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take the most low-effort job possible to keep cashflow up while you develop a product, service or whatever. the odds that you're profitable in 3 months are zero, no matter what. the odds that you're profitable in 3 years however, are considerably higher.

the "sacrifice" now will be worth the effort, so just get the best-paying lazy boy job you can find.
Change it today, in time for the weekend.
Actually, interoperability between apps is possible through things like URL handling and UIPasteboard. I am dreaming of the day that something like the UNIX toolchain can be assembled by sending data from one app to another like this. Enough app developers just need to get together and decide to make it. I suppose that you could not script it though, so it would still be more limited. But you could send data step by step through a series of apps in a chain, which could allow for creative interoperability.
Saying that someone is not charitable because they give out food AND preach is a huge value judgement.

That's a strawman. It's not saying they're not a charitable organisation, it's saying they're not an organisation whose sole purpose is charity.
iOS has no concept of files (for the user). There's no common bit you can share between two programs. Of course, there are ways around this (Dropbox API for example). I'd say removing this concept has probably made iOS a lot easier to use.

The big danger with iOS is that it's also attack the open web itself. What if the catalog the author downloaded was only available in an iOS and android app and not on the web. That's when we really start to have problems.
This is close to my experience. I still use it but less and less, the laptop is so much more flexible and powerful and really just as convenient around the house, even more so at times since it stands up by itself. The big win for the tablet form factor is as a book reader and for traveling because of the great battery life.

But considering how many of these things they continue to sell I don't know if these anecdotes really add up to data. It really is permanently replacing a computer for a lot of people.
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Well observed :)
Can we call this an Operating System?
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I agree. It's easy to be seduced by all sorts of justifications to be incompetent at your job, an incompetent parent, whatever. These failure-justifying perspectives are so elaborate, it's hard to even know where to start untangling them.

In particular with such a skewed demographic (for example, overwhelmingly male), which is obviously symptomatic of something.
You do realize that all non-profit organizations pay their employees... right?
They don't give you statistics or anything. 9/15 for the record - I suck.
>But they can hint, and work towards that secret without telling anyone. They may even let it slip by accident.

>Non-competes are designed to prevent Worker X from revealing this secret, even by accident.

If the person is willing to break one law, why wouldn't they be willing to break another? Non-competes have nothing to do with this. It's just another technique businesses use to try and disrupt proper market forces in the job market. It should not be legal to use a non-compete contract unless you are going to pay the person's salary while they're under the agreement. Why should tax payers be footing that bill?
You did it just there with that "AND". Clearly not that hard.
Thanks for that, the full text is a much better read than Jeff's cut down version.
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Does HN make the first character of the title upper case? It's iOS. IOS is Cisco's Internetwork Operating System. Please get it right.
I think (1) roughly describes HubSki, but that's going from descriptions I've heard rather than personal experience.
"Once given to 11 year olds"?

I'm starting to prepare my son to take it this time next year. Some observations so far:

- It exercises some core problems solving skills.

- It is a good arena for learning how exams work, particularly the time keeping, without getting mixed up with learning a large body of knowledge.

- Having a performance metric would appear to affect the whole education system (for the better).

- By removing those pupils who (at this point in time) do well on the 11+ into seperate schools, it allows the secondary schools and their teachers to concentrate on the next stratum of kids who are no longer in the shade.
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Yeah, I didn't even read the whole article because it was so hard to follow. Can anyone give me a decent summary?
English is very fashionable in France, and has been for some while. And most people who went to college will speak it, quite well. Many French startups, if not most, target the wider market, not just France, so English is a must for them.
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>since it limits their options and makes it harder to jump ship. A confidentiality agreement does not provide the same limitations -- it doesn't prevent the employee from quitting and getting a new job.

Exactly. It's purely a mechanism for interfering with the natural function of the job market to artificially keep wages down. I should have said "makes legitimate/ethical sense". This kind of behavior is not legitimate, it should not be legal to make these agreements a condition of employment anymore then making being white can be.
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The sense of entitlement is sickening.
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I wonder have you thought of splitting pages in two, and showing the top half of the next page while you are playing through the bottom half of the current page?
This would keep pages static.
(I wish this could be implemented on my Kindle also, as I often push the button for the next page too early, and then have to turn back again to read the last 3 words).
Out of memory errors generally don't happen on modern systems. What happens is that you end up using so much swap that the program becomes so slow that the user cries himself to sleep or something.
I wonder about the implications of this WRT free speech in general. While ostensibly, free speech is a pillar democratic societies, not all forms of expression are actually allowed (think: porn or public nudity).

