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Just had a rather puzzling email exchange with the folks at Posterous concerning the lack a easy/direct access to emailed posts to edit and tag existing posts, especially "drafts".

I asked - "Can I ask why not just have a "manage Posts" button, menu item, or tab on the opening page after signin? Thought the idea was "ease of use"."

The response - "We do appreciate the feedback and will consider it for future updates, but it is not the direction the developers have chosen to take at this time."

Puzzling because I've never heard a company say that "ease of use" was NOT the direction they intended to go.

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So there will be an "official" JS VM but there will be no actual compilation.

You enter code using the Processing language, and if you've selected the JavaScript "mode" it will output JavaScript that uses processing.js and canvas.

Prior to 2.0 the modes were "standard" (i.e. Java byte code) and "android" (Dalvik byte code, I presume, since you get an apk file).
No, we didn't hit the OoM regularly until we had more traffic as we moved more sites onto the new system and it wasn't clear that there was an admitted problem with the Scala actors at first either.

These days folks seem much more comfortable about admitting there's a problem with the built-in actor implementation.

Is that clear enough for you?
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One potential analogy: If drunk driving were legal, drunk drivers wouldn't drive as quickly because there is less risk of being pulled over. Driving more slowly with the impaired reaction time is theoretically comparable to driving quickly with normal human reaction time.
> Well from an outsider look I'd say the problem is the majority of businesses are running Windows and have reasons not to move off Windows. Even basic reasons such as staff training. This from what I can tell is addressing that issue.

I don't know how things are in other countries, but here in Russia if you are not using windows programs for accounting (namely 1C:Enterprise), you're going to have troubles converting them for the federal tax service. This is effectively a microsoft/1C monopoly since 1C:Enterprise only runs on windows stack (there has been some success with WINE, but it is not supported, of course). That is why lots of small businesses use pirated windows and could benefit from development of alternate windows compatible OS like ReactOS.
I think it would be very instructive to some of us in the sidelines. It looks like you used the same idioms?

Why do you think, what is it about clojure that allowed you to expresses the same thing in less code?
Would you drive drunk frequently if this became legal?
Yep, it goes to the level that Apple had to actively prevent multi tasking behavior.
I'm flat out wrong? I see your anecodote and raise you a statistic: "In 2009, employers filed 405,153 appeals to deny benefits to former workers and 36% won, a figure that hasn't changed too much in recent years, according to the U.S. Department of Labor." Wall Street Journal "Feeling Blue about Pink Slip Taxes" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230396060457515...

36% won. So 2/3rds of the time (read: most of the time), employee wins.

By all means, still appeal. But odds are not fantastic. Plan on having to pay out some unemployment that you shouldn't have to. A written employee handbook and records showing when policies were violated will save you some money sometimes, but don't count on it. You can fire employees, for cause, and still see your insurance go up, even with an appeal.
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I agree that each content provider developing their own digital distribution system would be inefficient and confusing to the consumer, who desires a simple, centralized menu and search function to locate and view content.

It's nice that so many websites offer some kind of streaming video, but the friction of moving from site to site, each with their own navigation and search functions of varying quality, seems like as much trouble to most consumers as getting up and walking across the room to change channels on their TV.

Netflix has done a good job in aggregating content, although I don't believe they have a format and business model that is sustainable into the next decade.
That's not really what it says. Presumably Smeed's law does not hold up in the face of dramatic qualitative changes like that - but that doesn't disprove it in a practical sense since driving drunk is illegal in nearly all countries (presumably all that are sampled on that graph?) and isn't likely to become legal.
Ah, interesting, do you have a source on this? I'm very interested to see how much emphasis they are going to place on the new HTML5 / app style of development.

I expect Win32 MFC, ATL etc., will live on forever in some form, but Windows 8 sounds like it will be a break hard towards the future, in an even stronger way than the move from Win32 / MFC to .NET was.
oddly enough, not really.

The argument is that if drunk driving became common (because it was legal) then other drivers and pedestrians would adjust their behavior according to the increased risk.

Based on that, you would expect a spurt of additional deaths early on, as we adjusted to the new risk, and then the numbers would drop again.

That sounds pretty reasonable to me, certainly if I knew that every third driver was drunk, I would behave differently on the roads (ie, would never go near them).
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When you say "Multitasking was not an afterthought in this UNIX based OS" you implicate that iOS multitasking has something to do with the multitasking done on UNIX, which as far as i can tell is really not the case.

So, in this regard, iOS was released without multitasking which was baked in some versions later. it's not like they only needed to switch the underlying OS features on.

Also: I don't see how this saves battery life if done properly, years before iOS and Android other mobile OS' did multitasking with a similar battery life then the iPhone.

The only point that stands is that Apple (may be) didn't want to confuse users with multiple running apps, but then again.. why did they implement it in the end anyway?

