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What I meant was web apps that are added to the home screen. Previously it works just like native apps: web apps will need to store and resume its state every time it launch or quit. This cause web apps without manifest file to reload itself every time it launches.

In 4.0, it works just exactly like in Safari: as long as the app don't get killed from the task switcher, its state are resumed automatically.
Most of us are developers, and we have a set number of 'tasks' that seem like they should be something you could build a business out of and so we all try to do them. Task Management, Project Management, Time Tracking, Social communication, etc.

Good god no, don't do that! Task management, project management and time tracking all severely fail the "will it get my users laid" test.

Take some time to pick up a few hobbies and interests that don't involve programming. This will improve your life in general, and it won't be long before you see how badly computers suck for people who aren't engineers. Soon you'll see dozens of ways you can use software to make things better, and a few of them might just be the kind of thing you could make into a business.
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I've made some projects with Squeak in the past.

This Pharo image seems really clean. And the tutorial is a very nice addition.

My only disappointment with Squeak is that all the multimedia related stuff was really outdated and the performance was poor.

I've been subscribed to the mailing list for a while and it seemed to me that very few people were concerned with this. All the development was focused on developer tools.

There was a guy (couldn't remember his name/website) who was working on really interesting graphical stuff. He was rewriting the Morphic gui from scratch. I hope his work will be eventually merged with Pharo. EDIT: found it: http://www.jvuletich.org/Morphic3/Index.html

With strong and updated multimedia capabilities this could become a modern HyperCard.
DNF was never released. Java 7 is being released.

The downmods are probably coming not because people have emotional or financial ties to the platform, but because you made a bad comparison between two unrelated things in a way that adds nothing. In other words, your comment is indistinguishable from trolling.
Don't get me wrong... I used to totally buy the open source idealistic worldview. Then I actually got involved in business.

You don't understand what a brawl business can be. People almost never collaborate to sell! You want the customers, you want the leverage!

Heh... collaborate to sell... how cute...

Marketing is more winner-take-all than anything else.

Nice happy idealism sounds really great until you end up in the real world with people competing over money when they have kids, mortgages to pay, etc.
I would read the article, but then I might feel guilty for ignoring arstechnica's ads.
The more of these kinds of comments I read, the more I feel sick. The first time I met one of the founders of Bootup Labs, this was when I was fairly new to Vancouver, I got a deep upsetting feeling in my stomach. I felt the same kind of energy from others involved in meetups they put together. They used to hang around workspace as well.

Someone introduced me to a bootup labs person and within just a few sentences I knew these characters were to be avoided. It is difficult for me to rationalize these feelings in ways that can help stop the bad future I see that makes me have these feelings. I don't want to share the feelings, because they are just feelings. I try to only share opinions I can rationalize, because I don't want to be wrong about a negative feeling if the person is actually good and I'm wrong in my assessment.

It's like when I interacted with them, I saw how the compounding negativity of their influence was going to affect the startup community in Vancouver. My feeling made me want to stay far, far away from anyone involved in bootup labs or involved with them or their "groups". I want a good group to be seen as the leader in Vancouver, but it's almost like the stage has been set there and it was designed by bootup labs.

I don't know where the impressions like these come from. I don't know why I have them or how exactly I knew bootup labs was going to turn out badly.

In Texas, there is a saying, "All hat and no cattle." I don't know if there is a similar expression in BC or not, but it's like I can tell that what they were saying was intended to "sell" those who simply didn't know enough to steer clear of them. The bootup labs people are great at sales and giving the impression of power, certainty, and success -- but I never saw any of it.

I want to help people steer clear of individuals like this, but people who say negative stuff about others are often themselves looked down upon. Moms say, "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all." Well, sometimes, keeping your mouth shut can itself have negative repercussions.

As someone who is still struggling with how to properly behave in social situations, how am I to react when I am confronted by a situation like this?
"One way is to use standard non expensive (and perhaps far less shiny and integrated) hardware plugged some peripherals and write a quick demo for it."
"Few days ago, I actually tried the concept on two "potential" customers, by using some hardware peripherals I managed to put together, and a very basic software, something which is far away in terms of design, quality and user experience from the final product, and in fact, the two customers simply didn't want to stop "playing" with the product."

You have answered your own question. A minimum viable product. Add to that a demo of how you envision the final product and how customers interact with it. Go!
I used to want my hometown to get the Google Fiber trial. Now i'm hoping that Mound, MN wins. :P
Wind Farms Might Buy Your Old Electric Car Batteries
My point with IE is that a lot of content providers don't want to use something that everyone doesn't have access to out of the box. Yes, people can install the codec, but for websites to start using it in a widespread manner it would help for all the major browsers to package it.
Lua: the lingua franca of iPhone games
I'm guessing that less research exists because it's not as "sexy".

