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It's a matter of form follows function, always. But form includes the impression the end user gets. That's why big buttons don't always work.

For Knol, that feel ought to include a stately manner. Something large buttons don't convey well.

With Gmail, there's quite a lot of clutter. Google tends to have a lot of clutter. Curves where you don't need curves, visual tics that don't have to be there. the ribbon that highlights the Inbox. The bulkiness of the selector.

I noticed this on Windows, much more now that I'm on a Mac. Google wastes pixels not for functionality but for this idea of a design. They could smooth it out, add much more color contrast, make things more usable while still looking nice, without much of an effort. But they rarely do. Gmail and Google Reader are the two hugest offenders, I find; Maps and their actual Search are good comparisons, because very little space is wasted.
You should always leave companies at their zenith.Leaving it either too early or too late costs you money.

I don't think Xobni's there yet though.
From the comments on the page: If you want to develop applications for the iPhone you'll have to sign a Non-disclosure agreement (NDA). This prohibits people from sharing best practices and improving the platform overall. Everybody has to reinvent the wheel.
Yes, but we can't because of the fucking NDA.

Apple makes all potential app developers obey essentially a gag order. Whether it's legally enforceable is an open question, but since they control the platform and app store, Apple have all of the cards.

That means: no books, no libraries, no websites, NOTHING because of a fear of being banned from the platform.
It's just a bunch of tweets about how much people don't like the NDA on Apple's Dev. Program. Honestly, without knowing more about what I'm seeing here I don't think it meets News.YC standards. Would this an appropriate use of the 'flag' link?
I have also developed a Formula that generates only 1 and primes:

a(n) = 1
With that reasoning, all human attributes are physical, so putting "physical" before "attribute" was redundant. But of course, it wasn't redundant--it had a clear message, and a different one from what you're now making it out to be. This after-the-fact damage control on your part is disingenius.
I like the concept and it makes a lot of sense as I open a lot of different file, browse a lot of different sites and do not always remember the name.

I created a bookmark app (very raw), that orders my bookmarks based on the time they were save and it is tremendously useful.(the url for the bookmarker is public and is http://www.trk7.com/install/xxx.php (click on the calendar tab), just in case u want to check)
I found Bonforte's "explanation" annoying. It smacked of the same condescending attitude that some (note I didn't say all) MBA types have towards hackers that says "you're a good programmer but leave the business stuff to me."
The quick description of Sys::Protect (and it's lack of documentation on CPAN so far) make it seem like an implementation of the Safe module with a preconfigured list of unwanted opcodes. I'm interested in know why Safe wasn't considered or how Sys::Protect is related, if at all, to Safe (which I believe has been a standard perl module for quite some time).
haha.... ex-yahoo-ligans ruining yet another company.
By that logic, Apple should lock OS X and make it impossible to install anything that doesn't go through Apple. I'd like to see how that would go down.

Also, I thought Apple promised to let basically every application into the store?

Without that, it would be mad to develop for the iPhone. It would be a huge gamble, spending maybe 5 digit sums or more only to hear that you did not live up to Apple's standards and can throw your application into the garbage bin.

Maybe there is another reason: maybe sales of mobile applications are a huge market, and Apple simply doesn't want to share.
That's the optimistic view, but I am not taking chances for the time being.
We did just this. It worked out wonderfully. 200 disposable cameras (hey, it was 1999), 27 pictures each. This is a @#$%load of photos folks. 90% of them were total crap. 7% of them were way-cool novelties, 3% of them were pure gold that no wedding photographer could have captured. We had a traditional wedding potog take the usual pictures that no one looks at as well.

Pictures were taken at the wedding, the reception, and the after-party. At the end of it all, we mailed out cd-roms of the best pictures to everyone who attended. (These cd's had, incidentally, also been the invitations. Bring your invitation along, get photos of the event!)

I highly recommend it to one and all. Crowd-sourced photos rock.
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I didn't see the word wiki anywhere in that article.

I was referring to the title of the submission, which called Knol a "Wikipedia clone". I merely pointed out that Knol is nothing like Wikipedia.
That's pretty standard, why is this surprising?
I developed replacement firmward for the Archos handheld multimedia player a few years ago. You couldn't even get documents on the chip. The firmware was completely locked down, compressed+encrypted.