This implies that free speech is less about the content, but about the freedom to assemble and exchange information. That is, freedom manifests itself in self-selected groups of peers, who can then moderate the content of their communities.

"Free speech" is not a guarantee for a platform for any particular message, but rather a promise (by political powers) not to suppress free private exchanges of information; while public spaces (streets, squares, airwaves) may still be moderated.
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Which is easier said than done. For web traffic, the site has to use https for everything. Secondly, the site has to secure their cookies from being sent over http, either by using HSTS with the includeSubDomains flag, or the "secure" cookie flag. Thirdly, you have to assume that the exit node isn't using a forged certificate from a compromised CA. Fourthly, you have to assume that the entity running the exit node doesn't have a zero day vulnerability for your browser, which they can deliver to you as soon as you make any http request to any site.
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Android's Intents architecture is far more elegant than forcing every app developer to reimplement every API or specifically support every secret URL handler.

Being able to make a client for, say, a new social network, and instantly having every app on your phone support it through the generic "Share" button they already have is a very powerful tool.
I fear it's always going to be something-centric though. I play the clarinet and there's simply no easy way to indicate which fingerings to play short of sketching a clarinet and drawing it out (which is what happens, very schematically).

That said, it is remarkable how easy it is for a pianist to play on sight, whereas for classical guitarists that's usually only a skill you can hope to attain if you major in music. Banjo and ukulele are even harder, because of the re-entrant tunings where your highest note is the topmost one instead of the bottom one, destroying what little correlation there was left between sheet notation and hand/finger position.
That's not what the parent, or the article is saying. Don't turn this into some sort of class warfare for the sake of trolling.

The ability of an OS or application to expose data in order to allow you to manipulate it as you see fit, does not preclude it being user-friendly and straighforward to use. That funcionality might very well be hidden away, but available if you're inclined to use it.

The point that is being made is that this level of openess and flexibiliy is directly at odds with the need for control of some companies over their OS/applications and the content whithin, usually for the sake of profits.
"That's a strawman."

Maybe..

"it's saying they're not an organisation whose sole purpose is charity."

And that's the value judgement. Right there. You just defined what a "charity" is, and is not. Some might call preaching a charity (I might) etc..
> Does HN make the first character of the title upper case?

Yes it does.
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If your templating language is going to use a magic character it would seem useful to pick something less common than $. There are several odd characters on my keyboard (§`~±|¤) and if you are willing to use the ALT key there are really obscure characters that you can safely filter from the input instead of going through the trouble of escaping them. Filtering is so much more efficient/easier/safer than escaping.

Imagine how much easier life would be if in HTML we only had to filter for § instead of escape every <, > and ".
Additional thought, because your post is just so wrong.

> limitless and powerful computer

More like confusing and impairing computer

> no way to organize thoughts your way

More ways to do so with my iDevice than with any other computer I ever owned!

> no need to understand how the technology works

Yay! Finally!

(Not to bring up the car analogy again, but do I really need to know how my motor works to drive to work?)

> technology is now magic

True, it's now accessible to (almost) all!

Etc. ad nauseam
After reading this, it struck me as this is how intents could (and sometimes) work on android.

It's not perfect. You can't string together a bunch of apps. But it's nice when I click on a youtube video, the youtube app seamlessly takes over. Same for email, or reddit links.
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Looks like the syntax of Google's CTemplate someone posted today: http://code.google.com/p/google-ctemplate/
So build something better and let the market decide. I can teach my mother in law to use an iPhone in five minutes. Giving her all of this "freedom" would make the devices much harder to use and maintain, not to mention far more insecure. Not much of a malware danger on ios either. There are very few apps that need a jail broken device; the few that are unique are generally dealing with features the average user wouldn't want or need. For those Ivory Tower types, there's no law against jailbreaking..
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As someone who spends almost all day either in vim/commandline mode or web browsing, I want to make the point about the unix pipe point, and that with gui's this is impossible.

Its not even the fact that it would require a lot more effort to sort and format a list of 100,000 names into our predefined pattern, but more the fact that the power of the command line is lost.

