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I don't know how they plan on making comments not anonymous. In this article the only defense is having users register. Which I'm assuming means that they would register with a valid email address and click a confirmation link. In that case services such as ShadyEmail.com and the like can get around this type of registration.

The only real way to stop anonymous comments and commenting is to make being a non-anonymous member of the community more rewarding and productive than being an anonymous member. It's not really a technology or policy issue, its an issue of personal incentive and community.
Am I missing the sarcasm (I'm serious, not being sarcastic myself)? Unless I'm mistaken all Macs have a prominent glowing logo that's visible at all times.
This comparison doesn't work. For starters, shopping carts are free, given to you for your own convenience. Furthermore, you don't need a shopping cart to use the mall.
Psychoactive drugs shouldn't be illegal, but they can be dangerous. They provide a lot of spiritual and psychological benefits for a lot of people, but have also wrecked a lot of people. Cocaine, heroin, amphetamines (including Rx) and alcohol are probably the worst, as far as I've seen. Psychedelics don't seem to be as damaging in general-- I think it could even be argued that alcohol is more dangerous than psilocybin-- but becoming an acid-head is a terrible idea. I find it astonishing that, although psychedelic experiences can be very interesting and illuminating, the vast majority of frequent drug users (e.g. 2-4x/month LSD users) are exhaustingly boring people.

Psychedelics are a completely different class of drug, of course, from coke and alcohol. Most people lump together utterly different behaviors (cocaine at a party vs. shrooms in the woods) into "doing drugs", and that isn't really fair. I think psychedelics have a lot of value to offer humanity, but they are dangerous and we, as a society, need to rediscover safe means of using them.
While you can try to not do anything stupid with regard to your allocations, there's often very little you can do.

If you try to implement your own allocator you're often just wasting time. You either use the best allocator library you can find or end up having a half-baked allocator of your own on top of a poor default allocator library.
A good allocator is essential for performance.

Writing a good allocator is not trivial so your home-made allocator is likely to be slower, consume more memory than an optimized generic allocator, and exhibit all kinds of weird random hiccups when a critical malloc() or free() happens exactly when the library can't avoid housekeeping anymore and goes into a costly cleanup mode. An optimized allocator has loads of knowhow in guarding against these corner cases, both algorithmically and by having empirical special cases to help amortize the cost of maintenance.

I've seen many programs that couldn't possibly have predicted their allocations any better but were still stuck until an alternate allocator was bolted in and the juices began to flow smoothly again.

I expect a modern allocator to adapt to various use cases, from managing large variable-size chunks of memory to intelligently pooling a thousands and thousands of small objects of one size. And much more. Automatically.
I'd like to be able to believe that once again.

It's really as you said, social skills and no more: it's just about trial and error - knowing a lot of different situations and mindsets and learning how to 'work' with them.

I don't really know about all the esoteric stuff that these guys often talk about: I think they've been created so that someone can make a living out of it. But if they give the guys that are buying enough confidence to actually give it a try I guess it's okay.
It's to enable click-to-copy (to the clipboard.)
Sacked from a civil service job for not being able to do something? That must be a first.
VS 2010 is slower than VS 2008.

That said, with a $900 machine, ( quad i5, 4 gig ram ) with a last gen video card the most recent RC runs just as fast as VS 2008 did.
And if you trust that Apple is a benevolent dictator that knows what's best for developers and that no good ideas can come from outside of Apple, that's a perfectly reasonable argument.
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I know named and optional parameters are in there for C#.
In fairness to the person questioning my post, while Apple does not prevent it absolutely, there is a question of degree.

I am writing a Go game for "mobile computers." When I set out to do so, I had a variety of options available to me, and I selected web application as best for my purposes.

Apple is absolutely reducing the number of options for developing applications on multiple platforms available to the developer. Clearly there are still some left, so no they are not preventing it but in some sense they are hampering it.

That may not be enough to be considered anti-competitive, and they may not have a monopoly, but I certainly appreciate that developers may not like it. But not liking something doesn't mean it's wrong or illegal.

