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Gruber shows his colors here:

This is what galls some: Apple is doing this because they can, and no other company is in a position to do it.

People aren't bothered simply because other companies can't do this. If Google, MS, RIM, Amazon, and HP all did the same thing people wouldn't say, "Great... everyone can do it!"

People are upset that Apple can do it, and they are.

People have long told me that Apple is a benevolent company. They point to the PC market and say, "Apple never did what MS did". And my retort was always, they couldn't, but if they could they probably would have.

Now we're seeing it play out. If Apple could squeeze Intel or Dell or Compaq they would have. Apple's benefit though is they're not a monopoly, and likely won't be one. But to the extent that they've captured a large share of disposable income they will drain their partners for every last cent. Because as Gruber has stated, Apple doesn't need you, but you sure need them.
Could you darken up on the grey a bit? Grey on white on grey isn't exactly easy to read.
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Apple doesn’t give a damn about companies with business models that can’t afford a 70/30 split. Apple’s running a competitive business; competition is cold and hard.

These two statements are fundamentally at odds; it's highly unlikely that Apple is making more money from App Store purchases / subscriptions than from iOS hardware sales. Consequently, for Apple to be competitive, they need to offer as much value as possible to the user, so that more users will end up on their platform. Since many of the most popular apps are business models that can't afford a 70/30 split, Apple damn well better care about them. If I can't get Kindle, Netflix, Hulu, Dropbox, etc, etc. on an iPhone/iPad, I won't buy another one. Period.
But this is the key distinction! People are making proprietary protocols (serialized as JSON or SOAP, but the meaning of a request or response is completely ad hoc) and using them to build siloed apps. These appear to be part of the World-Wide Web, because they tunnel over HTTP and TCP. But they actually aren't, because their exposed resources don't have stable URLs or formats and are basically unusable by anything other than one blob of js you have to trust. This should be recognized as tending to displace the web, rather than contributing to it.
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Whoever at Apple said that the iPad2 was a speedbump and the real glory was iPad3 kind of killed the iPad2 for me. Who's going to buy a tablet that is going to be obsolete in 6 months?
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There's a lesson here. Build your brand inside of iOS and you're screwed. Apple can choke you. Build it outside of iOS and you have a chance to have reasonable terms. As nice as iOS is, w/o middlemen, established outside of iOS, like Kindle and Netflix -- it probably gets killed by Android.
The content thieves will love it too. This makes it much easier to automatically copy content.
Moreover, such arguments are silly. Nobody buys an iPad and then looks through the app store for $100k apps to run on it, or even $5k apps. If you are in the market for such an app, you buy the app and then go shopping for the hardware.

Perhaps Apple has now ceded the market for mobile clients of $100k enterprise Java applications to Android. If so, I doubt they are losing much sleep in Cupertino.

Obviously Apple's pricing model makes no sense for markets that they are not actually in. What matters, however, is the competitive landscape of the market that they are in.
For people arguing that Japanese phones are not very good, what would you say about the European Market vs the USA?
I can understand people's frustration when the hashbang feature breaks the URL function in the browsers, but it can work nicely if done right. I've built one of my apps using hashbang to encode the browsing state, and had gone to great length to ensure bookmarking and back button work correctly in the browsers.

It works great at the end. Every URL points to a specific page and still gets the Javascript interactivity. Some sample URLs.

http://www.previouslook.com/hnews/new#!2011-03-01-15-15.22

http://www.previouslook.com/hnews/new#!2011-03-01-12-15.15

http://www.previouslook.com/hnews/new#!2011-03-01-12-45.12
Does he?

He earns money from ads, do you think he would earn less should he write critically about Apple?

(All of this seems very much beside the point, though. Discussions about Daring Fireball have become so predictable. Nobody seems to be even interested in talking about the arguments, everyone wants to throw dirt around.)
But Costco does publicise how much markup they put on their products as a maximum:

_Costco's maximum markup on merchandise is 14 percent, and "a lot of products don't come close to 14 percent," Sinegal said. By comparison, supermarkets commonly mark up merchandise by 25 percent and department stores by about 50 percent._

http://www.gazette.com/articles/costco-33279-springs-store.h...

Costco is extremely cut-throat, there have been several articles about Costco and how if they aren't receiving the lowest price for a product they just won't have it on the shelves, the Coke dispute was pretty big [1].

Overall I find that Costco is pretty transparent when it comes to the products they offer, and how much they charge for them. So far Costco has been a great value for me as a consumer!

[1]: http://www.wbur.org/npr/120590548/price-fight-coke-isnt-it-a...
Perhaps using The Web isn't appropriate for SCADA controls, but what's the reason why using a web stack is inappropriate? People here seem to forget that things like J2EE and ASP.NET have displaced decades of crappy console and Windows Forms applications.