I find as I'm programming, I gravitate towards languages which can give me good access to this piping system, and give me access to stdin as a stream. Often in languages such as Java, pushing it information into a file and reading from the file is the easier solution and although this may be the more long term solution, for shell scripts etc its hard to beat the likes of perl's "while(<>)", not to mention the fact that awk works like this by default.

Also in terms of bringing this piping paradigm to the GUI world, I think the closest thing I've seen is Intents, both on the android side and the new Web Intents that both Google and Mozilla are working together on. Technically this seems like a more hefty version of pipes to me.
>Most religious organizations turn large profits. That they are used to build more churches, mosques, and temples does not detract from the fact that it's a profit.

Many non-profits are the same.

I think the easiest way to differentiate between profits and non-profits is that profits have shareholders who benefit from the profits through dividends, rise in share price, etc. They have the potential to get a financial return on their investment. You can't say the same for donors to non-profits.

Many religious organizations would easily be counted as non-profits when looking at what makes a non-profit a non-profit.
If there is one thing that readers of HN should appreciate, it is the value of Influence. Facebook had value simply because it could put a message in front of 500 million people.

Organized Religion's primary purpose is Influence. Argue that it is "for a good cause", to "save souls", if you want. That is opinion. That they have Influence is fact. That they use this Influence to induce their members to spend money is fact. That they use this Influence to induce their members to vote for a particular candidate or particular issue is fact.

Influence is $$$.

How is Organized Religion any different from Facebook or Google?

EDIT: Perhaps a comment from the downvoters? I don't get it.
Maybe true, but the fact that iOS devices are selling so well shows that people actually want their computers to be as simple as appliances. I think that to many "regular" people (i.e. non-HN-reading types of people), the power in computers is when they provide a simple and idiot-proof way to automate many common day-to-day tasks. If given the choice, many people would rather go out for a picnic than sit down at a shell to figure out the difference between | and > so that maybe, one day, they could become command-line gurus and appreciate the power like we do.

The market for complex and powerful computer interfaces will always exist--it's people like you and me. But the market for simple, easy, and foolproof computing will always be much bigger. Apple is owning that market, and if it's worse for the consumer, well, they seem to be pretty happy about the situation so far.
I can not find a reference to explicit "DOs and DONOTs", but you can surely gather experience from systems that have used this schema for a looong long time: mail handling systems.

For a quick start, I would look at the maildir specification, that includes instructions on how you should read form and write to maildir folders to avoid locking and get good performance: http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/maildir.html

Then, I would dive deeper by looking at the processes used to maintain the mail queues in qmail: http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/misc/INTERNALS.html . Obviously, you could also look at how postfix or exim handle their own queues.

Anyway, gathering all the experience buried in those systems and summarizing it in a logical way would make a great great article...
Windows 8 has Charms, Android has Android Intents, and Google & Mozilla are working on Web Intents. Composability is on its way back at the mainstream user level.
I don't see the point in hoarding this sort of data. I mean, I can see the sentimental value, but I think the disadvantages of having to manage that data and the risk of it being leaked outweigh it.

I delete my email after I've dealt with it, and I regularly delete my IM chat logs.
I thought this would be of interest to the HN crowd, but clearly I was wrong - now ranked 449th and falling, despite upvotes. Never mind.

For reference I got 15/15 in under five minutes, but I've seen all these sorts of things before. What's clear is how important practice is for this type of test. Some questions require a trick, and if you haven't seen it you're in real trouble. If you have seen it then the question becomes a reasonable test of reasoning.

In this sense, perhaps, it's something like the trick interview questions people complain about. Perhaps we should assume people have now seen all the trick questions, and start to look at how they then reason beyond them.

And anyone who hasn't seen all the questions before clearly just hasn't done their homework.
My delicious email is not a current one so I would never have found about this without this post on HN. This short transfer window will likely lose avos a lot of users.
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Then the majority will not use it, because they will not want to abandon the old site entirely.
I think all of the Android devices (phones, tablets and such) running some version of Linux would in some way benefit from increased attention to Linux support.
My friends have had a very different experience.

It's much more comfortable to hold on the couch, at the cafe, in bed, or on the plane/car than being on a laptop.
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Just to doublecheck, I got out my shamemometer, and it was at 8.6 for Apple, but at 8.7 for Google! The Register really nailed it with this one.
And I think that it is very good that the Wall St. will be reminded that they have their money as a result of wealth transfer from middle class. They produce nothing but losses and we socialized those losses. There should be protests there daily reminding them that. Bankers havent added any value to the society, they destroyed it. To say any different is not to comprehend the current economic crisis.
"All these companies want to do is turn your computing experience into a locked down, controlled, monitored experience."

