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Dude. We know how the iPhone works. It's easy to see Apple starting to bring the same sort of model to the MacBook. We're not blind. We can see where this is going, even if it's not there yet, and make reasonably informed guesses about what it's going to be like.
This is very entertaining and revealing. It helps me realize why I have been unable to get myself to use any of those apps with wood grain, leather, etc.

I'd argue that designers should stop overreacting to this though b/c few are innocent of using typefaces in a nostalgic way from time to time.
i'd let someone else do it.
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Give us Canadians the chance to subscribe! But regardless, this is just another great reason to subscribe to Prime in my opinion.
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Nice site. I did receive an error when I placed a decimal in the amount field which is preventing me from doing anything else on the site. May want to do some simple type conversion before you accept what people enter. If there is a way to break it, people will find it.

invalid literal for int() with base 10: '500.00'
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interesting read, but I would have appreciated a few more examples of skeuomorphism other than the leathery ical.
frankly I ask myself whether it's possible to design a GUI without any skeuomorphisms at all. Wouldnt we be unable to use it? aren't we only able to interact with computers and with the world in general because we remember certain visual clues on what the expected behaviour is (eg. red & green traffic lights, light switches, door knobs...)?
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Right now it would be easier to change the name of the fruit itself than change the way the money goes. Let's just call apples something else. And grow cubical ones. With no round corners, as Apple has patents on round corners.

This will also defend the farmers that grow apple trees, so they can still sell their products without telling everyone "No, I'm sorry, I don't sell phones, I sell apples. You know, the fruits. No, not silver, red fruits. No touchscreen."
Cool! Does this mean I will be allowed to distribute App Install scripts through the AppStore? The best of both worlds: free distribution & full control!
How stable is this?
> There is now way to know if you have +1'd a page without sending your unique id with.

localStorage or asking which URLs have been plus 1'd, not the other way around. There are plenty of ways of doing it without sending a request back to google on ever. single. page. load.

I found the disclosure about all website visiting being sent to Google only after looking for it and clicking through some pages. 95% of users will never find that since being alerted to it isn't part of the standard install flow.
All [EC2] nodes are internet addressable.

They all have internet routable ips/hostanames.

Proper use of security groups would address most of the concerns described in the post.

nodes in security group A (load balancer) can access nodes in security group B (app server)
There could just be a key to change the currently controlled character.
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But this is violated as soon as that person walks up and tries it and the thing doesn't work the way they thought they knew it would.

Point is, that happens after they've paid for it.
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Do you plan to monetize this? (I didn't immediately spot any mention of paid plans, etc.)
I am 17 and i totally understand you. i started with php too then c#,java and now i am at python and lovin it. i also started when i was young (12 years). i am from india. as much as i want to start working anywhere i understand that education is very important so i'll be trying to get into a good college next year and study cs and will advise you nothing different.
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But when you have over 10,000 servers you have to get it right anyway; you can't afford to have people doing stuff by hand.
Apple's skeuomorphic design for iCal is bad. iCal has been made to look like a real calendar, but in reality it isn't used like a real one at all.

If iCal worked like a real calendar, skeuomorphism would have value, but in its current form, it's just an ugly skin. It doesn't actually show users how to use it.

Read about it here:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...
My iPods (1G and Video) never had sample songs on them. Just saying.
Some points of clarification to eliminate some FUD, especially around plugins:

- Signed and sandboxed applications are not prevented from using plugins. No code loading restrictions are placed upon such processes. Furthermore, Lion-only apps could employ an XPC based plugin architecture and entirely avoid loading code into their address space.

- Plugins do not need to exist within the app's bundle. Plugins don't even necessarily need to exist within a sandboxed app's container, if that app requests an exception to read its plugin directory (e.g. ~/L/Application Support/MyApp/Plug-ins).

- Plugins can be signed and distributed independently from their host app.

- Calling out restricted Thunderbolt access is a misnomer. AFAIK, there is no public Thunderbolt API now and as Thunderbolt is largely PCI Express + DisplayPort, any kind of access would have required kexts anyway. As kernel extensions already aren't allowed on the App Store, this isn't (just) a sandbox restriction.

- Bluetooth devices can likely be accessed via AppleBluetoothUSBHCIController, which provides a USB HCI interface to any compatible BT devices.

- You can read/write files in a known location on a network disk (or any disk) if you simply ask for permission once per launch. In fact, if you opt-in to auto termination, that user-granted entitlement will persist across most app relaunches, as long as the app's serialized state is preserved[1]. (And if you filed a radar requesting such a feature, it's very possible Apple would find a way to persist that user-granted entitlement across all app relaunches.)

