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If anything I use frequently decided to implement this I don't think I would mind, so long as there was some key combination or option somewhere that would temporarily revert the UI back to it's initial state. Think that would be a must if I wanted to do something like follow a tutorial or explain to a friend how to do something over the phone. I don't know if it would be the best option for people who like everything to behave the same all the time though. And messing with peoples spatial understanding of menus and things can often annoy them. Maybe the process should be opt-in?

The idea of the growing search box is interesting, but what about one that kind of decays? It begins to shrink without usage until it reaches some point and then disappears. A good metaphor would be muscles, use them and they grow, don't lose them and they atrophy. I think non-IT oriented folk should be able to work out whats going on with enough visual cues. Especially if it becomes a common enough concept in software.

Edit: clarified a few things
Great tale of web designer gone freelancer, and finally ended up with a successful business model.
I wish HP would copy Apple's webpage too... It's practically unusable.

http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/envy/
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(And, I was wrong about Dice fixing it; I just switched back to using this address pattern, which they appeared to accept, but my daily email listed my email address as "userext@", not "user+ext@". They silently removed a character from my email address. Awesome.)
Blindly following economic promise?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population <- Anyone know the reason for the UN's low and medium estimates having serious downturns in population in the next century? Is it because of lowering child-birth rates, or because of expectations of resources/diseases, etc...?
Admittedly, it seems prima facie ridiculous.

The thing is, socialism, Marxism, worker's rights, and etc., started in the university and spread from there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France , for example.

So it's not so much that the philosophy students have purloined the language and ideology of "actual workers", but rather that their intellectual ancestors created the social context in which these "actual workers" were able to strike, form unions, and etc.
Is NYC the next tech mecca?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
http://www.google.com/tisp/press.html

Quote: "MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™,".

In case anyone was wondering.. :)
1) I am boycotting first and foremost. If I were unable to listen without paying (as indeed I am for a significant portion of my obscure tastes) I still would not pay. The fact that I still listen to music I like through piracy is a separate issue, IMHO, because of this. Like I say, whenever I find music I like with no industry involvement, I pay for it without giving piracy a second thought.

2) No, I'm OK with you taking the car, as long as the original is left where it is. If you can't think of a way to do that with a physical object such as a car, then your original analogy was flawed.

Again: If my employer didn't pay me, the time that I had worked for that pay would not be left untouched and marketable - it would be gone, ie, stolen rather than illegally copied.

The lack of loss of the original is key in the piracy debate, these analogies are flawed because they don't analogise that key point.

Piracy is a loss of potential market share, not a loss of something tangible like a car, or my time. In my case that market share simply does not exist - I have deprived the labels of nothing that I haven't already deprived them of through my boycotting.
Sherlock Holmes is a work of fiction, but 221b Baker Street is a real address. You can go there today and visit it in London. It's a popular tourist destination. Conan Doyle did visit the house and I've been told that details match up with the building that's in the books (such as number of stairs). They've decorated the rooms there to match the details from the books too.
"advancing freedom" is one of those phrases that is, when you examine it, quite poorly defined

I agree, which is why I instead used the term "liberty" in some places. While the term "freedom" has in modern times become clouded particularly with the notion of "positive" freedoms, I believe that the term "liberty" tends to be more strongly associated with the more traditional notions of "negative" liberty.

But I must concede that even this difference is at the grossest level, and there remain much more nuanced differences in definition beyond the negative/positive distinction.
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If someone's already using certain things frequently, they clearly know how to get to them; I'd personally be very irritated if the UI started changing to "fit my needs", which are already taken care of by the UI. Culling features out, however, is not a bad idea, but one has to wonder why you wouldn't focus on making the features easier to use and more useful, rather than dynamically culling them away.
Horrible, horrible idea. Imagine your car did the same. "Ooh, winter's back, need the rear window demister ... hey, where's the damn button gone?".

This is like those dancing menus Office used to have, except even worse, because it lowers the discoverability of advanced functions just as you're getting to the stage where you'd be more likely to use them.
This would work, if it didn't make things more difficult for less common tasks (many Linux distro's suffer this same problem, everything is great and productive when you are performing mainstream computing. However, cross the boundary slightly, and you'll find yourself in bash shell, which ruins all productivity benefits).

Sorry, but this isn't a good idea. iTunes actually wouldn't be half bad if they permitted addons, theming and official support for MTP/MSC. However, inconsistant UI's are a big no-no according to the lecturer who taught me GUI design, because users have to continue learning and cannot rely on elements existing where they expect them.

