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Most of your points are already covered.

1. You could do this from day one. You didn't have to include Mojo or any other device specific framework. index.html was enough (you would also need appinfo.json for metadata and packaging.) With Enyo, even if you use the framework, there is no longer a need for any specific directory structure.

2. They have CouchDB (really not sure, it is a JSON object store though) running and accessible to all apps via a service bridge. This db is also backed up to the cloud for when user restores or changes devices.

3. Same service bridge. Which is nothing more than an AJAX call to a specific url.

4. They already run in Chrome with Enyo. With Enyo, I think this is actually possible.

5. Or keep it as a huge source of revenue. Nobody but HP's marketing dept wants webOS on printers though, I'll give you that. Think John Deere acquiring Ferrari and putting their engines into lawn mowers, because "it's the logical thing to do."

I'll add 6.

6. You can write your own Node.js services that are accessible via the same service bridge mechanism.

webOS is the mobile OS we should be cheering for to survive. It is slightly ahead of the curve and is about to be killed off. The news about Mozila WebAPI are an indicator.
In Kubrick's case, he took over a decade off before making Eyes Wide Shut and would undoubtedly had wanted to make some final edits after post-production or even after release, as was his habit. I don't think he intended to retire.
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Calculus. Not arithmetic, calculus.

Economics, even the basic stuff when taught at the college level, involves a couple of integrals. If you have a good, solid, intuitive grasp of what an integral is and what it represents, all this stuff is obvious. Obvious to the point that when the prof says "this is an integral" that will explain the concept better than the English definition. On the other hand, if integrals to you are voodoo witchcraft that puts numbers on a physics exam, then when you reach the same point in the lecture you'll be dealing with something extra you have to learn, rather than something that helps you learn. You'll be worse at economics because you can't switch back and forth between the concepts and the models. If someone gives you an equation, you won't be able to interpret it, and if someone defines a new concept, you won't be able to calculate it.
Another language learning tool by the creator of Captcha:

www.duolingo.com

check out a description at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQl6jUjFjp4
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It seems like conservatives are growing more and more anti-Google.
I think that what Steve Jobs has done with Apple is able to be condensed down into a basic formula which anyone given enough exposure can repeat. Just because it's repeatable doesn't mean that it's easy to do, though.

The problem is that you can't repeat it if you're going to do it by half-measures. Apple succeeds because it applies its formula 100%; others fail to follow Apple's example because they do "all BUT" some aspect or another.

That said, if another organization wants to do what Apple does, they will have to make some adjustments to acknowledge their reality -- but you really can't do part of what Apple does and say that Apple's process isn't repeatable.
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> I think /. was incredibly important in educating people on a concept, history and philosophy many of us take for granted now.

It seems important geek-culturally too, especially w.r.t. a certain kind of humor.
He waited till Steve resigned.
Yep, there's not really a good explanation of what beginner/intermediate/advanced means. Also it seems interactions are rated--- meaning what? Ability of speaker in said language? Interestingness of speaker? Whether they are normal?
Apple is giving its mobile OS away for free too (they previously used to charge some users to download new versions). Apple is "monetizing its software inventions" with high hardware margins.
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> How quickly we forget the Apple Newton.

Jobs had left Apple when Newton was released.
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You have a very impressive list of tools you integrate with.

Minor bug: the "Watch the Planning Intro" box doesn't grow when the text size does; it just cuts off the text.

Mind hosting the planning intro video with a source that lets you embed HTML5 video and only fall back to Flash?
If you've followed the lifespan of VA Software, OSDN, OSTG, GeekNet...I don't think this will come as a surprise to anyone.

http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&...;

Slashdot built the community that a lot of people still have close ties to. I'll always remember reading my first few Bruce Perens posts, and adding him (and a few others) to my 'Friends' List.

I'll also never forget listening to their marketing person talk about how they could 'bitchslap' negative comments (about the advertiser) to -2 so that nobody could see them.

Slashdot is a great place for the folks who have been in the industry for any amount of time. It was always a trusted and stable source of news, reposts, and April Fool's Pranks. I will continue to think that this is something that he did on his own free will and volition, and not something that was forced upon him by the powers that be at GeekNet.

Ann Arbor, MI isn't the Linux Hot-Spot -- nor is it a mecca for new and exciting technology jobs. I hope he enjoys his time off and finds something that gives him the love and satisfaction that slashdot gave him over the last decade.
"I’ve often thought of Apple as something like Singapore. It’s closed, restrictive, and authoritarian. And there’d deserve to be insurrection if things just didn’t work so damn well"

Witty comparison; I'd never thought about the similarities there.
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I can't give your path but I think we're at the very beginning. Apple's own apps have set the standard as well as Loren's Twitter app but that doesn't mean we are limited. It's up to us to define what's ahead.

