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Most people just browse to web. If you want a shell, it's way easier to use a linux thinkpad that has a proper keyboard and proper OS, as opposed to an iPad. But that's not to say that an iPad is not good for some things.
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Couldn't be more impressed by Bunnie. It's always a jaw-dropping "no way" with this guy but this, I'd call this hack Woz level magic.
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IMHO I think that's wierd. I'd never consider using a computer in any of those places personally. I consider them all "downtime".
Ah, I think people are downvoting you because they thought you meant CA's clause flies in the face of free-agency. You actually meant no-compete clauses do, right? If so, yes, that's the point of them.
"Oh, bullshit. Do you really think there is someone siting around at Apple dreaming up new ways to take away your freedom?"

> No but I honestly thinks there are people sitting around at Apple dreaming up new ways to take away your money, even if it entails taking away your freedom.

"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."

> Yeah... As an aside I think Apple is overrated. It's interfaces are nifty but as seen with Lion they're not above a misstep. Plus while they offer a very nice first-time ("store") experience, with time it's edge over the other OS slowly fades. You have to learn all the keyboard shortcuts or you'll be a bit helpless in your shiny OS.

Even hardware which tends to be quality can fail, as witnessed with graphic cards overheating problems for instance.

"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."

> Anecdotal evidence does not make a general truth. I for one have had the exact opposite experience. I had an iPhone 3G and with the new firmware the thing was a trainwreck of usability, while my new Samsung Galaxy S2 is snappy as hell. This is essentially irrelevant, as it has to do with computing power more than product quality (tough I get more bang for my computing power in Android, the iphone firmwares have brought me copy/paste and ... what ?).
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Exactly. To be honest I've always just assumed these clauses were invalid and signed them. It isn't logical that one can sign away their rights beyond their employment.
Spot on. When people throw "freedom" into the discussion they often fail to understand just how big the concept is. Every choice made in engineering restricts some kinds of freedom. What about the freedom to press fewer buttons? Some people prefer that over the freedom of file management. As long as people can make these kinds of trade-offs, they are still free to do what they want.

I find it much nicer to use the term autonomy, which can be seen as "meaningful freedom". To some people having a commandline interface (which they do not know how to operate) is not a meaningful freedom to have at all.
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In the US. It has been a while that I've registered a domain. I used to use GoDaddy, and I'd like to try something else. You got any personal recommendation? It's for a personal travel site that I'll be 'practicing'. I live in Seattle if that helps.
And why exactly my tablet should be different from razor or blender? Or my TV or my car? For many this is just a tool, not goal.

lack of will by the masses to understand their technology

There are many many many more fields besides IT. If anyone: be it waitress or accountant will be required to understand IT it will not end well.

They want you to be dumber.

No. I don't feel any dumber because I don't know how to fix my TV. I don't feel any dumber because my knowledge about car's engine is very basic and most of it was learnt in the age of carburetor. This are just means to get some news and entertainment, to get from point A to point B. Likewise I am not calling my car mechanic dumb, just because he has no idea how to build a web page or write an iOS application.

If you are a programmer and want to create something useful, you should let that crazy idea that everyone must know and worship your craft go.
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And you can also define jumping up and down as dancing.
~ is not unusual on the internet, it is used for home directory webspace

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I would like to buy your friends' iPads if they are not using them. Please have them put them on ebay or craigslist.
Intents do go a long way to providing composability for Android. I didn't fully grok them when i started created Android applications. More or less simply used them as the way to go the next activity, but they so much more powerful than that :P
It looks cool, I wonder if it is possible to implement something similar on Android devices.
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I agree with the OP:

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

Yes - more precisely they are working out new ways to charge you for it.

We're slowly being led into paying incrementally for utility computing on a device we actually paid up front for.

Only a fool buys something then pays to use it.
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sure, why not, I just started with iOS because.. well, I have an iPad :-)
The first one is broken for me too (in a different way, though).
>This is outright willful ignorance. There are plenty of religious organisations whose purpose is to line the leaders' pockets with money.

As opposed to other non-profits? The willful ignorance here is yours. You don't seem to know how many big non-profits actually work. Do a search about United Way outrage for example.
change 'television' to 'computing experience'

"When you're young, you look at computing experience and think, There's a conspiracy. The companies have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The companies are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the companies are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth."

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> then the web browsing gets frustrating as streaming
> video is choppy over WiFi

Ah, those magic frie^H^H^H^H iPad users. Since when web browsing is all about streaming video, and since when it is choppy over WiFi?
Have you heard Knuth speak? He's full of "um's" and "ah's".

(Neil is fantastic; I only brought it up because I'm someone who uses a lot of "um's" and "ah's", which tends to give people the impression that I'm dim. So it gave me hope to find out that even the great Knuth suffers from it too.)
Is Automator on the Mac not sort of a GUI version of pipe?

