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“… it's what makes Lion the most colossal fail in the history of fails from Apple …”

What? What?!

The only 1:1 ported tablet feature I know of is Launchpad (and it does suck, don’t get me wrong) which is, however, completely optional and doesn’t even get in the way.

Launchpad does not make Lion a colossal failure. That’s impossible.

Other stuff might, but it has little to do with trying to bring tablet concepts to the desktop. Apple clearly hasn’t attempted to do that, at least not 1:1.

Sure, Apple added fullscreen apps but those have been a staple of Windows forever, I don’t think dragging tablets into this makes any sense whatsoever. And you might not like the new simplified Spaces and Exposé but they do not have any tablet equivalents. They are all desktop, all the time.

Auto saving, resume and Versions are obvious features for any operating system, the tablet/desktop distinction doesn’t make any sense when looking at those features. Operating systems should support them, no matter the device. That’s it.

So what’s the problem? People have been complaining about bugs and some don’t like Mission Control or the way fullscreen apps are implemented. I see little relation of those complaints to Apple trying to bring iOS to OS X. (I also want to note that Lion has received a large number of positive reviews. Your claims of it being a colossal failure are definitely a minority opinion.)
Applying collective intelligence to news aggregators? Sounds like a start up idea to me. Go for it, I'll subscribe if it works.
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I work on Android and develop small games, I also wrote an android program for a programming contest that was an inbox for a workflow management system called Documentum..
It's all about visibility so try to pick a related category that is popular. Apple are pretty flexible with what category you place your app.
TL;DR The code is mostly this with a nice wrapper.

gdb_cmds = [
'PyGILState_Ensure()',
# Allow payloads to import modules alongside them
'PyRun_SimpleString("import sys; sys.path.insert(0, \\"%s\\");")' %
os.path.dirname(self.filename),
'PyRun_SimpleString("execfile(\\"%s\\")")' % self.filename,
'PyGILState_Release($1)',
]
self._run('gdb -p %d -batch %s' % (self.pid,
' '.join(["-eval-command='call %s'" % cmd for cmd in gdb_cmds])))
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We got lots of people looking for hosting solutions, so I think it's very relevant to HN. It's also interesting from a community POV simply because Linode is used by many HNers.

I would like to add that it's pathetic that you got down-voted; it's further proof of how flawed HN moderation system really is.
I would think the reasoning would be "pick the low-hanging fruit to improve reliability".

Checking a programmer's claim that a program will not run out of memory is difficult (sometimes impossible) if you allow heap allocations and arbitrary stack usage. You could allow either, if the programmer supplies a proof that things are OK. But with such a proof in hand, writing the thong so that it can be mechanically checked is "just work" (tedious work, possibly, but for this application, that is not that important). Because of that, why risk that such a proof is flawed (or becomes flawed after a bug fix), if one can just as well prevent the problem?

Of course, the checking code will be buggy, too. That is OK; it will be written by a separate team, and will improve over time, just as the code it checks does.

I guess that, even with these checks, the program will still have some watchdog timer, a way to remotely reset it, and a way to upload new software, just in case it runs wild.
This is such a big deal. Congrats guys.
This is a step in the right direction for Microsoft when it comes to addressing the basic needs the majority(?) of their install base. Getting enterprise users to follow right along might not be as straightforward, but the creation of a curated environment for app distribution and an ecosystem that is center around the common user is certainly welcome.

All the items described in this article are the reason why I love my suite of Apple products, specially iOS devices. Glad to see Microsoft headed that way.
If you're talking really early stage before you have any funding ... all our money went to servers, food, and a couple conferences. I didn't really have a specific budget, I had rent or not heh.
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For the uninitiated the final destination in this model a group of people doing something together when a person has a vision of the extreme violence,
"Taskr Keep track of your daily tasks!" <- that's the current header. Or do you mean a short intro before the sign up?
One of my many gripes about Google-Instant!
Consider the iPad all by itself doesn't do EHR, what software packages did you try out before bailing?

Aren't there any packages that check all the regulatory and usability requirements for usage in a hospital/clinic?
If you're suffering from cache reheating issues that only stem from restarting the process then maybe. If the reheat issues stem from a reboot then you're still screwed.

The numbers presented only make sense in the event that your cache hit rate is uniformly distributed.

In the event that you have a normal distribution or pareto distribution (more likely for a website) the majority of your cache hits come from very few entries meaning your cache can probably be reheated to 80% with 20% of the data, or 200GB instead of 1 TB.