Regarding other points, it is true that Firewire access is restricted, as is general filesystem access and frame buffer access. Likewise, a sandboxed app is prevented from sending Apple Events to arbitrary applications, breaking a good bit of IPC. It's fair to complain about these restrictions (some of them affect my apps, and working around them will not be simple and may require removing popular features), but please don't cloud the issue with misinformation.

[1] http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/308884-sandboxing-...
The most likely reason is their desire to keep their acceptance quiet until they're actually prepared for the press that the announcement would receive.
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More like the vocal few setting the rules for the silent majority.
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That's the one, firmware: 2.5.8 (555370010).

I have 3g right now and just tried to highlight something in the samples for "Song of Two Worlds" as well as "SEAL of Honor" and was unable to.

I also tried adding an annotation and when I started to type a message came up on the bottom of the screen that says, "Annotating is disabled for sample content."
Why can't Apple get iPhone's design right?
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I share some of your sentiments about x-plat Java UIs, but DbVisualizer does an admirable job. I now use on Windows for SQL Server for most tasks even when the native GUI is available. Its worth a look.
.txt files are not paginated to begin with. There is a physical keyboard option available for people who insist on having 35-character passwords.
On the other hand, when you get a Kindle in the mail you don't have to connect it to a computer with iTunes on it to get it to work.

I can also load books from my computer onto the Kindle using drag-and-drop without needing iTunes (or any Amazon software) installed.
What's supposed to be happening? Stared for a minute (in Safari) and nothing happened to the pictures.
The debaters suggestion is that Yahoo need a miracle, aka a Steve Job to bring innovation and focus.
Sounds like the leaked memo urging employe to "accelerate innovation, reignite inspiration, and give our users what they want now". If only someone sent that memo sooner !
I don't think the notion that the iPhone/iPad model represents the future of Apple is a particularly wild one.
For people who learned computers at an early age (which is hypothesized to be everyone in the future developed world), UI elements are not metaphors but pure abstractions. And yet they have no trouble learning them.
Even when I'm by myself, I still need version control. It's nice to know that I can easily go back to any version I've checked into the system.

I use visual SVN for windows+tortoise SVN. I also can ssh into my box and check source files in from anywhere. If I had more than one person working on my source, I would start using Git.

Can Dropbox do this?
No one imagines him sitting around spewing racial
epithets or purposefully discriminating, or even
thinking bad racial thoughts, but that is not a very
high bar.

Orwell had it wrong. His vision of the future was, in some respects, too optimistic. For even if Arrington is innocent of thoughtcrime ("thinking bad racial thoughts"), he must still somehow be guilty of something.

Thing is, these fine gradations between "racist" and "racially insensitive" may mean something to the original poster, but for the vast majority of people there is little functional difference between the two.

Zooming out from Arrington, this is what usually happens after someone prominent is accused of heretical beliefs. A lot of people come out of the woodwork to kick a man when he's down. Now Arrington may deserve it more than most (surely there's a lot of schadenfreude in the Valley now) but this sort of witch hunt could easily have been mounted against any prominent figure in tech.

There is really no defense. You can't say your friends are black. You can't point to the pipeline. You can't point out Asians. And you damn well can't mention the statistical implications of the B__l C___e, even as a hypothesis, as it will drive the neo-Puritans into a hissing rage and convince them that you "just don't get it".

All they want you to do is confess to your sins in a struggle session. Even if you've never been "thinking bad racial thoughts", that is not enough for them. Nothing ever is.
from the post: The problem here is that CoffeeScript fails at it’s fundamental purpose as an abstraction:

from the coffeescript site: The golden rule of CoffeeScript is: "It's just JavaScript".

it's not an abstraction. it's a tool for writing better, more consistent javascript.
As father of a 12 year old, the parent has to be a gauge of their maturity level -- I think she's too young for facebook and can wait a year (maybe longer.)

I do have issue with email --- she's more than old enough to write/receive email and there's a 13 year old restriction on Gmail (and, subsequently, Khan's Academy!) I think that's ridiculous and had to have the talk about "what rules are safe to ignore."
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Oops, dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3192589
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This was a really stupid comment. Seems like youre implying playing basketball is innate ability attributed to being black, and that blacks being discriminated in tech is similar so they should stop complaining. In reality, this is a really immature perspective, as most people could probably work in the tech industry regardless of race. Poor parenting, poor education, socio-economics etc are the real factors. Being Asian has nothing to do with playing basketball poorly. Blacks can excel in tech with the proper upbringing and environment.
Signed and sandboxed applications have no code loading restrictions. They're free to map anything into their memory space, though that code will of course be bound by the same entitlement restrictions as the loading process.
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While a lot of people moved to Windows due to Avid Media Composer issues with Macs in the mid-2000s they've been moving back since hardware support renewed. In the audio post industry it's at least 80% Mac-based in the US.
To start with, it is not just a wordpress theme.

