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I think this is a big mistake from apple's perspective. Despite the noise, and the possible exception of a few games dev tools for which they could have made exceptions, there has been no serious evidence of people avoiding ios because of the toolchain. This will inevitably result in cross-mobile-platform apps which have non ios-like interfaces. At the very least it will give succour to developers who don't want to fully engage with the ios ui conventions and fully utilise the platform specific features.

Obviously, as on the mac, the market will ultimately decide. But remember these sort of cross-platform efforts are what has given us the UI abomination that is CS3 through 5.
Do you have a testing environment or multiple testing environments? Does it/Do they need to run all the time? If not, you save there. Do you like being able to spin up an entire duplicate of your environment to do environmental tests? You can't do that in normal server environments without ridiculous expenditure.
I'm pretty sure they do things like this for the drama, to get free headlines.
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Actually it would properly affect those who are considering becomming developers for Apple more - after all, if you already learned the APIs, then you already made your choice.
What are you running on your EVO? I toyed with Cyanogenmod a few weeks ago, but gave up because it had some rough edges compared to Sense (like two text messages coming with every voicemail). However after a day of tinkering with various home replacements just to make the phone more usable sideways, I'm thinking I may have given up on the open source option too soon. It'd be nice to have a de-facto community distribution to repave the various carrier-specific installs, but I didn't get the impression that Cyanogenmod was there yet. Should I give it (or something else) a second look?
Jason says in the article that he doesn't program.

Also, Linus doesn't really code anymore; he just types `git merge` until his fingers fall off. (or at least that's my understanding, I'm nowhere near being on the kernel team)
Anybody notice that the cadence and style of the intro to the review policies sounds like it was written by Jobs himself?
I was/am in the preliminary stages of researching and testing a product for dealing clothing fit issues. In the course of this, I learned far more about clothing sizing than any sane person should know. I can tell you that vanity sizing is something of a myth - it's really size inflation.

What's happening is this:

Consumers have an expectation of being able to buy the same size forever, and buy clothes accordingly. Size 34 waist 10 years ago? Just grab size 34 from the rack. Of course, people gain weight and should go for a larger size. But they don't - they still see themselves as a size 34 and keep buying it. And complaining or moving on to the competitor when it doesn't fit. The problem is even worse for women's clothing for reasons too lengthy to go into here.

The only reliable solution is a system similar to the European standard, EN 13402. With this system, the fit tolerance (range of body dimensions it is designed for) for the item is listed on its hang tag. This gets away from issues like styles that are designed to have very large amounts of ease, or elastic fabrics.

For those that are thinking of building a product in this space, another thing to keep in mind is that most customers just don't care that much about good fit. Sad, but true.
I've also never seen a project where the templating engine was a noticeable part of performance. I did see one where the decision was made to switch to Jinja2 which brought a huge amount of work duplicating a bunch of existing Django template tags – which didn't make much of a difference in the face of the 8,000 database queries needed to generate a page.
Go to a state school. In California, the tuition for a California State University is about $5500 a year. If you can't afford that, you likely qualify for a CalGrant which is awarded based on need and are around $5400 per school year.

For example, San Jose State University here in Silicon Valley, doesn't have the reputation that a top tier school has, but you can still get a very good education, in some ways better than at a more prestigious school. In California's CSU system, teaching is emphasized over research. Perhaps due to practice or self selection, most professors at SJSU seem to be very good teachers. Professors have few (if any) graduate students so they have more time for undergraduates and there are more research opportunities for undergrads.
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Why is this hacker news?
Can you provide any evidence to support this?

The only metric I've ever seen Opera beat Chrome on was IE9's flying images benchmark.
I'm an ENTJ/INTJ depending on mood, but yes, this -- serious problems with the nonsense of the Myers-Briggs. Not a very good test, and grounded in nothing really sensible beyond an unhealthy adoration of Carl Jung.
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1. Learning to love learning new languages. I have a few pet projects which are slightly longer than hello world that I practice with.

2. Accepting that code I wrote a month ago sucks. If it doesn't then I haven't improved/developed. That's really the point of refactoring. I do my best today and move on.

3. Socializing. Yes, going out to hack/codefests etc. makes you better. BTW: Yes, you have to speak with other people/developers...sitting in the corner by yourself and drinking your latte is usually not enough.
I must admit that I am always a bit prejudicial when I hear an business person (or a business magazine like this) talking about universities.

They seem to view Universities as a business proposal: "How much do we invest? How much do we get out of it?", which it shouldn't be. Take this quote: "If colleges were businesses, they would be ripe for hostile takeovers, complete with serious cost-cutting and painful reorganisations.”.

