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You know, some people view their phone in an intimate, personal way - not much different from their car - so the idea that Apple feel it is their phone and not your phone is rather insulting. Such expectations don't exist when interacting with services.
My opinion is that this app does not violate the behavior that FB wants to dissuade. It sends an email that provides information that is already being provided by the user, it does not track or determine information that is otherwise not available.
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For this reason I think its fairly obvious that his personal account and the app were pulled for something more than excessive API calls.
I don't see any problem here. I think the article is making the assumption that people only move jobs when they are seriously upset about where they are. In my experience, that simply isn't true: people move on after a few years anyway, just to get a change of scene and/or to protect against "CV typecasting".

I would not be offended by a "friend" (whether a real personal friend or a valued business associate) hiring one of my staff because the staffer has chosen to move on, nor by the staffer choosing to apply for a job at my friend's company if it was a decent place to work. I suspect the only things that would offend me would be sneaky or otherwise unprofessional conduct, such as if the friend tried to use our relationship to prevent me from making some sort of genuine counter-offer to entice the staffer to stay. Chances are that I would not consider someone who would do that either a personal friend or a valued business associate anyway, though.
I think it's awesome that you're trying to find something for your mom. I am in a similar position so I'm curious on the ideas that users here can come up with.

Whatever she does, she should definitely do something she enjoys.
That's a reasonable moral position, but in this case the outcome is immoral: preventing an employee from changing jobs because the CEO values his friendship with some other CEO.
As submitter, I mostly agree. Microbenchmarks are the celebrity gossip of the tech world. They are mostly meaningless, but they get more attention and controversy than they deserve.

And yet, I submitted it anyway. I saw a link, found it interesting, and as such posted it.
I'm a little surprised it made it to the front page, but if there were more interesting content available, I assume it wouldn't have.
I agree on JNDI, which is why I believe few have pursued another option. Thanks for the reminder about the Spring LDAP library. I came across that as well and had to reject it for the reason you stated. We don't already use Spring and I didn't want to import all that extra code. I'll update my posting and mention the Spring option.
In response to the question asked:

in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2254397

in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2255236
Yeah, the Linux distros (which themselves obviously only use 'ip') should have done #2 10 years ago.

When I worked at Red Hat (till 2005) their official RHCE documentation still told people to use ifconfig and route.
Sure, it's cheaper and the technology is top notch. But dear god do the tools have a learning curve.

As a dabbling artist who just wants to make something reasonably good-looking, the toolkit looks very intimidating. With Shiva and Unity, the end quality may well be lower, but I'll probably finish the game in the time it would take me to get to know the UDK.
No kidding! I've led a couple sessions where I've taught other developers how to use Emacs (basic or advanced usage), and I continually emphasize that the built-in help system (including info) is very good. You just have to get comfortable with the idiosyncratic terminology, and you can pick up half of that just from the C-h t tutorial.
Ask HN: The importance your domain (.com vs .io)
When picking a new domain name what value do you put on having a .com domain? Assuming most of the 'good' .com's have been taken I go straight for something like an .io rather than having some strange .com (or of course paying for a cool .com).

Was this a big decision for you? Do you worry having something other than a .com looks a bit amateurish?
All right. Thanks for the polite and detailed response.
Also, just to confirm a stereotype, do you use Windows for your servers?

Related tangent: There was a time when the the US military's COTS (Civilian Off The Shelf) initiative resulted in AEGIS missile cruisers running largely on machines running Windows NT. Yes, the ships responsible for screening carrier task forces against attack -- had to be rebooted on a weekly schedule.