Just my 2cents though.
The code base that is 2 millions code line and also all the assets that is few gb of data!
I hope they launch in Switzerland next, because thats where I just moved...
> Since Apple did it first

Errm, not really, there was at least the Panasonic toughbook and lots of other ruggedized laptops before it.
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As I'm from the Netherlands I think this is great news! Rate of adoption is skyhigh in Sweden, I'm very curious as to what the release will do for the way music is consumed in my country.

Now if only they would allow for some better playlist-management in their client, I'd be even more thrilled.
Nice! I'm looking forward to it, went to Spotify yesterday for some odd reason (I never ever go to Spotify) and it wasn't available for me.
Stop using Facebook if it is becoming a problem for you.

That certainly sounds like a winning slogan for the company.
I would argue that the smartphone market (and indeed any non-standard desktop OS or hardware) was also held up by lack of Flash support.

You have Intel executives banging on about "the whole internet" or the "real internet" etc. in other words don't buy that (or invest money in offering them for sale) as they don't run Flash. That was their one big talking point against ARM. They even slagged off the iPhone for this despite Apple being a big customer of theirs in other areas.

Intel Blasts iPhone:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10072779-37.html
London also exists... Baker Street 221b is a setting, the fact that it is real and that Conan Doyle visited it is parallel to any author documenting the 'setting' of their story.

The article is all about the stuff in Holmes' rooms.
Just what I want starts out giving the user everything, but after a couple of weeks of training, the UI adapts to how the user interacts with it. ... "Didn’t I have a search field before?" The short answer is: yes. But who cares if you don’t use it anyway?

Microsoft Office used to have a UI that would do this. It was always the very first setting I'd change, disabling the feature. And Microsoft eventually discovered that it caused more confusion than it solved: people remembered seeing a command somewhere, but couldn't relocate it because it had been hidden.

Perhaps Microsoft's implementation could have been smarter, but I believe that they successfully demonstrated that this approach does not have merit.
iTunes may ask me if I want to re-arrange the controls but not remove it without my permission.
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As an instructor myself, I must admit I did take this just a little seriously.
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"The common industry assumption is that developers are losing 90% of their revenue. That is, pirates would have bought every single game that they downloaded."

As a long time game industry veteran, allow me to tell you that this is simply not true. In fact, that is actually the internet's straw man counter argument, which is fueled by a couple poor PR incidents where a few people have made it seem that way.

But the reality is that there are a lot of lost sales, and if you can prevent someone from pirating it, there is a nonzero chance that they will go out and buy it instead of waiting.

What is that number? Who knows! But it's certainly greater than zero, and there's certainly enough impact of piracy to make it worth it to explore methods of minimizing that impact.

I have other issues with the article, such as the assertion that most pirates can't afford the games. Well, my counter anecdote is that I have a bunch of friends who pirate, who make plenty of money and could easily afford the games. They pirate them because they can.

I would expect that everyone knows pirates, and I would expect that everyone knows pirates who make enough money to pay for (most of) the games they play.

(These are my own personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer)
> the poor man has no toilet

Around 1900, rich men might not have toilets either. What they did have was servants to take out the chamberpots. Said chamberpots might reside in a wooden arm-chair, where the bottom part was enclosed (with a front door, a mini-cupboard, if you will), and the seat would have a manhole-like cover, of the same wood.

In the country (and perhaps not only), chamberpot contents would go into the manure pile. Which might be under an outhouse with a similar seat arrangement.
Clearly video and PDF display are two different animals. Saying that performance blows on video and then using VLC as a comparison for JavaScript vs ActionScript performance is completely besides the point.
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I have not bought a game in years. I have pirated several, but I have never pirated a game I didn't already own a license for. (And actually, by 'pirate' I mean downloaded a keygen to get around inserting a disc into the drive.) I now exclusively use Linux at home, which compounds the issue.

