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I'm really interested to see if Apple's attempt is better than Google's. It looks so from demonstrations, but then, Voice Actions looks really great in demos too and I can almost never get it to do exactly what I want.
We should never torture anyone for any reason, period. Including that in your statement above makes it sound like your endorse torture, I hope that you do not. We should also never, kill anyone who isn't a direct threat (e.g. on the battle field, shooting a cops/civilians, etc) regardless of where they are and whether or not they're US civilians. The assassination of OBL falls under the same idea, he should have been captured and tried by a jury.
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Sure, that's why it states that it's "as easy as writing JSON".
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What version of chef server are you using? It appears to have been fixed a while again: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-489 .

Perhaps your issue is not tied to your ruby version: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-920
Is the PC era over?
Apple is going with its own chips. Apple’s latest A5 processor is ARM Based, very low on power. Apple is also removing the hard drives from its products and replacing them with flash memory chips. It’s not just iPhones and iPads, the MacBook Air’s storage is also flash. All of Apple’s products are moving in this direction.

"Getting low on power and faster memory access times" is the key for today's generation of UX centered devices.

A Trend for others to follow in the same direction now.

How faster will this change happen? How is going to affect the PC shipments and disrupt the windows?
Why would a lack of a GPL Flash replacement hinder someone from switching to Linux? Flash is already available for Linux (I've run it under Ubuntu), and while it's not "free software", it's free of charge.
The French were outclassed in all ways, their techniques were completely outdated. For instance using motorcycle messengers to transfer orders instead of telephone/radio communications, they could not respond fast enough to German Blitzkrieg.
The heavy lifting was done decades ago by NeXT. They had NEXTSTEP running on different architectures, even different endian ones, in the 1990s. I'm guessing they already have OSX running on ARM in the lab.
I saw a google/io video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f2Zky_YyyQ) on native versus html5 for android. The basic result was that with native you get access to all the latest hardware features and with html5 you get access after a long standardization process. Still, many apps don't require hardware features and don't benefit from native app features. The nytimes chrome link is a perfect example. Also, they've designed down to the device rather that include all the cross promotion nonsense that clutters their basic web page.

https://www.nytimes.com/skimmer/#/Top+News
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We can only hope. x86 has so much backwards-compatibility baggage at this point — it’s too complex for its own good and all that extra silicon is just a power drain.
This is simple, standard Paleo diet behavior.

Here it is in a nutshell: No grains nor legumes; minimize fructose; minimize PUFAs; emphasize MUFAs and saturated fats, especially short- and medium- chain triglycerides; aim for 20% carbs, 65% fats, 15% protein (by caloric value); fiber is good (because your gut bacteria convert a lot of it to SCTs and MCTs).

The 20/65/15 ratio may need to change depending on how active your are and how damaged your metabolism is.

Butter contains a fair amount of butyric acid (a short-chain triglycerides), so it would make sense to add it to your diet. I prefer coconut oil because it is about 50% MCTs and typically doesn't require refrigeration. I eat a lot of it, and it tends to fire me up like a rocket.

And, yes, I've lost approximately a shit-ton of weight on a Paleo diet.
I don't think customers care much about that, not even those who defended their non-Intel Macs until the bitter end.

To be more than anecdotal, the iPhone 4S site lists the "Dual-core A5 processor" as both the first bullet item, and later as its own slide.

Surprising given that tech specs are said to be obsolete. But I think it's more about the dual-core, and it doesn't mention that it's an Apple processor.
I bought the digital issue on Zinio on my iPad for 4 euro:

http://www.zinio.com/browse/publications/index.jsp?productId...
Don't need a cache? The larger your memory is, the greater the access latency will be, even if it's directly on the CPU die. That's why L1 and L2 caches tend to be around 32*2 and 256 KB, respectively. Most of the cache access time comes from the wire delays of sending signals around, and the larger the cache is, the longer the wire delays will be.

If you have a bunch of memory directly on the CPU, caching will still give significant speedups.
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Does anyone have any predictions on when android will have something comparable. I really just want an easy way to make calendar reminders.
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While I'd agree that PHP needs a "reboot", I don't think this is the right way to do it.
Is there anyway to get this in audio format so I can listen to it in my automobile?
They didn't make it very clear, but I think the embedded SQL idea is meant to be for things like querying against collections, similar to LINQ[1]. Even it's meant for databases, it's still up to you where in the app you put it.

That being said, my initial reaction is to wonder why, when designing a new language, one would model after PHP of all things.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query
Which would work for anything you'd let ride on a game of dice. But for serious things you're going to get together for the victory celebration and shoot the human behind the drone army.

