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Yorkshireman #1: "Bah, C programmers. They don't know how good they have it!"

Yorkshireman #2: "When I were t'lad, we'd have to use assembler by hand!"

Yorkshireman #1: "Assembler? Luxury! We never had an assembler. We had to poke the data in by hand!"

Yorkshireman #3: "Poke! Oh what I wouldn't have given for poke! We used to live int' shoebox int' middle of road, and we'd bootstrap the OS using toggle switches on't front of case."

Yorkshireman #4: "Oooh toggles! What I wouldn't have given for toggles. We used to live int' hole int' ground, and all we had to go on were scraps of hard stale bread, on which we'd punch holes and use as hollerith cards!"

Yorkshireman #2: "Holes? Holes? Bliss, oh what I wouldn't have done for holes!"

*shamelessly plagiarised from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDaSvRO9xA
For someone who puts so much faith in free markets you don't appear to understand how they work. In your studies, look up "market elasticity" for a clue.
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Until we have viable alternatives, it seems rather fruitless to complain about the power that Apple has in terms of dictating App Store policies. I'm a fan of the HTML5 developments, but it doesn't offer anywhere near the level of sophistication available to native apps on iOS. To get developers like myself to abandon the investment we've made in terms of mastering Objective-C and iOS, a web-based alternative must at least offer comparable functionality.
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Could you please cite somewhere in the world where the free market is working for health care? Every other first world country either has socialized medicine or a tightly regulated health industry.
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Completely OT: but I would suggest that one of the options for people who have problems in their lives is to search through MetaFilter for "prior art" and the surrounding support/advice.

It took me a little while to accept that my problems were far from unique, and once I got over that and reached out (as a lurker - I only read through archives, didn't post anything), I'd go so far as to say that MeFi saved my life from a downward spiral.

I love the Internet.
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I wonder if there is a germ of an idea here. Crowdfunded TV shows (or movies). Somebody proposes an idea for a TV show, gets some talent on board who sign up if it gets X amount of cash, people vote with cash donations (maybe with signed merchandise and other goodies).

Maybe Kickstarter could do it, if not might be a startup in there.
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"Both Apple and Google have demonstrated that they want to be the only source of commercial apps for their platform."

Have Google really done this? Isn't there soon to be Playstation app store among others? And you can always download files away from the Market?
Post Sept. 11, it was nearly impossible to get in touch with loved ones. With the immediate cell phone towers destroyed in the attacks them selves (and crippling the infrastructure as well as a lot of it was in tower 7); the remaining cellular network was under extreme load from people attempting to reach out to their family and friends. I was unable to contact my family to let them know I was OK for up to 6 hours after the incident happened.

A site like this serves a great purpose when a large tragedy occurs - the infrastructure for things such as internet and communications can easily be compromised when a large scale earthquake or terrorist attack happens - or when large numbers of people simply can not update their status to the world if they are safe or not...
I remember this from when the iPhone launched, it was actually how they said we could build apps before the App Store existed.
This looks truly amazing!

One thing I did notice is that I can't type when you were doing your demonstration stuff - perhaps some visual indicator of 'who has control' so I know when I can and can't use the site would be useful.

Looking forward to it.
And ironically, they take a 30% cut themselves as well.
The example in my mind was Kongregate being removed from the Market. It got back on, but the comments from Kongregate referenced "competing app stores".
As bad as this sounds, I think that those who wish to get in bed with Apple deserve what they get. There are plenty of other platforms that can make money, and after my post on the lack HN thread regarding why people don't move over to Android produced few answers. It is also a topic of much discussion on the Readability blog post; a topic the author has yet to address.

The App Store can be very good for those who work with it, but in the same way that using Adsense can be good for those who use it. There are other options; they may not be the industry leaders, but they are viable options and you'd be a fool to turn down a platform with 100 users just because a tough platform with 110 users is better known.

In the same way that some men are attracted to insane girls, it seems that some developers simply cannot get enough of Apple's tough, kinky, anti-trust-bound love.
So it sounds like you're a person who doesn't mind putting his family at risk to chase a dream that has horrible odds of coming true.

The best part is: this risk is completely unnecessary. No other first world country puts this kind of risk on its citizens, and health care costs less in all of them.
Added to my todo list, thanks!
And soon to be an amazon app store.

