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Actually, Apple allows interpreted code under certain circumstances. Link provides more details. I'm not sure how helpful it would be in this case, though. My understanding is that the main motivation for having scripted languages as a small part of an app, as this rule allows, is for game engines which have high-performance graphics stuff in C, and some of the application logic in a language like Lua. The use of a scripting language can reduce development time, but if you were using C, you might as well compile it.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/devs-cautiously-op...
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So no postscript viewer ever? And no browsers? That's a sad state.
I'm a bit confused by the tone of this article. It sounds like the writer doesn't really understand the gaming industry, indie games, or the flash gaming market.

plus sponsors are salivating with anticipation for his upcoming "games" which are actually nothing more than gameplay prototypes and/or funding infusions.

What? Steambirds isn't really a game? All its polish and carefully refined gameplay doesn't get it past prototype status? Even a seemingly simple game like that takes months to create for just one person. There is nothing about the game that feels unfinished. To me this sounds like if you told people you work as a senior programmer at a (funded) web startup and they ask "Oh, cool! So, what do you do for money?"

One of my favourite tidbits is that he did no direct sales -- he just uploaded to a game licensing site and gave them 10%.

This makes it pretty obvious he is ignorant of the flash market. This is par for the course in Flash games; you almost never see people do direct sales (Captain Forever being a notable exception) and 99% of the games you see are sold to sponsors and then put on the sponsor portals. I find it pretty weird that he thought it was some dangerous and ingenious business model that Andy thought of himself.

Sorry to have one of those "but someone is WRONG on the INTERNET" moments, but I would have liked the article if it just weren't so ignorant of what its writing about.
Could you elaborate on what their complaints are?

To me its waaaay better than Sharepoint - which we also used. And it is way more suitable for "non-technical" and "non-wikisavvy" users than e.g. MediaWiki.
I'm not sure it's a good idea to take health advice from someone who claims to 'embrace homeopathic remedies'.
Or you could post a sign for neighbours saying "free wifi, post your MAC address, name and phone number and I'll add your to our free wifi list". Then simply ring them, check that they're the neighbour you think they are, tell them to connect, check their MAC and then enable that.

Remember to tell them that any illegal activity will be traced to their MAC/IP address.

For added complexity you could have per user passwords into the mix but to be honest if they're at the level they're going to spoof MAC addresses and things then they'll crack your WPA and do what they want anyway.
Hmmm...When it comes to simplicity in design, I may be an outlier, but just a few of my daily struggles...

- I have to subtract 23 minutes (or add 37 minutes depending on daylight savings time) from the clock in my car because I lost the manual. What ever happened to a dial with 2 hands?

- I have to stand beside the microwave and open the door when the popcorn stops popping because I have no idea how to get good popcorn any other way.

- I never put anything in the dishwasher because I have no idea whether it's clean or dirty. How hard would it be to put a large green/yellow/red light on the front panel? (I am not the main user.)

- Why does almost every web page or Windows screen have buttons that do totally different functions right next to each other in the same color? (Yesterday, I meant to click on my only unread email and accidently sorted by Subject Name instead. It took me 5 minutes to realize what I had done.

- I gave up on our 4 TV remotes (124 total buttons) long ago. If it's on Channel 6, I'll watch it without sound.

- What do those other 2 buttons on the garage door opener do? I hit them so often, some days I wonder if I'll hear dogs barking.

- Need ice or water from the refrigerator door? Make sure you're in the right "mode" first. Why not just have 2 openings?

- Cell phone is ringing. Where is it?!?!? Why can't I just answer the land line? It's always in the same place.

- Stereo in living room is unplugged until we need it. I don't know how to stop the constant light show on the front panel.

Just when was it that things got so complicated that they created more problems than they solved?
As a job candidate, seeing funkified code would cause me to worry that all of their code looked like that and make me less likely to apply.
I am not sure we can to be honest. The site will run itself and will not need much in the way of support. We imagine the user may be willing to pay a fee for a number of benefits that they will get from the site. However, if I put myself into the user's shoes, then I would definitely pay a one off fee for the benefits that the site gives but I am not sure I would be willing to pay a monthly fee.

I am the type of user who is willing to pay $10 a year and gamble on something as I have only lost $10 - I can then forget about it if it does not work out. However a monthly fee I found off putting - the thought of money coming out of my account each month until I cancel (which I would probably be too lazy to do) puts me off. That's why I think app's work so well for Apple. I pay a one off fee and I forget about it.
I could understand not supporting last.fm integration. Sure, they want to sort of kill last.fm anyway.

