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Apple can't get out of Pro market fast enough. They already killed XServe, they "deprecated" Java, which means no chance in hell anyone will try to host their app server on Mac, and now even develop on Mac, they haven't updated their Pro audio software in almost 5 years, the fiasco with FCP X (complete rejection from actual pro users), and most recent rumor they will kill off Mac Pro as well.

Apple wants to be handheld "post-PC" maker and not a computer company. They don't want anything to do with the pro market, people who actually need to do work with their computers.
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In the US, I think a 220k income would be taxed at ~40% state + federal. And yes, that does suck.
The two are not mutually exclusive (having merit, and being promoted out of a desire to be more diverse and inclusive). For something like Techcrunch Disrupt, being diverse - whether about race, gender, type of ideas, geography, social background - is reasonable and valuable, because it gives a greater chance of serving a range of purposes from providing role models to giving valuable insight of issues unique to whatever background the person in question brings to the table.

It's a bizarre thing to criticize.
The problem with not using the OEM is finger-pointing between the OEM and your non-OEM consultant. Also, I've negotiated with Oracle many times on behalf of customers, and it's safe to say that they are in the business of shifting risk back onto their customer while charging them a lot of money.
This is all so well-played by Apple: evolve ever more locked down systems in seemingly consumer-friendly ways. Once consumers forget they can even install their own applications (except through the app store), OS X distribution will be just as heavily moderated by Apple as iOS distribution.

Expect Apple, Microsoft, and Google to exert ever more control over distribution. The software industry is evolving into the "studio model" just as the movie industry did decades before: 5-7 huge players controlling absolutely everything that sees the light of day. Everything else is small-time "indie" stuff that hits big every once in a while, but is otherwise irrelevant. (It took Apple to make Microsoft realize this was something they could actually get away with -- thanks, Apple!)

Nintendo's been doing this for years with their consoles. It's not good for developers, and not good for innovation. But it's very good for the studios, because it gives them complete control, and makes a new player emerging out of nowhere (as Google themselves did circa 2000, or Facebook did circa 2009) much less likely. The cartel stays nicely entrenched.

How long 'til websites are similarly locked down? Will users forget they can just type a URL in, and instead install everything through their friendly neighborhood web app store? (Don't laugh.) Who will approve websites? Oh right, the 5-7 huge players. Got it.

I don't want to sound like a tin-foil hat here, but having spent my youth in the console game business (Naughty Dog), this seems all too familiar...
It really is astonishing how much bile and vitriol can be caused by a UI change. I guess it's a subset of the general dislike of change most people have. And it's also amazing how absolutely certain some people are that their own view is the right one.

I'm not a fan of the new UI yet, but I suspect in a few weeks I will have forgotten what the old one was like.
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It is not Apple but the copyright system that is rotten to the core.

Copyright infringement requires the copyright holder to litigate to keep the copyright. If there is a preceding history of infringement that Apple knowingly ignores, there comes a day when a willful and harmful infringement cannot be stopped.
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The answer is no. It's no from every angle (financial, anti-trust, technical, IP, strategy, etc.) except maybe some bizarre emotional angle where L&S want to show Jerry that they won -- which I doubt exists since it's obvious to everyone that L&S won a long time ago.

And the consequences of that emotional maybe are so large that it would also be an easy no. So no, there is no chance of this happening.
'Lion's share', how appropriate for a hunter turned gamekeeper... does it have a legal definition ?
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I told you that would happen :)
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Agreed. So long as they're not outright spamming, the only way to get to the front page is by producing something valuable that gets voted up.
i'd say, we russians dont even understand these race problems. in general we dont give a damn on races and ethnities.
On what the article claims: my understanding is that the sandbox restricts all non-user initiated actions. That is, if a user initiates it by clicking, dragging, OK-ing, etc., then all the old system interactions are still allowed. If you want to take a screenshot, of course you can so long as the user hits a keyboard combo to do it.

Where it's a real hurdle, however, is for those programs who have to monitor and interact with files outside its sandbox without user interaction. Take fantastical, it has to check the user's iCal calendar (or iCloud, or whereever that file is these days) persistently. If it can only do that when the user tells it to, it loses a lot of its appeal and functionality.

That being said, I think these rules actually make a lot of sense on the balance. But it would be nice to allow the user to authorize complete access in some sort of double-verified-super-secure-foolproof way.
What? You get your money back with Kickstarter? I've never heard of that... I'm pretty sure I've lost a few hundred bucks on failed kick-starters...

