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Both Firefox and opera offer pipelining while it is deactivated on chrome (next release will have it on by default).
Maybe it was my browser then. Sorry for the false alarm.
Importantly, it should be mentioned that despite the way it distinguishes between different data structures, Clojure manages to retain the advantage of "representing everything with parens" by instead making sure that everything implements a common _interface_, (i.e., seq). In other words, as opposed to CL or Scheme, it separates logical list manipulation from the physical data structure, giving the best of both worlds. That's a big advantage for Clojure.
He was a hypocrite - he took lots of other people's ideas and profited from them. He then proceeded to brag about it - "Good artists copy, great artists steal". Your white-wash attempt simply doesn't stand up to the facts.

On that note, I'm really glad Android is spreading like wildfire. It will be the dominant OS this decade and the way the majority of the world's population (not just the status-conscious and some Westerners) interacts with their most personal computing device. A feat Jobs could never achieve, either with the Mac, nor iOS.
Isn't it trivial to "fix" this by just disabling smart-cover unlocking? Isn't that exactly why this is a user-enabled feature of the smart cover?

It isn't that I oppose viewing this as a "bug" (obviously the user is led to believe that a password in and of itself would prevent this), but I would think that anyone security-conscious enough to have a password should be disabling smart cover unlocking anyway...
1. Android would have ended up nothing like it is today if not for the iPhone. It would have been the best of a bunch of crappy smart phones. Phones like this: http://news.cnet.com/i/ne/p/2008/android_prototype_550x385.j...

2. Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google at the time. It's obvious that his position on the board of Apple and foreknowledge of the iPhone gave him a huge advantage.
Good job, you copied the highest rated youtube comment on the link.
"Non-pharmaceuticals" and "alternative medicine" are distinct but overlapping sets. In any case, to quote Tim Minchin: "Do you know what they call 'alternative medicine' that's been proven to work? Medicine."

And peer-reviewed research is great and all, but it's unrealistic to expect things to sink into the mainstream when research can only currently suggest rather than actively recommend. Antioxidants are one of the most mainstream "cancer-protectors" in the UK, but among positive studies you will also find negative studies; particular antioxidants that are good, and some that actually lower survival rates![0] Certainly they're easy steps that people can take which are unlikely to have a negative impact, but it is not an option on the same footing as pharmaceuticals and surgery. Not even close.

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/07/us-antioxidants-id...
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Hmmm, didn't realize someone had already responded to this.

Don't know what you mean about white-wash. If there's something specific about the reasoning you disagree with, feel free to point it out.

Regarding the gotcha quotation: I'm pretty sure you don't understand what Jobs meant by "stealing". Presumably you don't understand what Picasso meant by stealing, as he didn't do anything analogous to copying his competitors' designs. Jobs always wanted to be seen as doing something the world had never seen before, to wow audiences. It's hard for me to imagine that you think Jobs wanted to be a copycat.

Here is the comment I deleted:

I see a lot of folks say, "Jobs is a hypocrite, Apple has stolen lots of stuff." This continues to be edifying only on a superficial level. Context continues to matter.

You may believe that software patents are bad. You may even believe that patents are bad. But please don't pretend that some people's use of innovative ideas aren't more important and more credit worthy than others. The public doesn't believe this and you probably don't either, if you think carefully about it.

The world is a chaotic, ambiguous place, but that hasn't prevented us from judging whether entities in specified circumstances have stolen ideas from others. For example, I understand that Carlos Mencia is derided in the comedy community for being a joke their.

No one believes that you shouldn't be able to stand on the shoulders of giants. For example, the claim that Jobs is hypocritical because OS X is based on BSD is a non-starter. BSD was used with permission, legally and morally.

Put yourself in Jobs' shoes. You spend every waking moment to bring something wonderful and new to the world. You pour your sweat and love and passion into it. You trust people. And one of the people you trust starts competing against you directly AND copying your work down to a pretty fine detail. This wouldn't bother you? We're not talking about Robin Hood here. We're not talking about a charity or not for profit corporation with a transparently open source project. We're talking about another company taking your ideas to make money for themselves.

If you ask a normal person on the street who copied whom in the smartphone business, they'll say Android copied iPhone. And they'll be right. And that's why Jobs was mad.
"Despite all this, Apple still managed to get a patent on multitouch gestures and continually claim it as their innovation. They filed the patent in 2007. In my opinion, the patent system is really broken."