The patent system exists, the assumption is that it works. Why would anyone think to do a study to prove it?

On the other hand, proving that it doesn't work is certainly an interesting research topic.
Well-capitalized Seattle start-up seeks Unix developers
Except it does not work outside the US of A.
Which photo is better?
On a serious note, this is exactly how you should write job ads if you want exceptional hackers, imho.
The Book Of Life
Sorry. I actually use the Symbian task switcher too. I should have said: "I suspect most users are completely oblivious to this method of switching between tasks". (The task switcher is also accessible from the main menu by pressing Option and choosing it from the popup menu, so that's probably how most people find it.)
Cost calculator to show how much money is wasted in meetings
Nope, far more likely we'll get the VAT _and_ keep our existing tax system as well. The article's flaw is in assuming that the tax needs to somehow be made palatable to voters; it doesn't, all they need to do is continue to increase spending until it becomes impossible to not raise taxes.

Reagan's "starve the beast" strategy was based on the assumption that if you continue to cut taxes, eventually congress will be forced to cut spending, but it didn't work. Obama's "gorge the beast" strategy is based on the assumption that if you keep increasing spending then eventually congress will have to raise taxes. It looks like it might work a lot better.
Several dozen is plenty if the effect is strong. He claims it is.
Apple removes Scratch from iPad/iPhone/iTouch
Should the Microsoft Kin be Taken Seriously?
you've got to transport your body to the room the students are in

Commuting time wouldn't be counted if we are comparing jobs in academia to jobs in other sectors of the economy.

average college tuition

Most students attending most colleges pay no more than list price for tuition, and at some colleges many students pay considerably less. (This fact, of course, partly goes against some statements in the original article, but it also goes against the statement in the grandparent comment that a student enrollment of x in a class necessarily generates a revenue stream for the college of x times the enrollment.)

That's why I'm asking for specifics. Someone here made factual claims. At least one of those claims is implausible to me (that any one professor develops massive revenue for his college by his classroom teaching activity). I base that on my college experiences, and on my current experiences in other teaching occupations. But with more specifics, we will all have a better sense of how comparable academic employment really is to other forms of employment.
It seems that people always underestimate good marketing. Why don't startups spend more time/money on marketing? No time, I guess.
That doesn't make sense. Did you just spend two months working on the startup full time? You should have made some headway. Put it on the back burner or something. I mean to sell the domains for $500? Is that all 2-3 months of 2 man full time work is worth?
You might enjoy viewing the article using Readability. Not only does it make the text bigger and easier to read, it suppresses comments and other additional content.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Perhaps minus the degree requirement though.
I now only use Smalltalk a few hours a month but I have switched over completely to using Pharo instead of Squeak or VW (non commercial version). Pharo really is cleanly laid out and nice to use if you are (like me) a very much part-time Smalltalker. The Pharo book is very good, BTW.
Ning’s Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff
Good point, but I am not sure. The key thing is to respect the wishes of the authors of a package so I would just contact the Neo4j developers and ask them.
Of some relevance to this:

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/04/farmers-make-gains-in-...

tl;dr: The bill going to the Senate has several amendments now which exist to help small scale or organic/local farms get exempted from the more burdensome requirements.
The irony is that he says "well, we have to level the field: get out of your car" knowing full well that he's actually just unleveling it in his direction.
(I really wish I could fix the typos in this post.)
If they're cheap enough for kids/teens they'll probably dig them.
It doesn't have to be an either/or thing though. The big advantage of VAT is that they are much simpler (cheaper) to administer and greatly reduce tax evasion. So, having a VAT combined with a reform of income taxes could make a lot of sense.

A VAT alone would be far too regressive but combined with a sensible income tax (and credits) to counter-balance the regressive effects could be a big improvement over the system today. I don't think I've seen anyone propose having a VAT replace income tax.
My guess is that most of the people who added it to their goals had never thought about it until they saw that it was a popular goal, but they thought "ooh, that sounds romantic" and added it. It's just one of those random runaway successes.

On the upside, unlike "live passionately" it's relatively easy (desert dwellers and the terminally dateless excluded) and well-defined, so you know for sure when you've achieved it.
If you're gonna complain about something I'd complain about the fact that people's publically stated goals often differ substantially from their actual goals.
If the ads load, you should feel no guilt. :)
RIAA and MPAA call for government mandated spyware on computers to fight piracy
David Sacks converted Product Managers into Producers. Produce - not manage.
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Your compensation will include meaningful equity ownership.
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Yes, but will it ever be worth anything? ;-)
ignore em all you want, just don't hide em ;)
I love their stuff. I do kinda wish they sold physical CDs—I would get one for my dad in a heartbeat. This is probably my favorite of their tracks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9KMgg7T_sg
5 years - what is the question?

