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I hate to naysay an effort that was obviously intended as a righteous humanitarian effort, but is testing these devices in Haiti an ethical action?

We have rigorous rules about testing medical treatments on our own citizens, but it seems that in the time of Haiti's worst crisis, their citizens become our guinea pigs. Maybe she was helping out lots of people down there, but maybe she was getting in the way of real, proven medicine. If so, these Haitians are further suffering so that we can conduct some more medical research? The article certainly doesn't say these devices brought an iota of healing to the people of Haiti, and that's a warning sign too.

Even if this was a good singular decision, it's a slippery slope to send scientists down to disaster sites to test their gizmos.
Big woop. I've been doing this forever with the dragdropupload add-on. I do like the insert invitation feature though, and wish there was a better way to easily read through emails, archiving as I go, without being directed back to the inbox.
Bad title. He was given sudo access to gem. So, of course he'll be able to run arbitrary code as sudo.

Don't use sudo gems. Rubygems works great with normal user access. In fact, best bet is to have a user ruby install too. RVM helps with this.
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> For breaking the terms of the app store and including representations of public figures (without consent?) in the app.

So for satire?
Great points. I personally find that teaching software engineering concepts/skills to others helps me shore up my own knowledge - in many cases, it actually helps me learn more effectively than just teaching myself.

Also, I believe the key to being a good teacher is putting oneself in the other person's shoes - which is, as the author mentions, essential to explaining technical matters to nontechnical people.
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A friend of my dad's developed a low-cost medical device for use in Africa. It worked, but not as well as expensive devices, and it wasn't taken up.

There's a lot of bureaucracy that stands in the way of getting affordable (but less advanced) medical equipment onto the field.

On the other hand, if you want to field test an expensive device in a third world country, you can lobby the right people and splash a few bribes around. The Constant Gardener (fictional, yes, but I doubt it's far from the truth) is about this. Cheap devices aren't worth the effort.
Hey, if I enable adwords on my printed documents, will Google pay for the ink? Do that and i'm sold :)
Yes, because running a company that markets an application store for smartphones is exactly like running a country -- WTF??
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My hotshot affiliate marketing client in Dallas made $150,000 on his eBook over a period of 2 years' sales. I don't usually approach my affiliate marketing clients and press them for details -- that's kind of why they like me I'm thinking. But I sure am curious what the topic was about. My guess was that it was about affiliate marketing.
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This is not a trial - it's a full program by the army cio/g6: http://www.istrategylabs.com/2010/02/apps-for-the-army-a-fir...
No. It could've included a photo of any public figure without satire, and it would've been rejected. Therefore the title of the article is misleading. It wasn't rejected because of satire, it was rejected because it represented a public figure in any capacity.

You'll notice an app got banned for just including images of the Obamas.

I'm surprised at the upvotes of people dissenting with me, and my associated downvotes. Voting doesn't change facts. Apple had an existing policy in place which had nothing to do with satire, which is why this app was removed. If he was satirizing himself somehow, it would have been approved. Back to my original statement - Apple is not banning satire, and this is not new news.
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Made me check the logs for the site I administer (www.shirlaws.com.au) - the About Page is #14 of 118.

This is higher than I would have expected - other content (business articles etc) is being populated over time, so the site is almost entirely About Us and what we do at this stage. And people still click that button to find out more.
I used foxycart before.

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I think a single service may not perfectly satisfy my needs for each category of service - but in terms of billing, to be more aware of just how much it was all costing would help.

I know the psychological advantage of subscriptions for the seller, as the monthly figure is lower and so doesn't trigger a thorough pre-purchase evaluation like a $900 application would. From the point of view of a buyer, I am just realising its not as good a deal as I initially thought.
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Not being technical experienced I don't know how this works, but Patrick's downtime alert is my favourite 'here's how amazing technology is' story to people with less knowledge than me.

Not sure exactly how he set it up (possibly through Twilio as well - http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/12/29/twilio-phone-call-web-ap...) but his phone calls him playing Ride of the Valkyries anytime the site goes down.
I think you're trying to apply the metaphor too literally, as well.
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You mean like all of these: http://www.pcworld.com/article/182316/the_2_britney_spears_i...

