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DO we have a term for this in the small?

Those small utilities you wrote a decade ago in perl when your company was tiny, over a couple of days that end up a staple of daily use in a company 10 years later and any attempt to re-factor or replace them 10 years way is met with extreme resistance? What do we call that - Crappy-enough software? (I say this as the author)

(Actually, going back and looking at said code, it's not badly written at all, it's entirely readable, a few perl scripts, no spaghetti, and it's clear how they interoperate just by reading them. So it's not crappy or badly written - it's just overly simplistic.)
While there are more important things in life (like being accused wrongly of child pornography), I wonder how that effects their Google rankings to suddenly have your entire domain ripped out from underneath you and pointing to a duplicate content site.

Is there any recourse for this action? Seems that this would trigger unreasonable search and seizure.
No. They are given stock options which means that they have an incentive to pump the price up short term even if it means that long term the company would loose more money.
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Yes, watson can play Jeopardy. Jennings and Rutter can also do every other thing that a human being can do. The meat based system is still, on the measure, much more impressive.
> Life expectancy was only 35 because of infant mortality. Once you grew up, people tended to live almost as long as we do today.

This is wrong. Infant mortality was high, but life expectancy was low, regardless --i.e the median maximum age was low too.
There were no negative comments to override the pleasure contribution used to be. But it started to decline because I had to go harder and harder against the flow of reputation-hunting to do what I find enjoying -- learning from and talking with smart engineers.

HN does get feisty at times, but the conversation is way, way more mature than I found anywhere else.
The issues are quite noticeable for someone that isn't heavily invested in web apps. Most of HN is - and that's why they prefer to ignore them.

But let's look at the market... Have web apps displaced desktop apps? No. Have they displaced mobile apps (as per HN mantra 90% of iPhone apps could be web apps)? Not even close.

Now why is this? It's because web apps offer a significantly poorer user experience across the board.

* with all the progress that's been made in performance, web apps are slower than native apps and will continue to be. There is only so much that you can offload from JS.

* web-apps don't have access to the platform's entire range of graphics capabilities, including standard widgets, animations and so on.

* web apps don't have access to special platform functionality such as GPS, sensors, camera, etc.

Furthermore, the biggest mobile players have all started to invest in native mobile apps to the detriment of web apps. Including Google. It's in their interest to lock-in users to their platform, even more so since Android became a major player.

These issues can be worked around eventually (maybe).

The core issues with web apps can't be worked around:

1. Web apps are using a text-transfer protocol with a pile of hacks on top to make it stateful. To this day engineers are still working on solving this problem (web sockets, web sql, etc). They can't solve it.

2. One does not own web apps, one merely rents them.
What's bad about the existence of foreign languages (I guess the "problem" above is not the knowing of it)?

Should everything be homogenized?
> Seems that this would trigger unreasonable search and seizure.

Oh, I think that boundary was crossed a long time ago. It's more a problem of the US government not giving two fucks about its own Constitution.
It's not slightly more flexible, it's hugely more flexible. As someone who has apps that consist of a complicated web of tableviews, Matt Gallagher's work is amazing and helped me immensely.

Although, I think this link is better:
http://cocoawithlove.com/2010/12/uitableview-construction-dr...
Looks like they're trying to preempt the whole "can you distribute GPLed programs via the app store" problem that Apple's been facing.
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> The reason why I am frightened is the emergence of a new class of government contractors

How is this new? Haven't government contractors been blowing smoke and mirrors at the government for decades now?

We live in an age now where it's possible for these companies/individuals to be held accountable by undeniable evidence. It's a sign of truly accountable democracy.

What is scary is that exploitation of such companies is possible and is becoming more and more likely to happen (i.e. Wikileaks). People are growing exponentially pissed at the perceived lies and destruction of the US gov't and it's oligarchic overlords. Non-transparency doesn't fly for techies. Just imagine what these script kiddies could do to the likes of Halliburton KBR...that's scary. (in a good way)
Ugh. What's with the caps lock? This is incredibly hard to read (for me, at least). It just looks offensive.

This is going to be far less effective than a nice, polite feature comparison would be.
I don't know the entire process well, but wouldn't that be something that you'd presumably file in Federal District court and start there? Once/if it hits the Supreme Court, I don't think the government could really ignore it could they?
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> This is why Developers hate IE, we have to make code specifically for that browser.