Apple doesn't have a total multitouch idea patent. This is the sort of widely repeated ignorance that makes everyone think the patent system is totally broken when it's just mostly broken.
I'm curious why you feel you can't create spike solutions in Clojure?
You may also like the Kriegsspiel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel_(wargame)).
Late 2008. Soon to be replaced, and a bit behind on the OS too.

I've had no end of problems with the graphics card and graphics card drivers on this model-- both times I've brought it in to be serviced the Apple techs have simply nodded and had the machine sent in for a new logic board without even testing. I guess NVida produced a terrible batch of GPU's that Apple used on these models.
That sounds nice, but is there good evidence that this actually happens, or that if it happens that it improves outcomes or quality of life? A bit of time on Google finds http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/cam/green-tea-review, which at least found that it probably wouldn’t make things any worse.
That is all well and good, I hope you can realize that the vast majority of people were not part of the C64 demo scene, and the vast majority of people meet new people strictly in meatspace (except perhaps online dating, which is for the purpose of meeting people in meetspace).

To say that a website with even 40 million users should be catering to the extremely tiny (and apparently extremely vocal) minority of people who want to share things with people without sharing their name with those people is egotistical at best.

I honestly think that it is you don't understand that you are almost certainly in the minuscule minority of people who have a pseudonymous social graph, and that it is only to the detriment of most people to have screennames instead of real names on a social network.

I honestly believe there are more blind Americans then people who have any significant portion of their social graph as pseudonymous, you are acting it's absurd that Google isn't catering to the C64 demo scene. There are probably dozens of design choices that are preventing blind people from using Google+ how they would want it, but somehow that isn't making front page news, why not?

> We don't carry around giant posters with a bunch of personal information tied to our full name.

And on Google+ you get to choose who can see any part of your profile except for your name. There is no giant poster of personal information that is public unless that is exactly what you choose that you want.

> Conversely many people very intentionally do not want to be searchable.

On both facebook and Google+ you can set yourself not to be searchable in general; that is a completely different issue that being able to find someon you personally know among the list of your friends, or seeing a comment on one of your posts and having no idea who it is because the person is going by a completely random noun rather than what you actually call them.
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How many people start the shut down process and then close their cover? Kind of a lame hack
You can also use stripe, which provides a JS solution where the client sends CC details to the stripe server, which is PCI compliment, and you receive a token you can use on your server. The CC numbers never touch your server.

there are some other javascript payment solutions I think, but the stripe one is the best I've seen.
Android stole inertial scrolling. The app store. Multitouch user interface. Mobile Safari. The entire blueprint for Apples touch based interface design. They copied everything which MADE an iPhone an iPhone. The notification system, or whatever other "features" the Fandroids claim Apple stole from Android is not what made Android. The things that made Android were the same exact things as the iPhone. Mobile browser, multitouch interface, and apps. All the things that Apple designed.

All you need to do is look at Android in 2006, and Android today. Googles goal with Android back then was to use it on dumb phones and feature phones. To bring Google to every cell phone. That's what they would tell Jobs and Forstall, while behind their backs stealing the iPhone design.
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What's to stop an attacker from opening the smart cover, starting the shutdown process, closing the smart cover, and then opening it again?
I noticed that my BT client (µTorrent) already has a 'STREAM' button on downloading torrents.
I totally love that this is happening in a small midwestern city I've never heard of before and it already has about 100 RSVPs. I'm impressed - and if that sounds condescending it's b/c I've written this poorly. I think it's damn cool.
Here is a short article of hers that was published in New Scientist:
http://www.philosophicalturn.net/intro/Freedom/Churchland_Fr...

Here is a lecture of hers on the topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opM7E6ty28A
The speed with which the attack can be done is really the key here. This is less an issue of someone stealing your iPad2 and then getting access to your personal data. This is more an issue of someone having physical access for a couple of minutes and being able to get into and out of the device without being detected.
I wasn't recommending holding the trade deficit constant, I was isolating the relationship between public and private savings. And if I ever say "all other things being equal," I'm not actually recommending that all other things be made equal.
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I got screwed by this when I was traveling around Iraq and Afghanistan for a few years; I missed a $1.50 finance charge for about 110 days which went to collections, froze the account, killed auto billing for my health insurance and other stuff...

Switched to using earth class mail which scans all my incoming postal mail, deposits checks, etc which has been a huge improvement. (and was able to get all the consequences of missing the last $1.50 of a payment I hadn't seen in the mail reversed, after a lot of letters and phone calls).

Most postal mail is spam, mixed with a few important messages.
"Google was working on Android for quite some time right?"

Yeah it looked like blackberry.

http://www.quora.com/Android-OS/What-did-Android-look-like-b...

