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Indeed. He not only envision thinks but executes incredibly well. Microsoft's attempts to create tablet computers in the pre-iPad world look pretty embarrassing from where we are today.
There is a variant of base64 suitable for use in URIs, which is easier than all that tedious mucking about with base62.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#URL_applications
Apple Design Guru Would Be Bigger Loss
Not only drawing, but as the author suggests, sequence. Keynote makes it trivial to play and reorder the deck to try how things could flow from view to view. Quite harder with PS or AI.
Actually I submitted it twice! :) I've never submitted a website to HN, so when I first did it, I was disappointed to see it plummet after about 5 minutes with no comments. So I tried again later in the day (which is the link you provided), and I received about a half dozen comments, many of them regarding the name. We've also submitted through feedbackarmy.com and have had similar negative comments about the name. So I figured I would ask HN what they thought. I'm sorry if you think I've done something wrong here.
My wife's parents, both in their eighties, were both delighted when they played with one of our iPads even though they had previously shown no interest at all in any kind of computing device.
Some of us may deny but this is the reality
Just about to release my first little site http://reviewport.net (holding/basic info page at the mo)

LAMP stack - never touched any of them before building this and the only ever other code I wrote was a little ASP about 10 years ago (when I say little it was one recruitment site). So this has been a real learning experience.
Very Huxleian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
> I want some stories of people telling Jobs to piss off.

Well, the Apple board of directors told him to piss off in 1985.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/07/john-sculley-on-why...
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Frustrating: I've been trying for 15 minutes now to make a donation. First, I had to search to find where to make a donation since the announcement didn't include a link. Then the Google Checkout button did not work. Then causes.com sat frozen for over 3 minutes the for getting me a message that there was an unspecified problem with my card. it's a good cause and a great work of fiction so I'm willing to try 1 more time.
Greece did not bail out any banks, it was the government that was lending recklessly, not the private sector. There are many people who claim greece should not pay back its debt but there is no moral or legal ground to that. There are only 2 options: more lending or a default. Guess which one doesn't work.
> It was the first true mass-produced portable PC

Erm... "portable" is not the word I'd use. Most would settle for "transportable". I'd rather use "draggable".
I too was skeptical, having seen Microsoft fail at selling a tablet so many times, but bought one anyway so that I could use it as a "development device". I was shocked to find that only weeks later I preferred using the iPad over my computers most of the time. If it wasn't for coding, Office or Photoshop--aka making things--I would be iPad full time.

Jobs really did what Gates couldn't with a tablet. Microsoft has been trying to sell tablets since Windows XP with absolutely no success. Jobs rightly showed that you can't cram a desktop OS into a tablet and call it a proper tablet. Their tablets never felt right because you always wished you had a mouse, keyboard and right click available to get anything done. With MS tablets, users felt like something was taken away. With the iPad, users felt like they had something added.
Once upon a time there was cloud economy. From Microsoft to networks’ ethics.
Yup, http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/events/29224501/
I guess you could just allow ONE range which seems like a good compromise and defeat the attack?

RewriteCond %{HTTP:range} !(^bytes=[^,]+(,[^,]+){0,1}$|^$)
RewriteRule .* - [F]

(for those that don't speak regex: the 0,1 allows either one or none range headers to be accepted, more or less will fail to be served anything)

That will allow downloads to still resume and it works in any version of apache.
I don't think Bill Gates ever tried to sell toys. Calling an iPad a computer is an insult to Alan Turing.
Who has counted the remaining 86%?
Always build for yourself. You are the only client you really know.
> I'm not an Internet toughman, I'm describing the motivations behind the interface of gdb.

Actually, yes, you did that, but you still are one.

For the plain and simple reason that you repeatedly stooped to insults while making your points instead of letting them stand on their own. You should not be surprised people think little of you if you cannot teach without belittling people.
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I'm not talking about morality, I'm talking about what would make the most sense for a rational Greek people to do going forward. I'm arguing that a default would make the most sense, but in reality the interwining of the euro makes these issues very complicated.

The larger picture is that this is the biggest crises the euro has faced and it might not survive, especially since the nationalistic politics make it so hard to have a coordinated response. The leaders seem to think that the austerity measures throughout all of Europe will allow them to muddle through, but that looks to me like a decade of hardship and slow growth which will bring political instability and even riots as seen in England. I think the only hope would be the creation of a euro bond which would allow borrowing to be backed by the full faith and credit of the Euro Zone as a whole, but that would mean tighter political integration between the countries which seems to be the opposite of what people want at this point.
- Greek bonds are already in the "default" category, nobody trusts greece anyway

- The equivalent in euros of wage cuts / taxation that we see now in greece

- Going out of the eurozone doesnt mean secession from the EU

In practice a default will have similar effects as the austerity packages, compressed in time (~4 years instead of 10+ which the current austerity packages propose). In fact, a devalued currency might stimulate internal growth as imports will become unaffordable.
I would do the "Sign Up Now!" with a small "...or see a demo first!" link below it.
The Indispensableness of Leading by Example
I've had bosses who were just lost in details and micromanaging. It's usually annoying and rarely adds anything to whatever you want to do.

