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Right on all points: Adobe's mistake isn't that they think Flash applications CAN run on these devices, as clearly this is definitely viable, but that they think Flash applications (which are designed for desktops) SHOULD run on these devices. It's a classic case of "just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD."
If you use some variety of proxy or adblocker, you can block http://www.facebook.com/plugins* to block those iframes and the associated tracking.
The "fruit salad" visualization is beautiful.
Not despite, because.
Your compiler may offer a more formal way to indicate that it's acceptable for a parameter to be unused. In gcc it's an attribute:

int foobar(int foo, int bar __attribute__((unused)))
{ /* Code that does not use bar */}
Indeed. Most of the server-side code for youtube is written in python.
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You're able to disable Flash on Android by default and only load it on a site when you approve it. It doesn't 'ruin' anything at all, because you'll never be using it unless there's Flash content you want to view.

Having content on the web that's unviewable to a device does more to ruin the experience than a performance hit while doing something CPU-intensive.

Also, from what I've read, this beta of Flash doesn't make use of any hardware acceleration, while the final release will.
Yes, eventually. Their success will hinge on whether you used the name before they did, imho. But you are a value-added service for them, so unless you poke at them they might simply decide to tolerate it. Their case would be complicated, regardless of the registry dates. But they have deep pockets and a case like that would bring them publicity, (as it would you), so who knows what they'll decide to do or not. Hard to predict that one. If I was on their counsel staff I'd say they should go for it and make sure there is nobody else using their trademark. And that's their pattern. I hope you're saving most of your income for your next venture. And I hope you are preparing your legal team with all the information you have available so they can give you the best advice possible. Good luck, my friend.
-Wall unfortunately leaves a lot of warnings disabled. We've used:

"-W -Wall -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing
-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wsign-compare
-Wformat=2 -Wno-format-y2k -Wimplicit -Wmissing-braces
-Wnested-externs -Wparentheses -Wtrigraphs"

Update: Forgot the most important one ... -Werror. Making warnings equivalent to errors is the only way to ensure that they're always taken care of.
You've got the right attitude for running a business, however I would caution you to begin preparing your counter-case now, just in case. No pun intended.
When is "opt out" a "cop out?"
That is not the case at all startups. We make a huge effort to foster a solid work-life balance at Weebly.

Yes, the founders do usually work quite a bit. But most everyone else works as much or as little as they want during the week, as long as they are being productive and get everything done they set out to at the beginning of the week.

Ditto for vacation time. Take as much or as little as you need as long as we're not in an emergency-mode (which rarely happens).

More than larger companies, I'd guess that startups have a much larger variance in culture -- there are those that require you to commit your life, and there are those that are able to foster a great work-life balance, it's just a matter of choosing the right one.
FTW! Good advice. That would give you a way to keep earning income on your products even if the name itself gets "complicated" by potential future legal action.

Any of us who have done a successful startup knows that the name itself is great for marketing, but as soon as it becomes a liability be prepared to sell it or abandon it, if necessary.

Word of warning: legal action is a major expense, once it gets its teeth into any company. Even Microsoft suffered tremendously because of it.

Litigation is the most expensive legal action for both sides. If you can meet a challenge with an amicable settlement you will have a much greater chance for survival long-term. i.e., be prepared to cease and desist on the narrow issue of the name. Try to contain the legal issue.

My advice (which is solely personal. I am not a lawyer) is to do all you can to anticipate legal challenges and have files ready to go when your attorneys might need them. Or, if the IRS requests documentation. They require full and complete business records. The standard is nebulous, except as regard financial transactions. Those are pretty clear. Full and complete is safest.

Documentation is like disclosure. Just like the old joke about voting in Chicage. "do it early and often" Not publicly, necessarily, of course.

Before you even start using a trademark owned by a large company, you need to prepare your eventual defense theory.

Look at the case of Mr. McDonald who was told he can't use that name. Even though it was his.

And make sure you have a good attorney involved from the get-go. Don't let him prevent you from doing things so much as allow him to be ready for any legal challenges.

