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I'm anti-patent and also OK with Apple baking these features right into the OS just like I'm OK with Microsoft (or any other OS maker) shipping a browser with the OS.

If the features are useful to such a great number of end-users, they should be there in the base install, it makes for a better user experience even if it does cause pain for some small business owners. Nobody is owed a business just because they already have one, this goes for app devs just as well as anyone else. As with browsers on Windows there will be plenty of room for alternatives to the base implementation so long as they offer a decent value proposition.

The only thing about this that would get me up in arms is if Apple started blocking updates to the existing apps because they "duplicate functionality". I don't think we can really count them out from doing that based on some past events, though I do hope they've moved beyond that by now.
It looks almost as if they use the existence of startups as a guide for what products to build. Which is not that bad an idea tactically, considering that a successful startup is usually a sign of something that was missing in the world. But it could start to alienate hackers.
Figuring out what else Reading List is missing that users would pay for is precisely what Marco is going to have to do.

But that's where the broadened visibility will help significantly. With whole new classes of people discovering this category of App, wishing that it did X, and searching around for alternatives that provide X, he'll probably see an uptick in people asking him about features like X that he's in a far better position to quickly iterate around than Apple is.
After the Ping debacle I'm not surprised.

As I understand it, Ping was launched dead in the water because Apple and Facebook couldn't work together at the last minute.
The reason why you can replace executables on Unix is because unix loads the entire file before executing where as Windows does not need to do this, hence executables are opened with out FILE_SHARE_DELETE which would allow you to delete the file while it's open on Windows. If you create a file and open it with FILE_SHARE_DELETE you can delete it while it's in use.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the underlying file system format and everything to do file semantics as documented in the Win32 API.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363858(v=vs.85).as...
>Obama wasn't elected because he had anything decent qualifications. He's a Chicago political hack who stole Dem ballots from Hillary Clinton in Texas and who (literally) couldn't get a stop sign installed in Chicago. His "qualifications" are that he's black and many on the Left enjoyed the thought of themselves voting for a "person of color", never mind that his ancestors on both sides (especially his father's side) were slaveholders.

...

The irony of you starting a paragraph with "All of this is perhaps besides the point though." and ending it with the above utter non-sequitur is pretty intense.

Blatant political axe-grinding, get it the fuck out of HN.
That's a lot different than functionality being added to the OS. What Apple is doing is effectively what MS got in trouble for. Apple is adding functionality to the OS that exists as a standalone application out of the OS (this is probaby the main reason why antivirus doesn't ship in the box with Windows).

The question MS had to answer was if this functionality was crucial to the operation of the OS. The TCP/IP stack apparently was deemed so. IE wasn't deemed crucial.

The difference between MS and Apple is that MS had a desktop monopoly. Apple has no such monopoly in mobile devices. Although if Apple keeps touting their 90% tablet market share, they could inadvertantly put themselves in the middle of antitrust crosshairs again.

I know Marco has said that he would not use legal means to stop Apple -- but he shouldn't rule it out forever. Because trust me, Apple would have no problem doing it to him.
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No, I don't think the idea is Marco's or Apple's for that matter. But applications should be able to compete on merit, not the willingness of the platform provider. Be it regulatory or grassroots, Apple should be forced to allow third parties to do everything that first parties can.
What we are asking here is a subset of the question "how to I advertise?," with the condition that we don't have existing users to use as an asset.

Seems to me there are two different issues to deal with:

1) How minimise the negative consequences of not having users ("ghost town effect").

- One option is to structure the product so that the number of users is not obvious. Since at this point there is little value to showing all the users of the system at once, or highlighting aggregate activity, perhaps it's fine to not include these features, or at least not make them prominent. So a UI like StumbleUpon might fare better than one like Digg, where the aggregate activity is shown prominently.

- Or, pick another MVP with lower critical mass, and then build the community later. Delicious was great because it was useful if only you are using it, but better with others. (though still no where as good as it could be.... Chad, i wish you luck!).

2) what assets can we use (or create) to acquire users efficiently?

Zince we don't have users to work on word of mouth, you have to have something else. Some options:

- A unique value proposition that will excite someone with influence to give you access to their audience.
- a unique product structure
- a quid pro quo for the influencer

- A "story" that will entice a blogger to want to talk about you.
- make it controversial (e.g. blippy )
- make it human interest ( e.g. man sells spot on iPad line using AirBnB).