As Einstein has said, imagination is more important than knowledge. From my experience, look at how kids use these things and pay attention to what what they need. They're more intelligent than we give them credit.

Computers are merely extensions of ourselves. The intent must be obvious so as not to confuse. If there is one thing I've learned from Jobs it is this.

EDIT: Look at the Elements app as well as the Al Gore (Push Pop Press) app. There are many holes left in this market where others can cause a disruption to what was the dominant presence on the PC.
Good illustration of why unreadable text colors are kinda lame.
> if you have that tiny market share, I think it would be better to focus on the overall experience.

If there is one lesson to be taken from the Apple saga that would be the one I'd pick.
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Thanks,

- Robert
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/. is how I found out of the 9/11 attacks.
I think he was being utterly sarcastic. :-)
Graphing the production function F(x)=ln(x) by entering the function into a graphics calculator and copying down the result just seems like cheating.

Well, yeah. But math courses that require a graphing calculator don't ask, "write down the graph for f(x) = ln(x)".

The problem here is two-way. This professor does not understand what the graphing calculators are capable of (which he admits), nor does he understand what the previous math courses were like that relied on them.
Unfortunately, Vimeo's HTML5 embed doesn't give you an API that you can use to close the video from JS, which is why we're using their older Flash embed. I'd love to make the switch once they change that, though.
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Well the thing about the ITC is that one of its stated responsibilities is to advise the President on international trade. This strongly implies that the purpose of the ITC is to serve the President's (and executive branch's) decisions in international trade. Knowing this, it really doesn't seem that unusual or improper for the President to intervene on the ITC's behalf.

Aside: to almost everyone else in this thread, don't focus on the Apple vs. Google aspect of this story or the specific patent claims. While perhaps a worthwhile topic (one I probably think has been discussed to death) this story is not fundamentally about that.
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Have you tried YouTube's HTML5 embed?
Hi, This is Senad. Founder of cloudHQ.

We also have Chrome extension which embeds Dropbox/SugarSync/Basecamp into your Google Docs interface: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search?q=cloudHQ Kinda cool (useful if synchronization is not really what you want)

Regarding pricing, we will have a free version - my idea is that cloudHQ will be free if services used are free (i.e., if you don't pay 37signals, you don't pay us).
I hope this guy is more humble, Apples Achilles' heel is it's arrogance. It was somewhat accepted because is was Steve Jobs doing. Another CEO will never have this bonus and if he proceeds with this attitude then it will hurt the brand.
I guess I don't see the point of this tool. You have to make wild guesses for every single metrics in there. Is it a MBA thing? Do people really find this useful?

EDIT: Maybe I got confused by the 'business plan' part. Is it intended for an established business? or for someone putting together a business plan for starting a business?
Re: Carmack, someone's collected all his Slashdot posts (1999-2008): http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/carmack/slashdot.html
Perfectly readable here. Although not knowing Haskell some of the syntax is a bit difficult to grok.
So it's language exchange partners, but over the internet.

Pretty neat, but I'd definitely worry about audio quality. If you live in a multicultural city with a couple universities, the real-life version is easy enough to set up.
I went to go see CmdrTaco speak in 2005. Someone asked him how to make a website as popular as Slashdot. Malda said to start it in 1997. Of course in the next year the meteoric rise of both digg and reddit began.

I think there is a moral here about not resting on your laurels and never thinking no one can catch up with you.
In less-than-near-future SF, the antagonists in Alastair Reynolds' _Century Rain_, the "Slashers", were supposed to be the intellectual descendants of Slashdotters. From Wikipedia: ``...they trace their existence back to "an alliance of progressive thinkers linked together by one of the first computer networks", whose symbol was a slash and a dot.''

I had to groan a bit at this gratuitous reference in an otherwise tight novel. :)
Yeah but it was announced a few months ago in this presentation a no real news from it (i've subscribed as soon as possible to the mailing list)
This blog post is surprisingly lacking in details. Here's some info I dug up on the Python/PHP support:

http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20382447-python-supp...

http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20386327-php-support...

Personally I'd like to see one of these PaaSs support Tornado. I think DotCloud has been promising it for a while...
> I'm sorry I didn't answer your call earlier. I was in religious services...

