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The site looks nice: clean lines, etc. - but I'm left wondering why I would use your service over Freshbooks, which seems to have more features (all be it only 3 free clients to your 5).

I think your "tour" needs to have a lot more information: you show a tiny piece of an invoice, how about a sample PDF? A video intro to the creation of an invoice would be great.

Lastly, while live help is always appreciated as an option, I would definitely stray from sending messages to online users in that live help popup without them asking for it... kind of creepy.
I guess by "standards pertaining to the web" Apple means HTML, Javascript (ECMAScript to be precise) and CSS.
What do you mean by "standards pertaining to what software is allowed to run on your computer"?
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Wait a minute, how is comparing H.264 hardware support for decoding (I think you meant decoding, not decompression) vs. software bullshit? Shipping versions of Flash still use software for video decoding. The only versions that use hardware are unreleased beta versions of 10.1.

Your post sounds like an Adobe apologist making stuff up.
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Tech folks are cynical enough without my help.

Here's all the insight I can muster: non-technical people do not have an accurate mental model of how the computer works. They have a semi-accurate mental model of the steps they take to do routine things on the computer: I click this thing, then I type in this thing, then I click this thing, then the magic happens. Deviations from that routine will almost certainly cause task failure.

Example: you know how Macs have the menu bar at the top of the screen rather than at the top of the window? I have at least one customer whose mental model is that the screen ends where stuff stops getting painted to it, and then that grey gunk above it is scary computer stuff. It took a day to talk her through finding the Help menu -- "It says Help, at the top right of your screen" because she was looking under the grey gunk bar and literally did not notice it until I returned the screenshot she had taken with a big red arrow on it.
What do you mean with in everyone's best interest?

Everyone includes the millions of flash sites and flash developers out there that do fantastic work.

Flash isn't a feature it's as ingrained a part of the web as HTML is and surely much more than HTML5.

I like apples products I fully accept that they don't want to put flash on there even though I disagree.

But his answer isn't an answer, it's not a counter argument as many of those problems he states aren't really problems that are flash related.
I've often wondered if Gruber's reliable contact at Apple was some guy with turtlenecks and no numberplates.
That URL was stuck for a bit for me, this newer one worked better: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/D.Maclagan/papers/set.pdf

Thanks for the tip. Paper from 2003; amusing bit in the tail-end Acknowledgments:

We would never have spend so many hours thinking about the “set-Problem” without Joe Buhler’s goading remark that it was shocking that two Berkeley students couldn’t work out the answer. Josh Levenberg helped then by writing our original brute-force program, before we came up with a non-computer proof of “20”.
* Well, I'm not sure what other part of Objective-C that's not "open" you would be talking about, exactly...

* "We're talking about mobile applications like games being good enough, not applications using native components." Except we're not. That whole section was discussing specifically 3.3.1 and why they aren't going to allow cross-compiled apps to run on the iPhone.

* "Comparing video decompression" Oh, that's not gonna have an effect on battery life, nooooo. And so what, you're saying Apple should have included something that isn't even released yet in the iPhone?
I've only looked at a small portion of the underlying django code and from what I've seen there were definitely some complicated parts, but it was far from being messy. Perhaps the author is confusing necessary complication with messiness? After all, isn't the purpose of a high level framework to hide the messy details and allow you to express your ideas clearly and efficiently?

I have read and understood all of web.py and am currently buried up to my head in rails actionpack routing code, both contain some hairy bits of code. By pushing all these messy details down into the library they allow the application developer to be more expressive and concise. As long as there are tests, comments, and documentation to back up the complicated bits, I don't have a problem with a library or framework not being obvious to understand at first glance.
He just claimed Apple created WebKit, noted it's being used everywhere, and gave no nod whatsoever to the KDE team. Classy, Jobs, classy.
I don't see how an article titled 'Credit Ratings Agencies - Who made them so powerful ?' doesn't discuss the idea of the Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (Yes, there is a passing mention of the SEC, but this is the answer to the question):

Ratings by NRSRO are used for a variety of regulatory purposes in the United States. In addition to net capital requirements (described in more detail below), the SEC permits certain bond issuers to use a shorter prospectus form when issuing bonds if the issuer is older, has issued bonds before, and has a credit rating above a certain level. SEC regulations also require that money market funds (mutual funds that mimick the safety and liquidity of a bank savings deposit, but without FDIC insurance) comprise only securities with a very high rating from an NRSRO. Likewise, insurance regulators use credit ratings from NRSROs to ascertain the strength of the reserves held by insurance companies.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationally_Recognized_Statistic...
I feel I only need to fear their intention, not their wording

