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From the article:

"'Could Bill Gates Write Code?' Or was he merely the luckiest man alive,..."

Maybe I'm wrong but I found the title to be kind of linkbait-ish, trying to ride the prevalent anti-Gates sentiment. I'm no Gates fan, but to doubt his coding skills or technical prowess either shows you're ignorant or just young enough not to know. I use and like a Radio Shack Model 100 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100, a dinosaur, but the battery life on that thing is awesome, and works with stands AA batteries, too), this is agreed to be the last piece of hardware that has Gates' code on it.

I, too thought he was just a corporate raider (like our managers, sigh), but got corrected many times by friends who worked at Microsoft Research before, who said his assessment and knowledge of new technology was spot on.
Erlang also has support for extremely late binding method dispatch. It's a bit tongue-in-cheek to call it a lightweight object-oriented programming language, though. I wouldn't use processes as objects in practice. My successful Erlang programs usually use fewer and more long-lived processes than I use objects in C++, Java, and Objective-C.
Depends on what you want them to code. Any great designer who works on the web can write HTML & CSS, else they're not a great designer. If you want them to know Rails, Python, or PHP and help you with middle-tier integration, then that's probably a more difficult task.
Excuse my ignorance, but NO. Without having read all the details of iCloud, I very much hope the following is possible:

App Foo on my Mac has some data, that it can encrypt into the iCloud, and App Foo on my iPhone get access that data. iCloud is just a storage, but I hope Apps can actually encrypt the data before they load it into the cloud. Now that would be something I would look forward too. Cloud computing is fine, but I want it to be the App developers choice to encrypt the hell out of my data so that iCloud has no idea what I actually own.

Google has cloud storage for all sorts of stuff, but they have access to it.
Depends on if they have web design experience. Numerous agencies employ web designers with no coding experience who have a lot of experience with doing major site work.

Personally, I prefer hiring stellar web designers and stellar front-end devs than trying to find someone who can do both to same degree (since it's extremely hard to find).
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I sympathize with you -- and agree that there are better ways to communicate this to the user -- but there's good reason for some kind of "browser evangelism".

I used to spend half of my time when building a new site on its structure, content, layout, etc., and then the other half on trying to get it to work with the various Explorers. IE 8 did not improve that situation, and neither has IE 9. Unlike this website developer, I just gave up on website development for people altogether -- it just wasn't worth it anymore.

I know a lot of people are restricted to IE for one reason or another, but at this point, the only way the situation will improve is if developers start doing some effective "evangelism".
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> Since he's first in line to ladle it out, I'm happy to watch Gruber eat a little claim chowder of his own

FTR, he's called claim chowder on himself before: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/19/kindle-claim-cho...
The more I hear about this phone the more I want it. Looks like they've unleashed a killer.
A garbage collector doesn't need to use an algorithm like mark-and-sweep, or two space copying. It can be something as simple as a system that scans a block of memory looking for any sequence of bytes that appears to be a pointer into managed memory. You don't need special compiler support or extra program knowledge for garbage collection -- conservative collectors can be added to any language, like using the Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC with C or C++.

Automatic garbage collection doesn't even require a garbage collector -- the monolithic piece of code that performs the scanning and reclamation of objects -- it simply requires freeing the programmer from the task of managing the storage of an object. Fancy collector algorithms are meant to improve throughput and latency -- you could definitely create an implementation of Java that uses automatic reference counting but you'd be searching for something faster really quickly.

If I have a language where I create a number of managed objects and the compiler's escape analysis determines that these objects never leave the function's scope and so changes them to be an alloca then you would have garbage collection without involving a garbage collector.

Again, if that's what automatic reference counting is as sold by Apple then I'd consider it to be garbage collection.
Overwhelming majority? I doubt it.

I have no doubt at all that there is a small minority of people who absolutely cannot do without some feature of Word that no competitor offers. But that’s a minority, not a majority.

The reason why I’m using Word, why my parents use Word, why my friends use Word (despite not needing any feature it has over Pages or OpenOffice) is that everyone else is using it. Importing and exporting from Pages or OpenOffice to Word is just no fun at all but necessary if you live in a world where everyone uses Word. I don’t want to run that particular type of gauntlet.