If Apple starts bundling a Go application with iPhone I won't like that either!
Obviously you haven't used it! It is definitely meant for content consumption, not general interactivity with more complex web apps. What it does it does very well and does it blazingly fast!
Right on time. I've always believed that "you are not your f------ computer", but after Section 331, I am just about to print a penguin logo and stick it my computer lid.
Actually you are right, the ban (i.e. clause 3.3.2) that was there since the beginning was not against all interpreted code. Originally it said:

"An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Published APIs and built- in interpreter(s)."(emphasis mine)

However it was changed, with OS 3.0 SDK I believe, certainly before the OS 4.0 SDK changes, to its current wording:

"An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded or used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Documented APIs and built- in interpreter(s)."(emphasis mine)

I still maintain my position that for quite some time now developers should have had no expectations to be able to write applications for the iPhone in Ruby or Python, or some other interpreted language or at least to be able to distribute them through Apple's app store. Although in reality there seem to be plenty of applications in there that have some scripting component or another.
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Most software I audited overuse dynamic memory.

Before considering changing the allocator, consider allocating less (zero copy, use of the stack, in place allocation, etc.).
Semi-interesting, but I am strongly disinclined to trust anything Charlotte Allen has to say about culture because other things I've read by her seem always to have a heavy social-conservative spin on them. A few examples:

http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/whWereare.htm ("The vast majority of women who might otherwise qualify as public intellectuals would rather recite the feminist catechism or articulate some new twists and refinements on it than carve out a place for themselves in the larger public world." The sole purpose of this article seems to be being as negative as possible about present-day feminists.)

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/17/opinion/oe-allen17 ("I can't stand atheists -- but it's not because they don't believe in God. It's because they're crashing bores." Most of the article consists of this sort of insult and sneering.)

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/00... (unkind but not very unfair summary: Bill Ayers! Barack Obama! Progressives are idiots, hahaha! Look, some Marxists!)

And, surprise, surprise, it turns out she works for a conservative think tank. Of course it's perfectly possible for someone who works for a conservative think tank to have useful and interesting things to say, but in practice I tend to find that such people give a high enough priority to pushing a particular agenda -- as, after all, they are being paid to do -- that I can't trust anything they say without independent verification. (The same may well be true of people working for think tanks on the other side, but there seem to be considerably fewer of them about.)
This seems like a great opportunity to learn a new language, framework and IDE. Visual Studio is an awesome IDE but it's always valuable to learn something different and be able to integrate that in your day job. To answer your question, a successful site that keeps popping up that uses asp .Net MVC and the Microsoft stack would be StackOverflow.com
Ask HN: Organize re: Apple TOS
Instead of writing long-winded blog posts on why Apple's screwing up, why not organize? Apple has a demonstrable track record of changing when consumers make demands on the platform, and when its name brand gets tarnished amongst its consumers.

If Greenpeace can do it: http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/

Certainly App developers can.

Heck, it could be said that the entire AppStore was created because of developer demands in the first place-- remember that Jobs' first answer to 3rd party apps was: "You can write apps on the web"

Look, like it or not, Apple's not going away-- there's tens of millions of iphones out there and soon to be millions of iPads out there. It's a significant platform we can't ignore. We can either write blog posts about it, or we can get organized and do something about it.
It's true. All you have to do to eliminate war is convince everybody it isn't in the best interests. However, that is exactly the same as eliminating war, and simply restating the definition gets you nowhere in this case.

Go spread your "word of mouth" to, say, those who want to crush you under the boot of Sharia law. Let me know when that succeeds.

Unfortunately, it's not a matter of "convincing" people that peace is in their best interest, because in many cases, it isn't. They live in a place where social structures reward in some manner being not peaceful. (Possibly only in the short term, but that's enough for many people.) Expecting everyone to be too stupid to notice that isn't a path to peace. You have to make it so that peace is in their best interest. There's probably no way to do this without some violence being involved, if only violence done to old social orders that don't encourage peace.
Inexpensive .net and php devs are not a problem here in India.
A lot of guesswork and bs. Two people alive in 50,000 BC? I guess they found a wedding announcement stating there were no guests at that wedding.
Opera Mini is not a general purpose browser (what you're thinking of is Opera Mobile)

Opera Mini takes a different approach to web browsing. The pages are rendered in some kind of image format on Opera's proxy servers and then sent in compressed format to the browser. So load times are probably better, but it probably works well only with static web pages. And not web apps.

So there shouldn't really be any reason for it to be rejected. At least not on the grounds that its running an interpreter or higher level language framework.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini

Opera Mobile on the other hand is a traditional web browser for mobiles in the same way that Safari is.
Promoting it as "the malloc used in Firefox" isn't a good PR strategy. ;-)
Tech Companies: "undervalued, undermanaged and poorly governed."
I know abt StackOverflow.com but I am no rock star like jeff and joel :) ... I am more curious abt the kinda startups which are funded by Ycombinator.
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If you read the article you'll see that they made that assumption because they wanted a conservative estimate of the population and that's the minimum possible number for a successful species.
I certainly have no intention of polluting my MacBook Pro's perfect exterior with a crappy home-made sticker now.

