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I got a segfault on Ruby 1.9.1-p376. Check the release notes/blog post of Beta 2 - I think those same restrictions apply.
Paging is a technique to free up RAM. Whether its used to enable interaction with multiple apps, to allow a single app access to more memory than physically exists, or to allow more apps to be frozen in the background is irrelevant. It is neither better nor worse than the system Apple has designed. Its just different.

And yes, an app can manually attempt to restore it's state but a) doing so can be quite tricky (keyboard up, word half-typed) and b) it's puts a heavy onus on developers, many of whom just do not bother.
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Task-oriented UI?
If you want to edit a document and then save it as a new document you have to make that choice before you start editing on the iPad. A lot of people are going to destroy a lot of documents that way. It could be a simple fix to still keep the same model but right now it's not very intuitive.
Mmm, coding with mere hours (nay, minutes!) left has caused me to produce simultaneously some of the msot awful and cleverest code I've ever written. But you know what they say about clever code...
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If anyone still uses Windows Mobile, I recommend WkTask (not sure it works on 6.5):
http://soft.photoracer.net/docs/wktask_en.html

Map a key to launch it. Hit down, then hit close and voila. Can also switch quickly between open apps.

I'm planning to get an android device, but was very disappointed when I played with a droid and learned you can't always kill apps. The culprit in this case was the fandango app. Even after an update, I had to uninstall it because it wasn't responding. Maybe I don't know how to use the app manager?
The first time one of those private companies blows up a rocket and kills a crew of astronauts, the resulting public outcry will put NASA back in the astronaut-launching business instantly.

And if that doesn't turn out to happen, so much the better.

It's possible Obama is calculating enough to see this.
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Favicons only in the tab bar. If you have too many tabs for the window's width, they stop getting displayed first on the selected tab (making the progress indicator invisible too) and eventually none of the tabs will have favicons as they get narrower.

The stupid globe icon they added opens a useless focus-stealing "Page Info" popup window that's missing most of what should actually be shown in it (like cookies). They moved the bookmarks star to the right of the address bar to make room for it.
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All your (good) answers are belong to us.

Here's the deal: SE sites either work, or don't. When they don't, they bring in $129 until the owner gets bored. When they do work, SE loses all the extra revenue they could be making if they owned it. This way, they get every extra advertising cent. Basically 'we can make more if we keep all the money in-house'.
Exactly! Quality not quantity, please. I'm not a big gamer, but it bothers me to read nonsense like the quote above.

Some of the iphone/itouch games (or for that matter, other smartphone-based games) are garbage.
I read about that comment (elastic scrolling patent) on DaringFireball. But Apple provides a scrolling pane that has that capability in their API.
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This is what worries me the most:

http://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/12041303534

Until we get out of our comfort zone, we won't make much progress.
I can't find a good link about this, but giant insects don't physically make sense. Volume and mass scale differently--there's a reason elephants have fat stubby legs and ants have tiny spindly legs, and that's because supports have to increase in surface-area-to-ground as mass increases.
I love daringfireball's new tagline.
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that or this device (and other phones) should come with a thermometer. then you could do distributed (aka, "participatory") sensing. :)

http://urban.cens.ucla.edu/vision/
I wonder if the PhoneGap people just cold asked Apple if their framework was okay. If so, have any other iPhone developers done this? Maybe someone who isn't even trying for cross-platformness, like someone using Lua in a harmless way. There's a lot of mystery surrounding this; wouldn't it be a thing if some of it could be cleared up by just asking?

Not that anyone should feel safe.
"providing in WebKit's javascript engine access to system services"

Yes, it's almost as if it were some kind of "intermediary" or "translation layer".
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What benefit do Aperture and Photoshop derive from the more powerful GPU?
Did you read the article? They quote the show's stats. 81 million viewers. Most widely watched show on the globe right now.
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which say that intestine parasites decrease sensitivity to allergy. I am quite allergic, but I dont think nonetheless, that I like the idea of having "tenants".
BTW, allergy has increased recently, but so did life expectancy [and it especially high in clean countries]....Blame cleanliness?
If insects were bigger, they'd be forced into zoos or left in the wild, not in metropolitan areas.
Most of us who bought the previous models were under the distinct impression that a future OS upgrade would let us switch without logging in/out, and that we could take advantage of the unused dedicated GPU for other stuff as well.
What's the link between blocks/grand central and multitasking on the iPhone?
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This is true but at least there are mild forms of other discoverability forming between facebook, twitter, etc due to link sharing/grassroots/etc. Still have to get those early users but there are ways to do it, the going is just a hundred billion times slower.

