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Perhaps twitter plan to inject Twitter for iPhone with IADS.
Thanks for the tip. European law is relevant in this case as well, and I'm not sure it requires a strict monopoly over the market. That said, clearly if iPhones were a small part of the mobile ad platforms, nobody would care if Apple limited the ads that could be shown on them. I don't think that's the case though.

The point I was trying to make was: If we switched this around, and Microsoft had the number one smartphone, and they did something like this, regulators (though you're right, probably not American ones) would have them bent over a table.
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I'm reminded of the English language and the "thorn" character (Þ). It used to be the character for the sound "th" but it fell out of favor and the final nail in its coffin happened when the printing press came into play--the typefaces were imported from Germany and Italy and they didn't have thorn. The printers substituted "y" for a while (hence "Ye olde shoppe"--It's actually pronounced "The", not "yee").

So I would say it's not unheard of for an alphabet to be shaped by technology. We English speakers are not the worse for wear.
Yes, when you ask a committee of linguists to design an orthography for you --- you get a godawful almost-IPA "one phoneme = one grapheme" academic exercise which is utterly impractical for everyday use. (Again, an object lesson in the robustness of top-down-designed systems vs. ones which evolved from centuries of use). Azerbaijan would have had the same problem even if they had stayed with the Cyrillic alphabet. E.g. after Kazakhstan became independent, they had lots of trouble trying to use Kazakh as the administrative language due to a shortage of typewriters with the appropriate letters.

Uzbekistan is greatly underappreciated for having done something really neat after the Soviet breakup --- designing an orthography with no "funny letters". They use context to distinguish the "back" and "front" versions of phonemes like i [1]. And in the two cases where that would be too confusing (o and u), they put an apostrophe after the letter --- i.e. u', instead of something like ü.

[1] Turkey, which speaks a closely-related language, solved the "front i" vs "back i" problem by making one dotted and the other dotless --- those of us here probably know all of the toLowerCase-related bugs that caused, I think articles about this have been posted a couple of months ago
Don't worry about repeated acquisitions. I know it is hard to filter unjustified negatives but sometimes, like this time around, you simply need to ignore.
My guess is that's going to pretty expensive to buy a company with that much profit already and he's already turned down a $10m offer.
I agree.

So, since Apple is still designing great UI but apparently is going insane, maybe it's time for a brand new Apple to be born. Younger, same UI greatness, not insane.
As the days go by, more and more people come onto the service, and see an ad-free environment. Introducing that sometime in the future is going to be a bitter pill to swallow for a lot of users.

Throughout his whole essay he keeps asserting that advertising will drive users away but I don't think that's necessarily the case. I'm sure a lot of casual Internet users don't care about an ad here and there. And then there's always ways to filter the ads out (think Adblock).
enterprenuer - 14 times the same mistake, you might want to fix that.
Given that Adobe are working with MS to get Flash on WP7 - proper Flash, not cross-compiled Flash, your comment is... to be diplomatic, wishful thinking. If Adobe can generate working SL apps then MS wont be bothered how they did it.
As for the multi-tasking 'technical reason' - well, people need something to believe in I guess.
Do you really think they are that stupid and applications were not planned since day one? Come on. They even have games on plain old iPods.
Sir, are you or have you ever been a member of the Adobeist Party?

Just answer the question.
It's cool, but why not just stick a minimum height in your content div?
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sucks that it's a video and there's no text transcript. whichever brilliant team of computer scientists gets a speech product out will win lots of money
“I’m [...] starting work on turning Tweetie.app into Twitter.app”. I bet there are a lot of unhappy Twitter iPhone/iPad client developers today.
Wh... what? Minimal applications aren't a result of laziness, they're designed that way. One of the many reasons why, IMO, Tweetie is the best Twitter client for OS X.
I'v been using Nimbu for some time but it was constantly crashing and I had to reset db several times so eventually I gave up and switched. how is it nowadays?
Cool.

Renders beautifully in Safari on my Mac but the font is horrible on Firefox on Windows.
One comment added something I didn't think about before: "Does Apple really wish to preclude using lex/yacc in iPhone applications?"
Oh... but there are many more generators. Many apps that do networking may be partially built with some code generator for packet encoding/decoding.
Maybe Tweetrubble.
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It's not that cryptography has failed; it's more that the web-using public is largely ignorant and unaware what security or cryptography means. They think in real-life analogues: a random person on the street hears me talking to my friend outside my house about my weekend plans. Not a big deal, because (1) that random person didn't hear every single word, (2) we'd see if they were eavesdropping too closely, and (3) no human can remember every last detail of speech they hear. Unfortunately, an eavesdropper on the wire can do all this and more, but people don't seem to understand.