A much better idea that actually solves the problem instead of discussing implementation artifacts (memory mapped files) is to reuse your tracking data (eg. this page gets X number of hits) to pre-heat the caches before the server goes live.

All you need to do is build a histogram of your cache hits over the last X minutes and flush it to disk every now and then.
No mobile for the moment, used to do J2ME some 5-6 years ago.
In which case it's isomorphic to a static memory block (albeit one with non-zero initialization costs), so what would the point be?
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The supervisor/worker thing sounds quite a bit like OTP.
Anecdotal experience. I've been working "big city" development jobs from the farm for nearly a decade. I have never had difficulty finding people who wanted to work with me.
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The way I remember it, the founding fathers weren't protesting the taxes, so much as the lack of representation. Ben Franklin famously wrote that "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." This country wasn't founded on the notion that we should be tax free. The Boston Tea Party basically came about because The East India Tea company made bad business decisions, and wanted a tax break in England to alleviate warehousing issues.

Actually, it's all quite complicated, but to say that this was a country founded by patriots protesting taxes and then to complain of tiresome rhetoric is to illustrate how little you understand both American history and rhetoric.
It's not pathetic. No need for meta comments if others have voted it up.
This is very forwards-looking, if only because it improves access from China and "the growing Asia Pacific demand for low-latency cloud services".
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Amazon's online collection is much, much larger than Netflix's online collection. Are you referring only to their Prime service?
I don't know that it's possible to abolish software patents. The Supreme Court tried, and were overruled by a lower court. Then those lower court precedents were invalidated, yet software patents are still not abolished. The US legal system is baffling.
Oh my, THAT'S how much Blackboard costs? I despise using this software. ANGEL is just as horrible if not worse. I do not know what else to say...
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The article talks about Win 8 as if you'll be compiling straight to ARM. I haven't been following the Win8/Metro info very closely, but wouldn't one be essentially targeting a .Net/Metro VM with implementations on ARM for mobile devices and x86 for desktops? So of course you're not going to back translate native x86 apps to ARM. Even if the instruction set/API translation were perfect, the computing power wouldn't map over very well.

I've been wondering if Google would make a similar strategic move - i.e. provide a desktop environment that can run Android apps targeted to users on multiple OS's (A polish step beyond simulators/emulators for devs...). That way you can access a much larger installed base of users and make the mobile app themselves more portable.

Of course there's the argument that mobile-to-desktop protability would result and all that much usability. However, it's something that I suspect that Apple would have a harder time offering because they don't have a VM strongly involved.
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For my contracting work, I use Toggl to keep track of time. I primarily use their web interface, though they also produce desktop and mobile apps. Last time I looked at the Linux desktop app, it was lacking.
I've been in waiting rooms, recovery rooms, at the bedside of post-surgery family, and never been told to shut off my iphone (despite written warnings saying exactly what you mentioned).
Good enough for me!
Paul Graham Invents a ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Pledge to Shame Patent Trolls
I suspect #1 is trying to get at something more general (like 'be humble'), but it isn't always true. There are also a lot of mediocre people working in the industry. In more than one instance I've seen recent college grads - and even no-college wunderkinds - wipe the floor with more established devs in terms of knowledge and programming ability. The fact that there are always people smarter than you goes in both directions. The fact that you've been working in the industry longer doesn't automatically make you the smart one.
Have you seen 'hijack'?

https://github.com/ileitch/hijack
Make people work for it then: in order to get feedback you need to review 5 other people's resumes.
Work as a mobile apps developer fulltime.
I mainly do Android and iPhone, but I've done BlackBerry and iPad as well.

For my spare time I work on my 2d android mmorpg: http://developingthedream.blogspot.com/
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Netflix customer here.

It's a terrible move because how I go about finding a movie to watch is very important to me. I want to be able to search for movies, browse a genre, or rate movies and get recommendations all through one easy to use interface. I will decide whether I want to stream the movie or wait for it in the mail. How you handle it internally I don't really care. I'm even willing to pay for the services separately.

Now, let's compare to cable. If I sign up for Comcast cable with HBO, I would also pay for the services separately. But, I don't want to have two boxes with two remotes sitting next to my TV just so I can watch HBO separately.

When I log into amazon.com I can buy physical items like DVDs, or purchase digital items like eBooks or MP3s, or I can stream movies. Maybe they're handled internally by different departments. I don't know and I don't care. All I know is that I can do everything from one interface with one account. I don't need to go to amazulu.com to watch movies and kindlebooks.com to buy books.