These things just make it more fun :)
I remember back in the 80s there was this trend to outfit schools with a television in every room, as television was going to be some kind of teaching/learning holy grail. Then it was never used for that, and I remember a lot of the televisions going unused.
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I'm having flashbacks to reading High Stakes, No Prisoners when Ferguson starts to realize what a mistake he made with hiring his new CEO. If they had only sold the company to Microsoft a few months into his reign the parallel would been even more eerie.
Man, I went to Rutgers, but it sounds like I picked the wrong major. One of my CS TA's literally did not know what the head and tail of a list are (an American, by the by). And to think, math was just across the hall..
> all human attributes are physical

No. Opinions define attributes of an individual (e.g. "liberal", "conservative", "masochist") but are not physical.

P.S. No "damage control" is needed as no "damage" has been done. You see controversy where there is none.
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Hi

Appreciate any constructive feedback for our new app at http://Enikos.com

The key concept is to help publishers and content producers better monetize and syndicate their video content without loosing control of it.

The application came out of some research and participation in the MPEG21 Standards body (our founders authored a number of parts of the standard).

It packages Digital Media into Widgets (primarily Video and Advertising but could be any type of Digital media) and then allows publishers to publish the widget on their site and then syndicate/share.

It works on normal PC browsers right now (runs well on FF,Safari,Opera & IE7 but runs like a dog on IE6 which Im sure you will forgive us for)

We will shortly release a version of the Widget that will run natively across PC, Iphone, Andriod, Facebook, Myspace and other social networks or IPTV devices as needed and only show the content and the format that best suits the platform its being shown on and transcode the video to suit.

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Technically it uses the ExtJS Javascript Framework for the Creation Tool, some really lightweight JS for the Widget and Java Servlets, MYSQL and XML for the backend.

Its had a team of guys from Australia, Russia, Philippines, Nepal and India working on it for a 6 months.

Its sitting on a few Amazon EC2 extra large instances using a custom AMI to load the Instance, this has OpenVPN and Puppet which loads the latest version of the deployment and syncs the database, the storage for Digital assets is sitting on S3

Appreciate any feedback or comments you have on the actual application, it operation and ease of use and any bugs you find , create yourself a new account, there is some demo digital assets in there to play with or you can simply refer to any other digital asset URL out on the web and package this into the widget.

The beta is free for 3 months, at the end of this we will be offering a paid version if you have your own advertising relationships or an Ad revenue sharing model if you don't have your own ads.

Thanks in advance for your feedback

Mike Nicholls
I still wonder if we don't need both options, subscriptions and polling. Because otherwise, it would also be very cheap to subscribe to LOTS of things without really being interested (like those people on Twitter who follow 10000 users), which would also result in pushing unnecessary data around. Not sure if this would be handled by "presence", but even so - I want my client to receive all updates, even if it is down sometimes (no messages should be missed).
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I remember some Commodore 64 games that let you play Space Invaders while the game was loading off tape: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=151312&cid=126...
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"... CEO Jeff Bonforte (who joined the company only five months ago) says that Cselle simply decided that he was no longer happy at Xobni, and wanted to try building his own startup. ..."

and

"... I’ve wanted to be a founder of a company that makes a difference. I’ve wanted to build a workplace where people can be creative, productive, and happy, and a product that delights users and improves their lives. I feel like the time is now ..."

Remember Gabor is employee #1, not founder.
The obsequious reply to that comment is actually even more annoying. Or, perhaps, I am not catching the sarcasm.
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First everything has to go trough the iTunes AppStore. Then there is the no background-applications limitation because it might "hurt" the iPhone's image if they sucked some battery.

Now this. It seems Apple is a tad over-protective about their supposedly great platform. I'm suspicious of anything in need of this much protection.
Or maybe he convinced everyone to turn down Microsoft.
I doubt one employee can convince co-founders, employees AND VCs to not sell when they are ready.
Come on. Look at other consumer devices. Most are completely closed. A little perspective and gratitude for Apple being a million times less closed than most devices.
It's standard in semiconductors and devices. The iPhone is drawing lots of the kinds of developers (web, ISVs, etc) who are not used to that. They cut their teeth on very open/well-documented environments.
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Great feedback. You absolutely need both RESTful APIs, and these XMPP data services we talked about. We definitely aren't suggesting getting rid of all your current APIs and moving everything to XMPP, e.g. we talked about reusing your URI described resources as your XMPP pubsub node descriptors so you can build hybrid apps.
How is my comment obsequious?
It's the 'pedia part that's like wikipedia. Not the wiki part. They want to make an online encyclopedia.

