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I think Sweden might overestimate their dependence on the US. The military threat to Sweden is currently rather low, (and there's always the rest of NATO).

Countries just need to all agree to start ignoring the US. I bet doing so would be a positive gain for economies in the long run.
Wouldn't Pixar count as "industry-dominating"? It may be too early to tell, but I'd bet money the iPad will also end up in that category.

The man took a company that was going out of business and turned it into the largest company in the world. I don't think this talk is "hyperbole" in the least.

http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
Actually, I think those problems will be solved before audio. Audio is in a terrible state with the web. We need a good 3D sound API. Flash? Ugh. Write the entire app in WebGL/JS/html and then go to flash?
I think it's more than the just the Apple II and the iPhone. The way I see it, the man's main hobby was disruption. He disrupted the PC industry with the Apple II and later the Mac line. He disrupted the music industry with the iPod and iTunes, and the phone industry with the iPhone. He changed the animation industry with Pixar one of the most successful, both financially, and critically acclaimed movie company. He revived an industry which most considered a dead horse with the iPad and where most companies are still playing catch-up.

I agree if this was to happen back in the 90s, he wouldn't be as praised as he is today, but what does that have to do with anything? If I was to judge anyone before their greatest moments, they wouldn't pass the bar. And yeah, he was kind of an ass in his early days, but by most accounts he became a lot more mellow when returning to Apple.
This is so wrong, I don't even know where to begin. The _entire_ point of URLs is that they're just that -- Universal. Requiring a specific application in order to consume a URL is just as asinine as User Agent sniffing to enforce an 'IE Only' policy (and you're lying if you say that ended well).

Perhaps consuming based on Content-Type headers would be a better way to attack this (legitimate) problem. Certainly in the early days of the web, that's how it was done (want to enjoy the latest VRML? Install plugin 'x'). Adding a layer of abstraction on top of URLs that tries to mediate this is just altogether wrong, I think.

Debate welcome. I'm mostly just thinking out loud here.
Additionally, as per RFC1378, non-standard schemes should either be registered with IANA, or should start with x-. If Facebook was being a good citizen, they'd register 'fb' (they haven't), or better yet, use 'facebook' or 'x-facebook'.

Also, we don't need a fancy database -- existing vendor's web sites are perfectly capable of sniffing the browser and redirecting to a native app, if it's available -- this is what iTunes does.
Thanks for the great link! Browsing through Tufte's main site, I also saw that he has upcoming classes:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses

New England next week, then in the Washington D.C. region, then the Bay Area in December...!
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Air bubbles would escape and you would have to make it smaller. That was a really stupid question.

Yes, sometimes I wish I could be Steve and herd the Geek community. I could make a shippable Linux that consumers would pay for. Gnome, KDE, Unity... Hey, let's call it LibreOffice... get it?

Geeks should try to think like normal humans... All that effort could actually change the world.
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It's worth reading as an example of how to try to acknowledge you made massive mistakes, pissed away good will, and want the community to know that you've heard them, and you want to make things better.
It is probably depending on what importance one attributes to the role of data and humans in this context. What I would be most interested in his how he understands objectivity or what he is going to present as his way of presenting data - especially because I am coming from this "all data is subjective" standpoint. But this is of cause just a personal standpoint.

I don't think that the length-is-quality argument should be here an issue - as he has demonstrated in the Powerpoint discussion that it is very well (within his philosophy) possible to make an argument within a 3X page booklet. Instead what I was asking for was a similar accessible or solution oriented approach as he did with the Powerpoint subject.
CCP's CEO is acknowledging that he was, in his words:

I was impatient when I should have been cautious, defiant when I should have been conciliatory and arrogant when I should have been humble

He aims to resolve all the nonsense of the last few months by:

doing what we say and saying what we do

He addresses and apologies for all the ways CCP seemed to have become EvilCorp™ over the last few months.
This is interesting; SourceTree has shaken out, IMO, as the very best git client for Mac.

I hope Atlassian has the balls to leave in the support for github, even though they now own bitbucket.
Exactly. Case in point: Google. Imagine if they started pulling stunts like this - the goodwill they depend on would evaporate overnight, the whole "I don't mind Google owning all my data because they aren't evil" balance would become paranoia about everything they touch, and they would lose billions. I believe that Microsoft's myopic focus on short-term profit at the expense of doing the right thing is one of the major causes of it's recent decline towards obscurity.

In today's world of abundant choice, companies have to provide good products AND provide them ethically.

