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I'm not a fan of the hash-bang URLs, but I think this article largely misses the objections I (and many others) have to them. Nothing that he said is unique to hash-bang URLs; the same thing could be done with typical fragment identifiers, and indeed has been for ages. My objection to hash-bang urls in particular has nothing to do with using fragments to dynamically load content, which I think is a great idea. If you write your code like the article suggests, you'd be fine by me: he's taking a page which can be accessed by a non-js enabled browser and using js to modify the links so they load content dynamically. I can still look at that page with, say, wget or lynx and nothing would break. The Gawker redesign—and the whole hashbang scheme—requires any agent that doesn't execute js to mangle the URL in order to get at the static content. And that's the issue here—forcing non-compliant agents to change in order to do what they've always done runs in the face of the Robustness Principle. Hash-bang URLs are an non-elegant solution to a minor problem; use normal fragment identifiers for your Ajax instead.
It's more subtle than that; capitalism is to economics as thermodynamics is to physics. It doesn't matter what "system" you adopt, no economy can sustainably expend more wealth than it creates, just as there can be no perpetual motion machine. Capitalists are people who recognize this basic truth and act accordingly, equivalent to engineers who use the laws of physics to create machines. But what do we call people who claim to have invented perpetual motion...?
Recently added to Microsoft's virtualisation solution is dynamic memory allocation. You give each virtual machine an amount of memory for startup and a maximum value and a priority, and now you can over-allocate resources quite nicely. It does however require the guests to have Enterprise level licenses (for no other reason than to encourage you to upgrade)
in contrast to what competition is offering, yes.
You have to have some form of body, no?
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They've been testing it for a while although, its starting to rollout more recently. I've been noticing it mainly when I've been in Gmail and the new design is reportedly linked to the "+1" which is also rumoured/expected to launch soon.
This is true in my experience. CSS shadows are awesome, but use with care when you're animating! I see a huge drop in framerate in my CSS animation tool when I have a big fat drop shadow on an element.
Powershell is a good scripting environment, but is a lousy interactive shell. And is is exactly _because_ it pipes objects instead of text.

When plain text is being passed around, one can build a pipe incrementally and immediately see what the input to the next command is and decide what to do with it. With powershell one has to constantly check the properties of the objects.

It is faster to do a 'some -command | grep foo' than 'some -command | Where { $_.SomeProperty -match "foo"}'.
Wasn't it obvious when you bought the non-transferable music, books and apps that this was the sort of company you were dealing with?

It strikes me that this is a pretty unreasonable complaint. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I don't think it's fair to moan when it turns out it's a duck.

I'm not knocking Apple, I like Apple but we as consumers need to be aware of what we're buying into and I don't think we can moan that it was in anyway unclear the way they behave, particularly to the sort of person who frequents Hacker News and really can't feign ignorance.
Can you sue them for interests, if not damages?
FTA:

Slimers are those that work in finance and on Wall Street

I think he was pretty even-handed.
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Android was shipped on three times as many phones as iOS in Q4 (in the US).

You might be confusing it with the fact that installed base of Android is now equal to iOS on smartphones. (It's not yet caught up with iOS across phones, pods and pads)
It won't be a fixed "10 degrees". More like dt = (T_cup - T_room) x cooling factor.

I'll leave it as an exercise, as to what 10 pours will do, but it won't freeze the water; as I don't remember how to solve it and I don't have a piece of paper handy.

And that's not accounting for the specific heat in the state change.
Abolish income tax and impose/increase wealth tax. This will create jobs in the economy.
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"And that's the issue here—forcing non-compliant agents to change in order to do what they've always done runs in the face of the Robustness Principle."

You nailed it. Hashbang URLs are not backwards compatible with the existing World Wide Web. And existing tools that use the Web today, cannot in their current state use these hashbang frameworked sites in the same way.

As another commenter noted, hashbangs silo a site within a non-standard requirement. That approach explains why posts such as these overlook or ignore fundamental behaviour of the Web and how it brings together fragments of distributed conversation.

Hashbang URLs break the World Wide Web stack at the HTTP and URL levels, and attempt to fix the damage at the behaviour level. The fix is inferior, and results in breakage of the World Wide Web model (like framesets).

It's a technical implementation of a walled-garden. Walled off from the exisiting World Wide Web.
Agreed. Regarding parallel vs sequential...

