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In a place like here (hacker news), the passing of Ritchie is obviously a very big deal. But I'm not surprised that my mom (for example) doesn't know who Ritchie was, regardless of how many devices and applications she uses written and designed in C. Hell, I'm not even sure every software dev out there knows the history of C, to be perfectly honest. But that doesn't take anything away from the amazing things Ritchie did for technology and mankind.
> Is that the same ui view that Samsung put on the Galaxy Tab packaging?
Ex:
http://www.photokina-show.com/news_images/00812_samsung-gala...

That's the older 7-inch Galaxy Tab. Which looks even less like the iPad; more like the Kindle Fire than anything else.

This is the packaging for the Galaxy Tab 10.1:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51huPpEUIHL.jpg

I too have noticed that most all the images of the Galaxy Tab we've seen associated with these legal cases have the app drawer pulled up.
It appears in the last paragraphs but is the only news in english related to this issue right now.

For a longer and more focused article in spanish: http://www.ieco.clarin.com/economia/BMW-exportaciones_de_arr...
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> One is an effort by the White House Communications Office to move the executive branch from BlackBerry devices to Android-based phones. The reason is because Android devices with the new kernel can be secured at a higher clearance level than BlackBerry devices, McCarthy said.

I'm not convinced that people wandering around with Secret-level (or even Confidential/FOUO/LES/SBU) material on a smartphone is the best way to go...
For comparison Facebook is 7 years old and Google+ is 3 months old.
What's your e-mail? It would be great if there was a better network for Yale students to talk to alumni. We have that career network but search is terrible unless you're looking for people in big companies. Actually, this gives me an idea... :)
> Additionally, people collect geo information with our app, tracks and waypoints that they like to backup.

That could still be persisted separately if you stuff all that into iCloud's KV store instead of relying on file backup. (Just trying to brainstorm technical solutions; not suggesting they're at all optimal.)
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Hey, my gf (25yo, ph.d in medecine), sometime try to zoom by pinching my macbook screen.. it takes 1-2 secs for her to realize "oh right, this is not the ipad". We always laugh of these moments :D

To be honest, I'm surprised there's not more touchscreen a little bit everywhere. I.e. On the coffeemachine, microwave, etc. It makes it so damn easier as you're not forced to use 1 interface to cover all use cases.. you can simply use a hierarchical smart interface.
I agree that there are two different cultures at work here. One, that of PARC and Bell Labs, was foundational. The other, of MS and Apple, are transformative.

It is with the foundational work of folks like dmr that the 80s era computing companies were able to gain traction in the first place. Don't misunderstand, I'm don't mean to lessen the importance of the contributions Jobs has made to the computing industry, but he didn't live in a vacuum.

The idea that Apple, Microsoft, others, were built on the foundations set down buy the computing pioneers of the 60s and 70s is, perhaps, no more than recognition, and respect to the importance of that foundational research.
You are missing "No backup, never cleared" which is what the old "2. Cache" scenario used to be.
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Won't the manufacturers of those phones have to publish the source code?
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Same thing. Any Javascript-based comment system should be ok (because the comments are all served from a 3rd party site).

It is when you are using internal wordpress comments you need to be careful.
It already happens, and in this era it's somewhat impossible for them not to.

One of the pressures here is RIM is Canadian and even so even if the DoS/DoD is running their own BIS servers, there is still some issue with this all running on Canadian software.

I'd actually welcome this work put back into the open source project - a) for peer review and transparency, and b) so that the corporate sector and pro-sumers can benefit from this too.
I'd be interested in this, yeah! My GitHub username is @dbalatero if you want to send it via that.
I just emailed the company that makes the dictionary app in question (pleco chinese dictionary, if anyone cares) and they confirmed this issue will affect them.

The ball is in Apple's court.
My point is that you can make any prediction 'come true' if you redefine enough words in it. This is a dumb parlor trick and tells us nothing about how people of the past actually thought.
I don't feel the "pain" of wanting more friends, so maybe I'm not your target market. This probably makes me a bad person to take feedback from, but since giving opinions is fun...