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How many people actually program on an iPad or iPhone? I mean in any real sense and not something simple like SSHing into a unix box to update a config file. None.
That's not the purpose of it. Apple has never implied nor mentioned anything like that should be or could be done on that device. It's built to browse the web and use touch applications.

I despise articles like these because they try to put products like these in impossible situations that suits no one else except to drive traffic. Yes your iPad is anti-programmer the same way that a wheelchair is anti-stairs.
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What if the child has a learning disability? What happens then?
I think some of the point in this case is that the iPad is specifically not a computer.
It is good looking. The easing should accelerate towards the end, in order to feel more like rollerblinds coiling up. When you select the individual items around 00:40 to 00:43 you should also work in a subtle animation so that it is just as fluid as the rest.

Overall, very well done!
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It's always choppy over WiFi in London from experience as there's so much interference from the amount of WiFi networks around and contention from the overcrowding.

(for ref, I borrowed an iPad for a week and played with it).
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I'm not sure what the relevance of investment banker's "huge appetite for risk" is.

The current crisis was caused by people making AAA-certified safe bets, most of which were done in order to comply with Basel II and other capitalization requirements [1]. And even ignoring capitalization-driven demand, a long position on housing was considered a safe bet.

If anything, we needed more risk taking and more derivatives - bankers willing to bet against the crowd, and derivatives which give them the ability to take a short position.

[1] If a commercial bank wants exposure to housing, all they needed to do is make some loans. But various bank safety regulations encouraged them to hedge their risks by selling off the loans and purchasing AAA paper in order to hedge against mortgage risks in their local market.
Great, informative read. Have to complain about this bit tho:

But learning from experience is the worst possible way to learn something. Learning from experience is one up from remembering. That's not great. The best way to learn something is when someone else figures it out and tells you: "Don't go in that swamp. There are alligators in there."

Works great for avoiding alligators. Fails miserably for riding bikes.
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Is "not making profit" the only criterion for being a non profit? Just saying - a lot of startups could save on taxes and special offers...
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It actually makes sense. If you run the IT department, you have to risk giving almost all the code to developers who can then put it in an email to themselves.

The alternative is draconian restrictions that stifle creativity, freedom and leadership.

Trust, is very important.
Well, I thought it was interesting - but it is on my mind at the moment.

Practice - lots of it. It is worth noting that the schools do not do any coaching for this - it is up to the parents to do it, or employ someone else.
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Photoshop is anti-unix and anti-programmer. Because I cannot program in it. Duh.

It's official—from now on I am anti-stupid-titles on HN. Will flag any submission with a meaningless title like this.

What does it mean being anti? It's either active stance against something or at least major disagreement.

I cannot see how iOS is actively fighting unix (being based on it) or programmers (being created for it and offering thousands of API for them).

Neither I see how iOS is passively anti-unix and anti-programmers.
My car has probably a dozen computers but I cannot program on it. So what? My TV probably runs linux, and I cannot program on it either. Does it make it anti-linux and anti-programmer?

Why do some expect anything with cpu, display and storage to be full-blown programmers workstation is beyond me.
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I think the title is misleading. The author hints at a much bigger issue (I'm not an iOS user so I can't say how valid his point is but it's not about 'programming' per se.
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Or, it's the other way around: They expect to not be treated differently than other nonprofit's merely due to the fact that they have a religious group.

So who decides what "genuine charitable" activities are?
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Side note: Please do not use "> " for your reply. That is generally reserved for quoting what you are replying to.

> No but I honestly thinks there are people sitting around at Apple dreaming up new ways to take away your money, even if it entails taking away your freedom.

Sure, there is some dude somewhere who only cares about driving up the quarterly numbers. But generally Apple has a pretty long record of shipping premium products at a premium price and selling them with a "buy it or don't" attitude. With the possible exception of those damn video adapters, I've never felt like Apple was trying to squeeze money out of me. Sure, they had to play the DRM game with iTunes and let's not even get into the bullshit that the telcos get away with. But, as a composite entity, Apple has been pretty damn respectful of it's customers.

> Yeah... As an aside I think Apple is overrated.

Different tastes for different people. Go ahead, buy whatever product you like. Just don't accuse a team of hard working, talented people of being out to take your freedom.

> It's interfaces are nifty but as seen with Lion they're not above a misstep.

I'm quite happy with the improvements in Lion.

> Plus while they offer a very nice first-time ("store") experience, with time it's edge over the other OS slowly fades. You have to learn all the keyboard shortcuts or you'll be a bit helpless in your shiny OS.

I've used a Windows machine since before I could speak. I worked for Microsoft for several years. I now cringe every time I have to touch the one Windows box at our office.

> Even hardware which tends to be quality can fail, as witnessed with graphic cards overheating problems for instance.