The difference is platforms like iPhone or even Facebook (pretty sure, I don't use that devilspawn site) is they can cut you off entirely if you tie yourself to them entirely.
Well if apple thinks i'm going to write C code, they are mistaken.

I don't do malloc.
none. grand central is a scheme to make it easier to parallelize your code, generally so it can take advantage of two or more cpu cores. not much use on iphone devices, which aren't going to have more than one core for a long time. blocks add closure-like abilities to C. multitasking, in this context, is a way to run two or more third-party apps at once. so, basically, no overlap at all.
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I'm glad he made this point, but he's still not giving Android enough credit. With Android, apps can create a service that can run and do whatever it likes. It's not limited to a couple APIs.

People are pretty jazzed about Skype running in the background, but they are going to be dissapointed when they realize that only means that you can keep the current call running while you leave the app. Skype still won't be able to stay open and listen for incoming calls. Same with chat or IRC apps.
+1 for changing the icon based on the primary location. I want this feature much more than location-awareness. (Jailbroken iPhone has icon-changing weather app)
http://www.google.com/search?q=photoshop+gpu
While I appreciate the idea and criticisms of the post, I dislike the strong wording of this rant.

I think that designing a language that can solve all possible problems is beside the point. A language is a tool and used for different tasks. Not only is the purpose different but people have also different preferences. So making everybody happy is impossible.

Languages have to go the way of the dodo. Every new one is an arguable attempt to do things better than the one which came before. That doesn't mean they really are better.
There are an awful lot of city people too who have to see the suburbs every day for work and are relieved when they get to go home to the city. I am thinking in particular of all the San Franciscans who work in the South Bay.
I can't find a good link either, but I believe that most of the oil (for gasoline) comes from a time period of giant bugs. Like...Foot+ long giant centipedes ect.
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No, it sold less. First link I could find says 50 million iPhones and 35 million iPod Touches:

http://www.examiner.com/x-8134-SF-Gadgets-Examiner~y2010m4d8...

(Which may not be correct, but I think the burden of proof is on you if you disagree).
Your last paragraph isn't true about VOIP apps, but I can't say more due to the NDA.
The clause in question is somewhat ambiguous. PhoneGap could be seen as a "compatibility layer" that allows you to "link against" APIs that aren't normally accessible to JavaScript:

"only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs"

But I'm glad it sounds like Apple will allow it.
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We'd need a 12 year old genius to lead our space armada against them.
Accidents happen. You can't calculate for accidents. Currently Space exploration are very centralized around government's willingness and ability to invest on it. For long terms sustainability and for space program to really expand we need more than a few players.

We need heavy investment from private sectors. This will happen eventually, why wait?
That's the beauty of the Canon 5D Mk2 -- off-the-shelf easily available Canon lenses. They're lenses most photographers already have. And no additional work to make them work for film. A decent L lens is $1000. Not bad at all.
Rebasing definitely keeps the logs cleaner. Set up branches to rebase automatically with 'git config --global branch.autosetupbase always':

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If anything, I think it will encourage private enterprise to work harder.
They'd be the dominant species, and would be using bug spray on _us_.
Reminds me of the movie Mimic. What would we have to change for roaches to grow to be man-sized?

If I remember right, the movie scientists were mainly concerned about how the critters would get enough air.

http://www.saburchill.com/chapters/chap0021.html

Natural history suggests the same, long before us when the air was a lot more oxygen rich, bugs were a lot bigger!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganeura
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Not true. The background services offered by the OS allow the apps to still receive calls/IMs etc while not in the foreground. According to Apple press release:

"These services include background audio, so apps like Pandora can play music in the background, and VoIP, so VoIP apps can receive a VoIP call even when the iPhone is asleep or the user is running other apps."

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/04/08iphoneos.html
How many nations have put a man into space? I think we're up to three.

I can't say I'm all for a race to Mars, but I think need to make constant progress, and we can't let the program fall apart. It will cost even more money and years to restart it.