Oh wait...
Call me oblivious, but having never used emacs, vi or vim I love my GUI I'm sold. This is incredibly helpful since I use a USB keyboard with my laptop and frequently don't feel like reaching across my desk to get to the mouse.

Thank you!
No, I think it was a worthlessly inflammatory comment. Private corporations have no responsibility to be run as governments and, indeed, are not.
having been using Vimperator for a long time now. How is this comparing to Vimperator?
Just saying "in the Great Depression, the exporting countries had the hardest time adjusting to deteriorating economic conditions" fell flat for me.

Maybe it's because I've been studying for my macro final all day but I think a lot more economic depth would be in order to support his thesis.
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...and tech issues are not cars, but we use car analogies anyway. Just because you can't take an metaphor and make it line up 100% does not make the metaphor worthless.
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From the article it sounds like better devices are available, it's just that they cost a lot of money ($100/day rental, it says) and need electricity to run. For this reason it might never be considered ethical to test it in a richer country where those expensive devices are available. For a poorer country where the expensive alternative is not an option things may be different though.
The early Titan launches were not too successful either:

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

The Delta's were between 90-95% successful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_(rocket_family)

The expertise of the SpaceX people I've known is impressive. I think it's too early to tell whether the SpaceX advantages (dropping cost-plus, plus incorporating 50 years of rocketry experience) will result in better technology. There are lots of reasons to suppose it will.
Do you carry a headphone amp with you? Otherwise, the quality of your MP3s is the least of your problems.
PayPal did this. HotOrNot went from freemium to free to freemium again.

It's not unheard of, especially if (as the TC article quotes), the majority of the VALUE is being created by paying users.
I'm not so sure that Apple was baiting Google into legal trouble. Google CEO Eric Schmidt even said that iAd would help push the AdMob deal through, being "evidence of a highly competitive market."
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63B0F820100412

My impression was that Apple simply wanted to keep AdMob's mountain of analytics data away from Google, given AdMob's majority share of the in-app iPhone ad market. I doubt even Apple has as much usage statistics as AdMob.

This idea would appear to be borne out by recent changes to Apple's iPhone developer terms of service agreement, which seem to limit or even outright ban the sharing of usage data by developers to third parties:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1253810

Of course, Apple did end up buying one of AdMob's lowlier competitors, Quattro. It seems they gave up on keeping user data out of Google's hands, and are now working to raise the standard of advertising on the iPhone while being able to collect a bit of that data themselves.
Perhaps he meant new as in the past three years?
I don't think it is that new, it is just an instance of the same control fetishism that has permeated the company since it started to see itself as the only entity legally allowed to rip off the Xerox PARC user interface concepts some time in the mid 80ies, when they also removed the extension slots from their computers and the schematics from the documentation.
He carefully hid them from both the father and the mother.
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"Emotional" advertising seems so much more disruptive

Exactly. It will be harder to ignore them, and that's how Apple can sell the ad inventory at a premium price :)
I checked a few that looked too good to be true and in every case the registrar was godaddy. I'm guessing that they probably block scripts that run mass queries against their system, or maybe they return results in a way that made the script choke.
I think the ranks of those who feel as you do are growing. Let's hope more people develop for Android and the web now.
I'm not sure why you think it's not binding since recognition shifted– the Taiwan Relations Act was passed after the US switched recognition (so you're saying it's never been binding?). I would presume that any provisions that are phrased as being binding are indeed binding unless the Act is repealed.

Maybe you could clarify what you meant by "binding"? Of course the Act can always be repealed so if you meant that there are no international law obligations, then you're likely correct there. But I think that as long as the Act is in force, I don't see why it isn't binding.

I didn't mean to imply that there was an official military alliance, but the Taiwan Relations Act authorizes the US to treat Taiwan as if it were a foreign country (I assume you can't sell weapons arms to private parties or rogue states). It also requires the US to make defence articles and services available.

Also, the Act leaves some open-ended possibilities that the US won't comment on- most notably military action. If that's a looming possibility, however unlikely, it will make China think twice before invading Taiwan.