If all you want is a theme for Wordpress, this is a great one: http://maxfoundry.com/themes/liftoff/

KickoffLabs is a complete platform for launching a viral landing page and requires no hosting/setup for end users.

The API we release today is an attempt to add more flexibility and options for our customers.

Thanks,
Scott
A vaccine that is 99% efficient (and most are not 100% efficient!) is probably sufficient to eradicate the disease in vaccinated populations ("herd immunity"); but if you suddenly enter a population where the disease is prevalent, you have a nearly 1% probability of falling ill, which is much higher than in vaccinated populations.

Of course, "no responsible parent" is hyperbole. But there is a significantly higher risk even for immunized children.

(Found this on your thread page; I hope this was helpful.)
Amazon + great shipping logistics + cloud + huge retail + mobile devices + Bezos = ???

There are synergies here I'm fairly certain I don't understand -- I look forward to seeing what Amazon can do over the next 5-10 years.
Also try "stationary" on Google. That easter egg works on all browsers.
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I won't spoil it, but if you think that concept is neat, you owe it to yourself to go watch _Moon_. It's one of the best sci-fi movies I've seen in a long time. Highly recommended.
Okay, I'll try to explain. It is a reasonable question. First, it's important to understand that trademarks are unique among kinds of intellectual properties because they are valid in all eternity if you continue to use them. Patents and copyrights are at least supposed to expire. Not trademarks.

Now let's say you are managing a team of highly coveted people with the task of protecting the Apple brand world wide and for all eternity. What is the biggest threat you can identify? Is it that Samsung will suddenly launch the Samsung Apple phone? No.

Trademark dilution laws are in place only for very famous brands, and dilution is for brands what erosion is for mountain tops. Apple wants their brand to remain strong for 200 years and more. During that time natural erosion will have completely reshaped our cities and landscapes. Our language will have changed many times over and many of the idioms and sayings we use now will be incomprehensible to most people. It is in this environment that Apple the brand must survive.

A modern skyscraper has a theoretical infinite lifetime because it is constantly maintained. Otherwise it would erode and break down in a couple of decades. In a similar way will a brand erode in the minds of people if not properly maintained. Basically what happens is that the brand over time becomes associated with a general category of products instead of a specific manufacturer. So that when someone says "I'm thinking of buying an Apple, can you recommend a good model?", no one any longer thinks she actually means a device manufactured by Apple. It's like ordering a Coke and getting a Pepsi without reflecting on the difference.

So you are the brand manager. The biggest threat you have identified spells long-term dilution. You think about the term "Apple". It is different from let's say "Coca-Cola" because it's also a fruit. How do you factor this into your anti-dilution strategy compared to the brand manager at Coca-Cola? Are you more afraid of dilution than they are? Or do you think that the existence of the namesake fruit will help protecting you from dilution?

No matter what your decision would be, Apple's brand division has clearly decided that they need to be more thorough than most brands. It might be their culture or strategy, but if anything it is a sign of thinking long-term and risk-averse.

And when people say "how can they act like this, don't they know that apple is a fruit?", my theory is that they are completely aware of the fact and it actually makes them more anal than they would have been if their brand would have been Xcrublbob.
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It seems that lowering the cost of software development as a key driver of startup success is being emphasized.

A few things:

One could argue that if the business case for the startup were strong enough, the cost of development would be almost (within a very wide band) irrelevant or at least you could more easily justify the expense. An example would be having already-signed-up beta users and having a mailing list of interested prospects in hand.

Secondly, does anyone not care about new versions, maintenance and ongoing support? If you are truly operating a business, then having the ability to support the product is key. An outsourcer can leave the business or the team can disband, so you have no control over the institutional knowledge. (The "outsourcing core competencies" issue.)

Last, the title "outsourcing startups" seems a bit misleading, almost as though an entire startup can be outsourced like a commodity. We're still talking about outsourcing the coding.

But maybe the commoditizing of startups is the next natural step in evolution, if it is not happening already.
Capricorn One doesn't have that twist, but it's about a fake Mars mission. I saw it when I was a kid and for some reason it made a big impact on me. (Reminder for myself: watch it again to see if it's any good).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077294/
Not working for me: Firefox 3.6.23 on Ubuntu.
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I didn't know this existed -- CSS3? No javascript at work here? I didn't look at the web resources myself but I'm curious
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The A players are getting old or bored, the B players are trickling in.