Simply put, convenience is a HUGE value. Something that I am willing to pay for. I didn't even sweat the Netflix price hike because the value was still there for me. But if you're going to make it HARDER for me to find and watch a movie, I don't see how that's worth paying for.
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After seeing that figure, I'll be writing a letter to my current university asking them to ditch BB for a different service. What options should I suggest?

For those who don't want to click the bit.ly link, The 5-year contract is for $4,228,812.50 and can be seen at http://wwe1.osc.state.ny.us/transparency/contracts/contractt...
The whole Blackboard thing is interesting. But what I found most refreshing is that the author actually presents himself as a bona-fide public servant, and seems to give a hoot about what that is supposed to mean.

These days as a society we have collectively accepted certain economic ideas as gospel. Public activity == parasitic. Private interests == the american way. It's refreshing to hear a different story.
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> Windows 8 will be the most secure Microsoft OS ever.

Ever. Never again will Microsoft create any software product as secure as Windows 8. It will be the pinnacle of human software engineering and it's all downhill from there.

Seriously though, 'ever' is such a strong word...
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That's not too unusual, unfortunately, and not entirely the fault of one side. Selling to a system like CUNY, and the kinds of reporting, maintenance, and support requirements they have of these kinds of contracts, is hardly worth it unless you get big money. Maybe $1m/yr isn't the minimum for it to be worth it, but if you sell one of these big systems as a hosted enterprise solution and you're only getting $100k/yr, you'll have trouble breaking even. Just the trips out to meet with the various IT Strategy Boards and Educational Technology Review Panels and whatever will cost you $10k in travel, as one cost among many, and then there's some liability insurance to protect against things like security holes leaking grades, etc.
AH! Ok. That is a crucial distinction I hadn't known was the case. It's important this be made clear, since I've seen several discussions implying "no details" was the case.

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It is objectively unfair for my OP to be downvoted. It was a legitimate question.
Its dead if they don't continue to iterate, and keep people interested. I mean they have 500 engineers working on it, and what do I see? ghost town...

They need API's out immediately, intact that needed it on launch, without them its dead.

And there marketing is going down hill fast, its already gaining a stigma.

Will it fail? doubt it, it'll integrate with everything like MSN Live, and like Live (remembering it has as many users as Facebook), Live is HUGE. But is it exciting? interesting? something people even care about? nope.

Thats my prediction. Google+ will be a boring tool attached to there products that I have no real daily use for, but may offer contextual benefits as Live does.

Lastly Google is to slightly for me. They start products and shut them down a year later, often with traction that would be amazing for anyone else, but considered a failure to them. Its matured into a proper company run by bureaucracy and accounts... and those people never inspire anyone.

If you want an interesting social network, Steam just hit 20 million users. Thats a space that could open up, but I think they are taking the Apple approach of moving very slowly and making sure things work right instead of running head long into things.

I only started using the steam event management tools, and was blown away by the tools just sitting there unadvertised and under utilised.
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I can upload an HTML template that I created, if anyone is interested. You can post it on a webpage, or you can use your browser to print to PDF and send it that way.
That's about $8 per CUNY student for both software and 5 years of hosting. Doesn't seem so bad to me-- I'd be surprised if a competitor would be much cheaper.
Android certainly has an advantage here, but a smattering of iOS apps, including the EHR in question, seem to licence speech-to-text and integrate it fairly seamlessly. Siri (before Apple acquired them) and Orchestra (a new to-do app) are good examples.

It's also worth mentioning that screenshots of internal builds of iOS 5 have a microphone on the keyboard, seeming to imply speech-to-text could be a surprise feature of iOS 5.
Can someone describe why this sort of thing would be useful? I'm not criticizing, I just can't think of a use case for this.
Strongly disagree. My classmates picked on me, my teachers didn't challenge me. The state didn't pay for my education. I'm successful because I've applied myself while my peers were screwing off.

Just because you need consumers to become wealthy doesn't mean that you're exploiting them... wealth creation is NOT a zero-sum game. Becoming wealthy is the reward you get for making consumer's lives better.

Edit// For clarification, I'm fine with paying taxes.
But I don't owe a debt to society just because of my success. I'm an equal citizen with everyone else, and we all benefit from the stability that government provides.
I would also say that if the concept of "societal debt" is legitimate, then the poor have accrued much more debt anyway.

