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But a big part of this issue is the upcoming Mac App Store. The rule that's been floated is apps cannot be based on "deprecated or optionally-installed technologies". This makes a lot of sense, dependency hell and all the other related things proprietary platforms do so poorly (I'm looking at you, Microsoft) are seriously improved with such a rule. Just think of the lower number of trouble tickets and irritated customers.

Straight from the source means ... ta-da! "Optionally installed". Therefore, no Java-based apps in the Mac App Store.

Bad for Java app developers on the Mac - Apple's app store is likely to be a very good channel for sales - unless Oracle step up to the plate with a (cross-platform) app store. But good luck with that - it won't be so visible, cross-platform apps are generally dodgy, and it doesn't have Steve Job's magic pixie dust.
The rest of the article aside, one thing jumped out at me - AMD's P/E ratio. What's the received wisdom for why they are so cheap?
I can verify that the iTunes store and Ping use WebObjects.
It's well known. An extract from Wikipedia:

"Apple is now the biggest client for WebObjects, relying on it to power its online Apple Store, MobileMe online services, and the iTunes Store."
Thanks for the link! That is definitely a great news. I also found: http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2010/10/leadership-of-ironru...

On the DLR: what makes you say the DLR will not receive contributions from the community (real question, as always) ?
Link: http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2010/10/leadership-of-ironru...
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The app store rules are a fairly smart move from a service and support perspective.

They don't want to have to manage complex dependencies in the app store.

Therefore no optional or deprecated packages.

This move doesn't really support the conspiracy theory of an Apple lockdown strategy, although it certainly doesn't give any confidence that such a strategy is not in the making.
Depends on what kind of SEO you mean. I've seen both ends of the spectrum -- some "SEO" is just good web practices codified, some "SEO" is just a code word for content spamming.
They hire employees educated with government money...

And those employees pay more taxes because they draw high salaries paid to them by Google, which they could not have gotten without their education.
Now that's an over generalisation, just because your not concerned whether people actually need the product doesn't mean that you aren't doing your best to ensure your product is the best it can possibly be.
Actually, the situation is pretty bad for developers. Making a client for all major platforms (iOS, Android, blackberry and now wp7) is difficult. Every client must be built from ground up. Different languages, different tools. Not bad in the sense of plurality and choice, of course, and I love learning new stuff. But it is difficult and time-consuming.
The design aesthetic in the WP7 OS is probably the single coolest thing I've seen from microsoft. It makes me seriously reevaluate my opinion of the company to see that they let it emerge unscathed (bing was a huge step in the right direction, too).
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Especially if you aren't doing something in a hot space or aren't creating a consumer facing app. I don't blame them though, if your product is say focused at niche businesses and has little general appear it's not going to resonate well with readers.
I agree with you overall, but we've also got eFreedom.com beating StackOverflow with duplicate content in some cases, purely through SEO. In a perfect world, it would be impossible for someone to take StackOverflow's CC data dump and then outrank them.
Firefoxes UI already runs on top of JavaScript afaik
It seems like something of a zero sum game to me, since they're competing for rankings, rather than, IMO, creating much actual value. Once you've taken care of the basics that Google mentions on their site, more effort is just an "arms race" in some ways.
Firefox is essentially a javascript browser in a browser to begin with, it's just that Firefox .js works on XUL instead of htlm5/css. The Chromeless project is just replacing the XUL chrome frontend with an html5/css frontend. It's kind of a misnomer because by their definition, Firefox already is chromeless, they're just adding a new API.
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Only efforts to self-train and be competent to carry out the implementation are not so cheap.
I remember back in the day http://google.com was touted as masterpiece of design.
They run their entire streaming service from EC2, which at the best price is 8 cents /GB. Assuming they worked out a deal (which I've never heard of Amazon doing), they might be as low as say 4 cents. So I'd say best case you need to at least 1/2 your numbers.
It doesn't seem like you'll be able to embed XUL elements with this form of customization. Does it mean you'll have to implement your own tree control, toolbar control, etc [1]?

Also, will this work with existing browser plugins? If users are unable to use their plugins, would they actually switch to use a customized browser with no plugin support?

Is this project intended to let developers create installable web apps (like Google Chrome's installable web apps with the manifest's "container" field set to "panel" [2])? If so, probably it'll better to just market it like so. I think people are far more interested in building monetizable web applications than customized browser layouts.

