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Any real developer would not in good conscience be able to support this.

I hate such broad-sweeping statements.

What is clear is that Apple most definitely would [abuse their loyal users and make them pawns for the sake of trying to hurt another company].

Apple has always been about the experience of using their products, and I think a lot of what they're doing with their mobile devices still stems from that focus. Maybe they're being too heavy handed, but, then again, they're not allowing grandma's phone to be overrun with software that affects the perception of the device itself.

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I also find this highly patronizing.
#3) You're not a unique or a beautiful little snowflake. You'll find out how we work when you get here. If you can't adapt, you'll leave - probably against your will.

This one is interesting. Now, I would never consider myself a "unique or beautiful little" anything, but I do strive for excellence and I think most good developers/DBAs/any other position that requires any creativity also do that. This does mean that the good ones are not cogs where you can easily substitute one of us for another. I would be reluctant to work for any company that wanted to treat me as a replaceable cog. While I have done it in the past and would do it again in the future if I had to, I think and hope I am long past the point where I would have to work for a company like that again.

As for the adaptation, I agree to a degree. Starting any new job involves adaptation. With that said, what kind of adaptation the company expect plays a large role in how interested I would be in the job. A company that expects me to adapt because they are on the bleeding edge of tech, or wants me to work with something that is both new to me and interesting will find me quite eager. One that expects me to adapt because they are using say SQL Server 6.5 on Windows NT will not find me so eager.

If a company is hiring commodity coders to create yet more basic CRUD apps, then the company holds all the cards and can be very picky. If a company is looking for truly good, experienced developers/DBAs/engineers that are capable of working independently and substantial new projects, then the company is no longer looking for a cog in the machine and they are more likely to find a good candidate by remembering that fact and acting accordingly.
Gmail's New CSS Buttons
"Apple has revolutionized how we think about ads, you just don't know it yet."

I think I hate ads in software and I am not sure if this is going to change that.
Interesting Times for Video on the Web
Bullshit. Almost everyone pays payroll tax, which is regressive. And sales taxes, property taxes, state taxes...
"Jobs are like girlfriends (or boyfriends) are like most relationships."

Completely one-sided? Because that's what the rest of the post makes it sound like...
This story has been all over the Interwebs, and simply put, it is bullshit. Most low-income United States households pay HUGE taxes to the Social Security and Medicare system, which are not officially "federal income tax" (they are called "payroll tax" or "self-employment tax") but which constitute a huge tax burden for working families.

Every consumer bears the ultimate incidence of every form of taxation, as every reasonable economics textbook points out. Everyone who buys things made by business corporations pays higher costs because of corporation income tax. Everyone who makes telephone calls pays federal excise tax. Some consumers avoid smoking, but many fewer consumers avoid drinking alcohol, so consumers pay other kinds of federal excise taxes.

Import tariffs are no longer the majority of federal tax revenues, as they were in the early history of the United States, but consumers who buy imported things still pay higher prices for those things because of federal import tariffs.

There are other federal taxes and "user fees" that could be listed in further detail. Everybody pays taxes to all levels of government.

I wish there were some kind of tax on newspapers that publish doofus stories like that that waste readers' time and muddle their understanding of public policy.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/background/numb...

http://www.urban.org/publications/1001082.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
How do you explain this then? http://www.scaleform.com/
Embedding the ContextFreeArt language in Scheme
Very Jim Taggart of you.
Work at Loopt
We're looking for people excited about location. There's a lot of cool stuff happening in the space--more than we have people to cover.

Specifically, we're looking for people who want to do iPhone development, server development, and a designer. But we'll hire anyone smart. You get to work with smart people on interesting problems and there are lots of fun perks.

Email jobs@loopt.com or sam@loopt.com

http://www.loopt.com/jobs/server_engineer

http://www.loopt.com/jobs/iphone-application-engineer
I agree with you: the fact that this is happening to Adobe mitigates it somewhat for me, but that doesn't make the maneuver in the abstract any less severe. This is getting to the level of Microsoft telling everyone that the MFC is the way to go, but later on people discover that Microsoft is using something else internally for GUIs.
Reading Erlang: Inspecting CouchDB
While I agree that Apple isn't forcing developers onto the Mac from a financial perspective, I think it's in their best interest to promote it from a holistic one.

The funny thing is, Apple has been promoting their platform to developers for years by making it a Unix that just works. And now they're un-promoting it by having a bunch of developer-hostile policies.
Or you could simply buy an ad and post an animated GIF...
"interview lots of devs; hire one temporarily and fire them if they're no good.. then hire another etc..."