As it currently stands, we have a space station and for the next few years America won't own a ship to get there.
I see these sentence-long domain names with static content from time to time. What motivates people to do this instead of a tweet or similar?
On a related note: using hookworms to "cure" oneself of asthma or hayfever:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/30/91945/8971
The thread following this post is actually full of surprisingly good discussion; well worth a read for some of the points raised in the back-and-forth.
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It sounds like Grand Central is the mechanism through which multitasking roles are described/created; i.e. programmers declare the background parts of their app as closures (GCD blocks) which are handed off to a task manager.

I might be wrong on this.
You certainly do need a task manager on Android for the simple reason that certain types of applications can be battery hogs. They may not tax the performance of the device enough to be killed automatically. I know Android 2.x is supposed to monitor battery usage but it simply doesn't work very well -- or at all in some cases. Subsonic (streaming audio client) kills my phone's battery if I don't kill it manually with a task manager. The app does not include a quit option. It can kill my battery in about 3 hours even if I pause playback because it keeps its connection to the server open. Another app I use, Jabiru (jabber client), does the same thing but it does have a disconnect and quit option so I wouldn't need a third party task manager to deal with it. So it seems to me Android's multi-tasking is largely dependent on the applications you use.
There has been a lot of censorship lately in Australia, I wouldn't be surprised if they do this too.

Disclaimer: I'm from Italy and my country is not that better.
Prediction: Lua and Unity3d are allowed too...MonoTouch and Flash stay banned.
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Worth a read, but if they just conceded that cpedia was an exercise in dadaism, their defense would be a lot more convincing ;)
the only reason i'm jealous of people with iphones is they can play words with friends and turf wars, which all my friends play. apple knows if popular apps are easy to release on multiple systems at once, it will make their exclusive offerings less compelling.
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Of course, then you have to deal with resources – like when you unfreeze your app partway through typing a word, but in the meantime the user has changed keyboard layouts, or you unfreeze the camera program but meanwhile something else has been using the camera and left it in a different state.

Better to persist as little as you need, and deal with everything else through clearly defined lifecycles, IMO. Although, I also think programming languages should provide immutable datatypes by default ;).
Droid here, love it. I had a Blackberry Tour and 8830 before my Droid, and they are OK, but not nearly as useful as a rooted Droid. I love being able to setup a wireless AP from the Droid when working on the go with friends.
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Seconded. Extremely entertaining, I was not expecting that.
a) re: closed platform: Mac OS runs 99% on Apple's hardware which = less bugs.

b) re: lack of continuity. Sorry I wasn't clear - I've heard from several people about apps not working properly, the "app store" being tied into their hardware supplier etc. Total heresay, you got me on that one.
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If it weren't for the fact that virtually all apps are available from (and only from) a single centralized location, you'd think that actually doing this would be non-trivial.
If Flash runtime won't support multitaksing on iPhone developers will use what supports multi-tasking, if given app needs it. Or they would write translation layer - and that's what Apple is most scared of - it would make iPhones "just another type of multi-touch mobile phone", and it would hit their profits a big time.
When one makes employee referrals at Google, they have the choice as to whether to allow the recruiter to reveal their or to keep it confidential.

Often during larger recruiting drives people copy their linked-in contacts, facebook contaccts, or sometimes even their entire graduating class. Often these are blind referrals in order to win the iPod or whatnot, and they don't want the recruiter to reveal the referral name.
Cross-domain messaging is as easy as pie (unless you care about IE7).
The (sometimes unspoken) assumption in such articles is that you are paid fairly. So, basically, each of them needs a disclaimer in the first line "This is not a guide to cheat people. If you don't pay them fairly the following advices won't cut it."
permanence, until the issue at hand is resolved?
I read the first three issues of this as they were published, but fell off as I found copying the files to my devices to be tedious. The content seemed pretty solid, but many of the comments on n.yc and proggit about pp were complaints about the pdf/epub/mobi-only format. Today, I was surprised to find that they now have html-formatted content (with urls to each article!), but also that they're on issue ten.
"Cpedia is not an attempt to build something that knows all current knowledge and can write a meaningful essay on any topic – that would be a stretch goal."
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seriously though, he's trying to construct an argument around the necessity of bottom-feeding for information?
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These Android/iPhone apps architecture is very close to web page approach. In web environment, you can load the page, interact with page, you can close it anytime a do something else. Traditional application were different but these modern mobile apps do the same - you open app like page, you navigate somewhere else and OS close app automatically. Some apps are using cloud data but some can use local storage.

