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I have developer friends who have submitted their apps on the App Store and had it approved within a week.

It may be just because this is a way more complicated app or Apple is set to reject it but just trying to figure out how to defend themselves against whatever outrage that will happen.

I wonder how much resources (time and money) Opera spent on this. This is why I think the App Store is such a risky bet if your app takes months to make or it's something that has never been done before.
(Although it is paginated into 12 pages, I found it easier to read the article on the original template rather than the print template: http://weeklystandard.com/articles/new-dating-game)
The 101 stores were compiled in 1919 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_Zen_Stories), and then reprinted by Paul Reps as Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (which is how I originally read them). The originals were written in the 13th century called Shasekishū (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasekish%C5%AB) by the zen master Mujū.

I'm not sure how copyrights apply to excerpts, translations, edits and re-prints of presumably public-domain original works.
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Use the readability bookmarklet instead. Bless the HNer who told me of this.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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Luckily for Apple, "a better Product, with a better OS and it is open" is extremely hard to pull off. People frequently seem to think that people just have to replicate Apple's product and add a heaping dose of "Open", but it's partly the closed nature of Apple's approach that enables them to do what they do.
In the next sentence, he state: "but it works." It was pretty telegraphed given the setup.
It's not inconceivable that Adobe would then have motivation to contribute to existing open source renderers, so that the exported flash animations run faster. This would be a win/win situation for everyone! Or are my dreams too utopian?
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Hmm. I could see something great coming out of HTC buying Palm. Palm seems to make decent hardware (with some cool features like the builtin mobile hotspot). HTC makes wonderful hardware. I also hear WebOS is very nice, though it hasn't gotten much traction.

I'm not sure exactly what they'd do, but it definitely has a potential. I can tell you one thing: I'm currently on the fence between getting the 4th-gen iPhone and a Nexus One. If I could get a Nexus One with a builtin mobile hotspot (and no extra monthly charge for that), I'd do it in a second, and I'd even be fine with switching to a network I like less like T-Mobile or Verizon.
I read the original article from The Globe and Mail with much interest the first time it appeared on HN. I have now also read Colin Rose's assessment. Obviously it's pretty early days and I am all for being cautious and skeptical. I don't wish to submit a person I care about to an unproven procedure whose possible risks I know very little of. But to brand Zamboni as some kind of backwards witch doctor and call for no further investigation to even take place into this possible avenue of treatment seems beyond the pale to me. Surely this attitude must come from people who have not been personally affected by MS and/or have not had to watch someone they care about suffer from its bizarre, seemingly random and quality of life destroying symptoms.

I would be very interested in any further links you could provide in relation to the Zamboni treatment (e.g. you mention a discussion on a forum) either for or against.
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Ok, I'll list one: Performance. Historically, Adobe products have been slow as dog shit because they couldn't be bothered to keep their products up to date with Apple's OS and hardware advantages.

Let's say Apple brings out a new iPad with a special graphics processor. What are the chances that all the Flash apps will run slow as shit on the new iPad? Will users complain that developer X is at fault because they used Flash? No, users will complain that the new iPad is slow.

Apple has no interest in being at Adobe's mercy like this again.
I noticed a typo in the article's link second story that wasn't present in yours.

So at least it seems like this one is a bit better maintained or being taken care of.
Our first app was approved within hours, but that was within the first two months of the App Store. Still, we've generally had very fast turn around on our apps.
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Apple had problems in the 90s because Windows became similar enough to the Mac OS that people who once preferred the Mac no longer thought it was worth the price premium. Sales fell and developers "defected" to Windows.
I wonder if it would be worth it for HTC for patents etc.
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Okay ,My mistake.
But as fore-casted in the article it will eventually result in drug development.
But what I wanted to emphasis on is the success of open source movement in India.
Honestly, if HTC hardware meets WebOS, I'd be in heaven. I'm a Palm Pre owner, and the hardware is really weak. The OS is exclusively gesture based, which I find as really intuitive, and combine that with HTC's hardware prowess, and you've got a really good device.
Previously discussed a couple months ago here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108017

What struck me about the article wasn't so much the information (I already knew about this stuff before) but the particular spin imparted onto it by the neocon point of view. I don't mean this as a criticism but as a genuine point of interest.
This reminds me of Makers, Cory Doctorow's new book. It takes place in a not so distant future where corporations fund tiny startups of a few hackers each to create products. It ends up becoming a revolution of sorts, with the millions of unemployed americans jumping to create.