[1] XUL elements: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Reference

[2] Chrome Web App's "panel" option: http://chromestory.com/2010/07/panel-tab-and-window-styles-c...
That's what happens when you tell someone an idea that is fairly simple to implement and don't act on it in over 200 days, IMHO.
I haven't heard about Tilera until just now: it does have potential, but disrupting X86? That requires proof.

Also GPUs have their uses, but general-purpose they are not. GPUs are complements to CPUs (just as coprocessors specialized for floating-point calculations where back in the day).

Most people here probably haven't lived the day when 80387 had to be installed alongside i386 if you wanted decent graphics performance. It is actually interesting that it takes so long for GPUs to be merged with X86.

In my opinion ARM is the only credible threat in the data-center, especially for servers that are mostly I/O bound. But on the other hand costs can skyrocket when scaling horizontally and having 500 HTTP servers (like Digg) is not at all fun.

And IMHO, x86 chips have better performance / watt.

For desktop computing X86 will still dominate, at least for the following 10 years, simply because of Windows; which runs on over 1 billion computers.

Yeah, I know it is fashionable on HN to say Windows is not relevant anymore. Doesn't make it true.
I'm not talking about a contractual assurance here. There are a million ways he could clear the confusion over this. He could easily have picked up the phone and chatted with Larry about it. It would have been simple for him to get some kind of in principal agreement about a handover of the reins. Then he could easily have made a public statement that let everyone know that some arrangements were in place for Oracle to pick up the ball. Or if Larry's playing hard ball he could tell everyone that Oracle is not picking up the ball - either one would be better than just leaving it unstated.
White-hat SEO, or providing genuinely good content that's easy for both humans and algorithms to parse, complete site maps, etc. is unquestionably good. Gray- or black-hat SEO, which results in ad-spammed content farms reaching the top results when there are much better sources (in many cases sources which were scraped by the SEO sites without proper credit) is destroying the web. SEO agencies posting dozens of generated blogs to bury negative reviews of themselves are definitely evil.
Ask HN: Best country for hackers to work/live in?
I have never worked or lived anywhere other than Singapore for any length of time, and I desire a change in scenery. Ideally, this place should have the following characteristics:

1) Fast broadband and interesting programming jobs that pay well. The economy values hackers, is what I'm saying here.

2) Population mostly speaks English.

3) Easy for a Singaporean to get a residence/work visa.

4) Temperate climate. One of the reasons I wish to relocate for a coupla years is because it's hot here.

5) Since I aspire to eventually start a business, this place should also be easy to start one in.

Any suggestions and reasons for them?
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Haha! Yes, I think that's what I had in my subconscious.

Presumably on other sites I'd award you "+100 internetz" for that? :)
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The long tail theory for URLs (i.e. where URLs make sense), combined with doing half of Google's job for them (i.e. making your pages index easier and in a more relevant manner) is nothing but pure gravy for the Internet. The gaming, the spam blogs, the autoposted crap of the world are scum, but it's an ongoing game of cat and mouse between google and the blackhat SEOs.

Personally I like the fact that someone can search for something rather specific and find something that's relevant, as opposed to the traditional mid-90s method of using 4 or 5 different search engines and 3 or 4 directories to hopefully find what you want.
I think the writer may be confusing "flash drives" as being the competitor of the CD with internet and network media.

Why store all of your photo's on the computer when you have Facebook and Flickr?

Why store all of your documents on the computer when you have Google Docs?

Apple is just preparing for the future as they always do. It's only a matter of time before 90% of our data is stored on a network.
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people who pride themselves on being "UX experts" are the most obnoxious people in our industry.

there, I said it.
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As I [1] once said, "originality is the art of obfuscating your sources"

[1] http://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/1202672/benjamin-franklin/o...
Your idea doesn't matter one jot. What matters is how well you can connect to customers and really sell to them.

I think you could put it better: Your idea has to be something people feel they want and will use. People don't want a drill; they want a hole in the wood. Joe Ades didn't sell a potato peeler; he sold a way to get your kids to eat their veggies, a way to make great french fries.

Have a fucking great idea

Nonsense. How the fuck do you know it's a great idea? Your ego. I'm sorry but you won't know (can't know) if it is what people want or need. No one does. Trust me, the music industry and film industry would love to know when they will have a hit.

But unlike film and music we can iterate. Take your ego out and let people tell you what they want. Try to understand their core desire and work with that. Ignore funding. You're begging for TechCrunch coverage? Unless your market is "people who read TC", you're wasting you're time. Apply any way you can to those people directly in your market. And if you don't know who they are or how to do that, stop and go back to your day job. Because the software business is not about the software; it's about the business.
I hope this doesn't have anything to do with that Second Life purchase we all heard about.
The article gets it roughly correct. It's true that, while the Muslim thing got the most attention outside the city, it was a non-issue in the campaign. It's actually more surprising that Calgary would elect an ideas guy.