This only works for positions with no ramp up time, i.e. the crappy ones no qualified developer would want anyway.
Don't assume that he's presenting Adobe's only alternate course of action. He's taking two different courses of action taken by two different companies and asking the reader to compare them.
IPhone OS 4.0 jailbroken within 24 hours (VIDEO)
You are correct. I meant to say that founders usually have a different class of stock that has more voting rights, rather than higher liquidation preference in case of bankruptcy.
Some other ContextFreeArt implementations that I know of: http://gist.github.com/358956
Elblanco on HN's Blog
A few years ago I worked as a journalist, and one of the major events at the time was news photographers hating the fact that newspapers were sending out normal reporters with DSLRs and telling them to take 200+ shots. Most of the time, they took a usable photograph. The pro news photographers said, 'But you can't expect an untrained person to take good photographs!' And they insisted that the papers stop sending out camera-armed news reporters.

The thing with that, though, was that if you John Random Reporter couldn't take pictures of near-equivalent quality to a John Pro Photographer, the papers would stop doing it. But they didn't. If the photographers' point was true, they had nothing to worry about. But they knew they did indeed have something to worry about. The truth was that the amateurs could come close enough to equalling the pros that the trade off versus cost savings was worth it.

There is a parallel here with closed versus open systems. We howl, 'You can't do that!! Closed systems canot possibly equal the innovation and development of open!!' And if that's the case, we have nothing to worry about. Quite possibly, though, that is not the case. The insistence on closed that seems so anathema to much of the history of software development may in fact be a good thing for the end user, and our howls of outrage nothing more than being called on something that is no longer true.

That sense of threat would at least explain the inordinate number of HN stories on this topic.
This is an Apple Insider article. They are wrong so often that I get the sense they might just turn into an Apple-focused version of The Onion at some point.

Just without the humor.
Oh I can assure you we have at least as many idiots here as anywhere else, but I'd be willing to believe that Asians are a bit smarter on average than white people.
Programming isn't just using APIs.

For everything else, you may be more creative in a certain language, because you know it inside out, and are able to think in it.

Having better abstractions means you're able to fit more things in your head at the same time.
That's a misleading statement, because five billion subscriptions does not mean that there are five billion people with cell-phones (many people have multiple subscriptions).
That's pretty unambiguous. The subtext there is "Thou shalt not use anything except iAd" (since companies like AdMob are as much analytics as they are ads). Gonna be really interesting to see how this shakes out.
Note I specifically said "income taxes".
Nintendo has other restrictions -- like a prohibition on using open-source code in your project, and a requirement that you have an office outside your home -- that Apple doesn't have.

It would be difficult to argue that Nintendo's developer agreement is more lenient than Apple's.
> they're not allowing grandma's phone to be overrun with software that affects the perception of the device itself.

That may be fine if you're 'just producing devices,' but Apple presents the iPhone and the iPad as the 'future of computing' with a vision of all computing being done on devices like this in the future. Therefore the way they treat their devices' ecosystem now should be a predictor of how they see their role in the ecosystem in the future, a future where their devices are the only devices.
" but nobody saw this coming"

No, lots of people did. People dismisses us. Oh, we might not have specified exactly what they were going to do, but essentially it turned out that way.

Remember the Bikini Apps, and everyone who dismissed it and applauded Apples efforts? These people should be applauding yet more restrictions.

Look, Apple has already demonstrated it want's control over everything. This means even the web. Open standards doesn't mean anything. WebKit is their ability to control it. Open standards is nice, but just look at what happened with Flash. The only thing they are doing is using open standards to get to the next step, and then locking it under their own key. This has been going on for a long time. It's not new.

iHTML isnt a joke. I guarantee you Apple wants control over the web. If they could do it right now, Safari on the web would be restricted much more than it already is.

People might still call me alarmist, but so far, I've been proven right, and they've been proven wrong.
This is just not fair to developers.

Apple is changing the rules half way through the game, to the benefit of nobody.

I can't think of a developer OR end user who will be better off as a result of this decision. It's an innovation stifler and I can't understand why they are doing it.

This kills location aware 3rd party advertising.

As the article also says, looks like this will wipe out SimpleGeo. A sad day.
Yes, just completely change the context from one where the code runs at the user's expense, to one where it runs at the developer's, and my comment sounds like nonsense. Aren't you the clever one.
I had access to a Gambit Scheme REPL from my running application, either on the simulator or the device itself. This means that, in combination with Emacs, I was able to develop my game in real-time. Literally. I was able to write code and immediately send it to my running 3d game.

