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Absolutely, I do agree this question is about a permissive development platform. And that's the whole point, I think.

As for the second points, I don't recognize what you're describing. What I can say is that I don't consider letting an app through into the App store itself is a seal of approval for whatever technique or tool that app is using, but rather a sign that they're not checking for whatever it is they're doing. If other apps get rejected for stuff others have been accepted for, or even earlier versions have been accepted for, that's a refinement of the approval process to me.

And yes, to some that might feel like a volatile situation. I'm suggesting that non-controversial app development (as in using approved tools, not writing apps that are in a grey zone when it comes to what they approve, and not using private APIs) is cutting down on that volatility in a big way, wouldn't you agree?

I concede that I might have missed your point totally, but since you're not giving examples I'm looking forward to a more verbose rebuttal in that case. =)
Although I would like to agree with you, I'm not sure its clear that the commenter is the owner. If I am the owner of my comments, I should be able to delete them anytime I wish and not based on pg's time window for retracting a comment, right? I should be able to delete my entire profile and all comments and have push button access to deleting any cached version (google) as well...which I cannot do. U.S. law does not provide clear protections for this sort of thing. So the commenter being the owner in any tradition meaning of "owner" does not apply.

That said, I do feel this "Hack Monthly" project should play nice and respect comment "owners".
And those few extra characters give you an enormous amount of flexibility, such as not needing to define wrapper template specializations for all your types, not needing to have extra variables sitting around to define your argument placeholders, and being able to use more than just simple expressions.
You also get a gigantic financial burden, particularly on the segment of society that can least afford a gigantic steel-and-rubber money pit.

Gentrification has turned affordable housing in dense city centres into a thing of the past - now "downtown living" is purely a luxury, wealthy thing in most cities. This has dealt a great blow to the poor of this country, as they are forced to relocate to suburbs inaccessible via reasonable public transit. To even get to work on time involves buying, insuring, and maintaining a car, which no matter which way you cut it is considerably more expensive than any bus/subway pass I've ever seen.

It is often difficult for the middle and upper classes to see just how financially debilitating the car culture has been on the poor. A lot of this is the cultural ingrained notion that driving around is the "right" way to travel, and some bias against transit (smelly, unseemly people, personal safety concerns, etc) - I know some people who live in suburbia, who have come from transit-heavy countries/cities, who would jump at the chance to get rid of at least one car from the garage if they could.
In the video, Daniel makes the argument that extrinsic motivators harm productivity, based on the candle experiment. However, in this experiment, the reward caused short-term mental stress. I'm not sure that long-term monetary rewards would create the same effects.

Surely they aren't the best motivators, but I'd argue that they do more
good than harm.
Does Amazon have a config option, "only show reviews from people that actually bought the thing being reviewed"? If not, they should.
A friend of mine has a Tweet in the book. Here's what the publisher said after he gave them his two cents:
http://tehawesome.tumblr.com/post/505919898/peter-pauper-pre...
I agree with you, but in the worst case scenario, Google provides a full revision history so it would be easy to recover from something malicious (or accidental).
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> Why make it hard for customers to pay you for the product they want?

So they don't lose their lucrative licensing deals on TV. It's a bum out, but that's how it will be for a while.
What about a consumer good that can be reused daily and helps make your day to day experience better?

In regards to the one day hot tub experience, I think people can logically amortize the cost of the iPad/iPhone over the months and years that they'll use it. And, I believe if a device brings a little bit of boredom breaking into your daily routine, why deprive yourself (you're not hurting others with your purchase decision)?
It does. I've been writing a windows application with it, but I've been running the test suite and doing development using Mono.
I think the next step will be "We sell solutions to run your own cloud". This just warms you up to the idea. RabbitMQ will become the "vmware private cloud" equivalent to SQS.
Redis has Pub/Sub support as well:
http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/PublishSubscribe

And I think their APIs (limited to pub/sub) are very alike, kinda cool!
The discussion of urbanism in this country has been falsely polarized. The anti-burbs imagine suburbs as necessarily this sprawling mess of wide boulevards and rows of gigantic, identical houses, while the anti-urban imagine city living as necessarily a soulless forest of skyscrapers. There is a happy middle here that isn't talked about very much, even though it is by far the most cost effective and pleasant solution.

