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Anythings that helps people stay away from Flash should be very welcome.
On a similar note: I'd trust Google to put its profits to more effective use than any government.
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barclay: You obviously missed the point that "with customers around the world. There isn’t a perfect time for a deployment".

Come on everyone, we've got to get passed this US-centric world-view, especially when it comes to web apps. If you're down, you're down. It's bad no matter what time of day. Maybe it feels worse and is more stressful when it's during the day because the CEO is in the office standing over your shoulder, but that doesn't make deploying at night a substitute for bad deployment environments or planning.
Not when you stop shipping flash with the OS.
Why services should offer marginal features (with apologies to 37signals)
it's based on unix-derived architecture from the 1970s

Isn't this like saying that we shouldn't use wheeled vehicles anymore, because wheels are a stone-age technology?

It's fun to reinvent the wheel, but the wheel has been around for a long time for a reason.
I'm very sorry, but I have to laugh at this. That's like the SNL Celebrity Jeopardy skit where for the Final Jeopardy round an exasperated-to-the-breaking-point Trebek deploys a deliberately extremely easy question at the celebrities such as "write any letter" and they still find a way to mess it up.

And no, I don't feel sorry for people like this. Despite their glaring incompetence they still manage to snow people into hiring them. Some of them easily make $500,000/year and up if they remora themselves to the underbelly of a large company and emit horrible VB code.
For security and ease of use' sake it really is useful to provide a standardized interface for deploying applications through Apple's own update channels. I don't see why Apple can't manage feature parity with most of the major Linux distributions. Something like universe in Ubuntu would greatly benefit OS X users.

That is very different from asking Apple to promote apps - just host them, police malicious apps, and take a small cut of profits for the service. Admittedly, that's a bit different from a package manager, but it's clear, consistent, and really the best option for Mac UX.
Yes, an other exceptionally new feature invented by the Go masters which nobody had ever thought about before.
It seems like limiting yourself to 140 characters leaves yourself open to misinterpretation.
I have a similar background, and I found these two excellent reads removed a lot of the ambiguity that I think comes with JavaScript. For me, I was constantly having an internal argument around designing functionally--encapsulation and messaging via closures--vs designing in an object-oriented paradigm.

http://eloquentjavascript.net/

http://javascript.crockford.com/private.html

Also, I'd recommend making this the way you start writing software with JavaScript.

http://www.adequatelygood.com/2010/3/JavaScript-Module-Patte...
tl;dr:

Multinational corporations hold cash in foreign subsidiaries to avoid paying taxes on profits, and would get taxed on those profits if they bring them back into the U.S. (repatriate the profits).

This study shows the following:

- Firms that face higher repatriation tax burdens hold higher levels of cash, hold this cash abroad, and
hold this cash in affiliates that trigger high tax costs when repatriating earnings.

- Estimates indicate that a one standard deviation increase in the tax burden from repatriating foreign income is associated with a 7.9% increase in the ratio of cash to net assets.
The answer in HN's context should be obvious: It is 'evil' because these techniques have nothing to do with making a superior product, and it is 'evil' because it puts newcomers to a market into an inferior position: they don't have the resources to use the same techniques.
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Well, the type system can be used to isolate side effects, thus ruling out large classes of concurrency bugs (especially with threads instead of separate processes or strict message passing (e.g. Erlang)). It can also prove that typing errors cannot occur, whereas with a dynamic language, it is possible for the program to be ill-typed in only certain circumstances (a function could return a different type depending on input). But yes, there are plenty of concurrency issues that are not greatly mitigated by static typing.
Down the Memory Hole -- Apple has chosen their meaning for Flash
sounds like the issue here actually lies in the suggestion that most people don't have a sufficient deployment mechanism.
> this is valid C# code today - but almost noone writes their resource protection using this idiom because it's ugly.

Incorrect (and you don't need delegate, C# has lambdas now). It's because C# doesn't use that for its stdlib and instead has a (redundant) special form and defined protocols.
I hope that Windows is not going to follow! I for one like to develop/use applications which require optional components
I tend to prefer that old preference files be left around - they don't cause me any harm (not even a feeling of clutter, since it's not like I'm poking around ~/Library/Preferences all the time) and if I ever reinstall the app, I'm right back where I was. I can understand that it does bother some folks, though.
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Someone haven't heard about WinAmp? No way!
profits are way too easy to hide - see Monster Cable and Toyota America (license fee to mother company = low profits)
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This article is a little disappointing. The writer brings up the obvious advantages to it, but doesn't say how he manages the technical risk of the activity (unplanned downtime).
That's true for most employers, but the extra value of the Ivy League degree isn't that it's slightly more impressive to employers that would have employed you anyways, it's that it's pretty much essential to impress the standard gatekeepers to American high society: investment banks, law firms, and - to a lesser extent - medical schools, all of whom definitely make the distinction.
I think we already see that. This certainly was the case with boxing.
You're nuts.

