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For downvoters: Xcode 3 > Preferences > General.

Layout: All-In-One

"This layout provides virtually all operations within a single window, such as editing files and project content, filtering in the detail view, viewing the build results and build log, and debugging".

http://i.imgur.com/uW3SI.png
I think you pretty much takes what Groupon will give you.
At HotelTonight we use CoffeeScript everywhere we'd normally use JavaCript. This includes our "native" (Titanium) iPhone app.

Being a Ruby shop, CoffeeScript (CS) has been a choice for us. We simply find it is a good fit for our minds and how we like to write code, makes it that much easier to structure and organize code nicely, and is more pleasant to look at day in and day out.
How is living in limbo for a decade, with literally no single piece of paper identifying you as a human being is "cutting in line?"

And why can't we tackle these problems at the same time? Why can't we even tackle these problems _one_ at a time? The Dream Act has been under review since 2001. It is a bill that can be voted on and passed in literally two days. Why not? ... I'll answer. Our impotent Congress, two year election cycles, and media that no longer holds anybody accountable.
Right, for..in is not the same as iterating through all elements in an array. Understood. But it works excellent in the example the OP created and in my follow-up example.

And I agree that accessing the length property in the conditional is not ideal.

I guess it comes down to this for me: I don't feel that Javascript has an unduly burdensome list of common idiosyncrasies to justify developing in a 'different language'/syntax that compiles into javascript and changing my development workflow to reap said questionably useful benefits.

Perhaps I am simply not the intended audience.
I wonder if Apple will use this with Grand Central?
Excellent article. Looking forward to see what happens to Blackberry.
You could be right. I have worked with 2 guys whom at some point clearly did not like me. However I respected the fact that it did not taint what I thought of their work, or their feedback on mine.

On the other hand I can remember a colleague of mine not talking to one of our teammates because of a personal reason. This, i think, affects business.
I agree -- and not just an ecosystem, but competition. Apple's native apps have to be up to snuff because of pressure from the store. Those few apps that rise to the top did so in part from the mechanism of competition.
I love couchDB, I'm surprised its not more popular here.
It's not just rounding issues: depending on the values involved the order in which you carry out FP operations can lead to radically different results.

In this particular case, the difference due to re-ordering of multiplications is likely to be relatively small, but it doesn't hurt to be aware of the potential problems.
>I think the people we should have compassion for are the people who are trying to do things the right way but running into headaches. Those are the people we should make things easier for, not the people who are willing to break the law to get what they want.

>I don't understand why it's so controversial among the pro-immigration crowd to say that people shouldn't come here illegally.

It's because the official green card process is [utterly ridiculous](http://reason.com/archives/2008/10/01/what-part-of-legal-imm...) and stacked against almost every prospective immigrant. It's one of those cases where the law has failed to catch up to the underlying economics of the situation: immigrants need jobs and the US has a need for cheap or highly specialized labour.

That is the process that needs to be reformed. Kicking out the people who are already in the country doesn't achieve anything other than waste more money and ruin more lives.
I've found Titanium great, and our entire app is CoffeeScript as well. Take a look at HotelTonight http://htltn.com/iphone
to see what you think.
At the very least, I'd say it has a bias towards younger/smaller companies for whom the price point of Oracle/DB2 doesn't make sense.
I see your point, and have updated it to say 'project' lest people get the wrong idea. I was rather upset by the sweeping declaration above that I was committing a felony, why I think should be deleted by the author since it's totally unfounded.
LinkedIn data reveals men are savvier online professional networkers than women
We are also using Neo4j in an academic environment and we are really pleased with it. We recommend it despite of the lack of a good native binding Python, we had to build a neo4j-rest-client (https://github.com/versae/neo4j-rest-client) through REST API.
We use Informix too! Well, our customers do. Thought we were a dying breed. Surprised to see it mentioned here twice. We use Postgres and MySQL too.
Saying they're "nothing more" detracts from the value you can provide with a frontend. Mint was a frontend for Yodlee and sold for $170m.
Boeing Rights a Wrong:  The Flight Attendant Button
Spam filters are a major issue, but it wouldn't explain why only 5% of people you ask reply.