Slightly OT, but if anyone here ever wants to witness a textbook example of suburbia run amok, creating a wasteland of little value to humanity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississauga
Skip the extra tools - my customers already hang out in my inbox and buddy list
I have a fall 2008 unibody MBP that requires a complete logout to switch graphics cards. Anyone know if the ability to switch on the fly requires hardware or will it make its way back down to older owners via a software update?
I told them not to mess with their .htaccess unless they knew what they were doing!
Thanks. I thought about that, I just thought we'd get more participation (and more consistency) if people saw what others were saying, and I trusted the group (which seems to have mostly worked).
Maybe I'm jaded, having worked with Marketing agencies, but that reads so clearly like a PR piece, feels fake, did not ease any concerns over the author's boss mocking privacy just a few months ago. But perhaps that's what works for the audience of Forbes magazine.
Right, thanks to the anonymous person who fixed it. I'm trying to keep an eye on it.
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If you love sports in general you might be out of luck. I love baseball in particular hand have no problem paying the 100 bucks for MLB.tv to watch any (and every) game that I choose, often in high-def, on whatever device I want.

I'm not certain about the other sports, but for baseball there is no real reason to be tied to cable.
He doesn't need to know you to be surprised by your point (b), which would be possible to work out without buying the thing. It is surprising. It is similar to someone buying a Porsche and then returning it because, among other reasons, it is a fast car. This is something you know before buying it. To return it to the dealership, saying "I don't like it, because it is fast", is quite surprising.

Now, if you didn't know it was just another media consumption device - perhaps you thought you could also do some serious work on it - that would be different.
UGH got the same email today, not fun!
It's a hardware thing, so no. Surprisingly though it isn't Nvidia's Optimus switching stuff but rather some proprietary apple concoction.
BTW, I will clean up some disorganization once the editing slows down.
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To me, it reads like somebody in the trenches who wants very much for this to be true -- but doesn't necessarily have the authority to make it happen at a higher level.

The fact that Eric Schmidt feels otherwise, and that privacy is a leaky thing, suggest that this may be an employee engaging in wishful thinking.
Thanks for the details and the offer of help - much appreciated. I probably won't be bothering you, this was a "would be nice" thing.

I picked an AMD CPU partly because a sort-of-server box should have ECC RAM [1], which AMD does support 'for free' (and also toss in sufficient graphics in the chipset); it seems that with Intel CPUs one needs to go to very expensive MBs or the Xeon line for that.

[1] D.J.Bernstein, for one, explains why: http://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html , http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20090123.html

P.S. Unfortunately, D.J.Bernstein refers to RAID-5 as "an easy-to-use automatic backup mechanism" (if a drive dies); he either didn't get the "RAID is not backup" memo, or does not believe it (until the day he accidentally wipes data ;-).
I was just poking around for and found two ruby to javacript translators. Now there's a javascript web framework.

This is quite impressive, I enjoy the availability and ease of entry of the javascript language. Everyone with a browser has access to it.

I signed up Anton :D (does it work with jQuery)
Adobe, 2008: "It’s entirely Apple’s call about what’s best for the Mac OS"
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"Now let me be very clear about something: It’s entirely Apple’s call about what’s best for the Mac OS and how to spend their engineering cycles. Like any development team, they have finite resources & need to spend them judiciously. They’ve decided that Carbon 64 doesn’t belong on their roadmap, and we respect their decision. It’s up to Adobe to adapt to the new plan."

Saw it here http://www.davidkaneda.com/post/518711266/its-up-to-adobe#
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In my recent ploy to get downvoted, I'll sum up my view of this: Fuck you, pay me.
Trying to lift a car probably would eventually build some muscle, though as its not a full range of motion, it'd be weird, but I can't see how you'd be able to keep working at it without doing some serious damage to your back. Good luck maintaining proper form while attempting it!

And yes, I know it was a joke :)
I had to fact-check this because some sites (including Ars) are incorrectly reporting that Apple does use Optimus.

Here is a link from Apple Insider discussing Apple's graphics switching: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/13/nvidia_says_ne...
Appeal to emotion fallacy.
macbook doesn't have backlit keyboard!? wtf
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Absolutely - they're using Pixel Qi technology.

One that looks even more interesting (though not production-ready yet; they still have ghosting issues) is the electrowetting technology that Liquavista is working on. It would enable the "e-ink" like display in full color, full motion, with the power consumption of the black-and-white mode of Pixel Qi's screen.
performance in erlang is generally described as "good enough", its often one of the reasons not to use erlang.
Aye, I'll fix that right now. Thanks for the heads up!
I have the 'first gen' Envy 15 and absolutely love it. If I were to buy a new laptop now I'd go with the new 15" MBP though. The big thing is in the battery life. Sure you have 5-6 hours on the Envy but that's with the big and heavy battery slice attached. The MBP will I'm sure go over 7 hours stock.

