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"That’s the whole reason why the “3GS” is – following Apple’s numbering scheme – not considered a minor version."

That's backwards. The 3GS is not a minor version because it's not a minor version, period. The number of changes were as substantial as previously.

The numbering conundrum starts with the 3GS not the 4. They couldn't call it the 3 because it followed the 3G. They couldn't call it the 4 and it certainly couldn't be called the 4G.

When they got to the 4, "4" was both convenient (it was the 4th phone and followed a phone with a 3 in the name) and a bit sneaky (a not small number of people bought it under the impression that it was a 4G phone as well).

The next phone could logically be called a lot of things:

It could be called simply "iPhone LTE" or even "iPhone 4G".

Or it could be called the "iPhone 6" (the 6th phone running iOS 6 with an A6 processor, number of the beast lol).

It could also conceivably called the 5 (because hey they're still using "4" this year and "5" comes after "4").

Or they could abandon numbers and tech labels completely and call it the iPhone Classic (assuming they open the gates and come out with multiple new phones) or the iPhone Jagwire or whatever.
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From the famous 2005 Commencement Address: And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Seems to be what Stallman is doing.
Google has introduced their ADK, though even before that it was doable using the IOIO board.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.html

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10748
It's not that bad an idea, it's a kinda obscure page that still gets plenty of hits that they manage -- why not do some competitive intelligence to see if your results are the same as what others are doing?
Thomas A. Edison. They even briefly considered shutting down the entire U.S. Power Grid for a 1 minute.
I heard that speech, more than once, but I didn't understand what this "Whole Earth Catalog" was, other than being a popular book among nerds.

Is there any single book that can be said to be popular among nerds these days?
The guy who I know who has a Nook STR uses black and white comic art for his screen savers. They look pretty cool.
The full, amazing story of Woz hacking a floppy drive is in his Founders at Work interview.

One of my favorite interviews in JL's book.

http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html
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Those mundane languages tend be pretty isomorphic. It doesn't teach you anything to learn a new skin on the same old ideas.
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"Can your language do this?" by Joel Spolsky is an excellent introduction to functional programming for people coming from a C++/Java background.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html

Reading it was the first time I realized what I had be missing by not knowing anything about functional programming.

I think it would motivate people to want to learn more.
You are really making this out to be more confusing than it is. If you're not doing that intentionally, I think you should take a step back and try to look at things again without the assumption "This is confusing and everybody disagrees with each other."

Yes, the LLVM site does say it can be used in the construction of a virtual machine. That's factual. It has been used to construct actual, shipping virtual machines (e.g. Apple's MacRuby project). But that is not its primary or only use, and I don't think anyone would make that assumption if not for the name.

As for that thread, it contains some discussion among the developers about what LLVM is good for, but actually, nobody's really disagreeing with anybody else about what LLVM is and what it's good for.

Dan Gohman starts it out claiming that LLVM IR is not a very good bytecode for a portable virtual machine, and that if you want to build a portable VM, you'll need a separate layer for your bytecode.

Chris Lattner's reply (which you seem to read as disagrement) is essentially, "Yes, you're right, but here are the upsides that we get in exchange for those weaknesses as a bytecode."
This headline grossly misstates the content of the post. Apple wanted a closed source front end that could be linked with the open source gcc internal/backend. At no point would the existing GCC code ever become proprietary under this flawed scheme.
What matters is not confusing customers.

I think thought patterns like yours might be responsible for all those cryptic product names we are faced with all the time ;-)
Although I do not care for everything Stallman says and does, I do appreciate his consistency.
OS X != iOS

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That's because OS X apps don't run full screen by default.

The bigger screen doesn't meant that the app looks bigger – it just means that you can accommodate more things on screen at once.
I'm pretty sure I saw this as a work in progress on reddit. They took a large printout of Jobs and pasted the components of it on to build the initial frame...
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> So you decide to do a press release about it?

The military deny this is happening, the info is from somebody leaking to the media - probably frustrated with what is going on.
Not just Rails, Ruby projects in general. Most have awesome test coverage.
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Painful? At least in Europe this is done under general anesthetic and after the procedure you shouldn't feel more than light pains.
Quick wit. Deft touch. Well done.
The testing code looks horribly un-Pythonic to me, and I really don't think one should have to download a Java JAR to test a Python framework.
I was under the impression that Mixpanel was a different product. ie: tracking events and real-time stuff versus just page views.
I am their target demo and have been completely sucked in to it. Pinterest is addictive and engaging and completely enjoyable. It's the first place I go when I am having a bad day. This is one of the most exciting sites I have seen in a long time. My friends and I can't keep off of it.

