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AFAIK, console makers require developers to use their SDKs, but they don't care about what happens before that point in the pipeline. What Apple did was more like forcing 3D models to be created exclusively with Maya.
I enjoy TheSansMonoCd by LucasFonts. It costs money though.

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I got pretty into peak oil circa 2006, when peak was supposedly already occurring or was going to occur by 2008. It will happen eventually, but I'm not going to get into playing this guessing game again.
If you have an xbox, all games must still be approved by Microsoft before they can be sold.
Do people really run updates daily? I can't believe he recommended that. We have 3 environments, 4 if its a big project to push changes. Dev, QA, Pre-prod, production. A patch is never pushed without testing on dev and QA. Not to mention, with things like this: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11532 Would you want to patch every day?
It's important to differentiate between public funding and public provisioning of public education.

Public funding might mean that a kid from a less wealthy family could afford to attend a private school via a grant from the state.

Public provisioning means that schools ultimately have more in common with the DMV than with elite educational institutions.

Public schools are intended to be daycare centers for the poor and middle class, so that women can join the work force without having to care for their children during the day.

The goal of public schools is to teach children to conform to the expectations of the work force, so depending on where the school is located the students may end up barely literate but sufficient to fill the local factory jobs, etc.

It's important to keep this in mind when thinking about public education. Public schools have not failed, they are succeeding quite well at what they are actually intended to accomplish.

Some public schools (those in rich suburbs) actually provide a good education (chances are someone who attended one of those schools will object to this comment). Those are an exception and exist in areas where residents could afford to send their kids to private school if necessary.
This is an interesting topic area - what are you doing to gain traction? Who are your target users?
I don't have one.
Long, but still it doesn't say anything. Though I admit at least it acknowledges it's own futility.
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Why would I use your app instead of Hacker News?
Why is bbl the abbreviation for "barrel"?

Ahh, wikipedia knows:
The "b" may have been doubled originally to indicate the plural (1 bl, 2 bbl), or possibly it was doubled to eliminate any confusion with bl as a symbol for the bale. Some sources claim that "bbl" originated as a symbol for "blue barrels" delivered by Standard Oil in its early days; this is probably incorrect because there are citations for the symbol at least as early as the late 1700s, long before Standard Oil was founded.
It was Houston, the same one.
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I truly wish this was a joke. An actual exchange I had with a student:

Visibly agitated student: "Your test was badly designed! I only got an 80 on it!"

Me: "I accurately measured who understands the material and who does not. Everyone here knows what they know and knows some things they don't know. Also, you got the 3'rd highest grade and an A. What's the problem?"

Student: "But what about my self esteem? I never got lower than a 90 before."
By way of disclaimer... I recently switched off of iPhone in favor of Android - primarily because AT&T's network sucked and not really as any statement against Apple (I refused to continue paying monthly for a phone which had no reception through much of my workday).

Overall, as a developer I'm highly in favor of open platforms, language choice, etc. However, I can't help but thinking that a tightly controlled application space the way that Apple has maintained so far is what has helped make the iPhone and iPad successful. One thing I notice on android is the lack of consistency in UIs. Sometimes the back button takes me back a screen in an App - sometimes it dumps me back to the Home screen. Sometimes it dumps me back to the last App I was using.

The iPhone apps tend to look relatively uniform UI wise and behave as expected. Encouraging the idea of cross platform apps means you start to get less and less "platform integration". It means we end up with 4 or 5 smartphone platforms none of which have any advantage because they're all running inconsistent crap.

I want my hardware + software platforms to be able to be unique and tailored towards themselves. I have seen very few truly cross platform apps which actually work well. iTunes itself is a great example - it acts weirdly and looks woefully out of place on Windows. It's the ugly duckling, and it behaves like someone chopped one of it's legs off.

The benefits of tailoring software to a particular platform should be obvious, and I much prefer them.
What can I say, I'm from a small town.
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No, as far as I know, Microsoft does not contractually obligate developers to use their tools. The .NET CLI is an ECMA standard, and there have been a few alternative languages developed for it (same as the JVM). I'm not aware of anything that would stop you from writing an XNA game using Boo, for example.
Interesting but looks cluttered.
Common Lisp definitely has a lot of "vocab" that to someone new is difficult to read. I've read The Little Schemer and the first four chapters of SICP and I feel I have a somewhat strong grip on at least the vocabulary of Scheme. I just picked up "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp" and I quickly realized that Common Lisp is a behemoth compared to Scheme.
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So it's easy for us to laugh from the sidelines... knowing that we would never make those mistakes ourselves... (oh, the naivete) but we're all making critical mistakes, and only very few of us are introspective enough to realize what our real weak points are.