The problem for me isn't not knowing how to meet new people (e.g. going to interesting meetups), it's getting past the social anxiety of leaving the house and trying to make friends from strangers. At a glance, your app doesn't help solve that -- it looks like another kind of meetup aggregator (albeit a more casual one). While it may be something else and/or technically be a perfectly great service to help me, it doesn't seem like it helps me get past the irrational mental resistance of going somewhere uncomfortable. So when I look at your page and see headers like "GROOOVY FOR IPHONE" and "WE'RE LAUNCHING SOON" and see what looks like a list view of a calendar, it doesn't get me excited. I eventually noticed that clicking the little circles lets me look at different "pages", but that feels like work and I lost interest quickly.
It was supposed to be seen as a joke to show how the new generation kids will really look at magazines as "broken touch screen".

<quote>And there is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is "broken".</quote>
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I was wondering the same thing recently, so I made a little Javascript library that can detect bookmarklet usage, which could then be hooked up to something like Google Analytics:
http://github.com/quadule/trackmarks

I don't have a high-traffic site to test it on, but if anyone else does I'd love to hear about it.
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A touch under 3 to 1 in the US, by Apple's own figures: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/10/iphone...

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04/apples-lets-talk-iphone-k... 1:21PM iPad is the "undisputed" #1 tablet in the world. Tim says "everybody and their brother" is trying to compete, but three quarters of all tablets sold are iPads.

edit 15 minutes after posting: slow clap to the downvoter
For me its the packages are very up to date, when your compiling a lot of ruby stuff its very helpful. Also just as a dev machine using several year old packages makes it very difficult to compile stuff. Debian is more stable but ubumtu LTS is a good compromise for me.
Despite the pissing wars, I don't think it's that anyone is looking to 'create conflict', since I'm betting most people who respected Ritchie also respected Jobs. Rather, I'm guessing it's that everyone who is making statements similar to Pike's sees a 'hardcore scientist guy' ignored next to a 'well-marketed guy', and they are very uncomfortable with that (despite the fact that both of them were more than the stereotypes I'm calling out here).

As for the argument you are calling 'tired', I respectfully disagree. Certainly we use a lot of things whose inventors we don't know - but Ritchie's work was remarkable in that it was fundamentally deeply technical (in a way that is appreciable to hardcore CS folks), extremely wide in scope (in a way that affects people from every walk of life), and recent-enough to warrant more attention from today's society.

As for media - is it really OK for media (and by extension, society) to ignore a person with that kind of impact? I personally feel it shouldn't be culturally acceptable because that breeds a society where hard-science and scientists are not in the public consciousness (ahead of, for example, many random celebrities). Ultimately, the effect of that is more systemic IMHO (few scientists in politics, lots of politicians who can freely ignore science, reduced funding for fundamental scientific research, and so forth).
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Why is there 0 mention of Android in this report???
This is an unusually good piece.
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I wouldn't even read that much into it. Infants learn a whole range of new gestures as they get finer motor control.

Newborns flail around not even knowing they've got arms. Then they learn to guide their arms and hit things. Then they grab. After a while they develop a sort of lobster pinch with the thumb against four fingers and can pick things up. Then they develop the thumb and forefinger pinch and can gently manipulate small things.

I'm pretty sure my nine-month old son would behave just like this, even though he's never seen an iPad. In his technologically-deprived state he contents himself with examining crumbs and bits of fluff from the carpet.
a) Maybe. b) Yes.
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I think some of the Mac laptops might.
I'm sure some other systems support it.
That's amazing that he's waiting in line. I would have expected Woz to get one by simply making a call... or even one without making a call.
- Easier to run on your 'mom's computer'
- Easier to get it to work on ipod/ipad without downloading the app.
- May avoid the ssh-key annoying stuff on different servers. (For instance, you've got a vps somewhere.. you can just login there to access your stuff; it makes it easier to associate which ssh is which).
- For device with only browsers (google laptop for instance)
- To have *everything* in the browsers; emails, todolist, consoles, etc.
- To make it easier to add some goodies; I.e. you've got the tab open, but you can bind some javascript stuff to ease your workflow. Way easier to write a chrome extension than modify Putty.
- Run it from school or jobs that need administrative access to do trivial things. (I.e. One could use emacs from his browser if he couldn't install it on his computer).

This is just some examples on the top of my head.
This doesn't beat the CAP theorem. The approach can be quickly described as a log-based append-only database with read-repair code based on last-write-wins.

The system will have inconsistent views for the whole time a netsplit lasts. If I have two nodes, A and B, and that they both hold a piece of data related to a meeting M0 at 11 on Monday, then a netsplit happens, the strategy suggested won't help with the following case:

Jim and Peter have access to node A, and Mary and Julie have access to the node B. Because there is a netsplit between A and B, communication is impossible there. However, Jim and Peter agree to move the meeting M0 to 3PM on Monday, and we call it {A,M1}. Mary and Julie, however, agree to move the meeting to 1PM on Tuesday. We call it {B,M1}. Now, the M1 record on A and B is no longer the same. If the netsplit isn't resolved before Monday, then inconsistent data will have caused the loss of our team meeting!