I'm pretty convinced that any Turing-complete system in the physical universe can exhibit consciousnes. And I expect that a description of consciousness will take the form of a map from descriptions of qualia to descriptions of algorithms, rather than mapping to descriptions of something lower level.

In other words, I expect that the best description of consciousness will talk about mathematical substructures of the theory of computation.

Talking about parallel vs sequential architecture is an example of such a substructure, and therefore may be worth including in a description of consciousness.
Very nice. I was a little disappointed to discover how much code was required to achieve the effects though. Having to resort to using content:"" always feels like a workaround. Not having to use images is great though, I'll definitely be using this as a reference.
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I think chrome just got mozilla now... it's clearer and simpler than firefox.

I was a passionate user of firefox but this last chrome edition got me hooked.

Maybe a FF with a smaller top panel would get me back, but I doubt it.
I don't know. For a Perl hacker this is rather boring, can it convince someone new to Perl?
Disk is almost impossible to partition fairly (performance, not space)

I strongly suspect this is a platform-specific complaint. As in, if you are running your Linux VMs on a z-Series from IBM this is manageable. It's just a question of what your customers are willing to pay for...
They're charging to let people do things through the iTunes store.

Find me an example of them going after someone who liberated themselves from the iTunes store - Cydia still exists. Last I checked, there aren't any.
StackExchange is trying to do to Demand Media/eHow

Not quite. They're pretty big on focusing only on topics where meaningful questions have right answers, as opposed to (I swear this is an actual eHow page) How To Pour Water Into A Glass.
Wait a minute.
This is singularly the best piece of hostile customer persuasion i've seen in my WHOLE life.

I stand corrected and humbled.
Even im going to sign up to this thing.

Where do i sign?
Drop shadows are very slow when animated because they have to be recalculated every time they move.
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I have just arrived in London and have created a web startup - I have a couple of products that I think can generate income, but am focusing on the strongest one first ... I am looking for funding to quit the 9-5 job and concentrate on the main product.
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Wasn't there a court decision that says Apple has to let people jailbreak if they want to?
I'm not in a startup or anything, but consider this; cloud computing is gaining momentum fast, and lots of startups will use cloud platforms like EC2, AppEngine, Azure etc.

The one thing about this change is that traditional licensing concerns go away. If you use Azure, you are paying by usage, so Windows licenses aren't in play. I guess my point is that the fear of launching a startup and having to face spirling license costs (for using MS products) is going to decline as more people adopt cloud platforms.
august 2008:

"Our commitment is to maintain an amazing free tool ..."

http://www.red-gate.com/our-company/about/news/net-reflector

february 2011:

"Red Gate has announced that it will charge $35 for version 7 of .NET Reflector upon its release in early March"

http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflecto...
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I've run two businesses in Thailand and have been here for a decade (a US citizen). If you want me to give you a rundown on how to handle things send me an email at: matthew [at] ramenshoppe [dot] com.

Sorry, I'm too busy to post a long explanation here. The bottom line is it's all doable and it's usually worth making the move here (quality of life can be very high).
That was two years ago and it's not worth the effort. It's better just to explain the moral of my story when Paypal vs. Google Checkout debates occur: Paypal at least has a phone line.
I think recently Webkit got a fix for that.
"If you want to curl a hashbang URL (or access its content in some other non-Javascript-requiring way), there's a pretty easy way to do it. Just do the same thing Google does and remove the hashbang."

Which command line option on curl does that? (Maybe they haven't updated the man page? http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html ).

Oh, if you reply, could you do it in the form of interpretative dance.
From the second link:

"As many of you know, our original intention was to maintain .NET Reflector as a free tool. But, after two-and-a-half years of providing it without charge, we realized that we could not make the free model work. We know that this will cause pain for some people in the .NET community, and we apologize for the change in policy.

As a commercial company, we need to charge at least a nominal amount to keep .NET Reflector up-to-date and relevant. Without revenue coming in, we cannot dedicate a team of developers to ensure that Reflector remains a valuable part of .NET developers’ toolboxes."