A lot of these mistakes sound exactly like ones I would make, particularly #1-2.

People, in general, tend to be pessimistic and overly wary of "strangers" but overtrusting of individuals. The same syndrome is seen in politics, where people have a negative view of "politicians" but think highly of their own representatives-- this is why incumbents have such a major advantage.

One irony is that people who have great character tend often to be poor judges of others' character, because they don't have the "spider sense" that indicates a sketchy character. If you're like this (and a lot of people are) you need to find the rare people who have good character but who are able to detect bad character in others, and ask for their opinions of someone before trusting that person with too much.
You're missing the point. This is an anti-trust action. None of Microsoft, Sony or even Nintendo can be said to have the kind of dominant position in the console market that Apple does in smartphones. They're not a monopoly, but they're distressingly close. And they appear to be taking actions that can be pretty clearly seen as anticompetetive -- leveraging their dominance to make compatible applications for other platforms more expensive to develop.

So yeah, I think an inquiry is an appropriate course of action here, for the same reasons it was in the 90's with microsoft. If you "tend to agree with antitrust action most of the time", but not this time, I think you might be better served by introspection than posting a defense of Apple.
What advantage does this give over the built in integration tests?
> Market demand for oil collapses (read: recession) long before it gets anywhere close to $500/bbl.

Above $80 a barrel, alternative fuels (such as liquid fuels from coal) becomes profitable. I sincerely expect that this will expand extremely rapidly in the next 15 years.
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It took me some getting used to. I've been here 14 months now, and I did get a little lethargic at the beginning of the dark, dark winter months. And slightly manic in the all-sun summer light. But I adapted pretty quickly.
I should clarify. Braintree is perfectly competitive as long as you're handling some volume (20K/mo or so), and are willing to roll your gateway and merchant account into one provider. For smaller ventures, not so much.
The antitrust issue should really be about how apple is selectively enforcing this issue. I think the market can flush out the root issue in 3.3.1, but apple picking and choosing which companies can break the rule is really where the DOJ should come into play.
Ditto. I created an account because people kept sharing family photos, etc. with me. For the most part I've set my profile private.

However, when my sister started scanning pictures of our childhood and posting them tagged as me, public for the world to see I started get uneasy. Nothing compromising or unusual in them but there's that part of me that wants a say as to when crap like that is posted online.

It turns out of course I can "hide" photos tagged of me by other people - but still... Despite having my account private, other people can post pictures and tag them as having me in them. Frustrating.
Your Qatar and Japan examples, at least, make his point: the complexity of those cultures reflect the resource conditions in which they developed. Not sure about Venezuela. Japan, in particular, was the only place in the world where hunting and fishing could support large settled populations, if I remember my Jared Diamond correctly.
hey we should institute this policy to stop people from porting our apps to Android

Remember when he replied to that blogger saying he agreed with Gruber followed by something sort of like the above? Would be mighty ironic if one if his tiny glib emails ended up taking down the company.
Right, and if I'm not comfortable with doing so on facebook, then I'll go be myself elsewhere.
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Somehow these "real language" extensions for Ruby remind me of the XML craze for Java. To feel right, everything had to be configured in an XML file for Javaists. In the same way, Rubyists apparently feel uneasy if something doesn't read like nice natural language.

I suspect both things are just cleverly masked procrastination....
The author of this post shows the difference between sophisticated investors and himself:

Consider synthetic CDOs like Abacus. Banks would need to lend out $50 billion of mortgages to regular people in order to create a $1 billion CDO like Abacus, according to Michael Lewis in The Big Short.

A sophisticated investor realizes that banks didn't need to lend out ANY mortgages to create a synthetic CDO. A sophisticated investor realizes that a synthetic CDO is the long side of a bet against the markets. A sophisticated investor will also form their own opinion about the bet, based on information about the assets underlying the bet (which were available to every investor), and will not really care that "omfg, the other side of this bet is a no-name mid-range hedge fund!"
I think you misunderstand me I don't mean to imply that the Postgres developers have decided to be sloppier in their development practices or anything like that. When I say 'less conservative in development' I mean that scope is an aspect of development. When a project's scope increases, so does it's workload and complexity; a development team can either allocate more resources and time to the project or let quality slide. This is a truism and I mean no slight to the Postgres people who, in my experience have consistently delivered a very stable project to date and may very well be able to handle a broader scope with no loss in quality.
Scala can be incredibly concise; I'm not sure where you got the "verbose" impression. Possibly tutorials that transliterated from Java?