IMO if China's going to take over Taiwan, it'll be mostly economically and culturally, not by military might.
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Drag-and-drop is one of most over-rated features ever:

* It requires excess wrist motion to accomplish some which could be done in few keystrokes.

* Only in a few situation is it ever entirely clear what dragging and dropping will do.

* Outside of, again, a few situations, it is unclear which objects to drag and where to drop them. In anything but file manager, it becomes a frickin' game of Carmen San Diego.
Except, of course, satire written in C, Objective-C or Javascript.
@pyre

Many car analogies are often wrong. Perhaps you can explain to me the benefit of that metaphor. From what I gather, the insinuation is that Steve Jobs has a restrictive grip on the App Store. Now, comparing Apple to China is a pretty inflammatory statement, so the metaphor must have a substantial point to make in order to justify the hyperbole. From what I see, this is just another snappy Apple-bashing one-liner (which contribute practically nothing to the discussion). Perhaps I'm wrong, but in that case I'd really like to be filled in.
This seems to have been blocked by my workplace firewall, not sure if there is a catchy term somewhere on the URL. I will wait until evening to check out the web-app, and maybe come up with some suggestions. Thanks for the initiative!
I imagine Steve Jobs as The Patrician in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series:

"Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote."

I suppose Steve doesn't like satire...
Why just Haiti - sell these in drugstores in the USA too (except in the USA I am sure the markup will be crazy under the guise to pay for R&D)

Some of us can't afford insurance (and still won't in a few years, the fine is much cheaper) so DIY for $3 sounds great if I needed one instead of a doctor/hospital visit.
There isn't actually a single company that has succeeded in bringing drug development under millions of dollars in that list. The closest is the last one, but that company hasn't actually produced any results yet.
Two ideas, one is straight forward and one is probably crazy. Either way I think it's going to take a variety of strategies to make it work.

Definitely figure out if people will pay, but don't "Rework" yourself into thinking that business models don't have any room for creativity either.

First, and it's been said in various forms but what about selling other self-help & organization related products alongside through affiliate links or, a store? Books planners, calendars etc. I think you might be able to get a better return than ads this way especially if you built up a community that trusted your recommendations.

Second, I always thought it'd be cool to build a planner/ to do list application that had a concierge/secretary service linked into it. Sort of your man in india deal but interfaced through the planner software.
I completely agree. I just wrote that to illustrate my point that the reason they do this is to build rapport. Of course, too much of a good thing is bad.
I wish they would use them more frequently.
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Yep. Your problem is not the term sheet. Your problem is you have no one to get advice from about the term sheet.
In fact if it lines up 100% it's not really a metaphor anymore.
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I'm interested to know, under what circumstances would a barter system like this benefit its participants, given that they can already exchange these services using cash?

The primary advantage of barter seems to be sidestepping taxes, and judging from the scarcity of successful online barter systems, that advantage is either legally unsustainable or too small to make a difference.
No. It is worse.
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It's the nature of web applications, for common applications at any one time there will be someone who are prepared to be offering a free service or at least a freemium one. I guess at some point Grouply will look to monetize their platform and someone else will step in and offer a free service.
I agree. Sometimes, I deliberately set myself the task to be able to explain something when attending a lecture - I make different notes and I believe I understand things better. (pkrumins is probably on the right path.)

Interesting enough, I believe just knowing how to teach makes learning easier. I've learned some (Romance) languages and taught my own mother tongue in tandems. Although there are significant differences, I feel that I could learn better with my experiences from teaching.
Wow, that could be sensational... will play with it this weekend...
I went and read their Author Guide. This line stuck out:

>Our goal is to sell at least 1,000 copies of your book (a reasonable target after a few months of sales). If this happens, you'll receive about US$3,000. The first $2,000 of this will come when your book is published, and the remainder will be paid quarterly in January, April, July, and October.