To be fair, the unmolested NT kernel is rock solid. I know people used to run RAID arrays with it, but for the desktop, Microsoft allowed the crossing of certain architectural lines.
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If you click the little cloud it takes you there. My bad, I forgot to include it in the body of the post, fixing now.
All of the above. Activists have been dealing with these kinds of issues for a long time. Facebook's processes are haphazard, they make arbitrary decisions without notifying people, their automated filters are prone to misjudgment, and they usually don't react until an issue starts to get significant attention.
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I'll own up! I found this on HN yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2252909
Or, the system that shut him down is automated and triggers 99.9% of the time on spam accounts, and the lockout is a totally sensible default.
Ask HN: How did you get your first 1000 users?
Just wondering what kind of techniques people have used to get users when launching new websites/services. What brought in the most users? What did you find was a waste of time?
Good. Next, there's a check for "GET" method and if request contains parameters at all (which returns 404 if not) in the Go version. Though, I don't think it will make a big difference.
So jailbreak your phone. Then, re-evaluate 'ragenwalds question substituting "iOS App Store" for "iPhone".
Facebook does not want to provide that information.
Twitter is similar in that they ask you to not publish deleted tweets.
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Is the info being provided by the user, or is the app detecting info that is no longer being provided by the user, i.e. lack of friend status is not the same as a notification that you are no longer friends. If the deal is with regard to the former, I can easily imagine that FB doesn't tell you these things intentionally. If they leave it as a silent disconnect, they can construct their TOU to prohibit detecting connection state since FB does not actually provide that data. I guess in other words, FB may simply prohibit extracting any information from their service that they do not explicitly provide.
Google Voice is an unusable mess. I've literally never missed a vanilla SMS, but Google Voice regularly delivers them hours or even days late.
Right, and Symbian is the best mobile platform because Nokia has invested the most 'development resources' in it.

Also if you add all the open source developers of things like the Linux kernel, Android has way more ppl working ot it compared to iOS.

Just the term 'developer resources' shows you know very little about software development.
Charles is a reasonably ok tool, but if you want the equivalent of Charles on steroids, we use Burp Suite Pro (http://www.portswigger.net/) at Mandalorian.

Burp suite pro costs about $200 and is worth every penny for both web app security testing and general web debugging. There's also a free version for personal use with a few things disabled, but still perfectly useful for debugging web apps.
That's 3.6 million Facebook users in the Breakup Notifier database, not 3.6 million users of Breakup Notifier.

Since the app pulls in all your Facebook friends, and people generally have a few hundred friends, I suspect the number of users of Breakup Notifier is in the tens of thousands.
You're welcome to jailbreak your iPhone and install whatever you want on it. It's perfectly legal, but Apple is not under an obligation to support it, or keep the security holes that allow it in place, or even make it easy for you.
Then perhaps these kinds of decisions should not be taken by machines.
Yes, but the trademark now belongs to the Django Software Foundation -- when the DSF was established, the company transferred all the IP to the Foundation.
JRebel is a must when doing Scala web development. It's not free but it definitely speeds up the development process as it eliminates almost all instances where one would have to restart the app server for code changes.
What is stopping you from telling some Goolge form you are from USA? Many companies offer free US numbers over VOIP, that you can use during registration.
As appealing as 3.6M users sounds, "reach" apps like this often make really bad money. He would've made no more than $500 if he was doing well. He was capturing emails, so that had long term potential, but he wouldn't have become rich from three days of FB user impressions.
> Cold starting hardware does not delete data.

Alright, figured it out. When you talk about coldstaring you really mean restarting the machine, as in pressing the reset button for example. When I talk about coldstarting I mean starting with a bare hardware box and installing an OS on it.

> Are you trolling?

Actually I thought you were. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[EDIT: I won't edit my previous posts, otherwise your posts won't make sense, let others laugh at my bad English (it is a 3rd language so I don't mind)]
The comic in question: http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=1&lo...
Jailbreaking is entirely legal. And jailbroken phones allow for the installation of arbitrary software. So really, iOS Terms are not as big of a deal as you make them out to be then?

I think that the legality of the task is important, but it's also pretty critical how supported that task is. While it's legal to jailbreak, it's also (probably? unknown) legal for Apple to accidentally brick your phone during updates.
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I think a more reasonable interpretation is the app was pulled for being spammy and the developer of the app was pulled for being a spammer. I think the implication that there is something sinister in this is reaching.
It understands a lot of words, like :
measures (feet, inches, meters, millimeters, etc.)
quantities (litres, gallons, millilitres, etc.)
weights (pounds, kilograms, etc.)
time measurements (hours, minutes, etc.)
And you can calculate and convert pretty much everything with those keywords.

Edit : here's a link that shows you other interesting possibilities http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#calculator
If Microsoft had built a closed yet successful ecosystem like the iphone it would be sued into oblivion by the EU.
As you might guess, the answer is "it depends." I tend to read fiction cover to cover, and if it's short enough (the average Dean Koontz novel, for example) I often read it one sitting. A Stephen King novel like Under The Dome might take 2-3 sittings.

Non-fiction is a different story. I tend to read business books cover to cover (relative to a span of time, like say a week or two), but I interleave reading multiple books so that, at any given time, I have 3-4 books I'm in the middle of reading. Which one I pick up to read a few pages of on any given evening when I have time to read just comes down to a whim.

