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> People wouldn't query the DOM if that wasn't the most effective way of getting stuff done. jQuery has a UI kit, it's called jQuery UI. And how is using jQuery equals to not using JavaScript to the fullest?

All UI toolkits leverage the DOM, that's not the point. The point is whether the DOM is at the appropriate level of abstraction for writing business app UI logic. I wrote at the level of the DOM for years, and when I switched to ExtJS it felt like a liberation. I spend way more time on business logic and experimenting with different UI designs, and far less time fighting with browsers.

> JavaScript is a prototypical language, you can't use it to the "fullest" if you force OOP on it.

OOP and prototypal inheritance don't conflict. You don't have to use classical inheritance to have a clean OO design.
Customers' only effective paths to reproach would be to either cut themselves off from culture and communications, or to switch to a competing ISP with more favorable terms. Conveniently for most ISPs, there is no competition.
It appears Steve Jobs has taken a medical leave of absence.
30% can be the entire profit margin for electronic content. The apps themselves are free and the provider has to pay a significant chunk back to the content owner (author, label, studio or publisher), leaving a much smaller margin for the retailer. 30% to Apple simply makes iOS unprofitable.

This also extends to subscription services. Do you expect Netflix or Hulu to hand over 30% of subscription revenue? I don't think so.
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I don't know why companies who aren't selling ads would choose a video platform other than Vimeo or Youtube. But I do know the customer stories look like I'm watching RealPlayer in 1998. And I'm on screamingly fast tubes in the middle of the country.

I give the design a thumbs up, FWIW.
You're conflating two different questions — requiring the simple interface for payments, and imposing a fee on purchases. If the goal of this change is to create a consistent, simple user experience, Apple doesn't need to charge a 30% fee to do that. If Apple chooses to force a 30% fee on developers, that is a cash grab, plain and simple. The tax does not improve the UX.
> "I’d have to travel from store to store and spend 45 seconds cracking each card. I estimated that I could expect to make about $600 a day."

Or you could make an app for your smartphone that uses OCR to instantly tell you whether you are looking at a winning ticket.
Wow this is awesome, the comments were very informative, I ended up reading all of them. I kept thinking, when will I see a lame stupid comment, and as far as I remember there really weren't any.
> "twice the RAM is the recommended size of your swap file"

Don't listen the parrots that repeat something that ceases to be true at least 10 years ago. Swap used to be a useful hack, it is not anymore.

> as if I'm going to wait for even 200MB of swap to fill up before flipping out and killing the offending process

Well said ;-)
I absolutely agree, I was just explaining the argument from the POV of the university.

Your athlete analogy sums up the issue perfectly.
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I wonder if the April 1st launch date was intentional. They might be better off doing it after that day so everyone doesn't right it off as a joke.
I completely disagree. It is one thing if this fund's algorithm is based entirely off of data extracted from Twitter, that would be an utter mistake. However, if the algorithm is combining fundamental financial data, analyst's outlooks/forward looking statements, current trends/movements in the market, AND Twitter/media data then I think this could be quite successful. A huge reason why our capital markets are not perfect is because of emotion in the market (case in point Ford's strong run for the last year fueled by optimism and relatively strong performance and the pullback since qtr 4 earnings were released, and a thousand or more other examples). Effective investment algorithms must attempt to be comprehensive in taking into account factors that effect share prices and the public's sentiment is certainly one of those factors.

The positive trading sessions for companies with quality Super Bowl advertisements following the big game is a perfect example of this point. Check at this article:
http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/picks/archive/does-the-supe...

A 1% lift captured in ten days on a hundred million dollars is what annualized return? I'll let you do the math, but I'd take it.
It doesn't. It would mean removing a link to the Amazon store, which is stupid. Amazon shouldn't budge on this one. Apple needs to back down.
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They employ Andrew Morton and Ted T'so, and have been working pretty hard to get the delta between their custom Linux and upstream down- I'd say they've been pretty fair to Linux developers.
I have yet to read anything saying the ability to make in-app purchases via the app store must receive equal billing to the ability to make out-of-app purchases. If this is true, then Amazon, for example, could keep their current UI and bury the option to buy through Apple deep within the app where you won't easily find it.
As a user interface shishya, I agree completely.

As a developer, I still have to write code that validates the data twice and possibly deal with validation failures in two different ways. Further, I have to make sure that both checks are using the same criteria for validation and keep them in sync if requirements change. This seems less than ideal.
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"So that basically means if the Kindle app wants to let you buy books from Amazon, it has to go through the Amazon website and it has to allow you to purchase books from Apple? How does that make any sense?"

