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> When I was a TA in grad school, I had one student who couldn't double click.

This isn't at all uncommon actually, especially among adults age 50+. Double-clicking a mouse requires a certain amount of manual dexterity, but we've all forgotten that because we developed it a long time ago and to such an extent that it's become effortless.
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geo lookup isn't that accurate yet (I assume you are talking about geo-IP lookup).
Agreed. Gates's business savvy often went beyond shrewdness and bordered on psychopathy, but he remained something of a likable nerd -- a techie who knew the software business.

Ballmer was and is a loud jerk -- pushy, aggressive, seriously creepy used-car-salesman vibe.

Gates = Lewis Skolnick; Ballmer = Ogre.
More people should be using this sort of combined video and powerpoint presentation format.
Isn't that pretty much the world in which we live? Nothing unusual, right?
I've noticed some problems with the interfaces of some of the apps, like voice and gmail, not functioning properly unless I reload. It's particularly bad on voice, I can't get it to make a call about 30% of the time because the buttons are broken.

edit and I'm getting tired of having to relogin to half of the widgets on my www.google.com/ig page three or four times a day because they aren't tracking my sessions properly.
>To double click, she'd take her hand off of the mouse, hover her palm a few inches above the mouse, then stab down twice with her finger.

Perhaps she was dyspraxic? Presumably you (or the person responsible) set the middle button to double click or used some other mouse accessibility fix?
> If I remember correctly, music on the iTunes store works similarly.

Interesting, because it definitely doesn't work that way for apps. And I checked with one of the free singles iTunes gives weekly, it does indeed warn me that I'm re-buying the stuff (but detects that I've bought it in the past), it doesn't seem to just launch a re-download.

Cements my decision to never buy any music on iTunes.
Most of us are not Google's customers. We are the raw materials google uses to fabricate a product to sell.
What about this scenario:

(1) You share your birthday with a friend Bob.

(2) Your friend Bob installs a facebook game from the Sleazo Company.

(3) Sleazo Company now knows your birthday.

That's how I understand it works. Your friends can share your information with third-party facebook applications. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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But why? What's the difference to them between redownloading it on your new phone and syncing with your computer to get your books? The bandwidth costs?

And it works fine for apps. I can buy an app over the air, delete it, and redownload it for free, all without my computer ever being involved.
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I think it is part of the author's point but it isn't a strong argument. The author does a lot of speculative math on developer return in the iOS app market and then makes the implication that the market for feature-phones is vastly larger. However, just because there is a larger population of such devices does not mean that the addressable market is larger. The author does not share or speculate what kind of money could be made in that market.
Humans are predisposed to seek high social status positions. In our culture, those are people whose name everyone knows, even if they're only "famous for being famous".
Your argument is reasonable, I'm just sad that the people who control the money have the cognitive level of 6 year olds.
I look at Steam as what iTunes should be. With Steam allowing me to download my games, I doubt Apple is suffering because of download costs. I'm pretty sure it's a holdover from their DRM-laden days.
Monday and Tuesday the iPod Touch's mail app wouldn't sync with Gmail. It started working again last night.
Indeed. Larry's motto appears to be: I don't think I'm all that evil.
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He also apparently speak in comma splices.
Three times higher, if I recall correctly. For US patents only. I don't know about other countries.
Online/flash games here.

And yes, they do seem a bit more open and also a bit more laid-back.

The latter is probably at least in part because it's easier to make money in the casual space.
Anecdote: I found the iPod really unintuitive and un-natural to use.

I'm one of those people that can pick up just about any gadget and work out how it works (much as I expect you are dear reader). I'm the go-to for computer repairs and questions for family and friends, I help people work their mobile phones, set-up their AV equipment, etc., I've done stage lighting, sound engineering, a very little electronics .. you get the picture. I can even work a Mac!

My play on this whole question is that an interface is intuitive if I can work it out without the instruction booklet in a short time. Pretty handy-wavy for sure.
Yet another reason for people to wake up and see how closed and restricted apple is and always will be. I'm actually getting tired of reading about apple screwing people over the same way again and again.
This sounds more like a series of first-release bugs than an evil policy.
Meh. AT&T and my other cellular providers have always known exactly where I am, so what do I care if Apple does, too?
Bah. Come here to Turkey and see what can possibly go wrong with Google :)

(Just ignore me. )
Yup, when you have very little to spend on ads, they're mostly a waste of money I've found, especially if you're in a competitive industry with big name players already established.

Build a good name by word of mouth: you spend nothing and it resonates much better with potential customers.
Unfortunately - I don't see the differentiator of following and editable descriptions and headlines as being that compelling. Also I don't agree with allowing users to change the original posters content.. usually within the first few comments, people will give feedback, and the poster will correct it.