My feeling is that the person who said it is thinking of streamlining it, removing subjects which bring little profit, and increasing those with profit. So out goes "geography" but also "gender studies", and instead more money is put into "pharmacy", "genetics", "economics and MBA".

The result would be great from a business perspective, but that's what companies and business are for. If there's plenty of money many companies will be investigating in those subjects just as well.

Instead Universities should also help the student become full rounded, more knowledgable even of things that may not bring money, and should let professors study subjects despite there being no monetary advantage.

Where has the passion for knowledge gone? Let the student have a place to get knowledge, and the professor have a place to expand it.
Hmm, I just don't believe in people telling me what to do - if it really is better, I will come around to it eventually (emacs, dvorak) but except for getting more usb ports, I don't really see any of the things you listed as being a good thing.

Which just goes to prove my point - I don't fit very well into the Apple box.
I subscribed to The Atlantic today because of the quality of this (Vanity Fair) article. Why? It reminded me of how good some of the articles from The Atlantic website were.
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Give him a break! ;-)

He was already looking at Acer as the biggest player in the netbook field and now Apple put all the netbooks in a corner.

And Acer has now to invest some money to develops Android tablets, and it seems to me that they are a bit late on this.
Defense Industry to Become Big Cybersecurity Player
Where would you play videos from? Dropbox or something?
Thirded(? Sorry, that's probably a bit too reddit-ish for HN.)

I've been developing with Django for the last two years (a screencast series by ericflo is actually what got me started), and I just recently started work on a major Flask project. Flask is terrific.

What Armin is doing with his curated extensions gallery is one of Flask's biggest strengths. You get all the awesome flexibility of a no-batteries-included architecture, but with a great set of fallback tools if you just want to get up and running fast.

Not to mention SQLAlchemy is just a ridiculously awesome piece of software, and it integrates with Flask very well.
Looks great! Are you going to have more? I can't make it this week. You're the first Boston Properties building across from the MIT Press bookstore, right - just before Google (5 Cambridge Center).

BTW, I just checked out your site - Panjiva is a really cool idea, I want to try to use it for nothing in particular. It's so interesting that I feel I ought to try to find someone to fabricate some machine parts thousands of miles away _just because I can_! : )
I don't think Google is ever going to be willing to enter the carrier business. Although they hinted 1 or 2 years ago to a system where the global carrier would lose most of there power. It was phones that would operate on unlicensed frequencies or locally licensed frequencies. The phone could register with what is locally available by having a GPS and a database of operators by locations. It was a neat idea and I could see Google pushing this as a standard to be implemented by different operators. Sadly, I can't find a reference to the post I saw back then. Google certainly doesn't seem to be pushing this solution currently.
Revenue numbers say nothing about profitability.
They are completely different things. Star wars was meant to intercept immediate threats minutes after detection with light sub-orbital missiles with conventional warheads. A deep space shield would be Energia or Delta IV-class boosters with high-yield nuclear payloads meant to intercept targets years away months after detection on varied mission profiles adapted to the composition of the specific threat. It's a completely different game.
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I've got 5 apps which were submitted by not approved by the time this 3.3.1 rule was released. Those apps have been "In Review" for this whole time. I've got another couple dozen apps, which we have been preparing for android, but could easily submit for iOS. Most of these are unique games, but we've build a few on our own from scratch.

This is great news. But that said, we're still all at the mercy of Apple's changing the contract at any time without notice in future.
You don't need detailed answers, after all many of them are unanswerable in any absolute sense, just thinking about them enough to get a partial answer will help.
I've tested as 9 of the 16 possible types on the MBTI (every variant with a T, plus INFJ once.) Being near the center of most of the bell curves means it takes very little "noise" to shift me to the other side. A slight change in wording, scoring, question order, or my current level of attentiveness can put me into another type.
I went the other way this year and am now almost totally in Emacs. I recommend trying the vimpulse package for Emacs if you ever want to come back to the dark side.
Not sure about statement 2.9: "Apps that are "beta", "demo", "trial", or "test" versions will be rejected"

Does this mean no "lite" versions of games? That would affect tons of apps... unless Apple is about to come out with a way to bundle a lite version with your app.
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Instead of just saying too many rules, do you have points in the list that you object to? One of the problems with rejection until now was the lack of specific guidelines about what would be rejected. It seems to me that a comprehensive document would unavoidably have many rules, and the prohibitions that I read seemed reasonable.
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Those improves your coding ability a lot. For example, If your application needs to scale well, you should always consider implementing efficient algorithms. Yes, you can use some open source libraries, tools, etc but someone has to write those using efficient algorithms. This is one of the main reasons, that companies like Facebook, Google are recruiting people using these "puzzles" or contests like Topcoder, Google Codejam.
Huh? They support RDFa, Microformats and Microdata (relatively) equally.
I admit that I am not going to read the original post, but from a comment: Most basically, because humans are only just on the cusp of general intelligence. I can explain why this is so.