I suspect I'm not alone, and there's a large market of gamers who were more hardcore in high school and college who don't want to deal with the shit they're shoveling, and are quite content with the games we bought years ago.
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They were looking for feedback on their playlist API at music hack day in Amsterdam two weeks ago. I think they're currently working on improving playlists in general.
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"The nearly 5-year-old war, once billed as virtually paying for itself through increased Iraqi oil exports, has cost the U.S. Treasury $845 billion directly." [Much more now, I suppose.]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2921527420080302
The technique for sailing into the wind, however, is much less than a thousand years old (unless it’s yet another trick that the Greeks learned and then everyone else forgot until the Middle Ages). IIRC one of the first sailors who knew the trick was executed for witchcraft when the authorities finally caught up with him.
Taiwan. When I first lived there, the ruling party (which is once more the ruling party, after a change of ruling party in between) used political assassination and other terrorist acts to keep its grip on power. During the late 1980s, the common people stopped being afraid there, realizing they outnumbered the secret police, and peaceful mass demonstrations and continual efforts at forming opposition political movements and a free press when both were formally banned eventually resulted in free elections and a change of government. Here in the United States, and all over the world, that should be our response to terrorist threats: keep on seeking more freedom and more exposure of truth. Don't let the terrorists scare you from exercising freedom, and don't let your own government scare you from exercising your freedom while it responds to terrorists.
The solution to this is to give each copy a cryptographic key which you then verify with the server. Unfortunately this isn't possible for iPhone games.
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That's like one of those "Now there is" jokes/stories.

Search for "there was no 221 Baker Street during the years of the Sherlock Holmes stories".
Why'd they wait until now to start copying Apple's design? We're well past the all-metal laptops that were the height of Apple's design prowess. I bought the first model of PB17 purely on design, even though it was only about as fast as an Intel-based laptop I'd had for a year and a half. But after an iteration or two of improvement, they threw that design sensibility away to go with plasticky stuff. ;)
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ANything new here?
A rehash of the older Hawkins interview, and a line or 2 about the Canadian Def Min saying they've been here and contributed to science -- no proof at all of that.
So what would be the startup equivalent of meeting someone on craigslist?
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If even your internal modules are clearly separated into public interfaces and internal stuff, then most refactorings won't need that level of care.
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Yes. It is a safe to say that Jonathan Ive has studied the work of Dieter Rams. When it comes to industrial design, Dieter Rams is one of the greats. There is nothing wrong with being inspired by him. It is important to note that this inspiration goes beyond the industrial design of Apple's hardware. For example, it is widely agreed that the iPhone's calculator app is based on the Braun ET66 calculator, designed Rams: http://barryborsboom.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/172_721-ram...
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1322768

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It's great right now, big budget productions for free. What happens though when enough people creating the content can't make the economic model work no more?

I think the result will be drastically lower budgets to the point where someone can make a dollar selling the content for a dollar or putting ads around/before it online. It's just a matter of whether we can accept that, it may be a good thing? The budget models for movies right now does seem to be a bit out of whack.
> True, but this has always been the case. Page connections have always been public. You can still control their visibility on your profile.

Don't you think that is a little misleading? You provide users with a privacy control that in reality doesn't do what you say it does. You are tricking people into thinking that they have control over visibility and then you go and share that with anyone. Who cares if the connections that are shown are selected randomly? It doesn't change the fact that you ignore the privacy control that you have supposedly given your users. I think that's what bothers people. If you don't think people would care, maybe you should put a warning on the privacy settings that says it only applies to your profile.
If effective DRM could be developed that didn't make life worse for the buyer I'd support it. Anything less though (everything we have currently) and DRM is an issue.
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True in theory but not in practice: jQuery changed a lot of typical JavaScript usage patterns.
Yes, but rather than him just randomly select an address for a location he has taken the time to visit it and describe it accurately in his books. If he's gone to this level of detail already, it would make sense that the layout of the furniture, fittings and items in the building also map to an accurate model.

Some authors can't always go to this level of detail. For example J. K. Rowling was in Scotland when writing the first Harry Potter book, as a result she describes Kings Cross from memory, confusing it with another London Station, so her description of it does match the real world location.
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Never say never, but how could any DRM be not annoying? Perhaps if you could sell your DRMed things, it might be an advantage?
I too love to cook and often find myself wishing I had more time for various hands on projects
Is it the browser or HN that's turning that URL into
http://xn----rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/ ?
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I'm not sure why this was downvoted. I agree completely, there is nobody forcing you to use the site. This is just a great opportunity for somebody else to build something that they think is better.
I'm almost tempted to use Bing. The new look reminds me of AltaVista or Excite back in the day, and recent Google search results have been about the same quality. When did they lose their touch?
Wow, what a shameless rip-off.

