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Apple is indeed good at marketing, but how do we know they going to succeed at marketing iCloud? [...] iCloud after all is in part a rebranding of a product that has already failed multiple times already.

Good question. But from a user perspective MobileMe syncing already works very well. When I buy a new Mac or iOS device, I simply configure my MobileMe account and automatically have my contacts, calendars, notes, and on the Mac preferences, dock items, etc.

They could have made the synchronization functionality of MobileMe free, and slowly add the features announced for iCloud. But announcing it as a new product is a far smarter marketing move. iCloud has dominated deadlines for days now, and people see it as something different from MobileMe.
You can't stand up and pedal? Sounds pretty sketchy to me.
Apple's position is quite compelling, considering the amount of control they exert on app developers, the iOS ecosystem, and the app approval process.
Here is some information from the US govt. on the situation: http://www.pnt.gov/interference/lightsquared/
> A few short years ago we had scary arab terrorists, I think they're still a bigger scapegoat than anon.

Both Anon and arab terrorists have carried out numerous attacks...
A Letter from Jan Honza Tilinger (Re: the $300 house)
Dont get me started on him. The guy has about 300 million in networth which are all charitable donations. Are you telling me that HE cares about corruption?

He is an opportunistic god peddler who wants to turn this circus in to an attempt at politics and further power play. Some people can see through his shell game, but in the end this wouldnt have solved anything for the country.
<%= is a unique escape code

It always bugged me that the PHP community didn't pick up on this and run with it. We've had ASP tags since the beginning (almost?) but I think people avoid it out of some anti-MS stance. Rails runs with <%= just fine.
What does MS-only mean ? They actually provide client apps for macs, if that's what you meant.
The US military GPS operates on a different frequency than civilian GPS, so it likely would not be affected.
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This reminds me of the article by jacquesm:

"Double your price! (and no, I'm not kidding)"

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Double+your+price+%28and+no%2C+I%...

Here's the follow up discussion on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639712
I'm not local and the depth of my knowledge on the situation is "some Yogi".

But I'm inclined to think some action is better than no action, when it comes to fixing things.
There is a chap who commutes through central Edinburgh every day on a unicycle - including the cycling over the narrow Dean bridge and up the fairly steep Mound hill between the New and Old towns.
The ultimate transportation hack must be motorcycle and scooters. I was surprised to see so few of these in my travel to California. Given the climate, it should be a no brainer. Can anyone shed some light on why they are not popular.
This was a known problem with their design and the FCC gave approval for them to go forward anyway. Maybe they could have saved LightSquared some money if the FCC asked them to fix the GPS issues before deploying. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2199188
We had one, highly specialized piece of software code which could only be checked out, worked on, and checked in by a single engineer at a time. You were only allowed to touch this piece of code if you possessed a physical token.

Ahh, the all powerful Source Control Shingle: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Source-Control-Shingle.a...
25 Infographic Videos about the Environment
June is traditionally a month dedicated to the Envionment. The 5th is the World Environment Day, and all over the world a number of initiatives occur, reminding us how dependant we are of Nature,and how much can we do, both as individuals and as a collective force.
Price discrimination is usually perfectly legal, at least in the US. Haven't you ever heard of senior discounts? This doesn't mean there aren't cases where it IS illegal, for example there are no "white people discounts".

As for how to find out, call a lawyer. You really don't want to trust the legality of your business to a Google search.
This is going to be a great event! If you are in New York, check it out.
There is A LOT of ads for google chrome in France. By a lot I mean that there were entire metro stations with every single ad spots paid by google for chrome in Paris.
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Awesome. Great way to cram them into the same sentence. They both start with "a", too!

We've already proven that if you put "Saddam" and "al Qaeda" in the same sentence enough times, you can convince a majority of the USA that they're buddies. Let's see if we can do it here, too.