How else can you hide the Apple logo on the back?
F# is a first class language alongside C# and VB.

Major new threading framework which let's you write things like:

Parallel.For(0, 100, delegate(int i)
{
doWork(i);
}
);

and to parallelize your LINQ queries with the AsParallel() method:

data.AsParallel().Sum(); //does exactly what you think

That's just the stuff which I'm most excited about. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171868(VS.100).asp... for a more comprehensive list.
1. This isn't new.

2. This probably isn't legal, either.
To get you by: dynamic (runtime) types, optional parameters, named parameters, Covariant and contravariant generic type parameters.
I'm not, actually. Check my messages again. I'm arguing about claiming to be open minded while dismissing large swathes of people.

Apparently, it wasn't a favored group of people by HN standards, because if someone had come on and said the same thing about Democrats and I had been standing up for Democrats, I guarantee I would have been upmodded to the sky. But "not the favored group of people" is exactly who you need to be listening to if you're going to be "open minded". Smacking someone down for merely suggesting that if you are open minded you shouldn't be insulting the people who disagree with you is demonstrating the very sort of poser open mindedness that I'm speaking out against.

And I choose and emphasize the word "poser" quite deliberately. Everybody knows they're supposed to say they are "open minded". Few actually do it, but everybody sure does claim it!
I am sure programmers will find this tool very useful. I had to show a pie chart of different categories of data with varying weights. So I had to use the same color for representing weight of the same category. The best resource I could fine for identifying variations of same color was http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorhslhex10.html. Though it gives variations for same color, the variations aren't sequential between the rows. So at any point I couldn't get more than 10 cascading variations of the same color. This tool solves that problem pretty well.
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
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How is this a problem here? As I see it the app uses both white and black backgrounds to help avoid this problem.
By this weird twitter analogy logic, then a twitter using plant (http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/add2/) can replace their jobs as well?
First, I am not American and have no special feelings for their position. I'm not trying to prove a metaphysical point either.

To put all this in context, I was responding to a comment that could be paraphrased 'Most of us agree what Apple is doing sucks, European (Commission?) should make them do it differently. The only reasons not to are some hazy moral theories I don't believe in.' I was talking about some of the practical reasons not to, the costs. One of those is rule of law.

Food, medicine, narcotics, etc. all these regimes also require relatively arbitrary regulatory powers too. That is also not good for rule of law. We make tradeoffs. Purer, direct democracy for stronger institutions. Rule of law of regulations. Laws for liberty. Each of these has a cost. Sometimes it's worth it.

Maybe regulating the appstore is a good idea. I don't think so. I'm trying to argue that the costs typical to this kind of a decision are high hear while the gains are low, perhaps nonexistent.

BTW, I don't think that Thingie was being unreasonable either. Like he says, the current reality is that it is not that crucial to find the best way of getting iphone apps.
I'm not going to pretend that HTML5+Javascript can easily replication Flash functionality, but I'm pretty sure it can handle copy-to-clipboard.

Edit forehead slap. The last time I had to write a script to copy to clipboard was several years ago and I was targeting the script for IE on a company intranet. I stand humbly (and foolishly) corrected.
I'm not defending the rule or the inconsistent enforcement of it. I'm just pointing out why DLWormwood's apocalyptic prediction of "a cat-and-mouse game with the larger and/or more tenacious middleware developers, leading Apple to waste resources and R&D money on license enforcement, driving down profits and adding significantly to the large pile of ill will Apple has accumulated in the last few years" will most likely not come true.
after reading through the site, the idea itself is cool - but I have 0 trust. 3 reasons, the first being the company is located in poland. The second being #4 of your FAQ,"4. Has your service ever been challenged in court?

Trusted timestamps will never be challenged in court. Lawyers' organisations from around the world have previously agreed that it would be a waste of time and money to debate them in court. If you have a trusted timestamp as your proof, it will not be challenged."

To say something would never be challenged in court is simply ridiculous.

