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he (with Woz) invented the personal computer
as we know it (a plastic box with a keyboard)

No they didn't. IBM's first personal computer, IBM 5100 was introduced in 1975, one year earlier.

Before that Xerox Alto was introduced in 1973, and while never commercially produced -- get this, it had a GUI, a mouse, an object oriented OS and an Ethernet card.

And before that, the personal computers we know today were perfectly described in a book from 1949, called "Giant Brains, or Machines That Think", then later plans for building Simon were published: http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley/simonfaq.ht...

And between 1950 and 1977, the year Apple II came along, there were many other good products released.

he made the GUI available to mere mortals

Making stuff available to mere mortals means making it a commodity. If I could afford a cheap and usable personal computer (in my country in 1994), it's because of Microsoft, not Apple.

So we are in disagreement.

he invented the desirable smartphone

No, Blackberry did.

What did Gates really invent?

Neither invented anything really. It's just plain, gradual evolution with ideas originating at least 30 years back.
yes, to quote Willy:

What is needed is to remove the Range header when there are too
many occurrences of it.

Their attack puts up to 1300 Range values. Let's remove the header if
there are more than 2 :

reqidel ^Range if { hdr_cnt(Range) gt 2 }

That should reliably defeat the attack.
Understanding advanced mathematics comes with a love for math. People who love math are usually pretty good when it comes to mental arithmetic.

In accordance with your statement about grouchy old people: I was amazed to find out that they allow calculators on the SAT. Now get off my lawn.
It seems plausible to me that demand for spot capacity is very low because most customers either don’t understand how to use it or the savings doesn’t cover the additional risk. I wonder if the reserve price correlates with electricity cost or weather; following James Hamilton’s advice, the natural reserve price for a server would be the cost of powering and cooling it (at any lower price, you’d be better off turning it off).
There is no such thing as a good field programmer
Rob doesn't strike me as the sort of person who'd enjoy just kicking back and relaxing forever.

He's comfortably well-off, but is looking for a change. 14 years is a lot of time to dedicate to one project, especially when it's mature and stable like Slashdot is. I imagine he's going to take a well-deserved break and then like a lot of tech entrepreneur's, come back for round two and start another company.
Agreed. I don't really understand why they compare themselves to community-based video sites and not services like Bits On The Run, which essentially is the same thing, but provides much more overall.

VidYard provides pretty limited bandwidth considering they promote "Force HD". And masking RTMP as "Instant-Start Technology" is a little sketchy, IMO. RTMP isn't rare. BOTR's API is pretty much perfect and having the free add-on ad network service is pure brilliance.
Litigation does not mean that Apple are unable to compete on equal terms. They are just being jerks and using everything in their arsenal possible to increase what lead they have. They are just another jerky corporation.
The bicycle analogy to computers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_GX50Za6c

Paraphrase: The computer is to the human mind, what the bicycle is to our ability to travel.
Consider that it was preceded by:

> they forget that they have a brain
> where -O3'd code magically executes as though the compiler didn't do any optimizations on it.
> And finally, if you use correct grammar in your comments

These have varying degrees of subtlety, but they are definitely aimed digs.

There was a definite precedent that warranted the toughman comment and made it seem like an accurate description to me even when i was actively trying to be nice.

Edit: I understand your point and think about it fairly often, i.e. when programmers in one language attack another and the attacked group goes on to point out how they refrain from attacks. I just do not think i have any ash to sprinkle on my shoulder in this case.
SMS analytics for SMPP users 
Nexmo is a cloud based SMS API that lets you send
and receive high volume of messages at wholesale rates.
There is a contention in the subject article that "deep understanding of mathematical concepts is related to basic number sense" and that e.g. students who must use a calculator to compute 3 X 5 = 15 are lacking that.

I was implying my feeling that there is something similar going on in programming... if you are helpless without an IDE, then you are lacking some "basic sense" about your craft. Though I can cite no studies to back that up.
he is an inspiration.
I agree with the first one since you included Woz. But I have to say that each one of your points should be including several other people each, as I highly doubt he did each of those personally by himself. I for one feel that Woz invented the concept of the personal computer and Jobs invented the concept of selling the personal computer.

He was the driving force during Apple's best times, he does get credit from me for that. But to me, a small part of that is maybe Apple's board didn't find someone to properly replace him. Apple made a great deal of stupid choices between the eras of Steve Jobs. Now that he has resigned, it'll be interesting to see if Apple falls back to their usual "let's do something stupid since Steve isn't here!"