I mean, they meet the goal, but the person never delivers.
This article mostly seems to ignore the fact that you can still distribute apps outside of the App Store. In fact, considering the falling costs of hosting and easy access to marketing tools (look at the quality of the website for any Mac App), it's probably never been easier.

For pro apps with dedicated audiences (see: Adobe, Ableton, Avid, Nuance) which is just about anything with a plugin architecture, the App Store's distribution is unnecessary. These are established companies with deep links into creative communities. As a consumer, when you're looking at spending hundreds of dollars on, say, music software, you don't care what's in the "Top 25" or on Apple's "Featured" list (if you're smart) - you care about what the people you're working with are using and the opinions of specialized professionals.
An unjust law is no law at all.
Does anyone know what the adoption rate is for the App Store for Mac ? How many apps in the App Store cannot be downloaded outside of the App Store ? How many apps converted from being downloaded outside the App Store to inside. My question is, can Apple put the Genie back in the bottle ?
Any time a story like this pops up, regardless of the company involved, I assume it's the fault of some overzealous subcontracted lawyers. I can't imagine any sane company executive approving something like this, since it makes absolutely no business sense. It only creates bad PR.
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> I don't think there's any evidence of differing distributions

Why do you think this? It is not unreasonable to assume that if a group is underrepresented, and there might be a perceived glass ceiling, for example, that those who do give it a go are more likely to be people who believe their skills are sufficiently above average to give them a decent shot at overcoming limitations.

Whether or not that's the case in SV is not something I have a basis for saying anything about, but it's also too easy to just write it off and assume the distributions are the same.

E.g. in many Western countries, the education of immigrants often vastly outstrip the average education of the native population, for example, in part because of restrictions on immigration, in part because the threshold for moving if your skills are perceived to be of low demand is vastly higher. It is perfectly possible similar self-selection applies to minority groups moving into an area of business where they are underrepresented.
Manufacturing of Japanese-branded hard drives is big business in Thailand.

I have a friend in Bangkok who works for Seagate. He is Thai, and a brilliant engineer – hard working, smart, young and the kind of person any company would be lucky to have.

I think we are seeing now how important Thai industry is to the worldwide hard drive market.

On a somewhat related note, his family is fairly wealthy (by Thai standards) because they run factories that manufacture lots of random stuff. They once told me that they have 6 months to get products to market before the Chinese copy it. Compared to a Thai manufacturer, Chinese factory labor "is effectively free" – their words.
I just watched the Apple developer videos about App Sandboxing and have to agree that it in most cases it's a good thing.

With that new enthusiasm I went ahead and tried the AppSandboxQuickStart code sample that loads a webpage in a WebKit WebView.

Enabled sandboxing, app failed because of missing network.client entitlement. Enabled that as the tutorial said to get it to work: app still fails.

Turns out that the WebView, or rather the Flash plugin is trying to load the AIR apps that are installed (why, I have no clue, I was loading apple.com).

>WebProcess(1319) deny file-read-data /Users/me/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR/ELS/com.prezi.PreziDesktop/PrivateEncryptedDatak

The app didn't start at all. Only hint were errors in the Console. As a developer I'm afraid that those "perceived crashes", that's what they will look like to users, will become a common theme.
40%, according to:

http://developer.echonest.com/sandbox/emi/faq.html

How much will a Developer be paid?

A developer will be paid the lion's share of 40% of net revenues derived from the sale of the application. Net revenues means after any application store fees, direct technical costs (e.g. streaming and hosting) and sales tax deductions.
great stuff to me, this refers to u9500 which has the data modem, which the a9500 used in snowball open source project has no 3G data modem
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Not closely related but this reminds me to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_naming_dispute

It's ridiculous.
In a case like this, perhaps a perceptron?
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Are you aware the US jails more of its people than any other nation? No other country comes close. Like 5% of the world's population but 25% of its prisoners. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat...)

As you can verify by digging deeper into the data, the US is highly racist; massive numbers of Blacks are incarcerated. (This is what happens when a society was recently forced to stop formal slavery, without other fundamental changes. You still have to control them.) You can imagine how this destroys Black families, as well as the pervasive racist attitudes which are necessary to keep otherwise decent people from uniting to tear the system down.

The argument that racist attitudes make a difference is all the more compelling, when you consider that tech investors often make snap judgements on pitches which last mere minutes. Assuming you can even get to that point.