I'm also 33 years old, and let me tell you, getting a break in this business at 33 with not much professional experience is very, very difficult. By 33 you're expected to have around ten years experience in the relevant technologies/application domains. At least 3 or 4 are pretty much requird for even a so-called "entry level" position. Companies are willing to cut you a break if you're fresh out of college, less so if you're not.

Your best bet is to move to either the SF Bay area or the Boston area. There you are more likely to find hiring managers who don't care about the bullshit HR filters and do care about what you can actually do and what your interests and motivations are.

Outside of that, good luck to you.
This.

Also, larger companies heavily document all of the legal, objective elements of the decision not to hire you and then retain them for eternity. Just in case you decide to come back and sue them later for something they didn't even say, since there are many of these cases that are just attempts to extort an out of court settlement.
Sure, that's how it looks today, but being in the App Store will be a huge draw, and tons of people will rework their apps to be App Store compatible.

In a few years once most apps have been pushed onto the App Store, they'll be in a far better position to cut them off, making the excuse of "This will only affect a small number of apps..."

While I agree that right now, it's infeasible for them to do this, a few years of the Mac App Store will change the landscape to a point where they very well could do this.
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The high you get from cannabis, to my mind, restores a playfulness and creativity to your thinking that most people have as children but lose as adults. It can sometimes make linear, technical thinking harder, but it tends to make it easier to see the big picture and brainstorm new ideas. It certainly can benefit artistic work, too.

Acid is even better; it maintains the creativity advantages of cannabis while adding a clarity of thinking that can often be superior to sobriety.

I'm not saying everyone will benefit from these drugs, or that they will improve your performance on every task, but you seem to suggest that they don't offer any benefit at all and simply reduce the user to an imbecile. That does not remotely resemble my experience.
Allow me to disagree. Right now, patio11's claim to fame and his "social capital" has more to do with him being patio11, than with A/B testing, product development, selling education software, or Bingo cards.

The way I see him, he is someone who is valuable just because of who he is: his thought, personality, writing, analysis, etc. His birth certificate is his resume.
my problem with it is not so much that google is paying fewer taxes, but that this complex tax structure encourages "innovation" in tax avoidance rather than innovation in things that actually create value.

How much money goes into building and checking the legality of those tax avoidance schemes? a lot, I bet. I'm fairly certain, for example, that my company would not be able to afford something like that.

A simpler tax law not only makes things more fair (maybe it's just sour grapes, but I don't think it's fair that there is one tax rate for corps like mine, who have one part-time accountant, and another, much lower tax rate for giant corporations that can afford massive teams of tax lawyers.) but it makes the economy more efficient. The goal of closing those loopholes should be to make it in Google's best interest to spend their effort on, say, improving search rather than avoiding taxes.
Google is extremely test-oriented, every project is covered by a test suite and there is a powerful distributed continuous integration infrastructure in place that executes tests "in the cloud" and doesn't allow to commit code that doesn't pass. Not to forget about the public Google Testing Blog[1] and the famous Testing on the Toilet[2].

People in the Ruby community also use temporary puts/logging statements for exploratory debugging, but of course nobody in right mind commits such code to the repository.

[1] http://googletesting.blogspot.com/

[2] http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2007/01/introducing-testin...
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I still don't get what he means, how is iLife anti-web?
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> I'm assuming that Apple is using the lv or ulv version of the Core2Duo in the MBA

They do already (the low-profile LV and ULV), and I'm pretty sure they'll keep on doing just that. I'm not even sure there's a non-ULV C2D at such low frequencies.
MBAs have OSX, which I can't imagine is going to be losing Flash any time soon.
> Are you aware of how many services Google provides for free that make my life (and probably yours) better?

Are you aware of how many services the NHS provides for free which make my life better, despite being cripplingly underfunded?

I'm not saying that google are evil for avoiding taxes, bit neither am I convinced that I wouldn't be better off if the money made its way into my governments hands.
This sounds more alarmist to me. So what if the direction Apple chooses for their computers is to make them (only?) usable by the common person? So what if they charge you to develop for their computers? Then those who disagree or want more from their machines will just buy something other than Apple. As an Apple user it will be sad for me if they go that way, but I'm not losing any sleep over it. I was a Linux user before I went Apple.
I went to high school in Japan. This is not true.
Sure. Yes, you're right.

