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Two thoughts:

First, with some quick Googling/Wikipedia-ing it seems that Java is released under the GPL. Wouldn't the viral nature of GPL make this code from Apple open source?

Second, if Apple cared enough to invest in building the code to make Swing seem native-OSX in the first place, one would assume they care enough to ensure that it stays available ongoing. Otherwise Java applications begin to drag down the 'desirability' of the OSX platform.
It's nice to have "evidence" of the email.
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Oracle is truly the demise of Java. I mean look at what they are doing to Open Office.
It's more accurate and less misleading to say "bandwidth" rather than "traffic."
I'm curious; have you faced any problems in that transition?

(seriously, I'm not trying to troll. I've had exactly one - making sure a project of mine would compile as PIC and that was pretty minor after the required reading)
Actually it is much more than what meets the eye. As a trend emerges where use of iPads/iPhones increases in the Enterprisy land, it will not hurt Apple to be up-to-date with Java. And as Steve puts it, it is better to leave upkeep of Java to Oracle who is standardizing their whole Application suite on Java and are focused on Java.Fact that Steve Job was the best man at Larry's wedding was not the deciding factor here.
Either that, or this is all a really highly orchestrated plan of Apple's to phase out official Java support completely after building up a Cocoa developer base. Are there any good numbers on Java desktop applications (aside from Java plugins) vs Java server applications these days? How big of an effect will dropping official "Apple" support complete with UI fancy-ness and some sorta Cocoa bridge? If we have to move to OpenJDK, will server apps really be burned all that much? What exactly is the big deal with having to switch to OpenJDK, anyway? I hear people complain about Apple being behind all the time with Java...isn't this ultimately what people wanted..an up to date Java distribution on OS X?
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I want this yesterday. Been working on writing my own custom browser UI in a multitude of different platforms (WPF / XUL / Flex / etc. / etc.) but they were all either buggy or didn't come full featured from the start. All I really want to mess with is the UI, not the behind the scenes stuff, so this seems to be exactly what I'm looking for.
Apple can do engineering, Google cannot design.
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Not to point out the obvious, but 1000 kg is a lot of wood. If you were cutting down one tree to drive one truck 500 miles, you're going to go through your trees pretty quickly. I would say that using wood to power vehicles is hardly different from using wood to heat homes. Very heat, space and distributionally inefficient.

The only useful applications of this technology are in places where there is a lot of wood (or similar, see rice husks) and no oil, mainly due to transportation factors (ie, remote communitiies in densely wooded area) or, in times of crisis (such as war or rationing)

Still, cool to see the pics of Volvo 240's with mini-breweries on the back of them. (see lowtechmagazein.com article)
We wrote this blog post back at the end of July about the project, not in response to the WSJ article. There have been a few posts since then discussing other aspects of the project, and there will be an update coming quite soon.
He wants something he can debug.... JSP!?! Jesus shitting christ!

God forbid I ever have to debug something in a language that reads like fucking pseudocode!
Are we really discussing science from the WSJ? Any science reporting in the WSJ is meant for the sole purpose of bolstering the non-political credentials of what is becoming an ever more right-leaning publication, thereby allowing its readers to participate in their own radicalization by pointing to articles like this as evidence that their source is "fair and balanced". Politics or pure Wall Street grist from WSJ, sure. Science?! We have plenty of better resources for it.
First off, I agree with dinkumthinkum.
Note that Django is not a simple framework. To get something running you can get it done in a really short amount of time but to put off a deployable site with proper security + stability + reasonable performance requires someone who is at least mildly experienced with Django.

As to the argument: A good programmer is a good programmer: Well a good programmer is only if he/she can get the task done. How can you truly evaluate someone how good he/she is? The best metric in this case will be to measure how well the person can deploy the site within the Django framework - after all that's what you are after.

If you pay someone who is cheap but less experienced, there is a very high chance of defaulting. Look at most script lance sites - they are filled with cheap developers from 3rd world countries but from my experience they are pretty terrible to get things done.

Bottom line: You pay for the quality.
Did you really need such an argument?
dup of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1817731
Of course, I agree with you on the fact that if something gets funded (even by great VCs), that doesn't mean it'll succeed. I also agree with you on the point that ANY music startup can have a tough time. You made the argument that musicians don't have a lot of money to spend so it would be difficult to monetize. While this is true, I think that argument would need to be discussed more as opposed to putting most of the emphasis on startups that deal with labels (if you want to discuss music startups in general).
This is terrible advice. Spending your life learning how to sell people crap that they don't need is wasting your life.

