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You're right, the reaction to the TOS was something to behold.

I think due to the nature of hacking and hackers, most people here hate being told how to do their job, especially for what feels to them to be spurious or irrational reasons.

I suspect people would have responded better to a more narrow (though perhaps legally more problematic) "no Flash" rule, rather than the legally safer but over-broad "no cross-compiling".
Quite a few years ago I had a chance to see Bill give a presentation about his research. Not only is he a fantastic speaker, but he has been incredibly passionate about user interface design since way before it was cool.

In this video he describes his own "multi-touch" work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvyzwN36PSw
Or you could look at it as someone saying that they know saying something will cost them karma, but they feel it's important enough to say anyway.
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It isn't working on IE8.
similar to building a business based on SEO, isn't it?
Why do you think it's unfortunate? Won't that mean less competition for anyone who can reliably pass Apple's scheme-to-C "Turing test"?
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Depending on the country your store is in: yes, you would have to serve me unless you have a very good reason not to (like I'm a returning thief or troublemaker).
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1. 6 months

2. No. Haven't tried.

3. No.

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For those worried about being constantly badgered by text messages from restaurants, don’t be. The company allows users to decide upfront whether they want to receive these additional offers or not.

The fact that there are "additional offers" at all is enough to make it a non starter for me. My mobile number is the very last little bit of informational private space I have. The thought of it being deluged by spam makes my blood curdle. The last thing I need is an "opt out, and out and out and out before they'll freakin' take the hint" ad service aimed at my sms device.

I'll just sit here and wait, thanks.
I recommend that magazine for entrepreneur types. One of the few print magazines I feel are worth a subscription.
D. Modified C.

Build your own offering. Use platforms to reach customers, to spread the word, as service. Be ready to stop use any of them overnight.
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Read the Sherman's Act instead of Wikipedia, it's quite unambiguous about this subject.
Given that Twitpic apparently has multi-million annual revenue, I won't cry for them too long. ;-)

http://www.businessinsider.com/twitpic-is-doing-15-to-2-mill...
True. The benefit of buying is eliminating one of the big pic players, and thereby disrupting the other twitter client apps. You also get an inventory of pics and a site where you could promote your new twitter properties.
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How is this obvious?

It might make sense to say, "we can't build an effect-free computing machine", because we use transistors, and transistors get hot when they sink power, and things getting hot changes the entropy of the Universe... but it doesn't make sense to say, "we can't model an effect-free world, and program is if the world is effect-free".

(In fact, without effects, there is no world.)
Honestly, I still think people writing native code and using the native APIs for a platform like the iPhone is something worth enforcing. On the desktop multiplatform development toolkits consistently fail to deliver a user experience that is seamless and on par with apps built with the native APIs (especially on a platform with different interface conventions and guidelines, ie Mac OS) and for a platform such as the iPhone where resources are not infinite, and the interface is especially important, it just makes sense to enforce people doing things 'properly'. If that knocks out a few decent applications along with all the lazy, rubbish ports then I think that's acceptable. If they're really that amazing, then they probably justify being rewritten natively.

One place where I do have issue with this policy is in the case of game engines/middleware (ie. Unity). Due to the complexity and development requirements of game middleware I think an exception, or a more refined policy, is required to allow middleware to give the required 'leg-up' to game developers. Additionally, while Apple has provided an awful lot of what developers need to create great View-based applications for the iPhone with Cocoa Touch (within the constraints what third-party apps are allowed to do, at least), they haven't done so for games. This is understandable, again due to the aforementioned complexity of game engines, but it makes games a special case.
I think the main cause for Microsoft's weakened position is the web. Their core products are high quality in my view, but they just never wholeheartedly embraced the web. Neither technologically nor in terms of the business model. Fighting the web moved them from being seen as a freedom fighter against IBM to the position of a ceaselessly scheming oppressor that keeps inventing new ways of ruining the fun for the tinkerers.

They have alienated an entire generation of hackers and that's why in spite of all the money that can be made on their platform the interesting stuff happens elsewhere. Apple is on route to follow them, once the hype around their glitzy fashion items subsides.
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It worked in IE8 for me.

What exactly goes wrong in IE8 for you?
I guess Fred Wilson (Investor in Twitter) sort of Indicated this was going to happen...