But the fact there is no scrobbling of played music? That's just silly, what on earth were they thinking? O.o

Honestly, I'd like to know, can ANYONE explain that?
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How is that a selling point versus all of the other laptops and netbooks that can do the same? Almost all modern netbooks are like that now. Even my large HP Envy can do that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_on
And its not grossly unfair now?

A flat tax could be modified by a minimum income, age exception etc. But the trick is to make the calculation dead simple, and unavoidable. So thousands of smart people turn their attention to something else, like creating real value for instance.
Touché. Finding information is well handled by the search engines, I retract that part of my comment.

Asking the question in the first place is not helped by search engines though.
I think that actually happens in one of the sequels to 2001, but my memory is fuzzy about it.
"A glass plate from 1880 still has more resolution than a Canon 1Ds-MkII" says it all.
You saw this a lot in the early days of the iPad: there were opinions from those who had used the device and opinions from those who hadn't.

A lot of the second group didn't "get it". Once they used it many of them were convinced. Basically, those that haven't tried it tend to be more negative about it as a whole.

There is something about the experience that is hard to articulate. The feel of it, the convenience of it, the fact that's instant on, the UI... just the whole package really.
This is a good read. Seriously.
Take a look at the Mongrel/Mongrel2 Ragel grammar and compare it to a hand-written request parser. You might be surprised which is complex.
It cannot intersect your own at significant speed, unless you expend significant energy to diverge your trajectory. Otherwise it simply continues to accompany you at some slightly varying distance.
These are valid complaints, but they actually back up the author's point -

You still bought the complex-looking item. That it annoys you now is irrelevant (in the author's view). He posits that even though you know you only need 2 buttons for your garage door opener, you'd still buy one with 5 buttons before you bought one with 2.
"the obvious need to immediately produce revenue" -> so no savings at all?
What if the dead body is your mother, your husband, your son, your sister? Traditions provide structure for grief and are of considerable benefit.
If the system is frictionless, the rope is weightless, and the weights are not supported, then the lighter weight will rise and the heavier weight(s) will fall. Therefore if the rope is pulled very slowly, the lighter weight will rise first.

If the rope really is weightless and the pulleys really are fictionless (and inertialess) then it doesn't matter how hard or fast you pull, the lighter weight will rise first. This is at odds with your intuition simply because you have no (or insufficient) experience with weightless and frictionless environments. This is one reason why space is so bloody dangerous, in addition to the dangers posed by, say, diving, where similarly to space, your equipment has to work perfectly or you die.

In the real world, pulling fast enough will make the closer weight rise first.

The truth lies somewhere in between.
In general, I think the problem breaks down this way:

1) Humans respond in intuitive, predictable ways to graphics, particularly with a greater emphasis on emotional response. (As opposed to an analytical response.)

2) All information sources have bias, and any marketing competence on the part of the infographic creator will tend to subconsciously amplify the bias of the graphic's creator.

3) Combining the creator's bias with the infographic's tendency to more easily invoke emotional responses over analytical ones results in a reaction more couched in that emotion than in logic.

IIRC, USA Today was criticized for this, decades ago.

[edited to fix concatenation of numbers to a single line.)
Cyclist's and Marathoners have significantly different needs. A Cyclist is primarily limited by wind resistance and their ability to absorb oxygen, but they do not need to carry their own weight. A Marathoner has far less wind drag, and is mostly limited by their need to store energy and avoid injury both of which are hampered when they carry more weight.
Wow - the guy asks one of the most popular questions in the internet's history ("how to learn HTML") and you lay out a two year plan to make him a master of the internet. You even went so far as to suggest that you buy a domain so the guy can have a business down the road. Wow - just wow...

In my business as a software trainer, I see this periodically - you get a brilliant mind/programmer/developer in the classroom to teach a class. After the course is over, the students are clueless. "He went so fast." or "I was lost after the first hour!"

OP - I can't say that I fault devmonk's post provided that you actually misspoke: if you were truly looking for a two year plan so that your brother could be master of the internet with his own small business, then by all means devmonk has set you straight. If you did not misspeak - you actually want resources to help your brother to just learn HTML, it's better to ignore devmonk's post and just go to Amazon, find a book about HTML that has (a) a good history, (b) is up-to-date, and (c) has a lot of positive reviews. Hell, even a "For Dummies" or a "learn HTML in 24 hours" book would be fine at this stage.

