skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason I put marketers on that list (and higher than users) is because Apple sometimes goes with "shiny" things which are marketing fodder instead of things which truly improve the user experience.

But you expounded on my point nicely -- Apple and MS have different philosophies about developers.
Four-Hour Workweek or Executricks?
Well yes, I have read opinions that Apple is abusing some sort of market dominance and/or reneging on expectations it has set by changing its SDK terms. But let's stick with opinions that Apple is either (a) disadvantaging itself, or (b) disadvantaging developers with its current set of choices.

I didn't realize that quoting Giles was considered disrespectful of either of these opinions. It was an interesting take. I like what I know of David, and consider myself an awfully opinionated guy as well. That doesn't mean I don't think it's worth pondering whether this particular bit of criticism is... Um... "interesting," nor do I predict he would be outraged at Giles' comment or my quote of it.

If I thought you, David or anybody else wrote something that they were not entitled to write, I would use the flag feature, not a comment. To me, a comment is intended to provoke thought and debate, not to suggest there is something that should not be said.

Now to clarify what I intended when I quoted Giles. I didn't think of it as a "David shouldn't have said that," rather I thought of it as a "If it's right for Rails it just might be right for iPhone!"

I still think that even though David gives Rails away and Apple does not give iPhone away. iPhone is an opinionated product, and people are correct when they say that Apple is saying "Fuck You!" Apple is saying that in exactly the same sense that David said it, even though no you can't fork iPhone.
I find http://www.colourlovers.com much better all around.

I've struggled with Kuler for a while. Its just too slow and cumbersome (try copy pasting to Photoshop and back). The reason is of course that its all in Flash. There is a built-in Kuler toolbox in Photoshop, but that's as slow and cumbersome as the site.
The Seattle to MountainView comparison is interesting between Google and Microsoft. Consdiering 12% CA income tax, Microsoft pay is higher.

But from experience, Seattle Google and SVC Microsoft are both lower base than the motherships. So the results of the city level comparison can be explained by this factor.
Scrolling problem exists in Safari (Mac).
I don't want you to take this personally, so I'm just going to dispense the standard advice for people with great ideas but without someone capable of building them: great ideas are a dime a dozen, and anyone with the ability and inclination to be a "tech cofounder" probably has their own ideas. Building your skills and making sure you have something to contribute other than a "great idea" is the best way to get something accomplished.
The title actually reads: "If Apple is Serious About Advertising, It Needs to Drop Carrier Exclusivity"
In many cases, the game has already been developed. What can they do but wait and see what actions Apple takes to enforce?
Argh, accidental down vote... someone move that eject button!
As an insider I think those numbers also include bonuses for Microsoft numbers at least. And being on the inside we are told we are paid on average more than industry. That may be true at face value but I really think we need to compare ourselves like this post does: to those we directly compete with.

But money is silly. The best thing MS can do is create an environment in which Senior Developers don't leave. But the only way MS knows how to do that is with $$$. Which is not sustainable.
Reading this the documentation is really easy to read and understand. Doesn't seem to have the restrictions of Django, you could build small distributed apps that communicate over sockets or REST.

Would also hope to see good support with document databases like mongodb.
> Be aware that this security issue only affects Atlassian customers who created an Atlassian account and purchased one of our products before June 2008. Since then, we have been using a more secure user management system based on Atlassian’s Crowd product.
the people in silicon valley by nature are more future focused and more innovative thinkers, thus more qualified to comment on this subject.
It also prevents pwdhash[1] from letting me use a hashed password. Makes me resent any Flash-based login forms.

[1] http://www.pwdhash.com/
What's the cheap legal way to get it?

Empower is going away May 21st; Any other options?
I'm talking about the developer perspective. "Being in a camp," means developing for platform X or Y because platform X won't license you because you're on Y. This is a bad situation and I'm against it.
I'm curious... how would you have developed a schema for S-Expressions without it ending up just as verbose? What do you lose? End tags?

http://www.agentsheets.com/lisp/XMLisp/ as an example of what XML in lisp would look like, and I can't say it's much of an improvement. Further, end tags make human debugging much easier.
My first computer job as a teen was working at a small SEO shop (3 people) writing little cgi/perl scripts for this and that.

Yahoo's http server at that time used to take redirect URLs in this format: "http://yahoo/url/*http://exiturl/. They were using these URLs on all search results, I'm guessing to track click-throughs to improve rankings. So I set up a script on our site to load an image using this format with the img src in the exit-url, and for the yahoo-url and we would round robin 'client' links though. Essentially spoofing legitimate search&clicks on yahoo from unique IPs from our site visitors. Over the next two weeks all our sites started bubbling up in the results. This worked for about a month before Yahoo changed something (I'd guess they started validating the http-referrer or the exit-url), and it all stopped working.