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/the-twitter-platform.html

"Much of the early work on the Twitter Platform has been filling holes in the Twitter product. It is the kind of work General Computer was doing in Cambridge in the early 80s. Some of the most popular third party services on Twitter are like that. Mobile clients come to mind. Photo sharing services come to mind. URL shorteners come to mind. Search comes to mind. Twitter really should have had all of that when it launched or it should have built those services right into the Twitter experience.

When you talk to a new user, they want to know how to post a photo to Twitter, they want to know "what is this bit.ly thing?", they want to know how to get Twitter on their iPhone. Names like Summize, Twitpic, Tweetie make no sense to them. Of course, without Summize, Twitpic, and Tweetie we would not have the Twitter we have today. They and many other third party products and services filled out the holes in the Twitter product and made it work better."
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"So, what's all the fuss about the Apple proposed revised SDK license?

Yesterday Apple released some proposed changes to their SDK license restricting the technologies that developers can use, including Adobe software and others such as Unity and Titanium.

First of all, the ability to package an application for the iPhone or iPad is one feature in one product in Creative Suite. CS5 consists of 15 industry-leading applications, which contain hundreds of new capabilities and a ton of innovation. We intend to still deliver this capability in CS5 and it is up to Apple whether they choose to allow or disallow applications as their rules shift over time.

Secondly, multiscreen is growing beyond Apple's devices. This year we will see a wide range of excellent smartphones, tablets, smartbooks, televisions and more coming to market and we are continuing to work with partners across this whole range to enable your content and applications to be viewed, interacted with and purchased."

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I'm glad to see YC people using it. We are really trying to focus on a fair marketplace more than a race-to-the-bottom one (like elance and others).
> But two consecutive failed startups is probably not better than six years at a great company...

Only if you're talking about the quality of the experience, and even that's entirely subjective.

If the goal is financial independence there's no comparison. Your shot at making FU money working for someone else is essentially zero. As a founder your shot at achieving financial independence is considerable, and making FU money is at least a possibility.
If you aren't going to query on a property, make sure to store it as a TextProperty and not a StringProperty.

Don't do this, use StringProperty(indexed=False) - works with the other property types as well.
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Thank you. This phrases what I've been feeling for years (especially ever since the rush of Twitter based services). When you decide to make yourself dependent on someone else's product, and you don't get a formal partnership agreement from them, you are opening yourself up to disaster. And by no means should you expect the creator of that product to bend over backwards just to accommodate you. If you don't like their changes, or something they do interferes with your business, then leave. If you can't reasonably do that because you have inexorably linked your livelihood to that product, then that is no one's fault but your own.
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Why reply to someone with a reasoned argument when you can just downvote... nice.
Seems to need a horizonal resize to take effect. Just resizing vertically doesn't do anything.
My take on it is that Apple is attempting to splinter the developer community, and force you to pick sides - will you develop for the iPhone, or for those other platforms? By killing cross-platform compilers, they're attempting to force developers into a corner, where they have to pick a platform to commit to, and they're banking on their superior marketshare to cause developers to pick the iPhone.

If successful, it would put a significant dent in the viabilty of the Android platform. If Apple can give an "us or them" (or do it twice) ultimatum and get people to pick them (even grudingly), then they've won. The Mac desktop floundered against the PC for years due in no small part to the fact that all the developers were developing for Windows, and didn't really put much thought into cross-compatibility with Macs. Apple is attempting to repeat history, but with themselves on the other end of the equation this time.

It's a risky, ballsy, and brazen gambit, but if they pull it off (after all, the suits who write those developers' paychecks just care about the $ on the balance sheet at the end of the quarter), it could be a decisive turning point against Android. Jobs is obviously doing his best to water down the Android market (they have PORN! UNCLEAN!) and Apple is in full-on assault mode against Android (via HTC at the moment), and there's a very good reason for it - Android is suddenly a very real threat.

According to the February metrics from AdMob, Android has a marketshare equivalent to Apple's in the US. Apple still has a hefty lead worldwide, but Android is growing by leaps and bounds, while the iPhone remains stagnant. That's a very real and very direct threat that Apple is pulling out all the stops to counter.
$1000 plus fees to install a web app that doesn't do much more than a stand alone mobile phone? Hmm.
It probably was, but that's cool. This stuff is good enough to be worth bringing up for conversation every now and then. But I'm not sure how permanent that other URL is, it seems like somebody's private copy. The UT link is canonical (Dijkstra spent his last years there) so it won't break.
Do y'all really care for this on websites you use?