You should work hard to make a great product. If you don't know how to make a great product and don't have to patience to learn, go work for someone that does.
Oracle's lawsuit against google was the last nail in the coffin for Java. If I were you, and was forced to using java code, I would definately either use gcj to compile directly to native object code, or use an oracle supported JVM.
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This is encouraging. Didn't know they were friends. Makes you wonder though why they didn't do some sort of coordinated announcement. I'd REALLY like to hear from Oracle about this soon.
Good point. And I don't think classpath exception would apply here. I'd be interested to hear if someone has actually seen this source code "in the wild".
Automatic, clearly.
Might be interesting for this to turn into a new storage standard. It doesn't seem like they had to go through any particular shenanigans to cram the flash chips onto that form-factor. Then the non-upgradeable MBA main storage would become upgradeable.
Ok - put it like this:

I've been doing web facing Java apps for over 10 years, every weekday, for at least 8 hours a day.

And yet, I still learn new stuff every single day. Sometimes not little things either - things that can save hours, maybe days of work.

I've met many better programmers than me. But I know my shit, and I bet I could get a Java webapp up & running quicker than someone like say Donald Knuth, simply because I've done it so many times before.

I've done some Python and Django, but based on my Java experience I know someone with a couple of years experience with it would destroy me if we were racing to build an app. And from the client's point of view, it's always a race because time is money.
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I have off-site backups of the very important things (personal documents, wedding pictures, etc.) at my mothers house (in their safe) and my safety deposit box with my bank. My bank is only 15 minutes away so adding to it isn't a problem at all, my mothers is a couple hundred miles away so whenever I go to visit (normally every other month) I take a backup. Again I use an external HDD (although a smaller 2.5" drive) for both my mothers and my SDB with photocopies of original documents, etc.

It all comes down to evaluating the risk and value of loss verses the effort. Would I be upset if my house burned down and my safe didn't protect my HDD well enough that I list my family holiday photos to Disney World in 2003? Sure but it wouldn't be the end of the world. People still lose everything when their house burns down who do not store things digitally/offsite which is probably >99% of people in the real world. However if my house burns down and my safe fails I have all of my really important things in two off-site locations a fair distance apart. Is it perfect? No, but it is as close as I can be bothered to make the effort for. With services like Flickr and Picasa Web things like pictures and video are easier to "backup" online, Google Docs for important documents, etc. Archiving things via Gmail/Hotmail, etc. This gives me a way to store copies of those holiday pictures at Disneyworld (albeit in a lower quality than I have backed up) as well as share them with family more easily.
I wonder where Youtube falls in regards to % of bandwidth in North America.
Competitive intelligence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_intelligence- competitors can gather information about your business, make estimates about the health of your business, etc.
Ok. This article seems to be saying that Netflix epsnds 500 mil/year on shipping, and they now spend more on streaming than shipping. Let's say they spend 500 mil/year on streaming.

http://newteevee.com/2010/10/20/netflix-ceo-we-are-now-a-str...

Let's also assume that they spend 2 cents/gb on bandwith, so $1/50gb. 50gb * 500mil == 500 * 50pb == 25 exabytes.

Somebody with more knowledge: does the yearly US bandwidth sound like it's in the range of 125 exabytes?
Being able to produce a product is nice but it won't sell itself by merely existing. "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" If you release a product and no one knows will anyone buy it?
Ugh... I can't seem to find it but someone built a quick and dirty web page that would use Rapleaf's API to lookup email addressess.

EDIT1: I think it's somewhere on Pete Warden's blog (same guy that crawled Facebook).

EDIT2: Here it is.

http://web.mailana.com/labs/findbyemail/
The game is written in Java. I think he'd be familiar enough with it to debug it.
No, it might be wasting their life, but it's solid advice for the OP. It's been proven to work.