So we should redefine tax law so that it's not legal, and have everyone pay their fair share. Only ourselves to blame, I'm certainly not blaming corps for chasing dollars.
Good post. I find there is a lot of potential economic value in connections of information. Essentially this is innovation.

Find just a few useful concepts/tools/techniques not previously connected together. Figure out if there are any new useful emergent features that result. See if you can build a business model around the features. Implement. Market. Prosper.
Don’t forget to enjoy the journey
I don't think Apple has any reason to buy AMD (too much of a bother, they're already busy with their fabless ARM acquisitions, and they're not into big buys), but they sure as hell could "orient" AMD's future decision making, especially when it comes to LV/ULV CPUs and IGPs.
These days, that's mainly because we import so many East Asians, Indians, and Europeans into our postgrad programs.
Moving from "click to enable technology that usually contains annoying video and sound" to "click to enable video and/or sound" is a better approach, in my opinion. That way if someone wants videos to play, but require permission to play sound, or wants sounds on one site but no videos, they can do that. We move from an all or none solution to something customizable.

Also embedded audio and gifs aren't covered by flash-blockers, though in some cases there isn't much of a difference between that and a video ad. If we have to filter content by type and/or by html tag instead of "wrapper that normally contains type", we'd get better coverage overall.
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Anybody can build this function on OS X, not just Apple. If it's that valuable, make it and get people to sign up.

Reasonable people can argue about the downsides of the iOS app stores, but I don't see how reasonable people could think that Apple should give an inch on it's Apple-branded OS X app store. The platform already has extremely good unrestricted third party development support.
Is it a good introductory book? That is, is it a good place to start if I knew zero Javascript? Or should I come to it after I've learnt a bit to refine my knowledge?
Not true, the MacBook Air ships with plenty of Flash :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1816749
> Here is a conspiracy theory I've got, and I think this article and Apple releasing the app store for mac backs it up: Apple is going to drop Intel chips in the next 3 years.

With all the Intel/NVidia crap going on, that's pretty likely. But not to a different architecture.

> All of this fighting between Intel and Nvidia is really only hurting customers; namely Apple. So what can Apple do? Create an app store that makes devs standardize on an API and shift the underlying arch. An arch that 67% of their product sales are using.

Uh no, that's not going to work unless they mandate that everything on the MacStore be UB x86/ARM, in which case you'll see the transition coming from a solar system away. Furthermore ARM chips simply don't have the oomph to drive big systems right now, you can put as many Cortex-A9 cores as you want on a chip, you won't be building something that can rival the current 12-core mac pro.
This was also very similar to my biggest takeaway from Startup School, actually. Any of the advice about how to gain customers, traffic, etc. when starting out was centered on real-world actions people took -- like evangelizing via meetups, as one example.
If you've got a CEO that

1. Think's he's helping by standing around your desk

and

2. will happily lurk over you while you're fixing things during working hours but evidently isn't concerned, not feeling as "helpful", nor around at 7PM...

Then, you've got other problems, I'd say.
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We are not just talking linking here. Including a Ruby interpreter, and a part of the Ruby library, or a Java virtual machine and class library if you will. I don't think Apple will go for that.
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For lengths of time, they only had one engineer on it by the name of Mike Swingler.

I can't speak for that today, but my source for this info was the Java Swing team themselves since they talked all the time with the Java "team" at Apple.
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shipping with flash... http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/21/new-macbook-air-shipping-with...
There was a paper from an ornithologist in the Czech Republic a few years back that found that the more a scientist drinks, the fewer and lower quality the scientist's papers.

The interesting part isn't the conclusion, which seems suspect, but the scientists' reactions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/science/18beer.html

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/03/19/a-sci...
As Robert Zubrin has said, if there were an open invitation for volunteers to be the first explorers to Mars, they would be lined up coast to coast.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0009/q_n_a.html
There are a lot of micro improvements you can do to this. For example, after you find sum() == 7, you can increment x by 9 (since the largest digit in the ones column can be 7, and this takes a deficit of two digits to get back to the rollover -- and then 7 more to get a sum of 7 again).

And frankly I'm not sure if its faster to convert to string and back to int, or if it would be better to just use modulo arithmitic to get the values associated with the ones/tens/hundreds.

In any case, what you have is certainly readable though.
I miss Winamp for its simplicity and the pencilamp skin. It was beautiful.
People remember him because of the bingo cards.

No, it's because of his friendly writing, being on a mission to fix other people, and actually improving a product. The cards are just a brand anchor.

