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“Instead, I offer the web. Here there’s beautiful examples of very customized, very different feeling websites.”

I think Duarte has the right idea, but I think it overlooks something very important: It's really hard to make a great looking website. It takes a lot of design skill, graphic art work, and lots of experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Where Android is failing is providing a way for new developers with little design experience to make great looking apps that fit in with the rest of the OS. They should be providing awesome built-in UI objects and containers that provide great look and feel.

If a developer wants to go their own way and make their app look totally different, they don't have to use the built-in UI elements.

They should provide a solid foundation for anyone to make great looking apps, but not require that it be used, or even make the framework extensible and flexible.

I've been looking at the WebOS SDK recently and it only takes a few lines of JavaScript to build nice looking apps because all the components are provided. You can still make your own custom components if you want to. Layout is done with various built-in layout components with nice options. The tutorial example has a nice looking interface by the second lesson without any design or graphics work at all.

So, Android should provide a UI platform but still allow developers the flexibility to do what they want. They get the best of both worlds.
> Python 3 is exactly how not to do a major language change. They broke enough that porting isn't trivial, and for many programs there just isn't any benefit.

All of that would have been acceptable, if they also implemented some major language fixes and adding some cool new features. Better closure support comes to mind...
A good question to ask is---do we want to create jobs?

"Job" has a variety of meanings. It can mean a great opportunity, or it can mean devalued wage slavery. Usually it means filling a role as an economic input in the profit machine someone is constructing.

The killer development that would create a bunch of jobs at a stroke would be

a tool
that lets companies profit
by hiring uneducated people.

But there are other options for helping the masses than jobs. On the cost reduction front, cheap home solar energy would be huge in terms of saving people from their utility bills. Optimized-for-small-garden strains of crops could play the same role with food.

Also, there are some scenarios where something doesn't create jobs per se, but certainly allows people to make wealth. The rise of the OSS stack was one, and 3d printing might become another.
Cell towers kind of do by providing an accurate time and other features in AGPS.
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Well, currently the government punishes companies that hire employees-- all sorts of payroll, worker's comp, and unemployment taxes, and also workplace legal liability that is extreme in the U.S. To the degree there is already a lot of central planning in U.S. labor markets, the government actively works against employment.
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Yes, the one you probably watched a few weeks ago was one that I published a couple months ago which just gave a basic introduction and only covered the Views aspect of Backbone.js.

This new one I just published a couple days ago, and it's a longer screencast that demonstrates how to build a complete Backbone.js application from the ground up, using a live coding format. All major aspects of Backbone.js are covered including Views, Routers, Models/Collections, Templating, etc.

Hope that helps.
This is great. That said, its time to cut the crap. The US government has all time low rates on long term treasuries. There's plenty of stuff that needs doing. There's an army of unemployed. And most importantly, there's really no profitable investment opportunities in a lot of the country due to negative real interest rates and flat consumer demand. Business just isn't capable of digging us out of this ditch. Its time to stop genuflecting to the Randroids. Government is a part of the economy. Without government we wouldn't have things like, oh, let me think...THE INTERNET. This idea that the government can't do anything to fix this situation is just insane.

Its time for a serious New New Deal program that puts people to work doing stuff. Obama is clearly a complete coward of a politician. The Republican party is off the deep end. People need to DEMAND serious fiscal stimulus that creates jobs paid by the government fixing things, teaching, researching, building infrastructure, etc. There's plenty of buildings, parks, etc. still standing that were built during the New Deal in the 30s. We need another similar effort. Now.
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I'm not actually asserting that the logging itself harms me, just that it pisses me off.

The reason it pisses me off is that my browser history reveals things about me that I'd rather keep private. Facebook is taking that from me without my consent. I would feel approximately the same if I discovered they were stealing stuff out of my garage without my consent-- it wasn't part of the deal I thought I agreed to.

Without getting into the details of my particular situation, I'll just say that I have political and religious views that I think are unpopular, and I don't trust the rest of the world to treat me fairly were those views made public. Also, even my views weren't unpopular now, I want to be judged for what I do, not what I read about on the web.

(I should also add that I don't think any of the private stuff that I mentioned is creepy; it's just my private business. For example, I might feel the same way if I were gay and lived in Mauritania (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Mauritania).)

Seem reasonable?
The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law. Part 3 on Patents, case studies are interesting.

http://astore.amazon.com/gigalawcom/detail/0812991982

In 2002, it was a great book, but it has not been updated. Probably still relevant. That link connects to gigalaw's recommended reading for many other books as well.