More to the point.. I can't stand the logic of "they should quit attempting to fight for freedom because authorities will use them as an excuse to crack down". It's exactly backwards to me. You can disagree with their motives or goals or whatever but that particular logic is terrible.
How the Pentagon Got Its Shape
Since you're already using iTunes preview files, any chance you can make the songs in the list clickable to bring me to the iTunes store? Heard a few songs I want to buy.
Is iMessage evil?
Whats wrong with his protest. He is anyway better than the corrupt politicians of India....People supporting cause he raised and they will support these causes even if a corrupt politician raises it... it is not individuals but causes which are supported... I agree he is doing all to gain political gains, but the cause must be supported IMO
<? is what is used by XML to indicate a processing instruction.

http://www.javacommerce.com/displaypage.jsp?name=pi.sql&...

<?name pidata?>

So when someone uses <?php in their XML document and tries to run it through PHP, will the collective PHP-internals community explode? React? Ignore it?

<%= has been the compatible way forward since 1996 or so, and the community has chosen to ignore it. We've successfully migrated away from HTTP_GET_VARS, register_globals, and other bad habits. But somehow <?php is lorded over others as 'the one true way', as if somehow typing more boilerplate to avoid conflict with 0.02% of the use cases where there's a problem is something to be proud of.
No need to apologize, this is exactly why I posted the app and the idea to HN!

I agree Latitude rocks hard (when you get friends to actually use it), and the idea of Glympse is brilliant. I haven't tried it myself but immediately thought it would be a good solution when I stumbled across it. We may want to implement something similar as well.

But they both fail on a few cases:

- Try getting your non techie friend with a dumbphone to use Latitude -- not possible as the app can't run on the device. Same with Glympse, however less so because it may work ok with pretty simple browsers on the receiving end.

- vs Gecko SMS: If someone can receive SMS, they can receive your location

- And then the "rest of the world" -argument: most people don't understand maps, maps are not available to many areas. Maps don't work well in cheap phones with small screens.

Landmarks is a simple concept that everybody understands, and it's available everywhere. That's what we offer.

I know this partly contradicts with using the Android platform, but that's where we wanted to start. We have a fully working prototype for S60 Symbian as well, but it's no fun to use. :)
<? is used in XML headers.

OTOH, you shouldn't ever be generating XML headers from PHP anyway (XHTML is a dead-end, and raw XML should be generated by an XML library), so this shouldn't be that big of an issue.
Online, sure. In real life though?

That's a tremendously small percentage of designers. Consider the number of people that get into design, the number of designers who are extremely good at what they do, AND the number who get into icon design.
Taking all Apple's emphasis on design, marketing, etc., aside. It starts very simple: Steve Jobs looks like a sympathetic guy on stage that we could easily emphasize with. Steve Ballmer looks, let's put it bluntly, unsympathetic and rude.

This difference is clearly visible in every fiber of marketing material from both companies. Apple marketing feels friendly and fresh, while Microsoft's tends to feel aggressive. Sometimes Microsoft attempts to copy Apple's marketing style, but it feels faked or superficial.

Don't underestimate company's 'soul'.
BTCBuy won't ship to me though. Amazon only ships a very small number of products to Peru. Electronics and clothes not included.
Ask HN: hackety hack for iOS?
Is there something like hackety hack or shoes for iOS? Want to hack around on my ipad while mobile
It actually makes sense for them to defend the developers: after all, would you work in an ecosystem where you can get sued at any time without being protected by said ecosystem's owner?
I think the difference is that designers have a vision of what the users really want, as opposed to what they say (or even think) they want. Whereas the PMs (in that example) are more the focus-group types.
It wouldn't make sense to compare him to those guys because he mostly didn't come up with big theories of his own. He was just very well read in all of the above and used their ideas combined with science to call bullshit on mainstream ideas, figure out which questions were the most important, and speculate about the nature of the universe and the human condition. (Much like a modern day Socrates.)