Stop using -webkit, -moz, -o first.
Apparently, they were also looking at RIM. Link I submitted didn't get much attention. :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2222379
This is clearly an example unreasonable seizure, and it seems the DHS exists solely to perform unreasonable searches.

This trend towards outright censorship is a worrying one. While I can't speak to the content of any of the sites in this round of censorship/seizure, the DHS certainly seems to be acting outside their mandate.
> It's the only thing keeping an iPad from being a general-purpose device for a very large demographic

That and the fact that the device hides the existence of a file system. Even unsophisticated computer users understand and use the concept of folders and files.
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You can hire those pre-experienced in that from your vendors. This happens tonnes in industry; if you want a well-paid senior networking job, get a low-paying entry-level job in Cisco TAC and wait to be poached...
> A management of a big company is not a government that you can overthrow.

Strictly speaking, it is, but you do it with money, not ideas. Offer the Nokia board $20 or $30 per share and they will throw out the management and institute your own faster than you can say "revolution."
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This is a pretty amazing level of non-story, even for TechCrunch. I guess speculation about unreleased Apple hardware always gets traffic, though!
As a supporter (and someone who voted for) Obama, I'm frustrated by his lack of comment/participation on this subject. There's no way he can think this is constitutional.
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I can understand why they chose not to reveal their identities so soon. If they were young as they say, they probably didn't have any power in the organization to speak of, and would almost certainly have been fired within weeks.

Now that the plan didn't work they still have the option of staying at Nokia until they can find a better fir for them.
This isn't news, it's speculation.

It would be quite nice to have the base of the MacBook Pro be so thin. Having windows float in mid-air would be a cool feature, as well.
It's sad if that's true because that's exactly what Michael Dell once said about Apple. Look where Apple is now. Albeit, Nokia probably doesn't have the visionary leadership that Apple has, but give them a chance. Let's see what happens.

I wish people wouldn't be so quick to judge them now that the strategy's out. I, for one, love a leader who's really willing to take the reins to execute a vision and face obstacles head on instead of dilly dallying in an unsure state. Elop so far has demonstrated himself to be that kind of guy.
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As I've mentioned elsewhere, competent security needs to take into account sociological/economic analysis. Only looking at the technical and organizational side is literally just playing with yourself.

For example: if you're a major technology company, taking the step of publishing wildly popular content with DRM means you're going to be taking on a lot of highly motivated opponents. History demonstrates that this isn't a fight that you want to take on. Now consider: if you're a security company, what do you think is going to happen when you take on a subset of /b/?

Here's a hint: before you're in the position where you're risking the ire of a large, technically savvy population that's had demonstrated success taking on other corporations with comparable or greater resources than yourself and a history of flaunting the law, it really behooves you to do some preparation.

If you've been saving some chump change by keeping your mailserver on the same machine as your webserver, and you're about to take on /b/, now's the time to do something about it.

That's like some athlete not checking if his shoes are laced up properly before the event.

Did this security company ever audit its own security? Either they didn't or they did an incompetent job of that. Would you trust a security company that doesn't eat it's own cooking?
Well, it is quite clear that the "share alike" clause is the bone of contention here: "“Excluded License” means any license requiring, as a condition of use [...] that the software or other software combined and/or distributed with it be (i) disclosed or distributed in source code form (ii) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; or (iii) redistributable at no charge."
Motorola exec: Microsoft's Windows Phone was too little, too late
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EE tends to have poor quality that goes nowhere, and mods come by and make people accept answers anyway because it makes their business model look good.
>"But, what if...?"

Nokia had enough trouble trying to keep internal developers on task, e.g Mobile Web Server for S60 [http://research.nokia.com/page/231] with Python Integration. One can only imagine the huge time waste that managing all the tangential and marginal ideas produced by third party developers would require.

Nokia has immediate access to a sound mobile OS, a suite of high powered development tools for it, and a technology roadmap extending out for a decade of more. To say they sold "their soul to Microsoft" is unsupported by the facts. It is not as if going with Android would be morally superior - given the way in which Google leverages individually identifying user data one could even argue that adopting Android would be a less ethical course.
Seriously, TechCrunch? Seriously?
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For those who have lost count of the zillions of languages out there, this is a Scheme interpreter/vm that was supposed to become the "official" extension language for GNU projects. It had some publicity in the 90s, but slowed down until recently.

