having such a seemingly impossible task laid upon them.
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What a bullshit post. Apple didn't invent the ads, they're already there! Look at the app store and you will find numerous apps that have free ad-supported versions. Apple is only getting in the space to make sure we get quality ads, and not ads for viagra or other annoying stuff that we really don't care about.
As noted above, if the pirated software does not represent a lost sale but is used for something that is a net benefit to the economy, it's a positive effect. And even if it does represent a lost sale, it still might be positive if revenue is redirected from the movie industry and instead to something that has a higher multiplier value like some more labor-intensive thing.

Clearly the assumption that it's all loss is ludicrous, the people who pirate software or whatever probably are mostly in segment of society that already use all their disposable income. If they couldn't pirate, they would either forego it or redirect their spending from something else. Given that the net savings rate of the US population, at least, is negative, it's not like people are hoarding cash while pirating stuff...
Classic marketing trick, keep offer low to maintain high demand and high buzz.

In your brain this translates as : rare -> valuable
Using $100+ and up as a subtitle is tacky. Much like "The Ladders" job (Scam) site that claims only 100k+ jobs.
Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/29909093/5812
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You are absolutely right. Alas, this is mostly applicable when you still have the choice of the languages you will use or build to solve your problem.

When we have settled for one language, though, no matter what we do, it greatly influences our thinking. For instance, I know and love Ocaml and Haskell, yet when I do C++, I have to think in C++ to a great extent. If I think more abstractly (declarative description of my problem, proper separation of concerns, algebraic properties…), I can guarantee the C++ translation will be utterly unreadable, because the mismatch is too great.
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More proof that people who uses the word "fail" as a noun have few opinions worth listening to. Using his criteria, are there any major F/OSS projects which are not "So much fail, your code should have its own reality TV show"?
Since I've started working recently, I've started reading a lot more about GPGPU. Now I kinda want to thrown down the money to build myself a new desktop so I can try to teach myself programming for CUDA...

Still, Im very impressed with the sort of technology we can deal with in our own homes. It's insane to realize just how beefy gpu's are today.
Yeah, it'll be a while before desktops are on the out and out. At that point, the few of us using them will be grateful linux can be installed on anything.
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It's been way too long since I've seen some ASCII art. Nice source code.
A couple of days ago it just followed your mouse wherever it went so you didn't need to drag anything. I think I prefer that than what the interaction is now
Yeah because that worked for Google Wave ;)

It can sometimes work, but sometimes people just get bored and move on.
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We don't do anything to your facebook account, we just want to know real names so that comments will be better quality.
You can ask me any question other than that one. :) Their offer was generous enough to make us completely scrap our plans for staying independent and growing the business ourselves. It wasn't just the money though, after meeting Rally we were convinced that everyone was better off if we joined forces.
Beautiful. Thank you for posting that as I doubt I would have come across that. As someone who rides public transit 5 or more days a week, that is a very useful visualization.
Or he might just be making a joke.
I used MyUS.com to forward one, got it on April 7. It's not allowed by Apple, but I like to see them try taking it away from me now ;) (Hint, don't use 'Suite' in your shipping address, that's apparently a red flag, just the number will do.)
Also known as a "Velvet Rope" strategy
Being non-consensus right (like Apple, Nike, etc)
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Always funny to me to see people not realizing the author is not always the submitter
Wow! Did not know about that. And personal shoppers, too!
I meant, that the VCs didn't gave them the money for the old style of StackExchange sites. Before this change the StackExchange plattform was licensed from StackOverflow and operated by Fog Creek.

I guess the questions that now comes up is:

Did they make the change because they raised money and are now able to do this, or have they changed it because this was the only way to raise money?
Regarding "how to train your dragon". We anticipate that you would Google for it, and that you would find your way to Captain Critic, see some of his other reviews, have a read of them. The next time you look for reviews you see the same thing, and before long you just decide to sign up for RSS.

Then you notice some good comments in the RSS (we'll be sending the top comments with the feed). One day, one of them provokes you so much ("How dare they say that about the matrix") that you click the reply link and let him know your opinion.

And so on. Its not about newstilt, its about the journalist. You like his movie reviews, you'll come back next time. We're giving the journalist everything they need in terms of services to make it happen.
I might be a little too cynical here but a government agency spending millions on something that is functionally equivalent to a mailing list and a wiki is not an unrealistic scenario.
Just for clarity: that's the original discussion of the "Marriage optimization" issue, not the sort algorithm.