But I've also worked for a couple of people who were simply masters of their craft who demanded excellence. One was a shop and drafting teacher. The other was a farmer. Both had the experience in their area to know what was "right" and was empowered to do things their way... But it was deeper than just that.

"Attention to detail" to achieve excellence is much different than micromanagement, which is typically an expression of a manager's personal insecurity.
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Ultimate collection of Apple stories
On codecademy: "The start-up boasts over 200,000 users and claims several tech giants have already approached them about hiring their recent graduates."

I didn't understand this sentence, is it saying tech giants have asked to hire users that have completed the codecademy javascript course?
So what do you do on your iPad then except for surfing the web? I'm really curious as I don't see the point of an iPad right now.
Since everyone is looking for cool Apple stories, I thought I'd help you out and link to an archive of amazing stories compiled by Andy Hertzfield.
That's how desperate the industry is ;)
I'm not so sure. To make an impact it would have to be a very popular IP designed with OnLive's stack in mind coupled with platform exclusivity (at least at launch). The problem I see for OnLive is that their target demographic (gamers who purchase AAA titles) are the consumers who are most critical of performance issues. If OnLive were serving up content to casual gamers, the service's shortcomings would be less of an obstacle, but I just don't see how they're going to get tech-aware consumers to jump on board.
>Many great ideas are obvious in hindsight. If it was so obvious why had nobody done it?

Because it didn't make any sense considering the technical constraints and the physical design. Smartphones before the iPhone had much smaller screens, usually resistive (requiring a stylus to operate properly) and had keyboards, which were much more practical for unlocking.
Just look at the best smartphones of 2007: http://reviews.cnet.com/4321-6452_7-6600061.html

>Would you say, "Oh Amazon? Whatever they're not doing anything new. They're just selling shit except their store is on the web. Big deal, that's not innovative just because they're doing it on a computer."

Basically, yes. Other people had the same idea, and there were other ecommerce websites launched before or at the same time. It was a matter of understanding sales - particularly mail order - and the Web, which wasn't exactly common.

Was it innovative? Yeah. Was it innovative enough to get a 20 years monopoly over it? No. Is Apple's slide to unlock innovative enough for that? Hell no.
Doubtful theyd loose much money shortly APPL

Typically you use a straddle so you only loose the put/call premiums if the price doesnt move very much.

If the price moves, up or down, past the strikes run theyd make money.

But a smart shorters downside is determined The moment they enter into a trade.
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US regulator's ill-advised data deletion brings serious trouble
Can't seem to access the article, here's a cached copy if anyone needs it:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:O6Fa0N2...
>they should do the Silicon Valley long-weekend style hackathons

>Make it Thursday night - Sunday afternoon,

>8 days off/year instead of 52 should be much more doable for a smaller operation like NPR.

Yeah, if I want to spend extra time at work I can focus on whatever the hell I'd like to, too.

You seem to be missing the point of a "20% time" or "serendipity day" if you think it can be duplicated by giving extra work to people in a salary exempt position.

One provides periods of autonomy without asking any more from workers, it only gives. The other asks for a huge time commitment. It shifts a big portion of benefit from employee to employer.
Your title totally mis-characterizes your own post (which doesn't even mention Gates[edit:I guess it does]). I'm tired of the comparison between Jobs and Gates. Can't you recognize the achievements of one without belittling the other in your flamebait title?

Jobs:
"We have to let go of a few things here. We have to let go of the notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose."
Users First, Brands Second
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That ad gets me every time.
Link to original thread: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Aug/175
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The title is misleading. Not one bit of the advise has any laptop specifics what-so-ever. It is all general ms-windows advise, nothing more.
CMU has the most rigorous CS corriculum, specially fo PL research, FP & compilers.
Very misleading title but nice anecdote anyway. I also found the same kind of thing with my Grandmother, although shes 80 now, her ability to use or want to use computers is very low but she had a go on my iPad and managed to pick it up quite quickly.
Yes please :-)
The point I tried to make is that Steve Jobs touched people lives in a way no other can, sometimes at a very personal level and his only instrument was technology. Previously, this privilege used to belong to writers, poets, politicians.
Er, what? At least in the Kindle app on Honeycomb, you just long press a word to see its definition.
It is not misleading at all. On a personal level, this is what Steve Jobs is to me. I could not care less about anything else he accomplished.
I don't think you're gaming HN specifically. I just think you know perfectly well that the name isn't a good idea and are trying to milk the 'polarization' for a tiny bit of attention.