Every time there is a leap from one state to another one, and this latter state is better in the sense that it open new possibilities from transition, then when you get into the new space (the one that this leap open) you realize that the leap was a small one and that there are a lot of leaps to get to the next state (heaven is not one leap away)
Another one that may be of interest is the VIA Character Strengths Survey (no, nothing to do with DnD or WOW):

http://www.viacharacter.org/
That's a tricky one, you're right about that. Maybe there is a way to get some clarification on that one without having to go through a whole round of developing an app and then having it rejected or accepted. I think what they mean to say is that it should be a 'finished product' (no beta, no test), it should be fully functional (no demo or trial), so self contained.

If there is a more fully featured version of the game available for another platform I can't really see how that could lead to trouble, but it may be worth a bit of investigation beforehand.
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It's ahead in the Peacekeeper benchmark, but falls just short on the Sunspider and JS tests.

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/opera-10-6-tops-performanc...
Apple’s New App Store Review Guidelines Annotated & Explained
Ask HN: Our prototype: People real-time news. Would you use it?
Our application would allow you to follow someone, say Barack Obama, and get all that is being said about him on the net, in real-time (mixing twitter & traditional news outlets). We have NLP algorithms that figure out the 2-3 most important people/organizations in any given article (we track both individuals and organizations such as sports teams and companies). A popular entity -- say Lindsay Lohan or Justin Bieber -- will get dozens of articles matched every day. We are currently tracking around 15,000 people and in addition to articles we also attach useful meta-data using freebase (picture, twitter & facebook account).

Our current vision is a place where you can follow both what people say and what others say about them. There would also be an automatically generated "profile" page for each individual and we are thinking of adding social features such as badges (yeah, I know everybody is doing it :), but for instance you could get badges as you read more news about someone, slowly becoming his or hers uber fan). Such badges could be displayed on the profile badge, rewarding people for being awesome fans. It could also be a place where you interact with the person, post messages, send tweets, rate up or down, etc.

Here's the link to our internal alpha prototype: journal.factyle.com. It's not ready for public consumption! Just to give you an idea!

We also released a few iphone apps to experiment with mobile -- check out our sports app for example: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sports-stalker/id382283655?mt=8.

Do you think it can work as a consumer product? Would you use it? Is it doomed?

Thank you so much!
Yeah, we have something like this a few times a year. That's our building. Feel free to invite friends to this since you can't make it.
This kind of discussion is definitely welcome. Every one of these tests is incredibly subjective, and the results could be misused. To your point about companies, though: How would you build a team without knowing their personalities? Assuming you couldn't hire them as a contract-to-hire?
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Yeah, I think you're right. If they had omitted "trial" I think it would be pretty clear, but that's a tricky word (trial can be the same as lite).
I've spent the past two weeks working on-site at a client where I walk about a half mile each way to/from the office and another half mile to/from dinner, which is a stark change from my normal "get in the car and drive to work" routine.

Even this small change (which is paired with eating out and having a few beers each night) has allowed me to sleep less than I normally do, while staying just as alert throughout the day and craving caffeine less than usual.

I'll be going back home this weekend and I need to figure out a way to push myself to do some walking even though I'm not forced to. Hopefully my experience these past two weeks will be enough.
No, and sorry if I come to strongly. But this "regulated by the market" dogma (and that is what it is) is an extremely simplified which gets repeated over and over again, despite plenty of examples that it doesn't work.

Even Adam Smith, the very father of capitalism, did not trust businessmen, and pointed out that it would not work in case there weren't plenty of supply and plenty of demand.

The mobile market is not a free market. It's an oligopoly. Admittedly this is due to a limited spectrum resource so there's not much that can be done. But in an oligopoly is veeery easy for companies to stop competing and try to keep the status quo.

Case in point: the RIAA and movie industry, and the fact that neither are CD at the equilibrium price, nor is either really innovating. Another case is academic journals publishers (there's another oligopoly there, and prices have been going up), oil cartel etc...

So "this will be regulated by the market" is not an argument: if it were it would have been regulated even before the iPhone and Android arrived, but it wasn't was it?

