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How many NEW desktop apps have you installed recently?

I don't install new desktop apps very often because my needs are already solved. I do nearly all my work in:

- Mail.app

- Xcode

- Eclipse

- TeXShop

- Terminal

- Chrome (JIRA, and browsing documents-not-webapps)

I'd prefer a native application for JIRA, but I haven't found a decent one yet.

Same is true for mobile, I don't see another space for innovation except improving web performance, integration & so on. Maybe you see some other directions where iPhone & Android can go?

I expect the iOS and Android platforms to continue to evolve their core libraries, providing significant additional functionality and features for use by mobile applications. Eventually that will slow as the mobile platforms mature.

I'd like to say that I expect the development of higher-level common platforms out of web browsers, but outside of (possibly) WebOS, this seems unlikely.

Compared to the web, iOS and Android have comprehensive platform APIs with consistent widgets and user experiences (iOS more than Android when it comes to consistency), support for multiple programming languages and runtimes, immediate access to platform vendor's APIs (playing video doesn't involve an browser vendors arguing over <video>, etc.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Further to your reason 1)

It is perfectly understandable for cases where people just want to 'market test'. What my question really concerns is not such cases but those that are more or less ready with their actual service and still use third-party landing page services.

I mean, won't it be like loosing good 'branding' opportunities for such startups?
Seriously thanks for the great feedback. Should have asked this question on HN awhile ago.

Looks like I've still got a bit of work to do, luckily it's fun "work".
Well... looks good. I tested it on 3 different devices and it worked excellently on all of them.
Agreed. There's a big market the android and ios fans seem to be ignoring a bit - small/medium businesses with a need for mobile devices and custom apps. The iOS "100 device limit" is pretty annoying and trying to deploy a custom add via 'ad-hoc' is certainly not a simple process (yet?) HPalm could/should be targeting SMBs and developers with an inexpensive tablet that is easy to write for. A $299 price point for a webOS tablet would be fantastic - JS-based development, web-based deployment, low-cost devices, etc. It's a pipe-dream right now, though, because everyone seems to still be focusing on "consumer-focused app stores".

Prediction: Apple will probably quietly introduce SMB-focused changes in the next year to make it stupidly simple to create custom apps and distribute to iOS devices outside of the App Store, then everyone else will spend 3 years chasing that angle. :/
Dear Jim
I looked on your website and it love the design - its beautiful.Movetampabay looks great as well. I think you should advertise yourself as a user interface designer.
You said you are not much of a designer, but I think otherwise. If you really hate doing web design,then you should switch,but I think you have the talent to do well at it.

I also think you should put a picture of youself on your website.

Good Luck!
With the float for-loop, is the bug initializing the variable inside the loop declaration or is it the comma in "x < 3,5"?
Not good work. We're not talking about good work. We're talking about fast work that runs on the web, works at scale, and allows the organization to pivot easily. You certainly won't catch me suggesting PHP is some sort of awesome language.. it's not. But it's language that lives on the web, and if I was building something on the web and had my pick of a random .NET developer and a random PHP one, I'd take the PHP one... because chances are the .NET developer has never deployed something on the internet, and chances are the PHP dev has.
A picture of Amanda Hocking with a quote (with her permission of course).

Edit: or a clip like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
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You gotta _love_ Linus' writings.
The animated characters sound unnatural and robotic. Besides, I can scan a web site way faster than waiting for a news show to read me the content.
People have been driving for web interface to rule them all for more than 10 years now. It will never happen in our life time. Those asking for web interface are mainly driving from tech management point of view, one development and interface for all devices and platforms. But consumers don't care and that's why the past few years we see the rise of native mobile interfaces. I see a future where native interface continues to rule, where the web is more the backend glues and data that network all together. Web interface might take a back seat when new generations user interface becomes standard. Touch has just become the standard, imagine a future with kinect like or advanced voice interface. Native interface on purpose build interface devices will have the opportunity to progress and advance the way we interface with the net and computer.
python is a platform independent language.
What tests does this run?
Timely, too, since they are maximizing exposure for registration for this year's conference. Clever!
That was a great speech. After ruminating a bit, I'm still left with the sad thought that I have no clue how to put this information to use. I just went through my last 100 orders and 29 were women, so there's room for improvement. I just Googled a few variations of "how women buy on the internet", which resulted in a bunch of sites for little blue pills and Russian brides, I didn't find any useful studies. It would be a good reading topic if anyone knows a source.
This is great. Goes along with Zed Shaw's philosophy on the selling and purchasing of enterprise software - steaks and strippers. Features are boring, steaks and strippers aren't.

http://vimeo.com/2723800 (17:53)
It's remains just an aspiration of mine to do what you have done.