Is that what he literally said? "In religious services"? I find it really hard to believe. It is more fitting of a blog post that has been adopted to the format of "The Jobs Tales". Gender-neutral, religion-agnostic, PG-13.
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Steve Jobs is a Buddhist. Buddhists believe that charitable giving should be done anonymously. For all we know SJ could be giving a lot to charities and other worthy causes, but as a Buddhist he will keep this to himself.
I disagree. His reason for bringing up that this was predictable was not to say that he saw it coming, but that the change has been going on for a while. His most important point: Tim Cook wasn’t named “CEO” until today, but he’s been the chief executive at the company since Jobs started this — his third — medical leave back in January, and probably even before that. Whatever Steve’s role is going forward, it’s only different in title than what it has been, in effect, for some time.
Doesn't TouchPad come with built-in DropBox integration? I haven't tried it, but at least DropBox was in the accounts list.

Agreed that Enyo is cool. Reminds me a lot about QML: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qdeclarativeintroductio...
...especially with Qt Quick Components: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2010/09/10/building-the-future-rein...

Actually, I wonder how hard it would be to either:

1. Map Enyo to QML so that webOS apps could be run elsewhere

2. Make QML run under Enyo, so webOS could have apps from other systems
Great 1995 interview with Jobs from the Smithsonian:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/sj1.html

In our business, one person can't do anything anymore. You create a team of people around you. You have a responsibility of integrity of work to that team. Everybody does try to turn out the best work that they can.
It's not enough to call Slashdot an early blog, because there were many proto-blogs at the time. Slashdot was actually social news before the era of user-generated content.
AppFog is hiring BTW, looking for people who want to be paid to develop Cloud Foundry: http://blog.phpfog.com/2011/06/10/we-are-hiring/
No we haven't, and that's something for us to keep in mind if we think about switching, but for the time being all our stuff's in Vimeo and I don't think we have any plans to move it.

EDIT: Actually, on thinking on it for another minute, I suppose it'd be pretty easy to do detection to support people who don't have Flash installed. Thanks for the suggestion--I'll put that in our queue.
Haskell syntax is actually pretty straightforward, once you know what you're looking at. It's difficult at first blush because of the weird infix operator symbols ($, ., <> etc.) but once you get used to them there's nothing too scary.

That being said, why not post any problems you have here? I'm sure plenty of people would be happy to help explain Haskell's syntax, and no doubt more people than just you would benefit from that.
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Sorry, but no, I didn't get that idea when he mentioned that 5 word pitch.

The meaning I obtained was exactly what he initially meant. A place where you can be hook up to another person in the world, but with the explicit intention of practicing a language that's foreign to one and native to the other.

There is no shame in piggy-backing anyway, wasn't even someone famous who said: "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Not saying that chatroulette is a _giant_ per se, but what they did in so few days was, well, a giant achievement (news, users, concept).
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My wife is a teacher, and she tends to get sick at the start of pretty much every vacation. It's like her body knows that she doesn't have time to be sick until vacation.
Here is the PHP pull request: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/vcap/pull/105

And the Python pull request: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/vcap/pull/57
Definitely NOT an MBA thing. :-) This is for startups and small businesses alike. Most people are modeling their businesses with an Excel file, and they are making the wild guesses in there. The problem is that it's tough to see the impact of changing any of these wild guesses in Excel, and it's a static document that can't link to actuals for comparison.

We want to help people plan/model their business, measure how they're doing, and then execute. (And the site could use a lot more of that verbiage within the app!)
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> He ensured we got know everything that was required. Anytime we were stuck, he would personally ensure we were unblocked. He worked, conducted meetings, did his managerial duties and still wrote programs with us. He would stay with us, if things went on late in the night. He would sweat with us.

Years ago I worked for a CEO who didn't know how to code, but if he ever asked us to stay back late, he'd stay there with us and check in to make sure we had enough food and beverages to keep us going, go buy packs of cigarettes if that's what needed, etc.

He couldn't code to save his life, but he earned the respect of us coders pretty quickly.
If you're looking to begin a startup but not quite sure where to focus you energies, the Inc 5000 list is invaluable. It shows at a high level the sectors and companies that are gaining the most traction. These are the companies you want to be your competitors.
Exactly. "Brand" is a bit of biz-marketing speak that always makes my hair stand on end anyway, but I've sort of come to terms with it as it refers to your company or organization's public face/perception. But if you're just using it to refer to external corporate partners, it's confusing, to me anyway.
That quote's crap.

We used to have Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow. Now we have CNN and Fox News. Can you picture anyone from either of those networks calling out McCarthy?