This sort of thing does give more room between shouting and shooting (people) but it won't actually prevent the all-out war unless one side realizes it'd lose and gives in. Otherwise it's just a smoother escalation.
http://www.archive.org/details/SteveJobsSpeechAtStanfordUniv...
It's black humour.
Actually they didn't: https://twitter.com/bizweekdesign/status/121871973688160256 and https://twitter.com/bizweekdesign/status/121918276459696129
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1. Apparently, outside the state TV station, demonstrators opened fire on soldiers patrolling the location. Word is two soldiers are dead, 25 wounded.

2. Demonstrations are underway again in Tahrir square, with a lot more violent sentiment and police are supposedly firing tear gas into the square to disperse them.

Will update this thread if people want when I get more info.
Canada has a lifetime capital gains exemption of $750,000, which makes the small business argument moot. In families operating many small businesses, you'll find that the children are majority owners of the companies so that their exemption will be used in the event of a sale.
well if they were generous enough to not give any ads and make is a Steve-only issue, they should also have made it publicly available for free. It makes no sense to charge for a tribute issue IMO :O
The difference is that there were no high-quality free C compilers available before gcc, so it filled a real need. Lots of people couldn't afford to pay hundreds of dollars for a compiler. However, an open source version of Flash would be replacing software that any Linux user can already get for free (and would probably be of inferior quality to Flash, at least for the first several releases).
Native JSON is a nice step, but for the most part I would have to agree with the other commenters.
Especially embedding SQL as a literal as seems more convoluted than clarifying.
By have it done I mean:

- I upload pics and timeline

- Choose most important events or quotes

- The site pushes out a preview that uses a professionally designed layout

- If I like it I can purchase it

- Nice tribute mag personalized for my loved one arrives in the mail
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I prefer bash scripting for this as well. With a small ops team, pushing for adoption of Puppet or Chef, and definitely cfengine, can be difficult. However having a backbone for running the scripts and providing reporting is a great benefit.

I used slack[1] for a short while, but then started my own configuration management framework for Perl[2]. I wanted to have templating and better reporting, and also had hopes of keeping a very slim rulesest -- forcing any extraneous functions to per-instance (bash|perl|python|.*) scripts. I need to get back to developing and testing it though.

1: http://code.google.com/p/slack/

2: http://search.cpan.org/~agj/Csistck-0.05/lib/Csistck.pm
What javascript engine ships on a linux server today?
Ruby and Python are both packaged in by default on basically everything, V8 and other javascript engines are not.

Additionally, javascript is NOT more widely accessible - if anything, learning non-DOM-manipulated javascript is INCREDIBLY painful for a beginner.

Remember, these tools are for system administration and configuration management, not for writing applications.
Woz deserves more love and respect -- he was never a manager or a businessperson, but he's a good person and there's something to say for that in a world obsessed by money. If you're looking for a role model of a technical founder he'd be my pick.
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Looks like a pleasant, sane API:

https://github.com/galdor/cl-zmq/blob/master/examples/offici...

And the rest of the code is of similarly high quality. Very nice!
I'd rather these infographics be done with CSS so that I could view it on my smaller screen and excerpt it for commenting.

Here's the list of innovations, more details are on the source infographic:
iPad
Google Apps
Skype
Zynga
Tata Nano
Netflix
Pandora

The Tata Nano, really? From what I understand it's having a fraction of the impact it was projected to have.
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one of the best examples, reddit Vs Digg. I'm not saying either of them are better than the other. But they both were started at the same time period and they both became successful.
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Actually they build their cars much like we developers build web sites around a web framework. There's very few base models of cars (most shared by several manufacturers) that get customized to look like a Saab, BMW or whatnot. The difference is mainly in looks and some parts, but the total solution is calculated once by joint projects between manufacturers, it not economical to build a car from scratch for just one manufacturer.
Agreed. He's often the "unsung hero" of Apple in my eyes, and he didn't get as much attention in the world as Steve Jobs did. I don't think he cares, but he deserves a lot more recognition than he gets right now.
Stallman is paying Jobs a massive compliment, unless I am reading a different comment from you.
In my 35 years of software work, far, far too often I see people concentrating on the pointless

The pointless has one great advantage: it is easier to work with. Hard problems are The Unknown, we fear the unknown, and when this fear arises one way to resolve it is by replacing the hard problem with something easier. This is absurd, like the drunk looking for his car keys under the street lamp on the wrong side of the street "because the light's better here", but that doesn't stop us, it just means we do it unconsciously. Now we have a simpler problem that we can concentrate on and (best of all) argue about.

