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>>Content lock-in is what every company wants to get, as it makes it difficult or prohibitively expensive for customers to take their business elsewhere. The new apps and document revamp in OS X and iOS 5 takes this lock-in to a new level, by doing away with a traditional filesystem and replacing it with documents that just exist on every Apple system. This is the ultimate lock-in, and it crosses laptops, phones and tablets. It is a brilliant move by Apple for the long term.

Interesting, so it's like a private filesystem on the cloud.
Isn't that the case everywhere?
It's been a 30-minute learning from me... Realizing that bing or even wikipedia can be valuable starting points for _some_ searches
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I feel they offer an awful lot of weird gadgets for giving a certain amount of money.
I am not able to follow your point. What do you intend to say? An engineer who can get a job in a start-up or proper engineering company should still join Infy/TCS/Wipro? If not what are you ranting about?

"Give some good advise to youngsters to join startups & make a conscious choice. No harm done."

So what else is the article doing?

"But do not try to discredit it all with such spiteful blogs."

TL;DR? ain't it?
Awww.. I didn't even realize that i made it to the top page of HN. And off-course this happiness came with a sad news that my shared hosting account have been suspended. But I've redirected this link to my Wordpress.com blog. You can read on there...
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It's only lock-in in that the user is locked in [--] In other words, no lock-in at all.

I really don't understand what you're trying to say here. Vendor lock-in doesn't only apply when you don't like the product. Now, if there were no other products you could switch to, that would invalidate lock-in, but it's reasonable to assume that the product being initially good is essential for lock-in to work at all.
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Sure, but there are shades :)

ADD: also, some people would go like: "OK, this is probably nothing new. Why was it in someone's interest to report this news now and whose interest was it."
You should just go ahead and build it anyway. If you do a good job, competition won't matter that much. I have customers in a space with thousands of competitors (event management software).
Hi, Actually I am working on a pet project which does exactly the same :)
See for example http://ftsafe.com/products/ePass1000.html. The device uses its own random number generator to create an RSA keypair. The private key never leaves the device. The public key will leave the device and be available for checking on the authentication server (usually by being signed and that signature checked on the authentication server).

When authentication is required, the server sends a challenge to the device ("sign this"). The device signs it with its private key, which no other device can do.

This way it's impossible for a single point of failure to compromise the entire system during operation, like it has here with SecureID. The authentication server might be compromised, but that could happen in any system and it would only need that server to be rebuilt.

There are attacks against this system too of course - for example the RNG could be compromised on the devices themselves, or there could be an attack allowing the extraction of a private key due to a design flaw. But the single point of failure as in this case doesn't exist.
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He's probably trying to get it to the point where he could get real funding. He's already achieved fusion in a simple IEC fusor device (which is surprisingly easy) and was next trying to build a fusion reactor with a Polywell style magrid confinement similar to the experiment done at the University of Sydney[1][2], except with superconducting magnets.

Such small reactors would never reach anything near net power (or break-even) but as a hobbyist research project, what he has already done is quite impressive.

As for ITER being redundant - well, if the Polywell guys working on the contract from the US Navy work it out, they estimate that they could build a demonstration power station in the next five years for $200 million. So I hope so.

1. http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/static/TALKS/12Oct0455matthewc.ppt (powerpoint slides)
2. http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/2009/12/25/new-copper-...
Looks like a quick way for Google to make a share buyback this way for nothing after legal action costs.
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stopped me getting errors connecting, but it would be unusual if all my contacts are really offline

https://twitter.com/#!/skype
now acknoledges an issue
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Sorry you find it to be a rant. My point is that the blogger need not generalize all the work in TCS or Infosys or Wipro and take a dig at these companies to recommend to freshers to work in startup.

My advice to freshers is also the same as the blogger - do not pass up an opportunity to work in a startup or an engineering organization.

The same advice can be given in a more polite way without taking a dig at these companies and that too specifically.

The companies themselves say they are "services" organizations and are working on worthwhile problems which their customers pay for. The training, bench strength et al, is part of the business they are into.