It drives me crazy when I am scrolling a large page
if there is nothing useful down there, and I immediately adblock it.
Of course you would, there is nothing wrong the feature in itself and even if the applications compiled with it get rejected it will still cause a headache and put apple under pressure to change their decision.
then on the next § she just contradicts this one.

Also it's from 2002 and now i'm curious how it ended.
most free software were CMKY agnostic until recently.
My takeaway on all that is Adobe CS:

All of this can be yours for the low, low price of $700. No partial refunds for defective or useless software.
I never mentioned developers. I mentioned agencies. As in, advertising agencies. They already (or used to) sell email addresses to spammers. It isn't far fetched to imagine selling location-based data as well. That sort of information is far more valuable than an email.
They're only one rung above notepad.exe's "Search reached end of document | Ok" dialog, but only because for most of them hitting Ok takes you to the source of the notification.

They're a disaster compared to Apple's desktop HCI guidelines that insist on verbed dialogs and disdain "Cancel | Ok"
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The problem is that for outfits like them shipping anything takes a huge amount of effort, and they're kind of short on under-the-hood goodies to add. They're also kind of constitutionally incapable of shipping security updates, though it's probably better overall that they don't do ubuntu's 10-updates-per-day regimen.

I'd rather they spent their efforts iterating on their mobile products. They have a ton of challenges still ahead of them there, like whatever they're going to try to replace the hierarchical filesystem UI with, synchronization, their mobile ads platform, fixing their notifications UI, integrating browser tabs into the app-switching UI (like WebOS and ChromeOS), etc.
At this point, there are plenty of Objective C developers. Apple doesn't need to change its minds. A few years ago perhaps. There will continue to be a steady stream of great apps.

What could happen is that a developer might get permanently banned for using the Adobe tools, thus locking themselves out of the iPhone market.
I'd be surprised if the new "Local Events" API didn't offer a cron-like scheduling system.
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That's unfortunate.

I tested this in IE8 by zooming out. Didn't expect a problem since that worked.
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I think you got downvoted because you're assuming that they're doing it on purpose just for maintaing the price tag, and you're comment seems to be more personal rather than objective, thus off-topic.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. While I think the article suggests that they are giving a slight boost to sites that give a better user experience, I think your point is a much more likely reality.
Yeah, not sure why this is news. Taking it out would just help sweep the whole thing under the carpet. Exactly the opposite of what Adobe wants.
It seems like you're saying CS is overpriced, but it's not clear how that's relevant.
What's great is that Google is getting everyone upgraded to each new browser. If only Microsoft could do that with IE, and Mozilla with Firefox.

Too bad Google isn't as effective with Android versions.
I like the idea. Why the listings should be only from ebay? Aggregate listings from other popular shopping sites.
I guess you would think that if you only read the title of the HN article and the part pertaining to the iPhone capabilities. I was commenting on the hype surrounding CS that Adobe is perpetuating in that blog entry.
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Great idea. Was looking for something like this to show some prototype. Was wondering is it necessary to be restricted only to rails app? For ex., I can host a wiki and try to get static address with your service. Might want to check dyndsn sort of services.
I made another reply to bdr concerning the first point, but I do not see how personal vs objective is not relevant. They're creating an illusion that their software is better than (for example) Windows 7 by 4x if looking at the price. That is a pretty hefty thing to claim. (And that is only for one piece of the CS puzzle - not all 15 pieces.)
You're absolutely right, it's a shame that Palm is essentially dead walking. Google's ChromeOS will be picking up the torch of "everything's a tab" when it hopefully ships later this year.

Apple hasn't yet backed themselves into a corner where they can't rip it off, but to do it right would require them to not be their usual bossy selves.

In an ideal card-based iPhone world, apps would have the option of being document-centric and be able to register for URL-handlers and file-types (both just like on OS X). Unfortunately the new Apple would probably never let them become the default in place of built-in apps (no registering http://, no owning image/jpeg, etc.).

I think they'll have to do it eventually, but it might take a while. They might try to let the new multitasking API percolate in the wild first, and develop their replacement for the hierarchical filesystem UI and maybe OTA syncing in the meantime.
Small shops require developers to also do sysadmin duty, including racking and stacking gear.
Still, your post was essentially "CS is overpriced", but more verbose. If you have some analysis of their pricing (and why it might be wrong), share it, but to just state your personal opinion like that is kind of pointless.
Have you used Adobe's product? I'd say it's worth many times what Windows 7 is worth.