And the third, nothing about it proves to me its actually going to work if I were to buy it.
I find it to be about the same in RC in terms of speed for most things. But memory use is lower and the delays when loading things seem to be shorter.
Having used Visual Studio for 10 years and even written a book on it I can say I am totally tired of this huge and bloated IDE and can't wait until I am done with .NET work or MonoDevelop is good enough to switch. (it's getting close)
The blog entry was written by Jason Evans, the author of jemalloc.
and I haven't had any luck finding the release version (not RC) of .net 4 runtime.
I like repurposing the existing stickers. For example, my Kindle has an Atom processor inside, or so the sticker says, anyway. My laptop has a sticker with the tech support phone number for Suntory beer, and my desktop has a sticker advising the reader to not operate the machine when it is under water.

When I got a VoIP phone, it came with a bunch of stickers that said "this device cannot call 911 during a power failure". I attached those to various household objects -- it's true that my alarm clock can't call 911 during a power failure, after all.

I have an Intel SSD on the way, which apparently comes with an "SSD Inside!" sticker. Might have to stick that to my bike.
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I believe YC startup TheSixtyOne (http://www.thesixtyone.com/) has something along the lines of what you might be interested in looking at. I know it's not open source, but a good inspiration nonetheless.
Eric Meyer's Color Blender has been doing this for years.

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/
Why can't you remove all unnecessary components from the IDE? For me VS 2008 with Resharper makes no problems at all on my 4GB Ram desktop with loads of other crap running in parallel.
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Apple is making the wrong business decision now. However like adobe they have the right to make that decision.

Note: Apple is doing the windows thing: Everyone developed for windows because that was the #1 platform. Then when people complain "oh there are no mac apps" guess why. Now the exact same thing is about the iPhone. The only difference is that Apple at some point decided that Microsoft was not evil enough and one-upped then with the app-approvals and the new TOS.
I'm putting together a micro-equity funding site, but the idea would be to get companies to register in Jersey.

Any income would still be taxable, but you could circumvent the draconian regulatory laws keeping micro-equity financing from happening.

So tell me, HN, what do you think?
Do you need to get a whole IDE just for a compiler that supports a given runtime feature?
there are a couple of D3DX functions that come in handy

Used to be that demos were nearly compltely self-contained executables capable of running with a minimum of system API calls. I wonder what the rules are regarding using other APIs. Can't seem to find a link to Assembly 2007's rules.
I even start 2-3 copies of the IDE sometimes when doing work on several projects.

EDIT: wanted to ADD and didn't notice I was replying to myself
This is a great idea, very cool/fun implementation
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Thanks a lot for your remarks on compassion w.r.t enlightenment. Much appreciated.
MDMA might save your life (or marriage) if you find a person who can teach you how to take it (attendant... guide... whatever).
Is it slower than any of the other enterprise grade IDEs (eclipse or intellij)?

I haven't used the later in ~12 months but I don't remember them being particularly speedy in comparison.

The only things I truly find insufferably slow in VS are the visual designers which do code-gen "on the fly".
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For Ubuntu, quite a bit of software can be found in a PPA on Launchpad; for Firefox it seems to be https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable/

I haven't used that one myself, but the Chromium and Mercurial PPAs have worked out quite well for me.
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Because "bloated" is still bloated, regardless of how much memory and processing speed you have at your disposal. It's much like a 200 Kg fat man driving a bus. He is still fat.

That said, I once thought Emacs was bloated. Now, it's quite nimble compared to other programming tools.
Does anybody know when this will be available for download in MSDN subscriptions?
Agreed. As a developer often working on small side projects, it's super helpful to not have to launch photoshop to mess around with colors.
Will be interesting to see how app gaming progresses, especially with the big players getting even bigger. This will definitely make it harder for your average entrepreneur?
You can always delete a post.
Is it available at MSDN subscription downloads yet?
Probably doesn't support fancy stuff like that just yet, but I've found SharpDevelop ( http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/ ) quite nice.
I am always annoyed when someone says "enterprise grade". What is an enterprise-grade IDE?
A better question would be whether if .NET is the right tool set for the scope of your project not if a YC startup is using it?

If you are looking to explore and are open to learning further, by all means, jump into Django. On the other hand, if .NET access is no problem to you and your collaborators and that it fits your problem scope, go forth.
"A powerful IDE that ensures quality code", they say. Now that would be worth paying money for. If it were possible. Which it isn't.
Hm, that would be great — I'd love to see an example of this.
http://www.ubernote.com uses ASP.NET, although it doesn't use MVC.