Depending on what you give him credit for I do ultimately think he may be able to hold his own with any of the above, not in terms of coming up with novel theories, but in terms of being able to see what's important and set the agenda for humanity for the next 500 years. But again like Socrates (perhaps Plato) he came up with a lot of bullshit too, so it's important not to throw critical thinking out the window.
I'm getting in the habit of using git everywhere.

If I am going to make any changes to a config file, I just initialize a repo in that directory and make my changes. This is great to track what was done during outages when normal controls and processes are out the window.

I don't use rsync as much nowadays, as now I copy files around using git. It makes it easy to make sure two systems are in sync with one another.

If I want to compare directories A and B, often I will just create a repo in A and dump the contents of B on top of it.

And local clones and easy branches means it is easy to test crazy code and break source trees.

EDIT: One more thing, jgit is great for systems where you can't install git (like AIX, where it is a pain to get the packages). It's a single java jar that you can deploy to any system that has java http://eclipse.org/jgit/. I take the .sh script that wraps the .jar file and symlink it to a 'git'.
A more interesting scenario would be to cap all MP's pay, incl. the PM's, at the national average wage.
no real tricks here, this guy just seems happy he worked on a team with professional standards. thorough testing like that is, while not the norm, pretty commonplace at most of the better places i've worked.
The big change started when Google launched Maps.

Google Maps definitely deserves the credit on this.
How, and when, to make a decision
Interesting.. I hadn't thought about using git as a form of rsync
SelfDoc.js: JavaScript that Documents Itself
Thanks for the suggestion. I've had better luck with Macports so far, I just wish that a package manager was as seemlessly built-in as it is in Ubuntu or Fedora.
Mmm, but corporations frequently correct for that by downsizing. Governments do it very, very rarely.

The PCS union picketed Downing Street over proposals to reduce their redundancy package from 3 years salary to 2...
For less than 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) I almost always walk, unless I'm in a rush. It' s great habit to have, and my main source of exercise.
For greater distances, I generally use public transportation.
Keep in mind, this is relative to the market. Would you pay $9.99/hr for a lawyer if the average was $8/hr?
Am I the only one who thinks that a secure git server is so much ore useful than Dropbox, iCloud, etc.? Versioning. Access to old versions of artifacts.
Thanks for the quick reply! I guess I missed the part where Gecko would work with so-called "dumb" phones as well, without any mapping software. That's definitely a good enough reason for me to give it a try this weekend.
> pressing Save on a document open

You will not need to even do that. It's autosaved. Coming to Lion next month.
But, less than question mark and a space are not a valid XML combination. XML processing instructions cannot begin with a space. Likewise, PHP cannot run commands into the short tags, like <?echo $foo; ?>. So, there really is no collision, it's just grandstanding.
Neo4j 1.4 M04 introduces Cypher, a graph query language
Mockup Tool Made Entirely In HTML, CSS, Javascript and CouchDB: Mokk.me
Who needs a backend? :) Thomas Jacob made Mokk.me without one. Mokk.me is a web-based application that helps you to create simple mockups of your mobile applications. Once created, you can share your mockups with friends and allow them to edit and give you feedback.
scooters: because cars and motorcycles exist. Why waste human power when we can waste gas?

motorcycles have the whole "one accident and you pretty much die" thing going against them.

Of course, this changes around places like mountain view, where there are a lot more people on bicycles.
This seems like very good news. Apple should throw a few tens of millions at this. Think of it; if Apple could somehow manage to kill patent trolling and deter it in the future, that could be of as much benefit to the computing world as iCloud, iOS and the iPad put together.
The lord of the manor defends the serfs. That has always been the deal.

Good to see Apple stepping up into the role they've defined for themselves.
Thoughts on time travel
How unlikely would the iPhone in my pocket have seemed 80 years ago?

