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Jack Dorsey is practicing to take over the reins from Steve Jobs. Not bad.
It's also time he could be devoting to productive activities. Blogging and creating infographics for daily posts are time wasters. Given his desperate financial situation he needs laser focus on making cash. Which for most people means "get a job and give up your hobby until you get some savings in the bank."
Hard coded apps--albeit with increasingly sophisticated porting and distribution tools--are here to stay.

The last 30 years have shown us computing oscillates between thin clients and heavy clients. I have no reason to believe that will change; we just don't know what the next catalyst will be.

I firmly believe it is not Google's web app marketplace (insert joke about app store trademark here ;).
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Will you be able to use the same hardware to decode WebP and WebM?
Maybe there is some other definition of "thinks better" that I don't understand...

Well, there is a passage from the article, which frames it specifically in terms of thinking about social relationships:

“I started thinking about how, even if you are depressed for a few months, the depression might be worth it if it helps you better understand social relationships,” Andrews says
So the post title is tongue in cheek...Marco, you bummed me out once again!

As a small shop, I don't know what I would do, but I do know this - rolling over seems like the worst option.

#1 - I'm infuriated that Apple continues to stand back and watch their developers get attacked. More infuriated that they haven't backed off of their stance that the in-app purchase is the only way to sell something in the app.

#2 - This patent is bullshit, and everyone knows it. Sometimes, you have to do what's right, regardless of the stakes.
Ah thanks, it wasn't there when I first looked at it.
Ah, but that would require support for mesh-built objects, no? Second Life mesh support is promised RSN.
OpenSim has some mesh support, but is I think, somewhat hobbled by SL compatibility concerns.
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Both VMs you mention are too heavy and not real standards.
And not to mention:

* Healthcare - Health insurance is often a luxury in America. The elderly have Medicare, but there is (currently) no safety for most citizens.

* Public transportation - Many US cities don't have adequate bus service. Just anyone who lives outside NYC or a college town will need a car.
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Considering the UK minimum holiday entitlement is 4 weeks and there are 2 public holidays there (Christmas Day and Boxing Day), employees only need to take 3 days annual leave (15% their yearly total) and the company can close for one calendar week.
The point is, it sucks. Maybe you missed it. "Have the latest version, get better hardware, blah, blah, blah..." This is what everyone has been saying for ages. Your argument is no different. Flash on Android blows on tablets and smartphones.
Nej. At least, I'd bet. But it might make it easier.
Ask HN: Best/quickest way to create mobile app ui mockups?
Do most people just use the old pen and paper or is there some free software out there to help with this?
Cron syntax de-mystified: Cron WTF
Yeah, they say they reduced the latency by 30% for 90%, but they actually increased it for 90% of sites I visit. Canary seems to be better in many cases, but still incomparable to FF4. On win7.
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The financial mess has created the exact opposite effect. Now, in the name of cost cutting and efficiency, employers are making people work more hours with less vacation time. No one complains and just go with the idea that, "at least I have a job".
He doesn't leave us much of a choice, since several Fred Wilson backed companies have (purposely, I think) soured relationships with developers - Twitter, Etsy, probably others.

I don't really think he cares about you, the external developer, as he naturally sees it from the side of the companies who don't wish to have 3rd party developers involved with and depending upon them. Actually, he outlined this in a blog post: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/the-twitter-platform.html which basically told us what was coming from Twitter et al. The attitude could also be seen as "Don't be Twitter's bitch, because Twitter doesn't even want you".

I think it's good advice, and pretty much what one has to do these days. It would have been nice if those companies really saw their API developers as partners, though. Things could be different and there could be a really positive symbiotic relationship going on. Instead, they're like sharecroppers, seen as third rate clingers-on. That is how Fred sees developers I'm afraid, and his companies' actions reflect this perspective. Really, in light of how much API developers have contributed to many of these companies, I feel offended.
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I doubt people will argue that these features are useful, but they do increase Python's overall complexity by adding to the sum total one must learn to grok python.

There's a danger here: add too many "simplifications" and you get something complex.

(though list comprehensions really are awesome!)
Great comment, thanks. Though it was not about narcissism. It was not my only way to get paying clients, it was just one of the ways. I also didn't say I had no paying clients. I have some and we work on a couple of projects and they pay me. Though, I am aimed to increase the income and your tips convince me once again that I should focus on something other, not this idea. Thanks.
In the US, yes. The various taxes that employers must pay are paid separately, not taken out of their salary. If someone is talking about $60k or whatever, their takehome is $60k-federal income tax - social security tax - medicare tax - state income tax (some states don't have this, but most do)- local income tax (rare). On top of that, you are also likely going to have deductions for health/dental/etc insurance, and then pre-tax payments to your retirement plan (401k).