My 2c worth. Good fortune, my friend!
Wow! This is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
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By your argument people shouldn't even try to enable huge portions of the modern internet to run on mobile devices since most sites weren't designed for phones and it's quite fashionable to see who can load 100s of kilobytes of JavaScript for mundane purposes.

Flash hasn't outlived its purpose yet, nothing has stepped forward as a complete replacement, and working to enable the whole internet is a lot better than settling for some of it.
How is this different than http://github.com/mwild1/xmppjs ?
Is it just me that read that as Saver Pig Geeks?
sounds like he's using the TCP/pigeon protocol
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I can't resist the temptation.

"Detailed and curated taxonomy" - supported in Drupal core
"Aggressive editorial publishing schedules" - Workflow module
"Community integration" - OpenID, Facebook Connect, Organic Groups...
"feed generation" - Views module
"topics, venues, articles, various multimedia types" - CCK for the data entry and storage, Views + custom templating for the display.
They kind of paint Metacritic in a poor light. It's not Metacritic's fault THQ has the policies they do.

Nah, they just gave Metacritic a B-minus. It's not Ars's fault that Metacritic interprets that as a 67 out of 100.
They also install in /opt - which is wrong when you are using the packaging system for your distribution. They also make a number of other changes to the system.

Much better to install the official debian ones - they are less likely to mess with your system, and whoever is releasing them seems to keep up with the releases, so you are not behind.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/chromium-browser.html
Now this is hacker news. We don't see too many of these types of posts.
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That's normal. Just because you're good doesn't mean all your competitors are, though. There's a name for that that I can't remember, but the simple fact is that you can carve out market space even with substantial competition. You only need to distinguish yourself by competence, responsiveness, honesty and transparency and ethical dealings. imho, that's the key.
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I agree mostly, but I would never say what can or can't happen, since this is in the civil arena. It all depends on what a jury would consider "reasonable" and that's hard to nail down. At the end of the day I think you are right, but Apple might like the value added and may not decide this is someone worth investing their massive resources to mobilize against. I'd prepare for it, but it is by no means inevitable.
I think the iPhone/App Store marketplace has made it similarly interesting. Small studios can (with some luck) make a living on passion projects. Lots of people have compared it to the "old days" of game development.
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I'm not sure if you're replying to someone else, but again, I'm not at all arguing that Drupal is the best choice, just that it's not a completely crazy idea to use a proven, open-source, well-supported CMS like Drupal for NYTimes.com. It could definitely do the job, and I was responding to jcapote's ridicule of the mere suggestion that it could.
I think the statistical importance is by far the most interesting feature. Our inboxes are really priority queues, but we are currently spending a great deal of time and energy doing the prioritization ourselves. The idea of seeing my inbox sorted by importance is game changing.

Hilary, what are the aspects of the email that influence importance? Is it mostly the text content of the email, or are there things like sender, number of emails in the chain, number of recipients, etc?
Interesting! Sounds like a nice culture. The key to it is maybe (?) this part: "as long as we're not in an emergency-mode (which rarely happens)". My impression is that the "which rarely happens" part varies quite a lot; some places are in emergency mode every other week. Though to be fair, that's true of some large companies too (EA has a reputation for being crunch time all the time).
Great post!

We've all been in the state of flow when we truly give the task at hand our complete attention. Quite impossible while attempting to split your attention.

I think its also worth thinking about the running dialog many people have in their heads. Focus on the past or the future in your head instead of being fully present in this moment is just as distracting.
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No, it works fine on Linux too, I even made an app for HN that I posted a few days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1371515
I'm a fan of Konqueror myself. For some reason nobody seems to use it. Konqueror is stable, fast, doesn't use much memory and renders everything just fine.
It was a great effort and a brilliant design, Jake. Thanks for all of your help when I was using ThruDB at Archivd.
I did an installable app for HN here http://blog.ricodigo.com/2010/5/23/how-to-create-chrome-apps
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Ah, perfect! Thanks :)

For reference, this is where I checked the versions: http://installed-gems.heroku.com/ But I guess all you RoR-gurus know that :)

EDIT: Also, http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/5/25/rails_2_3_6_depend...
Disclosing ID and verifying it are completely separate issues. Also, the information leak here causes problems for more than just the credit card company; the data transferred in plain opens up the possibility of more than plain credit card fraud (although that is the most obvious exploit).