Magic wands? 1-computing, 2-wireless data transmission, 3-display (television), 4-rechargeable batteries, 5-touch interface, 6-price drops.
I wonder if the XML PI spec says anything about <?= Can you have a PI start with = ? If not, the echo short tag should stay for certain.
They apparently care about a missing hockey puck.

"[The] FBI's Regional Crimes Task Force in Chicago reviewed the Chicago police sergeant's video and determined with "100-percent certainty" that Miller picked up the puck."

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nhl/news/story?id=6452071
Projected capacitive screens are more sensitive than you think, and it takes a lot of careful shielding to make them do what they're doing (especially when glued over a noisy LCD screen/backlight).

Sounds like an RF immunity test got skipped here. Note that his iPad2 doesn't have the same trouble.
"some action is better than no action, when it comes to fixing things"

So, as a (presumably) professional coder, you believe this? I'm inclined to STRONGLY disagree. There's a time for decisiveness of action , sure, but it usually follows once you've established a strategy. "Some act is better than no act" is false without lots of caveats.
« So you think society's definition is stupid. Ok »

Just because you claim something is "society's definition" doesn't imply it is anyone's definition but yours.

« all those people is that they all are very interested in computers »

Not necessarily. Not in the same way. Not to the same extent.
1. Indian IT Services and Consulting companies (Infy,Wipro,TCS,Cognizant,Mahindra,HCL and 100 more) have engineering work which is as good as any of their counter parts in the world. This is proven by reshift in the delivery pie in the last decade. So, by saying these jobs are useless you are discrediting the whole of the IT services and consulting industry jobs across the world which include IBM, Accenture, Capgemeni, HP.

2. We are talking about product focussed companies and services focussed companies in the IT space. But both the types of companies have the other offering. It is the proportion of their revenues which varies. IT Companies keep shifting their portfolio of products and services based on market need - Infosys 3.0 is an example. So generalizing job nature on a company basis based on ones experience only is point less.

3. IT Services/ITO and consulting industry generates business revenues of US$595 billion across the world, this includes the services divisions of product companies. All product revenues put together is about $250 billion. So if every guy would work for only IT product focussed companies there would not be enough jobs.

4. There are people who write articles, whine and complain, quit and go. Choose the easy way out. Then, there are people who work to improve and make it better, lead society to a better world. Latter ones are the leaders and have received accolades in the history.
Have you used an iPhone / Android device?

Because Google and Apple have pretty much nailed this. That is exactly what they have: a database with ENOUGH of the GSM (CMDS) basestatio cellids and WLAN identifiers, linked to real coordinates, so that most of the time things "just work".

So all the phone needs is to use some mobile data to get this database, at least once before it caches the local id => coordinates information. After this, a rough location is available even without GPS.

How can they do this? Because everytime someone somewhere uses Google Maps with GPS, they are also submitting data to Google's cellid and WLAN databases. So it works really well in countries and areas with lots of smartphone users, and less so when you go to the outskirts of the Philippines.

Also: Landmarks work pretty well even with the non exact cellid location, you definitely don't need to have GPS enabled to use the app.

This is basic platform functionality, which is why we didn't emphasize it in the text: However maybe we should add some information about this as well.
Yeah. I was just pointing that 10gen's arguments seem to evolve at it's own convenience. Developers need to take things more critically (the why) in general instead of stopping at "that makes sense."
the thing that they dislike most is the extreme pressure for jobs - there are many more grads and postdocs than there are permanent positions

So its like every other position in academia then?
Also like most private sector jobs in a recession/depression.
Really having more opening then applicants is a rarity.
Engineers, doctors, some other high demand professions, are all a minority in terms of total labor force in the economy.
Big Brother is watching...
The best part of this is when they say "Oh, we're setting up a working group to help resolve this problem" and follow it up with:

"Due to FACA, the work of the NPEF is limited to U.S. government personnel and contractors."

The problem is procurement:

http://infovegan.com/2010/11/02/how-vs-what
Wow, this is one of the most fun games I've seen in a while online. One I'm sending to my friends.