Something I have actually done is to faithfully work my way through this book http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/

There are a lot of special moments in there too.
Isn't the timing a little bit suspicious for many countries on the list? Is Microsoft being pressed by the US government about allowing citizens of those countries to use HTTPS (is allowing HTTPS exporting crypto?)? Are they being pressured not to drop HTTPS for Libyans?
> First of all, the travelling salesman problem is not actually about travelling salesmen; a solution has to work on an arbitrary graph, not just one that is constrained to the actual geometry of space.

Not quite true, Euclidean TSP is also NP complete, so in a sense, working with real distances doesn't make the problem any easier to solve. Euclidean TSP is, however, easier to approximate, and that's really the point here: a good approximation is all that matters in practice, bees won't starve just because their solution is 0.5% worse than the optimal route.
I think social networking has a viable market waiting to be launched. Imagine Facebook being Web 1.0. I think Facebook 2.0 is out there waiting to be hatched.
I find it interesting that Linus seems to have originally come across this particular bug report as a user; he, too, was having a problem with Flash player:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c8

"I see this as well. Sounds like clipping or some really bad sample rate frequency conversion."

(It's only later that it becomes clear that this is due to a glibc "regression".)
If you really want speed, then I would recommend using a good implementation of Dancing Links for solving constraint satisfaction problems. Don Knuth proposes a doubly linked list structure to speed up recursive state space exploration: www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/papers/dancing-color.ps.gz.
I'm certainly impressed that the Canonical team are thinking about UI issues in this much depth. It is admittedly FAR more thought than I've ever given to the 'Quit' command, ever.

And while my initial thought is that there are much more important UI/UX issues to be solved in Ubuntu before this, I think that thinking of things like this are key in fixing the global UI altogether.

I'm not entirely certain of whether or not this is the best suggestion though. I LIKE to quit applications. I like knowing that they aren't running in the background, that they aren't consuming resources, that they aren't going to pop up a notification, that they aren't cluttering up my taskbar. I'm the same way with browser tabs -- I don't like having any more open than I need.

If I'm in the middle of something, and need to have a lot of tabs open, I'll generally open a new browser for my casual browsing that I can close when I'm finished. Conversely, I almost always keep Photoshop open, even if it's idle, because launching it takes more than a couple of seconds. I don't know if getting rid of quit is exactly what I'm looking for.
Stone tools 'demand new American story'
It seems to be down, google cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KY4Mjyl...
Mesos: Cluster management platform
The sad thing is that this will only be used for nefarious purposes. Imagine a disaster like the tsunami here in Japan. It's conceivable the phone company could provide data updates for each user until the phone or the cell phone tower is overwhelmed with water. You could get a report of every person known to be ok and the last location of every missing person.

If this sort of usage was possible, people would understand the privacy they are giving up and appreciate the benefits.

Unfortunately, that sort of usage will never be built out. It will only be used as a when required by a court. Apple has taken a small step in this direction with the find-my-iphone feature, but I think it could be made much more accessible to the end-user. If people are going to forfeit privacy, at least let them benefit from it.
Looks like their server feels the same way. (Sorry, I had to say it)
For the long history of how some glibc developers are enjoying to make more problems to the users see also:

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/debian-ditches-glibc-eglibc

I consider all this a real attitude problem.
If there is any reason to assume RIM not to be doomed is this. If they manage to leech off a competing ecosystem, they inherit its advantages immediately. Assuming Google won't go Microsoft on them (as in Microsoft sabotaging Digital Research), I see nothing bad coming.

The Android stack, kernel excepted, is Apache-licensed (thanks, davidw). To graft Bionic (or any glibc workalike) on top of QNX should be a walk in the park in comparison to build a full competitive stack.
Fair enough. If you need usage information, and distribution of usage information, it can very well be anonimized. You don't need to store the (attributable) travel paths of individual users for any longer than it takes to process it (or for the billing period).

It's also important to set priorities. I'd rather have more solid privacy protection than up-to-micromanagement optimal planning of capacity. Western Europe has extremely good cell coverage, so I don't think this is much of an issue.
I think it's awesome how focused someone who works on the very lowest level of the OS remains so focused on users, and their experience.
Why don't you ask your female customers? Ask them how they found you? why they bought? what features of the product they like the best? ...
This argument is pointless. The argument makes no sense without putting in the context of content creation vs content consumption.

Content creation is very resource incentive. If you don't quit any apps ever, you run out of resources. Simple as that.