My opinion: It was obvious that the iphone will have multitasking (and copy&paste and wallpapers, and what not) at _some_ point in the future. Imagine Steve's presentations in the coming years (while announcing a new iPhone/iOS version) without those "big improvements". You keep those things hidden to have some new features to throw at your customers.
Android just happened to be first on some of those..
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hum, just last week he was trying to create a page on job4dev to post "listings" with no information whatsoever about any of the actual companies that were hiring. Usually our moderation system is enough to stop recruiters to add vacuous pages to the wiki. But he went ahead and start spamming the comment pages anyway.

Sometimes I wonder if it would be possible to add to job4dev a service that would turn recruiters into a value-add into the recruiting space. But that kind of thing just goes to show that they just want to work as middlemen and really need to be cut out.
Agreed on the multitasking. iOS was never incapable of general multitasking, easily shown by its Unix-basis and easily demonstrated by jailbreaking.

It was however intentionally crippled to not allow arbitrary application-level multitasking because Apple decided it didn't serve them well. So as far as a normal user was concerned the OS was incapable of multitasking.

So while inaccurate, that statement is not entirely off. You could not create an application and reliably have it do stuff in the background on iOS.

Apart from that I have to disagree with your statement: I find the rest entirely reasonable and valid criticism. And I have no doubt about the conclusion: The future of iOS will be more blatant stealing from Android.

And that is OK. Really it is. Just stop that nonsense about Apple being the innovator.
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This analogy becomes more and more true as programming's virtues shift more toward communication and away from cleverness. When performance becomes a commodity (and it will soon, even for very large systems), the biggest expense isn't getting from point A to point B, it's the accidents that happen along the way. There couldn't be a better analogy demonstrating the need for programmers to write for humans rather than computers.
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Guess you weren't really using the type system if you were able to translate your Scala code directly to Clojure.
Ew. How is it that articles with crummy colloquial grammar ("This one is too…obvious. And that’s an understatement."), yucky misspellings ("the user leaves app and you’re app has to scurry...") -AND questionable content even climb up into front page view?

Boo.
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One interesting thing that the theory does is it reminds us that behavior and risk is a two pronged game - we accept the level of risk we are comfortable with, and we indicate our acceptable level of risk by our behavior.
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I actually think that it is obvious.

http://random.andrewwarner.com/what-googles-android-looked-l...
We have Roku 2 and Apple TV, the UI on Apple TV is better, esp. Netflix. Roku 2 is 1080p, Apple TV is 720p, but our LCDTV does such a good job upsampling 720p you can't really tell.

Roku 2 has access to a lot more content, but the experience of surfing channels is kind of fragmented. The included Angry Birds game and motion remote rock tho!
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agreed. I was honestly pretty disappointed in the quality of startups that went up. Most of those guys didn't really seem to be prepared or willing to seriously address the obvious issues they had.
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"OK, so look ten years ahead into the future. Let's say you're a middle-class American right now. How are you going to double your energy consumption?"

Wall-to-wall three-D screens, a couple of robots, a 3-D printer that prints new furniture for every season, moving to an area hotter than Phoenix, sn ice rink in your garden next to the swimming pool everybody already has?

I do not think that will happen, but if economic reality would not apply, I guess that is what would happen.

It does not surprise me that house-related power usage per household drops. In the Netherlands it has halved in the past 30 years. The main drivers are better insulation (double glazing, walll and floor insulation) and more efficient heating.
You seem a bit unclear about the scientific process as it applies to climate change.

Firstly, here are the undisputable facts - facts that can be reproduced in a laboratory without relying on simulations.

a) Sunlight bouncing off the Earth's surface is red-shifted.

b) CO2 and other greenhouse gases absorb red light more than other forms of light, which they re-emit, often back towards the ground / lower atmosphere.

c) The amount of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere are increasing, as directly measured

d) this increase correlates with calculations associated with how much CO2 we are emittting through the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

Those are the facts. Looking at those facts, it seems pretty clear that the null hypothesis for climate change is that the temperature of the lower atmosphere should be increasing. We would expect the temperature to rise, unless there is some process that we don't know about that is affecting the numbers

When we put the hypothesis to the test - is the temperature increasing? - we see that it is indeed increasing, which confirms the model.

Now, about those simulations. Yes, they are not as reliable as the science I just when through above. We know that. But they all agree with the null hypothesis that the temperature will rise if we keep increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. If you want to throw that result into dispute, you need to show that there is some process going on that we didn't know about, and hence haven't been included in the models, or you need to show that the simulations themselves are actually wrong.

What you can't do, if you want to be scientific about, is just state that you are skeptical about the simulations, and therefore we shouldn't act/create policy based on those simulations. I mean, sure, you can hold to that, but you have to admit that you are just being irrationally skeptical, and not scientific at all if that's the position you wish to hold.
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You may be confusing apps placed in the background with services.

Also, Apple has a long history of not being very good at mufti-tasking. OSX was the first Apple OS that had modern pre-emptive multitasking, a good 5 years after Windows and decades after Unix. Pre-emptive multi-tasking just means that the OS divies up CPU time between applications without the applications being aware of it, so many programs can run at the same time without being specifically written to allow this. Apple was handed multitasking for free in the form of the BSD code OSX is built on.