The moment you accept that there is The Web and there are web apps and they're not the same thing, you're right in the middle of the debate Shiflett is talking about. The down-with-hashbang crowd doesn't acknowledge any such difference.
Yeah, Cal's fish book (hah, scaling...) is better - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102357
yeah, it's a little low-contrasty. Still, just copy the feed URL into your feed reader and then you don't have to look at it anymore :P
I stand corrected wrt Redhat's ownership of KVM. Thanks for the clarification.

I re-read some more web pages in the light of your comments, and I remain unconvinced that nerd pride wasn't at the root of the Linux kernel devs dismissal of Xen. It's happened before (Con Kolivas's patches for instance), so I don't think I'm saying anything radical.

IIRC, the hypervisor technology is the standard way to do virtualization since the mainframe days. I haven't heard anything remarkable about KVM to convince me that their hypervisor-less architecture is better.
I was thinking about this too. But it seems like FB might actually like that, fluff up their user numbers a bit...
Hrm, that one loads fine... but fulltextrssfeed.com/www.sfgate.com/rss/feeds/blogs/sfgate/offtherecord/index_rss2.xml fails with "unable to retrieve full-text content" and fulltextrssfeed.com/www.kqed.org/rss/arts.xml fails with "Unable to parse this page for content."

I have a lot of experience with fetching and parsing feeds and pages, so I'm not trivializing the problem, just observing issues I'm seeing with this solution.
Sorry, but it's definitely sad if your parents are more hung up on some external arbitrary stamp of approval than on your own true achievements and passion for how you spend your time. Especially if it's to the point that they won't speak to you? That's pathetic.

How ridiculous would it be if Bill Gates or Steve Jobs parents still refused to speak to them because they had dropped out of school, despite creating two of the world's most powerful companies, employing hundreds of thousands of professionals, and making hundreds of millions of lives better every single day?
I wonder how long will it take till sites like lifehacker and heise.de will start blocking this service...
Lol, it's just like Mark.
What I like about Gruber, even when I disagree with him, is that I think he understands, better than any other outside commentator, how Apple's management team thinks and works. He's not a leading expert on business, or on technology, but I'd call him a leading expert on Steve Jobs' mind.

This understanding is part of why Gruber often seems like an Apple apologist. Even when he disagrees with Apple' decisions, he can generally give a good explanation of why the decision was made and why Steve and Tim and company probably think it is the right one. And of course, when he is writing from the point of view of Apple Inc., the primary question is always "What is best for Apple?"

(This also explains why I hate Gruber's writing about competiting companies like Microsoft and Google. I don't think he understands how those companies think and work at all, so his commentary on them totally lacks that insight and usefulness.)
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Congrats!

How did did you build it?
This would probably be trivial with Yahoo! Pipes.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
Check out http://www.sanfranmag.com/story/best-investment-advice-youll..., and optionally read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street." I've been using these ideas for over two years now and am very pleased with the results.
Ask HN: Facebook Comments on Wordpress. Help?
Here is the snipet provided by Facebook:

<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1">
</script><fb:comments href="YOUR_CANONICAL_URL"></fb:comments>

On Wordpress, any idea how to automate the canonical url portion so this can be placed in the single post editor of the theme?

Thanks
For now. They can change that at any point like they did for publishers.
It seems like event based programming would be really cumbersome in comparison to having lightweight threads ala Erlang. Perhaps Javascript needs lightweight threads?
Trolls often say things that people are too scared to say under a real name OR a well known user name. I never understood the problem with just ignoring trolls or laughing at them. I mostly laugh.
I've been enjoying a meme I've spotted on pirate radio of all places: "all the doubleyous"
Good tip! I use this constantly in File Open dialogs (especially to get into hidden .folders). Also worthy of mention is that you can actually tab-complete paths in the dialog just like in the terminal.
It's true-my initial post was sort of meant to be tongue-in-cheek :)

I could go on about how awful some movies have been but that's for another discussion.
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We get this all the time. Yes, Riak and Cassandra require intimate domain knowledge. The question is: what's the most efficient way for you to consume that knowledge? Hire a full-time expert for each? Or use the battle-tested Riak setup that our Riak expert maintains for thousands of developers?

As you point out, beyond a certain point your needs will be specific enough to justify serious customization by the Basho and Clouderas of the world. We don't replace these guys. In fact we plan on facilitating integration with them, so that you don't have to chose between a well-oiled dotcloud stack and that 1% of customization.

As for how scalable and automatable our business is - don't worry about us. Having been in your shoes before, I can tell you with great certainty that dotcloud is much more than a bunch of custom AMIs, chef scripts and clever role-based provisioning scripts.

Our goal is to make you, an expert at these power tools, happy to use us instead, because it's so much freakin simpler. And don't worry, we will add all the customization hooks you need. We're taking one step at a time.