- A unique marketing opportunity
- the greatest ever was when Facebook opened up their platform to intense viral (spammy) promotion.
- You may not find a gold vein that rich... but there are always more opening up. Perhaps you were early to find a burgeoning high quality community, and built a persona there with influence....
- find a news story and attach yourself to it. (reputation.com connected with people who had some crazy bad google results, to the degree they could get into the news. )

- An asset you have already. OK, you're probably not PG if you are reading this, but maybe you:
- Know a lot of people in area X (which is why that is where you should focus your community).
- Have a good story to tell, and can link it to your product
- Know ONE person who has enough influence to help you if your pitch is good. As a VC I felt like this was a role central to the job, whether I planned to invest or not... everyone loves to help someone that they think should and will succeed.
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True. I don't think you should view it as an investment, and certainly not a reliable one. At best, it's like investing in a startup you think has promise and is undervalued.
Full-screen terminal is [sadly] the only feature I really want in this update.
I've accidentally activated that feature many times :-)

As an aside, I really wish Apple would make it easier to add bookmarklets to Safari on iOS. It'd be useful for more than just Instapaper.
>Resize from any edge

You can now resize a window from any side or corner.

Interesting that they did finally do this. And without adding huge-ass borders to everything...
It might get simpler, but the interface will never be as nice as Reading List has it. It'll never be as intuitive or user friendly. It'll never be able to have Safari integration.
The fact that I'll be paying $25 for a blanket validation of my music collection. Once the payment is made, I'm as good as gold. At a substantial discount.
i would say, not a lot. The fact that you think this is a big use of lua just speaks about what kind of programming environnement you are in.
Hard to agree here. In my experience waterfall and agile projects fail for completely different reasons.

Waterfall projects fail when they are too rigid and try to define everything beforehand without leaving any space for iteration. The reality checks come too late when it's not easy/possible to change direction any more.

Agile projects fail when they are too loose and no one is actively taking responsibility for the bigger picture.
Apple fires shots at all mobile competitors today, and Microsoft too
This could get exploited so hard. I'm sure there must be a catch somewhere in the service.
Does iTerm2 not work for you?
*iMessage is built into the Messages App

Able device will do SMS just as before. iPad and iPod touch now join the conversation. For free.
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I was thinking of the case where iTunes computes hashes of your mp3s locally, then uses those to tell Apple which songs you have. You're right that if Apple requires you to upload the actual files, and then computes the hashes on the server-side, it'd make it much more difficult (you'd have to either have the original file, or generate a hash collision).
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What Apple didn't really address is the growing socializing of data and in what context it is consumed, not just by the data's owner, but by their social graph. Without enabling native apps to do this, cross-platform apps will have a lot of room to grow.
After a few days there is usually an mp4 file of the keynote published on the podcast feed for the Apple Keynotes. Someone will usually share the link then.
blessing or not, this game is going to be a problem for my productivity.
I agree that he is a smart guy with a good possibility of still winning here.

But as for being market leader, as soon as this ships in iOS he won't be that. Would you have wanted to be Netscape when MS started bundling Internet Explorer in their OS?
If you liked that, play the game Braid (http://braid-game.com). I won't give any spoilers, but it's a $9.95 purchase so just go out and buy it already. :)
True, but vendors do have lock-in. If you get big fast enough and cover a metro area with in place agreements to couponize offerings that makes it harder for a new player to sell to the same business. Basically you're asking Joes Pizza Parlor and Nail Salon to send offers to two networks now. Unless Groupon completely screwed the relationship from the beginning this will be 'harder' (in the sense that small business doesn't really want to manage a bunch of vendors so there is natural resistance to taking on new ones).

That being said, it creates an opportunity for an 'offer market maker' which is to say a clearing house which can put your offer on various channels (via Groupon via CloneOn or whatever) offer enhanced analytics about how well it does and let you slosh around your limited advertising/marketing dollars.
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Apple company itself is not half-hearted embrace Microsoft corporation by issuing a new production that is Ipad Apple 2 which forms Ipad thinner than Apple's previous. fastest tech features and content, with the software so quickly supported by OS X lion, with 9.7-inch screen 1024 x 768 screen, use the A5 dual CPU memory.
you said, "the easy way to leverage those cores is to spin up a server process for each core"

It's not THE easy way. It's actually the harder way, but in some cases, like giant public web apps, you have to do the hardway anyway.