Monetization will be a breeze. This demo doesn't get upset about ads, especially if they're relevant. And ads are just the LCD, no-brainer way to monetize. There is huge potential here.

I just don't understand why they need so much money. Jeeez, what are they spending it on?
>One of our rules is: can it be hacked together? (the request). If there exists a way to do it at all, we don't focus on it, rather we invent what isn't possible to do at all (or is currently very expensive to do).

that's an excellent way of prioritizing possible features, especially if you sell something that is typically automated.
This is the best thing that has ever been written on techcrunch.
That's an interesting question. The other things I'd like to know is, "Why did those startups fail? Was there anything the founders/employees could have done to save it? What did they learn from their experiences."

If it's a marketplace, marketing, or product problem then ok. But if the team fell apart, if there were internal conflicts, or if someone didn't pull their weight...then those might not be good candidates to bring on board to other startups no matter how smart they are. What bothers me about some teams are, there are people that you can tell have no initiative, they do the minimum of what's required, and they don't double check to make sure that everything works and invariably something minor comes up to trip up the project that could have been prevented. I hope I never get those people on my team, if I do they need to go.

Another thing I'd also like to know is, "How many of those people from failed YC startups founded another startup or did they just go back to a job or to being an employee at another startup?"
stopped reading when he started comparing pixel measurements with printed books.
Yeah that's what I thought too
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So if someone signs a non-compete in Washington, it's practically null and void if they go move to California for a job in California? What if they move back 3 years later to Washington and the non-compete was for 1 year?
Sorry, doesn't hold a candle to wa-wa-wa-windows-386.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4915875929930836239
That's the big if. Especially when the paragraph was discussing Googles performance tweaks to their in-house kernel used in their servers.
No, the article says that even if in 30 years we'll see a world where education will be absolutely necessary to survive, small town america isn't aware of this fact, or ignores this fact for more short-term matters.
Google is normally not outwardly competitor focused. Makes me think there are acquisition discussions going on behind the scenes and this is part of the diligence.
Good point. I haven't used STL algorithms on raw pointers in quite a while, that I didn't think of that reason at all.
As the article plainly states, "cyberspace mashes up 'everything' - ie, 'The interconnectedness of cyberspace breaks down borders and distinctions around which societies and states are organized.'

As I stated in my previous threads, the current client-server model must change; the current network/internet infrastructure must change. Trust has been replaced by anonymity. We must revamp the current paradigm to strike a balance between the freedoms that the internet affords us (e.g., freedom of speech) while being able to demarcate the 'cyberborders' that currently eludes us from distinguishing 'friend' and 'foe'.

At the precipice of cyberwarfare, we must address the insecurity of the current network/internet infrastructure rather than placing our sights to the 'cloud' (ie, cloud computing - geez! talk about less secure) and blaming software.
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"You have all these waiting periods, and it was just too awkward and too slow. So Mike [Markkula] said we needed two things: a floating point Basic (that's a Basic with decimal points, which I didn't have) and a floppy disk."

Sounds like a meaningful contribution to me.
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Just hit 100/100 on screen 3, "holly," in... wait, how do I find out what typeface it is after kerning?
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so... it's perfectly ok to publish tons of linkbaits about 'how steve jobs changed my life' even if they are vague and repetitive boring opinions, but nobody can state his negative views on this occasion. gimme a break. death is sad, but it's good that there are people who had decided to stay out of this bubble.
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Why are you even allowed to sell patents?

If they are there to protect inventors and allow profit from invention why can you sell them? If you fail to commercialize a product from an invention then the patent protection on it should be dropped. A company that buys a patent didn't invent, didn't innovate. Why should they get protection for someone elses work?
Some examples of anti-intellectualism in-grained into American culture:

- 'jocks' are celebrated while 'nerds' are persecuted at the high school level, and to a lesser extent at the college/university level.

- Someone that's smart is looked down on because they 'ruined the curve' for everyone else by acing a test.

- College/University are culturally seen as one large drunken orgy.
77/100 :)
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I tweeted earlier that I see RMS as the Fred Phelps (Westboro Baptist Church) of Free Software. He may not have started out this way; but these days he's completely single issue. If you're not doing free software 100% his way; you not only disagree with him but you are actually evil. Not just free software; but free software as RMS defines it(see GNU/Linux) or you're wrong. He's so blinded by his own zealotry that I'd argue that beyond the inner, hard-core "free software circle, he's seen as much of an embarrassment to the notion of free software as Phelps and Westboro are likely seen by other Christians.