They gave it a shot, for 2.5 years, and it didn't work. It's hard to fault them. Consider how ridiculously low $35 is for any tool of this sort, I don't think this is some money grubbing effort on Red-Gate's part.
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Also see Conway's Game of Life for an interactive system of complex emergent behaviors from very simple rules:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
Your aim is to make sure that every bit of the coffee eventually makes it to the surface (so that the highest-energy molecules there can escape and cause cooling). If you stir regularly then (roughly) each bit of the coffee just moves in a circle, and parts that start out below the surface stay below the surface. If you stir it at random, then (this is probably a theorem, if you define "random" with a bit of care, and it probably doesn't require all that much randomness) any portion of the coffee ends up eventually at any given place.

So I think your intuition is doing pretty well.
Again this is a platform specific complaint, back in the day IRIX solved this with GRIO on their Xbow active backplane. This technology will make it into Linux PCs eventually I expect.
Yep. "The scene" really hates p2p in all its forms. They have been having inter-group drama over it for years. Pretty hilarious all round.

See:

http://www.scenenotice.org/details.php?id=1847

http://www.scenenotice.org/details.php?id=1920

and many others on that site.
Take 10 master wood workers and put them in a room, give a low-skill wood worker all the tools they need and the ability to ask any of the masters any question they like at any time and get the answer.

Do you think this will result in the same quality of work as if a master wood worker had done it?

Why would you imagine software to be so different?

Being able to get past any particular technical speed bump is a tiny part of what makes a more experienced developer valuable.
Sometimes with technical material, I read the same paragraph multiple times. If the footnote is really an "aside", I can just read it once and not have it clutter the paragraph when I'm rereading.
We're using it, because we knew it, and it just works.
"And just like bolt cutters, it can be used for many things other than stealing."

And, contrary to what those guys might want you to think, it cannot even be used for stealing.
I do this myself... at first as a side effect as I work on any number of machines and sync my entire home directory. but I got used to being able to roll back to a recent version even if I somehow screwed up committing (has saved me a couple of times, e.g. when I accidentally don't add a file to the repo, assume it's there and it ends up deleted at some point). Although I treat git exactly the same (I don't do any fewer or more commits/branches etc) I enjoy the extra safety harness.
For more fun along these lines, wolfram provides as always:

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CellularAutomatonExplorer/

(Cellular Automata is the name for these constructs, langon's ant, the game of life, and so on.)
[citation needed], as they say.

How do you know that this would create jobs? How would you actually go about imposing a wealth tax? Do you believe you could make such a scheme revenue-neutral? (Or, if you don't want to, have you considered the effect on public-sector jobs and on people who are currently benefited by what the public sector does?) Is anything remotely like this politically feasible? Do you have any actual economic analysis behind this, or is it just idle sloganeering?
In the US sure, but how many can afford it in the third world?
You have to make do with what you can. At the moment, any more legitimate form of content monetisation is effectively ruled out by the "rigid", as you call it, stance of the copyright holders. I'm sure the people setting up those sites would rather use more profitable business models.

In fact, if you read the article, you will see a screenshot of one enterprising bit-torrent site offering monthly subscriptions. So even with all the hurdles thrown into their way by the current owners of the time-unlimited copyrights on these works, they still manage to do more than just spam portals.

I think that's to be applauded.
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well, for one thing, you can stream amazon VOD on linux, whereas you can't view itunes movies on linux.
I thought this was a pretty well-known phenomenon. When comparing things, I always convert the numbers into the same scale... For most things, I pick a scale I'm comfortable with and convert to that. Months is a good one for long time ranges and work for converting everything from days to years. Pounds for weight, yards (or meters, really) for short distances, miles for long.

And if the things you're comparing are so far different that you can't fit both on the larger scale, do you really need to compare them?
I think new hackers could be easily drawn into using Perl simply because of the breadth of tools available in CPAN. Chances are whatever you need to do, someone has written a module for it. Why roll your own when there's a stable module?

Of course the new user may quickly run into CPAN dependency hell, but that's a different issue.
Of course Android allows competing app stores--indeed Amazon's is one. So both developers and users have a choice on Android that's not available on iOS.
I'd imagine if Google made a generous talent acquisition offer to someone like this team to work on gmail productivity tools at Google it would be hard to refuse, like divvyshot and facebook photos.
1. Any company that relocates you would probably only do so if they believe you're the right fit and will perform well. Startups require a lot of work. Most people that works for a startup do not work a typical 40 hour week, especially the first hires. Culture fit and time invested is a huge deal for a lot of startups.