Content consumption, on the other hand is easy and very optimized. Always have your browser running with 10 pages loaded at the same time you have your music player running and have a movie paused. No problem. Never quit anything.

Then the argument starts to make some sense.
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I do wonder on what basis I must _love_ his writings.

I'm not a Linux guy, so I am out of the loop. What makes these writings so lovable?
STUN and TURN were already mentioned.

There is also Apple's own NAT-PMP which is more like UPnP but simpler. It can directly ask your (Apple) router to open a port and redirect it incoming traffic to a specific IP address on your local network.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/NAT_Port_Mapp...

I bet Apple also supports UPnP these days.
I think the underserved market is pretty much non-geeks. I don't really think non-geeks like features as much as they like being able to do things.
I feel like this kind of page goes a bit too far. I think it's reasonable that even a somewhat technical user might see this page and think that stack overflow just dumped rather than that this is some sort of inside joke amongst the microsoft debugging community. A minor detail but at this point I don't think it they need to be reaching out to the geeks with inside jokes as much as building bridges to the average user.

Edit: downvote? Wouldn't you rather explain why you disagree with a civilly expressed opinion?
It's not about never quitting, though. It's about quitting when you close the last document, or something similar, and breaking the distinction between closing and quitting.

Heavy-duty apps should quit in the background after you close what you were working on, but this shouldn't necessarily matter to the user.
For #1, why not suppy a success and failure callback function to your doSomeAsyncCall function? There is no reason to muddle those two lines of logic together (which is the real reason for the described error).

And for #2, Relying on javascript hoisting functions isnt a smart way to keep your code organized.
that is not the difference, web apps can run locally fine

1. Cache Manifests
2. Phonegap, Titanium, CouchDB, plain serving from the filesytem (+ a magnitude of other options)
Next generation of customer relationship management (CRMs)? 
Something better then Salesforce?
indeed. this one is my fav. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643...
Install 0.4.4 on OS X (assuming you use npm):

$ npm install nave

$ nave usemain 0.4.4
"Bullshit. You clearly don't know what you're talking about."

Tells it like he sees it. I'm not going to argue with the man. He makes some good points. The user really doesn't care what the underlying changes are as long as everything continues to work, in this case it does not. Reading back through the comments its clear Linus makes great suggestions which are left unheard.

I like comment #222 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c222

"Breaking existing binaries with a shared library update IS A BAD THING. How hard can that be to understand? If you break binary compatibility, you need to update the library major version number."
IE9 impression
I just installed IE 9 on my windows 7 machine. The initial impression is awesome. I think Microsoft did some thing right eventually. It is on par with chrome with respect to speed. I think what microsoft need is some kick ass competition so that they will wake up from sleep.
Stop Preaching for Financial Independence
You might also enjoy this "USE KDE!" rant from a bunch of years back.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/12/13/1340215/Torvalds-Say...
Awesome interface for resizing multiple sizes of text in OS X
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Risk assessment: a glimpse of the future
I'm going to file this in the "no shit" drawer. Buffet is notoriously conservative and his shareholders (I'm one) understand that. I think the more people are talking about a given company, the less likely Buffet is to invest in it.

That's not to say that those companies will fail, he's just not going to be the one betting on it. Many highly risky bets will pay off but he will not be sad that he missed it.
I had a blog story running on the front of HN for a couple of hours and my EC2 micro instance just died under the load. Since I didn't expected to have such amount of traffic in the first place, my WordPress installation wasn't optimized at all.

I have learn in the process and now I think my blog can handle way more rps even on a micro instance. Thanks to nginx. I have blogged about this a couple weeks ago:

http://blog.rassemblr.com/2011/01/wordpress-need-for-speed-o...

One of the next step would be to use nginx load balancing (upstreaming) feature but I bet I won't get that popular :-)
These fights between "specs lawyers" and "pragmatic" programmers are painfully frequent. Reminds me of the ext4 controversy on the out-of-order metadata synchronization.

Linus himself has already expressed his point of view many times, for example here (http://www.h-online.com/open/features/GCC-We-make-free-softw...):

> Torvalds has his own take on this, which is that "For some reason, compiler developers seem to be far enough removed from 'real life' that they have a tendency to talk in terms of 'this is what the spec says' rather than 'this is a problem'."