Not trying to put down the developers, I know a few from both camps. They're all brilliant.
How is it better than UPX?
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Lots of people have tried this. It's very hard, especially on Facebook, because people are there to spend time on Facebook first and foremost.

The one exception to this might be Zynga, but of course they're far and away the #1 app developer and I'm sure some non-trivial percentage of Facebook users come back to the site just to play Farmville.
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UPX and other binary packers out there don't support .NET binaries in any way. There's only one other .NET packer that I'm aware of, and it seems to be dead (the only traces of it are on shady shareware sites) and quite old.
That's not evil lol

They're a business.
And, Windows Mobile and Android users will enjoy the availability of these apps, even if iPhone users won't.
What am I looking at here? Like, is this a demonstrator for some content management tool?
This is Palm's chance
Palm has always had a good relationship with developers. I used to develop for the original Palm OS 3 using both the official tools and a GCC tool chain. It was a pleasure developing for the platform and virtually no part of the system was off limits.

Palm needs to start courting developers again. They have a state of the art mobile operating system, a very open API, an excellent set of tools and terms of use that don't dictate how apps can be developed. All of that makes for a fun development environment.

Palm hasn't sold as many devices as apple or android so they won't attract as many developers who are writing apps for profit, but what they will attract are hackers and tinkerers and creative types who like to push and poke and see what happens when they do xyz. I think that in itself will attract higher quality apps and that will be key: quality not quantity.

As a user, would I really care that your platform has 150000 apps and mine has only 2200? No. As long as the major apps are there (which they are for webOS) it doesn't really matter.

Palm should stop trying to be Apple and start being Palm again
Here is a walk-through video of how it works:

http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=116
True, but 3 or 4 wasted 90-day trials is a man-year's worth of wasted development time (not to mention the damage trail a string of unqualified programmers will leave through your codebase).
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There are two things to consider:

1. How fast the server responds and how quickly the page contents (HTML, CSS, JS, etc) are downloaded.

2. How long the rendering of the contents takes. Using blocking JS will slow this down. Using horribly complex CSS selectors would also affect the rendering.

Google Analytics moved to non-blocking loading recently (it's different JS code), which I think is part of a bigger push within Google. Other services should do the same.
Our load time is penalized on that graph by loading some images asynchronously via javascript. It's a slideshow gallery, so loading them serially this way allows it to start playing faster.
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Thank you for posting this. I worked on Tabletop Computing Research for 2 years and it's absolutely astounding the level of misunderstanding and wild speculation that's being swirled around by the iPad. Not nearly enough people have even the basic grasp of the literature necessary for me to trust their analysis.

Bill Buxton is one of the founding fathers of HCI and he most definitely is someone who knows what he is talking about.
There are dozens of papers that prove otherwise

Because evil vaccine manufacturers paid for them

the original paper that made this claim has been withdrawn after being proven erroneous

Because evil vaccine manufacturers forced the author to ...

That's all the reasoning I could ever get out of "vaccine deniers".
It's consolidation. It's the same thing that happened to the web browser market as first Netscape and then IE dominated the browser was. The same thing as when Apple and IBM-and-clones basically divided the PC market and forced out all the other early entrants.

It sucks if you're one of the also-ran platforms, it sucks if you developed for one of the also-ran platforms, and it means you have dramatically less bargaining power if you're developing for one of the winning platforms. (OTOH, it's pretty nice if you're bought by one of the winning platforms.) I wouldn't worry about it too much in terms of the long-term evolution of tech platforms, though. Historically, each major consolidation of platforms has laid the groundwork for the adoption of the next big platform. The web would never have caught on if Netscape had needed to support, well, these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_home_computers instead of just Windows/Mac/Linux. Then today's Web 2.0 apps like Facebook and Twitter would never have caught on if they had to support all the early browsers in addition to IE & Firefox. Similarly, I bet this consolidation of web & mobile platforms lays the groundwork for some platform that replaces them all.
Yeah, that's exactly the scenario that has me really thinking that it is not good to be the test subject. Maybe they start banning people instead of Apps.

Imagine your company gets banned. Not good.
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