And yes, so far as I know most android phones allow installation of apps from anywhere via a simple checkbox setting.

To put it lightly, this substantially weakens the argument.
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Thank you for mentioning this!
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Thanks!

Yes, we are planning to add something like that. Right now the visual indicator is an hour glass (cursor) but we will make it more visible in someway.

We could even use the favicon trick on top of that, I think Gmail uses it to show the number of unread messages.
My sympathies are 100% with Android but until the underlying audio & media APIs are much more mature I just can't implement the kinds of apps I'm interested in on Android. I'm keeping an eye on it though.
Except for all the barriers that the established players have put in place to keep said hacker out.
It's probably not too difficult, although my guess is you'll have to refeed your content. Unfortunately I've never worked with solr so I can't offer suggestions on where the modifications need to be made.
I think, you are referring to machine code, not assembly langauage. In assembly, code looks like

cmp [eax], ebx
jg bigger

Data looks like

ans db 42
msg db "Hello World!",0

They are not interchangeable.
I didn't have sound on so I couldn't hear what you were saying. But my first impression from that video was that you need to take a shower.

Then it got impressive, and I understood what was going on.

I think it would behoove you to just start the demo immediately without preface. I can't be the only one without sound on.
> Go build some value. You'll make the connections you need as you go

Yes! (but move fast, always keeping future competition in mind.)
It's not popular because it's odd, it's popular because these types of freak situations happen to regular old homeowners all the time: http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Corporate-Responsibil.... Only this time the tables have turned and it's the bank that is getting foreclosed on.
Is it worth noting that the title is a pun on a BBC quiz show? I get the feeling the pun was more important than the analysis in deciding the gist of the article.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/onlyconnect/quiz/
Depending on what kinds of apps you write, this may never happen. How long do you think it will take, for example, for something like the Accelerate framework to be available in a usable form in a web api? It's hard enough to get something relatively simple like local storage standardized.

Unfortunately most of the apps that can be realized as web apps are just more of the glorified paperwork UIs I burned out on writing as a web dev in the first place.
No, health care is an inelastic market. A free market is not the best way to handle health care (which is why no other first world country even tries to).
No worries really - thanks already for giving the feedback.

I know for sure it can be done with some configuration tweaking, not even sure I'll need to reindex.

Thanks!
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Is it possible to sort in different ways? Am guessing it's sorted by latest recommendation at the minute?

I searched PHP and would like to see by # of recommendations...
Agreed.

In fact, if the OP doesn't share results, I'd be happy to fill in a similar form again for anyone who does agree to publish the results. Deployment is one of the biggest pain points in my life and I'd love it if it could be made better. Thanks!
What language/tools did you use to build it?
Haha, ok, thanks for the tip about the shower.
Absolutely. In a way the most shocking aspect of all this is that Google hasn't jumped at the opportunity to bring established app developers over to their platform. If Google continues to wait around and not refine their tools I can see Microsoft moving in to establish themselves as the underdog and as a strong developers choice.
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I'd suggest something more obvious than that. A colored bar below the video image, or a big icon floating at the lower right. This is a new style of interaction, and it will help to reduce confusion by being very obvious about the state of things.

Thanks.
What kind of apps? As of Gingerbread, the NDK supports OpenSL ES, which seems like a perfectly decent API for games and other low-latency audio applications.
Well said. I've been using the iPhone since September 2007, but if Apple loses the Kindle app and Netflix app, I'll have no qualms about jumping to Android. Strong support from top tier web services companies (Rdio and Amazon come to mind) is my favorite thing about iOS - Apple underestimates how quickly they could lose that pivotal advantage.
In my country (Uruguay) if you pay for medical treatment outside the health insurance cost are not cheaper than in US, but health insurance cost between 50-80 dollars a month and are "all you can eat" insurances (regulated by the state in the cost they charge each month and in the amount of services they include), of course when you are ill and need of they service they loose money, but they win every month you don´t use it or you just use them 2 times in a year to give you a prescription to flu medicine, as the vast majority of people never has really expensive treatments, they are profitable companies
...aaand the video demo gets removed. Great.
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Thanks. I'd kept off all identifying information as some folks prefer to keep operational information secret. I'm hoping the complete anonymity gets me more filled out questionnaires.