I've felt this way a long time about RMS; his comment about Steve Jobs's death was uncalled for--but it really was well-within character. Just like Phelps and Westboro are expected to show up at soldier's funerals to protest, we've come to expect this type of shit from RMS--and I agree with the OP that it's time to stop just accepting it.

[Edit] I want to state that RMS, like everyone, is fully entitled to his opinion and that opinion carries no more or less weight than my own. Moreover, you're completely entitled to agree with him. What I do have a problem with is what the OP described: he doesn't belong at the head of a major organization, nor does he belong at the apex of the free software movement. Beyond my earlier described "inner circle," in the past several years, he's done more to tarnish the image of the free software community than to help it.
I did a handful of internships in college, mostly irellevant to my current career and was fortunate to never be taken advantage of. i know many people who unfortunately were.
Determination is the only prerequisite; everything else will fall into place. Learning C++ may be the least of your problems if you're considering entrepreneurship. Have you heard of a Mr. Jobs...=) "life's too short" Learn your C++ and everything else in between...good luck.
I've attended one of Stallman's talks and it was more of a comedy than anything else. I don't actually take him seriously, he did some great work in the past but the world has moved on.
Can I have it laying flat with a mirror above the camera?
If I'm adamantly opposed to paying to park my car, does it mean that parking tickets are ethically murky?

Living in a civilized society means that we sometimes have to play by rules we don't like (until we can convince everybody else that it's time to change the rules).
If it wasn't obvious from the past few days, HN is that bubble. If you don't like the circle jerking about Steve Jobs, come back in a week or two.
Apparently, RMS would seem to prefer that technology be exclusively Free and used by an tiny elite group of hackers than by millions of non-programmers and only partly Free.

Dear RMS: when it comes to creating good UIs, FOSS has never succeeded in keeping up with non-FOSS. Were it not for Jobs, there would be far fewer computer users and the free software movement might well be even further behind.
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There was an article about this a month ago, i think here. Saying that ALL of monsanto's competitors are swooping in and seeing this as a golden opportunity to shill their own seeds and herbicides as well. monsanto needs to adapt quick. They've had quite some time to figure this out.
Because sometimes you have a really good idea, and the ability to make it on a small scale, but you need help getting it perfect and making it big.

In such a case, it's often advantageous to join up with someone else, get investments, start a company, and sell your patents to that company.

That's just one way the ability to sell patents is a good thing.
Why didn't Apple just have their front-end emit GNU C with #line directives?
In src/liboslexec/llvm_instance.cpp, OSL uses a custom list of 13 LLVM optimizer passes (plus implicit passes pulled in as dependencies) -- less than what Clang uses at -O2 for C, but still a fair amount. Then it runs the full LLVM "-O2" backend. Even if the compilation happens "dynamically" from the perspective of the application, OSL is using many compiler features more commonly associated with "static" compilation.

JIT speed is relative. Shader programs are often executed many many many times, so OSL can likely afford to make different tradeoffs than many other JIT-using applications.
> I'm very sorry that he's gone
followed by
> There's no need to pretend that Stallman liked Jobs

He said what he meant.
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I'm aware of Stallman's advocacy on free software issues, but (completely honest question), what else does the Free Software Foundation do ?

Software is at a point where its basically impossible to make anything useful without opensource software. Proprietary code is a minority in my stack both as a developer and as a user. Proprietary software is often good before opensource software is good, but consistently opensource implementations eventually outpace their proprietary counterparts. We saw this trend first with UNIX -> Linux. Today, just reading this webpage I'm using Chrome (Chromium + WebKit) which communicates via POSIX to the BSD network stack in my kernel (Darwin). The browser has been compiled with either GCC or LLVM. Hackernews is probably hosted on nginx / apache behind varnish or something, running on linux.

In short, I feel like the opensource movement has already won. Aside from RMS's crusade against software patents, how is the FSF still relevant?
from working with gae excessively over a year now, gae is not really reliable enough for mission critical systems. Datastore queries that work one day, might not work the next, random exceptions using the gae api is common.
Pinterest has existed for many years as a sub-product of a website called Lime Life called MySnaps (http://www.limelife.com/bookmarklet.html). It is essentially the exact same thing as Pinterest except that MySnaps but is not a standalone product, nor is not as "clean" as Pinterest's implementation.