You're aware retired military are allowed on bases for tax free gas/shopping etc?
Interesting thoughts!
I keep hearing this, and I keep thinking it's complete BS.

I would be quite happy to show you plenty of fat folks with above-average incomes. In fact I'm sure I could find a bunch of them on this board.
er, didn't mean commuting. i meant, you have to be in the same room as the class you're teaching. and you have to stay there, for the scheduled time. the course is going to run 9AM to 10AM, and you, the professor, don't get to go somewhere else during that time.

even if there is distance teaching, you have to stop what you're doing, turn on your video conferencing program, and pretend to address the course material for 1 hour, as opposed to doing whatever else it is you want to do for that hour.

and even if a particular student is themselves paying less, any loans originated by non-university sources, or scholarships from outside the university, etc become university income. only grants, loans, work studies, etc, originated by the university itself wouldn't be new income.

so, yes, the average income per student will be less than the advertised average tuition, it will also be higher than what the average student is paying. (huzzah, upper and lower bounds!)
Iceland's disruptive volcano (Photoset)
Airbnb.com Launches episode 4 of AirTV
Hmm.. I didn't know their original name was Cadabra.
"If can happen in Athens if can happen anywhere"
true, but can't imagine something that should be a phone and only does social stuff.
Embracing a Life of Solitude
Here is "Telephone" by Lady Gaga:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vEStDd6HVY

It's considerably better than the original (in my opinion). The video style is also pretty interesting. The guy in them (Jack Conte) had this to say about it (from wikipedia[1]):

>What you see is what you hear. (No lip-syncing for instruments or voice)

>If you hear it, at some point you see it. (No hidden sounds)

They also make money from selling merchandise (soap [grapefruit scented, pomplamoose is french for grapefruit], tshirts).

Really really awesome music, and seemingly awesome people making it.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Conte
Richard Feynman started out focussed on physics. He later broadened his interests. (Though he was probably sociable earlier.)
Your Users Are Doing Something Surprising
If anyone doesn't recognize the name of the poster (like me), this is what ended up happening:

http://amazon.com/
I said devolves because it becomes little more than a game delivery mechanism. Facebook is a great example of this. Take away games and it would look more like Myspace.
The cost of devices themselves are so heavily subsidized by the carriers, that unless the data plan was significantly cheaper than a full smartphone, I would have a hard time seeing the Kins finding a niche to fit in above regular phones.

What finally convinced me to get a smartphone was that I was essentially paying for it anyway over the term of the contract just to access trivial amounts of data on a device that could barely display it.
It's another prism. Add it to your toolkit, apply, observe. Don't ever settle for just one, though.
And if that sort of thing sounds like fun, check out the LudumDare 48-hour game making contest, just over a week away.

http://www.ludumdare.com

Any language/platform is welcome. I don't think anyone has been crazy enough to try to write a game in lisp yet but of any of the FP junkies here want to try it, that would be cool to see.
I agree...they'll take off if they're free with contract, or $50 max, and the unlimited data plans are cheaper than a typical smartphone (in the same way MetroPCS unlimited talk/text/web plans are $40 vs Sprint's $99 Simply Everything plan).

About the cloud aspect, the most intriguing possibility for me is that if the Kin is like a gateway drug, when the teens are ready to move up to Windows 7, migration will be even less painless than connecting to iTunes on a PC or Mac. It also opens the possibility to continue conversations across platforms (e.g. XBox, Tablet, web, Zune, etc) and have them all in sync.
More specifically, if you receive more than one notification, the former is pretty much lost. Your app icon is annotated with a number but you have no idea what happened if you have several icons already annotated.
AVG did the same for me.
Was it ever mentioned that this could be an outcome of coming to Vancouver? Either side hasn't said.
Yes, but it might be a bit deceptive if I started signing my recruitment ads as "Jeff Bezos."
I'm one of those introverts - being around lots of people I don't know can be exhausting for me. But the point is, it has a great payoff, so I still do it.
Looks like an interesting start-up, but with the IPO market still frozen, how will they ever exit? Their investors will clearly never get their money back. Maybe Google will buy them to hire their engineers.
How many lines of Lisp did it take?
True. I disagree with degree requirements for hacker jobs too.
Well, it wasn't my intention to be passive-aggressive. If anything, it seems active-aggressive :-)

The article is about the iPhone's user interface, not about the backend; local notifications have nothing to do with the user interface. And I simply assumed that everyone who has used an iPhone knows that the notification UI is very basic; you mostly get modal alert boxes, which are very easy to accidentally discard.
Sure, there's existing solutions for most of these, but they don't actually work very well. Weight-loss websites aren't all that good at helping people lose weight and keep it off. Dating websites aren't all that good at helping people fall in love. And nothing is good at helping people to stop procrastinating. If you can actually make something that works then the market is all yours.