"it is very difficult to see it as anything more than a convergent evolution."

Viewing it as "covergent evolution" is a stretch. Blockbuster new product comes out, everyone rushes to copy them. That's exactly what happened.

"It doesn't make sense to put oneself into Steve Jobs' shoes when Steve Jobs was ... emotional "

OTOH it does make sense to recognize that he was emotional before passing judgment on him as though he uttered those same words in a emotion free context years later.
> But I also suspect the liberal arts have lost a lot by not requiring a thorough knowledge of the hard science as a foundation.

Okay, but how? 10-year Bachelor's degrees? Part of the reason why the world is getting more specialized is that there is more knowledge out there to be known. A thorough knowledge of the hard sciences is not something you can squeeze into a semester.
Oh I'm not saying that those answers don't have their place. When you're at a bar or some industry event or chatting with someone in a compatible professional environment, sure.

I guess I was thinking more in line with the last person who asked me this a few days ago: the 52 year old no-nonsense guy carrying a 10 year old nokia who just painted my bedroom. "I helped 2 million kids learn how to read" would have gotten me an eyeroll and a handful more drips left behind. "I build websites" got us on a conversation on how he wants to start a youtube show with his hunting exploits.

Framing the conversation is important, but knowing your audience is just as much so :)
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"In a subsequent meeting with Schmidt at a Palo Alto, Calif., cafe, Jobs told Schmidt that he wasn’t interested in settling the lawsuit, the book says. “I don’t want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won’t want it. I’ve got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that’s all I want.” The meeting, Isaacson wrote, resolved nothing."

I've overheard quite a few conversations in random Silicon Valley cafes, from startup pitches, to arguments over money, to people detailing their health problems. Given how open people are around here about discussing anything and everything in public, seemingly no filter, that would have been an interesting meeting to have randomly witnessed.
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It seems that there are more and more new products on the market every day for just about any need. With so many products to choose from in everything we buy pest control is no different. There are many different devices for pest control as well and this can be a daunting task when trying to rid your home or property of pests. There are devices, chemicals, repellents and even home remedies that can be used.
This reminds me of "Launch an App Month" last November (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398).

Here's the Facebook group that was formed for those who are interested: https://www.facebook.com/groups/launchinnov/
Before the iPhone came out (and it's glass-slab form factor), the Android cellphone prototypes looked a lot like Blackberry clones. However after the iPhone was announced, Google apparently switched to the slab form factor with a twist and produced the G1 with HTC. In 2010, Google started making glass-slab phones with Google branding.

Whether or not that is "stealing" is another debate; however, it wasn't until the original iPhone arrived that the slab form factor became ubiquitous.
Original article with more info:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Jobs-questioned-authority-all-...
I largely agree. That said, it is a weird default, as if you've never owned a smart cover, it might not occur to you that there is a setting relating to it you don't want that is defaulted to on. I mean, it seems fair to me that someone who is "security-conscious" shouldn't be forced to examine every single option on the device looking for a painfully insecure default.

This is typical of Apple, though: it is also fun to carry around an Apple Remote if you know people with MacBooks. You walk up behind them, hit the menu button, and yell "FRONT ROW!", at which point their computer (default setting: accept any random remote) will /slowly/ fade to black, and then /slowly/ fade into a TV-like UI the user has probably never seen before.
He wants to cut them on principle, not strictly because of the monetary savings. National defense wouldn't be eliminated (however, he has said many times it needs to be cut drastically) because it is one of the few services that libertarians believe the federal gov't should actually provide citizens, i.e. protection from outside threats. (Likewise, the judicial system would need to be kept in order to arbitrate disputes among citizens internally.)

For more on the subject, here's an interview with Milton Friedman in his twilight years, where he talks about cutting most federal agencies (I actually enjoy the earlier parts, 1-3, better): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64mr-cjxZfU

Edit: If you're a Ron Paul fan, you would probably enjoy a lot of the Milton Friedman videos on YouTube, especially the Donahue ones
USPS has been running a massive deficit. http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0911/090611l1.htm So how are they still operating if they don't get taxpayer money?
Love the design too. While you're at it, you may want to change the link for your email to "mailto:francine@willworkforamac.com" instead.

It's currently linking to "http://willworkforamac.com/francine@willworkforamac.com
Came here to say this, I used wepay.com to raise money from family and friends to buy my brother-in-law a birthday present. They are super easy to use, and super easy to get ahold of a real person if you run into problems.
I realize that their patent is somewhat narrow and I'm not aware of the full details. But considering the enormous research history of multi-touch gestures, I'm left wondering why we as a society feel it important to give protections to what amounts to a minor tweak to the idea.