EDIT: Clarified the statements.
India still remains a developing country with people having deep financial insecurities-this is inevitable.
Even more interesting is the fact that a majority of us study engineering because it provides the assurance of getting a decent-to-well-paying job.You would not find people joining ivy league colleges here to study roman history-that profile does not have financial,and consequently social,security.
Till the time comes when Indians can choose what they want to do without monetary overheads,the work culture at such companies will continue-its nothing but survival instinct.
You are about 50% incorrect. :-) You will be surprised if you survey students of small colleges who often believe the hype of infy, tcs, wipro. You can see some people like that in the comments section of the blog who did not know the truth abt infy, tcs, wipro before joining them. in fact i am a student right now and i myself didn't have a good picture of the software industry well. now I know that I should prepare myself well to apply for Google or Adobe and i shouldn't think about infy, tcs, wipro which come to our college every year and hire 50 to 100 students each.
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Seriously? Before the unified App Store concept, cross-device upgrade pricing was very common. You get Word for Mac one year, and then you pay a fraction of the price to upgrade to word for Windows the next; you get a medical dictionary for your Palm Treo one year, and then pay a fraction of the price to upgrade to the same app for your new BlackBerry the next... Apple wants to control the business of software sale, and in so doing control what those practices mean for their platform: developers are then kept from seeing their customer lists, forcing everyone to get a new kind of "lock in" to the platform that has never before been common.
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I didn't see generalization of TCS or Infosys or Wipro in the blog. The blog indicated that most of TCS or Infosys or Wipro is involved in unchallenging problems but there is a small number of people in these firms who work on interesting problems too. The blog seems to encourage people to join startup or engineering firm instead of joining TCS or Infosys or Wipro.
Chewing gum is really expensive to clean up from streets, and they have invested a lot in having nice streets. It's just a cost/benefit thing.

It's cheaper to fine the blood out of people for not flushing public toilets than to pay staff to check in every thirty minutes, and the reduction in costs (and maybe other things) means that Singapore has awesome public toilets.
Billions? Are you sure about that? I've heard that Cisco's video conferencing business unit hasn't been all that stellar.
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Reddit /r/Android discussion here:
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Apparently this is the first Android phone to ship with 100% open source kernel (drivers and all).
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Ok that worked, but I'm on FF 4.0 on Ubuntu.
No one is forcing you to use Apple's messaging platform. You can pay for SMS instead, if you feel that's the "free" option.

No one is forcing you to upload your music to the iCloud. You can keep syncing it the same way you always have (afaict, anyway).

No one is forcing you to buy an iPhone, iPad, or any other Apple product. What kind of lock-in are you on about?

No one is even forcing you to upgrade to Lion. Keep running Snow Leopard if you want.

If you don't like it, don't buy it. There are plenty of other vendors. The only way in which you could claim that Apple was "locking people in" is that they offer an integrated experience, so that if you go all-Apple, things work better.

Well, damn them, they should be shot! How dare they try to offer an integrated user experience to their paying customers? What bastards!
Google has added the +1 option to all their search requests / results, I'm sure if the performance was such an issue they would of found a way to fix it as it would degrade their page load times, granted I'm sure it's not the same 'exact' code.
Classic disruption. When the new tech isn't very good and gets a foothold in new markets, the professional users (correctly) view it as inferior, rubbish, a toy. The big picture question is whether it could improve enough to be usable by professional users. It's kind of odd that many are oblivious to the obvious trajectory of improvement.

EDIT e.g.1 (from Worse is Better) could AI become good enough? A tricky one, since they aren't competing with another product, but with us. OTOH, computers are constantly replacing people for simple tasks - the history of computation is the history of mental automation. e.g.2 could PHP become good enough to replace Java in the Enterprise (apparently their target)?

Something that can stall the trajectory is the next wave of disruption breathing on their heels.
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Does anyone else think that Apple made terrible decision hiding scrollbars?
One of new features in OS X Lion will be automatically hiding scrollbars.
I think usability-wise it's terrible decision. Let me explain why...
It makes sense in iOS - which operates on mobile devices - where screen estate is precious.
But the gain of mere 20px (or so) of screen width on desktop? All that while most desktop screens are wide enough for majority of content.
What we loose on the other hand, is important indicator (working from the very first glance) that document has more content than you can see.
Indicator that was there since beginning of GUI and working well.
It seems to me that OS X devs started blindly copying iOS features, without thinking about reasons why they were there.
Maybe I just overlooked something... What do you think?
Once mechanisms are in place to block websites encouraging 'IP infringement', how likely is it that these mechanisms will be repurposed?

Although I'm not entirely convinced, part of my wonders whether governmental support for these lobbyists might be partly swayed by the simple proposition that these methods to control the internet could eventually be used for more varied forms of censorship.
My anecdotal 2 cents. Singapore is full of Chinese people. More than one Chinese person has expressed to me that they are okay with a little loss of freedom to reduce the alternative of chaos.

This is the opposite of a sense of civic responsibility, and roughly translates as Chinese people don't trust each other to behave without strict police.

(I wish we could accept the same about my own country)
I do this, but warn that it sometimes leads to sites breaking: text spilling out of boxes or getting obscured by running under other elements.

Web-designers: please make your sites robust to people picking their own fonts, and also robust to users enforcing a minimum font size!
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This is a presentation Bussard gave at Google in late 2006 shortly before death. Quite a character.

