skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with what you're saying.

However, I am alright with a website being 100% reliant on Flash just as I am alright with a website being 100% reliant on video. The key issue here is openness, not platform.
We 'block' Adobe
I concur - the "caution" is good, as it forces people to re-think their settings. I decided not to change the items I was cautioned on, but it was beneficial to see them called out, allowing me to make a conscious choice.
It is possibly a company local to me (SLC, UT) called Smile Reminder, or at least one of their competitors (http://www.smilereminder.com/)
Amazing failure, when you consider that they advertised the Nexus One on the #1 most prominent web page possible: the google search form.

I'm actually surprised that it didn't work. This was top premium ad space. How can it fail? Unless their expectations for sales were so stratospheric that even their massive campaign couldn't pull it off?
Thoughts:

The sales pitch is too long IMO. If you end up keeping something like it post-demo you should test alternatives.

The voice talkent is good. A bit too slow for my tastes but you need to do research here to see what people can handle for speed. Maybe faster with an easy "repeat" function. It always frustrates me when I miss something on a recording and can't replay it.

The synthesized voice is really bad. Recording a real voice for every five minute interval (or heck, everything) is not that bad.

I realize the recipient of the call is not your customer, but the faster you can get off the phone the happier they'll be and the cheaper it is for you. If I'm a business owner I'm thinking that people are going to hang up on this. Even though the actual reminder is short you're reminding people of a long call.

Minor "ad copy" bit: I think the people you areselling to are more likely to recognize something like "text message to your mobile phone" than "SMS".

You need some sort of easier way for this to spread. Perhaps that will naturally happen as customers hear about the product.
The whole article was pretty much from the point-of-view of a web-based application. Maybe he is assuming web-based applications are the most important ones.
Why 'location' apps haven't gone mainstream
That's number two on this list:

http://utorrentideas.uservoice.com/forums/47263-general

I couldn't care less about the first (Deluge > * ), but I'm glad to see they're listening to feedback.
I don't think this is advice that really needs to be given to most people on HN. However, it is important advice.

I've often been told by my wife that the reason she has to ask me for help with computer issues is because I know what to google and she doesn't. She will often end up blinding picking part of an error message to google, but I am able to understand the error and the systems involved enough to make a good search that narrows in on the specific problem.

It's amazing how much more productive a little GoogleFu can make you.
There's absolutely no question that javascript is going to be the single most important langugage for GUI app development, if it isn't already.

However, I'm still not persuaded that it's a compelling server-side programming language. Javascript wins in the browser because it has no competition, but there are already several mature, well-established server-side programming stacks in langauges with fewer warts.
How does that kill the brakes or turn off the engine?
Poor attempt at a pun.
No matter what book you read - the Scala syntax will be your biggest problem. I finally 'got it' when I realized or rather made room for the fact that Scala has two sets of syntax - one for OOP and another for functional programming. And it seamlessly mixes the two styles - this creates a lot of confusion for the first time scala programmer. It also makes it diffcult to maintain code within a team of programmers using Scala unless they come to some agreement on style.

On a side note - Scala is not my fav. JVM language because, personally, its in the same class as Perl and C++. Where syntax is concerned Clojure is much cleaner.
Apart from the links 'geeymb' posted, FlashDevelop is a popular free tool to create flash content [flashdevelop.org]

Scribd uses 'pdf2swf' from swftools.org to convert pdfs(Not sure if they still use it. ref: http://www.swftools.org/references.html )

Scaleform depends heavily on Flash[scaleform.com]. Ming library is a nice option to create dynamic swf files on server side[libming.org].

A nice little online editor and compiler can be found here:
http://www.victordramba.com/?p=31

Although there are so many nice, robust open source tools built around Flash, i haven't heard of Adobe actively promoting any of them.
nice work...
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I'd be one of the cheapest solutions on the market at that price point. Enterprise sales, hooooo. It isn't irrational, either: like I said, if the dentist rescues a single appointment with me, he gets $750 in cash the same day.

That said, as I alluded to, I did not primarily include that plan out of a desire to sell it. It won't be available at launch: it just gives folks fair warning that the other plans are not guaranteed to be HIPAA friendly, and additionally makes everything else I sell look cheap by comparison to what the Big Boys use. As I mentioned, that appears to be essentially all of the space at the moment.
You may also like this one: http://i.imgur.com/WhwlV.jpg
Their idea could use a little work. Of all the days in the year they could pick, they choose a national holiday when most people are going to be out and about and not at home using the internet.
I built the same thing 8 years ago but it did the opposite of what patio is doing... it called/texted/emailed the dentist (or dentist's secretary) and told them to call their customer.