Still, I bought my Envy about 6 months ago, so I'm not upset (at least that's what I'll tell myself).
it depends, but generally no
JooJoo doesn't run android (part of why it's UI is demonstrably crappy, I'm putting two cents on)
I actually mentioned in a reply above that the iPad will never be a good machine for development.

Honestly, life is too short, I'm not going to sacrifice quality because of a fear that at any moment my bag may be stolen. It's also pretty easy to not, you know, leave your bag sitting somewhere in public? A $300 difference is worth it because of the upgrade in quality and less frustration.

Again, this all comes down to your personality and lifestyle. Steve Jobs did not get up on stage and say the iPad is a laptop replacement. It's a device meant to replace SOME, not all, of your daily activities (heck maybe they are not even daily, maybe it's your weekend only device or something). If you don't see it fitting into your life, don't buy one. That doesn't mean it doesn't work for someone other then you though!
I have to say, watching everyone add data in real time is pretty cool...
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You make that sound like a bad thing. Sounds like capitalism working excellently.
This article is eerily reminiscent of a recent post by Bruce Eckel
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=287521
And this is something that I cannot believe apple seems to have overlooked. They haven't just pissed on some little obscure software company, they've pissed on the software company that the people they need to win over (content creators, designers) use for everything.
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Doing lunges like this its only a matter of time before you slam your knee into the hardwood floor.
I've not used Django or Rails, so I can't speak with respect to those languages, but I am a PHP developer (my primary income comes from sites I've built in PHP).

Erlang is a goofy language with it's goofy Prolog-based pattern-matching assignment syntax, and it's (mostly) immutable data.

What appeals to me about Erlang with respect to web development are a few things:

1) Web development is naturally multi-process, and Erlang's extremely lightweight process spawning lends itself extremely well to web apps (compared with the overhead of spawning a PHP process).

2) Erlang lends itself well to comet-style communication (and I can see a strong future using it with websockets), since having a running process with the sockets is very lightweight.

3) Using the message-passing to communicate with some kind of backend application of some sort (in my case, I use it to communicate with a game-server backend also written in Erlang). Having the ability to use message-passing to almost trivially communicate with other connected users brings a rather interesting dynamic.

4) Erlang's general development philosophy of "crash early, crash often" combined with immutable variables makes debugging pretty easy.

Erlang isn't for everyone, but I think it's a great language. I enjoy it's goofy (and pretty terse) syntax. I'm no expert in it yet, by any means, but overall, I find it to be fun, and prefer functional programming to the alternatives.

But like I said, I'm unfamiliar with Rails and Django (I have a Rails book, but haven't gotten to it yet), so I can't speak comparatively.

Edit: mononcqc beat me to it, and also did a better technical analysis than me :)
Ditto. Brief summary for anyone who is interested: most crossfit workouts are a mix of weights and body weight exercises, but done at an aerobic pace. A typical workout might be 15-30 minutes (+ stretching before and after), after which you feel completely spent. Crossfit scales well with different ability levels and there is a lot of variety in workouts, so you don't get bored. The WODs (Workout of the Day) are posted on crossfit.com daily, and you usually won't see the same workout for 2-4 months at a time. It's fun to do a workout, struggle, then do the workout again a few months later and find that you improved significantly and no longer struggle.
Thanks for the replies. I guess I'll go see a macbook pro in stores tomorrow, and carry a couple of dell laptops with me for comparison. I really like the form factor of 14" (1440x900) matte screen laptops my work has. I'm looking for something with a similar feel, and hopefully something with good audio quality (all my dells have had noisy outputs, I end up using my iphone more for music these days because of it).
As written, though, isn't this limited to only multiplication and addition? If you wanted to include, for example, a function call in your anonymous function, wouldn't that require a pile of Var<>-based function overloads?
See my comment below in this thread about why the commenter is normally the owner of comments having some minimal creativity absent terms of use that assign the rights to the site owner.

Any owner of rights can give such rights up in part while still retaining ownership of the materials by giving a license to someone else to use such materials for specified purposes. For example, I might submit an article to a journal under terms where I retain the copyright while giving them a license to publish the article once in their journal.

With comments, there is no express license involved but rather an implied one. If I have impliedly agreed that the site can display my comment under its customary policies, the law treats that as an implied license (i.e., an implied granting of a permission) for the site owner to display such comment under its customary terms and, if such terms include a practice by the site owner of making such submissions irrevocable, I impliedly agree to that as well when I make my submission.