Sorry to be simplistic, but so many links here assume everyone is an expert in functional programming; a little context helps everyone understand the importance of a post.
Did the talks cover anything not in the books? If it was in Chicago I would go in a heartbeat...
They're only expanding into markets where they can get a local cable franchise agreement. They need both Internet and TV customers to make it worth the initial deployment costs. This has been the big hold up in Baltimore. Comcast has such a strangle hold on the Baltimore city council that they refuse to give a franchise agreement to Verizon.
question is: who cares? i mean, who cares enough to sue them. the gov will not do it to not get themselfs into trouble and who else would have a valid reason? greenwald & assange maybe... slander possibly?

it really doesnt matter. at the end the only thing that was hurt is their pride and reputation. but thats it.

not that i would support to let them get away with conspiracy but there is just nobody who could harm them more. and even if, they can just swist out of this situation with a call at H&W.
Yes, this is a pretty ridiculous story, but what if Intel did leak the new MacBook Pros like this? It'd be really interesting to see how it would affect their relationship with Apple.
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This makes it sound like US companies were better than foreign countries just because they are american.

Me, I feel slightly insulted by that. Just look at american cars. I kid.

There is nothing wrong with patriotism and there is nothing wrong with outsourcing, if both is done with due diligence and proper planning. But there is no way one company is any better than any other company just because it is registered in a different country. The 787 did not have problems because of outsourcing, it has problems because of bad planning--at the all-american Boing HQ itself.
It's amazing that these operations and bills are intentionally wrapped in wording that makes them politically untouchable. I can see why lawmakers wouldn't want to investigate this. Who wants to be the congressman/woman that went against Operation Save our children?
We really need to stop measuring "compatibility" numerically. Its dishonest and encourages engineering decisions to be made instead of policy ones, when the data is purely the result of someone else's policy decision.

Not all things have equal weight; choosing which things to call an element, which ones to merge, which ones to split is always subjective.

Valid discussions are where we fully state our chosen assumptions, not ones where we then make fake data out of them.
Kind of unfortunate that this is the top comment here since the article has nothing to do with the immorality of outsourcing. I took his mention to be a throwaway nod of the head to the typical discussion of outsourcing. Then he moved on.
As an example, let's look at the warrantless wiretapping that AT&T did on the behest of the NSA[0]. The EFF filed two cases in response that claimed it was a blatant violation of the 4th amendment: Jewel v. NSA[1] & Hepting v. AT&T[2], against the government & AT&T, respectively.

Here's the latest news on Jewel v. NSA:

> In April, the Obama administration moved to dismiss Jewel, claiming that litigation over the wiretapping program would require the government to disclose privileged "state secrets,” and that they were immune from suit.

According to the documents on the EFF site, they appealed the ruling, but there hasn't been anything posted about the results of that.

How about the case against AT&T?

> In June of 2009, a federal judge dismissed Hepting and dozens of other lawsuits against telecoms, ruling that the companies had immunity from liability under the controversial FISA Amendments Act (FISAAA), which was enacted in response to our court victories in Hepting. Signed by President Bush in 2008, the FISAAA allows the Attorney General to require the dismissal of the lawsuits over the telecoms' participation in the warrantless surveillance program if the government secretly certifies to the court that the surveillance did not occur, was legal, or was authorized by the president -- certification that was filed in September of 2008. EFF is planning to appeal the decision to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, primarily arguing that FISAAA is unconstitutional in granting to the president broad discretion to block the courts from considering the core constitutional privacy claims of millions of Americans.

0: https://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying

1: https://www.eff.org/cases/jewel

2: https://www.eff.org/nsa/hepting
Unreasonable search and seizure doesn't exist, take for example the patriot act which was just extended. The constitution and bill of rights is what they teach little kids, no one takes that junk seriously.
I'd like that! Holographic images FTW. If Apple could do that, they'd have a real winner there! ;-)
It's a pragmatic choice by Microsoft, but I'm amazed by their ability to piss off developers almost every time they make a decision.
I think they are trying to prevent people from redistributing others source. Like what occurred with Lugaru HD.
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It looks like they leaked the generic laptop brush in Photoshop.
Black Macs? - that's Apple's plan to maintain claims technological leadership?

Ok. I'll admit it does make yesterday's terms of service changes look innovative by comparison. But really, is that the best Apple can do with $60 billion in cash?
While there are more important things in life (like being accused wrongly of child pornography), I wonder how that effects their Google rankings to suddenly have your entire domain ripped out from underneath you and pointing to a duplicate content site.

My educated guess based on experience working with people affected by dissimilar causes but similar appearance to Google: a massive hit to rankings/traffic within about 48 hours, and recovery to a fraction of normal several weeks later.