Ah yes, that failure Gates, I guess he'll have to go down in history as being one of the driving forces of one of the most successful companies in the history of the Earth. What a bummer.
We destroy species before we have any knowledge of them. That's my interpretation but I can see why you're asking it.
Post-Steve Jobs Apple likened to departures of Walt Disney, Henry Ford
GameStop Opening Boxed Copies of Deus Ex, Removing Free Game Coupons
It's interesting that the president has the ability to waive ITC imporation bans. But the author calling the patents Apple is using to sue "Inventions" is a little bit far fetched.
I am guessing your father will not be using search, maps, youtube or gmail on his new iPad?
Why College Education Won't Help Your Startup
Pull this sort of thing when you're an average executive or middle management, and you're an abrasive, demanding idiot. Pull it when you have a few billion in the bank, and you're a "visionary."
It certainly has for me. Hardware is all nice and fine, but the informational content of slashdot has had far more profound effect on myself. I don't think I would recognize a version of me that grew up in a universe without slashdot.

Unlike the hardware maker, I think I almost feel a tinge of emotion here.. think I'll go troll on slashdot a bit today, seems like the right thing to do.
>How many of these unknown species exist in places we cannot yet go? The deep sea, namely.

I've thought the same while seeing The Blue Planet. It's interesting that we seem to be more interested in exploring the galaxy than the deepest depths of our oceans.
I created a little mini site that lets you check if your server is vulnerable, along with some information about the exploit:
http://apache-range-exploit.com/
I haven't memorized Taylor series for all known functions, so I occasionally have to reach for a calculator. I guess I am mentally weak and the sine of a broken education system.

Oh wait? We've arbitrarily choosen multiplication tables and fractions as "the thing" to memorize because that's what was done before calculators were ubiquitous. Thank God. Now I can go back to being smug and imposing my value system on people I've never met about when calculator use is appropriate. :-)
I still read Slashdot but not as much as I did "back in the day" - it's my chicken soup site, where I go to feel comfortable surrounded by like minded folks.

While Jobs' resignation is big corporate news, CmdrTaco's might be bigger community news - the guy was "one of us." His site was one of the first online communities and their slanted (according to some) point of view was what spun off other hacker/nerd sites.

I will admit that I'll miss Rob Malda at Slashdot - his name there on the posts made me feel at home, someplace familiar.

So long and thanks for all the fun.
Tim Cook e-mails Apple employees: "Apple is not going to change"
Just curious: where does 'basic math' end for you? 13 * 7? 43 * 76? 123 * 42? sin(PI/3)? 12534 + 3 * 26327?

Which ones do you need paper for? Which ones would you use paper for if it were readily available?
Production is not a measure of aggregate demand and no-one doing econometrics that I know takes Say's law seriously. Keynes pointed out some of the problems with it oddly enough, but to my knowledge he did NOT propose a "Calc 1 model", although I agree it would be worth looking at if he did.

If aggregate demand were anywhere near the point of full employment, we would see evidence of inflation. We do not. Some prices are rising in nominal terms as the dollar depreciates, but that is quite different.
You can already use jQuery, and you can package non-Enyo apps to submit and install as "native" already. A good number of both webOS 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x apps do this because of the familiarity.
“You’ve got to remember. He was surrounded by great, great people at Apple… and those people are still there."

Sounds like Steve's team gets a tick of approval from the Woz, that bodes well for the future of the company.
Math is about seeing patterns, arithmetic offers plentiful opportunities to hone your skill of seeing patterns.
2012 - the year of 3D printing?
I’m a designer. Use me better.
On the topic of Steve Jobs
No, unfortunately he has not used anything else so far. Listening to music and looking at beautiful paintings are the only ways he uses the iPad.
Me and my brother did use The Games Factory when we were very little, we found it an extremely exciting concept we wish to also create with Construct 2! Thanks for your feedback, and confidence in us :)
Deep in the field of off topic, but person that was doing nothing probably could keep up with it after passing.
I quit reading /. when the comments became too difficult to wade through, even when reading only +5's the system became overloaded with noise so I stopped visiting. HN is now my go-to site for news, due to the high quality of the comments (read 'em first to see if the link is worth the time) and the generally high value of articles.
I loved the games factory and click and create! I made so many games... and it really was so easy. That software might have determined my life's direction.

I had always wished at the time that I could somehow send these games to others. Now with the internet and web based software, it might be a dream come true for my younger self :)
Your post was so arrogant, offensive and ignorant I don't even know where to start. I suppose I'll just say: don't judge someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes.

Maybe you've know (of known of) people you thought were scumbags. Maybe they even were, but it's the height of ignorance to assume that all poor people are the same based on that. I can tell you there really are people for whom everything they try just seems to go wrong. And the US is a lot more brutal to failure than most first world countries.
Seems like everyone is underestimating Steve Jobs, impossible as that sounds
Even without its core, Apple will live on
Mobile money machine
A similar story was already posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2921543 (176 points 21 hours ago, 62 comments), linking to this ArsTechnica article: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/report-gamestop-o...