Thanks for reading!
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Javascript tools and runtimes are growing up very fast; it'll probably go on to surpass Erlang for this purpose if the libs are stable enough.

I don't know whether to laugh or to cry... Node/JS may replace EventMachine/Ruby or Twisted/Python for quickly whipping up an evented app or service, but it will be quite a while before anyone would consider moving an erlang project to node. Node is little threat to the distributed, fault-tolerant, concurrent niche that Erlang occupies -- within that realm there is nothing you can do in node that can't be done better in erlang and a great deal of bulletproof infrastructure in the frameworks built up around erlang and its vm that node will never come close to.
Not really. I can Right Click -> Copy XPath in Firebug's element inspector then just Nokogiri::HTML(page_source).xpath('/blah') to get at it. You can do it with the CSS selector as well. :)

Setting up a quick script to rip all the content from another site is trivial. There's also wget -m
'Sextuple-Yu'.

Just kidding... I usually say 'dub dub dub', except to very novice audiences.
Well, if those feature/news stories and research highlight articles can't economically stand on their own, then perhaps they're not a good use of resources and shouldn't be produced?

And if the advertisements aren't bringing in at least enough revenue to cover their own costs, then they shouldn't be included either.
how's it look now?
It's a status thing. Same reason why people buy expensive cars.
Ruby on Rails. Along with blood, sweat, tears, a LOT of pepsi and staying up to 4am countless nights.

I think that reflects my experience.
One more here. I don't think we're extremely common but we're also not alone. I'm coasting in community college while my parents pay for room and board and I try to get some revenue off of projects. I've realised that the only way for me to survive is to create something of my own or find an environment where I have enough intellectual freedom to stay engaged.
Ask HN - Local Area Network Help
Ok, I have a problem with my Local Network. First some detail on the part of my home network that I need assistance with.

I have two desktops(older, HP 503w/531(?)) that I have slimmed down and am using for web development work. These computers are connected via ethernet to each other. One, TARDIS, and Two, SERENITY. I currently save Dreamweaver files to SERENITY's shared folder, and then using FileSync sync it with the XAMPP - htdocs of TARDIS. This works quite nicely given my situation. I do not run both XAMPP and Dreamweaver on one computer as the old things just can't handle it.

My question is, how can I configure apache and configure Dreamweaver so I am able to use Dreamweaver's Remote(or would it still be local?) Testing functions.

Also, if anyone else has any other solutions I would love to have information on that. And of course if anyone has questions for me, please ask. I'll be happy to elaborate.
Mark Boa? A lot have said that.
It's an indirect effect. Majority of his readers are Apple fans and need a constant reminder why their platform is better than others. ( Think about it in terms of being a sports fan. You'll rarely subscribe to a beat writer who tries to uncover scandals in your team and tries to find faults ).

He earns money from software and services which run in Apple-based platforms. ( Pixelmator, for example ). If he constantly undermines Apple, will Pixelmator be happy?

He has to give an air of legitimacy by pointing out Apple's faults once in a while and competitors' good products now and then. His primary audience is Apple fans. and he writes for them.
Why wouldn't they? Why did they kill off Breakup Notifier? It's not like that was obviously going to happen.

The problem here is that you have no visibility into Facebook's roadmap, priorities, etc. Sorry, but I think betting $5m (or years of your life) on a startup that can literally be killed overnight on the whim of someone at another tech company is crazy.
We just spent the last half hour hurriedly changing our marketing site nav based on feedback :)

The prices are lower because their per admin. One of our goals wast to make the entry level price points more accessible.
I would think people would be with point one, more so with books at a library where the wait is usually going to be longer than a day. That app you liked does support the current logic of most iOS developers, the high piracy lead to higher sales so it's not worth doing anything about. If at some point in the future though the piracy made sales so low as to not make the investment in making the app worth wild then you have a problem.

I use the words artists and content producers interchangeably, I guess thinking in terms of the word artist makes their work sound more unique and valuable than content producer.
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> He earns money from ads, do you think he would earn less should he write critically about Apple?

Well, he has stated on many occasions that he has "sources" inside of Apple where he gets alot of his information from. If he started to be overly critical of Apple and his sources suddenly dried up then his writing would suffer, his readership would go down and his ad revenue would decease.

So I'd say it's pretty easy to make the case that he would indeed earn less if he was overly critical of Apple.
Very important. As a lawyer and startup founder I find it really interesting that IP law isn't mentioned more on blogs/hacker sites/ etc because it is very important, especially the TM aspect. Perhaps it's because most startups fail or never get big enough to run in to these issues?
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Essentially you can compare your Bay Area Connection score with your friends.
But this is only a teaser page for the upcoming zapon.com mobile App. (due to launch in a couple of weeks)
Could be a way to slow down the feed owners' lawyers a bit? ;-)
there's a commenter further down the page by the handle of "Roll" that says Pipes didn't work for him.