Back on topic, look at what Astrolabe have done - taken something they probably couldn't make much money from anyway, and got the unix-derived world very pissed off with them. Their employees will feel down and it'll be harder to hire, and they'll have to endure snide remarks for years. I know I'd be selling their shares today, if I had any - I don't like investing in jerks.

Instead, they could have come out and said "We're pleased to donate our IP towards this amazingly useful service", and got a pat on the back from the world. And I'm guessing most of their shareholders would have been happy their investment was making the world a better place.
someone did make a copy

http://www.archive.org/details/archiveteam-munari-oz-au-2011...
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> That's shown me. I guess the death of myself, my loved ones, my friends, and all 7 billion humans alive today isn't so bad compared to the sheer horror of culture staying the same.

Unless you think we're perfectly adapted to all future circumstances, different selective pressures will require change, as they have for the past 4 billion or so years on this planet. Plus, good luck getting people to stop fucking. We have a finite amount of resources available. Regardless of the philosophical implications, it's not even practical to try to keep people alive forever. You ask where my perspective is, yet you brush concerns like this under the rug because you can't bear the thought of you personally having to go through the experience of losing loved ones, as organisms have been doing for eons.

> But it would be ridiculous to reject the idea of it based on speculation that it might not be possible.

Yes, I overreached there. I meant only to reject the idea that it will necessarily lead to positive outcomes.

> All the stuff we've dug up is still in the universe, there is still an environment, and largely it's still the same as it ever was.

And a lot of it we've put through physical and chemical changes which are non-reversible. And an environment is different than one that can sustain us comfortably. I didn't think I was going to have to defend simple facts about resource consumption.

> There was vastly more severe environmental change happening outside the time of humans than there has been during it, and we don't talk about the time the crust cooled and set as "the great environmental destruction", do we? Or when oxygen levels dropped, or when the earth warmed and ice ages finished?

We probably would if we were around for it. Species were wiped out. As the environment changes now, selective pressures will change again, and anything maladapted to them will die out. If indeed we are changing the environment and extracting resources at an unsustainable rate, we may die out or be radically changed, and by definition, something more able to keep their consumption under control will flourish. I believe that we have reached an evolutionary point where a much quicker memetic evolution will allow humans to adapt, but the resistance to this collective way of thinking will need to be overcome.

> Then we should probably fix that, not prostrate ourselves and play who's the most cynical and holier-than-thou games.

What game do you think I am playing here? I'm making an earnest argument that maybe the life cost of trying to build the biggest SUVs is too high, and will disadvantage our species in the long run.

> We, the living humans on this planet, take precedence over all future, potential, hypothetical humans by virtue of our existence and their non-existance.

And by definition, this is egocentric, which was the original point. Unless you deny that people will be born in the future, calling them imaginary is intellectually dishonest. Pretending that they will never exist achieves nothing except to deflect your anxiety about taking actions which will make the lives of your descendents more difficult.
Putin in Russia publicly stated that Berlusconi critics are just really envious of Berlusconi (yea, one more thing i too well understand, yet not proud, about my old country)
There's only one Spanish Wikipedia, there isn't a Venezuelan Spanish Wikipedia or a Cuban Spanish Wikipedia.
Care to tell us a bit more about the project? For example what makes it different from other music services etc?
Well, sure, it doesn't _require_ it. But the alternative is higher query latency. You have to collect a filtered set of the join column from table A, then ship them over to the servers responsible for table B. If your interconnect has high latency or low bandwidth, this can be painful - particularly if the intermediate set of keys is very large.

Hence why the datastore simply disallows this - yes, it's _possible_ to make joins work on larger datasets. But it's not possible to make _arbitrary_ joins work well on larger datasets.
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I'd say at least five. The Macintosh was also an industry-dominating hit. While the Mac itself never dominated in terms of market share, it so dominated the market that almost all PCs shipped in the last 20 years are imitations of it. The iPod pretty much took over the portable music player market and remains the dominant player today. And finally the iPad pretty much created the tablet market and everybody else is still trying to catch up to it there.

I think you have a good point about the timing of all of this. However, Steve was consistently and shockingly successful for the past decade and a half, which I think is more than enough time to say that these qualities aren't just an artifact of timing.
Without the edges, you don't have a middle.

Now I think of it though, I remember when the most fun you could have was standing in the middle of a see-saw whilst your friends sat on the ends.... I don't think it would have been anywhere as much fun if everybody was standing in the middle and there was nobody on the ends to upset the balance.
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fyi, that link redirects users to a signup page unless they're already logged into goodreads. (which I'm not, since I have no account there.)
The point is not that you must create a product which contains no air. The point is that, as long as it does contain air, it can be made smaller. It may be difficult, it may be impractical, but it can be done.