I'm leery of their capriciousness. They obviously have no qualms about changing their terms of service on a whim, giving folks only weeks to comply, and not accepting any compromise. That is simply not the type of folk I like to do business with.
We want the web to be open and free while we keep everything we do on our end closed and make tons of money. Oh, and don't let anyone else try to profit from their proprietary stuff either (unless we get a cut).
> It is open enough for their purposes.
Ok great, so Flash is also "open enough": fully published specs, anyone is allowed to use the format (creating, playing) without royalties. SWF is more open than h264.

> He never said it was
True. But if he wants to make this conversation an open-versus-closed conversation, I fully expect to compare the platforms in general instead of just a tiny bit of it.

> There was spin in this article just like his DRM article but I wouldn't qualify anything as FUD.
Saying Adobe postponed the release date is a lie. Saying they said it would be released before is also a lie, since Adobe never announced a date for public release (it was available for devs as beta). Maybe it's not your definition of FUD, but it's still a lie. I don't expect the CEO of a company this big to be repeating this bullshit.

http://www.webkitchen.be/2010/04/19/flash-player-10-1-for-an...

Is he going to post a correction? Somehow, I don't think so.
In NPR they said that they had checks that your Facebook account was sufficiently well established. They didn't say the exact criteria, but my impression was that it needed to have existed for a certain time, and have had certain levels of activity on it. This is to prevent people from creating throw away accounts, commenting libelously, then disappearing.

The unintended consequence, of course, is that people who don't have a Facebook account can't just create one. Instead you have to create one, use it until you have a sufficiently well-established identity, and only then can you use their service. Which is a high barrier for people who actually don't have a Facebook account.
Ask HN: Added value gateways for s3-like cloud storage providers?
As part of a server backup strategy I'm looking for a service that can sync Amazon S3 buckets to Rackspace cloud files (or any other storage provider).

The only service I've found so far that does this is SMEStorage (http://www.smestorage.com). To describe what they do is easier if I just lift the text from their home page:

"We spend our time thinking about the way we can add value to storage clouds. We created the SMEStorage platform to enable us to add such value! We take existing storage clouds and layer additional features and better ways to access files. Things like encryption..."

On the face of it it seems like a decent idea but I was surprised I couldn't find out much about them which makes me apprehensive.

Do you know of any other cloud gateways that offer similar functionality? Or have you used SMEStorage?
I find the first example confusing.

The author says "A set is defined as three cards in which each of the four features of the card (color, shape of symbols, number of symbols, and shading) have either all the same value or all different values."

Then the first example of what is a set shows color/shape/number different and shading as the same. Which contradicts the rule he just quoted.

What am I missing here?
Apple announces WWDC 2010, likely debut for iPhone HD/iPhone 4G — June 7-11
The most brilliant part of Apple's marketing here is leveraging infighting and unintended consequences in the free software community. They don't care about open standards - that they would is, on the face of it, absurd. What they do know is that they will evoke much support for championing JS/HTML/CSS as an open plaform, and that it poses no actual threat to their App Store control. This is because of two reasons:

First that there is so much infighting between Mozilla, Microsoft, and Google on the PC browser side, that it will never be possible to deliver video in one way that is accessible to all users, and Flash will remain required on PCs. (Ironically, Mozilla is Adobe's best friend here, as lack of H.264 support for HTML5 in Firefox for the indefinite future - even if your hardware supports it! - ensures that we will never be able to encode once and run on any PC - unless we use Flash!) So HTML5 will never never be a real final solution, because of the PC environment, which makes it safe for Apple to support and champion.

The second reason why HTML is no threat to Apple is that it just is too hard to write real applications in JS and current (or forseeable) browser environments. I get flamed for this a lot, but I think most of the people who flame me have never tried to build and maintain large cross-browser compatible codebases in JS involving a changing team of developers over a long time. People who disagree here always point to nebulous future hopes or technolgies that don't work very well yet, and I think underestimate the difficultly and time this will take, let alone for adoption. And they also, in my opinion, underestimate the problems inherent in Javascript, the language itself, independent of the well known pathologies with browser DOMs.

