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> I can assure you, controlling everything is the last thing Apple wants. Apple is not proprietary. Hell, Mac OS X is the most popular open sourced operating system on the planet. The Safari web browser is just a thin shell around webkit. Apple could have kept both closed and innovated on them, instead they innovate on them and give them away (and yet so called "open source" fans actually complain about this.)

Wow! This is great news. I've been waiting for this to happen so that I can go ahead an run OS X on any computer I choose. Kindly point me to the link? I would have guessed it was at http://opensource.apple.com but alas, that's just a random assortment of parts which I'm limited to using for "internal research and development".
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Largely because of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJZXFEy6Cg and http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/l6neu/dozens_of_reddit_...
Liked this bit from the oyoglasses site: "Take two photos of yourself. In one photo, just smile. In the second photo hold a quarter to your forehead. It will look silly, but this will provide a sense of scale that will allow our software to accurately measure your face."

Nice site too.
> it sounds like they're restricting their focus to the suburbs, possibly because they don't like the suburbs

Or because tax density per foot of road is more of a problem in suburban or rural areas. There's a good reason half of Vermont is still dirt or gravel.
Can you post something that actually means something?
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I have such mixed feelings about this. What's the bigger evil, censorship or porn for kids? I had porn as a kid and I turned out (mostly) OK... but I had to wait for it to download on a 14.4kbps modem so it was of a slightly different magnitude to what's available now.
Could something like this fly in the US? or would it get struck down due to 1st amendment?
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Sarcasm I know, but far too many people fall for promises made on a campaign trail. Worse far too many believe their side will always do what is right.

Yet once in power there are far too many government agencies and persons who have a vested interest in keeping the status quo. Some will simply overwhelm any new administration so as to keep their power, others will use fear, some will stall, and finally others will just ignore and hope to ride out the four or eight years.
Trello got a lot of attention when it launched. Would you put it in that same category?

Are there any to-do list apps that handle dependencies well? e.g., I want to plant a vegetable patch or espalier some fruit trees at the end of my property, but I can't do that until I've arranged for a new fence.
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Need this for my wife. Will that camera's RAW format need to be compatible with this algorithm?
A few weeks ago I whipped up this 3-minute video showcasing a Smalltalk class browser, method finder, and debugger:
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Gotta be careful with sarcasm. Done right, everyone grins with wry amusement. Sadly, it's much easier to do wrong, and you end up dancing around your point instead of making it persuasively and directly. Brevity helps.
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Ah, thanks for the comment. I'm glad my comment spurred you to give it a try!
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I'm always disappointed when I go looking for European web services, why is that? Why can't they have a Hotmail counterpart? China has comparable duplicates of most American services, but Europe doesn't even try. It's weird.
I'd say the gist demonstrates that it's not Javascript. What you see is the entire runtime, compiled to naive js.

If anything, Coffeescript is "just" js with syntactic sugar. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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Thanks for your clarification, comparing with existing products. Makes it much easier to understand now. :)
"All software installed on Bizztrust-enabled Androids is automatically scanned before the user logs on to their company's network via VPN; if any irregularities are detected, the user will not be able to use compromised apps"

What exactly does that mean? Do they keep a blacklist of apps? Perhaps they only mean the "work apps"?
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void doSomething(String a) {
// Do something 1
}

void doSomething(Integer a) {
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That's the sort of thing they mean by types don't change how programs behave. You can't easily change or remove the type system because it's tightly coupled with method resolution. If you have an optional type system, the evaluation semantics of the language cannot depend on the type system because you don't want the program to do something different if you are/are not using the type system.

The fact that type errors are only manifested as warnings is a (perhaps odd) design decision, but it doesn't stop them being type errors. They could just as easily made them errors, and String a = 1 would give a compile time error.

Hopefully they'll be a 'warnings as errors' flag for those of us more used to type errors being compile errors.
I'm guessing that there is a whole lot of analysis left out by loading pre-configured coesfficient files to deconvolve these images. Getting that process to be relatively easy for the lay-person will be a challenge.
Argh, that was actually my bad and it's already fixed. Thank you for the notice!
> Community: "You forgot a semi-colon!"

The user is king. If Google doesn't give a shit about dart's users - ie programmers - then why should we care?
Actually, with enough experience with a given vehicle, it is quite possible to smoothly shift it without the clutch. When the engine reaches the appropriate RPM, you let off the gas as you take the car out of gear, smoothly and firmly shift to the next gear at the right time (a super-narrow window), and ease into the gas again. Unfortunately, if you get any of that wrong, you get an unpleasant (and somewhat damaging) grinding.