(One of Scala's strengths, and weaknesses, is its flexibility: You can write Haskell-like code in Scala, Java-like code in Scala, or even something Perlish if you prefer...)
I kind of agree with you here. There are a lot of problems with the specifics of the PCI requirements, but they're still a shitload better than what was common practice before the PCI DSS existed.

I was peripherally involved in some of the PCI compliance efforts at my workplace (big, household name international company).. Frankly I was incredibly frightened and embarrassed at some of the incredibly dumb, sloppy ways my employer were treating customer credit cards. Now don't get me wrong, we still do a lot of dumb shit, but at least some effort is taken to secure customer CC numbers now.
Big caveat: more extreme versions might be indicative of Aspergers. I think we should leave diagnosis to the professionals. :-)
And resources such as natural gas are at very low prices right now, due to recent development of huge deposits such as the Marcellus Shale. In the medium-to-long term, I think that substitutability between oil and natural gas would go a long way, once oil prices get to a point where oil looks less attractive.

While I'm not entirely unconcerned, I don't think there's any reason to panic.
I thought it was just for nicer symmetry with hogshead (hhd).
I wish it was a joke too.
I’m not sure the size of the SIM has anything to do with carriers. They presumably just want to safe some space in the new iPhone. (And if you introduce the Micro SIMs in the new iPhone you at least want to be consistent and introduce it everywhere.) Such transitions are not uncommon – SIM cutting was already a sport a few years ago. (You had to cut down your SIM card from credit card size to the current size.)

That said, aren’t you Americans always gonna be out of luck? I thought the iPad’s 3G only works with AT&T, the best you can do if you don’t want AT&T is get Edge and T-Mobile. That must suck.
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It's interesting that the article said human recognition is up to 98%. We're not perfect. So perhaps another tack is for the computer to correct mistakes in a more natural way. eg. by asking; by checking what the word makes sense in terms of subsequent context. BTW I didn't notice that "woods" was a speecho, but read it as "words".

I agree that linguists are sometimes too theory-focussed to notice the data. Pinker's excellent but self-consciously clever The Language Instinct has examples of nested phrases that he claims are understandable - but I can't parse them using my native speech recognition technology (I can parse them using linguistic theory):

The rapidity that the motion that the wing has has is remarkable. ["has" is repeated]

In other words: my native human grammar does not nest arbitrarily; the linguistic theory does. I'm going with the theory being wrong.

Anyway, as has been said, we'll have speech recognition when we have speed comprehension, ie strong AI.
"Authentic" is dead
Ahh, thanks. I was missing the irony. :-D
> In fact, most of these are actually strengths

I would go so far as to say that strengths are weaknesses. It just depends on the context of the situation.
TL;DR: HTML5's canvassed animations are very slow (on the given mobile devices), Flash on Android is adequately speedy.
Before I say this let me just say that I'm not defending LAUSD and I do think there are better ways they could be doing things. But as someone who lives in the area there's more story here.

Budget cuts have brought the LAUSD to the point where classes are literally 50+% fuller than they should be. That's at least 45 kids in class rooms designed for 30. You go into one of these classrooms and you'll find kids sitting on the floor or one kid in a folding chair sharing a traditional desk with the other kid who is actually sitting in the desk. As atrocious as some of the behavior in the article seems it's been brought about by the hard reality of there being no place for these kids to go even if the school did hold them back.

(For frame of reference LAUSD had a budget deficit of around $894 million last year which is about $1,290 per student)

I have many criticisms of public schools in the U.S. but this isn't about that. This is about 3 Government bodies (Federal, State and Local) that all spent way more than they could afford on trivial things and now have no money left to do what's important.
I took your use of the word "can" to mean "able to". Clearly you meant it in the alternate sense of "permitted to". I see that now.

If your objection rests upon such a distinction, then shouldn't we be a bit more disciplined about exactly who the restriction is being placed upon?

