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Many of the big boys were well capitalized enough (dell / Compaq / etc) to have built an integrated hardware/software platform like Apple did to keep things beautiful.

Whoah you have a serious historical blindspot here. Back in the day everyone did have their own integrated platform. Microsoft killed every one of them. Apple only managed to hang on by the skin of their teeth due to the loyalty of their userbase after coasting on their achievements made in the 80s. It was a very close call though, Apple almost didn't have time to bring Jobs back, it was only because they had a stronghold in publishing which persisted longer than it should have because of weak color management in Windows.

The idea that an OEM manufacturer like Dell or Compaq had the ability to build and market a brand-new OS exactly during the time when Microsoft was driving nails in established OS coffins on a weekly basis is just not realistic.
Only when the sites are featured in a roundup that appears on Hacker News :-)
What a great comment: deep, suggestive, and a pleasure to read from start to finish. I just read it three times.
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It would take a hell of a heuristic for facebook to fill in holes in the social graph. Without some very intelligent fuzzy name matching, facial recognition, and textual analysis of your friend's profiles and walls (if you ever are mentioned), not having a profile ID basically means they have nothing on you that can be extracted in an automated fashion.

A human investigator, however, would be intelligent enough to build a profile on you from your friends' submitted information, so there still is some cause for concern. But at least you are safe from datamining.
This is some great information. With regards to number 1, I've often considered setting up my own Exchange server to handle synchronization between desktop/laptop and phone. However while I do prefer Google for email, I've often found their calendar and tasks lacking due to the limited offline support. I find myself in many situations (classrooms, especially) where I am possibly without internet access and therefore cannot enter in appointments or tasks.
Yeah, I'll have to agree with that sentiment, and hope that at least Stallman reads HN. I, for one, have been personally paid over multitudes of times due to free software, not just free to use, but also free to read and free to tinker. I'm better at what I do because of what he championed.
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Why think that Android is limited to only the Google operated application market? Some other more boutique ones could spring up to fill the "quality and polished" niche, if users want that.
Here are two I like:

http://www.biggu.com/apps/shopsavvy-android/

http://replicaisland.net/
1) Use the ad-hoc standard of a form parameter "_method=PUT|DELETE".

2) Read the "Content-Type" header of the request to find out how to parse it. Whats so hard about that?

REST is where Javascript was 8 years ago, everybody things its horrible because very few people actually understand how the whole thing works, and all the implications of that.
I'm certain he's aware of it. I'm certain he's also aware that you can easily get to porn on an iPhone using Mobile Safari. Much more easily than installing an non-Market app like Mikandi and then using it to find porn. Hell there are even a rather astonishing number of porn sites that seem to specialize in iPhone optimized content.

So given all that, you have to wonder why does he even bother to mention Android at all, especially considering that the Android Market prohibits porn just like the Apple App store. You've got to be incredibly naive, or deliberately disingenuous to claim it doesn't sound like a deliberate attempt to slander his competition. Kind of like the old political routine of asking your opponent when he stopped beating his wife. :-)
In a few years AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon will be on LTE and Sprint is thinking about it. One protocol to rule them all.
>google should most definitely be scared. they make something like 90% of their profit from advertising - advertising based on your search query or the context of the page you're reading. facebook's ad platform has the potential to destory them, given they know your so much more about you, your friends, interests etc.

I suspect that your query stream is much richer data than everything you've ever done on facebook.

>is it hard for facebook to launch a search engine, with rankings tweaked via the social graph? not really.

This is dramatically underestimating the difficulty of search. Ranking sites by quality is not hard (in the head at least), and facebook can certainly tweak that well with social data. Ranking pages by relevance to a query is extremely hard.
I know very little about Stallman beyond his role in the GNU Project. What pain is he referring to that makes him wish that he had never been born? The loss of hacker culture?
Why is it dumb of them to post videos of themselves doing this? It isn't illegal most places.
Rails default scaffolding and routing absolutely do use the full REST design, supporting both PUT and DELETE as well as inbound XML and JSON payloads
That's giving Rails too much credit. I would say the friction of configuring Apache to handle PUT, the lack of support on shared hosting to do this, and the scarcity of PHP tutorials/interest on the subject is more contributory to half-REST implentations.

I myself have been guilty of this. At the end of the day, supporting PUT at expense to ease of use by the API consumer (and effort expended to support their toolchains and SDKs, most of which need extra twiddling to do PUT and DELETE) is just not preferable to getting something working... REST philosophies be damned.
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Yeah, it seems reasonable as an exploratory method. Early descriptions of stuff that medicine doesn't know much about often take a case-study approach anyway, which can range from a really detailed log of treatment, to more like the medical equivalent of, "wow, look at these photos of a patient of mine, never seen a cocaine overdose do that before". Obviously YouTube videos don't give you the same level of detail as examining a patient, but it still seems like a decent way to collect a bunch of cases quickly to identify ranges of possible effects.
From RFC2616 9.1.1:

...the convention has been established that the GET and HEAD methods SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval.