Separately, the company must pay a few other taxes on that $60k (nowhere near 40%, though)
Though the demo was quite impresive, and definitely more advanced than any other I've seen before, the "shakyness" is still there, detaching the "augmented" and the "regular" reality.

What is it preventing a more accurate analysis of the video frames? Too low resolution? Changing lighting conditions? Lack of processing power? I can't see how these cannot be solved with current optical and computing equipment.

Is it, then, a matter of not having developed sophisticate enough image analysis (vision) algorithms?
There are two types. The 'shutdown', or technically in my companies case the 'plant shutdown', and the 'furlough' day.

At my company, the factory has 7,000 employees in one location. So many people took vacation between Christmas and New Years that the factory simply can not operate. The solution was either to only give that time off for a select group of people (pissing off most of the factory guys), or to make everyone take that time off (pissing off the few that used to come in that week and goof off).

Unfortunately they extended it from the guys in the factory up to the engineers. Which really makes no sense. I'm working on a project that won't hit the factory floor for another year. Why can't I work between Christmas and New Years? I would be amazingly produtive without all the meetings and distractions. Not only do we have to take the time off and use vacation (or not get paid and don't come in), but we are not allowed to come in even if we wanted to. I assume this is all negotiated with the unions, they never want the salaried guys to have perks that they don't have. So for I end up burning 3-5 out of 10 vacation days a year on a week I absolutely do NOT want to take off. But I still get paid for those days at least. And there are ways to get around it (floating holidays, i.e. work 40 hours in 4 days in a week with a holiday gives you the holiday back) which in effect allow you to have your full 2 weeks. If that was not the case I think the salaried engineers would have fought back against the practice more. Although I guess most people with kids like that week off anyway, I just view it as a waste, I like taking my vacation during the times those with kids can't take vacation. Everything is cheaper and less crowded.

A 'furlow' is an unpaid day that the company forces you to take. A lot of government employees have these now, you must take 1-5 days off a year and not get paid for those days. In effect it is a pay cut but in exchance you get more vacation days. The most interesting thing about the furlough is that very often you see people given a choice between everyone taking a few days furlough or a bunch of people getting fired. More often than not, everyone votes to have a few people fired.
Except (and I'm speaking extremely anecdotally here!) my relationships suffer because I start projecting my feelings onto other people's actions. Have to cancel a get together? It must be because the thought of spending time with me is too burdensome.

Given the black-tinted glasses, relationship understanding is one of the first things out the door.
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The slowness is not in the JS and markup itself, but because in the past the rendering engines (browsers) didn't know how to interpret most of the JS calls as defined UI changes. With requestAnimationFrame, CSS animations, and WebGL this is changing -- Browsers are now being told directly which code is UI-specific, so it can be accelerated with hardware and the timing can be synchronized.

Translating JS into these more 'native' UI calls across multiple devices and software stacks is already shown as profitable with tools like Appcelerator (iOS, Android, BB, Desktop) and PhoneGap -- which appear native to the average user.

Also don't forget that internally the Mozilla suite and many other desktop 'native' apps are built largely with JavaScript, not to mention Palm's WebOS.

JS itself is very fast and creating fluid UIs was always possible with a native wrapper (or plugin, as you mention) but now that the tech is making its way into the average browser we will be seeing more and more 'crisp' interfaces on 'average' websites. 'Hard coded' apps will always have their place, but look out: many portable, JS-driven apps are very successful, and are already changing the future. Many people who just think of JS as browser script are being left behind.
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I don't know that I'd call it a failure

But many in education are switching over to OpenSim (open source clone of second life) since it's free to host your own server and more hackable: http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page

Some examples are at http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php/start
30,000 Twitter users could face legal action over gag breaches
Scvngr Founder Burns His Ships and Takes on Groupon
I used to use Jungle Disk until I found out they still bill you for bandwidth costs even if you use your own S3 bucket so you effectively having to pay double for bandwidth costs.
I think this kind of thing would almost certainly be illegal in the EU. If the company closes it's doors and you're willing to work, then they cannot take that out of your annual leave.

Some countries laws (eg Ireland) explicitly allow forced closure for Christmas, it is also in several contracts (that part of your holidays must be over a certain period). This is the closest it gets in Europe.
It was where the group had decided they wanted to go, and nobody knew how late they were open. Calling is another option and getting the phone number of a place is usually easy, even if their own website doesn't work. But, when you're sitting around in a noisy bar the web browser is a better choice.