You imply that it's a restriction against the person buying the phone, but this is not the case. They have no such restrictions placed upon them. Section 3.3.1 is in the Terms of Service for the App Store, not in a license for the phone. It is the developer who it restricts, not the owner of the device.
Article is much better than the title suggests. Worth a read.
They avoided anti-trust because they have a single-digit percentage of the PC market. It seems their position with the iPhone in the smartphone market is much more dominant, though I don't know what the numbers are.
wordsum is a vocabulary based IQ test. Maybe the author refers to intelligent people rather than people with exceptional taste.

Though FWIW, I don't take much stock in the ability of most IQ tests to measure intelligence, since it seems a bit silly to put it on a single dimensional scale.
But they're nowhere near "distressingly close" to a monopoly - even picking the most Apple friendly metrics, they have only 25% of the smartphone market, with Android constantly closing the gap (and e.g. Blackberry actually ahead of them in some areas). The Wii, on the other hand, has around 50% of the current generation console market.

They seem to have a monopoly on marketplace hype, I won't doubt that. But to claim they've a monopoly on smartphones is just plain wrong.
Yup - it was pervasive when I first used it. It was an amazing way to tie in people from diff. online communities with whom I'd otherwise have much less interaction.

At one point I recall them moving ICQ To the Oscar (early AIM) protocol but it was dying by then, replaced with the other 800000 IM systems available.
>How are the restrictions placed by Apple on what's allowed in the App Store any different then the restrictions placed by console owners on what's published for the XBox or PS3?

>For example, the XBox XNA community games system requires people to use .Net - there's no technical reason for this (the XBox is clearly capable of running native code)

XNA requires you to target the .NET runtime. It does not dictate what tools you use to generate the assemblies. If Microsoft had a clause saying that you had to use Visual Studio Ultimate on Windows 7, they would get demolished.

And you can target native, but you have to buy the expensive SDK and sign a revenue sharing agreement. That's the financial model behind consoles (where they are generally sold at a loss). Again, though, how you develop is not Microsoft's concern, and you have no limits on that, so long as you fall within the bounds of the runtime.

Apple's restrictions are not at all comparable.

If Apple implemented 3.3.1 as a clause that Apple will impose minimum quality levels, feature completeness (e.g. "you must use the current available features of the platform"), etc, that would be one thing and they would have been entirely within their rights to do that. That is not what they did, but instead they are saying that a super shitty, super inefficient crapshoot of an app that misuses and underuses the platform is okay, but one that is developed in a different manner is not just because.
There are all sorts of folks in the world. FWIW, I prefer to pay, and my last girlfriend was visibly relieved when I offered the first time. (She literally said "I only said I wanted to go Dutch because I thought you wanted me to say that we should go Dutch." "I'm open to strong objections but in the absence of them I'm something of a traditionalist on the matter." "Great, me too.")
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An absolutely refreshing read first thing Monday morning..

A welcome change from logical hair-splitting arguments (as much as I love them) into something that matters most - emotional support from a loved one.
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I've never said it's the best experience, or offered my support to that claim.

What position, that I used to hold, am I backing away from?
Some public schools (those in rich suburbs) actually provide a good education (chances are someone who attended one of those schools will object to this comment). Those are an exception and exist in areas where residents could afford to send their kids to private school if necessary.

I think a few things are worth pointing out here:

The best 10-20% of teachers are really good, because teaching is (although not as admired as medicine or law) admired enough that some seriously talented people enter it. Those teachers are highly desired and usually end up at the most reputable schools teaching honors and AP classes. So if you're lucky enough to have such teachers, you're going to get a good education.

Good schools have no problem getting a satisfactory percentage of students to pass the assessment tests and therefore actually teach. Mediocre schools that are on the bubble begin "teaching to the test" (which means a focus of attention and resources onto the worst students, to the detriment of average and good students) and therefore the quality of education declines even further.
If you read The Underground History of American Education, an opus of a book compiled over thirty years by John Gatto (former NY and NYC teacher of the year), you will learn that over a hundred years ago, powerful industrialists sought to shape the public educational system around Darwinian Evolution. What this means is that they believed that most poor children were, as evidenced by their poor status, lesser life forms, and that the school's job was essentially to destroy them, and among other things, remove them from competition for breeding.

Free online: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
As much as I would like to protect the world from Apple with law... I don't think Section 3.3.1/Anti-trust are the way to go.

I just don't see the connection... Apple aren't encouraging programmers to choose between Apple or other platforms - just the ones inept enough to need the crutch of Flash (or similar) to call themselves programmers to start with. Writing cross platform code is precisely as possible as it was before 3.3.1 - its just not so easy that every idiot can do it and submit their rubbish to the App store.
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