Your transmission is a series of gears with varying ratios of wheel revolutions to engine revolutions. When you upshift, your engine requires fewer revolutions to drive your wheels. When the no-clutch-shifter lets off the gas, the engine's RPM begin to fall. With the correct timing, the shift is performed during this drop in RPM such that the engine's current RPM matches the RPM necessary to drive the car at this speed in this new gear. This obviates the need for a clutch, since the engine and the rest of the drivetrain (for which the transmission is the link) are being manually synchronized: the shift is performed with a technique that keeps everything spinning at the same relative speed.

When you depress the clutch pedal, the transmission disengages from the engine, allowing you to freely shift without regard to the engine's machinations. When you let out the clutch, what typically occurs is that a carbon disk slips a bit before fully reëngaging, allowing the engine and the rest of the drivetrain to gradually synchronize. This is the "catch" that you feel when you let out the clutch.

To illustrate explicitly, let's say we're shifting from 3rd gear to 4th gear at about 30 MPH, and for this car at 30 MPH the engine must spin at 5000 RPM in 3rd gear and 3000 RPM in 4th. Without the clutch, you left off the gas and pull the car out of gear (taking it out of gear is a split-second after letting off the gas), the engine's speed (RPM) begins to fall as you pull the shifter into 4th, and just as the engine hits 3000 RPM (on its way down to 1000, the idling rate), you shift the transmission fully into 4th gear. With the clutch, you jam the clutch and shift, and the engine could be anywhere from 1000-4500 RPM when you let the clutch back out. The clutch slips a bit, allowing the engine to reach the appropriate 3000 RPM before it is fully engaged. Without the clutch, you have very little room for error.
Let me reciprocate on your attempt to give generic but well-meaning advice:

1: Whitespace is your friend. You should try it. Paragraphs need room to breathe.

2: Tinyfont is tiny. 16px is a good standard, though some fonts can get away with less.

3: I get the distinct impression that you just discovered the IM niche, but you say you have years of experience. This advice is good, but it's been repeated a million times over. I don't see what distinguishes this instance from the others.

IM, as with any money-centric niche, is extremely crowded. Turn this into 10 posts that slowly tell readers why they should read you in addition to the likes of Problogger and Copyblogger.
Nokia has also additional UX Guidelines for N9/Swipe, which is a really nicely crafted document. http://www.developer.nokia.com/swipe/ux/
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>Although it could take a decade to commercialize the technology

Nothing takes a decade to commercialize anymore. The financial interests and the rate of innovation in this sector are too high.
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I don't believe the echo is a simpler example. It's just as complicated as blur really. You can remove both to a large extent, providing you have the correct model with correct parameters. Discovering right parameters is a hard problem in both cases.
Look at this from the opposite direction.

You want a big multi-billion $ business to start dictating your laws?

Good luck on that one, that's not going to end badly is it?
I was replying to:

"Visual Studio does it for me. I can see the point if you say it's longer to read but it's also much clearer,"

So he's saying that: Circle circle = new Circle() is typed by Visual Studio for you, and clearer to read. I don't think it's clearer to read.
Not trying to be persuasive, I was just entertained by seeing Apple fanboyism raised to the point where people think OS X is now open source, and figured I'd have some fun and spend a few points on the inevitable downvotes.
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Interesting. I've to admit my ignorance again - no idea.

How 'religious' is Japan? I was baffled on the day I learned that you cannot marry without a ceremony with a Rabbi here if you're a Jew. In DE it's (all romance removed..) signing paperworks and optionally going to a church if you like that sort of thing. Christian ceremonies have no influence over your status though: You're married _iff_ you signed the paperwork, whether a priest held your hands or not. Here this seems to be different. And this is just one thing that confuses the hell out of this particular secular guy.

Don't want to bash something I don't understand. Consider this just a try to emphasize my confusion and venting some 'Boy are things different' steam.
> Not trying to be persuasive

Ah, in that case, bravo!
> Wow! This is great news. I've been waiting for this to happen so that I can go ahead an run OS X on any computer I choose. Kindly point me to the link? I would have guessed it was at http://opensource.apple.com ...

You have the URL wrong. I will kindly point you to a link:

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

It's not "any computer you choose", but any desktop or laptop with hardware components that are supported. Did you know Windows Server 2008 doesn't have drivers for early Intel Gigabit Server NICs, so you can't run that OS on an unsupported computer? Just as you can't run Windows on "any computer you choose", only on ones with supported hardware, it's the same thing with OS X.