And you've never had a component on your other machines fail? shrug When the machine I built had a power supply failure, I had to go fucking replace it. I was free to use whatever power supply I wanted, but I wasn't free to use my damn computer for the four days I waited for my new component. When my iMac had a buzzing noise, they replaced it in the store in under an hour.

> I had an iPhone 3G and with the new firmware the thing was a trainwreck of usability

Freedom isn't free. Making that new software compatible with that old hardware costs time and money. They did a decent job to appease the tiny cross-section of people who upgrade software, but don't upgrade hardware. Most people don't even know what a software upgrade is, so their old OS version is running just fine on the hardware it was tested against. In general, those who do care about having the latest and greatest can afford a phone upgrade.

> tough I get more bang for my computing power in Android

Who cares how much bang you get? It does the same stuff. Again, it's clear you value different things.

Look, I'm not gonna respond further because as far as I'm concerned, I've made my point: It's not right to personify corporations as evil simply because they don't match your personal taste. It's insulting to the people who work really fucking hard and take great pride in the (not so) small impact they leave on the world.
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right. Overall, the animations are the hardest part – and I guess that they have some iterations until everything works smooth and 'shippable'. thank you!
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How did tin-foil-hat-esque nut-jobbery get voted so high? I wanted an iPad precisely because it isn't a "limitless and powerful computer". I wanted a multipurpose appliance that requires minimal (idealy 0) maintenance.

Newsflash for you: the whole world is not computer programmers (I am and I still don't want to have to think about this stuff when I'm just consuming). They never wanted to know. Which is why something that finally lets them not bother learning this field is so incredibly popular.

For those of us who do want to know Mac still covers that market. I can (and do) install anything I want on my MBP.
I completely agree with the post. Most of the negative responses are clearly from people who have no clue what it means to be a parent. Firstly, it has nothing to do with raising kids with 'good manners', or anything as simple or boring as that. Hanging, teaching and interacting with your kids is actually fun and rewarding. A lot like coding.

I can also highly recommend a 4 day week. 1 day a week is purely my daughter (20 months) and I. Not only does it give you more time than you have in an evening, it also opens up other opportunities to go out and do things you wouldn't normally be involved with. I've been fortunate to have employers who are happy to oblige and live in a country - New Zealand - where it's relatively easy to arrange.

I also agree that it makes you a more focused coder. It gives you a healthy dose of perspective about what you're doing, and I've found I spend far more time on productive work than I did before.
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Is the video of an actual implemented app in use, or a mock up done in After Effects or similar?
Nonsense. It's about the loss of functionality, not the point that there's a simplified UI available.
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I have this idea and I don't intend to make anything out of it, but maybe somebody here is interested in making it happen:

You may have all seen razers latest gaming laptop or the switchblade (http://www.razerzone.com/switchblade/gallery).
It has a keyboard with transparent keys and an lcd behind it, so that the keys can be changed to fit any game you play.

My Idea: Make an accessory for the ipad. A keyboard with transparent keys that fits exactly on top it.

The keyboard would be accompanied by an ipad-app that displays the symbols for the keys and registers the key-presses. It could communicate to the pc running a game by bluetooth or wifi.
On the PC another app would handle the communication.

Anyone interested? It would make a nice kickstarter project.
So, it is a Heroku clone, but without all its clarity that matters and visual beauty that sells. ^_^

And Power (can't tell how I hate that stupid primitive branding for idiots by idiots) is an attempt to be like AWS - disk-image based hosting.

What is really interesting, is that some people have invested money in such projects at this time, and believes that it will be profitable. ^_^
> Out of memory errors generally don't happen on modern systems.

Well, unless we're talking about smartphones or virtualized environments (e.g. VPS). Both not very relevant in a compiler context, of course.
That wouldn't work for me I'd always wind up trying to debug Amyloidosis.
> "The more I use graphical interfaces (or anything that does not operate on text streams - commandline curses programs included), the more I am struck by how profound the loss of composability is".

Er, try Automator.app for an example of non text-stream "composability". Also: Quartz composer. Also: Max/MSP.

Oh, and text-stream composability might be the "unix way" in, but is not exactly programming, it is command line glue.

Composability in programming itself is achieved via other means, for example objects, widgets, components, messages, etc.
Yes exactly. Having worked for several big banks it is simply inconceivable that no one knew what this guy was doing. Which is probably why his immediate boss resigned immediately after the police took him away.
"32,000 subdirectory limit"

One top tip from personal experience is to make the resulting structure reasonably straightforward to browse manually - having huge numbers of subdirectories is going to be a barrier to this.
"It's always choppy over WiFi in London from experience as there's so much interference from the amount of WiFi networks around and contention from the overcrowding."

Something that, magically, Manhattan, say, has managed to avoid.

Oh, and your experience is "borrowing an iPad for a week".