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I'd say the reason that Apple hasn't gone for more pixels per inch on their computers has to do with the lack of resolution independence in their operating system (though it's been on the horizon for several years now). Making everything denser makes for harder-to-read menus and controls, unless the software (including third-party software!) is smart enough to compensate for it.

With the iPhone, they're presumably addressing the software aspects of the resolution change in addition to just bumping the pixel count.
I hate to see another TechStars company fold. I was pulling for you.
A Letter: Apple Wants Its Secret iPhone Back
It is, but, well, I guess I'm just a weird nerd... you can buy the same (new) electronics at pretty much any Yodobashi Camera store, and if you're not heavily into action figures, anime, or porn, than there isn't much else in Akihabara, in terms of food or nightlife.

It's a fun shopping day, but if I was going to spend a week or two in Tokyo... well, I'd go to Osaka. But failing that, Shinagawa and Ikebukuro have better dining, Shinjuku has everything, and there's a ton of restaurants near the Tokyo station.

Although, if you want good food, and you don't feel like paying for the 'atmosphere' of a high-class restaurant, stay somewhere near a major university (Waseda, Tokyo, or Chuo). The restaurants all cater to students, which means they're cheap-ish, but not so cheap, that the quality suffers.
As he discovered, the airlines use thermal printers which selectively heat a special type of coated paper to produce the imagery so the cost of ink wouldn't factor.
Oh I see, you're turning this into some kind of pride thing. How about these Texas stats

Children without health insurance rank: 1

Air pollution rank: 1

Teen pregnancy rank: 1

Adults without a High School diploma rank: 1

Innocent people executed: 1 (that we know of)

Radical religious boards designing curriculums: 1
I would argue that you can wrap up all those up by saying that they focus on the user experience, rather than on any of functionality, features, performance or price. And it turns out people like stuff that works easily, even if it doesn't do exactly what they want.
I think a lot of people don't realize how few users are needed to get a story to the front page. A story often only needs 3-5 votes to do so, giving your one vote a large amount of power. Voting a story from 100 to 101 doesn't really matter, but voting from 3 to 4 is often the difference between the story dying and staying on the front page for several hours.
I would happily pay more for an iPad HD (or whatever). I was (and still am) excited about it as an e-reader++, but print on the iPad looks merely adequate (ie, just like a laptop), not stunning, as I would have expected.
If they're smart then it would actually be a very restrictive subset of Python, not the full language.
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I use mine to clean my ears. So, by the end of the flight, its...completely ready to be your bookmark :-)

Personally, I like the last one by Davin Yoon. It separates graphically according to takeoff, flight and landing.
http://pindancing.blogspot.com/2009/09/sudoku-in-coders-at-w...

http://norvig.com/sudoku.html
Just to add to your list: http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html
I'm not familiar with exactly how CS5 generates iPhone apps but I'm curious how these apps would have handled something like multiple cameras. If Adobe's UI control doesn't include a camera switching button what happens when you install the app on an iPhone 4G? Do you have to wait for Adobe to update their library and for the developer to re-submit the application? Do previously submitted applications using Apple's APIs directly automatically inherit the camera switch button? Is the user going to sit there fumbling with the app annoyed that they can't use the features of the new phone they bought? To me that's a very compelling case to restrict non-Apple approved tools. Not sure this is actually the case or not -- just speculation. I think we're entering a phase of technology being so widely used that even the smallest glitches, bugs and inconsistencies are increasingly unacceptable to people.
Thank you for telling people that it's one space after sentences and not two in modern typography.

http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?p=12
I don't think that was really their goal. They wanted to make a better question and answer platform. If I wanted to talk about video games in general, I wouldn't go to a Q&A site about video games to talk about them, I would go to a BBoard type of a community. They both have their audiences and both fit needs of different communities.

Joel talks a little about Bboards in his interview on Mixergy and talks about their vision with developing Stack overflow and stack exchange in the first place. http://mixergy.com/stack-exchange-joel-spolsky-interview/
That's $1500 PER CAPITA (every man, woman & child). All things being equal - $6K a year for a family of 4 is consequential.
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I'd missed that story, it has a point, in that passwords are a very poor solution to that problem. But, if you're going to use them, you should change them regularly.

But you should write them down and keep them in a secure location. Just like you keep a backup of your private keys...
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I'm flabbergasted that they include the php session id in the url after all this time. I don't believe its even an option since php 5 and has been disabled by default for many years.
With all due respect, I think the non-geek viewpoint of Apple suffers from a lot more myopia.
Wow. What has Giles started?! This "I'll-teach-you-to-be-a-great-developer-for-$$$" trend is scary...
Before the lab even came out, you could "paste" image data into an html email.
Simple feedback: Is it necessary to have different (apparently randomized) effects when changing between pictures on the left? Must have been fun to code, but it is inconsistent (and confusing, getting opposite direction transitions when always pushing the same arrow).
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That seems reasonable. I'll look at the interview later; thanks.