So with all due respect, I'm not sure you have a clear view of the US. Though I have no doubt that your country is exploited by foreign powers, like the US. (People who'll do that to their fellow citizens will happily do the same — or worse — to you.) And I don't just mean relatively skilled software programmers.
You shouldn't be using _ names for the header guards. ANSI C reserves _ names for implementation library (libc and friend) use and __ names for internal compiler use.
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In my opinion, hardware buttons should be limited to only non-critical operations or operations with limited usage frequency (which may be an argument to why the button may be unnecessary in the first place).

A button such as the back-button on the android, is used to navigate in almost all applications. With the amount of "load cycles" the back-button experiences, it is bound to either fail or start operating inadequately [1]. If or when this happens, the phone becomes rather unusable as it is nearly impossible to navigate in applications that do not have any built in user interface options to perform the same action.

[1] I do not hold evidence for this to be true in general and my hypothesis is only backed by personal experience and the notion of failure rate in a load frequency perspective.
Sad thing is Mac OS X is a certified UNIX.
Things are very, very bad in Japan. Big Japanese companies outsource tons of stuff to small Japanese companies and companies outside the country. Those small businesses are folding fast. I know someone in Japan who went from a long, wildly-successful run in his business (he employed around 40 people) to bankrupt within 6 months this year because of cancelled orders from big manufacturers.
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And remap Caps Lock as Escape.
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They killed XServe because it belonged in a market where Apple was insignificant, they weren't selling any. Java now has to be installed separately like on all other platforms. Logic was last updated in August.
have never used a debugger at all for Ruby or the Pythons, though I assume they exist (nor for shell scripting or PHP, but do those exist?)

You can remotely debug PHP using the xdebug extension (http://xdebug.org/docs/remote). You'll need a DBGp client too. It's useful for complex logic but I still find myself falling back to var_dump() for quick tests.
Oh Hacker News, I see the balancing act, tit-for-tat.

Careful, approaching CNNness ...
wow, that's a lot more than an EE consultant can ever make.
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I'm assuming you graduated with a bachelors? At the end of your BS, it's definitely worth thinking about opportunity cost (eg. is graduate school "worth it"). When I was working toward my PhD (engineering, with goals to eventually be entrepreneur)... I had to fend off detractors: "if you want to make money or do a startup, stop at a MS and get out there." I politely disagreed. Getting my PhD was a personal goal and shouldn't detract from future entrepreneurial activities.

Like you, I lived frugally during my entire educational experience, and the tuition was largely paid for through scholarship / fellowship. For talented people (who could prosper after dropping out), college expenses can be fairly minimal.
This is ridiculous. It'll never stick in Europe, either. To make a trademark claim you need to be operating in the same sort of market, and you really need to prove that this restaurant is profiting from the popularity of Apple's brand by people confusing their logo/brand with that of Apple.

The latter is a real requirement in trademark law. It might be worded slightly different in the specifics, cause it's been a few years since I learned about it.

Another requirement for maintaining your trademark, is that you spend reasonable effort to protect it. That is, you can't trademark some word or logo and do nothing with it, and then when some other company happens to use it, grows big, you can't suddenly jump out of the shadows and say HAHA! I TRADEMARKED THAT (yes, that is indeed quite the opposite from what those software patent trolls are doing, patent law is quite different from trademark law, even though they both fall under IP laws).

In some strange and twisted sense, Apple's lawyers might have gotten the idea that this is how they should be protecting the Apple brand. Except Apple is not in the restaurant business, nor does the general public associate their brand with restaurants in any sense, so that's that.
At no point when using Android do I hit the back button and go "hmm, that's not what I expected", or "I wish it did something else".

Fact is, it just works. Not having a back button in iOS after following a link is such a jarring experience. Sure you can double tap the home button or 4/5 finger swipe and select the most recent app, that's way simpler and more intuitive...
Fair enough. I'll check it out.
I had been thinking about getting an iPad. But iPad has some deficiencies which kept me on the fence. I was hoping for an update but none came. Then Amazon came out with its announcement. I ended up preordering a Kindle Touch but now am thinking about a Fire/Amazon Prime combination. I'm not thinking about the iPad anymore.

I've thought that Google should buy Netflix and have Netflix handle the consumer aspects of Google.

It might be hard to transition YouTube to include a service that rents/streams movies but Google is trying that right now. They haven't advertised it well and they didn't try doing this until recently. They've moved slowly.