Managing a work queue using java.util.concurrent in process is far easier than managing many processes and coordinating across something like redis.
This seemed strange to me also. Lua shot way up and is currently right ahead of Javascript and right below Perl and Python. TIOBE attributes it to iPhone apps, which is probably helping but still wouldn't put it past Javascript. A lot of people write Lua scripts for World of Warcraft UI mods but WoW has been around forever and is actually waning in popularity, not rising. Maybe its the hype around LuaJIT being the dynamic scripting language the best performance?
Javascript seems pretty low on that list..
If you register for the tutorials and are interested in learning how to begin with the Arduino electronic prototyping platform you might like to consider:

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When I gave the tutorial last year it was one of the highest rated at the conference.

Apparently as a speaker I can also mention that if you use the code 'os11fos' you can get 20% off the price of registration.

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Even better: Hack the iTunes Match service to let it think you have MP3s, that you don't even have on your system. Bam, instant free access to all music on iTunes. (well almost free)
I think Apple would like to make the file system disappear (from an end user perspective). With that goal in mind, iCloud has no reason to emulate Dropbox's behavior.
I've never needed to add an article to Instapaper from my iOS device, but that's just me. I use Instapaper to sync things I want to read from my laptop to my multiple devices. At least in the near term, I doubt Reading List will do the things I want to do as well as Instapaper.

I wouldn't expect Reading List to take many Instapaper users away, and I think it will drive not-insignificant numbers from Reading List to Instapaper as people want an upgrade. Net gain for Instapaper, hopefully.
> example produce a view by specific composers then a view by performers.

Is this really common? I might be out of touch, but I doubt anyone really uses this.
I'll believe it when I see it. Just like there aren't any 3rd-party FaceTime clients, and I guess there won't be any iMessage clients either.

Currently all major players are competing on who manages to build the most closed ecosystem. I hope this is a phase that will pass.
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Apple Has Finally Stuck A Dagger Into SMS. I Love It.
According to Apple, your Mini isn't supported under Lion: "Your Mac must have an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor to run Lion."

I have a Core Duo-powered Mini and am in the same boat. That said, my Mini is at least five years old, and I don't think it's at all unreasonable for Apple to focus their limited resources on more modern machines. Besides, my Mini is running Tiger in a data center, so I'm not losing any sleep over not being to run full-screen apps on it. ;)
When I joined McCutcheon Graphics in 1986 to sell Apple's then-new "desktop publishing" hardware -- the Mac and the LaserWriter and Aldus PageMaker, the prescient genius David Henry Goodstein (http://williamshepherd.blog.co.uk/2006/06/10/thursday_8th_ju...) warned us: Remember "Apple will always eat its children".
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Love the down voting too. Proves to me once again about the political nature of HN and why a pure democracy doesn't work.
There are already client-side MVC frameworks in place---sproutcore, backbone, ... Of course Microsoft will try to put "architecture quality" into their framework. Let's just hope we dont see Javascript Desktop Pages like WebForms.

I applaud MS for looking towards the future instead of the tired technologies of today's desktop. I won't knock it until the they have some code samples up.
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GNOME Shell (GNOME3 desktop) is already written in JavaScript: https://live.gnome.org/Gjs
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If my past experience with the labels and intuition is correct, the labels were protesting because they wanted Apple's paid service to roll out first, perhaps had even given Apple assurances that they'd be first (related to the ~$150M upfront?). This would also explain why reports were that they were dragging their feet in negotiations with others, and why Amazon and Google may have chosen to go without. People selling digital music are very sensitive to the early mover advantage iTunes brought Apple.
This was my conclusion as well. I didn't know if I should be sad that people thought I didn't know the difference, or that they thought anyone else reading here wouldn't know the difference and so my comment would lead them astray. I've concluded they thought it was 'mean spirited.' (which was not intended of course but the written word, powerful as it is, has limits)

I have always found the 'meme' "Its all fun and games until someone <dubious and improbable action>" amusing. I was trying to come up with a dubious and improbable action which occurred from the mis-application of arithmetic operations on numbers.

What I have learned from this particular exchange is that people who are fans of number theory are sore about 'numerology' perhaps just like astronomers wince at people who conflate astronomy with astrology. Must be watching too much Big Bang Theory lately.
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Reports were that they'd be getting 30% of it, and a significant amount (tens of millions) each in upfront fees.
yeah see also dojo's grid (grids I should say, there are several)

jquery.sheet

yui grid

not sure if Google's closure library has a grid control

and of course there are GWT, qooxdoo, etc.

Heres a table comparing javascript frameworks, and there's a row for which have a grid control.
That's strange but I never made the connection until you mentioned it! Braid is one of my all time favorite games too!