This post adds new, interesting information about GameStop's motivation (the Facebook post), but the former also has a lot of good commentary.
The vast majority of web users are Windows users. How has Microsoft lost?
Indeed.

Personally I respect Bill Gates a lot more. He basically spends all his time working on his charity nowadays; he really couldn't care less about the future of his company. Jobs is good for Apple, but I think Gates is better for the world.
This was the tactic all along in theory; the idea that web developers could immediately leverage their existing skills into the mobile space.

In reality, though, they never really focused on driving this point IMO, deferring to their own "webOS Meetups" and sending representatives to mobile conferences when they should have been sending their developer relations reps and evangelists to web development conferences such as An Event Apart.
Thank you. But you won't get far here. The groupthink on HN is far too strong.
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HP TouchPads sold running Android by mistake
1. The webOS app format needs to change away from the custom webOS framework (with its own directory layout etc.) to a single index.html (that can link to wherever and include any resources via HTML 5 app cache).

2. First class support for IndexedDB and quota management, with performance on mobile at least an order of magnitude faster than desktop Chrome or Firefox. It may sound unthinkable but the Chrome and Firefox IDB implementations are at present rather buggy and slow.

3. Excellent Javascript interfaces to device hardware.

4. Bundler to enable any app targeting webOS device-specific apis to run natively on iPhone or Android.

5. Sell the printer division, it's distracted HP from making a technical contribution for too long already.
Agencia de viajes paquetes turisticos
System variables used in Perl
Why Haskell is Kinda Cool
"Sol Garfunkel is the executive director of the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications. David Mumford is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Brown." Here are some examples of textbooks produced by COMAP:

http://www.comap.com/product/textbooks/index.html

I own one of the books. They are not designed for the students who are most able in math, but they do cover interesting, modern topics with accessible examples.
Hurricane Tracker (great app)
Cloud Foundry Adds PHP and Python
Verbling: The instant way to practice and learn a language
here you go!

http://reccr.com

I refrained from posting a link of mentioning the service by name in the original post, because I didn't want it to look like a "stealth ad". But maybe all the crap about not promoting your own services in forums has just made me over-cautious. :)
That's the aim!

I've also really started noticing that audiences for games made in these sorts of programs really are opening up, I spoke to an older man the other day who just bought an iPad, he was telling me how much him and his friends were laughing for hours playing fun little games, he said he hasn't had that much fun for a long time!

There really is a revival of these types of games going on at the moment in my opinion, all fuelled by new technology making it a lot more widely accessible.
I think part of that is that due to the immense pressures and other factors it's almost easier to explore the galaxy.
Not sure that the author has written an app with Enyo before coming up with a plan to save WebOS (Quick tutorial: https://developer.palm.com/content/resources/develop/extende...)

The SDK for Enyo doesn't force you to do anything. To build an app with Enyo, you need:
1) A WebKit browser for testing
2) A copy of Enyo's CSS and JS on your file system
No required text editors or anything else.

Also in the SDK is a virtual machine that runs WebOS for testing or if you use Palm services that aren't supported in just WebKit. There are some simple command-line tools to package and install an Enyo app on the emulator or a device, and some tools to open a shell on a WebOS device or emulator
Tim Cook to Employees: "I Love Apple"
Possibly a counterpoint, but I have no study to back this up. In the whole "deliberate practice" paradigm, they often say that immediacy of feedback strongly correlates with continued improvement. But maybe that presupposes you've developed the "basic sense" of your craft already.

For me: if you are helpless without an IDE, that probably says more about where you are as a programmer than it does about where you are going as a programmer.
Highly recommend read: Street-Fighting Mathematics http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/full_pdfs/Street-Fighting_Math...
Charismatic tech CEOs: Who will garner media attention beyond Steve Jobs?
Will it be Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Balmer, Larry Page, Dick Costolo, or someone else .....

Share your thoughts, Hacker News !
Another famous formal resignation letter that you wouldn't think actually had to be written: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/nixon.ht...
What a great way to use a computer. I'm truly fascinated by the way technology-averse people actually use technology. I had a hippie roommate that I'd constantly catch just listening to ambient music and spinning around the world on Google Earth on his laptop. A pretty enlightening contrast to my usual non-work mix of social networking and news blurb reading.
My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000
Our business uses all 3 services - altought Google only for email,calendar etc. and we have a small pain of having files in Dropbox but not integrated with Basecamp. Looking through your website I am not sure I would use your product.