At a minimum they should credit Rams and Braun for that.
As a heavy Wordpress user, I have a lot of love for the folks who create both free and premium themes. They solve huge business problems for me. (Substantially all of the publicly visible content of my next product is getting served up by Wordpress with a WooThemes template, because I'd rather spend a week talking to early adopters rather than a week handwriting copy and markup in Rails.)

They're even better for folks who don't have good designers available or who don't have the technical chops to make adjustments to their sites themselves.

As a business model, it is pretty good if you can get traction, too -- the content scarcely ever rots, per-customer value is high (relative to, say, B2C software), and you stand a decent chance of getting repeat business if you continue expanding your product line. I wouldn't want to get into it myself (no design skills and I think I'd be about four years behind the curve even if I could design my way out of a paper bag), but it is clearly successful for some folks.
From TFA:

Icann warned that the internationalised domain names (IDNs), as they are known, would also not work on all PCs immediately.

"You may see a mangled string of letters and numbers, and perhaps some percent signs or a couple of "xn--"s mixed into the address bar," said Mr Davies. "Or it may not work at all."
As a long time game industry veteran, allow me to tell you that this is simply not true. In fact, that is actually the internet's straw man counter argument, which is fueled by a couple poor PR incidents where a few people have made it seem that way.

I thought that was fueled by industry produced reports that blamed losses on piracy and assumed a 100% conversation rate between piracy and sales. (That may be more the music industry than the game industry, though)

What is that number? Who knows! But it's certainly greater than zero, and there's certainly enough impact of piracy to make it worth it to explore methods of minimizing that impact.

Yes, that number is greater than zero, but just how much greater than zero it is, is not insignificant. All methods used to reduce/eliminate piracy inflicts a cost of some sort. DRM annoys customers and is mostly ineffective in discouraging piracy.

For instance, Blizzard removed LAN from Starcraft 2. How many fans did that annoy enough to cause lost sales? How much piracy will that prevent? Especially since it seems there are BNet server emulators on the internet already.
Keep in mind that every picture on that site is hand-made. The instructions disallow photos of actual giraffes or images created on/by a computer.

How many drawings and human-shaped sculpture are there on those social sites? I doubt there's more than the 6.8 billion you quote from wikipedia.
Indeed. Usually I scroll straight past stock photos so they don't appear on my screen for very long, but in this article they're spaced about three hundred pixels apart so you can't possibly avoid having at least two of 'em onscreen at once.

If I were reading this at work, everybody would think I was planning a wedding.
Possibly more rewarding than just 'working with your hands' is accomplishing something by yourself. Whether you are programming your own small project or fixing a bike/car it's the learning new skills and having something to show for it part that is most rewarding
Inspiring. I wonder what other Open Source ecosystems have opportunities for selling premium add-ons. As a sysadmin, DBA, and sometimes programmer I already love what I do, but I'm starting to realize the limits of the money I can make working for somebody else.
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That is how Internationalized Domain Names (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name) are encoded by the browser and/or OS to get around the fact that a lot of legacy systems assumed only ASCII characters would ever be used. There's RFCs that cover this which have been around for a number of years. Today is hardly the first day these have been live. (Correction: Doing this for the TLD is new.) On Twitter, various URL shorteners have started becoming popular which are using non-ASCII characters in the domain names.

Related: I recently put together a package for iPhone developers that adds some support for IDN to NSURL (this code will be deployed in the next update of Twitterrific for iPad). http://files.iconfactory.net/sean/NSURL+IFUnicodeURL/
> What is that number? Who knows!

From article:

When Reflexive games performed a series of experiments with anti-piracy measures, they found that they only made one extra sale for every 1000 pirated copies they blocked

Besides if you successfully lock away pirates you loose all the good publicity that they give you on forums (provided that your game is any good of course).
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I was thinking more about the users as their rights seem to be the main topic of submission.
I assume when referring to productivity benefits you are actually referring to ease of learning? Command shells have huge productivity benefits if you know how to use them, their Achilles heel is that it takes quite a while to get used to and to the untrained user they are very daunting, whereas GUIs are more intuitive.
The article didn't claim that the number is zero. Can you provide any basis for your point at all?
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320668 (http://www.hiwiller.com/2010/04/29/if-mario-was-designed-in-...).
Your email may be less secure in the hands of a local sysadmin than with a company like Google, which has a valuable reputation to defend and sophisticated systems in place to guard your data.

A legitimate reason to not use Google is their history of less than perfect customer service; they excel in technology, not in customer service.