I'll give it a good few weeks, say a month, and then get the results together. I'll post them to my blog (http://morethanseven.net) and I'll post the link on here too.
I'll definitely publish the results, including the raw data.
Does anyone know of an EPUB reader for Windows, Android, or Linux, that doesn't suck horribly? I currently use ezPDF on Android and it's excellent.
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nods I like the floating icon idea.

Thanks for the suggestion.
> While the VM backend helped, we found that it still wouldn't stay within the bounds we set, and would continually grow no matter what we set. We did report the issue but never came to a good solution in time. For example, we could give Redis an entire 12GB server and set the VM to 4GB, and given enough time (under high load, mind you) it would climb well above 12GB and start to swap, more or less killing our site.

We came across this same issue while implementing a Redis-based solution to improve the scalability of our own systems. Someone filed an issue reporting this: http://code.google.com/p/redis/issues/detail?id=248.

Basically, antirez confirms that Redis does a poor job estimating the amount of memory used, so you'll need to adjust your redis.conf VM settings to take this into account. For anybody relying on Redis's VM, I'd recommend writing a script to load your server with realistic data structures with sizes you expect in production. You can then profile Redis's configured memory usage vs. the actual memory usage point at which swapping starts occurring, and set your redis.conf according to the limitations of your box. For example, we run Redis 2.0.2, and using list structures with ~50 items of moderate size, we found configuring Redis to use 400MB actually resulted in it using up to 1.4GB before swapping. We configure our settings to take this into account. Mind you, this may all change with diskstore, and later versions of Redis which are supposed to be more memory efficient.

For those curious, our Redis-based solution is helping us scale some write-heavy activities quite nicely, and has been running stably.
You may or may not know, but non-Australians living in Australia are covered by Medicare (depending on your visa type), so that could explain the similar pricing.
Having no distinction between code and data is the 'default' on Von Neumann architectures. Harvard architectures kept code and data in physically separate storage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture
No, even then.
There are plenty of other platforms that can make money

List them, please.

Winmo has been a complete failure so far.

Android has shipped a lot of handsets, but the users don't seem to like to pay for apps.

Nokia is dead.

Palm is dead.

The next closest competitor to the Apple App Store is still nothing more than a tiny dot on the horizon. Maybe that will change, but most developers want to get paid TODAY.
Not yet! But I need to work on more sorting/filtering, definitely.

It's currently sorted (in that order) by 1) textual relevance and second 2) number of quotes.
Walled gardens are great when a medium is brand new. Without history and without a critical mass of knowledgeable individuals it's very much more difficult for individuals to find offerings of sufficient quality, and then from there to filter based on individual preferences and needs. Such was the case with mobile apps when the iphone came around. The quality of mobile apps tended to be rather poor at the time and there was a bewildering array of them. The iphone introduced a huge new chunk of people to smartphones, the appstore model was an attempt to raise the quality bar of mobile apps and to make it easier for users to find and buy apps. And it worked spectacularly well, propelling a once questionable development arena to enormous heights of popularity (and in some cases profitability).

If you look back on, for example, video game development you can see the problems that can occur without such walled gardens. The home video game market boomed in the late 70s and early 80s, with families buying new games like hotcakes. A lot of game makers jumped on the bandwagon and pumped the market full of low quality games. Whereas in previous years the total number of games for the Atari 2600, for example, had been in the low dozens in 1982/83 this number ballooned to hundreds. Consumers could no longer have much confidence in which games to buy and so they stopped buying, leading to a massive crash of the video game industry in the US that lasted until Nintendo came along with its own walled garden approach.

However, the video game industry has matured since then, and walled gardens are no longer very helpful (there are far more than sufficient resources these days to determine which games to buy and which to avoid based on individual preferences).

As the mobile app market continues to mature it will strain against its walled garden confines more and more. Increasingly such hand-holding is less necessary and more and more restrictive. Apple has a choice to recognize that the market is changing and to adapt or to ignore the changes and pretend as though it's still 2008 while the world passes them by.
"Which is the most quoted book"? or "What are the top 10 among most quoted books"? these were the questions going in my mind, while I'm browsing.
Many only shops will show a price that you pay, plus whatever it costs to get a credit card transaction.