Why? GET should mean simply getting the page. Not doing so runs the risk of:

- Bookmarks breaking (what if someone bookmarks the add-contact link?)

- Google deleting everything because it followed the links (there is an example of this on The Daily WTF)

- Easy cross-site request forgery attacks (I post an "image" with the url that deletes your address book on some message board. You are still logged in with a cookie, so it goes ahead)

Even if the site in question is doing something to prevent the above, why reinvent the wheel and not just use POST (or a more RESTful method)?

As for XML, lots of people hate it, and there is no real requirement to use it (unless your users want it, of course). JSON or even form data can work.

As for headers, there might be a risk of a stupid proxy server mangling them, but nothing should mess with the body of the request. And it's just more conventional to describe the request as the request body, and have headers act as the meta-information about it. (I'm assuming you meant HTTP headers)
I wonder what it means when some countries, like South Korea, have Street View removal requests even though they don't have Steet View itself.
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The article mentions there not being any idea of what Google intends to do with the purchase, but at this point it seems relatively clear that although there are a number of applications, a focus on Android (phone and/or table) seems to be the big key here.

Interesting move.
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Sorry. I thought Rails had to make compromises, like faking PUT.
You can have both, but chances are it's still going to eat into the other activity.

Business is just one thing you could do in the time not spent on advanced courses. It's nice to have the option but it also pressures students towards more curricular learning as opposed to self-motivated learning. For example you could spend 3 hours a day making iPhone apps, or spend that 3 hours studying. Chances are unless you become famous for your iPhone apps, those 3 hours acing your courses will seem more advantageous if you're college-oriented.

You'd be lucky if you're so well as off academically as to have free time and still ace courses.
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API docs (which would be on api.rubyonrails.org, now .com) on the other hand, are not.
Towards what?
I would up vote you more, but you're at 37 points right now
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Most things are doable if you're motivated enough. That's not the problem at hand though. The problem is how can we make it easier for students to do what they do best.

I think it's a good idea to focus less on standardized curriculum. For those laissez-faire lovers, standardized curriculum are the equivalent of tight-controlling governments. Some students may need the control, but to those who are self-motivated, a strong regiment just hurts learning.
Buying the domain using a crap registrar and not renewing for more 1 year at a time (this happened last year too) seems strange and naive, particularly when we're talking about Rails, which has a pretty big community which depends on info on that site (mainly for documentation).

(and I wish he wasn't as foul-mouthed as he is. it always looks weird from a community "leader" as he is for ROR)
I don't have a lot of sympathy for the argument that the video was released without context that would justify the American military action. If the American military had wanted context, they should have released the video themselves with additional context. Instead, the American military suppressed the video. They should not complain that the video is now being released without context.

Americans are in Iraq as foreign occupiers. Americans invaded under false pretenses a country that had not attacked them first. The burden of proof is on the Americans, not Wikileaks, to justify American killing of Iraqi innocents.
I'm a fan of Google, but notice how they on the one hand posture as champions of freedom of information, but on the other hand do things like omit any commenting feature from pages like this, so the hard questions cannot be asked directly on the site. It's a kind of preemptive censorship-by-site-design, imho. Irony ftw.
Either computers would be useless novelties or they would be mainstream and lose the hacker/counterculture status. Those are the only two options.

Maybe you don't look at your cell phone or nintendoDS and think "hmm, there must be some way to run irc on this thing". Maybe you don't care anymore, but there are huge communities who do. Maybe the spirit of openness is fundamental to the tools themselves?
You've got to be incredibly naive, or deliberately disingenuous to claim it doesn't sound like a deliberate attempt to slander his competition.

I'm sorry you feel that way, but I believe you're wrong in your interpretation. You won't hear anymore about it.
I don't think that at all. I was responding to a post that claimed RMS should use his fame to attract women. I doubt that will work for a number of obvious reasons.
Without the hype no one would have seen the video. Have you seen all the other documents at Wikileaks or the stuff at criptome? It's hard to penetrate the 24 hour news cycle, they did an admirable job. Even if you didn't like their editing, you have to admit they got you to watch and think about all the people we've killed in Iraq, very few people have managed to do that in the 7 years of this bloody war.
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I disagree.

This is about the specifics of what happened here. It's about whether or not Americans in Iraq are living up to a high enough standard of ethical warfare in their day-to-day.

These conversations decay into "big picture" when people get tired. It's not the point though. The point of rules of war, engagement or otherwise is 'while there is war..'
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Always good to see other aussies giving it a go.
There is a restaurant in Singapore called "Annalakshmi" which has been operating like this for, like a decade at least. You go there, eat, and pay what you feel like paying. The food as well as ambience is good and I think on the average people overpay. I think the proceeds go to fund a non-profit organization for Indian fine arts.
The "syntax as infrastructure" idea has been around in many moderately successful incarnations. (Lisp and Smalltalk, to name a couple.) Another way to think of this: shift Syntax into Meta-syntax, so it gets out of the way of the libraries.

No need for "syntax skins" in that case.
A lot of people do this already. It's called tech school (and optionally, if offered, there are co-op programs).