Talking about how there's always going to be some air is completely missing the point. The point is that you can always push things a little further.
This is well-written, candid and interesting, but I feel like I'm missing out on a lot because I've never played EVE. Can someone who is familiar with the issues (for example, what is "ship spinning"?) give an overview of what led to this?
I imagine you're right, but so what? A lot of excellent people are unpleasant in person in some circumstances. There's a lot more to being praiseworthy than simply being a nice person.
Their bosses bosses' have never seen their CEOs. I bet you there's a good chance a CSR doesn't even know their CEO's name.

I certainly didn't back when I worked at $IMMENSE_FINANCIAL_INSTITUTIONs
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Definitely go if you're in Brazil. I was there several years ago.
If you need the latest version, Archive Team got a backup and put it on the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/archiveteam-munari-oz-au-2011...
It seems likely that the interest of an Astrology company in historical timezone data is in being able to determine the precise position of the stars and planets in the sky at the moment of someone's birth (which obviously involves knowing what local timezone was in effect at that place and time).

I am sure they see great value in being the only Astrologers who can do this, which means that they need to suppress access to this data.
This is an excellent book. I bought a used copy this summer, and what has been so striking to me is the quotes and examples he uses; I have read most of them before, in one form or another, travailing the internet. It feels like someone modern collated the examples for the book, but Tufte wrote it in 1974! You also get a glimpse of Tufte before he becomes the information visualization guru.
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I'm pretty sure you've got his argument backwards:

1. We already _do_ have fb://profile/account, it's the app specific URL registered in the iOS app to open the Facebook app.

2. What he's saying is "Why can't you register http://facebook.com/profile on iOS to open the facebook app?" That would mean that we explicitly _don't_ have a protocol landrush.

3. A solution might be a service that takes a web url, and returns an app url, so that if the web url has an app equivalent, we never have to know it; the app functions as we expect, and we don't introduce something above and beyond the web URLs we know and love.
We could argue about the domination of the Mac or the impact and legacy of NeXT and Pixar, but...

You really don't think the iPod was an industry-dominating hit? They sold hundreds of millions of them, and no other company ever really came up with a successful answer to them. It was left to Apple itself to kill them with the iPhone.
wow this is really poignant. annoyingly you cannot link to individual ones, but #21 of #154:

> In this photograph, I am sitting with my daughter and singing to her. It is the winter of 2008 and she is dying. We are gathered in our home in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her Dad, her caregivers, our friends and minister are present. Someone brings her Macbook to her so that her Grandpa and Grandma in Malaysia can see her through skype. Another friend holds our iPhone close-by so that my sister in Australia can listen in. The whole world is with her, in her bedroom, in those days before she died, connected in love and prayers and through this amazing technology.

> I had not looked at this photograph since she died - but I searched for it after the news of Steve Jobs' death, remembering this most precious moment in time when we were all together (and a Macbook and iPhone helped bring us a little closer).

> Thank you for being a part of our lives, Steve Jobs.
I had the same distaste for awhile until I realized that the HBGary guy actually edited the slides with Palantir's logo on them himself while making a pitch

Do you have a reference for that?

Pretty sure Palantir canned the employee who let him get away with that a long time ago.

Is that feeling based on anything or is it just a hope? (Genuine question)
See my comment above, but I'm pretty sure you have his argument backwards; we already _do_ have application specific URLs in iOS, and wouldn't it be nice if that weren't the case?
This is a rare and wonderful eulogy. We can nitpick over the details of Fry's grasp of the Apple way, but today it is probably better just to appreciate what Fry gets right about the phenomenon of Steve Jobs. I think one thing he gets right, the thing in any case of most importance to me, is the attitude that Jobs brought to the things he did. The phrase "insanely great" has been knocking about in my brain as a kind of touchstone for that attitude since I first heard it used of the Mac in 84. I was a kid, but the phrase stuck with me, like the voice of conscience, becoming a constant challenge to do better. Beyond the macs and the pods and the phones and the pads, what I feel most grateful to Jobs for is the fact that he supplanted the old clarion cry "good is not good enough" with the much more powerful idea: "great is not great enough." There are other powerful ideas, including the antonymous "Just ship it!" Perhaps the challenge of living well and doing good is to somehow respond to the imperatives implied by both ideas. "Just ship it!" is a useful antidote for the procrastinating and hesitating conscience, but the romantic in me appreciates more the restraints placed on whatever forces lead us to accept mediocrity by having the ideal of the insanely great held before us the proper measure of human achievement.
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What a bunch of garbage. Is this what HN is all about?
Ship spinning is an incredibly trivial feature that corresponds to an utter lack of motivation to actually do things in Eve. Veteran players have a somewhat love/hate relationship with the game, warning new players that "Eve is a terrible game".