I mean, seriously? Dead Grandma? "Shock value", for a cooking site? I'm optimistically assuming that you're just playing dumb.
> When Jobs first introduced it I was skeptical

We technologists are a jaded bunch; we underestimate the appeal that technology still holds to vast numbers of people outside of our narrow field. The potential for game-changing products like iPad is still there and is still huge.

Our second biggest weakness is that we, having been either nerds or the "good kids" in school, hold dear a belief that the world is (or should be) a "fair" place where "pretty" is ranked below "smart" and where everything is judged on its own merit. Most people, for better or worse, do not think like that -- most people don't have the time to evaluate products on their own merit and, moreover, they don't even trust those who do (the logic goes: if you have so much time on your hands so as to compare products on their own merit, you must be doing something wrong with your life and therefore I will not follow your advice).
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This always reads "NO".
Hey, I'm the runtime dev. Interested in your comment about GC pauses. Off the top of my head, the runtime either makes short-lived temporary objects or long-lived ones, which AFAIK is what collectors are best at. Any tips on how we can improve it?
It wasn't a surprise to anyone. Everyone knew it would happen eventually. He is still remaining the Chairman of the Board, so he will be around for a bit in that role. I see nothing changing for the immediate future but we will see.
A little empty
That would hardly qualify as "Unfortunately"
This feels like it could go on and on. These are not secrets either. And this is not for all software engineers, just for those who need to design web pages.
I saw this and noted that one set of animals appeared to become agitated as soon as 15 minutes before the quake. Given the number of sensors that mankind has produced, from audio to seismic, I find it hard that we have yet to figure out what exactly these animals were sensing and build a sensor package out of it.

Something somewhere must have picked up some unusual sensor data 15 minutes prior that we can correlate to this.
I am baffled by the idea that today students can't do basic math problem without resorting to calculators. Big tedious problems, I can understand.

I am a 20 years old.
I realise we were never able to hold the Microsoft Courier, but I think they were on the right track there and had they executed (yes - I realise this is where Apple won) the landscape may look different today. RIP Courier, you passed before your time.
You make a request for several ranges of a file using the range header, something like:

Range: bytes=100-200, 600-800, 1500-

If the server supports ranges, it will respond with a 206 Partial Content status, and send a multipart/byteranges response body, which looks like this http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/2068/225.htm. Basically a delimited string containing all the ranges.

This is useful for some streaming audio/video formats and especially for large pdfs. IIRC, pdfs typically have header information at the end of the file, so it's useful for a pdf reader to get the end of the file first.
A paid service to merely move files between the proprietary storage containers of all the different services you use?

Decades after the concepts of filesystems were established, we're stuck in an ecosystem where our new tools can't easily get to generic storage without paying, thanks to the fact our platform du jour only exists because of years of pounding a square peg into a round hole?

I FUCKING LOVE THE CLOUD.
I disagree. There are plenty of great designers to replace Ives, but you need an even greater leader to sign off on those great designs, which is easier said than done. CEOs are typically risk adverse and think in terms of short-term gains. You can have the best navigator on your boat, but if there is no captain steering, then it really doesn't matter.

Remember, Ives was one of those great people that were already at Apple when Jobs returned, but his skills languished under bad management. Would Ives be as well known if Jobs had not returned? I think not.
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are there any haproxy blocking solutions in place yet?
That's definitely one of the main things, but there are others. I suspect everyone has their own mix, like on a smartphone. For me it's probably:

35% web surfing
35% facetime chat with the wife
10% kindle app
10% random games and apps
10% watching shows and movies on the plane

it's also fantastic if you have one of the video-out cables because you can just drag/drop hours and hours of movies onto it and then play them on any TV wherever you are. Netflix in bed (with the Netflix app) is also pretty good.

There really is no "point" to having an iPad. It obviously doesn't do anything that you can't do without one. But it's a LOT easier to pick up and use than a laptop and if you have one you'll find it becoming your go-to device for a lot of things.
Things will be fine for a while, maybe a few years. But then someone important at Apple, who everyone likes, will come up with an idea.. that sucks. They will tell other important likeable people about their idea and those other people will say they like the idea, because that's what important likeable people do.

Some people will know that the idea sucks, but they won't say so because if they did then nobody would like them. Why should they stick their neck out just to shoot down an idea? For the sake of the company? Pfft, no way. After all, it's not their company. They love working there, but it's not like they built the company from scratch in their garage or something. If they don't get along with people at work, what's the point?

And besides, Apple is so successful that it can absorb a sucky idea or two. Or three. Right?