Amazon and Netflix have very good customer service. When there is a problem I can get it fixed. I don't trust Google with customer service and this is why I can't ever see myself using a paid Google service. Google has dropped the ball in this respect. They have a great brand in YouTube and could have a great brand in Google Books but they just can't seem to create an atmosphere where consumers go to them for their purchases.
Promoting diverse individuals who merit promotion is great. Promoting diverse individuals who do not merit promotion is harmful to the diverse individuals who do merit promotion because people will assume that they're being promoted for diversity instead of merit. That is a very bad thing and worth criticizing. Again, Arrington didn't actually do this since the person in question is objectively impressive, but saying that he would promote someone for diversity's sake is unquestionably bad.
Copyright infringement? Where?

- The common word 'apple' plus translations in every language ('Apfel')?

- A generic image of an apple? Using completely different colors, a wildly different style and lacking the 'missing bite' identification?

Humor me and do a google image search for 'still life apple' and tell me why not every one of those could be flagged as 'infringing' just as well?
Who wants to make money from home?
Besides security, sandboxing is a good way to protect the User's system from poorly written apps.
Well. There might be legitimate things that need to be corrected. Spelling / Grammar for instance. Why not have the last modified and a history. Save off the diffs so you can recreate the older versions for potential employers.

Another option is that a new revision generates a new random string for the URL and that revision is always available there.
+1

The article makes some strong assertions about what is/is not allowable under the currently available set of entitlements.
I expected more discussion here about whether all of those assertions are accurate.

If there's a primary source that I can take a shot at interpreting independently, can someone point me toward it?

UPDATE: Looks like the best doc is the "App Sandbox Design Guide". Film at 11. :P
What an enlighting and thoughtful comment. My only problem with it is that those who need to understand this, dont.
I like the about page, but as for the site---what's to differentiate this from Google Analytics Realtime?
Don't they distribute xcode via appstore? it obviously dould not fit in the sandbox. If they make it an exception, can't they be hammered for monopolizing the development tools in the app store for themself?
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I felt it was appropriate because the phrase, even if it was crass, exactly captured what he was talking about. I like it when people use the best word or phrase to describe something, even if it's a crass phrase.
It is certainly possible; I just said there's no evidence of it that I know of. Whether or not that is the case is immaterial because it's not what Arrington was suggesting.
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In the UK someone would start a company, and be an employee of that company with a wage, and make themselves the only shareholder, and then an accountant would say "pay yourself some dividends now".

At least that's what people used to do, but I guess it's been stopped now.
In that situation, would the user be able to enable a persistent permission? Whereby I allow the app to check as often as it needs to?
Everyone seems to have missed my point, which was that Google has never created a good iOS app. Google Maps is the closest thing to a good iOS app that involves Google. So we have no reason to give them any slack on this; the way we forgave Apple for the iPhone 4 antenna.
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Indeed. I really like Unity. Especially on my 10" netbook, it has the most vertical space of all mainstream desktop environments, by far.
they will effectively kill off a huge number of professional services, especially in the media industry.

Apple has already demonstrated several times over that the professional market isn't really of much interest to them anymore. Witness the disaster of Final Cut Pro X and the gradual phasing out of the Mac Pro hardware line.

Apple's focus is squarely on the consumer market. Though it may seem unlikely today that they will permanently ban non AppStore apps, I wouldn't cite the professional market as a reason for it to not happen.
no that sounds about right. When you start consulting the recommended advice is triple your hourly rate. 1x to pay you, 2x to cover your benefits, and 3x to cover downtime between projects and when projects overrun. Consulting companies usually charge their customers 2.5-3x their consultants hourly fees.
I think they saw plenty of overlap between starbucks customers and Apple customers. http://www.tuaw.com/2009/06/03/from-a-parallel-universe-the-...

Still, I think they can safely let that trademark die a quiet death, because they never did open any of them.
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And on the other hand, I have to regularly restart Unity (the version in Ubuntu 11.10) due to non-driver and non-hardware problems.
Are there any tricks to getting Prompt working correctly? Ctrl seems to work good, at least the keys I tried (Ctrl-A/E/N/P/K/T). When connecting to a Linux box, I can get some of meta keys to kinda work, but most of them do unexpected things. When connecting to an OS X box, option just spits out special characters. Prompt doesn't appear to have any configuration option for what type of terminal emulation, so I guess my only options are to configure the shell I am connecting to.

I just tried the latest versions of both Prompt and iSSH on iOS 5 on an iPhone 3GS. Prompt is at least a big improvement over iSSH in this area, but, unless I can figure out how to get it to work better, it is definitely not something I'd be comfortably using for Emacs.
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