When the netsplit is resolved and we consult the meeting, the approach of the blog post will pick either B's version of M1 or A's version of M1 based on the map-reduce we've had. To the reader, we'll have discarded either of them. This is why the last write wins -- it's the latest state in the log of events, the other one is ignored.

Last-write-wins is a default mode to be used on read-repair, and nothing solving the problem of losing consistency. During the netsplit, views of the data remain inconsistent.

The way to keep them consistent would have been to have A and B blocking writes. As such, we would have kept Jim, Peter, Julie and Mary from writing new meeting times and made sure that they all had the same hour presented.

An easy way to test whether you beat the CAP theorem or not is to imagine your system functional during a week-long netsplit. Either it keeps on working with inconsistent data, or it has a way to keep it consistent. The CAP theorem tells us it's impossible to do both at once, and the blog post didn't disprove that, but merely provided a way to resolve conflicts in data in an automatic way.

I would expect someone to 'beat' the CAP theorem as much as I would expect someone to 'beat' the Pythagorean theorem. The blog is interesting in its own approach to make the CAP theorem simpler to handle, but misses its own point of beating it.
> C isn't going anywhere and I expect that 100 years from now it will still be a worthwhile language to program in.

I often wonder what a more radical evolution of C might look like. What will "ISO C[20]99" look like? gcc has many clever compiler warnings, but a safer superset/subset language that is mostly source compatible might be valuable.
You are forgetting NeXT and ObjectiveC.
I would say best use case - integrate it into some proprietary piece of software. IP-KVM, Cloud hosting, etc.
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I question the number of people who own macs that don't want to run OS X. As someone who owns a lot of macs, and even does kernel hacking on them on a regular basis, I'm infinitely more likely to (and, in fact, have) bought dedicated boxes to run Linux rather than wiping out a mac.

There's an argument, certainly, for supporting a small number of SKUs really well. But I don't think that the Apple machines are the right set of SKUs for the project.
only a problem if there's a bug in the drivers. if you can find such a bug, please let me know.
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It seems very buggy to me, is it supposed to be? Otherwise, really cool demo.
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Tried it on Nvidia 6200, initially all looked well. But something died with the desktop. Also compiz was constantly stealing about 8% of a 2GHZ cpu. So I reverted to 2D. Which was pretty similar - albeit for a few of the transitions. It was missing drag to top - to full screen, but you can double click the window bar instead.
My impressions, in a nutshell:

"Hey this looks cool. There must be a demo, right?"

"Okay well I had to follow like 4 links to the demo and do way more reading than I should have had to just to see a demo of something whose main feature is that it runs in a browser. Because I'm currently viewing all of this... in a browser."

"Finally found the demo link... cool, looks like it is loading up!........... Login via Facebook? Are you fucking kidding me?"

</close tab>

Thanks to HN comments I see that there is actually a way to demo this without a Facebook login, but lack of an instant right-in-your-face demo for something that is browser based is a huge failure of marketing this thing.
I must be missing something. What is the problem with backing up pages stored in InstaPaper to iCloud? That's exactly the behavior I would want if I were using InstaPaper.
I found font size under Universal Access, or whatever it's called. Worked well too.
Is this using nginx in lieu of Apache or nginx in front of apache, acting as a reverse proxy or similar?
...and you know what they say about premature optimization; "if you write something that people want to read and your site is down, you will look like an idiot"

wait, no, wait, that's not right at all. Maybe:
"W3 Total Cache will save your site and takes all of 5 minutes to configure"

Hmm, nope. Perhaps:
"Cloudflare is free and you can probably sweet talk your webhost into setting up the whole thing for you"

No, no, no, no. Wait, what were we talking about?
Pure linkbait.

The central argument is that iCloud on the Mac desktop needs the latest version of Mac OS X, which costs money to buy if you don't have it already -- and apparently that is shameful since you can use iCloud with Windows 7.

But Windows 7 also costs money -- much more than Lion.

Not sure if the author meant to leave that fact out or they don't understand the contradiction.
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I don't know about socillion, but Tree Style Tabs is one of the reasons I won't stop using Firefox.
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I doubt that'll be an issue for them.