I think the right way to go is for providers make strong cryptography standard (like your Adium example). The current GPG usage model and its integration with email is poorly executed, and most of the web-using public won't care to learn how it works let alone create key pairs. The only thing the public at large can understand is secrecy of social communication. I await the day Facebook or Google start automatically generating and managing keys, and encrypting communication between users based on their social connections.
Ask HN: What software/app do you need?
I was wondering if there was any specific app (web or mobile) or software, that you'd use and pay for, but isnt already available.

If enough people need something like that, I'll build it.
I think even that is too long. Think about when that one second would occur: when the app you are using needs more memory, you are running low, and the system is closing the least recently used app. Right at that moment is the worst time, user experience wise, to have a delay, especially a delay on the order of half to one second.
I don't know how much I'd be willing to pay for it, or how big of a market there is for it, but I would like an easy tool for cohort analysis.
>ou do realize that Windows Mobile 7 has similar policies as the iPhone. Apps need to be written in Silverlight (a Flash competitor), XNA (games), or .NET. I'm not sure if Adobe can manage yet another cross-compiler (if that's how CS5 works).

You're confusing two different types of restrictions.

The restriction on using silverlight/.net stems from the how the platform was designed.

If you were to write, say, a compiler that takes O'Caml code and spits out .NET IL instructions, then you could use that to write your apps.

Apple is saying you have to use whatever higher level languages they approve of regardless of what the final binaries look like.
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The article lists only the most important people. But that's a very short list, as there were many more involved (full list in PL is here: http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80273,7752563,Prezy...): There were ~60 people from the government, and ~20 more representatives of army, church and other organisations.
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That sounds very reasonable — with third party development environment like that of CS5, that would be expected.

But how could it detect, say, various libraries that would pre-compile to C/Objective-C — not using a third party development environment with separate libraries like CS5, just direct other language-to-Apple's-environment compilers, like that of Apple's own MacRuby (sort of).

I think what Apple want is for us to use their environment, their libraries, Cocoa Touch and all that. They don't want cross-platform "shovelware" they want apps to be uniquely designed for the iPhone. That's the key. I don't think they really care if the code was written in, say, Ruby or Clojure, using a compiler designed specifically to target Apple's specific libraries. Could they even detect something like that?

I even expect Apple to try to get MacRuby, and similar tools for other languages, working with Mac and iPhone development. It's the generality of cross-compiled generic shovelware they don't like. Not "other" languages.

Think about it: which do you think Apple likes more: cross-platform apps developed "originally" in C using Eclipse (no Apple-libraries) and released for every mobile platform under the sun. Or, apps uniquely designed and developed for iPhone using MacRuby with Cocoa Touch (whenever that's technically possible).
Except the iPhone (and related devices) don't have wear levelling. Even if they did, there's edge cases where the user fills 95% of the disk and the OS has to page with the remaining 5% (this would require a very intelligent wear levelling algorithm that could optimistically move in-use blocks)
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The font shadow makes the text appear blurry. Font sizes need consistency. Do not use the same size for headlines and starts of paragraphs. The single big letters are just silly. Serif font does not fit technology/coding environment. The huge quote is so huge and long that I do not read it. Feynman name-dropping is lame, put your own quality in that space where the visitor looks first.
And they also don't provide hosting, credit card transactions and millions of users that can buy your app with one click.

I too don't like what Apple did, but you are comparing different things.
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I can counter your argument by saying simply: A homophobe would only have to see the same thing you do (the men kissing), and would draw a completely different conclusion than you do without the aid of religion. That's why you can't rely on emotional or intuition-based morality. The same situation can cause different emotions in different people.

When you're born, both your conscious and subconscious minds are blank slates. When you choose values and accept premises, those go into your subconscious since your conscious can't hold everything you know at once.

Emotions are the result of lightning-quick value-judgments performed by your subconscious mind. The subconscious is like a computer that your conscious programs, and your emotions are a constant printout.

Because of this, your emotional reactions to various situations depend on the values you've accepted and the premises you hold.