It's awesome to see ordinary people use technology the way they did before things went digital. To be able to fix, modify and reuse components of devices they own. To understand how something works and learn from it. The values that inspired the free software movement applied back to real life.
could be that you forgot to mention "zen" in the title.
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<i>Many countries are about to default (Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Japan, US, England, etc), and there are overcapacity/overprinting everywhere.</i>

Unlikely. There will be financial instability as these countries are forced to accept some fiscal responsibility, but the weak Euro zone countries will be painfully/grudgingly propped up by Germany et al. while the US is starting to slowly grow its way out of a lot of problems. Debt is a problem that will obviously need to be addressed, but anyone who makes a big bet on wide-scale currency defaults is going to lose their shirt.

<i>The baby boomer generation, which constitutes the bulk of consumer segment, is retiring.</i>

You mean they are now leaving jobs and becoming full-time consumers? Oh horror! Those jobs they are leaving will need replacement workers, and the aging boomers will require new services (services which can't easily be outsourced) from the remaining employment pool. The boomer retirement wave may end up being a major win for the US economy in the next decade or two.

<i>Automation/computers are reducing jobs permanently.</i>

And creating completely new jobs and services. Large-scale manufacturing has been dead in this country for more than a generation and no one is placing a big bet on it returning. If automation gets better it is a threat for low-cost manufacturing and ends up being a net win for the US.
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This test seems kind of silly because it's testing things that aren't even close to becoming standards. Take Web SQL:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/webdatabase/

The current version this test is based off, was put up this month by Google. Just a few months ago, SQL wasn't even in a draft document.

Personally, I think it's destructive to put tests up on drafts that are so highly volatile. The biggest CSS bug in IE6 was because the initial definition of the box model was ambiguous about measuring width vs padding.
Just to really put that into perspective ... the other day someone posted a real time guage of doubleclick's activity with DART and their staggering 300k ads per second. In that submission someone else said the unofficial number they've heard is another mil per second for AdSense .... so in total Google's ad interests may be doing a mere 10% of the traffic Akamai peaked at.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1247358

http://qos.doubleclick.net/
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The List interface labels all the methods that could change a list as "optional operation", which implementing classes are free to throw an UnsupportedOperationException for: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/List.html

The current API already uses this in a bunch of places to return immutable Lists. For example, the lists you get out of Collections.singletonList() or Collections.nCopies() are immutable.

That's a bit broken from an OO perspective (is the interface an interface or not?), but it's a better solution than the const v. non-const container mess that C++/STL has, at least.
My experience is quite the opposite.

Unless it's in a darkened room, where the glow really does cause eyestrain, I've found reading on the ipad to be surprisingly pleasant. In landscape mode it feels "odd", but in portrait I find the device becomes as invisible as the kindle after a few pages despite, having an LCD screen. Not at all what I expected.

With the instapaper app installed I find the ipad is actually the superior reading device. Before leaving work I'll fire up instapaper and download all the articles I've marked during the day to read on the commute home. After they're finished i flip over to the kindle app and continue with whatever book I'm on.

I've loved my V1 kindle since it was released, but aside from heading to the beach or on some really really long trip I can't imagine a reason to use it over the iPad. Like I said, not at all what i expected.
Something tells me that if P = NP, they would have to be...delicate about announcing it, given the implications for cryptography.

My favorite conspiracy theory is that P = NP and the NSA is covering it up.
I doubt slower typing would help, but some capitals, consistent punctuation and less use of random colours and font resizing on your blog would go a long way towards making your point in an understandable way.

I'm sure that post has interesting content, but so do many others, and they make their points in a much more readable way: for instance, try looking at the essays on paulgraham.com. A pleasure to read, and think about.
a couple of related things worth reading if you liked this:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

http://www.amazon.com/Human-Use-Beings-Cybernetics-Paperback...
Apple operates in dozens of countries. In some of these, the laws around competition are extremely counter-intuitive to American observers.
Here's a question, then: why is it that developers want to use Flash? Ignorance?