And yeah, it was built in a weekend :) But now you don't have to.
How do you do any sort of security on this? I doubt any copyright holder is going to be happy when anyone with a list of hashes can download their movie. Using most types of encryption is out, so there goes most DRM solutions. Using IP or host based access lists defeats the purpose of the caching system, so that's out as well.
Yep. I've heard that story before. We'd love to have you back if you'd have us :)

Let me know if there's anythng I can do to make that happen (rich AT uservoice)

BTW I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that their "feeback forums" are a far cry from our feedback solution.
As far as I can remember, Apple/Steve Jobs talked the music industry into dropping DRM on music. As the leading ebooks store Amazon should be the one to push to remove DRM from books.
Not once have I seen a blog post saying "Like Node.js? Then you're going to love Erlang! Let me show you why it's better, with some snippets to compare and contrast."

Given the fact that there already exist bridges that can take javascript snippets and run them in sub-processes within erlang I am really surprised that no one has bothered to do a "enode" system that just provides a node-like api for the callouts to the javascript processes.
I wasn't expecting much interest in it, but I'd be happy to clean it and package it up if you guys want to play.
Gratzi! Much easier to read now.
I think I came across slightly more seriously then I indented - as much as they'd prefer me to have a degree, I'm sure they're quite proud.
What's the best Android phone to develop on?
I'm trying to figure out what the best Android phone to develop on is. I have AT&T and I'm thinking of picking up the Motorola Atrix. Any thoughts?
When I read those "long form" salesletters, I can tell they are just stories written to divide a fool and his money.

Your comment is written in the same exact way. It isn't formal language (substituting 1 for one, for example), so I assume you write that way to seem "authentic" and "trustworthy", like you aren't trying to take advantage of someone. You throw superfluous, vague praises at every chance, hoping to ingratiate yourself with the "customer". Another annoying thing is how long it takes to express a short, simple idea -- the opposite of good communication. Unfortunately, your kind will continue to exist, as PT Barnum was right about suckers.

Your comment could have been written much more clearly:

I don't only do long-form salesletters so I don't divide myself into a "long-form-only" camp. Typically I assess the market/product, etc and start with one form or the other. However, if I'm not absolutely positive that whatever form I'm using will work - I always recommend that the client test a longer copy page versus a shorter copy page. You need to put out all your selling points, and defuse all the objectives. And you end it right there without any "extra" words. That could be 300 words or 10,000 words. Like you said - it depends on a TON of variables!

If you had written that, I would not have felt my intelligence insulted.
Apple doesn’t give a damn about companies with business models that can’t afford a 70/30 split. Apple’s running a competitive business; competition is cold and hard.

Why not allow developers and publishers to set their own prices for in-app subscriptions? One reason: Apple wants its customers to get the best price

So on one hand competition is good, natural, and everyone benefits. But on the other, companies shouldn't be be able to compete with Apple's built-in subscription system?
In rapid speech I find that 'W' is said less like 'dub ull yew' and more like 'dub uhya', and the 'uhya' is so compressed it's hardly like two distinct syllables. But that might be my Texas showing.
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Well said. I die a little inside, every time I read those words (and the inevitable dissection that veers away from the actual content of the discussion, and towards the process of deciding who's 'right').

Debating is good and fine - but (imo) sometimes, concentrating on the minutia isn't as worthwhile as expressing an idea.

Discussion can exist without this constant battle to score 'points'.
Incognito stops Facebook on third party sites as well as Google AdSense and Google Analytics:

http://www.orbicule.com/incognito/

It killed the Facebook comments section on this TechCrunch article too.
Incognito protects your privacy by blocking Google Adsense and Google Analytics on non-Google pages. In addition, it allows you to optionally block Facebook content on third-party websites as well as embedded YouTube movies outside of the YouTube website.

http://www.orbicule.com/incognito/

It blocked the comments on this TechCrunch article for me, and it blocks "Like" buttons everywhere for me too.
I'm going to sleep for the night. I'll be back at about 4pm GMT tomorrow to answer any additional questions. :)
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IE9 reversing the trajectory
Piracy is the future of television
On the contrary, as a Haskell user your views on IO should be kept in a thunk waiting for evaluation if they're ever needed. Unless you're one of those guys who've figured out how to do iteratee IO, in which case I tip my hat to you.
Breakup Notifier was stalker-ish - not guaranteed to get cut off, but certainly a risk. I wouldn't bet $5m on that, definitely.

In general, we're young in the space of companies that rely on APIs and other companies (App Store much?). Zynga has made a pile of cash relying on facebook, and plenty more will too, and that's just the way the world is from now on.

As for the whim of some individual, you are absolutely right. But that will sort itself out in the next few years, and it doesn't seem like a good reason not to get in early on what is obviously a trend that's here to stay.
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