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Making fat piles of cash on status-symbol widgets.

I guess it's too bad that I won't see what other slightly-rounded, double-priced white objects he would have produced.

How can you even compare that to developing the C language?
I couldn't work this out either. Or work out how to edit the dock. How can I add Terminal say to the dock?
hold you horses everyone, we need to see the value in this.

1. it's a html5 game engine that helps you build isometric style games

2. the mobile version isn't working atm, but it'll be soon. Have talked to the guys abt this

3. they provide pretty much an end to end solution (writing the first line of code to server hosting )

4. with a single code base you can deploy to multiple platforms. Sure, the performance varies a bit now, but it's only going to get better.
if it's used internally within an organization (ie not published or sold) then no. in any case, i expect they will release the source like they did for SELinux.
Not if the phones are only used internally. You only have to distribute the code to those who recieve the binaries.

That being said, they may open source it for wider use. The NSA and DoD were responsible for the creation of SELinux.
For the record, I almost immediately filled up my allotted iCloud backup space because of rdio, because I have 4.6 gigs of music synced for offline use, and it wanted to back that up.

Solution: I disabled backups of rdio data.
This is still how Samsung themselves chose to represent the family of devices before they got sued though right?

And the picture in the Reuters article is how Korea Tel is marketing the device? By opening the app drawer and showing how it's just like an ipad?
In the case of android, Google doesn't even have relationships with every carrier that sells android phones so 'activations' are the only metric that would actually cover everything.

why do you think that they are not using a 30-day active definition of user?
It's really great to see Microsoft moving on to embracing change, first WP7 and now this. A tendency and a positive attitude towards evolving the company is noticable.
The choices already exist. Dennis Ritchie and Steve Jobs could certainly have cryopreserved themselves if they wanted to. It's not like Alcor is unknown, especially in the circles Ritchie and Jobs were in.

What do you (since this is a self post) think we as society should do about it?
My sister complained to me about the "hanging" Firefox problem, and disabling stupid extensions fixed it right up. Firefox really needs to have a profile-cleaning mechanism.

These problems people report must be very system-dependent. I've been running Firefox on my 2GB RAM Dell laptop I bought in 2007 for $600 without any issues.
I was gutted that my Hardy Heron died two weeks before the release of Lucid. I swapped over to Debian, but use the LTS elsewhere. I treat other Ubuntus as Betas.

I gave Ocelot a whirl this eve, and it's much better than my experience with the 10.04 netbook edition. The window management is more consistent. It feels more cohesive.

Anyway after some initial excitement, I broke it without much effort.

I'd pretty much written off Ubuntu, but think the next LTS could be pretty good - if they iron out all the bugs, and listen to the community.
The faffing around with RVM gemsets vs Bundler gemsets is why I use rbenv (https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv), and use Bundler exclusively to manage gemsets per application.

I have a small group of globally-installed gems for convenience when starting new projects (ie. rails).

(I'm lucky enough to not work on anything that doesn't use Bundler, fortunately.)
you gotta love the guy for this!
For what it's worth, my Canadian/Bell 7" Tab packaging (bought April 2011, no idea when the packaging first came out) has the tablet face-on with a photograph fullscreened. None of Android UI is visible except for the four capacitive buttons.

edit: April 2011, not 2010, correct, my apologies
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a lot of people search for facebook. search is just faster than navigating or bookmarks a lot of the time.
Not to mention that he's compromising on accuracy. Yeah, 1 second is tiny, but why give it up if you don't have to? Especially those of you reading who want to try this on a potentially more dynamic site.

Edit: downvoted with no explanation, cute. And readers here think they're above Reddit standards.

There's no reason to compromise the integrity of a system to any extent before you have to. As others have demonstrated, that need was clearly not met here.
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Good for them. They need better publicity and shouldn't be using invites as an incentive but good for them. At the very least diaspora is an interesting piece of research that seems to not be in the vain of sheer profitability but rather pushing the boundaries of technology.

good for them for trying to do something difficult.
I'm around small kids a lot, and I'd be impressed if a 2 year old could operate a keyboard/mouse. An iPad on the other hand... no problem. I think it does say something about the intuitiveness of a touch screen.
You might like Opera. It handles dozens of tabs beautifully, and you can group tabs into collapsible groups so you can both (a) navigate them and (b) see them all on the screen at once without having to scroll.
Assume you mean 2011, wasn't out til Nov 2010.
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