But, for that brief window of time when it was working, I was the king of the high fives.

(FWIW, I don't do SEO work of any kind anymore, and I certainly don't advocate 'blackhat seo'.)
#1 is a bizarre argument. I can't weed my garden unless it is already free of weeds?
"The author makes the common mistake of assuming a static market, in which developers on the intermediary platform are permanently fixed to that platform. In a fluid app market, what is the likelihood that those intermediary developers will stay loyal to their platform while developers on Apple's platform eat their lunch?"

I would say it's pretty high, because if they wanted to learn Objective-C and get on the iPhone platform, they already could have. The exact reason so many Flash developers are pissed about this is because they want to use their existing skillsets on the iPhone platform, but can't.
But would you always catch it if you were redirected to www.youtube.com.you1ube.com/something?

Or possibly worse - http://www.youtube.com⁄bad-site.com/something_else
iirc the Ultimate version doesn't come with the professional MSDN subscription.
Xaml parsing is WAY faster in VS2010. In VS2008 Xaml parsing would stall my machine for 30s on a regular basis. On VS2010 they seem to do the same file in a second or two. This is a huge difference. Project load is also about 2-3X faster.

Besides that though, they seem pretty similar.

Looking forward to using IntelliTrace.
Seems nice, I'll try it out!
What I'm talking about isn't that ridiculous. Paying 6 months' salary is a small cost compared to the cost of a termination lawsuit or a negative article being written about the firm.

I'm guessing they gave him 2 months pay and nothing for the move back, from Dubai (which is a dangerous place to lose your job, by the way). They also seem to have given him nothing in terms of exit counseling.

To answer the question you raised: his article and the fact that it got published is the leverage he had. I bet it's circulating around BCG right now. It has the potential to be a morale and image problem, and not the Goldman Sachs style of image problem (where people hate GS but consider them good at what they do).

There are rational reasons for firms to pay decent severance packages. It's not just something they do to be nice.
Not that Python needs more web frameworks (http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks), but it's good to see Python use its new poor-man's equivalent to Ruby's block syntax.
Yeah, I agree — dribbble is definitely on to something.
OpenHatch: Browse open source for ways you can contribute (or add your project)
I'm in the UK, and I have never had anything even close to this proposed to me, by any employer, of any size, regardless of how happily I left.

It's only boilerplate text if you're the kind of person who also accepted the "We own copyright to everything you ever do, at work or otherwise" clause in the employment contract.
I think these are aimed at people not old enough to get into bars.
Are Flash CS5 iPhone Apps really "developed using" Apple Software?
Excel is scriptable by COM and therefore VBSript, Python+PyWin32, and any other COM scripting language.

Presumably you mean IronPython integration in a different sense due to it being a .Net library? Got any links with examples of how that looks / what it can do?
Umm, I don't have flash and I was able to go through the purchase process fine. (I'm on the firefox Nightlies on Linux)
well "manufacturing devices" is a very big topic, same as "software company" they (Apple) started competing with Microsoft (and Nokia and so on) a long time ago when they added the iPhone to their stack.

Then they're all focused on their topic, which is "Technology"
The HTML page, for comparison:

https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=...
URLs are not a security mechanism. They are a non-canonical resource locator, where each part is resolved by a different server. It's a way to write a "program" that does a DNS lookup and HTTP query in a simple way.

Nothing more, nothing less.

If you want security, start a CA, give each site you like its own SSL cert (signed by you), and enjoy.
And so stickers back there would bother you?
>...they'd have shipped a conventional laptop form factor if they could get away with it.

One can imagine some combination of Apple's old 12" Titanium PowerBook and the new MacBook Air into a MacBook Air Nano. Still, it's not clear how attractive that kind of form factor would be as a netbook offering.
(I'm the submitter.)

It turns out there are hundreds of open source projects where the maintainers mark bugs as good for new contributors. So here you can browse them. The projects range from well-known like the Python language and Firefox down to small MediaWiki extensions.

If you're up to your neck in code and would rather write some documentation, you can try that, too.

Penny for your thoughts.
That would actually be ok and I would be surprised if Apple cared one way or another. Why? because such a thing would run inside Mobile Safari and/or Webkit. It couldn't run roughshod with the CPU any more than Mobile Safari/Webkit already allows its JS interpreter.

The only way this could really irritate Apple would be if you wrapped the whole thing up with PhoneGap or something like it. have at it of that interests you!
The reason why evolution stands out in contrast to other questions is because the church never got around to making a 'genesis' that flat out contradicts the size of an electron or how lasers function, and then turned this in to a central piece of their doctrine that supports a whole pile of other religious concepts.