Or the PHBs are taking over.
It would be pretty much impossible. People are symbol processors, if they don't understand any of the symbols then they can't learn it. This is probably why car analogies are prevalent in the tech field, and higher dimensional spaces are difficult to understand.

It's extremely difficult to understand what Mayan tablets mean because we don't understand the symbols. This is why things like a rosetta stone are so important, because they give us clues as to what symbols mean.

Every symbol is evaluated in the context of the individual.

Designing an interface with no 'skeuomorphisms' would be extremely difficult, it's arguable that roman letters themselves are 'skeuomorphisms' of the requirements originally for stone tablets. An interface with no skeuomorphisms is like a person who no one can relate to. It's the difference between learning a new language and learning a new word in a language you already know.

"Good" designers have their own symbology so designers who are trained find other "haute" design easy to use. Since most people aren't "haute" designers it becomes difficult to relate to and use their designs.

There's a great article out there about a hotel that installed really well designed light switches that no one could use but everyone loved once they figured out how to use them. "Haute" design is like C4, it has huge activation potential to overcome but once you overcome it, it's explosively powerful. However, the activation potential is a hinderance to adoption.
While searching around I found this Synnex page (http://synnex.com/opencompute/index.html) where they give some info, picture gallery, and pricing info! Looks like you could actually order these puppies through them ;)

Price List: http://synnex.com/opencompute/images/pricing.jpg

Here is a quick summary: $266k + tax gets you 90 machines in three racks and the supporting power / networking infrastructure.

72 intel boxes @ 3.5TB RAM, 72TB storage, 576 cores

18 amd boxes @ 1.3TB RAM, 9TB storage, 144 cores

Total: 90 boxes @ 4.7TB RAM, 81TB storage, 720 cores
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> localStorage or asking which URLs have been plus 1'd, not the other way around. There are plenty of ways of doing it without sending a request back to google on ever. single. page. load.

This introduces all kinds of issues with complexity of having to support multiple storage locations, and inconsistency/sync lag caused +1'ing pages on multiple computers or buttons from the page rather then the extension. If I have two computers and +1 a few pages with one then switch to the other it would either have to download a list of all pages I +1'd. Which could get up into the thousands or tens of thousands or some sort of complex pagination, diff, merge feature. It just isn't worth it.
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wow dude. way to go. awesome stuff to post on a tech community a-hole
Plugins can exist anywhere. They can be placed into the app's bundle without necessarily breaking its signing seal, they can exist within the app's container if the app has a way of copying them in (e.g. it advertises a file type, like Aperture's ".ApertureExport" bundle, so the user can double click to load the plugin, or it provides an "Install Plugin" feature somewhere), and they can exist anywhere in the user's home dir or system volume (if the app requests an exception to read files from those known locations).

No code loading restrictions are placed on signed and sandboxed apps. Any signed and sandboxed process is free to map in any code, though that code is bound by the parent process's sandbox restrictions.
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There's still no Easter Egg on Google though - the search results for Back to the Future are there because they refer to those numbers.
This article completely ignores one of the central reasons for COPPA-- to protect children from personally targeted corporate marketing/ad sales.
Matias Duarte, designer of WebOS and Android 4.0, talks about embracing wholly digital interfaces and how it's the underlying philosophy for Android 4.0 and up. Check out this interview if you haven't already:
http://www.theverge.com/2011/10/18/exclusive-matias-duarte-i...
I hope they thought everything through, because there are a lot of cases where old content is just as good or even better - there are a lot of "timeless" articles and video out there.

However, when it comes to software/tech/anything fast moving, I'd really like to see the latest results first. I'm tired of searching for "how to set psa-proftpd to standalone in plesk" (just a quick example off the top of my head) and get 5 year old results that have long since stopped being relevant...
Coolest barrel roll in history http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vHiYA6Dmws

I know this isn't the original intent of the post, but this occured at a make or break time in Boeing's history and turned out to be a launching point for the company. If anything had gone wrong, Boeing would probably not exist today,

Interesting lesson in risk taking.
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> The UI was just so terrible and slow.

Have you tried the latest one? It's noticeably faster. Worth the $79. (And I'll get the touch screen as soon as it's available).

> I use white on black for night time reading, and can still fall asleep.

I've heard this from multiple people. I should try it.

I read my Kindle on occasion for hours and hours. Not only does it not hurt my eyes, but it's so light. The iPad is quite heavy.

I really wonder if Apple will ever come out with an eInk screen. After reading how upset Jobs got over Android ripping off the iPhone, I kind of think that maybe they never will and that they'll just let Amazon have that market.
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