It's just that BBoard's design and interface seem so dated, so cluttered. SE is just more slick, such that, a community could really spawn around it. :( oh, well.
I don’t think journalists should drag someone into the public unless it is absolutely necessary.
You sort of described the cyclical nature of fashion, without intending to.

Things that are "in style" slowly erode in distinguishability as they become mainstream and overused, and then the better elements from older looks are remixed into something distinctive and those who have the motivation and wherewithal to try them out (you could call them the fashion-conscious) bring these new looks into vogue.

You can find this in everything: music, clothes, art, not just typography. That's not to say it's a bad thing, it's just an evolution of human interest.

Out of those fields, typography remains the most closed discipline (I would argue creating a professional typeface is on the level of carving a violin, it is much more inaccessible than combining clothing accessories or beats in audio production), and since the elite foundries are still moving into the digital age kicking and screaming, there is much interesting progress to look forward to. It will be a while before typography is starved for ideas and recycles lazy, supercommercialized dreck the way (in my opinion) pop music has gone for the YouTube/iTunes era.
Ah, now I see. They couldn't just return it, because that wouldn't provide enough drama. They had to have proof on Apple letterhead that it's a real iPhone prototype.
While I still think it was a low blow to personally name the employee who lost the phone, at least Giz is doing the right thing by returning the phone.

Obviously Apple would have wanted this to stay quiet, but there is no law (or even big ethical problem, though a small one, certainly) regarding the announcement of the discovery of an object. (IANAL)
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Jeez, talk about the pot and the kettle. From a five second skim, the harm minimisation part seems pretty appropriate:

Harm limitation principle
...This principle of limitation means that some weight needs to be given to the negative consequences of full disclosure, creating a practical and ethical dilemma. The Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics offers the following advice, which is representative of the practical ideals of most professional journalists. Quoting directly:[17]

* Show compassion for those who may be affected adversely by news coverage.

* Be sensitive when seeking or using interviews or photographs of those affected by tragedy or grief.

* Recognize that gathering and reporting information may cause harm or discomfort. Pursuit of the news is not a license for arrogance.

* Recognize that private people have a greater right to control information about themselves than do public officials and others who seek power, influence or attention. Only an overriding public need can justify intrusion into anyone's privacy.

* Show good taste. Avoid pandering to lurid curiosity.
Kerning is not enabled by default in Word?

http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?p=766

You have to activate it by checking a box in the Font dialog box... so irrational it's painful to contemplate.

I can imagine they did this for backward compatibility's sake (kerning would impact page layout), but consider the fact that 90% of the word processed documents produced today have crappy kerning because it was hidden behind a checkbox nobody will ever touch.
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It would appear they did this in order to get Apple to send them a formal letter getting them to admit the phone was Apple's. And for pageviews.
It is a big deal to Apple.

Inside the RDF, you are probably correct.

Back here in reality, I would just like to take the opportunity to shout out, _BIG FUCKING DEAL_. They're working on a new version of the arguably most successful consumer electronic in history. WHO KNEW? It uses all the latest technology. WOW! It looks... SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT! Stop the presses and notify the President!!

I am tired of Apple acting treating it's product pipeline like it's the fucking Iranian nuclear program, of the blogs and MSM gobbling it up by the fistful, of these fools who buy into this idiocy and waste minutes, hours, days sitting in line for the newest iProduct. Really? You're going to post a 5 minute video of you unboxing an iPad? Certainly there are more pressing issues confronting mankind.
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This was on HN before... but I can't seem to find it. This was another design based off of it that I thought was interesting - http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p...
This is about the WiFi issues, not any other reason (like “Students really shouldn’t use closed toys like that” or something :)
Photograph of Steve Jobs’s office taken earlier today http://www.flickr.com/photos/skarpi/4527797541/sizes/o/ (via gruber)
On a Mac, cross-platform Java/QT/Wine apps that totally ignore UI custom are incredibly annoying

That's true, but it doesn't really apply to games, where even "native" apps almost always use their own UIs. And it doesn't apply at all to frameworks like MonoTouch, which call exactly the same native UI methods that ObjC apps do.

It's a power grab pure and simple. Flash is the primary target, Android is secondary, and if as a tertiary effect it reduces the percentage of crap apps, that's a nice bonus.
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Neal Stephenson's article about computers (In the Beginning was the Command Line) likens (iirc) Macs to BMWs and Linux to a build your own tank. Sure it might be cheaper and a hell of a lot of fun to make your own car, but it's not for everyone. Not sure he cares so much as while he needs work done he gives you great mileage per gallon.
Anyone have any guesses for why the curve looks like it does? I can understand it going up in the long term, but why do private and public schools seem to follow the same basic curve? What causes a decline in GPA?
This no doubt casts a shadow on his career and life.