I'm currently working on the justin.tv iphone app, in Objectionable-C using XCode. I've gotten into a pattern of changing a few lines of code, pressing the build-and-run button, switching to Chrome and reading Hacker News for a minute or so, and finally checking the debug log output in XCode. As much as I enjoy reading HN, a REPL on the iphone would be so so awesome.
Change your subdomain to fullclojuredis in protest
This just keeps getting better. Although it's worth noting that none of these policy changes actually make a practical difference; Apple has always reserved the right to reject your app for any or no reason. They're now just making it obvious that they intend to do so for blatantly anticompetitive purposes, as opposed to purposes that could plausibly be defended as benefitting users.
I love all these 'embarrassingly trivially exploitable issues' that require me to set up my machine in just the right way to make them work. And for all that effort, you can't even own the machine using the exploit.

What has it been? 15 years? and this is the best they can come up with for java security holes?

You know, I don't like java, but the more stuff like this I read, the more I have to admit that it is smart for enterprises to use it so heavily.

An interesting comparison might be to look at the number of java security holes vs activex vs windowsxp vs apache vs iis vs php vs ruby vs (you get the picture). Maybe group by client side and server side. That would give a real 'data based' look at software security quality.

Though I suspect that the jvm would be at the top of the 'security quality' heap in both groupings. (ie-least number of holes). I think it would be interesting to see nonetheless.
We have something official, more official than any press release: the developer contract

We have Gruber's interpretation of a complex legal document, taken completely out of the context in which "Application" is defined. Lawyers don't get paid big bucks to interpret this stuff for nothing.
Anger at Apple over flash: screenshot speaks for itself..
1984

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
Interesting!

I particularly like the fact that the author's top score was five lines and he has absolutely no idea whether it's possible to come up with a strategy to beat the machine (it's completely deterministic).

edit: I've been thinking about it some more, and what's interesting is that you ought to be able to analyze it using regular game theory and prove interesting things about it. There must be an optimal strategy for both players, and there ought to be some highest possible score on the assumption that both players play with optimal strategy. Even if this game is too complicated to fully analyze, perhaps thinner games can be analyzed completely? For instance, is it possible for the computer to prevent the player from getting any lines in a 4x4 game? I _think_ two S shapes, a square and an L would do the trick, but I could be wrong. What if it were four wide by eight high?
"I've used both in passing" is the key phrase here.
A guest on Speed Demos Archive had an impressive 20-point game:

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http://speeddemosarchive.com/forum/index.php?topic=11523.msg...
I wish this young chap nothing but the best, but this is really not why I visit HN.
It was never intended to be an open platform, but Apple did open up as far as making an SDK and allowing people to code up apps, compile them, then submit them to the App Store. That's like a totalitarian state opening up its harbors and convincing the world's corporations that it's safe to do business.

Now they are making this unilateral change as a tactical move against a rival, seemingly unconcerned about the collateral damage. It's one thing to make a "bone-headed move." It's another to make such a move while hurting other 3rd parties in the process.

Even totalitarian states have an interest in keeping up the semblance of the rule of law. Doing so keeps commerce flowing. Going by this analogy, I guess you have a point: we shouldn't be surprised.

So, does that make Open Source licensing analogous to the rule of law and constitutional government?
All of my sites on Finnish servers have a load time under 1.5 seconds. Everything in Canada or the States fluctuate between 1.5 and 7 seconds.
Professional doesn't equal good, is what I was going for. Professional just means they are smiling when they stab you.
Best way to get a (reasonably) fast scope
Yup :) And there are actually a few more in that list that weren't highlighted...
Liquidation preferences aren't about bankruptcy.
Do you have a lot of visitors? I have my webmaster tools interface in Swedish, but it is telling me that my 1,5 sec (faster than 84% of all sites) average is of low accuracy ("låg tillförlitlighet") and has less than 100 data points.

The worst offenders to the speed of my site is that I have both google adsense and google analytics on it. I find it ironic.

From what I understand the time is sampled from visitors, and includes the time from the page request until the page is fully rendered.