Plus I'm discovering all sorts of new music that I like.

As a small recommendation, monetize it by affiliate links to the iTunes Music Store. Ticketmaster too if you can.

Is it possible for artists who are on iTunes to request to be added to the list?
There's nothing like that it in the Guidelines of this site. The title is shorter and more concise. Even "please" is redundant
> "they should quit attempting to fight for freedom because authorities will use them as an excuse to crack down"

Who's fighting for freedom? Anon is a bunch of man-children (or actual children) 'fighting the man' behind anonymity from their parents' basements in suburbia. It's not cool or heroic. I completely don't understand this mentality that what Anon is doing should be commended. It's vigilantism and there's a reason that's not good 'IRL'.

Also I don't know what 'freedom' Arab terrorists are fighting for. The common trope is that they're fighting 'Western imperialism', but that's insane -- the most worn out excuse that the Arab world has used for their lack of innovation or scientific contribution since 1100[1]. I hope you're fine getting blown up for their cause[2].

1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oxTMUTOz0w (lecture from Neil Degrassi Tyson)

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutbism
Sorry, by scooter I meant this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_%28motorcycle%29
Hey, I just submitted something of my own for the first time so what else can I do than sit here replying?-)

I don't think you missed it, that information probably isn't available anywhere yet. Unless you read all my comments here, and still I don't think I have really mentioned that.

But had you read our business plan, you would definitely be aware of this.

--
Update: Just realized you probably meant the receiving end, whereas I was talking about sending these messages from a dumb phone. The former is mentioned in the Market text:

This means that Gecko SMS works with standard SMS and MMS, and does not require any special software on the receiving phone.
if you haven't read this post from Paul Buchheit it sheds a lot of light on how the two philosophies might not be all that different: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/12/cloud-os.html
US looking for revolutionary binary code system
I've written a library that does that (just play/pause/stop/mute/unmute for now) for a Chrome extension that I am working on to provide uniform audio controls to Google Chrome. (http://www.mutetab.com)

I haven't decided yet, but I am leaning toward open sourcing it.
Why is everyone getting hacked?
A) "inclined to think"

B) politics != programming

C) Think you could write out the caveats for me? If you do it quick I can still edit them into my original post. Thanks.
You might want to check out http://w3fools.com/ before recommending that in the future. They list some great alternative resources.
Just received their e-mail and my first reaction was that it was spam, but on further reading I was convinced it's genuine. At least they're transparent about what happened.
Call me cynical, but it's sounding like a major advantage of the App Stores to developers is that it's hard to find good free apps.
God Emperor of Dune from the Dune series. Work up to it. It's incredibly rewarding.
Agreed... I've never used <? in a non-PHP context and it's way easier to type than <?php all the time. Why not just leave it in, or at least change it to something just as short but unique?
Theravada Buddhist Practitioner here. In addition to daily meditation practice, I've attended 8 months worth of meditation retreats in the last 4 years. These retreats consisted of 8-15 hours a day of formal meditation (depending on how hard I was going at it) with an effort to continuity of mindfulness in between formal sessions. At this point, I estimate I have about 3-4k of my 10k hours required for high mastery.

My understanding of the purpose and benefit of practice is to observe experience as it arises (whether physical sensations, sensory input or thoughts) as it arises and see how you react to it.

One key insight you find is we tend to contract toward things that are pleasant and contract away from experience that is unpleasant and space out (or seek distraction) during experience that is neutral or boring. A cognitive understanding of this contraction and spacing out is insufficient to decondition the human brain from doing it. The conditioning is too deep.

It requires using concentration and mindfulness as a microscope on our perception to see and feel the additional pain we create in the contraction. As we repeatedly connect with the pain of contraction we slowly over time stop doing it and begin to experience life in a whole new way. The capacity to face pleasant, unpleasant and neutral experiences without contracting or spacing out is quite literally a life changer.