Here are the reasons:

- Looking at the 60 second video got my head spinning without actually figuring out how it works

- I am not sure if I could trust you with touching my data

- I am not sure what are the advantages of having file synced between basecamp and dropbox

- don't want to commit to using platform which will be paid service if I don't know pricing yet
Someone who can't develop outside of Visual Studio probably is missing some "basic sense" - but will that really do them any harm?
The first article I saw only really mentioned that Samsung was banned from selling certain phones in the jurisdiction. APPLE WON!! YAY!! They said world will now be a better place, somehow.

After reading the second and third articles on the same topic that claimed Apple won (because of the BAN) I was confused. It seemed to me that Apple didn't really win anything at all. Especially with the majority of the points Apple were making being tossed.

I don't get the logic; Company A sues Company B over five bullet points, Company A loses four of them and wins one, Company A somehow wins the entire case. How exactly?

Am I missing something?
5 Steps to Sell the Way Your Customers Want to Buy
if a person can't produce something on an ipad that's a reflection of the user, not the device.
“The problem is I’m older now, I’m 40 years old, and this stuff doesn’t change the world. It really doesn’t. I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much — if at all."

--Steve Jobs
The organizational and cultural changes needed to implement this list of steps are enormous. Massive. I really don't see how they could every become reality while managed by a company like HP.

Changing software is easy. Changing a business is damn hard, doing it overnight straight out impossible.

I doubt the OP realises what he's asking.
Because at the level at which Gundotra and Jobs work(ed), you work weekends for important stuff. Branding quality is important stuff for a senior Google employee and providing an aesthetically appealing user experience is important stuff for the CEO of Apple.
Hey, I actually work for Clickteam today.

The successor to TGF/CNC (Multimedia Fusion) has add-ons for exporting to Flash, iOS and soon Android. It can still import old GAM/CCA files, too, if you're looking for a nostalgia fix!

I think Clickteam have been forgotten about to a degree, mainly due to the website/marketing not being much different than it was in the 90s, but things are beginning to change in that regard.
I'll assume this is sarcasm. I was basing this on his biography.
Selling dirt takes skill
This is getting to be a bit much....he was an impressive CEO. Important and foundational to the world.
Won't work. In order for WebOS to avoid being the next AmigaDOS it needs to displace either iOS or Android. It's not a question of quality. It's a question of how much the market will tolerate another proprietary player.
The minister of magic steps down
It's not just too many occurrences of the header, it's too many ranges specified in a particular header. The zero-day script submits a header that looks like this:

Range:bytes=0-,5-1,5-2,5-3,5-4,...,5-1299

I don't know if you were implying something different with your answer since I'm not familiar enough with haproxy to know the semantics of hdr_cnt; I wanted to guard against ambiguity.

A simple test of your own machine would be something like this:

/bin/echo -en "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:localhost\r\nRange:bytes=0-,$(perl -e 'for ($i=1;$i<1300;$i++) { print "5-$i,"; }')5-1300\r\nAccept-Encoding:gzip\r\nConnection:close\r\n\r\n" | nc localhost 80
In the sense that Microsoft is no longer paid that much attention to. There was a time when Microsoft was feared, hated, and begrudgingly respected. Now? They're like an aging uncle who was once a celebrity rock star but whose prime has long since past, even if he refuses to recognize it. Sure, you still hear his songs occasionally, but they're on oldies stations.
Did you try? It's not displaying any more than 2 pages for me.
Alexander Grothendieck is one of the most famous and influential mathematicians of the 20th century, having largely single-handedly invented modern algebraic geometry.

He was fond of working in generality rather than in specific examples. Once during a talk, he said "let p be a prime" and so on until a member of the audience asked him to pick a particular prime for the purposes of illustration.

"Okay, let p be 57."

Someone in the audience had to point out that 57 = 3 * 19.
In fact, Python packages do not compile to C, so calling Django Django.C would expose a complete lack of understanding of Python. In fact, batman.js is closer to a Jinja template being named with a .html extension.
I have a feeling that it can be used to design UI really effectively. Are there any apps taking a crack at this?
I am a trained watch repair technician. In school, we were trained to never touch the movement of a watch with our bare hands, even if it was filled with water and any sort of dirt, and to never leave a movement sitting out in the open air to collect dust, even if it was already filled with dirt.

The only reason why, it develops the habit of leaving fingerprints on parts and leaving clean watches out in the open.

If you don't strive to be clean, efficient, and build beautiful products that you enjoy looking at and working on, even when they are broken or where no single person outside of you and your colleagues are going to see it, then you will start making mistakes by leaving fingerprints and broken code snippets on the side where your customers are going to notice.
where is the story?? someone that call on sunday for the icon deserve so much admiration? I don't believe it...