I know digg is building out these twitter like features.. and reddit has an add friends feature, so again. not sure if this is that compelling.

But anyways.. keep it up , and good luck.
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>xhtml has the advantage of being both html
>(a format browsers know how to handle) and
>xml (a format that is well structured and parsable.)

And where is the advantage in that over JSON? It's just a Javascript object and browsers know very
well how to handle it. That's the point.

>Semantically, xhtml can represent all of
>the same data structures/types as JSON

XHTML has HTML semantics, i.e. it's intended to be used to mark the structure of the text. It has no advantage
for a general purpose data exchange.

>dictionaries are OL elements

Nope. Or did you think about DL/DT/DD? Still nope.

>numbers, strings, and booleans are really just strings in both

Nope. In JSON only strings are strings. Numbers, booleans and null are Javascript numbers, booleans and null.

>objects are really just dictionaries

Objects are objects. Entire JSON response is an object, you can assign it to variable and use straight away.

>and nulls in xhtml can be a special string as in JSON or an empty element.

As I said, nulls in JSON are Javascript nulls, not "some special string".

>In both cases, the client has to either already know about
>the data structure and how to navigate it, or can treat it
>generically. XHTML has an advantage here; every data item
>can be labeled with an id or class attribute to make it
>easier to find. You can't do that in JSON unless everything
>is a dictionary value.

Uhm. If we are talking about data in key-value then JSON has a huge advantage there. Not only you can do it in JSON, but
you do exactly that and with very little overhead—that's exactly what makes JSON so attractive and popular.

var article = {"title":"Adventures in JSON land", "authors":[{"name":"Jane Doe"}], "published":false, "tags":["JSON", "Javascript", "data format"]}.

That's it. Want to access your data? It's right there:

article.title -> "Adventures in JSON land"
article.authors[0].name -> "Jane Doe"
article.tags.length -> 3

Now do the same in XHTML and you will have much better understanding what advantages of JSON are.
A while back, the online applications stopped working for me in anything but Chrome (well, I refused to try IE). I haven't tried again, lately (so, another Google win?).
Casual games are more web programming. He's talking about the multi-million dollar productions that tax the top consoles to their limits.
You think an awful lot of your opinions. While confidence attracts, it came across to me as a bit blowhard-ish. ry and DHH didn't really talk big talk until they had walked a big walk. Perhaps you should focus on making a great product, let the "market" decide, and then focus on self-glorification?

EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot to say... RingoJS looks great. Keep up the good work :)
I think they are trying to make it hard for 100 people to share one iTunes account and "redownload" the purchased content onto their respective iPods.
Because the people most in demand in the industry are the ones who have the most to lose in collective wage bargaining.
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It's worse than that. The whole article is attacking a straw man, which so many software blog articles do. I'm not sure I would take the example in a Wikipedia article to be the pinnacle of software engineering. Sure, it would be strange to see the sample code appear as-is in a code base. I would agree that a strategy for adding and subtracting might be overkill. But it's an example! It's purpose is to convey an idea. If you're going to critique it, you really have to do so on those grounds.
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What do you mean 'what now'? It'll be the same as it's always been - a few tech-savvy people will complain about it on the internet while the majority of the population won't give a second thought to sharing their location with Apple, and Apple will continue to rake in the money.

I can't even imagine how much money this sort of data would be worth to marketers - you would be able to pinpoint exactly which areas have high densities of people at which times, how long an individual stays on average, etc. You could use the iPhone's microphone to detect noise levels in the area and how they fluctuate over time, which would be extremely useful.
What irritates me is that they say that the data is "anonymous" but it is clearly grouped to develop a targeting package to you, so how anonymous can it be when you log into the store from your house every few days.
I'm sort of missing the question, but basically I gather you just want to get feedback on an idea and don't know how to start ?? Its really difficult to get any good advice from people you know, because everyone will say its super. You need to build a really crappy mvp, and get people off of craigslist to use it and give you feedback.
Their families have every right to decide it's not for them and leave but equally the person being employed has ever right to choose what they want to do, it's their life.

This encompasses my point perfectly: you are acknowledging no one can tell you what to do, at blind disregard to consequences outside of yourself. This is the definition of self-centered.

"As long as I'm happy and my family puts up with it, its OK" is being a mediocre person. If you want to live that lifestyle, don't have a family. Otherwise, get your act together and behave like you actually want the responsibilities you've signed up for.