I'm terribly sorry, but not everyone's purpose is to make great products that help mankind. Some people just wanna get rich.
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Right, but the point is you'd be donating to a literary festival: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104085200/page-turner-a...
You mean without socialized health care? (although this really isn't a discussion worth having here :)
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As I take it, he's already had an audience before. It's just that the audience didn't care much.
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Some times you need to explore new revenue streams. Take Apple for example. 60 percent of their sales are from products that did not exist three years ago; http://www.asymco.com/2010/10/19/60-percent-of-apples-sales-...
it's a pity apple ported their web framework from objective-c to java
Not too much (and that's particularly true if you look at the older engineering disciplines.) The goal of an undergraduate education would be to learn how to learn.
1. A mvp shouldn't take 8 months. You need to launch faster and you need to talk to your customers before, during and always.
2. TC doesn't matter much. I've received 2 posts and about 4000 visits for each post and only a handful of real users from those visits - you need a good product.
3. The initial idea doesn't matter that much. You probably won't start with the best idea. Iterate, iterate, iterate to the best product and idea.

It's not easy. Good luck!! Hope you stick with it.
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We're working on a social recommendation for iPhone/iPad apps on top of facebook.
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How do you think about our service name "AppDorks"? Is this ok or attractive for you?

I'm not a native american but I understand the word "dork" means negative. Some of my English-native friends advised me to use "dork" because it may work as "geek" or "nerd".
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Most Windows sold today is 64-bit, and it allows you to run more 32-bit programs without running out of memory.
Nope, sorry. I don't even know what MVP stands for. Most Valuable Player?
I think it's a lot easier to get away from partisan politics in local elections. All politics are local, after all, so a politician that can identify and intelligently discuss problems that people have every day can do a much better job of avoiding the strictly partisan debate.

It's much harder to be specific at a national level, so partisanship takes the place of thoughtful discussion.
Obviously the company and nature of a site will dictate whether leaking that information is considered a "flaw" and how bad a one.

Depending on how user sessions are tracked, being able to predict other valid "user ids" based on your own is an important first step to attacking other accounts.

It isn't unusual to find other flaws that will enable you to pull more (potentially sensitive) information about users or even "impersonate" users when armed with knowledge of someone else's valid user id.

Non-public companies certainly don't have too many obligations to publish information on the amounts of customers, numbers of transactions, etc they are doing. Even public ones won't break a lot of that out.

One of tptacek's strangers (competitors?) being able to tell how many paying online subscribers a newspaper has signed up would probably make someone in management squirm.

Likewise with being able to tell how many transactions an Internet Banking application is pumping.

Both of those are real examples.
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Jim hasn't been involved with IronPython for quite some time, although this does cast a shadow on their commitment to .NET.

But the bigger news is really this one ...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2010/10/21/new-compon...

IronPython / IronRuby have been axed from Microsoft, contributions on Codeplex are welcome, with external project leads which include Jimmy Schementi and Miguel de Icaza.

This may actually be good for the Iron* languages, but I'm a little worried that the DLR inner-ring (Microsoft.Scripting.Core.dll) will stagnate as it will not receive contributions from the community.
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The ability to sell is getting the customer to choose YOUR product over alternatives.

There are very few products out there that we need and cannot be substituted.

I've got a perfectly sharp knife in my kitchen, but after watching the sales genius in the above video, I feel like I NEED to get one of his carrot peelers.
It's not bad for the purpose you describe.
Actually Android isn't open, haven't you been paying attention ;-)
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Where do I find the 'Joe Ades' of web apps?
> Ethics aside, Google shouldn't seek to deprive nations of tax revenue because they benefit in no small part from that money.

I think the issue that people are disagreeing on here is who would make the better use of money: Google or a government? If Google paid $1 million more in taxes, would that be a net benefit or detriment to society? Google can do good things with that money, and so can a government. But which one can give higher marginal utility?
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I don't know that phone vendors have really wanted the kind of work that they have to do with Android. I mean HTC have embraced it, but most of the other manufacturers would rather have more work done by the OS. Once you get pegged as an 'x' phone, be it Android or Windows 7 then that's what user expectations are. Android is developed like a white label operating system but Google is marketing it like a consumer one and I don't think it works.
I'm surprised at the generally positive approach in HN toward Apple's recent announcements. Apple is about to have control over the user's system no one since mainframe-era IBM ever came close to.

Not only they're about to move desktops/laptops into the App Store's walled garden, they are showing they can drop support for major technologies like Java or Flash if they feel like it. This is not good news for anyone but Apple, certainly not anyone calling themselves "Hacker".
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I think it's a cool name. It would be even cooler if you let users create subdomains like znt.appdorks.com.
What assurance can he give when it is not in Apple's power to promise anything about what Oracle would do?