Definitely recommend educating yourself, but forget about the lawyers. Lawyers always think you have a good case, because that means dollars in their pocket. Ask them if they will do it on contingency and you will hear the truth (they typically get 1/3 of the award). If most firms (IN YOUR SPACE) won't take the case on contingency, you don't have much of a case. If you find one firm that will, but you found him in the phonebook, run, don't walk.

You are looking at 3-5 year endeavor to sue, so 9 months in the grand scheme of things is nothing. I would Provisional Patent immediately, and look for a different way to apply your technology to another problem and keep it quiet until license is signed and you have launched.
There has been an uptick in the number of court cases, where small and medium-sized businesses have had six-figure amounts stolen out of their bank account by cyber thieves. According to estimates from Don Jackson, a security expert at Dell SecureWorks, cyber crooks are stealing as much as $1 billion a year from these businesses in the U.S. and Europe.
The need for comprehensive information regarding online security and is more pressing now than ever before.
Dude, it's a font. How does a font (one with apparently compatible metrics, even) constitute "embrace and extend?" And what's wrong with cloning a font? You seem to be making a moral point here, but I can't for the life of me see what it is.
Microsoft today and MS in the 80's and 90's are really different beasts. MS today is like the wild cat that got neutered, gained 15 pounds and now he just flops on the carpet all day and waits for din din.

Thank you EU antitrust regulators.
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I'm not clear what you're pointing to on that first page. It mentions only the UK as recognizing copyright in typefaces. The other countries mentioned are Germany, where there are design patents only, Japan, where there is explicitly no protection, and in Switzerland it indicates there is effectively no protection.

It's irrelevant when Helvetica Neue was updated, that makes no difference to the protection (or lack thereof) for the designs already embodied in Helvetica.
Uh, doesn't this program facilitate investment in companies?
So california teacher's union want's to ban digital classroom tech at the same time Korea as a country is pushing into it full speed ahead.
Calafornia teacher's are worried about themselves and their jobs, Korea's are worried about giving their kids the best education they can.

Which system do you think is going to prosper in the decades to come?
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Sure, although I think in this case it might be the lesser of two evils. It would definitely be nice to see the private sector funding job creation, but if they're not going to do it it's probably worth getting the government involved.
Agreed. Our friend is afraid of a problem that has never existed in history. A society that is increasing in productivity and wealth just creates new types of employment opportunities, not unemployment.
GPS/GLOSNASS/GALLILEO work by sending time signals, there isn't really a "connection" to a GPS satellite. Then there is the AGPS/Wifi GPS stuff which gives you even more information. All these sources are combined mathematically to estimate spacetime coordinates.

What the iPhone API exposes is the estimated accuracy of all these sources combined.
It's elegant, but as far as I can see, your argument only holds for the single matrix C which you describe.
> Android is ready and eager to drop its mantle as the nerd and power user OS.

> We all know that Android is the geeky option.

This doesn't match my notion of the Android and Apple ecosystems.
You don't want an inflated reservoir tip because it increases the risk of breakage during intercourse. It has nothing to do with ejaculation and everything to do with friction between two layers of latex.

Short version: it's far easier for latex to tear when rubbing against another piece of latex, than as a single layer sandwiched between two pieces of skin. Thus anything that you do that increases the incidence of latex rubbing against latex increases the chance of breakage.

That's why you roll condoms on, keeping the material taut (to minimize chances of folds/wrinkles) and that's why you don't want air in the reservoir tip.
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You can go to an AT&T store, and just ask for a iPad sim.
It's being worked on right now and the infrastructure for it already in place. It's a goal.
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Don't know why you got the downvote, but learning to distinguish fonts is a skill that many people haven't acquired. A friend of mine has a brain that just ignores the glyphs entirely--he'd read a research paper in comic sans and not think twice about it.

I'd think only the top 1% of font enthusiasts would be able to identify a sans font for a single "T" or "V", but Roboto has plenty of giveaways from Helvetica in the a, e, q, p, b, d, x, g, etc. Used in a sentence, I'd be able to identify it over Helvetica every time.
"rich media (audio, video), interactivity (JavaScript)"
Great - an ebook format that is going to require virus scanning everytime want to read a book.
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Wasn't this covered already with "Arial vs. Helvetia"? (http://ilovetypography.com/2007/10/06/arial-versus-helvetica...)

I think what's going to distinguish these fonts isn't their individual character forms (which I do think are significantly different, perhaps even more so than Arial and Helvetica), but their optimisations. That is, how Roboto has been given ligatures, kerning, and hinting to make it work well on mobile phone screens at the sizes it'll be rendered at.