I seriously doubt that Schneier would consider this information disclosure OK based on this loose interpretation of his blog post.
Flash is useful for video everywhere but Youtube. And it works. But for ads etc., it's best turned off.

Android is better and more useful for having Flash than not. But plugin support in the browser should be made on-demand, or turned on and off as desired.
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That's the nice kind of corruption. For the nasty kind read http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/;kw=[3351,53763] to find out what Jefferson County has been going through...
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Well you should open your mind a little, because it's currently the only way to get video on most sites. You can turn it off for sites where you don't need it.
If that's the case, can't he use a 3G card but just send all his data over a VPN/ssh tunnel/ssl proxy/whatever?
Yes, that's a good point, mobile development has so far been mostly tackled by smaller groups or individuals.

I wonder if that's because of platform limitations or because the big companies think there is no money to be made there on the scale they require.
I'm exactly who you describe. Are you in San Francisco?
About once every 6 months for us. To be fair, a major release might require a tad more work than usual once every 2 months (think 1-2 extra hours per day that week).

I think the key to making it work is keeping it small. If there were too many people, nobody would feel individual responsibility and it would devolve into a nobody comes into work culture.

As it is, some people come in to work at 9 and leave at 4:30, some 9-6, some 11-8, some 2-2 (whoops, that's just me :) -- depends on when you like to work.

Also, everybody has easy weeks and hard weeks, and there's no point sticking around work if you've got nothing to do. Much better to work hard for 4 hours a day on the easy weeks than stick around for an extra 4 hours depressed.
But even then, the net is very slow there, so it's faster to bulk load everything compressed and read it later.
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We very much are :)
Goodness, how could that NOT be great? Did you steal from them or something? I can't imagine why you would ask this.
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Is this actually news? I thought it's a common knowledge till now. For example exhausted people feeling dizzy, will often eat/drink something that will give them sugar to get back to "normal" state of blood pressure quickly. Or are they talking about something different?

The second part is also what I thought was a known fact -- lower blood pressure reduces the risk of heart-related problems. Am I missing something here?
> If they were doing it right, they wouldn't need the extra hours.

is the part I don't agree with. Sorry, didn't make that clear. Doing It Right (tm) has little, in my experience, with the volume of work that exists.
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The experience of Flash on mobile phones is currently better than the experience of the web on smartphones from just a few years ago. Progress will continue to be made.
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I don't find his explanation very clear. Could you explain what's the difference?
Do you run games on your phone? Aren't those multimedia apps as well? But they're ok and Flash is not? Why is choice a problem here?
My credit card companies are so good at identifying fraud they've caught 17 of my last 0 fraudulent transactions.

(OK, I sympathize: buying a thousand bucks of stuff in four transactions from central Japan at 2 in the morning is not exactly typical behavior for a Bank of America customer.)
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Almost all video games from the late 80s were crap by today's standard. I think you're guilty of some pretty severe bias in your estimation. You need to justify the criteria by which you are measuring, IMO, in order to explain why such brilliant games are not currently out-competing today's games.

By crap, I meant that they had so little resources to work with that most could only work on the level of playability, puzzles and reaction times; to get deeper, they had to rely on text, where they didn't enter into a visceral feedback loop with the player. They worked only on very slim slices of the mind's abstraction stack. If they were reaction-based, they would be at most tactical, not strategic, and certainly not epic in a story-telling sense; and if they got into story-telling, they ended up in interactive fiction land, where they lose the immediacy of high-bandwidth visual and aural representations. They need to say, rather than show, so the user gets a narration, rather than an experience.
If what you say is true, then you have to either put up with the warnings, compile at a level that doesn't have the warnings, or figure out a hack around them - I don't like any of those options.

I'm not as dogmatic as some others are in the thread. I just think it's a good idea to be warned when a variable is unused, enough that I'll mark my very few that might be #ifdef'ed out. If you're using a compiler that doesn't let you mark variables as such... well that sucks. You do what you can.
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I think it's a combination of factors. But low barrier to entry means anyone with $99 + a Mac can try.