As someone else mentioned, his monthly enterprise account seems priced too high. You can buy full practice management software for this much.
It used to be that your posts were set to private.

So of course everyone still assumes that when they post about their rectal surgery it's a private matter only their friends can see.

This is why changing your privacy policies and defaults is obnoxious.
I've recently been using it as part of CouchDB. It's really not a bad language. Some of the constructs are a little cumbersome, but it does just about everything you'd want a language at that level to do.

With the V8 engine it really is pretty speedy, and you have the advantage of using the same language for your UI and your server-side processing.
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I like reminders. I forget stuff.

But I hate interruptions. Make the interruption as quick as possible. To me the advantage of getting a recording is the minimal interaction. I don't have to exchange greetings with a robot. So make it fast.

I may not be representative.
I was about to post how sick I am of seeing these ridiculous rebuttals but this actually made me laugh.
Foxtrot did an similar gag: http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2010/03/21/
We leggo Adobe
Google turns Nexus One strategy upside down
You read Yegge also?
I suspect it's not exactly trivial. I haven't worked with IPC in Python, but on the C level, it's a bit easier to communicate between processes related via a fork() than separately spawned processes. I suspect adding exec() support on the linux side would affect a large number of small details in the existing code. Not something you'd complete in the duration of writing a short blog post.
And your cited "article" supports your claim that Apple paid Google for the effort where, exactly?
Omni Group releases open source iPhone/iPad dev Framework
I sort of agree with you but I walk to work at 5:30 in the morning. Nobody else is there. Also NYC has the opposite problem of most places in the USA. You're bombarded with so much "activity and life" that you tend to grab any amount of personal time you can get.
how many .net and .org websites have you launched? A .com gets a HUGE bonus over those.

A .com with 0 link building will almost always start off on page 1 or 2. Even for a competitive keyword, at worst you are looking at page 3.

A .net or .org will usually start off on page 40.

After 2-3 weeks of link building, with a .com you are looking at a top 3 position. With a .org, after 2-3 weeks of link building you'll be lucky to climb up to page 2.

A .com will always be king, it's the most valuable domain name for a reason.
Either you typoed "sports" or you are not from the U.S. (England?) I'm not a huge sports fan myself but this sort of jargon sort of penetrates by osmosis where I live.
Is the audio of the talk available online? A cursory googling of bsdcan sources didn't yield anything.
I actually don't see why this is so bad. There are only a handful of carriers and and I switch every 5 or 6 years at this rate. Right now I can enjoy a new phone, as I just did with a new blackberry, for free if I extend my contract, which I would do anyway. How would actually dropping $300 on my phone and then 'choosing' a new carrier help me at all? Especially when they peddle the same shit service and same shit customer support
Writing a patch for this is an incredible undertaking, writing a blog to draw attention to the issue is not. The author is a user of python that is aware of the issue, but is not one who has contributed to the language. This is probably well outside of his expertise as the task is systems programming in C and he is a python web developer.
Or just ask the people when they make the appointment if they would like a reminder SMS.
Wrong. I've built a larger Flash-based application (no public link, sorry) using nothing but the Flex SDK and Java. You simply don't need Adobe's authoring tools to make a viable application.
Couch surf for a while, if you can, so you can decide where you want to live. I'm a big fan of the Mission in San Francisco, but that may prove to be a distraction for working on a startup.
Really spiffy continuously variable *geared* transmission
No, it is rather substantially cheaper here. Until recently I had not been wowed by Japanese dentistry, so I got some long-delayed work done last time I was in America on a cash basis. (Happily, when one of the fillings that cost $~X00 popped out and I had to visit the first dentist I found on Google Maps by my office, I had a wonderful experience but for the searing pain of losing a filling, and will be going to him from now on.)

None of the above is intended as a commentary on the relative merits of national health insurance.
This will be useful for writing those "Regressive Enhancements".
I see them on the iPhone but actually I've never seen one on iPad. My guess is they just show nothing instead of making it look like something's missing.
I intend this to be a monthly subscription service for 2 reasons:

1. Reliability

I want to use the stories generated and hosted by Storyteller for FAQ, customer support, prototyping and storyboarding purposes, which would remain on a company's website for a long while, requiring a good level of reliability.

I'm hosting the images off Amazon S3 so huge traffic spikes for one member's image wouldn't affect other people's stuff.

2. No fuss

I made Storyteller to be a no-fuss and easy solution, so users wouldn't have to bother with FTP, HTML, Dreamweaver or a web interface, hence I intend this to be a pay as you go service, for minimal configuration fuss.