OS9, interestingly enough, had non-preemptive multitasking. The OS would never take control away from a program, but rather, meekly wait for programs to hand it back. This meant that multi-tasking could work only so long as all programs you were using were specifically written for it. In reality, few were, and just one program not written for multi-tasking would seize control and lock out all other programs. Imagine working on an OS this backwards 5 years after Windows 95 came out! OS9 was indeed a product of the dark age of Apple.

Multi-tasking in iOS is strangely similar to that of OS9 in that it isn't handled by the OS invisibly regardless of how applications are written. Applications must be written to allow multitasking. It's not quite as bad as OS9 in that one poorly written application won't bring your iOS device to a screeching halt, but it's still an extremely backwards approach and ample evidence that Apple still doesn't understand multi-tasking.

The argument that Apple has deliberately done this because it's good for battery-performance is idiotic. You don't build the foundations of an OS that could be around for decades around limitations of current generation hardware. Battery consumption is already a much less important issue than it was two years ago and it will continue to become less and less important since the power efficiency of mobile devices is actually growing faster than Moore's law. In five years Apples poor implementation of multi-tasking, and all the code written to make use of it, will still be a big mess to clean up. Even if current generation Android hardware were experiencing poorer battery performance (and they generally don't) because of Android sane implementation of multi-tasking, it would be a small price to pay compared to what Apple has ahead.

The real reason Apple has designed iOS this way is, as with OS9, because they just don't know any better.
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> what's wrong with starting free to get a foot in the market?

Are you VC funded and have $12 million sitting in your bank account? Then go and try to grab your part of the market with giving things away.

Are you self funded/bootstrapped and are worrying about how to pay next month's rent? Better make sure you make some money soon. Giving stuff away for free won't help you much with that.
The funny thing about climate change is how people treat it like a RELIGION.

I have nothing against religion, but I do not like it when people treat science like a faith - that is, take the facts for granted, and assume they are true, rather than trying to do what REAL scientists do, and prove their hypotheses false.

I see a lot of scientists trying to prove that humans are a major cause of global warming. I see very few of them looking for holes in their arguments, or trying to prove their hypotheses wrong.

Do humans warm the earth? Absolutely, no question about it. The question is whether or not we have a significant impact.

The earth has had dramatic warm and cold periods long before we even existed, what makes us think that we are the catalyst for everything? Is it not a bit concerning that many so-called scientists tried to hide data that went against their research?
Joel Spolsky's answer here is an excellent primer on why companies have IP assignment clauses:

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Adjust your behavior to a car flying at you at 80MP/H? Right. And you do realize that drunk drivers don't need any other traffic to park themselves into a tree?

It's the same when gunloon rednecks argue that if it wasn't guns, it would be knifes, all the way down to a paperclip.
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The rest was reasonable? How about backgrounds? Is it reasonable that Apple copied backgrounds from Android? Is it reasonable to assume that Apple hadn't thought of the intricate and exotic feature of backgrounds if not for Android? Of course not, it's fucking preposterous!

The only reasonable thing in that article is the part about notifications, because Apple clearly followed Android on those. The rest is concentrated Android fanboyism.
Neat analogy. Just as I value concise code, I prefer cities that have fewer cars in them.
Newer browsers (like mobile Safari and Android Webkit) have better layout support, such as http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox (the flexible box model).
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Posterous should have taken notes from previous sharing sites/functions: Facebook, Digg, MySpace, Google Buzz, etc.

If you change things drastically, your userbase gets mad, and they seek out alternatives. I tend to see social sharing sites as a home online. You put many of your meaningful items there, and you get comfortable with a certain layout, a given set of functionalities, etc. If someone were to come and redecorate/reorganize your room or house without your permission, you'd probably be a little upset.

Facebook eventually mastered the art of introducing change into its site. Nudging the user to try something new ("X of your friends are using the new layout. Join them!") instead of forcing it on them seems to be a better policy.
I don't think so. Economic growth != amount of consumption gross. Economic growth can be linked to innovation, luxury, well-being. And using less energy to achieve the same thing as before is economic growth. Also, there, they only measure houses energy consumption: how much energy goes into producing insulation? How much energy goes into producing Prius' batteries and recycling them?
I see your trying to leverage the existing posterous to do it, which is good from the perspective of getting it going but could easily alienate a portion of the user base that were sold on the dead simple blogging message.

Sure these changes may still allow them to do the same thing but the shift in terminology and organisation will be hinting to people the direct things are going which is away from their use case.

Granted this new niche might be a good direction, the HN crowd are hardly a good sample of opinions for something like this.
I would bet Apple had all these features up their sleeve for years but kept them out of iOS on purpose. I don't even believe it was "just to charge more for the next upgrade" like I've heard people say either. Its as simple as slowly introducing people to new concepts. If I gave my grandma an iPhone 1 then upgraded her every year, she'd be a pro on the next version of iOS. If, however, I gave her an Android phone that was already shipping with the features iOS left out in the early days she'd chuck it out the window. And that's how Apple keeps their converts. Maybe us technically inclined users appreciate not being babied but the masses quite frankly need their hand held when it comes to technology.
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