(Also, the typewar quiz is a little unfair: it's hard to scrutinise character width and it doesn't seem to include numerals---areas where there are quite noticeable differences between the two.)
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In one statement:

print __import__('requests').get('http://gun.io').content
Thanks for the book recommendation. Just ordered it.
I kinda agree with Duarte on this one. An OS should just be a window into the content, not its master. And the content should be as diverse in style as there are cultures/tastes/fetishes on the planet.

I love those annual Best of the Web design recognitions. They are all so differently beautiful in appearance and function. It would be boring if they all followed the same theme or trend.
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Yes. I'm not speaking against this program, I was simply addressing the point made by hugh3. The larger problem is that we don't just need "investment" we need to avoid "malinvestment." But with economic manipulation, the market doesn't get the right signals for where capital should go.

That said, I'm all for attempts to invest as best we can in this environment, and I'm in favor of this program.
Poking around the source it seems they're pulling from a pool of 5000 messages. What a great response.
I guess there's 2 points:

(1) it's a ripoff, that's certainly been contested in this thread.

(2) the right thing to do is license it or at least acknowledge that the font isn't original. Here's what Matias said at the event yesterday: "Meet Roboto. It's a totally new typeface ... Built from scratch"
According to the article, Drew got feedback in parallel with his product development: "In parallel with their product development efforts, the founders wanted feedback from customers about what really mattered to them."

The video was just a prototype so that he could give a demo over video, and get feedback on that: "The challenge was that it was impossible to demonstrate the working software in a prototype form. The product required that they overcome significant technical hurdles; it also had an online service component that required high reliability and availability. To avoid the risk of waking up after years of development with a product nobody wanted, Drew did something unexpectedly easy: he made a video."

It's a pretty clear case of an MVP. He build the minimum needed to ask people for feedback (in this case, not even a product but just a demo/video). The strong customer response to the demo/video that he then received validated his product-market fit before he invested a lot of time turning his demo into a fully working product.
Oh, absolutely. The exercise is to construct one example.

If you were talking about solving the general case (For any C, find D such that CD = -DC) I can see why you wanted more powerful tools.
An extreme example, your online history can be presented in court as an evidence against you.
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There isn't a GPS / Galileo / GLONASS / AGPS api in iPhone, you just get location data.

Apple generally doesn't expose APIs that require working knowledge of general relativity.
There have been so many insightful comments that are worth considering. For inspiration, take a look at Richard Branson. Despite having a poor academic record and having dropped out of HS, he figured out how to sell stuff that people wanted. I'd also suggest reading "Think and Grow Rich." It's an old book (1937); it's out of copyright, so you can find it free online. If you can get past the older English, you'll find that many people have been in your shoes and they've made remarkable contributions with their lives. You might also want to check out Ryan Blair. He turned his life around to the point where he could write the book, "Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain."
The Backbone.js homepage assumes that you're somewhat familiar with building JavaScript-heavy web applications ... I can see how it would be lacking if you're coming at it fresh.

Would you like to see an official tutorial listed on that page, or would a screencast be better? Doing a section linking out to all of the third-party tutorials is another option.
This is cool but do they all have your face on the bottom corner?
"If you make a product and don't make any changes to it in several years, people will continue to buy your products anyway"

Tell that to Microsoft. They sat stagnant on WinMo 6.x for nearly 5 years before rewriting and releasing Windows Phone 7. Their marketshare eroded to dust while iOS and Android (and, by that point, even Blackberry OS, Symbian, and WebOS) ran circles around it.

So, yes, there is a shelf-life. Not because of spoilage, but because of cutthroat competition and a consumer that doesn't have the patience to wait for you.

"You can wait to hire the best of the best. If they are busy right now, you can hire them later."

The reason why programmers make upwards of 200k/yr. (depending on region and specialization) is because there's not enough of them and too many competing companies that need them, not because programming is akin to neurosurgery that you have to wait for that one-in-a-million shot to hire the most gifted hands.

That's why starting salaries out of college are now 60-70k in the West Coast and not 40k as was traditional for a CS grad.
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A presentation to help you focus on your goals in the early stages of testing.
Poignant. Though it's hard to finish reading some of the longer messages before the stream moves down.
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As an olde Apple design fanboy it pains me to say this -- but Microsoft has the better interface. You can dress it up but Android feels like it's Windows to Mac OS, it's just so similar. On the other hand what Microsoft as done is original, and give the proper marketing can find a niche.
I was previously unaware of "AFFS+" screens, and I didn't find a lot of visuals on them. However, I did come across a Flickr set which claims to be a set of photos of an AFFS+ screen outdoors (which is 50% of my interest; the other is whether it is available in a matte display).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51608380@N05/sets/7215762661863...
So the fight is on two parts of the board: the part where consumer sees and the part where only developer sees.