(I so enjoy all the times when I don’t depend on anyone else and can create a presentation with Keynote. It’s a dream. But an impractical dream if you are working together with people who use PowerPoint.)
Well, the more you expect from a single person the more you'll need to pay them.

If you want to find a designer that can create your logo, design your UI, and code the HTML/CSS/JS on top of that (and who's good at all three), expect to spend a lot of time searching for them, and once you'll find them they won't be cheap.
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The headline probably.
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"Any great designer who works on the web can write HTML & CSS, else they're not a great designer."

Couldn't disagree more. I've worked with so many amazing interactive designers at agencies who didn't know much about coding but because of the division of labor managed to execute some killer sites.

I'm not arguing that designers like myself shouldn't know code but rather that amazing web designers who don't know code do exist.
Having been shown the way by Apple, I expect Google to shortly do the same thing, adding automated backup, synchronization and migration to Android and Chrome

Hmm? Google already does most of this stuff on Android, though there are a few small features like sync of app data that are currently missing

Windows 8 not due until 2013

To the best of my knowledge, no date has been set for Windows 8

Jobs is going to sacrifice the Macintosh in order to kill Windows

No he's not - the Mac (particularly laptops) will continue to grow, as it has been over the past year. This is because, as always, there will be a percentage of the market that still needs a desktop-style computer for getting real work done. That percentage isn't going anywhere soon, though they may also buy an iPad / tablet style device.

You can call it post-PC all you want, but the reality is people still need desktops for getting some tasks done and that is likely to be true at least for a few more years.
That is very cool. I don't think I'll ever use it personally because i dont share much on the web, but I hope it becomes popular for those that do.
I don't miss the "good old days" when the establishment media sources went unchallenged. I'm happy that I have a range of dissenters to choose from to get my news and analysis. I'd rather listen to Radley Balko than Walter Cronkite or, egads, FDR. Cops have been abusing their power forever, but who was reporting on it?
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I agree that great web designers generally can write HTML & CSS, but that doesn't mean that they will actually do it for you.

I don't especially enjoy coding HTML/CSS, so I only do it for my own personal projects, not for clients.
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So what's the problem? Bits are in short supply so we can't have multiple websites or social network accounts? I've got two Twitter accounts, one for technical tweets for my peers who are Rails developers, another for personal tweets that mostly just amuse me, and if I got into knitting tea cosies I'd probably start a separate Twitter account for that. Same with Facebook: an account for my old high school friends and their political rants; and another for my professional network, where I feel political attitudes or religious viewpoints are as out-of-place as any other workplace.

The biggest problem with running multiple accounts is a UI issue. Many services (such as Facebook) assume you will have only identity and make it difficult to switch between accounts because they save some state (setting a cookie). But one can use separate browsers or install a browser extension that makes it easy to switch sessions. And many third-party apps (such as Hootsuite) recognize users are likely to have multiple accounts. Heck, the latest version of the Twitter native client allows multiple accounts and even Google is making it easier to set up and switch among multiple accounts.

We just need more developers recognizing that we have multifaceted personalities and accommodating multiple personas for our presence online. No harm in that.
It's just like when apple invented rsync. Or like when the invented multi-tasking on telephones. Or when they invented the touchscreen telephone. Or when they invented the dock. Or when they invented all of the things that they tout as innovations, but are really just shinier versions of things that already exist.

I'm not saying any of this is bad; time machine is a lot easier to use for a non-techie than rsync is, just saying that taking an existing technology, putting a lowercase i in front of it, and selling it as a game-changer has been Apple's modus operandi for quite some time now.
"... then give it to him in bed! for breakfast :) " - it's amazing how a conversation started on lessons leads into a delicious breakfast. That egg looks sooo good!
I think I still have one of those... now I really want to dust it off and play around with it.
Steam has nothing to do with running games on a mac, it's just a storefront for downloading them.
No I had not. If Erlang now has working type checking, that's a huge advance. But I have to wonder why the Wikipedia page still claims Erlang is dynamically typed and doesn't mention this, and the getting-started guide barely names Dialyzer and doesn't demonstrate it at all (instead it's somewhere in the middle of the FAQ). How much consensus is there that it's ready for prime time?
Thanks Jacob. As the writer, this was exactly my point.
This solves the problem only up to a point: How to group and filter among the hundreds of FB friends, some are family, some are colleagues, some are close friends, etc. FB has a mechanism to do lists, post filtering, etc, but I find it to be clunky so don't use it. The result is like you have all you acquaintances in one room, shout what you want to say, and people who are not interested will tune it out. Not ideal. But I can't think of a better alternative.
Interesting idea. I thought it might be more confusing if it described the shape to draw and put the 'prototype' line of a different shape in the box. Robots would be trying to match the prototype, humans would be drawing the requested shape.