Unless of course the user explicitly deletes unwanted stories.

Since I'll be paying the bill for S3, and actively maintaining the service for good level of reliability, that's my plan for billing.

- Open sourcing

I'm not sure about open sourcing everything but I do intend to open source parts of the project, because I agree with 37signals that when you make something, you can't just make one thing :)
I won’t be killing my Facebook Profile anytime soon… Here’s Why.
Flex: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk

They sell a modified Eclipse IDE called Flash Builder but you can also compile and code without it.
Whether you meant it to be rude or not, it pretty much came off that way.

When somebody takes the time to point out a legitimate shortcoming, much less do so in a way that isn't snarky or mean-spirited, criticizing that person for not also solving the problem is a net-negative response.

There are any number of reasons that someone might not solve the problem. In no particular order, here are some off the top of my head:

* they don't have the resources for testing (not everyone has a copy of Windows, much less every supported version of Windows)

* they don't have the expertise

* they don't have the time

* they don't care enough, but thought it would be useful to write it down someplace for the next time they come across the problem

Asking for a patch every time somebody provides useful feedback is a fantastic way to make sure you don't maximize the community around your project.
A corollary there is that you cannot leverage in baseball like you can in financial markets to play at ever thinner margins and thus the theory becomes largely useless unless you can augment it with better information.

Also, people forget that "increased... performance" in baseball often means an increase in profit, not an increase in victories.
What do you perceive as the benefit to my business from going from an easy to understand option to a complicated one which requires forecasting, math, complexity, and anxiety about marginal costs nagging at my users every time they sign in?

target audience for the [personal plan]

Productivity bloggers. It exists to give my business something to offer them, because they have something I want, and it is not really their money. shh
Wireless iPhone sync software rejected by Apple from App Store
I actually bought a couple of Christmas gifts (a Slanket and a kitchen gadget) from QVC.com last year. If you can deal with their huge shipping and handling (most stuff is drop-shipped) and quirky product selection, it's actually kind of a premium experience.

Think about it this way. It's an e-commerce site where, for every item, there is a 3-5 minute video clip of the product being used, worn, prepared or demonstrated. That is pretty huge. For products where just a couple of pictures won't do, watching a video on QVC.com can get people a lot more familiar with the product.

But, inexcusably, accessing this most unique feature on their product page requires you to click an easily-missed tab! In the YouTube era, that is just silly. I think they just don't realize what they have. If you started a webstore and went to the trouble of shooting video clips for every product, don't you think you would at least put them on the main page body instead of hiding them in a separate section?!?
Oddly enough, that did make me feel better. It's strange how encapsulating the side-effects in a state monad can be so soothing.
The article isn't actually meant as a guide. It's meant as a commentary on what makes programming languages popular, and the conceit of a "guide" format is just a rhetorical device.
Why do you need to be able to build apps for this?
I second that. I've not used the Adobe IDE for a few years.

lurch_mojoff, please don't claim your personal experience as standard practice.

Try a search on Google, or read a few blogs about Flash development.
At that time the subscription fees did not cover the cost of the hardware. Subscription fees were also falling due to decreasing barriers of entry into dialup and internet providers. Alternatives such as advertising did not cover the cost of the net-pcs either.

For cellular phones, the $200-300 hardware cost is easily recouped over two years on a $70.00 monthly plan.
I think one of the problems was that the phone didn't include the radio hardware to be truly portable. Sure, you can buy an unlocked phone, but there is no other network you can use 3G on. So you are locked to a single carrier anyway.

If Google released a phone that supported both AT&T and T-Mobile and Sprint and Verizon, then it would be a great deal. Hate AT&T? Just port your number to Sprint and keep the same phone.

The phone companies would hate this, and the extra radios would cost like five cents more, so I don't see this as ever happening. But that's what would be truly innovative -- a $700 unlocked phone just isn't very compelling when you have to pay the subsidy anyway.
* Noller.

From the post:

By figuring out how to get locks, queues, and shared data structures all working cleanly on such different architectures, the multiprocessing authors save Python programmers out on the street like me from reinventing a dozen wheels when we need to support multi-platform concurrency.

From the ticket:

Therefore, the "multiprocessing" module should offer an option under Linux that ignores the advantage of being able to do a bare fork() and instead spins up a new interpreter instance just like Windows does.

Maybe he doesn't know how to write such a patch?

Also, damn, the Windows implementation is waaaaaaaay longer.

Unix: http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/source/brows...