Whatever you do, don't scare your brother with a list of all that stuff.
Sentiment. Darn those inconvenient old emotions.
Well, the diagram is impossible unless the weights are all resting on the floor, so let's assume they are. This system will find a steady state only at a local minimum of potential energy, so the lightest weight will be lifted before the heavier two get off the ground.
I wish they'd done this from the beginning.

They talked about Wave being an open protocol and that anyone would be able to write Wave servers and clients. Yet when it came down to it, they released a bare-bones client implementation. All the while they continued to hack on their Wave server and adding proprietary features to their fork of the client. So it never really became as open a project as they had promised.

Day after day it became more of "just another Google project."

It was no surprise to me that interest waned. Their interface was pretty complicated, hardly anyone had accounts, and all of the data was hosted at Google instead of being spread out amongst various providers as email is (and Wave promised).

I still think Wave is a great protocol/server/client. I hope much will be done with it by the open-source community.
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What an awful writeup for such an accomplished startup.
Two corrections:

A.) RHEL 5.x (by default) comes with Python 2.4, not 2.5.

B.) Yes you can. It is required in 3.x, though.
Functionality>Simplicity but they aren't entirely opposed.
I actually did that a few months back, but got a counteroffer I couldn't refuse (a really awesome deal).
I was only mentioning full-frame as those are the highest MP DSLRs available. I then mentioned APS cameras, which a lot of people do buy, especially the entry level stuff. In that segment and even in less than perfect light the higher MP cameras have been getting better, not worse.

There's an argument to be made that if the manufacturers had stopped at say 12MP (to pick a number) and put all their effort into noise we would have better cameras now for the kind of use people actually put them through. In fact Nikon did just that at the high-end with the D700 and D3. There isn't however much of an argument to be made that the 16MP APS cameras of today are worse than the 12MP cameras of a couple years back. The latest models seem to have both more pixels and lower noise.

Maybe you'd like a lower MP camera with even lower noise and maybe you can't buy it because MP sells cameras and thus shapes development. That could be a problem, but saying "excluding full-frame, more MP is actually worse" isn't really true. My impression is the complaints about MP are mostly right in compacts and everywhere else tend to be geek snobbery.
This is one reason why Wired's "The Web is Dead" was not completely off the mark. I'm seeing more and more devs starting to think like this, giving birth to tools optimized for delivering mobile-first experiences. Sencha and Less framework come to mind.
In the real world, the heavier weight lifts first -- assuming that you can set up a bunch of high friction non-pulleys:

http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=59835&...
People don't assume great risk to die; they do it to truly live.

Give up and hide in your cave, and you are dead already.
Rumor mill: Apple to buy Cirrus Logic
I'm of two minds re: jwz's comments on the modifier key handling: (1) Yes! Absolutely! iSSH would be so much better if I could control my emacs with it (2) Why? that's not what it's for.
The Root still exists? That's just crazy. I remember first visiting that place back in the days I was still active at deviantART as well, which must have been like 8 years ago now.

Don't think my account is still there though... ;-)
Ok, you are right.
http://usabilityhub.com/account/logon/ is unstyled right now (no css), btw.
Its not a static system; the question is unfair.
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Yep, but the infographic idea does sound fun. It might make more sense as a resume for a creative than a job posting, though.
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Uggh. I have a microwave that must be designed by the Koreans in this article.

If I want to heat something up for thirty seconds, I have to wade through four menus and sub-menus:

Express cook (ha ha)->
30 seconds->
OK->
Start

People who designed consumer microwaves have obviously never used one.
I have NEVER cooked anything in the microwave that should have involved more than a single button press. If the cooking is going to take fewer than 30 seconds, I'm not going to need a timer; it's not like I'm going to go walk the dog with the rest of my time.

I never want to type in an amount of time and then have the microwave not begin cooking until I hit a Start button. I always want full power. I don't want to adjust the fan speed. Nobody has tried to cook actual meals in the microwave since 1985 so I don't need a chicken-pot-pie setting. I don't want the keys to beep loudly when I press them and I don't want the microwave to beep loudly when it's done because I don't want the kids to wake up.