Oh, bullshit. Do you really think there is someone siting around at Apple dreaming up new ways to take away your freedom?

No. There fucking isn't.

I'm a huge believer in small, composable components. And I know that developing against closed platforms sucks. Being able to dig down into the source code of every layer of your stack is critical to the understanding necessary to build high quality software. Libre, Gratis, and Open are all key elements of the software I choose to use to do many mission critical jobs, every day of my professional career going forward.

But you know what?

The people at Apple just want to make damn good products. They are proud as hell of those products. They work very hard to make them that damn good.

Freedom isn't free. There are costs associated with development, complexity, opportunity. Free is a strategy that only few can afford to execute. Google has to vary the gratis, libre, and open dials with their products every single day to paint the benevolent picture they count on to keep their recruiting pipelines full, while still building high quality products on time and budget.

My Girlfriend's Android phone (a highly rated model) is a horrible piece of crap next to the iPhone. It lags, crashes, has UX issues, flimsy hardware. The iPhone is a glorious, crowning achievement of engineering that still, years later, Microsoft and Google are struggle to replicate.

I'm no dumber for owning an iPhone. It gets the job done: It makes phone calls. It settles arguments at the bar. It lets me cut in line at Chipotle. It wakes me up in the morning. It keeps me entertained. It makes me smile every time that little orange plane animates by as it goes into airplane mode.

It just fucking works.

You want to talk about freedom? I'm free from thinking about memory management. And processor utilization. And data loss. If it stops working, I'm free from worry because the Apple store makes everything better. I am free from all of the horrible things that can go wrong on my production servers.

Unless something does go wrong on my production servers, in which case I'm free to be away from my desk when it happens. And I'm free to drive aimlessly without worrying about getting lost. I'm free to call a cab, when I just don't feel like walking home.

In context, my iPhone represents every last bit as much freedom as my blinking cursor in an empty vim window.
Thank you for posting this to HN.
It's a fair point.

I'm looking out for small-form-factor Windows 8 devices which are hybrid tablets (much as the ThinkPad X61 but less clunky) and have 10 hour+ battery life.

I'd argue that there is no dedicated tablet market then.
One more thing-- no one forces anyone to use a particular technology (unless it's being forced to use Windows at work.) The tin foil hat crowd might have some grand fears, but it's groundless -- you only give up the privacy you choose to give up. Google has never knocked on my door forcing me to give up private information, although the US government does! I would be more worried about intrusive and over regulatory whims of the government-- they can enforce their schemes at the point of a gun. Worry about the government and let the market take care of everything else.
Sorry, but the article says nothing about companies maintaining control for the sake of profits — only the parent developed this point.

The article made the point about the lack of composability of iOS, with the Grail of composability being the command-line. And I stand by what I said. Design is the result of trade-offs: you can't have ease of use and composability.

Steve Jobs understood the necessity of trade-offs better than anyone else.
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Looks like you've maxed out your API calls for the current hour. Seems you're getting quite some traffic ;)
From upcoming Delicious TOS, "What Not To Do" section:

> - Attempt to access or search the Service or Service Content or download Service Content from the Service through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism (including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools or the like) other than the software and/or search agents provided by AVOS or other generally available third party web browsers;

So, they're telling me that I can't even write (more precisely, use) my own client?

No way I'm going to transfer my data there.
Mostly because we, as software developers, have
failed to create frameworks that are fully
composable.

This is MBA-talk.

Big companies would like nothing more than for programming to become something unskilled workers can do. I would like that too, but from a different perspective.

Programming is not really like assembling Lego blocks.
And if you pick any other industry, taking a close look at how new developments are made, you'll find that sharing in software development is a lot more common and a lot easier.

After all, when building new software, you don't have to write your own OS, your own compiler, your own debugger, your own libraries built on top, or even your own domain-specific framework. Well, unless you have the not-invented-here syndrome.

And what does "fully composable" mean anyway?

The real problem is we still need to program.

Well, for specifications to get written, you still need to write. For designing a user interface, you still need to draw. For doing architecture, you still need to think.