(sorry for the tone, and I understand in the USA people have grown up with this pseudo-religion, but maybe you are different. But you have no idea how many times "free market" is used as a panacea.)
I tested out as an INTP as a kid (where I was just on the margin of I and E) and then tested again as an ENTJ as an adult, very strongly "J".
Apple uses most of the same components as everyone else, but not exactly identical and not always in standardized configurations. They are doing the work of coming up with solid, profitable, and interesting combinations of mostly-pre-existing hardware and combining it with a solid, profitable, and interesting combination of mostly-pre-existing software. (Some of which they own entirely, and plenty of open source stuff as you said.)

Apple has a hell of an R&D department. As far as I know, their retina display, unibody laptop manufacturing processes, and touch-based trackpad tech are unique to them. It's been shown a number of times that their touch screens are way more accurate than others, and somehow their battery life is quite remarkable compared to competitors as well. With the exception of the display and the unibody cases, the stuff I've listed here all require hardware and software to work closely together to achieve the perfect experience. It's areas like that which the PC makers will always suffer in if they don't change their approach, IMO.
The difference is that Apple has enacted many policies that limit developers while Google has, to my knowledge, never done anything of the sort. In fact, it seems like they go out of their way to be fair to developers (for instance: every app they built for Android uses only the APIs that are available to everyone).

Edit: My point is that Google has never shown an inclination towards policies like these, and I think it's reasonable to expect that not to change.
So how often do EC2 instances go down? Is it at hardware fail rate? or more often? Can I use this as a VPS replacement, and not have to worry about monitoring and fast restoration? (of non-important projects).
Oh, then I am with you. :)

I guess I was looking longer term, but I wouldn't be surprised if "don't close the system" is the new "stop messing with what I like". ;)
Thanks good feedback: yeah I was worried a bit about the perception of cancel anytime and better than money back gurantee. My thinking was following advice from Tim Ferris (fourhourworkweek.com) and reducing the buyer risk /buyer remorse issue. Even in B2B I know first hand there is a lot of buracracy in getting anything like a software purchase (even SaaS approved). I wanted people that liked the idea to be able to easily put it on a credit card and try it out without the risk - maybe a free 30 day trial is a better way to go with this

Ok will work on the login box.

The screenprints are placeholders for now, will be replaced with actual screenprints when the pages are finalized.
What Apple is doing is not dissimilar to what Unix vendors have always done: provide a custom UI on top of Unix, bundle the whole setup with proprietary (typically RISC) hardware. In the mobile space, this proprietary hardware is remarkably similar to other vendors in terms of silicon used, but only in Apple's case (and perhaps Nokia) are they providing the customized OS as well.

On the other hand (and this is just my opinion), Apple's design engineers are wiping the floor with essentially everyone else. They have had the most robust feeling (in terms of weight, rigidness, materials, etc.) device on the market for 3 years straight. In fact, I have not handled a non-Apple device that feels as solid as any iPhone model.
New Apple App Store Review Guidelines
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I think his point is that, together with settings issues, the structure of apps makes it hard to make them generic.
So you make the app update the cache when the customer visits - now the newest version is available and it works.
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Looking at this specific example, Yale is free if you earn less than $60,000, and admissions is need blind. What more do you exactly want them to do?

The real systemic problem is in our primary and secondary education systems. Equality of opportunity does not exist at those levels, and this hurts people thereafter. I see no reason why elite universities should be the vehicle by which we purport to "correct" this glaring defect in our educational system. The problem is much too large for that.
I think the goal of evolution is colonizing the planet. Once that we are capable of constructing a world-wide network (communications and transport) and colonizing the whole planet then we discover the need of not destroying the planet. We try to be self-sustainable. It begins a race against the clock, a feed-back signal marks the start (scarce resource are getting exhausted). If the feed-back is delayed because we are not enough intelligent to see what is coming then the race is over. We have no time to response and the clock signal announces the end.

The question is: we are more intelligent that a monkey but perhaps not enough intelligent to not destroy our planet.
By calling it something different, even though it's the exact same thing?
re: Forer Effect - one thing to do is to read all of the personality types, especially before taking the test. I find the these descriptors tend to be a little more specific about traits (especially weaknesses!) and there are many that don't apply to me.

re: self-evaluated multiple-choice - One thing I've done in these sorts of situations is to find concrete situations in which I can say, "when I was in this specific situation that the question was asking about, I did X", which hopefully minimizes the amount of "oh man i want to be an extrovert" sort of answering.

...but yes, agreed, this is really just sort of a goofy little thing, but it's fun and still potentially a bit interesting.
Accidental downvote. Meant to upvote. Totally agree.

Damn iPhone.