I hope it succeeds, wikipedia is so full of wrong, but verifiable, information that it's hard to use it. (ColdFusion, UFO's, and the Singularity, are wonderful examples of wrong, but verifiable.)
They pay you a piece of ad money from your page. (If you want. You can also disable ads.)
The Windows mobile platform has official SDKs you can download and no NDA. Any application can do anything allowed by the SDK and they can be installed by any regular consumer without jailbreaking, either directly from the internet on the phone itself or trough a simple setup-program on a PC synching with the phone.

Microsoft beats Apple at all points here. I have no experience with Symbian development, but a quick google seems to imply that their platform is as open as Microsoft's.

I'm not saying Windows Mobile is flawless or that Microsoft are saints, but I fail to see why people constantly are cheering or apologizing for Apple when they are clearly overstepping their bounds in the name of a "it just works" image-based egotrip.
According to you, "changes in the wiring of the brain" are "based on physical differences". Is difference of opinion anything other than a difference in the wiring of the brain? If you don't believe in the supernatural, then the answer is no, and you've contradicted yourself.

This happens surprisingly often when you defend stuff that you don't really believe.
I think it's a matter of the default or "root" UI, the one you have to go through to access your desktop metaphor of choice, and therefore the "safe" place that most people will return to. This was, in order of addition (but not necessarily replacement), the command line, the desktop, and most recently the "media center" menu. Having the computer start up with a calendar or infinite time-line filling the screen, and remain so when idle, would certainly encourage the metaphor.
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You're confusing cause and effect.

People who will succeed (make more money) are capable of going to college.
College itself doesn't cause people to make more money.
I'm tempted to submit http://redact.me ...since [REDACTED] is the granddaddy of FUCKING NDA :p
Wow, great quality video. I don't care much about RAD, but I'd love to hear more about how it was filmed...
And Windows Mobile is a LOT older than the iPhone. As in, you could trace back the history of Windows Mobile probably something like 10+ years. Compare to iPhone, which has its roots in OS X, but this is the first mobile/embedded version of OS X, and it's Apple's first phone, and the SDK is hardly months old.

Just saying, this could be Apple being stupid and malicious, or it could be Apple wandering into new territory (for them).

I'm hoping situations change in the coming years, but I mean, I really wish people would put a little perspective into this..."Windows Mobile has this, has that! iPhone doesn't!" well, what if you gave it some more time? Good apps and know-how don't just appear out of thin air, it stems from experience.
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Sorry I was out all day, so couldn't respond. I was reacting to the comparison of property management company to your putative "company management company" (which eventually gets revealed as a typical public company in your essay). That was the context in which I said companies have people, and people are not housing, and your objective of an "optimal" strategy doesn't hold water.

My broader point is that companies/people (including founders) have goals, dreams, aspirations ... maximizing return on investment may not even be the biggest goal. It is a late 20th century Milton Friedmanite doctrine (which classical libertarians actually disagree with) that the only purpose of a company ought to be to maximize shareholder wealth. I mention this because you refer to "optimal" strategy, but in this case, there is no such optimal strategy, because the goals are so extremely diverse and often mutually contradictory.

Interestingly, shareholder wealth maximization (which academics are so fond of) is a proposition most real world capitalists don't actually subscribe to - witness the resistance of Jerry Yang to being absorbed. It has little do with long term shareholder wealth maximization (though he has to pretend that it is, in order to keep the lawyers at bay), and everything to do with preserving what he perceives as a unique Yahoo culture from being decimated (somewhat justified, in my opinion), even at the cost of losing substantial value as a shareholder himself. There is no right or wrong in this (I think his cause is hopeless myself), just that this is how Jerry Yang, the capitalist part owner of Yahoo, operates.

What is the goal of a company? It ultimately boils down to a religious question of "Who am I? What do I want?" which each founder (and each employee) has to ask himself/herself. DHH laid out his answer, and I bet an awful lot of founders identify with it. You have your school of thought on this, which I bet a lot of founders identify with too. But yours is not any kind of optimal extreme of DHH.
I think it is interesting to see the outcry and the problems its causing. Both from a developers view point and from a how not to do a community view point.

Also fuckingnda.com is a good was of expressing that and bringing together twitter.
I don't think there's much net activity in North Korea, to be honest. You might be thinking of China? In any way filters are usually working at the ISP level, not on client machines.
See http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/22/cisco-internal-memo.htm...