Similar case with other non-fiction stuff... I have bookmarks stuffed in probably a couple of dozen books that are in some intermediate stage of being read. But sometimes one just catches my fancy and I knock it out in a few days (or whatever time-frame, depending on the length and difficulty.)

The big exception are books that are basically just reference. A tutorial'ish book like Grails In Action I might go through almost cover to cover, but at some point when I've learned enough to start "doing stuff" I tend to start skipping around. Books like that I often never technically "finish." Other reference books I pick up, skip to the section I care about, read that part, then put it aside and never touch it again. For example, I'm skipping around in Mahout In Action now, focusing on the section on clustering.

Sometimes I read just the part I need now then put the book in the "read this entire book later" pile. Then it just goes in the queue with all the other partially read books.

So, following this system the time span I spend on any given book might range from 6-7 hours (like the last Dean Koontz novel I read) to 20+ years ( I think I started Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas at least that long ago, and it's still in the "come back and finish this later" pile.)
I don't find other domains amateurish, but certain domains I'm unlikely to give information to: such as .ru and .ly and maybe in the future .ng but haven't seen evidence for that yet.

I think the main advantage of .com .net .org is the google boost but that might change in the future and if your product is right it shouldn't matter.

Personally I really don't like when the domain name is part of the name it makes it harder for me as typing a period in between a word seems unnatural: bing.com is easier for me than bi.ng.
Facebook needs a separate bulk email folder
Hey facebook, I don't login much any more because of the friend-spam. Can you please create a separate inbox, with it's own set of alerts, for emails from friends that are sent to more than X people?

Vote it up if you think this is a good idea.
An automated system that can't distinguish between a very successful application and a spammer doesn't sound particularly sensible to me.
Well, to be perfectly exact, in the real-world, for a limited duration, controlled rent can work fine. It just has been applied without discernment too many times.
I'm curious how they'll respond too.

This just gives me the impression that Facebook doesn't approve of successful (indie) applications built on their API.
Breakup Notifier's relationship status: It's complicated.
I thought the original poster implied a good purchasing experience along with a unified one, and that though the unified experience might be part of the good experience, it's not the totality.
No need to vote down a legitimate question.
It's either that or "You seem to be glossing over a lot of details to make this sound like a good thing, just because you like Apple and you don't like Amazon and Apple wins in this situation while Amazon loses.".

Definitely one of the two...
I think this is one of the key factors: most of the buzz today is orienting on what amounts to entertainment for the moneyed. Since the moneyed, well, have money, they buy it, and thus the company does well.

What makes my life 1% more fun does nothing for someone in a third-world country. This is compared to, say, 50 years ago, where something that made my life better, e.g., an advance in refrigeration tech, could be distributed out to the third world better. I'm pulling examples out of a hat here, and I'm sure that other and better examples could be found.

There are a ton of more fundamental projects done by companies, people, and universities out there. But they don't get the buzz right now, generally speaking.
I've taken two jailbroken iphones into Apple for warrantee work, with Cydia and MyWi sitting there plain as day. I've never had them tell me I couldn't do that to their phone.

I think people are letting their feelings about the App Store color everything about Apple. Ironically, the people with the strongest feelings are the people who least have to put up with it, since they understand how to get around it, whether that be jailbreaking and using Cydia for apps, using web applications, or going with Android.
A sensational title with illogical predictions based upon no data.

Like lawyers, insurance agents, and government officials, everyone bitches and moans about IT...until they need them.

Does OP honestly believe that small business people can maintain their own servers? Remember, these are mostly people who believe that theBrowser = theInternet, all you have to do is "plug and play", and when in doubt, reboot.

Does OP really believe that small business people can rely on "local expertise from a web site somewhere" to insure mission critical up time, maintenance, and fiduciary compliance. Not anywhere I've ever been.

I get it that 37signals is cool and has built a really nice silo within which to operate. But please stop with the posts about the other 99% of the world you know nothing about.
The email may well have been automatically-generated. Most people whose accounts are suspended have a very hard time getting in touch with a real person even when they follow instructions on the Facebook site.
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Here's a warning to you. Don't develop for Facebook. They essentially are a tyranny, you can't really take them to court for blocking you.
> so the envelope could only establish a priority date.