I think you're overestimating the impact this has. People generally don't remember a name in an article they read at some website some time ago. Secondly, the number of people actually reading this is quite small. For instance, suppose someone lost a Nokia prototype in the same way and the engineer later applied to Apple. How large is the chance that the responsible guy at Apple HR would have heard the story and remembered the name?
Schools made grading easier during the Vietnam war because the students who flunked out were eligible to be drafted.
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But they don't release the names of people like this. I took a journalism ethics class taught by the news manager of a local ABC affiliate, they would never run a story like this. This is beyond disgusting.

Edit: This http://gizmodo.com/5520438/how-apple-lost-the-next-iphone is the article I'm referring to. Purchasing the iphone was definitely illegal but it isn't completely out of bounds for journalism.
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Where have you applied lately, that doesn't Google your name?
The article isn't very good. Things like

Princeton said the iPad causes DHCP client malfunctions

are nonsensical. There is not a clue in the article as to the real problem. I suppose the iPad could be very agressive in its attempts to obtain a DHCP address and cause DHCP server problems, but other than that...?
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Just ordered one. Looks like my media center dock problem is solved.
I'd be more concerned about that design's impact on non-english speaking travelers.
I would definitely come along to a Sydney meet and I know a few other people who would be keen as well.
Sorry, but you're completely wrong about this. Anyone searching his name for the next 50 years will find this amongst the top 10 unless he ends up with the web presence of someone like Leo Laporte or Joel Spolsky (or someone with the same name does).

The question is not whether hiring managers will find out about this - they will - it's whether they'll care.
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> If Adobe's UI control doesn't include a camera switching button what happens when you install the app on an iPhone 4G?

Flash CS5 isn't going to be used to build the next big application. It will, however, be very useful for creating (or porting) games and other multimedia experiences. The iPhone 4G will likely have a higher resolution screen and Flash itself mostly resolution independent -- it might not take long for Adobe to update CS5 and all those developers could have 4G ready high-res apps in less time than it takes an Objective-C developers to fire up Photoshop. It's really not as simple as you make it out to be.

> Do previously submitted applications using Apple's APIs directly automatically inherit the camera switch button?

Most likely not.

> Is the user going to sit there fumbling with the app annoyed that they can't use the features of the new phone they bought?

It's been mentioned many times when discussing Apple's rule changes that developers and apps are easily replaceable. If Joe Developer doesn't update his app, it'll just be replaced by another app by another developer.
Out of curiosity, why doesn't Apple sell docking stations? It is my favorite accessory for my Dell and IBM laptops.
Omitting irrelevant facts is the whole point of news publishers in the informaton age. You don't pay them to find information, you pay them to filter information.
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I love it, the heat keeps it real. Less clothes is the solution.
At my company, about 60 people, we do the exact same thing with yahoo IM statuses. One glance at your contact list and you know who is around the office, who's working from home, etc.
I work alone, so this is not very useful for me. But I wish I have an use for it because your interface is absolutely gorgeous.
I would like to see the change in the enrollment of both types of schools. Maybe the enrollment of public schools increased faster than at private schools, so demand for private schools went up and thus they have better students than they used to.
"I have been afraid to start my own side projects, out of fear that I won't be able to contend with what other people can do"

Why do you care? Taking some one else's code and rewriting is a great way to learn. First, you don't need your own idea. Second, there is already a "viable" solution you can learn from and third, you can get to the meat of being a great coder. "How can I make XYZ better, simpler, more performant..."

Once you learn thoughs skills you can go off and create yor own projects. Look at all the things people love today, they are simpler. better architected, more performant versions of existing solutions. Apache -> ngnx, MySQL -> ...,

If you are afraid to fail or worry about what others think you won't be a great coder.
Technically speaking the quoted sentence fragment might be correct: other machines on the network are DHCP clients, and an IP address collision (caused by the iPad's DHCP fail) can lead to them behaving in a way that would be described as a malfunction.

That being said, yeah. Not very good. It's a mainstream media article, we'd be waiting for a long while if we wanted them to make sense of technology beyond "ooh, shiny."
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Quick comments:

1. Why do I only enter my password once when creating my first account? Other added accounts are told to confirm their password.

2. How do I transfer control of the group to someone else?

3. I just deleted the account holder, it now appears that no one can manage the users.

4. 3 isn't quite true, since even though my user account was deleted, I am still logged in.

5. Ok, now that I've logged out, I can't log back in with the now deleted account (good), but still can't use the other users to manage the group (bad).