On the other hand, these are people who signed up, probably curious to know what your site was about, and then they saw and decided it wasn't for them. Not much you can do at that point.

Have you been receiving complains from people you email?
You might give Motodev from Motorola a try. It's basically a Motorola modified Eclipse for smartphone development. I like the snippets window and the project wizards. Free too.
Bizet wrote this very idea into the opera Carmen. He wrote a song basically saying, "If you want your enterprise to prosper, you must have women along." (Though in the song it's good fortune rather than intelligence which is enhanced in this way.)
Crimes should have reasonable punishments; unfortunately, in this case, the punishment is extreme given the circumstances.
Our investment in CSN Stores
I think that the title is misleading.

It implies that when Microsoft needs a server to run some service, they use AWS.

The article is a bit vague, but I don't think it's the case.

AWS supports running Windows Server on their servers. You have to pay a little bit extra (compared to running e.g. a Linux kernel from a free distro like Ubuntu). I don't know what the details of the arrangement between Microsoft and Amazon is, but Amazon couldn't just offer Windows Server without licensing it from Microsoft. What is most likely happening is that the surcharge that Amazon collects for Windows Server is remitted to Microsoft.

So when the Microsoft guy quoted in the article talks about Amazon and Microsoft being partners, he doesn't meant that Microsoft uses AWS to run their services but that Microsoft licenses Windows Server to Amazon so that Amazon can offer it as an option in EC2.
Given both genetics and environment factors ... I would expect successful children from successful parents.

This is an assertion which, conveniently enough for those on the top, is entirely indistinguishable from a class society. It could be that you are right and that all the low-wage workers in the U.S. are low-wage because they are just plain dumb and not at all because they never had any of the opportunities growing up that children of well-off parents do. Personally, I don't put nearly so much power in genetic determinism.
Chinese ‘Carrier Killer’ Based on US Technology
Anatomy of an (un)fundable startup
I prefer a bank that doesn't go bankrupt or steal.
There's no reason to get a Meego device over an Android
device. But plenty of reason to get Android over Meego,
at least today.

I'll be the first to admit I'm a highly atypical case, but this certainly isn't true for me. I want a UNIX userland on my phone, and for that Maemo/MeeGo is pretty much the only game in town.
Yup. I've been a USAA member for about 10 years now and I've never once had an issue with their service, not to mention that I know I can always get an actual human on the phone who is happy to help me. As someone who travels quite a bit, I can't imagine using any other bank.

In the end though, I can't see how having another option in the marketplace could hurt.

Any company seeking to offer better banking services gets a high five in my book.
Alien minds and mathematics (universal language, yet different flavors)
The article linked within the post was much more insightful than the post itself.

http://www.realityprime.com/articles/why-microsoft-and-inter...

It is however, incorrectly cited in the post as support for the author's argument, which it is not. The Reality Prime article makes the case that it is irrelevant how secure the platform actually is - it will likely come into mainstream use, and Microsoft needs to support it, whether they like it or not.