Nenshi's victory came from a huge last-minute surge, as if the city all at once realized hey, we could dump these two losers (the front-runners, a boring grump and a vain TV anchor) and vote in someone completely different. The next morning, everyone I talked to was stunned and delighted at what had just happened. I suspect that many, including me, were surprised to discover that they weren't such a freak in this place after all.

Perhaps it is a shift in the consciousness of the city, which would be an interesting thing. It has been a wasteland of soulless land developers and corporate robots for such a long time... or at least appeared that way. This event feels a bit like the moment in Pleasantville where the black-and-white world turns to color. Except it's not the whole world, just a single purple crocus. We'll see if more appear.
But... The professoriat generally knows very little about industry and also have a built-in bias to pushing people towards more education.
There will always have to be some SDK version of the OS you can run that will allow you to freely develop and QA apps. Part of developing, of course, is pulling random code from the Internet and compiling a single, local copy of it for yourself.

Even if OSX copies iOS and stops accepting unsigned apps, developers will still be able to simply share the source code for any app they really want distributed, such that any other developer can then just pull the code down, build it, locally sign/provision it, and run their locally-signed binary. That might actually make the OSX third-party software ecosystem healthier, all-said.
Thanks! The 5 years estimate is on the hopeful side. I have been told my current course-load is insane by a few of my professors but it does not seem that bad yet (I am doing my bachelors in 3 years (currently on year 2), and hopefully overlapping with grad school on the last year (A honor student option here at Georgia State!)) I might be changing schools for my masters/PhD so there is a potential wrench to be thrown in gears there, a PhD might actually be harder work then I arrogantly expect it to be and take more then 4 more years. Either way, it looks like fun. On the flip-side it does have a cost, one I asked this question to help evaluate.
Argument against: "search engine optimisation" is about optimising web sites for machines, not for people.

Argument for: the function of those machines is to help people, so a) optimising for the machines is indirectly beneficial to people because they're happier when the machines work better, and b) as the machines get better at understanding what's good for people, optimising for the machines becomes more directly beneficial to people because they both "want" the same thing.

The web would be better if everyone simultaneously stopped doing SEO and started thinking about people directly instead of indirectly via Google's ranking algorithms, but now that the arms race is in full effect and there are a million parasites making a living from it, the best case scenario is for Google to continue to close the gap between "good for machines" and "good for people" so that the satisfaction of the SEO gods translates as completely as possible into the satisfaction of human users.
I look at Calgary with envy.

I wonder if you have any idea how weird that sounds to a Calgarian! It's good for Canada to have taken this atypical turn. Calgary's reputation as a redneck enclave is a silly fantasy; it's really a complacent suburban enclave. What it does have going for it, on a good day, is a certain can-do energy. A lot of people here -- including me, and I never imagined I would say such a thing -- would actively support Nenshi in making some sane changes in this place. It would be particularly nice to break out of the stale liberal-conservative rut that this country has been mired in for so long. I was very surprised, on scratching the surface, to find that Nenshi is neither an ideologue nor a showboater. He seems serious.

But by far the best thing for him to do is just be competent for a while.
Brittle. Many apps will delete and replace a file when writing. Now you have 2 copies, 1 out of date. You'd be mildly better off with a union file system, but there aren't any good ones I can find.

Plus, that sort of file-based system doesn't cache file system structure/metadata, which is a major source of disk head movement.
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You'll have to excuse me, but screw techcrunch (or rather your idea of what techcrunch will do for you).

Your launch is not the be all and end all, it's the beginning of a long hard slog. Look at the likes of Bingo Card Creator and Balsamiq. Why would Bingo Card Creator belong on TechCrunch? Rather than focusing on one site, you need to work on a long term plan to raise profile within your target market. The last thing you want is a load of uninterested visitors looking for the thing between now and the next big thing. If you business is relevant to it and it's ready, the likes of TechCrunch will come to you. In the meantime focus on the niches within your target market.

For example, my company sells two things - Penetration Testing and Incident Response. We're very, very good at it, but not many people know about us in our target markets because we (some might say) foolishly were a little bashful about promoting ourselves. Some of that was a product of size and structure, but most of it was that we were taking the wrong approach. We've picked a niche (GCSX CoCo Health Checks - I know, interesting stuff right?) and have started marketing it offline and online. Have a look at http://www.mandalorian.com/services/penetration-testing/gcsx... - That's one A/B tested page for one niche (GCSX CoCo Testing) within a niche (Penetration Testing) within a niche (Information Security). We're a B2B consultancy so we tend not to do things like blogging (at least so far) as it has the potential to be a time sink. Instead we focus on winning business in a target sector or niche, which is what you should be doing.

