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Why do you think so?

What odds would you offer on common monetary policy in the EU falling apart first vs common monetary policy in the US and China falling apart first? (China and other countries are copying US policy, by pegging the exchange rate. They should fail soon, too, by the same logic.)
The info is appreciated. Is there any means by which to set it back to "normal", so to speak, using themes or other customization features?
What exactly is the legal basis for this?

The suit should be brought on behalf of all people that bought a PS3 between 2006 and 2010, BECAUSE they expected it to be able to run another OS.
The US has probably greater fiscal transfers between states and the federal budget is bigger than the EU budget compared to the member states' budgets.
I hop between Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows all the time, so little annoyances like this just fade into the background for me. I can appreciate how this would annoy somebody, though.
Go to System->Preferences->Appearance, there are default installed themes with the buttons in the upper right. It's a 5 second fix.

[edit] I like the new positions, just saying that you can switch it back trivially.
And of course there is one reason against - it will never make it through any legislature.
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thank you, that was very kind of you. I fixed and updated it. Stupid me thought that would have been a fix, but when trying it in firebug, i did it to the ul property for quicklinks.
I'm trying to figure out when Apple wasn't "The Man". Even when they were slugging it out with M$ and IBM in the 80s, they weren't small potatoes. And frequently engaged in scorched earth business practices.
He said developers (at least those at Apple's mercy) are required to use proprietary APIs, because only those have complete feature coverage. He didn't say they would be permitted to use modern programming languages, which is what most of us (other than those at Adobe's mercy) were offended by.
They are, but you can move them back very easily with gconf-editor. Change /apps/metacity/general/button_layout to "menu:minimize,maximize,close" as described here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-bac...
Fix:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-bac...
Ah, thanks tons to you as well for the info. That eases my slightly-neurotic worry a lot :)
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Your entry adds nothing new, however given that you bring it up, I have to remark on how shocking it is that seemingly intelligent people can rationalize such intense hypocrisy.

If Flash is a no go because of HTML5, why does the iPhone app market exist?
Apple might not keep track of its users (at least that's what we think) but they do keep track of my credit card. Why can't you just enter your credit card information when you buy something from the iTunes store instead of saving it permanently?
Also, now that Apple is getting into advertisement I think is just a matter of time for them to start tracking us like crazy.
Luckily, this is easy to fix, just:

run gconf-editor then,

Change apps -> metacity -> general -> button_layout to ':minimize,maximize,close' without quotes
But the big difference is that US states (redundant?) must run a balanced budget.
What? How about an example?

The Django code is concise, readable, and pretty modular. I rarely read the docs anymore; just browse the code. In fact, I feel like a better programmer for having read most of the Django code.

This appears to have been written today, but it reads like it's from 3 years ago.
Yeah. Haven't looked into too many others.
It's true. Its fine on my MBP, but I can't stand it on Windows. It feels sluggish on a quad core processor. How that is even possible I don't know, but it does.
"If developers need to rewrite their Flash websites, why not use modern technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript?"

If you have to make significant changes to the UI portion of your application, why not thrown the entire thing out and start from scratch with an extremely new (less mature) technology stack that you're probably complete unfamiliar with.

I believe Netscape got similar advice in the nineties.
Oh yes, and haven't they been doing a sterling job of that.
The codebase is arguably more open but the platform as a whole is not.

I think the closed platform thing is a lot more troubling and has the potential to be worse for the market as a whole than if they had decided to build a proprietary browser but allowed other browsers on it.

(This is not to defend Microsoft's portable strategy, though; they've got the worst of both worlds. They have a shitty proprietary browser and then don't let you install anything else on it, AFAIK.)
Unfortunately, Mr. Jobs the average person does not care about why you don't offer it. They only care and know that what they are used to getting can not be had on your platform, but can & will be on other platforms.

This fact and doubled that you remain exclusive to AT&T may turn your juggernaut around and repeat history.

From a happy and estatic iPhone owner/developer; best thing on market hands down!
Battery Life: It's a bit of hyperbole. We don't watch videos on the iPhone for 10 hours. Would it matter if Flash could play videos for 11 hours? It is a misdirection or a sidestep of an original claim that Flash would kill the iPhone inside of 2 hours.

If a phone can watch 4 1/2 hours of flash in software before the battery is drained this means that watching a two hour movie will eat half of my battery. By comparison I can watch a two hour movie using hardware decoding and still have 80% of my battery left.
How to write a better developer resume?
The Alpha Beta Gamma paper
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Eric Schmidt co-wrote lex, not flex.
The problem isn't the spending policy, tho'.