(I'd hate to see somebody skip the sort application thinking it's dupe.)
This is unfortunate, because I was really looking forward to this book (as well as "Land of Lisp"; c'mon Barski!), but there's not much you can do when it is stopped for "health reasons". The vagueness implying that it is probably fairly bad. All that can be done is to wish him well and hope that he recovers from whatever it is that he has (if it is possible).
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But if I learn babel17 won't I become a traitor!
Employee or independent contractor (good technical overview)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=205918

But generally, you are correct.
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Congrats! I can see why Rally would make the acquisition. Their core product has about 8 different ways of doing anything and lots of extra clicking. Definitely needed streamlining - this is as of several years ago, they may have improved it.
Congratulations! We use Kanban and have been evaluating GreenHopper. One of the reasons we use GreenHopper is it is installed locally on one of our servers. Companies like ours (despite exceptions for Salesforce.com) are hesitant to lose IT control and project data privacy and put stuff in the cloud - to the point where hosted solutions are almost by default not considered (Basecamp, Campfire, etc.). Any consideration to selling an installable corporate version?
With all due respect, Apple is a US company, so giving preference to their homeland is hardly unconscionable.
We're going to work on that. People with larger screens will get more content on them. But give us some time, there are a ton of features to do and bugs to fix.
Rejected: location-aware weather can be obtained by looking out the window.
You could also encrypt with AxCrypt or similar beforehand to give defence in depth
Or, you could argue that if Sergey had had a pile of people being friends with him that he would have been distracted from his intellectual work.

Do you think Microsoft would have come about if Bill Gates had got laid earlier?

(that's the excuse I use when discussing why I'm not an internet mogul right now, heh cough)
its awesome and super easy!, it took me exactly 30 seconds to figure out that I can move the slider. Pls don't listen to the old farts here who say that the site is "shiny" or "Can't figure out".
That's not the same, $(...) is a method which creates a list. ',' is a string. So actually you're doing exactly the opposite of the python idiom.
> are you going to let user to customize/filter/personalize "news" page?

Yes, when there is a little more content up. We're also going to automatically make a nice homepage for you based on what you like, recommendations, and facebook connect.
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First result on this google news search at the moment: http://bit.ly/dvVAkb
I think this is more along the lines of what he was trying to say; he was young and dumb and now he has learned from his mistakes.
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Maybe, but the article doesn't actually present any evidence that that's what's going on.
I don't use my real name on facebook either, and I know many other folks who do the same. Indeed, I might prefer to use my real name on NewsTilt but NOT facebook.

As with many of the login complaints, this is probably only an issue for a small minority of your target users.
Considering that the Linux kernel hardly is the sole user of Git, these 30 points hardly apply.

Conversely, Emacs certainly deserve a few fail points for being the sole user of its programming language (Emacs Lisp).
What makes you think that? Just because they don't have it available to the entire world on day 1 means that US customers are more important?
Come on, you don't have to be a social pariah to find success as a start-up founder. That's just silly.
It's a convenience so that every iterable object in the world doesn't need to implement a join() method. I pass generator expressions to join as often as lists, so it works out well that the method is on the string rather than the list.
I'd imagine that they've thought of this, but how do they know that the planets are truly moving backwards rather than just seeming that way due to a planetary strobe effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strobe_light)?

It's a serious question, I am curious. I don't know how they make these observations and thus whether or not the observations would be subject to strobe effect artifacts.
I'm suspicious of their sources when Delphi outranks Javascript as well...
Fellow Akroners too! Glad to hear man. Next lunch at Panera is on you :)
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The story is pretty awful from a journalistic standpoint, however how much money does it really take allow three organizations to communicate with each other. I am willing to be its not even anywhere close to $14 million dollars.
This is one of the reasons why I shipped one from NYC to Johannesburg.
My internal monologue, just now:

"Wow, I can't believe he posted that on Hacker News."

"Wow, I can't believe that's getting upvoted on Hacker News!"

"I'm totally upvoting that."
Aah, Neelie Kroes, the person who gave Bill Gates both a honorary doctorate and a €500 million fine. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelie_Kroes)
Before someone else says it: I know I should migrate to using Git, I just haven't found the motivation yet! I will try to migrate in the next few months though.
Fascinating find, but I wouldn't call this a disorder, rather a desired trait. The only issue with this "syndrome" is that they cannot process social danger signals--which I believe can be taught even though it is a fundamentally an intuitive defense.

The trade-off? "They do not experience the jitters and inhibitions the rest of us feel." Talk about a huge advantage.
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We'll have to see how this pans out. The language in 3.3.1 puts Javascript and the Cs into two separate categories with regard to access to "the documented APIs" and taken at face value would appear to rule out Phonegap.

(and yes, I have looked at their source and know how it works.)