Much like people associate maxklein with trolling, negativity, cowardly anonymity, and spammy iPhone apps.
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Yeah, B2B is an issue. Taxing profits and behavior tends to be the basis of all the accounting tricks and dodges. Revenue is harder to hide. It would also depend on what [x] really is. I am pretty sure it needs to be a lot lower than the current tax rate. This is especially true for low margin businesses (some agriculture related).

So, if I was actually true to what the intent would be (simple, trying not to double tax, simple (again), hard to weasel), it would seem I forgot the service sector pretty badly. So if it was: revenue - salary - services then I would be a lot closer. Verifying the services would probably be the biggest audit issue.
That sounds cool. Still not a Mac though. Maybe very very few people will hack it and run Mac OS X on it, but many people who buy Macs just want something that works out of the box.
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Microsoft Research is kinda like a country club for retired compsci laureates...
No need to apologize to 37signals. They wouldn't to you!
There may be a surprise coming your way.

See the link[1] and thread[2] about Flash-less MBAs.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/20/macbook-air-all-substance...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1814713
The claim is that the undergraduate education component of the US university system is broken, not that the basic research component of the US university system is broken.
True, but it came long after sIFR.
More to the point, a languaage that doesn't provide the tools to manage when, where, and what "dangerous choices" you make is much less worthwhile than a language that does.

C#, for example, doesn't let you modify objects passed in as parameters, unless you highlight that behavior on the method signature and the call itself with the appropriate keywords. There are many other examples in many other languages. "Do what you want, use convention to keep safe" is a recipe for trouble that has caused innumerable very serious defects in software (buffer overflows, security vulnerabilities, etc.) "Do what you want, and you have all these tools to keep track of it" is a much better choice, even if in the end the code does the same exact thing. Banking on humans not making mistakes is not robust.
While it might be a little FUD-ish, I don't think it's completely unfounded.

Banning Flash from iOS devices could be seen as banning the "App"-space competition at the door. Apple talks a lot about "the open web" but consistently pushes Apps.

For example, my iPhone's Safari is absolutely clueless to the file input tag, while it could easily access the "Camera Roll" to allow a user to upload a photo. Yet, Apps can access the file system as necessary - giving Apps the clear advantage.

I don't necessarily think that Apple is trying to "bypass the web", but they are definitely attempting to fork it. Successfully, even.
This is from Boston Music Hack Day. Text and audio samples from the 2-minute presentation are here: http://blog.ashearer.com/music-hack-day-the-uninterrupter
I've been wondering that for years. Many netbooks and ultra-portable laptops have this at least as an option these days. I'm going to have to get one of those battery powered 3G->Wifi routers, my USB modem sticking out the side scares me (people walking past it are a liability). Annoying - another device to drag around - but I guess it'll probably come in handy in other ways.
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Gotcha, I wasn't aware the game was so significantly different.

I think the WSJ article suggests that removing the helmets would force the game to change in this manner.

Also very much agreed regarding the linemen situation. It does conflict a little with your edit, however -- while the worst hits come from the forward pass (frequently), I think the most brain damage (at least from reading the Malcolm Gladwell article on the topic) comes from subconcussive impacts. Basically every time a player runs into each other, 50-80 times per practice or game.

I think the NFL is at the cusp of realizing how much damage the players' brains suffer. They (and even the NFLPA) aren't very good about taking care of players after their careers are over. I see two possible solutions: improve the equipment, or significantly change the game.
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We import them from American universities though. Our high schools are way more broken than our colleges.
I agree, this is rather alarmist, but I also agree with the blog post that this is the direction Apple seems to be going (slowly). Luckily, I'm a Linux user too, but I'm betting the majority of OSX users aren't ready for that switch.
Yeah, I would love to know how he got that far as well. It's definitely not a normal occurrence for people to get onsite interviews and then bomb like that. Everyone that I've interviewed up until this point was pretty decent even if they weren't ultimately extended an offer.
Please vote up the submission found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1816773 instead of this TechCrunch one.
it's actually a very small vocal minority who hates microsoft. They hate microsoft because microsoft means ubiquitous standardized flatten programming environments the way managers like, with sheeple programmers properly strapped and assembling programs from paid frameworks.
I certainly believe that. However, I suspect the game would significantly change if helmets were removed (hypothetically).

It would be interesting if I had a time machine, so I could go back and measure the impact of collision in the NFL game circa 1930. I think that's all the article suggests -- change the game significantly, or else start to realize that just about every NFL career player has serious brain damage, regardless of whether they suffered a concussion.
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