Its so close to web architecture, that we can see Chrome browser on the other side - it's architecture is making step towards applications by using processes for loaded web pages. Both architectures are closing - apps are more like web pages and web pages are more like apps ...
As cool as manned exploration is, it's hard to see what real benefit it brings besides that a lucky few get to experience space firsthand. Not worth the hundreds of millions of dollars it costs.
Why MonoTouch?

Also, it would be interesting to not only get a list of Unity3D apps together, but ones on other translation/framework platforms as well. Anyone working on this?
Do you get acceptable battery life running an IRC client in the background? The client has to keep a persistent data connection open and will be constantly transferring data. I've not had much luck with IM clients on BlackBerry, WebOS or Android. I guess the bigger question is if the user's battery should be drained in a situation where they don't understand the ramifications of what they're doing. If you're playing a 3D game for an hour you're focused on the screen and can watch the battery meter go down. If you open the IRC client, forget about it, pocket the phone, and a few hours later fall down with a heart attack -- unable to call 911 that's a different issue entirely.

I think some companies do take that ethical consideration very seriously. The company I work for provides a digital phone service with E911 and our corporate culture has definitely changed since this service launched. The possibility of interrupting a customer's service even for a few minutes in the middle of the night makes me uncomfortable. There's always that possibility someone will be reaching for the phone to call 911 and you definitely don't want to be responsible for playing any role in preventing it.
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I've mentioned it before, but I'll repeat it - the length of this article:

http://cpedia.com/wiki?q=United+States+of+America

should be embarrassing. I mean, really?

(On the other hand, it's the only country which I've so far been able to get CPedia to spit out any sort of article for. Japan? China? Germany? Russia? Brazil? France? It can't seem to see the forest for the trees -- it's got articles on historical leaders an regions, but nothing about the countries themselves.)
My first inclination was towards disliking the writer - he comes across as arrogant and dismissive of massive criticism, which seems foolish given his position. If he said something a little more humble, he'd be infinitely more sympathetic. Perhaps something like, "We're trying to do something meaningful, and still working to get it right" would go over well.

So my first inclination was dislike. But my second was more sympathy - this isn't a guy who is being an arrogant jerk, this is someone who is convinced that the hallmark work of his life thus far is quite good, criticisms be damned. I'm that stubborn sometimes. This is his biggest, and realistically, perhaps only shot at lasting greatness. He thought he was building the next great American technology company, and reality didn't measure up and he hasn't realized it.

So he points outwards - "they don't understand!" - but I don't dislike the guy. Who knows how long until he realizes what he's really got on his hands, and how he takes it. It'll surely be an unpleasant moment, punctuating a couple years of excitement followed by massive disappointment. I feel bad for him. I hope I never wind up there.
I think it would be fair to forgive any amount of alcoholism among the ranks of Cuil's investors.
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Because it seems to want you to be more specific.

http://cpedia.com/wiki?q=United%20States%20of%20America%20%2...

That shows all of the pages and seems to be more what you were looking for I would say :)
Moore's law seems to be in full effect for handsets. I think a lot of the innovation here is a stop gap measure before these handsets have virtual memory, making the complication behind multi tasking obsolete.

On a side note, I seem to take heat every time I imply that phones will end up on par with PCs. The common theme I've been pushing is that most of the developments we've seen in PCs over the past decade will reoccur for phones. Is this really so far fetched?
There are plenty of other problems with this app. It is 2:49 AM EDT on Wednesday as I type this yet the app is showing me the forecast high/low for Tuesday on top.
Well, you can tell he cares about his work. It may be somewhat funny now, but someday we'll say this was ahead of its time. I'm sure it wasn't easy to make this. I think there's something to take away, and maybe incremental improvements will eventually make it more useful. At least it's original.
Telling them we know the numbers (or lack of them, really), too, might change it.
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I wonder why the cost of manned space flight has increased to the point where a lunar mission is no longer feasible. Could someone enlighten me? Overpriced equipment, personnel cost, additional safety costs?
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That doesn't seem much better, really. The second article ("United States of America (Mark Murray)") is the only one which appears to have any significant content, and it's pretty disjointed.
That point always bothered me about the whole "our economy loses X billions because of piracy". If people would have purchased everything they pirated, then some industries would have gained those X billions, but the flipside to that is that other industries would lose the same amount of money. So you would create Y million jobs in the entertainment industry, but you'd lose Y million jobs in other industries. Is that an acceptable trade? Probably not.
That is true for any community site. Shouldn't disadvantage them in particular.
Ah, if only it was hundreds of millions :)