I couldn't agree more.
Had the opportunity to play with the Playbook at Enterprise Connect a few week ago. The only advantage the RIM guy could recite was that "it does flash". He let me play with the tablet and it was very warm (almost hot) to the touch on the back of the tablet. The buttons on the top felt cheap and like they could break at any moment. When I told him it was good to see it's not vaporware, but then mentioned my observations, he simply reminded me "yeah, but it does flash". I wonder if these design issues are why it hasn't hit the market yet?
The nature of the Father of Linux being, in essence, an enraged (often insightful) crusader is just a point of pride for a lot of people who know about him and like Linux.
Fell in love with a product/start-up, want to invest in it
The other day I signed up for a product offered by a small start-up. I fell in love with the product that does everything I need and more and the company itself. I looked up the company and noticed they got about $200k of financing from various venture groups (mostly small ones). I would like to approach the founder and invest about 50K. I've never done this before. What do I ask in return? How to I approach the founder? What do I say so I dont turn him off? Any pointers will be appreciated.
Investing In Competing Companies
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what is the area like, demographics wise, where your restaurant is? is it heavily populated? average-ish age of most of your target market? do most customers have smartphones?
I was specifically talking about the "optics", as political analysts like to say.
It does matter, especially when you have Microsoft crippling the web with their consistently outdated browsers. Just look at what WinPhone7 is running compared to everyone else's webkit-based solutions. Even when they get their ie9 on the phone it will still be behind the browsers in ios, android (including firefox and opera), and the newer blackberries.

We'll be writing if(ie) conditionals for a long time if people start buying winphone 7
Instead of making up joke licences someone should sit down and write a licence tailored for software that is roughly equivalent to a CC-BY-SA-NC.
Why was the reply killed? It's very relevant.

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The energy consumption of a fully laden Apis mellifera is in the neighborhood of 55mW.

http://www.culturaapicola.com.ar/apuntes/anatomia/130_efecto...

I had no idea it was so high.

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He's straightforward.
"Against medical ethics" is a similar blurb written by a med student: http://squid314.livejournal.com/285785.html

Let's say inmates on death row aren't getting kidney transplants. A normal person might think "Well, that makes sense. There are only a few kidneys available, and if we give one to a death row inmate who we then fry the next day, we've just lost a kidney that could potentially give a dying person decades of healthy life for literally zero gain."

Does it surprise you that there are medical ethicists who are ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGED that death row inmates are not receiving kidney transplants? And this isn't the result of me looking for some outrageous cause to cherry-pick and put in an article. This is the result of me typing "medical ethics" into Wikipedia, clicking on the first name I saw, and seeing the sentence "He has urged that death row inmates be eligible to receive kidney transplants" in the bio.
I thought the down website was related to the headline..
The less like a insurance company or business model that's 200+ years old, the less likely buffet is to invest in it. He seems to specialize in troubled traditional businesses which are mainly missing capital investment and insurance
> How many NEW desktop apps have you installed recently?

I install (and uninstall) games pretty regularly. To me these have the potential to be the big differentiator. It will be interesting to see if we end up with fragmentation (think DS vs. PSP vs. iOS) or ports of most major releases as long as each platform has decent market share (Xbox 360 vs. PS3).

It seems that hardware-wise and market share-wise, we're trending towards seeing major releases on at least iOS and Android. What's interesting to me here is that (1) so far it seems like indie developers are playing a larger role on the mobile gaming scene, and they won't necessarily have the resources to do a launch on both platforms until their games become hits, and (2) for whatever reason it seems like the Android gaming market (and app market in general) is very anemic compared to iOS, despite having a large install base. (This is just my subjective opinion based on using an Android phone for the last few months.)

As a side note, I do agree that in general desktop OS choice is less important than it used to be, but I think that it's due more to the democratization of data than it is to the rise of web apps. Getting a Mac file to open on a friend's PC used to be pretty difficult for the average user.
Web Apps do not need to go and fetch from the internet every time you click a link.

There are lots of differenct ways web apps can be built without ever even touching the network
I don't understand either. I see this more frequently lately, that (informative, on topic) posts are randomly killed. It's not like the poster was a negative-karma user, either. Who decides which posts get killed?
Maybe this time around IT committees simply won't be able to decide which tablets to buy as employees simply bring their own? Same like we use 3G to bypass stupid network filtering?
I actually agree that prices may be inflated/overhyped but the lack of specificity in Buffett's statement kind of irks me. He doesn't even define what a social network is (Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon are all remarkably different companies and not everyone would consider all of them to be social networks).

He's a brilliant investor but at the end of the day statements made without any indication of real analysis or research should be taken with a grain of salt...even from the Oracle of Omaha.
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I've never actually laughed when reading a license before. This is so funny that I might have to make a new project JUST to license it with the CDL.