I'd pay more for the lack of "features."
It's not my argument. It's the god-of-the-gaps argument, hitherto to be found sitting lazily on that rather awesome gap called the big-bang, that Hawking is deftly refuting in his book. I'm just noting, with minor repulsion, the cheap tricks that his publisher seems to have used to turn this non-argument into an argument.
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http://imgur.com/nR60Y.png made me chuckle at least. Has it always been like this, or was it in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492686 ?
A little off topic. Watch the Karate kid. How satisfying would that movie be if he lost? Universally, people like humble people and almost always hate arrogant. Happy stories. What's nice is God makes pride before a fall and not the opposite or what a hellish world. The saying "humility before honors" is in the bible in a different place. I'm not sure if Jesus said it somewhere,too , but Jesus said to sit in the lowest chair at a table and be invited up. Now that I think about it, that doesn't say humility will always be followed by honors. Is that how it is, I'm not sure. The Bible says God raises-up the lowly and casts-down the proud.

Now, I don't read books much besides the Bible. I try to "glean wisdom." Which I'm trying to do right now.
I beg to differ. Go to someone in the street and tell them if they'll work an extra shift for X amount of money: most people can answer that question.

So maybe you meant that it's impossible to generalise it to the whole population because everyone has different "goal for the money in mind" and value of "leisure time"?
So much for academic freedom at UCLA
A more detailed source, which I should have posted to begin with. My mistake. Unfortunately I can't edit the URL, so here it is.

http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2010/08/ucla_researcher_james_enstrom_not_reappointed_to_position
However, if I put myself into the user's shoes

This is trickier than it sounds. Don't assume that your target users are like you (unless that's the niche you've decided to target.)

That's why I think app's work so well for Apple. I pay a one off fee and I forget about it.

Apps work great for Apple, but lousy for the app developers. Apple makes some nice vigorish on every transaction, but it's a very small minority of apps that actually bring in enough revenue to support a business.

Without knowing your app's "value proposition" or what kind of niche you are targeting it is difficult to give more specific advice.
Motion pictures don't require the same resolution as still images. SD TV is only 640 x 480 but I don't think anyone wants a sub 1MP camera now days.

PS: I somtimes notice individual pixels on a still shot in 2k theaters, but there is no way I can do that in the middle of an action shot.
That happens because of friction, though. If there's over 20 lbs of friction on each 'pulley', the weight in front will be lifted first.
Thank you very much for letting me know about "Irreducible complexity". I'll investigate the argument. My objections to evolutions do not fall into such a realm.

Yes, millions of years make difficult for us to think about things. There are only speculations.

> Why specifically can't you believe that it evolves.

Because:
1) "natural selection" - as I understand it - narrows down variations, it does not expand them. If one specimen happens to develop a random variation, for such a variation to persist and develop further, that specimen should mate with another specimen sharing such a variation. We have many breed of dogs which are strikingly different, however if the breeders weren't there, we would have ended with a "breed soup" (think about dingoes).
2) I would expect to see more of a continuum of species, instead of such separate animal kingdoms. The argument that each species wins because it takes up an ecological niche does not hold, because there are already different species sharing the same niche.
3) Variations don't need to be exclusive. For instance, being able to breath oxygen from both water and air would be very advantageous. Still, I don't know of any species which does that.
4) Species should be much more inter-breed-able, whilst specimens are very selective on who to mate with. Inter-breed among species is known to get you sterile prole (think tigers mating with lions).

I do not advocate intelligent design, but I do not reject it either (albeit as I've said already, intelligent design just moves the question about the origin of everything somewhere else).
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No, I didn't buy any of these things because I wanted to. Consumers don't have much choice any more. I defy you to go out and find any of these things:

- a microwave with a single dial
- a cell phone that rings on your land line when you're home
- a garage door opener with one button
- a dishwasher with a status display
- a car with an analog clock
- a TV with an on/off switch and a channel dial

OP jumped to an unsubstantiated conclusion when we could have been writing about the elephant in the room: that functional design, like journalism and sensible politics, is a lost art.
Avatars and dancing hamsters are in-progress, I assume.
Ask HN: Why was my previous submission dead on arrival?
I don't know why, but this submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659517

Was dead as soon as I submitted it. Have I been banned or something?
That's my standby, although I also enjoy Lagavulin and Laphroaig.

But my absolute favorite is Port Charlotte, which is produced by Bruichladdich. (I'm not enough of a connoiseur to appreciate the differences among PC 5, 6 and 7.) It's the most intense and flavorful scotch I've ever had, but not very rough. Pretty smoky too. Unfortunately it's kind of expensive and kind of hard to find.