Windows: http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/source/brows...
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So, can anyone explain why it makes sense for them to stop selling the phone through the online store? I guess it's some combination of cost for both storing, shipping and providing support as well?
How about "I already quit and deleted my profile."
Ya.. I wonder if you could crowdsource something like this? Pay folks a smallish commission to place the calls for you through a Twilio interface. I know of some answering services that work more or less that way, and they seem to do well. I'd imagine you can get a $2-$4 (somewhere in that range) per call, so pay a $1 commission per call. Use Twilio to record the calls to audit quality.
Wasn't there some issue about the Nexus One not being eligible for upgrades? And anyway, the Nexus One is a downgrade from cheaper phones anyway; the Incredible and Evo 4G are simply amazing and are in the same price range.

(Remember, you only pay a prorated early termination fee in the US now, so if you only have a few months left on your contract, switching to a competitor is cheap. I have a year left and am definitely switching from T-Mobile to Sprint on June 4th.)
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No, I won't quit. I only give it my contact information, which is private, and it's a useful networking tool. It's not a binary decision to either use facebook or quit, just decrease the amount of personal information you put on it.
Cold calling and searching for your customer instead of them searching for you?

I don't know if this came across in my blog post: cold calling is not in the cards here. I think there is a market niche which exists where it is not profitable to do the cold calling, and believe that I can reach it with scalable approaches like AdWords and AdSense, in much the same way that I reached individual teachers because doing enterprise sales to their school districts would not have been possible.
I have no problem with Apple excluding Flash from iPhone. Choice is great.

However, I don't care for the mob mentality that is perpetuating false information in the name of "freedom of web".
I saw this other version earlier this morning http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/3442940/img/Anonymous/Ap...
Plans get cheaper if there isn't a phone to subsidize (at least with T-mobile.) You end up spending less money over the course of the contract if you buy the phone directly.
I doubt people would say things like they want to beat up their "stupid" "c*nt" boss (to quote one update I saw on the site) if they knew these statuses were public....
"scanning friends, tags, and connections information..." and "scanning personal information..." did not finish for me on Firefox 3.6.3 OSX.
"I’m coming to the market several years behind most of my competitors and will be playing catchup for quite some time"

Unless your competitors have significant secret sauce, playing catchup is a lot more efficient than leading. The unfair advantage that you have is the ability to ask your competitors' customers what they like and don't like about their products. Unlike the competition, you can add/remove features without pissing off existing users.
Sure. I have no doubt that it's capable. But that's not good enough. You have to be significantly better than an entrenched technology to displace it and the only thing I think server-side JS really has in its favor is that people will presumably already know Javascript and right now that just doesn't seem like enough of an advantage.
Maybe I have a bad habit of criticizing company names, but you should be aware of the word's definition if you aren't,

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/actionable

1. furnishing ground for a lawsuit.
My first thought is how I could subvert this.
Will there always be a free demo?

If so, can a religious zealot / abusive ex-spouse / stalker / demagogue / etc use this system to contact their victim(s)?
Incidentally, Quietly Reinstate Your Facebook Account Day is June 1st.
Sorry, I don't believe the two are mutually exclusive.
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As I understand it you cannot activate unlocked phones on Sprint and Verizon. They keep a list of serial numbers of phones meant for their networks and generally speaking you cannot activate a Sprint phone on Verizon's network. This isn't a problem with GSM carriers, only CDMA.
Just like Firefox...
I think the SMS notifications could be better received. I was extremely happy myself when the company installing my ADSL sent two SMSes prior to that day -- I probably would have forgotten otherwise.
Thanks, looks very promising!
There was an early iPad video on Apple's site that showed the lego icon while browsing a website (which they later edited), so it was there at least initially.
Its because @font-face is CSS2 (http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/fonts.html#font-...) and has nothing to do with HTML5
http://utorrentideas.uservoice.com/forums/47263-general/sugg...
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The Nexus One and HTC Incredible are virtually the same phone. Just like the European Hero/US Hero/Droid Eris are the same.

Also 'upgrading' to the Nexus One (or a number of other nice phones) on T-Mobile requires you to switch to an Even More plan.
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pro-red mis-disinformation.
But you can buy CDMA phones on ebay and activate them on Verizon or Sprint. You just call them and tell them you want to do it, and since you are paying them money, they let you.
so I went back to my old trusty generic

I'd love to hear more about your struggles with this, Patrick. I suspect this is an undertreated topic.

bingocardcreator. appointmentreminder. These names leave little doubt about what it's about. I've also noticed a lot of TV shows do this very well too: Undercover Boss, Pawn Stars, Desperate Housewives.

So what should the rest of us do? Go with a "trusty generic" so we don't have to lose attention trying to explain what it is? Or come up with something short and slick, with far fewer SEO synonyms?