Another link, laptops this time:

http://www.mymacnetbook.com/compatibility-chart/

The following listings of Hackintosh compatible computers, parts, motherboards and drivers (kexts) should be helpful in your endeavor:

http://www.hackintosh.com/#hackintosh_compatible

Happy hacking!

// Yes, I realize your request for a link was rhetorical.
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One of the benefits of a long-standing, distinct Jewish culture, IMO, is that their cultural stability avoids many of the negative affects of decisions made by the broader culture in which they live.

In the Middle East today, the relative prosperity of Israel relative to its neighbors is a good example of that. Abandoning science and reason has a negative affect on a society, and blaming your neighbor for your misfortune is easier than dealing with that.
See here for an effort to create the smallest possible hello world x86 ELF binary: http://timelessname.com/elfbin/

His original C app was about 6k, and 3k when stripped of debug symbols. Not content, he switched to assembly, which got him down to ... nah, I won't spoil the rest. ;)
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The reasons Jews stereotypically have a lot of money is because for the majority of history it was illegal for them to own land. Instead they turned to business and banking. Since it's forbidden to lend in the Christian religion, Jews excelled in this area.

Not the best source but check out the first paragraph of this http://www.jewishhistory.org/the-rothschilds/

"In the Middle Ages, the Church, in a misapplication of the Biblical prohibition against charging interest, forbade interest in all instances. The Talmud, in contrast, created an economic system in which loans could be converted into investments, so interest could accrue from them, but under the Christian interpretation, no credit market was possible. The way the Church got around that was by forcing the Jews to become the bankers. "
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This is only for http but I think you should take a look at Netcat. http://nc110.sourceforge.net/
> If you run this through closure-compiler it's reduced to 2000 lines
> which is nothing next to Underscore, jQuery, Dojo, etc.

jQuery is 9000 lines, uncompressed with all the comments.

I call that about the same order of magnitude as the things you mention, hardly "next to nothing".

Additionally, just about every line in jQuery is actually useful for something, even the optimized code seems to mostly consist of a whole load of getters and setters and definitions of what addition and multiplication does.

> I haven't looked into the language yet and unless you haven't either let's all refrain from judgements based on this silly metric alone.

Lines of code stops being a "silly metric" when the numbers get really big, as they do here.

> Don't get me started on the whining about math performance. Reminds me of dinosaurs whining about how assembly is better than C is better than Java is better than.... There is more to software development than math.

Surely you didn't mean "There is more to software development than performance." :-)

Easy to pick off "math". But is this stuff not supposed to run in a browser? I'll reconsider when I see a simple application running smoothly on a cheap 3 year old desktop PC.

No, a Hello World program that compiles to 170kloc is what is ridiculous. That you can optimize it to 2kloc is nice, but it's still just a Hello World program.

And a more serious program, how big would that be?
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I can't believe that. Unless you write a blog post with the "trip" detailed. Pretty please ;-)
Pet peeve alert: sizeof is not a function. It's a unary operator.

The parenthesis you usually see after it are part of the argument, which for type names looks like a cast to the type in question. Like any other cast, the syntax is the type name in parenthesis.

Apologies if you already knew this.
I wonder if they've solved the problem of shipping year old kernels and letting untrusted apps run native code without any explicit permission. Until then, the words "Android" and "secure" should never appear in the same sentence.
Cool, except I keep feeling like fast charging is solving the wrong problem because it usually has such a dramatically bad impact on the life of a battery.

Gasoline and diesel are currently "standard" fuels we put into a container inside our cars. It takes 5 to 10 minutes to put fuel into said container when we fill up. Why are we trying to put electrons into a battery like we put fuel into fuel tanks? Why not just have a container in the car that holds a battery?

If the battery was standard, or even had a range of standard sizes, it would only take a few minutes for a robot to pull the discharged one out and put a fully charged one in. Then you're still putting "fuel" into a container, not pushing electrons into a chemistry.