For whatever reason I don't have the dexterity to draw a correct shape very quickly :-) That suggests if the captcha was used a lot (like every time I submitted a comment or something) I would quickly become frustrated and stop participating.
Every successful website starts with a focus area and it grows outward. You simply can't target every legislative policy in every state without overwhelming your visitors or pointing out the fact that your website isn't active.

A site like yours, if done properly, could go viral in certain online communities, but not in its current state.

If I was in your shoes, I would pony up a few thousand dollars and get it done right by someone who has some experience building websites that receive traction.
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Dribbble? Really?

Dribbble is neat and all, but using it to find a designer is like picking a book by looking at the lower lefthand corner of the cover--it doesn't tell you anything. You might find a designer who is good at fancy effects in photoshop, but it won't tell you much about UX, architecture, coding experience, etc.

Dribbble could be the start of your browsing experience, but should by no means be viewed as the go-to place.
In the past, I haven't gotten much value from conferences. The random people I met were interesting, but few turned into continued contacts.

Then I had an interesting chat with a bizdev guy at a startup. He told me how he always scheduled meetings with specific people at conferences. Much like what Toni says, he researched the attendees, focused on a few he needed to meet, and met with them. He rarely attended conference sessions; to him, a conference was merely a gathering place for potential network connections.

I also love Toni's suggestion of squatting in a room and offering free help. What an awesome idea. I've gotta use that one too.
Someone has made a comment on HN before like this: if the title of a submission is a question, the answer is most likely 'no'.
Thanks for the heads-up. It's apparently been sold out. Anyone get in on this?
It should be noted that Berne doesn't actually require that foreign works receive the same protection as domestic works. Essentially Berne says foreign works have to receive a certain set of explicit protections, and that if your copyright law provides additional protections to domestic works it has to also provide those to foreign works.

It is acceptable under Berne to provide domestic works with LESS protection than is provided for foreign works.

The US does this. The US had several formalities associated with copyright, such as registration requirements in order to sue, that were incompatible with Berne. To satisfy Berne, these were dropped for foreign works. They were NOT dropped for domestic works.

Bizarrely, that means that it is easier for a foreign copyright owner to sue a US infringer in US court than it is for a US copyright holder to sue a US infringer in US court.
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This is exactly why I don't tag photos of myself and remove tags when a friend does it. I have no idea why people are zealous about tagging people in photos, if it's a friend you already know the name, if it isn't then do you need to know?
There isn't such a function built-in, though something like it (a doNotUnderstand functionality to call a default function instead of throwing an error if the requested field isn't found on an object) has been proposed as a future addition to the JavaScript standard.

IgorPartola's example code won't intervene in the usual function-call process; rather, it provides a tacked-on means of simulating message sending behavior that ought to be included in the language's syntax under Kay's definition of OO. With this convention, you'd never call bar(), or any other method, directly; you'd call handle to send a 'bar' message to the object instead. Then, if you send a message the object doesn't understand, handle() can route it properly.
I'm not looking for ux/architecture/coding when hiring a designer.
Ah I see. Thanks for the answer.
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Who is to say indie's can't do this with the existing tablets that are out there today?

http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2011/03/tablet-tv-games.h...
I do not like Comcast, but these are pretty damn impressive numbers.
This is a nice tutorial, thanks @arturadib. btw, backbone.js has an unofficial google group at: http://groups.google.com/group/backbonejs
It's not practical to write an essay on an iPad. Edit: without an external keyboard.
Apple stopped innovating with the iPhone. You’re welcome.
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As much as I love TDWTF I have to say I'm disappointed to see a submission from there get 46 upvotes on the front page. Great story though
I think it's magic, seeing as how it's 'free' and can keep your info secure like that.

Neither of which I believe.
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Sure, all you need is a case the makes it easy to carry both the keyboard and the device together. Perhaps with a hinge on one side so the keyboard protects the screen when you're not using it?
The filter bubble is just a dumb meme that's running around right now because of book sales and the like.