That combined with the low cost of games also prevents big budget titles from dominating. While there is still room for a relatively higher budget games (sold at $9.99), companies simply can't poor millions and years into titles and expect to make their money back.

Also as much crap as the App Store gets, it's very democratic in that everyone is equally screwed by the volume of apps. But it means that unknown IP seems to have a chance to rise to the top as well.
It would be interesting to see if there's any correlation between Google's economic impact number for a region and the overall economic health of the region.

The economic impact of Google could very well be a decent proxy for businesses adapting to the information age (and reaping their rewards).
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The guy from adobe also says that he's using an old build that is not hardware accelerated:

> He used the non-hardware-accelerated preview on random sites which may or may not have ever tested their behavior in a small device. Most of it seemed to devolve to “Hey, if I don’t load interactivity or video, then pages load faster!” Even that didn’t control for browser-caching.
What do you mean by "reusable"?

You're basically using Python as if it were Lisp, which is kind of ugly :)
Three times in my life, I wrote up all the information needed to debit every last penny in my bank account and handed it to someone I had never met.

Then I stopped using checks.
My wife has okayed me buying an iPad. GPS is a non-negotiable requirement so a 16 gig 3G + GPS model will hopefully be gracing our living room soon.

I fully expect it to largely replace my wife's MacBook.

Let's face it, like her, most of us just surf the web, write email and update our facebook and twitter statuses on our laptops and netbooks. This market will move to the touchpad computers.
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When I worked at Radioshack, I had access to the database of receipts with the credit card information stored on them.
Or Saver Pig Eeks

I read it the same way to.
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It is funny, how people trying to make old stuff new again and again. =)

The power of concentration, focus, impulse refusal and self-control were praised even in Upanishads. Then the Buddha become a great teacher to everyone, next this teachings was evolved into Zen and so on.

Most resent psychiatrist rediscover it again and again as 'gestalt therapy', 'curing experience', 're-framing' and other 'great findings'.

Read something on today's hot topic 'social intelligence' and you will find re-selling exactly the same ideas (from Hindu/Buddhism teachings) along with co-called 'scientific evidence' like scans of brain's activity and the like.

I didn't even mention the Matrix movie =)

In the essence, multitasking is about to decrease your productivity, because this misconception is based on concept that came from an IT field.

In IT multitasking emerged because you have too many unused CPU circles and they could be used to do some additional, background processes. Even today and average server spend most of its time in the idle loops.

In a dramatic contrast, our mind have no idle loops or unused powers. Often people have some deficits instead, like lack of focus, inability to concentrate long enough, to pay attention and so on.

Of course, it is acceptable to listen your ipod while you're doing some hard, dumb, physical job, that distracts your attention from the quite boring task. But if you're trying to use your mental capacity any distractions reducing your efficiency.

Some people are confusing multitasking with creativity, which is an ability to associate and link together things from quite different fields (say, Buddhism and modern cognitive therapy =)

So, it's much better to try to learn some thousands-year-old techniques to boost your concentration, focus, attention and some relaxation and priming up methods, instead of reading crappy blog posts. =)
> most could only work on the level of playability, puzzles and reaction times

That's exactly why I liked them. I used to play games a lot because it was great fun, the games out today concentrate on 'the experience' rather than any of the above, and I already have a great world around me to experience.

The pacman game on the google page really brought that home to me, I really had to very strongly resist playing it or I would have been hooked for at least an hour.
For your 'dizzy, have something with sugar'. The dizzy feeling is associated with low-blood sugar, hence the sugar to raise it. It's not a low-blood pressure/high-blood pressure thing. So, no, afaik drinking sugar doesn't cause your blood pressure to rise acutely.
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I have found their grid service to be substandard recently even on low traffic sites/blogs. I hope they improve soon.
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Battery life time is so critical. It if can work for 6-10hours it is fine. Really, we will be able to serf the internet and read pdf files. So, good deal
but it’s still tough for young start-ups to find talented computer programmers in Silicon Valley

Seems to me that the obvious solution is to recruit outside Silicon Valley. You'll probably find candidates willing to relocate if it gets them back to work (though a good proportion of them may be recent grads).
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