If you rule out all restaurants that use Flash on their website, you're going to rule out a huge number of restaurants. For whatever reason, locally owned restaurants seem to use Flash something like 80% of the time (and the usually also use PDF for their menus, multiplying their level of fail).
Every time someone talks about Square, they call their service "disruptive". Sorry if I'm being dense, but what is it that they're disrupting?
People get used to whatever you ask them for. I've got 5 active subscriptions to online services, and barrier to entry is indeed higher, but that's only because the competition is tougher (you can't really sell fart apps on the web, but to me that's a feature) - just wait another 2 years and the iTunes store will be filled with freemium.
Just depends on your habits, I always Cmd+Q my applications when I'm done using them.
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I'm pretty sure German universities suck in comparision to all Anglophone universities when it comes to free time, and I know it's true for Irish and British ones.

You get three months off for the summer (normally June, July and August), a month off over Christmas (though in some universities it may only be three weeks, and you may have to prepare for exams), and various other time off.

Also that summer time is free, no papers to write. It is goddamned awesome.
http://www2.ul.ie/web/WWW/Services/Academic_Calendar/2012_-_...
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What behavior is that, for those of us who can't install the beta at the moment to compare?
Amen to that. I wonder how long we have to wait for the w3c to create APIs for all sorts of device capabilities, like camera, compass etc. Open standards FTW.
Really stoked about this. I wish they had more details on the process, though.

At first exposure, the idea sounds really, really cool. But it sounds like they're breaking the normal purchase loop. Imagine lunch, for example (assuming you've already set up your tab, which is a lengthier first-run experience). You go up to pay, and then... what? TC explains it as:

> So once you press that button within two blocks of the merchant, you’ll be able to tell the cashier your name and your card will be charged on the merchant’s backend Square register.

So do you pay in advance? Afterwards? (In which case, can I just walk out and screw the retailer?) Do I as the user set up the bill, or does the merchant and I have to review it? Does either party have to wait for the other to confirm something? I've already been at Square retailers that have skipped Square during times of high customer peaks (opting for cash, which was much quicker).

These are probably just early questions that will look obvious and boring once it's all figured out and public, but right now I'm scratching my head a little.
The abusive, overly-expensive and often insecure cartel of payment terminal/merchant account service providers.
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I imagine they must be making some vague reference to 'the status quo', nothing more
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There are many short hairstyles that come with the added convenience of the individual being able to complete their entire hair routine in less than five minutes flat.
They do credit me, there's a link at the bottom of the page to the piece where I describe the idea. I should probably do one of my own (but I'm busy with other stuff).
In what way? I found it very readable.
Won't Square be affected by NFC payments when they arrive?
Sure, I can work from anywhere. By 'limited oversight', I mean that I mostly make my own project schedules, but that I'm expected to be available during normal business hours should the need arise. I did a working vacation several years ago (different company). The downside to trying to work from a vacation destination is that you pay an extraordinary amount for travel and lodging, and then lose most of your day to work.

On the bright side, if you take a five day vacation and bookend it with two weekends, that's a nine day trip.
It's a very easy trap to fall into. You've heard of certain bloggers and respect other technologists because you've read their blogs. It only seems natural that someone would read yours in order to find you.

However, in my personal experience (a long lesson to learn!), it's a bit like Field of Dreams thinking: "if you built it, they will come." That does work, but it's a long process, and I suspect it's generally a side effect of the blog.

Think about it this way: is your ideal client really going to be spending a lot of their time reading blogs like yours? I would guess not; the people who would likely read it would be other technical people.

When I went from Field of Dreams thinking to direct line to profit thinking, I was amazed at how much work I was doing that had no chance of yielding income. I discovered I was only doing profit-generating things for about 2 hours per day. I thought I was busy and going to be successful, but I was just wasting my time.

HTH. Good luck to you. I think you definitely can make that much money per month in income, but make sure you have a definite value prop.

FWIW, when I was doing blog/email marketing/web design work, I found the best path was thus. Get them to sign up for a webinar on your blog, and give a live webinar via GoToMeeting once a week. That was my best success -- I think the key was that it qualified leads a ton, and gave me a chance to exhibit my professionalism and skillset before I asked for money.
Then you'd imagine incorrectly – see above, there's an entire industry around accepting payments for goods and services. The economics are often terrible and the UX sucks for everyone. Square is disruptive because it's better for everyone – the merchant and the customer. The only one getting screwed for a change is the payment processor. Hence, disruption.