The next question: think iCloud -- or DropBox even -- will provide Google Wave technology? I have no idea how useful that would be to all apps. But it would benefit an app such as Ulysses.

Ulysses markets itself as a writer's editor. (To my programmer's eyes, it looks more like an IDE). It distinguishes itself in the market with a very strong document management system. However, it does not have auto-save, and the backups are kept in some obscure location. That's ripe for iCloud or Dropbox integration. However, it can go farther -- some method to sync changes with editors and proofers without having to export to Word.
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Hm, I would have expected them to be minimally edited. Lots of misspellings, typos, and weird grammar. I know you want it to be authentic, but that doesn't preclude basic editing.
Leaving aside the fact that encoding support is explicitly a goal, it would be an incredibly daft thing to do to decide that Rubinius was going to take a regressive, all-the-world-is-one-encoding point of view and break compatibility with much existing Ruby code.
What's the hn=2 GET param for?
Haha, I know. I have an ugly mug for sure. :) That's always been kind of my style for screencasting in general. I think it gives it a nice personal feel. But would you rather have the option of just seeing the code without the live video?
Really, what's more unnatural than reading words on a page or manipulating figures.
Friends, I'm afraid the news is even worse than originally reported. Apparently not only does Roboto copy Helvetica, but it apparently also simultaneously copies Ascender Corp's Liberation Sans, URW++'s Nimbus Sans L, and Microsoft's Arial! And the investigation has only begun--it is too early to determine how many other Helvetica clones it might have copied.
...and that didn't happen in the end.

I spend a lot of time doing non-administrative maintenance stuff around deletion. Most of the stuff that gets deleted at the "speedy deletion" level is complete trash.

From the outside, people see their favourite programming language or webcomic or whatever get deleted, and, yes, that sucks. What they don't see is the reams of crap that get deleted every day. I'm pretty damn inclusionist, and there are people who are even more inclusionist than I am, but that doesn't mean they don't realise there is huge volumes of crap which ought to be deleted. See http://enwp.org/WP:AFD/T and http://enwp.org/CAT:CSD

Most people only encounter the deletion system because something they deeply care about has been nominated for deletion. They don't see that most of the time, the system works pretty well.
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http://www.wund.com/

less typing and a much cleaner interface.
>While it is true that "we pay with our data" for many of the free (as in no monetary cost) social networks we use, what is the alternative? People don't want to pay money for these types of services and this is a business model that allows companies to operate and thrive while providing a valuable service to their users.

That strikes me as a pretty weakly supported argument. Facebook is in a position where they could do something very similar to Github. Free accounts that are publicly searchable and paid accounts with strict access controls. Many people would in fact pay for that, probably to the point that they could ditch ads on the free version.

Now, they would have to stop rewriting the code that manages access permissions every six months, but I would bet they could totally do that if they stopped treating ad revenue as the only way.
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In Italy we had a pretty big scandal because people working with the main telecom operator sold a lot of calls data to businesses, lobbyists and such. This is a very concrete risk.
If Google wants to distribute their devices globally, they will have to clear the font usage with all jurisdictions. Sorry if the link wasn't helpful, but fonts are generally commercially distributed as software, which is copyrighted. Companies can be sued for using unlicensed fonts. http://intellectual-property.lawyers.com/intellectual-proper...

Anyway I agree that Google didn't rip anyone off.
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Young entrepreneurs should be aware of politics and the economy.
"but the only place with a bigger stick up its collective ass is Wikipedia."

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Not that it's ugly, its just distracting from the code, also it takes up screen real estate. Just my 2 cents, if that's your style, go with it.
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Does anybody know when the story hit Reddit for the first time?
Not quite sure if this wasn't on HN first.
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Reading the actual interview, it seems that they're working on this:

> Matias also told me that a new style guide was being prepped for developers with lots of off-the-rack pieces that would make it easier for third-parties to create the same kind of streamlined, beautiful applications I saw in Ice Cream Sandwich.

That short paragraph can mean a lot, here's to hoping that Google bundles this information in a way that is both:

- enjoyable for a developer without much design skills

- easy to point a new designer to so he can build up a rough framework of how to design for Android

Please Google, just don't scatter this info across developer.android.com in that crappy badly thought out tree structure :/
It is because that URL was already submitted after his passing with a short note from Apple. This is to submit a different story that has the same URL.
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