Also, the post fails to mention that there was an official Microsoft response to the vulnerability report, which stated that the vulnerability had been fixed in Silverlight 5.
The Final Cut Pro X Backlash
Puppet 2.7.0 has arrived
This is not going to save anyone any time over the cli, only make it easier for people who are scared of it. When I'm writing, I hate going to the mouse when I don't have to. Give me a GUI where I can still use my keyboard and I'd pay a hundred bux for that shit.
Agreed. I do my best to use the authors title's when I submit articles.
Compare and contrast A and B. A has features X and Y. B only has feature X. B is missing Y. Reviewer complains.
nokia are not laying off any meego developers.
Yes, technology was around for years but it was just made more accessible to a much larger demographic.
Ah, I see. Have you considered writing a "lein noir server" command that starts the server? That way people could use the same `:ring {:handler blah}` syntax in their project.clj file, and have their application work with lein-ring and other plugins such as lein-beanstalk.
Wouldn't a virtual ISA be against the interests of hardware designers who benefit from ISA lockin?
What years of criminally fraudlent behavior? He was brought into the country at age 12. Legally, he wasn't even capable of committing fraud because he hadn't reached the age of criminal responsibility. You can't even hold someone under the age of 18 to a contract, which is why most companies require an adult co-signer for any minor who wants to enter into one.
It's not really comparable. We need the flexibility of supporting both relational and hierarchical models in a single database with high performance for OLTP applications. MarkLogic doesn't target that market.
day rate?
Hulu puts itself up for sale
> With those things in mind, today we’re lowering the maximum amount of time a creator can choose for their project from 90 days to 60 days.

Wet sidewalks cause rain. Film at 11.

In other news, banning anonymous article creation on Wikipedia has increased the acceptance rate of anonymous articles to 100%, a stunning increase in average quality.
He has knowingly used fraud for years to get work, educational, and lifesytle opportunities that would have otherwise gone to people legally allowed to work, study, and reside here. Paying taxes or writing keen articles does not excuse this fact.

Hence, he is cheating[1].

[1] Wikipedia defines cheating as, "... the breaking of rules to gain advantage in a competitive situation." That seems to be a accurate summary of the author's activities. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating.
I see the logic in that but I wouldn't browse without Noscript either way.

WebGL is not something I would run without intentionally "trusting" the site that was serving it. Which is not to say I wouldn't ever run it, only that I would surf with it off.
Indeed ...

http://berrange.com/posts/2011/06/22/firefox-form-data-histo...
Assuming, as it seems, that this is a good, well-designed randomized experiment such that contaminating variables between group gender ratios and collective intelligence are scrambled, it's still worth keeping in mind that correlation is not causation.

So, completely apolitically, this seems to be an initial result that's only been replicated twice. It still needs to be borne out as to whether it holds more generally. The researchers seem to have a pretty plausible theory to explain the results, though, and further testing should show more insight.

But secretly I'm going to hold back a smallish bet that this'll be one of those "disappearing" effects that social scientists have been complaining about recently.
The average color of the New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes.
Nice to see there are still some Informix users alive! :) We are dying breed for sure, don't see any new solutions being developed lately. Too bad. Anyhoo, we also use Oracle, MS SQL and MySQL.
Intel and NVidia want large piece of small pie

AMD and ARM want small piece of large pie
Agreed. Windows Phone does offer differences to Android, and honestly, there was very little chance Nokia was going to push Meego to the 3rd platform position.

If anything, Nokia probably learnt from WebOS. A great OS is not enough to save your company. You have to have the developer support, and you have to be able to push enough devices. Meego would have been limited to just Nokia handhelds, and the chicken/egg developer problem was very, very unlikely to resolve itself.

No longer having to bleed money on a software division, spending time on getting Nokia's core hardware competency and riding Microsoft's coattails to a 3rd place in the smartphone space sounds like a much better proposition. Nokia can go all-in on WP7 in a way HTC and Samsung haven't, and quickly become the flagship device provider.

I think the strategy makes perfect sense.
Solution: big digital billboard in mall which aggregates tweets from mall merchants.

A virtual billboard in the form of a smartphone app might be preferable in different kinds of public spaces. It might also be a good adjunct to the digital billboard.
Wow, this was a very insightful and good analysis to which I agree. Thanks.
> How is living in limbo for a decade, with literally no single piece of paper identifying you as a human being is "cutting in line?"

Because other kids who might have liked to live in the US and go to a top university didn't get to. You got what you wanted faster because your family broke the law.