Go to Athens and you will see the problem very clearly. The habour is full of yachts, the streets are jammed with luxury cars and the people covered in designer labels and bling. This is a wealthy place, you might think, then look at little closer. The place looks like a building site and here's why: in Greece you pay no taxes on a building 'til it's completed, but since the weather is fine all year anyway, why not just leave the top floor unfinished? And they do, private individuals and corporations alike.

You see, the Greeks want a level of government spending like Germany or Sweden. They're even willing to vote in the taxes to fund it. But they're not willing to actually pay those taxes, and so they just don't. Greece is a poor country full of rich people. In that sense the austerity measures will be easy to implement: corruption is everywhere. As is a strong sense of entitlement... Compare that to Germany or Sweden where paying your tax is seen as a civic duty.

I did quite like the German idea that the Greeks ought to sell off their islands to other countries to raise cash.
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If you turn visual effects on/off, you're back to the original settings though.
Um, it was a joke...
Not connected to US really, but does anyone know the current rules for London airports? There was some talk (in January, I think) about no alternative like pat down available there. Is that still the case? I couldn't find any official information about it now.
Purenode - The future of web programming?
Check out this website:
http://www.purenode.com/_home

Be sure to watch the video at the bottom-left of the page. Sure, it's still new and needs some work. But it's obvious from this video that it has major potential. Is this the future of web programming?
They just need better privacy settings, where the default is to make your scans publicly available on facebook.
This is more about a debate for the web, rather than the iPhone app market. Adobe makes tools that empower web developers. To really empower the next generation of web apps, they should focus on HTML5 rather than flash. As far as the iPhone goes: Things like appcelerator have been ok'd by apple. If Adobe bought a company like them and used that as an easier way to produce iPhone apps through CS6(?) it would be fine.
According to some philosophies of physics, there isn't a difference between the two things you just said. Traveling backwards through time is a valid, experimentally consistent, and self-consistent interpretation of a physical phenomenon. If you're not satisfied that means that it's "really" happening, then I think you'll need to be more specific about what you think "truth" means. Spoiler: physics makes your brain hurt. For example, I hear that that are small enough time/distance scales where causality because mathematically ill-defined.
that's a great start.
If you want to get super-meta, run the site through itself.
I built a demo using PastryKit. See it here: http://michaelgrinich.com/pastrytweets/

Code is here: http://github.com/grinich/pastrytweets
I've never played with showdead enough to understand it, but couldn't btilly have deleted his comment? For whatever reason. Then I don't think it's cool to reproduce it.

PS: I agree with btilly and there's nothing wrong in the tone of his comment, just wondering if you're showing what is normally hidden and btilly wanted to hid.
Interesting you should say that. I wrote a comment last night (and then decided not to post it) that went like this:

That's one of those lines, like the opening sentence of Anna Karenina, that is written so authoritatively that you just take it for granted when you read it, but when you stop and think, there's no reason to believe is true.

(The reason I didn't post it is because I don't accept that the quote, even if true, invalidates what I said about naive people getting sucked into the beast. Disputing whether the quote is true makes it seem like I'm conceding that point, which I ain't. I'm the last person to defend the "reasonable man".)

Edit: Shaw was great though. "Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends" is Wilde-worthy.
Maybe it's because you can always see your own posts?
I think this is great! To the extent that Gazan children become more educated and exposed to the outside world...I think they'll crave stability and growth from their leaders over "armed struggle".

You see the opposite in China. The Chinese leaders are afraid of what their people will do when exposed to the outside world, so they censor their Internet.
Perhaps you can go from a push-system to a pull-system for the backups?
In what way is saying "Flash has problems, therefore putting Flash on your platform will expose it to those problems" a fallacy of composition? I don't see it at all. It's not wrongly attributing an attribute of one small part of Flash to the whole. Or are you saying the fallacy is somewhere else?
good point

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cooking/113970468613229?v=stre...
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If someone's going to make this case, could they please do so from somewhere without a paywall and if at all possible, from a source who's logic is more honest than "are republicans or democrats in office right now"?

IF the claims are correct though, then that needs to be fixed in the bill, particularly the part about filing with the SEC.
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This paper discusses some usability challenges of PGP and end-user encryption in general:

"Why Johnny Can't Encrypt"
http://www.gaudior.net/alma/johnny.pdf
Our paranoid idiot government (or, more accurately, "our paranoid idiot government that believes we're also paranoid idiots just like them)...

has given the idiot terrorists all the tools they need to completely bankrupt us while obliterating our rights.

All they need to do is find another idiot to blow up his underwear in a movie theater and then we can have scanners there too!

And then another idiot can do the same in a Wal-mart or whatever... and more scanners!

What idiot is in control of THIS game?