It doesn't at all and I totally agree with you on that. I was just making it clear what Apple actually said because everyone seems to be latched onto the "Apple won't let you access your own content if you didn't buy it from them" fallacy.

Obviously Apple wants in on the purchasing action, and by forcing both actions to be available (staying in-app to purchase or being sent to a web browser) they are hoping at least some people find in-app purchasing easier/smoother and use it instead.
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I agree. I do think it indicates a cultural position, and to the extent that you don't fit culturally you should get a "no hire" to the benefit of both parties.

That is why I disagree that this is harmful to potential employees. I'd no sooner want to work for someone who thought this indicated inferior technology as they'd want me to work with them.
I edit articles on Wikipedia just to correct grammar and spelling. Are you offended by that, too?
You pointed out yourself in the comments to that answer that rsync was helpful, but that you didn't like the rude tone. The answer you accepted also agreed that you should use rsync until you edited the question to add more details. Now it's cheap and worthless?

The system seems to work. The top-voted answer is the one you accepted.
As an Internet user I've never felt Net Neutrality was about the current content providers. For me it's always been about the next Google/Netflix/Youtube. i.e. The companies that can't possibly afford to strike those deals.

And Google itself has shown that it's perfectly willing to strike deals to protect its own traffic and throw everyone else under the bus along the way. (What do we really think that Verizon deal was about?) If they bought into several major ISPs, I'm not sure the situation would be much improved.
The reputation might be a sort inverse filter: thousands of people participate in the programming jokes questions whereas even perfect answers to questions like "Under conditions X, Y, Z how can my foo do bar?" are unlikely to get much love.

It's those hard questions I love StackOverflow for (and there's no rush of people sniping them).
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The old forums had the same system so there is nothing new or brilliant going on here, the stackexchange sites just measure things in terms of reputation/votes and the old forums did something similar with posts/replies. The only innovation I see is the automation of how promotion happens in terms of votes/rep.
In Canada, are you able to say, "I don't want this one" until you get a potential winner? Here in Texas, you cannot pick your ticket. When you buy a ticket, you get whatever the cashier gives you or whatever the machine spits out. Or is the guy simply not wasting time scratching off the losers? I still don't see how this could be profitable since most games have 1:5 odds, including break even prizes.
Good explanation, I should formulate this as:

You take a donkey an some carrots, then you show the donkey than walking by this route he can eat a lot of carrots.

The donkey learn the route and then you complain about the donkey is eating the carrots you put there.
It's interesting that Red/Green and Blue/Yellow colorblindness correlate to the opposite color pairs that Jason points out. Does anyone know why this is? Are these types of colorblindness related to a deficiency in the filters (#s 1 and 2) he describes?
There's what you clicked on, and there's what you typed into a search box, hit enter, and then clicked on. The two are quite different.
As a customer though, what would you prefer? That was my main point is that the customer demand is really heavy on native apps.

Evernote is an example of a successful startup that has native apps for every major platform, and they consider it a strategic decision.
Time to trust your gut.
Just to address your 'logic' above though:

> "Like how Google copies the titles of web pages and snippets and puts them in search results?"

Google copies parts of web pages to benefit the website. To send traffic to them. It's beneficial to both parties which is opt-out by the webmaster.

How does Google benefit from Bing copying their search results? They don't. How can Google opt-out of Bing doing it? They can't.

Bing copying other search engines results is throwing down the gauntlet and stooping to desperation. It's MS announcing "we are not a technology company" - something I think would put off candidates who want to work at a technology company.

You might find it all morally acceptable, or even impressive. I don't.
I think that "arbitrarily small" is not enough, especially if you are running a business for decades.

Try convincing your boss that the chance of all tickets be winners (which would bring the business down) is "small enough".
Also, Clinton is of a generation that grew up with the understanding that gentlemen don't "kiss and tell".
it depends on how you define 'standard compliant', and fiddling with floating point behavior tends to break programs and make people angry.
I think apps are the flavor of the day, but the web will ultimately win.
Years ago when I was in undergrad at a top engineering school I had heard about this situation with grad students but it was not clear what the policy was with undergrads. Before starting classes for the first semester, I met with the provost and asked him whether the university asserted any IP claims on any undergrad work, related or unrelated to school. He assured me absolutely not and thought the idea was crazy. I wrote down what he said and asked him to sign it as an official of the school. He thought that was unnecessary but signed it.