About time, too.
The False Start IETF draft (currently submitted to the TLS WG) is here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bmoeller-tls-falsestart-00

Brief summary: False Start TLS makes it legitimate to send the payload of a connection before the handshaking is finished. This improves latency, apparently doesn't make keeping track of state more complex, but does have security consequences. False Start can be piggy-backed onto regular TLS fairly easily, with fairly few pathological cases.
I didn't read anything about square providing hardware to store cash. It can't replace traditional cash register if the system does not accept cash. There already more mature Mac based cash registers that it would be competing with.
This headline is misleading. According to the article, Anonymous is targeting the US Chamber of Commerce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Chamber_of_Commer...
which is a business lobby, not part of the US Government.
Well congrats on getting your post up on the first page of HN!
A perspective on four languages (C, Common Lisp, Forth, and Haskell)
Don't worry. Recently HN is just a place for mediocre people. Nothing to see here.
Is Pursuing a Masters Degree in BIS or MIS Worth It?
Question: Is pursuing a Masters Degree in BIS (Business and Information Systems) and/or MIS worth the time and money if the end goal is to be better prepared to be CTO of a tech startup?
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How I didn't take down the Internet
In my experience, big companies in the U.S. are often willing to negotiate on the number of vacation days issued. I negotiated 4 weeks of vacation/sick time + 6 holiday days at my last job. I took a a couple thousand dollars less than my target salary, but I was definitely happier.

Also, banks, educational institutions, and government offices are more generous when it comes to vacation days. Tech companies and ad agencies are generally the stingiest.
Medicaid provides a health insurance safety net for tens of millions of working and poor Americans...in fact there are more Americans in a federal health program (Medicaid, SCHIP, Medicare) than the entire population Germany.
When you open a tab, your name just shows up next to the "charge a card" button. You pay when you normally would. It's not really breaking the normal purchase loop so much as removing all of the crap from it.
Such is the consequence of irreverence, which if not inspiring criticism isn't.
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So you open a tab prior to going to a place, and then the retailer sees all of the customers with recently-opened tabs?
I think its a silly piece, and not really a cogent argument. The author claims 'mobile' apps will be supplanted by 'web' apps (presumably running in a browser which is running on a mobile device). The reasoning breaks down into three claims;

1) There are many more web users than there are mobile users (author claims 2 Billion vs 50 Million)

2) There are some browser apps (Angry birds and NY Times cited) which give you 'offline' access.

3)The HTML5 in the browser will become a unifying API to local functions which will ease development.

So lets take these claims one by one and see how they hold up.

Market Size - ok there are a lot more web browsers than mobile users. And yet if you look at growth rates (especially if you count 'tablets') the number of users with 'mobile' capability is growing faster than pure web browser seats. If you look at user capability the 'mobile' user may want to do things like 'check in' (location based) or navigate which the generic browser user doesn't do. Finally if you consider the underlying UX tools its just as painful to make an App which works well on 1920 x 1080 screen with mouse/keyboard as it does on an 800 x 400 screen with just touch points.

Browser Apps with offline access - This moves the browser closer to hosting the 'OS experience' of the device away from the underlying OS. Google would love to do that since they would realize Sun Microsystem's dream of being able to ship a browser which was the OS can cut out the OS provider (either Microsoft or Apple in this case). However adding this layer not only impacts performance, it also impacts compability since browsers with the same name and version work differently from platform to platform. Not so with mobile apps.

HTML5 will develop access to native APIs - I read this, and I imagine all of the zero day exploits that will come of it, if it comes to pass. You take two engineering teams in two separate companies, one providing an OS API and the other providing access to it, and you get Flash all over again. Both development teams come from the problem from different directions and create unexpected problems for the other.

Bottom line for me is that I'm not convinced the browser can kill anything except other browsers. That being said, I also think there are big opportunities in mobile / tablet device space for innovations in the operating system, the UX frameworks, and the distribution mechanisms.

Disclaimer though is that I was one of the Java guys and I had completely bought into the notion of 'write once, run anywhere'. Making that true turned out to be impossible for a number of reasons, not the least of which that the underlying OS providers were hostile to the idea. So creating an HTML5 uber-alles experience for developing apps seems optimistic to me.
Moving to GNU Emacs
Notice how Republicans are all for "individual rights", until these rights start to cut into Corporations' profits?
There's several billion radio listeners. And yet for some reason Amazon and Apple have billions of MP3 downloads.

The article confuses the tech with the marketplace. Not the same thing.
I can only speak for mathematics. At Harvey Mudd, students are required to write a senior thesis, which typically involves a lot of looking into the literature and at least a little bit of original research. Professors are selected for their ability to supervise undergraduate research. If you're not outstanding at this, you don't get tenure there.

They don't offer graduate programs, but it's usually considered a good idea to do undergrad/grad/postdoc at different schools anyway. Some of their students do go on to grad school, and they're typically well-prepared for it.

Can't speak to the rest of your questions as I don't know.
Cool, that makes more sense. I'm satiated!