Having a family isn't based on "logic." What you do up until the point you get married or have kids is 100% your prerogative, and I agree with you on that. The minute you sign up for that extra life-stuff, you are changing your "logic." It becomes emotional, it becomes about others. Having a family and continuing to act like you don't is immature.

The down votes I'm receiving reflects the young nature of Hacker News and I accept that. Some of you will get married and have kids and eventually understand where I'm coming from, the rest of you may have wives like the OP.
It is amusing, if anything.
There's an FAQ somewhere on Apple's site which I ran across awhile back that said something to that effect. The deal to require customers to re-buy lost files was part of how they got all the labels to allow the store to even exist in the first place back in the day. Given that music no longer has DRM, this one remaining concession is probably going to be even harder to get dropped because it's one of the only "protections" that the music store offers to the labels now.
I thinks it was clear: it's not my product, I am a user of RingoJS. Hannes and the rest of the developers deserve the credit, and the glory...
How do you know you just aren't conversant with "the way most engineers would do this"? That would mean you are using your familiarity with a certain set of conventions and not necessarily using your intuition.
Where is the list of jQuery plugins that can't be used on websites?
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Yikes. It's amazing how unenlightened people can be in such a time of supposed enlightenment, and in such a field of rigor.
Are you using safari 5? I have the same issue from time to time on AWS and Google since Safari 5
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However I find it hard to believe its hard for small
studios to have success. If the studio develops a good
product and releases it to the masses on the internet or
xbox live arcade, or the number of homebrew scenes, you
will get attention. You just have to make a good product.

Do you have resources/links to support this rather bold statement?
This attitude was the norm when I was in chem grad school in the 90s. Slacking was working anything less than 70 hours a week and with 5-7 years of that kind of work undoable in a word from your advisor you were powerless to do anything about it.

Needless to say, I've never regretted my decision to drop out and write software instead.
inflammatory posts with little to no statistical backing are a niche application.

That said, if you were to flip the post to be "hey node.js is cool, but check out RingoJS while you are already hot for SSJS" Now that would be awesome!
Checkout passive GPS tracking devices. They record movement, then you can upload the data back into a system via USB. RFID might work if you're tracking movement within a building. If you want to be able to locate or track an item remotely, I believe you would need a device with GPS & wireless data capability.
Reminds me of a memo that got leaked from my previous employer back in '03. Tanked the stock 20% in a day.

http://technocrat.net/d/2006/8/28/7262/
Non-scientists love to talk about how important science is and how we need more scientists, but the reality is that smart kids with some worldly knowledge practically couldn't do worse than to go into science.
Yep, apps are different. Apps also have update downloads.

As far as buying music online, caveat emptor. Even Amazon works similarly as far as MP3 downloads go. From http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_m...

"Downloads are only available for a short time after purchase. If you saved the .amz file to your computer, you should "Open" it using the Downloader application immediately after saving it. If you wait to complete your download, it may expire and no longer be available."
Ever consider just submitting a talk about RingoJS to "cool marketing" AKA JSConf? We are a pretty open and "underdog-rooting" group. I might know someone up in the decision committee...
So, not a hoax, but written up like one.

No argument there. Most science reporting appears to be done as "Find a narrative; look for a sciencey story that can be made to fit the narrative; write article".
People that download torrents don't give a fuck about its "authenticity".
The author seems to get confused himself about PUT vs. POST. At one point he says POST is used to create resources, and at another point he says PUT matches up roughly with SQL's INSERT (ignoring idempotence).
Are you suggesting that there's 4 Chinese guys putting out records of Pink Floyd covers? Somehow, I don't think I'd mistake them for the original.
If this ever happens to IT, I think I'd rather go work in fast food and write code on the side. I'm passionate about the work but not passionate about being worked to death.

I guess some may argue it has happened in some tech circles (startups: at least you usually give us a reason to work hard), but it's never been the norm anywhere I've been employeed.
Do associate professors really have that much clout over there that they can do this? Maybe I'd expect something like that from a department head. Is that what this is?
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That's evolution. Start with something that works, add something else that's available, try it out, then see what you can drop.
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I am not sure I can agree with the article. By hiding so many aspects of what a program is made of, Microsoft did a disservice to C programmers. Visual Studio programmers that can write a makefile are not many and, by hiding the gory details inside an IDE, Microsoft created - and enjoyed - a good excuse for, if not creating gory details, at least allowing them to exist and thrive. The recent "embrace" of functional programming is too little, too late.

Plus, I have a personal feeling those gory details are there by design - Microsoft has every incentive to make it hard to port Microsoft code to any other platform and no incentive to play nice with code that will run elsewhere.