I doubt that one can easily convince a judge that loss of Google rankings is a cognizable harm under tort law, but given that an agency of the US government just called you a child pornographer on your own property, if there isn't a sovereign immunity defense you will hardly need to justify what a high ranking on Google is worth to receive damages.
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This kind of behavior is extremely offensive and hostile especially considering the fact that your users are from a demographic who can easily see through your BS

Yet EE is a viable business - so clearly their users aren't who you think they are.
Apple is actually asking for 100% of SaaS mobile revenue
Part of it is PR. If you're getting screwed by a company, you need to make sure people know.

The grunts in the field need to have a lot to backup any claims that company x will screw their organization over. If they don't have a solid laundry list of examples, it will never get past the 'steak and strippers' sales pitch.

By making this public the could save many, many, companies from being dependent on technology that oracle has crippled.
Experts Exchange was the first site to come into my mind when I first heard about Google's Personal Blocker.
Unless, of course, the whole Windows on ARM thing is just vaporware to show customers "look - you don't have to switch away from Windows when you switch to ARM" hopping this delays customers looking into alternatives in the x86 space.
I'm in the GTA paying $100/m for this:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1159870352.png

I work from home, it's the only reason I tolerate my wallet getting raped every month; that and I don't pay for TV.
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Hasn't Airbus always been some sort of multinational/EU-national plane manufacturer? I believe thats how it started as instead of a bunch of small enterprises siloed in each country they were pooling resources and talent to take on the American hegemony in aerospace.
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> You mean like satisfying current internet standards and meeting the draft standards head on

Well, yes, actually. I just think Apple's failure to support Flash and Google's overtly political decision to drop H.264 support are far more relevant to real users today than the various emerging technologies that bring the browser one step closer to being an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of an operating system. I just don't see that as the right path to take anyway, and I certainly don't see it as a higher priority than supporting the numerous existing web sites that use Flash or holding up what should be the killer feature of HTML5 for the immediate future.

Of course I would prefer that all browsers support all useful standards with complete compliance, but in the real world we have to prioritise to some extent, and I prefer Microsoft's choices at this particular moment in time.

> What do you mean by "performance of the UI slowed".

I haven't diagnosed the problems in detail. I'm just getting bored of waiting several seconds for my browser to start up, one slow-loading tab holding up all the others, horribly slow scrolling on pages with certain CSS styles applied (usually some sort of fixed background), and other obvious delays during routine use. Neither IE nor Chrome exhibits these problems, and Firefox never used to. I realise that it's possible that these delays are actually due to the extensions I use, but there are only a few and they are all very popular ones without which Firefox is seriously lacking in basic functionality, so I don't see much point in distinguishing the core browser from the software I actually use when it comes to the user experience.

> You mention running tabs independently (as independent processes presumably) I didn't know that IE8 did this?

Actually, IE8 did it first, Chrome did it next, and two years later IE still doesn't do it at all.

See, for example, http://www.nofullstop.com/2008/09/30/independent-tabs-featur...
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Sad state of affairs indeed.
Seems like a good idea except that even my hardware keyboard has the parenthesis, and any special punctuation, with hard to get at spots and multiple chords.
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If they distribute GPL software aren't they also responsible for making the source available. Why would they want to open themselves to that headache?
One of those things where I go, man, why didn't I think of that?
Sounds like what Grendel is to Beowulf, which is a good thing.
If you use XP Mode, it still works only on XP.

That is not a native solution, it's just a workaround.
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I can think of two questions I'd love to see a journalist track down:

1. What's the legal process for banning a book?

2. If it's not equally as hard (or harder) for the government to take down a website, why?
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I've never been able to figure that out, and yet many companies continue to do it. Some mistaken belief that a filled seat is better than an empty seat or something.
Yes, there is recourse. IANAL, but as far as my understanding goes, the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances includes the right to sue the government, or at least to file a suit against the government in court.
Does this work in the US? I've been under the assumption that with the recent switch from analog to digital signal (and the need for a digital converter box), connecting an antenna straight to a TV no longer works.

Thoughts?
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I have said this before I will have to say this again until we can get a good answer:

What the fuck is the government waisting time doing this crap when they have a war on terror to fight? Concentrate on what is necessary for the war effort, dammit.
academic exercise? you call a turing prize or a nobel prize an academic exercise?
No, the agenda of the author is clear. A few paragraphs below:

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