Edit: And as of yesterday it is available in the Ubuntu software center.
I think there are more Website containing javascript than any WoW plugins.
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You're engaging only a facsimile of Marco's argument, which he frames in terms of Starbucks and indie coffee houses: yes, Starbucks put a lot of coffee houses out of business, some times in a predatory fashion. But the good coffee houses often saw their sales increase, sometimes dramatically.

Apple is educating Marco's market about deferred-reading. They are inevitably going to add far more people to the total market that they'll take from Marco. As the market expands, he needs to capture smaller and smaller fractions of it to remain successful.

Meanwhile, Apple may have also done Marco a positioning favor, by establishing a low end market that he can position a niche against. He calls it the "deluxe" market now (which it is; the $5 I spent for iP is some of the best money I've spent on the app store), but that also leaves an opening for a "Pro" niche that commands an even higher price point.

I'm sure this situation leaves Marco with a lot more teeth gritting than he hoped to have. I don't want to downplay the situation. But I think Marco's got as good a shot as ever to make something big out of iP; maybe an even bigger one, albeit with more alpha.
I've tried it from three locations today (home on Clear wimax ISP, T-Mobile 3G, and a coffee shop) and haven't seen any ipv6 connectivity yet.
Thanks for the analysis! Much appreciated.
Perhaps, but if you committed copyright infringement when you originally obtained the music, none of this is going to turn back the clock and undo that original infringement
Did Time Machine kill SuperDuper? Not for me.

I use Chrome, so no.
also disks are cheap, and flac amounts to a digital copy of the physical CD. You could decode it to the original WAV files from the CD if you wanted to
Google did the same thing to navigation service providers (arguably more brutal)

If proven essential, none of the platform is safe for him to rest on his laurel.
Curious for the reason behind the downvotes. Questions:

- Do you guys actually think the current situation is OK, with respect to the way Joe Sixpack and Jane Boxwine manage their security credentials?

- Do you think the situation will magically get better on its own without some significant centralization?

- Do you think social networking companies like Facebook or advertising companies like Google -- neither of whom consider end users to be their actual customers -- are the right ones to assume such a role?
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I like .NET/Mono stuff, and I totally understand the frustration of .NET developers.

I would want to point out though that Javascript does have all the features you listed that .NET has, except the desktop stack - but of course that is precisely what Microsoft (and others, like GTK developers) may be developing.

"what .NET is. It is a desktop stack, a server stack, a runtime for many languages, those many languages themselves, and countless libraries that are being actively developed"

Javascript on the server: http://nodejs.org/

Javascript as a runtime for many languages (more than .NET even I believe at this point): https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

Countless javascript libraries: in the browser https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki
and on the server: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules

Even .NET code can be ported to javascript via tools like: https://github.com/kevingadd/JSIL (as can java via GWT and so forth) Although of course System.Windows.Forms hasn't been ported (wouldn't surprise me if someone does though).

By the way, I do educational software - we like applets and so forth. That was the main drawback to the .NET/Mono platform, from my point of view. When Silverlight was released to run .NET in the browser, that was great, but it only works in Windows, and Monolight doesn't seem to work too well as a replacement on other platforms. Now with HTML5 and canvas, it's even nicer than applets, although a bit slower (can't run a complex circuit simulation as easily, for example), plus it runs on mobile/tablet platforms of course.
Functional and hybrid functional languages benefit greatly from a highly tuned GC. I don't see LLVM supporting something on par with the JVM's collector anytime soon so I think you'll lose a lot of the speed you see with Scala on the JVM unfortunately.
Using the "Pop out" link to open the current video in a new window also does this.
I'm the same way. The value prop of Instapaper for me is, "allows me not to read things I would otherwise feel compelled to waste time reading, while at my computer".
I add articles from my iPhone all the time, but rarely through Safari. The vast majority of my articles come from apps that have Instapaper built in, such as Twitter and Alien Blue. This is one advantage that Instapaper has, although I would assume that most apps will build in Reading List integration, as well.

The other big advantage that Instapaper has (which will keep me using it) is Kindle integration. I much prefer to read long articles on my Kindle over any other platform.
Oh yeah, there definitely are by a far margin. I'm just grasping for straws trying to figure out why Lua would have jumped so much. I know TIOBE isn't the end all be all of programming language usage or popularity but something had to cause Lua to jump so high in their rankings in the last year.
Interesting...in the case of Steam, does the ISP run that server, or do they just whitelist the Steam server IP?