I always wondered why SUN wouldn't also ship an OS X version, they already had to support Windows, Linux, Solaris, with mostly native L&F for Swing.

You can't expect Oracle to spend resources and ship for OS X unless Apple gets out of the way. They are deprecating Apple's runtime here, nothing else.
It's also the point that it's easier and safer for a company to say 'no' to hiring someone than to say yes, especially if there's any doubt what so ever in the candidate's abilities. This is true for the financial and time cost, as well as the resulting lost productivity and chaos created when having to hire, fire, and find a replacement.

Therefore given how "picky" companies have to be in hiring someone, they often have an order of magnitude more people to say no to than yes, and the earlier in the process you go the more orders of magnitude of "no" they have to reply with.

Thus it makes sense for them to only provide feedback if someone requests it explicitly, and because it also shows them that you are still interested and put some extra effort into the process.
I just have one comment about your CMS. It looks very promising, but $999 is way too steep a price. You're really offering a free trial with a $999 setup cost? That is just plain wrong on so many levels.
> Think of a data center situation though where you can get a ~50% power requirement difference for marginal performance decreases.

50% lower processor power isn't the same as 50% less system power.
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I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. From the sounds of it it's nice to use, is fast and responsive and generally does what most people will want quite well.

I can see many many people being more than happy with a Windows phone
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Thanks! We'll enable subdomains when we start outside the facebook. (Currently it's a facebook app.)
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Never get in your own way.

So: What do you want your reality to be? Focus on it. Figure out how to get there. Never give up.

And, don't get in your own way by becoming your own worst enemy and defeating yourself mentally before your competitors.

I've made a lot of money over the years and have also lot is all to the point of going bankrupt twice (as in, having to file bankruptcy, rinso, everything gone). Still, I would not change any of it. Not one bit. Either this is in your bloodstream or it isn't.
This is gread AdWords advice. I've only just started playing around with SEM (as opposed to SEO which I already have a pretty good handle on) and Google AdWords can be wayyyy to expensive for very few conversions if ur doin it rong.

Thanks for the tip!
Here are a few possibilities of the advantages afforded by knowing an enemy makes 255 tanks/month:

- You may figure it's worth your time to go out of your way to bomb a few extra tank factories, as the payoff will be 5.5x greater than it would if they were making 1400 tanks/month.

- You may save money on R&D. Instead of devoting tons of resources to anti-tank weaponry, your more realistic estimate will lead you to spend money countering more important threads.

- You'll have more realistic estimates of the number and type of German forces at each battle, and thus will be less likely to over (or under) commit your own forces, and also less likely to bring ill-suited weaponry and tech.

- You'll be less likely to avoid or back down from winnable battles you would have previously considered to be un-winnable.

Etc. Fighting a war (or doing anything for that matter) without proper intelligence turns it into a guessing game. It's always to your advantage to know rather than guess :)
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"I think this is wonderful news for users as it makes the lengthy download-install-buy-license process as simple as a single click."

Maybe not a click, but the Ubuntu Software Center is basically that.
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I'm really interested in learning how to be a kick-ass designer. I've been told I have a great eye for design/aesthetics, so it'd be great to put it to good use. Interested in making beautiful icons, websites, app interfaces, etc. What would be the best way to learn? Best resources?

PS. Would I need to go to school for it? I've heard otherwise, as designers like (@dcurtis) were self-taught.

Thanks.
That's odd. Since when has Business Week had "TL;DR" summaries at the end of the article?
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Wouldn't the viral nature of GPL make this code from Apple open source?

No. Apple's Java was based on code licensed from Sun long before Java was released under the GPL. Additionally, Sun's release of code owned by Sun under the GPL does not preclude Sun from licensing that same code under other terms if it so chooses. That's the basis of the dual-license model used by other projects like MySQL.
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To what extent are startups a "What have you done for the investors lately" game?
I think you may be overreacting a bit here, although we won't know until a few years down the track

Apple aren't about to "move desktops/laptops into the App Store's walled garden", but rather they're about to add an optional place to purchase apps. It's an addition that I think may have some benefit for some users and smaller indie developers. I can see it becoming the way most people purchase most of their apps in time, but I can never see it becoming the only way to do so on the mac.

They also haven't dropped support for either Flash or Java. The new MBAs aren't shipping with Flash installed; so what? OSX is the only OS I'm aware of that does ship with Flash. Java? Well, Java's not going anywhere either.