You could do the same here, since it doesn't say "at the same price or less including all fees".

But then again Apple would properly just alter the rules.
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Kongregate was removed from Google Market, but that does not prevent it from being distributed separately (On Android you can download apps directly from the web and install them, without using the app store).
I don't necessarily think that what someone hopes to learn from an internship is worth much. One of the key things about the most valuable internship I did was that almost everything I learned wasn't in the list of things that I would have expected to learn.
I clearly remember doing so 25 years ago in many countries.
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Just wrote that down, thanks!

I will probably come up with some kinds of list, and will definitely work on better sorting/filtering.
I don't like the new restriction even though Apple obviously is in their good right.

But beneath this there is a deeper concern that is now making me consider choosing the web over learning to develop for iOS: I don't trust Apple. I love my iPhone and iPad, but these frequent and unpredictable changes to the TOS makes it quite a liability for me as a developer. Making a product/startup always involves the what-if-google-does-it risk, but this new what-if-apple-shuts-you-down risk is more disturbing imo.
California is running out of money, so maybe they need some nice large anti-trust fines.
Mass is scalar and therefore is invariant.

"Increasing mass" inevitably leads to so-called "perpendicular mass" which must change and "proper" mass which must not change for equations of motion to stay correct.

This "perpendicular" mass is unphysical.

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I wonder sometimes if it'd be worth creating a site that aggregates all the most useful and interesting information from social news sites like Reddit, HN, etc. like this site does for books on HN. I spent a long time finding all the best "life hacks" on Reddit the other day and really found some gems.
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This is correct. You only pay 30% on subscriptions purchased through the IAP. Apple have expressly stated that they take nothing from subscriptions taken out through any other means.

So if I take out a magazine subscription through the IAP option in the magazine app, they pay 30%. If I take out the same subscription through the magazine's website they pay nothing, even if I then access it exclusively through the app.

The caveats are that I must have the choice of taking out the subscription through IAP, and must be able to get the same (or better) price through IAP. They're basically assuming that so long as there is no price difference they'll do well from the convenience of IAP for the consumer.
And don't store passwords as plaintext :) That's your user table right there.
>just like schools are allowed to set rules about wearing your uniform correctly all the way home.

They can set whatever rules they like, but can they enforce them? I don't know if the school can enforce the uniform rule, though I imagine it would depend on whether it is a private or a public school.
I've read a complete book in 2006 that predicted it all from a well known Banque de France economist. It seems that those worth their salt predicted it, but nobody was interested in hearing it coming.
Don't meddle would sum it up imo. Learn about the culture and history would be step 2 :)

When outsiders have supported revolutions actively in the past, things have had a tendency to go wrong (I am sure there are counterexamples). Revolutions should come from the people involved, not from outsiders.
I have always, instinctively given an auto-generated unique ID to any table that represents an object: e.g. users, stories, payments etc.

Although it can often mean that you end up giving a unique ID to pretty much everything it saves these kind of problems in the long run.

My other long-standing trick is to mark things as deleted rather than actually removing them from the database. This allows you to un-delete things. It has saved my ass on a few occasions.
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I agree with going straight to the demo. The "wow, cool!" factor kicks in too late, you may lose some people who stop watching after the first 10 seconds.

Just start with "Hi, guys, let me demo site support. Let's get me out of the way <move video>, here I am demonstrating the site support website...".

Seems like you have a really nice product, and great domain. Good luck!
Well working on this definitely gave me other ideas. I think overall, the online data should be more easily searchable/sliceable, at a user level...
Not like this is a problem I have to worry about. But where on earth does one learn this stuff?

The talk is useful - as an overview of what they use - but I know nothing of how to implement a single step.
Even barcodes are not good for unique IDs in stores, since you can have same product eg. CHocolate produced in two different plants.

Basic rule is: never use any data as unique ID, always use an abstract field for that.
If this email is for real (and not a P.R. gimmeck), my hat's off to this guy. People accepting responsibility for stuff that happens under their watch.. wow that is a refreshing thought.
Okay, but the way he said it (now deleted) came across as “Well, I was reading along and the article seemed great, but then I was blindsided by the call to action at the end.” Maybe what he really meant was “We shouldn’t ever link or discuss op-eds, period.” I disagree, but if so, he should have just said that.
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