The law can get murky in these areas but this is a basic analysis of how you can retain ownership while still giving up certain rights to the site owner.
Yep, I've used it as my sole development platform for 3 iPhone apps so far. I could never get 10.5 to run perfectly for me, but 10.6 seems to be issue free. (Well, the single issue I've had is Dropbox, for some reason it causes the kernel to crash, but I haven't bothered to look into it at all, yet.)
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Who wants to spend $500 on something that kindof browses the web, and then needs a bunch of addon cruft in order to do anything useful?

Didn't apple learn their lesson with the MBA? Get the air...and a USB hub...and an external DVD burner...and an ethernet dongle...and an external hard drive! Look at how portable it is! (especially when thin notebooks have all of these things built in).
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Human language is full of figurative generalizations, and no author expects them to be taken literally (there are two in this sentence alone).

What the author means to say is "It is commonly believed that X is generally a good motivator. While sometimes true, there exist some professions (ie. much of software development), for which the reality is more subtle, and Y actually motivates people better", where X is various rewards (ex. financial) and Y is different opportunities for autonomy, mastery, and purpose. But that wouldn't fit in a title, so you get a simple generalization, with the deduction of specifics assumed to be an exercise for the readers.
They basically address this by saying, "It's not a problem. Trust us."
It's: "If there was a vulnerability, here's how to exploit it. And here's a sample one you can practice with."
Latter idea is interesting. It certainly would have slowed the gentrification of Williamsburg, and kept it an interesting neighborhood for longer.

It would have also prevented the multitude of overpriced (and undersold) condos littering that area - along with the empty lots that were going to be overpriced condos before the bust.
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I had a 15" thinkpad at 1680x1050 and it was a huge eye strain for me. Weird because just 5 years ago I was using a 1600x1200 15" screen (HP) that I was fine with. Damn I'm getting old.
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mac os x is starting to lose its' edge with other OS'es imo - updates have been pretty disappointing since 10.5
fwiw, 4/5 of your points are specific issues to Atlassian JIRA, a commercial product :)

The 5th point, as explained in the post... We actually tried to disable Password based authentication -- It is the ASF's standard policy for it to be disabled! -- we just failed at testing the configuration on Brutus. On our other machines, we had a block of configuration options we appended to the END of the sshd configuration, and these options successfully turned off password authentication, requiring ssh keys only.

On brutus however, we were missing a "UsePAM no", which meant pam went in and fell back to password authentication. This was a mistake, and we didn't realize until after the vulnerability when we were testing the machine, that its sshd was misconfigured.
Looks like HN has developed a downmod squad much like Reddit and Digg. So sad.
Yes, lightning will be a dependency if you use it just as plumb would be if you used it.

It's strange that lightning looks like a nightmare and then you offer plumb, where its rules are 4+ lines long while lightning's are one-liners.
I see something like this every now and again, but this has to be the best in a while for giving the sense of scale. Its a shame the information on the lower scales contains guesswork like preons and strings.
"Sugar moved its mobile application to Appcelerator so it could have one version of its application run on Apple, Google's Android, BlackBerry, Palm, and other devices without the need for its engineers to build completely different versions."

This is a class of serious smart phone users that I don't think Jobs is thinking too much about. In fact, to the extent SugarCRM customers find themselves switching between types of smartphones I'm sure many would prefer the UI stays the same. And I seriously doubt any Sugar customer cares that the iPhone version of this isn't as spiffy and i<whatever> style as it should be.

In fact, I could see companies like Sugar slighting i<whatever> development, just getting something minimal out while they hope Apple comes to its senses or loses enough market share (perhaps only by others getting bigger) that it drops this because it's no longer giving them an advantage.
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I think that in Real Life, there's enormous value in using (or at least supporting) the software you write. Nothing like having to debug a production concurrency problem to make you appreciate adequate logging, with timestamps.
I would like to second this.

the combination of functional programming (and even single assignment) along with a mature set of behaviours for handling errors in processes makes for a really pleasant programming experience.

Of course erlang is nowhere near as mature/popular in the space of CRUD web programming as php/ruby/python and to use it for that you can hit a few basic walls where you would have expected a solution to be waiting, but when you need to do more than read/write a database for each request then erlang really shines
I've used the free version of AM Charts. They look nice and work well.

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I always find it fascinating how fast security falls when you find the one weak spot. They were lucky to spot them so fast (relatively) I'm sure minotaur would have fallen with time too.
Clearly all big problems.

But if someone phones you up and says we were hacked using one of your slices you would hope they would at least suspend access and investigate.

In computer security an hour can be a long time.
This wasn't the case of a single weak spot. There where numerous issues with their security setup on this server. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262784 for a short list.