I still believe that children who are brought here illegally should get a lot more leniency because they weren't responsible for their actions.
Totally off-topic here, but have you noticed that the body text size of your company's blog stays really small even when trying to zoom in? I've tried zooming in using Safari and Chrome, and with both of them the text stays so small that it's difficult to read.
Sqlite and Amazon S3
This is not exactly what you are asking for, but you may find Gosper's ideas on using continued fractions for exact arithmetic useful

http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/cf.html

http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~gurkan/gosper.pdf

I think this would be most naturally implemented in something like LISP, Ruby or Python.
Year over year change was down 17%? This sort of questionable total calls the whole thing into question.

Not that anyone doubts the conclusion that Bing+Yahoo has been chipping away at Google mostly due to IE defaults.
Google Voice Search in Italiano
Twitter Engineering Open House Recap
Kevin Kelly’s 6 Words for the Modern Internet
Why not offer FC7 at a discounted price, or for free? Doing so would allow people with existing FC7 projects to move or expand their work to new machines, before they're ready to transition to FCX. It can't be that it would prevent or delay upgrades; FCX will be where the all the "sexy" new features go, so there should be plenty of incentive to eventually make the transition.

I could understand not offering such a discount only if there was solid backwards compatibility. So, could the form this release has taken be an indication that backwards compatibility is coming?
Kyoto?
Ask HN: Should my new application hand out complex passwords, forbid user PW's?
It seems from password analysis of recent hacks that many many users have extremely poor passwords.

Should my new application disallow user created passwords, instead generating complex passwords for users?
MySQL, MicrosoftSQL and SQLite a lot
Pinning down a tweet's approximate location with machine learning
True.

But, he was not a minor or forced against his will when he decided to check the citizen box on the I-9, or when he decided to pursue a writing career in New York instead of Manilla, or every time he decided as an adult to stay in the USA while knowing he was here illegally.
Ad Agencies must embrace the Culture of Code to remain relevant.
One of the fallacies about immigration is that anybody can become a permanent resident by marrying a citizen. This path to permanent residency was basically choked off in the 1980s by requiring that the newlywed couple leave the country for a few years before they're allowed to come back to the US to live, and even then, it's not certain that the government will let it happen. This means that if I happen to fall in love and marry someone who happens to not be a citizen of the US, I'm totally at the mercy of the government.
The Making of Lytro
Because of it's .NET capability one can implement...

Quite the contrary; considering how on WP7 you're forbidden to run native code, while on Meego/Maemo you're not, it's actually easier to port anything you can think of to Meego/Maemo.

Also, AFAIK Intel was working in cooperation with Microsoft to port Silverlight to Meego. There's also Mono which has excellent characteristics for smartphones.

given the IP uncertainty surrounding the JVM

Nokia has the biggest and most relevant portfolio of patents related to mobile phones. Apple is paying them royalties already.

No, Android does not make sense for Nokia. Considering their expertise and size, they can do better. And WP7 will be their doom.
Winklevoss twins abandon appeal of Facebook ruling
Does anyone really believe Nokia's actual product will look like that demo?
I kinda recall this not happening quite a few times in the past.. (n97 anyone?)
Flat file homebred stuff.
We like reinventing the wheel.
"don’t get hung up on the extra loan money for years 5 and 6"

Bullshit! This is completely backward. This says that instead of even being unemployed, you should take out more loans that will make it even harder to live the life you want to after actually graduating. Stupid advice.
What country did you immigrate here from?
You can certainly use the client for plain ol' Git. The GitHub-specific stuff is a "Push to GitHub" button on repositories that aren't already on GitHub, and a list of your GitHub repositories.

It's more than useful without ever using GitHub the web service/site.
These guys deserve it. They've put out great games and worked damn hard to get to where they are. Good luck!
You will decrease your conversion considerably. My personal take on this is: tell the users they are creating terrible passwords, educate them, but do not forbid.
AFAIK, most (66%) legal immigration into the United States is currently due to family reunification reasons, rather than for skilled employees, humanitarian reasons, or diversity [1]. Whether or not this is economically rational or beneficial to America or other Americans can be argued.