Our campaign has an initial ramp period, sustained promotion for a reasonable period and then will enter a business as usual setup. Persistence and testing is what will get you the results your after, Not Michael Arrington.
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Webkit isn't a browser.
A good solution for obfuscating/encoding ids:
http://github.com/kylebragger/tiny
Ewww, You Use PHP?
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No, it's a hundred browsers. So?
Good overview. I not convinced that the pluggable storage engine architecture is entirely a good thing - it does somewhat limit the amount of integration that's possible between the planner/optimizer and storage engine.
Worse yet, this sort of behavior can make security flaws much worse. Imagine a comparatively minor security flaw that allows an attacker to view otherwise secret information for customers, orders, members, etc. If you send plain-text sequential ids around then it becomes trivial to exploit that security hole to gain access to a lot of juicy data. However, if you hash or obfuscate every identifier then the problem for the attacker becomes much, much harder, since now the search space is vastly larger.

Defense in depth, belt and suspenders, and all that.
Who is supposed to be interested in maintaining Java on OS X? Apple, if their platform were too weak to attract developers who develop specially for the platform.

Oracle, if the Apple's platform is attractive enough. Note that Sun fought Microsoft to effectively take over Java on Windows. I know, MSFT one was not "pure," still that was the result. And one has to wonder if Apple would be sued the same way, since they also have OSX specific bindings.

The current bet is: OSX just became interesting enough to let Oracle maintain Java on it, if they want and are capable.

As far as I understand, the Java applications that were not already using OSX specifics weren't by any measure successful, and the only famous one is that FTP client, which is actually not a "write once works everywhere" Java app, but an OSX app accidentally written in Java. And it's an open source app. Can you please name some examples for "business based on a Mac Java apps?" Especially those that don't use OSX specifics.
without the support of Council, the mayor won't be able to do anything

He might if he manages to hold the attention of the community. I've never done a thing in city politics in Calgary - never had the slightest reason to identify with any of it. It has been as boring as it was vile. But I actually would this time, if Nenshi doesn't make the mistake a certain other "change candidate" did and squander his greatest asset, the popular imagination.
Why you need to build planet-sized shield? Why not pollute top layers of atmosphere with something bright? SO2 will be good choice. One satellite with few tons of SO2 can pollute Venus atmosphere in few weeks, and it will stay polluted for thousands of years.
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Tell that to the multi-billion dollar advertising industry.

Having the perception of value is THE necessary condition to selling your product.

Having actual value may create this perception of value, but this is not necessarily so. I've seen several products including a few startups here on this site that I KNOW have great value, due to my own close observation. But there are many potentials customers who don't immediately see this value after casual review, or don't know about it.

Reality is perception.
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I wouldn't call that a "good" solution per se, it's highly vulnerable to pre-computed table cracking (or merely discovering and making use of the algorithm).
Because its the easiest way on GAE I suppose?
If you haven't heard of them, why do you have them? Why don't you get rid of them?

I'm also interested in what kind of add-ons you have installed that require you to restart your computer.

I also don't see how the existence of extensions is a downside for a browser. Firefox ships with none to begin with.
In the show, The Colony (Discovery), the colonists built a wood gasifier using spare parts found within an abandoned warehouse.

Here's a video clip showing a wood gasifier (they eventually got it to work but that part isn't shown in this clip): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkH6mFlfH3o
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Zynga wants to patent virtual currency in gambling games
Will be updating with prior art but please post if you have anything

Here is basically what they want to patent:

Purchasing virtual currency with real currency where the virtual currency cannot be returned to real currency into a gamgling game.
Using the virtual currency in the gamble and deducting/awarding the user appropriately.
2 claims that say the same thing: associating a virtual item to 2 users (implying that a virtual item can change hands, wow what an innovation zynga, thanks) and purchasing a virtual item with virtual currency
Transfering virtual currency and in the process verifying a social connection, between 2 users and placing a limit on how much they can do this.

Software patents need to be invalidated but we'll get into that later

I will be doing a live stream or a local recording of me trying to implement this "innovation" to be "defended" for ~20 years in the interests of the progression of science and arts in the shortest ammount of time

Also started http://stopsocialgamepatents.org