You see this in obvious places like curly brace wars, but there are more interesting examples, such as why editors and version control systems get so much attention. They're important, but not that important. But they're easy to understand and have an opinion about. Better still, they're common across many projects so arguing about them is a way for programmers to socialize.

Perhaps the same pattern is behind our industry's tendency to embrace savior paradigms (Structured Programming, OO, Agile, FP).
Sometimes on rainy nights when I've had a few too many glasses of wine, I dream of doing a PHP "reboot": something with syntax and features like C#, which I personally love, but without the sometimes deceptive magic that goes on behind the scenes of stuff on the .NET stack. Just output HTML to the browser, no compilation required, arrays like PHP, and sane and useful built-in libraries. FOSS.

Sometimes I even think it would be a good idea to half-ass it and just create a "wrapper" type library to map built-in PHP functions to namespaced and standardized (naming, parameter order, etc.) functions.

Then I usually wake up in the morning with a bad hangover and a deep sense of sadness.
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Isn't that done by a backend that's not on the phone? I know at least dictation is done remotely...
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My comment was intended to demonstrate that 25 odd years ago these things were covered in a non-optional way when the were regarded as fairly esoteric. Today when a lot of mainstream languages have them you'd think a CS course would cover them!

Note I'm in the UK and degree courses here are, as far as I can tell, structured rather differently to those in the US. When I did a CS course the classes required were 80% fixed by your choice of course - there was no flexibility or modularity in the first 3 years, with only the final year allowing for selection of classes. There was no way to graduate without passing the class that included GC algorithms.

Of course, it wouldn't surprise me if this kind of approach has been made more "flexible" to make courses more "accessible".
This was true at one point in time, in particular, with the Rogue River Ford plant, which was pretty amazing. Iron ore, raw material for making glass, and the like--all done there.

For good or bad, this is no longer how it works. Entire subassemblys are outsourced.
What do you mean?

Smartphones are obviously wearable computers and they already exist.
The parts where:

A) That phrase is a classic copout to try and draw attention from the fact that you're generalizing based on your own biased opinions with no evidence.

and

B) It was immediately followed by further reinforcement that you believe your opinion holds in "almost all" situations.

You didn't actually admit that every situation is different, you used oratorical sleight of hand to try and make people agree with your sweeping and unsupported statements favoring the greedy, self-serving worldview of VCs.
I took some more screenshots and also updated the pricing to include a free tier. What do you think?
Iphone belongs on the list, not Ipad. Ipad did not disrupt any market, it created one. Iphone on the other hand was nothing short of revolutionary for the mobile phone market.

Zynga is even worse. They are neither innovative nor disruptive, they simply monetize acquired games and clone others with the predictability of Hollywood B movies.
"The business model of the companies promoting Puppet and Chef seems to be to charge for support and/or hosted services. Which is fine. But is it leading to abysmal documentation?"

This is one of the reasons we're moving Puppet Labs from being a support company to a product company, and not for hosted services.

If your bread and butter comes in from support, you have no incentive to actually make your product easier to use. There are plenty of enterprise-y software companies who make lots of money operating like this, but that's not the sort of company I want to work for.

I'm quite proud of the rapid improvement we've made on the Puppet Docs over the last year since we hired NickF, our most excellent tech writer:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/

I particularly like the solution focused docs he's done, as opposed to the dry reference material that presupposes a lot of knowledge.

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/

Anyway, just wanted to point out that that's not our business model.

(Product Manager at Puppet Labs)
> And they needed an analyst to find that out?

What do analysts even do? Sounds like they just make random predictions about businesses which they don't even understand. If they turn out to be right, they take the credit. If they turn out to be wrong, they just sweep it under the rug and hope nobody notices.
I just wonder: how are you supposed to escape braces in embedded JavaScript? If the language 'intelligently' finds braces inside <script> tags, then I'd recommend everyone to run as fast as possible in the opposite direction.
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I agree -- although I am sure you could write a system that manages config diffs, testing, backups and reporting in Fabric, it won't be pretty.