The real point is that business models based around personalization don't make any sense. I wouldn't worry about it, because none of these systems are going to succeed.

The 20th century and the era of big media was a fluke to begin with. It was a rare and transient state, and it is no more.
They pay for bugs:

http://blog.intego.com/2010/02/11/google-makes-first-payout-...
And easily managed on the web by having multiple twitter accounts or email lists.

I really don't see the issue, and I think that's why nobody has done anything about it.
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The recognition seems so-so - I drew something that looked NOTHING like the image and it accepted it. Are you using chaincodes for recognition?
Dribbble will show you someone's process across multiple projects, and give you some perspective on their work through other designer's comments.

I stand by my affirmation that it's the single best place to find a designer.
I'm not a big proponent of nothing to hide on a good day, but your statement is no more than a no true Scotsman.
In 2001, this analyst declared "The game is effectively over", strongly advising his readers not to buy AAPL. Here is what happened to people who ignored that advice:

http://j.mp/iVrc6o

Presumably because Circuit City was one of Jim Collin's "Good to Great" companies, this same analyst was telling people to buy Circuit City. I'd show you that graph but for some reason I can't find it. Here's an approximation:

http://j.mp/mj77CD

Message board geeks get a pass for doubting Apple in 2001, sure. But stock market analysts who give ludicrously bad advice deserve all the chowder Gruber can dump on them.

Bad example.
It's amusing how Microsoft doesn't even factor in this discussion. But surely there are other major players in this struggle aside from Apple and Google. What about Amazon? Facebook?
It's also true that even if you ascribe absolute altruism to Jobs and all the other stakeholders at Apple (which is a big leap), large revenues fuel their ability to do more R&D, take big risks, drive down costs to increase adoption of their cool tech, etc.
They don't compete in every area, but make no mistake, they see each other as competitors. They have conflicting interests. Is Apple the same type of company as Google (and vice versa)? No, but that doesn't mean they're not competing for the same users who will consume like services.

There are parallels here to the old Apple vs WinTel battle. That history is easy to reflect on, because we have the benefit of hindsight. However, when those events were playing out, no one knew what the mature market definitions would be. They were defined as history was made.

We're in the same place today. We have clumsy, inane terms like "cloud" that we use to describe services that have indistinct boundaries (pun intended).

Obviously I'm not saying that history is about to repeat itself verbatim, but there are parallels.
Which of the four are getting in the way?
I think you're broadly right, but you're missing the key point: apple are adding a lot more than a lowercase i to FOSS innovations: they're adding usable interfaces, polish, and the shiny lowercase i.

Time Machine is a lot more than branded rsync. It's usable branded rsync. And the usability is what makes it a "game-changer" in the consumer market where rsync and its algorithmic innovation isn't.

In many ways, it's the same thing that canonical is doing with ubuntu, except they have sweet sweet luxury hardware money backing them up compared to canonical's comparatively meagre support contract money, or whatever else it is that they do for cash.

Oh and let us not forget: isn't it a key part of the point of OSS is that it's OK, nay even encouraged for people to "steal" the ideas? I thought the concept of stealing an idea, especially a software idea, was supposed to be meaningless? Should the Australian National University have patented rsync back in '96?
If I'm reading correctly from Wikipedia, that decision was somewhat ambiguous. It either indicated that the State legislature had the right to order a re-review of a will, overturning a previous judgement.

SCOTUS seemed to me more concerned about rights of a state legislature.

Also, the Constitution does make the distinction between civil and criminal. It says "Make no law", which is in the similar wording that the Bill of Rights, Amendment 1 states.
Since it's legal for me to pay legal tender for software, for jpegs, for mp3s, and other digital constructs, how could a legitimate argument be made to make it illegal for me to pay legal tender for copyright-infringing files?

Since it's legal for me to take legal tender for software, for jpegs, for mp3s, etc., how could a law be passed to make it illegal for me to take legal tender in return for copyright-infringing files?

If I advertise that I want to buy copyright-infringing software, how can they stop me from spending my dollars/euros on them? If I advertise that I have copyright-infringing files to sell, how can the stop me from doing so?

I won't pretend it's not silly, but only so long as you stop pretending that governments have never made illegal the exchange of certain bit patterns.