Generally in the Eve universe you are never safe, except when "docked" in a space station. In previous versions, you were presented with a view of your ship floating in the space hangar, and due to the "camera" mechanics of the UI, you could spin around your ship at like 300+ RPM.

An utterly pointless exercise in which millions of man-hours have been spent while simultaneously chatting on TeamSpeak or Jabber or doing market research, or whatever. But all players seem to share a tongue-in-cheek fondness for this feature.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernard Shaw
No, that was still Joe Sixpack and Average Joe and Joe from Main Street. Joe the Plumber was always a specific person, but it didn't matter while he was a proxy.
I'm in Champaign too. It's not a bad little city. Downtown Champaign has some nice spots. I grew up here, attended UIUC, and had the good fortune to intern at Apple while Jobs was at the top of his game.

I have a stupid Steve Jobs anecdote of my own, which I wrote when he retired from the CEO position:
https://plus.google.com/102623420630486053048/posts/fTYoDEFV...

One of the best parts of interning at Apple was their tradition of each top exec giving a small lecture to the current crop of interns. Not just Jobs, but guys like Phil Schiller and Jonathan Ive. It was fantastic.

They'd each do an informal Q&A after their speech, and I remember one of the kids jokingly asking Steve if he could be a dancer in a silhouette iPod ad. Steve turned on some music and had the guy come down in front and demo his dance skills, sagely advising him afterwards to stick to his day job. It was great.
ya, if someone creates a new profile to comment as a fb fanboi.
This is the online version of a project I/we (http://icelab.com.au) made for the National Museum of Australia. Originally built as a WebKit-only touchscreen, it's been deployed to one of their permanent galleries running in Google Chrome for the last couple of months.

Some technical details:

* All animation is done with CSS transitions.

* Each page is actually a separate HTML file thats pulled in via AJAX.

* A small JS wrapper handles the transitions between page states.

* The background "panograph" is built in canvas.

* We're using the History API for pushing real state into the history stack.

* It works in IE6+ with the help of JavaScript animation and VML
Time measurements are interestingly difficult when you start to care about high accuracy or long times. There's a kind of hard-to-read but interesting running log on the state of the leap second at http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html. (What, you didn't know there were leap seconds? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second)
Well the site is called Pluggio.
Ignoring the US effectively means shutting yourself off from the global culture, because like it or not, America's entertainment industries are the biggest in the world. American movies play everywhere. American music is heard everywhere. Last I heard, America is about half of the video and computer games industry. And even the Internet is dominated by America unless you're Chinese or somewhere similarly insular (this site you're on right now? American).

Some examples of things you'll have to boycott to truly ignore America:

• Google

• Bing

• Blekko

• DuckDuckGo

• Facebook

• Macs

• Windows

• iPhone

• iPad

• Android

• MS Office

• Photoshop

• MySQL

• Java

• C#

• Red Hat

• Firefox

• Chrome

• IE

• Safari

• iTunes

• Final Cut

• Premiere

• Avid

• ProTools

• Logic
There is no content / argument to this article outside of "FaceBook is adding so many features in reaction to Google+."

The articles evidence:
I read an article about the eventual possibility of Google overcoming FB’s dominance, and am starting to think the mighty Facebook could be on its way down. Why? Too many changes, additions, deletions to what was once a successful, popular recipe. This is what I’m calling the software version of “the New Coke”, and it oddly mimics what I think clinched the death of MySpace:
Leading off with a hyperbolic statement like "every law proposal, every ordinance, and every governmental report hostile to the net, youth, and civil liberties here in Sweden in recent years have been commissioned by the US government and industry interests." -- I can only take the whole thing with a grain of salt.

I'm quite willing to believe that the US government exerts a large influence. I'm absolutely unwilling to believe that the Swedes are angels, and never do anything wrong on their own; that every problem in Sweden is a self-inflicted wound as directed by America.
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Here's a site to publish your iOS-specific app URLs: http://www.handleopenurl.com/

Until apps start owning URLs, everyone can publish their app capabilities here and call other apps (like Tweetbot) from their apps.