Note to investment advisors:
Invest in idiots! They seem to be having a great run!
> a:hover is no longer (it certainly used to be) a common tool used for site navigation. Which is to say, rollover dropdown menus are out like parachute pants - it's a non-issue on the web today. Just about every site works with "clicks", which is Apple's primary form of interaction with websites on touch devices.

This is precisely what I am talking about. We slice the pear in the middle and somehow end up choosing one side over another. True, a:hover is a deprecated form of menu control in HTML, but it is in Flash, too. Again, how you use the tool. Damning an entire developer base based on miscreant use is not a compelling argument. Sorry, but it isn't.
If your implementation relies on technology that you have licensed from a third party.
K4 Version 6 now lets you change Publication Terminology
upgrading as we speek
That's all true, but in the last few years Apple does seem to have undergone a rather alarming shift away from open systems.

I don't think anyone is disputing that they've done a lot of nice open stuff in the last few years, since jumping on the bandwagon in a big way with Darwin ... but that sure doesn't seem to be their M.O. anymore.

It's beginning to look like that whole attitude was borne out of desperation and a need to get MacOS in line with the times, and now that they're not against the wall it's back to the same old sealed-box model that was driving people nuts twenty years ago (and which was arguably a big part of why they ended up in trouble).

Time will tell, I guess.
More of a temporary setback and more centralized decisions and restrictions in the future. I really can't see anything not normal happening for a new currency/"government in the making" on the block.
Interesting how important social networks are outside the US
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8648535.stm
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I'm starting to suspect that Apple really requires proprietary APIs and decrepit languages for the same reasons Spolsky[1] once said Microsoft used proprietary and huge and ever-changing APIs. It's cover fire to make everyone else's projects soak up more hours, increasing the fraction of captive developers and shops who are only experienced in iPhone OS work, rather than being prepared for work on iPhone OS and other platforms.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
OS has contributed to advancements in design, but proprietary initiatives employ a fleet of people to research, design and case study a technology. They do it all day and not as a side project after work.

Again, it isn't a case of one vs. another. I wish we didn't need to take a side and finally come to a conclusion that both are good in their own ways. Evolution is key.
http://www.zeepmobile.com/ and
http://www.textmarks.com/

Although I'm not sure if they support Brazilian carriers.
> If you want to keep both features there is a good chance the reason why you would want to do so is to pirate games

There is no known way to pirate games on the ps3. Geohot's hack only allows access to the hypervisor. There are several security measures in place that would still prevent people from playing copied games.
No, it is not optional to upgrade — at least not in the usual sense of the word. If you upgrade, you lose the ability to run Linux. If you don't upgrade, you lose the ability to play games. That's more like an ultimatum than a traditional optional install.
Check out YouTube's (beta) support for HTML5 video.

http://youtube.com/html5

ClickToFlash also does some good flash blocking and video replacement. http://clicktoflash.com/
Agreed that a second source is sorely needed. FYI: you can always access WSJ (and most other news articles) by doing a google search of "<article title> site:wsj.com". News sites aren't allowed to show article text to the Google crawler without allowing the user to access the article.
This is (part of) why I love HN.

Loved your "some gaps to fill" article, btw.

I still think the underlying limit, though, is the lack of a federated identity management system. Certainly oAuth is a huge step in the right direction, and avoids many of the problems of OpenID. But fundamentally, desktop applications are "single sign on".

Imagine if you had to log in again to open office productivity software, then log in again to open a web browser, then log in a third time to launch your music player, and once more to balance your checkbook.

Clearly SOME people are willing to do some degree of multiple sign-on (Logging in to gmail, then Pandora, and again to open Mint, for instance.) But until these context transitions are much smoother, there will continue to be blocks in adoption even if everything else you address is fixed.
Here. Here.

I ALWAYS opt for the pat-down and, regretfully, can no longer fly into the UK. If the trends continue, I'll simply stop flying general aviation in the U.S. outside of exigent circumstances. Luckily, both the northeast and the pacific northwest have train service.

Aside from the legal, privacy, and baseline human dignity issues, there's the very unknowable health risks.

I have a degree in electromagnetics (technically EE) and we know FAR TOO LITTLE about BOTH the short-term and long-term cellular effects of this specific kind of radiation exposure.

It's not JUST the raw radiated isentropic power (which IS very low), it's the specific sets of wavelengths involved, the orientation of the tissues with respect to the incoming radiation, and the frequency of exposure.
The article is about Flash though. They clarified about Flash specifically, but reading other things into this seems foolhardy.
sure you can ask it! and it's a good question, and similar to many which cause heated debate in QM (essentially - the model works beautifully, but what does it _mean_?). Basically I don't have the answer. All I can say is that when an anti-particle is created, that is IDENTICAL to - per our model - a particle travelling back in time and being destroyed at the production point. Now we know the model works extremely well. It describes the system to a very high degree of accuracy, and can be used to make predictions about how that system evolves. So - if the model is correct (let's assume it is), and anti-particle production -> moving forward in time == particle moving backwards -> destruction, which is it that we are observing?