Here is a better history of multi-touch by one of the researchers in the field:
http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
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I would have loved coming but it looks like it's already full. Damn I guess I'll just code instead.
For sure. Video Chat. Sheesh. Didn't Facebook just get that? haha.
Not that your comment is wrong in any manner but I must admit that I cannot understand its relationship with the article.
Simple: 2 choices, 1 rule.
I'm certainly impressed by that poker bot, but it sure is depressing reading about it at 22 and having never really written anything more than 1k LOC. I feel hopelessly behind sometimes.

edit: I also wanted to mention that Curvio sounds like a great idea, do you have any competitors? It's one of those ideas where I'm surprised it hasn't already been done, which I feel is usually a good sign.
Seriously. If Ron Paul had an ounce of integrity, he'd be against the wars.

Oh wait.
Just claim at the last minute that the domain name and all the press releases were spelled by an idiot, and you just noticed his mistake
GDP rose during the war, but it felt like a depression. What good is an increase in GDP if basic foodstuffs need to be rationed and people are getting killed? The recovery actually came in the post-war boom when government spending was slashed and 5 million people left military operations and joined the civilian workforce.
May I ask why you decided to subscribe to other people's shared items if you don't like reading them?
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Donuts - did you do the entire front end code work?
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Multitouch was inevitable and demonstrated long before the iPhone. Mobile browsers existed long before the iPhone. What the iPhone did was have enough juice to run a real browser correctly. They did a good job on mobile Safari, but this is not a mind boggling invention. App Stores? Are you kidding? I had app stores on my smart phones for years. Yeah they sucked, but Apple didn't invent it, they just made it better.

Inertial scrolling, yeah, that's a good call, and the only one you mentioned that's a legitimate invention.
I like the way you think! Good argument.
That's a stock Keynote theme called Industrial.
What about children books. What about innovative story telling formats. Magazines; old-school wired magazine could really do a number on kindle.
The point is that it wasn't just us borrowing more money. We did that for 12 years with no real success. The war brought huge amounts of demand for our goods from all over the world.
It clearly should be fixed, as it is a bug. I'm just a bit amused at the OP presenting it a somewhat sensationalist fashion.
The HTC Sooner:

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IANAL, but depending on state law, running the poker games on your campus might be illegal (not a law I'd agree with, but possibly illegal).

In a regulated online poker scene in the US, botting would likely be illegal, just like using a computer to aid your play in a live casino is.

While I understand the value of rakeback and low rakes and poker sites not treating their customers poorly, I don't think it is relevant to whether creating a bunch of fake accounts to receive affiliate commission is okay.

Anyhow, seems like it's all in the past, so all of this shouldn't matter much.
Shouldn't have asked for Steve's opinion if you didn't really want it.
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I don't find the assertion that "this would be bad" to be evidence that it would be bad.

Some questions: Would it be bad for a person to be debt free? A household? A neighborhood? A small company? A large company? A city? A state? A small country? A large country?

Why is it good for companies and people to be debt-free, but bad for countries?
I wasn't passing judgment on Steve Jobs, I just think he was tangled in his product and lashing out.

I've heard the Blackberry thing before; that's why I mentioned the touch screen that was no-doubt inspired by Apple. (I had seen touch screen phones in Singapore long before Apple had one, but that's neither here nor there).

Once touch was settled on as the main input source, the convergence of design decisions was almost a certainty. Calling Android a clone of iOS on that fact alone belies the fact that the underlying programming (Intents, etc..) feels completely different. The claim that the UI feel is similar is fair, but it's not as if we have completely different steering wheels on different cars. Standing on the shoulders of giants, great artists steal, etc..

I was being charitable by describing Jobs as emotional months after the fact, thus clouding his judgment. The alternative reading was that he was being purposefully dense, or intellectually dishonest.
If only I knew what I really wanted to do.
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The interesting thing about this talk is how Hickey's (very valid) distinction between "easy/familiar" and "simple/unentangled" can be applied to argue for powerful type systems like Haskell's or OCaml's. Likewise with the "benefits vs tradeoffs" argument.
Given that companies like HTC were producing both touch based phones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Touch) and keyboard phones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Wings) all around the same time -- it stands to reason that Android would be planning to support both (especially since even before the iPhone, the touch models were more popular).
That's just a meaningless assertion. SS money doesn't just go into the general fund, bonds are issued. That's what the entire discussion was about. When you buy bonds, the money goes into the general fund, too. Is buying bonds a "plain ol' tax?"