During my senior year I invented some technology on my own time. A couple years ago a professor from the school found out about this at a conference we both attended, and subsequently I was contacted by one of the school's lawyers who indicated they believed they owned my invention and I was in violation of the school's rights. Fortunately I still had my signed paper and they realized they would never be able to prevail in court.

If you have any intention whatsoever of doing creative original work of any sort in college either on campus or off (or even in a part time job off campus), you need to get it IN WRITING that the university will not assert IP rights. If they will not give this to you signed and in writing, do not write a tuition check. Find another college, or better yet, skip college entirely. It is a complete rip off.
I was being generous, as rsync could be a useful suggestion to other visitors to the page, but it absolutely doesn’t answer the question that was asked. The top-voted answer, to the contrary, was edited to be genuinely helpful and an accurate answer, and deserves those upvotes. Also keep in mind that the page is getting activity because it’s linked from this discussion, so some karma changes have been triggered just now.
Arbitrarily small can be less than the chance that random atoms from your coffee rearrange themselves into a winning lottery ticket.
I love apple and I love apple products. I currently use nothing but apple hardware. If they prevent me from using the kindle app as I do now then I'll get an android phone and tablet. It's really that simple.
A neat visualization of Twitter posts from the Egyptian revolution.
Any news on the startup visa or EB-6? How long does it take to get approved? It will help so many entrepreneurs if this new visa was passed, instead of the current EB-5.
Makes all the right points, sharp.
The kindle app wasn't denied, the Sony app was no one knows exactly how it offered the purchase of ebooks. It could have let the user search for books from within the app and only redirected to the web store for checkout. In that case it definitely "offers the ability to purchase books outside the app" as Apple states.
Next time you're out and you meet some interesting new people, tell them you're the bartender at the hottest club / bar in town.

Compare their reaction to the one you see after you tell them "I'm a computer programmer."

I stopped telling people I was a computer programmer a long time ago. It KILLS the conversation. It's not 1998 anymore. Now I either tell them "I own a software company" or "I do special projects for legal/finance/whatever industry". The difference in how people open up is tremendous.

It's not my fault people have preconceived notions about what I do, but I'm not going to be a social victim of their ignorance. Other professions do this all the time. Insurance salesmen and accountants say "I work in finance." People who sell light bulbs and toilet plungers say "I own a distribution company". Do you think they tell people they "sell toilet plungers" at a cocktail party?
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I have a list like this. It occupies a dark recess of my mind that I try to avoid. If I actually wrote down a list like this I might actually do something about some of these weaknesses. (I do make the occasional effort at another chapter in the Haskell book.)

One huge glaring weakness is source control. I fucking hate source control. I want to write, tune and perfect my code and not worry about merging up, merging down, resolving conflicts, figuring out what came from where and what it meant, and dealing with whitespace changes. I hate being unable to improve my code in little ways because "it will make the merge harder". I hate shepherding my changes from my branch, up to the build branch up to trunk, and dealing with everyone else's crap on the way.

If I have to use source control -- and I do as long as I work -- then please, oh god, please make sure I never have to touch CVS, Clearcase, Visual SourceSafe, Subversion, and most especially git. Each one of these has screwed me badly. Yes, it's my fault, for not loving source control. You know what? I also don't want to know how my digestive tract works. I just want it to work and mostly leave me alone. If I have a problem with source control, it's like dealing with the after-effects of bad meat. Unless I'm using git, in which case it's like bad meat laced with razor blades.

There, I said it.
> Apple keeps testing the boundaries of what we will tolerate because it knows it can get away with it while the competition still lags behind.

I'm not convinced the competition will lag forever. If Apple were not the market leader, would consumers or developers continue to give them the same leeway?
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> Try developing 4 different client-side applications on different languages and frameworks.

People aren't going to keep doing that. As soon as there's a web app store that allows them to achieve a better cost/revenue ratio, they'll move away from native apps. Sure, web apps have inferior user experiences, but the difference won't be big enough to keep them on the native platforms, just like how it didn't keep them on the native desktop.
Yeah, no disrespect. I use your stuff. Cheers.