Saying no is a big part of what makes Apple great and Steve was the guy who could say it. I don't know how he did it. I mean, eventually he could do it because he was Steve Jobs but I don't know how he did it in the first place. Who can do it now? Who would want to? It's irrational.
I agree about the euro bond. About the rational choice, I think there are too many variables at play to really make a rationally "good" choice. In the end you have to make a bet based on insufficient data, as it is almost always the case in these matters, and I would bet on a tighter European Union, not on "everybody for themselves". Let's hope that our leaders will somehow see the light... and lead!
"Worm's team estimated the total number of genera, families, orders, classes, and phyla—a designation above class—in each kingdom. That's a relatively easy task, since the number of new examples in these categories has leveled off in recent decades.

By contrast, the number of newly discovered species continues to rise sharply.

Using complex statistics, Worm and colleagues used the number of genera, families, and so on to predict Earth's number of unknown species, and their calculations gave them a number: 8.7 million."
not the best i've found... http://www.squealingrat.org/word/a-quest-to-sync-google-docs...
Sort of like:

www.egiva.com?

Checked out your site this morning, and I have to say I was very impressed! It's a great idea, and I really hope it takes off.
A thought:

This summer, I gave myself the goal of photographing every kind of wildflower in my area. It turned out to be quite a large project; I ended up with about 6000 images of perhaps 130 species.

When I started, I figured the big question I would be answering would be this:

- Here is a plant; what species is it?

But as I progressed, I found myself confronted with the surprising difficulty of answering a somewhat different question:

- Here are two plants; are they the same species?

This article suggests yet a third question:

- Here is a plant; is it a known species?

It is interesting to think that, for some of my 6000 images, the answer may just be "no".
In fact, the networks are in business to give their customers - the advertisers - what they want. Granted, what advertisers want is to reach eyeballs (though not all eyeballs are created equal) - but it's still optimization-by-proxy, and it still produces a distortion between what people want from TV and what they're willing to tolerate.
It seems that fanfiction.net doesn't allow links in the body text of books. I hope this is the correct link: http://singinst.org/donate/
FF6 has hardware acceleration, but only if your drivers are up to date. Maybe try updating your graphics drivers?
All this fanboy crap makes me puke, for the worlds greatest snake oil salesman, who made a career out of stealing the work of others and claiming his precious poser company created it.
The post mentions Gates by the way.
If you comparing somebody with Jobs then also you are admiring him.
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I guess I must be dumb. I've been a Forensic Scientist for the last decade, so morbid humor does nothing to me.
Short-lived temporary objects are going to perform awful in Firefox until the addition of a generational GC, and will still perform somewhat badly until it goes multi-process (sometime in the distant future). In particular, since right now JS all runs on the UI thread, a user with lots of tabs open is going to have really long, painful pauses while playing a Construct game in the browser.

I'm also uncertain whether IE has a generational collector or the ability to collect individual pages separately. My current testing suggests that it might have a generational collector in 10, but it likely does not in 9 - short-lived temporaries cause awful pauses just like FF.

Even in Chrome (generational + process isolation), too many short-lived temporaries will cause you to spend a ton of CPU time in their collector running gen1 collections. This stuff adds up, even more than it does in say .NET or Java.

On mobile platforms in particular, even a generational collector with isolated processes (like Chrome) is not going to perform great because your CPU is so much slower and memory bandwidth is not as plentiful as on PC, and your processor might not be out-of-order. Likewise, the state of the art for mobile browser technology is far behind the desktop - Android's stock browser is a pale shadow of Chrome, and mobile Safari is not as solid as desktop Safari. MS is only just now rolling out something roughly on par with IE9 for Windows Phone users - WP7 shipped with a browser that was far behind the curve.
Firefox Mobile's JS runtime is not any more sophisticated than Firefox Desktop's (though, oddly enough, Firefox Mobile runs each tab in its own process, so you get some benefit there).

You should try to at least minimize the number of short lived temporary objects, especially if the total set of live objects is large. If you have a ton of long-lived objects and a complex graph, the GC is going to take time to do a full pass over the JS heap and that's going to make your pauses long enough to be noticeable. It'll be even worse if some of your long-lived objects have gotten paged out due to not being used recently - collections might have to bring those pages in from disk and will cause a horrible stall.

In some cases, a pool/freelist for your short-lived objects might be enough to eliminate pauses and remove the burden on the GC. In other cases, manual lifetime management will be too difficult/error prone and you should instead work to minimize the burden on the GC from your temporaries (by reducing their count or complexity in terms of the work the GC has to do to mark them).

P.S. If you or anyone else at Scirra wants to talk more about this stuff, feel free to contact me.
Sounds like javascript. foo["bar"] is same as foo.bar.