Basically, I think most physicists would say these two scenarios are the same thing, just expressed (or observed) in two different ways.

Edit: actually this highlights an important distinction between the quantum and macro-worlds. Things can only happen in one direction in the macro-world thanks to entropy (everything -> disorder). Whereas in the quantum world there's no such restriction, and things can happen in either direction.
You are mistaken that I am second-guessing them. While one could argue that the shield law provides "extra protection under the law" in violation of the 14th amendment to the constitution, this is not my opinion.

My opinion, rather, has to do with the distinction between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. The spirit of the shield law is was never to allow a journalist to commit a felony and evade discovery. Rather, its spirit was to allow a journalist to protect sources who may have committed a crime.

(And, even then, shield laws won't protect a journalist from being jailed - despite a shield law - for contempt of court. Judith Miller, a NYT reporter, was jailed for 3 months for refusing to reveal, to the government probe, the source of the leak of Valerie Plame's identity.)

Admittedly, the current case is a mixture of the two, because it's possible that the source committed one felony, and some folks at Gizmodo committed another.

I'm not saying that the search warrant should have been allowed. I was just responding to the alarmism about the hypothetical police chief run amok.
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not against funding. It just seems like getting fund to start up, and then additional funding after you've launched seems odd. Sales, marketing, etc, should be covered with the initial investment. Needing more money just sounds like poor planning or foresight.
btilly told my by email he didn't know the comments were deleted. Also, everything he wrote since this (two comments and one post) has been killed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1303360

Anyway, he's emailed pg to ask about it.
I agree. Apple isn't as open as I'd like either, although I'm not worried about it (I think I, as a user and a developer, benefit from it).

But that's not really the argument here, is it? The argument is, "does Apple make Gates look like RMS". I don't think that's a credible claim.
I've seen Jim Webber give some very good talks on REST.
http://jim.webber.name
Think he's got a book coming soon on it..might be out even?
Ordinarily I wouldn't, but since you eagerly solicited...

s/Clarification sand corrections/Clarifications and corrections/
> "based on miscreant use"

That's being a bit generous in favor of Adobe - the majority of the Flash development sphere is practically what one would consider "miscreant use".

Here's my impression of the different sorts of Flash use, based on my journeys on the web:

- Videos/Audio: Easily replaced by HTML5, and better too. More readily hardware accelerated, behaves as part of the core browser instead of a hijacking addon (e.g., Ctrl+T while focused on a Flash applet = no new tab), and much better battery life on mobiles.

- Crappy restaurant websites and other crimes against humanity: These should just die, and HTML5 will hopefully inspire better design ethic than this. I don't buy the argument that hovering is no longer common used as a critical navigation feature in Flash - I see it everywhere, especially for crappy restaurant websites. Flash is also impossible to crawl which reduces the usefulness of the web overall. Hell, you can't even LINK to content in a Flash site. IMHO the "full Flash site" (as opposed to Flash being a component of a page) needs to die a fiery, painful death.

- Games: The only place where Adobe has even a remotely legitimate claim that Flash is an empowering product rather than a crutch.

When I think of Flash these keywords come to mind: slow, buggy, crashy, badly designed, usability nightmare, gimmicky, unprofessional, and just plain bad.
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Being unable to devalue the currency (print money to pay debt), is --I think-- a good thing. It is harder for politicians to postpone the pain, they have to cut spending and do what's needed for the country/state/province to recover fiscally.

If somebody weights 200kg: The right solution is to lose weight and eat your vegetables; not to "devalue" the Kilogram.
They just shipped GCD. FreeBSD has already ported it.

Meanwhile, in their most hotly contested market --- the one, by the way, where Apple makes more money than any other --- over just the last two years, Apple code has been adopted by virtually all of their viable competitors.

I don't think you can support the argument that they're shifting away from open source with any credible evidence, but I'd appreciate any stab you take doing so.
These reasons are true enough, but I still believe what has been clear to me ever since the argument started:

Apple won't allow Flash on iP* because it would defeat the purpose of App Store.

With Flash support, you could make responsive, native-looking online apps specifically for Apple devices without having to go through the approval process.
I can't actually scroll through the page. Maybe it's a problem on my end, but using the mousewheel just results in the page jerking up and down a little bit, and hitting the down arrow throws me into the comments.