3. Most offer just salary and possibly equity. It's common until the company grows bigger.
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What the article overlooks and seems to smuggle in is the idea that we don't have any problems to solve that actually require jobs of the non-IT sort. Look around and see crumbling infrastructure everywhere. We need bridges replaced, highways mended, etc, etc. That represents millions of physically-intensive jobs.
We do. It works fine, no reason to switch.

My background is Windows dev, that is why "we" choose it in he first place.
> Being incompatible with other things is not the goal

Yes, a lot of the time it is. Apple went out of their way to prevent the ipod working with non-itunes software, they also went out of their way to make itunes music streaming over the network incompatible with other software.
My own models based upon several sets of data (I run a startup in this space).

But roughly it comes down to 320k developers changing jobs every year * an average spend of $9000 on recruitment costs.
Plus: Compared to salaries, license costs are negligible.
Don't these people have ANYTHING to do?
Hahaha yes, while I liked the thought exercise I kept thinking: "Why would I want to cool it?" In fact, I often pre-heat my cup with hot water before I put coffee in it, so it doesn't cool down as fast.
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Based on this, what might be interesting is a user interface that gives you very restricted options to begin with and then gradually removed those restrictions the more you used it.

Having just written that, I realised that games have been doing this for years. Imagine having a DVCS inform you that you've levelled up and can now do cloning.
(Songs have no DRM, you can play them everywhere.)
It can be shown by mathematical economists that a free market leads to optimal use of resources, under the assumption that goods in the market have certain attributes. Intellectual goods lack those attributes, and so a free market does not work for them (in the economic sense).

Our IP laws basically give intellectual goods those attributes that allow a free market to work with them. Essentially the law makes intellectual goods behave like physical goods so that the market can deal with them.

Given that, I see nothing wrong with applying the term "property" to intellectual goods.
The (apparently) accidental inclusion of mooo.com, and all its subdomains, is not OK. I think that was negligent, and that the domain owners can, should, and will sue. IANAL, so I may be mistaken - if anyone knows better, I'd appreciate an explanation in order to understand the issue better. (The existing sub-thread mentioning the Federal Tort Claims Act seems like the correct interpretation to me, and in several cases a class action against the government has led to a settlement or judgment in favor of the plaintiffs.)

If the writer or my understanding of the story was wrong, and mooo.com was incorrectly included on the domain seizure warrant instead of affected by technical incompetence, then I would have to rethink the question, and know more about what happened to form a better opinion. I think we all agree that the mistaken seizure of mooo.com and the subdomains, whatever the exact nature of the mistake, was unjustifiable, and that the domain owners deserve compensation for any injuries to their personal or business reputations.

But I think what you're really asking is whether it's ever OK for the government to seize a website first and hold the trial later, yes? If so, my answer is yes, and that due process is satisfied if a warrant was correctly issued, based on a demonstration to the court that the website's content consists of illegal child porn. If the owner/operator can't be found, the warrant is issued against the domain used as a distribution point, because it is also a crime to distribute such material.

If property rights took precedence over criminal statute, then the legal system would be expending resources to protect illegal activity. If a cop finds a kilo of cocaine but no dealer steps up to claim ownership, should it be left where it is? If a machine gun were set up on a tripod and rebuilt to fire automatically at random passers-by, should it be left alone out of respect for the absent owner's property rights? If a domain is being employed to serve an illegal purpose, why should its owner expect the legal system to uphold his property rights at the same time?
30% is not as much as people think it is. I've been involved in billing systems that do recurring billing and it is actually surprisingly hard, a lot harder than one-off payments. Just a few examples:

* Credit cards on file get stolen or expire all the time.

* People forget to cancel in time and do charge backs which you then have to resolve in some other way.

* People e-mail customer support a lot more than for regular payments ("I want cancel, and please refund last x month too"). Support is expensive

* Apple operates in a lot of countries where credit card penetration is very low and other payment methods are required.

... and then they handle the entire operation of the app store, and they need to make a profit somewhere. When the iPhone just came out Apple claimed they were not making any money on the app store and I think that's entirely believable. Margins will have gone up as scale increased but now that they have added recurring billing those margins will be lower again.
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