(I'm fine with the downvotes. My highest net-point posts usually start with some downvotes.)
I didn't suffer any consequences.
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Hey Nathan, you should incorporate this page in the Readme markdown so people can get an overview on the front page
Beware thinking that environments where people don't dress formally are environments where people don't judge based on looks.

I don't love wearing a suit and tie, but do it for my day job. If I go to a tech meetup after work while still wearing my day-job clothes, I find a lot of people judge me to be someone not technically serious, based on how I happen to be dressed at that time. Prejudice based on appearance is a cognitive shortcut lots of people overuse.
this is a perfect exame of human computation
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Could you at least provide an abstract, snippet or summary?
Considering postscript "sensible" is a red flag, if I ever saw one. Not to be negative, but while that might have been suitable 30 years ago...
Indeed, I think it is possible to start a new job and find you are the smartest person around. That means you should start looking for another job.
Looks like Omnigraffle's output.

"Given that llvm is mostly sponsored by Apple, I could imagine a lot of the devs are running OS X. "

Well, in most developer conferences I've been most of the devs (and the audience) are running OS X anyways, without Apple being involved. Even in the Java ones (despite Java not that welcome on OS X the last couple of years). Even more so for the RoR guys...
Debugging for one. Same reason you might want to attach to an already running C/C++ process with GDB.

(This is perhaps less less powerful for that use (since it would currently lack any sort of manual flow control), but I think the benefits of it actually being a REPL might offset that for some uses.)
Yeah, I've seen lots of unfortunate confusion based on the "first-to-file" vs. "first-to-invent" distinction. Just doing my part as a patent attorney to clear it up when I notice it!
... that solves the halting problem?
When cell phones were new, there was some hand-waving regarding the risks of planes crashing, respirators stopping, etc. As is often the case, these risks were not very credible.

The signs stay up because while the RF signals won't kill anyone, listening to people jabbering on the phone is very annoying. For example, my wife's pregnant, and we spent some quality time in her OB/Gyn's waiting room the other day. Hearing another patient screaming into phone with a graphic recounting of the bursting of some sort of cyst for 30 minutes made the experience of sitting in a 90 degree waiting room for a half hour that much more noxious.
Cool, I can't say enough good things about Linode.
I've been using it with great results.
I have gotten some random reboots though, but I'm using the basic plan and it hasn't been bad at all for the price.
Phantom vibration feedback system makes being shot or stabbed feel almost real
Sadly the choice for slides is between a bare PDF, slideshare and scribd. All three are awful choices imho, so... pick your poison.
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What is the security concern?
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Hijack - attach an IRB session to a running ruby process
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>nobody has ever been able to even begin to convince us that our patients' data was secure.

Just use Citrix then instead of some random third party application?
I've only just started working through the big nerd ranch iphone guide and have a few basic, simple ideas for apps that I'll be trying to get onto the app store within the next couple months. No real delusions of grandeur, I'm just curious and have gotten somewhat bored of doing web development, so something new and challenging seemed like a good idea.
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I certainly wasn't trying to overtly contrast--the Googler papers thread just reminded me of the MSR listing. :)
I think that language would've had difficulty if it was called montypython :).

Batman.js, unfortunately, only evokes one image.
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some of that is good and some isn't. #7 is right to an extent, but anyone that acts the way you said you were treated is ridiculous and needs to be brought down a notch.
The way I remember it, the founding fathers weren't protesting the taxes, so much as the lack of representation.

That's arguably wrong as well. A large number of American colonists (particularly in Boston; esp John Hancock) made a living as smugglers bypassing English tax laws and circumventing the EITC's trade monopoly on tea. The administrative changes that parliament made in that time included not only new taxes but better enforcement of laws which were already on the books and this nearly drove many prominent Americans out of business.
This is an awesome discussion, this post was surely not aimed at rockstars or CEO's. There are a contingent of people that are happy to work to for others, even if their policies are less than ideal. Some people enjoy the safety that comes with a regular paycheck.

Also for many people there are a lot of factors that go into picking a career, location, amount of time spent with family, benefits etc. That limits options for a large number of people.

So while it's nice to "control your own destiny" it's also important to consider that to some people destiny is more than a career path, and that being mediocre doesn't mean being miserable. There are tons of people that are perfectly happy being mediocre.
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I currently use scribtex.com for all my LaTex needs because it already has all the libraries loaded properly. This was a gigantic pain in the ass for me.

Having software set up properly is IMO a good case for a web app; with scribtex, all you need is a text editor to produce good pdfs.

I highly recommend it.

(Please keep it in business.)