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Is there a reason to run a 64-bit browser? (Other than the fact that amd64 provides more GPRs?)

Do people run browser sessions that use huge amounts of memory?

EDIT: Is it standard practice to compile everything as 64-bit on AMD64? This is not the case on early 64-bit arch such as sparc and ppc. The reason for this is that compiling as 64-bit doubles the size of longs and pointers and is only an advantage when you need to address large amounts of memory.

For example if you run linux on ppc64 almost all of your userland is probably compiled 32bit.
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This really needs some kind of [multi] seed so that you can recall passwords. Otherwise I've just gotta store them in plaintext somewhere...under a password I know I'm not going to forget!
The bar shows up briefly while scrolling. I can't remember the last time I clicked on a scrollbar to scroll... That said, I'm sure some do but without playing with it, we don't know if it appears if you hover the mouse over that area or not. It's one of those you gotta play with it but for me not an issue
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The +1 widget on the search results page and other 1st party pages is different than the +1 widget for 3rd party publishers. 3rd parties have to use an iframed widget to prevent click fraud.
This has already been submitted a bit over 2 years ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=620698

Any suggestions? It does have a certain relevance now since Apple is much more widely successful and given their recent announcements.
I do not know what else I could make out of these statements in the blog:

>>> Culture: One of the worst cultures you can find in the whole of software industry.
>>> Onsite: Contrary to the popular belief, the number of trips to foreign lands isn't a measure of one's technical prowess. It is mostly (but not always) a measure of how dispassionate one is about engineering and his profession, and how greedy one can be for wealth.

I find such statements really insulting to find such generalizations - You can tell me if this is generalization or not, but I find it very insulting to paint with such broad brush.

I have come across several (hundreds) of smart individuals in these companies. I have had colleagues who were well respected by peers in industry working in these companies - who have been experts in their technology area.

I do not find the above statements in blog to be fair and hence my comment in HN. Normally I would pass up such articles trying to stir arguments deliberately but I had to convey my point at least to a small group that may appreciate what it means to someone with background similar to mine.

Your thoughts?
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Maybe he should look to output a quality like that of Mozilla and MySQL for his companies main product, Ubuntu.

If Ubuntu would ever reach that quality, oh man. But its easier to ask somebody else to do it for you, thats the Canonical way.
The issue is that it's easy to start a service company and have a positive cashflow than to sell a product.

I recommend Michael Cusumano's work on hybrid models: http://web.mit.edu/cusumano/www/
If you're, truly, interested in getting in on a great idea from the ground floor...I think we should chat.

Just send me a message.
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What's the strategy here? What's in this for Apple? Why not Facebook?
Of course they are. Just like the content industry is. Everybody is just being selfish.

You are still assuming that all piracy (= unauthorized copying = disrespect of copyright) is wrong. While it is illegal, it doesn't automatically mean that it is also illegitimate. What if someone is too poor to spend money on legal music? Nobody loses anything by him pirating music, and he gains something (entertainment), so overall, the outcome is positive.
Yes. The 64-bit browser came with the OS.
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To add to this reply, it's roughly 45 mins to an hour drive depending on traffic to hit the northern tip of actual silicon valley if you're coming from SF. Much longer during rush hour
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Well, for one it would be lovely not having to clutter a 64-bit system with a ton of 32-bit libraries, just because of Adobes software being less than stellar.
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I have a few I think you'd be excited about.

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Why would the market provide these services?

We could start to pay a company to tell us which drugs were safe, but they would only have one customer who would tell everybody else.
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A 32-bit browser runs just fine on all of the 64-bit OSs I know of. On all of the OSs I have experience with, compiling an app as 64-bit is the exception, done only when it needs lots of memory.

What advantages does running a 64-bit browser on a 64-bit OS have over running a 32-bit browser on a 64-bit OS?

Do the 8 extra GPRs bring significant performance benefits?

Do individual browser processes need to address lots of memory?
>if that bit of code was small enough (ie one or two bytes) you could simply encode those one or two bytes inside a two or three byte instruction thus saving the three-byte instruction needed to jump over it.

The 8080 and Z80 had a relative jump, which took only 2 bytes. It had a more limited jump range, but it was definitely wide enough to jump over 3 bytes.

>All that... for three bytes.

No, two.
Yeah, but user might already be on his way out - not seeing what he was looking for - without making any interaction with website.

The only way I can see it work, is to show scrollbar on every mouse movement. But than I don't see any benefit of hiding it in first place.

However I agree with you that we will see how it works out, when people start using it.

The worst case scenario is probably increased bounce rate on some websites, decreased conversion rate, and some confusion for users.
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Exactly. Web standards - or standards in general - are not a player in a competition; they are a field upon which to play. We want everyone playing on that field.