When you and someone else agree that it is wrong to arrest a gay man for kissing someone, based on your emotional reactions, it's because you both share western values such as individual rights and the separation between church and state. This allows you both to -feel- that the arrest is immoral. But someone who deeply disvalues homosexuality or deeply values a religion that is intolerant to homosexuality will -feel- -instantly- that the act of two men kissing is vile and the arrest is just and righteous, or at least preferable to allowing the men to kiss any longer.

THIS is why morality has to be based on facts. Why it must be grounded in reality. A person's wrong premises can easily make them -feel- that an evil act is righteous. Morality must be objectively defined and validated in order to stand up to peoples' whims.

Instead of trusting morality to a person's feelings and intuitions, you should examine the nature of reality and of human beings and determine, based on the way we are, what we should do.

I already linked this in another comment, but I'll link it here too. It's an essay Ayn Rand wrote that does just that. It examines the facts that give rise to man's need of a moral code, and then justifies, based on reality and man's nature, the proper moral code for man to practice. (Rational Egoism.)
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ari_ayn_rand...

If you don't agree with this essay, at least you can take from it an example of how to justify a moral code firmly grounded in reality, instead of in someone's -feelings- of right and wrong. Even if such feelings did default to a correct moral code, they would still be unreliable due to how easily they can be overridden.

Having an objectively defined moral code will not only allow you to be -certain- that you are doing the right thing, but you'll have intellectual ammo to back up your code when it is attacked. "I feel this is right" is insufficient to defend any moral code, even if it is the right moral code.
That wouldn't work very well because it may add scrolling to your page when it isn't necessary.
Or just use Compass with Blueprint http://wiki.github.com/chriseppstein/compass/ and it's one line of code from there:

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Can anyone involved in or close to the Java/OpenJDK comment on what this might mean for Java/JDK/JVM?
Sarcasm, my friend. Take a look at my post history and call me an "Apple fan-boy" again...
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Will Gosling join in IBM?
No surprise here. It's too bad the IBM/Sun talks broke down, I think it would have been a much better marriage.
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Would you, then, agree with the statement: "There's no reason to write the sort of puritanically functional code that the article's author suggests we aspire to, because it would merely sit around and do nothing"?

Because apart from nothing, I'm not entirely sure what the author really thinks 100% pure functional code should do, when even input and output states are too impure to be allowed inside his Sanctified Garden of Jesus-Code, despite the fact that it's that mapping that we're explicitly interested in whenever we run a program. As far as I can tell, it's the "run a program" step that the author has a real problem with, and while he's welcome to subvert that paradigm, I don't see any hint of a way forward from it...if your program is meant to be fully composable at a level more granular than "program", shouldn't you be writing a library instead? Is that the suggestion?

From what I can tell, the author hasn't figured this out, either, he just thinks someone should.
Many companies have policies about not putting more than X senior executives in the same plane... Don't countries have those too?

What happens if Airforce One crashes with the president and his whole cabinet on board? (wait, wasn't there a season of 24 about that?)
Unless they log into all machines running java and break them, why does it particularly matter? What's the worry here?
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I thought the vice-president and the president weren't allowed to be on the same plane.
I am just wondering how involved Gosling is in JDK (in terms of roadmap, new features and such) now a days ... or is it primarily driven by the community?
Selective enforcement implies a binary decision. This is rarely the case with legal matters: most of the time some discretion is required (even expected) as part of enforcement. This is what judges and juries are for under the common and statutory laws and in interpreting contract obligations.
Great platform it may be, but this rule is insane. Who cares how the compiled code was produced? What matters is how it runs on the platform.
Ah yes, I think you might be right. That was the plot of the 24 episode anyway.

Still, what about the president and everyone except the vice president?
Well, since there was an SDK since day one, of course they anticipated third party development. The point is that they were pointing developers at web apps at launch. Why am I explaining this to you? It's public record. Look it up.
that's a thought, he'd fit in very well at T.J. Watson
Actually whole leadership of the army. And the chief of the national bank.
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I was there some 10 years ago and I didn't get quite the same treatment. ;-)
It was very interesting to see nonetheless.

btw: Should somebody feel like visiting Dresden until August, shoot me a message, I might be able to give you a tour.
So what do you guys think? Worth $299 ? Does this concept work ? My point is that Mixergy videos are free and available all the time, why pay?
"The Polish president had been due in western Russia to commemorate the anniversary of the murder of thousands of Polish officers by the Soviet Union at the beginning of World War II.