That and voluntary censorship/collaboration by companies:

- Google censors itself for China: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4645596.stm

- Yahoo 'helped jail China writer': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4221538.stm
Actually, the iPhone may be unusable, but it wouldn't be anything new for a phone with 3G support.

On edge my old iPhone lasted 4-5 hours constantly on IRC. I can't even sporadically browse that long on a browser on many 3G phones, not just the iPhone but also the likes of the samsung blackjack and the htc/at&t tilt. There is no way in hell I would be able to stay on IRC for a reasonable amount of time with that kind of battery suckage.

I appreciate some aspects of the push notification service Apple is willing to provide, but I disagree with some of them, and obviously for others they would not work (ugh, again, IRC).

Also, I might note that a lot of these limitations put in place by Apple may be moot with the jailbreak (which I know many users would be reluctant to do, but if you were a hacker willing to deal with the possible consequences in exchange for having a slightly more open device, it's worth thinking about).
And good apps would certainly stem from people being allowed to develop for the phone, not to mention discussing experiences.

What Apple is doing here is trying to keep the "good apps" in house and under their control so they can capitalize on it (and make it a selling point), instead of developers out on the free market.
As a European, I am not appalled by the fact that you educate as many girls as boys.

What makes me wonder is why you Bachelor is 4 years, will ours is only 3.
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Agreed. Any 3G phone I've had has had significantly less battery-time than your usual edge phone. This is not a iPhone-only issue, and I'm not saying it is.

However: The decision on how to use that limited battery-time should be mine to make, and certainly not left to a phone-manufacturer trying to protect their own image.
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The original quote in context on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=179639
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To be honest, I don't think Apple's doing that...and if they are, they're doing a horrible job of it.

Have you seen the apps on the app store? Half are complete trash. Maybe like 5% are awesome and worth using. The rest are mediocre (and on a sidenote, I think those percentages apply to applications in general anyway). Outside of the ones that violate the terms set by Apple/AT&T, I don't really want to know what the hell kinds of applications Apple is rejecting...or what it would be like if it was a complete free-for-all instead of having a "tax" of the $99/year fee.

This is not even beginning on touching on the developer issues outside of the NDA, like actually getting apps/updates accepted to the store itself (it's definitely not Apple being picky, they just seem massively backlogged).

I'm hoping this is just growing pains from Apple just starting out, but you never know...it's only been a few months, I'm going to give it some more time. (Also, everyone who knows other people who are definitely in the program aren't stopping from talking about it e.g. during wwdc, which was a good thing but...eh.)
To be honest, I don't think Apple's doing that...and if they are, they're doing a horrible job of it.

What I mostly meant by my statement was that they are keeping expertice and experience in house, while rejecting the rest of the developer community the same thing.

It has the net effect of what I said, but if this is a "evil", intentional master-plan or just a side-effect of other policies... Time will tell.
Hmm, well it depends if you paid the "tax" to go to WWDC to take advantage of their in-house expertise and experience, which is still minimal given how new this all technically is. :)

Regardless, Apple can't keep on doing this, there are lots of entities who are wanting the NDA gone, not just the app developers. It's in their best interests to do so, and I will be shocked if they keep it for much longer.
True, but judging from what I've been reading for the last couple weeks, people who've had subpar experiences with apps are blaming the phone and not the app when the app was really at fault. When I consider that, I couldn't blame Apple for trying to protect the image because it's not only a 3G phone with already awful battery life, it's a 3G phone with a non-removable battery. Stupid design mistake or not, it's quite possibly one of the only phones that is like that and that makes the problem worse.

I don't disagree with you, truth be told my first app idea for the iPhone became an impossibility when I heard about that background limitation. But I can sort of get why Apple wants to do that.
Random side note: that's the first website I've noticed using the new WebKit transforms and animations (though they need some padding on those <p>'s...):

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http://webkit.org/blog/138/css-animation/
The difference is, no one wants to develop for the Windows mobile platform, so it's a bit of a moot point IMHO.
I'm surprised you noticed ;)

It was done by one of my friends, and I think he mostly did that after various browser frustrations (read: http://twitter.com/firefox_answers/statuses/863189695) and laziness..
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I think ashu is talking about the comment on TC.
First post, broken patents again.
What about a little program that immediately connected you to a chat session with other people who were waiting for load bars.
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