Or maybe it offers something that Apple doesn't?
Author of the site here.

The headline needed to be shortened to fit the 80 character limit :)

I've linked to the Wikipedia page of the IEEE standard,
but adding the original source is probably a good idea.
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Ok, idea: If we can't bring flash / other languages to the ip{{o,a}d,hone}, why not bring the ipod/ipad/iphone to other platforms? Write an Android wrapper around Cocoa's API, for example. Something like a WINE of sorts. People with lots of iphone app dev experience can write their iphone app, then turn around and recompile that Objective C code into an android app.

Far from ideal, but it may be the best solution at the moment.
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Ouch. Yes, that will be fixed.
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Over time you may end up reading more code than you write. Whether it's your old programs getting a refresh or code written by others, both apps and libraries. Of course, good comments are still most welcome.
It's all about defense in depth. Local root exploits are part of why I run my stuff chrooted on an OpenBSD system. It's not perfect, but it's pretty much the best you're going to do. Still, you can't just stop there.

Having a one-time-password setup (SecureID, for example) to a cental "admin" system that can access the remote servers directly is one layer of defense against certain workstation compromises. Using properly-configured RBAC (or better, Mandatory Access Control) with separation of duties and remote logging gives security staff tools to enforce and analyze policies and incidents.

I'm not saying it's possible to be 99% secure. To that end, I suppose Security is a "failure" (rolleyes) and as was mentioned before: you don't need 99% security, but you certainly should be able to go back and look at that other 1% after the fact.

The truth is that you really don't see security's boundaries when it's working properly. You can tell when it's getting in the way, but security is truly the most visible when it fails.
Perhaps I am mistaken but wasn't there once a google streetview for Berlin? I'm not 100% sure but I seem to remember looking at it before I moved there, but when I arrived I tried using it and noticed that it was disabled. I believe that this is due to some kind of lawsuit but I don't know for sure.
I like the idea of writing three things down on a post-it note before you go to your computer. If you don't open up your laptop with a few goals in mind first, you're fucked.
Your use of "moral content" is entirely ambiguous, because that content will vary depending on which moral system you refer. And since a market is essentially an amalgamation of individuals (whom likely have or are capable of inducing moral content through their actions and desires), it is likely that a market has a great deal of moral content regardless of which system you pick.
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My point was that this article takes a long and winding road to reach the simple conclusion that some people are simply assholes and there is nothing to be done about it because they are built differently and the article makes it all sound really menacing. There is nothing menacing here. Most assholes have the same profile so it's really easy to figure them out after you've come into contact with a few of them. Turning it into a research program is in my opinion a waste of money which is the other thing the article seems to advocate.
There's another factor working against black women: the article mentions that 96% of Black women are married to Black men, but research by Dr. Julia Hare of San Francisco's Black Think Tank finds that 10% of Black men marry non-Black women.
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I never bought the 'iPad is going to save publishing' nonsense because I knew big media was going to be too greedy & clueless. I think a killer app would be something that grabs RSS headlines AND content, then automatically applies a nice layouting algorithm to make it look like a magazine on the iPad. Like readability on steroids.
And if what Opera submitted was a web browser the review might be done by now... as it is, Opera submitted a proxy viewer which displays a rendering of a webpage as processed by Opera's servers.

Good luck examining that... it's a security nightmare.
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> they couldn't be bothered to keep their products up to date with Apple's OS and hardware advantages.

Microsoft has maintained 20 years of backwards compatibility and Apple's OS and hardware is constantly in flux. Why is it Adobe's fault? It's hard work developing these projects, they have huge code bases and large numbers of users. This position is not supported by logic.

> Let's say Apple brings out a new iPad with a special graphics processor. What are the chances that all the Flash apps will run slow as shit on the new iPad?