(Not all of 'em though; I admit things like "travel website" are pretty saturated at the moment.)
Slide 6 shows a college-age girl who doesn't match the CS stereotype uploading her brain to the great interbot -- it shows that tech is for everyone, not just unattractive and friendless geeks.

Slide 13 compares CS at MIT to steak at a steakhouse, and salad to any other major. As far as I can tell, most women prefer steak to salad, given the choice and no strong social pressures either way.

I'd say this slide set is much more encouraging to women in CS than discouraging.
Did you install 4.0 on a device you use regularly? If so, are there not many bugs hindering your usage? I've been thinking about doing this as well but Apple recommends against it.
After re-reading the PDF, I'm impressed at how well written it is, especially for being so short.

I think it avoids snagging Google Voice and other services by requiring both action and intent. While intent is subject to interpretation, it beats a 75 page bill that's obsolete before it's passed.
Exactly what I was thinking....the main reason drug development cost all those millions (and I believe about 10 years on average) is the FDA.

We should be careful not to let one mistake justify another.
What is cmpxchg8b.com and why would I trust this "harmless" demonstration not to root my machine as well as running calc.exe?

Edit: Well, the link is from http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Apr/119
"Relevant to the people on HN" is very different from "relevant to HN". Many, many, many things fall into the first category. That makes it effectively useless as a filter.

Something being important/interesting for Americans is different than something being important/interesting for hackers.
I just checked my Tomato router and so far this month (posting this on 4/15/10) I've used 8.99 GB. I hope Comcast's secret rate limit is < 20GB/month.

Date Download Upload Total
2010-04 8.21 GB 0.78 GB 8.99 GB
Bezos changed the name from Cadabra to Amazon because Yahoo would return search results alphabetically.
Fun fact: it was changed because of concern people might hear 'cadaver' instead of 'cadabra'.

(or so this book said: http://www.amazon.com/amazon-com-Inside-Revolutionary-Busine...)
Once again, Gabe and Tycho have the important insight: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
I don't see the relevance between "wolves and sheep" and the rest of your argument. The point is not that we need to pressure women into CS, or market it to them in a glitzy fashion; instead, we simply need to make CS as comfortable an environment for women as it is for men, so that women who have the talent to succeed in CS choose to study it more often. In other words, we're missing out on a great deal of talent that CS could benefit from, and we want to try to bring that talent into the fold! Measuring the number of women in computer science, as compared to their proportion in the overall population, is just a proxy for our success in this task; assuming that men and women have aptitude for CS at equal rates, we expect them to be equally represented in the discipline, so when they aren't it suggests that other factors are keeping female talent out of CS and we want to fix that problem.

I don't pretend to know every reason for the gender imbalance in CS, but I can suggest a couple of factors that likely contribute. One is cultural stereotypes about the type of person who would get a CS degree. The stereotypical CS person in the US (and in the UK as well, if the BBC's TV shows are any guide) is an introverted, socially awkward, physically weak male. This stereotype is pervasive enough in our culture to harm many peoples' interest in computers from a young age; it likely keeps both men and women out of CS, but I suspect it has a disproportionate effect on young women due to the particular social pressures they face. Working to eliminate this stereotype would help everyone involved and bring more talent into CS.

The other factor is that CS can be a bit of a boy's club at times. I've seen some of my CS professors make comments that frankly shocked me about things like the role of women in the workplace. There's no excuse for this attitude; it can do nothing but push talented people out of our field, and anyone involved in academia should show no tolerance for this kind of behavior.

Frankly, I think this discussion of "wolves and sheep" is nothing but an excuse to sweep very real cultural problems, both in the general US population and in academic institutions, under the rug.
Lift heavy weights. Eat as much as you can stomach, then eat some more. It isn't rocket science. Seriously just eat 5 huge meals a day and a protein shake before and after you workout. You will put on muscle like nobody's business. It's also the ONLY way to do it...
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IMHO, this should cause more outrage than all the developer related policies.

Apple has always been a world apart, with a strong philosophy and its own priorities. But the culture around its products was all about fostering creativity.

I used to say to friends: get a Mac if you want an hassle-free computer to make things (music, graphics design and even programming. Does anyone remember HyperCard, which at one point was bundled with every mac?).

The argument that the iPad/iPhone/iPodTouch is not a computer is really myopic. It's the culture that has changed.
While the current FDA system may be overkill, do you really want the market flooded with new drugs whose effects aren't well understood?
"Publish or perish."

The dirty secret of universities: the job of most faculty isn't to teach, it's to research and bring prestige to the university. In the sciences, research is a byproduct of bringing in money, so research grants are the most important part.

Thus, on top of those three classes (two at the university I live near) they're expected to put in full time work on their research.

From what I see, it's about a 60 hour average week in the social sciences. That dips to 35-40 in the summers.