It's not so much an active conspiracy of mendacious bootlickers, as it is the lack of a conspiracy to strive for something better. Steve Jobs of all people should know better.
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GarageBand: http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/garageband.html

IMS-20: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJSyPW4BFgo

nLog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkjiSIPF-Ho

Not to mention iWork and a host of other apps.

Yes, the iPad is really good for consumption, but it's quite good at production as well. And it will get better with time.
Illustrator is awesome. Also, pencil and a piece of paper. Sometimes I create physical models of complex UI objects if I need to grasp their animations/behavior. Some designers I knew liked Balsamiq, or Blend, but everyone knows how to draw on paper.

It would be harder to design in Photoshop, methinks, since when designing you're dealing with abstract shapes and lines (vector) not raw pixels (raster). I mean sometimes you do :) I created and prototyped this cool video-preview control entirely in Paint.NET, literally changing pixels to create gradients.
The nice thing about Open Source PaaS is that you can scratch your own itches, add a Tornado pull request and pretty soon it could be running on AppFog.com or CloudFoundry.com
Exactly. The point of moving to the cloud is that your are giving your data to company X, company Y, etc. Of course, both company X and company Y would like all your data, so company X will make super hard to move data to company Y and vice versa. So you are stuck.

And cloud services are mixing "storage service" and "software as a service" so in order to use service of company Z (like project management or something like that) you need also give data to company Z. Which is hard because your data is with company X.

Long story short: I also fucking love the cloud: we kinda went backward in time.
The built in integration only allows you to open documents. Not pictures, videos, music, etc. It also does not allow you to upload new files.
Nice post. Thankfully more people are now getting 'it'. That's why Apple became the top tech company by value.
A lot of startups and small businesses wind up with a crazy Excel model where they model their assumptions around things like revenue forecast. We built this to track the relationships without worrying about broken formulas, typos, etc.

Edit: What Adam said
> I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of webOS, and have decided it does have one, maybe even a glorious one, provided the new owner or licensee reaches out to web developers, as Palm should have done back in 2009.

I think the most likely new owner if HP sells will be Google, Microsoft, or Apple. They will be buying for the patents and will have no interest in doing anything with WebOS.

HP could try to sell WebOS separate from the patent portfolio, but no sane entity would buy unless the sale included some kind of permanent license to any of the Palm patents that WebOS implements. Such a license would would lower the market value of the patent portfolio, so I don't see much chance of HP doing that.

If Google, Apple, or Microsoft fail to buy the Palm IP, then maybe there is a chance. Perhaps one of the non-Motorola Android phone makers might be interested in diversifying--they can't be too happy with Google buying Motorola's phone business. Samsung would be a good candidate.
Economics demands a strong background in math and any undergrad program worth its salt will require at least multivariate calculus (if not analysis), linear algebra and a fairly robust course in statistics. Beyond this, a proper understanding of metric spaces, fixed point theorems and rigorous stats are all useful and almost essential tools. All of these courses should be proof based. I've said it before and I'll say it again: If it's not proof based, it's not mathematics. It's computation (and I don't mean computer science).

Unfortunately, even programs at many "top" universities sometimes skip these requirements. There are very few undergrad economics degrees worth the paper that they are written on.

As to the theory that arithmetic is any determinant of success in real math, I have only anecdotal evidence that this is false. Having gone to an undergrad university with a top 5 math department, I can assure you that people who are some of the most significant contributors to their fields sometimes struggle at the chalk board when it comes to "basic math." I think it is not clear to most people that arithmetic is not math. It is not the "base" of math, and skill in this area does not provide a "strong foundation" for math. Math is the study of quantity, structure, space and change (to borrow a leaf from wikipedia) among other things. It is the most fundamental of the sciences in a metaphysical sense (it may be argued that philosophy is the real root, but I would say that at their most fundamental, there is significant convergence between math and philosophy). Arithmetic is not related in any form to this.
> I'll also never forget listening to their marketing person talk about how they could 'bitchslap' negative comments (about the advertiser) to -2 so that nobody could see them.

Citation, please?

Rob Malda's oft-cited bitchslap comment was about a script he had written to deal with Slashdot's most annoying commenters (people who used their own scripts to submit thousands of duplicate comments simultaneously), and had nothing to do with advertisers or marketing or denigrating products. In fact at the time the comment was written, I don't believe Slashdot had a marketing person outside of Jeff Bates.
You convinced me to give it a try. I'd still be interested in an opposite view. Are there any non-ranty articles about the problems of the language?
I suspected that, but is correct within the context of many communities.
I bet "What would Steve do/say" would be one of the things Cook and the team think for years to come.