Assuming it requires a software change, every single iPad developer will need to update their software to take advantage of it. But Adobe any simply update their software once and every single Flash application can be quickly and easily recompiled to support it. Not everything about Adobe's Flash compiler is immediately a negative.
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It's already happened, check out Tamarin: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/
You're right. That youthful energy and talent are likely to be utilized best in a purely creative start-up. That was the idea with the creating something on his own suggestion.
Competitiveness
Users having to download Opera Mini from the App Store is hardly competition for the phone's default search provider.
You either had to be very, very delicate or you had to spread the knowledge to too many people before they can react properly.
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Nobody is saying it doesn't make business sense. Nike having children in China sew their shoes together makes business sense too. It's still just a crappy thing to do.
Smith's overall conclusion on the relation between morality and free markets is a bit more mixed than that of someone like Hayek, though. He does say things like the excerpt you quote quite frequently, but he also has a number of comments lamenting the immoral behavior that profit motives cause, like an encouragement to fraud and collusion. He does worry that some attempts to solve the problem would be worse cures than the disease, but he doesn't think that no problem exists, or that self-interest always produces moral outcomes, or that government regulation to mitigate the immoral effects of self-interest is always wrong.

His policy proposals on that latter point are pretty pragmatic, and he endorses regulation when he thinks it has relatively large gains for relatively small downsides. For example, he proposes that the government ought to require employers to pay their employees in hard money, and not permit them to pay in promissory notes or in goods. His reasoning is that this prevents unscrupulous employers from tricking employees, either by paying them in goods whose value has been misrepresented, or by convincing them to work for promises of payment that the employer doesn't really intend to keep.
This is probably the only open letter that'll get a reply...

... saying you and your apps are banned.
I see no evidence that Flash is fading technology -- I suspect it's usage is increasing a regular rate even now. Almost every game on the web is a Flash game. How many millions of people play Flash games on Facebook?

HTML5 may replace it for video purposes but that's only one (recent) thing that Flash is used for. If you have an iPhone 3GS right now, Apple will have long stopped providing updates before HTML has supplanted Flash for all things. Hell, HTML5 isn't even a standard yet.
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Are their products really all that better on Windows?
Sounds like things have not changed much in the dating world in the last ten years. Presumably the weekly standard prints this to boost page views. The PUA lifestyle has been a non-story for the last five years at least. And, yes, it is possible to seduce attractive women by creatively debasing yourself. sigh
Developers have their interests at heart Apple have theirs. Expecting the two to have 100% overlap is idealism. The key is to find the intersection between the two. Developing in Flash for iPhone is not working with the intersection between developer interests and Apple's interests.

That is not a criticism of Apple or Flash, just pointing out that it isn't win-win.
Not sure what that has to do with anything, "You're my best friend" was released 21 years before Deacon retired.
the median number of lifetime sex partners for all U.S. women ages 15 to 44 is just 3.3, according to the Census Bureau’s latest statistical abstract.

Huh? How exactly do you end up with .3 of a sexual partner?
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Actually it looks like they have actual stolen content such as a stolen pdf book and the given article is basically cut and pasted from somewhere else. The rest is just self promotion of something completely different such as a conspiracy theory. Its really interesting that this actually got this far.

From the website (The actual thing being promoted)

QUANTUM FUTURE

This name came to my mind in Florence on a sunny Saturday of June 9, 1990, while walking along Viale Niccolo Machiavelli up to Piazza Michelangelo. Together with the name, Quantum Future, there came a feeling of weight and of urgency. I decided that I should not waste my time any more doing what others consider important. I felt that certain ideas that were waiting some place in my mind for so many years must not be postponed. That there is nothing more important than them. And so I decided to venture a new project. I knew from the very beginning that such an excursion into unknown territories is better undertaken in a company rather than alone. And I remembered discussions that I had with Philippe Blanchard a few years ago in Bielefeld. I wrote to him, and my proposal was met with a most friendly response. The project has started.

It is about Quantum and about Future. It is about Potential and about Actual.It is about Space and about Time. I want it to be also about Knowledge and about Mind, about Determinism and about Free Will. And about knowing and understanding of ourselves together with the outside world. I have chosen the picture by Rene Magritte to symbolize the project. There is an ocean, and over the ocean and under the sky, there is floating a granite rock that carries a castle on its top. The rock seems weightless. Or better: it is heavy, but gravity does not apply. I wish that one day the project will bring us closer to an understanding of our hidden powers that can make rocks float in mid-air.