My current workflow for managing systems does use Fabric however. I maintain configuration using a custom framework and work under git/hg -- Fabric tarballs the tip, syncs the tarball to several dozen servers, and then runs and my configuration module on each server. I did use a bash script previously though.
Try the "Quick Event" app.
Additionally, these are at best minor disruptions from an historical perspective. Think about Model T vs Nano, Apple II vs Ipad . ..
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For me, the answer to most of those questions is "it's in the company's style guide". No thinking required, no thinking allowed!
The graph has laptops and netbooks the wrong way around.
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I was hoping this would make the case that big innovations still happen in computing. If anything it made the opposite case.
Any connection to Project Ape? http://www.ape-project.org/
For people that don't need much in terms of usability and power you will see they will prefer simple devices like tablets. For the rest of us, we will probably continue with the windows layout.
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Nice! Any chance you know if (and where) we can report issues?

One possible issue:

It seems that binding to the same peer-event multiple times, also SENDS all outgoing events multiple times. For example, open the example website peerbind.com and then run:

$('#chatinput').peerbind("change", {
peer: function(e) { console.log("Incoming", e.peerSrc, e.peerData); }
});

Now, by simply binding to incoming events twice, everything one sends in the chat, is sent twice too. I guess that's not the expected behavior?

Still, nice! And for those who agree that the chat example is not very secure: peek into the HTML source for the actual implementation! ;-)
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what?

Perl is older than PHP!
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Unless chef and puppet are having a hard time finding developers, I don't see how javascript being more accessible is relevant.

Your point about them being over engineered is much more interesting than you just thinking we need yet another system but in a different language. And javascript is certainly not the only way to achieve the goals you list. Just seems like an attempt to start a language war honestly.
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So let me get this straight.

You're arguing that, based on ethical considerations, entrepreneurs should go easy in negotiations with investors.

And they should do this for ethical reasons. To help "investor value" and "other startups"

And this ethical argument is important enough that it should be prominently displayed and argued by journalists.

This is some kind of cosmic joke right?

Charity is for poor people.
While javascript engines are generally not shipped with OSes these days, it's moot because chef bundles its own ruby and ignores the ancient one in the OS. I suspect that's the case with python-based packages as well. I know HP Server Automation bundles its own python. It's easier to support a consistent python version across umpteen platforms than to debug your code in all the varying versions across so many distros and distro releases. Maybe Fabric can use the OS's python, but that's about the only example I know.
If you are unhappy with Merb then convert it to pure rack or sinatra and send a pull request. It works and it's seriously as low of a priority as I can imagine. The server is nothing more than an API endpoint. You can (and people have) rewritten the entire server component in Python.
Just by looking where Siri comes from it should be clear it's better. The biggest difference is that Siri doesn't have commands 'hard-coded', you can throw anything at her. Thus, the whole design of Siri is completely different than in voice control systems. Only thing that's comparable is the speech-to-text accuracy.
What exactly is the philosophy of PHP? You should write a bit about it on the project page.

Right now it looks like a completely different language, and you might as well just give it an original name. I'm having a bit of a hard time seeing the connection to PHP here.
When will people realize that the main reason PHP was/is so successful has nothing to do with the language? PHP got huge because it's free and super easy to deploy on commodity-level hosting. Ubiquity breeds popularity.

Basing a reboot on the JVM makes little sense in this context.

That said, you lost me at "less ';' like in javascript".
I'd love to see this sorted by hue rather than in random order. Who knew IBM and Intel’s blues were that close?
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The correct answer to this entire question is "yes". Use whichever tool encourages you to adopt proper configuration management.

Yes, there's a gap that the current crop of CM tools don't address (and why we see new versions of capistrano clones with a bit of system management sprinkled in) but the three major tools right now - Puppet, Chef and CFengine are all at a state where they address 95% of the use cases for system management and automation.
Not really trivial to detect steganography. There is whole body of work that focus on statistically undetectable data hiding [1]. Much of it is in confines of research labs, but it is still feasible.

[1] http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=secure+stegano...
I can't stress #2 enough: it's extremely difficult to do any complex playing without keyboard mapping. Try doing a disco hihat, a tom roll, or a repeating bassline pattern.
Think of them as datapoints in a large survey. If you run the Teacher's Union Pension Fund with $10B, you can't just trust your internal team or one or two large advisors. You want to get as much information as possible about all the sectors of the economy, locally and globally. So instead of hiring 1000 people to do the research for you, you pay 10-20 different companies to access their newsletters, briefs, and suggestions, each of which is written by an analyst. If 75% of analysts say "Buy APPL" while 5% say "Sell APPL", rest being neutral, you can get an idea of what the general market sentiment is.

To put it simply, instead of asking Gruber what he thinks of Apple management, you ask HN, Slashdot, and Ars readers. Certainly none of us has connections like Gruber but it is "safer" in the sense that it is easier to justify to a board/shareholders why you lost money on Apple.
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