There's all kinds of positives for this battery swapping:
* You can still slow charge at home.
* Batteries can be slow charged at the "gas station."
* We don't need expensive charging stations to be developed.
* No more getting out of the car to "fuel up."
* Electrical grid doesn't have to support pushing outrageous currents to chargers (think of a "gas station" with 16 chargers all running at the same time, that's serious current).
* Slow charging can stagger charging (or charge at off peak) and display what batteries are currently available online.
* We can do this with today's tech!
How about you all lighten up, yeah?
I don't see anybody ditching RIM yet. Security needs to be proven with a track record. No matter what systems they deploy, there will always be exploits and hacks.
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Dude, this is as obvious as hiding your key under your doormat. They checked for that with dogs, flashlights and the like. Also, USSR track width was different than anyone elses, so carriages had to be moved between platforms with a crane.
How exactly do you identify muslim students?

You probably aren't running into many devout/conservative type muslims who pray during the day or wear appropriate regalia. By that logic, you could argue that Catholics are underrepresented, because nobody is carrying rosary beads or confessing sins daily.
I suppose Jitter is a big honking extra option, yeah. :-) I read the original comment as suggesting that SuperCollider was somehow lacking in flexibility compared to Max/MSP, which isn't true. They're all excellent tools with different approaches.
FWIW, here in Norway, the share of young people from a Pakistani background who are currently pursuing a degree is higher than among their Norwegian peers.
The 4 comparisons of smartphones are in reality 2 GPU benchmarks, and 2 browser benchmarks, one of which is just sunspider, and the other seems heavily weighted towards sunspider since the devices come in roughly the same order. And yes, I knew before I saw this benchmark that the GPU was going to be better than the competition. So as I said, better GPU and newer Javascript seems to cover it (particularly when you note the jump of older iDevices due to OS upgrades i.e. newer Javascript).

As I said, there's no straight CPU benchmark, or anything that is limited by RAM so ""beats all smartphones" in benchmarks" is a fair bit less accurate and complete than what I said.

There's also the fact that Hacker News generally frowns upon editorialized headlines. What was so wrong with the original title of "iPhone 4S Preliminary Benchmarks: ~800MHz A5, Slightly Slower GPU than iPad 2, Still Very Fast" that it needed changed?

(edit: getting very pernickity now but since you misunderstood my comment about comparing the sunspider benchmarks: Android's javascript loses on the sunspider benchmark to iOS's if run on the same device. So if a 1GHz Android device (without NEON) matches a 800MHz iOS device then it's quite likely that a 1.2GHz phone chip will beat it by a fair margin in Sunspider with the Honeycomb or ICS V8, by more again on other Javascript benchmarks which it generally does better on, and more yet again on anything that just benchmarks raw CPU power. I keep reading about Apple's magical A4 and A5, so I'm being pedantic on this point, but the gain is that they chose to use a better GPU from PowerVR and updated their javascript VM, not pixie dust or other Apple magic used in their hardware).
Industry took place at the center of the city alongside professional jobs. It's only relatively recently that it's been economical to locate distribution & light industrial jobs in dedicated, industrial zoned areas,

We put industry in dedicated areas because living next to a factory that runs 24/7 is unpleasant.
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I'm not sure why you are being downvoted, but this is at best only partially correct. Yiddish was supported along with pretty much all minority languages in the 1920s and early 1930s, but this support also ceased when the minority support policy was reversed (with token remnants such as the Yiddish being an official language in the Jewish "homeland" in the Far East). Following WWII and postwar persecutions of Jews Yiddish all but stopped being transferred from parents to children in the USSR. I remember how happy my grandfather (born 1928) was when it became possible to embrace one's Yiddish heritage again in the late 1980s); but he did not teach the language to his children.
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It's not even gone in Israel:

Bnei Brak is, for all I know, a way to live a segregated (as in, among equals and without foreigners) and religious life.
Heck, most Israelis I've spoken with (and 95% of my contacts here are ~secular~, more or less) avoid it, claim that I shouldn't go there on jewish holidays and certainly keep my wife out of it.

It's considered off limits for most of the non-observing population that I know. A (large!) ~ghetto~ next to the (secular, touristy, ~gay~) Tel Aviv.

1: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bnei_Brak
I have no particular affection for semicolons. But I do rather like braces - Python is ugly without them.
I had the same idea a while ago and talked with someone working in the automotive industry about this. The problem is that battery technology is an important differentiator in the e-mobility market so there's no chance all car markers would agree on one standard - at least not in the foreseeable future.
Wow. What I'm seeing so far is the people critical being entirely reasonable (if perhaps misinformed), and the people defending Dart being positively hostile about it, calling "circle-jerk" left and right.

This post takes the cake in hostility, so far, though.

And what's it need defending for? Some people try to discuss the merits and flaws in a reasoned manner. The childish behaviour you speak of is entirely yours.
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