Also, evolution operates on time-scales that most humans have trouble perceiving and/or thinking about so it is a convenient concept to create doubt around, even if it is one of the best supported scientific theories out there.
> His result: Education seems to play a big role in how long a state’s average resident works, and for what wage.

There's nothing here that suggests the causality arrow runs in that direction. Here's another take "all workers prefer to work less; workers who have foresight and long time horizons get education so as to avoid working second hobs".

> This scatterplot suggests that state hourly earnings are positively associated with the percentage of immigrants (correlation of 0.64).

Sigh.

This could mean anything, from "having lots of cheap yard workers around makes it easier to put in weekend hours" to "high hourly rates draw in migrants", to just about anything else.
Cool.

So as an aside, I think your great-uncle would be your grandfather's brother but this would be your "first cousin once-removed"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CousinTree.svg

(and thanks for the opportunity to brush up on that :-), it's confusing)
The shamans who lead ayahuasca ceremonies are usually rather strict about who they'll let participate -- particularly if they're dealing with people from the first world, and the panoply of chemicals we put in our bodies. When I went to Peru to drink aya, we were specifically disallowed to take any Western medicines, except an anti-malarial, without consulting the shaman first (and had to discontinue use of them weeks before going down there), leaving completely aside the strict dietary and other restrictions during and for some time after the trip.

They've been doing this for thousands of years; I'm pretty sure they have far a better idea of the risks than your comment seems to me to intimate. (Assuming, of course, that they aren't just brujos, there primarily to take the gringo's money. That's not a problem with the medicine as much as it is with the practitioner, however. Even then, they likely know the risks very well; they simply ignore them. As with everything else, the doctrine of caveat emptor applies.)
What about updates?...
It would be more like taking out flowers in an attempt to free your garden of weeds. :)
I use a very sharp knife and citrus degreaser. Some stickers on a recent eeepc were quite difficult to kill with just degreaser, but the knife peeled them right off. Then a few minutes of polishing with a microfiber cloth and optical cleaner got the residue off.

I would kill for a stickerless-laptop with Debian unstable pre-installed. That would easily be worth $100 to me.
How do the software companies compare to developer positions in other industries? I am pretty happy with my compensation at a bank :)
We know they're bad because they're unknown. If there would be no significant protest, mostly passive buy-in, then there'd be no reason to keep it secret.

All dark rocks hide cock roaches.
its probably a good bet, apple's intentions are pretty clear and nixing studio-quality game engines is not to their advantage.
What happens if you click the link instead of dragging it to the toolbar? Will it really submit the bookmarklet page?
Concurrent Revenue Engineering
> Have you thought about DRM?

Yeh off hand; and I decided against it. Partly for "moral" reasons but also because there doesn't seem much point/use to me.

Thanks for the link; trawling through all that info now :D
the camera/usb functionality is available directly from the browser application. does this help? Usually you always have to upload your files to your computer from the camera then from the computer to the website.
Isn't there a recent lawsuit involving Apple accusing HTC of infringing 20 patents, even though HTC is not the stereotypical Chinese cloning machine? Isn't Steve Jobs expressing his frustrations with Android every chance he gets, even though there's lots of prior art in the mobile OS space?

Apple surely acts like it's having a special license to address this market (whatever that means).

So I don't know why we are having this conversation. Being opinionated doesn't mean you need to be a jerk that prevents others from playing on the same beach.
In the case of most pharmaceuticals, the best science can tell us is that this chemical correlates with that effect. We still don't know how aspirin does what it does for chrissake -- just that it does it. The only difference between that and a shaman is clinical trials. (Except, of course, that the shaman actually has an explanation for how his medicine works, however anathema it may be to the traditional Western mindset.)
Hm, I think I see what you're getting at, so the cameras file system is mounted directly accessible to some browser based app that can then upload the files. So you do need an extra computer, not just a wifi enabled camera.

I thought you meant these guys:

http://www.eye.fi/

But apparently not. Will search some more.
>I certainly appreciate that developers may not like it. But not liking something doesn't mean it's wrong or illegal.

This is what I think is lost by so many here and elsewhere. I personally don't like the licensing change, but I don't think it's illegal or immoral. That's the attitude that I can't stand. The argument shouldn't be "They can't do that!", it should be "they shouldn't do that, it's dumb".

I'm not sure that it is in the best interest of Apple in the long term to limit the toolkits developers can use. But those are the terms of playing ball with Apple. I suspect that most developers will just abide by the new rules, but Apple is setting itself up to miss out on some apps because of it. I think they just calculated that they have enough critical mass to not care.
Shocking. The Unity3D guys were runner-up in the Best OS X Graphics category in the 2006 Apple Design Awards.
I assume this was posted in reference to this comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1259627
speaking as someone who gets, ah, the scraps, I can tell you that you must be clearly, objectively, measurably better at /something/ or else you will not get any customers. No scraps, even. When I started out way back when, johncompanies was the leader. I priced competitively, and got three paying customers.