There is something about that which really bugs me, mainly it's the word 'if'.
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I agree. Many of my Chinese colleagues are exactly like you described. This piece is wishful thinking.
This looks exactly like Papers (http://mekentosj.com/papers/) which is fantastic.

edit: Missed the "free" part. Papers $40.
To be honest, I can barely tell if this is just a troll comment. If you are serious though, perhaps the testing isn't of the "medical" effectiveness which appears to be known but rather its "engineering" effectiveness.
His book 'The Coming Collapse of China' was published in 2001. That's almost 10 years ago and he's still chanting doom n gloom. Perhaps when he says 'The Coming' he means sometime in the next 150 years. Who knows.
Okay, I'm having a really hard time figuring out how to install my colemak.vimp plugin for vimperator.

I hate asking, but where do I put vimperator plugin files?
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Sending through express permission for you to use my comments. Honestly, I'm not sure if that's even necessary, and I'd hate to see this ambitious project fall over because 1) Comments are valuable, and 2) Gaining individual permission to reproduce those becomes too difficult.
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indeed. i was thinking to invest some time into iPhone app development. but all these recent events have definitely made me change my mind.
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Now they just have to figure out how to give the investors a 100x return (or whatever the return rate should be).
If you're willing to shell out a few bucks, I highly recommend mekentosj's Papers over Mendeley. Among the free options, I prefer CiteULike (web-based; http://www.citeulike.org ) or Bibdesk (Mac OS X; http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net ).
i think it would be more like North Korea.
37signals also announced drag and drop file upload today, for their Campfire app (web-based chat), but it supports Safari in addition to Chrome and Firefox (3.5, instead of 3.6 as required by Google):
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Does anyone have an idea as to how 37signals solved it differently, with more browser support?
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Profitability at this point seems unrealistic. I understand they have around 150 employees. Assuming a conservative $100k per employee, that's $15M annually just for salary and benefits. Add server costs, etc, and its must be well north of that.
Wouldn't that be completely out of character for him, since he's usually pretty hard on Apple for their mismanaged AppStore — especially when it comes to arbitrary refusals?
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If people really do want to manage papers like they do music, I hope the eventual upshot is something like an iTunes Store for journal articles. I often want to purchase an individual paper that I'm interested in, but the going rate for a PDF download from a commercial paper database (e.g., Elsevier) is currently around $25.

I doubt these prices face much market pressure since universities generally purchase institution-wide access; papers in those databases can be downloaded freely by anyone on the university network. I'll bet that people like me, not currently affiliated with any school, make up a tiny fraction of their market.
I had used Papers for a couple years off and on. I really thought it was worth the money, but after I discovered Mendeley, I found it more useful. The built in synchronization of Mendeley works better than using Papers + Dropbox (which didn't work well). Importing papers seemed easier with Mendeley and a browser. Also, I have a couple of personal Macs and an Ubuntu box at work and it's nice to be able to run Mendeley on both.

I might not be up to date on all the features of Papers but I am pretty sure they never added a better way to sync between computers.
Au contraire, Ankh-Morpork is a very liberal city. Anyone can do whatever they like, provided they don't step on toes of someone organized - then it is up to them (the organized group) to clean up the competition using market forces.

The are no bullshit rules and laws, just thought out recommendations to make the city run as well-oiled machine.
The 'with' syntax, which only allows execution of code on entrance and exit - no nearly as flexible as Ruby blocks.

(I'm not a Python hater, but I do like Ruby blocks.)
I would argue that most companies are indeed dictatorships, but that is ignoring the complexities of the shareholders and investors.

Even if we do make such a simplification, I generally see Apple as a benevolent dictatorship, based on their impressive track record of making life better for the average person, despite occasionally questionable behavior.

Sometimes I wish the United States was a benevolent dictatorship, if only so that Obama could be more productive.
It looks like the "emotion" component was only part of the "pop-up", not so much the banner itself. It's only as disruptive if you activate it.
I've been doin this for a while now. The problem is more mental than technical.

The first thing to accept is that this is by definition an irrisponsiable thing to do...;)

Then you need to flow with it. The main thing is not aiming at fixing everything as fast as possible but rather in a way that will be as reliable as possible. Or in other words, your primary consideration should not be an early alert on Friday night, but rather a wilingness to work the weekend making sure whatever happened will not happen again.

The tech details really depend on the specific application.
I haven't been following the evolution iPhone OS releases during the beta phase, but isn't it possible that features are added (or removed) before the final release this summer?