I only know about MySnaps as I once got a freelance e-mail about a two years ago from someone asking me to recreate MySnaps for them but I shrugged it off. Makes me wonder if it was the Pinterest guys ;)

It's really interesting how marketing, and presentation can make a product more popular than your competitors. Other companies with success like this include Quizlet, and Facebook.

EDIT: But now thinking about it, isn't this essentially Delicious all over again as a different mutation?
the first day I saw this http://i.imgur.com/xlNGD.png, today I took the risk to click HN and was very surprised the frontpage doesn't look like that. when you've heard the news, it's not news anymore.
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>- 'jocks' are celebrated while 'nerds' are persecuted at the high school level, and to a lesser extent at the college/university level.

It's a huge problem. My understanding is that the definition of "Ivy league college" actually refers to what colleges play sports against what other colleges. An absolutely insane way to rank schools. Hell, we subsidize sports stadiums as adults; stadiums that cause significant traffic problems, and if you ask me, attract an undesirable element.

This is actually one of the things I really like about silicon valley; I don't know anyone who doesn't work a service job who is really into sports.

>- College/University are culturally seen as one large drunken orgy.

Wait, you mean it's not a large drunken orgy? I mean, I'm half joking, but outside of the math and engineering majors, I'm under the impression that a lot of partying happens.

But this goes back to my own prejudice against liberal arts majors. Does that prejudice make me an anti-intellectual?
A thought, it would be great if it could explain what mistakes you made. Knowing I got a 0/100 is great but I'd really like to know why :) That would turn it from leaning through trial and error into a very useful learning tool.
I run an education company in the consumer space.

Slight disagreement on the quality/cost problem. The big challenge isn't having a market. One of the reasons there is so much competition is that people will look at the leading players and think, "if they can sell that for $500 then I can make a lot of money with a better and cheaper product." This encourages a flood of really low quality education products that saturate the market and create a barrier to entry for new startups.

The thing most founders don't realize is that most of the revenues from high-priced products are used to fund advertising and customer acquisition strategies, so competing on price is very difficult because - ironically - it hurts your ability to scale in the short-term. This makes bootstrapping tough because if you charge the prices necessary to get users you have to compete at the same level of quality as the established players, while if you charge less you will have trouble getting users. Meanwhile, the extreme competition makes SEO near impossible (our organic search figures are dismal - our growth is ALL word of mouth).

This is why there is so much snakeoil in the industry: distribution trumps quality. The companies that survive tend to be the ones that take a shotgun approach to maximizing visibility rather than actually focusing on how to provide a better education. I personally believe focusing on quality at low cost IS a winning approach because once you achieve dominance you undermine the pay-to-advertise business model, but you have to figure out how to cover your costs and grow into that position organically. And this is simply not possible for startups that have expense structures that require them to get funding.

I've been told by public listed companies not to enter our market because they were going to own it in X years by giving away both the cow and the milk. I've seen competitor after competitor flame out because they thought getting users would be easy, produced crap and discovered that no-one came. But if you can produce something that people use and care enough about to help spread word, you can do it.
Here, I'll let someone with much more eloquence than me explain to you why Stallman's diatribe is poorly wrought.

If Stallman had to make a statement emphasizing his dislike of Jobs' influence, he could still have done so respectfully. Consider this; "I didn't share Steve Jobs' vision of computing, and I wish he'd chosen to embrace free software. I'm very sorry that he's gone and we've lost the opportunity to have that conversation. My sympathies are with his family at this time." There's no need to pretend that Stallman liked Jobs, but his post is contemptible.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/10/why-fsf-found...
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Is he? Or is he fundamentally a troubled, self-righteous individual with an axe to grind? It's easy to rationalize this behavior as primarily altruistic, but in RMS's case I kind of doubt it.
What doesn't look pythonic to you? Looks like he uses unittest for testing python and Selenium (java jar, certainly not required) for testing the frontend (html/js/rendering) in browser.
After reading this, all I can say is that some people are too sensitive.
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They've won that battle, but not the war. Servers, databases, frameworks, languages, etc are often open source, but the majority of applications are not.
Crass and insensitive but in line with everything I've ever heard him profess to believe. He's never strayed from his goal in making great software available to millions of people around the world, and he's never given a shit why it shouldn't or couldn't be done his way...damn, that sounds familiar.
> Larger memory usage -> more traffic between CPU and RAM.

Well, if the memory were lower, the call would have been made CPU->HDD which is orders of magnitude slower, so you'd expect more RAM would necessarily improve the general performance.