On the other hand, you need to understand that there is no need to be better at /everything/ -as the little guy, that's going to be quite difficult. You can thrive on a sub-niche that your competitors may not serve as well as they could.

I haven't bought any competitors, but I've seen several go under (one of whom ended up renting space from me to host his personal stuff.) and it seems that the common thread with the ones that went over was that they were 'pretty good' in all areas... they didn't have one or two areas where they were clearly better than the competition.
Gnash actually, and even then only because Firefox nagged me every time I visited a site with Flash. otherwise I'd have gone without. Luckily Gnash has ClickToFlash-like capabilities built in.
... except the part that actually makes the difference.
Money pays for the tech toys that so many of us enjoy.

Money pays the bills, of course, and these days, the cost of living can cut a hefty wedge into that money...

TBH, if I can pay the bills, save for retirement, and have a little left for me and my family, I am happy; but the truth is, it's a struggle.
How do you tell civilians to scan for valid links? I say "if you see another domain name/IP address in the URL, don't do it". Maybe that is over-broad, but it works.
If a few high-profile exists like this happen, Apple could be forced into the position of backtracking or steam-rolling ahead. Neither are good for the company.
Stocklamp - real-time financial search engine
Friendly fire?
Guantanamo Bay [GTMO] "GITMO"
Of bananas and monkeys.
A New Communications Protocol
ProPublica wins First Pulitzer Prize for Online Reporting
I know I probably sound like a broken record to some, but I wrote a long article about the problem of anonymity/pseudonymity on the web: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000
More than quick tips, Erlang needs to be better at migrating things like the recursive copy into someplace standard, like Ruby does:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/FileUtils.html#M004326
Oh, I was responding more to the second post, not the quote so much. Chalking that DHH post up to "Apple isn't entitled" seemed a little flippant to me, but perhaps I was misreading you.

Your clarification makes sense, but it's not the message I got the first time. I do think putting a relatively arbitrary restriction in place is vastly different from just refusing to do something a specific way, though. One is actively restricting a personal preference, the other is simply not bowing to an idea/method you disagree with. :)
That was scary, I have to admit.
Here's a link to the winning series of articles:

http://www.propublica.org/series/deadly-choices
I think it'a more "Don't claim you're weeding the garden. We know you're not."
I'm not experienced with Sinatra, but web.py is a really elegant little framework. It gives you what you need and then gets out of the way. It's also RESTful and gets its HTTP status codes right.
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Unsub links at the TOP of your emails will lead to higher conversions . . .
Yes, it would. All other things being absolutely identical.

But I suspect what you are really saying is "wouldn't it be better if you had a completely different device by a different company running different software with a significantly less polished and pleasant experience every single time you use it for the very rare occasion that there's some code in a HN comment or linked article which is complete enough to copy and run, and also in a language which you have an environment and libraries for, and also which does something you are interested in and also which you are motivated enough to interrupt your reading to run".

In which case, the answer is no.
Yeah, but here he was telling the 1% group to have modest goals. Isn't that what YC is doing in a sense, that is :you can swing for the fences, but exiting at sub 20M is also an option. That sounds modest to me.
If you had 100 men and 100 women, you wouldn't get 100 couples. You'd get everyone going after the top 10 of the opposite sex and ignoring everyone else.
Among the tight knit group of friends that I had the majority of my psychedelic experiences with, we dubbed that 4 hour period after the peak as "Cranky Religion." It's when you've reached a point where you feel enlightened but too tired to give a damn. You mostly sit around and relate to one another how messed up society is.

Given how personal and intense my experiences were for both how I relate to myself and the world, but also with my relationship with my best friends, I can't imagine really doing LSD or Mushrooms in a rave/party like environment.
I have been using it for sometime, from FF, works great for me.
Here's something from 2004 that came up high in Google:

http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/stable_api_nonsense.html
Yes it is.

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There are many possibilities. SXML is the one I use.

You need to use a semi-structured editor, like paredit on emacs, to get all of the advantages, though. Otherwise as you mention you'll be grovelling for the closing paren, when the machine could have maintained the balance from the beginning.
Yes, it will. That's probably the source of these periodical submissions. But you can't really expect PG to ban ycombinator :)
You're welcome. The Conference is now sold out.
Nothing wrong with being able to take an idea to (at least) the prototype stage. It's very fulfilling. Once you have something living and breathing, then perhaps you'll be able to evaluate whether it's got legs, whether you need to bring in a developer co-founder, etc.
For me the process was:

1. Take hallucinogens

2. Realize things are really, really fucked up

3. Change