Actually, I can't edit it. Luckily it's getting more visibility than what I typically post, if that's consolation. You're well liked.
By that logic prostitute is a high-status job...
It's wrong to associate the clicktrail to the content of the page the link came from? How in the world can you tune for search if you can't/don't include context?
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I believe that students should be allowed to innovate without fear. If all goes well, they'll come back to the university to recruit and donate to their favorite research programs anyway. These students are probably paying fees for utilizing lab equipment and for the courses they attend. I remember I paid a $150 "computer access fee" every semester about a decade back.
Having only a mobile web version isn't necessarily obsolete.

The current demand for native apps on mobile devices stems from the fact that it is easier to get high quality user experience on the native apps than on mobile web browsers. This was true of desktop apps, too, 5-10 years ago. However, web-apps offer a host of other advantages and so long the UX can be brought up to a decent quality, I'd take a mobile web-app over a native app that I have to go find and install for the same reasons I prefer web apps to desktop apps (both to use and to create).

So, 37s's decision to do a mobile web-app is either obsolete or visionary. I'd bet on the latter.
Hibernation requires a large swap space, doesn't it? Last I knew it did, perhaps you can compress it now.
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Happy Cog had nothing to do with the redesign. It was completed 100% in-house, and while I'm not exactly sure what DesignLab® has in store, I think you can expect some additional insight into the their thought/design process.
I don't think there are many people out there that don't believe Google's technology is superior.

Personally, as someone who's held MS stock for a while, I kind of find this tactic to be deviously brilliant. For a dog thats been back in the race for a while I'm okay with them leveraging every angle they have to catch up. There's a ton of mindshare to compete with at Google. This seems to be a fairly effective short cut for Microsoft.

I think I'd see things your way more if this were two competing, resource constrained startups. But if its two 800lb gorillas going at it I'm going to have fun watching them trade blows and see how it turns out. Playing "fair" doesn't matter as much to me in this case.

But that's just my perspective - everyone will see this differently I'm sure.
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I just started using the Kindle app on my iPad. Loved it so much that I planned on buying a Kindle 3G as a companion device for my iPad (to handle the outdoor summer reading that iPad struggles with).

It looks like Apple is just testing the waters, but if they were to eliminate the Kindle app as it lives now, my next tablet would be an Android one, for sure.
I'm guessing the issue is when an app initiates the 'purchasing process' for a specific product, and then transports the user to Safari where whatever payment mechanism the vendor has set up completes the transaction. (And then gives a file to download which will open the original app again.)

Therefore Kindle would be safe, because you cannot search for books inside Kindle, it just has a link to the Amazon website.

That would make a little bit more sense to me, because I can see Apple's objection to 3rd party vendors circumventing the Apple-controlled purchase system when people shop via an iApp. For instance, some users might not even understand that the app has switched them to Safari, where none of the content is approved by Apple in any way. People go from feeling safe about using the AppStore/AppEcosystem, spending money etc., to worrying whether they'll be victims of fraud when ever they make an 'in-App' purchase.

It could just be that Apple wants a piece of the pie, but anything that makes iPad less attractive than Android will hurt its bottom line at the same time.
yes, but if you work at/own a gas station, you can pretty much pick the winners and sell the losing tickets.
Perhaps Bing tracks clicks for every search engine, not only Google. If so, they are not copying Google, but legally tracking user behavior across the web.
It sounds like ticket design is the problem; an algorithm is needed that:
- produces a set of bingo cards or tic-tac-toe boards such that only one board per card is a winner
- produces cards that contain a number of almost winners

Simply randomly assigning numbers wouldn't work, and it seems the method they've developed for building "fun to play" cards contains weaknesses against statistical analysis.

Hmm... now I'll be stuck mulling over a good algorithm for this all day...
A very clever post by CEO Richard White to differentiate UserVoice from Get Satisfaction - and he is right that the two products are different.

However I don't agree that customer support doesn't work - it depends on the vertical, type of product and price point.

In the UK we have a new mobile phone carrier that is totally customer support driven - you don't get the level of customer service you would normally get but the prices are significantly cheaper (aimed at teens and students who have little money but enjoy hanging out on social platforms).
He's right. Many people bet on the web, there is a lot of legacy on the web, and the web is obviously easier for developers to make.

But the customers want native apps (as thick clients to internet services). Native apps work better. They are faster and have more features.

Companies that have so much invested in the web, and choose to stick with this type of technology will find that they were wrong.
Why the hell didn't he hire people to find tickets for him?

If you are worried about people doing this without you, just make an app to calculate the values. Make the calculations server side, and only after checking if the phone is registered.

Just don't hire too many people, or the clerks may start to get suspicious.
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Care to explain why this is so?
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