[1] Second paragraph of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_State...
Javascript Architecture
You are correct, my recollection was faulty. However, the lifetime bar is not that narrow. It applies if you are present illegally for more than a year (or are ordered deported regardless of length of stay) and then leave and (attempt to) re-enter illegally again. So anyone long-term present in the country illegally who has ever left and come back would in principle be subject to this. That is at least my impression, but I'm only an immigrant, not an immigration lawyer...
Why I bought iPad1 after buying iPad2?
+1 because... well, Damn.
> So, to repeat the argument: if there's some information we need reliably, whatever cunning thing we layer on top of UDP, we're just reimplementing what TCP does. It seems unlikely we can do better than TCP unless we're doing something very problem specific.

We can do much better than TCP. We just have to weaken the reliability requirement. And like you say, in the real world, that can go quite a long way, without actually being much weaker than TCP.
Sure, but I was speaking of OS X. Your Keychain password doesn't have to be the same as your account password.
Depends if you want anyone to use it; complex pwds are one of the biggest barriers to user registration. If your users are comfortable online they should be aware of the risks, and allowed to set simple pwds (a pwd strength indicator is useful). If not, and you're concerned about security, look into things like visual pwds (picking a picture from a much larger 'alphabet' of images), and / or two-factor authentication.

What kind of app is it (game, banking, ...)?
New iPhone Gesture Patent Adds to Apple’s IP Arsenal
Trust me, there's nobody on this board that is more sympathetic than I am. I am 110% behind you with the DREAM act, and my money has gone to Immigration Equality which has lobbied for this issue. (For different reasons, but suffice to say I'm an ally.)

There's one simple problem with changing immigration, and that's the system is working as intended. Farm workers can't unionize nearly as easily if they are undocumented, and undocumented workers don't have to be paid standard wages. In fact, they can explicitly be paid substandard wages and there is no way to complain. Your parents, most likely.

Undocumented workers lower unskilled work wages and working conditions far past what a documented system would. Further, as workers age out of the ability to do backbreaking farm work, they have no legal protections on which to rely, and can be thrown back out more easily. The DREAM act, however, brings people into the system with legal protections, people who can't easily be exploited in the same way their parents are. Your parents, that is.

And that's why we face an uphill battle with the DREAM act. It sounds conspiratorial, and nobody would explicitly admit this; sometimes, we get to status quo through unintended consequences, but people build their businesses on unintended consequences, and change isn't something they take easily, especially when it impacts their bottom line.
Interesting. Not sure why this on the front page unless I'm missing something very important, but interesting
the usa is a big country. if it has more immigrants it also has more wealth and more resources.

the statistics for number of new citizens per capita remove that bias. and then the USA ranks #26. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/imm_net_mig_percap-immigra...
I'm curious what gives you that idea?
I just find it weird that everyone regards becoming a citizen by birth as so much fairer than becoming a citizen by sneaking in.
Actually the studies used groups from 2-5.

Here is a more scientific summary of the research...
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~cfc/Woolley2010a.pdf

The interviewer just picked 10 as an arbitrary number. The researcher just went along with it.
gilt.com uses (or used) node.js for real-time web analytics. Hummingbird was the first project that got me really excited about node.js.

http://projects.nuttnet.net/hummingbird/
Too bad I only ever proved theorems about codes, but didn't actually use them. But many of code are really beautiful.
I suppose if you suddenly were to find out that you were actually illegally present in the U.S., you'd be a good, law-abiding noncitizen and cheerfully go back to the country you don't know?
What amazes me is that from what I can tell no modern mobile platform allows you to sync contact info as seamlessly as IRDA did in '99. I had a Palm V, but I could point the thing at my friends' Nokias and get their numbers in seconds.

The closest thing I've seen is Bump, which is cool but nowhere near as immediate. Plus it's a 3rd-party install.
I'd hate to see your list of questions posed to a potential mate.