I cannot imagine going back to a career limited to a fully-Microsoft stack. There is just too much missing.
For those of us in the US and over 30, I believe the $1600/mo health insurance bill (which may or may not cover everything for a family) is the single riskiest part of leaving the corp world, not the paycheck. It will likely stay this way for the next few years until the health reform takes effect.
With one important caveat (which people never seem to post) this only applies if you make software people use to do a few similar things.

Your development environments, your film editing software, your database software, your programming languages, your unix shells, etc should under no circumstances be intuitive, because that also means they can never be powerful which is more important.
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As much as I'd love to give Apple a hard time over this, I'm going to put it out there that this is likely just capitulation to publishing companies. You have to pay to re-download MP3s and eBooks, but not apps from the app store. I may not like Apple's philosophy regarding a lot of things, but they're generous by comparison to record labels and publishing companies.
Message Pack vs similar utilities:
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I don't know anything about that genus of fungi. Is it as "versatile" as the Saccharomyces genus? (i.e., does it give us food and medicine as well?)
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> Yep, apps are different. Apps also have update downloads.

Well it's not like anybody's going to update your music files after downloads (though I could see that with books if there is a second edition fixing typos and whatnot)
This is not going to work in the era of the iPad-only home. While I understand the technical reasons and humble beginnings of the iTunes store, let's face it, there are a lot of people who don't even own computers now because their iPhone and/or iPad suffices.
Yet another reason to avoid DRM...

Try to get your DRM'ed Kindle books to any non-Kindle platform.
The thing I can't understand is that this goes against almost every productivity study I've come across. Most productivity articles I've read seem to state that yes, you can productivity work more than 40 hours but only for a few weeks. After that time, you start getting burned out and the gain in productivity starts to nosedive until it is worse than if you just worked normal hours.

Is there something I'm missing? Is there an actual business benefit for having people work all the time?
Consider yourself lucky. These kinds of employers do exist in the software world. Generally speaking, they may even be correct to think that way (if you twist your logic a bit). Poor to mediocre programmers are very easy to find, and will usually be happy to get a job even if it's underpaid. This creates an environment where you just hire tons of these kinds of programmers that are underpaid and overworked. This can actually even get the job done, albeit not very well.
Please, add DHH.

Seems to have a Puma sponsorship :)
I don't think this applies to my Mom. She is 50 years old and has installed harddrives (both scsi & ide), memory, formated and installed Windows 98,XP,ME (blah) and 7. Set up her own wireless. She calls me every-now-and-then for tech support, though honestly, the level of questions she asks have shot ahead of me, since I've been on a Mac since 05' and hate messing with hardware now. You'd be surprised how much a game like the Sim's can motivate a person to pick this stuff up.
Yes. With 3jam you can forward to your (European) mobile, although there's a per-minute charge (Of course if all you're using it for is GV signup, then it shouldn't be much - 1 or 2 minutes of talk time).
You are probably right about this being a concession to the music labels, but that's just music. Not everything in the iTunes store has to work that way. For instance, apps that you buy can be re-downloaded at no charge.
I've noticed this happens if you log-in then log-out before the page is finished loading (including G-chat, etc.) When you try to log-in again, it often does the infinite redirect. Of course, there may be other causes as well.
Reddit has an add friends feature, but doesn't actively customize your feed -- you have to navigate to /r/friends -- or click on the link at the top strip. We have a Facebook/Twitter like "feed".

Posters correcting stories on both Reddit and Digg are not possible in most cases. On reddit, changes can be made only on self posts, but the majority of posts on reddit are not self posts currently.

Allowing users to change the original poster's content is opt-in -- the original poster opts to let users do it.
Google App Engine has also been performing poorly (http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/06/datastore-perfor...). I wonder if these performance issues may be related.
She is definitely an outlier.
So, where are they? Show me the 6 slides so I can see how its done. Sounds like he's blowing smoke.
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I'm currently working on a computer science & 'games technology' double major, so maybe I can add a little to your question as well.

Although it will inevitably vary from uni to uni, games tech at my uni is a BSc. with similar core units to CS, with added graphics programming/games programming units. In the CS units we're dealing with algorithms, data structures, databases, systems design and so on, while the games tech major is dealing with graphics APIs (OpenGL), Euclidean geometry and game physics, and concentrating totally around C++.

We also create graphics demos and games for end of semester individual and group assignments, which is really the thing that would help people looking to get into the games industry. Games tech at my uni is really just an advanced coding course.

Personally, I'm only doing it for the coding. I doubt I will look for a job in the games industry because it's unlikely I'd land a job at a company I'd want to work for straight out of uni (I'm picky). Besides, I'd rather work at Google, although working at Valve or id would be nice :)