And, the reason why this marketing strategy is so brilliant is precisely because posts like this one will be viewed as conspiracy theory! This is because people have so many emotional ties to their hopes and their own preferred ways of doing things.
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And how do you know that Apple didn't tell Adobe well in advance? Adobe pushing to get onto the iPhone platform is every bit as much of a business decision as Apple trying to block them. Adobe may very well have been informed but decided that Jobs was just bluffing (not an unreasonable conclusion, there are very few CEOs with enough arrogance to do what Jobs has done on this particular issue).
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Mono implements a good bit of .NET, but not all of it. That doesn't make it any less of an open platform.
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> Adobe failed to deliver, plain and simple.

Hardly. While HTML5 is great, most of the animations I have tested out still red line my processor. While you can hate Flash Player all you want (and I hope HTML5 takes over), artists will still need an authoring tool like Flash CS to do anything useful with HTML5.
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I think you misread Jobs. He thinks of this as a transition of the web from desktop to mobile. He thinks HTML+JS is the future and the gains of supporting “legacy” stuff like Flash are diminutive because it wouldn’t “just run”.

That’s the argument.
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It's not just about ideology and PR... it's about keeping our users secure.

And the "ideology" has a very pragmatic side: it's about keeping the web based on actual standards that can evolve rather than defacto standards that we will have to live with forever.

We're dealing with this on the Mozilla Mobile team because of touch events. There is no standard for touch events in browsers. Mobile Safari and Android both implement touch events, and their implementations are partly compatible and partly incompatible. Mobile Firefox could choose to take one of those implementations and copy it. In the short term it would make us more compatible with some existing iPhone-optimized sites. But in the long run it would raise the barrier for getting web sites (and browser vendors) to switch to an actual standardized API. So we're going to try to get the WHATWG to agree on a standard for touch events before we implement them rather than after. The standards process is not just about ideology - it often catches significant design and security flaws, as it has with WebSockets.

It's much harder to change an API once you've shipped it to a userbase like Mozilla's (hundreds of millions of people - around 30% of all internet users). Remember the story about Stuart Feldman when he was asked to make the Makefile syntax more sensible? He said he couldn't, because there were already over a dozen people using it.
They aren't pitching them as equal. Apple wants them to be unequal.
Wouldn't Google just have to switch it's YouTube HTML5 support to use VP8 instead of H.264 in order to "win" this? If YouTube really does make up 40% of the online video market, Google has the largest ace in it's back pocket.
The last place I was at had an extremely low turnover for precisely this reason. The devs had all been there for 8+ years and didn't really have to do anything. The bar was set so low there was no motivation to leave. Managed to stick it out for 6 months before I ran from the place.
It continues to amaze me that Jobs, as CEO of the 2nd largest company by market cap, is more technical than many of the managers I have had.
did they really needed to do that just RIGHT BEFORE CS5 was
going to ship

I believe so. Otherwise they release iPhone OS 4, but customers get a flood of non-native, non-HIG aware apps coded by Flash developers and compiled for i* by the tool who knows nothing about new version of the OS.
That cannot be the great user experience.
Less of an explicit standard and more the previous consensus that the company that sells you your computer shouldn't retain control over what kind of legitimate software you can run on it after it's in your possession, based on some self-aggrandizing notion that they know what's best for you better than you do.
Nice. Can you say what other raplets are on the way?
Steve Jobs tells the world just what he thinks of Flash
Which is why their argument here is bullshit.
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Wow, when did HN become all Apple fanboys, all the time? - I thought this was supposed to be a rational argument but it seems as long as Jobs is destroying Flash he's ok with everyone, even while he's locking down the rest of his platform.
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You mean the Flash app linked to on the front page of theFWA that took 30 seconds to load and almost crashed Chrome on a late model Macbook Pro 17? Is that the kind of mobile experience you're after?
For each feature, the cards have to be either all different or all the same. What you can't have is two cards of one color and one of another, or two cards of one shade and one of another.
Still vaporware... I'm just saying, it would be nice if Adobe can show a reference implementation of Flash on a mobile device, and prove that it actually works well at a decent framerate without sucking battery life. This would at least give Adobe some ammunition to use against Apple, and may make Apple rethink the "no Flash" rule.
"Flash was designed for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers. For example, many Flash websites rely on “rollovers”, which pop up menus or other elements when the mouse arrow hovers over a specific spot. Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch interface doesn’t use a mouse, and there is no concept of a rollover."