I'd love to know what people do that get their times well below sub-second.
Yeah, I mean my point was that this is an article that is the first glimmer into the future: server side browser rendering. I hope that's not our future :(
Flagging political non-hacker stuff. This isn't reddit.
The funny thing is that as Analytics isn't gzipped nor local, it's usually a major contributor the the overall load time.
From my perspective, if you are a developer for Apple's iPhone/iPad platform and are disturbed by this new clause in the contract, let Apple know. Let them know by voting with you feet, and moving to a different platform. There are other touchscreen devices out there, give them your support. The reason Apple has been successful isn't just that they have nice hardware, its because of you. If they are going to disrespect you in this manner, you should feel no obligation to continue to create application for their platform. Vote with your feet: don't create iPhone/iPad apps.
I have this 50Mhz scope, and it's a great bargain on its own. Turning it into a 100Mhz scope for the cost of a few minutes with a terminal is an Awesome Good Thing.

If you're in the market, best grab one of the remaining inventory pretty fast before the patch gets obscured or eliminated.

An earlier blog entry on the same site does a teardown of the 50Mhz scope if you're concerned about quality.
From what I understand they are using measurements from visitors that are nice (or ignorant) enough to report the time it took them to get the page to display in their browser.

That will include a whole lot of empty caches. But it will be representative as well then.
Actually there's a next sentence to it: when we build the bare minimum service, we'll create the "awe" effect for tech-media bloggers. They'll think we're "pretty cool". and they'll follow us even for the tinniest upgrade we make.

What a joke. I can't even believe this is a story on this website as well.
I really, really want to use Wordpress as a bloging platform, but the constant hacks / security issues have given me a lot of pause. Can anyone recommend an alternative, hopefully one with a bit better track record?
Rails, Prototype, and JQuery in Harmony
Bundling something with the OS isn't wrong. Linux distributions come bundled with tons of software. Is that wrong? There are lots of competing softwares for Linux, usually only one for each purpose is included.

You can still develop and sell a competing application, you'll just get less traction because people already get an application with similar functionality for free.

Apple has killed off a whole class of developer tools with this and stated that if you don't use the software they want, they'll revoke your license.

An equal analogy would be MS revoking the right to sell Windows software for anyone that refused to browse with Internet Explorer.
A few years back, I predicted that Apple might get high-handed and inadvertently make OpenMoko/Android more attractive. OpenMoko has gone by the wayside, as perhaps it should have.

Here's an irony: my Windows XP tablet is now where I run my Open Source apps and where I have the freedom to install whatever I want. Newer, slicker Android tablets may take its place.
Good. The alternative is a managerie of different ad networks all collecting sensitive data about me. I'm unambiguously in favor of Apple not allowing new location-aware ad tracking networks.
The problem is that his comment is totally irrelevant. Whether what Adobe is doing is better than what Apple is doing has zero bearing on whether it's the best thing for Adobe to do, which is what my comment was about. The rhetorical tactic he was employing was to make it seem as if there are only two options, be Apple or be Adobe as it is in this post. That rhetorical dichotomy is misleading, even if he wasn't making an exclusive logical statement.
I got the five points he did without too much difficulty, but going beyond that seems difficult. This is fun!

replay:

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http://incredimazing.com/static/media/2008/03/27/c4ac3ef1404...
Are they wrong about MonoTouch? Probably yes.

They're not going to do everything right.
This article is not so far off if you limit it strictly to federal income tax. For example, I have six children. My wife stays at home. I make enough that I am well above the 50K referenced in the article, but by the time I deduct interest on my home loan, I'm much closer. I don't pay any federal income tax. I get back everything that is withheld, and even more than that. I get what is called the "Additional child tax credit" which basically means that whatever portion of the Child Tax Credit is left over after wiping out the taxes I owed, I get back as a credit which ads to my refund. This more than compensates for any state income tax and property taxes.

It does not, however, come anywhere near compensating for FICA and Medicare, which are real taxes, plain and simple, and of the worst kind: In my age group, I will never see the benefit of these dollars which they steal from me today. Anything I would have paid in federal tax is dwarfed by it. There are no deductions, no exemptions. Even if I get the paltry SSI checks when I retire, the dollar will have lost so much value that the benefit is a mere trifle compared to the taxation that "funded" it. The only good thing I can say about FICA and Medicare is that they are a flat tax, or even a regressive tax since the highest earners do not pay it on all their income.

It also does not compensate for sales taxes, nor for all the gas tax I pay, the cigar luxury tax (75% here in MN, and that's on top of the SCHIP taxes), and thousands of other hidden taxes contained in the prices of the products that I and my family consumes.

And to use this fact as an excuse to tax middle to low-income families even more - shameful.
Nonetheless, he claimed in this post that he was speaking as Adobe's representative. In my mind, if you explicitly make that claim, all the disclaimers in the boilerplate avail you nothing.