As I understand, this is exactly what the OP is after. :-)
If OP has a provable priority date, a future patent holder can't sue the OP. Or can he still? I guess only a patent attorney can tell.
Good post, I've been through a similar situation. I worked for some large evil company, and needed all of those meetups and blog posts to validate the idea that I wanted to work on or at a startup. But I am not sure that cutting them out totally is a good idea. They do help you build your network, and some people you meet at these events CAN actually be helpful. Maybe like with alcohol, it is good in moderation. But I agree, it is easy to get swept up in the spirit of entrepreneurship but never become one.
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I'm not a big fan of prohibitive IT departments, but this article is probably as biased as you'd expect an article from a major SaaS provider to be.

I witnessed the shift from a very restrictive environment (central SVN accessible only through VPN, all authenticated through Active Directory, limited access to servers) towards "the cloud" (Google Docs, Github, AWS, etc) at my last employer. While the latter has it's advantages, but it's not all rainbows and unicorns.

One major issue is user management. I quit yesterday (self employed now, yeah), who ensures that my accounts gets deactivated on all these services? With a centralized approach, it's just one click.
This started to interfere with facebook's own stalking experience so they shut it down. Don't need to be a genius to figure out that out.
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I'm often amazed by how quickly things get messed up if a single message is dropped from a conversation. People really expect communication channels like these to never fail.
"The line was long" is also a justification for shoplifting. "He looked at me funny" is also a justification for murder. All you're saying is "the offender can tell him/herself that they have a reason." Which is always true for anything anybody does.

I get that you should make it easy for people to buy your software legitimately. But I don't buy the argument that if you don't, they are "justified" in stealing it. Everybody rationalizes whatever they do. That doesn't make it right.
What kind of modes are people writing nowadays?

I'm mostly a vim user, but everytime I dabble in emacs (usually to play with org-mode :-)), it seems to have just about everything covered... Just curious.
It's "The End of History" all over again. It would seem that this post merely demonstrated the necessity of the IT department managing resources.

(There are some good comments on that page, so I won't bother to repeat what they said.)
I went through something similar recently, and have settled (for the moment at least) on the non-.com. I guess the other question is do you approach the .com owner about a potential sale before or after you have launched? If you are successful, you will pay more for it post launch but at the same time if you are successful without the .com you probably didn't need it in the first place. On the other hand, it's difficult to justify splashing out for a .com when you haven't even shipped. I agree about going with a .something over a strange .com though.
If real, & the Thunderbolt I/O is indeed LightPeak, why would Apple consolidate the port into a Mini Display Port? Seems like an odd fit..
Ah but what happens when Steve Jobs wants a 30% cut of all sales made on Apple desktops? ;)
You are confusing your generations. The people currently in power are 50-70 years old, ie born in 1940-1960. They were children during the WWII era and Eisenhower administration, and had nothing to do with the Bomb, the Apollo program or interstates.

For example, Feynman, one of the "young kids" of the Manhattan project, was born in 1918.
First on Java generics: I don't understand all the complaints about generics anyway. They're very useful and not really hard to understand, basically. Besides the readability gain, you get compile time errors, or even hints in an ide for types that don't fit compared to casting from object to the type you expect to get. Also APIs are a lot more readable and expressive when you don't have a bunch of methods taking objects as parameters.

I think the "subsetting the language" approach is a red herring.

I don't think that the compatibility in syntax is meant for subsetting, but merely for approaching a language one step at a time. When you learn programming in a new language that has this advantage, you can start right away, using familiar concepts and learn more features as you need them. You can grow into the language.

At least that was my approach in learning languages like VB.Net(oh yeah..), C# and Java for example. The specific advantages of each language come in when i try to simplify things or do something in a better way.

Making the wall merely a ramp you can go up slowly instead of climbing right uphill.

Also I'm interested in the way some programmer could/should be able to learn a whole language in depth before getting his hands dirty on a real project, working in a company.
I think this phenomenon needs a word. How about iThumb?
Clearwire Wimax covers the Tampa Bay area now; you should take your laptop out to Fort Desoto and code with inspiration.

edit: In fact, I may have just talked myself into signing up with Clearwire; care to start a co-working space just around the bend from the northernmost parking lot?
Work in retail. Most of the things going on are

- brand A versus brand B
- retailer versus brands
- retailer versus employees

the customers are just minor players in this game
Sure, you can screw up anything, and I certainly wasn't saying "everything should be rent-controlled".

Just kinda irks me when someone comes in with the Econ 101 argument regarding a policy that's being implemented by people with advanced degrees in city planning. These people took Econ 101, and know more about the subject than you or I. They could still be wrong, of course, but it's not for a silly simplistic reason like that.