6. While I'm on it, it would be nice if it said somewhere who is the admin, so I know who to bug when someone needs to be added/deleted.

Now positives:
I like the smooth look and feel, easily something you could keep logged in on a dashboard somewhere (and we all know how much hn loves dashboards). In fact, a "full screen" view might be nice (one that hides the 'edit' box).

Some may not like this, but I like how you can edit multiple people's statuses (though I haven't tried this from a non-admin account, I hope it still works). It's for small groups, so abuse shouldn't be a problem.
The video claims you don't have to make any settings changes. The first question that springs to mind as a PC user with a computer hooked to a 40" TV - does Mac automatically adjust your resolution and overscanning properly when you plug it into a TV?

If so this seems like a cool little device
He is definitely the "real deal."
hey i don't mean that in a bad way
This is an important issue in online shopping. However it is really technical and boring, so nobody pays attention to it. But if you live in a state with sales tax and buy stuff over the internet, you should.

Here is the issue. State governments are allowed to levy taxes against their residents. A common one is sales tax. If you are a resident of North Carolina, or New York, or California, or lots of other states, then you owe sales tax on everything you buy. However experience has shown that individuals don't keep track of what they buy, and won't calculate or pay that tax. Therefore it is easier for the government to get vendors to charge the tax, and then they collect from vendors.

The problem here is that it would be unfair for any state to be able to compel every merchant to think about their local laws. Therefore the legal principle that has been settled on by the Supreme Court is that a state may only compel a company follow its laws if that company has a physical presence in that state. Otherwise that company can ignore anything that the state says, even if said company is actually doing business with residents of the state.

Please note here that by law the tax is owed by the citizens of the state. Collecting it from the merchant is merely a convenience. But in practice the tax won't be collected unless the merchant does it. So the question of whether the merchant can be compelled to collect tax is really a question about whether that tax will be collected.

The argument that has been brewing is what "physical presence" means. In particular Amazon is careful to avoid having employees, warehouses, etc in states that collect sales tax. But a number of states are trying to claim that Amazon affiliates, private people who are paid for promoting Amazon, are part of Amazon, and can represent a physical presence that are grounds for suing Amazon. Amazon, unsurprisingly, does not agree.

This is Amazon's latest salvo. They claim that the information being requested invades people's right to privacy. And therefore they can't be audited. However North Carolina doesn't actually want to know what people are reading. They want to know how much people paid, and therefore how much tax people failed to pay.

At stake here is billions of dollars of uncollected taxes.
you are aware of the fact that 'accidantely' leaking secret information is and has always been part of Steve's game, aren't you?
Sorry, that's more narrowminded Apple fanboyism than I can take this early in the morning.

"Are there any really significant ones that are challenging the iPod’s dominance in that market? Not really."

Dude, take off your US goggles and look at market shares elsewhere.
NYTimes' take on it: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/technology/companies/20app...

And obligatory hotly watched thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1278409
Yes, but I could see how programmers would need a specific advice as well. Monospace fonts for terminal/coding use, for instance.

Also, much of his advice doesn't apply to the web. Fonts designed for print often don't fare well on the screen, especially at small font sizes
I picked up the habit of putting two spaces between sentences in elementary school, and have not been able to shake it since. Luckily, this problem is automatically corrected in latex!
There is a subtle, cool point in the story as gizmodo tells it:

The fellow what left the bar with the phone called Apple repeatedly, and "all he got for his trouble was a ticket number". I bet the gawker lawyers said, at some point, "when you write this up, be sure to mention that we have that ticket number." That's ample support for a fairly broad subpoena if Apple were to decide to take action.

Oh, you should also notice that they aren't putting out a call to identify the Random Drunk Guy. That's a bit unlike them, unless they are already in contact with that person.

Oh, and: Apple's counsel saying "where and when can we pick it up" -- Apple knows they have no cause of action here. Otherwise, they would just send 'round a sheriff to collect it.

So, is Apple now going to repudiate that ticket number? Or do we all agree that an appropriate and honest attempt was made to return the phone, that failed because of negligence by Apple, and that any money paid for the transfer to the press is, at the very, very least - perfectly legal?

(As for Gray, I would hope that Jobs et al. would do what any decent boss would do if the stated facts are right: console the guy, remind him that shit happens and that the firm highly values his work, make fun of him at a staff meeting and mention at his next performance review how happy everyone was that he reported the phone missing as soon as he realized it.)
What really bothers me about this particular aspect of the App Store approval process is how hypocritical it is. If Apple wants to make the App Store a clean place then that is their prerogative. However, to leave Sports Illustrated Swimsuit apps and sex position apps while talking all high and mighty seems rather hypocritical.