I did both, but was constantly bothered by the perception that tech school is for people who are, basically, to stupid to go to college. You go there to learn a trade. That's fine, since the "trade" I learned was configuring wide-area networks via the CCNA Academy.

I think it was really valuable for a lot of reasons outside of the good, practical training I got: it got me around kids from other schools since it was a tech school for the whole county; I had access to the co-op program to get some real work experience (which I took advantage of); I was being taught by someone who was actually doing what I was learning.

All in all I'd recommend the experience for many of the reasons you cite here.
Quite true. A movement like the free software one needs people who are not willing to barter with their ideals. I for one do not agree with RMS on everything, and I do still use a few proprietary pieces of software, but I do appreciate the fact that RMS is who he is.
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If GOOG buys them, will they force a rewrite in Python? I'm under the impression that ITA funds a lot of development/creation of tools for Common Lisp, so what impact might that have on the Lisp ecosystem?
Do you think it's more a "warring city-states" structure than most other very large corporations?
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Not to diminish the wonderful work done by the FSF, but you didn't look very hard for exceptions. Here are a few more for you:

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BIND 1985
patch 1985
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Free, Open Source software grew out of the polemic position it took.

BSD / MIT licenses might be "freer", in some sense, but almost all free projects are released because of the ideal of fighting propitiatory software.

I'm pretty sure that the GNU project was one of the main forces that inspired this culture.

The fight is still going on. Academia and business is still getting pushed to release code - think climate models and finance. If it weren't for RMS's work, would people really take such a hard line on propitiatory software? I doubt it.
Ask HN: Is affiliate marketing really legit?
I see lots of sites up that just look scammy as hell, and Andrew Warner recently did an interview with the guy behind theinternettimemachine.com and he seems legit and the interview was really cool and all...but theinternettimemachine.com just has the look of a scam waiting to happen.

He also recommended 5days2freedom.com in a YouTube video and that landing page looks even worse.

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A hundred Lisp startups would bloom. ITA is the blackhole of Lisp programmers; a good chunk of them work there.
If you are an American taxpayer, you also pay for their psychiatry and medication for the rest of their lives too when they come back, even if they don't "explode".

I have a friend who was drafted into Vietnam, whose airport was overrun and he had to defend himself with a handgun. To this day he still has serious mental issues from being put in a position to have to kill people face-to-face.

Many soldiers in Iraq were just ignorant kids who rushed to sign up after 9/11 with their misguided thinking they'd go to war against those who did that. Instead they were sent to a manufactured war in Iraq. Doesn't justify this behavior in the least but it does give some insight.
Denton insists returning it to Apple was the plan all along if the phone turned out to be authentic. But Wallin doesn't believe that argument would be of much use in court. "How many times do people say after they're caught that their intention was to return something?" he says. "Can someone raise that defense? Of course. That doesn't mean it's going to be believed."

I'm not getting it.
Gawker did return the phone when Apple notified them that it was theirs, didn't they?

The fact that Apple had requested the phone back is what solidified the fact that it was indeed a genuine Apple prototype.
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I agree with the comments on the link, clearly these were ex semi PA employees who didnt want to work for apple, not apple employees that started a chip company.

What they wilk do for google, provided the employees don't peel from google as well is speculative at best.

But I'd doubt google bought it for the same reason as apple bought semi-pa. Google seems pretty adament on working qith existing handset providers.
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Great quote.
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The video at first seems slightly condescending, but goes on to give the history and many uses of velcro. Glad I watched all of it.
wow - crazy that this popped up tonight.

A friend and I just finished a project based on this. It's called "The Virtual State of Jefferson" - it's a router that alters pages to "claim" cities in that area. I just posted a tech description about how the project works: http://ethanmiller.name/notes/virtual_state_jefferson_tech/
Points well taken. My frame of reference was the 1990s - I wasn't referrng to the wild-west spirit of 80s but I completely forgot about BeOS/BeBox, NeXT, and other commercial vendors. . .

Still amazing to watch Apple pull it off after all these years.
Keep in mind, it was Wintel that locked us into a single CPU platform. Otherwise we'd be on ARM by now.
Nothing would happen to Lisp. A few people would keep using it and a lot of people would keep arguing about it. Maybe Mahmud's right and there would be a new diversity of real-world applications; that would be nice.

A more pressing question is what would happen to QPX, ITA's flight search system. Google's policy of making acquired companies rewrite their software according to Google's standards would, if applied, mean rewriting QPX in C++, Java, or Python. Given how often QPX has been cited as a system that leverages the power of Common Lisp to do complex things, that would be an interesting thing to follow. I bet Google wouldn't do that, though. For an acquisition of this size (the article says $1B), the rules are probably different. (Did they rewrite Youtube?) I must say it would be neat to see Google break their no-Lisp policy.

(As a side note, it's true that if you don't care that much about continuing to evolve a complex Lisp system, it's often possible to rewrite it in a less powerful language; you just end up with a larger and less changeable codebase.)