The ceremonies were to be held at a site in the Katyn forest close to Smolensk, where 70 years ago members of the Soviet secret police executed more than 20,000 Polish officers captured after the Soviet Army invaded Poland in 1939."

It is worthwhile to emphasize these two paragraphs from the article, since presidency of the late president Kaczyński, among other things, has put great importance on reminding about Polish victims of Soviet totalitarianism. He insisted on commemorating the memory of victims of Sovet invasion on Poland, after the Germany, on 17.09.1939, as well as of Soviet occupation after 1945, when Russians defeated Germany in that part of Europe and replaced them in the role of the occupier. Memory about this victims has been prohibited until 1989, when Poland finally regained its political sovereignty.
Wow. Weren't C extensions precisely the major problem which lead Google to build Unladen Swallow instead of contributing to PyPy?

Hope we'll soon have several great Python environments, even though I was secretly rooting for PyPy, being in Python (that must be common fantasy after reading some parts of SICP!).
These people operate on some sort of bizarre moon logic. Youtube doesn't "eat up your ISP's bandwidth", your customers eat up your ISP's bandwidth by using Youtube.

If electricity usage followed the same argument as they give, power plants would be at fault for their electricity being used.

Of course, your customers can't always easily be extorted for hundreds of millions of dollars, while (they think) Google can.
There's only a law (in Poland) to avoid the president and the prime minister being on the same plane. Beyond that it's not regulated.
So ironic and bizarre that they were on their way to commemorate the Katyn massacre. This is like a small-scale Katyn.
Belarussian aircraft informed crew about tough conditions in Smolensk airport - rather old, soviet military airfield - which after that was closed in case of heavy fog and the plane redirected to Minsk or Moscow. Unfortunately, the pilots decided to land anyway, even though three approaches to landing failed.

In fact Tu-154 was aged, but after solid and expensive modernization. For now it looks like a mistake of a pilot connected with really bad weather conditions.
I don't think he has a close BDFL-style involvement with the Java SDK or standard library. From what I can observe, Java is, and has been, committee-driven since about 2000.

And Gosling is too expensive to write code. His time is much better used in conferences, motivating developers.
That would mean the death of SPARC. How could this be good?

Well... It's better than Microsoft, I guess. The thought of a "Windows 7 Server for SPARC Enterprise Edition Plus" is frightening.
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Problem is that ISPs hate it when you actually use bandwidth.

I got an email from my ISP - BT, to say that I'd used 80GB of transfer for March, and that if I went to 100GB, I'd have my speed capped for the next 30 days. This is on their (and I quote) "UNLIMITED" plan. bleurgg
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Of course. But normally ISPs take it out on their customers, as opposed to taking it out on the services their customers use.

Most likely the problem is that they now can no longer blame the problem on "bandwidth hogs"--with everyone using Youtube, everyone uses the bandwidth that you advertised to them.
I believe this is more related to some of the peering relationships Google currently has. While it was a good idea to peer with Google in the past to benefit your customers, right now they are probably upset that their free peering arrangements are putting quite a bit of stress on their networks and it is quite understandable to want to start charging some money.
Fine, the telecoms can start taking payments from their customers to access youtube then. Lets see how many customers they'll get with that kind of deal. We (the users) already pays for the networks. This article is complete bullshit.
Years ago, I saw lots of "unlimited" cell phone plan commercials in London, every single one being subject to "fair use". How come it's that common in the UK? I think there are close to none "fair use" plans in e.g. Germany. Why the local differences?
Well, you did not read a lot of accounts then. Unless you believe that it was possible to develop the SDK (and APIs and App Store) to the level it was released at in six months.
Of course it was planned from the very start it was just a matter of resources and priorities. SDK was not ready by the time iPhone was launched, was it a good reason to delay the product? No.
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There was already a problem with that before. In 2008 leaders of Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia wanted to fly in one plane to Gruzia. There was some arguing with the pilot who was refusing to fly in that situation (landed in Azerbaijan instead to maintain minimum of security). Yet, they do it again. Even if there is no policy against it, there will be in a month...
This just shows that telco's won't solve a thing by capping bit-torrent traffic. What they need to do is stop charging too little for the bandwidth and improve their infrastructure to support the market they expanded to.