Flash don't care. You are not forced to use rollovers in flash you can but you are not forced to do it.

Drag and drop is a historical mouse feature. You have that on the iPad too. So apples touch is not more revolutionary than it still uses these.

Every other mouse metaphor is in use besides rollover.
Definitely have to disagree. I think this sort of understanding is what makes physics and cosmology awesome. It's hard to imagine as we experience 3 spatial dimensions and 1 of time (and can only experience that time dimension in one direction). There could be universes with no time, or a dozen space dimensions, or 2 time dimensions. How would you define "before" for a universe with multiple time dimensions?

Edit: the human perception of time is an interesting subject. Physics (GR) holds that there is a 4D space-time. What we experience as separate constructs is really just too sides of the same coin. Although thermodynamics seems to define a "direction" to time, there's no real reason why you couldn't move in both time directions. For example, the production of an anti-particle in a particle accelerator (e.g a positron) is really just a particle (electron) travelling back in time to the production point. You can get around cause and effect issues if you assume the universe is in fact a 4D static environment, where time travel (forward or backward) has been predetermined by the static layout created during the big bang. This does of course have implications for free will...
However, the multi-verse interpretation of QM gets you out of this.
This title is completely misleading. There is nothing mandatory about Facebook's prompts for you to link items in your profile to public pages. I was able to click 'ask me later' and the prompt went away. Next time it shows up I'll wind up looking into how to disable it from ever showing up again.
I had precisely the same discussion yesterday with a new client. She didn't understand how our web application did not have a larger list of system requirements. She started repeating the situation in a louder, slower manner to help me understand.
Your post makes it sound like said beta version will never see the light of day.
Right, but not many organisations are in a position to come along and do us all* a big favour as Google is here. Between being able to afford it, having a browser and a mobile OS, and YouTube, they are really holding the right cards to do this. Anyway, my point is, if Google weren't going to do it, then those 'zealots' would quite possibly have a point.

*I am under no illusion that 'us all' doesn't largely include Google themselves in this case, of course.
The most succinct explanation yet - pity your post is one of the view voices of reason in this thread.
Can't you create a barebones cocoa touch app that basically just shows safari, and your app runs inside that as ja and HTML?
Reminds me, how long it took Apple to move Finder and iTunes to Cocoa? (Answers for those that don't keep score: 10.6 and not yet).

You have to remember, that Apple tried multiple rewrites of MacOS in 90' and OSX was yet another 'this time it will work out, I promise' project. If you were Adobe, would you bank your company on yet another promise? I know I wouldn't.
You've obviously never engaged in web development. IE6 support is often the most costly part of a project.
I think it's too amerocentric.

That said, here's a link to the list of the top 100

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29...
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"For example, Apple began with a small open source project and created WebKit, a complete open-source HTML5 rendering engine that is the heart of the Safari web browser used in all our products."

He only failed to mention KHTML by name. He most certainly did not claim that they made WebKit on their own.
...we can use the same logic and say the blogger is full of shit?

On a serious note, what Rubin was probably referring to is the OS aspect of Android, while not a beacon of open source project, has no secrets.

While the op was probably referring to what Google does in its end of android project which is not open source.

A lot of Google products are open source, the business itself is not.
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Is VP8 going to be open source? I believe Google still hasn't confirmed this rumor yet.
Packaging systems and their associated programming languages / APIs. Like Android .apk files, Apple .dmg files, Microsoft's .msi. All open and usable by anyone who wants to build one (though some fees may apply.)
Well they are listing every problem that factors into the decision. I think it is about control more than just the bottom line, Apple don't have control of design decisions that are made in Flash, its much more in their interests to push people towards the app store and to a lesser extent open web technologies where they get to set direction.
Hardware decoding of video content has been available since FP version 10, released in October 2008.

I'm not making stuff up. I actually have my history of gripes with Adobe, as if I've been working with their software for more than a decade. If anything, I'm just enraged that this article is making stuff up, and I don't like people taking ideology and fundamentalism into a discussion that should be tech-based only.
I'm afraid quite the opposite is the case:

We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform.

IMHO, this sentences leaves no doubt that Apple does not only target Adobe, but any kind of layer they consider harmful for their platform.
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Yeah, that was funny. I'll blame nerd rage.
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What I always say to non-technical people:

All the programs and data in your computer is in files and folders, even windows is just a bunch of files. You understand this and everything else is far easier to understand.
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